Chapter 67: Get Set, Go! (6)

Although Mika-senpai’s arbitrary decision had put me in a situation where I had to be dragged to Millennium…

fortunately, the other party was a little flexible with scheduling, and it didn’t cause any major problems with the schedule after the Millennium Festival.

Mika-senpai isn’t the type to faint from having a roll cake shoved in her mouth…but she couldn’t win against the pressure from Nagisa-senpai and Seia-senpai, so she was eventually dragged away by the two.

Right now, I…

“Thank you for waiting! After finishing the cavalry battle between Millennium and Hyakkiyako, finally! The battle that can be said to be the highlight of this game! We will start the cavalry battle between Gehenna and Trinity!”

I was on the cavalry battle stadium.

To explain why I, who hates moving my body terribly, ended up participating in a game like cavalry battle, I need to turn back time a little.

“Please…!”

“Ah…ni…yeah? Senpai? Cavalry battle?”

Cavalry battle, the Millennium Festival is an event where many schools participate and compete fairly with each other, so it is common for each school to try to aim for overall victory.

As such, pace control is basic, and the reason for this is, of course, to prevent cases where the score difference is overturned in the games located in the latter half, as they are fiercely contested.

And the cavalry battle, which is located at the very end of the major games, was also assigned a high score, so if you can bring victory at this point, you can definitely get closer to victory.

“No…but why me…?”

“Sora-chan’s number of participation games is low, isn’t it? Among the students who have enough stamina at that point, Sora-chan is the only exceptionally strong student.”

Certainly…it’s a convincing reason.

The part that I’m an exceptionally strong student is something I’ve started to feel to some extent recently while dealing with troubles during other tasks or following Mika-senpai, and in fact, around the time the game starts, almost all students will be tired enough from many games, so I can’t deny that I, who have relatively few participation games, am a suitable choice.

“Ugh…but I don’t know much about cavalry battles?”

But honestly, I’m not confident in sports.

It’s not that I’m clumsy or anything.

If I were clumsy, I would feel sorry for the many Sukeban who were thrown over my shoulder.

It’s just…I don’t really like moving my body, so I’ve hardly ever participated in sports with such rules.

The borrowing things race, which I was promised to participate in, is a simple game, so if the rules get a little complicated, I become helpless when it comes to sports.

“It’s okay. Sora-chan, we have a strategy in mind, so just follow it.”

So…returning to the present…

“…Is it really okay for me to just stay like this?”

“It will probably be okay.”

“Well, if it’s Sora I saw, and with the strategy we’ve devised, I guarantee that you won’t lose.”

“There’s no need to worry, right? After all, that person over there is doing everything.”

I’m just riding on the horse with my head, including my upper body, completely wrapped in my wings.

The horse I’m riding on was a horse consisting of one elite member of the Justice Realization Committee, Kazusa, and Azusa-senpai, team members organized by Ichika-senpai.

The side that earns points is only the horse consisting of Ichika-senpai and a few elite members of the Justice Realization Committee selected in advance, and the rest are for filling the numbers,

and I am the last bastion consisting of a few people who can keep the points for the longest time when everyone is defeated, so…maybe I can steal the opponent’s hat in reverse from an attack against me.

It’s even more so because I was lightly contributing to the score by simply snatching the hats of students who approached me without any special events.

After stealing the hats of the Gehenna horses approaching me to some extent, they gave up on attacking me, and no more Gehenna members approached me, so I started to get bored.

“Come on, everyone still has some leeway, right? There are still many, so let’s do our best!”

“Oh!!!”

In the end, I couldn’t overcome my boredom, so I was half-watching Ichika-senpai’s horse, far away through the gap between my wings, taking down the hats of many Gehenna students in an instant.

“Ugh…that woman…she’s ridiculous…”

“Damn, take down the other fallen guys! Ignore that winged girl!”

