Ikki Kurogane vs Yuudai Moroboshi

Ikki Kurogane vs Yudai Moroboshi is a fight between Hagun Academy representative Ikki Kurogane and Bukyoku Academy representative Yudai 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 Yudai 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.

Yudai 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 Yudai to close the distance between them. Yudai though stops Ikki's charge with his Sanrensei, which is a spear technique striking three points simultaneously. Despite this Ikki charges for Yudai 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 Yudai, he suddenly fails to dodge it. Despite neither the audience or the commentators noticing nothing out of the ordinary in Yudai's Sanrensei, Ikki believes that Yudai somehow "bends" his spear towards Ikki. This is Yudai's hidden technique Houkiboshi, which can change the direction of the spear, with a wrist movement. This leaves Ikki in a bad position, while Yudai takes on the offense.

Ikki is only narrowly able to dodge Yudai'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 Yudai in the bad position, with Ikki eventually even gaining an opening for an attack. Just when Ikki is about to hit Yudai, his Device is suddenly damaged by Yudai'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 Yudai greatly impress Ikki, though he decides to once again charge for Yudai. Yudai strikes Ikki again with the Tiger Bite enforced strike, but it's revealed that the Ikki Yudai hit, is just an afterimage created by the fifth secret sword technique of Ikki, Shinkirou. The real Ikki then attacks Yudai, but he is frozen again by the supposed "punch-eye", letting Yudai knock him back. Despite realizing something is wrong with Ikki, Yudai decides to attack him, hitting Ikki.

Ikki is being pushed back by Yudai, with Yudai having multiple chances to finish the fight, but for some reason being unable to do it. Yudai, 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 Yudai with the incredibly fast sword strikes. After remembering Edelweiss' swordsmanship, Ikki starts to overpower Yudai, who is unable to defend against Ikki's incredibly fast strikes, which are even further powered by Ittou Shura. Being badly overwhelmed, Yudai completely reverts to the defense, even dropping his Device, to defend himself by covering himself with magic. Ikki eventually breaks the shield formed by Yudai's magic and is ready to deliver the finishing blow. Just then Yudai's sister Koume shouts at him to do his best. This encourages Yudai 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 Yudai wouldn't give up. Ikki then delivers the final slash, which ends the match.

Epilogue
As a result of losing Yudai is eliminated from the Festival, while Ikki continues. Before being carried away to be healed, Yudai 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.