A muscular girl is presented to the passionate world of crossover anime.

"I've been busy learning wrestling lately and haven't been participating in offline events much." "Indeed, I've been busy running a tavern catering to meat-eaters and have also neglected my important task of saving the world... Um, now that Mr. Kono is a wrestler, do you have a cool title?"

Nana was drawn to a boxing match being shown on a TV in a roadside shop window.

The director got lost.

Ai-chan was recognized by fans along the way, who surrounded her and asked for autographs.

Teacher Wu basically didn't seriously look for anyone.

When the remaining people gathered together, they saw that Coach Jie Xiong had found his female companion.

"Awooo—" After taking a look through the binoculars, Xiang let out a loud scream and froze in place.

"Hibiki?" Ayaka nudged her, and when she found that Hibiki was stunned and didn't react, she raised her own binoculars and looked in as well—"Ah!" Another person was stunned.

Not only Hibiki and Ayaka, but every single member of the fitness group who saw the woman next to Coach Machiyu was deeply shocked. The reason was simple: the woman next to Machiyu... was Kanon...

"Kane..." Hibiki, having recovered, felt conflicted. Could it be that her best friend from the gym, Kanon, had actually started dating Coach Machio before her? That shouldn't be the case. Kanon had never shown any particular feelings for Coach Machio, and wasn't it rumored that Kanon liked women...? But if it really was Kanon, Hibiki suddenly lost all confidence. Kanon was beautiful, came from a good family, had a gentle personality, and her muscles were incredibly impressive. Hibiki had never seen a woman with a better figure than Kanon: "If it's Kanon, I've suddenly lost all motivation."

"No, you can't say that..." Teacher Rimi was also completely bewildered. What was going on? "Speaking of which, if Kanon and Coach Machio are dating, wouldn't that be considered an impure relationship between minors? Wait, no, it would be the same if Hibiki and Coach Machio got together... Why did I even have to get involved in this mess?!"

Immediately, everyone started discussing it, and even the ghost, Tadakatsu Toyota, had his own opinion: "Hibiki-sama is my benefactor, and Kanon-san is also my benefactor. Hmm, it's so hard to choose who to support..."

Gina, who had been observing through binoculars the whole time, remained calm—this little girl really does seem like a stalker.

"Wait a minute! Another woman is coming!"

"Huh?" ×N, everyone raised their binoculars to observe. Sure enough, Machio and Kanon both raised their hands to greet people, and another short-haired beauty with small eyes walked over. The three of them chatted and laughed as they walked together.

"Ah, there's another one. This woman looks older; maybe she's Coach Machio's girlfriend." Things were getting complicated, and Hibiki's feelings were even more complicated. Kanon wasn't with Coach Machio, but did she and Coach Machio have some kind of secret? Their relationship seemed so close in private. And the new short-haired beauty—who was she? Was she Coach Machio's girlfriend? Where were the three of them going?

"Attention everyone, attention everyone!" Gina was so engrossed in her agent game that even though everyone was right next to her, she still spoke into the walkie-talkie: "Target reached... А!какими судьбами!" Gina was so startled that she dropped her binoculars and screamed in her native language.

Once again, the fitness group was in a state of shock, with everyone who saw it stunned. After holding up their binoculars and seeing the building that Hanon and her two companions entered, they were all petrified again.

That building is called "Palace of Love"...

"Three people...together...entered the 'palace of love'...group sex...I, as a teacher..." Before the shock could even be heard, Ms. Rimi couldn't contain herself any longer. Among the fitness girls, she and Kanon were the closest. Now, seeing the girl she liked walking into the abyss of destruction, she couldn't bear to watch the delicate flower be destroyed; that would be a complete tragedy!

As Rimi took off running, Hibiki reacted and, pulling Akemi and Ayaka along, rushed into the "Palace of Love" after Rimi.

"No! Nooo ...

then……

"Huh? Sakura-san? Kanade-in-san? Tachibana-sensei?" Coach Machi was shocked.

"Why is everyone here?" Hanon scratched her head and greeted everyone with a smile, "It's been a long time."

"Are they your friends?" the short-haired beauty asked Machio and Kanon.

"Are they your friends?" asked everyone in the room.

To be precise, the room was full of super-muscular men.

Well, despite its odd and misleading name, "Palace of Love," this place is actually a special training facility at Mr. Shirogane's Gym, a high-end gym specifically for training fitness instructors. The short-haired woman is Koharu Utsunomiya, an instructor at the Kyoto branch, while Kanon paid to attend classes and use the equipment for high-intensity workouts.

