We Meet Again

Staring down each other, opposite sides of the stage, not moving an inch. Madara was watching everything about Julius, his eye movement, his muscle moment, etc.

He was waiting for Julius' strike, seeing he wasn't, Madara threw the first strike. Madara appeared before Julius with a fist aiming for his stomach.

Julius' blue after image appeared in Julius' place. When Madara made contact with nothing but the air, the force from his punch created a strong gust of wind.

Madara then roundhouse kicks behind him because he sensed Julius behind him. The kick was so fast, that a lot of people didn't see it.

They only felt the strong winds that cane after it. Madara then jumps in the air, dodging the two blue orbs shot at him. He looks up and sees Julius in the air, flying.

Madara backflips a few times, dodging the barrage of blue orbs. The orbs were fast but not fast enough. Madara dodges each orb without one grazing him.

After Madara dodges the orbs, he meets Julius in the air. Madara engages in close combat with Julius. But Julius either dodges by almost teleporting or shots the blue orbs.

On the other hand, Madara has already figured out Julius' speed. He could end the match, but he wants to prolong it to see if Julius has something under his sleeve.

Something that everyone was noticing that Madara had yet to use any magic and only using his fighting skills.

To be able to go toe to toe with the Wizard King without using magic sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

Madara unsheathes his sword and at breakneck speed, he uses almost every magic attribute as slashes. A green, purple, blue, blue, and orange.

Madara would be considered grandmaster in kenjutsu. He hasn't stopped training with his sword, since he got it. Though most times, he sees the blood of Reiner on his sword.

Seeing the slashes coming at him, he was impressed with the speed of them, but it wasn't something he couldn't handle.

Julius created five blue orbs with roman numerals around them, that trapped his slashes. Each of them was stuck in a time loop and when Julius closed his hand, they all disappeared.

In a split second, Madara appeared behind Julius, kicking him in the back. Julius went forward a few inches because Madara didn't use a lot of force, it could've shattered his spine.

Madara knows the Wizard King isn't weak, but a lot of magic knights don't do any physical exercise. They neglect third bodies, thinking that if they have magic, they are invincible.

Madara doesn't know if he didn't anything like that, but he didn't want the entire kingdom hunting him down.

Although... Madara could destroy the kingdom with his avatar and kill a lot of people with his bare hands.

"He landed a hit on the Wizard King!"

"That's was so fast! I didn't even see him move!"

"The Wizard King must've let him hit him. No way, he hit the Wizard King."

"Yeah! No matter how strong Madara is, he can't beat the Wizard King!"

Hearing the people below, Madara just sighed. The people of the clover kingdom are delusional. It's almost scary.

Though they were attacking Madaras' pride, he learned to not care for those types of things. But now, he wasn't in the mood to fight anymore.

Madara sheathes his sword and looks to the Wizard King. He talks to a point where only they can hear each other.

"Did I get it?" Madara asked confusing Julius for a moment.

"Did you get in? What do you mean?" Julius asked.

"The Royal Knights. Did I get in?" Madara asked once more.

Julius' gaze narrowed looking at Madara. He didn't know how he knew of the idea of the Royal Knights. The King hadn't announced it yet. Before Julius spoke, Madara said something.

"By the way, I quit. You won this match." Madara said as he began to descend.

"Is the fight over?"

"I think so..."

"I think Madara gave up."

The crowd then erupted in cheers for the magnificent fight. Madara had his eyes closed, but he could still feel Mereoleonas' eyes on him.

'I wonder how strong you've become.' Madara thought as he opened one eye to look at her.

"Now that that is over, I welcome you the king of the clover kingdom, Augustus Kira!" Julius announced.

It got quite real fast. The ones who were making noise, we're clapping, unenthusiastically.

He then announced he knew where the EOTMS base was located. He also stated that there will be a selection of people who will infiltrate called the Royal Knights.

After the 'king' got finished talking, Julius pulled Madara and Yuno to the side to give a speech Madara didn't care for.

As the speech went on, Madaras' mind drifted off to the thought of Mereoleona. The best fire user. The best at hand-to-hand combat. Stronger than all the captains.

After all these years, he finally gets to fight her again.

After Julius talked to them, Madara, Asta, and Yuno walked to where the Crimson Lion was. She was yelling at her squad for placing 5th, in this year's ceremony.

When Madara reached the bottom, everyone looked at him, even Mereoleona. He had the presence of a King. And his coal-black eyes, that seemed to have no emotion.

