Ikki Kurogane vs Yuudai Moroboshi

Ikki Kurogane vs Yuudai Moroboshi is a fight between Hagun Academy representative Ikki Kurogane and Bukyoku Academy representative Yuudai Moroboshi, the winner of last years Festival. The fight is part of the first round of the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, of Block C.

Prologue
Before the start of the match Kiriko Yakushi speaks with Shizuku and Nagi, about how unnaturally relaxed Ikki is. She also tells them about how Yuudai underwent a harsh rehabilitation in the past, to prove that he is okay for his sister Koume. Also Ikki is being trouble by the possibility of his strange case of "punch-eye" returning during his match.

Yuudai also asks Koume to wish him good luck, before the start of the match, as a good luck charm. He also thinks that he will not lose until Koume recovers from her trauma.

The combatants then enter the arena, and manifest their Devices, ready to start.

Battle
As the fight starts Ikki rushes for Yuudai to close the distance between them. Yuudai though stops Ikki's charge with his Sanrensei, which is a spear technique striking three points simultaneously. Despite this Ikki charges for Yuudai again, this time dodging Sanrensei, marking that it's far slower that the Marginal Counter of Kuraudo Kurashiki.

As Ikki is about to avoid Sanrensei again and attack Yuudai, he suddenly fails to dodge it. Despite neither the audience or the commentators noticing nothing out of the ordinary in Yuudai's Sanrensei, Ikki believes that Yuudai somehow "bends" his spear towards Ikki. This is Yuudai's hidden technique Houkiboshi, which can change the direction of the spear, with a wrist movement. This leaves Ikki in a bad position, while Yuudai takes on the offense.

Ikki is only narrowly able to dodge Yuudai's thrusts, while getting pushed back. He then realizes the secret of Houkiboshi, which is the movement of the wrist. He decides to counter the technique by instead of dodging, deflecting the spear with his sword. This now leaves Yuudai in the bad position, with Ikki eventually even gaining an opening for an attack. Just when Ikki is about to hit Yuudai, his Device is suddenly damaged by Yuudai's own Device, now empowered by Tiger Bite, giving it the ability to damage Devices.

Because of Ikki's Device being partially destroyed, he has lost his means to defend against Houkiboshi. The power and intelligence of Yuudai greatly impress Ikki, though he decides to once again charge for Yuudai. Yuudai strikes Ikki again with the Tiger Bite enforced strike, but it's revealed that the Ikki Yuudai hit, is just an afterimage created by the fifth secret sword technique of Ikki, Shinkirou. The real Ikki then attacks Yuudai, but he is frozen again by the supposed "punch-eye", letting Yuudai knock him back. Despite realizing something is wrong with Ikki, Yuudai decides to attack him, hitting Ikki.

Ikki is being pushed back by Yuudai, with Yuudai having multiple chances to finish the fight, but for some reason being unable to do it. Yuudai, who is frustrated by his inability to finish the fight, charges for Ikki intending on defeating him. Just then Ikki suddenly remembers Edelweiss' swordsmanship, which he stole during their match. This is revealed to be the reason for his "punch-eye" like states, which have been just his body trying to remember Edelweiss' technique. Ikki then attacks Yuudai with the incredibly fast sword strikes. After remembering Edelweiss' swordsmanship, Ikki starts to overpower Yuudai, who is unable to defend against Ikki's incredibly fast strikes, which are even further powered by Ittou Shura. Being badly overwhelmed, Yuudai completely reverts to the defense, even dropping his Device, to defend himself by covering himself with magic. Ikki eventually breaks the shield formed by Yuudai's magic and is ready to deliver the finishing blow. Just then Yuudai's sister Koume shouts at him to do his best. This encourages Yuudai to continue fighting, throwing his spear at Ikki. Ikki, who using Edelweiss' incredibly fast techniques should be unable to dodge, but it's revealed he once again used Shinkirou, as he believed Yuudai wouldn't give up. Ikki then delivers the final slash, which ends the match.

Epilogue
As a result of losing Yuudai is eliminated from the Festival, while Ikki continues. Before being carried away to be healed, Yuudai demands that Ikki doesn't lose in the Festival. Just when the match ends Stella Vermillion, who was late for the Festival, arrives and apologizes for being late.