The tournament day arrived.
Honestly so far things have gone exactly as expected. Almost everyone I fought went down in less then a minute once we engaged in combat. Except one guy who lasted three minutes because he kept running hoping lure me into a ring out. Fucking coward made me reveal my wing bits. Early on I noticed Allen Adam. The Kijima siblings uncle and a teacher at Gunpla Acedemy. Shia Kijima was sitting next to him. I seem to have caught their gazes. My next fight is against Andou in the semi finals. Win and I will increase my chance of gettin scouted. Lose and I fade to obscurity.
'Fighters to your positions.'
I stood up, and walked to the arena made of 7 hexagonal projection tables. Andou tried trash talking me but honestly I wasn't listening and wouldn't care either. He the hasn't changed his Gunpla at all I've noticed from his fights. He must think my victory was solely because I blitzed him. Fool, only an idiot changes nothing after losing.
"Oi, Andou." I interrupted his trash talk rant
"I'll give you a handicap it will be no fun if you get sniped by my Dainsleif again. After all you won't accept me beating you again so quickly. Honestly it would be boring too. So I wont use my Dainsleif Railguns."
Honestly Dainsleifs are op. I mean even in IBO they were called the forbidden weapon.
I noticed Allen Adam's raise his eyebrows. As I clearly implies that not only had I beaten Andou before. Afterall Andou is infamous for his fighting and skill. But I did it extremely quickly as well. That appears to catch Shia's attention as well. She supposedly could understand a Gunpla's "Feelings". I'll just not think about that and chock it up to anime.
He gritted his teeth.
"Don't go making excuses when I beat you!" He was mad. Good.
'Please set your GP Base'
'Model Damage: Set to B'
'Field: 09 Canyon'
We loaded in and I just stood there with Goetia's arms crossed. The GN Reaver, as I decided to call it, planted in the ground. 30 seconds passed when I detected his fangs aproaching on the radar. I deployed a GN barrier blocking all of them.
"Is that your best?"
The angrier an opponent the more likely to make mistakes.
I gave him the first hit now it's mine turn. I lunched into the air. Thankfully the canyon map had no obvious cover. He started firing at me with his revolvers. With a coordinated assault with his fangs. It was like dodging in a bullet hell shooter especially once he used his Fist of the End. It was too late when I notice he herded, me to where one of his shots would be. The beams collided directly a massive dust cloud exploded outward.
"Hahahahah. Serves you right for you arrogance." His puplis constricted suddenly as he saw I was only scratched. No major damage after taking a full barge from his attack mode. Admittedly I did have to use my GN field at the last second to off set the damage. Otherwise I would be much more damaged. But I wouldn't tell him that.
"Well I don't want to be hit again. I was hoping to save this for the finals against Wilfred Kijima. However I done, Goetia engage Tran-Am-Rampage." Weirldy Gunpla had special abilities wether a mode change or special form. It was kinda cringe having to call them out, but whatever.
Goetia adopted the bright red glow of Trans-am the partical emission was absurd and accelerating. Goetia's red color darkened into a dark reddish purple. I pointed the GN Reaver in rifle mode at Andou's Gundam.
"Ars Nova!" A thin beam fired from my weapon time seemed to slow down. Andou tried to dodge. However it didn't matter. The beam struck the ground followed by a colossal explosion I think I almost triggered a field break. Andou's Gundam was instantly evaporated.
'Winner Gin Murasaki.'
In the brief time before the match ended. I noticed that using the Ars Nova forcibly ends my Trans-am-Rampage. Make sense it's an all our nothing attack. You know that name is kind of a mouthful I'll make it's something more thematic for Goetia later. Maybe Ars Paulina would be fitting.
I was walking back to the green room. When I spotted Allen Adam's and a 11 year old girl, Shia Kajima, standing in the hall in from of the green room. I'm just now realizing how little my parents actually care about how weird my situation is I'm 12. A 12 year old should not know how to use Modeling software and program. Although 12 year old me could program before the memories any way I guess.
Shia pointed at me. He turned and spotted me.
"Ah Gin Murasaki congratulations on your victory."
"Thank you." It would've been faster had I said I wouldn't use my Dainsleif. Hard to dodge a solid projectile moving 4.5 times the speed of sound afterall."
