"You look rough." Kane noted.

"I've had a rough a day." Rui replied. "My mission was hard, and I failed."

Kane glanced back at Rui. "Oof, that must be rough. But hey, it happens to everyone. Chin up." He put an arm around Rui's shoulder. "What mission did you choose?"

"Bodyguard." Rui replied with a single word.

Kane's eyes widened as he realized why Rui had been looking so down, and why the failure had hit him so hard. "...Damn."

"Yeah, it was rough." Rui sighed. "I had chosen a bodyguard mission of grade one, looking to take things slow with an easy mission to break the ice. Turns out the mission was actually a grade five mission, at the very least." Rui paused.

Kane jerked his head back in shock. "Grade five?? Those are only for missions that are able to threaten the lives of Martial Apprentices. You and I shouldn't even be allowed to take missions of that grade."

"Yeah, the mission's difficulty was severely underestimated by the Martial Academy, apparently." Rui sighed helplessly. "My target of protection was being hunted down by a huge local behemoth of an esoteric supplier, we were being pursued by gangs and even a Martial Apprentice."

"That's actually insane, what the fuck?" Kane was entirely in disbelief. "I'm impressed you survived."

"I only managed because their prime target wasn't me, they managed to hold me back with a Martial Apprentice who pulled me away from my target, and my target was killed after she was eperated from me."

"That's messed up."

"Yeah."

around in silence, before Rui broke it with

Rui asked. "You

hunting mission." Kane shrugged. "Had to

"Deer?"

the mission had a high pre-requisite as far as maneuvering techniques went. So

mission was it?" Rui asked

lot of time and sustained effort, but of no threat to life." Kane replied. "The perfect mission to ensure I didn't have to go home, you see.

words. Talking with Kane really did put him

must not have gotten any significant amount of

"No, I did."

Kane tilted

responsibility for the failure of the mission, and would be remunerating me with the mission-success reward in addition to the minimum guarantee payroll as

awesome. How many Martial Credits is that in

of fifty-seven Martial

you should be able to purchase a somewhat not-bad technique with that."

out to grow

that." Kane told Rui. "I'd suggest amassing some more credits as well as mission experience

Martial Art as well as to grow stronger had made him a tad too impatient. He had really only been a Martial Apprentice for less than half a year, and

a second, he was sure his growth trajectory was extremely optimistic. What he needed was a well-founded, stable

that fifty-seven Martial Credits were enough to get a 'somewhat not-bad' technique with that, which was

that didn't mean they were good. In fact, Rui was largely as strong as he was not because his techniques were super powerful, but because he used them much better than Martial Apprentices of his age and growth level. A large portion of

comprehensively build upon the foundation of his Martial Art in a less constrained way. This meant accumulating enough martial credits to be able to

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