Shikoku was in a tough situation. Right now, she was faced with Nagisa and a vice chief. Suddenly the snakes at the end of her hair lunged towards Nagisa. Seeing this, the boy swiftly cut off the heads of the snakes in front of him, only for a gas to escape from one snake head that went behind him. Slowly the boy was losing consciousness as he fell into Shikoku's arms.

"I had to act real fast for this. Now I'll be taking my leave, Sixth Unit Vice Ch-

"Golden Hour:Five Second Rewind."

~Five Seconds Ago~
Shikoku was in a tough situation. Right now, she was faced with Nagisa and a vice chief. Just before she could attack with her snakes, Shikoku was punched in the right side of her face as Yachiho slammed her fist into her. Shortly afterwards, Shikoku hissed in pain as the moment her body collided with the wall, Nagisa was viciously stabbing her body repeatedly with the chop stick he sharpened earlier.

However, as she was being stabbed, Shikoku was slowly vanishing into the shadows. Her eyes full of rage as she looked at Yachiho. She struck a being such as herself not once but twice. Shikoku made sure not to forget this. Just as Shikoku finally managed to escape she noticed that her neck was cut as blood was escaping from it. Soon a smile began to form on her face.

"Tomioka Nagisa......what a fascinating enigma you are."

~The next day~
As Nagisa was outside of the sixth unit base, both him and Sahara were seen outside. Suddenly the two of them charged at each other with great speed. Nagisa thrusts his right hand forward as it was in its hand-blade stance. Seeing this, Sahara quickly ducked down to dodge it and tackled Nagisa.

Suddenly Nagisa felt himself getting lifted into the air before shortly being on the receiving end of a german suplex. However, the young woman was shocked to see that Nagisa had stopped his fall as his feet was touching the ground and he was holding himself up. In one swift motion, Nagisa had escaped Sahara's grasp and slams her body onto the ground.

"Ow ow ow, I give, Nagi-chan!"

"Sorry, I didn't mean to slam you that hard."

As Nagisa helped Sahara to get up, the two of them soon sat down as they were exhausted from their sparring. While Nagisa took a sip of water out of a sports bottle, he soon passed it to Sahara. Seeing this, the girl smiled as she drunk out of it.

"Thank you. You know, you've gotten really strong, Nagi-chan. I better step up my game if I want to be a reliable senior."

"What are you talking up? There's not a single unreliable member in the sixth unit. In my opinion, all of you are the amazing ones to have fought for so long and still aim to improve. You're really a hard worker, Sahara-san."

A small blush began to form on Sahara's face. She didn't expect Nagisa to hold her and the rest of the sixth unit in such high regards. Before she could say anything, both her and Nagisa jumped in shock as they saw something flying towards them and it came to an immediate halt.

"C-commander?!"

"I saw everything. Nagisa, that was an impressive spar. You held up against someone using a peach ability with nothing but your own physical strength and won. Though........"

As Ren looked at Nagisa, her eyes went up and down as if she was trying to find something. Seeing this, Nagisa backed away since he was getting really creeped out by this girl. Soon Ren smiled as she realized what was missing.

"I was told that your primary weapon was a sword. It's a shame I couldn't see your swordsmanship. However, you could do it with your bare hands too, right? Show me."

"No."

"Come on, Nagisa, just for a little bit."

"No means no."

"I'm the commander, at least do this much for me."

"No."

As the two went back and forth about this, Sahara lightly giggled before heading back inside of the base. While this conversation continued, Nagisa was seen getting more annoyed as a smirk was plastered all over Ren's face.

"Come on, is showing me one technique that much to ask for?"

"Is you to leaving me alone too much to ask for?"

Both of them stood in silence. Waiting for the other's reaction. While Nagisa kept his neutral expression, Ren's smile never faded from her face. However, a sinister aura could be felt coming from her as she stared at the boy.

"This is the reason why people don't like you."

"...........what?"

"Yeah, I said it."

"B-but......i'm liked."

"Oh sure, I bet everyone loves the guy who is silent, mostly plays games rather than talking, and is such a "likeable" guy that he only has one friend out of everyone in the corps."

Nagisa simply sat down in defeat as his spirit could be seen escaping from his mouth. Was this his fate? Being bullied by a short woman who can't take a hint and leave him alone. Just as Ren was prepared to leave, she suddenly remembered why she arrived here in the first place.

"Don't forget, the units of the corps will be coming together for special training. Be sure to produce some results."

As Ren said this, she immediately flew off. While Nagisa sat down, he let a sigh escape from his lips. That woman was more of a handful than he could've ever imagined. However, while Nagisa wasn't planning on staying with the Units for training since Goo and Bang had something planned for him, there was at least two people in the corps he wanted a chance to spar with.

"Tomorrow is my chance. I can't let it slip."

~The Next day~
Standing outside of the seventh unit base was both the sixth unit and seventh unit. As Yuuki  came back from getting the baths ready and made enough food for eleven people, he stood next to Nagisa and Kyouka. Right now they were waiting for the final group for today to appear. As they waited, Nagisa felt a breeze for a split second before the wind started to blow harder.

Soon everyone began to be paired off. Nei went off to train with Kaiko. Himari went with Saki, as Sahara went with Shushu and Yachiho. As for Tenka, she found herself sparring with Yakumo. This only left two people remaining. The moment the two of them saw it was just them, they each stabbed a shinai into the ground as they walked forward.

"Truth be told, I always wondered what would happen if I faced you. Aside from using Yuuki for my slave ability I mostly rely on my swordsmanship and physical ability. I must admit, I'm a little excited to see the difference between us, Tomioka."

"Just Nagisa is fine, Kyouka. For now we'll do hand to hand combat but if we were to suddenly grab the shinai over there well...we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

As he took a deep breath, Nagisa stared at Kyouka. The moment he did, the seventh unit chief instantly felt the atmosphere change. Right now, Nagisa wasn't Yuuki's friend or ally of the seventh unit. Right now, he made himself known as an enemy. Seeing this, Kyouka smiled as she began to crack her knuckles and then held out her hand.

"It's time to submit, Tomioka Nagisa."

When Nagisa heard this, he simply held out both of his hands. As the boy was collecting his thoughts, he simply began to take a stance. During his training to learn this technique, Bang and himself finally found a stance to help him use his hand-blade technique more freely and effectively.

"Good luck trying to chain me down, Chief."

[Sparring Match:Demonic Chief versus The Walking Wake]