Chapter 45: Chapter 45 - End of Summer seaside school and start of mountain training.
Haruto headed towards the girls room using what Shigure thought about stealth allowed him to move unnoticed by the teacher, taking only for a second to arrive at their place.
"You're finally here! Come, we are about to start our game!" Risa opened the door for him and he headed inside to find Uno Cards on the floor then noticed Haruna acting strange, guessing that Rito might be hiding, deciding that he should tease them a bit. As they were playing, Haruto checked the [ Relationship Meter ] to see what it was.
[ Relationship Meter(???) ]
[ Description: The user will be given a panel screen that indicates their relationship with others and their feelings towards the user.
Feeling: This shows their relationship towards the mc. It will show if they are Stranger, Acquaintance, Friends, Good friends, Close friends, Crush, Infatuation, Love, Deep Love, Obsessive Love, Etc.
Mood: Their current mood. It will show if they are sad, angry, envious, etc. ]
Haruto was unsure what this meant and checked his system then saw that there was an additional tab where he clicked to see his relationship. He was able to tell that Lala was Happy and had Deep Love for him while Mio and Risa had a crush on him. On the other hand, Miu has Love while Ghislaine, Shigure and Ryouko have Attraction towards him. Suoh Mihono is simply an acquaintance at the moment since they barely know each other.
To his surprise and concern was that Haruna had a Crush on him and made him feel guilty since he's stealing his brother's crush from him. He glances at Haruna who tries her best to pretend everything was normal while Haruto inwardly sighed hoping her feelings would change but it's all up to her choice and acting distance won't help.
'When did I get this much attention from so many women!?' Haruto thought to himself while acting like nothing was happening, enjoying his time with everyone chatting trivial things and telling some embarrassing stories until the alarm bell. Lala, Risa and Mio ran out of the room. Haruna and Haruto stayed in the room.
"Aren't you going out? It could be dangerous here." He smiled gently, but it probably looked like the smile of a devil for her.
"I-I-I..." Haruan stuttered nervously while Haruto chuckled.
"It would be bad for Rito to stay too long under your blanket as well." He said teasingly.
Rito jumped out of the blankets showing off Haruna's panties. Panties! Pink! Unexpected!
"Did you know the whole time?" Rito flustered and was angry at him.
"Of course I did." Haruto said
"So why didn't you help us!?" Rito was angry at me for not helping, but he shouldn't expect someone else to help him go out of the mess he got himself into.
"I mean how will I help when the girl is here? Not to mention I can't make them all leave without suspicion, can I?" Haruto said and they saw the logic in them since he can't exactly find a way to get them out of their own mess.
"Anyway, let's go, Rito-chan." He said standing up while the two brothers left and Haruna saw them leave. As they head back, Haruto glances over to his brother unsure what to do in their situation. He simply hoped that Rito would man up and try to charm Haruna like hoe Kenichi did with Izumi.
"Hey, did you like it?" Haruto asked surprising Rito who was confused what he meant.
"Don't look at me like that!? I mean you saw it right? Haruna-chan's panty?" At that moment, Rito blush recalling what happened earlier.
"W-Why are you asking me this!?" Rito was really innocent at things like this, making Haruto remember how without his training and control them he would be in a similar state.
"I'm just teasing you. But in all honesty…I'm sorry, Rito. About what happened at the beach." Haruto sincerely felt sorry for his brother who still had no luck with Haruna and Rito shook his head.
"No, it's also my fault for not trying hard enough. And Haruna was having fun, so it's fine. I trust you, Nii-san." Goodness Gracious brother! Haruto is guilty of stealing the girl that his brother has a crush on. Though, it wasn't his intention and simply was friendly with Haruna.
"Hehehe, but do hope you get your chance soon. I mean, look at Kenichi getting Izumi. If you need any advice just ask your brother." Haruto said, patting his head and Rito nodded thinking about his dream wondering if it was going to happen or not.
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Time passed by and the summer seaside school had ended allowing everyone to rest and recharge. On Thursday, Haruto had spent most of his time with Mikan hoping not to neglect since he was able to see her mood through the [ Relationship Meter ] and helped with the chores around the house.
His master permitted Himari and Kenichi to spend some time with their family having their training start the next week. Unlike the original, Hayato will be joining to train Haruto which made her other grandmaster pray for his safety but he saw it as the golden opportunity to get stronger and better along learning more about Furinji Style.
In addition, he also summoned Ghislaine to have some light spar and get a firm understanding of their relationship but surprisingly she isn't the type to be clingy and prefer the way things are with the only difference is that she permanently engages Haruto with the bitemarks.
He got teased by Mikan but saw that she was a bit envious through the [ Relationship Meter ] while Rito wondered what his secret was in getting this many girls liking him. Haruto wryly smiled at them but decided to accept it since Ghislaine won't have any mate until Haruto dies. He never knew this even with another set of memories confirming that not everything was accurate.
On Friday, Haruto went on a little trip with Honoka around town as promised to her and considered it as a date. She was really happy and was clingy to him ever since he accepted her. Haruto saw that she won't be changing her thoughts any time soon since her feeling is [ Obsessive Love ].
