"We all know if you were in the competition yesterday you could have easily beat everyone their me included" continued Dante
"You don't have to be modest, you really are talented. Talents like you are hard to find even in places like the Hidden Dragon Academy "
"It's just hard to believe that the little Dante who use to cry and hide behind me has already grown up and become so strong "
"Well it's to be expected, everyone has to grow up eventually "
"Sigh"
"I know, I know. It's just that you used to be much cuter back then "
"Oh? how was I cuter?"
"Well, for a start, your cheeks were rounder And your eyes…"
As she was speaking, Rebecca blushed as she stared into Dante's eyes that seemed to twinkle with a silver light almost like a pair of stars.
Patriarch Gavin sensed a strange atmosphere forming in the air and he didn't like it one bit so he quickly spoke interrupting the conversation between Dante and Rebecca
" That's enough talk about Dante, you need to worry more about yourself! Curtis Slater is returning back to Brightsteel City and he's stronger than ever. It won't be so easy to beat him in the inter-clan competition this time, especially when you'll definitely be one of the targets of his revenge!"
Hearing the name Curtis The aura around Rebecca change quickly, causing even Dante to shiver
"That piece of trash! The last time we fought I showed pity and spared his life. But if he's stupid enough to come again I'll make sure he's dead for real this time!" Replied Rebecca
Seeing Rebecca's swift change in attitude and disgust when Curtis was brought up Dante was curious about the story about him and could help asking
"So what's the whole story about this Curtis person in the first place?"
As he turned to Rebecca all he received was a cold scoff, clearly, she didn't want to talk about the topic.
Eventually, Patriarch Gavin got tired of the silence and answered his question.
"Well, it all starts with a deal made during the time of your grandfather. At that time tensions between the Slater Clan and Kinsman Clan had risen to an all-time high with stores being raided and enemy clansmen being killed in broad daylight.
Eventually, both patriarchs decided to end the conflict once and for all by joining both clans through marriage.
After the agreement was made tensions between both clans slowly but surely settled.
But then a problem came, your grandfather only had two sons who were me and your father and the Patriarch of the Slater Clan only had 1 son. So it was decided that the agreement fell to next-generation which were Rebecca and Curtis.
But nobody would have expected that Curtis would be unable to awaken his Martial Spirit during the awakening ceremony becoming the number one trash of Brightsteel City. Of course, I wouldn't let my daughter marry such a piece of trash, it would be too humiliating for her to marry such a failure. So after much debating, and arguing it was agreed If he couldn't beat Rebecca in the Inter-Clan competition the engagement would be cancelled. Of course, Curtis without a Martial Spirit stood no chance against Rebecca and was easily defeated resulting in the annulling of the engagement.
But no one could predict that Curtis would manage to awaken a new mutated martial Spirit and even attract the attention of one of the biggest sects on the continent, he seems to be coming for revenge! "
The more Dante listens to the story the more he felt something was off
'Previously seen as trash?
Broken engagement?
Magically become a genius?
Now he's returning for a completion?
Wait a second, isn't this the perfect template for a typical protagonist?'
'And if Curtis is the protagonist.... doesn't that make The Kinsman clan the villain !'
The pieces of the puzzle had started to finally fit together in Dante's head
'Fucck! This situation seems much more serious than I could have ever imagined !'
Thinking about all the novels Dante had read in his previous life and the horrible ending of the antagonists and villains, Dante started but break out in a nervous sweat.
Dante looked towards Patriarch Gavin and his Father who were calmly eating
'I don't think they understand the severity of the person they have pissed off. If he really does have protagonist level powers, I really need to upgrade my strength before I could even hope to try and change the situation in '
Dante decided to upgrade his strength in the easiest and quickest way possible for him
By Learning a movement technique!
Turning towards Rebecca Dante asked.
"Rebecca, the cultivation level of people of people at the Hidden Dragon Academy is generally higher than that of the people at the Kinsman Clan?"
"Of course" replied Rebecca
"In fact, most of the Elders there are in the Martial adept realm. Just one of them would be enough to solve this problem regarding the Slater clan"continued Rebecca
" great "replied Dante
"So if they are generally stronger it should mean that they have better techniques," asked Dante
"Of course we have better techniques while the best techniques you could possibly get here at the Kinsman clan would be gold rank techniques, back at the Hidden Dragon academy most starter techniques for disciples led that enter the martial journeyman realm will be at the gold level."
"If they feel you are really talented you may even have permission to take a platinum rank technique. In some rare cases, there have been instances of elders passing down diamond rank techniques to their favourite disciples"
Hearing this, Dante knew his initial assumptions were correct. Now he just had to get the techniques from Rebecca.
"That's great Rebecca! Then would it be possible for you to teach me some good movement techniques, as long as it's not an inconvenience for you of course"
After a short time, which Rebeacca spent internally debating, Rebecca finally replied