Graduation Day, Proving Ones Worth

[Bobbie]

Lenalee #8

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Lenalee’s eyes widened as the monster revealed itself, being far larger than she expected it to be; however, they did not open so wide with fear. Quite the contrary, as the girl was immediately drawn in by the challenge, as she had no doubt that its size alone would not be enough to destroy them, but would make things a little bit more difficult than the standard drills and training they had endured. Most of all, Shiro was so very right… the real thing is nothing like the simulation. The girl’s hands were immediately pressed up against the glass as she stood right beside Shiro so that the pair probably looked like a couple of crazed window lickers. “This is incredible… it’s putting up a fight already and they’ve only just begun…”

As Yorutatsu spoke in such a bored manner, Azai’s stare only grew less amused by the second. The woman’s yawn was the final straw as Captain Saeki’s eyes narrowed at the audacity of the white haired menace who dared to call herself a role model, a responsibility that inherently came with the title of captain, and then treat their students with this disregardful attitude at a time that could quite literally make or break every single one of them. With a gentle hum and a nod, she acknowledged Captain Yorutatsu’s response to their deal and watched the fight ensue below.

Feeling Shiro’s eyes on her, Lenalee turned her head to look at Shiro, a little smile appearing on her curled lips as she giggled softly and nodded. “Yeah. They seem to be holding up quite well too, I wonder if we’ll actually get a chance to go up against this hollow or not. They seem to have it under control.” The short examinee faced the arena again to watch the duo’s plan slowly unfold. In her eyes, they were doing everything right and were likely to succeed at this task.

“Yes.” Captain Saeki replied to Adachi, nonchalantly and quietly, before shifting in her seat to reveal that perhaps she wasn’t as comfortable with her answer as she seemed. “You may think less of me for it, but I’m not letting her take Asami’s boy,” she whispered as she glanced at him with a brief pause.

Lenalee gasped as their former colleague was impaled by the hollow’s tail, the scream filling the air and everything taking on such a heavy aura. Before she could even react to what was happening, its form was shifting. He’s dead… the hollow just killed him! This is bad! she thought to herself, her gaze first moving to the seated captains, hoping they would do something, anything, that could save the student’s life. Suddenly, the glass shattered and Shiro was out of the safety of their observatory. “Shiro!” She called out to him as her partner was now fighting the hollow - no… this wasn’t just a hollow anymore…

“Shiro, what are you doing, that hollow is in the process of becoming an Arrancar this second!” She screamed at him as she leapt through the open window and into the arena. “This is insane, we can’t go up against this!” while she spoke those words, however, the cogs of her mind were turning as she mentally cycled through all the kido spells that she had at her disposal.

Swiftly raising her hand by her side, her tongue rattled away an incantation. "Blow away! Exorcise, wave and seal! Begone you black dog of Rondanini!” She exclaimed as an orb of light blue energy began to form at her little palm while she ran at the arrancar to squeeze into any gap that she could find between Shiro and this monster. “Bakudo #8, Repulse!” As she merely touched the arrancar’s body, she focussed her energy into the blue orb that repelled the beast only a few metres back, as it seemed that even Lena’s kido skills wouldn’t be enough for an easy fight. “We have to get out!” She turned to Shiro, then looked up at the Captains’ panel once more, “Put the exam on hold! This is insane, no student at our level can be expected to take on a newly formed Arrancar! This arena has turned into a death trap!”

Azai had risen to her feet and was now watching her own daughter pleading - or demanding would be a more accurate word - for the examination to be stopped. The woman seemed to be considering it for a moment until she turned to Yorutatsu. “One minute,” she uttered and returned to her seat, partly with confidence in both Shiro and Lenalee, and partly shame for allowing this to continue.

“Captain Yorutatsu, Captain Toshiro!” for such a small girl, Lenalee’s voice travelled very well as a hint of desperation crept into it when she witnessed Azai simply go back to sitting and watching. “Captain Saeki! Mum!”

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Lenalee: #54d5e3
Captain Azai Saeki: #bd9ac4

[Gaz]

Shiro #9

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He heard Lenalee call out how insane this was and agreed that they couldn’t handle this. Even he knew that a Hollow undergoing the transformation to an Arrancar was incredibly dangerous. It was a period when their form, power and abilities grew exponentially before settling back down. That wasn’t going to stop him from doing his best to save someone’s life, he would never be able to live with himself if he stood by and did nothing at all.