Gehenna is difficult to unify with each other, but due to the free school spirit, each student was composed of talented people, but none of them could compare to Ichika-senpai,

and the many elite members of the Justice Realization Committee led by Ichika-senpai were not separated one by one, but even though they were horses,

they maintained their formation in a familiar way as if they had done it many times and were pushing the Gehenna camp.

I thought the cavalry battle would end without any change in this state, but…

“Ugh?! When?!”

“Ah! I got mine taken too!”

“Hmph, this is easy.”

When I visited Gehenna for discussions due to the Eden Treaty, I only briefly met her face…so…was she the action leader of the Prefect Team, Shiromi Iori?

She started to move.

I haven’t really seen the person riding on her and the people other than her…but they were all unique people.

“Kufufu…as expected of the Prefect Team-chan, amazing?”

“Ugh…if it weren’t for the Millennium Festival, I wouldn’t have joined hands with you…”

“I-I’m sorry…I’m sorry!!! I shouldn’t have stepped up and caused this!!”

“Fufufu…it’s okay, Haruka, cooperating with an enemy who was in conflict for a great purpose…it’s the most hard-boiled, right? Come on! Let’s go!”

Come to think of it, I said I hadn’t really seen them, but when I think about it again, it was the group called Problem Solver 68, which was organized as a dangerous person in previous documents.

I remember that the guy riding on top was probably the leader.

It was recorded that it was a group with combat power similar to or greater than that of the Gourmet Research Society, which I had experienced before, so certainly Ichika-senpai alone would quickly lose her hat.

“Ugh…as expected of the action leader of the Prefect Team…and Problem Solver 68…it won’t be easy…”

“I was half-forced to participate in the cavalry battle because of Ako-chan, and I don’t like the members…but since I’m doing it, I’ll win!”

The expectation that I hoped wouldn’t come true came true, and they were pushing Ichika-senpai and continuing to pressure her.

Ichika-senpai is already tired enough from dealing with many Gehenna students, so it will be difficult to deal with them.

“…Let’s go help.”

“Yes? But Ichika-senpai’s instructions…”

“Those guys look dangerous, but wouldn’t it be safer to strengthen the defense?”

“No, even Ichika, judging by their movements, I don’t think she can hold out for long. Certainly, thanks to her efforts, all the dangerous riders and horses have been dealt with…”

“Yes, but there are still more Gehenna horses, we were definitely in the lead, but the situation has been reversed since that horse started moving…in other words, almost all of them were eliminated by that one horse.”

Yes, the horse led by Shiromi Iori is absurdly moving like one body, as if three people carrying one person on their back are moving, and they have been cleaning up one by one.

I was the last bastion, but at this moment, there was no choice but to move.

If I don’t move now, Ichika-senpai will be tied down, and I will be surrounded by many Gehenna horses who have become free to move, and if Ichika-senpai loses her hat, I will have to deal with that dangerous horse.

If so, it would be strategically more advantageous for me to deal with that dangerous horse alone and make Ichika-senpai free.

The thinking is over, and if the behavior pattern is decided, the action must be fast.

“Ugh?!”

“This is the end…huh?!”

Ichika-senpai ran as if leading the horse and tried to shake off that horse as much as possible, but due to her decreased stamina

and the fact that the members other than Ichika-senpai couldn’t keep up with the skills of Problem Solver 68, the vicious cycle of not being able to shake them off was repeated…

The leader of Problem Solver 68, Rikuhachima Aru, reached out to the hat of Ichika-senpai’s rider.

“Senpai! Go!”

“Sora-chan! Nice! Please!!!”

“Ueeek?! What?! Can you use your wings like that?!”

“Hey~? Is it that famous knight-chan these days? It’ll be fun!”

I stretch out my wings and hit the arm stretched out to Ichika-senpai’s rider.

Because I hit the wings from the bottom up, Iori’s horse temporarily loses its balance and shakes greatly.

“What?! Isn’t this a foul?!”

“Unfortunately, there was no rule against using wings or tails.”

Foul, Azusa-senpai retorted to Iori’s words about whether it was a foul.

In fact, there is a record that a student from Hyakkiyako with a long tail used her tail to snatch a hat before, so it’s not a foul.

