When a senior went out drinking and failed to return until late at night, as a junior, you had to sit properly inside and wait for the senior to come back before you could sleep.
Yet Qi Ming, not only had he never bowed or used honorific language, he had even openly defied the authority of his seniors. In Japan, this was "great disrespect."
Qi Ming felt nothing. "I was taught that an envoy from a superior nation does not bow to the ruler of an inferior state. Vice-Captain Nagi Saijo, on the other hand, you bark like a mad dog in public. Could it be..."
Qi Ming paused. He had originally wanted to say, "Could it be that your parents died too early, leaving gaps in your personality development?" But then he reconsidered...
Nagi Saijo really had lost her mother!
In the original Nexus Ultraman series, she had witnessed her parents being killed by Alien Beasts, which had shaped her into a solitary and cold person.
That kind of attack would have crossed the bounds of decency. Better not.
But calling her a "mad dog" was more than enough to make Nagi Saijo furious. She rushed forward, spun three hundred and sixty degrees, and unleashed a whipping kick straight at Qi Ming's face. "I have to teach you a lesson today!"
Qi Ming was delighted. "Good! This is how it should have been!"
He was not a good little boy like Gomon. There was no way he would "stop the Vice-Captain from shooting at Kyosuke Kamiki, get knocked to the ground, and still have no complaints."
He dipped low and swept with a reverse spin kick, easily breaking her attack before countering with a high roundhouse kick.
Nagi Saijo's hand-to-hand skills were not bad. She closed in, hooked his leg, and prepared to smash her elbow into Qi Ming's right leg, aiming to break his knee.
Qi Ming immediately bent his knee and braced against it, using the stability of a triangle to neutralize the strike.
He actually... blocked my attack?
Refusing to accept it, Nagi Saijo's attacks grew increasingly vicious, nearly becoming lethal.
She turned and pulled back to create distance, then drove a smashing elbow straight at the crown of Qi Ming's head.
Reacting with incredible speed, Qi Ming sidestepped and followed through with a one-handed White Ape Offers Peach, his right palm slamming into Nagi Saijo's jaw.
The jaw was packed with nerves. The instant she was struck, Nagi Saijo fainted.
"Vice-Captain!"
"What are you doing?! Are you rebelling?!"
Seeing Nagi Saijo collapse, Kishida and Yamanaka hurriedly charged at Qi Ming as well.
But Nagi Saijo was the only one there who could exchange a few moves with Qi Ming. Against the two of them, he used a high whip kick and a left hook, effortlessly knocking Kishida and Yamanaka to the ground.
"How can we protect Earth with vermin like this around?" After beating all three until they could not get back up, Qi Ming looked toward the dumbfounded Mamoru Shirogane.
So this was what you meant by "the fastest way to resolve a conflict is to intensify it"?
Everything had happened in the blink of an eye. Mamoru Shirogane had not even had time to stop it.
He had not even noticed that the Command Room's doors had silently opened some time ago.
Chief of Staff Gondo, who had witnessed everything, stood stunned for a moment before turning to leave.
Reika Saeki said, "Aren't you going to discuss the transfer arrangements for the new member with Mamoru Shirogane?"
"There's no need." Chief of Staff Gondo recalled the sharp moves Qi Ming had used to take down three veteran members in an instant with his challenge from below. "He has already passed the assessment."
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