Er... one more?

On the second day, Tamazuki didn't waste his time and watched the match from his seat, learning all the abilities, martial arts, and everything which he could learn from all the participants of the Phoenix Festa.

Unlike the Jie Long tournament, the Phoenix Festa would be held for several days.

Why?

That way, the profit received from this event would be even bigger.

Still, he had to say, martial arts aside, since all of them were weak, he found quite a lot of people with special abilities. While Dante and Strega were rather rare existences, he found two of them in this event.

One had the ability to control the wind, and the other had the ability to create armor.

Those abilities might seem so-so, but they were quite good in his eyes since as long as one mastered those abilities to the limit, those normal-like abilities would become powerful abilities.

He knew that his stay in this world was worth it, but he had to say watching those matches and thinking about how to become even stronger was a good thing since it averted his mind from a bad mood.

While he had let Claudia do whatever she wanted, it would be a lie if he wasn't in a bad mood. Fortunately, he really liked his toilet, and she let him do whatever he wanted with her body.

As he let out a sigh, he started to wonder what this girl really wanted to do.

Jade Twilight.

This was one of the biggest terrorist events that happened in the world. The aftereffect of this event, if it wasn't held carefully, might even cause a lot of trouble to IEF or even shake the foundation of the IEF itself, especially Galaxy, who was the most involved in this incident. Therefore, it wouldn't be weird if the Galaxy made their decision to eliminate Claudia for what she requested.

'Jade Twilight...'

Jade Twilight was Asterisk's largest hostage terror crisis with the purpose of showing thoughts of Genestellar supremacy. Ladislav Bartosik was presumed to be the one behind the criminal group's ideology. The criminal group consisted of 77 people, including student sympathizers, with a fourth only assisting for monetary purposes.

Helga Lindwall, the leader of the Stjarnagarm, resolved the incident herself, and the mastermind and main members were all arrested except for seven.

Frankly, the incident wasn't really a big matter as he knew that Claudia didn't care about that incident. What Claudia cared about was meeting this Ladislav Bartosik, since except for being known as the leader of the Jade Twilight, he was also the creator of various strong and special Orga Lux such as Pan-Dora, Lyre-Poros, and Valda-Vaoth.

Yes, Pan-Dora.

The Orga Lux was wielded by Claudia.

This was probably why Claudia wanted to meet Ladislav Bartosik.

Yet, why should she make trouble announcing that intention to the world?

Wasn't it better to wait until he became the champion and ask this request secretly?

However, she didn't do that, so there was only one meaning.

Her real wish wasn't to meet Ladislav Bartosik. Instead, her wish was something else, and this was one of her steps to achieve that wish.

Frankly, if he asked her, she would answer him, but he had a feeling that once he asked, something might change, so he didn't bother to ask and just let her do whatever she wanted to do.

How could he do this?

Strength.

Because he believed in his strength.

With strength, it gave him the ability to do whatever he wanted to do. In front of overwhelming power, everyone could only bow down. It was like how Xinglou could tame the entire Jie Long, making this organization let her do whatever her whim was.

He also recalled that someone could also let the United States bow down because of his strength.

If those two could do it, then why shouldn't he?

In the end, when one's power became so strong, no rules could bind him.

Still, he let out a helpless sigh and thought that girls were really troublesome, especially the more beautiful they were.

Taking out his compact computer device, he talked as if with someone before he closed them.

"Aisha, can you take care of the rest?"

"Yes, Master."

Artificial Intelligence.

He had developed it, and it had become like his maid, who would serve him anything. When Ernesta kissed him before, he got "Programming Talent," and as he got data about artificial intelligence from Ernesta, he developed an AI, which could help him to take care of his business and also helped him with various things such as protecting Claudia as it had infiltrated the security system of Asterisk.

No matter what the movement, which happened on the Asterisk, he would know about them.

Well, not all of them, but he concentrated them around Claudia since, in case something happened, he could react, so it wouldn't be too late.

As for why he named this AI with a Middle East name instead of a Japanese name, maybe because on a whim?

Either way, he also looked wary at the ceiling, afraid that heaven might do something unexpected.

Still, it might be weird of him to come to the venue as he didn't have a match, and he could even watch the live broadcast to learn the techniques of all the participants in this festival, but he had a good reason for it.

"Inugami?"

He turned and saw someone familiar—the exotic beauty of Arlquint Academy.

"Pareto-san."

"....."

Camilla felt a bit dissatisfied as he called her by her family name, especially when he called Ernesta by her name instead of her family name, but her? Yet, she didn't say anything and walked by his side naturally, then asked, "Are you studying the participants' techniques?"

"Yes."

There was no need to hide his ability as he had told Camilla about it before.

"But is there even a good martial art here? Except for the Amagiri Style."

Camilla knew where Tamazuki's Amagiri Style came from, but compared to Amagiri, she could tell that Tamazuki's mastery over this Amagiri Style was even better, and this was the knowledge that Tamazuki learned just after he came to the Seidoukan. Meanwhile, Amagiri was the direct line and also the child of the clan head of the Amagiri Clan, yet she could only shake her head at Amagiri's mastery over this martial art.

Yes, Amagiri might be strong, especially when his seal was burnt by Tamazuki.

Yet, Camilla could tell that there was no depth in Amagiri's Amagiri Style. Amagiri had only mastered the surface of this martial art and was unable to enter deeper, making her shake her head at Amagiri's incompetence and feel even more amazed by Tamazuki.

But then, Camillia thought for a moment and was shocked. "...are you learning the ability of Dante and Strega?" She wasn't stupid. Instead, her mind was bright as she could become the leader of the faction of her school, so she could quickly tell what this guy wanted to do.

Tamazuki only smiled and didn't say anything.

"........"

Camilla somehow thought that Ernesta's decision to marry Tamazuki wasn't bad at all.

"By the way, are you alone here?" Tamazuki asked.

"Ernesta is taking care of AR-D and RM-C now," Camilla answered naturally as if she tried to push him to Ernesta.

"I am not talking about Ernesta." He rolled his eyes, then patted the seat on his right side. "If you are free, how about you accompany me? It's lonely to be here alone."

"......"

Camilla wondered whether she was being hit on by him.

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