The Martial Unity

Kane shuffled through the maneuvering section of the Apprentice library, with a lethargic expression on his face. In the fight against the golden-haired bandit in the mission he had just completed, he had noticed that he wasn't able to maintain his top speed while performing non-linear maneuvers or attacks, which hindered his non-linear evasiveness and offense.

He had already resolved to purchase a high-grade fluidity maneuvering technique that would allow him to maintain his top speed even in really sharp curves or turns for attacks or maneuvering.

"Sigh..." He huffed a large puff of air as he nonchalantly sauntered across the section. All of the techniques that suited his needs had high difficulty grades, his head fell back as he stared at the ceiling, he couldn't be bothered.

"Hah. What happened to 'I can't let him let him surpass me that easily'?" A voice asked him from behind.

His expression contorted with disdain as he turned to meet Fae's eyes. "What are you doing here?"

"I said I was going to train too, no?" She shrugged.

"What are you doing in this section, the maneuvering section?" He asked. "Go take your muscle-brain Martial Art to the offense section of the library."

"Hmph, juvenile as always, aren't you? You could learn a thing or two from Rui, you know?" She said. "If you had his work ethic, you might even grow faster than he does."

Kane's sheer raw affinity with Martial Art was unparalleled, it was what had led him to discover his Martial Path at the tender age of eleven, and what allowed him to absorb techniques remarkably quickly.

"Hmph, he and I aren't the same. I don't love Martial Art. It's a pain in the ass that allows jerks who are good at it to do whatever they want, and the only way to avoid becoming a victim is to pursue Martial Art yourself." he spat contemptuously. "It causes immense suffering and many problems whose only solution is itself. Has there ever been a more hateful thing? I pursue Martial Art only so that I can be freed of its shackles."

He put his hand on a technique scroll just as he finished, having decided which technique he wanted to learn.

[Axis Earthing]

by shifting the user's balance in the direction of the curve at extreme degrees, the acceleration due

her. "It's not like you love Martial Art either. You and I are both in this for Martial Art can do for us." He said with

sympathetic expression

many a way, Fae's circumstances were the exact opposite to that of Kane's. Despite being born in a Martial family like Kane, she grew up in very

Martial Sage Leila Dullahan, her family was extremely prestigious, just like

created by his father's desire to find a worthy heir. It

glorious honour to her Martial family, that had contributed to the sovereignity of the Kandrian Empire

desire to obtain power was to do her family justice, and to maintain

Her mother had turned away from her Martial Path despite being the daughter of a Martial Sage and chose not to become a Martial Artist, and

had voluntarily accepted the burden of being the future pillar of the Dullahan

she did not love it, to her it was no more

to Martial families was a Martial prodigy. She had to work like a madman to obtain the power she currently had. Sweating blood and crying tears, she persevered

of Kane in many ways. The differences between them had

boy longing for freedom whose talent shackled him to the fate of being the Arrancar heir. And

other when they met. Their parents were part of the Fire Sect within the Martial Union, and were close informally. Kane

sighed. "Love or hate Martial Art. We are born in the circumstances we're born in, and we can only make the best

He said. "Spoken like someone born in the

at him. "Don't act like you're only growing stronger for the sake of breaking away from the Arrancar family. Do you even remember

can't him surpass

at the rate he's growing." She

Kane didn't respond.

was answer