While Illya was having a 'friendly' conversation with the Spirit Twins, an airplane arrived at Hitogami Island's airport. Several girls followed the main group onto the island.
They wore black-rimmed glasses and hats, avoiding the crowd's gaze, and looked up at the clear sky.
"Is this where Tsukiyo-chan and the others are on their school trip? The weather is so nice!"
"Is this okay? Coming here without telling Tsukiyo-chan, she might get angry, right?"
"No way! She'd be thrilled if we came out together! What's the point of always staying at home! We want to go out and have fun too!"
"Hmph! Easy for you to say. I wonder who was hiding in her room when we called her, refusing to come out. In the end, it took several of us to drag her out."
"Hey! You old maid, can you shut up for a second! Just be quiet!"
"Old... old maid? Heh... hehe~ Your mouth is getting sharper and sharper. I'm an old maid? Then what are you? A hopeless shut-in that no one wants? And an old one at that?"
"Ugh! Th... that's still better than you! Even if I'm a shut-in! At least my physique is stronger than ordinary people! Who's like you, the world's strongest Magician who takes twenty seconds to run fifty meters! How embarrassing!"
"That was in the past! Now I've received the power of a God! After gaining the power of a God, I've become even stronger! You, on the other hand, are only like this because of the Spirit's power!"
"And you're only like that because of the power Tsukiyo-chan gave you!"
The blonde girl and the grey-haired girl argued loudly, their commotion attracting the attention of other people at the airport.
This prompted the silver-purple haired girl and another grey-haired girl nearby to quickly stop the arguing pair and leave the airport at top speed, heading towards Illya's location.
At this moment, Illya, Yakushi, and Yuzuru were in a hotel room. Yakushi and Yuzuru were solemnly looking at Illya, who smiled back at the two.
She held a ping-pong paddle in her right hand and a ping-pong ball in her left, executing a standard serve.
"Here it comes! Good opportunity!"
Yakushi's eyes lit up. She quickly moved to the ball's position and hit it back with a powerful smash.
Facing Yakushi's attack, Illya seemed to have anticipated the ball's trajectory, moving to its landing spot in advance and hitting it to the other side.
"Oh no!"
Due to the prohibition on using spiritual power, Yakushi couldn't use her abilities to accelerate, so she could only watch helplessly as the ball flew to the other side.
Just as Yakushi thought they would lose this point, Yuzuru appeared in front of the ball and hit it back.
This was a one-on-two battle. After showering, upon discovering a ping-pong table in the hotel, Yakushi recalled her past experience of being utterly defeated by Illya and proposed a ping-pong match to decide a winner.
Facing Yakushi's challenge, Illya was unimpressed, not taking Yakushi seriously at all. Instead, she suggested that it would be more appropriate if both of them came at her.
This enraged Yakushi and Yuzuru; it was a complete disregard for them!
Losing a fight was one thing, but Yakushi and Yuzuru didn't believe they would lose to Illya in a game like this.
Although two-on-one was a bit unfair, Illya had already said it, so no matter what, they had to show Illya what they were capable of! And then... and then... there was no 'and then'.
It was a complete massacre; Illya was unilaterally dominating! No matter what they did, they couldn't score a single point against Illya.
Like a Demon King, though always smiling, she could unleash attacks that the two of them simply couldn't block, even with both of them playing.
Although their coordination improved, Illya would always find even better opportunities to counterattack. Sometimes, a single rally would last several minutes before a point was decided.
"They... are amazing. By the way, how can they hit the ball so fast?"
Shiori, who arrived midway, didn't know what to say. With her abilities, she couldn't even track the ping-pong ball's position; she could only see Illya, Yakushi, and Yuzuru turn into afterimages, continuously hitting the poor ping-pong ball.
"This is the difference in strength. Even without using other abilities, just their physical prowess and reaction speed make them no match."
Illya's greatest strength was her reaction speed. She could even predict Yakushi and Yuzuru's next moves based on their actions, almost like having Observation Haki.
In the end, Yakushi and Yuzuru were completely unable to defeat Illya. Faced with their pitiful score of zero, Yakushi once again proposed a duel.
Later, they found other various and sundry duel challenges, with Yakushi and Yuzuru teaming up to challenge Illya.
In the end, Yakushi, unable to accept the reality of losing to Illya, lay on the ground, questioning her life in an ORZ pose.
"How is this possible? Why is there such a powerful person? It's too unfair! She's just a small girl!"
(fuhai: Yet, it's that small girl who completely dominated you, young lady.)
Yuzuru, on the other hand, took it much better; despite feeling upset, her mental fortitude was clearly stronger than Yakushi's.
With a victorious demeanor, Illya left the room. Just as Yakushi and Yuzuru were embracing and licking their wounds, Origami appeared before them.
"Do you... want to defeat that person?"
Origami's opening line caused Yakushi and Yuzuru to 'whoosh' their heads up, their eyes shining as they looked at Origami.
"Do you... have a way to defeat that guy?"
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