Chapter 300: Report


    "Let''s go" Tirawit ordered, as he lowered his arms, "This mission was a failure"


    Boris looked over at Ethan, who looked back, before nodding and dropping out of his fighting stance. The trio cautiously walked towards the exit, ready if Kenichi tried to continue the fight. When it became clear that he won''t attack, the trio walked out to report back to Yami.


    "Now that''s over, I should head back and meet the others," said Kenichi to himself as he walked towards the locker room to change into his Koryo high uniform.


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    "Report" ordered Satomi as Tirawit, Boris, Ethan, Rachel, Sho, and Chikage stood in front of him, "Status of mission?"


    "Wait, what mission?" asked Sho.


    "The mission to...ah right you weren''t there" muttered Satomi, "Incidentally what were you doing after the sports festival"


    "Just rxing" shrugged Sho, there was no way he would tell them that he dropped of Izumi today for the first time as a thank you for the bento she made for him.


    "Alright. Chikage?" asked Satomi.


    "Middle school sports festival" replied Chikage curtly, "Nothing much, blending in the environment mixing with themoners. They are confusing."


    Though she didn''t unformed then that she turned into child mode as soon as Honoka and Kaede gave her sweets which they learned from Kenichi.


    "Hahaha, well it will do you good to understand them," said Satomi as he turned towards Tirawit, "And the four of you?"


    Rachel had been ready to go into detail of just how much he showed off when Ethan apologetically ced his hand over her mouth so Tirawit could report first.


    "Unable to terminate the target" sighed Tirawit regretfully, "Target is shown to not only be physically strong but also with a mental fortitude much sturdier than expected, his heart was not shaken when I tried to psychologically attack him"


    "You didn''t try to trick him into attacking your grunts," asked Satomi.


    Tirawit shook his head, "Instead of physically take them down, he knocked them out with his ki"


    The shock was clear on Satomi''s face as knocking someone with your Ki isn''t something that anyone can do.


    "It''s to be expected after all he is the youngest master ss martial artist his ki maybe much concentrated than the normal master ss fighters" Sho stated.


    Satomi nodded his head "Well at least we know that he shows more maturity than Sho and Rachel"


    "Hey" shouted Sho while Rachel let out a muffled shout.


    "Regardless, I am guessing you tried to fight him," said Sho after calming himself down.


    "Yes, he has more control over himself than expected. Even when I lowered my defense in an attempt to make him hesitate to attack me in fear of killing me, he continued forward forcing me to abandon the strategy. He ims to know exactly how much strength was needed to knock me out and it wasn''t something that I intended to find out." replied Tirawit.


    "I came in to aid Kokin in the fight but that wasn''t enough," said Boris


    "I also tried to attack his marma points but he knew exactly how to stop that attack" added Ethan, who was now cowering and covering his head while Rachel was lightly punching him.


    "All three of us attacked Shirahama Kenichi with no real sess innding any attacks. That was when he wasn''t even serious and when he decided he had enough of us he released his ki again which was enough to pressure us. Seeing that we could no longer win, we chose to retreat. They allowed us to do so."mented Boris


    "It also made me realize one w in Isshinsai Ogata''s statement" added Tirawit drawing all attention towards himself, "He once stated that he believed it would take us working together to face him. I believe that when he said that, he thought perhaps two or three of us. I think that wouldn''t work"


    "Exin," Satomi asked.


    "None of us are familiar with anyone, even though we are all a part of YOMI" Tirawit exined, "When fighting together we began to hinder each other''s movements, thus limiting our true potential. The only person who could work well with any of us would be Sho, as he had learned all the disciplines within One Shadow nine fists"


    "So what do you suggest?" asked Satomi, "Mind you I can work with Natsuki and Hatsuki"


    "Those two are your personal bodyguards who you train with together, sharing the same style" corrected Tirawit, "Kenichi Shirahama on the other hand can work well with all of his friends without hindering himself or them in the process. Our choice is to train in a desperate attempt to catch up..... or spar with each other and/ or train how to fight together."


    Yomi remained silent to that statement, not knowing just how to respond to that.


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    "Are you sure this is the type of date you want Shigure!?" asked Kenichi as he sat on a train. with Shigure.


    "Uh.." came a voice from Shigure as she nodded her head.


    Despite not having the seed of fear imnted in him Kenichi was going with Shigure on a sword hunting trip. Though as Kenichi said this was a date long overdue with Shigure and since it was Kenichi''s fault he decided to let Shigure decide on where they should go on the date and she chose sword hunting.


    "This would take....more than a day..... and... you would get more experience with various types of weapon," Shigure said


    "That''s why I decided to tag along since we didn''t have gone to a single date as well," said Kaname sitting beside Shigure.


    Kenichi didn''t know about it but Kaname and Shigure had gotten close together after Kenichi introduced them to each other as his girlfriends. Moreover, Kaname believed she could learn a lot more from Shigure than she could from her grandfather because of his senile old age.


    Of course, it wasn''t easy for just the three of them to go on this trip, Kisara wanted to join the trip along with renka but Shigure''s reply to that was that only weapon martial artists will be going on this journey. Saeko didn''t say anything as she knew that Shigure wanted some alone time with Kenichi though it wasn''t possible with Kaname in the mix but it''s still better than a lot of people joining the trip.


    "So how far are we going?"