Cloudy Sky Part 2

«Explain this, Akiko! What does that guy want?! And why does he know the name of that loser?! What were you planning?» the lady asked while tightening the grasp on her daughter.

«I have no idea… I don't know him- cough… please, I can't… breath…» the young one answered, and her mother let her go by pushing her to the ground.

«You little… how dare you lie to me?! You won't get away with this, I'm going to-»

«That crybaby daughter of yours have nothing to do with me and I'm not even close on caring about her fate.» Fran exclaimed, interrupting the lady's yelling and getting her attention. «Such a weak and spoiled child, who did nothing to even try to fix her life doesn't deserve any kind of help.» Fran said and the mother, satisfied to hear such cruel words, got back comfortable on her seat watching Ayuzawa crying on the floor.

«THAT PRICK! He trash talks everything and everybody! I'm so down to go and beat him up right now!» Kuroko said in anger.

«However… I've still something to say.» Fran added and everyone, intrigued, listened carefully. «There is a boy out there who is waiting for you and needs someone to get him some time. He is well aware you're capable of nothing, you lack of boldness to fight… despite knowing how worthless you are, he is still doing everything he can to end up with you… this is a feeling neither I can ignore, this is a chance he is asking and no one has the right to deprive him!» he stated with decision; lady Ayuzawa stood up fuming once again while her daughter, incredulous, was wiping her tears.

«I don't give a damn about this tournament, about the prize and the battles… but it will be me the one who will answer to Hasegawa Hiroshi's call of help! And I'll do it not as Judgment… but because I decided I'll do it!» Fran ripped off him his Judgment armband and threw it away.

«I'm kinda confused… what is even happening?» Tanaka asked, done feeling like he was completely out of the scene.

«I'll try to explain it to someone with rocks in his head: that girl doesn't want to stay with you and you're just a vile who takes advantage of her impotence. Prepare to be get beaten!» Fran exclaimed, fearless taunting his opponent.

«Say it again, jerk! How dare you talk me like that?! What can you even know about us?!» Tanaka said, visibly harmed by his opponent's words.

«Those two are swimming in G U T S! Just start the match!» Sogiita intervened, excited about the interesting clash of ideals that he was going to see.

«I'm coming! Brace yourself, you natural blondie!» Tanaka said as he assumed a fighting stance.

«Calm down, ape. The match won't start yet.» Fran replied.

«What? Why? You peed yourself already?» Tanaka asked smirking.

«Before joining, I read carefully all of the tournament rules… and due to me being a level two I get the chance to use some accessories during the fight.»

«Wait, what?! You're only a level two? You gotta be a living joke! After all those heartbreaking speeches we discover you're just a random from a random garbage high school? AH-AH-AH-AH-AH!» Tanaka burst out laughing, chaining the laugh of all of his classmates and most of the public. «Listen, Hiroshi or whatever your name is… it doesn't matter your intention or what majestic ability are you hiding… Till now, all of my opponents were at least level four also knowing what my power does, as you do too I suppose, and still they lost one hit. They all asleep on an hospital bed, you know… how can you even think you have a chance to-… Ohi! Look at me when I talk to you!» Tanaka's mocking didn't even reach Fran's mind who was focused on looking up to the sky; there was too much cloud cover.

«The challenger's request was accepted and our staff is delivering the accessories directly on the arena!» the reporter said, while Fran was checking everything he asked was in the package: his own usual long coat, immediately worn, and two medium-size umbrellas.

The spectators kept laughing even harder now they saw what Fran asked for the battle and Tanaka, who was initially concerned about his opponent's confidence , now completely lost his will to fight seriously.

«I can understand the weather it's not looking good, but it seems it won't be a rainy day…» Misaka innocently assumed, while asking herself how a pair of umbrella would be useful in a fight; Kuroko, on the other hand, was one of those diehard laughers.

«What is that reckless boy doing?» next to Mikoto, Yomikawa took a seat as she said hello to the group. All of the seats, reserved one too, were now almost emptied out so everyone could have conquered his own luxurious spot without worrying about being fined or cast out.

«Yomikawa-san? Did you came here to spectate one of your student's competition?» Misaka asked.

