The man launched a barrage of attacks, which Ukita kept dodging. It was then that Ukita noticed something peculiar.
"Why does my opponent... so much slower then master Akisame's machine?" thought Ukita, referring to the time when he practiced on Master Akisame's machine.
"Urgh, stop dodging!" cried out the man as he kept missing. He then tried to punch Ukita but overstepped it too much.
Ukita snapped back into reality and reacted, grabbing the man's wrist with both hands. Ukita then turned his body and using his back as a support throws the man onto the ground. This way he not only used Jujutsu but added a little judo in it as well.
"Oh, and a surprise takedown from Child U! Will this be the match!?" shouted an announcer.
Ukita firmly grasped the arm, not allowing his opponent any opportunity. Soon, the man tapped out, allowing Ukita to win.
"See Ukita, you did it!" cheered Kenichi as Ukita got back to the corner.
"Yea.... I guess I did!" smiled Ukita.
"Have more confi... Ukita duck!" shouted Kenichi. Ukita instinctively obeyed just to dodge an attack.
"Hey, hey don't distracted" said Sakaki as he sipped on his beer the boss had brought for him, "You four are going to be doing continuous matches until you forfeit, whether by choice or knockout."
"You said one battle only!" cried Ukita.
"Yeah.... that is one battle, Just continuous matches. I will let you out if you seem really tired, but not before that. C'mon, I hear you say that you didn't want to be left behind. Isn't that the reason you came to Akisame to learn. If you don't do this, you will really be left behind. The other three are already past their 2nd match."
Ukita's ears perked up to hear that it was true. Child T (Takeda) had just finished his 3rd fight, Child K (Kisara) was in the middle of her 3rd third, and Child S (Tsuji) was beginning his 3rd fight. Ukita grit his teeth as he turned to face his opponent, this time determined visage painted onto his face. With a roar, Ukita charged forward.
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"Urrrrgg that was tiring" groaned Ukita as he held an ice pack to his head, though he felt proud of himself. He had managed to win three fights before losing the fourth one.
"Yeah but it gave us a lot of experience" grinned Kisara, who winced as she gently poked her thigh. She had five consecutive wins before she decided to stop, her legs were feeling a bit sore. Her last match had been challenging. Kenichi went close to her to ask about her condition and only when she insistently said that she was fine did Kenichi let go of the matter.
"Hmph, I want to go up again!" pouted Tsuji, his face was rather bruised. He had won four matches and tied his fifth match with a double knockout.
Takeda was still continuing his sixth match, though he was very tired now. He narrowly won with an uppercut after ducking from his opponents punch before calling it quits for now.
"Hey, Kenichi is going up" noted Kisara getting Ukita and Tsuji's attention.
Indeed, Kenichi was now up on the stage, holding his three secional staff.
"It's good that you decided to not fight Saeko" said Kenichi
"Ofcourse, unlike you I don't have to train in a new weapon and once I go up on the stage everyone will recognize me after seeing my attacks" stated Saeko.
"OK, now listen you can't take the restraints off, they are to train your body and control excessive strength and always use weapon you get it" stated Sakaki.
"Yes Master Sakaki" said Kenichi and entered the stage.
Six battles later Kenichi was lightly panting mostly because his restraints have cut back most of his movement and power then his next opponent dove into the ring. He had sustained a two scratches all because he didn't wanted to use any other body part except the weapon to beat his opponent and intentionally left himself open so as to end the fight as early as possible.
Miu, Saeko and even Kisara were cheering him on making him smile sometimes in between the battles. Since it was Kenichi's idea to come to the underground arena, Sakaki was proud of him as he didn't needed to think how to earn money for quite sometime.
Kenichi whipped out is staff, blocking his opponents wooden sword slash. Then, in the same motion, he trapped the sword within both section of his staff. His opponent struggled, trying to tug his sword away and he got more irritated when he looked at Kenichi's cocky smirk making him puul the sword back with full strength.
Kenichi's smirk became wide as he suddenly opened both his sides, allowing the man to regain his weapon. However, the man had not expected his weapon to be released so easily and lost his balance. Kenichi swiftly spun his three sectional staff around his body to gain more momentum then slammed it onto his head knocking him out cold as blood starts to leak out through his head.
"And Child A wins another match!" shouted the announcer " Can anybody stop his winning streak!?"
"Hmm? Looks like expert level fighters want a piece of him. Interesting maybe he will get a little real practice out of them" thought Sakaki.
Suddenly a man wearing white gi jumped into the ring, eager to fight Kenichi.
"I am Masero Ibiki and I will beat you" said the man in white gi.
Kenichi looked at the man posing in front of him with his fist in front of him. Suddenly the man jumped towards him with a right roundhouse kick while in the air. Kenichi took two steps to the back dodging the right kick and one more step backward to dodge the left kick but Masero wasn't done. Masero swiftly withdrew his right leg while still in the air and lashed out once more, this time forcing Kenichi to use his three section staff to block it.
"He is skilled" noted Takeda as he finished up his water.
"Yea, it takes a lot of balance and skill to launch all those kicks. Especially a variety too."