Rin Itsuka

The next day, at Ryozanpaku. Kenichi and Miu were sparring with each other. They each use one hand for striking and one for blocking, they both go back and forth striking at each other and blocking every strike, slowly since this is all just practice to help Kenichi correct his form. Sakaki is overseeing them.

"Too slow!" Sakaki reprimanded him. "Offense and defence are not two separate things! You have to use your entire body to concentrate moves into one form!" He watched Kenichi continue to try and fail which made him groan. "You haven't improved at all! Come on, are you ever going to learn?"

"I'm starting to wonder that myself?" Kenichi thought to himself with depression.

"Kay, Miu, listen up," Sakaki instructed her. "Next time you notice he's let his guard down like that, just go ahead and kill him." He told her fed up as he turned away.

"You got it~" Miu pleasantly responded.

"No, it's fine. Go on and kill me." Kenichi encouraged with comical tears streaming down his eyes. "I'm too slow to live."

With that done, they moved on to training with Akisame, and right now, Kenichi was learning how to throw a person, substituting the stone statue with Miu. They started with Kenichi holding Miu's hand over her head.

"That's right, now Kenichi, swivel downward and take Miu by the arm," Akisame instructed him.

Kenichi did so and know Kenichi got behind Miu and held her arm behind her back with her forearm and hand pointing downward. One hand held her wrist the over held her bicep. Akisame shook his head.

"No, your upper hand is far too weak." He corrected him. "You would normally use your leverage on her arm to pull her backward for the next step. But if you grasp her that weakly—Well Miu."

Instead of explaining, Miu demonstrates what would happen as she broke free from Kenichi's hold and flipped him over her shoulder before slamming him onto the floor, landing him on his back.

"That's what happens." Akisame finished. He then placed a hand on his head and sighed. "Ah, you've got plenty of time to learn."

Kenichi cried his comically streaming tears again as he kept his head down, eyes closed, and spoke depressed. "I'm just entirely hopeless, aren't I? I haven't made any progress at all."

At that moment, Apachai walked in. "Apachai doesn't believe that even if it is true."

"STAY AWAY!" Kenichi immediately sprung to life.

"APAAAA!" Apachai roared with wild energy and spirit.

Kenichi screamed and ran for dear life as Apachai chased after him screaming as well. Kenichi hastily opened the door to the room where all of Akisame's stone statues were and proceeded to pick them up and toss them at Apachai who followed up by destroying whatever came his way with kicks and reducing each one to rubble. Oddly enough, Shigure stood behind him and watched.

"APAAAAA!"

BANG! BAM! BREAK! WHAM!

"Perfect, he's destroying my statues," Akisame noted with stoic dismay.

Kensei soon arrived as well. "What's going on in here?"

"Kenichi made the mistake of showing fear and you know what happens when Apachai smells fear," Akisame explained as he kept watching. "Quite a sight."

"So this is where he went."

Akisame and Kensei looked to see Ohma arrive this time as he stopped beside them.

"What brings you here?" Akisame asked.

"I was training with Apachai but then he just suddenly took off," Ohma explained as he watched the giant kick stone into pebbles. "What the Hell is he doing?"

"Well… Right now he's showing Kenichi some pretty good training." Akisame summarized. "He can witness Apachai's techniques without getting killed."

"You think so?" Kensei argued with doubt. "Can observing this do that much for him?"

"APA! APA! APA!"

BAM! BAM! BREAK! GON! BANG!

Apachai continued to roar and rampage as Kenichi reached his breaking point and whaled at the top of his lungs.

"JUST GO AWAY!"

Ohma ignored him. "Pity, I was just going to ask Apachai to level up my training."

"Why is that?" Kensei asked.

"I am planning to challenge an opponent who hits harder than my current level," Ohma replied. "I can't rely on blocking against him, evasion is the better option."

"How long until you issue the challenge?"

"About two weeks or so. Enough for me to be ready by then."

"Hmmm."

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-Next day

"These Ragnarok goons are so darn persistent," Kenichi complained. "I don't even get Sundays to relax."

The day was going well, he called Ohma if he wanted to go to Dojo together. Now Ragnarok thugs were on them.

"That's the point of being hunted." Ohma reminded him. "And besides, if we weren't here, you'd be training which isn't what I call relaxing."

"Well, look who's finally bagged a prize, me—Takashi Furukawa." The now named Takashi introduced himself. "That name doesn't mean much right now, but you wait—Pretty soon, everybody's gonna know me as the Number 1 guy in Ragnarok."

"Oh, can it. I don't care who you are, right now you're screwing up my only day to go shopping with Miu!" Kenichi angrily responded. "I've been waiting for this all week!"

"Not my problem!" Takashi shot back.

Ohma groaned. "Ignore the Desperate House SIMP and kindly fuck off. I am not in the mood."

"Are you kidding? The whole point of this is to beat you guys before they do." Takashi informed him. "If I can manage to take you down, chances are Kisara-sama will make me one of her top go-to guys."

"Is that really all you want?" Ohma said mockingly before turning to Kenichi. "Kenichi, you take him, he'll count as a pre-exercise warmup before training."

"All right." Kenichi stepped forward and got in a fighting stance. "I just want to finish and get back to shopping."

