At the city of Kagahara, while Kazuma was walking alone on the busy streets, hands In his pockets, he couldn't help but to feel down. Kazuma thought to himself as he walked on the side walk "Honestly, I'm just unnecessarily tired. I didn't do much aside train with Ranpo sensei, and I'm already feeling beat.", the boy took a sigh "Whatever, it's probably because I'm being lazy. My body's healed up pretty well since last month, my head hurts a bit, but it's cool. It's not something that poses too much of a problem towards me right now.". Kazuma looked at [SHALVERON] he blinked while looking at it "This robotic arm is insane. It gives my attacks a boost of speed and power by 5 times, if I continue to get stronger, my power's gonna go through the roof.". He kept his hands back in his pockets "I'm not sure if im still motivated, but atleast I'm feeling better.", while walking, Kazuma bumped into someone "Huh? Oh, sorry. Didn't mean too-", the person cut him off "Nah, it's fine. Wait... Kazuma..?". Kazuma was also stunned too "Huh? Baroka?", Kazuma was a bit surprised to see Baroka. A few moments later, Kazuma and Baroka were sitted on a roof top, Baroka's hands were covered by metal gauglets that fit his hands and were brown in colour. Kazuma was a bit confused "Why's his hands covered with gauglets?", he asked himself, Baroka asked Kazuma "Is there a problem?", Kazuma replied "No, I'm just wondering why you are wearing those.". Baroka looked at the gauglets and just smiled "Oh, these. They're actually weight's.", "Weight?", Kazuma asked. Baroka explained "You see, my arms been hurting ever since our last mission, and because of that, I haven't done any physical training in a while. So after a few weeks, I decided to train again by wearing these weights on my arms.". Kazuma replied "Wow, looks cool. So you're saying you went back to training, even tho your arms weren't built for it? Well, I can't say I don't understand that, but you should probably take it low.", Baroka scoffed "Hm, if you say so.". The two kept quiet, Baroka seemed more warm and happy while Kazuma seemed more straight forward and saddened, Baroka looked at his friend and asked "What's wrong?", Kazuma replied "It's nothing, I've just been feeling down lately.". Baroka looked at Kazuma's left arm "Wow, is that a mechanical arm?", Kazuma looked at the robotic arm he wore on his left arm "Oh this? Yeah, it is. Your sensei gave it to me to wear. My left arm got busted, so he gave me this.". Baroka was amused "Cool, that thing looks like It packs a punch.", Kazuma grined in a crocked way "Yeah, it does. More than you expect actually.". Baroka took a closer look at Kazuma "There really is something wrong with you, isn't it?", he asked, Kazuma replied "No, not really. I'm just really down, that's all.". Baroka added "Is it because you're not motivated?", Kazuma paused for a moment "Not motivated, huh? Something like that.", he responded. Baroka sighed and started kicking air playfully "Ahh, I understand where you're coming from. It happened to me too when after I got home from our coma.", Kazuma looked at him and asked "You too?". Baroka just smiled "Yeah, I felt that way. After I got home, I realised that I couldn't train properly. My arms were aching, and I was too tired to walk. It was almost as if I didn't have a purpose anymore, it was super depressing.". Kazuma asked "So, how did you deal with it?", Baroka took a moment to think "How did I deal with it? Well, you could say I didn't deal with it. Although, I started to take walks and stay outside more. I guess that's how. I didn't want to grow dull, so I stood outside to remain sharp and stuff, and since my body was tired, all i did was to make sure not to push my body too much.". Kazuma took his time to understand what Baroka just said "So that's how you did it. Lately, I've been inside, I haven't gone outside in a while tho. And even if I did go outside, I just played basketball a little and went back inside.", Baroka smirked "Well atleast you're keeping yourself in shape. That's good.". Kazuma just smirked "You think so? Well thanks, l had no idea I was giving myself some minor training.", Baroka stood up "Well, I'm off now. I have to see Kito, you wanna tag along?". Kazuma responded "Nah, I'm fine. I'll talk to Kito later, knowing him, he's probably busy with something.", Baroka replied "Yep, he is.", he turned "See ya...", and jumped off. Kazuma waved at him "Yeah, I'll see you.", he saw Baroka as he walked down the streets on his own way. Kazuma muttered "Staying outside to keep yourself sharp, huh. That's good.", he jumped off somewhere as well. Meanwhile, Yuji was keeping an eye on Kazuma while standing behind an air vent, he saw Kazuma flying off "Hm, don't get dull now. Normally, you'd have noticed me at any moment if I were around. Looks like you need to get back in proper shape, and I'll help you.". At 3:00PM, Fugaku was in his office having an online meeting with Lord Raijon[The lord of the lightning country], he had a yellow beared and long yellow hair, Fugaku said to him "I'm glad you were able to take a time out of your day to attend a personal meeting with me, Lord Raijon.". Raijon replied with his casual straight forward look "Its alright, we agreed on a certain time, so we stuck to it. So what do you want to talk about?", he asked, Fugaku explained "I would like for us to assist one another in terms of weaponry.", Raijon raised a brow "Oh? Weaponry you say.". Fugaku explained "When it comes to weapons, your country is almost higher than that of the Knight Kingdom's. In terms of man power, you all are impressive too. And when it comes to technology, we both are neck in neck with you having a better edge at it. It's going to be brief, but I'd like for the Lightning country to side with the city of Kagahara, for now.".
END OF CHAPTER.