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>>1301608
“Sounds a bit like someone we both know,” you nod, reminding her that Ichigo has a similar problem, “except mister Substitute just doesn't seem to ever really run out of energy.”

“Ah, to be young again...” Yoruichi sighs.

“We're not that old yet,” you snort. “As strong as we've gotten it'll be at least five hundred years before we really have to start rationing our reiatsu.”

“Speaking of things that won't happen for five hundred years,” Yoruichi grins, “what's going on with those notes of yours? Can I help?”

“A second set of eyes couldn't hurt,” you shrug, “so long as you can make sense of my handwriting.”

“Let me see,” she sighs, easing herself onto the floor by your side and looking over the sea of papers. “Yeah, I see the problem... on the face of it at least, none of this really makes sense. I can understand the words but with no idea what they refer to I can't even guess their meaning, like the whole thing is written in allegory.”

“Least it's not in puns,” you shrug. “I don't think I could live with that.”

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.
>Maybe if we find one passage that makes sense the rest of it will start to make sense too?
>Skip ahead to the last page, see how this movie script you've written actually ends.
>Other?

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.

Hello, I'm surprised I caught this so early

>>1301610

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.

>In 500 years Riku will be a goddess and she knows it. Denial much?

>>1301610
>Maybe if we find one passage that makes sense the rest of it will start to make sense too?
>Other: Maybe try reading the notes out-loud. There could be something in the pronunciation that could form a pattern. Wordplay is key afterall.
>Other: Try remembering Tenkotsuki's full incantation when she used hado 99, and then cross reference which parts of the notes refer to a specific part of the incantation.

So what bedtime story did Riku read to Apacci? Momotaro?

>>1301610
>Maybe if we find one passage that makes sense the rest of it will start to make sense too?

>>1301610
>Skip ahead to the last page, see how this movie script you've written actually ends.

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>>1301608
>fuck yeah shinigami savant

>>1301610
>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.

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>>1301620
If it were 2011 it'd be Go the Fuck to Sleep. But in this case it was The Log and the Admiral Frog.

>dice3d10, DC 19, Crit 22
>Best of 4 due to Yoruichi

Rolled 7, 6, 5 = 18 (3d10)

>>1301635

Rolled 10, 9, 10 = 29 (3d10)

>>1301635

Rolled 9, 7, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>1301635

Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d10)

>>1301635

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>>1301639
BUH

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>>1301639
>mfw I agonized over what a fair DC would be
Fuck it, 29.

>>1301639
So close though

But good job anon

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>>1301648
>got a 27 on writing it down
>got a 29 on deciphering it

do we know hado #99 now
guys i think we might know hado #99 now

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>>1301639

>Leave to get food
>Come back and see what I rolled

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Maybe if you concentrate on the first entry it'll start to make more sense? That's a sensible line of reasoning, since when is the first puzzle in a dungeon ever anything but the easiest? It's always designed to kind of ease you into the mechanics, give you some sense for what to expect...

“First there was nothing, but in time there was everything?” you read aloud, almost trembling in rage. “The fuck does that even mean!? It could mean so many things that it's meaningless!”

Yoruichi stares over your shoulder. “How many of these entries are we gonna have to figure out, anyway?”

You flip through the pages, counting each more or less self-contained outburst of stanzas, koans, and doodles. Then you pause, before doing it again.

“Ninety-eight!” you grin, turning to face your wife. A satisfied grin tugs at her lips too, like the irrepressible pride of a cat bringing home a mouse to leave in your slippers.

“Ninety-eight, you say?” she muses. “That's it! This is a curriculum! The whole system is, but none of us have thought about it that way for centuries!”

“Each numbered spell builds on the experiences gained in learning the previous ones,” you muse, realizing the inherent sensibility in what your wife has realized and grinning madly at the elegant simplicity of it all. “The mid-level spells aren't ordered because they're more difficult than the one immediately before it, or more inherently powerful, but because that's the order they have to be learned in to ensure that you've laid the groundwork for spells ten or more numbers later!”

“Nobody learns them in that order anymore,” Yoruichi adds, “because some of them are more or less useful in combat, and since the end of the first war with the Quincy focus shifted towards military expediency rather than building technical knowledge.”

“When did Aizen realize that I wonder?” you muse quietly, “and when did he decide not to share that realization?”

Yoruichi shakes her head solemnly, dismissing your question entirely. “All I know is now we've figured out what each of these entries refers to: they're the take-away lessons from each numbered spell, one through ninety-eight.”

>Great work... let's get rested while we can. I plan an early wakeup for the Lieutenants.
>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.
>Other?

>>1301669
>Great work... let's get rested while we can. I plan an early wakeup for the Lieutenants.

>>1301669
>>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.

>>1301669
>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.

>>1301669
>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.

We have GOT to cast this for kyoraku or something, we gotta show somebody.

>>1301669
>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.

>>1301669
>You flip through the pages, counting each more or less self-contained outburst of stanzas, koans, and doodles.
>doodles
If Rukia's drawing skills are speed sketches of rabbits. What's Tenkotsuki's drawing skills like?
>I'd like to try and meditate, at least work with Tenkotsuki on the first few spells.
>Other: SURPRISE HUG TENKOTSUKI AND ROSA IMMEDIATELY UPON ENTERING JINZEN.

>>1301679
Foxes obvs

>Meditation aye
>3d10 DC 18, Crit 22
>best of 3 this time

Rolled 5, 2, 6 = 13 (3d10)

>>1301690

Rolled 4, 3, 4 = 11 (3d10)

>>1301690
C'mon now!

Rolled 7, 10, 7 = 24 (3d10)

>>1301690

Rolled 10, 9, 7 = 26 (3d10)

>>1301690

>>1301693
Clutched!

>>1301693
I believe the dice are trying to tell us something.

>>1301693
Making Yoru proud anon

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>>1301693
DAT CLUTCH.

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>>1301696
Yes.
That riku is going to blow up the whole goddamn world.

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>>1301699
we critted literally everything
does this mean we know it now?

HNNNNNG- WHEN DO WE GET TO BLOW SHIT UP
I WANNA I WANNA I WANNA

Riku owns a pair of 'deal with it' sunglasses, doesn't she

>>1301726
She owns several.

>>1301729
one for Riku, one for Rosa, one for Tenkotsuki, and one for each of Tenkotsuki's tail.

