In the afternoon, the bell rang on time, and the school building of Tokyo Kabito Middle School suddenly burst into jubilation. It's just the first day of school, but it's not at all new for these kids. The students rushed out of the school building with all kinds of equipment on their backs and ran to the venue of their club activities, and even the first-year students who had just entered the school were completely unfamiliar with their youth, and they looked as if they had lived here for several years. Probably the atmosphere in all schools in the country is like this, and even Nao, who has been living in Okinawa, has become completely familiar with this new environment in just one morning.

Nao, who was sitting in the corner of the classroom by the window, slowly packed up her things after the bell rang, and from time to time reached out to pin a strand of hair that fell in front of her behind her ear, and her calm attitude made Shumei who was waiting for her with her schoolbag almost crazy. Shumi Sakamoto sat on the desk next to Nao without any image, her feet hanging under the desk kept kicking back and forth, and while constantly looking at the time on her phone, she kept urging Nao, who was so slow that her movements were so slow that it made people anxious.

"Hurry up, Nao! It's not good to be late for the first day of club activities!"

"Late?" Nao buttoned her schoolbag, took out her phone and looked at the time, "There are still 40 minutes before the meeting time, and it's too late to have a meal, how can you be late?" She put her phone in her pocket, and while reaching out to lift her chair upside down on the table, she expressed her disdain for the beauty of logarithmic beauty: "Since I arrived at school in the morning, I have been thinking about it constantly, and I can't even eat at noon." The stipulated time for club activities will not change, and the venue of the ministry will not run on its own long legs...... I said, are you a little more energetic?"

"Oh, people can't wait!" Shumei pursed her lips and stretched her face into a bun, curling a handful of blonde hair curled up on her sideburns and explaining to Nao: "It's not all because your face at the orientation party is so exaggerated, plus when I went back to train, I heard what Shino's son said, and I can't wait to see our karate club activities!"

"Even if you go to the ministry now, you won't be in advance, right?" Nao straightened up and patted the dust on her skirt that was not zài, and looked at Shumei's longing face with a smile, "Speaking of which, you have already trained in the dojo, right? No matter how different the content of the ministry work is, it should be no different from an ordinary dojo, so it is worth it for you, a real dojo disciple, to have such great expectations?"

"I'm not expecting any difference in the content of the ministry's work, but I'm very interested in other people in the ministry!" Shumei excitedly threw the bundled Taoist uniform in her hand, her blue eyes shining so brightly that she was about to drip water, "The son of our dojo teacher said that there was a new first-year student in the tennis club of the middle department of their school, and it only took less than an hour to single-handedly pick out all the senior members! That's why I can't wait to see what you look like when you challenge your seniors!" Shumi rolled over and jumped off the desk, leaning up to Nao with her starry eyes up, "Knock down all the seniors!

"Hey, what are you expecting?" Nao was startled by the dazzling light in Shumei's eyes, and a few black lines slid down the back of his head, "It's good to have a competitive spirit and a desire to challenge, but it also depends on the situation! The Ice Emperor is the Ice Emperor, we are us, our women's department is not very strong, if such a thing happens again, I'm afraid they will have even less confidence to participate in the competition, right? Maybe it will also affect the recruitment of new members!"

"Is that so? I don't think so......" Shumei scratched her head, "If you saw the Ice Emperor's first-year student challenging the main election, he suddenly told the teacher teacher that he wanted to learn tennis, and he chanted 'the following gram' more than 30 times in one afternoon! It is said that he will join the tennis club when he goes to middle school, with the goal of defeating the first-year minister!"

"To challenge the minister to learn tennis?and still an elementary school student?!" Nao looked incredulous, "Ice Emperor's gorgeous first-year student is actually scheduled to be a member of next year's department, isn't that too exaggerated?"

"That's right, so we can try it too!" Shumi winked at Nao, and then suddenly thought of something, "But you said gorgeous...... Could it be that you know that the Ice Emperor is in the first year of the Ice Emperor who is being elected to be the minister?"

"Ah, knowing is knowing......" Nao remembered the finger movement he was forced to do with Yue Ren last night, and suddenly felt that his thumb seemed to be still aching faintly, "I have a friend who has just been promoted to the middle of the Ice Emperor, and he sent me a text message for three hours yesterday to talk about it. The first-year student, called 'Kibu', seemed to have returned from abroad, and not only did he make exaggerated remarks in the speech of the new students at the opening ceremony, but he also changed all the school facilities in one day. The student cafeteria has become a high-end dining hall, the club equipment room has become a high-end club, the screening room has become a high-end movie theater, and even the water in the swimming pool has been replaced with a constant temperature ......" Nao counted them one by one with her fingers, and Shumei's eyes on the side widened more and more.

