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

Reiōji Ran laughed: "Hmph, her? Sōryūin, it's good that you agreed to fight me. I'll defeat your partner in no time. Just you wait!"

Oh dear, I've been underestimated.

“Young lady,” Hana shrugged and stood up from the water, “you’re right, the race will be quick.”

...Ten minutes later, when Zhu Mei, Xiang, and Ayaka dragged the dizzy Gina from the bath to the living room, Hanon was already sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, resting with her eyes closed for a long time. Lying at her feet was Reiōji Ran, her body covered in sweat as if she had just come from a hot spring, and she was so exhausted that she was barely conscious.

"Who...who exactly are you?"

"I am Chinese."

Not every Chinese person is a table tennis master, but growing up in a country where winning a national championship is more difficult than winning an Olympic championship, the chances of becoming a table tennis master are very high.

Lingwang Temple is now desolate and decaying.

Author's Note: I estimate we'll get to the Pique arc tomorrow, probably... Anyway, there are still two or three more daily chapters. Two more chapters in a bit.

Chapter 709, Section 717: Should I Be a Female Fighter? (Kanon)

The sun shone brightly, and Hana smiled. The next morning, everyone got up and happily walked out of the hotel to prepare for the second day of sightseeing. The weather was sunny and the life was leisurely. Even the winter sun felt warm. It felt wonderful.

Well, there are some discordant aspects, though.

"Hehehe, my little sisters, you're awake~" Lingwangji Ran jumped out.

"Ugh, he's like a persistent ghost." Hanon and Akemi both rubbed their foreheads. This Reiōji, after losing to Hanon, not only didn't give up his desire to challenge Akemi, but also set his sights on Hanon. From then on, she had a second "nemesis," and Hanon had her first "stalker."

However, Reiōji was, after all, a young lady from a wealthy family who had received higher education, and she came up with a very good reason, even being particularly polite: "Well, since you've come from afar, I'll be your guide for your trip to Kyoto. You can go wherever you want, and I promise to take good care of you—but after the tour, you'll have to duel with me."

As he spoke, Reiōji walked up to Kanon and their faces were almost touching: "I've found out that you are Kanon, the famous 'Explosion Princess of the Hawk Wind Family' in the Tokyo rich kids' circle! You're so famous~ No wonder you're my new rival."

"That... it's just an empty title, all fleeting." Hanon scratched her head. She hadn't used her nickname "Explosion Princess" for quite a while. She had always been engrossed in sports, either playing American football or going to the gym, and spent the rest of her time practicing martial arts. She hadn't associated with the circle of rich kids for a long time—besides, those wealthy families probably wouldn't want their children to come into contact with Hanon.

Kanon has now transcended the realm of ordinary wealthy scions. Whether it's the strongest fighter in the Kengan Association, the champion of the Tokyo Dome underground colosseum, the Sea Emperor of the Chinese Martial Arts Province, the heir of the Takakaze family, the behind-the-scenes controller of Suoh Steel, or the investor behind "Fighting Panda" and "Quick Shake," any one of them is someone whose mere presence could make Japan tremble. Those families with less power might not be able to curry favor with Kanon, which is understandable. But if their second-generation heir is arrogant and accidentally offends Kanon, then it's a tragedy. Their family's meager assets won't be enough to withstand Kanon's wrath.

So it seems that the circle of wealthy young people in Kyoto is quite closed off, and they are not very aware of many new developments in Tokyo...

"Ahem, I digress." Kanon stepped back two paces and exchanged a knowing smile with Akemi: "Um, Miss Reiōji, we're splitting up today. Who are you going with?"

"Huh? Split up?!" Reiwangji Ran was plunged into a major crisis: "How cunning!"

