Let's not out our plucky protag as a supernatural badass in the first round, please? And I would like to see what the brains of the pair finds out while that's going on.
No, let's do it. This is how we get noticed and pick up sponsorship money. It's our big break. We're a broke kid from nowhere, it's good for us to chase clout.
[X] Take the Special Option. You'll fight all three them at once. (One Martial Art CSC. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies will combined their Skills for the DC).
[X] Stick With Hayato. ("Time to prove all my hard work wasn't for nothing")
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
Let's confront each of the participants separately. This at least demonstrates that we respect the hard work they have put into learning the martial arts. "I can defeat you all even if you join forces!" sounds pretty arrogant and I don't think Hayate is that kind of person. And this can undermine their will to engage in martial arts, which our protagonist also wants to avoid.
[X] Move to Yameko ("...Why do I have a bad feeling about this Tournament?")
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Stick With Hayato
[X] Take the Special Option. You'll fight all three them at once. (One Martial Art CSC. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies will combined their Skills for the DC).
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
No, let's do it. This is how we get noticed and pick up sponsorship money. It's our big break. We're a broke kid from nowhere, it's good for us to chase clout.
Problem with this mindset is that it ignores the secret society we know is out to murder or brainwash anyone who stands out too much.
Besides, taking more time with our matches gives Yamato more time to sneak around and do Yamato stuff.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
If we're looking at it that way, then getting captured is a good way to find them quickly. We're a Shonen bro-tagonist, this is exactly in-character for us.
[X] Take the Special Option. You'll fight all three them at once. (One Martial Art CSC. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies will combined their Skills for the DC).
[X] Stick With Hayato. ("Time to prove all my hard work wasn't for nothing")
It's time to unleash OUR FULL POWER!
What did we train so crazily to get 100s in our Martial Arts instead of 50 for other than something like this, eh?
Besides, Traditionally would be too easy for Hayato as is.
The reaction of the Sandai girls was even better that is was hoping for, also ut seems that sensei hama was a lady killer himself and we may meet his wife there.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
Our bro hasn't gotten a new waifu in the last few minutes. Let's fix that!
If we're looking at it that way, then getting captured is a good way to find them quickly. We're a Shonen bro-tagonist, this is exactly in-character for us.
I'd like to avoid the mistakes of our predecessor bros rather than repeat them, thank you all the same; thus, I will provide multiple counterpoints.
They may just skip the capture and go straight for the kill. After all, we know their attitude is "shoot first, and if that don't work use more gun."
Even if they do capture us, there's no guarantee Yamato can follow them.
Yamato isn't ready to deal with them yet, especially if we aren't (and it's generally assumed that we aren't, since neither of us seems to have even considered the possibility of winning against them).
Getting captured is a good way of being forced to fight our bro even if he does manage to find us.
Any one of these is a dealbreaker, in my book; put together, I find myself questioning how stupid someone would have to be to actually try to draw their attention before our entire faction is ready for them.
Like, being a bit dense is fine; aspiring for a Darwin Award is not.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
Because is better not becoming a target.
[X] Move to Munagi. ("Where did that Yameko woman get away to? I swear, if she's with Yamate then...I mean, I need to make sure they're not doing anything inappropriate!")
This honestly is an dark horse option but i would think it would be intresthing to see the 1st cosplayer girl stumble into the supernatural, maybe an omake.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
My reasoning is that showing how much stronger we are than everyone else is not the kind of thing Hayato would do because it would discourage people of martial arts and he already said before that he doesn't want to do that
The girl makes an "Eep!" sound before pulling away and moving to hide behind the other one. You raise an eyebrow as you straighten up,s taring after Iji in confusion. She leans over the other girl's shoulder. There's a slight pink on her face as she speaks, "Haruka. He's. What. Headmistress. Warned. About."
The other girl, Haruka you now know, widens her eyes as she turns to look at you. She gets into a guarded stance with both her hands up, "So, it is true. Well know this, Nagai! Your male wiles will not have any effect on me, Iji, or Yoko-senpai!"
