Making his way through the waves of people walking on the streets, Chan eventually made his way to Ca Wu's house.
( Knock! Knock! )
"Hey Ca, it's me, Chan," said Chan as he was knocking on the door.
Ca's house was in the heart of the city and was close to his mother's workplace.
( Tap! )
Chan felt something tap his right shoulder and he turned his head over to see what tapped him.
"Ahhh!" Chan screamed in his head.
It was one of the pleasure hall workers but unlike most of them, the one who tapped Chan's shoulder was one of the 3 ogre sisters. The lady was big vertically and horizontally. She was a 1 out of 10 on a scale of beauty.
"Hey Channy, when will you come to visit us, it makes me sad when Ca comes around without you," said one of the 3 ogre sisters.
"Ha….Ha," Chan replied with a nervous laughter.
( Knock! Knock! )
"Please open the god damn door!" said Chan in his head begging for Ca to open the door so he could escape the situation.
( Creak! )
The door was opened by Ca.
Quickly Chan went inside and said, "It was nice seeing you again, I have something important to tell Ca, Bye." Chan quickly shut the door behind him.
After a few seconds, Ca ask Chan, "What is so important that you're rushing yourself to shut my door?".
"There's nothing important, I just wanted to get away from her. Also, hurry up and get ready so we can go," Chan told Ca.
Ca quickly got ready and the both of them made their way out of the city.
"Come back before it gets too dark and be careful!" Shouted a guard as Chan and Ca made their way out of one of the side gates of the city. The guards of the area are used to them coming in and out as they had been doing it for a while now.
Going up the hill near the city, there was a flat where the two usually train.
"Draw out your ki and let's start," Chan instructed Ca.
Ca was able to gather ki after training with Chan for 3 years. Ca was able to gather ki at 11 years old.
Before teaching Ca, Chan was training and eventually was able to infuse ki with his weapons. Chan was able to infuse ki when he was only 7. During that time Chan was too young to head outside of the village so he would secretly train in his room and on some occasions train in the back yard of Qu In's house whenever the two had to leave to deliver weapons or armor.
With all the years that had passed, Chan was now able to freely control his ki.
( Pssssshh! )
Ca released his ki and waited for further instructions from Chan.
"Start first with 300 kicks: 100 low, 100 mid, 100 high," Chan instructed.
Both Chan and Ca would switch legs to kick after every kick. The first kick was always the right kick, as the two were right-handed.
With their left leg planted on the ground, using their hips to turn and spinning off the ball of their left foot, the two drive their right leg forward before stopping once their right leg barely crosses their body's original centerline before initiating a kick. Then quickly planting their right leg into the ground to enter a southpaw stance they redid the same actions but this time reverse all of the biomechanics.
( Whizz! Boom! )
With each kick slicing the wind and releasing ki, each kick was a bone-crushing ki attack.
Quickly getting through the first 100 kicks with excellent form. As they progressed into the mid and high kicks, unlike the low kicks they had to take more time doing the mid and high kicks. Chan is rather focused on form than speed but that doesn't mean you should throw slow kicks, it just means to give your quadriceps a quick little half a second to breathe as the higher the kicks are, the more strain you're giving your quadriceps.
After finishing the 300 kicks, the two felt the lactic acid building up in their legs but they had to tough through it as there was still more to do.
"Hop around and get ready to work on some combos for shadow boxing," Chan again instructed.
What the two were doing was mixing up their punches and kicks as they fight an imaginary opponent.
The shadow boxing would go for 15 or so minutes. Ca was exhausting his ki and had to regather ki after the shadow boxing session.
Finished gathering his ki he got up and told Chan, "I'm good now, let's start as I'm ready to finally submit you."
Unlike Ca's hopes, the rolling session went on how it had always gone. Chan ragged-doll Ca and submitted him all five matches.
A rolling session starts with both people on their feet trying to submit the other. Most of the time the submission would happen on the ground but if you were a black belt in BJJ like Chan you would sometimes be able to put yourself in situations where you can submit someone even while standing up.
After their rolling sessions, they ended their training by stretching out their muscles to help alleviate the soreness the next day by stretching and trying to flush out the lactic acids.
Ending their martial arts conditioning training week, the next week was the sword fighting course. The weeks were broken down into 5 different courses: Martial arts conditioning, sword fighting, ki usage, body conditioning, and lastly literacy.
Every 2 last days of the week they would go from one course to another week to week.
Making their way back into the city, Chan walked with Ca to his house.
Their conversation stopped when Chan recognized the carriage and men in front of Ca's house. There was also a crowd surrounding Ca's house.
In shock as to why there were men, all in armor with weapons surrounding his house he ran towards his house.
"Stop!" shouted one of the guys who stopped Ca from going in.
Two guys were standing by the doorway into Ca's home.
"This is my house, get out of my way!" shouted Ca as he was getting mad.
Ca was thinking something had happened to his mother.
"We can't let you in yet," said the guy on the left.
Ca was getting frustrated and drew out his ki and gave a warning to the guys standing by the door, "Please get out of my way or I don't know what I would do,".
Seeing Ca surround himself in ki and the other guys standing around were slowly surrounding Ca. There were 6 men in total including the two by the door, Chan gathered some ki around his vocals and yelled, "Ca!".
Getting not only Ca's attention but also the other guys', Chan releases the ki in vocals and said, "Everyone, calm down,".
Letting his ki evaporate, Ca calmed down.
The men from before escorting the carriage still surrounded Ca, they all stopped in their tracks when a female voice from inside asked, "What's going out there?"
One of the men quickly responded, "There seems to be a boy who claims he lived here.".
"My baby Ca!" shouted a voice from inside.
"Mother! Are you ok in there?" said Ca concerned about his mom.
"Let the boy in," said the female voice.
Ca looked at Chan and asked him, "Chan, can you come inside with me also?"
Chan could see the guys standing outside were on guard and something bad could happen if he moved too fast.
"He's my friend and this is my house, I could let someone in without you guys' permission!" Ca yelled out of frustration.
"Just let the boy do whatever he wants," said the female voice inside.
( Creak! )
The door opened for Chan and Ca.
Stepping inside Chan could see a blonde-haired girl, looking to be in her 20s.