22: Duel with the Guild Master

A beautiful lady walks out of the elevator. She was wearing a red suit with a black tie.

She had pink eyes and long blond hair and was in her late twenties. She hadn't put any lipstick on even though her lips were pink. All in all she was a beautiful woman who could capture any man's heart. This was none other than Seraphina Heartfilia. She was the hunter who awakened in the first generation and killed a ton of monsters in the great calamity. She is the first SS-Rank hunter in the country and 7th in the whole continent.

Kei was stunned by seeing this beauty in front of him. But quickly greeted her after regaining his composure and she just nodded back in response. Then she walks in front of them and sits down on her chair and points them to sit down.

Then she starts speaking "Kei Nakamura." the voice was so soft and soothing to the ears that it couldn't be described in words.

Then she continues in calm and calculative voice "You have a rough past. But so does everyone here. You have potential and so does everyone. Why do you think you are special than others? Why should I spare my time for you?" then the room temperature starts to drop down, she is looking at Kei with a cold gaze.

Vector is gonna answer the question but Kei answers first "I don't know why Vector told or see me that I have potential but I believe in showing things rather than talking." Vector was shouting at Kei internally and said "Guild master I wil-" but before he could finish Seraphina stands up and walks towards the elevator and points them to follow.

After entering she presses the button in a specific pattern. 2,21,9,8,7,7 and the elevator immediately starts to go down. They finally stop and elevator gates open to show a training ground. She exits the elevator and Kei sees the training ground as a whole. He could feel the whole training ground was built with refined materials and would have cost a lot. The only reason for it is to improve the hunters. Kei could see a lot of weapons hanging from the wall. The best weapon would be at most a rank-C weapon because a weapon higher ranked than that would be used by hunters. There were multiple dummies and robots lying around. As they can't bring any monsters here they have to use a substitute

She turns to Kei and says "Choose" Kei hesitates for a second but takes out a katana which is C-rank. Even though it was not as good as Yugen, it was good enough for Kei to perform his moves.

But to the surprise of Vector and Seraphina, Kei moved ahead and picked up a spear which was unfortunately a D-rank spear as there was no C-rank spear. And he picked up a blade which was close to the formation of his blade as he had left his blade home. He didn't think that he would need it for meeting the guild leader. Vector asks in a shaky voice "Do you really use all those weapons?"

Kei looks at Vector with a confident tone and says "I am confident in using all the weapons I have picked up." then he walks to a dummy and is about to demonstrate his moves but Seraphina stops him and says "If you're so confident then a dummy won't be a good opponent for you. I'll be your opponent and go all out if you want to leave an impression."

Kei was dumbfounded at first but then gets ready. "As you said I will go all out against you." then he . To increase his speed , he put Mana in his legs. He first thrusts the weapon at Seraphina who casually dodges it then he turns and quickly takes out his blade to cut Seraphina in half but she stops it by creating a Mana blade out of her hand. Kei is shocked by it and Seraphina takes that moment to attack Kei. Kei deflects her attack with the katana and tries to punch her which she blocks bare handed and punches him back and it sends him flying at a wall.

Seraphina was disappointed by this and thinks 'I wasn't even using five percent of my strength. A disappointment.' and starts to walk back but dodges to the right and gains some distance when she feels something approaching her. "I still have something up my sleeve." then he runs towards her and jumps very high. While he is spinning and coming down, Mana starts to surround the spear and he throws it while forming a Mana blade in his right hand. Seraphina is shocked seeing Kei form a Mana blade but keeps the questions aside.

Seraphina then smirks at him while the spear is approaching her. She concentrates a lot of Mana into her hand and catches the spear. It creates a huge ripple in the training ground as the spear's moment went to zero very fast. Kei uses the ripple as an advantage to attack Seraphina and aims for the neck but she blocks it with the spear. Kei is shocked that Seraphina can use a spear and use it so efficiently that she can stop his Mana blade.

She then strikes Kei's solar plexus with the blunt side of the spear which causes him to take a few steps back while clutching his chest and she takes that moment to attack him. But this was the thing Kei was waiting for so he quickly puts Mana in the katana but water doesn't forms as it isn't Yugen but then also he stops Seraphina's attack midway by deflecting the spear elsewhere and aims for her neck the moment he deflected the spear.

Seraphina wasn't an SS-Rank hunter for nothing and could easily react to Kei's attack and just took a few steps back. Kei wasn't disheartened that his attack didn't land, instead he created a sharper edge by shaping the Mana into a sharper edge of his Katana. Then as to distract Seraphina he spits an acid at her which she swats away by the spear. The spear gets damaged because of the acid though so she throws it away. Kei then uses that opportunity to quickly slice at her.

Seraphina creates a fire wall around to negate the damage and Kei is shocked by the fire appearing out of nowhere and the temperature of the fire was very hot and it could burn to a crisp if he ever touched it.

Vector was going to ask the guild leader to go a little easy on Kei but Kei gets more excited and attacks her when she puts down the firewall. Seraphina creates a Mana blade and they start to clash left and right finally ending their clash by Kei retreating a bit as he is no match for Seraphina as of now.

Seraphina thinks the duel is over and was going to compliment Kei but he walks to the weapon aile and takes out a double edged sword and thinks 'I know that I shouldn't show all of my skills. But she is going to be my mentor anyway so she will know about these moves in the future so it is better to show her this now rather than the future. It will leave a good impression on her and she could guide me better that way.' then his eyes starts to radiate a greenish white aura and he smiles widely. "Let the show BEGIN!!"