“I know this is dumb!” he called as Lenalee’s spell slammed into the Proto-arrancar and launched it back and away. “We just have to make sure Suzaku, is safe.” He spoke, panting already, his adrenaline was going insane, surging through his body to bring out everything he could muster. He shifted his footwork and pointed his sword to the monster whose form was pulsing, shifting and shaking. A bright white glow emanated from the broken mask as the zanpakuto was absorbing the broken fragments that had fallen away.

“Even for you this is too much Akane.” Toshiro Adachi spoke, his voice cold as he stood from his seat, a hand resting on the handle of his weapon. “And you Azai, your own daughter is calling for help? Are you going to abandon her, or do you trust her ability that much that she could genuinely survive a minute?” He asked, heat in his words, enough to ring into the arena below. He knew if those two died to this it would be on all of their heads. He had forgone using correct titles and proper naming convention to speak to both personally.

The beast roared out a primal roar as it leapt to the fleeing student, Shiro again, leaped into the way and brought his blade down on the bare metal and unrefined movements of the Arrancar’s blade. The ring of steel on steel rang and then a giant fist smashed into Shiro’s side, flinging him away and into the wall with a heavy crash that spat dust and debris. “I’m okay…” He spoke, coughing a few times after the fact, that blow had easily winded him and broke a few ribs.

Captain Yorutatsu watched with a menacing grin on her face. “10 seconds.” She said, counting through this minute, her hand on her Zanpakuto ready to draw it on the captain of the thirteenth squad. “Stay out of this, we made a bet.” She snarled without even looking away from the fight as the Proto-Arrancar turned it’s attention to Lenalee and spun, aiming to swipe her away with it’s tail that vanished an instant before it could make contact with Lenalee.

The monsters shifting shape and form was compressing now, a human face was appearing behind the shattered mask, old and leathery. It was male and had eyes filled with rage and hunger. It wanted more. And Lenalee was its target. Over its right eye a pinprick of compressed energy started to form. It was charging a Cero.

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Shiro: 7319e6
Captain Kempachi Yorutatsu Akane: a5a5a5
Captain Adachi Toshiro: 6c84ff
Proto Arrancar: 00ff52

[Bobbie]

Lenalee #9

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“Yes, very dumb!” Lenalee instantly agreed as she gave up on relying on the captains for help. It didn’t take her very long to realise that help wasn’t coming - not yet, at least. “Okay, okay… we need to figure out how we’re going to last in here.” She added, speaking to herself just as much as she was to Shiro as she was trying not to panic.


Captain Saeki was slightly upset to have heard her daughter call out to her and stand by while doing nothing. Adachi’s words stung her, but she returned a cold glare in his direction immediately. “Does it make me a villain to have blind faith in my daughter?” She replied in a harsh tone, revealing more emotion than she intended to. Looking away from him, she glanced at Yorutatsu with sheer disgust, then looked down into the arena again. “She could survive a minute. As can he.”


Just as the captain’s words of confidence were uttered, Shiro was flung into the wall with a heavy crash. Lenalee gasped and nearly screamed as she began to make a run toward him. “Shiro!” she called out as he claimed to be okay, her tone filled with scepticism at that statement, but she barely made it a few steps when she suddenly froze and her entire body began to tremble. She knew it was watching her.


Azai crossed her arms, her fingernails digging into the fabric of her uniform. Glancing at Adachi once more, she lightly shook her head for him not to get involved. “One minute…” she spoke quietly for only him to hear, revealing a glimmer in her eyes that was nothing short of pleading. After one minute… the arena’s yours she silently thought, as if that message could somehow get across without her speaking a word, but it was no secret that Azai’s non-verbal communicative skills were not the greatest as very few have seen her to express emotion, whether positive or negative. She shifted her attention back to the fight and silently counted with Captain Yorutatsu.