It is a group activity, but it's not what everyone thinks.

But no one was listening anymore. The fitness girls, having figured out what was going on, froze for the third time, enduring a particularly long and embarrassing period of stunned silence...

Author's Note: Hurray! The fifth update is finally finished before midnight! I'll try to do four updates tomorrow...

Section 711, Chapter 703: Facing Hell

"Phew, that gave me a fright. I thought Kanon and Coach Machi were having an affair."

"Hahaha, how could that be!"

"What do we do now?"

"Since we're already here, how about trying out our advanced fitness class? I've heard so much about it and always wanted to give it a try."

The previous awkwardness was gone. None of these fitness girls were petty or reserved; even the youngest-looking instructor, Rimi, was far more magnanimous than most. After the misunderstanding was cleared up, several of the original members of Mr. Shirogane's gym stayed to attend the class, experiencing firsthand what high-intensity, coach-level fitness training was like in this "Palace of Love."

This time, their instructor is the newly arrived Coach Koharu, who came all the way from Kyoto. She's a fresh face, very attentive in her teaching, and the fitness girls are all incredibly enthusiastic!

That day, Coach Xiaochun first taught a reverse grip bench press, which is an exercise for training the pectoralis major. It is very effective, but if the weight is too heavy, it is easy to tip over. It is still okay if the barbell hits the chest, but it is dangerous if the barbell falls and hits the head.

"Anyway, that's the basic movement. It's a slightly more advanced exercise in the gym. If you can't get an upright dumbbell bench, you can use this reverse grip bench press to work your pectoral muscles, understand?" Coach Koharu spoke with a bit of a Kyoto accent, but it was quite strange. As she was speaking, she suddenly ripped her clothes open—"Bang!"

"Wow, is ripping clothes off a traditional skill of the instructors at Mr. Silver's gym?" The women could only facepalm in response.

Among the girls, Hibiki Sakura was in a particularly good mood because she knew that both Kanon and Coach Koharu had platonic relationships with Coach Machio, so she still had a chance. At this moment, the excited Hibiki noticed Kanon again and pointed: "Hey, what's that one-on-one training session that Kanon and Coach Machio are doing over there?"

Coach Koharu lightly covered her cherry lips: "Oh my, they're doing drop set training. That's a very advanced training method, and it's especially tough. But Kanon's endurance is excellent. It's been so long, and she hasn't even finished the first set yet. It seems like she has a chance to complete the challenge today."

"Decrease set training? What's that?"

Well, drop set training is usually scheduled for the last session in the gym, and it's best to do it only every few days, because it's designed to exhaust the body and deplete all its strength. Specifically, if someone's bench press limit is 50 kg for 10 reps, then after one rep, the second rep is 40 kg for 10 reps, the third is 30 kg for 10 reps, and so on. Rapidly decreasing the weight while maintaining the same number of reps efficiently depletes the muscles' strength, resulting in significant post-workout muscle growth – a must-have for those looking to build muscle quickly.

"Wow, this sounds really fun! Shall we give it a try?" They say fitness girls aren't shy or reserved at all; in other words, they're all incredibly outgoing. Seeing this interesting training, they wanted to give it a shot. Hibiki's suggestion quickly received a positive response, and Coach Koharu chimed in, "I'm so happy everyone's so enthusiastic... Heh, are you ready for hell?"

...Drop set training is hell. The feeling of exhaustion is very uncomfortable, especially since you have to keep exercising even when you're exhausted during training. Most people will be drained very quickly, and even someone as strong as Kanon can't last long.

But Kanon seems to be enjoying it.

After the Grand Tournament, she felt a little lost, as if she had vaguely seen the ceiling of her potential in the fighting world. She was already standing at the summit of a mountain, with only a few layers of clouds surrounding her, but in terms of level, she had almost reached the pinnacle. What should she do next? Challenge Yujiro Hanma or that "strongest man of the yellow race," Katsuya Tatsuyoshi? Become the undisputed "Number One in the World"? No, no, no. First, she didn't seem fully prepared. Second, while Kanon had a strong interest in martial arts, she wasn't at the level of a battle maniac. Tatsuyoshi had already faded from the martial arts world, and Yujiro was an extremely troublesome guy. Kanon didn't want to take the initiative.