“We’re your opponents!”

“Ueeek…there are only big shots…!”

“Don’t be scared! It’s definitely possible!”

“Damn…”

I put my left wing forward like a shield and spread my right wing wide and stiffly, adjusting its shape as if holding a sword or spear.

While all of them are simple horses, this side has a rider wearing heavy armor, a heavy soldier, well, taste the unfair fight.

“Hup!”

“Haha! Fast!”

“Ueeeet!”

“Ugh, how can you move like that while dragging two people!”

Perhaps conscious of the fact that I put my left wing forward as a shield, Iori quickly turned to the right in my standard and turned her body in the direction where the wing’s defense was poor.

Kazusa was in charge of the front of our horse, and unfortunately, it seemed that it was difficult for Kazusa to fully keep up with Iori’s speed.

Iori’s movement seemed difficult to digest even if she was carrying one person and dragging two more people, but the rest of Problem Solver 68 did a great job of digesting it, and in the end, my defense’s weakness was revealed.

“This time for sure!…Uet?! What is that! Is that a wing?! It feels like I was hit with a bat!”

“That’s rude! How hard I take care of it!”

As soon as the defense weakness was revealed, Rikuhachima Aru reaches out to my hat.

My right side is a defense weakness, but that doesn’t mean I only have a left wing, so I raise the wing that I had already spread stiffly like a sword and hit her arm away.

“Haat!”

“Hup!”

The advantage of close combat using wings is that it’s like having four arms, so even if you swing in one direction to defend or attack, you still have your original arm and have the right to attack.

Therefore, I reached out my right hand to the opponent’s hat, taking advantage of the gap where the opponent’s arm was greatly removed, but this time too, Iori, she jumps back greatly and the distance is widened.

If it were her original self, it would be a distance that she couldn’t possibly widen, but by using the broken balance as I swung my wings and hit her, she was able to greatly widen the distance.

“Hut!!”

“Ugh?!”

I was momentarily flustered because I didn’t think that the widened distance could normally be closed at once, and I gave the opponent the right to attack once again.

Once the right to attack is handed over, this side’s choice is bound to focus on defense, so I turn my body and horse to the left in order to utilize the left wing that I had been using only as a shield from the beginning.

“Ugh…what is this, it’s a cheat!”

“Ueeek?! You’re complaining, but it seems like you’re using it too?!”

“Tch, you’re not falling for it?!”

Fortunately, I succeeded in properly defending against the attack on me, but Iori, she is a woman with a lot of combat experience.

She ties Kazusa’s left leg, the front horse, with her own tail and pulls.

Fortunately, Kazusa also has some outstanding physical abilities, so the disaster of the horse collapsing at once did not happen, but in this state, it turns into a battle of strength.

Aru, she tries to grab my left wing and remove it, but I’m also confident in my strength, so it wasn’t that threatening to me.

“Uet?! Wait?!”

“You didn’t think it was possible, did you?!”

I restrain Aru’s hands, which grabbed my left wing, with my left hand and start pulling.

“Ugh…just come over quietly!”

“Ugh…!”

Normally, it would be a difference in strength that could easily pull the opponent’s horse and knock it down, but as Iori and Kazusa’s battle of strength intensified,

their balance continued to collapse, making it impossible for me to rashly pull the opponent.

Parallel lines, a parallel line where their battle of strength shows no sign of ending began to run.

But this battle of strength ended absurdly vainly.

“Yes, it’s over.”

“Eh?”

Suddenly, Aru’s hat, who was fighting with me, is taken off.

“Are you here now? Senpai?”

Ichika-senpai and a small number of elite members of the Justice Realization Committee, who returned after annihilating all of Gehenna’s horses, appeared.

In Ichika-senpai’s hand…was Aru’s hat, which was finally taken off.

“What the…damn…”

“Kufufu, too bad? Prefect Team-chan?”

Thus, the cavalry battle between Gehenna and Trinity ended with Trinity’s victory.