Maiko Ogure, known to her victims as Kanto's Jigsaw Queen, has come to Honnouji Academy to uncover who killed her father. But little does she know that like many of her traps, a surprise lies in store for her at Honnouji.....
A Trap of Destiny (KILL la KILL) - a Maiko Ogure AU
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Prologue
On a man made island that laid right in the middle of Tokyo Bay, there was a school named Honnouji Academy. Thanks to the spiral shape of the island, along with the rather massive size of the main complex, some people would be hard to convince that it was one of the most prestigious schools in all of Japan. But at the same time, it was also home to one of the most ruthless and totalitarian student councils in not just the country, but possibly the world.
And its leader, a 17 year old woman with short black/blue hair, along with a single bang on the right side of her forehead, was busy walking through one of its vast hallways. She wore a rather prim looking white and red suit that contrasted greatly with the more wild and rebellious kind of face and hair she possessed.
"Good morning Miss President. Hope things are going well!" A male student, wearing a gray gakuran, said while bowing to her. The woman quickly approached the student and had her heels let out a clicking noise.
"Mornin', you freaking swines in human clothings" She replied, giving her classmates the most wicked grin her face could make. But despite that, none of the other students showed any fear or resistance to her rude comment, rather, they seemed to idolize her.
"She's so cool….." one student said.
"What a badass…." another added.
"She's like Shadow the Hedgehog, but way more pog!" Yet another pointed out, making the connection cause of the president's bang of red. Those kinds of comments continued as she went further down the halls of her school.
"Look at these pussies. All of them at my feet without havin' to raise my hand. It feels so good to be a queen….." She mentally told herself, looking down on each one of them with the same punishing glare she gave to the first student
But even with all this glowing praise, she had a mission to do. The woman stopped at a random classroom door and she read the kanji on the window.
"Well, here goes…." she said, opening the door to this classroom. The moment she entered, she saw that the class had a number of rather unique looking students in terms of hair color and faces, otherwise, they all wore the same kind of uniform, a gray gakuran for the boys, and a white and blue sailor uniform for the girls.
As it turned out, the teacher, a rather spritely looking middle aged woman with blonde hair and glasses was doing a lecture on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. But that was interrupted by the simple clicking of Ryuko's heels, drawing the attention of Mrs. Mikisugi and her students.
"Miss President, is there a reason you're visiting us?" Mrs. Mikisugi asked.
The woman appeared to let out a small smirk, which seemed to grow wider with every second and also showed off two front canines shaped like vampire fangs.
"Yes, I have reason to believe that a student in this classroom stole one of the Sewing Club's Goku Uniforms. Specifically, a One Star outfit," she said, her voice sounding rather punkish despite wearing such a formal outfit and being the school's president.
She gazed on at the rather colorful group of students that made up Miss Kinagase's classroom, and couldn't really make out one that screamed smuggler of property.
"Whoever has it will be punished accordingly," she said, brushing the side of her red bang of hair. "And when he or she does come forward, it'll be a lesson to all of you not to oppose me, Honnouji Student Council President, Ryuko Kiryuin!"
Ryuko kept pacing through the desks, looking for one who seemed most apt to go against her. She seemed to stop at one in particular, a blonde girl who had pigtails on each end of her head, and were the size of a snowboard. Ryuko also noticed that said girl was playing with two muffins like they were action figures.
"Excuse me.. I don't remember you being in my school." Ryuko said. But the blonde girl let out a rather over-the-top giggle, and handed one of her muffins to Ryuko.
"Would wittle miss Student President like to have a meeting with his royal highness Muffimo the Third?" she asked.
The blonde girl then handed Ryuko the muffin while humming a rather over-the-top version of Rule Brittania. From that type of behavior, Ryuko figured that this girl was too crazy to even get a hand on a Goku Uniform.
"I'm….I'm not hungry…." she said.
Ryuko took another step forward, but stopped upon smelling some blood being drawn. She immediately sensed something was wrong, and got on all fours like a feline about to go out on its prey. This made all the students start to feel worried and even freaked out.
"Eh, quit being a bunch of babies...." Ryuko said, still hunting for the so-called rebel.
Upon closer smelling, Ryuko noticed that the blood came from a student in the middle left side of the room, who had curly brown hair, red colored eyes, and a rather pudgy figure. He was busy trying to get the lead out of his mechanical pencil, but ended up stabbing his fingers in the process.
"Dammit.. that's gonna need a trip to the doc-"
The student stopped speaking when he found himself face to face with the vicious glare of Ryuko, her letting out a chuckle of malice towards his face.
"Tell me, what's your name." She said with an equally malicious tone.
"R...Ren." He said. "Ren Suzuki."
After that unexpected introduction, Ryuko put her left arm onto Ren's chest and let out a soft hum of authority.
"What's she doing to him?" One of the students asked.
"No clue, I've never seen her act like that." Another said.
The next thing Ryuko did was put her lips onto Ren's ears, and let out one simple word, but speaking it in a way that gave more than a hint of impending doom.
"Run."
And run he did, the boy bolting out of his desk and making a run for the door without even taking a second to look behind him. At the same time, the quirky blonde student from before let out another comment.
"Gotta go fast!" She giggled.
Ryuko slowly walked out of the classroom, not worried about how fast this unruly student ran away from her. She thought that it would be far more fun to give him a chance to escape before going for the kill. So she sniffed the air for a few seconds and sadistically snarled when he caught the scent of Ren's blood in the distance.
"Ready or not...Here I come." She chuckled, her voice echoing throughout the halls.
Ren kept running, adrenaline flowing through his veins as he navigated his way through the vast maze of hallways that made up Honnouji Academy, all while hearing the sound of Ryuko's heels clicking through it all. But the students he passed by on the way to the nearest exit were quite perplexed over how scared he was.
"What's the hurry?" One student asked to Ren.
"I gotta go see a doctor!" He panicked, looking at his still bleeding fingers and confident with the excuse he pulled out. "Where's the closest one?"
"Oh, right behind you, in the third door to your right." The student said, who like others, was blissfully unaware of what Ren was running from.
Ren nodded in agreement, and made his way towards the nurse's office, hoping he'd be away from Ryuko's wrath. But a moment of clarity then lit his face up as he felt the One-Star outfit under his gakuran.
"Of course, why didn't I think of that!" Ren said in a bit of relief, and having a plan in mind to beat Ryuko when she came for him. He clumsily opened the door to the nurse's office and locked the door, much to the surprise of the nurse who was in the office at that moment.
"Oh. What brings you here?" The nurse on duty asked, curious of his intention and his ragged breaths.
"Lady…..Ryuko….." he said, confusing the nurse further.
"What happened, young man?" She could tell something was wrong with him but she couldn't help but freeze upon hearing the name of her employer. Even within the staff of Honnouji, Ryuko was a terror to be reckoned with. And to make matters worse, he could hear Ryuko letting out ethereal howls sounding as if she were right behind him.
"Wheeeeerrreeee aaaaarreee yoouuuu?"
Ren's anxiety was amplified tenfold from hearing those noises. "You have a bathroom here?" He asked the nurse.
"Next door behind the medical bed, young man." The nurse replied.
Ren wasted no time and ran up to the bathroom, closing the door behind him. With the few seconds of respite he had, he took the One-Star Goku Uniform out of his gakuran and quickly put it on his body. From just putting it on, Ren felt so much stronger, in fact, his body type had changed, giving him a more athletic figure than moments before.
"Aw yeah, now that's what I'm talking about!"
His eyes laid upon a small, human-sized window in the bathroom. He had no idea why it was in there but he didn't think that much on what to do next. He jumped through it to reach the other side, hoping to gap the distance between him and the monster tracking him down. Unfortunately, one of the glass shards from the door briefly scraped his face and a few, minuscule drops of blood came out, landing on the windowsill.
Back in the office, the nurse was wondering when Ren would come back, but that thought quickly went away as Ryuko literally kicked the door apart.
"Lady Ryuko?"
Ryuko's wrathful stare locked onto the nurse, ready to pounce at any mark of treachery. "Did you see a fat kid with shaggy dark brown hair? I've got a real bit of hell to give him."
"He should be in the bathroom, make sure to knock-"
Before the nurse even finished, Ryuko knocked the bathroom door down with her stiletto heels, and she saw the open window.
"Damn it, the kid did a Peter Pan!" She grumbled.
"Come again?" The nurse asked.
"Nah, it's nothing." Ryuko deflected, letting a small growl of frustration out that scared the nurse. "Keep going with your job. Meanwhile, I have someone to put back in his fucking place…."
Ryuko took a drip from the blood on the window and smelled it like she was sniffing a flower. The smell thrilled her, unlocking some hidden primal instincts within her. And without any warning, she too, jumped out the window. Without even breaking a single bone, she landed gracefully in the main school courtyard, where the smell of his blood was stronger than ever. That smell only made Ryuko's grin get wider and more feral.
As for Ren, he found himself able to run faster than he did just mere minutes ago, thanks to his One Star Goku Uniform. Normally, it would have taken him ten minutes to traverse the whole courtyard but thanks to the power given by his new clothes, he did it in two minutes. With this, he figured, maybe, he could leave Honnouji Academy without any problem. Heck, even Honnou Town for that matter, and he could transfer to one of the few remaining schools Honnouji didn't control.
"That's the exit of the school!" Ren exclaimed, feeling the sweet embrace of freedom hit his eyes. "I'm almost there! I'm almost there!"
And he was, indeed, close to his salvation. But what he didn't know was the blood thirst Ryuko had obtained made her just as speedy, she even got on all fours like a cheetah. And alas, all of Ren's hopes of freedom were shattered as he felt his back being kicked by Ryuko, and then the feral president tackled him face down onto the ground, gazing at him with rather furious eyes that were narrowed all the way.
"What the... HOLY SHIT?! How did you get me?" He yelled, still stunned that Ryuko could show this kind of strength.
"Surprise, bitch…." Ryuko whispered to his face. And to make things more embarrassing for Ren, a crowd of students had gathered from the windows of the surrounding classrooms, including Mrs. Mikisugi.
"Oh boy, she's gone nuts…." The teacher said.
As for Ren, he was scared out of his wits end thanks to the venomous fear Ryuko was giving him. Ren figured that if there were a full moon out, she'd go full on animal and howl at it.
"P….please lady Ryuko. Have mercy!" He said.
"Too bad", She replied, feeling eager to give him the punishment he deserved. "It took us months to find you 'cause you've been a freakin' thorn to my side for too long. I'll make you regret smuggling Goku Uniforms behind our backs."
Ryuko reached inside her suit and pulled out a long katana whose blade was coal colored. Just one glimpse of the blade made Ren figure out what she was about to do to him. With the black blade, she ripped his One-Star uniform away, rendering him naked. She then grabbed him by the skull and lifted his entire body into the sky, showing her defenseless foe to everyone.
"You see this bastard?" She roared at the entire school. "He's the guy who's been stealing our Goku Uniforms to other countries, selling them all to the highest bidder! But he's not gonna think it's so funny when he gets a face full of Bakuzan!"
The One Star students watching on at the naked Ren murmured to themselves at the schools Goku Uniforms being sold off to foreign enemies. And in her classroom, Mrs. Mikisugi let out a rather unsure look on her face.
"Something up teach?" The bubbly blonde student of hers asked.
"Oh, nothing. Just go back to your textbooks." She said.
Ryuko continued her furious declaration by placing Ren on the ground. "Do you know what we do to those who think they're above me?"
She readies her weapon to potentially end Ren's life by gently putting its tip to his chest. The disgraced student's heart raced at a thousand miles when the cool sword touched his exposed skin. The students also figured out what Ryuko was trying to do and chimed in.
"Off with his head! Off with his head!" The school roared their response at her in a repeated pattern, making Ren horrified beyond his wit's end.
"No...Please! I don't want to end like this." Ren begged, crying with warm tears flowing down his eyes.
But even with all of the students convincing Ryuko to go medieval on him, she didn't do it, making the students raise a number of questions.
"Oh come now, even I have my limits when it comes to punishments." Ryuko explained. "However, that also doesn't mean it's the end of yours."
Ren's naked body shivered ever so slightly from hearing that remark. Ryuko noticed how the courtyard was unusually dirty and how nobody hasn't cleaned it up yet. She figured she could use Ren as an improvised mop by showing him into the ground, his face kissing the beaten ground.
Suddenly, Ren felt his back pinned by Ryuko's stiletto heels, which nearly cracked apart part of his ribs. With a timed kick, she slid Ren's entire body through the ground making him traverse the gargantuan court in mere seconds. She repeated this move several times, and a blood trail eventually appeared, meaning that her humiliation shredded his skin from sliding at mach speed.
Using his blood as a morbid paint brush, Ryuko wrote the words 'Honnouji Academy Forever' on the ground.
"Had enough yet?!" she cackled.
Ren tried to limp away from her, his body crawling to the exit of the school, but Ryuko stopped him in his tracks. She then gave him a kick in the crotch forcing him to drop down to the ground face-first from the pain. Once he was stunned, Ryuko again grabbed Ren by his hair and looked at him with her trademark feral fanged grin.
"Consider yourself.....EXPELLED!" She exclaimed, the last word echoing out into the skies.
Using Bakuzan as her bat and Ren as the ball, she readied her blade and used it to send the boy flying out of Honnouji and into the seas surrounding Honnou Town, like a morbid game of baseball. As the students kept watching Ryuko, she used her heels to make a clicking sound that caught everyone's attention in an instant.
"You see that? That is what'll happen to you if you even so much as have a thought of disobeying me!" Ryuko said, her voice booming to all of the students who were watching her.
As Ryuko expected, all of the students and their teachers abided by her threat, and went back to their school days. She knew that within a matter of time, nobody would remember the treason that Ren Suzuki caused, and she'd be back to ruling over her school like a queen.
And its leader, a 17 year old woman with short black/blue hair, along with a single bang on the right side of her forehead, was busy walking through one of its vast hallways. She wore a rather prim looking white and red suit that contrasted greatly with the more wild and rebellious kind of face and hair she possessed.
"Good morning Miss President. Hope things are going well!" A male student, wearing a gray gakuran, said while bowing to her. The woman quickly approached the student and had her heels let out a clicking noise.
"Mornin', you freaking swines in human clothings" She replied, giving her classmates the most wicked grin her face could make. But despite that, none of the other students showed any fear or resistance to her rude comment, rather, they seemed to idolize her.
"She's so cool….." one student said.
"What a badass…." another added.
"She's like Shadow the Hedgehog, but way more pog!" Yet another pointed out, making the connection cause of the president's bang of red. Those kinds of comments continued as she went further down the halls of her school.
"Look at these pussies. All of them at my feet without havin' to raise my hand. It feels so good to be a queen….." She mentally told herself, looking down on each one of them with the same punishing glare she gave to the first student
But even with all this glowing praise, she had a mission to do. The woman stopped at a random classroom door and she read the kanji on the window.
CLASS K WORLD HISTORY TEACHER
MRS. MIKISUGI
K級世界史教師
夫人。 三木杉
MRS. MIKISUGI
K級世界史教師
夫人。 三木杉
"Well, here goes…." she said, opening the door to this classroom. The moment she entered, she saw that the class had a number of rather unique looking students in terms of hair color and faces, otherwise, they all wore the same kind of uniform, a gray gakuran for the boys, and a white and blue sailor uniform for the girls.
As it turned out, the teacher, a rather spritely looking middle aged woman with blonde hair and glasses was doing a lecture on the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. But that was interrupted by the simple clicking of Ryuko's heels, drawing the attention of Mrs. Mikisugi and her students.
"Miss President, is there a reason you're visiting us?" Mrs. Mikisugi asked.
The woman appeared to let out a small smirk, which seemed to grow wider with every second and also showed off two front canines shaped like vampire fangs.
"Yes, I have reason to believe that a student in this classroom stole one of the Sewing Club's Goku Uniforms. Specifically, a One Star outfit," she said, her voice sounding rather punkish despite wearing such a formal outfit and being the school's president.
She gazed on at the rather colorful group of students that made up Miss Kinagase's classroom, and couldn't really make out one that screamed smuggler of property.
"Whoever has it will be punished accordingly," she said, brushing the side of her red bang of hair. "And when he or she does come forward, it'll be a lesson to all of you not to oppose me, Honnouji Student Council President, Ryuko Kiryuin!"
STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT
RYUKO KIRYUIN
生徒会会長
竜虎 鬼龍院
RYUKO KIRYUIN
生徒会会長
竜虎 鬼龍院
Ryuko kept pacing through the desks, looking for one who seemed most apt to go against her. She seemed to stop at one in particular, a blonde girl who had pigtails on each end of her head, and were the size of a snowboard. Ryuko also noticed that said girl was playing with two muffins like they were action figures.
"Excuse me.. I don't remember you being in my school." Ryuko said. But the blonde girl let out a rather over-the-top giggle, and handed one of her muffins to Ryuko.
"Would wittle miss Student President like to have a meeting with his royal highness Muffimo the Third?" she asked.
The blonde girl then handed Ryuko the muffin while humming a rather over-the-top version of Rule Brittania. From that type of behavior, Ryuko figured that this girl was too crazy to even get a hand on a Goku Uniform.
"I'm….I'm not hungry…." she said.
Ryuko took another step forward, but stopped upon smelling some blood being drawn. She immediately sensed something was wrong, and got on all fours like a feline about to go out on its prey. This made all the students start to feel worried and even freaked out.
"Eh, quit being a bunch of babies...." Ryuko said, still hunting for the so-called rebel.
Upon closer smelling, Ryuko noticed that the blood came from a student in the middle left side of the room, who had curly brown hair, red colored eyes, and a rather pudgy figure. He was busy trying to get the lead out of his mechanical pencil, but ended up stabbing his fingers in the process.
"Dammit.. that's gonna need a trip to the doc-"
The student stopped speaking when he found himself face to face with the vicious glare of Ryuko, her letting out a chuckle of malice towards his face.
"Tell me, what's your name." She said with an equally malicious tone.
"R...Ren." He said. "Ren Suzuki."
After that unexpected introduction, Ryuko put her left arm onto Ren's chest and let out a soft hum of authority.
"What's she doing to him?" One of the students asked.
"No clue, I've never seen her act like that." Another said.
The next thing Ryuko did was put her lips onto Ren's ears, and let out one simple word, but speaking it in a way that gave more than a hint of impending doom.
"Run."