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>>1301699
“I'll be along in a few minutes,” you tell your wife. “Id like to meditate on what we've learned, even if it's just briefly.”

“Try not to let out too much reiatsu,” Yoruichi smiles, her hand caressing the top of your head as she walks past. “You know how jumpy people tend to get.”

“No promises,” you shrug, setting Tenkotsuki and Kobara no Tachi at your side and settling into seiza. “Early morning tomorrow, if I'm not done down here would you wake the Lieutenants just before sunrise?”

“Sure, just promise me you'll try and get some sleep if you can?”

You tell her that you'll take it into consideration, and after she heads off you begin to carefully control your breathing, centering your mind, focusing intently inwards with each deep breath.

Finding yourself seated across from Tenkotsuki underneath her vibrant tree, the fox-woman smiles at you.

“So I see you have learned the truth behind the numbered kidō system?” she muses happily. “I must admit I too have tended to abandon that method of instruction in favor of expediency, but I had faith in you as a student and myself as a teacher that you would some day understand such things for yourself.”

“Sorry that 'my own time' took two centuries,” you bow gently to your zanpakuto. “That must've been frustrating.”

“Quite to the contrary, the moment where you and Lady Yoruichi came to truly comprehend the truth of matters was very fulfilling,” she smiles reassuringly. “When the student truly attains mastery, the master can only ever be thrilled for them.”

“I'm flattered you consider what I have mastery,” you smirk. “Any praise is lavish coming from you.”

“Your usage of Daichi Tenyō should be proof enough,” Tenkotsuki explains, briefly using her own reiatsu to mimick your own use of the spell. “Your mastery of hadō extends at least to the fifties, else you would not have been able to comprehend how to modify Daichi Tenyō.”

“So by that token, modifying Kurohitsugi suggests I understand everything up through #90 well enough?” you ask. “Or is that a fair extrapolation?”

“It is not unfair to suggest,” Tenkotsuki admits. “Which means you have only eight spells to truly comprehend before the final spell can be yours. The rest is up to your instinct, your often frustrating ability to know the use of things without understanding their roots.”

>What do you mean by that, Tenkotsuki?
>So, #91 then? I'll call it quits for now with that much.
>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.
>Other?

First time catching a thread live! And first quest on 4chan. This is gonna be fun.

Also, how do you do dice. Something to do with the options box?

>>1301734
>>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301734
>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301734
>>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301734
>What do you mean by that, Tenkotsuki?
>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301734
>>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301734
>So, #91 then? I'll call it quits for now with that much.

Rolled 3, 1, 8 = 12 (3d10)

>>1301736
Yes, in the options box type "dice+(x)d(y)" where x is the number of dice you throw and y is the number of sides of the dice

So "dice+3d10" would have you throw three ten sided dice, like so.
"dice+1d100" would throw a single 100 sided dice and so on.

>>1301734

>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

"You are part of my soul, so don't you think that instead of instinct is just unconcious use of things you and Rosa know?"

>>1301734
>What do you mean by that, Tenkotsuki?
>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

Rolled 6, 4, 4 = 14 (3d10)

>>1301736
yes. you enter dice+ number of dice, d, and number of sides on a dice to do so. like dice+3d10

Also, have you browsed the archives on this quest? Its important to do so.
>>1301734
>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.
>doesn't spells #91 through #98 involve sacrificing an arm or a leg to properly work? Like that time I detonated a Kuyo shibari?

>>1301734
>>What do you mean by that, Tenkotsuki?
>>Wait, I don't even know some of those eight spells.

>>1301757

We just saw them without the full incantation and just injure an arm or a leg instead?

Rolled 3, 5, 7 = 15 (3d10)

>>1301752
>>1301757
Cheers. And yes, I am on my third read through,

>12, 14, 15
Wew. glad we got those low rolls out of the system.

>>1301734
>What do you mean by that, Tenkotsuki?

>writing

>>1301801
“I don't actually know all of those spells though,” you admit. “I know Senjū Kōten Taihō well enough, and I know that #96 requires you to burn your own arm off... are the others just as nasty? Or is there some other reason they're not taught?”

“Here is an interesting question for you,” Tenkotsuki smiles deviously. “Does Ittō Kasō truly require the sacrifice of a limb?”

“I don't know,” you admit. “I've never bothered to learn how to use it because I presumed that it would... you know. Maim me.”

“Well, that could be an interesting lesson for you,” Tenkotsuki suggests. “Or else we could work on Senjū Kōten Taihō, or I could begin to teach you a new spell.”

>91 is a good place to start, right?
>What is this you're saying about Ittō Kasō?
>Let's work on something new.
>I need to get some sleep, can we continue tomorrow?

>>1301837
>What is this you're saying about Ittō Kasō?

>>1301837
>91 is a good place to start, right?

>>1301837
>>91 is a good place to start, right?

>>1301837
>>Let's work on something new.

>>1301837
>What is this you're saying about Ittō Kasō?

IT SECRETLY DOESN'T

>>1301837
>>What is this you're saying about Ittō Kasō?

>>1301837
>>91 is a good place to start, right?

>>1301837
>91 is a good place to start, right?

>>1301837
>91 is a good place to start, right?

>>1301837
>What is this you're saying about Ittō Kasō?

>dice+3d10, DC 17, crit 21
>best of 3

Rolled 1, 9, 2 = 12 (3d10)

>>1301887

Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d10)

>>1301887

Rolled 9, 9, 4 = 22 (3d10)

>>1301887

Rolled 4, 7, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>1301887
all these rolls better be worth it

>>1301907
wew

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>>1301907
>clutch crits all day

>>1301907
Thanks for that one

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>>1301907
dear lord. dice be extreme on the clutch.
You think this dice system is fair? I think it's fair given our averages.

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>>1301919
For sure, we're just incredibly lucky sometimes.
It gets rough when we hit a long-ass mediocre streak.

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>>1301920
“Well, starting with something familiar couldn't possibly hurt,” you sigh, rising to your feet and gazing out over the silent, stormy seas. “You probably want me to give a demonstration?”

Tenkotsuki remains where she is. “If you believe that will help.”

With arched eyebrows and a shrug, you extend your right arm and begin to chant. “Limit of the thousand hands, respectful, unable to touch the darkness, shooting hands unable to reflect the sky. The road basks in the light, the wind ignites the embers, time that gathers when both are together, needless hesitation, obey my command.”

