Chapter 9

The school was a blaze with gossip because of the rumor that Sephiroth was going to challenge the kendo club to a fight to see who was better basically. Some of the rumors that some people said were crazy, such as Sephiroth betted that if he won all of the girls would be his girlfriends. Some were that if he lost he would be the kendo girls slave, rumors such as these were going on all morning.

When lunch finally happened Sephiroth was confronted by Rias, Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki about the rumors that were going on around school.

After Sephiroth explained what happened and what led up to these crazy rumors the girls were surprised because they didn't know that he could use a sword at all, something to learn more about later they all thought.

"Since when could you use a sword at all Sephiroth" Rias asked looking at him questionly

"After watching the girls hit those perverted trio made me remember that I had sword skills simple as that" Sephiroth calmly lies to them all to easily explain it all.

"While I understand now Sephiroth, but I'm confused on why you want to teach them anything at all?" Akeno asked him, wondering what this guy is thinking.

"I am also confused as well Sephiroth if you're so good as you say why would you want to teach kendo girls your skills in swordsmanship? Sona asked her interest piqued on why he would do something like this.

"If you really must know it is simple" Sephiroth says building up the suspense for them all.

"I'm bored is all" The way in which Sephiroth said it made almost all the girls face fault on the floor if they were not already sitting down.

They thought that it would be something noble or at least something along those lines. Not that he was simply bored, who teaches others their skills because they're bored.

"Now don't be all shocked girls, I just thought that some of them had potential in swordsmanship but were wasting it so I'd figured I'd show them what true swordsmanship looks like might be fun at least for a little while" Sephiroth says while getting up to go get lunch leaving the girls behind to do their own thing.

"Rias, we will need someone to watch this event after school today, I think that we should send Kiba as he is our knight and a sword user as well." Rias nods her head to what Akeno said and has to be sure to make sure Kiba sees this event so that they can learn more about Sephiroth and if he can really use a sword or not.

"Tsubaki I would also like you to join Kiba in watching Sephiroth later today, you are my queen and a weapon user as well so you can also gauge Sephiroth's skill in swords." Sona tells her queen and friend, she really wants to see it in person but she can't get out of her student council responsibilities.

*End of school day*

We finally reach the end of the school day and Sephiroth is making his way to the kendo clubs building and he has Kiba and Tsubaki following him as well.

"I see you didn't chicken out on us" Murayama says to Sephiroth, eager to show him how strong their group really is.

"Ready to get your butt whipped by us, Sephiroth" Katase says with a grin on her face.

"I am ready to show you what true swordsmanship looks like girls" Sephiroth says while walking to grab a shinai from the rack and getting into position in the middle of the training room.

"Let's not waste any more of my time here girls, I'm willing to fight all of you at once and if even one of you is able to hit me I'll admit that I lost." Shocking the kendo girls, as well as Kiba and Tsubaki that he would put himself at disadvantages like this.

"Now don't look at me like that I said that I show you true swordsmanship. I didn't say I'd fight your whole group one by one that would take a long time." Taking a stance with the shinai held behind him where it is being held diagonal across his back and his arm out in front of him so that he can deflect any attacks coming at him.

"Alright girls he is looking down on us too much, if that is how he wants to do it then we will do it his way" yells Katase to all the girls, getting them all pumped up and ready to fight Sephiroth 1v30. They all get ready and start on one side of the training room where Sephiroth is in the middle of it.

"Do not allow yourself to be shaken. Do not weaken your stance. Open your senses. And do not let your guard down for an instant or it will be over in a flash." Sephiroth says making some of the girls hesitate because of the pressure that Sephiroth is giving off. He looks like a huge mountain that can weather any storm. The feeling that he is giving the girls makes it seem that whoever goes against him is doomed to fail.

That day what Kiba and Tsubaki saw what could only be described as a massacre, if Sephiroth had a real sword instead of a shinai, they don't even want to imagine what this dojo training room would look like.

Staring down at the girls and seeing that none of them are making a move, Sephiroth decides to taunt them and does a come here motion with his hand. This aggravates the girls and makes some of them charge at him, this leads to all the other girls coming at as well in what could be described as human wave tactics.

When the first girl charged him she came at him with an over headed swing, seeing this Sephiroth just shakes his head in disappointment because she is over committing to this swing. He side-stepped it to the left and allowed her to pass him and using his open arm just pushes her on her back making her fall over on her face.

Two sword swings come from his left and right of his body, he reacts by stepping back just outside of their range without any wasted movement letting the attack simply pass right in front of him. He then using his own sword swings out horizontally at his two attackers forcing them to try and quickly bring up a hasty defense that doesn't help much and even though they were able to block the swing to some degree it still sent them back into the girls that were right behind them knocking over 3 other girls on the ground.

The girls that haven't attacked yet were surprised at how strong he is and a little scared now letting fear set in a little bit because he so far is dodging everything with minimal effort and was able to send 2 people flying back with one swing of his sword.

The girls try to circle around him now thus having Sephiroth surrounded now on all sides with the 24 girls that are left. Sephiroth just smirks to their plan and just gets back into his previous stance waiting for someone to move.

This round of attack was led by Katase who charged forward first with a horizontal swing aimed at his waist while Murayama came from behind and swung horizontally aimed at his head. They figured that he won't be able to block both of them if they get him from two different heights and two different sides, they were wrong though.