And run he did, the boy bolting out of his desk and making a run for the door without even taking a second to look behind him. At the same time, the quirky blonde student from before let out another comment.
"Gotta go fast!" She giggled.
Ryuko slowly walked out of the classroom, not worried about how fast this unruly student ran away from her. She thought that it would be far more fun to give him a chance to escape before going for the kill. So she sniffed the air for a few seconds and sadistically snarled when he caught the scent of Ren's blood in the distance.
"Ready or not...Here I come." She chuckled, her voice echoing throughout the halls.
Ren kept running, adrenaline flowing through his veins as he navigated his way through the vast maze of hallways that made up Honnouji Academy, all while hearing the sound of Ryuko's heels clicking through it all. But the students he passed by on the way to the nearest exit were quite perplexed over how scared he was.
"What's the hurry?" One student asked to Ren.
"I gotta go see a doctor!" He panicked, looking at his still bleeding fingers and confident with the excuse he pulled out. "Where's the closest one?"
"Oh, right behind you, in the third door to your right." The student said, who like others, was blissfully unaware of what Ren was running from.
Ren nodded in agreement, and made his way towards the nurse's office, hoping he'd be away from Ryuko's wrath. But a moment of clarity then lit his face up as he felt the One-Star outfit under his gakuran.
"Of course, why didn't I think of that!" Ren said in a bit of relief, and having a plan in mind to beat Ryuko when she came for him. He clumsily opened the door to the nurse's office and locked the door, much to the surprise of the nurse who was in the office at that moment.
"Oh. What brings you here?" The nurse on duty asked, curious of his intention and his ragged breaths.
"Lady…..Ryuko….." he said, confusing the nurse further.
"What happened, young man?" She could tell something was wrong with him but she couldn't help but freeze upon hearing the name of her employer. Even within the staff of Honnouji, Ryuko was a terror to be reckoned with. And to make matters worse, he could hear Ryuko letting out ethereal howls sounding as if she were right behind him.
"Wheeeeerrreeee aaaaarreee yoouuuu?"
Ren's anxiety was amplified tenfold from hearing those noises. "You have a bathroom here?" He asked the nurse.
"Next door behind the medical bed, young man." The nurse replied.
Ren wasted no time and ran up to the bathroom, closing the door behind him. With the few seconds of respite he had, he took the One-Star Goku Uniform out of his gakuran and quickly put it on his body. From just putting it on, Ren felt so much stronger, in fact, his body type had changed, giving him a more athletic figure than moments before.
"Aw yeah, now that's what I'm talking about!"
His eyes laid upon a small, human-sized window in the bathroom. He had no idea why it was in there but he didn't think that much on what to do next. He jumped through it to reach the other side, hoping to gap the distance between him and the monster tracking him down. Unfortunately, one of the glass shards from the door briefly scraped his face and a few, minuscule drops of blood came out, landing on the windowsill.
Back in the office, the nurse was wondering when Ren would come back, but that thought quickly went away as Ryuko literally kicked the door apart.
"Lady Ryuko?"
Ryuko's wrathful stare locked onto the nurse, ready to pounce at any mark of treachery. "Did you see a fat kid with shaggy dark brown hair? I've got a real bit of hell to give him."
"He should be in the bathroom, make sure to knock-"
Before the nurse even finished, Ryuko knocked the bathroom door down with her stiletto heels, and she saw the open window.
"Damn it, the kid did a Peter Pan!" She grumbled.
"Come again?" The nurse asked.
"Nah, it's nothing." Ryuko deflected, letting a small growl of frustration out that scared the nurse. "Keep going with your job. Meanwhile, I have someone to put back in his fucking place…."
Ryuko took a drip from the blood on the window and smelled it like she was sniffing a flower. The smell thrilled her, unlocking some hidden primal instincts within her. And without any warning, she too, jumped out the window. Without even breaking a single bone, she landed gracefully in the main school courtyard, where the smell of his blood was stronger than ever. That smell only made Ryuko's grin get wider and more feral.
As for Ren, he found himself able to run faster than he did just mere minutes ago, thanks to his One Star Goku Uniform. Normally, it would have taken him ten minutes to traverse the whole courtyard but thanks to the power given by his new clothes, he did it in two minutes. With this, he figured, maybe, he could leave Honnouji Academy without any problem. Heck, even Honnou Town for that matter, and he could transfer to one of the few remaining schools Honnouji didn't control.
"That's the exit of the school!" Ren exclaimed, feeling the sweet embrace of freedom hit his eyes. "I'm almost there! I'm almost there!"
And he was, indeed, close to his salvation. But what he didn't know was the blood thirst Ryuko had obtained made her just as speedy, she even got on all fours like a cheetah. And alas, all of Ren's hopes of freedom were shattered as he felt his back being kicked by Ryuko, and then the feral president tackled him face down onto the ground, gazing at him with rather furious eyes that were narrowed all the way.
"What the... HOLY SHIT?! How did you get me?" He yelled, still stunned that Ryuko could show this kind of strength.
"Surprise, bitch…." Ryuko whispered to his face. And to make things more embarrassing for Ren, a crowd of students had gathered from the windows of the surrounding classrooms, including Mrs. Mikisugi.
"Oh boy, she's gone nuts…." The teacher said.
As for Ren, he was scared out of his wits end thanks to the venomous fear Ryuko was giving him. Ren figured that if there were a full moon out, she'd go full on animal and howl at it.
"P….please lady Ryuko. Have mercy!" He said.
"Too bad", She replied, feeling eager to give him the punishment he deserved. "It took us months to find you 'cause you've been a freakin' thorn to my side for too long. I'll make you regret smuggling Goku Uniforms behind our backs."
Ryuko reached inside her suit and pulled out a long katana whose blade was coal colored. Just one glimpse of the blade made Ren figure out what she was about to do to him. With the black blade, she ripped his One-Star uniform away, rendering him naked. She then grabbed him by the skull and lifted his entire body into the sky, showing her defenseless foe to everyone.
"You see this bastard?" She roared at the entire school. "He's the guy who's been stealing our Goku Uniforms to other countries, selling them all to the highest bidder! But he's not gonna think it's so funny when he gets a face full of Bakuzan!"
The One Star students watching on at the naked Ren murmured to themselves at the schools Goku Uniforms being sold off to foreign enemies. And in her classroom, Mrs. Mikisugi let out a rather unsure look on her face.
"Something up teach?" The bubbly blonde student of hers asked.
"Oh, nothing. Just go back to your textbooks." She said.
Ryuko continued her furious declaration by placing Ren on the ground. "Do you know what we do to those who think they're above me?"
She readies her weapon to potentially end Ren's life by gently putting its tip to his chest. The disgraced student's heart raced at a thousand miles when the cool sword touched his exposed skin. The students also figured out what Ryuko was trying to do and chimed in.
"Off with his head! Off with his head!" The school roared their response at her in a repeated pattern, making Ren horrified beyond his wit's end.
"No...Please! I don't want to end like this." Ren begged, crying with warm tears flowing down his eyes.
But even with all of the students convincing Ryuko to go medieval on him, she didn't do it, making the students raise a number of questions.
"Oh come now, even I have my limits when it comes to punishments." Ryuko explained. "However, that also doesn't mean it's the end of yours."
Ren's naked body shivered ever so slightly from hearing that remark. Ryuko noticed how the courtyard was unusually dirty and how nobody hasn't cleaned it up yet. She figured she could use Ren as an improvised mop by showing him into the ground, his face kissing the beaten ground.
Suddenly, Ren felt his back pinned by Ryuko's stiletto heels, which nearly cracked apart part of his ribs. With a timed kick, she slid Ren's entire body through the ground making him traverse the gargantuan court in mere seconds. She repeated this move several times, and a blood trail eventually appeared, meaning that her humiliation shredded his skin from sliding at mach speed.
Using his blood as a morbid paint brush, Ryuko wrote the words 'Honnouji Academy Forever' on the ground.
"Had enough yet?!" she cackled.
Ren tried to limp away from her, his body crawling to the exit of the school, but Ryuko stopped him in his tracks. She then gave him a kick in the crotch forcing him to drop down to the ground face-first from the pain. Once he was stunned, Ryuko again grabbed Ren by his hair and looked at him with her trademark feral fanged grin.
"Consider yourself.....EXPELLED!" She exclaimed, the last word echoing out into the skies.
Using Bakuzan as her bat and Ren as the ball, she readied her blade and used it to send the boy flying out of Honnouji and into the seas surrounding Honnou Town, like a morbid game of baseball. As the students kept watching Ryuko, she used her heels to make a clicking sound that caught everyone's attention in an instant.
"You see that? That is what'll happen to you if you even so much as have a thought of disobeying me!" Ryuko said, her voice booming to all of the students who were watching her.
As Ryuko expected, all of the students and their teachers abided by her threat, and went back to their school days. She knew that within a matter of time, nobody would remember the treason that Ren Suzuki caused, and she'd be back to ruling over her school like a queen.
A TRAP OF DESTINY
運命の罠
運命の罠
Chapter 1: Enter The Trapmaster
The next morning, Ryuko began another day of ruling over the many students, or in her eyes, pigs, in the school she was president of, much to Ryuko's delight. Or rather, her orders, as she made sure none of the students mentioned what had happened to Ren Suzuki. But several dozen miles away, at the base of the island, a young girl was gazing over the sight of the massive spiral formation that the school was perched upon. This girl had a short cut of curly brown hair, and red eyes over a pair of glasses. She also wore a white and blue colored schoolgirl outfit, which on the surface didn't seem special, but inside it had tons of pockets for keeping things, more so than any other outfit.
"So, this is Honnouji Academy huh?" The brown-haired girl said quietly. "I guess this may be where my answers could be…."
Feeling like she had nothing to lose, she took a few steps into the city, and was hoping that someone, anyone, would notice her. But nobody did. All of the people she passed were just walking by, and many of them didn't appear to be well groomed or had proper clothing. And to go with it, much of the buildings appeared to be run down or abandoned.
"Figures….no one wants to talk to me…." She said to herself. It was obvious that if she wanted anyone's attention in these slums, she'd need to get a bit more creative. So she had her eyes let out fake tears and raised her arms into the air.
"Oh, what's a lonely girl like me to do?" She cried out, putting on a rather impressive display of theatership. That display managed to attract some attention for a moment, but everyone just kept to themselves.
From a crooked nook of a corner, two twin boys, each of them wearing a top hat over blonde hair, saw Maiko with their bright blue eyes. A rather excited grin formed on their faces as Maiko still tried to attract attention with her dramatic show of theater.
"Is that a tourist?" One of the twins asked. He had a shorter head of hair over his top hat while also wearing a purple shirt and yellow pants.
"Hell yeah, tourists are super easy to prank!" The other of the twins said. He had a longer head of blonde hair and wore a gray shirt beneath a pink jacket and purple shorts.
Taking only a few seconds to get ready, the twins prepared a small table along with the supplies for a few "magic" tricks, and ran towards Maiko like they were barkers at a carnival.
"Hey, you with the glasses!" The short haired boy exclaimed.
"Come on! We wanna show you a magic trick!" The long haired boy added.
Maiko tilted her head towards the boys, displaying a rather sheepish look on her face. "Oh, are you talking to me?"
"Well duh!" the longer haired boy said.
"You are the only one passing by us right now!" the shorter haired boy added. Since they were the first who responded to her "distress call", Maiko went along and walked up to the two boys, displaying a rather shy look on her face.
"I guess I can go for some fun….." she said, with the twins giving off happy grins on their faces.
"See these cards?" The kid with the pink jacket asked her, blinking at the other boy while he displayed a deck of fifty-two cards to Maiko. "I want you to pick a card from this fancy deck."
"And what's the object of this?" Maiko asked, her red eyes gazing at the deck that was on the table.
"Oh nothing. It's just a hobby we do when we have freetime from school". The long-haired assured her. "C'mon. Pick one!"
Maiko, feeling like she could use a little diversion, picked a card near the middle of the deck, making the long haired boy giggle in glee.
"Now, I'm going to try guessing your card." He said. While he thought about her card, the kid with the short hair did a sleight of hand and stole her wallet from one of her pockets. When that was done, the long haired boy opened his eyes and banged once on the table, picking out a card from his coat.
"Is it a Five of Spades?" He asked, jumping up and down.
"My goodness, it is! How did you do that?" Maiko asked, her voice full of fake amusement.
"Magic!" The showman replied with a French snort done twice, playing a character.
As for his brother, he was quickly running away, feeling exicted over getting her money. But to his shock, as he tried to open and count the dosh inside, his face ended up being squirted with pen ink that was hidden inside, blinding him in black.
"Hey bro! I need some help!" the shorter haired boy yelled. That comment caused him to gulp in shock.
"Be right back! Stay there…." The long-haired boy instructed, before he ran up to his brother. As for Maiko, once she heard that remark, her rather sheepish expression quickly shifted into one more menacing, and she even let out a chuckle of approval.
"Damn it Saiho, what happened to you? You were supposed to swipe her wallet!" the long haired boy said to his now ink stained brother.
"I did, dumbass!" He spat with a low voice to avoid blowing their covers. "But turns out her wallet sprayed me with ink!"
Saiho's brother picked up the wallet from the ground, and he opened it near the ground, letting the ink out. But when it was all gone and he tried to remove it, it was stuck on his hand like it was covered in super glue.
"What the hell?!" he stammered. They were so busy trying to piece out what happened and how they got bamboozled so easily, both didn't notice the sounds of steps coming closer to them, accompanied by a sinister chuckle.
"Luring me into a trap to steal my wallet? You two are such gullible blonde bimbos. I'll have you know that I've been making traps since before you two were in diapers." Maiko said in a more shrewd tone.
The two boys, not being scared by this threat, made a carefully choreographed motion toward Maiko, and both of them raised their fists in her direction.
"Do you even know who you just ran into?" They said in perfect unison. "Us, Honnou Town's top pranksters!"
"I'm Saiho Harime!" The shorter haired of the blonde boys said.
"And I'm Ori Harime!" The longer haired one added.
Maiko was unimpressed by this intimidation from the kids, and tilted her glasses at the two while letting off a wide grin that showed off her teeth.
"Whoa….whats with the scary face?" Saiho asked.
"You two may be the top pranksters here, but like I said, you were greedy enough to go after my wallet, and look what happened! You fell for one of the many traps from Kanto's Jigsaw Queen, Maiko Ogure!" Maiko's voice seemed to get more deranged and excited with every word, but she calmed down as finished.
"Jigsaw Queen? Does that mean you're an expert on puzzles?" Ori asked.
"In a way, yes. But if you guys want to really put me to the test....."
Maiko looked around the trash plaid out on the street and she picked up two bear traps, two watches and a metal wire she could use for cutting.
"See this? With these three things alone, I can make a fancy headset for your little skulls. One that will dislocate your faces and make you reconsider ever trying to best me..." She explained, the grin on her face only widening.
In that moment, the two boys started to visualize Maiko using those things to make the toruture device, and both of their faces lit up in fear and sweat.
"Holy crap! She's insane!" Saiho panicked.
"Let's get out of here before she puts that death trap on us!" Ori yelled, grabbing his table full of magic tricks.
And without even a second look, both Saiho and Ori ran away from Maiko, but their run was cut short after they ran onto an older woman with shoulder length red colored hair done in curls, and wearing a rather lavish French outfit in colors of pink and yellow, just like the boys.
"Oh crap, it's our Mom!" Saiho yelled.
"Bah alors!" She scolded the kids, grabbing both of them by the ears. "You're up to your old tricks again, aren't you?"
"But Mom, there's this girl!" Ori whined. "She beat our card game!"
"And she got me covered in ink!" Saiho added.
"Don't do this to me, p'tits chenapans!" She frowned at them, not convinced by their whinings. "I know you've been stealing wallets! And I got a call from school telling me you two weren't there. But go ahead and tell me, where is this girl you even speak of?"
Both of her sons looked around to see that Maiko was long gone, making her way further towards the slums.
"Yeah, where'd she go?" Saiho asked.
"Regardless of whether this girl is real or not, you two will have a big correction ahead!" The mother told them, dragging them to the road and to a purple, worn out truck.
"You know where to sit!" Blanche said, pointing at the bed of the truck.
The twin boys groaned in anger, getting in the truck and yelling one more complaint as they sped off.
"We don't need some dumbass education!" Saiho yelled.
"We're gonna be magicians, and you don't need education to excel in that!" Ori added.
And from her hidden spot in a nearby alleyway, Maiko looked at the car leaving the area with a smile on her face for out tricking two magicians. But she still had a long way to go before she reached Honnouji Academy.
"Damn, and I thought I was onto something, Oh well, maybe that all will change when I get to the school."
But that also presented a difficult task, how could she even get the school on foot, especially when the island was shaped the way it was.
Maiko tried to look around these slums and saw a small group of male students wearing a pale blue garukan, and each of them were praising a statue of Ryuko holding a katana in the air akin to a scepter. Thinking they'd have some answers for her, Maiko again worked her charm of scared girl to the gathered crowd.
"Oh no! I'm lost again! She pleaded, waving her arms in the air. "Can any of you kind men help me-"
"Shush, We are making our daily prayers to our queen….." One of the boys interrupted her, before he came back to his chants.
"A queen?" Maiko whispered in surprise.
"Of course! What you're seeing is Ryuko Kiryuin, the empress ruling over not only Honnouji Academy but also all of Honnou Town." Another muttered to her, making sure not to fail on igniting the candles he made in the queen's image.
"Ryuko eh? Interesting name….." Maiko said. "Where can I find her?"
"She's at Honnouji Academy of course." Yet another student informed, pointing to the very summit of Honnou Town, where the school she ran was located. "However, you can't just ask her to answer one's questions. You need to be worthy for that."
Maiko didn't see it as a threat, but instead, a challenge. "Worthy?" She asked, still keeping her voice low to not disturb the prayers.
"Indeed. Lady Ryuko is not a force to be taken lightly. Should you violate on her domain, she will certainly make you regret it!" Yet another student explained, giving her a newspaper. "Take this and see for yourself….."
Maiko looked on at said paper, which was published by Honnouji Academy's Newspaper Club.
The article was all about Ryuko catching a thief who had been stealing the schools Goku Uniforms for the past months, going into details on how they caught up with his antics. It ends with a photo of the courtyard with the words Honnouji Rules written with the blood of the traitor all over it.
