The Martial Unity

"What?!" Rui frowned with incredulity, widening his eyes.

"Yeah, I couldn't believe it myself when I first heard him, but he made it quite clear," Kane sighed, tired. "But he approached me when I was eating lunch in the cafeteria. And then he challenged me out of nowhere from the blue."

"And then?"

"Well, I had to accept since I hadn't accepted any challenge in the past ten days at all," Kane replied. "I'm so glad that killing has been prohibited ever since the war began, I would be a lot more nervous if it wasn't."

Kane had seen Ieyasu fight and had absolutely no intentions of ever getting into a fight with the man if he could just ignore and reject his challenge.

But unfortunately, he simply couldn't.

"But why?" Rui frowned for a moment before he arrived at an answer almost immediately.

"I don't know, honestly," Kane replied, sighing. "Why would the number one guardian challenge me, who's not even in the first class? Why even challenge anyone at all? It makes no sense."

('His Martial Art is imitative evolution…') Realization dawned on Rui almost immediately. ('Could it be that he wants some of the techniques that Kane has?')

If that were the case, it would make a lot of sense. After all, some of Kane's techniques were highly unconventional, and also extremely powerful.

Kane had displayed both Void Step and Fulminata when he first challenged a guardian for their spot.

Could it be that word had finally traveled to Ieyasu, who wasn't present there, and was extremely isolated in the matters of the lower?

had become interested in what he had heard about Kane and wanted a piece of

of another reason for why the man would be challenging Kane. Kane was not a threat, he had nothing to gain from beating

nothing to gain from beating anybody in a duel,

still challenged Kane meant that he was gaining something from fighting Kane, something or the other. Rui considered various intangible potential benefits that

man's goal was to copy Void Step and

part if that really was the

was the case, then it meant that he had the confidence to break down powerful grade-ten techniques as

Rui was actually skeptical of him being able

technique not only required an esoteric substance that could generate charge and current and integrate it into one's body, but it also required having

and improve was Void Step. However, in order to be able to copy the technique, he needed to be able to sense it

sense Kane despite the technique was because his senses were extremely powerful, having a mind powerful enough to resist the misdirection, and having a technique that bypassed

him. He could deal with

would even be able to sense past it, and whether merely sensing Kane

them. Until he learned about that, he did not know whether he would be

he was quite curious about

beat him if he managed to get a chance to fight

Kane was weak,

Ieyasu was just monstrously powerful, capable of putting people

down. It was always interesting to see two powerful

had underestimated how popular

gathered

mind. The fact that everybody was willing to drop whatever they

from Martial Squires, but it was absolutely unprecedented for Martial Squire to be able to gain such