And the effects of Tigress' jealous rage on Max spills over into Takami's curiosity to get the information on why they're at odds with each other.

Chapter 19: Argument Between Teacher and Student

Back at the Jade Palace, Takami was still in deep shock after hearing that Tigress had attempted to kill Max in front of the villagers some months ago and the fact that everyone else knew except for him and the other Hazards really made him dumbfounded to know that his own teacher-his own tiger master, which he respects and looks up to the most-would be capable of nearly taking the life of an innocent, defenseless tiger cub who has already been through a lot and didn't do anything to deserve it.

Soon enough, he made his way to the Training Hall and as he opened the door, he could see the entire place look like it's been destroyed by a tsunami-tornado hybrid on the inside, only to see that it was Tigress just punching the snap out of the dummy with so much fury and anger inside of her and Takami could tell that he was gonna brace himself in case something goes down between the two of them.

"We need to talk." Takami stated.

Tigress was still punching the living crap out of the dummy and she said, "So talk."

Takami took a deep breath as he was ready to ask her the question because he knew that it involves Max and he replied, "What happened back there earlier?"

Tigress could sense that Takami is bringing up Max and she tensed up a little bit and asked, "It's none of your business, Takami. It's between me and Max."

"If it was, then why did you fight him and his trainer right in front of us?" asked Takami.

Tigress stopped punching the dummy and refused to face Takami because she knew that he was gonna eventually find out for himself and only responded, "Because I wanted to fight."

"For no reason? Why'd you have to put Max in the middle. This is what I don't understand coming from you." Takami explained.

Tigress balled her fists up from the minute Takami asks about Max and could never change the subject and she knew that the subject would never be changed unless Takami wants a straight answer from his own master and the thought of Takami defending Max sickens her to no end and she asked, "Why are you taking his side?"

Takami got flabbergasted by that remark she just made and asked, "Why would I take his side? I'm just trying to understand what's going on between you two."

"You're supposed to be MY student! How dare you be disloyal to me!" Tigress shouted, facing him in a fury.

"I'm not being disloyal to you!" Takami shouted, nearly getting fired up.

"Everytime I see you with that cub, it's like you pay more attention to him and Layla even spends time with you more! What does Max have that I don't have?!" Tigress shouted.

Takami didn't know how to respond to that question, but he can tell that Tigress was getting all tensed up and it was clear that there's a huge amount of jealousy and bitterness involving Max and it was a better chance to not answer that question, but did tell her, "You don't want me to answer that."

Tigress just exhaled deeply and just felt like there's no sense of talking to Takami and said, "Just forget about it."

Takami still wanted to know more though as he asked her, "So...why did you cause Max harm?"

"If you're gonna ask more questions about Max, you will seriously risk getting slaughtered!" Tigress screamed, at the top of her lungs.

But that was a chance that Takami was willing to take as he refused to back down from the subject and said, "Why did you almost kill him? He's a little cub! He didn't deserve that!"

"I'm warning you, Takami!" Tigress roared.

"No! I'm not backing down until you tell me!" Takami roared back.

Tigress was seething heavily and she feels like she's losing control of her own student and she unsheathed her claws to get at him for bringing Max up in front of her and it was like she was gonna viciously attack him and Takami was willing to fight her off to get some answers and he brought himself into a basic stance in case she starts up.

"Drop the subject, Takami. Max means nothing to me." Tigress growled.

"I'm not gonna drop the subject. I just need to know why you hate Max so much." Takami replied, looking at her.

"I DO NOT HATE MAX!" Tigress shouted.

Just then, Shifu burst in the door and saw two tigers ready to go at each other and placed himself in the middle to end it before it even begins and he angrily shouted, "There will be no amount of fighting between the two of you! Now I demand to know what is going on here!"

"Tell Takami he has no right to ask me about Max!" Tigress shouted.

Shifu turned to Tigress for a second and he glared at her and said, "I believe Takami does deserve an explanation about your behavior towards the cub. You know very well that I'm too old to handle this situation! And quite frankly, you should be quite ashamed of yourself for trying to go after your student!"

"That's not your concern, Shifu! It's between me and Max!" Tigress shouted.

Shifu lets out an angry grunt and he knew that Tigress refused to tell Takami and thought up of another alternative. He bluntly stated, "Very well...if you won't, then I will. How about that?"

Tigress felt the shock factor coming out of her stomach the minute Shifu said that he'll tell Takami himself and felt like she wanted to personally attack her master for that ultimatum, but she knew that there was nothing she could do about it when it comes to Shifu's ways of discipline and has been powerless to stop him.

Shifu turned to Takami and explained everything to him about the rivalry between her and Max; mentioning everything from her jealousy towards the cub, training him harder and brutally, treating him like he's nothing, her anger towards him about him being the Golden Child of the Jade Palace, envious about his accomplishments at a younger age, his positive attitude towards others, easy forgiveness and even explained to Takami the reason why she unleashed her rage towards him that day when she nearly took his life because of that jealousy and for defending his dragon friend Blaze.

After Takami heard everything from Shifu, his reaction was of shock and a little bit of outrage, but not too much. He faced Tigress as he saw her head hanging down in shame and he walked over to her and asked, "Why didn't you tell me this before?"

She didn't bother saying anything as she ran out of the Training Hall in ultimate shame and semi-humiliation after all this and it left both Takami and Shifu a little speechless, but Takami was the most shocked after all of this and he said, "Well...I guess that answers that question."

Man...Shifu told Tigress off big time. Where does it go from here? Next up...Max finds something out about Jason that he never knew before.