"What's a Goku Uniform?" Maiko asked to herself. But a familiar voice nearby suddenly yelled to the group in an irate tone.
"Why are you reading that trash?"
"Who said that?!" One of the students yelled, feeling offended by whoever spoke ill of Lady Ryuko.
Maiko, on the other hand, only looked in the direction of the sound and she saw the now naked and expelled Ren Suzuki. On his midsection and crotch, he had on a sign that read this message:
This is a naked pig who dared to defy Honnouji Academy and it's president, Ryuko Kiryuin. Justice has been served!
"Wait, you're the guy who got expelled?" She realized, cleaning her glasses off to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.
"Yes….my name is Suzuki. Ren Suzuki." He whispered to Maiko.
To avoid getting the glares of the Ryuko-worshipping students, Ren waved Maiko to follow him somewhere safe to explain it all, and that was what looked like an abandoned grocery store that had bags of garbage inside.
"So, what's your deal in all of this?" Maiko asked him, crossing her arms.
"I….I wanted to take out Ryuko Kiryuin's forces from the inside….hence why I smuggled Goku Uniforms and sold them off to other schools so they could take her out."
"So, you were some kind of Revolutionnaire?" She wondered, eyebrows raised at his attempt.
"If you want to put it that way, then yes." Ren replied.
"And were you alone on that one or there are still others like you back there?" Maiko further inquired.
"I was all alone in it." Ren said shamefully.
"Oh...I didn't mean to break your mood" She excused herself.
"Nah, it's fine." He nodded before he began asking questions about her. "What about you? I can tell you're not here to visit this place and bail at the end of the day"
"Good eye. Now, how can I get to this, Honnouji Academy?"
"Very easy, funnily enough." Ren revealed, pointing to a train station a few feets from them, "You take the trolley train over there and you'll be at the school in a matter of minutes."
"Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't be surprised if we meet again soon…."
"Maybe when someone manages to flip her stupid school down?" He told her, still unsure of whether it would be true and someone would pick up where he left off.
But Maiko didn't say anything, as she made her way towards the trolley that would take her to Honnouji Academy. Maiko looks at the source and sees a wagon full of passengers with the same uniform and gakuran going up.
"Geez, the fashion here is quite a drab…." She said to one of the random students on board. "Anybody know why?"
Much of the students remained silent, but the one who responded was the tallest of them, a massive male who stood 7 plus feet tall. In addition to having short blonde hair, he also seemed to be quite muscular in his arms and legs, which to others could give off the impression that he was much older.
"Unfortunately, that's how Honnouji Academy's dress code works..." The buff blonde student replied to her, his voice quite steady yet stern and serious. Just the very fact he of all people was the first to respond to Maiko made her almost fall to the ground in shock, but he caught her just before she could.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Oh, I am. I just did expect that question to be answered by the beefiest person in here!" She said, bracing for any attack he could pull on her.
"Don't be acting all cowardly. I wouldn't hurt a fellow No-Star." He replied. Maiko then assumed that was the name for the outfits all the girls in the train were wearing, and she nodded her head in understanding.
"Right….right. You mentioned the dress code of the school, what's it like?" She asked.
"Ah, you must be a new transfer student, so allow me to reiterate further." He told her, his voice cold yet stoic. "If you can believe it, there are actually four types of uniforms in use at Honnouji Academy, and these not only determine your ranking, but also your social hierarchy in Honnou Town."
As they further went up the spiral shaped mountain, Maiko started to notice the housing and businesses looked a bit more well kept and tidy compared to how they were when she ran into Saiho and Ori. In an instant, she assumed that was how things were set up because of the dress code the buff man mentioned.
"For example, the No-Stars like us live in the slums you just came from." He looked down on the Shinto style door separating the lower part of the town to the upper side. "The One-Star students wear One-Star outfits, and they live in the higher up section of Honnou Town, and the Two-Stars, that being the Club Presidents, live in the one above them. And then, there's the Three Star outfits. Only the Elite Four gets to wear those because they're the ones ruling over Honnouji Academy from the Student Council."
Maiko took a moment to settle in how the system of Honnouji Academy worked, while also trying to mentally tell herself that the blonde buff man wouldn't harm her.
"But enough of that, what brings you to the school?" He asked. Feeling like now wasn't the time to spill the beans, Maiko quickly came up with an alibi.
"I came here looking to find my lost dog, Pooki." She explained, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a picture of said dog. The man looked at the photo, which showed off a small, round white dog with a brown spot that encompassed the right side of its head.
"I'll admit, she looks rather cute." The student said, his voice still cold despite even when making that remark.
"Not as cute as that babe though…." Another student in the train replied, ogling on at Maiko's face.
"Yeah but is she cuter than our Queen?" Yet another one chimed in.
Maiko's bespectacled face seemed to light up in clarity at that remark.
"They must be talking about that Ryuko girl. Maybe she's got the answers I'm looking for…." she said to herself.
Eventually, the train made it to the edge of the gate of Honnouji Academy, the school that Maiko was now going to be attending. The main school facility was shaped like an open dome stadium, with classrooms that seemed to stretch for miles and miles. And at the center of it all was a sprawling watchtower where Ryuko took watch to the students who were arriving for another day at school.
"By the way, I never got your name." The blonde buff student said.
"Oh, it's Maiko. Maiko Ogure." She replied.
"Then, welcome to Honnouji Academy, Maiko. Hope you won't mind the President looking down from her perch." He told her, gulping down his saliva after he looked at the watchtower, where she was already watching on at the students arriving.
"Not at all. In fact, you made things easier for me." Maiko said with a sly smirk on her face.
The blonde man didn't listen to what she had just said, and took off to his first class of the day. But as for Maiko, she was ready to begin the next phase of her plan.
"Alright Maiko, just approach this like you always would…."
She quickly changed her expression to the shy and awkward look she used on Saiho and Ori, and started calling out to the open courtyard. In an instant, Maiko simulated a shy girl, looking for her lost dog by steadily getting anyone's attention, showing his photo to anybody interested.
"Who the hell is that chick?" One student asked.
"She's probably some kind of brainiac with those glasses….." another said.
"Hello? Hello? Anyone here? I'm just a scared girl looking for her dog!" She said, holding up the same picture she showed of the dog to the students. "His name is Pooki, and he's just the most adorable dog in all of Tokyo!"
"Sorry, ma'am. I haven't seen your dog." A student replied.
"Maybe look up the Newspaper Club and ask them to put that photo in there? It's backed up by one of the Elite Four so chances are they could help you" Another suggested, pointing to a huge chalkboard in the courtyard with all kinds of flyers.
Maiko was starting to get a bit frustrated over not getting who she was wanting, so she decided to bring out the big guns. After hiding in the bathrooms, she came out with a fake plastered left arm and played the role of a wounded girl who often fell on others in order to catch their attention.
"OH GOD, MY ARM!" She yelled, surprising everyone who saw her just moments earlier. "WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP ME? OH THE PAIN, IT'S TOO MUCH! TOO MUCH!"
That display of dramatic acting was enough to summon a trio of No-Star students to her aid, each of them grabbing her back to keep her balanced.
"Oh my god! What happened?!"
"Are you okay?"
"How did you hurt your arm?"
Knowing she had them trapped, Maiko tore apart her bandages and looked each of them in the eyes while in a fighting stance.
"Hey you! Where the heck's the big cheese at this school? I got some bones to pick with whoever it is." Maiko chuckled.
"Oh….that would be our student council president, Ryuko Kiryuin!" The student stammered, worried that Maiko's tone could change again.
"I already knew that, smart aleck. Mind telling me where I can find her?"
As luck would have it, she wouldn't have to look far, as the students in the courtyard all suddenly got into a bowing position. And then, from a set of stairs that had suddenly formed, Ryuko started strutting her way forward, smirking widely at the students who were at her will.
"Right there…." The trio whispered before they all bowed down to Ryuko, almost afraid they would get a worse fate if they stayed by Maiko's side. Knowing that her answers could be close at hand, the glasses wearing vagrant suddenly started running towards Ryuko, catching a number of the bowing students off guard.
"What is she doing?" One of them asked.
"She can't just run towards Lady Ryuko like that!" Another said.
"Is she crazy, or does she really wanna end up like Suzuki?" The other asked.
But rather than do something about it, Ryuko just stood there and allowed Maiko to approach her eye to eye.
"Would you look at that? Someone wants to have a personal discussion with me…." Ryuko smirked at Maiko's approach, baring her developed canines to scare her away, but the red-eyed girl didn't flinch one second.
"Are you a new student here? If so, you better have a freakin' good reason, new girl."
"I do indeed." A wide smirk on her face, Maiko then reached into the back of her outfit, and she pulled out a sword that was red in color and shaped like half of a pair of scissors. This again brought more reactions and murmurs from the students.
"Aw shit, she's got a weapon?"
"It looks like half a pair of scissors….."
"Ryuko Kiryuin, is it? Tell me, have you seen someone with a blade that looks just like this?" Maiko asked coldly. But just like any other student who tried to take her on in the past, Ryuko showed no sign of being intimidated by her.
"Are you tryin' to scare me with that fancy half of scissors? I bet you can't even properly use it." The student president said. Ryuko's face still maintained her smug grin, thinking that it would hurt Maiko's feelings. But the glasses wearing girl instead seemed to be unaffected by that insult. In fact, from seeing the rows of students standing in front of her like an army, Maiko came up with the perfect comeback.
"That's pretty big talk coming from someone who looks like she licks the boots of all the students she passes by…." Maiko replied, calling back to the worshippers she saw in Honnou Town.
Some of the No-Star students who gathered watching collectively let out gasps of shock from Maiko's comment, feeling like she was now digging a hole she wouldn't be able to get out of.
"Ho boy, she's done it now…."
"She can kiss her ass goodbye for all I know…."
But the bluff blonde male Maiko met before didn't seem scared at her gung ho behavior, rather, it was making him feel empowered.
"Never have I seen someone directly take on Lady Ryuko like that without a shred of resistance, perhaps I've underestimated Miss Ogure…." He said to himself.
Returning to Ryuko, she stared on at Maiko's scissor blade while letting out the same loud clicking of her heels that she used the day before, and also pulling out Bakuzan from its case.
"Alright bitch, before I paint this entire school with your own blood, I wanna know your name, so I can write it above your dork ass when I kick it out of the gates!"
Maiko, feeling her confidence growing, gladly introduced herself to the young dictator.
"The names Maiko. Maiko Ogure. I assume you know of my father, Dr. Ogure?"
"Maiko, eh.…can't say that I haven't." The President pondered that before she extended her arms in a hugging pose, letting off a crooked grin to the transfer student.
Maiko's face lit up in a wide cat-like smile towards Ryuko and her blade. "That's fine, but that could also mean you own something more about me, like……who killed my dad!"
The crowd gasped and started murmuring amongst themselves upon hearing this accusation, finding such a claim unheard of.
"Our Student President, a murderer?"
"That can't be so!"
"Lady Ryuko is the most pure student in all of Honnouji!"
But the blonde male from before had a different reaction, and that was sympathy. And along with it, a growing drive to help Maiko find the identity of the killer of her father. As for Maiko, she nodded her head and hummed in approval, while Ryuko's eyes simply twitched in disbelief, making the red eyed girl's hunch in her gut grow even more.
"From that look in your eyes, I can tell you're hiding something!" Maiko said to Ryuko.
"Maybe... Maybe not...And what if I was the one who did it? What are ya gonna do about it? Beat the shit outta me?" Ryuko sadistically hummed at her. "Then go ahead. Come at me with your little toy. If you can, that is."
The last part of Ryuko's remark came in with more than a hint of malice in her tone, but Maiko didn't seem to mind. It made things even more challenging.
"Oh, I'm gonna, and then you're gonna tell me…..everything!" Maiko exclaimed, her voice turning into a yell at the last word.
Feeling the adrenaline and excitement of her answered coursing through her veins, Maiko let out a furious yell and charged straight towards Ryuko. The young president just stood by with Bakuzan raised up, ready to strike down her opponent in one swoop. But within inches of impact, Maiko saw a blur of brown suddenly get in front of Ryuko, and she stopped dead in her tracks to see it was another female student. This newcomer had brown hair done up in a bowl cut, and hazel-colored eyes. She also wore a two-piece sailor uniform of silver and white, with three black pointed stars on the chest area, along with silver colored boots and gloves.
"Hold IIIIIIIIT!" The brown-haired girl yelled. She then crossed her arms and dove toward the crowd of students between Ryuko and Maiko, clearing her way to the glasses-wearing girl. Once in front of Maiko, the other girl raised both of her arms into the air, and from that, it seemed like a spotlight had shown on her. And to add to the surreal nature, a chorus of Hallelujah began to play in the back ground, along with a motley of drums and strings in a very fast manner.
"Going after Ryuko right away huh? Sure she may be the student council president, and she can be a bit bossy when her mom doesn't let her get extra french fries, and she might also not have the best taste when it comes to relationships, but that doesn't mean she's a target worthy of you fighting her!" She said, showing off a dizzying array of poses towards Maiko, who seemed rather puzzled at the bowl hair girl's rather ditzy ways.
"Who in the name of Barbera Streisand are you?" Maiko asked, the confusion growing with every second.
"Who am I? My name is Mako Mankanshoku, Honnouji Academy's Disciplinary Chair, and I order you to lower that weapon!"
"So you set the rules and who people behave?" Maiko asked.
"Uh huh, and if you don't lower that blade right now, I'm gonna have to bring out the big guns!" Mako said, showing off a pose of her holding invisible guns.
From her experience facing disciplinary committees at other schools, Maiko couldn't fathom a woman over the top and perky as Mako could be one, but at the same time, it also meant that getting through her could be easier.
"Big guns you say? Alright then, I guess I can go after you first…." Maiko said snidely.
Without even telling her, Mako sped towards Maiko and made a jump that seemed as quick and high as a bunny rabbit. After which, Mako pinned herself onto Maiko's shoulders, like a child riding on its parents. The students watching let out a few murmurs at their disciplinary chair showing such strength in display.
"Hey, what are you?!" Maiko said, trying to get Mako off of her. But as much as she could, the glasses-wearing vagrant couldn't dislodge her foe off of her shoulders, it was like she was stuck on her like super glue.
"I'm making sure you can't hurt Lady Ryuko!" She replied, constricting Maiko by using her legs. She then jumped off Maiko's back and followed up that up by…..giving her a big hug.
"By acting like a child?" Maiko asked. "Or is this some kind of wresting I don't know about?"
"Have you ever heard of Hug-fights?" Mako asked, now trying to disarm her foe by tickling her on the belly.
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Maiko cried out, with the audience of students watching on with horrified reactions, a real juxtaposition to what Mako was doing. But despite this very unusual form of discipline, Maiko kept hold on her scissor blade, pinning it to the ground to stop Mako from making her fall. And so Mako tried another unorthodox approach to stop Maiko. The bowl-cut girl swiped Maiko's glasses, hoping to disorient her and properly pin her to the ground.
"Hey, give those back!" The glasses-less Maiko said.
"Not until you've surrendered your weapon to Lady Ryuko!" Mako instructed in a cheerful manner, holding onto Maiko and her glasses.
"Hold on Mako, I got a better idea….." Ryuko said from her tower, a seductive yet sneaky look forming on her face.
Mako dangled Maiko's glasses in her hands like a prize in an arcade machine, but the bowlcut girl's clumsiness made her nearly fall, prompting Maiko to catch her glasses with a jump.
"Hmm, for a disciplinary chair, she seems quite clumsy." Maiko said to Ryuko. "Now where were we? Oh right!"
Maiko brought her scissor blade back and pointed it at Ryuko's face, who still kept her smug fanged grin at the red-eyed girl. Maiko pounced back at her primary target, eager to get back into the swing, but before she could lay a hand on Ryuko, a car-sized, red dumbell hit her to her right, sending Maiko a few meters away from the young president.
"Ugh, the hell was that?!" She groaned, struggling to get off of the ground. But then, a new voice rose from the other side of the courtyard.
"Whassup, fraulein? You ready for your work out session?"
Maiko's face lit up in a massive sweatdrop of shock from hearing that very rough sounding male voice. From the beaten ground, she managed to decipher an unusually muscular boy, his hair done up in a buzzcut and wearing only black and red shorts as clothes. His glittering muscles were carrying a dark red machine similar to what one would find in workout gyms, filled with heavy weights and dumbbells. And on said shorts were sections on it that were covered in glowing dancing red lines, and on his broad chest were two four-pointed stars that also carried the same red-colored glow.
"Another weirdo?" Maiko asked herself.
"Oh contrarie mein fraulein! You're not dealing with a weirdo, you're dealing with Gewicht Tibo, Captain of the Weightlifting Club!" the man said, flexing his arms in front of his confused foe.
"Are you kidding? You're totally a weirdo with those short shorts of yours!" Maiko said as kept her position, wrinkling at his stupid uniform.
"HEY! That short isn't just for show: This is mein Two-Stars Goku Uniform!" he pestered, his brows furrowed at Maiko's remark.
Despite the muscles on display, Maiko didn't feel threatened by Gewicht, rather, she thought his size made him worthy as bait for a trap. The German student took one of the heavier weights from his backpack, juggling it around to boast about his capabilities to not just Maiko, but other students as well.
"You see? Mein Goku uniform isn't here to perfectly showcase mein muscles: It's made of the strongest material in the world! One provided by Lady Ryuko herself."
"Strongest in the world, eh? Well guess what, I'm also the strongest in the world when it comes to traps, so go ahead and try to take me on! But don't be surprised if you end up failing...." Maiko taunted while holding up her scissor blade.
"Is that a dare, fraulein?" Gewicht smugly asked, ready to use the weights as improvised boxing gloves.
To that, Maiko waved at him to come forward, holding up her scissor blade. Gewicht juggled his weights, adding new ones until at least three 100 kg weights were on each of his hands. Using the boost of agility that his Goku Uniform gave him, he ran up to Maiko, ready for a left jab.
Maiko swiftly reached into her jacket and pulled out a bear trap and fake teeth to be used on his arms, but the effects she was hoping for didn't happen.
She tried to make him trip by throwing the beartrap at his feet but he saw through her. Gewicht punched the bear trap with the weights from his right side, crushing it to a mere plate of metal. She followed that up by aiming the false teeth for his crotch, but Gewicht threw a weight right at the novelty to crush it into scraps of plastic.
