The start of the journey

There was a very small village on the mountain of the Three Towers.

It was isolated from the city.

One day a young man called Jin was walking through the forest of the Three Towers.

Suddenly he heard a noise.

Puff!

Puff!

Jin became curious about the noise so he

Approach the noise.

As he gets closer, Jin sees a young man

A black boy with frizzy hair.

He was wearing a karate outfit.

And he was chopping wood with his hand.

From a huge tree.

Jin was curious and excited to see this boy

chopping down that tree.

He approaches the young boy.

- Hello, how are you?

What's your name?

The young boy didn't answer.

Jin continued to ask him a lot of questions.

- Cool!

You like karate,

Since when do you fight

Karate.

The young man continues to cut down the trees.

Jin excitedly tells the young man to fight with

Him.

That he loves martial arts and wants to face the strongest.

The young boy says he has no interest in

fighting.

Jin smiles and says.

-You finally said something!

The young man picks up the firewood and walks away, towards the village.

Jin wonders why he didn't want to fight him.

Jin goes to the village where the young man went.

When he got there, he asked people if anyone

knew a young black man wearing a karate outfit.

The people in the village were afraid of Jin.

He thought to himself.

- Why are they afraid of me?

A young man said to Jin.

- Look, young man, you

Do you want to know who that was?

That young man in the karate outfit?

- Look old man, I do want to know.

Puff (he hits Jin on the head)

Jin asked.

- Why did you hit me?

You say no, elder, but yes, sir, he told Jin to respect the elders.

Elder.

Jin apologizes.

Sir says he'll tell you who that young man was, but first

He wanted to know why he wanted to know about him.

Jin replies that he was excited to see a very strong young man.

who saw him in the forest cutting down a tree.

And he was very excited.

He wanted to fight him, because he wanted to face the strongest in martial arts.

martial arts.

And seeing the young man, he felt that he had met a great opponent.

The gentleman smiled and said

That young man's name is Ricardo maiko,

He was orphaned at an early age when his parents died,

Mysteriously, his father was a very famous karate coach in the village.

famous in the village, and he trains young Ricardo, Dedé that his father

died, the people of the village took care of him.

- How sad!

Jin says.

You take Jin to where Ricardo lives.

As he approaches, he says.

Is this his doujo?

You said yes!

Jin said because the doujo was broken.

You replied.

It was because of the village mayor.

Because he was corrupt and wanted to charge absurd taxes,

from Ricardo's doujo.

Jin asked why he did that, because the doujo belonged to a famous karate fighter.

Karate fighter who was Ricardo's father, and because he was very

Ricardo's father, and because he was a famous guy, he had a beef with Ricardo's father.

And because the doujo was worth a lot of money, the mayor says that after

Ricardo's father's death, the doujo belongs to the town hall.

Ricardo said that the doujo belonged to his father,

so he would take care of it.

The mayor laughed at him and said that he was a

child and couldn't run a doujo.

Ricardo said he wouldn't let him, if the mayor

wanted to take it away, he'd have to fight with him.

The mayor laughed and asked.

- What are you going to do with this doujo?

Ricardo replied.

I'm going to teach martial arts to the poor villagers

And make the children learn martial

Martial arts and get off the streets so they don't become

Bandits.

The mayor, full of rage, took out a knife to kill Ricardo.

People of the village saw this and said

Tell the mayor to get out of there.

The mayor, afraid of the people, went out and said

That the doujo would be his if Ricardo didn't succeed

Find several young men who would take the doujo away from him.

After a while, Ricardo managed to find some young people.

The ambitious mayor began to charge higher and higher taxes,

He began to attack the doujo at the behest of his henchmen.

To make the young people afraid and give up.

So the young people left and left.

Ricardo said that they shouldn't be afraid because the doujo was his.

So the youths didn't go along with Ricardo and left.

There were only three young men left, who had never abandoned Ricardo.

Jin begins to cry at the story.

He approaches Ricardo and says.

We're going to fight.

Ricardo replied.

You again, I don't want to

Fight!

Jin says he'll help Ricardo protect the doujo!

Ricardo asks how he knew that.

Jin says the old woman over there told me.

You.

shouts I'm not an elder, just sir!!!!

Ricardo looks at him and says.

And Grandpa can't keep a secret.

Jin is astonished.

- What are you, Grandpa?

Then he says let's fight, I want to face you, I'm not leaving

I can't get out of here.

So Ricardo agreed.

The two began to fight.

Puff, pofff!

Ricardo says.

Hum!

You fight mma,

Incredible!

Puff

Poff

- your karate is really incredible,

I'm excited.

Everyone is excited about the fight.

- How incredible that the two of them are fighting

Equal.

The fight got more tense, Ricardo got excited.

How incredible.

I want to fight more and more.

The fight got tighter, Ricardo made another mistake.

He lost.

He fell to the ground and smiled.

- you're very good Jin,

I was very excited to

fighting you!

- Me too Ricardo!

After the fight Jin said he would

help Ricardo with doujo.

Ricardo asks how?

Jin says there's a tournament called Rankeada, it's

The biggest tournament in the world.

There are the greatest fighters in the world.

Whoever wins this tournament wins 1 million dollars.

Ricardo thought that this money could help

him save the doujo.

But Ricardo thought that the deadline was tomorrow

To pay.

Jin said.

- what that idiot

He can't steal

You doujo, come on

Let's finish him off

He's really strong!

Ricardo replied.

Using martial arts for revenge

It doesn't lead anywhere,

Just more deaths, maybe I'll have to close the doujo.

Ricardo cried.

A man appears and says there's no need to cry.

Ricardo looks at the man and says .

Is that you, you worm?

Jin asked who he was.

Ricardo replies one of the mayor's henchmen, his

right-hand man.

His name is Billy Jun.

Jin said let's finish him off.

Ricardo replied that revenge leads to nothing, so Ricardo asked

Why is he there? The deadline is tomorrow.

The man called Billy replied.

1 because I know that you

Don't have the money to pay, 2

So I'm going to give you a longer deadline

for you to pay, so that you can

Pay after you win the tournament.

Ricardo wondered and asked.

-Why are you doing this?

- I know that this doujo is yours.

I also know that your father was my master and

He always taught me to be fair.

I went down the wrong path, but after

your father's death I saw his joy in you.

Jin said, "Isn't that a lie?

Ricardo smiles and says that he

Is telling the truth.

Jin and Ricardo thanked him.

Ricardo asks, who else is going to look after

The doujo.

His grandfather replies, leave it to me, my grandson.

old but I can still take care of a doujo.

Ricardo thanks his grandfather and after resting for a while, Ricardo and

Jin set off on their journey.

- Jin!

- Yes, Ricardo.

Ricardo says.

Let's do our best together to

Get to the top.

- Yes, Ricardo,

Let's go.

Saying hello.

Ricardo's grandfather laughs and says to Billy.

- these young men will be legends one

someday.

- Yes, sir, Ken.

End of chapter 1.