"Wow, that's a big deal! No wonder you say he's 'gorgeous', it's not just gorgeous, it's literally made the whole school his own!"

— of course, worship in other senses.

Nao listened to Shumi's words and shook her head with a wry smile. And that's not all...... The Yueren, who had a strong desire to win, as if no one in the world could make him bow down, actually changed his sex, and seemed to worship the trace who fought against Yue and Shishido with only one person and won 6:3, and shouted to her more than once, "There is a trace, our Ice Emperor may really be able to win the national championship!" Not only Yue Ren, but now the Ice Emperor has almost become his world, and even the second and third graders call him "Lord Trace". I have to say that the first-grader not only has strong tennis strength, but also knows how to win people's hearts very well. Regardless of whether the Ice Emperor will win the national championship in the future, at least their morale has improved by more than a little bit. If they had a figure in the women's karate club, they might have changed their current sluggish appearance and had an aura that could rival that of the men's club.

"Na, Shumi......" Thinking of this, the corners of Nao's lips curved in a strange arc, and her narrow eyes looked at Sakamoto Shumi with a smile, "I have an idea, do you want to listen to it?—— maybe it is a good way to make the women's department rise." ”

"Nao, I just came up with a great idea!" Sakamoto Shumi also approached Nao with a wicked smile, the glint in her eyes was exactly the same as Nao, "I guess, it's about the same as you think......"

"So, let's talk as we walk on the way to the social office. Nao put his hand on Shumi's shoulder, and the two of them walked together towards the social office of the karate club.

And the truth is that as Shumi said, her idea is not much different from Nao's idea.

For a club, especially one that wants to aim for the whole country, hard training is essential, but it is also very much needed a soul who can lead them to progress and give them hope. For example, Kyogoku Shin in the men's karate club, and Keigo Keibe in the Ice Emperor Tennis Club. Regardless of whether he can make his mark in the country or not, first of all, this soul person will have the ability to make the players think that they can "win the championship", and have the characteristics to lead by example and motivate the players to improve at any time. It is clear that the current women's karate club does not have such a character, and even the minister Natsuki Ujikawa, who has the dream of entering the country, cannot do so.

It is not enough to have a dream, you also need to have strength and a strong strength that can surpass a qiē. And the proud protégé of Hiyoshi Dojo, Shumi Sakamoto, and Nao, who studied the Okinawan Rugu martial arts and was stronger than the average person, will be the main force of the karate club, even if they are not strong enough to defeat their opponents. Although they can't challenge all the methods to achieve the status of soul characters, they will definitely be able to show their ability to be such leaders in future training and sparring practice. "Spare no hands in training and sparring, and do their best, so that the members think that the two can lead them to the national competition" - this is the idea of the two of them.

The journey from the school building to the karate dojo was only five minutes, but the two of them walked for more than ten minutes. Two young girls with beautiful dreams discuss their plans after joining the ministry on the road, almost forgetting the passage of time. And after going to the social office, as Shumei said earlier...... They were late.

Although there were still more than five minutes before the official start of training, it was an unwritten rule that you need to assemble, meditate, and wait for the teacher to arrive fifteen minutes in advance. While the two of them were panicked and changed into their robes and knelt on the floor, their advisors had been waiting for a long time, and there was only one last dojo training left that had to be recited in unison by all the disciples before the training began.

"1. The courage of quitting blood!" (一つ血気の勇を紀める)" Minister Ujikawa Natsuki stood in front of the members of the ministry and took the lead in reciting, and when he saw the two people who had slipped into the dojo, he glanced at them fiercely, and motioned for them to hurry up and enter the ranks with his eyes.

(Sorry, forgot the time...... The courage to quit blood!" Shumi secretly stuck out her tongue and said a word to Natsuki with her mouth, then pulled Nao to kneel and sit at the end of the line, reciting with the rest of the team.

"—Stand up, forward, salute —— to the teacher, salute!" After reciting the last one, Natsuki turned around and shouted the command, facing the front and saluting, and then saluted the teacher with the rest of the team. After doing this, she turned to face the team members, and said with a solemn expression: "The above is the dojo training we have to do before each training. The word 'one' is used before the beginning of each entry, which shows that the meaning of each of these entries is of equal value and importance!" Natsuki looked around, and said in a voice that was a little stricter than just now: "All new members of the team, don't regard the dojo training as a ritual, it is a kind of self-prompting instruction! While reciting them, you should not only keep these entries in mind, but also use them as a code to restrain your behavior! We people in the Kakudo Women's Karate Club do not seek to be the strongest, but to be mentally tough! This is the original intention of learning karate, and it is also the goal we need to achieve in the future!

