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?

he had heard about Kane and wanted a

of another reason for why the man would be challenging Kane.

had nothing to gain from beating anybody in a

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

if the man's goal was

his part if that

case, then it meant that he had the confidence to break

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 an

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

reason that Rui could thoroughly sense Kane despite the technique was because his senses were extremely powerful, having a

against him. He could deal with it

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

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

was quite curious about how the fight would

was unfortunate, but it was quite unlikely that Kane would be able to beat him if he managed

wasn't that Kane was weak,

was just monstrously powerful, capable of putting people of Kane's

quite interested in seeing how it went down. It was always interesting to see two powerful Martial Artists got

underestimated

of all guardians had gathered to witness the man

The fact that everybody was willing to drop

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