The end of Sparring

Right after Otto gave the signal, Ana, at breakneck speed instantly appeared in front of Kouro with her spear whistling towards his chest.

Kouro with a calm expression struck the spearhead to the side and shifted the direction of the thrust before his hand clenched into a fist and punched Ana in the stomach.

*BANG! * x8

Just as his fist was about to reach Ana's stomach, he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire from the side.

In a moment Kouro's eyes glanced towards the source of the gunshots, he saw several bullets flying towards him.

His eyes narrowed, he pushed Ana off balance before catching all the bullets with minimal movement.

He then jumped away from her before suddenly shifting his head.

*Swosh! *

As two bullets whizzed from behind and past his cheek, Kouro touched his cheek with a surprised expression, he was sure that there were no gunshots from behind him.

He then quickly opened his palm, it turned out that he only caught 6 bullets, 'Does that mean that the bullets Lin shot were maneuverable?!'

Thinking of this, he then turned his head towards Lin's direction, he saw her putting on a strange posture before shooting.

*BANG! *

Kouro with his high status could see that the direction of the shots were zigzagging, but what he found amazing was that the speed of the bullet did not change at all.

"Not bad... "

Not far from where they were, Ana's eyes never leaving Kouro, she was unharmed just a little scuffed.

She gritted her teeth before assuming an attack position and pointed her spear at Kouro's back from afar.

"Don't... Underestimate me...! "

Ana controlled all of her Honkai energy to strengthen her spear.

Her spear shone brightly before she like an arrow shot towards Kouro from behind.

*Swosh! *

Kouro who suddenly felt a premonition of danger immediately did a back flip letting the spear scratch his clothes.

But Ana didn't just stop there, seeing Kouro spinning in the air, she stomped her foot on the floor making a slight crack to stop before with the remaining kinetic energy she spun her spear and stabbed towards Kouro.

*BANG! *

Not only that, at the same time Lin fired dozens of bullets with each bullet heading towards Kouro's blind spot.

Looking at Kouro who looked trapped by their attack, Ana and Lin's eyes lit up as if victory was in sight.

Susannah who saw that from the stadium subconsciously muttered, "Is Kouro going to lose?"

"No, he hasn't even gotten serious at all." Durandal said watching their fight without blinking.

She could see that Kouro was only purely using his physical strength against the two of them and hadn't even used his Honkai energy at all.

Otto watched the fight with interest while Amber next to him seemed to be recording the fight.

Ashborn was seen watching the fight with his arms crossed, there was no telling what he was thinking from behind the mask.

Kouro who was spinning acrobatically in the air smiled slightly at their attack, 'As expected, the A-Rank Valkyries are indeed no ordinary warriors... I recognize you as great Valkyries...'

He was then seen spinning in the air while crossing his arms before activating [Dominator's Touch] to shift the direction of the bullets.

*Swosh! *

All the bullets fired by Lin missed and flew past him with only a few inches of distance, if his body position had been slightly wrong then all the bullets would have been lodged inside his body.

"What?! " Lin did not expect that all her shots would miss Kouro's body.

But even though he was able to dodge Lin's attacks, there was still Ana's attack that could not be stopped and it was true, Kouro could feel the premonition of danger from the spear.

Actually, the spear that had been infused with Honkai Energy was not allowed in this sparring, but since Kouro didn't seem to mind it, the fight continued.

Looking at Ana's spear that was about to hit his chest, Kouro could be sure that if he hit the spear now, the gauntlets he was wearing would definitely shatter, hence... He would activate his first ace as a sign of their worthiness.

Although he was still in the air, his palms seemed to be clenched, his eyes were also staring at the tip of the spear and for a moment time seemed to slow down for Kouro.

[Kong is Angry!]

Kouro's fist gave off a slight glow before punching the spearhead with only 40% of his physical strength in addition to the [Kong is Angry!] reinforcement.

Ana's spear and Kouro's fist clashed together creating a supersonic explosion that sent Lin flying out of the arena.

*BOOM!*

"Kyaa!"

Fortunately Durandal who saw that quickly caught her, she then put her down.

"Are you okay?"

"Un, thank you Durandal-san, but... " Lin turned to look at Ana and Kouro with a lost expression.

"We lost..."

...

Ana held the spear so tightly that it was trembling from Kouro's unusually strong attack, but even so her body remained firm and her eyes never left Kouro's figure.

"HAA!" Ana poured all her strength and emotions into this spear.

She had already forgotten that this fight was just sparring, she seemed to fight against Kouro as if fighting an enemy in earnest, there was even only one thought in her mind, 'Fight with all your might!'

Ana knew her winning percentage was very low against Kouro, but as long as there was a possibility she would definitely keep fighting!

Too bad... Ever since Kouro activated [Kong is Angry!] the outcome of this battle was already decided.

...

*Crack!

As the spear in Ana's hand slowly cracked before shattering into pieces, she was thrown out of the arena due to the impact of Kouro's blow.

"Kyaa!"

Since the fight was over, Kouro this time quickly ran over and caught her.

"I'm sorry it seems like I overdid it, are you okay?"

Ana who was being carried in a princess style was left blinking with a blank expression, she didn't seem to know how to respond to her current situation, her expression according to Kouro was very cute.

"The winner is Hanagami Kouro!"

After Otto said that, there were sounds of thunderous applause from all directions.

Kouro and Ana who heard that then raised their heads.

They saw almost all the Valkyries in the arena applauding them.