Angry spears of light form around you which glow the same color as the illuminated cherry blossoms of the tree over your shoulder, each aimed out over the distant waters as you continue to chant. “Light bullets, eight bodies, nine items, book of heaven, diseased treasure, great wheel, grey tower. Aim in the distance and scatter bright and clean when fired!”

“Hadō 91, Senjū Kōten Taihō!”

A tremendous explosion blossoms in the distance, oddly silent like the rest of your inner world despite its obvious violence which sends powerful ripples across the water below the soaring seacliffs. You can hear a faint crashing sound as the waves batter the coast, also seemingly dampened.

“And what do you suppose this spell can teach you about its succeeding spells?” Tenkotsuki asks, rising to stand at your side as the reiatsu from your blast dissipates. “Can you tell me, from the perspective of one attempting to instruct a budding kidō practitioner, why this spell is numbered ninety-one?”

“It uses ten blasts,” you muse, “each carrying tremendous power on their own, but due to their different spin characteristics the blast is amplified. I suppose that means it teaches a student how to compress and control the basic characteristics of multiple powerful blasts at the same time?”

“Which is important in learning Goryūtenmetsu,” Tenkotsuki nods sagely. “Very good, Lady Riku. You seem to understand its place in the curriculum quite well.”

“But that's not right,” you frown, recalling something from your own notes. “The waka poem that maches Senjū Kōten Taihō's place in the list talks about how nature's complexity and wildness make it unconquerable. That doesn't fit with a spell intended to teach improved control over multiple blasts.”

Tenkotsuki nods, seemingly intrigued rather than disturbed by your suggestion. “And what does that suggest to you about the lesson your own hand would teach you?”
>1/2

>>1301955
>“Limit of the thousand hands, respectful, unable to touch the darkness, shooting hands unable to reflect the sky. The road basks in the light, the wind ignites the embers, time that gathers when both are together, needless hesitation, obey my command.”
>“Light bullets, eight bodies, nine items, book of heaven, diseased treasure, great wheel, grey tower. Aim in the distance and scatter bright and clean when fired!”
My god those incantations are fucking metal.

>>1301955
“It seems inconsistent with the fact that Goryūtenmetsu demands so much shaping, as it were,” you muse. “If it's so hard to control that the ninety-first spell is required to teach you how to do it properly, why waste so much time and effort making it look a fancy dragon... let alone five dragons?”

“What do you believe?” Tenkotsuki asks, smiling at you. “You are a master as well in your own right. What would your training and experience suggest must be done with this realization?”

>Goryūtenmetsu is fundamentally flawed, so instead of perfecting it previous casters focused on shaping it.
>That to a degree it can't even BE controlled, only contained by seemingly unnecessary focus on its shape.
>That something about it makes it exceptionally volatile, even by 90's level kidō standards.
>Other?

>>1301960
>Goryūtenmetsu is fundamentally flawed, so instead of perfecting it previous casters focused on shaping it.

>>1301960
>>1301964
Would it be possible to change the 5 dragons into 1 of each of the eastern elements, then do bullshit combiny stuff with them?

>>1301960
>That something about it makes it exceptionally volatile, even by 90's level kidō standards.

>>1301960
>>That to a degree it can't even BE controlled, only contained by seemingly unnecessary focus on its shape.

>All of these crits

>>1301968
Now there's a significant thought. The answer is no by the way, but the reason for it is significant.

>>1301960
>That something about it makes it exceptionally volatile, even by 90's level kidō standards.

>>1301960
>you don't need to make it look like a dragon per say, as long as a basic shaped is used to contain the spell for easy casting. Otherwise of energy that make up the destructive power of the spell would be wasted in just making the spell look pretty.
>Does it need to be shaped like a dragon? is it possible to shape it into a different animal? like a fox?

>>1301960
>That to a degree it can't even BE controlled, only contained by seemingly unnecessary focus on its shape.

>>1301960
>>1302001
Unless the spell is shaped like a dragon naturally, for whatever reason. Can't see how that'd work though.

I'm gonna give you a few more minutes here to maybe discuss this, because some of you are dancing around a rather important realization about why literally every other spell has to come before this one.

>>1301960
>something about the spell makes it shaping it like a dragon easier to control

>mfw remembering every time we pulled out some badass kido
>like when that hollow destroyed tenkotsuki, or when we used senju koten taiho on doge
>all of it, every single spell was nothing but training to use goryutenmetsu
>casting goryutenmetsu might actually be like trying to control every spell's aspects at once, all in one
>forget dual casting, it's a 98-in-1 combo special

>>1302001
>seedot
>chingling
>magicarp
>bidoof
> zubat

>>1302012
>>1302009
Well, lets think about this, all the previous spells we knew were just basic energy blasts or something that uses energy in the shape of basic geometical shapes, like a sphere for kuyo shibari or a box like Kurohitsugi. But then comes hado 99 and all of a sudden you need to make a spell look like a dragon. That's a big step up from making a box shaped spell. So why the sudden need to make a complex shape like a dragon? and why a dragon?

>>1301960
>That to a degree it can't even BE controlled, only contained by seemingly unnecessary focus on its shape.

>>1302021
Maybe it does that on its own?

>>1301960
>>That to a degree it can't even BE controlled, only contained by seemingly unnecessary focus on its shape.

#91 seems to start in relatively formless multiples before converging for the big, amplified explosion. #99 looks like it's more just going outward from... somewhere. A bit like Itto Kaso, I suppose? Which has a form of a blade tip too for some reason.

>>1302021
Well, if there were four I would guess that they are modeled after the four dragon kings or the four symbols.

>>1301990
What king said here smells to me like the dragon shape is important.
Maybe splitting them into five blasts is important too.

>>1302028
Well it would be very difficult in making a spell shaped like the tip of a katana blade, it's #96. All the other spells before it were either formless looking like points of light or just spheres. Maybe the fact that casters can shape the spell into something complex as a dragon or the tip of a katana would show their ability to manipulate the spell.

>>1302021

Maybe it's easier to visualize the swirling motion via a dragon, as opposed to water or a tornado?

>>1302033
>>1302034
4 cardinal points + 1 central anchor point makes sense.

