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"You all should just give up!" Declared an approaching young man with messy blue hair and eyes, his student uniform was messed up and his whole demeanor screamed delinquent but in a 'bad boy' kind of way. His confidence and arrogance spoke of a playboy or a magician of old lineage, possibly both. It certainly explained why he was arriving late.
"You are late, sir." Kiba approaches with a small smile, the contrast between both is visible to all with the Knight of the devils playing his part being polite and understanding.
His counterpart didn't care. "I can assure you I'm right on schedule." Almost like a peacock he stood there full of confidence and looking directly at Rias. "I just wanted to get here when most of the losers had already quit to don't waste time."
Before Kiba could say any comment about the attitude of the magician, someone spoke from the crowd. "Have you lost your head Matou?" A young woman who steps forward walking out of the crowd full of confidence.
Her long wavy black hair was braided into two side-up holded by two black ribbons with the rest left loose, her figure was one entering her womanhood while her aqua eyes showed a fierceness that had other magicians opening the way.
If it wasn't obvious they knew each other it became apparent when the disposition of the blue haired male changed in seeing her. "Tohsaka-san!" Matou was still full of confidence and his smile grew to his acquaintance. "I didn't know you were coming to Kuoh, thought to be fair you may be here for the audition."
"I don't need to tell anything, Matou!" Tohsaka approaches the man and the two start a discussion.
While they were at it Akeno got closer to Rias and whispered. "Both the Matou and Tohsaka families are old blood in Japan, Matous coming from Russia had created roots here while the Tohsaka had a connection with the church at the beginning of the last century."
Rias hums at the intel, 'I heard about the Tohsaka family once. They supposedly had an in with a sorcerer at some point.' Then she decides to say. "And why are you late Matou-san? And if you repeat the excuse you gave before you won't have a chance to impress me!"
Far from being annoyed, the young man just looked more confident. "Please Rias-sama," he turns his full attention to her and gives a small bow, "I would hate for you to lose the chance of having the best magician of Japan on your side."
The comment may be arrogant and there were plenty in the audience who wanted to skin Matou alive at that but they said nothing with one exception. "I didn't know second place meant best!" Tohsaka challenged.
"Ah! But my dear Tohsaka-san, our paths in magic are different!" His confidence was unshaken. "You are a magus, while I am a spellcaster. And you can't be the best where you don't compete."
The tone was suave and the argument was solid, just not enough. "True, that still makes me the best magician." There was a story with those two but the Gremory King wasn't interested.
"While this banter is entertaining, you are interrupting us Matou-san." Rias said decisively, no criticism was made towards Tohsaka since she was waiting until her 'friend' showed up.
"Rias-sama, I can guarantee that I am the best option between all the magicians here present- No! In Fuyuki in general! If you truly are looking for a partner close to your age, look no further!" He raises his hands to the heavens and creates a purple magic circle that lets out a pulse.
For a second nothing happened. "That's it?" Asked one member of the audience but the Matou just smiled.
After a few more seconds there was a noise coming from the woods and everyone turned to look. A swarm of all kinds of insects were making their way, they were organized and marching by type; larvae, crickets, spiders were some of the exemples that came out of the woodwork together with bees, flies and butterflies.
The last ones come and various colors fly around the Matou who were moving to the table where the devils resided. He gives a charming smile and holds one of the most colorful butterflies Rias had ever seen. "For you my lady."
It was a show of power and skill, Rias accepted the butterfly with a smile, there was little reason for her to reject it. 'Did he planted insect familiars or he legitimately controlled the ones in the woods?' She knew that the butterflies are to distract her from the more… grotesque aesthetics of bugs but she didn't mind if it was useful. "Very impressive Matou-san." She gave credit where it was due.
"Please, call me Shinji." He was going for a suave approach and while the display of magic was impressive, depending on how he did it, that is, it was still not something inherently useful for her. "I can say for certain that no magician around here can do better than that."
A small explosion happened startling the blue haired man. Another two happened and then another and another and another. All the bugs that had approached were killed or were being burned and the one responsable was… "Allow me to disagree."
"TOHSAKA! WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Shinji's glares at the girl who was killing his familiars.
"What does it look like?" She moves a hand around shooting fire balls from her fingers. Once they were close enough to the swarm she detonated them, gaining a raised eyebrow from RIas.
'No magic circle and still such control…' The girl was using her small bombs and exterminating the insects. Shinji reacted by summoning more and sending them to attack the challenger.
Not missing a step, Tohsaka fishes something from her pocket and lets it fall on the ground. The green gem shone for a second and a barrier made of wind surrounded her, keeping the renewed swarm from reaching the magus.
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