A day later, a Martial Squire stopped by the Orphanage. He immediately found another Martial Squire waiting for him at the gate.

"Squire Casen." Rui greeted him. "You're here."

"Squire Quarrier." The woman replied. She looked several years older than Rui, with brown eyes and green hair extending to her waist.

"Let's go," Rui told her, as he began sky walking.

"Where to?" She frowned, as she followed along.

"To where we'll be training," Rui told her as he led her deep into the forest near the Orphanage, towards a hill.

Rui had cleared himself a lot of land, suspecting that he'd need the space for what he was planning.

"You do have a striking technique, right?" Rui asked for confirmation. He had made that one of the conditions of the commission. He was going to be testing the idea he had come up with for the Bounce Project. He needed his training partner to possess at least one striking Martial Art technique.

"Of course." She replied.

"Good." Rui nodded.

"What kind of training do you wish for me to aid you in?" She asked.

Rui hadn't been specific in the commission, he had simply mentioned that he simply needed a training partner that could strike.

"It's a defensive technique that I'm currently working on," Rui told her. "All I need you to do I launch straight punches when I tell you to."

"Okay." She nodded, shrugging. This was a simple enough matter.

up to her before taking a forward-leaning stance with his left arm reaching,

bizarre stance, before proceeding to

POW!

pushing it aside as it shot forward,

"Again, this

before

POW!

strike flew past his palm, landing

"Again."

POW!

"Again!"

POW!

...

tenth time

to achieve was effectively trying to turn his arm into a spring that would intercept strikes in the same manner that springs would. The spring needed to be positioned between himself and his opponent for it to be effective. An incoming strike's power

strike hitting him and causing damage, it would hit him and launch his body into motion. The spring would act as the middleman between the strike and

for this to be possible, his arm needed to function in the same way a spring did. Springs linearly increased the force they exerted the more they were contracted. Which was a fancy way of saying that springs became harder to press the more they were

to intercept the incoming strike

('I need to intercept it at the base of my palm that is reinforced

get back to it," Rui

before they both took their respective

she threw a straight punch, Rui adjusted his palm

POW

FSSS...

he realized he had skidded a few meters away from her.

had managed to push himself away meant that he had at least partially managed to convert a portion of her attack into kinetic energy instead of damage. ('But it's still really rough, an overwhelming majority of her

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