Sigh, it's all because of this little stalker... Hibiki just happened to see a "Tofu Eating Contest" today, and she's really interested in it. Akemi is also planning to go check it out. Kanon has already witnessed Hibiki vs. Oliva's ultimate eating contest and knows how terrifying Hibiki is when she eats freely, so she's going to visit Mr. Shirogane's Gym in Kyoto with Gina and Ayaka to see their new friend, Coach Koharu.

"It's such a tough choice... but I'll still choose the Ryuuen side. We can go straight to the eating contest and see who wins!"

After hesitating for a long time, Reiōji finally chose Akemi and Hibiki's itinerary. Akemi rolled her eyes, while Kanon looked on with amusement: "Heh, youth is wonderful. You don't know fear because you haven't seen the world. Whether it's Reiōji or Akemi, they're just Hibiki's running errands! Feel the storm..."

After seeing off Reiōji, Zhu Mei, and Hibiki, Hanon, Ayaka, and Gina made their way to Mr. Shirogane's Gym in Kyoto and found Coach Koharu.

"Welcome~ How have you been these past two days?" Coach Xiaochun was as kind as ever, speaking with a Kyoto accent and possessing a serene demeanor.

Ayaka replied, "That's great! I love Kyoto's winter~"

Gina couldn't wait to say, "Coach Xiaochun, you promised us back when we were training at 'The Palace of Love'!"

Hanon asked in confusion, "Huh? You guys have a little secret?"

“Oh, didn’t I debut in boxing?” Ayaka explained, “When I was training at ‘Palace of Love’, Coach Koharu said that she had also practiced women’s combat, so I wanted to learn from her. She was busy with training camp at the time, and only now does she have time.”

Uh, I see... Although Kanon met Koharu first, she was the last to find out about this.

Gina and Ayaka have already gone to change their clothes.

"Okay, I guess I was too relaxed recently and didn't realize how strong Coach Koharu was." Hana shook her head, feeling that she was also quite slow to notice. Actually, if you think about it carefully, Coach Koharu's muscles are comparable to a female version of Machiyuki Naruto. She is heavy and strong. Even if her technique is not that strong, she will have an overwhelming advantage against ordinary female fighters.

Sure enough, when Ayaka and Gina came over after changing their clothes, they were planning to play two against one: "Coach Koharu, can the two of us do it?"

"I don't care," Xiaochun said calmly.

"Hmph, so arrogant~" Everyone may be familiar with each other and joke around as they please, but Ayaka is a semi-professional boxer, so she's definitely not happy about being looked down upon like this: "Then here I come!"

"Please—" Before Coach Xiaochun could finish speaking, Caiyaxiang swayed her body and quickly approached. The girl, trained by a family of boxers, had very solid footwork!

"Well done!" Coach Koharu shouted, delivering a powerful punch to Ayaka.

Ayaka dodged to the side: "Her attacks are fast... but I can see them! It's not easy, but I can dodge them! Good, now I don't have to worry about the power difference. Watch me win with skill and speed! Left hook..."

Ayaka's thoughts immediately ceased, leaving only pain.

Coach Xiaochun uses kickboxing, which allows for leg strikes. Her sweeping kick landed on Ayaka's outside thigh before Ayaka's left hook. The huge weight difference broke through her defense... Ouch!

Ayaka's thigh immediately swelled up.

Coach Xiaochun didn't pursue, not because she pitied Ayaka who was about to cry, but because Gina had already closed in from behind—this was a two-on-one fight!

"Hmm, very fast." Coach Xiaochun realized someone was behind him and had just turned around when Gina used Sambo's technique to lock his arm. She then jumped high and hung her whole body on Coach Xiaochun's arm. It was a "wrist lock armbar". No wonder she is Erde's junior sister. She also likes to use this move.

"Your technique is excellent... what a pity." Coach Xiaochun chuckled softly, but her legs tensed, veins bulging, revealing terrifying lower body strength. As the saying goes, "power comes from the ground," and Coach Xiaochun, with her muscles tensed, remained as still as a mountain. Gina's entire weight was hanging on her, but she still couldn't pull her down, and the locking technique naturally lost its effectiveness, unable to damage her joints.

