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Going The Defensive Route

   In that moment of panic, with his finger pointed against my head. Pistol Pete shot his "Magic Touch: Air Bullet", at me. 

   The parts of my body where I got hit with "Magic Touch: Air Bullet", pulsated and that very familiar warm feeling in my body came. It was similar to when I faced Ken. The same warm feeling in the places I got shot, the somewhat faint  sensation of blood drip from my wounds. 

   I was experiencing all these sensations in an instant. It was overwhelming me. To be fair they were all somewhat faint but in that moment, they were all incredibly amplified. All these things happening at once, and once again I heard that deafening sound from when I fought Ken. It overwhelmed me to the point that I was going in and out of consciousness. 

   The incredibly loud sound became recognizable, it was like an amplified sound of the wind howling. All of this was happening in such a short amount of time that I see the bullet of compressed air that Pistol Pete shot at me. 

   By the looks of it, that bullet is going to hit me and there is nothing I can do to mitigate the damage. I was already going in and out of consciousness from the bullet wounds that I got earlier, and it got worse because I had to stall time so I could make Pistol Pete talk about his ability "Magic Touch". 

   And at that moment of complete overthinking, I blacked out.

   I must have blacked out for only a couple of seconds, I could not tell. I had assumed the worst. I thought I was dead and yet I could still faintly feel me still gripping my sword, the feeling of blood leaking from my wounds, and the distant voice of someone cursing.

   I opened my eyes and to my surprise I was still alive.

   "How'd you do that?", Pistol Pete screamed out loud.

   "I would like to know that myself", I reply to him.

   "Ah f**k it!, this here will hit you for sure!". And so Pistol Pete shot at me once again. I flinched, but once again I was not hit. Pistol Pete was visibly getting frustrated. Yelling about things that I could care about less. 

   He began going on a tangent about how I still am not getting hit. And every so often he would shoot at me with his Magic Touch: Air Bullet". I would flinch each time and still I wasn't getting hit. 

   It confused me just as much as it did to Pistol Pete.

   Pistol Pete shot at me again. This time I made the conscious effort not to flinch. I just wanted to see how I was blocking his many attempts of shooting me with his air bullets. 

   I saw what happened. It seemed as though the winds would gather around me and form an incredibly compact barrier in the shape of a circle around where he would probably hit me with his air bullet.

   As of right now, under "Blade of the Four Winds: Zephyr, the gentle breeze" I could use two different techniques that could allows for me to increase my speed by gathering the winds around me to aid my movement. These two techniques being Tailwind, which is I use more for going on the offensive, while Pirouette of Spring is suited for more defensive movements.

   The air that was gathering around me right now that is blocking the bullets for me felt like some kind of offshoot of Pirouette of Spring, the same way that Cutting Winds, and Wind s***h were created with Tailwind as the base. Pirouette of Spring was focused on keeping the air around my feet to aid my footwork defensively, so that I was could be fast enough to dodge and maneuver through an opponents attacks. 

   It seems as though this new born technique seems like an offshoot if this, but instead of dodging an opponents attacks and focusing on speed. The winds made it possible for me to just outright block attacks. This newly born technique had the potential to become one of my best techniques once mastered, but as it is now the amount of air bullets that I have been blocking up till now has greatly taxed my body.

This new technique was very strong defensively, but it drained me way too much. Moving forward I have to fight Pistol Pete without solely relying on blocking all of his bullets because I just could not do it.

   Judging the toll it takes on my ability to gather winds, I could only properly perform this technique once again for two more times and I would probably collapse, from exhaustion and also because I lost a lot of blood.,

   I should probably use Pirouette of Spring to evade Pistol Pete's bullets and somehow find an opening and hit him with a quick counter attack. Since he is a hitman not necessarily a fighter, and judging from his lanky build I could finish Pistol Pete off if I could just get a proper hit in.