"HM, let's have a rematch."

"Affirmative."

"Brother, good luck!"

Inside the practice area built under Jackal's headquarters,Kagura was facing Chen while controlling an android body.

From the start, Kagura knew both Andrews and Chen were geniuses in their own field and that they were the protagonists of their own stories.

As for her, she is just a reader who just happened to be involved in their story. She is nothing but an ordinary person without her upgrade and mechanical body.

If to help her characters, she will do almost anything outside of directly just handing over the thing they want. So simple sparring for experience is something Kagura will gladly agree with it.

Kagura can't master everything like those geniuses, but like many others she can master one thing. And martial arts was one thing she mastered by following inspirational stories along with various surface knowledge.

"Then let's begun."

On the signal, Kagura saw Chen immediately rushed towards her. Using her powerful eyes and processing speed, she easily detects the movement of his muscle and energy.

Then from that, she can deduct that Chen's next movement will be a left hook aiming towards her side.

From there on, she took a step forward, and using that momentum, she threw her punch toward Chen't face without any force being it.

It was a simple counter punch using the momentum of her leg, nothing else. But even with that, with the addition of Chen's breckless momentum, it increased its power greatly.

This is an advantage Kagura had since she could almost entirely skip the stages that ordinary martial art practitioner from Earth usually went through.

The first is to prepare the body by training the muscles and the flexibility, improving its force can generate.

The second is to learn, study the moves and techniques. Then gain experience by practice or real matches.

The third is to truly apply the theories and techniques to set moves in instinct level by many years of practice.

But thanks to her already optimized body and super fast thought process, thanks to her processor. Kagura could apply the theories and techniques she learned in the middle of the fight, without the need to practice them beforehand.

But this time, the counter didn't stop Chen on his track like last time. He was not an idiot plus body cultivator, and even the low-ranked one was no joke compared to an android made to replicate an ordinary human.

'So he trying to overpower me, huh. Nice thought but that only against humans.'

Chen quickly prepared to throw his right hook, ignoring the pain, only to find a delicate hand waiting for his face, again.

"OOH!"

He tried again but no avail, as every time he tried to collect his strength to unleash an attack, he would suffer a counter, stopping his actions at right at the track.

After few minutes of sparring and many gentle counters later, Chen would start to feel lightheadedness along with fatigue.

If Chen tries to take a step back to catch his breath, Kagure would take offense and throw her own punches without holding back.

She knows how stubborn Chen is, so she will not ask him to give up. She would stop its sparring when Chen couldn't raise his hands anymore.

"That is for today. If you want more, ask tomorrow."

"O-okay."

Kagura left the room while little Bao arrived in front of her brother with a towel and bottle of water.

"Thank you, Bao."

"It's okay, brother. Don't give up!"

With word motivation, Bao left the room following behind the Kagura.

"Haah!"

When the sound of footsteps finally disappeared, Chen dropped on the soft mat immediately.

Right now, he just wanted to sink into this soft and cool mat then sleep right away.

'Kid, you gonna catch a cold sleeping like that.'

'I don't care.'

Chen thought maybe using his strength, he could overpower her, but only he ended up eating even more those weird punches.

'She just only touched me, but it felt like I slammed a wall!'

Chen was quite frustrated at counters as it felt like someone stops his sneeze in a midway, then sucker punching him in the gut.

'Hehe, Kiddo, I say you found a perfect partner for practicing my Five Elemental Body!'

Long Tingfeng at first wanted his disciple to get used to his body, that got to the early Qi Practitioner stage and completely skipping over Qi Student stage.

But after seeing the way HM spar against Chen, who is more powerful from her every way using efficiently every inch of her body.

He realized this is the perfect time to teach Chen his core technique.

'What ?'

'Kiddo, you heard it right! Observe how she fight and find the reason behind the strength of her punch. If you are able to find that, it will greatly help for understanding my Five Elemental Body.'

'Really ?'

'Yes, kiddo do you really think I would just teach you everything ?'

'You need to understand sometimes, some things must experience personally by yourself to understants its mystery.'

'I understood, teacher.'

The teacher's role is to guide and correct student's mistakes, not paving the road toward his goal.

In the following days, Chen continues his sparring with HM. Kagura and Tingfeng can observe Chen's improvement.

Slowly Chen began to gets rid of his unnecessary movements. At the same time, improving them to become more sharp and compact.

A month later, Chen now able to contend with Kagura's android on equal footing while still receiving the counters.

But this time, he understands at this stage he can't dodge her counters so, Chen learned to take the counter more safely by controlling his power and qi output.

"HM, thanks for sparring."

"No problem, I also collected good pieces of information as well."

"Khaaah!"

Exhaling all air, he held in his lung. Exhausted, Chen sats on the mat with a smile.

'Master, I finally figured out her trick!'

'Oho~~Then tell me.'

'It is Domino!'