15 Chapter 15 - Ryozanpaku Dojo 3

From now it's going to be all Third person to get all the details.

Cue the music!

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Everyone's eyes were locked seeing the two combatants preparing to take the first hit. The Ryozanpaku's grandmasters were all curiously looking at the young opponent fighting against their own grandmaster of martial art.

Miu looked nervous seeing Haruto sparring with Apachai who is known to not hold back while Lala was unbothered looking at the mouse that Shigure kept as a pet. She seems to get along with Lala since she has the same demeanor as Miu.

In the meantime, Haruto was analyzing his opponent, putting everything in trying to survive against him. He uses his [ Foresight ] to predict his movement while activating the [ Zone ] and [ Tachypsychia ] where his brain is at high alert seeing everything in slow motion.

The first person to strike was Apachai as he propelled himself forward while I was surprised by his speed and tried my best to avoid his movement hoping to find an opening.

"Apa Apa apa!" He screamed unleashing a series of punches that Haruto barely evaded as it doesn't purely rely on speed and strength but also technique that is perfectly executed.

"What the heck!! How can someone move that fast!!?" Kenichi exclaimed, having a hard time keeping up with their movement. Sure his eyes can see them moving but the speed was far too superhuman where the sound of wind is heard as Apachai swung his legs.

"The kid has some skills but he's mostly dodging." Sakaki commented hoping to see some action but Haruto was focusing on dodging and evading.

"I think he's trying to carefully analyze the situation before finding the opportunity to attack. He knows that it's impossible to have a frontal confrontation." Akisame noted believing that Haruto is a capable fighter who doesn't simply head first without properly sizing up his opponent's overall prowess.

"Bet you he doesn't have anything special." Sakaki confidently bet while Akisame nodded.

"How much?" His intuition was telling him that the young man has more to offer.

"1,000 yen!" Sakaki grinned seeing easy money while the fight continued as Haruto parried and redirected some of Apachai's attack and sent his own but his reflexes were quick allowing him to block and counter.

'Damn, his strike are hard as Fuck! It feels like punching a stone!' Haruto thought to himself that even when he attack barely fazed Apachai and kept his unrelenting attack towards me.

He tried to block his kick with his shin and wince in pain but snapped it's towards Apachai other legs around the joint to loosen them up. Unfortunately, he was far too conditioned for it and stepped back, changing the course of his attack. Haruto tries to find Apachai Blindspot and uses it to his advantage. He took [ Concealed Presence ] and slowly his presence was lessening.

Apachai saw fist coming his face immediately tried to block only for it to be feint and Haruto struck him with a Seiken that was enough to at least make Apachai feel more alert. Haruto stopped back and kept on doing his strategy.

"He is good but I don't think he has much to show now. I think we should stop the match now otherwise he will get hurt." Kansei suggested noticing that Haruto was receiving some attacks from Apachai even if it was only a graze.

"No wait, look at him he is smiling so he has more to show, let's wait." Hearing Akisame everyone looked at Haruto's face and yes he was indeed smiling and it looked really charming.

"You look really handsome while you smile, Haruto!" Lala cheered, affected by his charming smile. Miu felt strange seeing him smile.

"Thank you for the teaching." Haruto said, confusing Apachai who stopped for a brief moment.

"Apa!!!??"

Haruto changed his battle stance into Tang Guard Muay, yes he was copying Apachai's stance. Everyone was shocked seeing this, especially Apachai but he was excited as well and also went into the Tang Guard Muay stance.

"This is where the fun begins...."

Haruto ran towards Apachai and punched him in the face while Apachai blocked it and went for the kick on Haruto's face who used Shoulder guard and Parrying together to block Apachai's kick.

Haruto then started using more of Apachai's techniques on Apachai such as Ti Soku (Elbow strike), Ti Kau kon (Spinning knee kick), Ti lan and Chai Shot as well. He was able to show a level of skills but lacked the power to truly unleash its power.

'My body does rapidly condition because of my template but dammit, Muay Thai is really hard to harness its power.' Haruto thought knowing that Muay Thai and Lethwei are both difficult to master as it's to strengthen the body at a ridiculous regime.

However, the martial arts are the best at striking as fist are generally the weakest strike forces while kicks, knee and elbows are the strongest and much preferred way of fighting.

"Looks like I won the bet Sakaki." Akisame said with a smile. Though Akisame was shocked he didn't lose his cool.

"Do hell with it, he just watched Apachai use those skills and is now fighting him using it. It's not his own technique so I didn't lose the bet."

"Though they were not his technique when the match started it will become his own after the match ends, the more Apachai uses those techniques the more he will see them and perfect them, he is really a gem which doesn't need much work to shine. If I am not wrong he will be able to learn all of our techniques within 3 years at most."

Haruto ran towards Apachai and punched him on his face while Apachai blocked it and went for the kick on Haruto's face who used Shoulder guard and Parrying together to block Apachai's kick. Haruto then started using more of Apachai's techniques on Apachai such as Ti Soku (Elbow strike), Ti Kau kon (Spinning knee kick), Ti lan and Chai Shot as well.

"Let's stop the match please otherwise Apachai may end up really hurting Haruto"

As they continued their talk Apachai and Haruto were fighting still as Haruto ducked to dodge Apachai's punch he saw Apachai's left knee coming towards his face. Haruto jumped upwards to lessen the impact and used his hands to block the knee but Apachai has used Hopachai Tenako, it is where Apachai strikes his knee upward and sends his opponents flying from a knee kick.

