You're The Music That's Been Playing In My Head: Book 2

Riposte: Part 2

"I request that we duel the old-fashioned way. We'll be much more at ease without the machine," The mysterious person in red suggests. 

"Fine with me," Adrien shrugs, and they unlatch themselves from the machine. 

"How are we supposed to know who touched the other one first?" 

"By watching very carefully." 

I decided to pull my phone out and record, just in case no one could tell who won. Nobody wanted to be stuck here all day trying to find the winner.

"En garde! Prêt... Allez!" D'Argencourt shouts, and the match begins.

The two sabers clashed, both going so fast it was hard to pinpoint the moves. They start moving up the stairs – the one in red hops over the railing to get to the second floor. 

"Is this what fencing is all about?" Mari asks, D'Argencourt soon getting all fired up. 

"Part le fer! This is what fencing's all about!" 

We all rush to the base of the stairs to continue watching the fight as Adrien gets backed into the railing.

"Is that all you can do?" 

Adrien shoves them aside, and they make way to the library. The rest of us follow. They burst into the library, and Marinette and I are the only ones to reach the library due to a cart flying out and stopping everyone else. They continue to fence until finally, they both hit each other, though it was unclear who hit who first. Adrien and the person in red stare at us. 

"Who got the first hit? Who?!" 

"I abstain, I was too busy recording just in case nobody was sure," I explain, and all eyes fall on Marinette as D'Argencourt pleads at her to tell us who got the first hit. 

"I dunno, I think it was...Adrien?" She questionably answers as if she wasn't sure herself. 

"Aha! Wonderful! This victory is an honor at D'Argencourt Academy," D'Argencourt boasts. 

The person in red sighs, shakes Adrien's hand, stabs the floor with their saber, and leaves.

"Are you sure, Marinette?" Adrien asks, taking off his helmet, and she starts babbling about how she wasn't sure herself. 

"I think he touched me first." 

"I did record the entire fight. I can send it to Alya and have her see if she can determine who the winner was," I offer, and D'Argencourt nods. 

"If your friend can do that, I'll allow it, but until then, the referee has the last word."

"Then we have to tell them, and then we can have a decisive match," Adrien exclaims grabbing the red saber and taking off after his opponent and I follow. "Hey, wait! Your saber!" Adrien calls out to them as we approach them. 

They were taking off their fencing gear and throwing it into the red car in front. They take off their mask to reveal a teenage girl about our age. She was absolutely beautiful with her ebony black bob-cut hair, slanted vermillion eyes with dusted light-brown freckles on her cheeks. It seems even Adrien was taken aback by her beauty. 

"L-let's do a decisive...Rematch?" He offers, looking down at her ring, it had a family emblem on it.

"What's the point? You won, there's no such thing as a second chance in my family. Goodbye," She gets in the car, and it drives off.

Adrien hops into his car and it starts to follow hers. That's when I see it, an akuma flying right passed me.

It must be going after that girl!