>>5787876>>5787880>>5787882>>5787890>>5787917>-1 Will of Fire. You have 3.You form the Tora seal and begin mentally preparing yourself. You think about what you learned from the river. There as life inside you, ebbing and flowing like water. An energy that was infinitely adaptable and flowing, and that could be summoned at will. And that energy was in all things, including every cell of your body. Your body was an interlocking mechanism of material and spiritual life. You feel power surging in your stomach as you think about it. You recall the water forcing your mouth open as it gushed out, but how your mom was able to control it with her lips without letting it force her mouth open. Why? Surely her muscles weren’t the problem? It dawns on you: It’s because the water was formed from the raw energy of her spirit, and it didn’t need to literally turn into water until the exact moment it needed to.
“Any day now, Mizutani.”
You form the hand seals. Quick.
Tora Ushi Tora Ne.
Power flows up your throat, but you’re ready for it this time. Instead of just letting the water explode into your mouth uncontrolled, you focus your will on sending it on an expedient path directly at Juro-Sensei.
“WHOA, fuck!” He says, immediately throwing himself out of the way as a pressurized blast of water explodes out of your mouth stronger than any firehose, shooting at the spot Juro-Sensei was just standing and hitting the pear tree. You notice that this time the water isn’t actually becoming water until it’s about an inch away from your face: Until it leaves what you assume to be your aura, it’s simply invisible energy.
You maintain the blast for about 3 seconds before your vision starts to dim and you feel in desperate need of oxygen, ending the flow and gasping for breath.
The pear tree has a large circle of bark stripped off, in addition to about an inch of core wood at the center of the blast. If that hit a person dead-on the only reason it wouldn’t strip off their skin is if the raw force of the blast transferred more of the energy into sending them flying than burrowing it into their flesh. The pear tree was rooted to the ground though and just had to take it.
You feel a bit weak and hollow, like there’s some kind of hole where your spiritual energy used to be. Your muscles feel like they’ve had the life literally sapped out of them in addition to that, but you manage to remain standing, if very unsteady on your feet.
“Ohhhh!” Comes the noise from the rest of your classmates who were watching. Masami looks absolutely spent as if the whole day had been an emotional rollercoaster, and Daigo looked pissed.
