A/N: Yo, Shonpufi Here!
Here's this week's chapter. Enjoy!
-3rd POV-
"HAHAHAHAHA! I thought you were into men for a second!" Wukong laughed his ass off as Meliodas finally explained the situation to him.
Currently, both of them are walking to a deeper section of the forest after bidding farewell to the others and providing an explanation for the earlier events.
But why are they here? Because Wukong said he had something to show Meliodas.
"Shut up, old man!" Meliodas grunted back, but that didn't stop him from laughing.
To Wukong, these types of misunderstandings were the best, especially with the way Jingliu was looking at him~
"Alright, alright. We're here," Wukong spoke as his laughter finally died down. Both of them were now standing in front of a wide clearing.
"Um... It's empty," Meliodas said, questioning why Wukong brought him here.
"Are we going to spar, or...?" Meliodas asked.
Wukong shook his head. He was glad that Meliodas was full of gusto, but he wasn't ready to spar with him, even if it was a light one. "No, I want you to meet someone."
With those words, he brought two of his fingers to his mouth and whistled loudly.
Meliodas raised an eyebrow. 'Is he summoning his dog or something?' He wondered.
After a few seconds, a loud rustling came from the forest on the horizon, a fast shadow jumped out and landed right in front of both.
"Master, did you summon me?" The boy asked.
He was a boy who seemed to be in his late 18s with medium-length blond hair styled into a ponytail with curtain bangs. He has yellow-amber eyes and a single black stud earring on his left ear. Cloud and swallow motifs, as well as heavy asymmetry, appear often throughout his outfit.
He also wears a blue and black hanfu robe with gold and pink accents, with its flared sleeves reaching just above the elbow. A turquoise bamboo flute is affixed to his belt, alongside a small pink pouch. A series of red ribbons tie a swallow charm onto his left arm, just below the pale blue swath of fabric that hangs over his left shoulder, attached by a lock charm. The tails of the hanfu display pink and white cloud patterns.
Under the outer layer, he wears a tangzhuang-like white shirt and cropped pants, with black armor and a blue belt with a swallow pin both tied around the waist. Both of his arms sport black fingerless bracers, with the left one having the addition of a bell set around the wrist. On his right ankle, above his white boots, there is a red cord anklet.
"Mhm, yes, my boy. I have someone I'd like you to meet," Wukong said, stepping to the side to reveal Meliodas.
"Yanqing, meet Meliodas, my new disciple." Wukong was introduced, earning a shocked expression from Yanqing.
But he wasn't the only surprised person in the room.
'Yanqing? Why the hell does he look like a fuck boy?' Meliodas wondered while asking the wrong questions.
The Yanqing he knew from Honkai: Star Rail was a short brat who looked like he was sixteen.
But this one looked like he came out of the SURFER magazine, looking like every woman's wet dream.
"Disciple???" Yanqing looked at them both in shock. He never thought his master would bring in another one besides him.
It was like a housewife discovering that her husband had suddenly decided to marry another woman besides her.
"Mhm~ and to get you both acquainted, I brought him here so that you two could spar," Wukong revealed his intentions.
""You want me to fight him?"" Both Meliodas and Yanqing asked.
"Yup," Wukong replied.
Wukong took a few steps back, leaving the center of the clearing to them both.
An awkward silence followed, and Yanqing and Meliodas stood face to face, only a few feet between them.
Deciding to break the ice, Meliodas spoke, "So... you and the old-!"
*SWOOSH!*
Out of pure instinct, Meliodas leaned back, barely dodging the deadly head kick Yanqing had sent at him.
A split second after, Meliodas backflipped far and created distance between them.
"OI! what the fuck!?" Meliodas shouted angrily at Yanqing for the sneak attack.
"Always catch the enemy when his guard is at its lowest~" Yanqing spoke, giving Meliodas a teasing grin.
But despite Yanqing's cockiness, inside, he was surprised that he managed to dodge his kick.
That kick he did was in a position of only a few feet. Few should be able to dodge it at that range, especially when the person's guard was completely down.
Yanqing could only chalk it up to Meliodas having great instincts.
'I guess he isn't half bad' Yanqing grumbled. The only reason he went with such a kick, especially to the head, was to knock him out in one hit, proving that Meliodas was unworthy of Wukong's teachings, as he wasn't able to even take a single hit from him.
"Fucking brat...!" Meliodas's lip twitched.
Reaching behind his waist, he pulled out [Lostvayne]
"A sword, huh?" Yanqing concluded Meliodas' fighting style, as he himself got into a fighting stance with his fists.
An intense burst of Ki flowed out of Yanqing, causing Meliodas to experience a slight chill.
Meliodas did the same, surprising Yanqing even further. He had never seen a human with such large amounts of Ki before.
In a second, both figures disappeared in a flash and clashed their fists and swords.