Kouro seemed to be standing like a fool, it seemed like it was the first time for him to receive such loud applause from people.

"... Kouro-kun... " Ana whispered with a flushed face.

"Ah? Oh? Yes? " Kouro turned to look at Ana closely.

Ana's face became even redder, she lowered her head and whispered again, "Can... You put me down...? "

"Sure, but are you really okay? Your face looks so red, are you sick?" Kouro touched Ana's forehead.

"I, I'm really okay! You can put me down!" Ana, whose forehead was touched, panicked and rebelled.

"Okay." Kouro finally put Ana down slowly.

Ana was immediately ran away from Kouro, not daring to look at his face.

Kouro was lucky that Mei, Ayame, and Kiana weren't here, otherwise....

"Does she... Hate me? ?" He muttered, seeing Ana instantly move away from him.

Well... Considering he had defeated her in a barbaric manner, it was probably natural that she hated him, wait, didn't that mean he was in danger now?

Kouro had just remembered that in the future his teammate, Ana Schariac would become the fifth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Ice.

Of course after he remembered this, he already had the desire to help Ana, after all, remembering her sad story when she turned into a Herrscher... No, let's not recall those sad memories again, Himeko's death was enough for him.

He also remembered that Lin was a guinea pig in the Gem of Serenity experiment and died, but now she was still alive.

Well... Actually Kouro was not too surprised, considering that during the reconnaissance mission in Singapore there was Dr. Kageito who should not be there.

...

After the applause started to die down and people started to leave, Kouro finally walked into the stadium.

"As expected of you, Kouro-kun. " Otto said with a smile.

"Woah... Kouro I didn't know that you were so strong!" Susannah looked at him with sparkling eyes, and Alvitr nodded in response to her words.

Kouro scratched his head with an embarrassed smile.

"That was a good fight Kouro, how about some sparring with me sometime?" Durandal said with a smile.

"Sure." Kouro didn't mind, he was looking forward to sparring with her later.

Otto then turned to look at Lin and Ana, "So do you guys understand each other's strength?"

They both nodded and looked at Kouro with complicated gazes.

"You two are great Valkyries, I learned a lot from you two." Kouro said sincerely.

What he said was true, it could be said that his ever-increasing strength was not proportional to his combat experience, therefore, he was truly grateful to them.

"Kouro-kun, your team can take the mission after your battlesuit is completed." Otto said.

"Overseer Otto, the next meeting will start in 20 minutes, we have to hurry." Amber said after looking at the schedule.

"Is that so? Then I have to go first, see you everyone." Otto said goodbye, he looked at Ashborn for a moment before leaving with Amber.

"Captain, we will also leave then." Ana and Lin gave a military salute to Kouro before leaving.

It seemed like they had already accepted Kouro as the team captain.

Durandal on the side suddenly received a screen communication, she spoke for a moment before closing the communication screen again.

"Everyone, I'm leaving too, I have a mission to complete." After saying that, she then left in a hurry.

Seeing them all leave, Kouro sighed, his life would probably become even busier in the next few days.

"Susannah-senpai, do you know any entertainment spots around here?" He wanted to play around at least before getting busy.

"Hehehe! You asked the right person, follow me Kouro-kun!" Susannah with a smile on her face and took Kouro's hand before led him away followed by Alvitr behind.

"By the way, Kouro, did you not change your clothes?" Alvitr said while looking at Kouro's back.

"Oh, you're right, I almost forgot. "

The three of them did not notice Ashborn who had been staring at them from the start.

He seemed to stare at them for a moment before turning to stare at a Valkyrie in the arena who was staring at Kouro, that's because that Valkyrie's gaze was different from the other Valkyries.

That Valkyrie's gaze was more vengeful and... angry? She seemed to really hate Kouro.

But why did that Valkyrie hate Kouro? As Ashborn recalled, Kouro had never had any direct contact with that Valkyrie.

"Interesting..." Ashborn muttered before leaving.

The Valkyrie had long snow-white hair, fair skin and small pink lips with eyes the same color as Kouro.

He gave Kouro a long look before turning around and gritting his teeth.

(E/D: Everyone who is thinking there should be a "she" instead of a "he" in the previous paragraph should know these holy words, "It's a trap.")

"Because of him.... I became like this... Damn... Just because I was the one who spied on him for months... "

There is only one person who spied on Kouro for several months, Yes, he was Shadow, wait, now his name is Kurokami Nakuru.

Why is he here? Long story short because of the light that soared the sky 2 months ago he was finally assigned to watch over Kouro.

The problem is, he has to infiltrate Schicksal as a Valkyrie and a Valkyrie is a girl.

Therefore he was forced to disguise himself as a woman, don't think he was just told to disguise himself as a woman, all the behaviors, traits, and things related to women he had to learn in order to be able to disguise himself perfectly.

And not only that, even his manhood was almost removed by Dr. Mobius in order to perfect the disguise, fortunately at that time there was Griseo who stopped her and helped him in disguise.

With Griseo's power he was able to disguise himself as a woman in such a way that it even fooled Ashborn.

Nakuru hates Kouro for the simple reason that, because of him, he almost lost his manhood just to make him disguise himself as a woman.

"Just look... Kouro... After this mission is over... I will make you suffer. "

(E/D: Or, you will become his Waifu.... Ok that sounded weird and gay but hey, if there is a hole there is a way. It takes a real man be Best Girl, sooooooo, who agrees with me.)