As Kazuma, Baroka and Kito walked through a the streets, with Mio and Rem at the back chatting, Yuji was eating a burger while watching the friends chat. Kazuma asked Kito "So? How was your assassination exam?", Kito replied "It was pretty decent. I mean Rem and I were dishing out intense blows and speed blitz while Baroka was the one attacking from behind when shit got real.". Kazuma then asked with his arms behind his head like a pillow "Wait, I thought Rem's abilities were long range plasma beams and Baroka Is the brawler type. It doesn't make sense for you and Rem to be fighting up close when Rem can easily attack from a distance while you and Baroka can just fight up close.". Kito explained to Kazuma "Well, the thing is that Rem is good at enhancing her physical abilities with her plasma based powers. They don't just hit hard, they blow up. And since I'm easily able to keep up, I was able to use my good combat skills and my edge in speed to keep our opponent in a tight spot. Sometimes you don't need the brawler type like Baroka to always close in the distance.". Baroka added into the conversation "Yeah, Kito's got a point. It's typical to expect someone like me to always charge in first, so he let himself and Rem do all the fighting while I protected everyone from the upcoming attacks they couldn't sense.". Kazuma smirked "Smart move....", he looked up to the sky "As for me and my team, we fought separately. There were three assassins who split up, myself, Misaki and Yuji had to split up as well to go face em.". Kito replied "The fight you had was cool, as usual. You're always the exception when it comes to things like strategy and cornering people with your abilities in battle. I even heared people talking about how incredibly strong and skillfull you are, Kazuma.", Kazuma scratched his head with a smile "Huh? You really think I'm that strong? Thanks, I work hard alot.". Baroka then kept his arms around his two friends "Hey guys, did you see the latest volume of strikers? It just came out.". Kito rolled his eyes "Yeah, i read a decent number of chapters yesterday. Not a single ball in sight.", Kazuma smiled weirdly "Well, the manga has to do with using of abilities to play ball, so it only makes sense if it goes off the rails every once In a while.". Kazuma turned to Kito "Either way, have you heard from White or even Volt?", Kito replied "Nope, although i last saw them last week. You know how White can be, always keeping things serious with his training and being reserved. Volt on the other hand is probably training his ass off in the wastelands or something.". Mio while talking to Rem asked "By the way, I haven't seen your brother Volt in a while. How is he?", Rem replied "He's doing well, he's a typical boy so he's probably training his ass off somewhere. Either that or he's playing video games or ready porn mags.". Kazuma, Kito and Baroka had wierd smiles on their faces "Porn mags....", they thought to themselves. Mio looked at them "Idiots.", she muttered to herself. Kito, Baroka and Rem gathered together, Kito waved to Kazuma and his team "Well, we've gotta go. Our team leader says we should meet up for our daily training. And plus, you know me. I dont miss an opportunity to study and stuff. We'll talk later. Okay?", Kazuma waved back "See ya.", Mio waved to Rem "See you later Rem, take care.", Rem waved back as she and her team left "You too.". Meanwhile Yuji who was sipping his drink and had finished eating his burger asked "So? Are we going to find Ranpo sensei or not?", Mio and Kazuma freaked out and exclaimed in unison "Shit! That's true.", before they rushed off. Yuji got annoyed as his team zoomed off without him "Hey, you can't just leave me here when I just literally reminded you guys of what to do.", Mio replied from a distance "Catch up slow poke!", Kazuma added "Yeah, you blue haired edgy idiot.", this got Yuji angry as he proceeded to jump off as well, he yelled "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU CALL ME?! YOU PURPLE HAIRED OVERPOWER DUMBASS!". In the Lords office, Fugaku(A man with long brown hair and a small beard, wearing a brown cape.), was playing chess with his two students. Ranpo(22 years old, grey hair) and Kojin(22 years old, black spikey hair and a black short sleeved jacket) was having trouble defeating Fugaku in the chess game. They were brainstorming non stop, Kojin made a move on his chess board "Your turn Fugaku sensei.", Fugaku just smiled "Nice move.", before proceeding to take his Knight with a Bishop and almost cornering Kojin's queen. Kojin got annoyed as he was grinning his teeth with difficulty, he almost looked like a beast. Fugaku tapped him on the head "Don't do that.", Kojin just took a sigh. On the other chess board, Ranpo seemed to be on equal footing with Fugaku. Ranpo thought to himself "Just one more move, and i win. Just a single move is all there is for my win.", he moved a pawn forward. Fugaku smiled softly as he proceeded to use a pawn to checkmate Ranpo from both sides "Checkmate!", Ranpo sighed "Ahhhh! That easy?". As soon as Kojin moved a piece with a smirk on his face "HAH! I SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE! IF I MOVE THIS PIECE, HE'D HAVE TO DEFEND AND THEN I'LL USE THE OPENING I HAVE AND WIN!", he thought to himself. Fugaku looked at the move with a side eye before moving a piece of his own as well "Checkmate!", Kojin exclaimed "GAAH!! FUCK!". Fugaku smiled at him softly "Bad language boy.". Ranpo stood up and stretched "Damn, we've been at it for two whole hours. And even upon all that time to think, i still lost.". Kojin got up and said with slight annoyance "Yeah, me too. I could easily have won if I thought harder!", Fugaku just smirked "Then next time, you both should think harder!". Ranpo replied with a nervous smile while Kojin scoffed "Gimme a break!". A few seconds later, they heard faint screams that slowly got louder, Kazuma, Mio and Yuji barged in "RANPO SENSEI! WE GOT THE GOLDEN TICKETS!!". Kojin had visibile annoyance in his eyes in his eyes, Ranpo has a nervous smile on his face, and Fugaku waved to tye kids "Hey kids. How you doing?". The trio greeted "Hey lord Fugaku. Good morning!". Kojin was completely ignored "These little shits!", he thought to himself.
END OF CHAPTER.