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?

what he had heard about Kane

think of another reason for why the man would be

a

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

goal was to

part if that really was

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

actually skeptical of him being able to

and current and integrate it into one's body, but it also required having an affinity for

be able to copy and improve was Void Step. However, in order to be

The only reason that Rui could thoroughly sense Kane despite the technique was because his senses were extremely powerful, having a mind powerful enough to resist the misdirection, and having a

was why Void Step was simply never effective against him. He could

whether he would even be able to sense past it, and whether merely sensing Kane would be enough to replicate the technique that he

mechanics by which he copied techniques, and improved upon them. Until he learned about that,

curious about how the

to beat him if

wasn't that Kane was weak,

that Ieyasu was just monstrously powerful, capable of

interested in seeing how it went down. It

underestimated how

all guardians had gathered to witness

something that blew Rui's mind. The fact that everybody was

attention that Martial Seniors might receive from Martial Squires, but it was absolutely unprecedented