"Yes, you heard that right," Koto said nonchalantly. Is he seriously asking me to do this? "You have to fight Ai-senpai. Since I have gotten a good view of your level, I think it is appropriate to let you fight a vampire such as Ai-senpai. I’m sorry a half-vampire because that is what she is."
I looked at Ai with a confused face and even she wasn’t that happy about this news. I honestly didn’t want to fight Ai. To think that I have to go against her and attack her with the intent to hurt her was something I could never bring myself to do.
"Let’s see, oh here we have it," Koto said fiddling on the screen again and the screen on the monitor changed to something different. "Tsubaki Ai, threat level: S class. Kill count: 0 humans. Ability: the queen’s eye. Physical age: 16. Vampiric age: unknown. Type: half-vampire."
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S?
Threat level S?
Ai is that strong that an S-level vampire hunter is needed to beat her? I looked at the said half-vampire and her cute face was just innocently staring at the information. She looked at me and gave me a sweet smile that warmed my heart. I in turn smiled at her and then looked back at the screen.
Then again, I did expect Ai to be a pretty high-level threat to vampire hunters after seeing her fight in these battles so many times.
"See, she is the perfect opponent to fight you Senpai, and also, since she is your partner, having her as your sparring partner will also be beneficial for you since that way you both can get more used to each other’s fighting style. What this does is help your teamwork and you will trust your partner more in battles," Koto explained to I and Ai looked at each other still looking not really sure about this idea. "Ah, don’t worry. You don’t have to hurt each other. If it does come to this, I will stop you guys so trust me about that."
"Um…"
"Fine," Ai said and I looked at her surprised. If I remember correctly, she said she would never be able to fight me. Though she did beat me up one time.
"Are you sure about this Ai?" I asked her and she nodded and hugged my arm.
"I will never hurt Kazu-kun. I am sure about it. I did it only twice before but I promised myself that I would never do it again. Ever," Ai said with a reassuring smile.
I sighed and looked at Koto who was looking at me with the same smile. I nod my head and his smile got wider and he started to go in the corner again to stand in the corner of the room behind a barrier. "Okay Senpai, let’s make it fair. It’s just a sparring match so I do not want any of you hurting each other. A few bruises though are okay but I would not allow anything more than that. If the situation gets dangerous for any one of you, I will intervene then and there. Is that clear?"
"Okay," we both said and Ai hugged me tightly. I hugged her back and kissed her head. She held my face in her hands and brought it down before kissing me deeply. I kissed her back and pushed my tongue into her mouth. My hands move down her back and I pull her closer to me by her lower back. She grabbed my hair and started sucking on my tongue.
Ah, this felt just right.
"Umm…guys, I know you both love each other too much but can we train for battles first?" we heard Koto’s voice which brought us back to our senses. We realized what we were doing in his presence and a big blush formed on both our faces. Ai just walked a bit away from me and activated her daggers. "Anyways, okay this sparring session starts in…five…four…three…two…one…GO."
As soon as he indicated, we both charged at each other. I looked into Ai’s eyes and they started glowing. So she is taking this seriously. Looks like even I don’t need to hold back now. I had my katana still in the scabbard ready to strike at the right moment and as soon as I got near her, I unsheathe it and sliced it horizontally. Ai quickly blocked with her dagger and with freakish strength made it so I could not even move it any further.
She is really strong.
She went for my leg with her other dagger which I parried with the scabbard pushing it away and moving it towards her arm. She dodged it and, in the process, loosened her strength on the dagger holding my blade. I took advantage of this and put more force into pushing her back.
Ai grits her teeth and jumped back putting some distance between us which was better for me. My katana had more range than her daggers so keeping her a bit away from me but just in range of my katana would be better for me. I walked back a bit knowing she will already try to close in the distance between us.
"Now that I am fighting Kazu-kun, it really shows how far you have come," Ai said with a proud smile on her face. "Looks like I don’t need to worry about going all out."
"Wha- "
As I said that, Ai just disappeared from where I last saw her. It was as if her presence had completely vanished. I looked around for her. Where did she go? My eyes fell down and I saw something dark adding down to my shadow. Don’t tell me.
