The Tournament to Stop The Apocalypse, A Hololive Fan Story

History

"YOU MAY BEGIN!!"

"Finally brought yourself out of my blade yeah?" Iroha says mockingly Ayame begins to stretch, popping joints and getting flexible, "It was so cramped in there, I can't imagine you feel any better though..." Ayame replies, iroha rests her sword against her shoulder and Squats on one leg while fully extending the other one in a half split, "I've had plenty of time when the kind owl lady unsealed us."

"T-THE TWO FIGHTERS ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION?!"

Iroha stands up straight and stares at Ayame who also finishes stretching, "let's get this over with..." Iroha says as she unsheathes her sword and prepares to attack Ayame, Ayame scoffs and throws her shorter blade at Iroha, as it flies she and the longer blade turn to a dark smoke again and manifest, her hand holding the shorter blade and her other striking down with the longer. Iroha inhales and strikes horizontally upward to parry Ayames strike, the two swords clash a beautiful ring and Ayame flips around using the longer blade as a solid surface and swings her smaller blade around to stab Irohas back. Iroha responds by pushing up with her blade and knocks Ayame off balance while also failing her strike. Ayame falls to the ground and Iroha with her sword high slams down on Ayame with it but Ayame parries with her shorter blade and rolls out of Irohas range then stands back up. Iroha lowers her blade and the two stare at each other.

The crowd booms in excitement and even the gods are impressed, "They seemed accustomed to eachother..." Omega comments, "Well Ayame had been within that humans blade there." Laplus replies.
Above them, "So Ayame was in Irohas sword during Irohas' time...?" Mumei asks , "I'll run a quick explanation, there isn't much to this one" Moona says.

Back in the olden days in a small kingdom part of an empire in Japan, specifically Dewa Mutsu, Iroha had been born then recruited to join the legion of samurai, after, the king of the empire had ordered a raid on Irohas home kingdom and killed her parents. After all that Iroha sought to destroy the empire but she needed a blade capable of it, so remembering a tale of a cursed blade, she appeared before the shrine where it stood, and took it. The blades length, weight, everything about it, all adapted to Iroha and she had a powerful blade that she could use as if it was her own arm, a couple days later she unleashed hell on the empire, going kingdom to kingdom until finally she reached the main empire and also took it out. After all that, she influenced a small kingdom and eventually it became the empire of Japan that eventually grew into what it is today. But the Sword, being cursed, reaped every soul of every life it took and trapped it in the blade and thus she began to take innocent lives unwillingly since the Oni within the blade, Ayame, could control her with the strength built up by the souls reaped. Once Iroha was finally able to take her control back she tried to rid of the blade, but it would always end up back in her hands, it wouldn't burn in the pits of lava and it wouldn't freeze in the coldest glaciers. So she had a plan, she went to the mountains of Oeyama, and collapsed a cave on herself forever trapping herself and Ayame, of course as you just saw, Ayame is capable of turning to smoke and Ayame escaped, and with the souls, created her own two swords, The longer blade being The Rakshasa and The shorter, The Asura, she had reached her goal so needing more souls to return to helheim, she killed travelers seeking the Oeyama, bounties were made for her and she got more and more souls, eventually she became known as the Oeyama mountains demon, and finally returned to Helheim, Her final reaped soul, was Iroha.
"That was a lot to hear all at once, but it seems like these two do really have a history huh..." Mumei replies, "Yes, I myself am quite interested in how this fight will go." Moona says and they stare back into the arena.

"So I was brought back at my prime, eh?" Iroha says, "That means I have the strength I had when you had possessed me, though of course I'm independent now...".
Ayame smiles and points Rakshasa at Iroha, "That strength still isn't yours though! You'll only be as strong as human in reality." Ayame shouts, "Well either way I'm thankful now, as long as I win this fight, I don't care where my strength comes from." Iroha replies and gets lower to the ground.
Iroha dashes at Ayame and delivers a clean downward diagonal slice, Ayame barely blocks it and Swings back but Iroha leans back to dodge, Ayame turns and swings with Rakshasa again and strikes down on Iroha, still leaning back, Iroha grits her teeth, and places her hands on the ground behind her to keep balance, she propels herself up and with her left knee strikes at Ayames' unguarded stomach, it lands and Iroha begins to regain her balance on both legs, but Ayame uses Asura and stabs at Iroha. Iroha noticed and drops to the ground again while kicking Ayames' legs, then rolls to avoid Ayames' slam with Asura.

Iroha stands up and charges back at Ayame who also stood up and does her own downward swing with her sword, Ayame raises her hands and moves out of the swing then raises her Rakshasa. Irohas blade was weighed in at 1 and a half times as much as a normal katana, a powerful downward swing would build too much inertia to possibly stop, however, paired with the strength at her most strongest while linked with Ayame, Her physical strength is also severely improved, and gave rise to this spur of the moment attack.

"Tsubame Gaeshi!!"

Iroha twists the blade upside down and follows up with an upward strike heading at the countering Ayame. Ayame narrowly avoid the strike, but she gets a cut over her eye and even loses her left horn, she closes her eye and hovers her hand over her missing horn and looks back at Iroha. Smiling Iroha stares back, "Didn't see that coming did you?"