«Yea, I'm here for the stupid one in the arena… the stupidest one, to be clear.» Yomikawa answered with a joke.

«The only thing that prick is good at is talking. What about a real fight, huh? Does he slap his enemy with the umbrella? AHAHAHAHAHA, so funny! Finally I can see what is his useless power about! I'm looking forward to see those umbrella up on his a-» Kuroko said laughing endlessly but, once she noticed Yomikawa was there, she lowered her voice embarrassed.

«Indeed, Fran-san isn't a fighter at all… usually he deals with enemies in a different way. I hope he has a decent plan in mind… and that it can work even if the sky's favour is completely against him.» Yomikawa answered and Mikoto focused her thinking on her last statement, trying to understand what does the sky have to do with this whole situation.

«The contenders are ready! The match starts now!» Sogiita decreed.

«I managed to buy more time than I expected… but I still need a couple minutes!» Fran thought, watching the clouds.

The referee rung the gong and both fighters got on guard; Tanaka had his fists ready while Fran had his arms lowered with his closed umbrellas dangling, attached to his wrists by a strap.

«Since you're too scared to do the first move, I will! I'm com-» Tanaka was on the point to dash, but Fran had already ran as far as he could from him, near to the ring borders.

«Are you running, already?! Coward!» Tanaka chased Fran for about two minutes until, with a deep powerful jump, Tanaka reached him, cutting his way out; he hardened his fist and tried to punch Fran who managed to dodge using some luck. However, The shockwave resulting from the punch hitting the ground reached him anyways and threw him on the ground; Fran stood up quickly, opened both umbrellas and wielded them in reverse: the iron shaft pointing up and the umbrella's canopy towards the ground. The cloud were leaving and the 13. P.M sun settled his strong light on the arena.

«Huh, sure… your ultimate move: the "dumbass wielding his umbrella upside down" attack! Just quit, loser!» Tanaka rushed against Fran with his cement fist but suddenly the umbrella's shafts turned into two huge black blades going to slash him; Tanaka hardened his feet and by anchoring himself to the ground he stopped his own dash and dodged the slash attack.

Everyone became speechless, including Tanaka, but there were no time to comment; now it was Fran who bravely rushed against his opponent who was trying his best to not get cut in a half.

Tanaka couldn't bear seeing himself on defence for so much time and decided to take a risky attack: he hardened his arm and parried one of the two blades. Apparently, the black swords seemed to have a solid body and that was the answer Tanaka was searching for; he pushed the blade away with his cement arm, affecting Fran's balance and leaving his face wide open. The boy then hardened his other arm too, aiming to lend a fist directly on his opponent's nose.

That strategy seemed to be successful but, inadvertently , Fran was protected by a long dark shape coming from below his coat that blocked the punch with its armor, eventually making the boy's rock arm shaking; it was Fran's shadow centipede that, after fulfilling his defensive duty, went on the offensive against Tanaka by biting his neck with its pliers.

«What the hell is this strange worm?!» the boy asked, touching his neck and realizing he wasn't bleeding somehow; but it was careless checking a wound in mid fight: Fran was already standing in front of him, with his right fist ready to hit. Who cares, Tanaka thought, he could have hardened his own face resulting into breaking his opponent's hand; but all those thinking remained in his imagination and the punch went through, throwing him on the ground.

«T-that's not possible… is this blood coming… from my mouth?!» Tanaka asked himself as he stood up, stroking his harmed lips.

«It looks like this episode needs some narrator explanation… I don't want the fans at home not understanding much.» Fran replied, letting go the wielding on the umbrellas as the dark blade and the centipede vanished; another big cloud reached and fully covered the sun once again.

«My power's name is Shadow Crafting. I can manipulate my own shadow and the ones of all that is not a living being in order to craft everything I can vividly imagine in its shape. Do you know that the centipede is one of the toughest insects out there? Imagine a human sized centipede… its armor is as hard as iron! But my power is not limited to recreate things on their physical being… my shadow's attacks don't cause bleeding or wounds but instead they strip you of the free usage of your esper ability. That bite on your neck was so effective you still can't use your power, is that so?» Fran superbly asked as he gazed down on his rival.