“It’s back and forth, it’s my turn now~” Opportunities in combat are always fleeting. Coach Xiaochun chuckled and picked up the shocked Gina, then flipped her to the ground with a weight that wasn’t too heavy or too light.

"Oh dear, I can't take it anymore." Gina's lower back was jolted, and her tailbone throbbed painfully. She collapsed to the ground, becoming a pair of sick sisters with Ayaka, whose thighs were sore and she was sitting on the ground. The fight could no longer continue.

Wow, that's amazing! This is the real weight class difference in combat sports. Gina and Ayaka, one a sambo and the other a boxer, both have excellent skills and are quite strong among female athletes. However, Coach Koharu's brute force overwhelmed their skills. She defeated both of them with a single move each.

Even after finishing her moves, Coach Koharu remained gentle and turned to Hanon, asking, "Hanon, would you like to try some combat sports?"

Author's Note: There will be another chapter in a bit. Coach Xiaochun is such a nice girl, it's a pity, how did she get so arrogant...?

Chapter 710, Section 718: Playing the Fool Gets Eaten by the Tiger

Coach Xiaochun is such a nice girl, it's a pity, how could she get so arrogant...

Hanon reached out and pointed to herself: "Me?"

"Yeah, I noticed during the special training. Kanon's muscles are amazing; she'd probably be a good fighter too." Coach Koharu, unaware of what she was implying, said, "How about she tries some fighting? Maybe Kanon has a real talent!"

"I've had some experience with martial arts..." Hanon hesitated. She had more than just had experience with martial arts; her relationship with them was far too close. For a moment, she didn't know how much to tell Coach Koharu: "At first, it was judo, and later I also learned some karate and aikido... Ah, I even watched Ayaka's boxing debut match."

"Waaah, don't even mention it, it's so embarrassing..." Ayaka covered her blushing face. She was knocked out by Coach Koharu's kick, it was so shameful, but you can't blame her, after all, the difference in weight class was too big. Coach Koharu's kick didn't break through Ayaka's defensive stance, it was just that the attack and defense of the two sides were not equal, so that a normal attack could break through the defense.

Ayaka covered her face, but Gina wasn't afraid to egg her on: "Kane, your muscles are the best, why don't you try it out with Coach Koharu? I've always thought you have a lot of fighting talent!"

A woman's intuition is indeed accurate... but Gina's is definitely not in the top tier. As for Kanon, you can't just call her "very talented in fighting"; she's "extremely talented in fighting"!

"Well, let's just give it a try." With Koharu, Ayaka, and Gina all watching her, refusing would only arouse more suspicion, so Kanon simply agreed: "Please be gentle with me."

Given Kanon's level, it shouldn't be difficult for her to pretend to be weak... probably, at least she should act a little more like a human.

At that moment, Kanon and Coach Koharu got into a fighting stance—well, neither of them moved, they didn't actually get into a stance, because Coach Koharu's technique was more like wrestling, so she spread her arms out in a pouncing position, while Kanon was in a "natural" stance, which the other three girls couldn't tell.

The two stood facing off for two seconds before Kanon realized, "Oh, I should have made the first move..."

Kanon's strength is such that even Yujiro Hanma and Kaiou Guo have to take her seriously, completely ignoring her gender and treating her as an equal super-strong fighter. In the eyes of ordinary fighters, she is even more synonymous with "Godzilla" and "King Kong," someone to be avoided upon encountering, someone whose gender is completely irrelevant and who evokes only fear.

Against this backdrop, Kanon hadn't experienced the feeling of being given a move by someone for a long time.

Hanon took a light step forward, and for the first time in a long time, she didn't use any techniques, not even the "Exploding Core" that was almost instinctive, but threw a punch with the muscles she had trained in her daily routine.

"Ah!" Coach Xiaochun screamed and quickly turned her head to dodge, but was still grazed on the nose by Hana's punch, and blood started flowing from her nose.

