Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 25
Apollo and Cias got to either side and launched at Hiroto, but when they thought they had him, the reality was much harsher, Hiroto had caught their blades with his bare hands and smiled, forcing their weapons into the ground, he kicked Cias and punched Apollo. Hiroto then said, smiling even more ,"Good you too, you're finally starting to give me a warmup". Hiroto ran towards Cias while Apollo picked up his Bokken. Apollo ran towards Hirotos back, and while his back was facing him, it didn't mean he was open. He dodged to the side, hitting the bokken with a crescent kick, following up with a roundhouse to the face. Apollo hit the ground once more, immediately activating Art: Recovery and Art: Reinforce to a higher level than before.
As Hiroto was attacking Cias he noticed but could do nothing as Apollo finally landed his first attack on Hiroto's leg. Hiroto fell to his side, slapping out on the ground, and just as he did that Cias got up and stomped onto Hiroto. Unfortunately for Cias, Hiroto grabbed the foot and twisted it, causing Cias to fall but not before almost receiving damage from Cias's spear as it telekinetically flew back to Cias, Hiroto rolled over in the process. Hiroto had a thought (I love that telekinesis move that he taught himself, I learned that so much later and seeing him use that now is incredible to me).
He now had two problems, Apollo on one side, ready to send out a flurry of attacks and Cias who was about to do the same on the other side. They started their counter attack, stronger, faster and smarter. Like a machine gun their both were sending out attacks at just over 3x the speed of sound on both sides. Each strike was getting refined in technique and ki, Hiroto blocked and dodged the most damaging of attack but could not block or dodge all of them, letting some of the collisions through. But something was curious, it wasn't just the weapons hitting him but also the massive amount of air pressure. Without using an increased power, and without using his Arts, (which he didn't want to use) it was practically impossible to dodge.
Hiroto let out a blast of energy, pushing the duo back. And now, it was time to go to full power. The Duo finally let out their full power, ready to use all the techniques and arts they could to beat him. Apollo activated his Art: Water and Cias activated his Art: Flame, they looked at each other thinking to themselves, (shouldn't this be the other way around). Apollo was the first to start sending out his Art: Ki Wave's imbued with the element of water. With Cias, being the next to send out an attack of his own being, Art: Spear Bolt now imbued with fire. The power flowing through the air increased by a factor of two, people far below their power like for example, Apollo's little sister, wouldn't even be able to breathe properly with the amount of Ki powered force flowing around the arena.
…They fought for a while, the tides of battle flowing from side to side until Hiroto made one mistake, he faced Cias fully when he thought Apollo was down for a second but unfortunately for him, Apollo fell back and instantly began to sprint back towards him. Cias was aiming for Hiroto's stomach and Apollo came towards Hiroto with a full powered top down attack. He dodged Apollo and Cias's major attack but there came the next which was beyond his capabilities. Apollo and Cias swung from either side of him, practically ready to cut the old man in two.
,"STOP, I concede" Hiroto shouted while using telekinesis to stop the duo's movements. And then Apollo and Cias fell to the ground, exhausted, breathing in and out. They then started to laugh, finally realizing that their training here was done. ,"Good job young men, from this short time you've learned how to control your power much better, learn new techniques and the power that you two've gained is exorbitantly impressive, I'm going to miss you, but don't you worry because you guys can come back here whenever you want." and with that, their training with Hiroto was done, they had finally finished, slept till the next morning, talked for a while and were just about to get transported away when Hiroto yelled at them ,"Next time, I better see that you guys have still continued to train or I'm going to beat the living daylights out of you two, now go on and become the strongest, for me and the rest of your family, bye, it's been a pleasure to have trained the two of you" ,"See you grandpa" Apollo said ,"I'm honored to have trained with you, Mr. Musashi" Cias said, and the duo got teleported back home.