Enjot reading, rejoice and...
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Micael followed up with another that was blocked and just as he was about to attack again, Saji moved to grab him, seeing this he pulled his arm back but was surprised when Saji's hand moved abruptly on the way to punch him in the face.
Quickly stepping away, the gust of wind pushed his hair as he retreated. Micael silently looked at the smiling Saji who just waved his hand again, calling him over.
Wasting no time, Micael returned to the fight, but instead of a punch, he landed a kick that hit Saji's guard, the blow reverberating as Saji was thrown.
—Thud
Being thrown back momentarily, Saji planted his feet on the ground as he intercepted Micael's new kick, dodging it and following up with a kick that sent him flying backwards.
Saji then closed in in an instant, where the two exchanged blows in quick succession until Saji was caught off guard. Micael captured Saji's arm and threw him over his shoulder, his throw sending him straight into the wall on the other side.
With his feet touching the wall, Saji only had time to raise his head before having to dodge, quickly jumping towards the ceiling, while Micael hit the wall where he was with the sole of his foot.
—Thud!
With another impactful sound, Micael quickly looked up and saw Saji upside down on the ceiling, their eyes meeting as they both pushed off and threw themselves at each other.
In midair, the two clashed, their fists hitting both of their blocks, Saji then summoned his wings as he hovered in midair and quickly kicked Micael down.
—Thud
With his feet hitting the ground hard as he landed on his feet, Micael looked at the floating Saji.
"Looks like I'm on high ground now my friend, what are you going to do?" Saji said, smiling slightly.
Without saying anything, Micael crouched down a little before jumping up with force.
Saji just flew to the side with the intention of dodging, but what happened next made him stop for a moment.
Micael kicked the air as he quickly redirected himself towards Saji, who rolled his eyes as he muttered. "And of course he can step on air."
Arriving at Saji, Micael began attacking him using mainly his legs due to his lack of proper leverage, while Saji himself realized that aerial combat was more difficult than he thought when he found himself having the same problem.
"This looks like an anime fight..." Issei muttered in disbelief as he watched the two exchange blows in the air like characters from Drag-so Ball.
"Are they...balanced?" Kiba said, his hand still on his chin.
"No." Speaking for the first time since arriving, Koneko answered him, her voice neutral and low sounding.
Koneko's words not only attracted the attention of Issei, who seemed surprised upon hearing her voice for the first time, but also attracted the attention of Kiba and Akeno, with the latter asking her curiously.
"Why do you think that?" Akeno asked, looking at her.
Narrowing her eyes slightly, Koneko replied. "Keep observing." As the person with the most experience in hand-to-hand combat there, she noticed the difference.
Returning to Saji and Micael, the aerial exchange of blows lasted for a moment longer before the two abruptly charged at each other with force, launching themselves in opposite directions.
Micael calmly fell towards the ground while Saji floated down to it.
"Are you serious about using me to improve yourself?" Micael asked, sweating a little, exhaling sharply through his nose.
"Heh, you can't blame me, you're the perfect training partner for this. Besides, weren't you the one who said I should take every opportunity to get stronger in a fight if I get one?" Looking much less affected, Saji replied relaxedly.
Keeping his gaze silent for a moment, Micael calmly assumed a pose, but this time it was different from his usual one. "Alright, try copying me then." His left arm swung slightly while the other held a fist close to his chest, and then he moved slightly in place.
Saji immediately felt that something had changed, looking suspiciously at Micael, he approached to attack.
—Shooosh
With a quick punch, Saji attacked, his fist approaching Micael so easily that Saji believed he would hit him, only for his fist to stop at the last second, or rather, his arm was completely stretched out, stopping just a few millimeters from Micael's face.
Saji widened his eyes in surprise, only for his face to turn abruptly as he was hit, and Micael's body became slightly blurred in his vision as he shifted places.
With his head tilted, Saji momentarily wondered what had just happened. 'How the hell did he move so fast?'
But without giving him time to process, Micael continued the attack, Saji reacted trying to defend himself, but was hit in quick succession in the arms, a sharp and piercing pain running through the affected areas.
While he was momentarily distracted by the pain spreading inside, Micael tried to quickly strike him in the torso and face. Saji tried to defend himself, but his blocks were hit by the same piercing attacks that distracted him, causing him to be hit multiple times.
Gritting his teeth after being hit with a slap and a poke to the forehead, Saji desperately tried to defend himself, trying to grab onto Micael's arms at one point only to be brutally struck multiple times, which prevented him from grabbing him. In the end, Saji ended up pulling away.
"Fuck! What the hell is this!? How are you doing this shit!?" Half-crouching on the ground and taking deep breaths due to stress and fatigue, Saji asked, looking completely irritated by that one-sided beating.
