"How is that possible!?"
After hearing the reports from Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio, Wu Erioh instinctively widened his eyes.
Regarding Mutou Judai 'seducing' Karura, Wu Erioh was indeed very angry at this person—but after getting angry, he was also clear.
His great-granddaughter... Karura wouldn't just fall for anyone.
Mutou Judai must have qualities that Karura valued—and if such a person was willing, it wouldn't be impossible for him to marry into the Wu Clan.
Of course...
He also had personal motives in testing Mutou Judai because of Karura's situation.
That's why he sent Wu Horio.
He didn't think Mutou Judai could defeat Wu Horio at all, so he sent Wu Feng Shui along with Wu Horio. His purpose was to have Wu Horio teach Mutou Judai a lesson, then have Wu Feng Shui jump out to save Mutou Judai. After a young man confident in his martial arts was crushed in his most prideful area and then met a girl who could change his fate—wouldn't everything that followed happen naturally?
But first, he never expected Wu Horio to lose.
And moreover...
Wu Erioh looked at Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio. He thought he had misheard, so he asked again.
"You two..."
He said while looking at Wu Feng Shui.
"First, you—you fell without even seeing the opponent's movements, without even feeling the opponent's attack!"
Then his gaze turned to Wu Horio.
"Then you—called the Weeping Demon Child, able to use Release to 80%, completely one of the flagship members of the Wu Clan's young generation, were you really knocked down by the opponent with one punch!?"
"Are you two joking with this old man!?"
Wu Erioh roared loudly.
Wu Feng Shui just lowered her head, not daring to say a word.
Wu Horio thought for a moment, sighed, and slowly spoke.
"I was quite close to the opponent at that time, so I did see—the opponent seemed to step with one foot many times in an instant, then the opponent's figure disappeared from my sight..."
Saying this, Wu Horio instinctively covered the area where he had experienced severe pain before.
"In this part, I could feel the opponent hit me with one punch... That punch was quite heavy, but it was basically enhanced by speed. The punch itself wasn't something I couldn't withstand. For me with Release activated, let alone one punch, even three or five punches couldn't make me lose combat ability... But the severe pain that came with that punch kept me unable to even crawl for a full hour..."
Wu Horio completely couldn't understand the source of that unprecedented severe pain.
But Mutou Judai had anticipated this, so he didn't use much force when punching, just purely to remind the opponent of that area's sensation.
Because—
The colic pain from kidney stones was on the same level as a woman giving birth or twelve ribs breaking simultaneously.
Plus—the system's notation used the phrase "pain greatly intensified" for the first time.
That was completely beyond what humans could endure.
Even monsters like the Wu Clan couldn't bear it!
If it weren't non-fatal and without aftereffects—Wu Horio would have died from pain or gone insane from pain long ago.
He couldn't imagine that he could endure that level of severe pain for an hour... Now he really felt he was strong!
After hearing Wu Horio say this, Wu Erioh slowly calmed his emotions.
"So the opponent has mastered at least one movement technique that even our Wu Clan has no record of, and one..."
While saying this, Wu Erioh thought about how Wu Feng Shui's experience was completely different from Wu Horio's, so he changed his words.
"Possibly two or even more special striking techniques..."
"An unprecedented school plus a successor who can use this school... Indeed, Karura wouldn't misjudge."
As Wu Erioh said this, a Wu Clan member came to his side and handed him a document.
Taking the document, Wu Erioh smiled, then looked at Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio before him.
"Although this old man maintains a skeptical attitude toward your previous reports, fortunately I had people collect information about that boy because of Karura's situation..."
Saying this, Wu Erioh picked up the intelligence report.
Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio also looked at Wu Erioh with some admiration in their eyes.
The patriarch was indeed the patriarch.
Although the secrets of this unknown school weren't clear yet, if there were traces to follow, then sooner or later...
They were still thinking this when they saw Wu Erioh's eyes widen in an instant, as if he had seen something terrible.
"Grandpa... what is this..."
Wu Horio and Wu Feng Shui looked at each other, and finally Wu Horio bit the bullet and asked.
Then Wu Erioh, after being surprised for a while, slowly calmed his emotions and shook his head at Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio.
"Do you know how old that Mutou Judai is, or how many years he has practiced?"
Hearing Wu Erioh suddenly ask this, Wu Feng Shui blinked.
"He must be like us, practicing since childhood. He looks young, but should have practiced for twenty-some or even thirty years?"
Hearing Wu Feng Shui say this, Wu Horio, having a better understanding of geniuses, shook his head slightly.
"No, that kid should be a genius. He looks about ten-something years old... so could he have only practiced for ten years... no, eight years, and possess this level of strength at high school age!?"
He didn't believe it himself when he said it.
But thinking of Karura and Wu Raian, and Wu Erioh's shocked expression, he felt he might have guessed right.
But Wu Erioh shook his head.
"No..."
He slowly put down the document, then looked at Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio before him. If he didn't know that his family's intelligence department couldn't possibly deceive him, he would even think the intelligence department had given him false information!
"That kid is only 15 years old this year... even if his age calculation might be wrong because he's an orphan, he's at most 16..."
"And he's not the type you imagine who was adopted by a martial arts family from childhood or grew up under the guidance of some hidden master."
"There are no fighters or martial artists in that Mutou Orphanage—Mutou Judai grew up normally in such an environment. He's not only not diligent, but even somewhat lazy. Naturally, he wouldn't exercise or have contact with fighting techniques..."
"He grew up like this until a few days ago when he accidentally met that girl from Totsuki, then first contacted Kengan, or rather first contacted fighting... After that—with at most a few days of contact with fighting, he acquired his current strength!"
This...
—This is impossible!?
Both Wu Horio and Wu Feng Shui widened their eyes.
But thinking carefully about the battle intelligence provided by Toyo Electric when they submitted the commission before contacting the target, they now felt everything made sense.
When he dealt with that Himuro Ryo, he simply endured the attacks, then knocked out the opponent with one punch.
When he dealt with that Meguro... that punch putting all his grip strength, body weight, and power into it was definitely something only a layperson completely unfamiliar with fighting techniques would use—an attack that would expose openings if it missed. How could a fighter use such a completely unreasonable technique in that situation!
Then there was the battle with Nikaido Ren that ended in an instant...
This battle had no records.
According to Nikaido Ren, the opponent's speed was extremely fast, and he passed out before he could react. He even felt the opponent had given him hallucinations, constantly mumbling nonsense...
Then there was the opponent they saw at that time...
Thinking this way, if the opponent had dynamic vision that could capture extreme speeds, defensive power that could ignore attacks, attack power that could knock out first-class or even super first-class fighters with one punch, reflexes incomprehensible to ordinary people, unmatched explosive power, speed that exceeded the limits of visual capture, and finally and most importantly, a brain that could completely control this superhuman body and might even be born without physical restraints... If you said all these were natural!
Then for such a chosen one, modern fighting... even their Wu Clan's 1300 years of breeding was simply a joke!
But such a person!
Wu Feng Shui and Wu Horio both stared at Wu Erioh, and Wu Erioh understood what they were thinking, sighing slightly.
"Later, this old man will go apologize to that old thing from Totsuki, preferably offer an apology gift, and even make contact with that boy... Moreover..."
Wu Erioh suddenly smiled.
"If such a chosen one could have children with our Wu Clan, what kind of powerful monster would be born!?"
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