So how about shifting your interests elsewhere? Like joining the American football team in Mud Gate before, or even changing course and going back to the Eagle Wind family to inherit their trillion-dollar fortune, or returning to China to manage the martial arts province, or playing a new world life simulation management game? I don't know, it seems like these things aren't urgent, there's no need to rush into doing them.

"Let's relax for now..." That was Hanon's plan. She had just finished talking with Guo Haihuang about martial arts, and the old man had given her a lot of inspiration in martial arts. There was still a lot that Hanon's talent for manipulating muscles could be developed. At least the techniques of "blowing wildly" with one hand and using "empty path" to strike two forces at once needed to be perfected to the level of actual combat. And these all required further training and higher muscle strength to achieve. So Hanon went to Coach Jiexiong.

"Duang, Duang, Duang..." She pushed the barbell, weighing over 100 kilograms, twenty or thirty times in one go—and that was after several reductions! Her muscle strength and endurance had reached an astonishing level, and were still improving during intensive training. *Ahem*, perhaps Hanon's weight has increased again... So while consulting Coach Machio about muscle gain, she's also learning about fat loss and muscle shaping from Coach Koharu, striving to enhance her physical fitness without causing significant changes to her physique.

"Hoo..." After completing ten sets of decreasing bench presses, Hanon was completely exhausted. In this state, she was able to better appreciate the feeling of "releasing force," which was an unexpected joy of muscle training. Unconsciously, she had taken another step forward in mastering the "releasing force" technique.

With her extensive fighting experience and energy-dissipating techniques, even when exhausted, Hanon maintained control of her body. She got up from the bench press and looked around: "Huh? What's going on?"

Well, around her, or more precisely, around Coach Jie Xiong, all the fitness girls, including Huang Ying, were lying on the ground, in a semi-conscious state.

Curiosity killed the cat, and it can also kill girls who recklessly challenged themselves with decreasing group training... In the first group, they felt a little tired, but it wasn't a big problem; in the second group, they felt they had reached their limit; in the third group, exhausted, they thought Kanon was amazing, practically a god; in the fourth group, they no longer had the energy to think effectively.

Coach Jie Xiong was still not satisfied: "All of you, stand up...you still have one more group!"

"Hana, Hanon..." Akemi, the most physically fit among the fitness girls, was the only one still conscious. She was lying at Hanon's feet, weakly reaching out to grasp Hanon's smooth calf: "Winter break is coming soon. I heard our study tour is to Kyoto. Why don't you come along if you have time..."

"Ah, I'm interested." Hanon was a little touched. Akemi was exhausted but still thinking of her. Especially after saying that, Akemi was completely stunned. It was practically a "last words" 23333

Looks like today's workout should be over...

"Sorry we're late, something came up on the way." Director Izumi and Ai-chan overcame their respective obstacles and successfully found "The Palace of Love": "So this place is a gym, huh? What a strange name... Huh? Why is everyone lying down? What? Drop set training? Never heard of it, sounds interesting. I like challenges~ Shall I give it a try?"

...and new souls joined the constellation.

Author's Note: It's a bit late... but there will definitely be four updates today, there will always be some daily life scenes to transition between.

Section 712, Chapter 704: A Free Trip to Kyoto

The master of the Takakaze family likes to travel around. After Takakaze cut himself off, Miss Hanon seems to have the same personality. Even though it is close to winter vacation, she still goes out for a whole day. Therefore, the daily work of the servants of the Takakaze family is quite easy. They just maintain the order and tranquility of the mansion.

That morning, the Takakaze family was unusually flustered. The old butler, Ito, rarely showed concern for Hanon, saying, "Young Miss, please prepare your winter clothes! And please take this food with you on the way."

Hanon also revealed a rare rebellious attitude: "Relax, it's only a few hours' drive. I'll buy food along the way if I get hungry. Besides, it's only a four-day trip, and there's a hot spring itinerary, so it won't be too cold~"

Winter break has begun for Japanese high school students, and many schools organize study tours for their upperclassmen. Prestigious schools like Kozakura Academy even went on a trip to Kyoto. In contrast, Deimon High School, where Kanon attends, is a public school with a diverse student body and no particular background, so they didn't have any plans for study tours. Kanon, now free, accepted an invitation from some friends at the gym to join them for a few days in Kyoto.