"Eyes on my Kazu-kun," Ai said and I looked up as her beautiful figure was majestically getting closer to me as she was descending with great speed. She twisted her body spinning it forward and held up my blade just in time to block her.
"Ugh." The ground under me started to crack and it created a little crater right where I was standing putting a lot of strength on my blade. I was worried if it kept going on like this, the blade might just break.
"This strength is all thanks to you Kazu-kun," Ai said happily with both her eyes shining magnificently at me. It was charming yet terrifying. "The fact that I had drunk so much of your blood a lot frequently has increased my strength drastically. This is all because of you."
"Well that’s not helping me right now," I said gritting my teeth with my arms starting to bend along with my legs. I need to get out of this position or I will get crushed under this.
With every ounce of strength in my body, I kicked the ground and yanked my hand to get Ai off of me. She flew up and did an amazing flip before landing but I was already in front of her having the scabbard already on its way to hit Ai right in her stomach. Instead of making it a strike, I adjusted it so it would only push her away. Ai’s feet stuck to the ground and she got pushed back a few meters but was already ready to be on the offensive.
She charged at me and crouched down going for my knees. I jumped up to dodge those which was actually a bad idea since she was already under me and in the perfect position to do an upwards sweep with her dagger at me. It didn’t really cut me through but it made a little tear on the t-shirt I was wearing all the way across on the back.
"Oh come on now," I complained seeing the back of my t-shirt was already ruined. Knowing having it on in this fashion will just hinder my movement, I decided to take it off.
"Eh? K-Kazu-kun, what are you doing?!" Ai screamed with a red face. She covered her face with her hands for some reason and just peeked through her fingers.
"Hmmm? I mean the t-shirt was torn from behind so if I keep fighting in this, it will keep getting worse and restrict my movement so I thought this would be in the best of my interest to do this," I explained but Ai still had her face in her hands shaking her head. "What happened Ai?" I was genuinely confused.
"N-Nothing!" she shouted and then looked at and took her hands off her face. I saw a big blush forming on her and she held her daggers up in a fighting stance but her hands were shaking. "Kazu-kun is shirtless right now, he’s just shirtless. Shirtless…Kazu-kun…shirtless…"
"What is it, Ai?" I asked her again and she just charged at me.
"Don’t talk to me right now!" she screamed and slashed vertically at me with her daggers. I jumped back dodging it but another one came right at me diagonally. I blocked it with the blade and pushed it away but I was showered by a barrage of attacks from an embarrassed Ai with her eyes closed.
"These are too fast, I can’t keep up," I said. Wait, how about I do what I did in the battle before? Yes, where I was going at super speed. I should do that.
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Wait, how did I do that again?
Right then, Ai’s tripped on itself and she started falling down face first to the ground. I quickly ran and grabbed her having her head in my chest. I hugged her really tight and since it was very quick, I lost my balance and fell on my back.
"Ai, are you okay?" I asked looking at the half-vampire who was on my chest but her eyes were looking fuzzy.
"Funya," she said and the big blush on her face intensified.
"Looks like Senpai won this match," Koto said and sighed. "Not how I expected it to end but then again, I can’t really say what Ai-senpai did at the end was stupid. I mean, Senpai looks like a snack after all."
"I’m sorry, what are you saying?" I asked him completely confused.
"Senpai, use your brain sometimes," Koto said in a disappointed voice. "She got embarrassed seeing you shirtless mid-battle and since that moment her mind was not on the fight but on your body. That’s why she closed them in the hopes to stop thinking about that but once this figure of yours is seen by her eyes, it was stored and then this happened. You really are lucky Senpai."
I looked at my cute girlfriend on my chest hiding her face in my chest being really embarrassed. Now that the fight was done, I decided on teasing her. "Oh my, why is that though Ai, haven’t you already seen me without a shirt many times before?"
"Aaaaah!" Ai screamed in embarrassment and hid her face even more.
"Cute," I said and she got even shyer.
"Sigh, you guys don’t really see the place or time, do you? Give some attention to me too Senpai," Koto complained with a pout on his face.
What a match.
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