Chapter 23: Kiheji Wind School.
As Renzo headed towards the cart to grab the bags and the group went towards their rooms, Elder Souma was walking towards the conference room, intending to summon all the remaining elders to discuss the matter further.
As they were walking, he could feel his disciple restlessness and anxiety, thus he asked him "Tell me Yasuo, what's bothering you?"
When Yasuo heard his master's question, he couldn't help but look intently at the man who keep walking with head straight.
"Why couldn't we just agree with them? We are already letting other apprentices go to the war, what else do you all need to agree, Master?" There was eagerness, confusion and resentment hiding on his voice.
He, being the most talented swordsman in the school was without a doubt the first one that wished to join the war and defend their homeland.
Now seeing a figure like Irelia inviting them to join their ranks, he couldn't understand the reason to discuss the matter further.
Elder Souma smiled at his question while answering him "We are letting our apprentices to follow their path and make their own decision. However our school wasn't involved yet, that's what we need to discuss, if we are willing to compromise our foundation and resources into the fray. Don't let your emotions blind your mind, or you'll lose the complete sight."
Yasuo hearing once again another unwanted answer could only remain silent and follow his master.
He remembered a few days ago that his brother went to war too and the discussion that led to when he expressed his willingness to fight too.
His duty as the bodyguard of his master was becoming too heavy for him.
Still, he remained here not only for his honor, but to fulfill with his duty and oath.
As the duo entered the conference room, Elder Souma ordered the various guards to inform the other elders about the meeting.
Thus, Elder Souma took seat and waited while Yasuo stood behind him cross legged, trying to calm his mind.
It wasn't until various minutes later that the various elders entered the room and took seat. There was silence and only the sound of their footstep along the wooden floor resounded.
When the last elder entered the room, the sound of the door closing marked the start of the discussion.
"As you may already know, various figures from the resistance of Navori have appeared at our doors, among them was the figure of the Blade Dancer, Irelia Xan, who proposed me to join their ranks, they seemed to broke their ties with the Brotherhood of Navori and created their own faction. I didn't answered her invitation and told her that we need to decide this as a whole." Said Elder Souma while leaving the rest of the elders to take the words from here.
A bald elder with white robes and bracelets on his hands raised his voice "It was a matter of time until a proposal was send to us, now we were invited by the leading figures themselves if I assume correctly?" The elder looked over Souma for answers.
Elder Souma nodded and said "They seemed to be the leading figures, at first I though that the leader must be The Blade Dancer, but after a few observations it seemed to be another person in their group that haven't spoken yet with us."
As the bald elder heard his question he continue "Have they mentioned something regarding the nature of their decision to appear here themselves and not by relaying a messenger?"
When hearing the question, Elder Souma answered "They mentioned that we were the first ones to be approached. I'm oblivious by this decision, but I'm guessing it has to be alongside our swordsman, forges and our techniques."
When the various elders heard Elder Souma analysis they nodded in agreement. They knew their value, and more than nothing, they knew the power that Elder Souma have with his wind technique.
"Knowing this now we must decide wether we join or not, and what does we want if we were to join them." Said the bald Elder leaving the rest of the elders to decide.
As the minutes passed, and hearing the various opinions from certain elders, Yasuo couldn't help but grip tightly on his sword in anger.
There were at least three elders that didn't wanted to join into the resistance, mostly due to their own selfishness as they didn't wanted to compromise the power of the school and the lack of actions against them by the Noxian army.
Another one mentioned that the time invested on this, wouls affect their own power and future. Simply stating that it would be a wasted time that could be used to nurture more talented individuals to join their ranks.
Luckily a few elders made some points that everyone has to agree. Mostly being the changes that this war has caused to Ionia, and how it was a critical time to join into one faction.
It wasn't a secret that many small groups and factions started forming alongside Ionia. And how they were starting to sphere villages, monasteries and schools into their ranks at force.
They could remain neutral on this matter, but will face eventually the decision of joining the faction that would sphere this area, or fight for their neutral stance.
