Submission

It wasn’t even a second, but as soon as I realised it, he already passed me. I could already feel his blade cutting my neck. I was pretty sure he already beat me, but I wasn’t touched at all. Despite the fact that I felt a blade cutting my neck. “You are really weak aren’t you, is this why you need me?” the voice spoke.

“I just want to be stronger, I want to fight and protect people,” I replied. “Then you have to work harder, you power as of now, wouldn’t be able to even make me blink,” the voice replied.

I find myself in my room in the dorm. I lost to my own fighting technique. I tried wearing my mask again, but nothing happened. I suppose I could try to find some other way of getting stronger. I tried asking my own magic without wearing the mask if I could get stronger.

I wasn’t sure what else I could do. I suddenly heard a sound, like a loud drop sound. I made it out of the dorm building. I see one of those ‘masked ones’. This ‘masked ones’ has its mask covered at its left eye. It has one quarter of the mask like the one Konota defeated near the store.

I tried fighting it, taking out the nightmare of it. It didn’t even budge for a second. I tried fighting it but I did mostly nothing to it. I then hear someone shouting “Jimen no Pachipachi”. Then followed by Denela coming in with her blade and hiting the ‘masked one’. It blocked it with its hand but the ability was still active, so it broke the ‘masked one’ arm.

Konota soon came in and cut through the ‘masked one’. The ‘masked one’ then died and vanished. “Are you two alright?” Konota asked. I just shook my head.

When we returned to the dorm, Konota explained to us. “ There are 5 types of ‘masked ones’, first, it is the one where they have their half of their mouth covered with the mask. These are the weakest types. Don’t get me wrong, they are the weakest of their kind. To a human, they are still strong,” Konota said.

“You should be familiar with them Oozomi,” said Konota. “There are ‘masked ones’ who have their mask covering either one of their eye or both with their mask, these are the third and fourth strongest. They are different from the masked ones that cover their mouth, they have an ability, their ability can be from manipulation of fire or water or to other things, I wouldn’t say I met many,” said Konota. “I do ask you that if you see a ‘masked one’ that has its eyes covered, run away, there is no guarantee that you would win, sometimes I do also strugle fighting them.” Konota continued.

Denela then has the look of fire in her eyes. She seems like she would have the confidence to take one down, I do see Denela being able to use ‘Jimen no pachi pachi’ to defeat those ‘masked ones’. “If you were to encounter those ‘masked ones’ remember you can just break their masks to defeat them easily,’ said Konota.

“Now for the last type, the ‘masked ones’ who have their whole face covered with the mask. Those types of ‘masked ones’ are near impossible to defeat, I would say even the top fighters would have an issue on fighting one of those ‘masked ones’, they are incredibly strong they have been given a name, they are called ‘Zentai’, as the name suggests, they have a full mask, as in ‘whole’,” said Konota.

“They have an unimaginable power, ‘Zentai’ also have powers unlike the ones who have their eyes covered, they have the power to create, destroy or remake, I never met one before but if I had, I don’t think I would be here today,” continued Konota.

I don’t have any means to protect myself, I always had rely on my father or Konota, I never have been able to protect myself. The only way I think I can fight is with my fighting technique, and that I have to be stronger to defeat it. I am alright with a sword or a short sword but it would barely do anything to a ‘masked one’ including the ones that have their mouth covered.

As of now, Denela can easily defeat me, since she has been training alone. Now that I think about it, Konota hasn’t use her second form for her sword, does that mean she has more power than she already has.

I decided to start training myself like Denela, but the only probelm was I didn’t know what part to train myself in. I asked Konota on how to train my fighting technique.

She suggested that I should try going into my own mind and make my fighting style to give into submission. This was nothing new to me, I heard it first from my own fighting style, I just didn’t know how to make it to give into submission. I decided to train myself in magic, even though my magic isn’t suppose to be meant for fighting, I will try to think of ways to fight.

One year later,

I am now 18 years old, I spent nearly a year training myself in magic, I also have train myself in speed and fighting since I have no means to attack, I decided that I would use assassination tactics, it might do nothing but I may have a plan.

I felt ready and wore my mask, I then see myself immediately being in my mind, the voice spoke out “Are you ready now? Can you make me give into submission,” I felt somewhat confident that I took nearly a year training for this. “Well then, shall we begin,” said my fighting style.

“I realised that I haven’t introduce myself, apart from being your ‘fighting style’, but I will only say it if you defeat me, that is if you can,” said my fighting style. It asked what weapon I would use, I replied with a knife.

This time, the figure didn’t show up, it had a humanoid figure, then I heard “This is how I look like,” then I realised, it was the figthing technique saying that.

When the battle started, as I suspected, the figure suddenly appeared behind me with its tremendous speed. I predicted it and used my magic to hide myself, “I predicted his move, is that what you were thinking?” my fighting technique asked. I was surprised, how did he know what I was thinking.

The figure then placed his hands on the ground. The ground suddenly became warm and started being increasingly hotter. At this point, the ground would become hot enough to burn myself, I had jumped up revealing myself to the figure. The figure saw me and rushed towards me with its hands facing towards me, which are probably burning.

I hid myself with the same colour as the sky in that place, the figure still went foward hoping to still hit me. I had move to avoid the hit, from what I spent from that 1 year of training was to hide myself with my magic and mask my presence so I could get the advantage of the first hit.

The figure just unkowningly passed me, I took that in my favour and stabbed the figure from the back. It wasn’t blood that was spilling but some magic flow. I suppose that would be its blood. Both the figure and I jumped back onto the ground, “You’re better than I expected now,” said the figure. “Well I did train nearly a year for this, if I lost it would have been a waste, wouldn’t it now,” I replied.

“Well then, it was a waste then,” the voice said. I had immediately got in position, but again, I didn’t feel anything, but I had lost. I got cut from the side of my stomach.

I can’t believe I still got hit, I was confident that I would at least get a scar not a giant cut. “You have lost,” the voice said. “Not yet” I shouted, “ I can still go on,” I continued.

“Don’t go regretting this,” the voice said. The figure then dissapeared and reappeared behind me, this time I could catch up with its movements, it wasn’t like I was going to die or lose conscious. I this time hid myself with my magic, and made my way behind the figure and stabbed it from the back at the place where I would think is the neck.

The figure then dropped. “Interesting, that year of practice and training actually paid off, fine then, as I promised, I give into your submission,” said the voice. “And as I said I would, if you want to call out to use this fighting technique, ‘Moeru te’ would be how you call out to me, as it is also my name,” continued ‘Moeru te’.

After that, I find myself where I wore my mask, I finally made now known as ‘Moeru te’ gave into my submission. I want to try to fight one of those ‘masked ones’ to test out the fighting technique.

I tried searching the whole city for one but couldn’t feel for any ‘masked ones’ presence. I then returned to the school. “Where have you been ms.?” I hear a familar voice coming from behind me. I turned around to see Konota coming from behind me with an angry look. “Now, you have been gone for nearly a year, you made me think that you died or got into a year long fight,” said Konota.

I apologised to Konota saying that I was just training. “You were training? At least attend school while you are at it,” said Konota. I suppose I was ditching school. “Now you have to catch up with a years worth of lessons and need to catch up grades,” Konota said. “Alright, alright, I will, I will,” I answered.

“Since you said you were training right? Why not prove it to me that you have been training, I too have been training and want to test out somethings I learnt” said Denela while coming out of no where. I replied “Alright then,”

During Konota’s training lesson, Denela and I requested that we fight each other to Konota. She agreed and brought Denela and I to a battle arena, nearby.

Denela and I took our positions and gotten ready to fight. Konota blew the whistle and the fight started.