This time Haruka's cheeks turn pink. She takes a shaky step back, before leaning over to speak to Iji, "He really is dangerous. Go tell Yoko-senpai that-"
"Senpai!" the two girls say in unison. Both rush over to the new girl and hide behind her back. Haruka points at you and starts talking, "Watch out! He's that kind, honest type of man that the Headmistress warned about! The one that catches you off guard with how nice he is!"
Sensei shakes his head and looks towards the Headmistress, "You still haven't kicked that habit of making your disciples believe in nonsense, Yuki?"
The Headmistress crosses her arms over her chest. She widens her stance while looking up at Sensei Hazma with the same emotionless expression, "Oh, don't act so shocked, Hazma. You know that putting irrational fears of the outside into my students is one of the few joys I have left in life. And besides, it's a precaution against any of my disciples being stolen by a pretty face and kind words. Like a certain someone I know."
"Wait a sec, why aren't we allowed to watch? We're in this fight too," you ask, confused at the rules.
"It's to ensure that no school has an unfair advantage against the others," Sakura explains with a shrug, "If you see the other team fight and know you'll be up against the winners, you can better prepare for battling them."
So, we know for a fact that the only other Sole Participant in this Tournament belongs to Amaterasu High. We don't know anything else about them though. So, keep an eye out."
I'm guessing that they're actually, if not Organization agent, someone who has been given orders to dominate with their Supernatural Arts to draw out other SA users.
When the battle begins, who's POV would you like to watch from?
[] Stick With Hayato. ("Time to prove all my hard work wasn't for nothing")
[] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
[] Move to Munagi. ("Where did that Yameko woman get away to? I swear, if she's with Yamate then...I mean, I need to make sure they're not doing anything inappropriate!")
[] Move to Yameko ("...Why do I have a bad feeling about this Tournament?")
[C] Move to Munagi. ("Where did that Yameko woman get away to? I swear, if she's with Yamate then...I mean, I need to make sure they're not doing anything inappropriate!")
This honestly is an dark horse option but i would think it would be intresthing to see the 1st cosplayer girl stumble into the supernatural, maybe an omake.
If you meant this to be an actual vote, you need to change the 'C' to an 'X'.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
Hard to choose since I'd want to see them all, especially Yamato, Munagi and Yameko, but this is what I want to see most. Not just cause I'm biased.
No, let's do it. This is how we get noticed and pick up sponsorship money. It's our big break. We're a broke kid from nowhere, it's good for us to chase clout.
There's a major flaw in your thinking - the formulation that "Hayato won't get sponsorship money unless he kicks their asses simultaneously". That's generally not how sponsorships work; so long as the sponsoree demonstrates a minimum level of performance, the rest is graded on a curve.
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
[X] Do this Traditionally. You'll fight three of them in succession. (Three Martial Art Skill Checks. No Skills will be Combined for this Check. Traits and other Bonuses will be considered. Enemies may gain consecutive bonuses as they learn how you fight)
[X] Move to Yamato. ("That Estella woman...I would like to speak with her.")
I don't think this matters too much either way unless things have changed a decent bit. Iirc sometime during or after our training we got told that we had honestly overtrained for the tournament and didn't need to get above 100 to win.
I don't think this matters too much either way unless things have changed a decent bit. Iirc sometime during or after our training we got told that we had honestly overtrained for the tournament and didn't need to get above 100 to win.
I don't think this matters too much either way unless things have changed a decent bit. Iirc sometime during or after our training we got told that we had honestly overtrained for the tournament and didn't need to get above 100 to win.
For the most part, I believe that's true. But keep in mind that the people telling us we over-trained are judging it by a decidedly non-supernatural standard. In an explicitly supernatural harem comedy anime, that's a dangerous metric to use because it's just begging for an OOCP to stick its head in through the nearest toilet.
Not as bad but a similar mechanism to taunting Murphy with one of the Forbidden Incantations.
For the most part, I believe that's true. But keep in mind that the people telling us we over-trained are judging it by a decidedly non-supernatural standard. In an explicitly supernatural harem comedy anime, that's a dangerous metric to use because it's just begging for an OOCP to stick its head in through the nearest toilet.
Basically the worry is that the organization is scouting for talent. So going for the special option with our stats would be luke seeing real life bruce lee going trough people rather than just a prdigy.