In the end, they would be forced to enter into the faction, with less benefits and maybe even forced to abide some demands from the other party.
It was there for them to decide wether they were willing or not.
And Elder Souma also tell them that what Irelia and the group wanted was their aid when they were call, they weren't looking for taking their arts nor anything they didn't wanted.
"It is decided then, we'll be joining this new faction in exchange for more benefits when recruiting individuals and resources. Does anyone has anything to said against this decision?" Asked the same bald elder while looking at the twenty five elders around.
The three individuals could only swallow their words and not said anything against it, after all, the vast majority agree with this decision.
Thus, under Yasuo delighted expression the bald elder claimed "With no one against this decision, the Kiheji Wind School will be joining into the war. From tomorrow onwards, until the war is claimed to be over, we'll be entering under excepcional mode, all apprentices that are still remaining in the school will be trained for two weeks under military training. A chain of command will be issued and the elder council will be sharing command alongside the designated figures from the faction. You are all dismiss."
As the order was issued, all the remaining elders started to exit the room with their disciples behind them.
Everyone would be relaying orders to the various teachers and remaining figures under their hand.
Meanwhile Elder Souma and Yasuo walked towards the first room, Yasuo, although eager complied with the Elder Souma order and followed behind him.
They would be giving the guest tomorrow the decision and use the meantime to observe them and see how they act around the school.
Tomorrow another meeting would be held, where the various elders will be speaking to them and inquiring further information regarding their plans and then inform them of their decision.
Unless something too crazy happen, the decision held today would still remain the same.
The school wasn't too worried regarding the faction interested, since the moment they clarified that they didn't want to adquire their arts was the enough give away for them to decide wether or not join.
The majority of elders were also against the Noxian invasion, and this invitation was everything they needed to justified their actions.
Thus, they decided beforehand they could gather more informations and without meeting them. There wasn't a need to think further. More so when the only thing changing from their previous situation was that various teachers alongside some elders would be leading the apprentices, instead of letting them rely on themselves.
As Yasuo and Elder Souma passed through a corridor, they noticed the sun starting to set In the horizon.
Meanwhile, with Renzo and the group.
When Renzo took the bags a couple of hours ago, he noticed that the various seeds and flowers weren't dry enough yet. Thus, he went with the rest of the group and let the various flowers to dry open without the bag interfering.
While the group chatted and looked around they started training and interacting with the various apprentices that we're gathering around them.
While Karya, Tahru and Irelia trained, the latter with Renzo's help, Hyuna and Ymir started taunting the various disciples that failed under their whims and started issuing challenges against them.
The first one to fight was Hyuna, that with her two sword style, that was renamed Nitoryu by Renzo, was eager to try herself against other apprentices from sword schools.
"C'mon brat, I want to see how much you bunch fare against my Nitoryu!" Hyuna taunted while giving thumbs up at Renzo for giving the idea of the name.
The apprentice in light blue robes didn't waste time and took his sword from the sheath.
"Okay before you start, remember to neither injure or kill the opponent, we're not here looking for troubles and we only want to test against each other." Said Ymir while looking at Hyuna and the apprentice in a loud voice.
She then smirked and said "Now, begin!"
As soon as her words escaped her mouth Hyuna disappeared from her position and appeared behind the apprentice, who have blank eyes and fell to the ground.
Hyuna, who hit the man with her katana tilt, smirked at the sigh and shouted "Next one!"
The apprentices seeing their fellow failing so miserable, fight among each ther to be the next one.
Luckily for Hyuna, by the time she went back to her position and after someone looked over the apprentice and took him out from the scene, another challenger was standing against her.
The rules were the same and this time, the battle ended after five seconds.
The man was kneeling on the ground, unable to breath after receiving a powerful kick from Hyuna who smirked at the man kneeling in front of her
"Do not expect the enemy to fight honorably in the battlefield lad" She said to the man while kicking him out of the battleground.
The apprentices roared in anger and fury while shouting "You held not honor!"
"What's the point of testing each other if you will not held a minimum amount of decency!?
"Dishonourable!"