"Ah! I'm sorry!" Hanon panicked and rushed over to check on her, but Coach Koharu waved her away, saying, "Don't worry, I'm fine. That punch wasn't very hard... Hanon, you really are talented! That punch wasn't very powerful or fast, but it was very accurate."

Hanon didn't want to show her true strength in front of her friends who had never known the truth, nor did she want to hurt Coach Koharu. However, she was so focused on restraining the power in her punch that she forgot that her martial arts skills had reached the pinnacle. This ordinary punch... was "without rhythm"!

No wonder Coach Koharu couldn't dodge it. Not to mention that she couldn't dodge it, even a mid-tier fighter would probably not be able to dodge it. If Koharu's instant kill of Ayaka and Gina was a power level suppression, then Kanon's was a realm suppression, and it was the highest realm of martial arts suppressing the level of an amateur...

"It seems that 'pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger' is not difficult, but 'pretending to be a pig to be eaten by a tiger' is not easy at all!" Hanon rolled her eyes at herself and threw another punch. This punch not only had little power, but it was also off-target. Of course, Koharu, Ayaka, and Gina could not see it. They just thought that Hanon's punch was aimed at Coach Koharu's face again.

After mastering the "no-beat" technique, it became an integral part of Kanon's attacks, impossible to forget. So, Coach Koharu was startled again this time. However, because Kanon deliberately deviated and turned her head to avoid the attack, she was able to successfully dodge it.

Coach Koharu, her adrenaline surging, then launched a kick at Kanon—"Bang!"

The next moment, Coach Koharu came to her senses and regretted it: "Oh no, this will hurt Hana a lot!"

Her amazing leg muscles could unleash tremendous power. Having just experienced it herself, Ayaka felt the pain and grimaced, "Ouch, that hurts so much!"

But even though Coach Koharu kicked her in the outside of her thigh, the same spot as Ayaka, Kanon not only wasn't broken down, she didn't even feel a thing...

The air suddenly went quiet. Hanon and Coach Koharu exchanged glances for a second, then looked at Ayaka and Gina—the two of them were also looking at Hanon with curious eyes.

"Ouch! Ouch, ouch, ouch..." Hana stepped back, her hand touching the spot where she had been kicked.

"...It feels a bit fake." The remaining three people had large beads of cold sweat dripping from their foreheads. Hanon's reaction was so strange.

"This isn't a solution..." Hanon knew her performance was too clumsy, and if she continued, she was afraid she would be exposed no matter what. Should she stop here?

"Ah! I've got it!" Hana suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way to break the deadlock: "Coach Koharu, I'm coming!"

She pounced, arms outstretched, like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, no longer holding back. Her immense strength directly overwhelmed Coach Koharu. What Gina couldn't accomplish with her full weight, Kanon easily achieved, after all, Kanon's weight was something most girls couldn't compare to.

However, Coach Koharu, who was tackled, did not panic. Compared to the two unpredictable punches from Kanon just now, her movements after she pressed down were not difficult to predict.

Coach Xiaochun suddenly flipped over, unleashing a burst of strength, and pinned Hanon beneath her...

This is the perfect way for Kanon to "play dumb"—ground techniques! She's not good at this technique, and she doesn't usually have a suitable opponent to practice with. Now, Coach Koharu isn't exactly a master of techniques, and she's a cute girl. As long as Kanon keeps her muscles under control, her technique is about the same, and she doesn't have to worry about revealing her strength even if she performs it seriously.

To be honest, it was kind of satisfying to be dominated by Coach Xiaochun...

"Ring ring ring!" Just as Hana and Coach Koharu changed positions and began to restrain each other, her phone rang.

The sparring session paused, and Kanon took a look...

"M-Mie? Is she... spying on me?" Hanon broke out in a cold sweat. Although she knew it was impossible, she felt like she had been caught cheating.