Lenalee flinched and closed her eyes for a moment, every muscle in her body tightening as she expected to be struck by the monster’s tail. When that blow never came, she opened her eyes again, relieved to see that she was still standing there, her feet on the ground, yet that quickly changed when she spotted the glint of energy just over the Arrancar’s right eye. “That’s…” she stammered, her eyes going wide, “Cero…”

Knowing that she had no chance of countering anything of that magnitude, Lena was sure that her only hope would be dodging or striking faster. She didn’t have the physical strength that Shiro did to be able to take a hit as he had just done and just shrug it off with a casual ‘I’m okay’. No, in fact she was quite fortunate that the monster’s tail disappeared when it did, or she’d be dead right now…

Perhaps this lack of self-awareness that the creature seemed to have could be useful... if it didn't pay attention to slight changes like that, it might not pay attention to other subtle things either. Raising one hand, palm forward, she let her arm rest on the support of her other hand, before she began to recite a kido spell as fast as her tongue could roll. "Great king who supports the most distant of lands, receive this foolish offering that grovels at your feet! Hado number 8! Ryokuho!” It was a long shot, but she gave it more energy than she usually would, taking the Shiro-approach in creating a larger explosion than necessary and thus a greater distraction. As the powerful wave of energy rapidly moved toward the Arrancar, its collision with anything in its path caused dirt and debris to erupt, the area filling with smoke. Swiftly moving through the smoke to get a different angle, she uttered part 2 of her plan:

"Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini!! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!” While she moved and spoke, she drew symbols in the air, the cloud of dust giving way at the fast movements of her fingers. “Bakudo number 9! Geki!”

Lenalee’s body emanated red energy that gave away her location, but she focussed her energy on her kido spell paralysing the Arrancar for as long as possible, primarily at the legs, while she hoped Shiro would find an opening to strike. Finally, hoping to make this added pressure to the Arrancar's body less distinct, she allowed her spiritual pressure to run free, raising it through the roof to create a more uniform level of tension in the air all around them. Of course, it was nowhere near the level of a captain's and she knew it was a gamble - for all she knew, the creature could have the power to cut through it like a soft square of butter.


Watching her baby girl mess up a kido spell was shocking to Captain Saeki, but other than a disapproving frown, she made no show of a response. It wasn’t until the faint glow could be seen through the smoke that Azai’s frown eased up ever so slightly and she glanced at Yorutatsu instead, feeling the rise in spiritual pressure. “How many seconds are left?” She asked, despite knowing the answer to that question very well, and also very aware that the white-haired woman was getting very close to losing her bet by now.

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Lenalee: #54d5e3
Captain Azai Saeki: #bd9ac4

[Gaz]

Shiro #10

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In the time it took for the beast to charge his Cero Lenalee purposefully rattled off two Spells, one that flung up dirt and debris to obscure her from it, it was sloppy and over charged but not something Shiro will notice in the thick of a situation. Especially considering how he was peeling himself out of the wall. The second spell landed and wrapped itself around the arrancar, making its form tense up and face look to the sky just as a red beam shot, clearing the sky of clouds above.

Captain Adachi gripped the handle of his blade, he had to trust in the woman’s trust in her own daughter whilst also despising Yorutatsu’s game. This was wrong and humouring it was wrong, the only reason he stood back was out of respect for Captain Saeki. “I’m going the moment that minute is up.” He almost growled.

With a tremendous roar the Arrncar and its fluctuating form snapped out of the spell that had bound it and moved to dash at Lenalee. “LITTLE KNAT!” It bellowed as the sword that was glowing in its hand was swinging down at her. Suddenly a burst of raw spiritual energy collided with the hand that held the blade, making its arc move ever so slightly. It turned an attack that would have cleaved the young woman in half to a simple graze, even if it hit her at all.

Appearing through the fog of debris and dirt Shiro came in swinging his blade with a ferocity and speed others had rarely seen from him. “Fight me you monkey!” He shouted, just as his blade impacted and then was repelled only for him to keep applying pressure with faster and harder strikes. With a sudden shift a foot landed in the monster’s stomach making it bed over slightly but not move as its free hand grabbed Shiro’s leg. “Crap.” He spoke.

Yorutatsu was watching with great interest at what was going on, how Lenalee saved herself with spells and how Shiro then moved to capitalise on that distraction. “Brat should have gone for the kill.” She spoke, disgusted at how the young man opted to save Lenalee instead of landing what could have been a lethal blow. “I changed my mind, your girl is smart.” She spoke back to Azai.

Shiro felt his entire world lurch as he was picked up and swung over the Arrancar’s head and landed on the floor right by Lenalee with a nasty crunch. “Die!” The beast called as the light around it began to face, revealing an oversized and muscular male. His mask had smashed from the middle leaving the outer portion perfectly intact to ring his leathery face. The sword plunged down and impaled Shiro’s shoulder, the blade pushed so far down it buried itself into the earth behind. The power and rumble of overwhelming pressure it exerted in the word would make lesser people drop but Shiro and Lena had to withstand.