"Aw, that's cute. You tried to cheat your way out of a fight." Gewicht sneered, jumping above the sky to close the gap. Maiko then decided to try a new tactic, smoke screens.
"See if you can get through this!" She said.
She threw a ball to the ground, and without warning, it exploded, forming in a swimming-pool wide torrent of smoke that covered all of the students watching. Gewicht jumped into the smokescreen and his crash into the ground pushed the smoke away like a strong gust of wind. Thanks to that, he could see Maiko, and grabbed off his weights, spinning it in circles before throwing it frisbee-style at her.
"That's impossible!" Maiko said, her mind struggling to comprehend what he did, but said time ended up being cut drastically short, as her head ended up being hit by one of his weights, which then dropped onto her crotch and made her collapse to the ground. Through it all, Ryuko smirked widely at the misery her former opponent was undergoing. Gewicht ran up to her and he effortlessly raised her body up and went back to his queen, dragging his "trophy" to her.
"Another pest taken care of, Lady Ryuko." He said to his boss. Ryuko walked up to the defeated Maiko and chuckled softly at her in her usual menacing manner,
"What's up, are you gonna take care of him like you said you would?" Ryuko asked.
"I….I can't do it…." Maiko quietly said. To which, Ryuko displayed a prideful grin.
"What did you say?" She asked.
"I can't do it." Maiko whimpered.
"Say it again." Ryuko said, her grin growing wider and showing off her front teeth.
From a corner obscured by the shadow, the same blonde buff man from before looked on at Ryuko holding Maiko. From the small talk he had with her on the train, he had begun to show a great liking to Maiko. Seeing her being thrown into the lion's den made him shocked by Ryuko showing off such a display of sadism towards one of her students.
"Louder, so that all of Japan can hear you!" Ryuko cackled, feeling more and more like a queen.
For far too long, he watched many of the humiliations within Honnouji. Too many students were unjustifiably beaten to a pulp by Ryuko's ruthless overwatch. Of all the students he once hung out with who ended up wrongfully expelled, Maiko was the one who broke the camel's back for him. So with even informing his teacher, he ran off to do his duty, as Maiko did what Ryuko wanted and further humiliated herself to Honnouji.
The man grabbed some of the One-Star students nearby with his bare arms and threw them at Gewicht, making him lose his balance before he fell into Lady Ryuko, accidentally touching her.
"The hell? What just happened?" Ryuko asked, looking to see who threw the students at her. But that thought was swiftly discarded once Ryuko saw that Gewicht and the One-Stars thrown at her were now groping her chest. While she did find that a bit pleasurable, it allowed Maiko the opportunity to run away from Ryuko, taking off into the now cloudy skies.
During her escape, Maiko's arm was grabbed by the man she met earlier, feeling rather surprised to see him of all people. "This way!" He yelled.
"You again? Did you send those guys towards her?" Maiko asked.
"I'll explain later. We need to go!" He wanted to explain how she stoked a blaze of rebellion in Maiko but it was a matter of time before Ryuko would inevitably hunt them down. Before they could flee, one of Gewicht's weights almost hit the man, forcing him and Maiko to duck.
"Go ahead! I'll hold him off!" He ordered, his voice sounding like that of a drill sergeant.
Maiko nodded in agreement and followed his orders, while also feeling a slight fluttering sensation in her chest. But Ryuko on the other hand, clicked her heels in annoyance and kicked Gewicht right in his crotch.
"OUCH! Mein balls!" He screeched in pain.
"Next time you grope me, I'll make sure to cut your arms off, you deutsch pervert!" Ryuko snarled at him, baring her frustrated jaw at the Club President she sent out.
And from right behind her, he saw the tall blonde muscular fellow that helped Maiko out before come towards them, his fists clenched as he walked.
"On second thought, I'll leave you to go after this new challenger…." She said, feeling the need to be entertained further. So Ryuko kicked Gewicht towards the buff blonde man, his gray colored eyes staring directly into the German student's green ones.
"Who are you?" Gewicht asked, seeing Maiko escape and feeling irritated he didn't get to humiliate her further.
"My name is Gamagoori. Ira Gamagoori. And I am appalled that a person of your size would go after low hanging fruit like Miss Ogure!" He yelled to Gewicht.
"Come again?" The German asked.
"You heard me right. By having her as your foe, you're only taking the easy way out. But if you want a real challenge, I'll be more than happy to give it to you!"
Ryuko raised an eyebrow at this encounter of a second rebellious student, but rather than kick him out, she just sat back and watched the show go down.
"Go ahead." She said, greenlighting Ira's demands. "Fight him."
"But Lady Ryu-" Gewicht protested.
A sharp glare from Ryuko had him instantly reconsider.
"You shut the hell up! Now, fight him before I get pissed enough to rip your Goku Uniform and your precious muscles with my bare hands!" She roared at him. Gewicht, feeling helpless as a cat, gazed back at Ira's stoic pose.
"You're lucky Lady Ryuko allowed this favor for you." The club captain revealed to him. "Otherwise, I would have long gone after and humiliated this girl you're protecting."
"Oh have you? But enough of this big talk, let's see who really is the World's Strongest!"
The courtyard began to shake, and from its beaten ground, a circular arena surrounded by red ropes rose to the ground, with Gewicht and Ira at the center. Everyone else on the schoolgrounds looked at the scene, eager to see an epic fight go down. As for Ryuko, she went back to her perch by the watchtower and into the Student Council office, where she was greeted by Mako, and three other figures who made up the council.
"What's happening down there, Ryuko?" Mako asked, peeking back at the open door.
"Oh, I had Tibo challenge that girl with the half scissors." Ryuko said smugly. But that remark didn't sit well with one member of the council. This was a tall and tan male individual, who had his hair done up in black and red mohawk. He wore a white guerilla army outfit ornate with a black, three-star motif and chromed, spiked belts with three spikes on each side of his shoulders.
"And did he win? Did he disarm her?" The man with the mohawk asked, frowning.
"He would have, but then I found myself getting a bunch of One-Stars hurled at me by this big buff dude!" Ryuko complained.
"What a dumbass." Tsumugu pestered. "None of this would have happened if that German idiot just took her weapon beforehands."
That led to a comment by another of the students, who had short ruffled gray hair that covered his left eye, and also had a pair of glasses on his eyes. This skinny, nerd boy wore a basic, white gakuran outfit with the same three star motif. He also had a white beanie with Honnouji's heraldry on it and a grey bag full of wrapped newspapers held by a strap that traversed his chest.
"Eureka!" Shinjiro showed the fruits of his research. "I've found who this girl is...."
"Who is she?" Tsumugu asked.
"She's Maiko Ogure, from Kanto. And her father is the recently assassinated Dr. Simon Ogure of Nudist Beach."
The last of the students in the room, a girl with short shoulder length brown hair and glasses, lowered her eyebrows at him stating the obvious. Unlike Mako, she wore a male variant of a white gakuran with short sleeves and had grey pants that led up to white baskets. Her signature feature was that her outfits had all sorts of stickers and pins and all referenced different pop-cultural references from both Japan and the United States.
"We already knew that, whistleblower. Get to the juicy part!" The second girl requested, while also making a sketch in her notebook and looking at a manga with her free hand.
"Oh. She's apparently made a name for herself from the many Kanto area schools that Honnouji has taken over. I've dug through the headlines and found that many of her victims have wound up in quite elaborate traps that would make Jigsaw jealous." Shinjiro added.
Sumi found interest in Maiko thanks to Shinjiro connecting her to one of Sumi's favorite movies.
"Jigsaw? What kind of traps did she use to get such a reputation?" Sumi wondered, spinning her pencil and holding a canvas.
"Allow me to show you...." Shinjiro said, bringing out various newspaper pages from Kanto. Shinjiro spread out the newspaper clippings on the floor, pointing out key details as he explained.
"Take this one, for example," he said, holding up a photo of a high school auditorium turned into a labyrinth of razor-wire ropes and swinging pendulums. "At a school festival, Maiko orchestrated an elaborate maze where the only way to get to the exit was to navigate through a series of sensors that activated tripwires attached to small, spring-loaded blades. The victims had to keep their balance while avoiding the wires, or risk getting cut."
The Elite Four's eyes widened as they looked at the photo, the shadows of intrigue and concern darkening their expressions.
"Here's another," Shinjiro said, flipping the page to reveal a grainy shot of a decrepit gymnasium. "Students in a rival school was placed in a room filled with spinning, serrated metal rods. Each one had to navigate their way through without touching the rods, while time was running out. If they failed, they triggered a loud, ear-splitting alarm and were showered in a harmless but sticky substance that forced them to slip and fall."
Sumi's brow was furrowed in admiration, her pencil spinning faster between her fingers. "She really knows how to set a scene," she said under her breath. "I can't wait to see how those traps hold up against Lady Ryuko....."
Ryuko, on the otherhand, didn't feel alarmed at Shinjiro's warnings, and kept watching down at the school below her like the queen she was.
"Her traps won't do shit against us." Ryuko said, staring at Ira and Gewicht going fist to fist. "Once I break her stupid machines, she'll be begging for mercy like this Ren guy did."
"Ah yes, the One Star smuggler. Good job hunting him down." Tsumugu said.
"Yeah, well if it weren't for Nagita's knack for journalism, we wouldn't have found him." Sumi added, iving a quick, approving glance toward Shinjiro, who seemed to be basking in his moment of praise. He adjusted his glasses and smiled thinly, clearly enjoying the attention.
"Indeed," Shinjiro said, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, "without my connections and digging into the right sources, we'd still be chasing down shadows. The smuggler was practically living in plain sight."
The tension in the room was palpable, but Ryuko's unshaken confidence seemed to defuse it. She leaned forward slightly, her eyes narrowing at the ongoing battle below, almost as if she were savoring the moments before everything fell into her hands.
"I'm not worried," she said, looking back up at the council. "This Maiko Ogure chick may have her little tricks, but she's not ready for me." Her lips curled into a smirk. "Once I get my hands on her, she'll regret not being more careful."
"You sure about that Ryuko?" Mako asked, feeling quite concerned over her bestie.
"You guys can trust me. I've fought worse than traps." Ryuko said confidently, cracking her knuckles and watching as Maiko went further and further away. "Go on, Maiko Ogure. Bring on the labyrinths, the puzzles, and all the little doodads you have up your sleeve. I'm ready for it."
Back in one of the school's many classrooms, Mrs. Mikisugi was keeping a close eye on the departing Maiko. She soon brought out her phone and began to text someone with the initials IM.
"I think she's heading back to where her journey started." She texted.
IM quickly replied back, saying: I figured she would. Hopefully she finds the needle I picked in the haystack of Dr. Ogures home.
Later that afternoon, as Tokyo was hit by a rather dreary rain storm, Maiko found herself at a burned down husk of what had previously been a large two story house, her spirit still shattered by her humiliating defeat by the Gewicht a few hours earlier. As the rain kept hitting her hair and glasses, Maiko kept feeling pangs of regret and remorse go through her.
"Hi Dad. I just wanted to stop by and tell you about how things have gone." Maiko said over the rainy remains of her father's home. "I've probably found a lead onto finding who killed you. A girl named Ryuko Kiryuin seemed to show some resistance to me when I took her on. I thought I was gonna get some answers, but then I ended up facing a guy who looked like the Hulk if he were in high school. Needless to say, that didn't go out well."
The rain kept pouring onto the ground, making the floor Maiko was standing on a bit slippery. But she held onto her scissor blade like a cane, trying to keep her strength and avoid collapsing.
"I had no choice but to run away like a coward." She cried, striking the ground with her weapon. "Damn it, I was almost there! And yet, I failed...again. Something tells me my answers are THERE! I need to go back there and fight that guy.....but not like this!"
As she started to let it all out, Maiko couldn't hear the sounds of foot steps coming from the distance. And those foot steps happened to come from Mrs. Mikisugi, who was watching Maiko with intent, hoping that she would trigger something.
"I….I wish I was brave and strong like those guys on TV!" She yelled. As she took another step, she triggered a trap door that had suddenly appeared amidst the smoke and debris. The next thing Maiko knew, she was falling a good ten feet down below, and instead of trying to get back up, she submitted to wherever this trap would take her. Maiko tried to plant her weapons to the wall and break her fall, eventually landing on a pile of clothes, all worn out and dusty. While this saved her from death, she tripped on her feet as she regained her footing and rolled to the ground from the mountain of clothing.
But back above, the person who she didn't hear arriving watched at the trap door that Maiko fell down. With the grabbing on her collar, Mrs. Mikisugi pulled off her face, revealing it to be a prosthetic one. The natural face she had on now had black hair done up in a bob cut with bangs that covered her dark blue eyes. This mysterious woman removed her hairs from her eyes, revealing her true self, hidden in a safe corner and away from the heavy rain.
"You should be careful what you wish for….Maiko Ogure."
Once Maiko fell to the bottom, she noticed that her former home had a massive basement, something that she never noticed in all the times she went back to the home. And inside the basement were tons of charred and broken down electronics, and massive piles of rags scattered in several places.
"A trap door to a basement? Guess Dad took a few cues from me….." Maiko said, getting back up and adjusting her glasses.
Maiko stood up from her fall. As she did so, she felt a huge stinging pain running down her right arm. During the fall, her scissor blade cut half her arm and a blood trail now stained the hill of ragged and dusty clothes behind her.
"Ouch!" She pestered, holding her bleeding arm and gritting her teeth. "I should stop running with my blade. I almost lost my arm there..."
Using one of the rags to clean up the cut, she let out a loud drawn-out sigh of disappointment. "Guess I better get going now."
And so she started running towards a nearby set of stairs that would lead her back up to the ground floor. But she promptly stopped from hearing and seeing the blood-soaked rag pile start to move. Maiko at first assumed that it was a rat trying to hide from the rain, but only a split second later, she heard a male voice start to echo.
"Wait.....more.......give me more!"
"What the?!" Maiko's heart began to race.
She turned back to the pile, cautious of whoever or whatever caught her attention. The pile kept shaking more and more and Maiko readied her weapon, weary on what was to come.
"I need you!" The voice loudly begged her.
Adrenaline went through Maiko's veins as some of the rags from the pile were flown right in her direction. She slashed those rags in an instant with her scissor blade, but the next thing that happened was something that she would never forget. Out of this pile came a black sailor uniform with red stripes, an eyepatch and... a mouth? How was this possible? Maiko couldn't think about that when the creepy clothing somehow managed to pin her to a wall.
"Your blood! I need it!" He revealed, looking at her with something in mind.
And before Maiko could even move, the living sailor uniform ended up tearing off Maiko's clothes, starting from the top and working down to the bottom.
"Don't leave me, put me on! Put me on!" he yelled, his lone yellow eye bulging from the excitement.
"Get away from me, you degenerate!" Maiko snapped at him, trying to remove him from her body. She didn't care one bit that she was now face to face with a talking sailor uniform, she felt like she was on the verge of being raped.
"No, don't do that, I don't wanna go back to sleep! Put me on, put me on!" he cried out, the very concept of a talking sailor uniform further fucking up Maiko's mind.
The red-eyed girl desperately tried to set herself free from his grasp but she was outstrengthened by the sentient sailor uniform. With the last past done, the sentient uniform began sucking the blood seeping from Maiko's arm. He began to slowly morph, covering her body in the process before enveloping her in a booming, shining, scarlet star flying high into the night sky. The last thing Kinue heard before she departed was the sound of Maiko laughing maniacally from the air, feeling that the job was a success.
"She has found it...." She texted to her boss before leaving the ruined manor of Dr. Ogure.
Meanwhile, as the sun began to set over Honnouji Academy, Ira Gamagoori's matchup against Gewicht had managed to take a turn for the worst, as the blonde buff man was now chained up onto a bed that was placed in the center of the main school grounds, complete with a ball gag in his mouth.
Everyone in the school was gathered around this humiliating display. Ira was not only gagged but almost naked, only wearing a bunch of black bandages covering him. Facing him was his opponent, looking all smug over Ira's peril. Gewicht held a microphone and prepared himself to make an announcement.
"I have a message for the glasses-wearing fraulein and her treasonous ways against Lady Ryuko!" he said into the microphone. "If you don't come back to Honnouji Academy, I will personally have him join the gallery of frozen dinosaurs from the Ice Age by dropping him into a pool of liquid nitrogen and dry ice! This pool has temperatures that are so cold, he's going to freeze on the spot!"
Below Ira was a large pool of water, fuming with nitrogen and dry ice, its subzero temperature felt by anybody close by. Because of this, there was only a small perimeter of security between the students and the punishing area.
"Let me out of here, you disgraceful fighter!" Ira challenged, his voice muffled by the gag to his mouth.
"Sorry herr, but I can't fail this task, or my Goku Uniform will be confiscated," Gewicht explained, preparing the icy execution for Ira. "And since you were the only one who spoke to Miss Ogure, I have no choice but to have you as my hostage!"
From the watchtower, Ryuko and her council watched on as the students gathered to see Ira's freezing, and the young president of course had a wide grin of satisfaction.
"Looks like Tibo's got his priorities straight...." Tsumugu said, a smirk forming on his face.
"Then again, he did it after you...corrected him for not disarming that woman." Shinjiro pointed out.
"Once that's done though, we'll have her blade and she won't be bothering us anymore!" Mako added.
"I wonder if this girl will bring out the big guns...If she even comes." Sumi was curious on Maiko's infamous modus operandi.
"I hope this dorky bitch shows up. I haven't seen such entertaining shit at Honnouji in a while and I won't let her cut me off!" Ryuko revealed, grinning with her signature fangs.
To give Ira a demonstration of the fate that he was about to undergo, one of the One-Star students from the Weightlifting Club approached the nitrogen pool, holding a bouquet of roses. The members of the club dipped the bouquet into the subzero pool but not without putting it in entirely. Doing so froze the flowers and before the frost could reach their hands, they removed the bouquet, revealing what looked like an intricate, frozen sculpture. Said students decide to strike Ira with them, breaking it into hundreds of glassy shards that hit his body.
Ira's heart raced from seeing this demonstration of what would be his fate, but he didn't dare show any weakness to it, in case people thought he'd be seen as a coward.
"Was that supposed to be a threat? It felt like little more than breaking a child's toy!" Ira taunted.
From the crowd of No-Stars, the trio who told Maiko about Ryuko were watching in anticipation when they saw a cloaked figure in the periphery of their eyes. One that quickly got closer to the arena.