"Yes, Minister!" the members of the ministry shouted in unison, as if they were infected by her.

"From today onwards, our women's karate club can't slack off anymore, and we must not be looked down upon by those guys in the men's department!" Ujigawa Natsuki's eye knife slammed into the wall on the right, and shouted loudly as if venting his anger: "Do you understand!"

"Yes! Minister!"

"Ujikawa, the last sentence is your true heart, right?" A male voice that Nao heard a little familiar floated from behind Natsuki, and the person who came with the voice walked in front of everyone with his hands and smiled, "Welcome to the women's karate club, I'm the advisor Taiichi Mizushima." Don't pay too much attention to Ujikawa's last sentence just now, the most important purpose of a girl's karate practice is self-defense! Of course, it will also have a good effect on maintaining her figure!"

"Mizushima-sensei, what are you talking about!" Natsuki didn't seem to agree with Mizushima's remarks, "Those who came to join the women's division with strange ideas have all quit, and there are a few new students with great potential among the new members of this year's department, and we will definitely be able to achieve the ranking this year!"

"Okay, okay, calm down, calm down, calm down. Mizushima pressed Natsuki's shoulder, and his gaze swept to Nao and Shumi, who were standing side by side, "This year's new department member...... Except for the third year who has graduated, there are now a total of 12 members in the department, but you are the only one who can reach the level of competition. With such a lineup, it is still a little difficult to get a position...... Don't forget, you need at least three team members to participate in the team competition!"

"Uncle Mizushima, don't forget me and Nao!" Shumi suddenly shouted to Mizushima, and her outstretched thumb compared to Nao, "You know my strength very well, Nao, she is even more powerful than me!"

As soon as Shumei said this, it immediately caused a little commotion among the team members. Not because she boasted about her and Nao's strength, but because of her tone that was obviously familiar with Mizushima's advisors. Nao also looked at Shumi with a blank expression, but the latter continued to speak unconsciously.

"Since you stopped coming to the dojo, my level has improved a lot in the past few years!" Shumi boasted triumphantly to Mizushima, "Teacher said, I have surpassed the level of the second stage of the tea belt, and I will be able to take the black belt test soon!"

As soon as the phrase "beyond the level of the tea belt" came out, it caused a riot. If the first-year freshman's karate skills were as strong as she said, it would be far beyond the imagination of the old members, and when they followed Shumei's thumb to see Nao, who seemed to have an embarrassed expression, they let out a soft "ah" sound. This girl with flamboyant red hair is still vividly remembered at the recruitment meeting, and even the members of the department who did not participate in the recruitment meeting that day heard from others about her feat of "provoking Kyogoku Shin". Of course, these people also include Taiichi Mizushima, who announced the disbandment of the class at that time.

"Heh, are you at a level where you can compete for the Black Belt test? Mizushima's voice paused, and he squinted his eyes at Nao, who was speechless, "But what is the level of this classmate, can you tell us about it?"

"Me?" Nao chuckled indifferently at the disdain evident in Mizushima's words, "I haven't taken a formal grade test. In the disbelief of Shumei and the disappointed eyes of the members, she continued with some evil eyes: "But after the tournament last year, I passed the normal test and have mastered all the content of the black belt section. - Just under the age of 16 and cannot take the initial black belt test. ”

"It was ...... last year Have you reached the standard of the black belt into the stage?" Shumi breathed a sigh of relief, but Natsuki's eyes widened, "I'm only a tea belt now...... Now that we have two Black Belt, we can compete in a three-person team event!!"

"Senior, it's not just about participating!" Shumei bared out a mouthful of white teeth and shook her finger at Natsuki, "We still have to participate in the national competition!"

"National ......" Natsuki Ujikawa turned around suddenly, and the two buns on her head seemed to shake twice under her movements, "Mizushima-sensei!!"

"I see, I know......" Mizushima Taiichi stroked the half-length hair that hung down on his shoulders, and his brown eyes swept over Nao and Shumi, "but you can't just talk about it, let's test your abilities now." Whether or not you can participate in the competition depends on my standards. ”

"No problem, how to test?"

"yes, how to test it......" Mizushima's voice paused, and his eyes turned around the two of them, and finally returned to Nao's body. He curled his lips slightly, tapped his chin with his fingers, and spat out a sentence, "You guys, let's fight." However, 'must' follow the rules of the game!"

Listening to the "certain" emphasized in Mizushima's tone, Nao suddenly had a bad premonition. She had been following her grandmother's teachings and training in the moves, which were extremely destructive and capable of subduing her opponents in the quickest possible time. If used in a regular match, it will be aggressive, and the momentum generated in the move will deter the opponent in a large way, but at Nao's current level......

There will definitely be a foul.