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Stupid!
How could I be so stupid!
Sora stood in front of his pagoda, Eternal Pagoda.
His eyes focused on the names of each 9 floors of his Eternal Pagoda.
[1st Floor: Illusory Martial Floor
2nd Floor: Storage + GOB
3rd Floor: Nourish + Enhancement
4th Floor: Armageddon
5th Floor: Enlightenment
6th Floor: Cultivation
7th Floor: Greed
8th Floor: Tempering
9th Floor: 'Treasure' Room]
Sora's eyes focused onto a single floor, the Enlightenment floor. His nose was scrunched up as he remembered about the floor on this specific night after getting his Dragon tattoos.
'I could have sped up my intent and martial arts understanding!' Sora entered the floor and looked at all the millions of words in the floor, all filled to the brim of the Dao. The room contained a mystifying feeling that instantly made Sora feel clear-headed.
Sora quickly made some clones to focus on some words, specifically the;
Martial
Bow
Spear
Sword (and every other weapon.)
Chaos/Myriad
Infinity
Physique
Blade
Blunt
Nature
Void
Yin
Yang
Soft
Hard
Fierce
Gentle
Body
Tidal
Vibration
Gravity
Explosive
Sudden
Wave
Slaughter/Annihilation
Speed
Strength
Hidden
Assassination
Stealth
Imperishable
Eternal
Undying
Immortal
King
Sovereign
Paragon
Emperor
…
Every single word that was of importance to Sora was focused on. Even the 6 elements; Fire, Earth, Metal/Gold, Wood, Water, and Wind.
Sora made sure to also focus on the Spin and Spiral words filled with Dao intent.
His progress is sure to rise by leaps and bounds in the next coming year his clones will all be spending here. Sora's eyes shined as he looked at all the clones focusing on every word he found importance in. Even the Death and Life words.
As Sora focused onto the floor, he even noticed the words Nirvana, Yang, and Yin.
Sora quickly sat in front of the Nirvana, Yin, and Yang words as he moved his Eternal Pagoda into the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal. He even brought close the Soft and Hard, Gentle and Fierce, words over to himself to properly go through his Nirvanic Taichi practice.
Sora made sure to make more clones and have them focus on the words of every martial art in existence. Swiftness, rough, smooth, slow, strong, weak, fluid, solid… Even the animals, Monkey, Tiger, Dragon, Roc, Phoenix, Dog, Cat…
Each martial art had a thing it revolved around, sometimes simple things like animals. Even stuff like Precision, Power, Authority, Agility, Internal, External… including their foundations Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Every technique and martial art had originated from beliefs within Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Sora trained in his Nirvanic Taichi/Art as he stood before the Nirvana and other words, understanding the boundless dao intent within the simple stroke of the words.
…
"Ugh..."
Sora groaned in class, resting his head on the table with a tired face. He had spent every day in his Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal meditating and training in his Nirvanic Taichi/Art trying to understand Nirvana and Taichi.
He had only spent a day inside the Enlightenment Floor of his Eternal Pagoda. Sora's mind had been filled with the understanding of that entire day he spent comprehending the dao intent within the words.
The rest of his time inside the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal was spent reviewing the understanding and training of his martial arts, refining his Nirvanic Taichi further.
In the last day of his time remaining in his realm, Sora called back all of his clones, gaining all their experiences for the entire time.
Sora felt as if the world had been completely understood, he looked at everything in a new light. He even felt like he was on the verge of opening something, but his strength was still too little and he couldn't completely open that 'thing'.
With just a single finger, Sora could leave one inch grooves on the Metallic Essence block. Which should be impossible with his level of strength of 10 olympic athletes. If he entered the Large Success Stage, he would be able to leave a one inch grove on the Metallic Essence block.
Sora's martial arts understanding and skill was on an entirely different level, if it wasn't for his strength, Sora's would have been a Legendary Master by now. It was a shame that he needed a Great Perfection strength to be a Legendary Master.
His skill alone and current strength however, was enough to probably go toe to toe with the weakest Legendary Master.
"I… brought tea," said Baki in a low voice as he took out a thermo filled with green tea. He served some for Sora and placed it on Sora's table, looking at him with a serious look. His carefree and laid back attitude was gone in front of his 'master'.
Sora smiled as he lifted the cup of tea weakly, "I shall accept this cup of tea from my disciple."
Quickly drinking the cup of tea, Sora felt significantly better and not that tired anymore. He set the cup of tea aside and closed his eyes to rest for a bit.
Crr!
The door to the classroom slid open, revealing many delinquents with Yuji at the forefront.
Every delinquent had dark looks on their face and they all walked up to Sora with a menacing aura surrounding them. They stood in front of Sora, seemingly towering over everyone, their presence making every delinquent in the room cower.
"Who are you?" asked Baki as he stood up from his chair and stood in front of Sora. His face completely serious and his eyes glaring at every delinquent.
None cowered before Baki's stare, instead they all took one step forward. Their actions had shocked the entire class, including the next few things they said.
"We have come to salute the Boss!"
Every delinquent that came with Yuji performed a 90 degree bow in front of Sora, paying their respect to him. They didn't care about any rumor that may spread as they lowered their heads in Sora's presence.
Baki stood in front of all the students slightly stunned before turning to look at Sora with a curious look. He sat back down and stared at the group of delinquents.
Yuji and the delinquents received no response from Sora, so they remained in their spots and maintained their poses.
"Hm..." Sora groaned as he woke up and noticed the group of delinquents in his classroom.
