Challenge

The next morning Lou is surprised to see that person actually come on her own to him, she seems to wait for him a little while now.

"What's the matter?" Lou, who walked closer to her, asked.

"I want to see you."

"See me? For what?"

"....Observation….."

"You want to observe me?"

Shake

"Why?" He asked.

".... To see your weakness….."

"My weakness? Well, do you have a paper and pen?"

Chikage took a clean paper and pen and give it to Lou, Lo utake it and start writing something non, a couple of minutes later he pass it to her.

"Here read it carefully, I listed everything I know about my own weakness, if you find another one please tell me." Lou pet her head and walks inside of the classroom leaving Chikage dazed.

Looking at the content of the paper, Chikage crumbles it to a ball and tosses it to the trash can. Everything unwritten inside is already known to them, she wants something new, something that Lou can't take if they use it.

Ring~

Chikage's phone rings, she looks around and answers it.

"Any order?"

"Get ready, we are going to do Dojo Hunting tonight."

"Yes."

"...."

...…

After class, Lou as usual delivered both Ogata and Fumian back safely to their home, he goes back and changes to his usual training uniform and walks to the Dojo because of the notice he received this noon.

"Apa~ you finally here, come inside Lou0kun," Apachai who was loitering outside took Lou inside in a hurry, he first looked around and shut the Dojo's main door tightly.

Lou, confused , looked at him and asked," What's the matter?"

"N-Nothing!"

When come inside, he sees everyone sitting on one side, even Elder also sitting one oceanside with Miu who is wearing her uniform too.

"Master, what's the matter?"

"You're finally here, sit down, Akisame is going to explain everything." Elder said.

Lou looks at Akisame as if he is asking what happened.

"Here take this," Akisame tosses something into Lou while Lou catches it, he looks at the object and sees a badge engraved on metal.

"A badge?"

"Yes, a badge, you can also call it "Challenge Medal".... And also that Medal is made from pure white gold, if you sell it you will get a pretty hefty price."

"Sorry, i have enough money on my packet right now, what I'm curious is why are you giving this to me Master?"

Akisame and the other masters grin towards Lou, from their face, Lou seems benign sold out from someone by them.

"Your right,"

Lou, shocked and in a hurry , said," You know what I'm thinking?"

"No, it's just your face that is easy to read."

"So how much?"

"Nothing much," Miu cheerfully said," A box of Gold, a couple of Chōjūgiga scrolls, Hamburg steak, an expensive brand of Alcohol, ink painting, and bikini photo.

Lou looks at Akisame, Kensei, Sakaki, Apachai, Miu and Elder, he can easily distinguish whose gift will go to those, only Shigure did not accept anything from the challenger.

"Don't look at us like that, you are our disciple, and your job is to accept any challenge that will come to our Dojo." Sakaki embarrassedly said, trying to hide the alcohol he got.

"That's right, a bird needs to push himself if he wants to fly, just like you we are trying to push you to your success."

"Sensei, I can see the gift you got."

Akisame hurriedly hid it away while calmly sipping tea.

Seeing everyone really trying to push him to fight, Lou can only helplessly ask the information of the challenger.

"A prodigy…."

"A prodigy?"

"That's right, there exist children born with unusual talents, whether it's a blessing of misfortune."

"There's a rumor that i heard recently, a very young martial artist is traveling around and challenging all the Dojo they found."

"That kid is being referred to as a genius by everyone, apparently she can see through the center of gravity of all of her opponents in an instant."

If that is true, the nits an incredible ability, and she can bear the name of a Prodigy with no doubt, we also marvel at the news but this morning we got the badge, a badge of challenge from Yomi, apparently, the kid is from Yomi, they want to challenge you as out disciple to a match."

"By some underhanded means *Cough bribery *Cough we helpless accept the challenge,"

"So you finally accept that you guys accept the bribery from them?" Lou helplessly asks.

"Don't mention it, the challenge is already recessive, you need to fight that genius whether you want it or not."

"We as you master know your full potential so we calmly accept it, you as our students need to show what you got to them, of course, if you lose you will get punched, understand?"

Lou nodded, of course, he knew what would happen if you lost the face of his masters.

"It seems the visitor is here, Miu, open the door." Elder who are calmly drinking tea announce.

"Yes~"

Miu cheerfully walks and opens the door, and then a tremendous Ki hits them instantly from outside.