"Sit on me please!"
"Hey you what the hell are you saying you degenerate!?"
As the apprentices voiced out their complain, another challenger was in front of Hyuna and soon started engaging with each other.
Still, Hyuna was still victorious and continue fighting against four more challengers until she became bored and let Ymir took her chance too.
Irelia who was looking all of this in the ground with her whole body twitching was smiling amidst the pained expression showing on her face.
Karya who was resting her tired body against the wall was also looking while chatting with Renzo and Tahru.
When Ymir faced her first opponent, the moment that Hyuna marked the start she stayed still and let the apprentice went near to her.
As the apprentice tried to hit her on the head with the pommel, she simply moved his elbow with a simple motion and then slammed his entire body to the ground.
With her axe resting on his neck she said "Next!" while looking coldly to the apprentice, who after gulping down stand up on his feet and let his fellow apprentice battle.
When the next apprentice launched himself against her, Ymir simply raised her left foot and brutally kicked the mouth of the apprentice who was unable to see the kick coming.
With another opponent knock out, she continue issuing them to step forward.
After various minutes and more brutal knock knock outs, she was also bored and decided to step back.
The outcome of Hyuna and Ymir challenge whim was more than twenty eight apprentices knocked unconscious or badly beaten.
The rest of the crowd gathered was unhappy with both contenders stepping back, and due to this Hyuna went towards Renzo and whispered to him.
"Want to cover us for a while? We're tired and need a few moments to rest a bit, I promise we'll not going to take too long."
Hearing the pleading tone and puppy face, Renzo simply answered "No, go away."
Hyuna started slapping softly at Renzo tight who was sitting cross legged with both eyes closed.
"C'mon Ren, it's going to be ten minutes at much, also dont you want to test yourself against them?"
Renzo opened his eyes and looked at her, he then said to Karya "Can you please explain to her that I could potentially destroy the whole place if I happen to not be able to successfully contain my strength? Just a casual slip and the person in front of me will be gone."
As each word escaped his lips, Karya who at first wanted to also see him battling, quickly changed her expression to a solemn one and started to explain Hyuna.
The latter, unwilling to lose face against the apprentices for fatigue could only bit her lips and said "But you can decide to not use your power, dont you? You can try using a sword or your fighting style." as she said that she took one of her swords and give it to him.
"Here, took it, use it and try fighting without relaying on the powers."
Renzo unconsciously took the katana on his hands while looking at Hyuna flabbergasted.
He couldn't believe how shameless she could be to not lose face against the apprentices.
'It wouldn't be a bad idea, after all I can see wether Yi's and Hyuna lessons worked out.' He thought to himself while looking at the katana on his hand.
He sighed deeply and stand up, Hyuna seeing this showed a toothy smile while giving thumbs up at Ymir who smiled at her.
The apprentices seeing someone standing and heading towards the center of the courtyard, started looking at each other seemingly looking for the next person to try.
Finally, one bald apprentice went to the center and faced at Renzo, who have a calm expression on his face.
Hyuna took the role of referee and signaled them to start.
Renzo, remained on the spot, wanting to test his Iai against the apprentice.
The latter approached him cautiously while looking for any sign of sudden movement.
Seeing Renzo standing without moving, while looking attentively at him, the apprentice showed a smirk and bursted forward with a swift motion.
In a blink of an eye, the apprentice appeared behind Renzo who was unable to catch up with the guy speed, he only felt a little pain behind his head as he turned around and disregarded the sword and throw a crochet at the apprentice, who didn't expect Renzo to tank the pommel attack.
When Renzo punch hit the apprentice cheek, he was sent flying five meters, his jaw dislocated and eyes white.
When Renzo saw this, he raised his eyebrow in surprise and looked at his fist. He wasn't using the tremors, so that could only meant that it was his own physical strength.
'Damn...' That's the only thought in his head.
Seeing Renzo staring at his fist with a surprised expression, Hyuna smiled cockily and shouted "Who's next!?"
The apprentices who were already expecting Renzo being a strong individual quickly started discussing among themselves and decided for another one to step up.
