Chapter 6: Hannah and the true meaning of strength

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Tatara and Bo-bo both travel with Kumatetsu and Hannah, mostly to keep them both out of trouble, but even with them there they can't stop one thing..the competition between the two. Once they reach a forest both of them jump onto the branches and race, seeing who's faster,

"What's the matter teddy bear, am I going to fast for you" Hannah has gotten the lead with a bit of distance, and Hannah knows he won't catch up, Kumatetsu growls at her smug tone, and he pushes himself harder, he's the teacher so his pride is a little hurt. Hannah seeing him slowly catching up applies more power, which will actually be her downfall, the tree branches can only take so much, so with a snap she falls down to the ground allowing Kumatetsu to pass,

"Who's slow now?!" Kumatetsu shouts at her, his laughter that always gets her smiling is making her frown,

"That's not far teddy bear!" Her shout means nothing to him.
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Next is running up stairs, they once again leave the two beast behind as they are running up, Kumatetsu on all four and Hannah with just her legs, both leave a cloud of dust, letting the other two beast eat it,

"Are we seriously going to get left behind again" tatara complains,

"At least they are being friendly" bo-bo says always positive, however they hear Kumatetsu grunt in pain and him shouting at Hannah,

"Kyuta! You cheating brat!"

"Don't call me kyuta you Baka teddy bear!"
Both beast sign as they start bickering about the nicknames, not caring that people a mile away could hear them.
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The four need food so they head to a near by river to catch fish, this naturally leads to a fishing contest, Kumatetsu strips naked and heads into the water slowly looking for fish to catch..Hannah takes a different approach, she jumps high up in the air and drops straight down aiming to punch the water,

"Cannonball!" She makes contact with the watch creating a large wave to follow, it's basically raining fish,

"Ow!" Tatara shouts as Kumatetsu lands on him as he was also send flying,
Hannah obviously wins with almost all the fish and one Kumatetsu.
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Later at night it becomes a eating contest, one that Kumatetsu wins, Hannah has manners so she isn't use to eating like Kumatetsu, but she still tries her best,

"There's nothing wrong with eating slowly" Tatara complains, disgusted at the fish pieces landing on him, but the two keep on eating not caring about Tatara complaining.
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In two days they reach the first lord, the lord of a village build on top of a mountain,

"Oh Mr.beast lord what is true strength" Hannah ask politely, but gets easily detracted by the beauty of the tree the bamboo beast is sitting on, bo-bo facepalms at how she addresses the lord and Tatara just groans, Kumatetsu doesn't care,

"I don't have the powerful muscles that many fighters do, however I do have the magical ability to create illusions" the lord holds out his hand with a flower on it allowing a butterfly to land on it, the flower seems to become its wings,

"And sometimes, there can be more truth within an illusion than in reality, therefore true strength is-" when Hannah reaches for it, it transforms into a bigger butterfly, as big as Kumatetsu,

"Why it's an illusion" the lord says laughing, Hannah writes this down while kumatetsu scoffs at his answer
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The next lord is located in a pit with waterfalls, it seems the houses are built on the walls,

"What good is strength? That's what I'd like to know, I possess the power of telekinesis, which may seem like strength to you but there is something even my ability is powerless against" the cat lord has jars floating around them showing his power of telekinesis,

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