"Excuse me, are you lost?" one of them asked. But the cloaked figure instead just chuckled in a rather flirtatious way, before she jumped out into the center of the scene, cackling so loudly it scared everyone in the vicinity, except for Ira, and the Student Council.
"Who are you?" Gewicht asked to the mysterious stranger. His question was quickly answered when Maiko popped her head out of the cloak. And Maiko herself maintained a more unhinged and deranged smile on her face compared to his last meeting with her.
"Who am I? Don't you remember me, fraulein?" She retorted, removing her cloak and revealing her identity in the most shameless manner.
Once the cloak was removed, revealing the rest of Maiko's body underneath, everyone was utterly surprised, shocked, and even afraid by what she was now wearing, including Ira. Much of Maiko's body was now completely bare, save for a pair of long dark blue and red boots on her feet, and a skimpy skirt that was facing upwards on her body instead of down. And said skirt was held up by two long stringy red straps over the sides of Maiko's midsection, and they were connected to two downward facing ornaments that covered her chest, the right one holding the eye of the talking sailor uniform Maiko encountered moments before, and the left one holding his eye patch.
"What the...WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Like a few members of the audience, Gewicht was utterly shocked by her shameless use of very little clothes. Maiko responded to this by laughing in a rather loud and deranged manner, while also showing off her legs to the crowd of onlooking students. Just that display alone made the males in the crowd swoon in nosebleeds. She even bent over to show her backside and hips, as if to mock her opponent.
From the watchtower, the student council all displayed looks of shock and disgust over Maiko's sleeziness. Everyone that is, except for Ryuko.
"Unbelievable! That kind of outfit would never fly under my watch! If she's wearing that, then I'll have no choice but to one up her and put on something even more sexy than that!" Mako exclaimed in her speech pose. "What do you think Ryuko?"
Ryuko found herself unable to turn away from Maiko's new outfit, not in shock of how sleezy it looked, but in what it was.
"Well well, Maiko Ogure has a kamui….." she said, puzzling the rest of the council.
"What's a kamui?" Sumi asked.
"I'll explain in a moment, for now, lets all enjoy the show….."
Returning to the arena, Maiko hummed in arousal at all the attention she was getting and proceeded to extended her legs back, showing off her crotch and bare bottom to her for.
"You degeneriert nutte! That's not appropriate for a fight!" Gewicth scolded her, wiping the blood off his nose. He then brought out another of his weights and threw it towards Maiko, but the now nearly nude girl managed to catch the heavy weight with just her hands, which were now covered in boxy black-blue gloves, and threw it back to Gewicht, stunning the German.
"Oh yes…..that felt so powerful……so naughty!" Maiko moaned, her voice sounding like she was busy 'pleasuring' herself. And to further gross him out, she even did poses where she pretended to be holding onto a stripper pole.
"Stop that, you're scaring me!" The Weightlifting Club president ordered with a growing, anxious voice, dodging his own weights being thrown back at her. "Don't you have some sense of decency?"
Apparently in this new outfit, Maiko didn't, as she just responded to the objection with a deranged laugh.
"Who gives a crap about decency, if it means getting your bald ass beaten, I'll gladly go Full Monty on everyone!" Maiko cackled.
"I won't let you whip me, you deranged fraulein!" He shouted, pulling out a pole with three heavy weight on each side, holding it like a quarterstaff. He was ready to knock some sense into Maiko and the erotic mindset she was in. Gewicht roared as he charged toward Maiko, wielding the heavily weighted pole like a warrior in battle. The crowd gasped, sensing the impact of the incoming strike.
"You'll regret this, you shameless harlot!" Gewicht bellowed, bringing the pole down with all his might.
But Maiko, now brimming with newfound agility and strength from her kamui, gracefully sidestepped the attack. The pole slammed into the ground, creating a massive dent in the arena floor. With a playful smirk, Maiko grabbed onto the pole with both hands and giggled manically at the stunned Gewicht.
"Didn't anyone tell you, fraulein…" Maiko purred, leaning seductively on the pole as she clung to it. She winked at Gewicht, her hips swaying as if performing an exotic dance, "…I'm not the kind of girl you can just handle."
Gewicht froze, his face turning crimson at her provocative display. The crowd erupted into a mix of jeers, wolf whistles, and laughter. Some students fainted from nosebleeds, while others tried to shield their eyes, failing miserably to resist peeking. In that moment of distraction, Maiko, jumping up and flashing her crotch to Gewicht, caught the weights using her scissor blade as her pole.
"Schwein! Release my weapon at once!" Gewicht growled, tugging at the pole with all his might. But Maiko's grip was unrelenting.
"Oh, is this yours?" Maiko teased, bringing her face dangerously close to Gewicht's. "Why don't you try and take it from me… if you dare?"
Gewicht ran up to her and smacked her to the head with one side of his pole, akin to a bo staff, but she dodged every smack, while removing each weight one by one. And each time she did so, Maiko returned the favor and threw his own weights on his stomach.
"BLEURGH!!" He screamed, getting beaten by his own medicine while Maiko just cackled, flaunting her body in front him through it all.
"Had enough yet?" She asked in the same tone of seduction.
"I'm not into that!" Gewicht spat his disgust. To stop her degeneracy, he began to spin and jumped high before he dived on her, ready to pummle her to the ground. Surprisingly, Maiko didn't fight back but instead sprinted straight into the contraption where Ira was held captive, and also showing off her new 'outfit' to him.
"Ogure?! What are you doing?!" he asked, appalled by her promiscuous approach.
"Saving your ass…..what do you think it looks like?" Maiko said in a seductive whisper.
"More like you're showing your ass to everyone! That is uncalled fo-"
Before Ira could voice another complaint, one of the weights ended up hitting the bed he was bonded to, resulting in it collapsing onto the ground. And then Maiko stabbed at the glass of the liquid nitro pool that faced the audience, coating those surrounding the glass in the icy substance.
The bed slid into the ground without touching one drop of the frozen liquid. Ira sighed in relief he won't end up as a frozen and shattered statue but his problems are far from gone. Maiko pulled out her signature weapon and stripped him of his bondages.
"Run along boy, you're free now!" She said, showing off her bare rear to Ira.
"Thank you..." He gladly told her before he grimaced upon seeing her butt real close to him. This sight of horror made him skidaddle away from the arena at a quick pace, still stunned and appalled by his savior's shamelessness. With that done, Maiko's flirtacious stare went back to Gewicht, who was still less than pleased to fight such a horny warrior.
"Now, where were we? Oh right, kicking your ass!" Maiko said, letting out another pose like a supermodel. Gewicht's right eye twitched, and he stamped his foot on the arena in disgust, forming cracks from the impact.
"Congratulations dear, your shameless outfit has forced me to display my secret power to you!" He yelled, his voice turning into a roar at the end.
He took a small red syringe from his pocket and injected it in him. Doing so made his muscles grow bigger, to the point where he towered over both Ira and Maiko, and he took on more weights with his beefier arms to add to his imposing figure.
"I'm going to send you to horny rehab!" He sald to her, flexing his arms that were now the size of Maza Miatas. But Maiko's horniness and arrousal only grew more, with her pulling on the skirt part of her new outfit.
"Oh yes, there's nothing I love more than a big hulking monster like you!" Maiko giggled. But Gewicht only let out a yell of anger, slamming one of his fists and breaking the entire arena in half, a very viable crack forming.
"Once I'm done with you, I'm going to make sure you never feel pleasure in your entire life!" He assured her, getting more enraged over her seducing him and lifting his oversized arms to squash her like a bug. But with each slam, Maiko dodged in a very seductive way, by bending her chest down and flaunting the curves of her waist in the process.
Her sexy fighting style further enraged Gewicth to his wits end, and he took the biggest weight he could find: The battle stage itself. He went down and with his bare hands, ripped the arena off the ground and sending Maiko falling out of it. Once she was on the ground, Gewicht proceeded to use the stage as a humongous fly swatter to squash Maiko with. But instead of him feeling Maiko being splattered, he felt her pushing him upright slowly, specifically by grabbing onto his crotch.
"AAAAHHHH! MEIN BALLS!!!!" He howled from Maiko's unusually strong grip. But the complaint of course, further fueled Maiko's erotic craze, which grew even more as she managed to slowly lift the hulking Gewicht ever so slightly off the ground.
"Yes…..YES! I'M SO STRONG…..SO SEXY……SO NAUGHTY!"
At the same time, red colored steam and sparkles began to appear from Maiko's back, and she used her free hand to pick up the scissor blade that she had dropped. When she picked it up, the blade itself extended like a switchblade, becoming twice its normal size.
"Maiko, slice his outfit with the blade!" the male voice in her new outfit said. She responded to his request by letting out a nod and hum.
At that point, Gewicht knew that he wouldnt like where this was going. He had figured that Maiko, in her horny haze, would have the galls to shoving the blade itself into his anal cavity while also having fun with it. Instead, he was thrown into the sky like a tennis ball, all of the students watching in awe at Maiko's display of sexy strength. Despite that, Gewicht felt somewhat relieved that she didn't do what he initially thought she would. But things took a massive turn for the worse as Maiko's extended scissor blade reached the pants section of his Goku Uniform, and with a single swipe, it was torn apart, leaving her naked.
"SEN-I-SOSHITSU!" The male voice Maiko heard before yelled.
The power of his Goku Uniform faded away and Gewicht reverted to your average, muscular guy, passed out from her attack. And from the shreds of his uniform, a small glowing piece of string, which had the thickness of spaghetti, floated down towards Maiko's back, and was taken into her new outfit with a humming noise and glow. From seeing the naked form of Gewicht, the Elite 4 just stood stunned over what Maiko had just done, but Ryuko on the otherhand, had a face of disappointment. Gewicht's limpless body then fell into the ground but Maiko grabbed his head and gave him a more fitting finish.
"Ready to go for a spin?!"
Using just her left arm to hold his head, Maiko spun Gewicht, around several times, before she lifted her arm up and threw her naked projectile to the one person she truly wants to fight, Ryuko Kiryuin. The naked body of Gewicht blitzed upwards towards the summit of the watchtower, crashing into the Elite Four's lobby. Gewicht's trajectory ended with his body at a wall, and he slid into the ground, staining the sofa with his blood.
"Deutsch qualidad, my ass..." Ryuko growled at the German's failure, and using Bakuzan, slammed him out the nearby window of the office.
"Lady Ryuko, did you see what that chick even had on?" Tsumugu asked.
"It kinda looked like a bikini mixed with Sailor Moon's outfit!" Mako added.
"And somehow, it was powerful enough to beat a Two-Stars Goku uniform!" Shinjiro exclaimed, fascinated by the power Maiko recently gained.
"If that's what it's capable of against him, we're gonna be royally fucked…." Tsumugu said.
"Not yet…." Ryuko reassured the Elite Four. "I still got something...something that could turn the tide and humiliate this bitch out of my school if things really go south."
"What's that gonna be?" Mako asked.
"I'll tell you when the time comes…..in case Maiko Ogure gets any wise ideas."
Ryuko left the lobby, letting the Elite Four deal with the aftermath of Gewicht Tibo. She slowly walks up to the very of her perch in the watchtower, looking down on Maiko. The red-eyed girl was thrilled to finally see her target come out of her hiding spot.
"There you are Ryuko Kiryuin! Finally came out of hiding to see how sexy I look? Or do you have something else to tell me?" Maiko asked, blurting out to the microphone.
"So, you think you can bust into my school and be the new alpha?" Ryuko yelled back to her. "I admit, you were entertaining to watch when fighting off Tibo, but don't think I won't let ya frolic in Honnouji Academy freely. One wrong move and I'll make you regret even stepping foot in here!"
"So you're accepting me as a student here? Well hot damn, it would be quite an honor…."
In an instant, Maiko suddenly found her body start to get rather woozy, but she assumed it was just her feeling the sexiness of her outfit, while Ryuko seemed to think otherwise.
"What's wrong? Starting to lose your edge from being this horny?" Ryuko mocked her, smelling her moment of weakness.
"No….not even…." Maiko replied, her words starting to become slurred. By this point, everything was starting to become as blurry as Maiko would see things without her glasses on.
From the sidelines, Ira finally got to take some clothes from a nearby locker, and when he came back, he saw Maiko on the verge of passing out. Despite having such sleezy attire, Ira knew that wiithout her help, he would have ended up as a broken sculpture of ice. He ran back to the ripped off arena, pushing students left and right, before he dived to save Maiko's body.
Ryuko was ready to take Maiko's weapon away and restore order to Honnouji Academy, but she saw Ira taking Maiko out of the school and away from harm. Despite her brief appearance, Maiko managed to strike a cord in Ryuko's mind, especially with how she accused the president of killing her father. She figured, why stop the fun when it barely had begun?
"Ryuko, what are you doing? Go after that big buff guy!" Mako yelled, jumping up and down like a bunny rabbit.
"I could do that, but right now, I wanna see how this new jester will entertain me…..if you catch my drift." She replied, smirking with her vampiric smile.
The Elite 4 seemed to be intriuged by this idea, and followed Ryuko to clean up the mess in the lobby and formally expell Gewicht for his failure.
"So, this is Honnouji Academy huh?" The brown-haired girl said quietly. "I guess this may be where my answers could be…."
TRANSFER STUDENT
MAIKO OGURE
転校生
大暮 麻衣子
MAIKO OGURE
転校生
大暮 麻衣子
Feeling like she had nothing to lose, she took a few steps into the city, and was hoping that someone, anyone, would notice her. But nobody did. All of the people she passed were just walking by, and many of them didn't appear to be well groomed or had proper clothing. And to go with it, much of the buildings appeared to be run down or abandoned.
"Figures….no one wants to talk to me…." She said to herself. It was obvious that if she wanted anyone's attention in these slums, she'd need to get a bit more creative. So she had her eyes let out fake tears and raised her arms into the air.
"Oh, what's a lonely girl like me to do?" She cried out, putting on a rather impressive display of theatership. That display managed to attract some attention for a moment, but everyone just kept to themselves.
From a crooked nook of a corner, two twin boys, each of them wearing a top hat over blonde hair, saw Maiko with their bright blue eyes. A rather excited grin formed on their faces as Maiko still tried to attract attention with her dramatic show of theater.
"Is that a tourist?" One of the twins asked. He had a shorter head of hair over his top hat while also wearing a purple shirt and yellow pants.
"Hell yeah, tourists are super easy to prank!" The other of the twins said. He had a longer head of blonde hair and wore a gray shirt beneath a pink jacket and purple shorts.
Taking only a few seconds to get ready, the twins prepared a small table along with the supplies for a few "magic" tricks, and ran towards Maiko like they were barkers at a carnival.
"Hey, you with the glasses!" The short haired boy exclaimed.
"Come on! We wanna show you a magic trick!" The long haired boy added.
Maiko tilted her head towards the boys, displaying a rather sheepish look on her face. "Oh, are you talking to me?"
"Well duh!" the longer haired boy said.
"You are the only one passing by us right now!" the shorter haired boy added. Since they were the first who responded to her "distress call", Maiko went along and walked up to the two boys, displaying a rather shy look on her face.
"I guess I can go for some fun….." she said, with the twins giving off happy grins on their faces.
"See these cards?" The kid with the pink jacket asked her, blinking at the other boy while he displayed a deck of fifty-two cards to Maiko. "I want you to pick a card from this fancy deck."
"And what's the object of this?" Maiko asked, her red eyes gazing at the deck that was on the table.
"Oh nothing. It's just a hobby we do when we have freetime from school". The long-haired assured her. "C'mon. Pick one!"
Maiko, feeling like she could use a little diversion, picked a card near the middle of the deck, making the long haired boy giggle in glee.
"Now, I'm going to try guessing your card." He said. While he thought about her card, the kid with the short hair did a sleight of hand and stole her wallet from one of her pockets. When that was done, the long haired boy opened his eyes and banged once on the table, picking out a card from his coat.
"Is it a Five of Spades?" He asked, jumping up and down.
"My goodness, it is! How did you do that?" Maiko asked, her voice full of fake amusement.
"Magic!" The showman replied with a French snort done twice, playing a character.
As for his brother, he was quickly running away, feeling exicted over getting her money. But to his shock, as he tried to open and count the dosh inside, his face ended up being squirted with pen ink that was hidden inside, blinding him in black.
"Hey bro! I need some help!" the shorter haired boy yelled. That comment caused him to gulp in shock.
"Be right back! Stay there…." The long-haired boy instructed, before he ran up to his brother. As for Maiko, once she heard that remark, her rather sheepish expression quickly shifted into one more menacing, and she even let out a chuckle of approval.
"Damn it Saiho, what happened to you? You were supposed to swipe her wallet!" the long haired boy said to his now ink stained brother.
"I did, dumbass!" He spat with a low voice to avoid blowing their covers. "But turns out her wallet sprayed me with ink!"
Saiho's brother picked up the wallet from the ground, and he opened it near the ground, letting the ink out. But when it was all gone and he tried to remove it, it was stuck on his hand like it was covered in super glue.
"What the hell?!" he stammered. They were so busy trying to piece out what happened and how they got bamboozled so easily, both didn't notice the sounds of steps coming closer to them, accompanied by a sinister chuckle.
"Luring me into a trap to steal my wallet? You two are such gullible blonde bimbos. I'll have you know that I've been making traps since before you two were in diapers." Maiko said in a more shrewd tone.
The two boys, not being scared by this threat, made a carefully choreographed motion toward Maiko, and both of them raised their fists in her direction.
"Do you even know who you just ran into?" They said in perfect unison. "Us, Honnou Town's top pranksters!"
HONNOU TOWN'S TOP PRANKSTERS
本能町一番のいたずらっ子たち
本能町一番のいたずらっ子たち
"I'm Saiho Harime!" The shorter haired of the blonde boys said.
SAIHO HARIME
はりめ さいほ
はりめ さいほ
"And I'm Ori Harime!" The longer haired one added.
ORI HARIME
はりめ おり
はりめ おり
Maiko was unimpressed by this intimidation from the kids, and tilted her glasses at the two while letting off a wide grin that showed off her teeth.
"Whoa….whats with the scary face?" Saiho asked.
"You two may be the top pranksters here, but like I said, you were greedy enough to go after my wallet, and look what happened! You fell for one of the many traps from Kanto's Jigsaw Queen, Maiko Ogure!" Maiko's voice seemed to get more deranged and excited with every word, but she calmed down as finished.
"Jigsaw Queen? Does that mean you're an expert on puzzles?" Ori asked.
