When we arrived at the Kendo Club, we were met with inteares.

  As the academy's "mascot," Koneko was used to the attention.

  And as a bit of a campus celebrity myself, I wasn't fazed either. Though, the jealous gres from the male kendo club members were hard to miss.

  First, I had mao get close to Rias and Akeno, and noith Koneko. If they could, they probably would have executed me on the spot!

  But I'd ehis kind of scrutiny tless times before. So, I ighe murderous looks from the guys.

  Just as I was lost in thought, a girl with reddish-brown hair in twin-tails, wearing a kendo uniform, interrupted my musings.

  "Hibari-san, is there something you need from the Kendo Club? Are you perhaps thinking of joining?"

  I looked at the girl's face, but instead of answering her question immediately, I searched my memories for information about her.

  Her name was Tomoe Meguri, from a family of exorcists in Kyoto, and she was Student cil President Sona Sitri's Knight.

  After her for a few seds, I calmly stated, "Tomoe-san, I apologize for the intrusion. I'm here today to challehe Kendo Club."

  "Challenge?"

  Tomoe's smile slowly faded, and her expression turned sour. Anger fred in her eyes.

  Challenging the Kendo Club was basically the same as pig a fight with them!

  Even Koneko was shocked, not knowing what to say...

  "Hibari-san, do you have any idea what you're saying?" Tomoe's voice was no longer as cheerful as before. Her anger was barely tained.

  Even though I had expected this kind of rea, I couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

  I suppressed the bitterness welling up inside me, sighed helplessly, and expined, "I do. But I have my reasons... and my main target is you..."

  "What? You've got some nerve! I don't care what your reasons are, but as a shut-in, you're challenging me right off the bat? Just how much do you look down on our Kendo Club?!"

  Tomoe ractically ughing with a my words. She had heard some rumors about me around the academy and thought I olite and modest person. But now, it seemed that arrogance was my true nature.

  "I know my as are rude, but I really have no other choice... I hope you uand, Tomoe-san." A bitter feeling welled up inside me.

  After this, Student cil President Sona Sitri would probably e looking for me to lecture me. She might even try to make me her peerage member, just like Rias...

  "Fine! Since you insist, I'll grant your wish!" Tomoe said with a cold expression. clearly pnning to put me in my pce.

  "Hibari-san, I'll accept your challenge. But you'll have to defeat the other members of the Kendo Club first before you face me."

  Hearing Tomoe's words, I replied, "No problem."

  "Did you all hear that? I don't o say anything more." Tomoe said to the surrounding Kendo Club members, her face stern.

  Hearing their captain's words, the other members felt a surge of untrolble anger. Someone had e to challehem, which was a huge insult to every member!

  I calmly walked over to a rack of wooden swords and picked one up.

  " we start now?"

  "Yes! I won't have everyone gang up on you. You choose your oppos. If you win, you challenge me. If you lose, you'll leave the Kendo Club immediately! And for Rias-senpai and the others' sake, I'll pretend this never happened. But the Kendo Club will no longer wele you."

  Although Tomoe thought I was arrogant, she saw that I had e with Koneko, so she assumed I was friends with Rias and Akeno.

  She didn't want to make things too difficult for me, fearing that Rias might pin to the Student cil President ter, which would be a hassle.

  However, I shook my head and said something that ehe entire Kendo Club, "There's no need for that. You all e at me at once."

  "..."

  Koneko: Hibari-senpai....

  The room fell silent. The other Kendo Club members saw the icy expression on their captain's face.

  Oher hand, I seemed pletely oblivious to the fact that I had just said something incredibly arrogant. I stared at Tomoe, waiting for her answer.

  "In that case, I have nothing more to say. Everyotack together!" Hearing their captain's cold and, all the members exged gnces, gripped their wooden swords, and charged at me!

  But despite this, I remained exceptionally calm.

  ...

  I stood with my left hand behind my back, my feet shoulder-width apart, and my right hand gripping the wooden sword.

  Seeing my staomoe couldn't help but sneer inwardly. It looked like I had never learned swordsmanship.

  Fighting like that ractically suicide. But the moment, she was stunned, her eyes wide with disbelief.

  I coated my wooden sword with bbsp;Armament Haki and, without moving from my spot, swung it forward.

  With several cracks, the wooden swords of the charging Kendo Club members were all sliced, and they were sent flying backward.

  However, I held back against two of the girls. The rest of the members were now lying on the ground, groaning in pain.

  I g the two girls, and familiar images fshed through my mind.

  If my memory served me right, these two girls should be members of Sona Sitri's peerage: Tsubasa Yura, the Rook, and Reya Kusaka, the Bishop!

  "You two lovely dies, how about surrendering?"

  "I... I surrender..." Yura stammered, looking at the se in shock. Kusaka, standing beside her, quickly followed suit.

  "I didn't know Hibari-senpai was so skilled in swordsmanship!"

  "That's right, that's right! Why was Hibari-senpai pretending to be weak?"

  Looking over, I saw the two girls staring at me with hearts in their eyes. Great, twirls had fallen head over heels.

  "..."

  Tomoe stared bnkly at the se before her. If my earlier as had made her furious, and she wao use all her strength.

  Now, her face was undoubtedly filled with a burning fighting spirit!

  It seemed that the rumors about me were pletely unfounded.

  Tomoe's mind was rag, imagining all sorts of fantastical sarios. And as she thought about it, the fighting spirit on her pretty fatensified.

  I had no idea what she was thinking.