Since she wasn't a student of the Imperial Sakura Academy, Kanon didn't need to follow the crowd and take the Shinkansen. She could just take her own car to the meeting point. Two sets of clothes to change into were enough. She could buy new clothes for the rest of her food, clothing, and other necessities as needed. Although Kanon was a young lady from a wealthy family, her masculine nature made her rarely buy new clothes. Her family always kept her school uniform, martial arts uniform, and a few unisex jackets and jeans. She was really short of clothes!

As is typical for anime characters, with a slice of bread in her mouth, Kanon held a milk in one hand and her suitcase in the other before running out the door. Overjoyed at the trip, she even used a "Transformation of No Direction," making it even harder for the old butler to catch up. In the blink of an eye, Kanon jumped into the car and patted the seat to signal the driver to start.

"Phew, I can't catch up. Miss is really..." Watching Hanon disappear into the distance, Ito couldn't help but think of Hanon two years ago, after the car accident when she was brought back to the Takakaze family. She was emaciated, covered in injuries, and seemed to have no will to live, which was pitiful. She was nothing like the vibrant, beautiful, confident, and incredibly strong woman she is now.

"That's good." The old butler smiled and closed the door, returning to oversee the Yingfeng family's daily affairs. "Young Miss, have a safe journey and enjoy yourself!"

This trip to Kyoto is purely for relaxation and fun, so what could possibly happen? — Although it sounds like I'm making a bold claim, the truth is that nothing bad has happened. Kyoto is quite safe, and the martial arts world is peaceful and harmonious. Hanon isn't looking for trouble, so what could possibly go wrong? Rather than worrying about being disturbed by unexpected people, I'm more concerned that the organization of the Imperial Sakura Academy is too tight, preventing Hanon and her friends from having a proper get-together… When the time is right, everything works in harmony, and this problem will be solved once we reach the meeting point.

"Okay, let's take attendance~ Anyone who's not here, please let us know~" Listen to this, does she even speak like a human being? This move by Ms. Rimi clearly indicates she's entered a silly vacation mode: "Hehe, looks like everyone's here. Then you can have some free time. See you at the station at noon in four days!"

"Hey! Are you just going to leave us alone on this trip?" Hibiki, Akemi, Ayaka, and Gina were shocked as Rimi, Mana, and Ms. Wu turned and left in unison. "Wait a minute, teachers! It's nice to be left alone, but aren't there any group activities on this trip?"

"Oh my, Sakura-kun, times have changed!" Ms. Wu turned around with a smile. "Our school emphasizes cultivating independence. How to plan a trip, where to go, how to enjoy it, how much time and money to spend—that's a course in itself! It's a required course in the school of life!"

"Hey, hey, this sounds like you're shirking responsibility. This isn't just living apart, it's practically surviving apart..."

"Don't worry," Teacher Wu reassured the girls mysteriously. "I will protect you all. This area is very safe, and there is no way your lives will be in danger."

"...I have a feeling that things are getting worse."

Hanon, who had witnessed the entire conversation, suddenly remembered that the Wu clan's headquarters seemed to be not far from here. No wonder Teacher Wu was so confident.

"By the way, Xiaohuayin." While Huayin was paying attention to Teacher Wu, Teacher Wu also noticed her. Teacher Wu came over and tapped Huayin's forehead: "Congratulations! I heard from Garuda that you won another 'big prize' in China. You're quite an important person now."

"Gulp... those are just empty names, like fleeting clouds." A light sweat broke out on Hana's back. Facing Teacher Wu always gave her the feeling of "a son-in-law meeting his mother-in-law," even though she and Garuda were not lovers.

Fortunately, Teacher Wu tapped Huayin's forehead and left: "Because I didn't let Garuda go to watch the battle a few days ago, that girl made a fuss with me a few times... Little Huayin, come to the Wu clan's village for a meal when you have time."

I keep feeling like this might be a trap...

After Kanon saw Mr. Wu off, Ms. Rimi and Ms. Aina also ran off, leaving only the four schoolgirls with Kanon: "Hey, hey, Kanon, we've already discussed it, let's all go together. There's an international film village over here, let's go check it out first~"

Because Hibiki and Ayaka are both film buffs in the group, this trip to the International Film Village was inevitable. Moreover, the tourism services at the film village were indeed quite good, and all kinds of activities were very interesting. Soon, not only Hibiki and Ayaka got into character, but Kanon, Akemi, and Gina also had a great time.

Everyone changed into ninja costumes, fulfilling their cosplay wishes, and then they all threw shurikens at the dummy—Hibiki was really exaggerated, splitting the scarecrow in two with one shurikens! That arm strength is much stronger than that of a real ninja!