His eyes widened at the prospect of that.
The main reason the Dainsleif was even dodged in IBO is that McGillis knew how it worked. In other words you have to dodge preemptively. At a closer range dodging is impossible. It would punch clean through Phase shift armor and probably a GN field aswell. Afterall it could bunch through the heaviest of armor in IBO with out any resistance. Nanolaminate is not like phase shift armor. Phase shift armor is relatively fragile to the thing it's not supposed to block. Nanolaminate is genuinely strong armor on top of its near immunity beam weaponry.
"Well, your Gunpla is a masterpiece. Is it a complete custom build?"
"Yes I programmed and printed every part. I only used pre-made parts as reference for design and programming data. By the way who is this?" I said gesturing to the girl next to him.
"Ah! This is my niece Shia Kijima. Introduce yourself."
Did basically the opposite.
"Why do you build? Why do you fight?"
Hmmm I've never really thought about it. Even after I got my memories back. I could've just been. A enjoyer of Gundam and build the kits. Nothing forced me to start fighting.
"I build because I love Gundam. I fight because I want to show the world what i can do and how far I can go. Goetia is my ideal. Strong, always improving, but never perfect."
"Why never perfect?"
I was sure she was testing my mentality. She's not as smart as wilfrid, as terrifying as that thought is. However that doesn't mean she's not a genius.
"Perfection is a lie you can only chase it, never be it."
She smiled at my response
"I'm Shia Kijima." she was smiling and really cute.
"I'm Gin Murasaki, but you obviously already know that. To what do I owe the pleasure."
"Ah? Yes, originally we came to this tournament to scout Andou if he made it to the semifinals. However you are clearly a better fighter. As well as builder I'm finding out. Would you mind showing us your Gundam Goetia?"
"Normally I'd say no. As you are connected to my next opponent Wilfrid. However I think I know we're this is going so sure."
I put down the case I've been using for Goetia's storage. I opened it up and picked up Goetia. Damage level was B so there are a few scratches and small cracks, but nothing too major. I'm glad I made spare parts for repair purposes.
"Here he is." Allen admired my craftsmanship.
"How long did you take to make this?"
"Um, a night about 2 days ago first time making a Gunpla so took me a little longer than I expected to make it."
His mouth hang open in shock.
"Its happy. It wants to follow you to the end, and be your strength."
Shia cut in while smiling. Using her power to talk to Gunpla apparently. It makes sense that her machine in the finals was based on the gundam QuanT.
"Mr. Gin, I would like to personally invite you to Gunpla Academy. If this is truly your first Gunpla you are a monster of talent. Especially considering your piloting skills. It would be foolish of us to not."
"Honestly, I was planning on applying for transfer to Gunpla Academy after this tournament."
"I will personally approve your transfer application. As well as letttimg you challenge for a place in team Celestial Sphere. Normally there's a waiting period."
-pov change-
Is this kid really 12!? then I looked at my niece and realized I had no room to talk.
The conversation went well. He clearly wasn't like Andou. Honestly we were only scouting him because he was strong. His personality though seemed rude, stubborn, and sadistic.
"Shia what do you think?"
"Strong, amazing potential, and a genius builder. Also his sheer determination to constantly improve win or lose. He's the kind who will give it all against my brother."
"Do you think he will win?" I raised my eyebrow. Shia does not normally praise others as much as she has now.
"No he will lose. His machine is a master crafted piece, but it's not reached its full potential either. Brother's Transient Gundam is too strong for the current Goetia, but he will give him a good fight."
"Well I hope he can keep his mentality after that."
"He will Goetia told me about him. Despite their short time together. Goetia knows how much care he put into designing and making it."
-pov back to Gin-
Okay armor and damaged parts are replaced. I know I'm probably not beating Wilfrid. His GN Partisan is fucking nuts as a weapon. I also wonder what part of that thing is. Homing lasers, high power melee, and lance bits plus he heads his Transient Burst and a GN field as well. Win or lose my goals achieved, but I can't give up without even trying to fight him.
'Gin Murasaki'
'Wilfrid Kijima'
'Please prepare for Gundam battle'
Aurthors note: Fight scenes are hard I hope this one was okay, but probably wasn't will probably rewrite later to be closer.