The party continued, with many of it's passengers talking about their excitement over what could happen in the tournament and how they believed their fighter/they would be the one to come out on top. Kenta continued to sip his drink and looking around while he was next to Taaru, who was eating absurd quantities of meat at such a fast pace that it looked like he was inhaling the food.

"Taaru, I need you to keep an eye out." Kenta said looking around before turning back to him, "Other's in the past have tried to take places form other fighter's to get a better chance at winning."

"I will, don't worry about it." he said finishing up his plate and heading up for more helpings, taking another plate full with a smile on his face. As he was looking at the plate, a waiter walked towards him with a kitchen knife in hand. Feet from Taaru, he walked up with his hand up and was about to thrust it down when he felt weird. He looked at his hand and saw the knife was not in his hand.

"Now, what do we have here?" a voice asked from behind him and he was about to turn around when the knife was placed to his neck. The guy winced, feeling blood run from where the blade touched his neck and he could see in the reflection of a near window that it was Yaju. The man smirked and leaned in real close so only the attacker could hear, "Go tell your boss to call off any assassination attempts on him or his blood will attract the sharks." The guy gulped and nodded, having Yaju pull the knife away and placed it on the table while tapping his cheek. Taaru smiled and walked past them, failing to notice Yaju as he was focused on the meat filled plate in his hands. Taaru sat at the table with Kenta, who was on his second drink and looked at him.

"So, did anything happen at the buffet?" he asked him sipping his drink and watched Taaru tore into the meat on his plate.

"Not really, this is just really good." he said eating his food and looking at Kenta, seeing him drinking nervous away and said, "You should relax."

"Yeah, you might be right." Kenta said looking at his glass and letting out a sigh, feeling pressure all over him with all the 'being in the Kengan Matches' stuff.

"Kenta?" a voice called out to him and Kenta's attention was drawn towards them, turning behind himself to see Miyuki standing there in a white dress that hugged her body.

"Miyuki? Why are you here?" he asked her standing up and looking at her, his face reddened seeing her in her dress, he took a deep breath while waiting for her answer.

"My father asked me to join him to see the tournament." she explained to the young CEO smiling and he let out a sigh of relief, looking at her and then taking two glasses from a tray.

"Here, let's have a cheer for being here together." he said and she giggled, taking a glass from him, they walked off together. Leaving Taaru alone to eat his meal and watch them walk away together.

"See? You needed to relax." said the green eyes fighter with his mouth filled with meat and continued to eat it while Kenji was watching him from the corner of his eye.

"You okay?" the girl with him saw that he was solely focused on someone who was in the other side of the room. Spotting him, she turned to look back at Kenji and asked, "You know him?"

"Not really Asuka, I just want to learn his moves to improve my combat system." he said with a hint of excitement, he finished his meal and got up. He headed right toward Taaru, who was nearing the end of his meal when Kenji showed up in front of him. "I held up my end of the deal, so can you teach me your moves?" Taaru looked at him for a few moments before swallowing the food in his mouth.

"Yeah, i did make that deal, didn't I?" he asked, getting up and letting out a belch loud enough for others around them to hear before walking past him saying, "Let's go before I change my mind." The shorter fighter smiled and followed him while the Asuka was left confused, following them with her bag in toe.

By the pool, a young male was laying back near the pool in a speedo and was looking at all of the others around him. He had long black hair tied in dreadlocks, dark skin tone, and a very muscular body with his height easily reaching 6'5.

"So, you made it this year too?" a voice asked from near him, he turned to see a tall bald man with dark skin wearing red and orange kāṣāya. He was sitting in the lawn chair next to him and was in the middle of meditating, holding his beads in his hand while doing it.

"Yeah, and maybe we could have a match in the tournament." the guy relaxing said smiling, looking at the guy meditating. As they had their talk, another contestant was standing on the railing of the ship. He had pale skin tone, wearing a male leotard with legs tights, and had his blonde hair tied in a ponytail as he was balancing on his foot while taking in deep breaths to keep his concentration while other people looked at him in shock that he would be doing something like that at this point of the night. Taaru lead Kenji out onto the deck and made sure they had enough room, turning to look at the teen, who had an eager look on his face as the Asuka sat down to watch them.

"Alright, the first thing is to get the stance right." Taaru said putting his left foot in front of him and then curving his knuckles to where his palms showed, and then bent his knee with his right arm out in front of him. Kenji studied the stance and got into it. Then, Taaru started to show him punches with his knuckles like that, along with a few more strikes as Asuka recorded in all. Soon, they stopped and Taaru stood up ready to leave, much to Kenji's sorrow.