On Saturday, he had joined another kengan match for Suoh winning them rather easily since most of his fights had been lackluster seeing that they mostly fight with greed rather than proving something. Though, he did enjoy Suoh slowly regaining some light in her eyes. And his fight started to get people's attention.
On Sunday, he didn't do much besides continue training his [ Hercules Methods ] slowly breaking the chains of human limitation. His control and balance between his mind and body almost perfecting the Dual Ki. Though, it was a lot harder than people think since the hatred and self loathing that lingers in his heart would intensify putting him in an extremely tight spot.
Even with [ Tranquil State ] can only suppress but not master his state of mind. This needs time and training along with a catalyst that will reshape it.
At the present Haruto, Kenichi and Miu were brought to the mountain to train. They followed Akisame for them to step up their training accompanied by Hayato and Apachai.
" Akisame-sensei what is there that you can't teach me in the dojo that you have to bring me out in the mountain and climb a cliff for that!?" Kenichi asked, struggling to climb the mountain.
"Learning out in the environment is really helpful and there is someone else who lives here who can help you with the training." Akisame replied.
It didn't take them much time to climb the cliff as all of them took it as walking more than climbing hence they were able to climb it in a few hours.
"Well who is this man you are talking about, Akisame-sensei" asked Kenichi while they were walking on the mountain road.
"This person carries the nearly lost at of old school jujitsu." Akisame said.
"Old school jujitsu!?" Kenichi exclaimed.
"Hmm.. when it was originally developed in ancient Japan, it was an unarmed grappling style. However for hand to hand combat there are many techniques that use small weapons like short swords. It was developed in the warring states era, but had disappeared soon with that time..." Akisame explained.
"Isn't that basically your style as well, Akisame-sensei?" Kenichi asked.
"No my style has taken every meeting l kind of jujitsu and boiled them down, and you would have to call it Koetsuji School" Akisame said while Haruto simply remained quiet since he knows most of this form his other memory.
"No my style has taken every meetings l kind of jujitsu and boiled then down, and you would have to call it Koetsuji School" Akisame said
""Watch out"" Miu said when she saw a small knife coming towards them. The knife went for Akisame who caught it between his fingers.
"Throwing knives!?" exclaimed Miu and Akisame looked in the direction from where the knife came from and saw a man jumping from the tree towards him and kicked towards him who he blocked with his hands.
The man was pushed back from Akisame, where Apachai gave continuous punches in his direction but the said man fucked forward rolling on the ground dodging from the attack and reached Akisame once again. When the two thought that Akisame and the man were going to punch one another instead of that they shook hands.
"Long time no see" Akisame said
"Welcome" The man said
'"eehh..."" question marks were over the heads of Miu and Apachai as they weren't able to understand this development whereas Kenichi was just shaking his head.
"What type of greeting is this!?" Kenichi asked and Haruto chimed in.
"The kind that our Sensei does." His brother looked at him weirdly as if everything was normal.
"Eh!? We always greet each other like that" replied Akisame.
"Oh! Is that them I have been hearing about? The one called Ryozanpaku's disciples.....My son is eagerly waiting for your arrival!" The man said as he shook hands with Haruto and Kenichi. He was surprised when Haruto didn't even flinch when he squeezed his hand while Kenichi winced a bit.
"This is the man who preserves the knowledge of Yamamoto school jujitsu, Yamamoto Taki-san and though his son may not be a match with Kenichi in his overall strength but his techniques have been gone since childhood which may be of some help to Kenichi" Akisame said.
"Well we will have to see if that's possible. Our house is just over there let's go before the sun sets" Yamamoto Taki said
"Sorry for the inconvenience." Akisame said as he along with the others followed him.After walking for sometime they could see a house made of wood. Yamamoto who was walking in the front.
"Naoki, I am back." He shouted and Haruto decided to ask something.
"Sensei, I was wondering why this would help Kenichi? Couldn't I just spar with him?" Haruto saw that this place would help but he can do the same thing for Kenichi.
"The problem lies in your unrestrained power, especially now you are brimming with Ki." Hayato explained seeing how he was almost more monstrous than he was at his age.
"That's right, this is also an opportunity for him to learn to fight other people who have different experiences than the one he fought before." Akisame added and Haruto nodded while Kenichi also started to feel more determined to become better.
They went inside where the group would find a young boy around the same age as Honoka and Haruto sensed that he was slightly higher than Kenichi.
"This is my son, Naoki." Taiki said introducing his son who looked at Kenichi who looked weak while Haruto walked over to him surprising everyone.
"It's nice to meet you, Naoki-chan. I'm Haruto Yuuki, you can call me Haruto-Nii." He patted Naoki who was surprised but didn't stop him and Taiki was surprised seeing his son act this calm.
"Uhmm what's going on?" Miu asked never expected Haruto to act like this.
"That's just how Haruto when his brotherly instinct is acting." Kenichi said knowing that he was someone who likes to act as if he was their brother.
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