Tanaka tried to harden his arm but he couldn't, his body was not responding; frightened, he slowly backed off.

«Don't give me that terrorized face… don't worry, it's just a temporary side effect. You will soon be able to attack again, if you dare…» Fran exclaim with a petrifying look.

«So… this is his esper ability… scary!» Mikoto said intimidated, shivering due to the sight of that giant insect.

«Finally he showed himself as the MAGGOT he is! Now I get why he was able to intercept all my attacks even if I was teleporting. He is not able to manipulate my shadow… but he was deducting the next position I would have attacked him by following the movement of my shadow once teleporting! What a disgusting unfair ability! This guy can't really be a level two only! They must have mistaken his ranking! His ability is so strong he can afford to say all of his weaknesses in public like this!» Kuroko stated, satisfied for having had all of those info on the guy she hates so much.

«Shirai-san, I think you have such a silly wrong opinion on Fran-san and his powers. There's a reason if he keeps talking a lot like this…» Yomikawa firmly intervened.

«A reason…?» Misaka asked interested.

«Just check up on the sky. That big cloud was covering the whole sun and without it being clear there is no light. This also means there is no visible shadow and therefore there is nothing to materialize. Luckily, he managed to buy enough time to let the cloud travel away. Now the sky is clear, there's only one last huge cloud over there but it's still pretty far… if he doesn't win before it reaches us… damn, he needs to end it quickly!» Yomikawa explained clearly, then she went back on focusing on the fight.

The sun was freed and, with his light, also the shadow blades and centipede came back; meanwhile, Tanaka was stretching his hardened arms checking that his power was usable again.

«If all you rely on is that ugly worm… then it's time to stomp on it!»

Tanaka stuck his arm in the ground and lifted an huge artificial cement rock created by his ability, then blasted it against Fran and his shadows.

«Wrong move…» Fran stretched his hand towards the incoming boulder and another centipede, way bigger than the one made from his own shadow, emerged from below the gigantic rock, destroying it in pieces and eventually dissolving back into the shadows; now it was Fran's turn to attack with his blades and companion. «Ranged attacks are useless against me! Everything you throw at me will generate his own shadow and I'll use that to craft something to protect myself!». Fran's elegant blade dance was forcing Tanaka to play defensive by hardening his arms and parrying his opponent's slashes but he couldn't block all three of his attacks: the centipede got behind him and suddenly bit him again; the Judgment boy took advantage and hit him again, this time with a kick on the chin then he backed off bouncing away from Tanaka.

All the spectator were still silent and unbelieving. He got hit again, Tanaka is losing, my classmates is doing really bad; everyone started doubting on the actual strength of the boy, hit after hit. Lady Ayuzawa and Tanaka's father were visibly upset, while the young fiancée was finally smiling. The losing man realized the kind of serious humiliation he was getting through and then lost definitely his mind.

«That's it… YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!» Tanaka yelled so loud the air started trembling and lots of artificial cement column flew towards Fran who could easily block each one of them with his several shadow centipedes; however, the huge amount of dust caused by the attack covered the whole stadium and now everyone was blinded and coughing.

«SUPER GIGA EXTREME SIGHT CLEARING PUNCH!» Sogiita punched the air aiming to the sky and the shockwave lifted all the dust into a whirlwind that slowly disappeared away from the arena.

Both challengers were unharmed, but Tanaka was on his kneels with his hands buried underground; Fran realized what he was planning to do, but knowing it was not enough due the insufficient time he had to react. Two huge cement hands emerged from underground, grasped and crushed in pieces both Fran's umbrellas and therefore their shadow vanished. Tanaka quickly cancelled his attack and stood up again.

«You may block any of my rock projectiles… but if my attack doesn't immediately have a shadow, you won't be able to predict it and react fast enough!» Tanaka showed fiercely his smartness and rushed on the offensive; Fran now had only his own shadow available and that is only his centipede, now rolled up around him as a defensive armor.

Rock Solid delivered a powerful multiple cement fists attack against Fran who could only limit himself to predict their trajectory and parry them with his tough centipede.