Sephiroth decided to have some fun with the girls and jumps up in the air with a slight spin of his body sideways just high enough to where he is between both swings and dodges both of their attack and lands on the ground staying low to the ground and attacks Katase legs and taking them out from under her and once she hits the ground giving her a light hit on the head knocking her out. Murayama was shocked by what just happened, they thought they had him and then he somehow dodged their attack and not only that took out her friend Katase in like one second.

Sephiroth blocked a swing from his back without even looking and using force was able to redirect it to the side to get in the way of another sword attack making them block each other. This is how Sephiroth handles all attacks that come at him; he will simply redirect them by letting them either bounce off to block another attack or let them slide down his shinai to fling them off to block other attacks. What makes this even more impressive is that he is barely even moving from his spot by shifting his weight appropriately and side-stepping at the last moment.

"Kiba what are we watching here?" Tsubaki asks Kiba hoping that he can give some kind of insight on what they are seeing here.

"Tsubaki, we are seeing someone that is at what is most likely grand-master level swordsmanship" Kiba answers with shock clearly written on his face that he can fight all of these people without even taking one hit and with only one sword to boot.

After a couple minutes of this kind of fighting going on Sephiroth is finally able to whittle down the kendo group to just Murayama and 3 other girls. The only reason that Murayama is still conscious is because Sephiroth thought it would be more fun making her watch him take down all the other members in her club.

With the five people that are left standing, 4 of them are panting and breathing hard because of all the effort that they are putting into this fight. While Sephiroth is just standing there calmly and breathing normally like he hasn't even been fighting at all. A sharp contrast to the other group just showing how truly powerful Sephiroth really is compared to all of the kendo girls.

"Almost done now girls, I'll give you one last chance" Sephiroth then slowly starts walking towards the five girls, making sure not to step on any of the groaning or unconscious girls on the ground. The image it gives the girls make them want to just drop their shinai on the ground and attempt defeat.

"Come on girls we have to only hit him one time, we can do this. He has to be faking it and he must be tried from all the fighting!!!" Yells Murayama trying to get the girls to get the motivation to attack him again but also to get herself the motivation to attack him. From what she has seen it like she is a toddler trying to fight an adult, they are just not on the same level.

Murayama charges first with the other 4 right behind circling around Sephiroth for one last attempt to pressure him from all sides again, hoping that this time that it will work. They just want to hit him so damn bad.

Blocking Murayama's swing she brought down on him from an overhead position, Sephiroth decides to humor her and block it so that they enter a deadlock leaving him unable to block the other girls who get on all the other sides of him.

Giving Murayama a small smirk that she can see on his face makes her worried about what he is going to do. I mean his shinai is occupied right now how is he going to block an attack from 4 other directions.

She forgot that Sephiroth still has his other hand, right when the other 4 are about to attack. Sephiroth loosens his strength that he is using to block with thus making Murayama fall forward because she didn't expect him to do that making her loosen her grip on her shinai as she falls forward.

While she is falling toward him he uses his free hand to quickly disarm Murayama oh her shinai, leaving her stunned on what just happened just now. That is when the other 4 come down on their swings toward his body but now he is free to block with not just one shinai but two now.

Having already committed to the attack the girls couldn't stop it and they all just decided to give it their all at this point to see if they might get lucky and hit him finally.

They were going to be disappointed because he was able to block all four strikes by spinning in place and swinging at each strike when they were still in mid-swing. He used enough force to send the other four girls shinai flying out of their hands and with this the fight is finally over. Everyone is either disarmed or knocked out all of the 30 girls and Sephiroth didn't even take a single hit during the whole fight.

Seeing that their last ditch effort failed Murayama just fell on her knees and couldn't understand why they couldn't beat him, he is one person against all of them.

"Did you enjoy what true swordsmanship looks like?" Making Murayama look up at him from her knees. But right when she looked at him the window that they have in the room had sunlight come though it that came from behind Sephiroth making him look like a holy being a god if you would. This put Murayama into a daze and a blush on her face from the image that she is seeing.

Sighing because she wasn't responding and all the other girls are not in a proper state to have a conversion, he just tells them that he will be by tomorrow after school to teach them how to truly wield a sword or shinai. Leaving he says his goodbyes to Kiba and Tsubaki and heads home for the night.

Back to Kiba and Tsubaki who are still in the training room with the kendo girls.

"Kiba do you think you could match him in swordsmanship if you went all out?" Tsubaki asks her friend wondering what his thoughts were after what they just watched.

"Honestly if he was to fight me I don't think that I could last very long at all. His timing, precipitation, strength, flexible, and agility are on a level that makes close combat against him suicide." Kiba says informing his long time friend that Sephiroth is on a level that he isn't even close to right now and may never reach in his lifetime.

"We will have to inform our kings of this, Sephiroth is even more powerful than we first thought and this might become a problem for us, having someone so powerful in devil territory that isn't a devil but of another race." she sighs worried on how her king and best friend will react when she learns this information about Sephiroth.

Nodding to what Tsubaki says, "I hope Rias doesn't do anything crazy when she learns this new information. I know that she wants Sephiroth to join our peerage but she has been pushing too much lately" thought Kiba hoping that she reacts normally to this information.