Chapter 33: Sekirei school
( Yuuki's POV )
The next day we are at the dojo with a whiteboard, to do a little class on what a Sekirei is, Matsu and I did this, especially for Chiho and Akitsu but the others decided to come too.
Matsu: ok, today's first topic will be, what is a Sekirei.
When Matsu starts her lesson, I draw chibi versions of Tsukiumi, Kuno, Yashima, and Chiho on the board.
Matsu: everyone here already knows the basics, there is not much difference between a human and a Sekirei except for the Sekirei core, so we'll go straight to the special cases.
Matsu pulls out a pointer from her sleeve and she points to the drawing of chibi Akitsu on the board.
Matsu: discarded number, by Minaka's orders all Sekirei from No. 2 to No. 108 is tuned with a limiter and a switch to be terminated inside the Sekirei mark on the back of our necks, a discarded number do not have either of these two which makes them quite strong at the price of not being able to be winged.
My next drawing is a jinki marked with the number eight below the drawing of Akitsu.
Matsu: since a discarded number is the result of bad tuning, this can be fixed with the help of a jinki and a strong ashikabi, just like Yuu-tan did with Akitsu-tan.
Akitsu shows a big smile when she remembers what happened yesterday and she stops paying attention to the class.
Matsu: *cough* Next, we will talk about the naturally born sekireis, a long time ago, four spaceships descended to earth in search of ahikabis, each of these ships contained 108 life forms, sekireis, one of those ships had some problems and the 108 sekireis remained asleep until a short time ago, but we'll talk about that later.
Matsu: the descendants of the Sekireis of those three ships form almost the entire population of the world, and among those descendants, are the ashikabis participating in the Sekirei plan, and in extremely rare cases a person with a natural Sekirei core is born, currently, there are only two cases in the MBI database, Kurokawa Yuuki and Hidaka Chiho.
Chiho: Hey? Me?
Yuuki: please raise your hand when you have a question Chiho.
Chiho: Oh, I'm sorry.
Although I only said that as a joke, Chiho apologized and waited for Matsu to continue her lesson, cute.
Matsu: Naturally born Sekireis cannot be tuned and also do not have a limiter or a Sekirei mark, this can cause different physical problems, only the MBI has successfully treated these cases.
When Matsu paused, Chiho immediately raised her hand.
Chiho: Does that mean I can jump buildings like Yuuki?
Yuuki: correct, after proper training of course your body is still adjusting to your Sekirei core.
Uzume: do not be so impatient, you will have many opportunities to experience new things.
Chiho: right... I didn't think I'd be hearing that from you though.
Uzume: hey!
Matsu: * COUGH * all of these different forms of sekireis use their abilities in three different ways, the first type and the most common uses the energy of its Sekirei core in the body to increase strength, speed, and resistance, in addition, many of these use some type of weapon, the second type specializes in using their energy to create and control different elements or phenomena outside their body such as controlling water, ice and thunder, and the last type are sekireis who can only use their abilities with certain conditions, These can be wildly different abilities, for example, Kuno's abilities only work when she sings and mine connect to any kind of technology, we can refer to these as type-1, type-2, and type-3 respectively, any questions?
I continue drawing on the whiteboard to show everything Matsu was explaining and when she finishes, Akitsu and Chiho raise their hands to ask questions.
Matsu: yes, Akitsu.
Akitsu: What type does Yuuki belong to?
Matsu: hmm? I would say that he belongs to type-2, but he has abilities of all three types, Yuuki gains abilities from all of the sekireis he gives wings to, but it is technically possible for a normal Sekirei to learn abilities from any of these types with enough training, but except for us all the other Sekireis only concentrate on improving what they are already good at, ok Chiho your turn.
Chiho: What type am I and when will I be able to jump buildings?
Matsu: I think you could be type-3, that type of sekireis always have a slightly weaker body than the other sekireis and jumping buildings, is that important?
Chiho: Yes!
Yuuki: I think after a week or so of training you will be able to jump buildings.
Chiho had stars in her eyes when she heard my answer and she was impatient to start her training.
Matsu: Alright it's time to start the practical part of our lesson!
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( 1 week later )
During this week we had a class every day, which covered all the information about the Sekireis, the Sekirei plan, our goals after winning, and who we would be facing, and at the end of each class, we had our normal training.
Just like Matsu said, Chiho was a type-3 Sekirei, her ability allowed her to use the abilities of other Sekirei she touched for a short time, but she was more focused on physical training, I spent the whole week focused on her since she was currently the weakest Sekirei among us, Chiho's firsts attempts to jump a building were quite funny, she was so excited that she ended up hitting her head on fire escapes or completely missing the edge of the roofs she wanted to reach, and of course, I caught her every time.
Chiho was never discouraged with any failure and she only got happier when after a week she managed to jump a building perfectly.
Akitsu spent the week fighting Tsukiumi, Mitsuki, and Miu, she was very dedicated to reaching their level and whenever she wasn't training she was three steps behind me, to protect me she always said.
Uzume, Chiho, and Akitsu got used to our daily life quickly, while I was a bit impatient for the last part of the Sekirei plan to start.
Tsukiumi and I had reached the limit of our power in this universe and the only way to break our limits is with the help of the eight jinkis and kouten or a life and death fight against someone stronger than us, and the only person stronger than us in this world is Miya.
a few days ago kouten appeared on top of the MBI building, indicating that the final battle was near.
I was sitting on the roof of my house when a video started playing on my smartphone, the person responsible for this was Minaka giving one of his classic speeches, but I didn't pay much attention to it, the only thing that mattered to me was that the final battle was about to begin.
When Minaka finished his message Mitsuha went up to the roof to inform me.
Mitsuha: Yuuki, Minaka just appeared on TV.
Yuuki: yeah, I know.
I get up and look at kouten one more time, I extend my hand towards it and say in my mind 'wait for me Hilda, Ana, Ema. '