Air Hero

Purpose of training III

“Alright, you can return to your seat there and watch me.”

Master Tenshi then put out his hand, and on top of his palm, two rabbits slowly formed. One is red as it was made from fire, and the other is blue as it consists of water. The rabbit itself has stark differences from the one Iki, Elica, and Max conjured. It was very detailed, as if the group could see the strands of hair on the rabbit’s fur.

After that, the rabbits started to run around on top of Master Tenshi’s palm as if they are playing with each other. The amount of control and proficiencies shown by Master Tenshi even makes Max and his friends speechless.

“Now, do you know what you can achieve with this?”

Everyone is too amazed by the performance that Master Tenshi performed earlier to think straight now.

“Think about it, when you see a fire bullet coming straight towards you, what will you do? Naturally, you either block it or dodge it out of the way. But, what if suddenly the bullet curved towards you?”

“Master Tenshi, how can a bullet move like that?”

“Why it isn't possible? After all, the rabbits could even chase each other.”

Looking at the fire and water rabbit playing around cheerfully on top of Master Tenshi’s palm, Iki swallowed the words he wanted to say. The fact is shown in front of their eyes, and there’s no point in denying it. If even they could be running around, making a bullet curve is something easier.

“That’s just some simple application. Kieran, can you step forward?”

Kieran, who is having troubled with this training, is surprised that Master Tenshi called him forward. He still stands up and follows what he is asked nevertheless.

“I’ve been watching you since the first day, and you seemed to be troubled. Is it because you can’t quite grasp what to do with your power?”

Kieran then nodded as it is precisely what is going on in his mind.

“Do you think that sound is something intangible? Then, why don’t you look at Giovanni over there? Light is equally hard to grasp, just like sound, but he can make a light ball with it. What do you think is the difference?”

Kieran thinks hard about it, but he still couldn’t understand what is different.

“Now, what do you think the sound is? Where does it come from? Why do you think it is impossible to turn it into a ball? Then think about the other elements. Where does it come from? Why could they be turned into a ball while your sound ability couldn’t? Even Giovanni’s light can be turned into a ball.”

Master Tenshi is giving him a riddle that is very hard to answer. After a few minutes of thinking, he still couldn’t think of anything. He looked at Master Tenshi and let out a meek answer that usually doesn't come out from the confident Kieran.

“I don’t know.”

“Since you don’t know, then I’ll let you know. The answer is here.”

Master Tenshi then pointed at his head.

“That is because, in the first place, you are already deciding for yourself that it is impossible for you to turn sound into a ball. Not to mention from the hesitation you face when you need to push the ball using your ability, you are not very proficient with your ability. I also watched your match, and I see that you mainly rely on your close-combat martial arts rather than your sound ability. Since I’ve already explained it all to you, what you need to do is keep on using your sound ability until you are proficient enough with it. You also have to start to change your mentality. Anything could be turned into a ball and be controlled as long as it is the ability you are born with. Don’t put a limitation on yourself on what is possible and impossible. Just like earlier, you guys didn’t think that it was possible for a launched fire bullet to be curved, but I just show you that it was possible, right?”

After hearing the long lecture from Master Tenshi, Kieran feels as if he has gotten extensive homework, but at the same time, he feels enlightened too. With this, he knows that he could become stronger.

“As for you, Alan, do you know why I asked you only to transform your pinky?”

Although Alan listened to Master Tenshi’s explanation, it was, after all, for Elementalist. For body manipulation like him, he still feels confused.

“What I want you to achieve is partial transformation. If you could control your transformation, you could take your enemy by surprise. What will happen if you are fighting your enemy and get into a deadlock? Suddenly, you can transform only your face to become a beast and bite the enemy heads-off. Or, when you are going to punch an enemy when the enemy wants to block it, suddenly it turned into a claw or stronger hands that is surprising them? not to mention it will help you save your energy. Full body transformation will need a lot of energy expenditure. If you only transform your leg for the purpose of running, for example, the energy expenditure will become much smaller, and you can save a lot of energy.”

After hearing Master Tenshi’s explanation, Alan then could get a more precise answer on the direction of his future training direction.

“Now, the last question is, what do you think is the goal of the tag game with a bracelet?”

Since almost all of the training course that they are doing here has been answered, there’s only one more question that needed to be explained.

This time, the six people are determined to guess the answer by themselves. After all, Master Tenshi has answered the rest for them. They think so hard, but they just couldn’t figure it out and give up in the end.

Looking at that, Master Tenshi smiled as he never really think that they could answer it on their own.