"Something about all this doesn't make any sense. Tell me Rudy, what the hell is on your mind all this time?"
"What's on my mind? That has nothing to do with the brat like you, Milo."
Suddenly, a drone came out from Rudy's lab coat. The drone proceeded to shoot a laser at Ryuma.
But Ryuma's instinct led him to react faster before the drone shot, as he charged at the drone at the blind spot. As he was about to put his hand on the drone…
Rudy anticipated Ryuma by kicked him in the guts. But Ryuma anticipated Rudy's kick with his arm guarding his gut, proceeded to lift his leg, and gave an elbow to his leg.
"Kuh…"
Rudy barely groans from the pain from an elbow to his elbow. Using his other foot, he kicked Ryuma on the head. But again, Ryuma blocked it as he grabbed Rudy's other leg.
It would be a chance to immobilize Rudy at that moment, until…
*BOOM!*
An explosion occurs between Ryuma and Rudy. Ryuma was sent to the wall while Rudy was on the opposite.
Ryuma immediately got up and charged at Rudy.
Unfortunately, he was interrupted by Huto who hit his cheek before Ryuma reacted it.
"He's that fast?! I didn't even react to that!"
"Tch!"
Kiyo was surprised by Huto's speed while Rio clicked his tongue.
And suddenly, Kiyo was surprised by Eden, who suddenly went into his field of vision.
"Hi there."
With a spear taller than him, Eden clashes against Kiyo. Their raw strength were about the same level as neither of them make any other moves except push forward.
That's when Kiyo felt something bite his thigh.
"What?!"
"Haha… Maybe next time you'll need to watch your surroundings-"
Before Eden finished his sentence, he immediately felt the chain binding on his neck.
*CRASH!*
The sound of glass breaking. Kiyo, who just got bitten by the snake, has a fast thought to tie Eden's neck and smash him on the glass window. Eden's head was smashed several times. An eagle and a snake raise their fang on Kiyo, but it's not enough to bring him down.
…
"You… Kuh!"
Ryuma has his eyes on Huto, which has hindered his attention from Tenko, who had woken up and was standing on his side.
"You… You're strong!"
With a finishing sentence, Tenko gave a blow with her huge fist. Ryuma blocked the huge fist, but the impact was greater than he had thought, which led him to crash into the other room.
"That's it… My patience's running low…"
Once again, Ryuma got up immediately and charged at Tenko. Only to be interrupted by the voice.
"STOP IT!"
The fist has yet to make contact on Tenko's face, but she was pretty disappointed about it.
Miss Sunny, the teacher and instructor of the school, comes here after hearing the ruckus and decides to make everyone break up.
"It's fine if you wanna kill each other or anything, but mind the school properties, it costs a hundred thousand-"
"That's what you upset about?"
…
"Moreover, now's not the right time for you to kill each other. I haven't even used my Deathless World yet. You all must value your life."
"You guys sure she's an actual teacher or something?"
Hearing Miss Sunny's lecturer while sitting on their knees is a hell for most of them. Because it goes to dusk for her so long to finish.
"Now I'm almost forgetting, what makes you all kill each other anyway?"
"Hmm, maybe Rudy has a good answer to that…"
Ryuma spoke as he gave a side glance at Rudy.
"He touched my erotic book without permission, Miss Sunny."
"Who touched your erotic- WHAT?!"
All is given, and everyone who was involved in the fight was released eventually. And Rudy's erotic book was burned by Miss Sunny right before his eyes.
"NOOOOOOO MY ANGEL!!!"
Little did they know, the whole event was witnessed by any other person who was leaning on the hallway wall. Kochigawa Tennisuke…
…
Ryuma lies on his bed with a few bandages on his body and face, thinking about the roller coaster he's been riding today.
"Rudy… Why the hell is he starting this? Come to think of it, we'll be fighting in another 3 days. That's where the battle of Death was allowed…"
*DING!*
Suddenly, Ryuma heard the ringing bell of his room. Seems like there's someone who wants to meet him, in the middle of the night that is…
Ryuma got up and opened the door.
And it was Kochigawa Tennisuke, his room neighbour.
"Hello, got a second?"
"What?"
Ryuma was confused, but he'd hear him out regardless.
…
In the middle of the night, Rodion O Welson, sitting on the desk in the room. The very same room where they previously were fighting. Looking at the aftermath, Rudy sat in complete silence.
Meanwhile, from the shadow, there was one other person accompanying him from the shadow. It was the mysterious person whom Rudy referred to as 'Huto'.
"What now, Rudy?"
Rudy, completely sighed as he stretched his body.
"It is what it is. Not being able to kick him out is one thing, but this school is creeping me out, one way or another. I've had my surveillance drone set up to navigate every corner of this school, but they were somehow not able to even go 50 meters."
Rudy stares at Huto, who seems to be indifferent to how this situation plays out.
"We're being watched."
"Yeah, I thought so. Probably 'The Sage' itself."
Huto, despite having his eyes closed the entire time, he somehow able to perceive the presence that kept an eye on them.
"No doubt, we're currently being pulled by some kind of string of fate. Me, you, and all the other 18 students were grouped in one place. This strange feeling of waryness, do you know what this is, Huto?"
"Hmm… Somebody… Trying to stir everything… Like some kind of chess pieces… Was it The Sage?"
"Nope, it wasn't only the sage."
Rudy hopped off the table and put out the grenade launcher from his lab coat. And aimed it at the corner of the room.
*BOOM!*
An explosion occurred, and smoke and dust covered in one place. And Rudy sees some kind of metal object the size of a fist hit the ground.
"The portable surveillance camera is equipped with a stealth function. It seems there's another engineer beside me. Was they working under The Sage also? Or were they from a third party? If it was the first, then we'll had to face them head on, but if it was the third party, they're waiting for us to eat each other inside out. Interesting, I'll play along within this string of fate and be controlled like a puppet, for now."