Natsuki Subaru The Anti Knight

Chapter 13.New Problems

After Subaru and Hikaru's training match, they were both taking a break. They both decided that they were going to take a small break before continuing their training, so to pass time they started a conversation.

"To be honest Subaru, I'm surprised. You just started and your all ready getting better and better at hand-to-hand-combat and your swordsmanship, not only that but you have better control of your Anti Magic as well."

"Yeah, I was surprised my self. I never thought I would improve this quickly though."

"Well now that you exceeded my expectations, we'll move on to the next step."

"Next step?"

"Yep."

Hikaru stood up and unsheathed his katana and coated it with his magic of choice being fire, he turned towards a tree and swung the sword horizontally making a slash of fire charge at the tree with immeasurable speed, and in a matter of seconds the tree was cut in half. Subaru could only watch in awe at the sight.

"You see, I'm going to be taking you a lot more seriously now. That means I'm going to be a lot more faster and I'm going to be using my magic to fight, but not at full power. If you can exceed my expectations again, then we'll move on from there got it?"

"Yeah." Subaru said with a new found determination.

Once their break was over they got back to training, trading blow for blow. Hikaru was moving a lot faster than before, so fast that to Subaru it looked like he was teleporting. He could barely keep up.

"At this rate I won't last! Come on! Think for a moment."

Subaru, using his Ki-sensing quickly turned around as Hikaru was behind him swinging flame based slashes at him. They were moving so fast he could barely negate them all with his Demon Dweller Sword. As soon as Subaru negated the slashes, Hikaru was out of sight.

"How is he moving so fast?! It's almost as if he's teleporting!"

"Maybe if I try to sense his Ki..."

Subaru closed his eyes and focused, sensing Hikaru above him he opened his eyes and looked up as se sent more flamed based slashes at him. Subaru wouldn't be able to counter them so he had to dodge. When Subaru dodged he noticed there were trees everywhere giving him an idea.

"Oh? It seems he caught on."

Though Hikaru was moving faster than he was before, he was still able to sense him as he jumped of the tree and charged right at him at intense speed. Hikaru sensing this was able to sidestep the attack but what surprised him was when Subaru came back towards him at twice the speed. That's when Hikaru noticed Subaru was using the trees to increase his speed, completely surprising him.

"Thanks to Subaru's body he has a high level of speed, and it's just his physical strength... if he keeps this up he'll be even faster than before."

Hikaru was able to counter the attack but the force pushed him back.

"Well I see you were able to keep up with me."

"Yeah, at first I couldn't find you...you were all over the place."

"Well, how did you do it?"

"Well, I noticed it when you were above me sending those flame based slashes. Though it was for a moment, I sensed you and dodged towards that tree I landed on. Once I did that I noticed this whole area was surrounded by trees and that's when I got my idea, since I have Enhanced Strength, durability, speed, and Heightened Instincts. I was able to further increase my speed thanks to my physical strength and the momentum, that's how I was able to get to you so fast."