Chapter 19: Kei
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"Alright, folks. The teams that will fight in this round are team Leesoo and team Ren."
Kai then looked at Leesoo and Ren as he continues.
"Both of your teams can only fight each other for the remaining time in this round so make it quick. At the end of the round, the teams who has more injuries or passed out members are disqualified."
They both nod as Kai signalled them to start.
Both teams then goes near the center as Kai just sat on the throne looking down on them while his head rests in his right back hand and the other is twirling the crown with its finger.
His entire being screams of pure arrogance as if a god looking down on his creations that are fighting and shedding blood for his entertainment.
At the sight of him, Anak thought of saying something but decides against it as she saw a red needle flying towards her.
*Swish!*
She caught it as more red needles surrounded her and launched towards her. She then looked at the person who are attacking her while grinning before she parried all of the needles.
*Ting!*
*Ting!*
*Ting!*
It all happened in a second that both Leesoo and Hatsu was only able to react once it's over.
"What the! Are you okay, Anak!?" Leesoo ran towards her to check on her before a huge red needle was shot towards him.
"You idiot!"
Seeing this, Anak was about to parry the needle before Hatsu goes infront and block it with both of his swords.
*Bang!*
"Tsk!"
Despite his strength, the needle actually pushed him back before he was able to avert the needle's direction.
"Oh~ you got a strong team mate, fake."
All 3 of them then saw a pretty girl land infront of them. A girl standing in 5'9 with short brown hair and a small horn on her right temple. She is wearing a yellow dress with 2 red pins and a heel of the same color.
Hearing the new comers words, Kai grinned a little as he looked at her.
'I smell drama...'
He thought as Endorsi continued as she twirled a red needle with the size of a pen.
"Hello~ all three of you should feel honoured to fight a real princess. I shall fight all three of you for a warm up." She said as if it's a matter of fact.
Hearing her words, Leesoo immediately thought with a sweat.
'P-p-princess!? Does that mean we are fighting one of the king's daughters!?' thought Leesoo as he shivered from the thought.
He was about to propose an alliance- no. Actually, he is ready to give any thing as long as they don't fight her. Beside the monstrous strength of the princesses, who knows what will happen if they defeat her. Maybe her family will send regulars to assassinate them or, at worst case, even rankers. They might get fame for defeating a princess but it's definitely not worth it even in the slightest degree.
However, his thoughts was immediately shut down as he heard Hatsu's words.
"Where are your team mates? Even if you are strong, shouldn't your team mates at least help you?" Hatsu said not minding wether she is a princess or not. No matter how strong his opponents is, he still finds it unfair if she has to fight them alone. It's called team vs team afterall.
Hearing him, Leesoo immediately spoke with a sweat as he gestured for them to calm down.
"W-wait! Um princess, please wait a moment!"
He said to endorsi before he whispered to Hatsu.
"Du-dude! Don't you know what princesses are!? They are dangerous, man! Dangerous!"
Hearing him, Hatsu just shrugged as he ignored his coward team mate and looked at Endorsi who is looking at them with an amused face.
"Call your team mates."
He said as he puts his swords back to its sheaths indicating that he will not fight her until her other team mates help her.
Seeing his act, she declined it nonchalantly.
"Nope~ I'm enough to fight all three of you since I'm a REAL princess." She declined. Well, besides the fact that she wants to actually fight, her team mates also told her that they don't want to fight because they just want to talk about the man named Kai for now.
To which she agreed because of her pride that would never want to hear them saying that she is afraid of fighting all three of them alone.
She then looks at Anak as she grins and continued.
"Right, fake?"
Hearing her, both Hatsu and Leesoo started connecting the dots as they looked at Anak. Anak being very strong and the girl's words that is indicating that Anak is fake reveals that she has some kind of history being a princess.
Ignoring her team mate's stares, Anak dashed towards her with darkness in her eyes as her words reminded her of unpleasant memories.
"Shut up."
She said as she slashed vertically towards her with all her strength.
However, before her needle even goes down, it was blocked by something as it created an explosion of smoke.
*BANG!!*
Then from the smoke, they heard a nonchalant voice.
"I told you already, even the 3 of you would simply be a warm up for me so where did you even found the courage to fight me alone."
They heard her voice as the smoke comes off and revealed that Anak's needle was blocked by a floating yellow disc.
"Hey~"
She called as she looked down at Anak while a red needle started to form infront of Anak
"You should tell your team mate to help you or else you wouldn't stand a chance against me."
She said before the needle launched towards Anak.
Looking at her and the needle, Anak simply said as she grinned.
"I'm enough alone even if I have to face five of you."
She then continued.
"Ignite."
She said as her needle became longer and thicker again like in the previous round as it instantly broke the disc and crashed downwards as Endorsi avoided it.
'Tsk! Green april...I should've retrieved that weapon first before I attacked her...' she thought as she dodge multiple attacks from her.
*BOOM!*
*BOOM!*
*BOOM!*
Every attack destroyed the parts where it crashed on as the regulars just hoped that it doesn't crashed on to their room. Well, Leroro is still there to block it if it's about to crash towards them though...
