Chapter 77 The Duel

“If I win, I want you to stay away from Kaichou!” Saji pointed at Kisuke who’s still nonchalant about everything which pisses him off.

“If I win?” Kisuke asks. He wants to yawn but stopped himself as that would be rude and will aggravate the young man more.

“I will stop getting in your way,” Saji said in all seriousness, but he’s confident that he’ll win, after all, the opponent is just a human with nameless Sacred Gear.

“And If I refuse?”

“I won’t stop pestering you!” Saji clenched his fist and teeth to declare.

“That certainly is annoying. Let’s do it! When and where do you wanna go?” Kisuke imagined his days being annoyed by the young man whenever he’s with Sona and didn’t like it one bit, ‘I’ll welcome you if you’re a pretty girl.’

“Let’s do it now! As for where…” Saji was about the place he thought of earlier when Rias suddenly interrupted him.

“There’s a clearing in the forest near hear. You can use that space if you put up appropriate barriers.” Rias pointed outside the window where the direction of the clearing is. It’s the same place where Koneko sparred with Yuuto and defeated him cleanly.

“Thank you, Rias-sama. We’ll take your offer.” Saji thinks that place is more suitable than what he planned earlier.

“You don’t mind us watching, no?” Rias asks Saji and the rest of Sona’s peerage.

“Please look after us and become our referee, Rias-sama. I don’t want him going after his words, so please take appropriate measures to enforce the bet.”

“I can do that. Follow us, we’ll lead you to that place.” Rias turned around to exit the building along with her servants.

The rest and Kisuke also followed them until they reached a relatively large clearing in the forest beside the old school building.

Rias invited the two to the center and spoke, “If Saji wins, Urahara will stop any form of contact with Sona Sitri and if Urahara wins, Saji won’t give Urahara troubles regarding Sona anymore. The first one to admit defeat or become incapable of fighting loses. Is there any objection?”

“No,” Saji answered first and equipped his Sacred Gear, Absorption Line on his right hand. It has the appearance of a small black bracer in the form of a small and cute black Chameleon-like lizard with violet eyes and a deformed face that appears on the user’s hand.

“I have.” Kisuke raised his arm in objection, however.

“You don’t agree with the terms?” Rias give Kisuke a questioning look.

Kisuke, in return, just sneered, “Don’t look at me like that. It’s your fault alright. I know both of you are Devils and the leaders are quite close too, but you shouldn’t give such obvious favorability.”

Rias narrowed her eyes and asks in a deep voice, “What do you mean?”

“You know what I mean. Change the terms now.” Kisuke also stared at her. If he backs down now from a spoiled little girl’s stare, Yoruichi, who’s in his head wouldn’t stop laughing about it and will tease him for a long while.

The two of them had a staring contest with the rest not understanding what’s happening.

“Akeno-san, What’s Kisuke is talking about? And why the mood suddenly became heavy?” Issei asks Akeno who is also wearing a serious expression.

“It’s Rias fault this time. She underestimated Urahara-kun.” Akeno replied briefly making them even more confused.

Rias was the first one to remove her gaze and briefly apologizes, “I’m sorry. I’m changing the terms. If Urahara wins, Saji won’t give Urahara any trouble for any given matter. Are you fine with this.”

Kisuke returned to his nonchalant smile and agreed, “Yep.~”

Everyone now understood why Kisuke strongly disagreed with Rias’ terms. If Kisuke were to win with the terms earlier, Saji can still pester him as long as the reason isn’t ‘Sona’. They all looked at her with differing expressions, but Rias already expected this when he exposed her little wordplay.

Rias ignored the rest and just continued her job as the referee, “If there are no other questions you can start now!”

Saji returned to himself after Rias’ go signal. He shook his head to focus on his duel and already planned his move, ‘I’ll grab him anywhere with my Line and swing him around with my strengthened physique as a Devil until he admits defeat and or lose consciousness. Even with his sword-type Sacred Gear shouldn’t be able to cut my Line.’

Yoruichi jumped down and went to Koneko’s direction jumping on her head instead. They thought that it was one strange cat but didn’t ponder more as their attention is on the upcoming fight.

Saji pointed his Sacred Gear towards and from the head of the chameleon, a tongue-like line shoots out of its mouth and headed straight for Kisuke. Kisuke smile didn’t disappear nor even move until the line is only a few centimeters away from his waist. Everyone thought that if he’s caught, the chances of him winning are almost nill, except for Koneko of course.

The Line wraps around Kisuke and Saji already celebrated, ‘I won.’ He then prepares to pull the line to smash him around until he admits defeat. With his newfound strength as a Devil, he can easily lift a grown man. But the moment he pulled the line, he didn’t feel any feedback that should be present with Kisuke’s weight. He then noticed that Kisuke already disappeared with his Line still wrapping around the air. Saji felt something wrong and looked below him. There he saw Kisuke crouching down looking up to him with the same smile he had since earlier. “Wh-!!!?”

Before Saji could complete what he was about to say, Kisuke’s palm suddenly shoots out from below and hit him square to the solar plexus. The force lifted Saji three meters off the ground and he dropped two meters away from Kisuke who is already standing idly. When Saji touched the ground, he winced in pain for a bit, his eyes already rolled to the back of his head and fell unconscious with his mouth frotting. If examined closely, Saji isn’t breathing.

“Saji!” Everyone from Sona’s peerage rushed towards him and checked him. But to their dismay, he isn’t breathing. All of them lose their minds and very dumbfounded. They were just talking to him happily a moment ago yet he abruptly died now. One of them reacted particularly violent and rushed towards Kisuke.