«Why are you still attacking me…? Thanks to your shadow's movement I can predict every hit and you're not strong enough to overcome my centipede. You will get tired and eventually I'll lend a free hit!» Fran said, panting and trying hard to follow his opponent's athletic speed.

«Bold words for someone in this situation! By the way, you took something for granted… did you really think this is the best I'm capable of?!» Tanaka lent a very strong hit on the centipede protecting Fran who, even if unharmed, was thrown two metres away from his opponent.

«Your centipede is tough enough to match my cement… but is it able to overcome my diamond too?!» both Tanaka's fists turned into two boxing gloves made out of diamond and the boy charged towards Fran with a devastating blow; the centipede could block the punch damage but the shockwave alone could make the entire body of Fran tremble on the inside. The umpteenth Tanaka's right hook hit so violently the shadow centipede cracked and started dissolving; that wasn't a big of an issue for Fran, his shadows take one second to fix automatically but, sadly, he didn't even have half of it. Tanaka's left hook already reached Fran's face who, to minimize the incoming damage, rolled up the broken weak centipede on his arm eventually blocking the fist. A disturbing broken bones noise echoed through the speaker inside the cameras streaming the fight.

Fran backed off as far as he could and kneeled down in moans of pain, as his twisted broken left arm was hanging motionless.

«Referee! He broke his arm! This hit is against the rules! Stop the fight and disqualify that brutal boy!» Yomikawa jumped off her chair and climbed over the bleacher to get directly on the limit of the arena to talk to the referee who was silent, thinking of his decision; the man turned to lady Ayzawa who smirked to him, then he returned the smile.

«The hit is not against the rules. Keep fighting!» he said irremovable.

«What?! What are you talking about?! This is clearly a forbidden hit!» Yomikawa protested infuriated.

Sogiita realised the deplorable conditions of Fran and that Yomikawa was not completely wrong and decided to intervene in favour of the fight cancellation but, in the moment he was opening his mouth, someone talked first.

«Come on! I'm sorry! My hit was so strong because I didn't notice he couldn't parry it completely with his armored centipede! I didn't mean to hurt him! Please forgive me, Sogiita-Senpai!» Tanaka bowed in respect toward Sogiita who accepted to believe to his words and returned a forced smile.

«Yo, worm! Are you willing to keep going? If you surrender now… and kneel before me, maaaaaaaaybe I could gently help you get out of the ring.» Tanaka said, as he slowly walked toward his opponent.

Fran tried to ignore his arm's pain and crafted a new centipede to protect himself but the result was the same: after blocking few hits, the centipede broke again and he could only parry partially the next Tanaka's attack; but, this time, to not trigger the spectators and to not aggravate the referee appearance, Tanaka went for a karate chop instead of a fist. The chop damage was nullified by the centipede, that completely disappeared in pieces, but the shockwave was so powerful that resulted in a violent hit on Fran's skull that exploded in a pool of blood.

«How can this be allowed?! This is not a fight anymore, it's a massacre!» Misaka exclaimed, standing up angry and disappointed.

«He does not deserve such a treatment either…» Kuroko said with shaking eyes.

Fran was on the ground, maybe unconscious, really near to the arena's limit; Tanaka was approaching him to deliver the final blow.

«Stop it, Tanaka-kun! Stop hurting him, you already won! I'll accept your proposal… he has nothing to do with us!» young Ayuzawa yelled from the bleachers, feeling sad and guilty for what was happening.

«I'm sorry, Ayuzawa-chan… you should've misunderstood! I can't care less about your whole matter!» Tanaka answered aggressively and the girl fell helpless on her seat. «Since this gnat dared to hit me once, this match gained a complete different meaning. I just want to crash his stupid face! Look at you, maggot! Acting all strong and cool you ended up losing like a pathetic video game minor character, yea, those things losers like you love so much! I am the main character of real life, understood?! Your power is all appearance and no facts, that's what makes you a low tier! Your shadows are just scarecrows for little kids! I'm not afraid of dark! Your attacks tickles me! You have no physical strength or muscles! The likes of you should not be on this ring nor working for Judgment. Just go back inside of your little room imagining to be a hero –AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- because in real life all you can afford to be is a creepy little MAGGOT!» hearing Tanaka's heavy words , all of his classmates burst out laughing and shouting "maggot" repeatedly.