Renzo who recovered from his surprise turned around and showed a slight smile on his face while nodding towards the apprentice, who by custom nodded him back.
As the two faced each other, Renzo decided to took the katana from the sheath as he wasn't fast enough to use the Iai as it should be.
With katana on hands and a basic position, the apprentices started to analyze his stance while looking for the style he would use.
The apprentice facing Renzo thought that he may be a novice or an apprentice like them and decided to take a swift and clean approach, seeing how Renzo was caught off guard unable to contest against the speed from his fellow apprentice before.
Thus, when Hyuna signaled the start, the apprentince disappeared from his position and started hitting at Renzo from different positions in quick succession.
Renzo, unable to follow the swordman speed could only endure the hits on his body while looking around for chance to hit back.
As the apprentince surrounded Renzo and continue hitting, he gritted his teeth when noticed that his attacks weren't doing damage at him.
At such, he took the decision to risk himself and attack with more strength while getting near to Renzo.
This however prove to be a bad decision, as the moment he tried to hit his left cheek, Renzo flexed his left arm and took the man arm and sword within his forearm and bicep in a tight grip.
In a blink of an eye the man shouted in pain as his entire hand was broken by the sheer strength and pressure exerted by Renzo who moved his body unconsciously.
Renzo who raised his arm to defend from the hit didn't notice how his action further pained the apprentince who shouted "I surrender, I surrender! Please my HAND!"
Renzo showed and apologetically look on his face when he let the man hand go, the apprentince shaking nodded awkwardly at Renzo and run towards the infirmary.
Karya noticed the actions of Renzo and commented to Tahru and Irelia "It seemed that he himself it's surprised by his strength and body resilience. I guess that's the path we'll be heading if we continue training with this method."
When the two heard her words they couldn't help but nod, while Ymir looked more intently at Renzo actions and body.
If all of them could get that kind of strength, it would undoubtedly improve their fighting capabilities and survival chances.
Renzo faced another challenger, this one also took the previous approach regarding speed. However Renzo tanked all the hits and in the end, with another mistake from the apprentice part he was able to win.
Four more challengers followed facing him, and all fell in the same way, by making mistakes and Renzo taking advantage of it.
Not even once he was able to use the sword.
However, with the last enemy, Renzo was able to at least trace the enemy movements and with quick jab, he send flying the apprentince who was knocked unconscious and lost two teeth.
All these battles and the crowd gathered around created a fuss that took the attention of a teacher who stormed into the courtyard and started sending the apprentices back to their duties and rooms.
He also reprimanded Renzo and the rest for letting themselves be involved with the apprentinces who weren't in their free time. And also for injuring quite badly a few of them.
Thus, the group quickly sat together and after a few laughs Renzo started training Hyuna and Ymir while the rest of the team watched amusingly.
Renzo looked more eager this time when training Hyuna, who could only endure the harsh training while understanding that Renzo seemed to be a vengeful person.
"Ren, you should start training with your reflexes, it was quite clearly how these guys leaved you without a room to act unless they committed a mistake." Said Tahru while Renzo who was training Ymir, nodded at his words.
"Although you can endure heavy hits, we don't know how you would fare against weapons or magical attacks, so it's better to start facing that problem now than later regret about it." Added Karya while slowly moving her body towards the bags with the weed flowers.
"These ones seemed to be already dry enough to smoke them!" She exclaimed after a few minutes dragging her body and examining them.
Renzo who at this point finished helping Ymir, looked back at her and showed a wide smile on his face.
"It seems like you guys would enjoy a good nice post workout joint!" Said Renzo while jocking to himself.
He moved towards another bag where they left a pipe among other things. Taking it, he then head towards Karya and took the flower from her hand.
He passed her the flint and say her "Please, do the honors."
'I still don't know to use it.' He said to himself while stealing a glance at the flint stone.
Karya nodded and smiled at him while lighting the flower in the pipe.
When Renzo took the first puff from the pipe, he couldn't help but cough a little bit from the smoke.
