After a period of attacking and guarding from the other party's attacks, the two of them moved back and bowed to each other.

"Wow Yuri, I'm surprised and impressed with your progress!", Ryo praised his sister.

"Of course! I've already participated in KOF for so many years!""Yeah... Let's go for breakfast now.""I agree... Hey, Robert?"The two of them then noticed Robert coming in, who usually did not show up at this early hour."What's wrong, Robert? You're not looking good...", Ryo asked.

"It's terrible... It's REALLY terrible..." Having said this, Robert fainted and fell to the ground.

"Yuri! Water! Get some water!" Ryo then helped Robert up, who could only whisper softly. "Robert, what's wrong!? What happened!?""Ryo! What's with the noise so early in the morning... Hm? Robert? What happened?", Takuma quickly walked into the arena and crouched beside Robert."Master... It's bankruptcy...", Robert finally answered weakly..

It seems that Robert's wealthy family had met a bankruptcy case? Let's wait and find out what had happened after this... Anyway, Takuma finally managed to get Yuri back into his team again! But poor King will be left out from the team then...The strong and positive aura that surrounded the training arena in the morning was gone. The family members took Robert to the bedroom for a rest, while the three started their conversation. "Robert sounded pretty serious." Ryo started. "He said his company's stocks were whatever blah blah... I only understood that it's bad news." Yuri said. "So from now on...!"

"Hey dad! Don't shout! You'll wake Robert up!" Yuri quickly tamed his father. "... From now on, we, the Kyokugen clan, will also be facing difficulty then." Takuma lowered his volume. "Huh?" Ryo couldn't understand what his father meant. Takuma then explained that their training arena and other facilities were actually funded by Robert.

Takuma then continued, "So we must try to gather enough money in order to pass this danger." "... But dad, we don't have so much money to help out a company from bankrupting." Yuri pointed out. "And so this will be it!" Takuma grinned, taking out four envelopes."?" The children were puzzled. "We will all participate in this year's KOF and be the champions!" "KOF? What does this have to do with solving our problems, dad?" Ryo asked.

"Have you forgotten, Ryo? The champions of the KOF tournament will be awarded with an enormous amount of prize money! Furthermore, this year's tournament is rumoured to be of a larger scale than before! Thus, the prize money will also be more!" Takuma exclaimed, as if he had already won the tournament.

"Ah! So if we win, we can help Robert's company, and the Kyokugen Style will also be saved!" "Exactly!" "'... But, with Robert in that condition... Er, Robert?" Yuri saw Robert standing, all ready for action! Robert then rushed towards Takuma and held his hand. "Thank you master! Everyone, let's go and win the KOF tournament!" "Yes Robert! Everyone, go get your packing done now!" Takuma was also full of energy to have his students so confident in winning. But Yuri had other worries in her mind,

"But who's going to pay for all the transportation fees and hotel accomodation this year?"