“ARRHHHH!” He screamed in pain. The hot pain pulsed through his body as he felt the blood run down his chest and back. His own Zanpakuto arm was free, in a moment of haste he slashed and the sword should have been able to remove the monsters hand from the body but it barely caused a slice in the skin and tendons.

“TWENTY SECONDS LEFT!” Yorutatsu bellowed, loud enough for those in the arena to hear, her grip was so tight on the railing that separated her from the fight below was so strong and tight it was splintering it. The look of pure extasy on her face as she watched such a close fight… the jealousy in her eyes that she could not experience it.

The beast roared in pain as it pulled the sword free and used his free hand to hold the bleeding cut. With a renewed vigour it moved to kick Leanlee aside, to clear a path to Killing Shiro.

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Shiro:;7319e6
Captain Kempachi Yorutatsu Akane: a5a5a5
Captain Adachi Toshiro: 6c84ff
Proto Arrancar: 00ff52

[Bobbie]

Lenalee #10

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Lenalee was confident in her abilities but knew that anything they hurled at such a powerful being would not hold it back for very long. She was quite surprised, however, to see that her spell successfully redirected the cero into the air and immobilised it temporarily, until it seemed to return with a fury unparalleled to any training simulation they had ever experienced in the academy.

Her eyes wide, the girl froze as she gasped, appalled by the insult as she was called a little insect, a nuisance, and momentarily stunned by the realisation of how true that was. In comparison, both she and Shiro were puny, insignificant, and little more than two annoying flies, buzzing around this beast like pestering playthings. This entire exam was unfair and failure could cost them their lives. Every muscle in her body tensed as there was suddenly a collision, her shoulders rising and her head sinking as she tried to make herself as small as possible, though the strike missing her entirely all she felt was a forceful gale of wind. When she snapped back to the deadly reality they were in, she watched Shiro barrage their enemy with one blow after another. The next thing she saw made her lurch forward toward her partner, watching as the monster grabbed him by his ankle. “Shiro!”


Azai remained silent, but she first offered a gentle nod to Adachi without saying a word, and then watched Yorutatsu. Her attention was divided as she was torn between watching the fight and visualising tearing the head off this woman. As she complimented her daughter, Azai’s frown only deepened further as she had very little trust in any kind words coming from this woman.


“Shiro!” Lenalee screamed out as everything happened so fast. The sickening crunch that Shiro landed on the floor with, the monstrous roar from the beast, and Shiro suddenly skewered and pinned to the ground with a blade. Her entire body stumbled backward as she swore the earth shook with the sheer rage that came from this wrathful demon, further doubled when the young Shinigami smashed into the ground with such force. The spiritual pressure that was exerted from the Arrancar made her sick to her stomach as it seemed that could hardly move. She attempted to challenge it, just to create some breathing room for the both of them, until Shiro made his attack and forced some distance between them and the beast. Instantly, Lenalee dropped to her knees beside Shiro, letting two hands hover over his open wound in his shoulder to start healing it. “How hard can this be? It’s just like kido spells, all about reiatsu management and control…” she coached herself quietly as her hands emitted a gentle green glow to start healing the wound in his shoulder. It was very slow, but progress was being made. While she worked, she glanced up at the Arrancar to watch as it gripped its own wound in pain, and then she suddenly stopped.

"Bind and seal! Tighten thy grasp and bring evil to heel! Bakudo number 1, Sai!” Pointing two fingers in its direction, she watched as its hand was pried away from the gash on its other arm as both arms were forced behind its back instead. “Good luck with that bleeding!” She spat before turning back to Shiro to resume healing as Captain Yorutatsu exclaimed that twenty seconds were left. “Twenty seconds! We only need to survive this for twenty more seconds!”


Azai stared at Yorutatsu’s knuckles that had grown white with the pressure at which she held onto the railing. Stepping up to the railing, she stood beside the white-haired woman, her own arms crossed as she stood perfectly straight, her heels making her six inches taller than her actual height. “This must be very disappointing for you. Not only to lose your own bet and your much desired prize, but to also have to admit that you’ve underestimated both my daughter and Asami’s son.” Her tone was cold and confident as if she already emerged victorious. This, however, would waver only seconds later, her grip tightening on her own arms.


