Tournament (Japan Match)

"It's a first-strike plan."

"......We're hiding the healer too?"

"Yeah. But like I said, the same approach we used against Iran won't work. I don't know how much mana Lady Iroha spent, but by the day of the tournament, she'll have recovered enough to smash a tree like that in a single blow."

So his explanation was that we had to attack first and take out as many A-ranks as possible.

He said that since Japan's B-ranks had suffered heavy losses, winning wouldn't be impossible if we could deal with the A-ranks.

It was true that if we just stalled from range, Iroha's indiscriminate meteor shower barrage could reduce us to ashes. A surprise close-quarters assault had better odds than a clumsy outboxing strategy.

I quietly clenched my fist and nodded.

"Let's do it. I've had enough sushi in Athens, so I'm counting on all of you."

"Pfft...! In that case, maybe you should think it over one more time."

"Huh? Why?"...