"Can't we train a little more before you go?" he asked the long haired man and saw him stop, turning to look at him with his green eyes full of a blazing fury.

"Not until after the tournament." he said and then headed off on his own, leaving Kenji sighing disappointed as he sat down and let out another sigh while Asuka patted his back.

"Don't worry, we should be getting started on our other plans." she said holding a brief case and he smiled, hopping up as his mood improved from her words and she smiled as well, then they all headed back to their room for the plan they were setting up.

Kenta was nervous standing next to Miyuki at the railing of the upper levels of the ship, they were staring out at the vast ocean illuminated by the full moon.

"Beautiful isn't it?" she asked him smiling while holding her drink in her hand and she turned to stare at him, her blue eyes glowing in the moon light.

"Yeah, it is..." Kenta stopped for a few moment, thinking over what he should say. Having made up his mind, he took a deep breath, "But nowhere near as beautiful as you are right now." Miyuki looked at him with a smile on her face and took his hand, slowly moving it towards hers and placing it in her other while he did the same with her other hand. They held it tightly and looked at each other smiling, returning to the moonlight filled night sky as they enjoyed it together just ad Miyuki leaned closer to lean on his shoulder relaxing.

Alia was in her room, in nothing but her panties and had her arms out while the scientists had probes all over her body. One checked her vitals and the other was cheking all the data about her performance in the battle royal hours ago.

"Well, how's everything?" she asked them looking down at the one typing, letting them do their job to study her while waiting for him to answer.

"It seems you only used less than 5% of your power in the fight." he answered, lifting the computer up and showing her as she looked it over for herself.

"Any worries for the fighters in the real Tournament?" the other one asked, finishing checking her vitals and letting her put her bra back on as they finished it up.

"Don't worry, i can handle it." Alia said smiling as she got her clothes back. Alia suddenly frowned and asked one of them "Hey, do ya really think they will believe the farce of the research of a cure for HIV?" One of the women in the room turned to her and answered with confidence "We are a biotechnological research institute, we took all the measures and besides, the experiment should bring a solution for the disease as a byproduct, so is just a half-lie." Feeling satisfied with the answer, Alia exited the room and as she headed to hers, she saw Kenji step into his and smiled with a blush on her face. "This Tournament might be better than i thought."

Kenji sat on his bed, ready to start to undress and sleep just when his smartphone started to vibrate, he took it out to see who was calling him. Smiling widely, he accepted the call after seeing who it was, "'Hola mi niño'" said a female voice from the phone, "'Hola mamá', how ya doin'?" "Fine, thank you, what about you?" "Fine too, sorry for not calling sooner, i have been a bit busy and forgot to call the moment i was free" Kenji replied with guilt in his voice "Don't worry, you called and that is what matters" said the voice.

"Where's dad?" Asked Kenji "Fatigue beated him, he wanted to talk too, but now he is asleep. By the way, did you finish to integrate the Kaiwan Style?"

Kenji's reply came with excitement in his voice, "Yep, when i arrived to the dock, just named 'our' new adaptation of the 'Devil Lance', i call it 'Longinus'. Though i hope i don't have to use those other 3 styles you taught me. Oh, i just found a participant of the tournament with a new martial art: the Kuma Style, he has taught me the basics and after the tournament he will teach me more!"

"Really?!, that's great!" Kenji smiled. They talked some more and then Kenji was excited to hear his family was coming and listening to his mother talk about what he had missed.

Taaru was walking down the hall with a smile on his face and his belly full of meat, looking for his room where he had a key for. As he walked down the hall, two figures where watching him from the other end.

"Is he really the one we were looking for?" one of them asked looking at the other, who was Abyss and he looked at him with the cloak still over their face.

"I can assure you he is the one." He said looking at Taaru walk into his room and close the door as they stared at his door. "And we will take care of it at the tournament." Abyss said, turning around and walking off with whatever they were planning.

Miyuki laid on her bed, naked with Kenta kissing her and holding her close as he was on top of her. Their hands interlocked and their bodies pressed together while they kissed even more while he pulled away from her.

"Y-you ready?" he asked her looking into her blue eyes and she looked back up at him smiling, nodding to give him the okay for him to continue. Kenta smiled leaning forward and they kissed more with him thrusting into her, making her moan into the kiss and holding him close with her legs wrapped around him as the two of them made love with the moonlight hitting their bodies through the window.

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