Lenalee shifted her attention away from Shiro once more as she saw movement out of the corner of her eye, the Arrancar’s foot flying through the air to come right at her. In an instant, she stopped healing him and raised an arm defensively to shield her face as she rattled on through the same recitation:
"Blow away! Exorcise, wave and seal! Begone you black dog of Rondanini! Bakudo number 8, Seki!”

The very moment she finished the incantation, the beast’s foot collided with the blue orb of energy on the back of her hand without a second to spare. Although the spell was successful, Lenalee tensed nonetheless and felt the force of its kick, as she too was reaching her limit, which their enemy may have picked up on. As the force repelled the Arrancar’s leg back into a spin, it only took a subtle shift in its centre mass to use that propulsion against the Shinigami as it continued to turn and struck her from the other side. With that, Lenalee flew right over Shiro and across the arena, face first into the ground before skidding into a painful tumble through the rough ground. She lay there, face down and not moving for a couple of seconds until a hand shook and her palm was pressed into the ground as she began an attempt to get up.

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Lenalee: #54d5e3
Captain Azai Saeki: #bd9ac4

[Gaz]

Shiro #11

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A refreshing cool feeling appeared at the point where he had been stabbed, Shiro had been in and out of consciousness for the last few moments after his brave counterattack. He could feel the wound in his shoulder closing, it was slow and only lasted seconds but enough had been done to allow him to move with minimal pain and bleeding. His eyes focused on the conjurer of the green glow and a warm smile appeared on his face. There were worse ways to die than having a cute girl trying their best to fix you up.

“Lena…” He managed to say just before she whipped around and cast a spell that repelled the Proto-Arrancar. Making it screech in pain as it tried to focus on its own wound that he had caused. She returned back to him and started to heal again… this was going to eat up too much of her spiritual energy. “Lena, stop I’m fine. I can-” She turned and rattled of a new spell, but the power was too weak like he had expected and the beast used the momentum of her spell to swing his leg from the opposite side and kick her across the arena into the wall.

Yorutatsu shifted one eye to Captain Saeki. “If I win then it proves he wasn’t worth adding to my collection. If I lose, then it gives me more chances to acquire him later on.” She spoke, barely containing the primal hunger for battle that was in her throat. “FIFTHEEN SECONDS!” She bellowed, making the male captain in the chair with the tempestuous look of a raging ocean in his eyes shift in his chair just a bit.

The Arrancar moved in an attempt to go after Lenalee, it could see her still struggling to get up. Its form had settled now into that of an oversized man with the arms of a gorilla holding what seemed like a two-handed weapon to normal people in its hand like it was nothing. He was raising his blade reading himself to drop a killing blow on the young woman.

From the floor Shiro had managed to point his blade at the thing and channelled more bursts of raw Reiatsu as a shot. He was moving to stand as he shot more and more of these Thunderous Spears. Each one impacted and made the thing jolt once or twice as if they were nothing more than the punches of a toddler attacking an adult. “I said me you damn filthy ape.” He growled before stepping into a position and with a use of Hohō shot forward into a straight and powerful uppercut that made a long slash down the things back. A technique he called Raimeizan.

“FIVE SECONDS!” The same voice shouted

The ape like Arrancar swung around and batted Shiro down with its forearm, and in a burst of speed it appeared above him and thrust its zanpakuto down into his chest. “ARRRRRGGGHHH!” Shiro managed to scream as he spat up blood. The sword had gone into his lung. With all of his strength he moved to swing at the monsters wrist again, but that didn’t happen as a large uncovered foot kicked to the side and stood on his arm, snapping the bone.

“Fine, you lowly bug. You first.” It spoke in a calm and terrifying tone, a cero started to appear. It was charging just inches from Shiro’s face and had enough power to vaporise the stone beneath.

“ZERO!” Yorutatsu blasted out. As the word finished everything stopped, the eyes of the Arrancar went wide and the Cero just vanished. “Sosoge Ryusui!” A slash of pressurised water had gone clean through the monster then travelled further to slash into the stone behind Shiro’s head and sending water everywhere like a rain.

Shiro’s consciousness started to face as he saw his opponents head fall one way and the body another.

