As Keitaro was returning home, he realized Satoru had lied to him... The score was add-out alright, but Keitaro was the last one to score.
So he should have been the one serving.....the bastard lied to him.
He really was gullible, the fact that Satoru could bs his way so easily, annoyed, he still made his way back home.
The ring on his ring finger shone a light color, yes, he was engaged, it was hard to believe that after 4 years of dating Shoko, he would be engaged to her.
Some might say it fast but he thought it was good enough, by now knew her well enough to know that even if she acted lazily 9 times out 10 times he met her, he did in fact want to spend the rest of his life with her.
It had nothing to do with the fact that she was very pretty, that was just an added bonus for him.
The sun had started to dip lower in the sky by the time Keitaro made his back to his home.
His clothes were slightly torn and his body felt like the right kind of ache that came from having a very hard match.
His friend truly did not know, what was called a "Friendly game".
Out here using sage mode for just a quick game, well on a side note, his stats looked something like.
Can enter sage mode nearly instantly, however, the duration will be short since he did not get much time to absorb nature's energy.
He still needed Akane for that, he was thinking of some sort of fusion, but oh well.
Akane fire and wind control were at a high level, so high that he could literally use the wind to make her fire burn hotter.
Sending out flying slashes was quite fun, destructive but fun, though Satoru was getting better at dodging them.
Also, no matter how long passed, Satoru's six eyes still could not detect natural energy, which meant Satoru had to actually rely on something else to try and detect him.
How fun.
Keitaro quickly went through about 20 hands in the 3 seconds....yes that was about 6.67 hand seals done in a second, yes that was fast.
And yes, he could get his domain up in less than a second.
Yes, he needed to use a hand seal to use a specific element, he spent a few years of experimenting and found that out.
In order to be able to more effectively use Akane's firepower, he could use the tiger seal for fire-related techniques, either the tiger or dragon hand seal work.
Lightning just requires the dragon hand seal.
As for the wing, he needed the bird seal.
Either that or a chant....he must prefer the seal over that though.
He opened the door of his house, and the welcoming scent of his home hit him. Yup, that felt nice.
As his gaze landed on the couch, Shoko Ieri could be seen lying there, sprawled, her usual lazy elegance on full display.
She had a book open on her lap, her eyes were half-lidded kind of telling Keitaro that she had not tuned a page in that book, or at least it had been a decent time since she had.
Keitaro smirked, shaking his head. Dropping his bag near the door, he walked over, leaned down, and gave her a light kiss on the lips.
Shoko's eyes fluttered open at the contact, and a faint smirk formed as she looked up at him.
"You're back," she said, her voice soft and lazy. Her gaze shifted to his clothes, and she arched a brow. "You're looking a little... worse for wear. Let me guess, another match with Satoru?"
Well, she got that one straight.
He sat beside her before sighing a bit.
"Things got a bit heated....he used a hollow purple during our game..." He said dryly.
Her brow furrowed just a bit, that seemed like an overkill but considering the stuff Satoru and Keitaro were doing on a daily basis, that wasn't the first time the thing escalated.
There was that soccer game where Keitaro used his teleportation to let no goal in and Satoru made a blue near the post and kicked the ball with a red.
As Keitaro teleported closer to the ball to catch it, the red and blue slammed into each other....a hollow nuke was created.
All that over a competition about who was the best football player of all time, Keitaro with his personality and still of play said Messi, Satoru said Ronaldo.
Later on, Keitaro learns that Satoru did not watch sports and was just fucking with him, to be more exact, he was bored and wanted to mess with Keitaro.
She sighed a bit before she remembered something "Sounds about right. Oh, by the way, the Zenin clan batch is ready. You can deliver it anytime."
As she said those words, Keitaro remembered that he had a batch to deliver to the Zenin clan, the Kamo clan batch wouldn't be dealt up until 2 more month
"Right, thanks for reminding me." He leaned down again, pressing another kiss to her lips.
She hummed in pure satisfaction, her smirk growing wider. "What would you do without me?"
He pulled back just enough to meet her gaze, his tone laced with playful sarcasm. "Oh, I'd probably be wandering aimlessly through life, forgetting my responsibilities, getting hit with hollow purples... you know, the usual."
"Go take a bath, you reek of sweat" She added softly.
"Sure will do, wouldn't mind you joining me" He teased, to which she just smiled at that, how fun.
She might take him up on that offer.
"A tempting offer might take you up on that," She said with a coy smile.
"However we both know if I join you, no actual bathing will be done," She said softly bopping his nose a bit.
A/N
Progress so far.
He is faster, like we speak his speed surpasses the 15-finger version of the king, he is a speedster that to be expected.
His domain expansion is currently only second to Sukuna if he fought Kenny and they clash domain, even if Kenny's domain attacks him from the outside, his barrier will stand for at least 3 minutes....trust he does not need that long to kill the man.
30 seconds to kill Kenny and around 2 minutes and 30 seconds left on the timer.
To those saying, wait how can he kill Kenny so fast, my answer is simple.
Speed blitz.
Kenny blinks and his head is on the floor, he loses sight of Keitaro for a millisecond, his head rolling on the floor, letting Keitaro sure hit land, which it will, but he loses.
Keitaro also regains his technique faster after technique burnout, unlike Satoru who would later destroy his brain and rebuild to get his technique back, all he does really is just heal his brain using rct or enter sage mode while he is on technique burn, once sage mode over his technique would have been back for a while.
Oh yeah, I forgot, y'all don't have a mental image of how he looks while opening his domain.
Art was done by Shyvis on Vgen, she is great to work with and a great artist, she also did the Akira drawing, don't know if that chapter will be out when this one comes out yet.