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again.
Jeez, you’ve gotta be kidding me—
    Rentaro cut off the pain sensors at the same time the chain on the bottom of Tamaki’s boots started making a violent sound. He immediately threw up his artificial right arm and left leg in defense. A second later, his artificial skin and his uniform were completely shaved off, and the sound of Varanium on Varanium rang metallically through the whole gymnasium.
    Rentaro had been thrown back, but for some reason, he did not fall to the ground. Instead, he was suddenly caught by something soft and flexible behind his back. It felt like a boxing glove. He was shocked when he looked behind him. Wrapped around his back were sparkling threads of light.
    It was spider silk.
    In the back of his mind, an image of Yuzuki flying over him earlier with a thin trail of light behind her overlapped with what he saw. She probably had the ability to create a territory by puttingup invisible strings in the spaces where she walked. Earlier, when they surrounded and encircled Rentaro and Tina, she had already completed her preparations.
    At that, another suspicion raised its head:
Why wasn’t Tamaki accidentally caught by the invisible threads?
As he thought this, the existence of Tamaki’s amber sunglasses suddenly passed through the back of his mind. Perhaps there was some sort of special treatment applied to them—a treatment that would allow him to see the invisible threads…
    Rentaro finally understood the way these siblings fought. As his sister created a territory to drive the prey into, Tamaki used his chain saw with its immense attack power to violently fell their opponents. It was a bad joke that a pair using such an elaborate strategy had not gotten any further than IP Rank 1,850.
    At that moment, a dark shadow crossed Rentaro’s body. It was Tamaki, swinging his fists with that horrifyingly metallic sound. Rentaro twisted his body desperately, but that made the threads around him stretch more, and the more he panicked, the worse his situation became.
    He used all the tension in his body in one instant to crouch and evaded Tamaki’s fist in the nick of time. A veering whir passed by his ear, and he shivered like a block of ice had been slipped down his back. Lifting his leg reflexively, he stopped the fist that came at him with the sole of his right shoe. The chain saw buzzed and sparked as it played the rubber, but Rentaro bore it, gritting his teeth.
    Tamaki, certain that he would win, stepped back for a moment, twisted his body around and added a circular motion as he lifted his leg to plow a kick into Rentaro. Along the way, the chain started rotating with a roar. This was bad. “Die, ya bastardddd!”
    Rentaro fired the cartridge in his leg.
Bam!
From his right leg, the cartridge shot out with the sound and force of an explosion. With the tremendous kickback, he was able to tear through the threads and ducked under Tamaki’s kick; he braked with his left and darted directly behind Tamaki.
    “Wha…?!” Tamaki exclaimed.
    Rentaro wasted no time in hitting his calves with a hard blow. Tamaki couldn’t bear it and let out a groan as he fell to his knees. Rentaro looked at him contemptuously and raised his right leg high, then held it for a moment directly above his head.
    Tendo Martial Arts Second Style, Number 4—
    “
Inzen Jokahanameishi!
” Rentaro’s heel fell with the speed of a guillotine and hit the back of Tamaki’s head. There was a roar, and his face sank into the floor of the gym.
    Feeling victorious, Rentaro exhaled, then calmed his breathing and his heart. The spectators were speechless. Rentaro came out of his stance, scratched the back of his head, and looked down at Tamaki.
    Did I kill him?
he wondered.
Well, Tamaki was trying to kill me
. He exhaled through his nose. Tamaki had yelled, “Die, ya bastardddd!” at the end, while obviously coming at Rentaro with the intent to kill, so it was legitimate self-defense, and there was a crowd to witness