At the girls stadium, all the girls were standing on the battle stage with Suzuha standing infront of them "Well, before I dismiss you all, I just want to say that you all did great. Both the gilrs who won and the one's who lost, you all fought well. Some of you even surprised me.", Rem tilted her head with a teasing smirk "What about those who got flattened on the floor by the crushing force of gravity?", she muttered, Marallda replied with a casual tone of disinterest "Rem, I'll crush you with hundred times gravity if you try to make any jokes.". Rem replied with slight annoyance "Oh please!", Regina responded to Rem "Are we gonna act like you didn't almost get killed if not for the grace of God?!", Mio sighed with a slightly saddened tone "Ahhhh! Let's not start that topic please!", Regina clicked her toung "Tch! See what you've caused now, Rem!", Rem replied "Hey, don't blame me, I was only joking.". Lydia took a lazy sigh "Can we just leave already?", Yuki who was also feeling lazy added "I know, right?", Suzuha clapped her hands to get everyone's attention "Alright girls, that's enough.". She further explained "As for those of you who won, you're going to be participating in the gladiator round, I believe you all know what it is.", all the girls lazily replied "Yes ma'am!". Suzuha then explained to the girls "Your stadiums in which you would be fighting at would be posted at the arena you originally fought in during your elimination match, although not all of you would be in the same stadium all because you fought in the same battle arena's. You girls might face other opponents from this city that you haven't met. Some of you would fight against each other like you did here. In short, best of luck to you all.", all the girls said in unison "Thank you ma'am.", Suzuha replied with her casual big sister tone "You're welcome~". As the girls started to walk out, Rem asked "So? What should we do after this?", Gwen replied "I wanna go home and rest.", Lydia added "Yeah, me too. Although i should probably go see my sister in the hospital.", Marallda replied "We don't even know the hospital to find her.", Lydia replied "You're right. I'll see her when she gets home.". Yuki looked at her in a funny way "What kind of sister are you? Then again I get your point, after all this fighting, I'm too damn lazy to go checking up on someone.". Gwen scoffed "You all are just horrible.", "I know, right?", Yuki replied. Regina while walking along her friends thought to herself "I wonder how Yuji's fight went. What are the boys even up too?", they all walked out of the arena's with the humble blue sky shining perfectly. Mio thought to herself "I wonder how Kazuma's doing? Did he win his match?". Suzuha watched as the girls left the arena, she smiled softly "Those gilrs are going to make one heck of a team with that friendship of their's. Hopefully, they all continue to survive and grow together.", she walked to the battle stage and looked at Astera who was sitted on the floor with her chest wrapped up with bandages "Aren't you going to leave?", she asked Astera. Astera on the other hand had a sad but straight look on her face, she wasn't thinking of anything at all, she stood up, picked up her sword and walked away. Suzuha watched her as she left the battle stage, she took a sigh "Ahhhh! What a pain. These kind of exams are a real pain in the ass. People are asked to fight each other to near death, some kids end up realising how weak they are and either get broken or just strive to be better, some are extremely excited that they won and want to do better, while some end up realising how scummy they're behaviour is and either work on themselves or relax in those scum like behaviours.", Suzuha looked up "I'm not a fan of unnecessary violence. But when it's time to fight, it's time to fight! No questions asked, just fight.". Suzuha kept quiet for a bit before she walked out of the arena "Whatever, that's the kind of messed up system we have.". Meanwhile, the boys were playing video games to their hearts content at the arade, Kazuma was having a biking game where he would be shooting missiles at Yuji who was relatively keeping up with him at the game, White, Volt and Kito had already picked who's side they were on. White and Kito had picked Yuji's side, while Volt had picked Kazuma's side, Kito exclaimed with anticipation "Come on Yuji! Don't let Kazuma get you off the game...!", White also added with anticipation "Yeah, Yuji! Blow that guy off the road.!". Kazuma's bike was relentlessly firing missiles at Yuji's bike, he had a wicked grin on his face "YOU AINT STOPPING ME, YUJI! I'LL BOMB YOU OUT THE WAY SOON!", White called out to Yuji "Quick! He's coming for you!", Kito also added "Why aren't you firing?!". Yuji while swerving and dodging missiles replied "I can't! His bike and mine are too close! If I were to fire my back missiles at him, the impact would blow off both my bike and his, and you know Kazuma! He's better at picking himself up at the game than I am!", Kito clicked his tounge "FUCK!", White In anticipation turned to him "LANGUAGE PLEASE!". Volt while on Kazuma's side muttered to him "You both are almost at the finish line! Just a few more missiles and he's gone!", Kazuma replied "Yep!", Kito exclaimed to Yuji "NOW YUJI!", Yuji pressed a button that shot one of his back missiles at Kazuma's front wheel. Kazuma and Volt were a bit stunned "What the.. ?", they exclaimed while White and Kito exclaimed "YES!!!". Volt panicked a bit "Kazuma!! What are you going to do? Your front tire!", Kazuma smirked "No problem! I can still game!". Kazuma was still riding the bike despite his front tire gone, he and Yuji were basically neck in neck. The rest of the boys watched in anticipation hoping to see who would win, Kazuma and Yuji's bikes made it to the finish line at the same time [GAME OVER:TIE!!], the game exclaimed. All the boys yelled with excitement "FUUUUUCK!!", before laughing. Kazuma exclaimed "That was fun!", Yuji replied "Yeah, it was!", Kito and White were still laughing while Volt thought to himself with a tired smile "All that anticipation just for a tie! DAMN!".
END OF CHAPTER.