"Fine, you first." Takashi raised his fist. "Oh, and, just one last thing?"

"Fine, what is it?" Kenichi asked annoyed.

BAM!

WHAM!

THUD!

"Call off your crazy girlfriend man!" Takashi yelled in horror.

Behind them, four other members of Ragnarok showed up to face them as well. Unfortunately for them, Miu was already in fight mode and was brutally beating them all down without her legs ever having to touch the ground.

Ohma yawned. "Well looks like she is having fin."

Kenichi smiled. "Ha, amazing as always, she's taken out four guys in less than a few seconds and hasn't even broken a sweat."

Takashi started to ponder. "Hang on a sec, maybe I should try to beat this chick instead? Nah, I better not start seconding guessing my orders, Kisara said to beat these two guys so that's what I'll do!"

Takashi then rushed in while Kenichi was distracted. "Uh oh, if I can't take care of at least one of these guys I'll never be able to look Miu in the eye again. My Pride's at stake!"

Kenichi rushed in as well and he and Takashi both swung their fists. The result was a dual exchange where both of them got punched in the face. Afterwards, they both took a few steps back and it seemed like Kenichi was much less hurt and dealt more damage.

"Decent enough." Ohma thought as if he was evaluating Kenichi. "If he didn't get distracted he could've avoided taking a hit, but at least he hit the guy back and landed the strong blow."

Kenichi put up his fists. "Want some more?" He threatened.

Takashi wasn't even looking at him though as he inspected the damage he took and saw that there was blood on his hands after wiping his nose which shook him. "I'm…Bleeding. What the heck are you trying to do to me? I think…I think you broke my nose you punk!"

Kenichi stepped in. "Are you gonna be alright?" He asked, slightly concerned.

To his surprise though, Takashi pulled a switchblade knife out of his pocket and looked at Kenichi with a deathly grin. "Now you're gonna bleed."

Kenichi immediately became nervous and started to sweat. "Hey wait a minute, that's not fair! You're not allowed to use that thing, are you crazy? Someone could really get hurt!"

"Enough already!" Takashi snapped.

Takashi kept stepping forward while Kenichi kept stepping with fear of the knife.

"I've got to get into his reach without getting cut… But how?" Kenichi wondered as his knees started shaking again.

BOINK!

However, before anything else could happen, Ohma stepped in and threw both Kenichi and Takashi on the held. As the tension broke and both of them gripped their heads, everyone else stopped and looked at them with a bit of confusion about why he stepped in.

Ohma stood between them and looked at Takashi. "Alright man, put the knife away."

He said it casually but it was clear that he wasn't asking or requesting. One of the guys that were floored by Miu spoke up.

"This is their fight, stay out of it!"

"Huh?!"

Ohma looked at him with an expression that was a mixture of a smirk and a death glare. Seeing that immediately made him hush up. Ohma looked back at the two between him.

"You call that fighting?" He asked. "With that piece of junk."

"E-Easy for you to say," Takashi argued while looking down. "What does it get ya if you fight fair and… You end up losing? I'll take a win any way I—"

Before he could finish, Ohma grabbed the knife between his fingers.

'Adamantine Kata: Iron Fingers.'

His grip turned tighter and the blade snapped in half.

"Your steel is weak," Ohma informed him before jumping back as Takashi got up.

"Now continue!"

Takashi looked confused for a moment then suddenly charged at Kenichi.

This time though, Kenichi was prepared and as Takashi went in for a punch, Kenichi caught his fist, broke his centre of gravity, and flipped him over his shoulder before slamming him hard into the ground with a Judo throwing technique.

"I did it!" Kenichi celebrated.

Ohma turned to the other grunts that were beaten by Miu but still conscious. "Any of the rest if you wanna keep fighting?"

"Nah, we're good!" One of them said in surrender.

"Yeah, we'll just leave now!" Another one said as they lifted Takashi and retreated.

With that done, the three of them decided to head back to the Dojo.

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Meanwhile, somewhere else in the town, Rin rested against a wall while fourteen other girls surrounded her. Kisara stood ahead of all, staring at Rin.

"What were you thinking when you decided to cross Ragnarok?" Kisara asked.

"I don't know," Rin replied, "Cleaning up the neighbourhood I guess. Now, who are you?"

Shiratori among the girls stepped forward. "Watch your mouth, you are talking to the Eight Fist Valkyrie."

Kisara smirked.

Rin raised her brow. "Here I thought it was just in the gang's name, but you guys are actually just larpers."

"That's it, you are done." Kisara jumped forward with a flying kick.

She only hit the wall as Rin dodged a moment away. Kisara didn't stop, performing her signature hammer kick as she landed on the ground.

"Too slow," Rin remarked.

"Is this too slow for you?!" Kisara shouted performing a roundhouse kick. Rin ducked and swept Kisara off her feet. Kisara didn't fall instead she rolled mid-air before finding her footing.

"So you aren't just a delinquent larper. It doesn't matter much." Rin said before taking a deep breath. Suddenly she lunged at Kisara with a speed that made her limbs disappear and before Kisara could react she was hit. Then everything turned dark, she didn't even know when her body hit the ground.

"Take her away and never show your face here again."