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Shiro:;7319e6
Captain Kempachi Yorutatsu Akane: a5a5a5
Captain Adachi Toshiro: 6c84ff
Proto Arrancar: 00ff52

[Bobbie]

Lenalee #11

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As she put pressure on her arm to lift herself, Lenalee felt blinding pain shoot through her right elbow. For a moment, everything was a blur and felt so surreal, while her body ached and she screamed in the confinements of her own mind, no audible sound came from her mouth other than the groans of battle. Yelling at her body to move seemed to yield little to no result as once she was up on her hands and knees, her body refused to do any more work.

It was at this point that her vision cleared for her to see a pool of blood that was forming on the rough terrain where she had landed. This clarity only lasted a matter of seconds, however, as blood would drip down her face and force her to close her eyes once more to prevent getting the fluid in them.

Shiro’s voice caused her eyes to shoot open as it became her anchor that yanked her back to reality, her heart racing and the shock and pain from her injuries now washing over her at once. In one deep breath, the girl let out a bloodcurdling scream that nobody in the academy had ever heard from her little lungs as she stared at her arm, a scream which would be able to be heard even through the walls of the arena. It was the arm that she blocked the first kick from the Arrancar with, only the kido spell that she used wasn’t strong enough and didn’t block enough of the blow nor repel the monster far enough to prevent the second assault that sent her across the field. The force of its strength coupled with the repeated battering as she slammed into the ground again and again on her way over to this very spot caused the limb to be badly mangled and twisted.

Yorutatsu’s voice rang through the air as she counted the final five seconds, and Lenalee turned her neck to gaze up at the Captains’ area over her shoulder. Her face was mostly concealed, but her eyes stood out between the blood-stained strands of her hair, a deeply chilled icy blue, as they never looked more like her mother’s. Narrowed and glistening, the piercing look had the power to cut through diamond. Yet at that distance, it was unclear whether the target of the girl’s anger was the speaker or the familiar face of her mother right beside the squad 13 captain.

Then Shiro screamed, and suddenly the Captains seized to exist to Lenalee. Yorutatsu Akane, Azai Saeki, and Adachi Toshiro. None of them mattered. This exam didn’t matter. This wasn’t an exam for them, this was survival… and it sounded like they were about to fail.

Forcing herself onto her feet, she couldn’t do anything but watch as Shiro was about to be blasted to smithereens by a cero at point blank range. Her face twisted as her eyes welled up with tears that mixed with the blood on her face, and at that moment a loss far greater than failing this exam cut through her and caused her heart to shatter into a thousand pieces. She felt utterly useless. He was about to die right before her eyes and there was nothing she could do about it.

“Zero…” she repeated after Captain Yorutatsu in a whisper and her eyes grew wide as everything was over in less than a second, and the Arrancar was dealt with by... someone… anyone, it didn’t matter who, and she didn’t care to pay enough attention to find out.

With a final burst of energy, she swiftly flashstepped to Shiro’s side, but with the very limited amount of energy that she had left, Lenalee immediately stumbled and collapsed by his side. “Shiro!” Her injured arm concealed underneath the sleeve of the uniform that she was now grateful to have, she lightly shook him with her free hand. “Shiro! We did it!” She shook him again with a little sniffle as tears ran down her cheeks alongside the water droplets that poured over them like a rain shower, perfectly blended in. “Don’t close your eyes! Stay awake!” Lenalee cried out to him in a softer tone, choking back sobs as she feared that if he went to sleep, he wouldn’t ever wake up again. Moving one hand over the wound in his chest, she tried to do the impossible and resume healing him with the very little energy reserve she had left.


"You may call me heartless, you may call me a terrible mother, Akane..." Azai stepped beside Yorutatsu, addressing her informally to offer very little respect as she stared down at the mess of the battlefield. The woman was quick to take responsibility for her seeming lack of concern for her own daughter's safety, yet despite her own faults, it was clear in her mind who the real villain was. "But I sincerely hope that you realise what you have done here today was despicable and with all of my own shortcomings, I will never stoop to a level so low that you have. If you ever had any ounce of respect from me, consider it lost."  Without another word, the captain returned to her seat, trusting that the participants of this exam would be well taken care of by the medical squad.

"A bet is a bet, Shiro will be joining my squad." Azai spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, before resting an elbow on the armrest of her seat as if she were bored. 

"Bring in the next examinees - I trust you have some sort of plan as to how to proceed with the exam for the remaining 84 students?"

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Lenalee: #54d5e3
Captain Azai Saeki: #bd9ac4