«You are right… you are absolutely right.» Fran slowly stood up holding his bloody face while everybody, including his opponent, were surprised he still had the energy to speak and stand up. «My esper ability really is useless… it only hurts others and it's not made for helping anybody, and at the top of that… it doesn't suit the looks of a champion of justice. People are afraid of dark and can never embrace it… but this means nothing to me!» Fran crafted a tiny knife, cut one of his sleeves and, with the help of a shadow hand, he tightened it strictly around his forehead wound, covering his right eye too; then he resumed the speech. «There is no shadow without light! Even if only a glimmer of light will remain, I'll stand up fighting to keep it alive… and I don't mind if the same light I protect thinks I'm just a creepy little maggot, like you all calling me…»

«All you can do is talk, my dear MAGGOT! The only thing I understood is that you really like this name, MAGGOT! Do you think I'm that stupid to not understand how your power works? The next big cloud is approaching the sun… and it is so huge that there will be no light for the rest of the day! Do you want to keep playing at the spear piercing the shield? Why don't you just give up? Haven't you realized my attacks cannot be blocked anymore?» Tanaka asked sneering and confident.

«Your spear is unmatched… it costed me a lot understanding it. But right since there is no point in defending myself I'll just not do it anymore!» Fran took off his coat and threw it in the air; his own shadow rolled on it and assumed a human shape wearing it; meanwhile, Fran was staggering and coughing blood.

«I feel dizzy, and I'm barely able to stand up… but thanks to my coat I can easily skip the imagination process of my shadow crafting and give it a person shape. Now we are two versus one!» Fran collected the longest iron stick he could find from the broken umbrellas and used its shadow to wield a long but little shadow blade; his new shadow ally, instead, had a stinger and a centipede armored hand replacing its arms and very thin legs to compensate the fact more shadow material was used to power up his upper parts.

«Being two or more won't change how much stamina you have left! Let's end this!» Tanaka charged against Fran but his coated shadow intercepted him and tried to counter; incapable of getting wounded, the humanoid shadow was fighting more easily but this little advantage wasn't enough since Tanaka was too much stronger and he was able to threw the shadow away with a direct hit.

Meanwhile, Fran was trying to get as far as he could from the arena limit but when Tanaka noticed his movements, he tried to prioritize hitting him first; Fran tried to protect himself with the thin blade he had by throwing it against his opponent, but Tanaka easily deflected it with simple diamond slap. His next diamond fist was approaching Fran, but his humanoid shadow backed helping in time, saving his owner by pulling him out of the hook's trajectory; However, again the shockwave of the punch hitting the ground was so violent that many air blades flew around the entire arena. Fran's shadow got blasted on the bleacher's walls while one of the blade hit the boy's right tight, cutting it deeply.

Blood splashed everywhere and the situation ended up being the same as before: Fran was on the ring's border, on the ground and Tanaka was slowing approaching him for the execution.

«He couldn't match Tanaka even with this attack… he should have not challenged him knowing his ability has so much limits in this arena!» Misaka said upset.

«Onee-sama… even if I feel so bad for him right now, some people need to face reality! His ego led him to this situation, he wasn't even involved in this…» Kuroko commented.

«Why…? Why all of this happened? Its only my fault…» Ayuzawa closed her eyes frightened and clenched her fists.

«Brace yourself, MAGGOT! Finally the moment to get stomped is arrived, like the weak insect you are!» Tanaka said cruel, facing Fran kneeled on his only unharmed leg. «I'm warning you, I cooooould unintentionally, and I repeat, unintentionally shot an excessively devastating hit again… AHAHAHAHAH!» Tanaka charged his left hook and went for the hit but something unexpectedly stabbed him in the back, perforating his chest: it was a medium sized shadow spear who thrusted into him and then vanished on the ground.

Tanaka checked his chest in panic, terrorized to find a big hole but there weren't any wound; he suddenly felt tired and was cold sweating. The spectator, taken aback, were all silent and shocked.

