That said, the first person Aiden got to know was Yagami Tsukihi.
After the first King of Fighters tournant ca to an end, although the Kyokugenryu dojo didn't even make it into the top three, they did appear on the big stage and outright defeated the Art of Fighting team, genuinely making a na for themselves.
After all, in the eyes of the audience, any dojo that could participate in the tournant was already top-tier, one in ten thousand, no exaggeration at all.
Most spectators didn't really understand the subtleties of what was happening in the ring. Techniques were a blur to them, and who won or lost didn't matter nearly as much to them as it did to the fighters themselves.
Take the match where Aiden took on three opponents alone and defeated the Fatal Fury team, for example. The audience didn't think the three mbers of Fatal Fury were weak at all. On the contrary, seeing Joe Higashi throw punches that whipped up tornadoes attracted a lot of attention.
As a result, once the tournant ended, Joe Higashi beca famous, and people nearly wore down the threshold of his dojo trying to beco his disciples.
But in the Fatal Fury team, only Joe Higashi actually ran a dojo, and his requirents for taking students were extrely strict, not just anyone could get in.
The Kyokugenryu dojo was completely different. They had almost no requirents for taking disciples. As long as you showed up to ask to beco a student, you were accepted, and the tuition fees were shockingly low.
It was only later that Aiden realized the Kyokugenryu dojo was like Tongtian Jiaozhu from mythology, adhering to the philosophy of teaching everyone without discrimination and accepting disciples in great numbers.
However, the more people who ca to apprentice, the more likely problems were to appear…
Right across from the Kyokugenryu dojo was the Todo-ryu dojo, and the two had never gotten along.
In this King of Fighters tournant, Rugal only invited the three mbers of the Art of Fighting team to participate. As for Todo-ryu…
Well, it seed Rugal had never even heard of them and didn't think of them at all.
But Kyokugenryu and Todo-ryu already had old grudges. Inviting only Kyokugenryu and not Todo-ryu made many people think Todo-ryu's martial arts were inferior, which further worsened the relationship between the two dojos.
As Kyokugenryu's reputation grew louder and louder, things eventually reached a point where the Todo-ryu dojo could barely recruit any new students.
And once Kyokugenryu had more disciples, their behavior beca increasingly arrogant. They would frequently provoke people from Todo-ryu, leading to constant friction and several outright fights.
Martial artists having fiery tempers was normal. As long as no one died, the authorities usually turned a blind eye. After all, after the King of Fighters tournant, the status of fighters had risen by more than one level, and the Tokyo police weren't keen on provoking them.
The gap between ordinary people and fighters was simply too large.
However, since Kyokugenryu didn't achieve a good ranking in this tournant, Ryo Sakazaki and the others didn't stay at the dojo for long before heading out to train, leaving the dojo in the care of Yuri Sakazaki.
Yuri Sakazaki was still an innocent, lively girl, and managing a dojo was honestly a bit too much for her. When she really couldn't keep up, she would go to the Shiranui-ryu dojo to ask Mai Shiranui and King for help, and both of them were quite willing.
Speaking of which, since the Won Fighters Team took third place in this tournant, Shiranui-ryu finally made a na for itself, and even more people ca to apprentice there than at the Kyokugenryu dojo.
However, for certain reasons, Mai Shiranui only accepted female disciples. As a result, even after more than two months, the number of students at the Shiranui-ryu dojo hadn't broken a hundred. So Mai wasn't as busy as one might imagine, and whenever she had free ti, she would go with King to help out at the Kyokugenryu dojo.
When Mai and King went to Kyokugenryu, they only helped manage the disciples and guide training. They didn't interfere with anything else.
As for whatever small sches the disciples cooked up in private, neither they nor Yuri Sakazaki knew anything about it.
As the Kyokugenryu dojo grew larger and larger, its conflicts with the Todo-ryu dojo across the street also intensified.
Finally, one day, Todo-ryu's acting head, Todo Kasumi, could no longer stand seeing her disciples constantly being bullied, and she actually went over in person to issue a challenge.
Kasumi was about the sa age as Yuri, but she was also a naturally gifted fighter. In one-on-three situations, she fought seven or eight matches and sohow ended up with a mixed record of wins and losses, gaining quite a bit of fa in the process.
Then the real trouble began…
News spread that Todo Kasumi had challenged the Won Fighters Team and ended with mixed results. This caught the interest of two won who had just arrived in Tokyo. Soon after, one of the girls ca looking for Kasumi by na, demanding a challenge.
Just like in the King of Fighters tournant, they fought three consecutive matches.
Unexpectedly, after all three matches ended, Todo Kasumi suffered three straight defeats. And the girl who defeated her three tis in a row was Yagami Tsukihi, who had co to Tokyo together with Iori Yagami…
Yet even after defeating Todo Kasumi, Yagami Tsukihi wasn't satisfied and imdiately issued a challenge to Yuri Sakazaki.
To be honest, even though Yuri was just a young girl, she had a temper. Seeing that Todo Kasumi had already been defeated by Yagami Tsukihi, she imdiately chose to accept the challenge.
Then she lost.
And she lost badly.
Yagami Tsukihi defeated her in fewer than ten moves.
Seeing Yuri's defeat, Mai Shiranui and King naturally couldn't just stand by and do nothing.
After that, they also lost. They did better, though, and didn't lose quite as badly. Mai Shiranui held out for thirty-seven moves, and King even managed a counterattack, but she was defeated after the forty-fifth move.
It had to be said that Yagami Tsukihi, who possessed the bloodline of the Three Sacred Treasures, was on a completely different level compared to Mai and the others.
Her mastery of the Blue Flas, which was no weaker than her brother Iori Yagami's, was flawless, and the family-inherited Maiden Masher was downright brutal.
At the sa ti, she had also learned her brother's arrogant personality. After defeating Mai and the others, she even mocked them verbally, saying things like how this level of strength could actually get third place in the King of Fighters tournant, and that if this was all they had, then the first-place winner Aiden was probably nothing special either.
Mocking Mai and the others was one thing, but belittling Aiden was unacceptable. A woman protects her own man, so they imdiately issued another challenge to Yagami Tsukihi.
The result was another crushing defeat, and this ti it was even worse. Yagami Tsukihi, with her astonishing talent, had already figured out all of their techniques.
Even King, who had the richest combat experience among the three, only lasted twenty moves this ti before being defeated by Yagami Tsukihi's Maiden Masher.
However, in this world, fighters rarely lose their will to fight after being defeated. So over the next period of ti, Mai and the other two trained harder than ever. Every ti they felt their strength had improved, they would challenge Yagami Tsukihi again.
Todo Kasumi did the sa, joining them in challenging Yagami Tsukihi.
Although they were defeated miserably every ti, after several joint challenges, Mai and the others grew familiar with Todo Kasumi. United by a common enemy, they unexpectedly ford a deep friendship.
But friendship was friendship. They still couldn't beat Yagami Tsukihi. They were improving, but Yagami Tsukihi was improving as well.
This was probably why the Three Sacred Treasures families had stood firm for thousands of years, their inherited bloodlines gave them a starting point far higher than that of ordinary fighters.
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