"The rules are simple!
All three of you will fight against me! You can use your blood sword powers and of course, your swords.
The whole area, even the forest are still a part of our fighting arena.
And the if someone of the three of you manages to injure me, even with just a small cut, its you guys' win! Got it?!"
"Huh?! You sure about that captain?!"
Eiji asked, as the last rule meant that if they just get one hit, they would win, for the three of them, they felt like they should be able to do that very easily.
Marco at the side though, frowned.
"Well... The rules are actually just about right."
"Huh?!"
"Hahhahah! Well I'll give you guys some time to prepare! But don't take too much time!"
Before Eiji could ask Marco, Gautam suddenly said so, and walked away from them.
"Gautam, how do I say this... He's strong! Really strong! He's just 20 years old this year, but he's already at the peak of master level swordsman!"
"Oh?!"
Akai at the side was intrigued, Eiji at the side nodded.
Akai had thought that Gautam was underestimating them, but with Marco's words it seems like there's more to this goofy like character of his.
"Then, what do do?! Can we even catch him with his speed?!"
"I don't know...."
The three of them went silent, then Akai said.
"What about this...."
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"Are the three of you ready?!"
Gautam looked at the three of them and asked.
""Yes!""
"Good! Now! Let us...
START!"
*SWOOOSHHH!!
When Gautam said the word 'start' Eiji dashed towards him in a flash!
*Swooooshhhh!!!!
The tip of his katana was inches away from Gautam, as Gautam easily moved a step backwards, dodging by a hair, still with a smile on his face though.
"Haahh!!!"
*Baannngg!!
Then Akai emerged from the shadows in the tree from behind and slashed towards him.
Gautam still dodged though and spun himself and gave Akai a kick in the guts!
*Banng!!
"Uurrghh!!!"
*Swoosh!
Suddenly, Eiji at the side appeared, holding the katana with both hands and loading up his ki, he said.
"Swift Pierce!"
*Swooooshhh!
"Daammm!!"
Cursing himself, Gautam still managed to dodge by bending backwards, making the technique Eiji launch hit the air.
It would have been fatal had he been hit, as the loaded ki in the katana struck towards the tree ten meters behind him!
"Heyyy!! You tryna kill me-!!??"
Before Gautam could complete his words, he suddenly saw nothing but darkness!
"Oohhh?!!! Not bad! For being the first cooperation of the three of you, you have this kind of synergy!"
Gautam stood there, still smiling with his left hand on his hips, leisurely standing. Even though he could only see nothing but darkness, the three felt the pressure from Gautam's leisure of the fight.
*Swoooshh!
*Swoooshh!
*Swooosh!!
But the three continued even as Gautam talked.
Eiji at the front, slashing using his Quick Draw technique, Akai reemerged from the shadows in the back hacking down, and then Marco, who was behind one of the tree rushed as he also striked Gautam with his Katana!
*Swooooshhh!!
*Bbaaaannnnggggg!!!!!
????
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The three of them didn't know what happened, just before they thought that victory was theirs, a wave of ki suddenly bursted out from Gautam's body, it dispelled Marco's Blood Sword Power!
And with his eyesight back, he first kicked Eiji in the face, making him stumbling and rolling in the grass.
Then he grabbed the scuff of Akai's cloak in the neck, then with only the strength of one arm, he threw him into an arc and his back hit a tree!
Then he looked at Marco who was dashing towards him, grabbed the back of his head, then slammed him down the ground!
Two hours later, the three of them woke up and felt pain in their bodies.
Marco and Akai had a bit bigger injury than Eiji, Eiji was just hit at the right angle on his chin making him unconscious, only the pain from being hit and the stumbling and rolling around made his body hurt!
The two of them were different, one was thrown to a tree, while the other had his face slammed to the ground!
"Oh?! Awake huh?! Here some food! I bought some hahah!"
Laughing, Gautam went in the room where the three was.
"..."
Marco snorted at him.
Akai deadpanned at him.
While Eiji smiled and said.
"Thank you captain!"
Taking the food and distributed the two other boxes to the both of them.
"Hahaha! So how about it?... Wasn't our activities fun?!"
"You Call that FUN?!!!"
Marco shouted at him at the wnd of his sentence.
"Hey! You guys came at me with such ferocity! I was so scared I nearly called my mom over to help me sooth my feelings!"
"Damn you!"
Marco and Gautam argued, Akai ate his food while Eiji laughed as he watched the both of them.
The three of them then silently thought about the fight, from the start to finish, Gautam had not used his Blood Sword Power nor had he unsheathed his katana!
Only that short wave of ki that dispelled Marco's Curse sight was the only 'ki' like attack he did.
This made the three of them think that they still have a lot to learn and still needs to train harder!
Even with a bit of mishap, that was how the three's first sparring event went!
*End Of Chapter.