"In a way, yes. But if you guys want to really put me to the test....."
Maiko looked around the trash plaid out on the street and she picked up two bear traps, two watches and a metal wire she could use for cutting.
"See this? With these three things alone, I can make a fancy headset for your little skulls. One that will dislocate your faces and make you reconsider ever trying to best me..." She explained, the grin on her face only widening.
In that moment, the two boys started to visualize Maiko using those things to make the toruture device, and both of their faces lit up in fear and sweat.
"Holy crap! She's insane!" Saiho panicked.
"Let's get out of here before she puts that death trap on us!" Ori yelled, grabbing his table full of magic tricks.
And without even a second look, both Saiho and Ori ran away from Maiko, but their run was cut short after they ran onto an older woman with shoulder length red colored hair done in curls, and wearing a rather lavish French outfit in colors of pink and yellow, just like the boys.
"Oh crap, it's our Mom!" Saiho yelled.
"Bah alors!" She scolded the kids, grabbing both of them by the ears. "You're up to your old tricks again, aren't you?"
"But Mom, there's this girl!" Ori whined. "She beat our card game!"
"And she got me covered in ink!" Saiho added.
"Don't do this to me, p'tits chenapans!" She frowned at them, not convinced by their whinings. "I know you've been stealing wallets! And I got a call from school telling me you two weren't there. But go ahead and tell me, where is this girl you even speak of?"
Both of her sons looked around to see that Maiko was long gone, making her way further towards the slums.
"Yeah, where'd she go?" Saiho asked.
"Regardless of whether this girl is real or not, you two will have a big correction ahead!" The mother told them, dragging them to the road and to a purple, worn out truck.
"You know where to sit!" Blanche said, pointing at the bed of the truck.
The twin boys groaned in anger, getting in the truck and yelling one more complaint as they sped off.
"We don't need some dumbass education!" Saiho yelled.
"We're gonna be magicians, and you don't need education to excel in that!" Ori added.
And from her hidden spot in a nearby alleyway, Maiko looked at the car leaving the area with a smile on her face for out tricking two magicians. But she still had a long way to go before she reached Honnouji Academy.
"Damn, and I thought I was onto something, Oh well, maybe that all will change when I get to the school."
But that also presented a difficult task, how could she even get the school on foot, especially when the island was shaped the way it was.
Maiko tried to look around these slums and saw a small group of male students wearing a pale blue garukan, and each of them were praising a statue of Ryuko holding a katana in the air akin to a scepter. Thinking they'd have some answers for her, Maiko again worked her charm of scared girl to the gathered crowd.
"Oh no! I'm lost again! She pleaded, waving her arms in the air. "Can any of you kind men help me-"
"Shush, We are making our daily prayers to our queen….." One of the boys interrupted her, before he came back to his chants.
"A queen?" Maiko whispered in surprise.
"Of course! What you're seeing is Ryuko Kiryuin, the empress ruling over not only Honnouji Academy but also all of Honnou Town." Another muttered to her, making sure not to fail on igniting the candles he made in the queen's image.
"Ryuko eh? Interesting name….." Maiko said. "Where can I find her?"
"She's at Honnouji Academy of course." Yet another student informed, pointing to the very summit of Honnou Town, where the school she ran was located. "However, you can't just ask her to answer one's questions. You need to be worthy for that."
Maiko didn't see it as a threat, but instead, a challenge. "Worthy?" She asked, still keeping her voice low to not disturb the prayers.
"Indeed. Lady Ryuko is not a force to be taken lightly. Should you violate on her domain, she will certainly make you regret it!" Yet another student explained, giving her a newspaper. "Take this and see for yourself….."
Maiko looked on at said paper, which was published by Honnouji Academy's Newspaper Club.
DAILY HONNOUJI
The Goku Uniform Smuggler has finally been caught!
The Goku Uniform Smuggler has finally been caught!
The article was all about Ryuko catching a thief who had been stealing the schools Goku Uniforms for the past months, going into details on how they caught up with his antics. It ends with a photo of the courtyard with the words Honnouji Rules written with the blood of the traitor all over it.
"What's a Goku Uniform?" Maiko asked to herself. But a familiar voice nearby suddenly yelled to the group in an irate tone.
"Why are you reading that trash?"
"Who said that?!" One of the students yelled, feeling offended by whoever spoke ill of Lady Ryuko.
Maiko, on the other hand, only looked in the direction of the sound and she saw the now naked and expelled Ren Suzuki. On his midsection and crotch, he had on a sign that read this message:
This is a naked pig who dared to defy Honnouji Academy and it's president, Ryuko Kiryuin. Justice has been served!
"Wait, you're the guy who got expelled?" She realized, cleaning her glasses off to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.
"Yes….my name is Suzuki. Ren Suzuki." He whispered to Maiko.
To avoid getting the glares of the Ryuko-worshipping students, Ren waved Maiko to follow him somewhere safe to explain it all, and that was what looked like an abandoned grocery store that had bags of garbage inside.
"So, what's your deal in all of this?" Maiko asked him, crossing her arms.
"I….I wanted to take out Ryuko Kiryuin's forces from the inside….hence why I smuggled Goku Uniforms and sold them off to other schools so they could take her out."
"So, you were some kind of Revolutionnaire?" She wondered, eyebrows raised at his attempt.
"If you want to put it that way, then yes." Ren replied.
"And were you alone on that one or there are still others like you back there?" Maiko further inquired.
"I was all alone in it." Ren said shamefully.
"Oh...I didn't mean to break your mood" She excused herself.
"Nah, it's fine." He nodded before he began asking questions about her. "What about you? I can tell you're not here to visit this place and bail at the end of the day"
"Good eye. Now, how can I get to this, Honnouji Academy?"
"Very easy, funnily enough." Ren revealed, pointing to a train station a few feets from them, "You take the trolley train over there and you'll be at the school in a matter of minutes."
"Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn't be surprised if we meet again soon…."
"Maybe when someone manages to flip her stupid school down?" He told her, still unsure of whether it would be true and someone would pick up where he left off.
But Maiko didn't say anything, as she made her way towards the trolley that would take her to Honnouji Academy. Maiko looks at the source and sees a wagon full of passengers with the same uniform and gakuran going up.
"Geez, the fashion here is quite a drab…." She said to one of the random students on board. "Anybody know why?"
Much of the students remained silent, but the one who responded was the tallest of them, a massive male who stood 7 plus feet tall. In addition to having short blonde hair, he also seemed to be quite muscular in his arms and legs, which to others could give off the impression that he was much older.
"Unfortunately, that's how Honnouji Academy's dress code works..." The buff blonde student replied to her, his voice quite steady yet stern and serious. Just the very fact he of all people was the first to respond to Maiko made her almost fall to the ground in shock, but he caught her just before she could.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Oh, I am. I just did expect that question to be answered by the beefiest person in here!" She said, bracing for any attack he could pull on her.
"Don't be acting all cowardly. I wouldn't hurt a fellow No-Star." He replied. Maiko then assumed that was the name for the outfits all the girls in the train were wearing, and she nodded her head in understanding.
"Right….right. You mentioned the dress code of the school, what's it like?" She asked.
"Ah, you must be a new transfer student, so allow me to reiterate further." He told her, his voice cold yet stoic. "If you can believe it, there are actually four types of uniforms in use at Honnouji Academy, and these not only determine your ranking, but also your social hierarchy in Honnou Town."
As they further went up the spiral shaped mountain, Maiko started to notice the housing and businesses looked a bit more well kept and tidy compared to how they were when she ran into Saiho and Ori. In an instant, she assumed that was how things were set up because of the dress code the buff man mentioned.
"For example, the No-Stars like us live in the slums you just came from." He looked down on the Shinto style door separating the lower part of the town to the upper side. "The One-Star students wear One-Star outfits, and they live in the higher up section of Honnou Town, and the Two-Stars, that being the Club Presidents, live in the one above them. And then, there's the Three Star outfits. Only the Elite Four gets to wear those because they're the ones ruling over Honnouji Academy from the Student Council."
Maiko took a moment to settle in how the system of Honnouji Academy worked, while also trying to mentally tell herself that the blonde buff man wouldn't harm her.
"But enough of that, what brings you to the school?" He asked. Feeling like now wasn't the time to spill the beans, Maiko quickly came up with an alibi.
"I came here looking to find my lost dog, Pooki." She explained, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a picture of said dog. The man looked at the photo, which showed off a small, round white dog with a brown spot that encompassed the right side of its head.
"I'll admit, she looks rather cute." The student said, his voice still cold despite even when making that remark.
"Not as cute as that babe though…." Another student in the train replied, ogling on at Maiko's face.
"Yeah but is she cuter than our Queen?" Yet another one chimed in.
Maiko's bespectacled face seemed to light up in clarity at that remark.
"They must be talking about that Ryuko girl. Maybe she's got the answers I'm looking for…." she said to herself.
Eventually, the train made it to the edge of the gate of Honnouji Academy, the school that Maiko was now going to be attending. The main school facility was shaped like an open dome stadium, with classrooms that seemed to stretch for miles and miles. And at the center of it all was a sprawling watchtower where Ryuko took watch to the students who were arriving for another day at school.
"By the way, I never got your name." The blonde buff student said.
"Oh, it's Maiko. Maiko Ogure." She replied.
"Then, welcome to Honnouji Academy, Maiko. Hope you won't mind the President looking down from her perch." He told her, gulping down his saliva after he looked at the watchtower, where she was already watching on at the students arriving.
"Not at all. In fact, you made things easier for me." Maiko said with a sly smirk on her face.
The blonde man didn't listen to what she had just said, and took off to his first class of the day. But as for Maiko, she was ready to begin the next phase of her plan.
"Alright Maiko, just approach this like you always would…."
She quickly changed her expression to the shy and awkward look she used on Saiho and Ori, and started calling out to the open courtyard. In an instant, Maiko simulated a shy girl, looking for her lost dog by steadily getting anyone's attention, showing his photo to anybody interested.
"Who the hell is that chick?" One student asked.
"She's probably some kind of brainiac with those glasses….." another said.
"Hello? Hello? Anyone here? I'm just a scared girl looking for her dog!" She said, holding up the same picture she showed of the dog to the students. "His name is Pooki, and he's just the most adorable dog in all of Tokyo!"
"Sorry, ma'am. I haven't seen your dog." A student replied.
"Maybe look up the Newspaper Club and ask them to put that photo in there? It's backed up by one of the Elite Four so chances are they could help you" Another suggested, pointing to a huge chalkboard in the courtyard with all kinds of flyers.
Maiko was starting to get a bit frustrated over not getting who she was wanting, so she decided to bring out the big guns. After hiding in the bathrooms, she came out with a fake plastered left arm and played the role of a wounded girl who often fell on others in order to catch their attention.
"OH GOD, MY ARM!" She yelled, surprising everyone who saw her just moments earlier. "WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP ME? OH THE PAIN, IT'S TOO MUCH! TOO MUCH!"
That display of dramatic acting was enough to summon a trio of No-Star students to her aid, each of them grabbing her back to keep her balanced.
"Oh my god! What happened?!"
"Are you okay?"
"How did you hurt your arm?"
Knowing she had them trapped, Maiko tore apart her bandages and looked each of them in the eyes while in a fighting stance.
"Hey you! Where the heck's the big cheese at this school? I got some bones to pick with whoever it is." Maiko chuckled.
"Oh….that would be our student council president, Ryuko Kiryuin!" The student stammered, worried that Maiko's tone could change again.
"I already knew that, smart aleck. Mind telling me where I can find her?"
As luck would have it, she wouldn't have to look far, as the students in the courtyard all suddenly got into a bowing position. And then, from a set of stairs that had suddenly formed, Ryuko started strutting her way forward, smirking widely at the students who were at her will.
"Right there…." The trio whispered before they all bowed down to Ryuko, almost afraid they would get a worse fate if they stayed by Maiko's side. Knowing that her answers could be close at hand, the glasses wearing vagrant suddenly started running towards Ryuko, catching a number of the bowing students off guard.
"What is she doing?" One of them asked.
"She can't just run towards Lady Ryuko like that!" Another said.
"Is she crazy, or does she really wanna end up like Suzuki?" The other asked.
But rather than do something about it, Ryuko just stood there and allowed Maiko to approach her eye to eye.
"Would you look at that? Someone wants to have a personal discussion with me…." Ryuko smirked at Maiko's approach, baring her developed canines to scare her away, but the red-eyed girl didn't flinch one second.
"Are you a new student here? If so, you better have a freakin' good reason, new girl."
"I do indeed." A wide smirk on her face, Maiko then reached into the back of her outfit, and she pulled out a sword that was red in color and shaped like half of a pair of scissors. This again brought more reactions and murmurs from the students.
"Aw shit, she's got a weapon?"
"It looks like half a pair of scissors….."
"Ryuko Kiryuin, is it? Tell me, have you seen someone with a blade that looks just like this?" Maiko asked coldly. But just like any other student who tried to take her on in the past, Ryuko showed no sign of being intimidated by her.
"Are you tryin' to scare me with that fancy half of scissors? I bet you can't even properly use it." The student president said. Ryuko's face still maintained her smug grin, thinking that it would hurt Maiko's feelings. But the glasses wearing girl instead seemed to be unaffected by that insult. In fact, from seeing the rows of students standing in front of her like an army, Maiko came up with the perfect comeback.
"That's pretty big talk coming from someone who looks like she licks the boots of all the students she passes by…." Maiko replied, calling back to the worshippers she saw in Honnou Town.
Some of the No-Star students who gathered watching collectively let out gasps of shock from Maiko's comment, feeling like she was now digging a hole she wouldn't be able to get out of.
"Ho boy, she's done it now…."
"She can kiss her ass goodbye for all I know…."
But the bluff blonde male Maiko met before didn't seem scared at her gung ho behavior, rather, it was making him feel empowered.
"Never have I seen someone directly take on Lady Ryuko like that without a shred of resistance, perhaps I've underestimated Miss Ogure…." He said to himself.
Returning to Ryuko, she stared on at Maiko's scissor blade while letting out the same loud clicking of her heels that she used the day before, and also pulling out Bakuzan from its case.
"Alright bitch, before I paint this entire school with your own blood, I wanna know your name, so I can write it above your dork ass when I kick it out of the gates!"
Maiko, feeling her confidence growing, gladly introduced herself to the young dictator.
"The names Maiko. Maiko Ogure. I assume you know of my father, Dr. Ogure?"
"Maiko, eh.…can't say that I haven't." The President pondered that before she extended her arms in a hugging pose, letting off a crooked grin to the transfer student.
Maiko's face lit up in a wide cat-like smile towards Ryuko and her blade. "That's fine, but that could also mean you own something more about me, like……who killed my dad!"
The crowd gasped and started murmuring amongst themselves upon hearing this accusation, finding such a claim unheard of.
"Our Student President, a murderer?"
"That can't be so!"
"Lady Ryuko is the most pure student in all of Honnouji!"
But the blonde male from before had a different reaction, and that was sympathy. And along with it, a growing drive to help Maiko find the identity of the killer of her father. As for Maiko, she nodded her head and hummed in approval, while Ryuko's eyes simply twitched in disbelief, making the red eyed girl's hunch in her gut grow even more.
"From that look in your eyes, I can tell you're hiding something!" Maiko said to Ryuko.
"Maybe... Maybe not...And what if I was the one who did it? What are ya gonna do about it? Beat the shit outta me?" Ryuko sadistically hummed at her. "Then go ahead. Come at me with your little toy. If you can, that is."
The last part of Ryuko's remark came in with more than a hint of malice in her tone, but Maiko didn't seem to mind. It made things even more challenging.
"Oh, I'm gonna, and then you're gonna tell me…..everything!" Maiko exclaimed, her voice turning into a yell at the last word.
Feeling the adrenaline and excitement of her answered coursing through her veins, Maiko let out a furious yell and charged straight towards Ryuko. The young president just stood by with Bakuzan raised up, ready to strike down her opponent in one swoop. But within inches of impact, Maiko saw a blur of brown suddenly get in front of Ryuko, and she stopped dead in her tracks to see it was another female student. This newcomer had brown hair done up in a bowl cut, and hazel-colored eyes. She also wore a two-piece sailor uniform of silver and white, with three black pointed stars on the chest area, along with silver colored boots and gloves.
"Hold IIIIIIIIT!" The brown-haired girl yelled. She then crossed her arms and dove toward the crowd of students between Ryuko and Maiko, clearing her way to the glasses-wearing girl. Once in front of Maiko, the other girl raised both of her arms into the air, and from that, it seemed like a spotlight had shown on her. And to add to the surreal nature, a chorus of Hallelujah began to play in the back ground, along with a motley of drums and strings in a very fast manner.
"Going after Ryuko right away huh? Sure she may be the student council president, and she can be a bit bossy when her mom doesn't let her get extra french fries, and she might also not have the best taste when it comes to relationships, but that doesn't mean she's a target worthy of you fighting her!" She said, showing off a dizzying array of poses towards Maiko, who seemed rather puzzled at the bowl hair girl's rather ditzy ways.
"Who in the name of Barbera Streisand are you?" Maiko asked, the confusion growing with every second.
"Who am I? My name is Mako Mankanshoku, Honnouji Academy's Disciplinary Chair, and I order you to lower that weapon!"
DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE CHAIRWOMAN
MAKO MANKANSHOKU
本能寺学園風紀委員長の女性
満艦飾 マコ
MAKO MANKANSHOKU
本能寺学園風紀委員長の女性
満艦飾 マコ
"So you set the rules and who people behave?" Maiko asked.
"Uh huh, and if you don't lower that blade right now, I'm gonna have to bring out the big guns!" Mako said, showing off a pose of her holding invisible guns.
From her experience facing disciplinary committees at other schools, Maiko couldn't fathom a woman over the top and perky as Mako could be one, but at the same time, it also meant that getting through her could be easier.
"Big guns you say? Alright then, I guess I can go after you first…." Maiko said snidely.
Without even telling her, Mako sped towards Maiko and made a jump that seemed as quick and high as a bunny rabbit. After which, Mako pinned herself onto Maiko's shoulders, like a child riding on its parents. The students watching let out a few murmurs at their disciplinary chair showing such strength in display.
"Hey, what are you?!" Maiko said, trying to get Mako off of her. But as much as she could, the glasses-wearing vagrant couldn't dislodge her foe off of her shoulders, it was like she was stuck on her like super glue.