>>1302011
Well, my thinking is that a majority of the numbered Hado are just Colour + Shape, with a few exceptions. I think almost all of them at least contain the Shape component.

Is it that the Dragons are complex shapes, and much like an artist uses stacked simple shapes to create anatomy, #99 uses a bunch of simple shapes to create a more complex one?

>>1302016
>casting goryutenmetsu might actually be like trying to control every spell's aspects at once, all in one
DING!

>writing

>>1302046
Oh, that's what you were looking for?
I thought that was obvious given what you said, i was looking for something deeper that i didn't understand.

>>1302016
>>1302046
dayum. That makes us feel proud. Like the time we figured out Tenkotsuki's aspect on what part of Riku she represents and her calling phrase for shikai.

>>1302046
Also, given that, i can see how massively fucking dangerous being able to cast this spell makes you.
Probably moreso than having a little bit of shinreiryoku ever would.

Ichibe's gonna's freak.
Mirai's gonna freak too when we tell her the secret behind it.

>>1302046
Oops. I thought it'd be the dragons.
>>1302051
Guess we overcomplicated things.

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>>1302046
Really tickles the ol' neurons

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>Mirai: I wonder what'd happen if you could cast every single hado at once.
>Riku: Hold my beer

>>1302046
“Wait a minute,” you frown. “If every hadō spell is meant to work up to this one single technique, that means each individual spell's unique component has to go into the final spell?”

Tenkotsuki is practically glowing with pride. “Correct, my dear. To be specific it requires the caster to introduce characteristics of lightning, fire, ice, and stone within the reiatsu released by the spell while also controlling its shape and gravitic properties.”

“That's why it needs to be shaped like something,” you realize, somewhat terrified at the implications. “No mortal could distribute those characteristics perfectly within the blast, so instead someone came up with a way to shape it. Keep the chaotic mess of combined elements and shearing gravitic waves contained inside a bounded field where how well they've been blended is irrelevant.”

“Exactly so,” Tenkotsuki nods happily as even Rosa seems to appear out of nowhere to listen in. “Keeping these characteristics balanced and controlled within anything approaching a respectable blast radius would be quite impossible for anyone without fully divine reiryoku. It is simply inconsistent with the laws of the universe.”

“Fully divine?” Rosa grumbles. “So you mean even at our best...”

“We would be unable to manage the idealized version of the spell, yes,” Tenkotsuki replies calmly. “Which is why the numbered version of the spell was created in the first place, to realize the culmination and simultaneous execution of all kidō theory and practice. One ultimate spell to stand above the rest: Goryūtenmetsu.”

“And so that's what learning the rest of the spells will teach me how to do?” you ask.

Tenkotsuki nods resolutely. “Indeed. Since you know that each will have an associated lesson to be learned I have no doubts in your ability to use the final technique.”

>Then we'll come back to this tomorrow... I don't want to piss off my wife, so I need some sleep.
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...
>What can I do to prepare while teaching the Lieutenants?
>Other?

>also, you got to skip a roll because of this

>>1302076
>>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...

>>1302076
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...

>>1302076
>>Then we'll come back to this tomorrow... I don't want to piss off my wife, so I need some sleep.

>>1302076
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...
>What can I do to prepare while teaching the Lieutenants?
>Other: Share this information with mirai, kyoraku and hinamori at our nearest convenience

>>1302076
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...

>>1302076
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...
>other: so you're telling me anyone short of being a full shinto god will have a high chance of not properly controlling the spell and cause the spell to explode with the force of the Tzar bomba

>>1302076
>There was some REAL specific language back there about the 'blast radius' and 'kidō practice'...
>Then we'll come back to this tomorrow... I don't want to piss off my wife, so I need some sleep.
>Other: Share this information with mirai, kyoraku and hinamori at our nearest convenience

>going through my memories of all the times we've cast significant kido
>mfw remembering when we killed our clone

>>1302076
What was the valhallan report like after they got through investigating the crater and blast damage?
I specifically remember pools of molten glass and hunks of grass and topsoil ripped from the ground, flung far afield.

“You used some really specific language just then,” you observe slyly. “Things like that are never coincidences with you, Tenkotsuki.”

Your zanpakuto chuckles to herself in quiet amusement. “You wound me, Lady Riku. I only seek to speak with precision, to avoid saying what I do not mean.”

“You just like being clever, vixen,” Rosa grumbles. “So what'd you mean not to say?”

“I believe that the mortal sorcerer who devised all of these spells was nothing short of a once-in-a-millenium genius,” Tenkotsuki explains, praising the long-dead inventor of the numbered kidō system and presumably its final entry. “Whoever it was had a peerless understanding of theory which you have never required or suffered for a lack of, but the absence of which would make it difficult to devise such spells on your own. However, I believe that by the time he or she reached this final spell, that specialized knowledge had begun to work against their true interests.”

“See, unlike you Lady Riku I believe that great mind lacked a certain balance of skills, such as hakuda and zanjutsu,” she concludes. “Otherwise many of the upper-nineties level spells would feature more elegant solutions drawing on those skillsets, as you and your wife's shunkō does.”

“And you think zanjutsu technique could make it possible to cast an improved version of Goryūtenmetsu?” you muse, interested by the idea. “You might be right.”

“I was inspired by your nephew's technique,” she admits, “and I have given this hypothetical technique a similarly pretentious name: Gozan Tensatsu.”

“Nice wordplay,” you chuckle to yourself, “I'm sure Isshin would get a kick out of it. So this technique you have in mind focuses the entire spell in a narrow arc like Getsuga Tenshō, then? I can see it working.”

“Assuming you can learn this superspell of hers,” Rosa shrugs.

>I'm sure I'll find a way to manage. Now, off to bed.
>I'm learning her technique... you have any ideas, Rosa? Any hidden techniques to share?
>Other?

>>1302140
>I'm sure I'll find a way to manage. Now, off to bed.
We DO need rest

>>1302140
>I'm learning her technique... you have any ideas, Rosa? Any hidden techniques to share?

>>1302140
>I'm learning her technique... you have any ideas, Rosa? Any hidden techniques to share?

Fuck sleep we're making huge progress

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>>1302140
>I'm sure I'll find a way to manage. Now, off to bed.

>>1302140
>I'm sure I'll find a way to manage. Now, off to bed.

