The Martial Unity

He spent more time with her than he had anticipated. By the time he had left her place, his hair and clothes were in a mess.

He sighed with a mild smirk on his face as he left her personal quarters.

He had one more person to speak with before it was time to leave.

He activated a breathing technique while activating his Martial Heart.

BADUMP!

The breadth and depth of his senses spiked as his mind came to behold the entire island. He immediately spotted Ieyasu, who was actually quite some distance away from the island in the sky.

He activated Gale Force Breathing as he took a single step forward.

WHOOSH!!!

Instantly, the world around him shifted as Xanarn's personal quarters disappeared into the distance in an instant.

He had reached the edge of the island with a single step.

The second step brought him right to Ieyasu.

He turned back, looking at the island that he had already left well behind in the distance. In just a matter of seconds, he had traveled dozens of kilometers.

'Incredible...' He couldn't help but marvel at the power of the Martial Heart before deactivating and turning towards Ieyasu.

simply stared at each other

know how to regard each other. They weren't friends, but they weren't exactly enemies either. They simply recognized that they were useful tools to each other

one of them would die in the process, and that was a risk both of them

possibility that not only would both of them survive but also would break through to the Senior Realm

Yet it happened.

began. "You know my identity. I have no doubt that you have managed to glean some other information

air curdled as a profoundly faint bloodlust arose from Rui. "...Should you use that information maliciously... I will kill you. It won't be a fair fight. it won't even be a fight. It won't be an honorable death. One day you'll be sipping tea only to find yourself coughing

you my enemy. It will not end well for either of

Rui's eyes, his own reflecting

under a grave misconception." He remarked, never removing his fixed stare from Rui. "You... do not matter. The only reason your existence had meaning and value to me is because you served as a means to an end. Now that those ends have

forgotten what you look like. Within a year, your name will have escaped me. I have more important things to dedicate my mind to. Nothing is worthy of my malice, not even you. Take your irksome paranoia and get out of here before I change my mind

look, as if he was trying to convey

you doing?" Ieyasu

mind right?" Rui tilted his head. "So you

it is quite burdensome

Rui's eyes grew clouded

make me repeat myself." Ieyasu's eyes narrowed. "You have already delayed my training

back at him with a cautious expression. "You swear you

lightly." He replied coldly. "I

in silence for a few moments. "...Well, I guess I'll have to

course, you