"I'm making sure you can't hurt Lady Ryuko!" She replied, constricting Maiko by using her legs. She then jumped off Maiko's back and followed up that up by…..giving her a big hug.
"By acting like a child?" Maiko asked. "Or is this some kind of wresting I don't know about?"
"Have you ever heard of Hug-fights?" Mako asked, now trying to disarm her foe by tickling her on the belly.
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Maiko cried out, with the audience of students watching on with horrified reactions, a real juxtaposition to what Mako was doing. But despite this very unusual form of discipline, Maiko kept hold on her scissor blade, pinning it to the ground to stop Mako from making her fall. And so Mako tried another unorthodox approach to stop Maiko. The bowl-cut girl swiped Maiko's glasses, hoping to disorient her and properly pin her to the ground.
"Hey, give those back!" The glasses-less Maiko said.
"Not until you've surrendered your weapon to Lady Ryuko!" Mako instructed in a cheerful manner, holding onto Maiko and her glasses.
"Hold on Mako, I got a better idea….." Ryuko said from her tower, a seductive yet sneaky look forming on her face.
Mako dangled Maiko's glasses in her hands like a prize in an arcade machine, but the bowlcut girl's clumsiness made her nearly fall, prompting Maiko to catch her glasses with a jump.
"Hmm, for a disciplinary chair, she seems quite clumsy." Maiko said to Ryuko. "Now where were we? Oh right!"
Maiko brought her scissor blade back and pointed it at Ryuko's face, who still kept her smug fanged grin at the red-eyed girl. Maiko pounced back at her primary target, eager to get back into the swing, but before she could lay a hand on Ryuko, a car-sized, red dumbell hit her to her right, sending Maiko a few meters away from the young president.
"Ugh, the hell was that?!" She groaned, struggling to get off of the ground. But then, a new voice rose from the other side of the courtyard.
"Whassup, fraulein? You ready for your work out session?"
Maiko's face lit up in a massive sweatdrop of shock from hearing that very rough sounding male voice. From the beaten ground, she managed to decipher an unusually muscular boy, his hair done up in a buzzcut and wearing only black and red shorts as clothes. His glittering muscles were carrying a dark red machine similar to what one would find in workout gyms, filled with heavy weights and dumbbells. And on said shorts were sections on it that were covered in glowing dancing red lines, and on his broad chest were two four-pointed stars that also carried the same red-colored glow.
"Another weirdo?" Maiko asked herself.
"Oh contrarie mein fraulein! You're not dealing with a weirdo, you're dealing with Gewicht Tibo, Captain of the Weightlifting Club!" the man said, flexing his arms in front of his confused foe.
WEIGHTLIFTING CLUB PRESIDENT
GEWICHT TIBO
ウェイトリフティングクラブ会長
重量ティボ
GEWICHT TIBO
ウェイトリフティングクラブ会長
重量ティボ
"Are you kidding? You're totally a weirdo with those short shorts of yours!" Maiko said as kept her position, wrinkling at his stupid uniform.
"HEY! That short isn't just for show: This is mein Two-Stars Goku Uniform!" he pestered, his brows furrowed at Maiko's remark.
Despite the muscles on display, Maiko didn't feel threatened by Gewicht, rather, she thought his size made him worthy as bait for a trap. The German student took one of the heavier weights from his backpack, juggling it around to boast about his capabilities to not just Maiko, but other students as well.
"You see? Mein Goku uniform isn't here to perfectly showcase mein muscles: It's made of the strongest material in the world! One provided by Lady Ryuko herself."
"Strongest in the world, eh? Well guess what, I'm also the strongest in the world when it comes to traps, so go ahead and try to take me on! But don't be surprised if you end up failing...." Maiko taunted while holding up her scissor blade.
"Is that a dare, fraulein?" Gewicht smugly asked, ready to use the weights as improvised boxing gloves.
To that, Maiko waved at him to come forward, holding up her scissor blade. Gewicht juggled his weights, adding new ones until at least three 100 kg weights were on each of his hands. Using the boost of agility that his Goku Uniform gave him, he ran up to Maiko, ready for a left jab.
Maiko swiftly reached into her jacket and pulled out a bear trap and fake teeth to be used on his arms, but the effects she was hoping for didn't happen.
She tried to make him trip by throwing the beartrap at his feet but he saw through her. Gewicht punched the bear trap with the weights from his right side, crushing it to a mere plate of metal. She followed that up by aiming the false teeth for his crotch, but Gewicht threw a weight right at the novelty to crush it into scraps of plastic.
"Aw, that's cute. You tried to cheat your way out of a fight." Gewicht sneered, jumping above the sky to close the gap. Maiko then decided to try a new tactic, smoke screens.
"See if you can get through this!" She said.
She threw a ball to the ground, and without warning, it exploded, forming in a swimming-pool wide torrent of smoke that covered all of the students watching. Gewicht jumped into the smokescreen and his crash into the ground pushed the smoke away like a strong gust of wind. Thanks to that, he could see Maiko, and grabbed off his weights, spinning it in circles before throwing it frisbee-style at her.
"That's impossible!" Maiko said, her mind struggling to comprehend what he did, but said time ended up being cut drastically short, as her head ended up being hit by one of his weights, which then dropped onto her crotch and made her collapse to the ground. Through it all, Ryuko smirked widely at the misery her former opponent was undergoing. Gewicht ran up to her and he effortlessly raised her body up and went back to his queen, dragging his "trophy" to her.
"Another pest taken care of, Lady Ryuko." He said to his boss. Ryuko walked up to the defeated Maiko and chuckled softly at her in her usual menacing manner,
"What's up, are you gonna take care of him like you said you would?" Ryuko asked.
"I….I can't do it…." Maiko quietly said. To which, Ryuko displayed a prideful grin.
"What did you say?" She asked.
"I can't do it." Maiko whimpered.
"Say it again." Ryuko said, her grin growing wider and showing off her front teeth.
From a corner obscured by the shadow, the same blonde buff man from before looked on at Ryuko holding Maiko. From the small talk he had with her on the train, he had begun to show a great liking to Maiko. Seeing her being thrown into the lion's den made him shocked by Ryuko showing off such a display of sadism towards one of her students.
"Louder, so that all of Japan can hear you!" Ryuko cackled, feeling more and more like a queen.
For far too long, he watched many of the humiliations within Honnouji. Too many students were unjustifiably beaten to a pulp by Ryuko's ruthless overwatch. Of all the students he once hung out with who ended up wrongfully expelled, Maiko was the one who broke the camel's back for him. So with even informing his teacher, he ran off to do his duty, as Maiko did what Ryuko wanted and further humiliated herself to Honnouji.
The man grabbed some of the One-Star students nearby with his bare arms and threw them at Gewicht, making him lose his balance before he fell into Lady Ryuko, accidentally touching her.
"The hell? What just happened?" Ryuko asked, looking to see who threw the students at her. But that thought was swiftly discarded once Ryuko saw that Gewicht and the One-Stars thrown at her were now groping her chest. While she did find that a bit pleasurable, it allowed Maiko the opportunity to run away from Ryuko, taking off into the now cloudy skies.
During her escape, Maiko's arm was grabbed by the man she met earlier, feeling rather surprised to see him of all people. "This way!" He yelled.
"You again? Did you send those guys towards her?" Maiko asked.
"I'll explain later. We need to go!" He wanted to explain how she stoked a blaze of rebellion in Maiko but it was a matter of time before Ryuko would inevitably hunt them down. Before they could flee, one of Gewicht's weights almost hit the man, forcing him and Maiko to duck.
"Go ahead! I'll hold him off!" He ordered, his voice sounding like that of a drill sergeant.
Maiko nodded in agreement and followed his orders, while also feeling a slight fluttering sensation in her chest. But Ryuko on the other hand, clicked her heels in annoyance and kicked Gewicht right in his crotch.
"OUCH! Mein balls!" He screeched in pain.
"Next time you grope me, I'll make sure to cut your arms off, you deutsch pervert!" Ryuko snarled at him, baring her frustrated jaw at the Club President she sent out.
And from right behind her, he saw the tall blonde muscular fellow that helped Maiko out before come towards them, his fists clenched as he walked.
"On second thought, I'll leave you to go after this new challenger…." She said, feeling the need to be entertained further. So Ryuko kicked Gewicht towards the buff blonde man, his gray colored eyes staring directly into the German student's green ones.
"Who are you?" Gewicht asked, seeing Maiko escape and feeling irritated he didn't get to humiliate her further.
"My name is Gamagoori. Ira Gamagoori. And I am appalled that a person of your size would go after low hanging fruit like Miss Ogure!" He yelled to Gewicht.
"Come again?" The German asked.
"You heard me right. By having her as your foe, you're only taking the easy way out. But if you want a real challenge, I'll be more than happy to give it to you!"
Ryuko raised an eyebrow at this encounter of a second rebellious student, but rather than kick him out, she just sat back and watched the show go down.
"Go ahead." She said, greenlighting Ira's demands. "Fight him."
"But Lady Ryu-" Gewicht protested.
A sharp glare from Ryuko had him instantly reconsider.
"You shut the hell up! Now, fight him before I get pissed enough to rip your Goku Uniform and your precious muscles with my bare hands!" She roared at him. Gewicht, feeling helpless as a cat, gazed back at Ira's stoic pose.
"You're lucky Lady Ryuko allowed this favor for you." The club captain revealed to him. "Otherwise, I would have long gone after and humiliated this girl you're protecting."
"Oh have you? But enough of this big talk, let's see who really is the World's Strongest!"
The courtyard began to shake, and from its beaten ground, a circular arena surrounded by red ropes rose to the ground, with Gewicht and Ira at the center. Everyone else on the schoolgrounds looked at the scene, eager to see an epic fight go down. As for Ryuko, she went back to her perch by the watchtower and into the Student Council office, where she was greeted by Mako, and three other figures who made up the council.
"What's happening down there, Ryuko?" Mako asked, peeking back at the open door.
"Oh, I had Tibo challenge that girl with the half scissors." Ryuko said smugly. But that remark didn't sit well with one member of the council. This was a tall and tan male individual, who had his hair done up in black and red mohawk. He wore a white guerilla army outfit ornate with a black, three-star motif and chromed, spiked belts with three spikes on each side of his shoulders.
"And did he win? Did he disarm her?" The man with the mohawk asked, frowning.
ATHLETIC COMMITTEE CHAIR
TSUMUGU KINAGASE
体育委員長
紡ぐ 木流
TSUMUGU KINAGASE
体育委員長
紡ぐ 木流
"He would have, but then I found myself getting a bunch of One-Stars hurled at me by this big buff dude!" Ryuko complained.
"What a dumbass." Tsumugu pestered. "None of this would have happened if that German idiot just took her weapon beforehands."
That led to a comment by another of the students, who had short ruffled gray hair that covered his left eye, and also had a pair of glasses on his eyes. This skinny, nerd boy wore a basic, white gakuran outfit with the same three star motif. He also had a white beanie with Honnouji's heraldry on it and a grey bag full of wrapped newspapers held by a strap that traversed his chest.
INFORMATION AND STRATEGY COMMITTEE CHAIR
SHINJIRO NAGITA
情報戦略委員会委員長
信じろ なぎた
SHINJIRO NAGITA
情報戦略委員会委員長
信じろ なぎた
"Eureka!" Shinjiro showed the fruits of his research. "I've found who this girl is...."
"Who is she?" Tsumugu asked.
"She's Maiko Ogure, from Kanto. And her father is the recently assassinated Dr. Simon Ogure of Nudist Beach."
The last of the students in the room, a girl with short shoulder length brown hair and glasses, lowered her eyebrows at him stating the obvious. Unlike Mako, she wore a male variant of a white gakuran with short sleeves and had grey pants that led up to white baskets. Her signature feature was that her outfits had all sorts of stickers and pins and all referenced different pop-cultural references from both Japan and the United States.
NON-ATHLETIC COMMITTEE CHAIR
SUMI SUTOROKO
非スポーツ委員会の委員長
シミ ストロコ
SUMI SUTOROKO
非スポーツ委員会の委員長
シミ ストロコ
"We already knew that, whistleblower. Get to the juicy part!" The second girl requested, while also making a sketch in her notebook and looking at a manga with her free hand.
"Oh. She's apparently made a name for herself from the many Kanto area schools that Honnouji has taken over. I've dug through the headlines and found that many of her victims have wound up in quite elaborate traps that would make Jigsaw jealous." Shinjiro added.
Sumi found interest in Maiko thanks to Shinjiro connecting her to one of Sumi's favorite movies.
"Jigsaw? What kind of traps did she use to get such a reputation?" Sumi wondered, spinning her pencil and holding a canvas.
"Allow me to show you...." Shinjiro said, bringing out various newspaper pages from Kanto. Shinjiro spread out the newspaper clippings on the floor, pointing out key details as he explained.
"Take this one, for example," he said, holding up a photo of a high school auditorium turned into a labyrinth of razor-wire ropes and swinging pendulums. "At a school festival, Maiko orchestrated an elaborate maze where the only way to get to the exit was to navigate through a series of sensors that activated tripwires attached to small, spring-loaded blades. The victims had to keep their balance while avoiding the wires, or risk getting cut."
The Elite Four's eyes widened as they looked at the photo, the shadows of intrigue and concern darkening their expressions.
"Here's another," Shinjiro said, flipping the page to reveal a grainy shot of a decrepit gymnasium. "Students in a rival school was placed in a room filled with spinning, serrated metal rods. Each one had to navigate their way through without touching the rods, while time was running out. If they failed, they triggered a loud, ear-splitting alarm and were showered in a harmless but sticky substance that forced them to slip and fall."
Sumi's brow was furrowed in admiration, her pencil spinning faster between her fingers. "She really knows how to set a scene," she said under her breath. "I can't wait to see how those traps hold up against Lady Ryuko....."
Ryuko, on the otherhand, didn't feel alarmed at Shinjiro's warnings, and kept watching down at the school below her like the queen she was.
"Her traps won't do shit against us." Ryuko said, staring at Ira and Gewicht going fist to fist. "Once I break her stupid machines, she'll be begging for mercy like this Ren guy did."
"Ah yes, the One Star smuggler. Good job hunting him down." Tsumugu said.
"Yeah, well if it weren't for Nagita's knack for journalism, we wouldn't have found him." Sumi added, iving a quick, approving glance toward Shinjiro, who seemed to be basking in his moment of praise. He adjusted his glasses and smiled thinly, clearly enjoying the attention.
"Indeed," Shinjiro said, tapping his fingers lightly on the table, "without my connections and digging into the right sources, we'd still be chasing down shadows. The smuggler was practically living in plain sight."
The tension in the room was palpable, but Ryuko's unshaken confidence seemed to defuse it. She leaned forward slightly, her eyes narrowing at the ongoing battle below, almost as if she were savoring the moments before everything fell into her hands.
"I'm not worried," she said, looking back up at the council. "This Maiko Ogure chick may have her little tricks, but she's not ready for me." Her lips curled into a smirk. "Once I get my hands on her, she'll regret not being more careful."
"You sure about that Ryuko?" Mako asked, feeling quite concerned over her bestie.
"You guys can trust me. I've fought worse than traps." Ryuko said confidently, cracking her knuckles and watching as Maiko went further and further away. "Go on, Maiko Ogure. Bring on the labyrinths, the puzzles, and all the little doodads you have up your sleeve. I'm ready for it."
Back in one of the school's many classrooms, Mrs. Mikisugi was keeping a close eye on the departing Maiko. She soon brought out her phone and began to text someone with the initials IM.
"I think she's heading back to where her journey started." She texted.
IM quickly replied back, saying: I figured she would. Hopefully she finds the needle I picked in the haystack of Dr. Ogures home.
Later that afternoon, as Tokyo was hit by a rather dreary rain storm, Maiko found herself at a burned down husk of what had previously been a large two story house, her spirit still shattered by her humiliating defeat by the Gewicht a few hours earlier. As the rain kept hitting her hair and glasses, Maiko kept feeling pangs of regret and remorse go through her.
"Hi Dad. I just wanted to stop by and tell you about how things have gone." Maiko said over the rainy remains of her father's home. "I've probably found a lead onto finding who killed you. A girl named Ryuko Kiryuin seemed to show some resistance to me when I took her on. I thought I was gonna get some answers, but then I ended up facing a guy who looked like the Hulk if he were in high school. Needless to say, that didn't go out well."
The rain kept pouring onto the ground, making the floor Maiko was standing on a bit slippery. But she held onto her scissor blade like a cane, trying to keep her strength and avoid collapsing.
"I had no choice but to run away like a coward." She cried, striking the ground with her weapon. "Damn it, I was almost there! And yet, I failed...again. Something tells me my answers are THERE! I need to go back there and fight that guy.....but not like this!"
As she started to let it all out, Maiko couldn't hear the sounds of foot steps coming from the distance. And those foot steps happened to come from Mrs. Mikisugi, who was watching Maiko with intent, hoping that she would trigger something.
"I….I wish I was brave and strong like those guys on TV!" She yelled. As she took another step, she triggered a trap door that had suddenly appeared amidst the smoke and debris. The next thing Maiko knew, she was falling a good ten feet down below, and instead of trying to get back up, she submitted to wherever this trap would take her. Maiko tried to plant her weapons to the wall and break her fall, eventually landing on a pile of clothes, all worn out and dusty. While this saved her from death, she tripped on her feet as she regained her footing and rolled to the ground from the mountain of clothing.
But back above, the person who she didn't hear arriving watched at the trap door that Maiko fell down. With the grabbing on her collar, Mrs. Mikisugi pulled off her face, revealing it to be a prosthetic one. The natural face she had on now had black hair done up in a bob cut with bangs that covered her dark blue eyes. This mysterious woman removed her hairs from her eyes, revealing her true self, hidden in a safe corner and away from the heavy rain.
"You should be careful what you wish for….Maiko Ogure."
UNDERCOVER TEACHER
KINUE KINAGASE
潜入教師
木長瀬絹枝
KINUE KINAGASE
潜入教師
木長瀬絹枝
Once Maiko fell to the bottom, she noticed that her former home had a massive basement, something that she never noticed in all the times she went back to the home. And inside the basement were tons of charred and broken down electronics, and massive piles of rags scattered in several places.
"A trap door to a basement? Guess Dad took a few cues from me….." Maiko said, getting back up and adjusting her glasses.