>>1302140
>>I'm learning her technique... you have any ideas, Rosa? Any hidden techniques to share?

>>1302140
>I'm sure I'll find a way to manage. Now, off to bed.
>Other: Celebratory hugs.

>>1302155
>>1302140
supporting celebratory hugs.

>>1302155
Sure, why not.

>>1302157
Though we could always mix things up a bit with a 13 stage handshake/fistbump combo.

>>1302140
>I'm learning her technique... you have any ideas, Rosa? Any hidden techniques to share?

if not, then

>off to bed.

>>1302140
Wait, so instead of five dragons, it's a single beam?

Because whatever gets hit by that is getting fucked eight ways from sunday, if Aizen's usage of #99 in canon is anything to go by.

>>1302193
I am NOT looking forward to finding out what Aizen the Kido specialist has made from this spell, and I'll bet you he's made SOMETHING new from it.

>>1302193
This.
It's a completed form, like taking the raw swirling mass of barely-contained kido that is goryutenmetsu and forging it from simple ore into a refined weapon of unparalleled power.

>>1302193
to focus all that power into a single sword slice would simply cut reality in two.
>>1302209
he would if he weren't so high up in his own ass and assume he's got everything in the bag. speaking of which we need to find a way to throw him a setback. He's been tossing surveilance and light raids/skirmishes yet we never made a raid on his punkass place.

>>1302221

Drop Kenpachi in his place with a recall button after 1 hour.

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“I'm sure I'll find a way to manage,” you shrug, before giving Tenkotsuki a quick but warm embrace. Then you turn to face Rosa.

“I know I haven't been great about including you as an equal partner... I kind of still use you as a convenience, to a degree. So when I'm done with this, maybe we can work on something together?”

“I'd be glad to learn from you as well.”

Rosa closes her eyes and sighs, as if thinking. “You avoid using me frivolously, so you already understand me better than you give yourself credit for. It's best that you leave me sealed when you can, and I'll admit I like the quiet.”

“But if you want to learn from me... I may have a few things to teach.”

“Then I'll be back,” you nod.

“We'll be here,” Rosa shrugs.

When you awaken it's only a short walk before you can collapse into bed, and Yoruichi's deep, slow breathing gradually lulls you to sleep.

Morning comes early, with a shrill whistle in the pre-dawn dim that startles Lieutenants from their beds. Momo rolls out of bed and onto the floor, still in her pajamas, while Kira leaps to attention dragging his comforter with him. Renji's response however is nothing short of spectacular, as he practically vaults from his bed in alarm and slams into the wall above the headboard, then comes crashing down onto his face before rolling out and onto the floor in a pile of linens, pillows, and drywall. Finally he comes up with a look of pure confusion, his hair a mess and dusted with bits of plaster.

“Whuzzgoinon?” he slurs, looking back and forth.

“Rise and shine,” you grin wickedly. “I want you three ready by sunrise, so get to it!”

By the time the sun has peeked over the top of the outer wall your students are assembled on the training field, and the first few members of your own Division are just getting to work throughout the complex.

>Focus on kidō training again, get Renji closer to average and ponder Itō Kasō.
>Zanjutsu time, something that will bolster Renji's confidence after yesterday.
>Hakuda time, none of them are what you'd call spectacular at that.
>Other?

>>1302238
>Hakuda time, none of them are what you'd call spectacular at that
>Where's Miyako?

>>1302238
>Zanjutsu time, something that will bolster Renji's confidence after yesterday.
>Other: Talk to hinamori about the secret behind learning gyorutenmetsu, see what she thinks

>>1302238
>Hakuda time, none of them are what you'd call spectacular at that.

>>1302238
>>Zanjutsu time, something that will bolster Renji's confidence after yesterday.
For Kira too I reckon.

>>1302238
>Focus on kidō training again, get Renji closer to average and ponder Itō Kasō.

>>1302251
Actually, changing to
>Focus on kidō training again, get Renji closer to average and ponder Itō Kasō.

Gotta get our own training in too, and makes talking to momo about #99 more natural.

>>1302238
>Hakuda time, none of them are what you'd call spectacular at that.

>>1302238
>Hakuda time, none of them are what you'd call spectacular at that.
>Other:Where's Miyako?
MORE BEATINGS NEED TO BE APPLIED.

>>1302299
>>1302268
>>1302258
nigger wat r u doin

>3d10 to observe and instruct
DC is a rather modest 17, critical is a 21. Best of 3.

>>1302315
Was somebody trying to samefag without realising that IDs are a thing?

Rolled 3, 8, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>1302318

Rolled 10, 4, 5 = 19 (3d10)

>>1302318

Rolled 7, 4, 8 = 19 (3d10)

>>1302318

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>>1302330
>critstreak over

>>1302319
>>1302315
I was being indecisive.
>>1302328
>>1302324
Aaaaaandd we're back to the mediocre bus.

>>1302319
I think it's just back and forth vote changes, otherwise the vote wouldn't have been deleted.

>writing
I'll run for like one more hour.

>>1302343
so probably 2-3 more updates?
rip, i wish you could go all weekend.

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Why in the everloving fuck has all this knowledge been lost?
Why has the seireitei grown so weak? What was it like a thousand years ago?
It feels like we're practically on the brink, like we should have been teaching this shit all along.

Everything went down the shitter somewhere down the line. Was it the war with the quincy? Did everyone just become complacent? Did all the real mofos die of old age?

Christ, what happened.

>>1302409
Focus on military expediency over technical skill, complacency and everyone who knew it either not passing it on or forgetting about it.

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“It'll be hakuda this morning,” you announce loudly, “and lucky for you, two of the finest experts in the art of unarmed combat are right here to instruct you.”

“Heh,” Omaeda chuckles. “It's almost like a day off.”

“We'lll see, Omaeda,” you muse. “We'll see... so can anyone tell me the difference between basic hakuda and advanced techniques?”

After a moment, Miyako raises her hand tentatively and you gesture for her to speak. “I remember Kaien had some skill with it... the technique requires you to control your reiatsu to a greater degree, to empower strikes and harden one's body.”

You try and hide your discomfort at Miyako mentioning her missing husband. “That's correct. True hakuda relies on inner power in the form of reiryoku as much as it relies on external force and technique.”

Then you casually punch a hole through a nearby wall.