«Oh, my bad… I probably missed something in my earlier explanation… Did my attack make you feel exhausted? It's one of its additional effect if I hit the right spot… do you want me to buy you an energy drink?» Fran exclaimed, gathering all of his left breath to tell a joke.

«Curse you… how is this possible?! I see your shadow right there! It's there on the ground! There is nothing wide enough around here with which you could have crafted that attack! Explain yourself, dammit!» Tanaka asked panting.

«It seems like everybody was giving up on me… well then, my attack was not as obvious and predictable as I thought or you all actually have rocks in your head.»

«Stop saying those bullsh*t! Just tell me what have you done!»

«You said I had no other shadow to craft around here, am I right? Well, maybe you haven't noticed I have two shadow sources nearby.»

«You are lying! There are only mine and yours shadow around here, and mine is out of your manipulation!»

«You are totally not seeing something! Did you really believe the "thanks to my coat I can easily skip the imagination process of my shadow crafting" thingy? You guys all are a bunch of gullible! How can you trust your enemies' words? Technically, my own body shadow includes also my wearing, true, but once I throw off my coat we become two separated things!»

«T-that's unbelievable… you made your shadow wear your coat on purpose in order to gain a second shadow source to use when it would be needed…»

«Bingo. The coat's shadow turned into a centipede in the exact moment you caused that confusing chaos by punching the ground and then it hid in the dust you raised… waiting the moment you would have lowered your guard to mock me, eventually turning into a spear and hitting you form behind without you being aware of anything!» Fran explained smirking; but, strangely, this made only Tanaka laughing too.

«What a maggot move, indeed… I should have expected such a dishonourable way to fight from you. But as you see, our little cute talking made me feel better already! You have your bones broken and you're injured… I don't need my esper ability to knock you down! I just need to lend a punch on that ugly arrogant face and I'll win! Take this, it's over!!!» Tanaka rushed against Fran with his right hook ready to hit but his attack got parried by the shadow centipede and in the arena an even worst broken bones sound started resonating.

«WAAAAAAAAAAAH! My hand! What have you done to my hand?! IT HUUURTS, AAAAAAAAH!» Tanaka yelled in absolute pain, crying out loud; his right hand was now completely bent on itself with all of the fingers twisted.

«If you don't mind not being able to use your powers… I won't mind using mine. And now, it's time to end this match.» Fran, holding his coat in hand again, limping approached his opponent escorted by his centipede rolled up on him while Tanaka was backing off in tears.

«Referee! Immediately disqualify this boy! He just crashed his opponent's limb!» mother Ayuzawa shouted from the seats.

«T-true! My hand… my amazing hand… this bastard is a shameless monster!» confirmed Tanaka as he looked away from his hand, now a contemporary artwork.

«Confirmed! That hit caused a very bad injury! This challenger will be disqualified and…» the referee was going to show his red cart from the jacket but a strong gust of wind pushed him against the stadium walls, knocking him off.

«IM DONE WITH THIS BULLSH*T TOURNMENT!» Sogiita burst out all of his breath in a roar. «The match will not be cancelled, neither him disqualified.» then he said with equal calmness.

«But Sogiita-Senpai! What are you saying?! Look at what has he done to me! That's not fair!» complained Tanaka.

«Sogiita Gunha… you're just a guest in this event, you have no decision-making power. So, would you please just stay quei-» A second gust of wind hit directly and only lady Ayuzawa's chair whose jewels and pendant flew away.

«That referee is sleeping. I am the one in charge now. Like what happened before, Tanaka-kun said he was not expecting that his hit would have broken his opponent's armor… Now, on the other hand, Fran-san could have not expected that his opponent would have been such an imbecile to punch something as hard as iron! Said so, the match goes on! Continue!» Sogiita decreed, he crossed his arms and focused on the two contenders.

«Sogiita-Senpai… but… ah, whatever! I still have my other arm… and… Eheheheh! The cloud is now approaching the sun! With your powers or not, you can never defeat me before the sky darkens! You can't wound me directly and neither reach me with that injured leg!» Tanaka said, now willing to conclude regularly the match.

