The Martial Unity

"Instructor Dylon." Rui bowed.

"Hm?" Squire turned away from supervising some training of other students, recognizing him on the spot. "Oh, Quarrier. Is it four techniques this time?"

"Only three." Rui corrected him modestly.

"..."

"I'm here to learn this." Rui waved the Stinger technique scroll. "Care to help me out?"

Dylon winced when he saw the name. "I hope you're prepared. This is going to be rough, not to mention messy.

"Thanks a lot for that, truly helpful." Rui replied.

"Not at all, I'm just here to help after al- Wait, is that sarcasm? That's sarcasm, isn't it?"

"Can we begin immediately?" Rui asked, ignoring him. "I have a busy schedule."

"Of course, you do." Dylon replied, snorting. "Your life is a busy schedule, you're never gonna lose your virginity, you know. Why not forget about learning this technique and instead learn how to pick up girls, or boys, if you swing that way."

"If the Martial Academy ever did have such a teaching post, you wouldn't be hired for it." Rui assured. "Don't think I forgot how Instructor Kyrie rejected your ass by publicly beating you up in front of all your students." Rui ruthlessly reminded.

"Guh!" Instructor Dylon collapsed to his knees, clutching his chest in pain. "With this kind of offense, you don't need to master any other technique."

Rui sighed, exasperated. "Stop fooling around, let's get to work."

"No fun, are you?" He sighed, disappointed. "You've memorized the training regime, haven't you?"

"Every word." Rui confirmed.

course, you have." He nodded, unsurprised. "Well, then you know you don't really need me very much. The

some unused equipment at

be kicked. Asides from some unusual features, nothing about

a special training equipment created by the Martial Academy specifically for the training of the Stinger technique. This training-dummy shaped the toe in the desire manner for the Stinger technique every time the user kicked at it with his

fingers and toes like ordinary jelly. It was not rigid, and allowed objects to pass through it. Rui was

same energy of Rui's own kick to press against the toe

toe. Where did this energy come from? From

own energy to continuously

so slightly closer to what was required for the Stinger technique. Of course, this was

recall. "One million kicks against the jelly dummy

would eventually culminate to ensure that the toe's bone structure resembled a bullet, while the skin and flesh would become extremely rough like sand paper and as rigid as rock. This was to ensure that the skin of the target would tear apart with ease when the Stinger made contact with the flesh of

it was, but he didn't need to. He was about to find out

took a stance, preparing his right leg for a kick, while sticking

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run over his toe, the jelly absorbed the energy of his impact and used it

collapsed as he looked at his bruised toe,

Dylon instructed, with a serious tone. "You can't

only consume an extremely-low-grade healing potion meant for the training only

instructed. "As you

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