A few weeks later, on a Friday morning at around 10:00AM, Kojin was having a sparring match with Lord Fugaku at one of the training stadiums. Kojin's hair and hands was covered with his black destructive energy, he had a deranged smile on his face as he was blitzing around the place while trying to land a successful slash at Fugaku. Fugaku was dodging and running relentlessly as Kojin was chasing after him and sending slashes of destructive energy all over the place. All these relentless slashes were causing huge explosions in the stadium. Fugaku on the other hand kept dodging as Kojin kept chasing after him in order to slash him. As this sparring match was going on like this, they started to have a hand to hand combat battle. Kojin was sending devastating slashes, blows and kicks while Fugaku kept dodging and countering. Kojin leapt up into the air like black lightning and started blasting powerful beams of his destructive energy at rapid fire towards Fugaku. Fugaku sighed and muttered "I specifically explained that we would be having a hand to hand combat sparring, not blasting attacks at rapid fire.". He made a wall of rocks to protect himself as Kojins beams of destructive energy was falling down at incredible speeds. Kojins attacks were causing huge explosions all over the place, he had a deranged smirk equivalent to that of a beast. Kojin flew down at lightning speeds with his arms cloacked with destructive energy and threw a slash of destructive energy at Fugaku's defense. This caused another explosion of black flames and lightning like energy that tore through the wall Fugaku created to protect himself. Suddenly, as Kojin was about to slash Fugaku, Fugaku just sighed "This kid, upon all this time, you still haven't changed at all. Just a crazy wild card.". Kojin let out a huge blast of destructive energy that flew to the roof of the stadium, its impact shaked the entire stadium. As the smoke cleared, Fugaku was seen being able to infuse some energy into his palms to block the strike from Kojin. Kojin's deranged smirk turned into confusion, Fugaku proceeded to punch him. The force of his punch sent Kojin flying backwards, he appeared behind Kojin "Look back.", before punching him on the spine. As Kojin was sent flying and crashing all over the ground, Fugaku chased after him and appeared right infront of him. Kojin just smirked as he started to go full hand to hand combat on Fugaku. Lord Fugaku was parrying his blows and kicks, pushed him backwards and kept dodging Kojins blows with his hands at his back. Suddenly, Fugaku gave Kojin a few blows to the face and proceeded to kick him backwards. Kojin did a backflip backwards and sent a huge wave of destructive energy at Fugaku. Fugaku just sighed "At this point, you've lost your ability to speak due to how deep you are in the moment.", he created a shield of stones to protect him from the huge wave of destructive energy flying his way. As the smoke settled from Kojin's explosive blast of energy, Fugaku took down his wall and said "That's enough for today.", Kojin jumped out of the smoke and tried to stab through Fugaku with an excited smirk, Fugaku grabbed him by the hand and had seriousness in his eyes "I said that's enough.". Kojin jumped backwards insinctively and came back to his base state, he comported himself as he stood in a place "You're right, I'm sorry for that Fugaku sensei.". Fugaku replied "Its fine, I should be used to your wild nature by now. After all, I've been your teacher since you and Ranpo were kids.". Kojin did a few stretches and then tilted his neck to break a few bones "Whatever, I just need to go take a shower in one of the locker rooms.". A few moments later, Kojin had freshened up, he and Lord Fugaku stood at the roof top of the stadium and were looking down at the city. As the wind was blowing, Fugaku asked "Kojin boy, let me ask you something. How do you feel about people being weaker than you, do you still think they're trash?", Kojin clicked his tounge "We're really doing this again? You know me by now Fugaku sensei. I hate people who are weaker than I am, and I despise others who feel they are stronger than me.". Fugaku sighed "I should have known, you're still the same arrogant beast who feels entitled over everyone else. Although I don't blame you, you're from the Takahama clan. A clan with its users who have the ability to wield destructive energy, a black flame like energy mixed with black lightning. The most deranged and almost arrogant clan. ". Kojin looked at Fugaku with slight irritation "What's that supposed to mean?", Fugaku replied "You know what I mean. Kojin, I've been telling you this since you were just a little brat. People who are weaker than you aren't the kind of people you should look down on just because they are lower than you in terms of power. In all honesty, the only reason you respect me and Ranpo as your teacher and friend is because we both are strong.". Kojin replied with his usual edgy tone "Offcourse I do, it's only natural to respect and befriend others who are as strong as you or stronger.", Fugaku then sighed and asked "Kojin, let's create a scenario. If you were to have a child who has little power despite all his training, or his body can't handle his powers at all even due to training, what will you do?". Kojin had a look of irritation In his dark eyes "If that were the case, I'd chase the kid out of the house. Better still, I'd ignore him or even lash out on him to make sure he can never amount to anything.". Fugaku looked at Kojin with a little bit of annoyance "You do realise that people can get stronger and develop hatred and deep psychotic behaviour due to such actions, right?". Kojin replied "It doesn't matter. The weak would remain weak regardless, and the strong shall prevail at all times. That's how life is.". Fugaku sighed "What a shame. Well if you continue to go down that path, one day, you'll die in the blaze of the hatred you created for yourself.". Meanwhile Yuji, Kazuma and Mio were surrounded with golems, they were tired and beat up, the training grounds was a mess. There were scattered golem parts all over the place, but there were still a large number of golems surrounding them. Kazuma thought to himself "Ranpo told Mio and I not to use our spirit and demon powers, and Yuji Is almost out of energy and stamina. This is by far the craziest training I've received so far in my entire life.".
END OF CHAPTER.