The Martial Unity

In an age of Martial Art, Martial Artists were undoubtedly given a lot of attention and importance. In the eyes of sovereign states, Martial Artists were walking strategic weapons. They were no different from living tanks, jets, bombs, and missiles that had their own interests and agendas.

Martial Squires, among them, held a somewhat unique place. They were strong enough to be important and of great strategic importance, while also just enough that their numbers made them formidable, but not too many that they could not be individually treated as valued assets.

And only irresponsible fools treated valued assets without care and caution. It was impossible for a Martial Squire to up and leave the nation without some repercussions or measures being employed by states. Rui was smart enough to know that Kane's hopes of leaving the country, cutting all ties, and living a peaceful and blissful life were far-fetched, and the price to be paid for success was high.

"I'm curious though," Rui asked while Kane considered his words. "All this talk about the feasibility of fleeing and hiding made me think of an obvious solution; Why do you still need to be protected from your family? Your Martial Path is not suited for the Fire Sect, but now even your Martial body isn't suitable for the Fire Sect. It isn't like your family will kill you now, or destroy your future, so why not try to reconcile?"

Kane snorted. "The Fire Sect isn't the one that is after me. It's my family. Yes, it's true that my father leads the Fire Sect, but he isn't employing the power and the influence of the Fire Sect to try and reign me in, he's employing his own personal influence and power and that of the Arrancar Family. The reason the Lightning Sect treats it as the Fire Sect infringing on me, even though this isn't the case, is because that's how it looks like to everyone else."

Rui quickly understood all the nuances of what Kane was trying to convey.

"The Arrancar Family isn't strictly associated with the Fire Sect, then?"

"Not exclusively, no. Ultimately, while Martial Paths can be subtly and indirectly influenced over a lifetime of the most gentle and subtle conditioning, it cannot be controlled and there is always a perfectly plausible possibility that the child of a certain Martial Family may end up having a Martial Path that is very different from that of what the family desired." Kane explained. "This is something that the Martial community has long learned and accepted. Thus, my having an evasive maneuvering-oriented Martial Path isn't enough for my family to forget about me. This is not an uncommon occurrence, and no Martial Family is willing to let go of a genius Martial Squire who discovered his Martial Path at the age of eleven just because their Martial Path diverges from that of the Family head."

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community were limited. At most, he got glimpses of it in the Martial Games held by the DiVilier Family. This caused him to have a limited understanding

should consider running away." Rui thought

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the difficulty and the price that you need to pay, most likely, to succeed." Rui shook his head. "I never said it was a bad choice. Who knows, you might end up enjoying the solitude that comes from

fell upon hearing that.

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quite envious of you, you know?" Kane

definitely has been thus far." Rui nodded. "Though what you disdain, I envy as well. I wonder how early I might have broken through had I the training and growth

do with what he could, it wasn't the same. He didn't even have proper training and sparring partners. The adults had always been too busy to play around with him for too long, while the other kids in the Quarrier Orphanage were nowhere near what Kane

Jiu-jitsu and other martial arts that went into training MMA, because he didn't