First Match (2)

The atmosphere in the arena was dead silent even after Haruto's 'dramatic' statement. His opponent was turned into statue looking like he couldn't process what he's currently seeing.

"KYAAAAAA!!!!"

Before long, loud screamings coming from the women audiences including the female announcer echoed. They were very shaken on such bizarre and obscene attire Haruto was in right now.

They covered their eyes from embarrassment but most of them still sneakily taking a peek on his glorious body from the gap of their fingers with red face especially 'that part' that his tight underwear-like pants couldn't cover its divine mightiness surpassing the Transcendent realm.

A lot of the married women unconsciously lick their lip imagining how it would feel to be messed up by such unrivalled blade of god. Their gazes started to change from shock to lust and anticipation. The younger girls meanwhile were innocently observing how it could be that big even in normal condition, their faces were very shy with slight fear on thinking how it could fit on their bodies.

Then they began to feel subtle killing intent out of nowhere, shaking their bodies. From the VIP room, they could see a few women gazing with smiling face that didn't reach their eyes. With pale face, they averted their eyes right away, fully terrified. The main reason is because they could see a certain supreme princess sitting in the same room.

Actually, Lumina was only enjoying the situation with face full of amusement, but even she couldn't help but blush seeing Haruto's 'greatness'. Despite her unrivalled strength, her knowledge regarding such things was still lacking.

"I-I didn't know Haru-tan is this bold... A-As expected of him I guess h-heheh heh heh..."

"You're stuttering there Princess."

Lumina was acting tough despite her face still red while keep sneaking glances back on forth with light speed eyes. She magnificently ignored Selianna's retort.

The other pervert here, a certain healer-san who always concealed her pervyness was also doing the exact same thing except she was already having a nosebleed that made the other girls took a few steps back with "Uwaa" expression.

Kaori-san made a desperate excuse of "I-I-It's not like that! T-T-This is because I'm not feeling well. I'm certainly n-not imagining anything weird, believe me!!" to which naturally could not convince anyone there.

Back on the onsen incident some time ago, Haruto was covering his son with a towel so they couldn't notice its true capabilities. They're wondering what will happened if it was fully uncovered, how powerful it would be?

The male faction of the audiences were roaring furiously especially once they saw the female's reactions that make them wanted to cry tears of blood, some of them are their wives or girlfriends. And yet, they couldn't deny the overwhelming sense of loss because a teenage boy is incomparably more manly then all of them.

"Fuh."

Haruto made a mocking stifled laugh on the male's reactions. He shrugged his shoulders exaggeratedly while shaking his head helplessly. The men went into frenzy once again thanks to that.

[C-C-Contestant Haruto, y-you shouldn't be wearing that kind of attire on the tournament.]

The female announcer spoke with tomato red face shyly. She was so embarrassed not knowing where to see. Haruto once again went "Fuh", causing a twitch on the announcer's face.

"Please call me Mighty Mask. And also, pretty Onee-san over there. This esteemed self knew you have fallen in love on first sight seeing my glorious body so why must you act so reserved? .....Aha! I get it, you must be unsatisfied with my appearance aren't you?"

Haruto made a face as if he was facing an incomprehensible circumstance but then his face changed to someone who understood everything.

[Eh?]

The female announcer made a stupid face, not understanding what he meant. And then soon enough she saw Haruto putting his hands on the jockstrap, trying to take it off.

[W-W-W-Whaaa...??]

"What!? What is that idiot doing there!?" Asami was taken aback and yelled with angry tone.

"Hawawawa~" Elsie and Fia was flustered.

"H-Haru-kun!! You can't! Not in this place!" Rikka screamed.

"Fue~?" Kaori's nose was splurting out a fountain of blood.

"Ara? Ara ara ara?" Lumina's eyes were glistening brightly.

It was unknown whether Haruto heard his companions' distressed voices or not but he stopped what he's doing right before his vital spot was uncovered.

"Hmm, this won't do. This esteemed self think there's an order of things before I do this. I must show myself for my dear lovers in private first."

The girls heaved in relief along with the female announcer. Although, the trace of disappointment on their face could not be hidden.

[A-Alright, now that the participants are here the fourteenth match of Haruto versus Riff....BEGIN!!] The female announcer cleared her throat and began the match.

But the two people in the stage were not moving at all. Riff was holding his huge halberd staring at Haruto with irritated face. His opponent was deliberately looking down on him by pulling out this kind of farce, how could he not mad?

"Brat, I don't know what your purpose acting like this but that doesn't matter anymore. You're still a green young boy so you should know there's opponent you can't defeat. I'll give you a chance to surrender now."

"...."

He thought of Haruto's age and didn't think this boy could defeat him. For him, Haruto must be participating to gain experiences only. He reached the main rounds, that's already incredible for a boy like him so he should be satisfied already right?

In response to that, Haruto silently raised his right index finger in front of his face.

"Huh?" Riff was puzzled.

"One finger."

"What?"

"This esteemed self only need one finger to defeat you."

"...."

This time it was Riff who became silent as he was speechless from the absurd declaration from his opponent. Even the audiences and announcer was baffled with incredulous face.

"You fucking brat.... Do you think you're very great just because you passed the qualifiers? And you think you can fight and defeat me with just that!?"

Riff's face turned red in anger as he gritted his teeth. This is his first time seeing a boy acting so superior without knowing his place. Making entrance with that ridiculous appearance and declaring to beat him with only one finger, there's a limit on his patience.