“So how does one use inner power for fistfighting?” Hinamori asks nervously.

“It's a little like kidō,” you explain for her benefit. “Now, I want to see each of you strike one of these targets with a single punch, using your dominant hand.”

Each Lieutenant in turn follows your order, with various results. Omaeda fully shatters his target dummy with a cheeky smirk on his face, and even if Renji's use of hakuda is mediocre his pure physical strength makes for an impressive display. Kira's punch is respectable, but not really anything to write home about, and Hinamori bruises her hand badly in exchange for cracking her target in half. Miyako's target is seemingly undamaged at first glance, but when you look at it closer the wood seems to have been scorched and her hand is fine.

>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.
>All of you versus me, right now.
>Pair the students off to practice the basics of “true” hakuda.
>Omaeda, you seem pleased with yourself. You just volunteered.

>pic is just a shiba doing shiba things

>>1302426
>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.

>>1302426
>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.

>>1302426
>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.
Did she... did she just incorporate elemental reiatsu? She just did a friggin fire punch.

>>1302426
>>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.

>>1302426
>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.

>>1302445
I'll be honest, i want to fire punch too.
Thank you Miyako!

>>1302409
The system of numbered kido predates the Gotei 13, and many who knew the reasoning behind it have been killed or died of simple old age. The organization also hasn't fully recovered from the quincy war either, even WITH the new focus on expediency.

By Yamamoto's reckoning most shinigami would never get to the level of skill where the shift in instruction style would matter anyway.

>>1302426
>>Omaeda, you seem pleased with yourself. You just volunteered.

>>1302426
>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.
Alright

>>1302426
>>Omaeda, you seem pleased with yourself. You just volunteered.

>>1302459
We really need to hand over this information to the central 46 if they don't already know, make sure it gets put in the archives forever. We need to make sure it isn't lost again.

>>1302140
Wait, wasn't the Monk the one who created kido?

>>1302426
>>Miyako... spar with me for a moment. Your results were interesting.

Kinda wanted to pair Miyako with Momo as an alternative. See if this phenomenon would manifest itself again and to see if Momo would pick up on it, along with Riku making careful observations.

It might be kido related, so a pair of eyes might've been useful.

>>1302492
He gave things names, which has a vast power to it, but like with the asauchi that doesn't mean he actually invented them.

>3d10, DC 18, Crit 20

Rolled 4, 7, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>1302513

Rolled 10, 5, 1 = 16 (3d10)

>>1302513

Rolled 10, 6, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>1302513

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>>1302519
THE CLUTCH CRIT IS BACK

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>>1302519

Rolled 9, 10, 2 = 21 (3d10)

Has Miyako met Ichigo yet? Wonder if she'd recognise any signs of Kaiens reiatsu.

>>1302535
you forgot to link.
good rolls btw,

>>1302541
Damn it. Least we got a crit anyway.

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“Miyako, I want you to try that again... but against me,” you explain, eyeing the result of her punch carefully. “Hinamori, if you wouldn't mind I'd like you to watch this carefully.”

You begin with a simple succession of jabs to probe her guarded stance for weaknesses, which you find thanks to your speed and power but choose not to exploit... that's no longer the point of the exercise. Instead you focus on how your sister-in-law controls her reiatsu as she moves, then throws a punch of her own that meets your open palm.

“Ow!” you hiss, like your hand accidentally brushed a hot pan. It's certainly not a bad burn thanks to your own power, but in the moment Miyako concentrated reiatsu in her fist to strike its temperature definitely spiked.

“Hinamori, did she use kidō just now?”

The Lieutenant shakes her head. “No, I don't think so Captain.”

“I agree,” you nod, the side of your fist meeting Miyako's left wrist. No heat there... it's only her fists, and only when the reiatsu is concentrated there.

After a few more exchanges you have a working theory. “So I think I know how to explain this... each user of shunkō has discovered that they have a certain affinity for one element over all others. Suí Fēng has wind, Yoruichi has lightning, I have ice... and you have as strong an affinity for fire as I've ever seen.”

“Really?” she asks, lowering her fists and staring in surprise. “How'd you know that? It's not like I can use shunkō.”

“It's strange that your affinity is obvious even despite that,” you shrug, “but many Captain-class fighters' reiatsu takes on elemental qualities which match their zanpakuto. This is just a strange case I guess, but not one without any precedent.”

“I'd like you to spend the day training with Yoruichi,” you conclude. “I may be good with hakuda, but Yoruichi's talents are beyond any meaningful comparison. If anyone will know how to make use of your unexpected talent it'd be her.”

>>1302580
>a little like this but with pants
How unnecessary!
And damn, guess she's a real hothead.

>>1302580
And that's where I need to take a break for now. I'll be back same time with SoZ tomorrow for a few hours, and around 3-4pm PST I plan to switch gears back to SSQ.

Thanks for playing, and hope to see you back here tomorrow. Hope you had fun!

>>1302588
Thanks for running King! Fun was definitely had.

>>1302588
Thanks for the thread and see ya next time!

It'll be interesting to unravel how Miyako's fire affinity meshes with her illusion/dream based zanpakuto. Not the kind of mix I expected desu.

>>1302588
what's the translation behing Gozan Tensatsu?
from what I can glean from my broken knowledge of Japanese,

Go = "five"
zan = "cutting"(?) something synonymous to the slashing of a sword.
Ten = "Heaven"
Satsu = "Killer"

So, "Five cuts killing Heaven"? or "Heaven Killed in five cuts"? Sounds straight out of a Wuxia novel. I like the sound of that.

>>1302588
Thanks for writing

>>1302640
"Zan" words always remind me of SMT.

So, this thread reminded me of something way back in thread three:

>Your Zanpakuto glares at you sternly, her polite image now shattered completely. “There are two things which I despise in this world: only two. The first is the existence of anyone who would dare to assert that their sorcery is greater than my own.”

>>1302672
and your point?

>>1302686
>>1302672
Whoever created kido was potentially better at sorcery than Suki, and yet she isn't acting angry about it. Although she did talk before about how knowledge of other arts like hakuda and zanjutsu are needed for true mastery of kido, so Tenko might be better at them?

>>1302686
>and your point?
That Tenkotsuki must be feeling really good about this thread.

