Book 6: Chapter 9


    <strong>Scarlet</strong>


    My interest quickly fully locks onto the tournament when the collegepetitors are teleported out and the next bunch ofpetitors are teleported in. Competitors including both the junior high and high school Guardians.


    Or, to be more specific, my interest locks on to Aria who I see standing somewhere in the middle of the few thousand students down there. All of them ranging from twelve to neen in age. Depending on when their birthdays were in the year. And assuming they didnt skip grades or get held back.


    Okay, Ill just stick to seventh through twelfth graders. More urate that way.


    And now!!! For the first time since the dawn of the Interschool Tournaments, we have ourpeting high schools and junior high schools! ck deres, a wide grin on his face. And wouldnt ya know it, but we actually have a few rather special individuals amongst this batch to! How much ya wanna bet you can pick out who I mean?


    I ignore the mans theatrics as I lean forward in my seat, finding the people in the VIP booth with me having gone silent with anticipation clearly on their faces.


    Many of you have been waiting for this for a while now, and dont worry, we have a pain nullifier set for these lovely kiddos should they wish to activate it, ck says before spinning in ce on therge screen above the stadium. Now for how thisll work! There will be three types ofpetitions! One for each grade level, one for the school level  whether theyre highschoolers or junior highschoolers  and one for all of them! And amongst these different types, there will be twopetitions within! One that is a direct tournament pitting the students against each other, and one that is just like the otherpetitions in the Interschool Tournament! It could be a maze, or maybe something like Demon Hunt or a puzzle house. But I can say for sure that it <em>will </em>involve using their powers in thepetition! And it <em>will </em>be different for every grade level!


    Yeah, I already knew all that. I also know what eachpetition is, simply because Im technically part of the tournament staff. Even if my only job is to stand up on a podium at the end and hand the winner a trophy with a smile on my face.


    A rather easy job.


    I do still have to admit though, the pain nullifier thing was a good idea. There were still a lot of parents against the whole letting the junior highschoolers enter the tournament. Not as much for the highschoolers though.


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    But putting a pain nullifier that lets them fully turn off any and all senses of pain is a really good way to circumvent that.


    All it like likely took for themittee behind the tournament to convince them after that was to tell them to think of the tournament asbat training for when their kids are acting as Guardians.


    Simple as that.


    And if I remember correctly


    Alright then! We will first start out with the seventh graderspetitions! Now whos with me?! ck shouts, making me nod my head in confirmation.


    Yep. Arias grade goes first.


    The crowd goes wild at his words, so he continues, Now, before we begin, I will go ahead and inform thepetitors now that just because you are a junior high school student <em>doesnt </em>mean you cantpete in the high schoolpetitions! And while you wont be earning points for your schools like the Guardians Universities are, you are still representing them! So keep that in mind!


    Pretty sure Aria said she would bepeting in both the junior high and high schoolpetitions.


    And here we have our very firstpetition of the Youths Interschool Tournament! ck deres right as the rules for the tournament appear floating high in the air above the stadium. This one will be a different form of Demon Huntpetition! Instead of being located within arge forest, like the regr Demon Hunt, these students will be located all across a vast maze! One where the demons will be growing stronger and stronger the closer to the center of the maze they get. But! He pauses, a smirk stretching across his face as he raises one finger. Unlike the regr Demon Huntpetition, this one has traps scattered about the maze for the students! And each trap they manage to sessfully disarm or avoid will give them points! One point for avoiding it and three for disarming!


    Yep. Thepetition itself seems rather interesting.


    Thest difference is a rather obvious one, as we have childrenpeting, ck says while pointing at the rules once more. The demons will all be ss I, with the strongest demon being a single Captain at the very center at level one hundred!


    Would be weird if that wasnt how it was. Theyre all kids after all. So having ss IIs and IIIs in there would be ridiculous.


    All of the students will be teleported randomly throughout the maze once thepetition begins, and each demon will count for a single point, ck continues as he begins to float into the air out of the booth hes in to end up midair high above the students with his arms crossed and a smirk on his face. And as an incentive for everyone of you, youll be able to turn in your points just like the college students, even if you arent getting university points like them!


    And that one simple statement immediately skyrockets their motivation to a visible extent. Clearly past what it was already at before.


    He certainly knows how to motivate them, thats for sure.


    I tap my finger on my arm, my arms crossed in front of me as well.


    Other than Aria, there should be several other sons and daughters of ss V Guardians. Even if none of their parents are Knights like Arias father.


    There is one particr Guardian down there though one in the same grade as Aria even


    Thisll definitely be interesting.


    Now! ck shouts while raising one arm. Lets begin!


    And dropping the arm again, making the maze appear in the center of the arena and all of the seventh graders appear inside of said maze at random.