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.

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

frowned at the bizarre stance, before proceeding to wind

POW!

fist struck his open palm, pushing it

that was a failure.') "Again,

nodded, before striking

POW!

again, the strike flew past his palm,

"Again."

POW!

"Again!"

POW!

...

time did Rui take

a spring that would intercept strikes in the same manner that springs would. The spring needed to be positioned between

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

needed to function in the same way a spring did. Springs linearly increased the force they exerted the more

would need to intercept the incoming strike and

hard for me to properly intercept an attack with my palm.') Rui sighed. ('I need to intercept it at the base of my

to it," Rui told

nodded before they both took their

straight punch, Rui adjusted his palm ever

POW

FSSS...

widened in elation as he realized he had skidded a few

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

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255