Back to the guy who is kinda the actual protagonist

“Tooooo!!!”

Sanakia attempted yet another clumsy attack, which I avoided with ease.

I was trying to lose.

Seriously.

But the Galmon managed to expertly thwart every attempt at it.

“Why aren't you fighting back?”, Sanakia shouted, while panting heavily. “Are you trying to humiliate me?”

Funnily enough, right now, that was indeed my strategy.

I would attempt to try to **** Sanakia to surrender, get cocky while doing so and let her attack me in a rage. Then I would act like I was caught off guard, have her slice my arm off and use the pain as an excuse to surrender.

That was easier said then done, though. To begin with, it seemed extremely unlikely that Sanakia would be able to swing her sword with enough **** to even badly wound my arm. I would have to stumble into her or something.

“Enough!”, the Galmon suddenly screamed. “I will not stand for this! You hear me? I WILL NOT!”

Well, she was spirited at least.

Giving me one more enraged glare, Sanakia took a deep breath.

Then, the girl knight started to strip out of her armor.

...what?

For a few seconds I couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing. It goes without saying that Sanakia was completely open by doing so but I was so taken aback that there wasn’t much acting required. I just stared dumbfounded at her.

The Galmon on her part was equally embarrassed. “To think that I have to debase myself to this level”, she grinded her teeth. “You will pay dearly for this indignation!”

Nobody **** you to perform a striptease, you know.

Soon, she confronted me in what appeared to be her under...uhh..armor. I gulped. That certainly looked...uh…

“Tooo!!!”

“Argh!”

Sanakia went on the offensive again and woah! She is definitely faster now! I mean, I suppose that goes without saying. Unfortunately, my reflexes took over and I almost automatically avoided her attacks while keeping my focus on her nice, jiggling boobs.

“Stop staring you creep! This ends here! Toooo!!! SOARING DRAGON ATTACK!”

With a spectacular throw, Sanakia hurled her sword high in the air. It was quite impressive actually and I was genuinely taken by surprise as she lounged forward and tackled me to the ground.

“Haha! It worked! You simpleton! My sword was merely a diversion!”

I had to admit, I was actually somewhat impressed. The Galmon's next course of action was apparently to try to suffocate me to **** with her giant boobs.

Good! I should be able to use that as an excuse to surrender.

Unfortunately, Sanakia hadn't accounted for one thing.

Gravity.

Stab.

Sanakia's longsword managed to skewer itself perfectly into her skull, killing the Galmon instantly.

“Sexy-knight Sanakia has killed herself! This is ruled as a suicide! Hence she surrendered to Mari!”

"The amber assassin, Mari Beta advances to the finals!"

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..

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“My most heartfelt congratulations to winning Bracket A, Mr. Beta. Not only that, but with a perfect **** slam to boot! What a tremendous achievement! A bona fide **** slam!”

My complete silence was apparently taken as inquisitive. The official gave me a bright smile and was all too eager to explain. “Why, ending every single match of the preliminaries with a surrender! In the entire tournaments history only 41 combatants have ever achieved such a feat! You will be number 42! How heroic! How marvelous! I can not even begin to stress how impressive such a...”

I wasn't really paying attention to the man's jovial banter. How could I? I just doomed Aiju. Having absolutely zero interest in this conversation I just agreed my way through it.

Perhaps there was still hope, I deluded myself as I made my way out of the office. Perhaps I could still make amends to Ojou-sama. No. Deep down I knew that was it. I will never see Aiju again. I felt feverish as I remembered her face.

“Maaaaaaari!”

Ugh, I could even hear her voice!

Boing.

Then a certain catgirl hugged me.

“Mari! Mari! Good job winning!”, the galmon said, grinning up at me with a big smile on her face. She looked fine. Unhurt and most importantly happy.

“Ah...” I had no idea how to react. All my tension vaporized in an instant. My mind blanked out.

I laughed and patted her head.

Then I fainted.