Magoichi sat on top of the tower as he looked out into the night smiling and grinning. His little stunt had proven a MASSIVE success and it certainly made the other un-winged birdies prepare to get winged before they ended up like those who got wiped out so many hours ago. He didn't really smoke, that was David's territory, and quite frankly he found the things disgusting to an extreme. But only because his parents smoked around him and he hated it. Besides that he'd have to pay even MORE money than he already did buying out this damn city if he was a chain smoker. Whatever what did money matter to him? He was already a massive success at this point so why bother with it himself when he had other people to do it for him? Magoichi sniffed and sneezed, "Well it seems that things are going to get interesting around here indeed...and people need to stop talking about me I hate sneezing all the damn time!" Magoichi shouted in frustration as he looked back at the elevator. "Three....two....one." He muttered as the elevator opened to the face of a rather disgusted looking David Summerset. "So why did you do it?" David asked him as he shrugged noncommittally, "Nice to see you too David are you that much in a hurry to blow me up into one billion different pieces." Magoichi said trying not to laugh at his friend's face. He was met with a cold stare by David whom pulled out a cigar from his coat pocket and lit it then leaned over the railing to look out on the city, "That was pretty low and may I say it's just like you." David simply stated at Mago who laughed and laughed and laughed some more and David waited until he stopped which was quite a bit, "Oh yes because I am a cruel man after all! But fine...I can't exactly be a 'King' if my subjects refuse to play the game and since my bishop is not going to make any moves for me I have to move myself." David looked at Magoichi again and then back into the city taking a long whiff of his cigar and then breathed it out, "So you killed a couple of them to make a point? Ruthless and efficient...but at least it got the job done. You motivated all of them do get ready. I'll allow it to pass this time old friend but don't keep messing with the pawns. I'd hate to send our enforcers out to wipe them out." David said plainly as Magoichi nodded. "Oh and one more thing David-" Magoichi started to say before he turned around, for two reasons one of which was to show David some respect and the other to get away from the smoke the whiffed across his face, "I know." David replied as he walked away.
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Meanwhile....
The dark skinned sekirei finally arrived back at her ashikabi's home in that giant tower of his with a look of exhaustion on her face. She had been tailing these wingless ones all day long and it was starting to turn into one hell of a chore....all well it was fun to see a few of them get winged and she valued the challenge it would bring to her knowing that there was those out there without wings that she could possibly get to turn to her side so to speak. Well one way or another she'd probably have to get allies seeing as this damn tournament was getting more and more complicated. Whatever the King decided how things would go as he usually did, "Oh come on..." she growled as she picked the lock to her master's bedroom. She didn't want to knock loudly and wake everyone up at this hour of the night and besides her companions may not look to brightly on being woken up either she supposed. After a couple of minutes she finally managed to unlock this ridiculously complicated mechanism before she opened the door quietly. "Hey you awake my prince?" She asked slyly as she giggled as the man groaned. He rubbed his head and eyes and then looked over to his sekirei. He was known as The Prince and his competitor, The Mastermind was always right beside him in the contest to outdo each other. It had been two weeks and the slug fest was starting to tire out even her ashikabi. He looked up at the girl and waited for her explanation, "Well nice to see you two I suppose I hope I didn't wake you from anything important? Well regardless I have the records you asked for." She said as The Prince nodded, "Good I hope it wasn't too hard? Just put it into the disk drive over there on that laptop." The Prince told his sekirei whom nodded. The girl moved quickly and got the disk into the computer as The Prince put on his glasses and looked at the screen, "Well it was fairly difficult I did have to move in and crack the HMTAI database after all. Damn discipline squad members were scattered around the building. Do they even sleep the pricks..." the sekirei growled quietly as the ashikabi acknowledged his sekirei's hard work with a kiss on the cheek and a grateful smile, "Good work darling." he commented as he looked at the computer and the list of sekirei eliminated....mostly by a man known as The Warlord....and the unexpected initiation of this new optional stipulation wasn't even logged onto the damn thing. "Well then there's no names of the other main competitors but we do have the most recently winged sekirei on the list correct?" The Prince asked his Sekirei as he scrolled through the piling amounts of data. His sekirei nodded as she pointed out a list of photos and locations on the list. The Prince groaned, "I was hoping to avoid working with others but this is pulling me back into the hole it seems....when Mutsu wakes up we get moving." The Prince stated as his sekirei nodded and then bid her ashikabi good night as she vanished through the threshold of the building.

-Timeskip next day 1:00-
Waking up Brandon wondered if this was all just some sick dream that his hormones had riled up in some way shape or form. But nope when he woke up in his bed the next morning he was laying next to the girl Izumi. She was snuggled up against him which made him feel awkward and he wondered if she fell asleep like that or she was that close on purpose. Regardless Izumi decided to wander around town for a bit before she could meet up with her ashikabi. She wanted to see what the status was around town after that little fight. She confidently had told him not to worry but he was anyway. HOW in the world was he going to explain this to his parents? You don't just score a girl like Izumi without reason like he had. Ah man this was going to turn out to be a mess. Regardless Brandon was done classes for today so he was just sitting down when Jake slapped him on the back, "Hey kiddo you feelin' ok?" Jake asked him as Brandon started to wonder....was he alright? "I'm a lot of things right now but OK isn't what I'd call it. Let's just say I had a hard night man I got involved in helping a person out and it went down hill quick." Brandon stated as Jake laughed, "You look ok to me man! Look just go to the cops if it's that big of a deal. Don't worry so much you're not some chump that just takes things sitting down I'm sure you'll be ok!" Jake said confidently. Brandon wasn't as optimistic.