«I just have twenty seconds left… but I'll make them enough!» Fran said clearly, threw his coat in the air and fused its shadow with his own in order to craft a longer centipede, long enough to cover the distance between him and Tanaka; the centipede reached Tanaka's left hand and wrapped around it.

«Oh no! The worm reached me! Let me go!» the trapped boy yelled in agitation.

«I really like videogames, you know… but I don't like heroes, not at all. Main characters, huh? They always are stronger and better than any other minor character, despite how interesting and charming they could be… but I've learnt something interesting. It doesn't matter how strong or weak you are, in videogames as in real life there is always one thing no kind of character can beat: gravity!» Fran raised his arm to the sky and the centipede threw Tanaka off in the air, at least five metres up. «Falling from that height… I'm sure you won't be able to stand up again.» clouds eventually covered the sun and all of the Fran's shadows vanished.

Everyone followed with their eyes the falling of poor Tanaka who, frightened, was yelling and squirming in the air; a loud thud caused lots of dust and the whole stadium muted. Some people tried to see through the dust what happened, other looked away unwilling to see his gruesome end. However, Tanaka was standing still, unharmed, thanks to his diamond legs that broke his fall.

«I-I cant believe… that's the way this match ended…» Misaka said relieved.

«That's just… how could he do that?» Kuroko added.

Lady Ayuzawa, her daughter and old Tanaka remained speechless, mouth open while Sogiita was smiling.

«You must have done some miscalculation… maggot! As you see my power came back just in time for my safe landing! Now it's my turn to serve you right!» Tanaka screamed as he charged his fist.

«We have a winner!» Sogiita said with enthusiasm at the microphone.

«Come on, Sogiita-Senpai! I know he is pathetic but It's not over yet… I was just going to show you my amazing final blow!» Tanaka said impatient.

«And the win goes to Shadow guy-san! I'm really amazed, my compliments!» the level five exclaimed pointing to the Judgment boy.

«YOU IDIOT!» for the first time we heard Tanaka's father, and they were not kind words. «Look where the hell have you landed!» His son looked below him and saw his feet were slightly out of the arena limits and this resulted in his loss.

«Some miscalculation, you said?» Fran intervened proud. «I just told you some random number, I knew you would have got your power back before falling but my main intention was to worry you so much to make you not care about where were you landing but that you would land safe and unharmed. This way you didn't even notice I threw you off the limits of the ring. It's funny, I said you to not trust your opponents words but it seems you just can't help yourself. You know, if you want to trust me so much at least do it on that part… Ehehehe… you may be the stronger of high school but… the stronger creature in the vessel… is me!» Fran explained satisfied and proudly as he was miming his beloved centipede with his right hand rolled up around his own neck; due to the amount of clouds, he couldn't show off his shadow Scolopendra so he did it his way.

«This means the pact his father made with Ayuzawa's mother is broken! Ayuzawa-san can stop to be that sad now!» Mikoto exclaimed waving towards young Ayuzawa's seat.

«How can it be…? I… lost?!» questioned himself Tanaka, crashing the ground with his diamond fist.

«Exactly, you lost you worthless kid! The only thing you know is beating up people and you're not even good at it! You don't deserve my name!» his father said, then left his seat.

«Ayuzawa-chan… At least I've got you…» Tanaka searched for consolation from his girlfriend but she wasn't even barely looking at him; her eyes were shining of joy watching her mother was helpless and that boy named Fran won the match. This was too much for Tanaka.

«You… took everything from me… I… I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!» the murderous aura Tanaka emitted was felt by everyone under their skin, as the mad man charged with his diamond fist ready to kill; Fran couldn't either parry or dodge, but someone did it for him: Sogiita blocked the hit with one finger and then grabbed the attacker from his arm. «This guts of yours… really stinks. You've disappointed me, get out of my face.» he said with coldness that doesn't suit him.

Tanaka burst into tear and quickly ran away out of the stadium while the spectators left were booing him and now cheering for Fran.

«Excellent performance! Your G U T S may be a little… gloomy? I dunno. But you did great!» Sogiita approached Fran for an handshake but there was no response.

«I'm the… strongest… the vessel…» Fran fainted and Sogiita caught him right before he touched the ground. He lost a lot of blood, but not the fight.