If there is a winning strategy in an all-out battle, the first thing to do is to defend your own position with all your troops.

　When attacking the opponent's camp, you must divide it into defensive and offensive positions.
　This is because the moment an object is destroyed, the school is defeated.
　For this reason, the defenders should be placed on the field, even if there are only a few of them.
　As a result, the offensive team is at a disadvantage in terms of numbers when dealing with a school that is defending its own camp with all of its players.
　Under the current rules, this is the first way to avoid losing.

　Especially when other schools are in a scrappy situation, it is considered the most effective method.

　This is also the strategy that our school's canal was trying to use.
　But there was one more school - one more school.
　There was a school that decided to play a hole bear, even though there were a number of squads that were outgunned in defense.

　Branch 1.
　This is the school led by Lyna Shuha Warhat.

　She may seem like a reckless person, but she is calm in battle.
　Especially in battles where others are involved, she is extremely ruthless in her judgment.
　The fact that she was one of the first to try to form an alliance at the eve of the festival is proof of that.

　This time she had thought that this battle would be a melee from the moment Volfot had begun to say let's form an alliance.

　If she moved, she would be killed.
　With her animalistic decision-making abilities, Lyna sensed and decided not to move her camp.

　Indeed, if you didn't destroy the object, you wouldn't get any points added to it.
　This was because even if he survived to the end, he would only receive points from his last opponent and his object.

　As a result, you only get 1,000 points.
　In this regard, they would not be able to beat the fifth branch, which currently had a 1,200 point gap between them.
　However, the ruthless Lyna's decision-making abilities meant that even if they went on the offensive, they would not be able to catch up to Chapter 5.

　Instead, she decided that it was better to defend second place to death.

　There was still a reason.
　If he survived, he would be able to clear his nose at Lasell, who declared that he would win the entire victory.
　He thought that making that cocky [villager] chuckle was much more pleasant than winning the Kowloon Cup.

　And the last reason.

　It was to cut to the front and fight this woman (I'm not going to be able to do that).

'You showed up,'

　Lyna sat up from the forest stump where she had been sitting all along.
　Her peony eyes blazed with a glint in them.
　She bit her back teeth and tightened her childish face once more.

　Her black hair, tied into a side-tail, swayed.
　The wind gliding through the forest was cold as ice.
　And the voice that made Lyna's earlobes shake was also cold.

''I never thought.........that Lyna would fight like this.

　A woman appeared at the front of Chapter 1, her long silver hair swinging in the air.
　Her feminine skin and limbs were in direct opposition to Lyna's.
　There was a danger there, like a rose on ice.

''You're here, Vael.''

　Chapter 5--Vael Dee Livild.
　She was the president of the local government association and the girl who was feared as the 【Frozen Dog Witch】.

　Immediately, Vael was clad in ice.
　It looks like she's all ready for battle.

"Could it be that I'm alone......... --It can't be.

　That's right.
　It wasn't just Vael who came.
　There were a total of over four hundred people.
　Most of the students from Chapter 5 were gathering at the main camp in the forest guarded by Chapter 1.

''Looks like the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th branches were defeated. That's pathetic, how can we fight with four schools and lose?''

'It wasn't as easy as it sounds, though. If we'd been a little later in destroying the object, we might not have been able to withstand it.

Oh, yeah. So.... So it was a mistake for us not to be there.

'Maybe so. If Lyna had been there, we would have lost.

It's so obedient.

I'm just telling you the truth.

　If that had happened, Lacelle would have been forced to change tactics.
　Instead of going straight for the main school and Chapter 4 with a single rider, he would have checked Chapter 1.

　This time, because of the prominence of Chapter 4, it was the slightly less shadowy Chapter 1, but its ability was acknowledged by Lacelle.
　Therefore, it was very easy for the fifth branch to do the option of having Lyna defend their own camp.

''Well, there are only our school, Chapter 4, Lyna's Chapter 1 and our school left. Sooner or later, Chapter 4 will also fall. It should be only a matter of time for our school too.

So it's just us. You're really putting on a good show.

　Lyna kneads her magic.
　Her inherent wavelength is red.
　The red magical light twists and turns like a flame.
　At any moment, it seemed like it would melt the Vael standing in front of her.

　In contrast, the chairman also smiled thinly and was delighted to be able to fight the strong.

　Then, the two stopped moving for a moment.
　They stared in the same direction at the same time.

　A mountain.

　The mountain where the main school was camped.
　I felt a strange magical power from there now.
　It was quite a distance from the mountain to the forest.
　Normally, it's impossible to detect magical power at this distance without using magic.

　But it's such an enormous amount of magical power that it doesn't require that [Reverse Detection].

　That's what has now pierced the mountain that our school is protecting.

　Vael laughs.
　Slowly, I turned around to Lyna.
　The girl who has the nickname [Purgatory's Firewheel] also exchanged glances with her lifelong rival.

''Unfortunately, it seems we're a supporting cast.

You're right. Are you okay?　Don't go to help....

No need.

　Vael laughs again.
　Like ice.......... Severely..........

　No problem.

　You can't lose to Lacelle Singh Stark.........

　It's not just Vael.
　The other students of the fifth branch had the same look in their eyes.
　It was as if there were four hundred Lacellees.

''Come on, let's have some fun over here, Lyna.

Yes. We've prepared a battlefield for you to fight on, and you're a good opponent. We have to enjoy it.

Dance well.

I'll give it back to you in its entirety.

　Then they both kicked the ground at the same time.

　That was their cue.
　Chapter 1, 588 people.
　Chapter 5, 405 members.

　A true all-out war was about to begin.