"That's the difference between a martial arts professional and a master. Your magic has made you good, but even so, you still have a long way to go if you want to become a master. And yes, I am a master now." Micael replied with his hand on his neck as he stretched it.
"...Are you telling me you were still holding back this whole time?" Saji asked with a blank look.
"It's not that impressive, it only works because of my power." Micael calmly replied as he lowered his hand. At that moment, there was no way to explain to Saji that he was using Seimei Kikan to make this feat possible.
After fighting for so long with the illusory Baki, he ended up learning from him, his style before was focused exclusively on the fighting styles he learned, but constantly fighting with someone who mastered several other styles made him develop.
In other words, his own style had evolved greatly, but more than that, he had reached the level of a martial arts master, which in layman's terms was the ability to manipulate his internal energy, or in this case, extremely fine control over his muscles.
The ability to read his opponent, change the rhythm, strikes coming in an abnormal way and apply minimum and maximum force instantly, however, his speech when saying that this was not so impressive was because it was thanks to Seimei Kikan that he was able to apply this in a way that really affected Saji.
He had only recently reached this level of mastery and needed more training, Seimei Kikan just made the application process easier.
Saji raised an eyebrow as he stared at him with an exaggeratedly curious expression and a hand on his chin. "Hmm... so without your power, you can't handle it?"
Realizing what Saji was trying to do, Micael just looked at him, smiled lightly, and replied. "No, even without my powers, I can still beat you."
Saji gave him an extremely expressive doubtful look. "…Right, I highly doubt that." He shook his head at his words.
Micael maintained his smile as he let out a short laugh in reaction. "If you're so sure about that, I can prove it if you want."
Saji then laughed lightly. "Hahaha, it's fine, you don't need to prove anything, I believe in you." Standing up, he smiled compassionately as he nodded with an understanding look as if he had understood something. Without saying anything, Micael deactivated his powers, his back and eyes returning to normal. "Since you still seem to have some doubts, I will demonstrate." Saji blinked a few times before his face returned to normal, speaking while quickly waving his hand. "Hey, what are you doing? You know I'm just teasing you."
"I know, it's just that now that you brought it up, I want to test myself against you and see how far I can go." Saji looked at Micael in disbelief. "Man, you're really crazy, huh? If you feel like killing yourself, then let's do it." He then adopted a fighting stance, maintaining his promotion to Knight. Micael just kept smiling in response, not denying his statement. Meanwhile, the others had expressions of shock, the previous fight between Saji and Micael had already left them surprised, but this new abrupt event completely drowned them in new emotion.
"This guy is completely crazy..." Issei said with his eyes wide open and his mouth open, even though he had little experience and understanding he could notice the physical difference between the two.
With a frown, Sona beside Rias asked. "Is this okay?"
With a frown of her own, somewhat worried look, Rias replied. "Yes...I guess so."
Mari, in the corner, rubbed her forehead with her eyes closed. "There you go again with those crazy ideas of yours, sigh." She looked a mix of tired and frustrated. The other members of both peerages remained silent. If they had previously thought Micael was a bit crazy, they were now certain that he definitely had a screw loose in his head.
With Micael and Saji, Saji silently looked at Micael for another brief moment before his foot stepped forward.
For Micael, one moment Saji was far away from him and the next a fist hit his nose without any resistance.
—Pussh
With a wet sound, blood came out of his nose as he was forced to take several steps back quickly.
Frowning in reaction, Saji lowered his fist. "Man, are you sure about this? That punch didn't even have my full strength." He clearly seemed to no longer agree with Micael's idea.
Calmly wiping the blood from his nose, Micael replied, "Yes, let's continue." Then, resuming his fighting stance.
Saji exhaled weakly through his nose. "Okay." And then he attacked again.
Again, without Micael being able to see, a fist hit him in the face without resistance, his face turned abruptly to the side as his head was thrown by the force, but his eyes remained calm and focused on Saji who appeared in his vision.
His hand then moved to grab the arm that was punching him, but faster than him, the arm retracted in an instant before a punch hit his other cheek, his head turning to the other side as his eyes remained glued to Saji.
So what followed was a one-sided beating, Saji's arms going haywire as he punched Micael inexpressively several times, Micael only keeping a nearly useless guard in protection.
But as he was brutally beaten, with blows constantly hitting his arms, face, chest, and stomach, the faint sounds of the impacts reverberating, Micael remained firmly in place, enduring all the attacks without making a sound or changing his expression.
His eyes completely focused on Saji, as if he was waiting for something.
"Tsk." Mari clicked her tongue at the brutal scene, she was definitely not happy to see Micael being treated like a punching bag.
But the most she could do was watch in frustration, frowning and biting her thumbnail.
And equally frowning, even more so than before was Rias, her gaze furrowing as she watched the scene, she still didn't understand what would lead Micael to actively seek this kind of treatment.
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(Continue...)