"Good morning Boss!"
Every delinquent yelled in unison, greeting Sora from his short nap.
"..."
Sora was shocked by what was happening on his 2nd day of school. He didn't remember doing anything particular to get a large group of delinquents to follow. His eyes scanned over the crowd before stopping on Yuji.
"You… what's going on?"
Yuji kept his head down, still bowing down as he responded, "You defeated me, therefore you have become the new boss of Twin Dragon Gang!"
'Twin Dragon Gang… this… this isn't a coincidence...' thought Sora as he thought about the two dragon tattoos he has on his body.
Damn destiny and fate!
Sora sighed and looked at Yuji with a weird look, "You can leave, I don't need a gang."
"We can't do that boss!"
Yuji said as he looked at Sora with a serious look on his face. Every other delinquents also stood up and looked at Sora with serious looks.
"..."
Sora rubbed his forehead and sighed, 'People like these are hard to deal with.'
"Fine, just stay out of my way," said Sora as he gave Yuji a cold look. "Don't make any trouble."
"Yes!" All the delinquents left, leaving only Yuji standing next to Sora.
"Why are you still here?" asked Sora as he turned to look at Yuji.
"I need to follow the boss to wherever he goes," proclaimed Yuji as he thumped his chest and took a seat next to Sora.
Sora frowned and turned to Baki, "I will start training you starting tomorrow. I need to visit some people today."
Since Sora spent yesterday at school, tailing Saki and making sure she's okay, fighting Baki, treating Saki to food, Sora didn't have much time to visit Ryozanpaku nor his new neighbours.
The builders were also coming by today to begin building the dojo, so today is a good day to spend it outside of his house.
"I have no problem with that as long as you train me to the best of your skill," said Baki as he waved his hand.
Sora smiled and said, "Good, I will definitely put you through hell."
Sora will have Baki train in a strong body strengthening technique that is well-rounded, allowing him to be good in every area. Like Sora's Nirvanic Taichi Art, but on a lower level.
"Couldn't ask for anything better," said Baki as he smirked.
'Now that I think about it, I need to temper my body some more!' Sora had thought about it for a long time now. He felt like his body was missing something, something which was half-completed.
His bones had already been tempered in the pass and were even made powerful. Now what was left was his flesh and organs, which was why he felt incomplete.
So annoying!
Sora felt annoyed but also glad that he had ran into all these flaws in his body, allowing him to fix them and become better.
"Good Morning class!"
Class began and Sora paid attention to Hiratsuka who stood in front of all the delinquents with a beautiful smile on her face.
The lessons began and everyone listened closely to the words of Hiratsuka.
Sora looked around the classroom and found Chitoge looking at him with a silly look on her face.
'Ehehe… Mr. Knight looks so handsome today...'
Smiling, Sora waved to the young girl and winked at her before turning his attention to Saki, who was close to being drugged the day before by a dead man.
'She seems to be fine, but it looks like she's thinking of something,' thought Sora as he rubbed his chin. He decided to have a talk with her during lunch and see what she was probably talking about.
"Who are you?" asked Hiratsuka as she looked at Yuji who was diligently paying attention to the class and to his boss.
"Me?"
A voice filled with arrogance sounded within the room and Sora's eyebrows furrowed recognizing the origin of the voice.
Yuji!
"Yes, you. Why are you in my class, you aren't present in my roster," said Hiratsuka, frowning after putting down the papers that contained the name of every student.
"I'm the boss' right hand man! The man who will rule over every single gang in all of Japan!" Yuji proudly proclaimed as he pointed at Sora, his boss.
Sora's eyebrows twitched as he was pulled into Yuji's unnecessary shenanigans.
Hiratsuka shot Sora a look of disapproval and made a mental note of it.
'He's more trouble making than I had believed. He will need special attention.' HIratsuka frowned and made sure to call Sora after school before turning to face Yuji once more, "That's not what I had asked. I want to know your name."
"Ito Yuji!" he proudly proclaimed with a puffed up chest.
"Well Ito Yuji, head back to your actual class. Otherwise I will have to ask the school to suspend you for disrupting class and failing to listen to a teacher's request of having you return to class."
Hiratsuka looked at Yuji menacingly, her Ki leaking out of her body unconsciously. Baki's eyes twitched at Hiratsuka's Ki in alarm, his body tensed up and was ready to defend himself in a moment's notice.
"I'm afraid I only listen to my duties of accompanying my boss, teacher," said Yuji, determined to stick next to Sora.
Sora sighed, "Just leave already, I don't want you interrupting the beauty's teaching time."
"But-"
"𝗟𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲," Sora's voice was cold and emotionless, sending shivers down Yuji's spine.
Yuji got quiet and lowered his head dejectedly, "As… as you wish boss..."
He walked away from his chair and took slow and dragging steps as he headed to the door of the classroom. Yuji lifted his head and looked at Hiratsuka with a look of anger, "Don't think you can do what you want with me just because the Boss favors you. One day-"
"Just leave already," said Sora in annoyance.
"Yes Boss!"
Yuji turned to Sora with a happy smile before leaving the classroom as if nothing had happened.
"Please, continue the class Hiratsuka-sensei," said Sora with a smile.
"We shall talk about this after class," said Hiratsuka with a glare.
"We can talk about whatever you want," said Sora as he smiled sweetly as Hiratsuka.
'This damn sweet-talker!' Hiratsuka averted her gaze and continued to do so until it was lunch time.