After looking at Madara for a few seconds, she went back to cursing her squad. When she was done, she said that they were going to do hot spring training.

That including the three who were present. Her lion paw grabbed all their heads, but Madara disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Bastard! You can't run forever." Mereoleona said as the grip tightened on Asta's and Yuno's heads.

The real Madara was with the other captains at the bar. Yami was having the time of his life, laughing at the captains.

Though Madara had nothing to do with it, he felt some killing intent coming toward him. He found out it was shitty haircut.

Madara wanted to drink a little before Mereoleona came, so he ignored it. Once Nozel sees this, he became even angrier.

When Yami and Nozel were about to fight, the bartender placed a green drink in front of him. Before Nozel could touch it, Madara took it at lightning speed and drunk it.

"Not bad," Madara commented as he consumed the green drink.

Seeing how Madara just took his drink, Nozel became angry and prepared a spell, but the bartender offered him another drink.

Madaras' one eye fell upon the drink, making Nozel kind of nervous but even angrier. He quickly took the drink and drunk it all at once.

He then slammed the glass on the counter, shattering it. He then glared at Madara who didn't even look at him.

Nozel started direct even more killing intent toward Madara. Madara looked indifferent feeling his killing intent.

The number of times, training with Reiner and it got serious. He would always direct killing intent toward him. Sometimes he would direct it toward him so he could get used to it.

Sensing Mereoleona was close to the bar, he decided to mess with Nozel. He wasn't just going to let him walk over him and let it be.

He could kill him, but he still needed something from the Clover Kingdom. So he held off on killing, but a little mind rápe wouldn't hurt.

"I have a question for you, Nozel," Madara said making everyone listen. "How do you feel about me fucking your sister?"

It was quiet for a few seconds, but after Nozel noticed that Madara wasn't kidding, his eyes became bloodshot red.

Yami laughed, Sol and Charlotte had a barely unnoticeable blush, Dorothy was still sleeping, and Kaiser just looked between Madara and Nozel.

Nozel then calmed down. He figured out Madara was trying to get under his skin and he knew Noelle would never be with a peasant.

He drilled it into her for her entire life. Just because some boy comes along, he knows she won't disobey him.

"I don't know what I was getting so worked up for. Noelle would never lower herself as to being with a peasant. I should have you executed for such claims." Nozel said, looking at Madara with disgust.

"Have me executed? Why is that? You can't do it yourself? I'm glad you know your place. Beneath me." Madara said with a cold glare that sent shivers down Nozel's spine.

Before he could say anything about what Madara said, the door opened and there was Mereoleona. Madara drunk the last bit of his drink before he left.

"Thanks for the drinks, Julius," Madara said in a whisper. He didn't get a reaction from him, but he knew on the inside, he was shocked.

"Never knew you were a drinker," Mereoleona said as she saw Madara finish his drink.

"Gotta pass the time somehow," Madara said looking into her blue eyes.

'They are talking like they have known each other for years,' Everyone had the same thought.

"You planning on kidnapping me too?" Madara asked as Mereleona just stared at him. "I guess so,"

Madaras' head was then gripped with the lion paw. Mereoleona grabbed Yami and Charlotte, but before they left, Noelle came into view.

Once she saw what was going on, she was very confused. She then looked at her brother with a bit of disgust and hate. Nozel saw this and all his anger was replaced with confusion.

Mereoleona then grabbed Noelle too. As they were walking out of the bar, Nozel said something.

"Are you and that peasant in a relationship?" Nozel asked looking at Noelle. Mereoleona stopped so she could answer.

Noelle didn't say anything, so Mereoleona kept walking. Nozel called out, but Noelle didn't answer him, she didn't even look at him.

'What has happened to her...?' Nozel asked himself.

When they reached the volcano trail, Mereoleona gave her speech and the others went off. Madara could instantly go to the top, but he had something to take care of.

A lot of them noticed that Madara wasn't sweating or breathing hard. His resistance to fire was something. They could imagine what kind of training he went through.

Once they all started running to the top of the volcano, Mereoleona and Madara were left. They stared at each other for a few seconds, then a smirk crept on Madaras' face.

"What's so funny? Is there a reason you haven't gone yet?" Mereoleona asked.

"Is it wrong to want to see your wife?" Madara asked making Mereoleona laugh.

"Did I say something funny?" Madara asked after Mereoleona laughed.

"It's been a long time since we met, but you still have guts," Mereoleona said as they began to stare intently at each other.

'Ten years ago, I met his woman. She beat the shit outta me, but I got what I wanted.'

-Ten years ago-