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

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

nothing to gain from beating anybody in a duel, he was the highest-ranked guardian

that he still challenged Kane meant that he was gaining something from fighting Kane, something or the other. Rui considered various intangible potential benefits that he gained from fighting Kane, but almost none of them were

was

ambitious on his part if that really

then it meant that he had the confidence to break down powerful grade-ten techniques as easily as he did

actually skeptical of him

that could generate charge and current and integrate it into one's

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

could do. 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 technique

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

seen whether he would even be able to sense past it, and whether

and improved upon them. Until he

he 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 to get a chance to fight him during such a

Kane was

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

how it went down. It was always interesting to see two

Rui had underestimated how popular

all guardians had gathered to witness the man fight against

that everybody was willing to drop whatever they

might receive from Martial Squires, but it was absolutely unprecedented