#17: [開会式の...] The Opening Ceremony of…

The six schools' sources of mana fluctuations are six swords, a bit unusual due to the [legend of the seven swords] the six swords compromises of the six elements [Fire] [Water] [Earth] [Air] [Steel] and [Light], though some speculate that is a seventh sword the [sword of darkness].

Ryuujin, being a dragon who forges his own swords, the last sword he made was surprisingly named [闇の剣] Sword of Darkness…

"Sir, you might as well start your ow school" Ryuujin told Lucifer "No, it's not its time, your sword is of your own, some might make up a sword and give it some dark energy to give it the dark attribute" Lucifer said, knowing that forging something and giving it an attribute is possible.

Is the sword ready?" a man in a shadow spoke "Of course, it's due to be released in the tournament" another man spoke.

A few days later, the Kanto Prefecture High selected its representatives for the [Six-School Tournament]. With its leader Shiro, the school tried to argue their way so that Gabriel would become the Leader but she argued "I won't be able to win against him when he uses his matured eye"

The school came to understand what she meant when Gabriel was forced to challenge Shiro into a duel and got hammered with Shiro used his matured Wraith eye in which enhances his power by a hundred-fold. "Facing defeat isn't what mattered, what mattered is showing strength, and being quick-witted" Gabriel commented.

Once they were content that Shiro would assume the position of leader, Gabriel assumes the role of [Sub-leader], and the third member, being Makoto Hisui, who took the role by defeating the SSS-rank student, Kage Katsuragi Ryuusuke.

The six-Sword Tournament Opening ceremony, a three-man group with swords showed up standing on the roof, saying that they are from the secret school named [Midnight] who has the [Sword of Darkness].

A single second went by, two of them were killed, and Shiro said that the other one "got away" The other students and teachers of other schools shouted that he should be detained for killing people, but Shiro took out a badge out of his pocket, so did Itsuo and Noro "We are of the AD-L, these people are of our jurisdiction, their death is a message that they should not cross the light" Shiro shouted "These people who claim themselves to be a part of the [Midnight] school holding the [Sword of darkness] are people that we, the AD-L have been keeping an eye of since the demon ghoul raids were put to an end by [Tenryuu]" Noro shouted, everyone kept silent for a bit and started to cheer.

After the opening ceremony, Shiro vanished, returning a few minutes before the tournament starts, Noro calls him to ask something.

"What happened in that one second? What did you do? How did you do it?" Noro bombarded him with questions. And Shiro told him the story.

After the three appeared on top, Shiro used a spell from his eye [#73: Arcana XXI – Time Zero] to stop everyone's time, after that, he implanted an antidote to a poison he made a few days back, the other two, injected the said poison.

The used Time Zero's counter-spell, [#73: Arcana XXI – Golden Time] to free the three from the stopped time, the three wanted to kill him but all their efforts are wasted as their attacks seem to pass through him. He stopped the time for one of them using Time Zero and killed him off, and to confirm the kill, he used Golden time again. "In him, there is antidote for the poison luring in your body, in one hour, the poison will react and kill you instantly" Shiro said pointing his new blade at the guy in the middle.

He killed him off after stopping his time, and told the guy to search for the antidote, since, he's already dead and asked him to deliver a message to his superior or their school's headmaster.

Shiro finished telling his story, Noro also asked about his disappearance, Shiro only said "A man who does not care of his men, will fall in a dangerous game of betrayal"

Noro speculated that he might have gotten there during one of his time stops, but decided to let it go since he said so.

The tournament would commence in a few minutes, and Shiro hasn't returned "Did you see him yet?" Gabriel asked Hisui "No, but he was here a while ago, he was called by Headmaster Atsushi" he replied.

Gabriel headed to Noro's room hoping that he would know where he is. Noro opened the door, and asked Gabriel what he needs "Hisui saw Shiro go here, is he still here?" Gabriel asked "I'm afraid when we finished talking, he disappeared in front of my eyes" Noro replied.

"None the less, he told me a plan, in which you should follow, he told me that he could count on both of you" Noro said.

The Tournament is about to start, Gabriel had known of Shiro's plans and told it to Hisui. "You sure that this would work?" Hisui asks "Yeah, apparently, in our time in school, he had already assessed our strength without fighting us, and he wanted to use that knowledge to fight against the other schools, just follow the plan" Gabriel explains.