Ikki Kurogane vs Sara Bloodlily

Ikki Kurogane vs Sara Bloodlily is a fight between Hagun Academy representative Ikki Kurogane and Akatsuki member Sara Bloodlily. It's one of the quarter-finals matches of the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival.

Prologue
During his previous match, Ikki used Ittou Rasetsu, to defeat Byakuya Jougasaki. This leaves him unable to use neither Ittou Rasetsu or Ittou Shura, during his next match with Sara Bloodlily, as it takes place during the same day. This leaves Ikki at a disadvantage against Sara, who can herself summon copies of Ikki who can use Ittou Shura.

After Ikki's match he, along with Stella, Shizuku and Nagi, take Sara shopping, to get more clothes. Sara decides to Ikki about her past, telling him that when she was a very sick child, she initially hated painting, as her father was always painting, and not spending time with Sara. When her father died though, Sara began to appreciate art, and decided to finish her father's painting. Sara also was cured of her sickness by the "Grand Professor", one of the 12 Apostles of Rebellion. This left her in debt to Rebellion, leading to her joining Akatsuki. Ikki then says that he will allow Sara to draw him nude if she wins their match, which Sara has been wanting to do ever seance meeting Ikki.

Following their shopping, Ikki and Sara finally face each other in the quarter-finals of Block C.

Battle
As the battle starts Sara first uses her Color of Magic, to temporarily blinding Ikki, giving her time to use Purple Caricature, to summon multiple skeletons wielding assault rifles. Ikki uses Trackless Step, letting him dodge all of the bullets shot at him, and then cuts down all the skeletons. During this though Sara uses her Purple Caricature to summon a copy of the strongest swordsman in the world, Edelweiss, draining out most of her magic.

As Ikki fights the copy of Edelweiss, he remarks it's not as strong as the original, who he had also fought and lost to. Because of this, Ikki is actually contending with the copy, as he is now able to use Edelweiss' swordsmanship against it, even without Ittou Shura. Despite this Ikki receives multiple slashes from the copy, which even uses a variation of Ikki's sixth secret sword technique Dokuga no Tachi. Ikki though proclaims that he has already found a way to defeat the copy.

Ikki tells that despite the copy being almost as strong as the real Edelweiss, it lacks her thinking, and thus her strategic fighting style. Ikki then tricks the copy by opening his guard, making the copy attack, only to swiftly cut it down, destroying it. He then says that he will never be defeated by a fake.

Sara, lacking the necessary amount of magic to summon another copy of Edelweiss, creates 4 copies of Ikki himself. The real Ikki though easily and quickly defeats all of the copies, as he knows his own weaknesses. Ikki then tries attacking Sara directly, but is stopped by a 3 meter-tall gladiator called "Mario Rosso", which Sara created with Purple Caricature. As Ikki fights "Mario Rosso", his arms are crushed by it, but he also manages to do heavy damage to it. Ikki then grabs his sword with his teeth, and zooming past "Mario Ross", and manages to cut Sara in the abdomen, taking her out of the fight.

Epilogue
After being defeated by Ikki, Sara announces to him that despite losing, she will continue to try and make him her nude model. Because of her loss, Sara is eliminated from the Festival, while Ikki advances to the semi-finals.

As the quarter-finals match between Shizuku and Amane is about to begin, a giant monitor suddenly shows a picture of a bloody Shizuku, being pierced by multiple swords belonging to Amane.