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

her. "It's not like you love Martial Art either. You and I are

a sympathetic expression on her

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

Sage Leila Dullahan, her family was extremely

that was created by his father's desire to find a worthy heir. It was a rather normal family in

family, that had contributed to the sovereignity of the Kandrian Empire for nearly a century, with many historical Martial Artists with

to obtain power was to do her family justice,

Martial Path despite being the daughter of a Martial Sage and chose not to become a Martial Artist, and her

being the future pillar of the Dullahan

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

to obtain the power she currently had. Sweating blood and crying tears, she persevered to be worth of

The differences between them had been the true cause of

boy longing for freedom whose talent shackled him to the fate of being the Arrancar heir. And Fae, a free yet driven girl longing for the power to be

was so polarized, that they could never stand each other when they met. Their parents were part of the Fire Sect within the Martial Union, and were close informally. Kane and Fae had known

Martial Art. We are born in the circumstances we're born

He said. "Spoken like someone born in the right

act like you're only growing stronger for the sake of breaking

lit up. ('I can't him

the rate he's growing." She said as

Kane didn't respond.

that was