Ryo ran towards Ken, after Ken entered his attack range, Ryo thrust his fist into Ken's face. Ken dodged easily and appeared with a flat expression. Suddenly, a fist came into Ken's stomach, Ken appeared almost oblivious, but luckily, he was still able to parry it. Ken's expression turned surprised by this attack. Ryo continued his attack, Ken parried it, while he thought to himself

“He tried to outwit me with another attack to catch me off guard, that was close…”

Once again, Ryo tried to outwit Ken, this time with a punch, but then immediately followed up with a kick. This time, Ken is getting better at fending off Ryo's attacks.

Finally, over time Ken can compensate for Ryo's attacks, and Ken begins to counter Ryo's attack with punches. Ken's punch almost hit Ryo, but Ryo still had time to parry it. Ryo throws punches and kicks, but now Ryo's attacks are increasingly ineffective, with Ken getting better at parrying Ryo's attacks. Seeing this, Ryo thought to himself

“He learned my attack? Damn it, if it continues like this…”

The blow then landed on Ryo's face, he didn't appear to expect it. They clashed attacks, this time Ken kicks Ryo's stomach with his knee, until Ryo's attack stopped, and Ryo fell. Their fight ended, both of them gasped for breath, and Ryo clutched his aching stomach. Ken said

"Okay, that's enough for today"

Ken extended his hand to Ryo. Ryo smiled while closing his eyes for a moment, then took Ken's hand while saying

"Yeah, I guess that's enough"

Ryo then stood up. Ken looked at his watch and surprised

"I'm in a hurry, goodbye"

Ken then ran away from here. Ryo just looks at Ken with a surprised expression on his face. Ryo smiled

“Yeah, until we meet again”

After a while of walking, Ken arrived at a bus terminal, Ken then got on this bus. Not long after, the bus left.

The current time is 5:40 pm. The day was getting late, the yellow sky appeared to be getting darker. Ken is now walking on another road, in the suburbs. There is a lot of green land around it, with other existing buildings, which are familiar to Ken. Ken walked in the direction of the Takeru Family's main house. Ken arrived in front of the gate of the house, which is wide open, without a guard, with the lights turned on at the top of the gate, and the wall lamps lined up regularly along the fence walls.

Ken walked through the gate and headed for the main house. Once Ken arrived at the front of the main house entrance, there was one thing that caught Ken's attention here, a black sedan that had just arrived. Ken didn't appear to recognize this car, the car then stopped and parked in front of the entrance porch, seeing this made Ken stop his steps and didn't go straight into the house. The car driver got off, then opened the second-row door of this sedan, then someone familiar to Ken got out of this car.

Suga Hisoka, with a calm expression, got out of the car and stood up while trying to feel his surroundings because he was blind. Suga is seen wearing a high school uniform, with black pants, a sweater vest with an elite private school crest on his left chest, also a white long-sleeved shirt that is rolled up, with the buttons on the top collar unbuttoned, and a black tie. Suga appears to be carrying a scroll in his right hand, black and white colored. Suga also carries a cane for the blind in his left hand. Seeing Hisoka's presence makes Ken quite surprised. Ken then walked up to Suga

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"Suga san? What are Suga san doing here?"

Suga immediately responded and looked in the direction of Ken's voice, but couldn't meet Ken's eyes. Suga who recognized Ken's voice also looked surprised

"Ken? so this is your family's place?"

Ken replied

“Yes, this house is the main house of the Takeru extended family”

Suga didn't appear to expect this, Suga then smiled

“What a coincidence, I want to deliver a letter to Mr. Makoto”

Ken's attention was drawn to the scroll in Suga's right hand

"Then let me take Suga san to meet Grandpa"

Suga smiled

“Yes, of course, but you don't need to lead me or anything”

Hearing this, Ken looked a little surprised.

Suga handed him his cane, which the driver immediately take it. Suga gave a signal, and before long Nellson flew out of the car, only the size of an owl in general, with his armor skin and his six wings still present. Suga then positioned his left hand for Nellson to land, Nellson then landed on Suga's left forearm. Suga whispered something to Nellson, to which Nellson then responded by whispering something back to Suga. Not long after, Suga looked at Ken, this time right into Ken's eyes, this alone was enough to make Ken surprised. Suga said

"Alright, now let's meet Mr. Makoto"

Ken answered with a nod, this gesture was spontaneous Ken did, because Suga's behavior was enough to make Ken forget that Suga was blind. But Ken begins to understand one thing, it must be related to the "Yokai" who is with Suga. Ken looked doubtful

"Is it okay to just take Nellson who's a Yokai just like that?"

Suga smiled

"You don't have to worry, we can tell people that Nellson is an ordinary owl doing cosplay"

Ken still appeared a little hesitant. Ken and Suga then walked side by side into the house.

Arriving inside the house, the two of them were immediately greeted by a female butler here, this butler looked at Ken and gave a smile

“Welcome back young master”

Ken replied with a smile, this butler then greeted Suga

"And for you, sir, is there anything I can help you with?"

The butler said to Suga, but most of her attention was on Nellson who is acting like an ordinary owl. Ken immediately cut off their conversation by answering

"He is grandfather's guest, let me take him to meet grandpa"

The butler smiled

“Of course young master, master Makoto is in his office”

The butler offered to carry Ken's luggage or deliver them, but Ken appeared reluctant and refused. This butler gave a welcome gesture to Ken and Suga. Ken and Suga then walked away from here.

Ken and Suga are now walking down the corridor on the second floor, toward Makoto's office. Along the way, Ken and Suga passed several people, it appeared that even every one of them, their attention must have been on Nellson. However, the people here just say hello to them, without mentioning too much about Nellson's unusual shape. They arrived at the entrance to Makoto's office. Ken knocked on the door several times, and the sound of the knocking immediately brought attention to Makoto, who is sitting behind his desk, reading the documents. Makoto answered from inside the room

"Yes, come in"

Ken opened the door, and Suga and Ken then walked into the room.

Ken's arrival makes Makoto happy, but Suga's arrival makes Makoto surprised because he is not familiar with him, and also surprised because Makoto realizes that Nellson is an owl Yokai. Makoto stood up from his seat, then walked over to them. Makoto looked at the scroll that Suga was carrying and appeared to have realized something. Ken put his backpack and tote bag on the floor, then said

“I came here and happened to meet Suga Hisoka san that I said the other day”

Makoto replied

“Oh, so it’s you, the Yokai controller who saved my grandson before, thank you”

Suga appeared reluctant

"There's no need to feel reluctant, it's my duty as part of the Yokai Controller Association"

Hearing this, somehow Makoto was surprised, his expression then turned serious.

The time is now 5:54 pm. Inside Makoto's office in the main house, Ken, Makoto, and Suga are seen talking to each other while standing face to face. Suga continued the conversation

“Let me introduce myself, I'm Suga Hisoka, representative of the Yokai Controller Association”

Hisoka stretched out his hand with a smile. On the other hand, hearing Suga's words, Ken's expression turned curious. Makoto replied

"Nice to meet you too, I'm Makoto Takeru"

Makoto welcomed Suga's outstretched hand, they shook hands with each other. Makoto said

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Suga handed the scroll he had brought with him to Makoto while saying

“I brought a message from the association to you directly, this is also a form of respect to the Takeru Clan”

Makoto didn't appear to respond to Suga very kindly, for some reason.