Chapter 7：Test (2/2)

Kai and Tasha immediately stood up.

”Hoho, such a fine young man and young lady. My name is Kudo Taro, Ayaka's grandfather.”

He stretched his hand to Tasha for a handshake and Tasha accepted it. Then, he turned to Kai and stretched his hand.

But when Kai stretched his hand and tried to shake his hand, Kudo Taro suddenly spun his body and sent a fist toward him.

”Grandfather?” Ayaka was confused with his sudden action.

Kai furrowed his eyebrows and ducked to dodge the fist. Kai didn't stop there. As soon as he ducked, he tried to kick Kudo Taro's feet.

Taro jumped a little bit and tried to attack Kai's foot with his weight.

Of course, with this, Tasha managed to react. Before he managed to step on Kai's foot, she sent a kick toward Taro's head.

Kudo Taro immediately used one of his hands to block this kick.

Bzzt—

”Lightning?” When he grabbed Tasha's foot, he instantly felt a spark from it. Tasha's kick was actually reinforced by her lightning.

He would have been able to block Tasha's kick if she had done it normally. Unfortunately, she reinforced it with her magic. It threw his balance a bit.

Kai didn't let this chance go. He used his hands to stabilize his balance and sent a horse kick to him.

Of course, he concentrated his magic power into his feet to give more power to his kick.

It blew Taro away. He crashed onto the wall. Tasha didn't let him go. She made a pistol hand gesture as a purple magic circle appeared in front of her hand.

In the middle of the magic circle, there was a lightning symbol, signifying her magician mark. The lightning she shot was like a laser.

Boom!

The lightning exploded like a direct hit as smoke came out because of the collision.

”Grandfather!” Ayaka shouted as she didn't manage to react this entire time. She was surprised to see her grandfather suddenly attack Kai. But the most surprising thing was when she saw Kai blow her grandfather away.

She immediately ran toward her grandfather before she heard her grandfather's voice behind the smoke.

”Aiya, you two are truly ruthless to this old bone.”

The smoke started to clear, and they could see a blue magic circle containing a frozen crystal on it. He released it at the last moment to block Tasha's lightning attack.

He came out from the smoke slowly, walking toward Ayaka and patted her head. He then turned to Kai and Tasha, ”This old man was just curious about the boy that defeated my dearest princess. Do forgive this old man.”

”If someone attacked you just because of their curiosity, will you accept their apology?” Tasha said while narrowing her eyes.

”Haha, definitely not. That's why this old man will give you compensation. Since Ayaka promised you a weapon, then this old man will provide another weapon for you.”

Kai and Tasha looked at him but didn't say anything. They didn't trust him as he just attacked them out of nowhere.

”You don't need to look at me like that. I'm sincere about that. I was just curious about my soon-to-be grandson-in-law, so I couldn't help but to want to see it with my own eyes.”

”What?” Tasha immediately shouted when she heard that while Ayaka was bewildered, ”Grandfather?”

Even Kai widened his eyes slightly.

”Haha, don't you know the tradition... Hmm, I can't say it's a tradition, it's the fate of this family. Whoever defeats a Kudo will certainly marry them. Since you defeated Ayaka, then you are bound to marry her sooner or later.

”Even if I stopped you or you didn't do anything at all, you two will get together. Or even if her father or mother didn't do anything, you two will still get together.”

”Grandfather? What do you mean?” Ayaka was shocked. She just heard the most shocking thing in her life.

”Haha, don't you know I'm the same? Back then, your grandmother defeated me. Not long after that, we got married. Even your mother also defeated your father.

”I remember. Back then, they had a match to see who was stronger. Because he took pity on your mother, he purposely lost to her.

”But, it only made her mad at him. She hated him from the bottom of her heart. Fate sure worked like magic. A few years after that, with various encounters, they became a couple and gave birth to you.

”It was the same for the generations before me. So that was the reason why I was curious and wanted to test you. Don't worry, I won't do anything. I won't stop you or encourage you.

”There won't be an engagement or anything like that. I just want to see whether you can escape from something like this.”

”Hell no—!” A deep high-pitched sound was heard.