After all the character building and whatnots, a new S-rank adventurer arrived in the kingdom. A fist master named "Hijiri". Yes, she's a pretty girl with massive tiddies who's tomboyish. She was hailed as the strongest S-rank adventurer for a short time while Haise and Sasha's party were in the labyrinths. She came to the kingdom to fight the strongest. Number one in her list is Haise, he declined. Number 2 was Sasha. She declined. Hijiri made a request to the guild to subjugate herself with a reward of 5000 gold. 5000 gold is enough to live a comfortable life for a lifetime without having to work. Numerous adventurers from B-S rank challenge her but were quickly defeated even as a team. Since she defeated tons of challengers, even S-ranks, many are relying on Haise and Sasha to defeat her. It's also to know who's the stronger of the two. I honestly think it's Haise since Sasha needed buffs from Tycoon and protection from Reynold just to defeat Shoggoth jr while Haise only had help from Chocolatte against Orochi jr once by blocking its attack. Anyway, going back to Hijiri. After defeating tons of challengers, she saw Haise again. She not only offered the gold reward but also her body. She claimed that she has no experience with it aka virgin and thought Haise would like it since everyone's been telling her how much of a beauty she is with banging body. She invited him for a meal in the place where Haise usually eats. In there, she told Haise of her backstory and why she wants to be the strongest. She's an abandoned child who was left in front of a dojo of Wingoo style, considered as the weakest of the weakest martial art, in the country of Oolong (not sure if accurate). She was raised by the old lady who's also the head of that dojo as the heir since the lady doesn't have any heir. She had many suitors before since she was beautiful, but she rejected them all until the wall hit her hard. She's been single since forever. The grandma's dream is to become the strongest, in which also became Hijiri's dream. Grandma died of old age. Now she aims to be the strongest. Haise contemplated. Both of them want to be the strongest but the reasons why are different. She told him her backstory to give Haise the reason why she wanted to fight him. Haise finally agreed but only if she won against Sasha since Hijiri saw Sasha as weak who heavily relies on her teammates. Hijiri also called out Sasha that she will become a dictator sooner or later who will kick out anyone she doesn't need. It struck Sasha the worst due to how she kicked Haise out of the party when he didn't know anything about his skill. It stuck on her. Because of that, she was down and went to her favorite bar to unwind on a small alleyway. This is the place where she can be true to herself and the bartender, who is an old man in his 60s, knows her true self very well. The bartender made Sasha realize that everything she had done was all part of "Sasha" and must accept who she is and to not pretend. The next day, Hijiri came to Sacred's guild house again to challenge Sasha, and now, Sasha accepted it.
Fights between two adventurers are forbidden, however, duels are not prohibited. Duels between S-rank adventurers require the approval of the royal family, 3 witnesses, and a place to fight. Haise, Geist, and Apollo were chosen as witnesses. Who's Apollo? Well... He's a bald burly gay guy wearing a nun's clothing with makeup and lots of earrings. He's also the best healer in the kingdom and the head of the Church where anyone who has healing skills must answer to. And yes, S-rank. He can revive a dead person if it's within 24-hours of death. So even if either Hijiri or Sasha died in the duel, they won't stay dead. Apollo was also supposed to heal Haise's eye but was too late since he was outside the capital when it happened. When he arrived, a day already passed. So Sasha and Hijiri's fight started. Sasha went all out right from the start dealing a flurry of slashes but Hijiri was able to deflect them all. Sasha got punched in the stomach so hard she vomitted blood. After that, Sasha decided to fight dirty. She threw dirt at Hijiri using her sword to blind her. Then again, she threw her sword at Hijiri, which is unacceptable for a swordsman, and quickly punching Hijiri in the abdoment with an aura-induced punch. Hijiri was severely damaged by it. She revealed her skill, Metal Master, and now making anything made out of metals, mostly orichalcum. Shields, weapons, anything, just to win. The two slugged it out after that slashing and punching left and right, blood spurting everywhere and their hot bodies slowly being revealed due to tattered clothes and armors. The finale arrived and both used their trump cards. Sasha used excalibur, Hijiri used a hand made out of the strongest metal. Sasha lost due to being unconscious after the clash while Hijiri remained conscious despite both being badly injured. Apollo healed both and Sasha woke up. She realized that her weakness is 1-on-1 fights because she heavily relied on her team to win while Hijiri and Haise are soloists so they're used to 1v1s and 1 vs many and both girls congratulated and accepted each other as strong adventurers. Hijiri didn't accept that she won but instead a draw because her type of victory is overwhelming victory.
