the next day
ryuko was brushing her teeth outside the house.
Ryuko: *yawn* hmm?....
Ryuko turns around and sees a shinai with a challenge letter embedded in the ground.
Varakiel: ryuko-chan are you don-
varakiel sees the shinai and the letter.
Varakiel: (so in the end he did it, what a foul)
...…..
Ryuko was in front of uzu sanageyama.
Ryuko: giving someone who was beaten a second chance…i didn't know you were this soft, satsuki Kiryuin!
Satsuki: Tell me again after the fight just how soft I am, matoi ryuko.
Ryuko then looks at uzu.
Uzu: watch closely what happens when you force a man to change.
*transformation sequence*
Uzu: blade regalia MKII!
Varakiel: beware ryuko-chan, this guy did something unforgivable and has gained a lot of power. right now you might lose.
Ryuko: got it, let's work fast, then.
*ping*
Ryuko: Kamui Varakiel!...HA!!!
*pow*
Ryuko is hit by a giant shinai.
Ryuko: ugh!!!
and is sent flying!
Ryuko: t-that hurt!
Varakiel:....so he did that…..pathetic, look at his eyes ryuko.
Ryuko:....h-his eyes are shut!?
Satsuki: this is the resolve of a man who has realized the error of his ways and sacrificed everything! know that as you face him, matoi!
Uzu: here i come.
*clang clang*
the giant suit was approaching ryuko.
Varakiel:...let's leave ryuko.
Ryuko: what!? what do you mean leave!?
Varakiel: lend me your body for a moment.
Ryuko:....okay.
Ryuko (varakiel): uzu sanageyama....i am dissapointed.
Uzu: what?...what is this?
the voice that was coming from ryuko was different this time varakiel was using his actual voice and not using ryuko's.
Ryuko (varakiel): you sacrificed your eyes to enhance your other senses, utterly disappointing, you don't deserve to touch my blade anymore.
Uzu: b-but sensei! my overconfidence in my vision made me lose before!
Ryuko (varakiel): you're wrong! you were not overconfident, you were weak, believing that with only one of your senses you were able to win, and you sacrificed that sense to win!? disappointing, you didn't work hard for this strength, you just traded something important for power, a human will never reach its peak if he's missing something, that includes their senses, this is how far you go uzu sanageyama, you should never cross blades with ryuko matoi again, you're not worthy.
Uzu: i…i…..damn it!!!
Uzu uses a shinai to attack ryuko.
Varakiel evades to the side.
Ryuko (varakiel): we are leaving, do not show your face to me ever again, i am done ryuko, let's go.
Satsuki:...i see, a human should use their own capabilities to reach the stars. amazing...…uzu sanageyama...this is just but a shameful victory…..but a victory nonetheless.
Ryuko:.....varakiel do you think i would have lost?
Varakiel: Very sure, that guy sacrificed his senses to increase the affinity with his uniform, but that's it, that's how far he will go, by taking off his eyes he forced his body to a limit he would never be able to break. Shingatsu. the eyes of the mind.
Ryuko: the eyes of the mind? isn't that something super cool?
Varakiel: not all that shines is gold, he can witness everything about the world, but he would never be able to grasp it because he's incomplete now. He has become but a dead star now.
Ryuko:....i still don't understand it but it sounds bad.
Varakiel: Well, it is none of our concern he made a decision, just forget about him.
Ryuko:...okay, but I guess that was to be expected. I suppose, the Honnouji elite four aren't all shown. that dude looked like it was seriously tough, but i will eventually have to fight them, i have to learn the secret behind dad's death!
Varakiel: Well said, now let's go home, I need to distract myself from thinking about this day.
Ryuko: Does it really disgust you something like that?
Varakiel: Yeah, there's nothing more pathetic than making sacrifices for your own sake.
Ryuko: i see….
...
in satsuki mansion.
Satsuki: You think that you've snuck up behind me, sanageyama?
Uzu was in front of satsuki.
Uzu:....front and behind mean nothing to me now. Thanks to my eyes being sewn shut, I can now sense the world in its entirety. I only came to thank you for giving me a fresh start.
Uzu then begins to walk away.
Satsuki: wait. I have a question: if you can see the world in its entirety, what did you saw on him?
Uzu:......i saw nothing, and that nothing looked back and me and it....shed a tear.
Satsuki: oh? I thought he was disappointed in you.
Uzu: He is, but at the same time he was sad that all my potential was wasted like this. I suppose I betrayed his teaching…..I don't deserve to call him teacher…..
Uzu walks off.
Satsuki:...hm.
satsuki had a smile on her face.
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