Reminder that Aizen knows #100

>>1302723
nah, Tenko said the inventor of Kido was a genius in theorycrafting and spellcrafting. hado 99 had the potential to become the ultimate spell. However Tenkotsuki remarked that that knowledge worked against the inventor because the inventor lacked proficiency in other areas, so hado 99 has potential, it's full power hasn't been realized because no one thought to incorporate the physical arts like zanjutsu into the spell. so overall, it's incomplete at worst, flawed at best.

>>1302763
Yeah, you put it better. Although it's the 'dare to assert that their sorcery is greater than my own' which I think >>1302672 was talking about, as Tenko in this chapter hasn't shown any signs of anger/wounded pride.

>>1302801
I was thinking that since Tenkotsuki clearly wants our kido to be greater then anyone else’s, she must really be happy about the results of that crit train.

>>1302801
I think it's pretty obvious that the guy never acted like his own magic was better than hers. He was just working with what he had and did a damn good job. She even mentioned that without being an actual deity you couldn't do the spell perfectly as it was intended. His magic would never be like the gods' and he probably just worked with what he had to git gud because he was ass at everything else and never acted like he was the best ever.

>>1302946
Tenkotsuki may be a very proud individual by nature, but she recognizes a good job when she sees it. After all she bothered to familiarize herself with the numbered kido system out of sheer academic interest, which by her standards is high praise.

>>1302931
Literally all smiles. She's thrilled that her wielder is approaching the point where (at least in terms of the numbered spells) they'll be in an equal partnership.

>>1304420
It's been eating at me, i gotta wonder if there's a bakudo equivalent, a binding spell to end all binding spells, incorporating the methods of every one before it.
It can't be #99 as we know it, it's far too weak.

But #99 is also strange in that it has multiple segments, requires setup like a proper seal.
It makes me think that maybe there are more than two steps to #99.

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>>1304491
Specifically, a *lot* more than two steps, if the #99 hado is anything to go by.

>>1304491
>>1304493
Well, Kin is only one step... maybe two if you count the two distinct versions depicted as separate steps. Bankin is three steps, the last of which has never been depicted as Ichigo basically exploded out of the first two before the third connected.

So it's hard to judge what it does exactly, but it certainly seems to build on previous techniques that all involve penetrating bolts of some kind, wrappings, or heavy objects falling from the sky.

>>1304501
That's what i'm saying.
You could probably take it all the way, if you knew how.

But first you'd have to bind or otherwise incapacitate the target sufficiently that they couldn't bust out before you've added enough layers to bind them permanently.

That must be how they bound people like arturo for long enough to get a seal in place.

>will resume in a bit

>have taken a brief break
>writing

>>1302640
Gozan is the term for the five most important Buddhist temples in Kamakura (originally) or Kyoto (since it became the capital through present), spelled as "Five Mountains". The characters used here however are "Five Slash Heaven Killing" or more figuratively "Five Slashes Divine Murder".
>sorry about that diversion, back to writing

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>>1305451
“You want me to train with the greatest living prodigy in hakuda?” Miyako asks, as if unsure that you've just said words to that effect.

You nod calmly. “That's right. The force of your punch was off, but its elemental nature has fascinating potential... potential that sadly I wouldn't have time to help you draw on while working with the others on more conventional technique.”

“Just show her what you showed me and she'll understand why I sent you.”

After seeing your sister-in-law off, you turn your attention back to the assembled Lieutenants. “That was good for a first effort... Omaeda, you wasted too much energy. Renji, you used your muscles too much to compensate for your lack of control. Momo, you used too much energy protecting your fists and not enough enhancing the force of your strike. Kira... good technique, but you need to strike with a bit more confidence. You can and should be doing better.”

>Have them spar now that their numbers are even.
>Have them try to attack you, force them to use basic hakuda creatively.
>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.
>Other?

>Have them spar now that their numbers are even.

>>1305472
>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.

>>1305472
>>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.

>>1305472
>>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.

>>1305472
>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.
Something needs to explode from this
Take this flick to the greatest extreme we can muster

>>1305472
>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.

>>1305472
>>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.

ooh, do you think we can have them practice using it on an unincanted danku until it eventually breaks?
It should weaken over time from repeated strikes.

>>1305472
>>Other?
Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique for Omaeda and Renji, control is their weakness. Have Kira and Momo spar, hopefully that'll spur them to use more force in their blows.

Is this okay for a write-in? Or will splitting our attention be too much.

>>1305472
>>Demonstrate the Oni Flick technique, have them try to perform it to build their reiatsu control.
It is pretty simple from a training standpoint. None of the strengths they used to compensate would really apply.

Omaeda would still probably need something to get his energy usage dialed in. Probably something like two targets, one behind another. The first target should break, while the one behind it shouldn't, if the point is about control.

>>1305497
I think that kira and momo lack aggressiveness, there's no real willpower or killing potential behind their strikes.

Possibly the best thing that we can do to bring that out of them is to put them in a situation where they have no other choice but to become aggressive, to use their strength and focus to the utmost or face severe consequences.
Something just short of killing them.

"Muh resolve" T. Ichigo

>3d10 for demonstration purposes: DC 17.

Rolled 3, 3, 1 = 7 (3d10)

>>1305520

Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d10)

>>1305520

Rolled 2, 8, 2 = 12 (3d10)

>>1305520

Rolled 1, 8, 10 = 19 (3d10)

>>1305520

>>1305520
So, we overshot the amount of reaitsu and sent someone to the hospital?

>>1305528
>riku doesn't quite know how to snap her fingers and fucks it up the first time

>>1305530
>How do I hand again?

>>1305522
>>1305523
>>1305524
Wowee

>>1305528
Possibly literally, depending on the distance between Squad 9 and Squad 4.

Rolled 9, 4, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>1305522
>>1305523
>>1305524
We're gonna lose a finger aren't we.

>>1305546
We might look really dumb, which would be terrible.
But i hope we just break something instead.

>tfw riku does it really fast out of reflex and no one catches what she did

>>1305554
>riku does to them what shunsui did to chad. Accidental OHKO.

“And how am I supposed to use my muscles less than that?” Renji demands. “If I hit it any softer it won't even count as a punch!”

