Chapter 123 - Spar

Few days prior, a beautiful mature woman with long brownish black hair tied in a ponytail wearing some glasses looked like an equally beautiful mature woman with short reddish hair. The former was taking some time fidgeting and felt her heart pounding that had made her unable to think how she should start their conversation. Before she could speak was cut off by the red shirt haired woman. 

"Sis, I know what you're going to ask and yes I did."

Her voice held firm despite having a small part feeling embarrassed at her action and did not hold any regrets whatsoever. She stood by whatever decision she did and would have done it again without hesitation. Her life had been invigorated the moment she stepped into the line that she shouldn't have and never been more happy until now. She lives a mundane life but now every day is a journey that she is looking forward to every single moment. 

Hearing her response seemed to surprise her considering she didn't want to believe her sister would have done something that shouldn't be allowed by the world. It is morally wrong on many levels yet the way she spoke as if it was nothing to fear.

"...I should be angry at you but for some reason I can't."

She spoke as the thing the woman before had done was to have intercourse with her son and the red haired woman's nephew. They may not be related but still were immorally wrong even in the way you put it. 

"I'm sorry, Sis. I have thought about it for some time and decided to push my choice."

The two were talking obviously, Celine and Nancy having a discussion in regards to Caelum who was currently gone to Earthland to visit his family and inspect how the Empire is doing unaware at what the two women were doing.

Celine frowns hearing her words, having a part of her motherly instinct to hate her sister yet being overwhelmed by the desire to make the same choices as her sister. 

"Sis, I know what you're thinking. Perhaps, it's a bit weird but I believe you should at least take the risk."

"...I..I don't know what to do. At this rate he might even get your two daughters to join."

"Then the better. I trust Caelum will treat them with care and attention. Maybe not equally but that's just how things are. But I'm guaranteed he will do his best for us."

Her words made Celine stop to think and thought it was true that her son never once failed to keep his promise. He often makes promises that he's confident in achieving. Caelum was hard working who often went his way to do anything for those he held dear. 

"If you're still in doubt then why try playing Eternum, then people won't find it weird if you do stuff there."

Nancy tries to convince her sister to at least try it since she doesn't want her to feel alone while she is having the time of her life. Though, it's a bit messed up since it's only been 5 years since Celine's husband, Leon, had died. The reason for his death was only known by Celine hiding the fact that it is more than meets the eye. 

"I…I…"

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Moon was waiting for Caelum who arrived to see her in the boxing ring leaning on the rope while having a lollipop in her mouth. The place had only few people training in boxing and other forms of training.

Caelum gave it some thought realizing how he actually experienced training a gym before since most of his training was either in the forest where his father brought him to hunt and train unarmed combat or at their homes where his father stored some exercising equipment that he unfortunately had to sell.

Moon then proceeded to jump over the rope perfectly landing on her feet before walking towards Caelum. He can see that she was at least a Master level in techniques making him close to Caelum technique rank. Obviously, their power is different with only the ranking of ways on how they utilize their combat capabilities that are equal.

Caelum knew that this was the only shape if she had experience fighting at an early age and sharpened by the constant battle for survival. He had experience the same thing when he was training back on Black clover verse.

"Catch."

She tosses something towards Caelum who just caught it without blocking and looks to see that it was UFC gloves that she threw.

"I want to see your skill in action. From the way you're standing and how well you balance yourself tells me that you know the basics, that's why we will skip that and go straight to sparring. Want some?"

Moon took out the lollipop from her mouth and handed it toward Caelum who found it odd but took it into his mouth making a smile. Caelum saw the [ Harem Parameter ] rose and thought he made the right choice. She then turned her back grabbing a pair of UFC gloves and headed to the ring.

"Are you coming or not?"

Caelum heard her and nodded in response, taking the gloves and wearing them as he headed inside the ring. He cracked a bit of his neck looking at the woman before him who actually had the intent to kill. 

'She is actually able to bring out her killing intent. How many have she killed?'

He thought since his number of slaughter was only a few hundred by hunting bandits while he hardly killed any thing in Fairy tail beside the Etherious that Zeref had made. Caelum is able to see her next movement from the special technique that the [ Hercules Method ] gave him and can even see through her where it was only her muscles. 

It was quite a lot if he didn't use anything and only the bare minimum of humans would likely have some challenges fighting her using his techniques. Caelum hardly struggles in fights which makes his techniques remain stagnant only taking his time until he heads to the next world hoping it is a world related to what he needs and with his luck it might be what he is looking for. 

"I'm curious who taught you how to fight since I can seem to find any opening."

