>>6320579And so you both begin to train, working on shifting the Energy Body to leaving those small openings on the pads of your fingers. It takes some work, the first day you try it you're not even able to make the holes appear. But as weeks pass, you're able to do so. Opening the Energy Body in those four distinct spots and those only, then channeling your lightning through that and into the outside of your Energy Body. Crafting the Lightning Body technique, as Chaya's dubbed it. After the first month you're able to reliably do it, although it does take some focus. Which is when Chaya had asked you a question.
“Do you think we should keep doing it this way? Making the full Energy Body, THEN opening the fingers?” she'd asked you. “Wouldn't it be easier to train ourselves to simply not make that energy over our finger pads in the first place?”
“Probably.” you'd replied, staring at your hand and focusing, opening the four spots for your fingers once more. “However, if we do that, then that leaves the Energy Body with a weakness. And if someone ELSE's lightning hits us without us firing back-”
“It could find a way inside and cook us. Good thinking!” she'd replied, the two of you continuing to train your shielding techniques. After reliably being able to open the finger pads to activate the technique, you'd then begun training yourself to close and open those spots at will. Being able to activate the technique is all well and good, but increasing your speed, decreasing the time it takes to get the technique online is even more important. So, once you can reliably activate the technique you work tirelessly every day you're not physically training with your daughter, opening and closing the small holes for your fingerpads. Repetition, repetition, repetition is the name of the training now, and with you constantly opening and closing the Energy Body in this way, the time it takes you to ready this technique is cut drastically. And in the final day's training of it, you can go from an invulnerable Energy Body to your Lightning Body in under a second. Shield crackling with dark electricity the moment you charge it.
And, to your surprise, Chaya's even faster on the draw, able to activate her own in under half a second. Charging her own shield in a blink, turning one of your most powerful defensive options you'd taught her into quite the deterrence as well as defense.
“Hell yeah, this is great!” she'd said as your practice this final day drew to a close, the time for the one year nearly up. In only a few minutes it will be time to return to your own world, to face both this Tuffle menace and the upcoming tournament Grand Zen-Oh is hosting. “Hey, what do you think? Should we come out with our Lightning Body shields up? Really blow everyone away? Or should we hide this technique, not let anybody know we have it until that bastard Tuffle steps into my ring?”
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