Seeing her dodging, Anak grinned as she mocked.
"You are not so strong now, are you!? Why don't you stop dodging and fight me huh!? You ghosty eyeballs!!"
Hearing her, Endorsi immediately got irritated as she ran towards her while dodging the attacks and yelling.
"Who are you calling ghosty eyeballs, you fake!? Just because you have the green april doesn't mean that you are worthy with it so stop bragging while using what's not yours!!"
She yelled as she waves her hand before another disc appeared as she used it to force her way towards her.
"Blah blah blah! Quit it with your nonsense and just present your ugly face for me to bash!!"
"You dare call me ugly-"
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Meanwhile with Kai.
"Sooo all 4 of you will not participate?"
He asked ignoring the noise of the fight while caressing someone's red double buns hair acting normally as if everything is normal.
"Nope! It's infinitely much better to sit on your lap than fight this weaklings, nano!" Said the red haired sitting on his lap with a chirpy and elated voice as she raised both of her arms cutely.
The girl that is sitting on his lap has red double buns hair, around 4'11 in height, and has a face that can make anyone's heart melt. She is wearing a raspberry fluffy long sleeves and a black tight pants as her legs kept on swinging from the overwhelming happiness that she is currently feeling.
Not minding her arrogant sentence, Hatsu spoke.
"I won't fight her if her two team mates won't participate. And besides..." Said Hatsu before he looked at the two fighting princess as he continues.
"It seems to me that they have business with each other personally so it's better if only the both of them resolves it." He said. He deems it as a bad act to interfer with other people's personal business so he would just sit this battle out as long as the fight is fair.
Hearing him, Ren spoke next.
"I agree with what he said." He simply said as he nods. Ren is a boy 6 feet in height with a red french crop hair style. Same as Kai and the buns girl, he is wearing a red long sleeves and a black pants. His face is also above the average standard of being handsome as it would also make girls fell for it instantly if not for our protagonist being beside him.
It's then Leesoo's turn to speak as he just stared at Kai and the girl on his lap before he asked...
"Umm you...um..." He stuttered as he seems to not be able to come up with words for the unreal scene he is seeing.
Hearing him stuttering and knowing the exact reason why, Kai spoke.
"Don't even ask, man. Even before I entered the tower, girls seems to put my lap as their number 1 dream place to sit on. Handsome people problems, man. Handsome people problems, I tell you." Kai said with a shrug as he continued to caress the girl's hair as she purred blissfully.
"Well, that's that...but that's not really the main problem, isn't it...it's just...how are the 2 of you already so close to each other even though both of you just came to know each other seconds ago..."
Hearing his reasonable question, Kai said as he points at the girl on his lap.
"Ask Kei about it. She's the one who approached me and suddenly sat on my lap out of nowhere afterall."
He then looks at the girl, Kei, as he seeks for the answer he is looking for.
"Kei chan can't answer for now, nano!!" She said to Leesoo before she turned to Kai with an apologetic and teary face. She knows that Kai would've reacted differently to her if not for her being one of 'them' but she still can't tell that to him as it would break one of the rules of her assignment.
"Would Kai chama hate Kei for not telling him right now, nano..." She asked. If Kai answered yes, she would unhesitatingly give him the answers even if it means breaking the rules of her assignment.
She would rather have everyone hate her than Kai afterall.
Looking at her teary face, Kai wipes her tears off before he spoke nonchalantly with a small smile.
"Nah. Don't care about that. I love surprises as long as it's not bad."
Hearing that he does not hate her, Kei regained her joyful face as she spoke with joy.
"Yey! Kei chan assures Kai chama that it's not a bad surprise, nano!!" She said as she hugged him happily and buried her face in his chest.
Seeing this, even Kai had a sweat as he really didn't expect that the girl who jumped out of nowhere and landed on him would cling to him like a koala the moment she touched him. He expected her to be doing this because she fell in love or something but thinking about his current situation, her feeling seems to be much deeper than a simple love at first sight.
'She's also saying that she knows why I have a weird familial feeling towards her, didn't she?' He thought. The reason he didn't slapped her away when she sat on his lap is because of his instincts. The instincts that he is very proud of. (A/n: đ)
The moment she sat on his lap, he felt a warm feeling as if he is being hugged by someone he loves so he did not immediately reacted the way he would in 'normal' cases. Kai's standards of normal by the way.
Meanwhile, Leesoo who is still looking at them felt like his world turning to pieces.
'What...what am I seeing. I'm pretty sure that they just introduced their self to each other moments ago so what's this...Hello!? You two just met, you know!? And now you are hugging each other!? What's next!? Going to a bedroom and doing-'
*BOOM!*
HIs thoughts got cut off as he saw a green silhouette crash near them as it created an explosion of smoke.
All 5 five of them then looked at the green skinned girl as she lied on the ground with bruises and cuts while staring at the ceiling quietly.
All 5 of them just stared at her silently before Kai spoke with a sweat.
"Damn...almost forgot the fight"
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(A/n: It's still not time for Endorsi to shine so wait for it a little more.)
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