A few years ago, while Sōn was still on D-rank, he collapsed on the floors of the grassy training fields that he and Tomoa were training at. Sōn had been injured with cuts and burns on his body, his red track suit jacket and jeans he wore at the time were torn and cut open as a result "Ghaa!", he was In pain. Tomoa walked up to him, hands in his pockets, a killer robot that Sōn had fought was a few feet behind away from them "Don't groan and whine like a child. The injuries aren't so severe. It's your fault for being reckless.", Sōn sat up with his palms burned and bleeding "Tch! You don't have to be so harsh on me, big bro.", Tomoa corrected him "It's sensei or teacher. Right now, I'm being a team leader, so address me as one.". Sōn closed an eye while looking at Tomoa with the opened eye "I don't see you being this harsh to Raquel when teaching her.", Tomoa looked at his student with an eyes closed and his thumb on his head "That's because Raquel isn't hard to deal with. Sōn, you're always so reckless.", he continued to explain while Sōn stood up and dusted himself "I could heal you right now, but I'm going to let you sit with your injuries and heal yourself.", Sōn just walked away "Whatever, pay me up my hundred Neroids, okay?". After he had walked off, Diablo came in from behind as well "Yikes, you should be calmer with that kid.", Tomoa sighed "He's always rushing in, all he does is bash things recklessly with those flames of his.", Diablo tilted his head as if he was thinking "Well at least he fights well. He could be worse, he could be like Alex.". Tomoa frowned with a tired expression "You mean that student of yours. He's reckless too, but at least he makes it a point to think before doing stupid stuff.", Diablo sighed "Well, I guess two of us are in the same problem.". Tomoa turned to him "I heard you've been addressing both your team and Levi's team for a while. So? How's it going?", Diablo scratched his head "It's fine. Levi would be on a two weeks long mission, so I have to address his team and my team at the same time. But at least they work together pretty well, so its cool.", Tomoa replied "I see.". Diablo walked to were he was standing, Tomoa looked forward, seeing Sōn walk away by himself "Tomoa, you're not just being harsh on Sōn because you're his teacher, are you?", Tomoa explained "No, I'm not. Sōn's always so fired up, his combat skills are rough and reckless. Sure he fights well, but he's too hyped, it's the reason why he lost on this training mission.", Diablo smiled childishly "Heh, it's just a training mission, there's nothing important to it than just testing weapons and giving reviews for payments.", Tomoa gritted his teeth with mild annoyance "How the hell are you so strong and yet so unserious at the same time?". Diablo turned around and waved as he walked off "Beats me. By the way, take it easy on him, you hear? And plus, Sughi and myself have decided to have a hangout this night, you should join us if you don't have work to do.", Tomoa looked at him with his almost cold eyes "Sure, I'll drop by.". He looked around the peaceful scenery "It's a good thing that he's only been participating on training missions for the past month. Who knows what would have happened to him?", he smirked "It's fine. With the way he is, he'll grow up to be strong, I'll make sure of it.". Currently, as Sōn was fighting Sorata in his test, he flew accross the air while having a standing position. His head was faced down while his shoulders were raised like he was carrying weights, his flames were building up in terms of heat and power at incredible rates. Sōn's head thought "I've always been reckless from the start. Even when I happened to calm down a bit as I got older, I was still a reckless power house, no one needed to tell me that.", he raised his head slightly upward, his red flaming eyes looking at Sorata who flew after him with deranged laughter "Well, I guess it runs in our family, bro was called the most psychotic member of the Dark Sign back then, and dad was a beast back in his younger days, or so I heard.". Sōn slowly started to laugh, his manaical laughter became louder as his head tilted upwards, giant blades of flames appeared right behind him "AHAHAHAH! AHAHAH! SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: SUN'S JUDGMENT!", he stretched his hand forward, signaling his attacks to fly forth at Sorata. Sorata on the other hand, seeing his brothers blades of flames flying at him, grinned with excitement before creating an orb of destructive energy to his right and then drawing out a blade of his purple destructive energy out of the orb. And with a singular slash, he was able to slice through the fire blades from Sōn with one slash, a huge explosion of what almost seemed to be purple lightning scattered accross the sky and the ground. Sorata kept flying and cutting through all of the blades of fire that Sōn had made to surround him before flying at him. This manifestation was moving with skills and speed, although what was more surprising was how he weilded his sword. His technique was brutal, but had the skills to go along with its, in short it seemed reckless but refined. Sorata in terms of fighting was more used to running and avoiding lethal attacks. This was because he was used to surviving in the forest where anything could kill you if you touched anything the wrong way, but it didn't mean he wasn't used to high speed combat. Infact, he was very good at moving around while fighting with brutality and knowing what to parry and what to avoid, that was the kind of fighting style he had always used, even when he was at the academy. Sorata was able to make it towards Sōn in the air, they both prepared to punch each other with terrifying levels of power. Their fists met once, met again, and then their flurry Increased. They flew around the air with dangerous speeds, Sorata was dominanting the fight, he was able to block most of Sōn's high speed punches and blasting him on the face with his own blows before chasing after him, summersaulting into the air and then kicking Sōn on the skull. Sōn obviously fell down to the ground, although Sorata continued to pursue him down in flight before Sōn flipped to get his balance and flew back into the air, throwing shurikens of flames at Sorata who dodged while following him into the air. Sōn stretched his hand out, he was able to create a rod of flames, the temperatures reached up to hundreds of billion degrees, this was Sōn highest heat levels so far. The power of the rod was so strong that plasma beams flew out of it like rain, Sorata grinned manically as a result. Spreading his arms and wings, he created giant cirlcles of destructive energy all over the air that had swords of energy descending out of it. Sōn thought one thing and one thing alone "Lets see who's the strongest Takahama brother, once and for all!".
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