Which made Haruto to fly upwards and Apachai was then getting ready to use his Chai kick, it is Apachai Hopachai's ultimate technique and finisher. The technique seems to be a normal vertical kick upward that sends the opponent flying. However, when Apachai demonstrated with one of Akisame's rock statues Apachai said that the statue won't come down anymore because the rock had already blown apart into dust.

"Oye if that kick hit him, he will be hurt severely and may lose his chance to learn anything anymore." Sakaki said even though he acted like he didn't care about Haruto earlier.

"Shit Apachai isn't holding back." Kansei Ma said ready to move and stopped the fight

"We have to stop him." Akisame about to act while Haruto senses went at all time high and immediately change his approached as everyone watched thinking that he will get felt his heart pounding.

"Don't help!" Haruto shouted to everyone causing them to stop and watched as he placed his foot on Apachai legs using the momentum to push himself into the tree landing on it letting it absorb the force of the attack then leaped into the air and performed an axe kick where Apachai blocked and parried.

"Amazing, he actually surprised Apachai's attack." Kansei Ma said in awe that a young man is able to do something few can.

"What the hell? Making us worried for nothing!" Sakaki shouted in anger while Miu felt relieved glancing over to Lala who didn't even feel scared and simply enjoying the show.

"He has good fighter instinct and truly lacks experience and training." Akisame commented on his biggest flaws as Hayato felt the same way.

"What an interesting youth." Hayato said while Kenichi just couldn't believe his eyes! Is his brother able to do all that!?

"When did you get this strong…" Kenichi thought to himself as Haruto continued to clash against Apachai as he was growing along the way pushing his limits. Apachai strikes were also ground deadly as he elbow dropped on Haruto but he used the downwards to do a front kick while using his hand to block the knee strike allowing him to strike Apachai on the top of his head. Unfortunately it was not enough as the two fighters stepped back.

"Apachai, glad you are not hurt! Do you want to continue?" He asked him while Haruto shook his head before he took a different stance that made every look with great interest even Shigure. They could sense the wisp of Ki from his movement that created bluish aura like streaming water. Haruto was planning on strengthening his power through Apachai but at this rate he would actually get hurt and even die. In the end, he uses [ Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist ] , which was perfect counter for stronger opponents.

"I'm glad as well, I've grown thanks to you. Let me also take it more seriously." Haruto said changing his whole demeanor and Hayato saw his movement and immediately wondered what kind it was.

"My, this is the first time I've seen this." He remarked seeing the youth execute a martial art unknown to him. Hayato was over 90+ years old and had many encounters in his life.

"Apa apa apa!" Apachai rushed towards Haruto who was still and received his punch at full force causing everyone to panic only to be dumbfounded when he suddenly sent a powerful strike that actually made Apachai stagger a bit. Everyone was speechless and couldn't understand what had happened.

"What just happened!?" Sakaki exclaimed shocked to a grandmaster receiving damage from someone weaker than them.

"He seems to redirect the force that he receives and send them back, similar to Fajin. His martial art seems to act similar to Tai Chi and Kenpo." Kansei Ma, considering he knows a lot about Chinese martial arts.

"But it seems far from perfect." Akisame added looking at Haruto who was bleeding and taking damage while he redirected and parried Apachai unrelenting attacks. The [ Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist ] was only at D rank and far from its true potential.

Shigure saw this and was thinking about how he was quite talented and somewhat excited to teach him. She had a good first impression for helping her capture Kansei Ma and thought he would be a great help in capturing him again.

Hayato on the other hand was interested in his martial arts, feeling a sense of his youth when he fought many practitioners. He remembers a few people who have the same capabilities as him.

'His talented but relies too heavily on it. He's as if following what his memory remembers rather than actually using the technique in how they are supposed to be.' Hayato compares it to a dance that simply remembers it rather than actually dancing and following a certain rhythm.

"I didn't know that Haruto would be strong." Miu muttered watching the fight and was mesmerized by Haruto's smile who kept on going despite the clear pain he was in. She can see that he was having fun fighting.

Apachai then did an Ti Sok Klab, a spinning elbow strike that can be rapidly used in conjunction to punches that was difficult to avoid forcing Haruto to block then receive a power kick at the diaphragm. Haruto almost fainted coughing in pain as it was made to enter shock but he gritted his teeth, stepping back and holding his stomach trying to wait for him to recover.

"Haaa….haaa…" He was panting and having difficulty breathing after receiving the attack. His whole body was screaming at him having bruises and broken bones but he couldn't stop there as his blood was boiling!

Haruto looked at his opponent who was liked higher in every category be it skill, experience and power! This is what the Strength of a grandmaster is like, so I want to see more!!

"Hahahahaaha!!!!" A sense of euphoria rushes inside his mind as everyone looks confused and a hint of fear. Lala saw him enter this state but the way he moved was different. Haruto smears the blood from his nose to his hair, combing it back showing a beastly grin that even scares Kenichi.

"Let's continue, Apachai-chan!" His stance moved in an unorthodox manner as Haruto began to use [ Formless ] for the first time since he received it. His heart was pounding and the euphoric feeling entered his body.