“Like this,” you insist casually, raising your left hand towards one of the wooden dummies and flicking at it with your thumb and middle finger. The powerful blast of focused reiatsu splinters the dummy in a cloud of wooden spears and needles... you thought that was a small amount of power you put behind it! Even worse is the cracking to the massive stone foundation your top officers' homes and the surrounding gardens rest upon, with several stone blocks having been crumbled into dust.

The Lieutenants all stand around staring in disbelief at the results, a total lack of a dummy where there had been one seconds before and collateral damage even further downrange, with no readily apparent explanation for how you got from point A to point B.

“So... that was stronger than I thought,” you muse, rubbing at the back of your neck sheepishly. “I usually use that one at closer ranges than that, so I hardly ever get to see what its actual range is. Maybe I should set up a more durable target for you.”

“That was hakuda?” Hinamori asks, still staring at the damage.

“Yeah, I've seen Captain Shihōin practice it once or twice,” Omaeda explains, also staring at the same thing. “It's all the amplification of a heavy hakuda strike without physical contact... I'd hate to see what an actual punch that strong would do to a person.”

“You wouldn't need a medic as much as you'd need a janitor,” Kira mutters.

You extend your hand once more, causing the Lieutenants to instinctively draw away from you.

“Dankū.”

The Lieutenants breathe a collective sigh of relief as the barrier springs into existence.

“Try focusing your energy, same way you saw me do it,” you instruct. “It should happen fairly naturally, though your control will be poor at first. That's what you'll have to work on.”

>dice+4d10, taking the second roll

Rolled 3, 8, 9, 10 = 30 (4d10)

>>1305565
Oh thank god we didn't look retarded

Rolled 3, 5, 4, 6 = 18 (4d10)

>>1305565

Rolled 9, 2, 3, 1 = 15 (4d10)

>>1305565

>>1305572
Man, they're pretty bad.

>>1305571
That would have been quite the roll. Oh well.

>>1305573
Good to know it's not just Riku that's mediocre. Unless it's us that's the mediocre ones.

>>1305565
Once again Omaeda succeeds in overdoing it, but this time there's a noticeable consequence to it. The reiatsu builds up and releases prematurely, breaking his finger and leaving it at an odd angle. He stares at it in momentary disbelief before howling in pain and holding it out in front of him like it's caught fire and holding it any closer would burn the rest of his body.

Hinamori doesn't see much of a result at first, but manages a weak version of the technique without hurting herself. Renji makes a similar mistake to Omaeda, but instead of breaking a finger the concussion of the blast throws him flat on his ass and leaves him blushing furiously in embarrassment. Of all four of them Kira fares the best, with another relatively weak but technically sound Oni Flick.

“Well, that first round speaks for itself,” you declare, grabbing Omaeda by the wrist as he runs past and casually snapping his finger back into place in a fresh howl of pain. “Some of you are making progress.”

“I couldn't harness it properly,” Renji mutters, staring at his hands. “Just like with kidō.”

“There's a reason for that,” you explain calmly. “Hakuda at this level and kidō both rely on high levels of reiatsu control. Keep at both and you'll see simultaneous improvement in both. Abandon one and the other will stagnate.”

>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.
>Spar against each other while I check on my other students.
>Stick around, offer pointers as they continue the exercises.
>Other?

>>1305614
>>Spar against each other while I check on my other students.

>>1305614
>>Spar against each other while I check on my other students.

>>1305614
>Other: Tell them they're not allowed to rest until they've broken that danku with oni flicks
>That includes no dinner

>>1305614
>>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.

>>1305614
>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.

>>1305614
>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.

Changing my vote

>>1305627
Rip me.
Changing to
>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.

>>1305614
>Continue with that, I need to check on Rukia and Tatsuki.

>as much as I'd love to run until the sun comes up I've got a morning commitment to keep
>so this will be the last update, and I'll start taking omake suggestions

>>1305660
Omake Suggestion: People around the seireitei react to the side effects of riku's training, like all the people working and living in their homes and offices atop the stone foundation riku just destroyed

>>1305660
Omake suggestion: What could have been.
Riku decided to put a different batch of lieutenants through her training scheme.

>>1305660
Omake suggestion: School time.
Central 46 in its infinite wisdom decides that all of the Arrancar are required to get a Highschool diploma from the living world. Guess which school they all go to?

>>1305660
An Omake if OMG decided to train Riku?

Omake suggestion: Moar backstories.

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>>1305660
You ponder the situation carefully before deciding what you need to do next. “You four continue with this exercise until you get it right, I have to go check on some other students of mine.”

“You mean Rukia and that human girl?” Renji asks. He'd be raising an eyebrow if he had an eyebrow to raise.

“That's right. I have a responsibility to make sure they're up to snuff by the time Aizen makes his move.”

Heading back to the garden where Rukia and Tatsuki have been training, you find them both glancing about nervously... they probably felt the shock of the platform beneath them being pummeled by your hakuda.

“Sorry about that,” you apologize, taking a seat near them. “So, how are things going with you two?”

“I feel that my hakuda has improved somewhat, Captain,” Rukia inclines her head. “Being tested from dawn until dusk day after day has forced me to improve in ways normal duty and instruction have not required.”

“And I'm starting to get used to how to use my powers,” Tatsuki adds, glancing at her sparring partner. “I can just about keep up with Rukia here by using my zanpakuto.”

“Good progress then,” you nod appreciatively. “But have you begun to really incorporate what you've learned from each other into actual combat?”

Tatsuki offers you a sly grin as Rukia adjust how Sode no Shirayuki sits at her waist. “Well, there's one way for you to find out...”

>>1305700
And that's all for this session. Next week will begin with the fruits of Rukia and Tatsuki's labor.

Thanks for coming here, hope you had fun, and see you next time!

>>1305700
wait why are these two not training with the other three now?
get them in on that shit

>>1305700
Holy scrap that Tatsuki is hard core, and the fuck took that chunk outta her neck? Unless that's supposed to be a tattoo.

>>1305700
>I can just about keep up with Rukia here by using my zanpakuto
whelp, looks like Rukia's completely worthless

>>1305704
Thanks for the session as always Queen

>>1305660
Omake idea: What if Riku was a boy instead of a girl?

1305929
I can picture the facepalm this comment caused.

Especially since I'm the one who wouldn't shut up about Rukia being confusingly weak/unskilled given her being paired with Tatsuki.

I am over it personally, but damn if this is going away soon at this rate.

Sorry bout that.