And yet, the next action of Haruto further infuriated him that he feels like puking out blood.

"My goodness, you're absolutely right!"

Haruto who called himself Mighty Mask now, was hitting his palm with *Pon* sound like he just realized his stupidity.

"Huh?"

"What!?"

The audiences and Riff raised a shocked voice on seeing what Haruto did. He was sitting down on the arena leisurely looking like he's in a very comfortable position.

"This esteemed self indeed could not fight you with 'just' one finger, I must also defeat you while sitting on the floor!"

He was saying with tone containing gratefulness, making it seems like Riff was purposefully telling him out of kindness to increase the handicap because it's still lacking.

"Damn, this youngster is crazy!!"

"Is there a brain on his head!?"

"Looks like there's something wrong when his mother gave birth to him!"

The surroundings turned chaotic from Haruto's absurd behavior. Sitting and defeating his opponent with one finger!? Not even Lotus was acting this bold on her match. In their thought, Haruto was severely underestimating his opponent and would suffered the consequences of doing so.

Unknown to them, the girls on one of the VIP rooms was acting calm without any hint of worry. It was because they knew of Haruto's strength and character, he's not the type to underestimate his opponent. If he's acting like this, that means he's capable of doing so. Lumina was laughing loudly saying Haruto was so funny.

Among the audiences, there's also a few fellow participants watching the match. The participants who were observing calmly were all mostly the tournament's favorites, one of them being Tram. They could tell there's something wrong with the masked boy acting nonchalantly. Only Tram was not that surprised because he knew of Haruto's ability to conceal his strength.

"....You're trying my patience here brat. If you're not taking this seriously, you will regret it. There's a limit on being arrogant!"

"If that's what you think then you're welcome to try." Haruto made a provoking gesture with his hands.

"BASTARD!!"

Riff snapped and lunged forward violently with wrathful expression. He raised his giant halberd up above, swinging it vertically downwards severely, easily crushed through the air causing a small ripple because of the powerful force contained.

This showed that Riff is a powerful fighter perhaps as strong or more powerful than ordinary military force like knights. But it was natural, otherwise he wouldn't standing here on the main arena.

Haruto just calmly looking on the approaching blade from the halberd and raised his finger right before it reached his head.

*BANG!*

".....W-W-What....?"

The huge halberd was stopped by the tip of Haruto's finger. Riff's hands were trembling as he put all of his strength on his weapon and yet the finger remained unmoved without a slightest bit of ripples. His body was sitting still like an unmovable mountain.

Once again, the surrounding audiences were dumbstruck as they drew cold breath. It was different compared to the shock from before, they were completely awed now.

"No, this can't be...." Riff was shaking his head our of disbelief.

"It seems like it was my turn now to give you a chance isn't it? This esteemed self allowed you to surrender this instant to avoid wasting my time." Now it was Haruto who was looking down on him with his gaze.

"Y-Y-You... DON'T GET COCKY!!"

*CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG *CLANG*

Pulling his halberd, Riff went on a rampage as he brandished his weapon like a crazy beast. It was an endless attacks without any specific techniques and trajectory due to his madness. Still, Haruto did not have a problem following the violent attacks as he kept blocking with his finger. His finger was very hard that it made clanging noise everytime it collided with the halberd.

"AAAARGHHH!!"

Riff roared loudly and charged his halberd with enormous light green energy, surrounding his weapon like a flowing river. He thrust it powerfully, producing energy bolts resembling a beam of light shining brightly.

"Hmph."

Haruto humphed and raised his finger like before except it was now clad with some of his own energy, making it glow pale white. He knew this attack was many times stronger than before so he put on a bit more effort to defend.

*BOOM!!*

The collision of the energy-filled halberd and Haruto's finger blasted the space around the arena with a gust of energy waves. Around fifty meters from the center of the arena was affected by the attack but the hard material making the platform was not scratched a single bit.

"...."

Once again, the attack was stopped by a single finger just like before. No one knows what to say anymore as this kind of spectacle is far beyond their expectations. By now, Riff's face already lost color as the feeling of fear was creeping inside his mind.

"I must say, that's not half-bad. I suspect you could kill a High rank demonic beast with that but unfortunately it's useless against this esteemed self."

"W-W-W-Who, just who the hell are you!?"

"Fuh."

As if he was waiting on that question, he made a satisfied gesture while pointing his finger forward. A surge of energy was gathering on the tip to form a small energy sphere.

"Isn't that obvious? I'M MIGHTY MASK!"

*VWOOOO*

The finger unleashed a wave of energy, delivering a strong damage right on Riff's chest as he was blown away with intense momentum before crashing on the wall outside the arena. His eyes turned white, spitting some blood while falling unconscious right after.

"Remember this, you shouldn't judge people as arrogant when you yourself were looking down on them."

Haruto stood up crossing his arms and went down the stage acting like he just did a trivial thing. The audiences gasped, returning to their senses along with the announcer.

[R-Ring out! The winner is contestant Haruto!!]

*WAAAAHHH*

The atmosphere turned chaotic in an instant with the people making noises after the announcement of Haruto's victory. Without doubt, that young boy had a high chance to be a dark horse on this year junior tournament.

A lot of them started to regret not placing their bets on him but they comfort themselves by thinking he's still won't match against the tournament's favortites.

Whether it was true or not is remained to be seen....