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?

in what he had heard about

speculation at the moment, but he could not think of another reason for why the man would be challenging Kane. Kane was

gain from beating anybody in a duel, he was the

Kane meant that he was gaining something from fighting Kane, something or the other. Rui considered

if the man's goal was to

ambitious on his part

the confidence to break down powerful grade-ten techniques as easily

actually skeptical of him

could generate charge and current and integrate it into one's body, but it also required having an affinity for a technique like

Void Step. However, in order to be able to

because his senses were extremely powerful, having a mind powerful enough to resist

was why Void Step was simply never effective against him. He could deal with it even

past it, and whether merely sensing Kane would

about the mechanics by which he copied techniques, and improved upon them. Until he learned about that, he did not know whether he would be able to copy techniques like

about how the fight would

that Kane would be able to beat him if he managed

Kane was

Ieyasu was just monstrously powerful,

down. It

had underestimated how

entirety of all guardians had gathered to witness the man fight

that everybody was willing to drop whatever they

the kind of attention that Martial Seniors might receive from Martial Squires, but it was absolutely unprecedented for Martial Squire to