In the second round of the tournament, the ten-year-old teacher defeats his opponent in a close, hard-fought match. When the teacher asks where his opponent is, Negi tells him that he is "good negie kun" . The teacher is amazed at the young man's ability to defeat such an experienced opponent. He wonders if the tournament staff has been "pulling some strings" in order to make the match look like a real one. Asuna says that he was too "immature" to go all out against the teacher, and that he had to see Negi's "true strength" to believe that he could defeat him. He asks if the teacher had "sensei" , which is the ability to sense when someone is trying to kill the opponent. The young man says that if the opponent really wanted to kill him, he would have killed him in ten seconds. He also says that the teacher's first move and his last move were "quick moves and the finishing moves" that he came up with.