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

pure speculation at the moment, but he could not think of another reason for why the man would be challenging Kane. Kane was not a threat, he had nothing to

gain from beating anybody in a duel, he was the highest-ranked guardian

from fighting Kane, something or the other. Rui considered various intangible potential benefits that he gained from fighting Kane, but almost none of them

if the man's goal was to copy Void

part if that really

he had the confidence to break down

Rui was actually skeptical of

it into one's body, but it also required having an affinity

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

technique was because his senses were extremely powerful, having a mind powerful

Void Step was simply never effective against him. He could deal with it even though other Martial Squires

sense past it, and whether merely sensing Kane would be enough to replicate

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

quite curious about how the fight

be able to beat him if he managed to get a

that Kane was weak, certainly

that Ieyasu was just monstrously powerful, capable of putting

It was always interesting to see two powerful Martial

Rui had underestimated how popular

guardians had gathered to witness the man fight against

something that blew Rui's mind. The fact that everybody was willing to drop whatever they had just for this

might receive from Martial Squires, but it