Moon commented observing him and evaluating what she thinks of Caelum. She was able to find that he was like an impenetrable wall and unmovable object that had hardly any exploitable opening. 

"My father trained me along with my sister when we were young but in recent years haven't been able to train. Thankfully, I'm getting back and managed to regain a bit of my skills."

Caelum had long forgotten but his father often told him that he was easily a prodigy in combat with a keen sense of adaptability.

"Then you must be a prodigy. Let's put that to the test shall we?"

Moon took a stance while Caelum did the same, locking his power to only at the bare minimum to be considered Normal. He would be at least a top athlete or professional fighter. 

The two stared off waiting for the one who would take the first strike. Caelum decided to take the first step closing the gap and performed a palm strike barely grazing Moon who twisted her body to kick the side of his head and felt the force could easily knock anyone if it weren't for his resilient body. 

"You manage to block it. Not bad. Let's see if you can keep up."

Caelum smirked, taking it a bit seriously as the two distance once again but this time they immediately clash. Moon movement was more coordinated and faster than it was difficult to predict using his [ Hercules's Method ] she was skilled with years of experience. 

'This guy is really strong and skilled. If he isn't lying then he's a genius in combat. As expected of the son of that man.'

She thought trying to find any opening perfectly executed a triple kick in quick session as Caelum just blocked or dodge before striking with Moon barely evading his attacks. They were so fast and precise that Moon had to take every step with care.  

'This woman is something else huh? She can easily fare with Mereoleona in terms of combat skill. Though, the two have different styles.'

Caelum thought of comparing Moon techniques to be near Mereoleona in terms of combat skills and techniques. Moon focuses on fast and precise kicks and strikes having adapted ability to dodge and evade while Mereoleona would just tank it head on having a more confrontal fighting style.

He could easily lose if they had even a playing field. However, Caelum isn't a slouch and kept closing his fist into her face that Moon barely evaded, flipped back then kicked his arm before landing into her feet then moving to strike his abdomen. 

The people watching were all dumbfounded at the unorthodox way of fighting that no normal person should be able to execute yet they did. It was like watching the movie on how they were fighting.

Her fist was inches away from his abdomen only for him to move to the side letting Moon past him and felt his intent where he was about to karate chop her neck to knock her but she manage to move her head to evade the attack and let herself fall landed in her hands then did a straight kick into Caelum's chin. 

The sound it produced made everyone watching wince since it was akin to a gunshot. Moon didn't panic thinking she killed him since the impact was different from hitting a chin. 

"I think you just broke my hand from that kick."

Caelum said while the palm of his hand stopped her kick from reaching his face. He grinned while still having the lollipop from his mouth while looking at the pretty girl who was also smiling upon seeing how well he fought. Moon removes her foot from his hand standing back up with Caelum offering a helping hand then receives a pat in the back.

"I knew you were incredible the moment I smelled your scent!"

Moon exclaimed, making him warily smile looking at the people who seemed to think it was just a normal thing to hear from  Moon. 

"Uhmm…you too?"

Caelum said in response.

"That aside, you fought quite well. Though, I feel like you're pulling your punches with me."

Moon said.

"I could say the same thing to you."

Caelum is obviously the one who held back the most but he can see that she was doing her best not to harm him. She just reek of blood and war to not have the ability to kill a person without blinking an eye. 

"Right, Right, at least now this place won't be boring since most I thought weren't as talented as you." 

"Thanks, I enjoyed our spar."

"Wanna continue?"

"Sure, I have a few hours of training before I head out."

Moon nodded as the two continued sparring where Caelum slowly felt a slight improvement in his techniques and execution than before. He had to find a way to completely seal his powers and train further than before with his technique alone. 

A similar scenario happened to Mori Jin from the god of highschool who lost his power and became even more powerful after improving his martial art having reached the state of Absolute Unarmed combat similar to Garou. He enjoyed the spar quite a bit until a few hours had passed and the two sat down finishing their training. 

"Guess that's for today. I never expected to sweat this much today."

Caelum saw her body soaked in her sweat that she didn't seem bothered by the fact that he was looking at her and even enjoyed it a bit. 

"Me too, guess I'll be looking forward every saturday for this."

"Guess so, I'm only available today since I'm still studying. Speaking off, Millie, I'm heading out early since I have a project going to work on for our school."

Moon shouted, getting the receptionist's attention.

"What again? Does the boss know?"

"Yeah, I already informed them."

"Alright, fine."

Millie gave up and went to continue her work leaving Moon and Caelum to chat. 

"Well Imma head out."

"Wait, I was planning on heading out into the city too. Hope you don't mind me tagging along?"

"Sure, I don't mind."