" Oh god! what do we do!?" I said looking at the noble girl.
"Calm down Rant...I'm sure having this lady with us is not a bad choice"

Tada calmed me down as the noble lady was freaking out.
"W-W-What do I do!? I'm rally sorry that was all my fault. Awawawawaw-"
Yep she had totally lost it.

"Do not worry" Tada said holding her shoulders "First of all let's introduce ourselves, that is a good enough way to start"
Then with a deep breath he started first.
"My name is Tada Matsuri The Awesome! and from now on I'll be the leader of this team" He put a grin on his face as he finished thinking he nailed it.

{There's the eccentric part again...and who died to make HIM the leader} 
"I'm Ran Sugiyama, the one who will be known in the future as the strongest swordsman"
I claimed as I pointed towards myself trying to look cool.

And then a punch came straight towards me.
"Rant you idiot! Stop trying to look cooler than me! I'm supposed to be the awesome one!"
And of course I returned the punch back at him.
"Yeah right you ego maniac you're the last person that would look cool like that!"
"What was that!? You're trying to say something to your king? Bow down and lick my foot you filthy mongrel"
"Yeah I see that the king of the lame decided to pay me a visit! What can I do for you your highness?" 
We were pressing out hands against each other, clearly pissed off, as the noble girl burst out laughing.

"You two are golden" She said, wiping her sugar filled tears of laughter.
"My name is Tifa Saku nice to meet you" Added the shy girl that finally had broken her silence.
Her smile was beautiful and me and Tada smiled as well looking at her.

"So if we're alright now shouldn't we start searching? I think everyone got ahead of us"
I asked as the others agreed. We then heard a voice coming from a section in front of us.

"Come people come! Are you up for the challenge? Is anyone able to defeat our current champion? Famous for his exquisite skill at wielding the sword with elegance and his astonishing power that crushes his opponents in seconds. That's right i'm talking about the one and only Akira Toragami! Little brother of one of our respectful leaders Hakubo Toragami who has been entitled with the honorable title of the sin of envy."

Walking towards them we saw a fat person with short brown hair that was wearing a white jacket along with brown trousers.Next to him was a handsome one. He had blue colored long hair tied on a ponytail, and was wearing a grey school uniform: probably Tsurugi Academy's. 
He had an average build and was holding two wooden hook swords made by dark wood. 

They were both up on a stage made of wood as they tried to challenge people.
The fat guy then mentioned that except from becoming the new champion, the winner would also get ten coins.
No matter their speech though people seemed sceptical about it.
But after a minute tons of arms rose.

Then the ponytail guy thought for a moment.
"Who is ready to face the great me!?" As he asked the crowd started cheering.
"A-K-I-R-A!! A-K-I-R-A!! We love you!" The crowd was excited, with people jumping up and down and screaming, producing a sound that could be heard in a fifty meter radius.

"What are all those idiots doing? I can't even concentrate with all this noise" Tada was furious.
I agreed with him, all the noise was starting to get annoying after ten seconds.
"Let's see who it's gonna be" Said the Akira, as he looked through the crowd.

Suddenly he rose his finger and pointed towards me.
"What about you" He said as the crowd made of swordsmen and grew ever more wild.
"W-what? Me?" I asked pointing towards myself. 
"Yes, you the octopus head! Come on up" As he finished, ponytail guy named Akira signalled me to get on the stage.

"I'm sorry but I can't, my team needs to get back to searching. Maybe some other time okay?" I replied with a forced smile.
{FUCK!! Why me!? Why now!? can't I do one thing without getting into a fight?} I started sweating as the crowd started approaching me.
"Hey who do you think you are?"
"Yeah! No one declines an invitation by master Akira"
"Let's lynch him guys!! That'll show him"

I didn't even do anything this time and they were about to lynch me.
"No no you guys, you got it wrong " Suddenly Akira stopped them as he stepped down from the stage.
"You see the rules are simple, I attack you and you try to avoid getting hurt! It's a point game. The first one to touch their opponent's body,clothing or hair with their sword wins"
Tada who was looking stepped forward. "And why should Rant fight you? He already told you he won't"
"No no my friend... Octopus head here owes me you see, after all if it weren't for me right now he would have gotten himself very very hurt. So please step aside and the real swordsman have his way" Akira replied kicking Tada on the stomach, throwing him backwards.
That moment my mind went blank.What should i do? What would Pandora do at this situation?
No. I certainly know what.
"Okay that's it! You're dead!!" Tada replied wiping the dirt off his face as the guy known as Akira started laughing.
"You really are a weak piece of shit, can't even take a pu-" He didn't end his sentence as I unleashed all the urge and, the frustration that I had build up into a punch that met his face.

"Don't you dare to make fun of him, you glittery bastard!!" I shouted as he looked towards me with a surprised expression.
"You got a lot of nerve to touch my beautiful face" He said as he crouched and got into his stance.
He was good. He started by rushing towards me attempting to strike me on the stomach with both blades, which I avoided his attack by jumping to my left. He then smiled.

"Oh? So you have some skills" He proceeded to jump towards me, as I blocked the first sword with my Shinai and avoided the second sword by falling back.
"What are you doing? Attack me !!" He started taunting me as I ran some feet backwards and got ready to counter attack.

As he ended his attack, suddenly he stopped.
"Wait...is that what I think it is? Light wood? Are you kidding me?" He seemed to be strangely impressed by the material of my sword.
"I didn't think there'd be people stupid enough to choose that material" He said while laughing.
And of course the crowd started laughing with him. That irritating laugh that all people have experienced once in their life.
"What about my sword? Is there a problem? " I asked glaring at him.

"Listen here just because I'm so generous I'll give you some information: It's common knowledge that there are certain materials which don't let the energy we swordsmen know as Saku flow correctly making the weapons that are created by those materials significantly weaker than others, and the light wood is one of those. So congratulations you jackass! you got played" Hearing those words frustrated me. Saku energy didn't matter at the moment, I didn't know how to use it, but what if I kept this sword for the rest of the year? Or worse? what would I do then?
"Oh yeah? I see...I can even imagine the shame you'll feel when a newbie with a broken sword beats you mister elite" Tada taunted Akira, and that was enough to infuriate him

"You Son of a bitch!!" He attacked again  with all his might and blinded by rage. I knew I was done.
I braced myself and as a reaction I put my sword in front of me and pointed it towards him...And...It worked?

I didn't believe my eyes but it seemed that he took a step more than he needed and met my swords edge halfway through.