Chapter 154: Sharpening the Edge
Chapter 154: Sharpening the Edge
“Try your best. Sooner or later, there will be fewer and fewer people who can make you feel pain. Isn’t that your goal?”
“Yes. So now please give me more pain.”
To others, this kind of conversation may seem a bit perverted, but they are serious about it.
Now, in the training ground, almost no one can defeat Ye Kai. Especially when the opponent is good at using a long sword, it is almost impossible to resist with bare hands.
In such cases, they would sometimes ask the opponent for advice on how to use the long sword, and then try to understand the opponent's attack and find a way to break through.
The other party also understood this and was not stingy in teaching. They were also studying bare-handed techniques on the side. They were each other's test subjects.
In this way, by autumn, almost no one in the training ground could defeat Ye Kai.
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Despite this, Ye Kai still left marks of blue bruises on Situ Yao's body every day, but seeing those familiar blue bruises in different places was not a trivial matter.
"Ye Yue, what happened?" Ye Kai noticed the blue bruises on Ye Yue's lips.
"Well, I was playing around with my friends and my hands got in contact a little bit."
"Really?"
It was impossible for a light touch to leave such a blue bruise. Ye Kai knew that it was the mark of a beating.
"Really? You're already in middle school. You can't play around like a kid anymore."
Ye Yue tried to confuse the audience. A possibility emerged in Ye Kai's mind, but he hesitated, not knowing whether he should go deeper into the issue.
Ye Yue has his position. If he ignores his position and insists on doing things his own way, it may hurt his self-esteem.
If he chooses to fight in Ye Yue's way, then he should just wait and see. If he needs Ye Kai's help, then they can fight together. This is Ye Kai's attitude when he is by his side. He always thinks this way.
"If I need anything, please tell me at any time. I am your absolute supporter. Because no matter what, I will act for your wishes, so please call me, okay?"
“Well, thank you. With Ye Kai here, I feel confident. It doesn’t matter, I also know what I want to do.”
Ye Kai sensed Ye Yue's speculation about him. However, he had his own problems that he wanted to solve. There was a reason for this.
Ye Kai has been around since he was a child. His sense of justice is real, and he often thinks seriously. He has the courage and determination to practice it.
Ye Kai is somewhat envious of Ye Yue. He even admires him a little. But if you ask him if he wants to be like him, the answer is no.
Ye Kai's belief is like a big wave. Once it comes, it will sweep away everything. Then there will definitely be a reaction. Someone will definitely resist him. So someone must weaken him. Can't I be his breakwater?
Ye Kai has been instilling in Ye Yue the importance of harmony and peace to mitigate the impact of the big waves. If Ye Yue wants him to be around, he must do this.
For this, Ye Yue also needs a firm belief. If you want to fight against it, it would be disrespectful to Ye Kai without a firm belief. So he is determined to achieve it.
Now, Ye Yue's inner belief has come to the test. If he can't deal with this small wave, then he has no way to resist Ye Kai's big wave.
If he hopes to reach that shining place, he must stick to himself. The road is ahead. With this thought, Ye Yue encouraged himself.
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Situ Yao's fist passed by. Only the back of Ye Kai's head felt the pressure. If he got scared at this moment, the game would be over immediately.
(Step hard! Keep your head up!)
When he looked up, he met Situ Yao's determined eyes. He approached with a smile and punched the other person in the lower abdomen.
(Swing it! With all the force it takes to hit the training ground wall!)
There is a solid wall there, called the abdominal muscles. The fist that was hit felt the pain. But it couldn't stop there. Even if it was just a virtual fist, the impact force had to be transmitted to the opponent's body.
"Haha!" Situ Yao shouted. At that moment, Ye Kai was slightly happy and lost his vigilance.
The next blow was from Situ Yao, who crossed his hands and swung it, as hard as a rock. Ye Kai was knocked to the ground. He was conscious only for a moment.
When he woke up, he found himself in the corner of the training ground. There was a metallic taste in his mouth. His teeth might have been injured when he was knocked down.
This happens often. Sometimes he vomits blood. But rarely does it leave bruises, and all his teeth are still there. Situ Yao applied just the right amount of force. He should be grateful to him, and never resent him.
“Hey, how’s it going?”
“Is this the line you say after defeating your opponent?”
Lately, their relationship has become something that can be joked about. It was only casual at first, but since Situ Yao seems to enjoy it, it is becoming a regular occurrence.
“Don’t say that. Here, look at this.”
“I don’t want to see my master naked.”
When Situ Yao lifted up his shirt, revealing a red fist mark in the center of his abdomen, I sat up easily and repeated my lame joke.
“I haven’t been beaten like this in a long time.”
“It’s just a little red, right?”
“It’ll be a bruise tomorrow. Older people are slower to react.”
He was very happy to hear Situ Yao say that this was proof of his growth.
It is pleasant to go to school when the sun starts to shine in early summer, because there is still cool air in the early morning.
A few months had passed since he entered the second year of middle school. He thought that after a while, running to school every day would become more difficult. By then, he would feel that he had to carry a change of clothes with him when he went out.
He listened to the class carefully. After school, he had to go to the training ground, so he had no time to study. After returning home, after dinner and taking a shower, he could only do his best to finish his homework. No more time would support his eyes.
Basically, he lived like this every day, but that day was different. During the fifth period, the head teacher knocked on the door and told him: "Ye Kai, go home immediately. Something unfortunate happened at home."
Ye Kai ran all the way home, and his mother threw herself into his arms: "Ye Yue..., Ye Yue... he passed away..."
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