Maiko stood up from her fall. As she did so, she felt a huge stinging pain running down her right arm. During the fall, her scissor blade cut half her arm and a blood trail now stained the hill of ragged and dusty clothes behind her.
"Ouch!" She pestered, holding her bleeding arm and gritting her teeth. "I should stop running with my blade. I almost lost my arm there..."
Using one of the rags to clean up the cut, she let out a loud drawn-out sigh of disappointment. "Guess I better get going now."
And so she started running towards a nearby set of stairs that would lead her back up to the ground floor. But she promptly stopped from hearing and seeing the blood-soaked rag pile start to move. Maiko at first assumed that it was a rat trying to hide from the rain, but only a split second later, she heard a male voice start to echo.
"Wait.....more.......give me more!"
"What the?!" Maiko's heart began to race.
She turned back to the pile, cautious of whoever or whatever caught her attention. The pile kept shaking more and more and Maiko readied her weapon, weary on what was to come.
"I need you!" The voice loudly begged her.
Adrenaline went through Maiko's veins as some of the rags from the pile were flown right in her direction. She slashed those rags in an instant with her scissor blade, but the next thing that happened was something that she would never forget. Out of this pile came a black sailor uniform with red stripes, an eyepatch and... a mouth? How was this possible? Maiko couldn't think about that when the creepy clothing somehow managed to pin her to a wall.
"Your blood! I need it!" He revealed, looking at her with something in mind.
And before Maiko could even move, the living sailor uniform ended up tearing off Maiko's clothes, starting from the top and working down to the bottom.
"Don't leave me, put me on! Put me on!" he yelled, his lone yellow eye bulging from the excitement.
"Get away from me, you degenerate!" Maiko snapped at him, trying to remove him from her body. She didn't care one bit that she was now face to face with a talking sailor uniform, she felt like she was on the verge of being raped.
"No, don't do that, I don't wanna go back to sleep! Put me on, put me on!" he cried out, the very concept of a talking sailor uniform further fucking up Maiko's mind.
The red-eyed girl desperately tried to set herself free from his grasp but she was outstrengthened by the sentient sailor uniform. With the last past done, the sentient uniform began sucking the blood seeping from Maiko's arm. He began to slowly morph, covering her body in the process before enveloping her in a booming, shining, scarlet star flying high into the night sky. The last thing Kinue heard before she departed was the sound of Maiko laughing maniacally from the air, feeling that the job was a success.
"She has found it...." She texted to her boss before leaving the ruined manor of Dr. Ogure.
Meanwhile, as the sun began to set over Honnouji Academy, Ira Gamagoori's matchup against Gewicht had managed to take a turn for the worst, as the blonde buff man was now chained up onto a bed that was placed in the center of the main school grounds, complete with a ball gag in his mouth.
Everyone in the school was gathered around this humiliating display. Ira was not only gagged but almost naked, only wearing a bunch of black bandages covering him. Facing him was his opponent, looking all smug over Ira's peril. Gewicht held a microphone and prepared himself to make an announcement.
"I have a message for the glasses-wearing fraulein and her treasonous ways against Lady Ryuko!" he said into the microphone. "If you don't come back to Honnouji Academy, I will personally have him join the gallery of frozen dinosaurs from the Ice Age by dropping him into a pool of liquid nitrogen and dry ice! This pool has temperatures that are so cold, he's going to freeze on the spot!"
Below Ira was a large pool of water, fuming with nitrogen and dry ice, its subzero temperature felt by anybody close by. Because of this, there was only a small perimeter of security between the students and the punishing area.
"Let me out of here, you disgraceful fighter!" Ira challenged, his voice muffled by the gag to his mouth.
"Sorry herr, but I can't fail this task, or my Goku Uniform will be confiscated," Gewicht explained, preparing the icy execution for Ira. "And since you were the only one who spoke to Miss Ogure, I have no choice but to have you as my hostage!"
From the watchtower, Ryuko and her council watched on as the students gathered to see Ira's freezing, and the young president of course had a wide grin of satisfaction.
"Looks like Tibo's got his priorities straight...." Tsumugu said, a smirk forming on his face.
"Then again, he did it after you...corrected him for not disarming that woman." Shinjiro pointed out.
"Once that's done though, we'll have her blade and she won't be bothering us anymore!" Mako added.
"I wonder if this girl will bring out the big guns...If she even comes." Sumi was curious on Maiko's infamous modus operandi.
"I hope this dorky bitch shows up. I haven't seen such entertaining shit at Honnouji in a while and I won't let her cut me off!" Ryuko revealed, grinning with her signature fangs.
To give Ira a demonstration of the fate that he was about to undergo, one of the One-Star students from the Weightlifting Club approached the nitrogen pool, holding a bouquet of roses. The members of the club dipped the bouquet into the subzero pool but not without putting it in entirely. Doing so froze the flowers and before the frost could reach their hands, they removed the bouquet, revealing what looked like an intricate, frozen sculpture. Said students decide to strike Ira with them, breaking it into hundreds of glassy shards that hit his body.
Ira's heart raced from seeing this demonstration of what would be his fate, but he didn't dare show any weakness to it, in case people thought he'd be seen as a coward.
"Was that supposed to be a threat? It felt like little more than breaking a child's toy!" Ira taunted.
From the crowd of No-Stars, the trio who told Maiko about Ryuko were watching in anticipation when they saw a cloaked figure in the periphery of their eyes. One that quickly got closer to the arena.
"Excuse me, are you lost?" one of them asked. But the cloaked figure instead just chuckled in a rather flirtatious way, before she jumped out into the center of the scene, cackling so loudly it scared everyone in the vicinity, except for Ira, and the Student Council.
"Who are you?" Gewicht asked to the mysterious stranger. His question was quickly answered when Maiko popped her head out of the cloak. And Maiko herself maintained a more unhinged and deranged smile on her face compared to his last meeting with her.
"Who am I? Don't you remember me, fraulein?" She retorted, removing her cloak and revealing her identity in the most shameless manner.
Once the cloak was removed, revealing the rest of Maiko's body underneath, everyone was utterly surprised, shocked, and even afraid by what she was now wearing, including Ira. Much of Maiko's body was now completely bare, save for a pair of long dark blue and red boots on her feet, and a skimpy skirt that was facing upwards on her body instead of down. And said skirt was held up by two long stringy red straps over the sides of Maiko's midsection, and they were connected to two downward facing ornaments that covered her chest, the right one holding the eye of the talking sailor uniform Maiko encountered moments before, and the left one holding his eye patch.
"What the...WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Like a few members of the audience, Gewicht was utterly shocked by her shameless use of very little clothes. Maiko responded to this by laughing in a rather loud and deranged manner, while also showing off her legs to the crowd of onlooking students. Just that display alone made the males in the crowd swoon in nosebleeds. She even bent over to show her backside and hips, as if to mock her opponent.
From the watchtower, the student council all displayed looks of shock and disgust over Maiko's sleeziness. Everyone that is, except for Ryuko.
"Unbelievable! That kind of outfit would never fly under my watch! If she's wearing that, then I'll have no choice but to one up her and put on something even more sexy than that!" Mako exclaimed in her speech pose. "What do you think Ryuko?"
Ryuko found herself unable to turn away from Maiko's new outfit, not in shock of how sleezy it looked, but in what it was.
"Well well, Maiko Ogure has a kamui….." she said, puzzling the rest of the council.
"What's a kamui?" Sumi asked.
"I'll explain in a moment, for now, lets all enjoy the show….."
Returning to the arena, Maiko hummed in arousal at all the attention she was getting and proceeded to extended her legs back, showing off her crotch and bare bottom to her for.
"You degeneriert nutte! That's not appropriate for a fight!" Gewicth scolded her, wiping the blood off his nose. He then brought out another of his weights and threw it towards Maiko, but the now nearly nude girl managed to catch the heavy weight with just her hands, which were now covered in boxy black-blue gloves, and threw it back to Gewicht, stunning the German.
"Oh yes…..that felt so powerful……so naughty!" Maiko moaned, her voice sounding like she was busy 'pleasuring' herself. And to further gross him out, she even did poses where she pretended to be holding onto a stripper pole.
"Stop that, you're scaring me!" The Weightlifting Club president ordered with a growing, anxious voice, dodging his own weights being thrown back at her. "Don't you have some sense of decency?"
Apparently in this new outfit, Maiko didn't, as she just responded to the objection with a deranged laugh.
"Who gives a crap about decency, if it means getting your bald ass beaten, I'll gladly go Full Monty on everyone!" Maiko cackled.
"I won't let you whip me, you deranged fraulein!" He shouted, pulling out a pole with three heavy weight on each side, holding it like a quarterstaff. He was ready to knock some sense into Maiko and the erotic mindset she was in. Gewicht roared as he charged toward Maiko, wielding the heavily weighted pole like a warrior in battle. The crowd gasped, sensing the impact of the incoming strike.
"You'll regret this, you shameless harlot!" Gewicht bellowed, bringing the pole down with all his might.
But Maiko, now brimming with newfound agility and strength from her kamui, gracefully sidestepped the attack. The pole slammed into the ground, creating a massive dent in the arena floor. With a playful smirk, Maiko grabbed onto the pole with both hands and giggled manically at the stunned Gewicht.
"Didn't anyone tell you, fraulein…" Maiko purred, leaning seductively on the pole as she clung to it. She winked at Gewicht, her hips swaying as if performing an exotic dance, "…I'm not the kind of girl you can just handle."
Gewicht froze, his face turning crimson at her provocative display. The crowd erupted into a mix of jeers, wolf whistles, and laughter. Some students fainted from nosebleeds, while others tried to shield their eyes, failing miserably to resist peeking. In that moment of distraction, Maiko, jumping up and flashing her crotch to Gewicht, caught the weights using her scissor blade as her pole.
"Schwein! Release my weapon at once!" Gewicht growled, tugging at the pole with all his might. But Maiko's grip was unrelenting.
"Oh, is this yours?" Maiko teased, bringing her face dangerously close to Gewicht's. "Why don't you try and take it from me… if you dare?"
Gewicht ran up to her and smacked her to the head with one side of his pole, akin to a bo staff, but she dodged every smack, while removing each weight one by one. And each time she did so, Maiko returned the favor and threw his own weights on his stomach.
"BLEURGH!!" He screamed, getting beaten by his own medicine while Maiko just cackled, flaunting her body in front him through it all.
"Had enough yet?" She asked in the same tone of seduction.
"I'm not into that!" Gewicht spat his disgust. To stop her degeneracy, he began to spin and jumped high before he dived on her, ready to pummle her to the ground. Surprisingly, Maiko didn't fight back but instead sprinted straight into the contraption where Ira was held captive, and also showing off her new 'outfit' to him.
"Ogure?! What are you doing?!" he asked, appalled by her promiscuous approach.
"Saving your ass…..what do you think it looks like?" Maiko said in a seductive whisper.
"More like you're showing your ass to everyone! That is uncalled fo-"
Before Ira could voice another complaint, one of the weights ended up hitting the bed he was bonded to, resulting in it collapsing onto the ground. And then Maiko stabbed at the glass of the liquid nitro pool that faced the audience, coating those surrounding the glass in the icy substance.
The bed slid into the ground without touching one drop of the frozen liquid. Ira sighed in relief he won't end up as a frozen and shattered statue but his problems are far from gone. Maiko pulled out her signature weapon and stripped him of his bondages.
"Run along boy, you're free now!" She said, showing off her bare rear to Ira.
"Thank you..." He gladly told her before he grimaced upon seeing her butt real close to him. This sight of horror made him skidaddle away from the arena at a quick pace, still stunned and appalled by his savior's shamelessness. With that done, Maiko's flirtacious stare went back to Gewicht, who was still less than pleased to fight such a horny warrior.
"Now, where were we? Oh right, kicking your ass!" Maiko said, letting out another pose like a supermodel. Gewicht's right eye twitched, and he stamped his foot on the arena in disgust, forming cracks from the impact.
"Congratulations dear, your shameless outfit has forced me to display my secret power to you!" He yelled, his voice turning into a roar at the end.
He took a small red syringe from his pocket and injected it in him. Doing so made his muscles grow bigger, to the point where he towered over both Ira and Maiko, and he took on more weights with his beefier arms to add to his imposing figure.
"I'm going to send you to horny rehab!" He sald to her, flexing his arms that were now the size of Maza Miatas. But Maiko's horniness and arrousal only grew more, with her pulling on the skirt part of her new outfit.
"Oh yes, there's nothing I love more than a big hulking monster like you!" Maiko giggled. But Gewicht only let out a yell of anger, slamming one of his fists and breaking the entire arena in half, a very viable crack forming.
"Once I'm done with you, I'm going to make sure you never feel pleasure in your entire life!" He assured her, getting more enraged over her seducing him and lifting his oversized arms to squash her like a bug. But with each slam, Maiko dodged in a very seductive way, by bending her chest down and flaunting the curves of her waist in the process.
Her sexy fighting style further enraged Gewicth to his wits end, and he took the biggest weight he could find: The battle stage itself. He went down and with his bare hands, ripped the arena off the ground and sending Maiko falling out of it. Once she was on the ground, Gewicht proceeded to use the stage as a humongous fly swatter to squash Maiko with. But instead of him feeling Maiko being splattered, he felt her pushing him upright slowly, specifically by grabbing onto his crotch.
"AAAAHHHH! MEIN BALLS!!!!" He howled from Maiko's unusually strong grip. But the complaint of course, further fueled Maiko's erotic craze, which grew even more as she managed to slowly lift the hulking Gewicht ever so slightly off the ground.
"Yes…..YES! I'M SO STRONG…..SO SEXY……SO NAUGHTY!"
At the same time, red colored steam and sparkles began to appear from Maiko's back, and she used her free hand to pick up the scissor blade that she had dropped. When she picked it up, the blade itself extended like a switchblade, becoming twice its normal size.
"Maiko, slice his outfit with the blade!" the male voice in her new outfit said. She responded to his request by letting out a nod and hum.
At that point, Gewicht knew that he wouldnt like where this was going. He had figured that Maiko, in her horny haze, would have the galls to shoving the blade itself into his anal cavity while also having fun with it. Instead, he was thrown into the sky like a tennis ball, all of the students watching in awe at Maiko's display of sexy strength. Despite that, Gewicht felt somewhat relieved that she didn't do what he initially thought she would. But things took a massive turn for the worse as Maiko's extended scissor blade reached the pants section of his Goku Uniform, and with a single swipe, it was torn apart, leaving her naked.
"SEN-I-SOSHITSU!" The male voice Maiko heard before yelled.
The power of his Goku Uniform faded away and Gewicht reverted to your average, muscular guy, passed out from her attack. And from the shreds of his uniform, a small glowing piece of string, which had the thickness of spaghetti, floated down towards Maiko's back, and was taken into her new outfit with a humming noise and glow. From seeing the naked form of Gewicht, the Elite 4 just stood stunned over what Maiko had just done, but Ryuko on the otherhand, had a face of disappointment. Gewicht's limpless body then fell into the ground but Maiko grabbed his head and gave him a more fitting finish.
"Ready to go for a spin?!"
Using just her left arm to hold his head, Maiko spun Gewicht, around several times, before she lifted her arm up and threw her naked projectile to the one person she truly wants to fight, Ryuko Kiryuin. The naked body of Gewicht blitzed upwards towards the summit of the watchtower, crashing into the Elite Four's lobby. Gewicht's trajectory ended with his body at a wall, and he slid into the ground, staining the sofa with his blood.
"Deutsch qualidad, my ass..." Ryuko growled at the German's failure, and using Bakuzan, slammed him out the nearby window of the office.
"Lady Ryuko, did you see what that chick even had on?" Tsumugu asked.
"It kinda looked like a bikini mixed with Sailor Moon's outfit!" Mako added.
"And somehow, it was powerful enough to beat a Two-Stars Goku uniform!" Shinjiro exclaimed, fascinated by the power Maiko recently gained.
"If that's what it's capable of against him, we're gonna be royally fucked…." Tsumugu said.
"Not yet…." Ryuko reassured the Elite Four. "I still got something...something that could turn the tide and humiliate this bitch out of my school if things really go south."
"What's that gonna be?" Mako asked.
"I'll tell you when the time comes…..in case Maiko Ogure gets any wise ideas."
Ryuko left the lobby, letting the Elite Four deal with the aftermath of Gewicht Tibo. She slowly walks up to the very of her perch in the watchtower, looking down on Maiko. The red-eyed girl was thrilled to finally see her target come out of her hiding spot.
"There you are Ryuko Kiryuin! Finally came out of hiding to see how sexy I look? Or do you have something else to tell me?" Maiko asked, blurting out to the microphone.
"So, you think you can bust into my school and be the new alpha?" Ryuko yelled back to her. "I admit, you were entertaining to watch when fighting off Tibo, but don't think I won't let ya frolic in Honnouji Academy freely. One wrong move and I'll make you regret even stepping foot in here!"
"So you're accepting me as a student here? Well hot damn, it would be quite an honor…."
In an instant, Maiko suddenly found her body start to get rather woozy, but she assumed it was just her feeling the sexiness of her outfit, while Ryuko seemed to think otherwise.
"What's wrong? Starting to lose your edge from being this horny?" Ryuko mocked her, smelling her moment of weakness.
"No….not even…." Maiko replied, her words starting to become slurred. By this point, everything was starting to become as blurry as Maiko would see things without her glasses on.
From the sidelines, Ira finally got to take some clothes from a nearby locker, and when he came back, he saw Maiko on the verge of passing out. Despite having such sleezy attire, Ira knew that wiithout her help, he would have ended up as a broken sculpture of ice. He ran back to the ripped off arena, pushing students left and right, before he dived to save Maiko's body.
Ryuko was ready to take Maiko's weapon away and restore order to Honnouji Academy, but she saw Ira taking Maiko out of the school and away from harm. Despite her brief appearance, Maiko managed to strike a cord in Ryuko's mind, especially with how she accused the president of killing her father. She figured, why stop the fun when it barely had begun?
"Ryuko, what are you doing? Go after that big buff guy!" Mako yelled, jumping up and down like a bunny rabbit.
"I could do that, but right now, I wanna see how this new jester will entertain me…..if you catch my drift." She replied, smirking with her vampiric smile.
The Elite 4 seemed to be intriuged by this idea, and followed Ryuko to clean up the mess in the lobby and formally expell Gewicht for his failure.