After all it was a long time since he smoke the last time.
When Karya and the rest saw him coughing, they couldn't help but laugh at him.
However Renzo didn't minded and took another puff before passing it to Karya and saying her with a groan "Try it." He then half closed his eyes as he let the smoke went to his lungs.
When Karya took the pipe, Hyuna reminded her how to smoke.
As Karya took the puff, she quickly started coughing with tears on her eyes. The rest of the team started laughing at her.
Still, she puffed again, although this time she seemed to cough less than before. She then passed the pipe and let the rest of the team smoke.
"Don't let Irelia smoke it, she's too young to try it." Said Renzo with red eyes 'Damn, it hits like a truck!' He thought to himself 'There's no way Irelia should try this, she'll end up worse than me the first time I tried.'
Karya nodded to him and said to the rest, Irelia furrowed her brows but didn't said anything and remained laying on the ground.
She was too tired for arguing.
As Tahru, Hyuna and Ymir also coughed by the smoke, they didn't laughed anymore and were trying to come up with the high feeling.
"Hey, at least my body isn't hurting anymore." Blurted out Hyuna with red eyes and sleepy eyes.
Seeing that everyone was too high for remaining un public Renzo started moving to help them move towards their rooms, amidst being heavily influenced himself.
First he carried Irelia while saying in broken Ionian "They need help, help you later." Irelia groaned in pain while nodding her head at him.
After leaving her on her room, he returned back and said to Karya who was silent amidst the random chatting and shouts that the group was giving.
"Karya, let's go to your room and say the rest we need to enter." Karya looked back at him and started crying while looking at his face.
Renzo who was caught of guard started asking "Hey, what's wrong?" However Karya everytime that was about to answer him and looked at his face could only keep crying while hugging at him.
Renzo sighed and regretted letting them smoke. Still, he carried her to her room and after a kiss on her forehead when she didn't let him go, she finally broke the hug and watch him leave.
Renzo sighed again and with his head a little bit more clear now started grumping himself for his decision, however the moment he appeared back in the courtyard he saw Tahru and Ymir kissing each other while Hyuna cheering at them.
Renzo, not knowing what to do, decided to take Hyuna with him to her room while leaving a message to the couple "Go you room!"
The last thing he wanted was making a show in their ally house and destroying any kind of goodwill or respect.
The couple after hearing Renzo's words broke their kiss and looked at each other, groaning both in pain they head towards Tahru room and close the door behind them.
Renzo, seeing them complying to his order sighed in relief, however he quickly looked at Hyuna who was smiling at him and saying "I won't mind if you have those intentions, after all I was feeling a little bit envious at them." As she said that she was touching Renzo chest while giving him flirtatious looks.
Renzo would lie if he didn't said that he wasn't affected by her actions, still, he sighed deeply and head towards Hyuna room while keeping hearing Hyuna provocations.
Opening the door, he moved towards her bed and let her rest on it, Hyuna seeing that Renzo didn't showed any intentions to stay behind made a swift decision and grabbed his head while kissing his lips.
When Renzo met her soft lips, he was taken aback and unconsciously moved his tongue towards her. However, he quickly regained consciousness and before Hyuna could come up with his sudden intrusion he broke the kiss and without saying anything, exited the room.
Hyuna stayed behind with a dizzy look on her face while relinquishing her first kiss, it was until she heard the door getting closed that she regained her little bit of consciousness and sighed in regret for letting him leave.
Renzo however walked towards his room with a beating heart and a clear look of concern on his face.
He made a bad decision by letting the group smoking and testing the product, more so in such situation.
He only wished that no one saw their shameful display and they weren't called by Elder Souma.
As he was about to enter his room, he stopped on his tracks when he saw the person standing in front of it, seemingly waiting for him.
Amidst the dim lights around the corridor was standing Yasuo, looking at Renzo with a serious look on his face.
'Oh shit.' That was all what Renzo could think at the moment.
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Yesterday I lost the entire day without witting chap 26 and 27 since there wasn't energy in my neighborhood :(
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