>>5275948You decide to go back to doing more zanjutsu training. You imagine you’ll do a lot of the leading in this time you’re taking to push Shin up to speed, so better to train in the areas you lack now and focus on what you’re good at with the other two.
You draw Ryūkihei, momentarily thinking about releasing him, before you decide against it. It’s still important to know how to wield him well even in this form, knowing that you would naturally know how to wield him in shikai. That form of his was literally the weapon you were meant to wield, after all.
And so you begin, going through the motions against a crude dummy you’d set up. As you train and go through your standard movements, your mind wanders as your body moves on its own. You think about the fluidity you saw in Kazeko’s movements the one time you watched her, the speed that Kisuke had dispatched the hollows with the day before…
Without you even realising it, your body began to lose some of its rigidity. You stopped moving in the ways you had been told you <span class="mu-i">should</span>, and instead your body moved the way it was <span class="mu-i">meant</span> to. Your blade flashed more times than you could count, and you came to from the almost-trance you had been in, turning around to see the dummy behind you slashed to countless pieces. Letting out a breath, you wiped your brow, sheathing your sword and deciding to get ready for the rest of the day, the feeling of what you just did lingering in your mind.
Then it came to the teaching. It was… less successful than yesterday had been. The issue was, you found, the difference in all of your skill levels was just much too different. Shin’s talent far out stripped your own in kido, to the point he manipulated and cast it in an entirely different, instinctual way to you, you only being able to understand how he used kido due to your far broader knowledge.
However, trying to use that to help him left Tsukuya confused and behind, as both her knowledge and talent wasn’t as high as yours and Shin’s.
But dumbing things down to her level only served to waste Shin’s time, as while he technically hadn’t been taught and couldn’t put any the concepts you used to teach into words, he nonetheless already knew them, and so everything you taught her was useless to him.
Trying to split your time between the two of them simply got you nowhere, and the three of you ended the day having not really gained anything from it, or at least that’s what you mused when Tsukuya had asked you how it had gone.
Still, you didn’t let that stop you. The next morning, you trained in…
>Zanjutsu (general)>Zanjutsu (shikai/jinzen)>Kido>Hoho>HakudaAnd with the other two…
>You lead Hoho training>You lead Kido training>Tsukuya leads Hakuda training>All of you work on Zanjutsu together 