Erina didn't understand fighting techniques.
She had only recently encountered various fighters, so she had no idea what fighters were capable of. Even Mutou Judai's Kengan matches hadn't opened new doors for her understanding.
After all...
—Mutou Judai's battles ended too quickly!
But even though she didn't understand fighting techniques that well, she had seen other fighters training.
Punching bags were things that fighters usually stood in front of to punch and kick.
But when Erina came to bring Mutou Judai food, she saw him standing some distance away from the punching bag, just looking at it, not knowing what he was doing.
—Do fighters train like this?
Erina was puzzled, but seeing that Mutou Judai seemed very concentrated, she didn't call out to him immediately and waited there instead.
About ten minutes passed.
Then Erina saw Mutou Judai seemingly take a step forward.
She couldn't see clearly what Mutou Judai did, then suddenly there was the sound of something heavy falling from the distant punching bag!
When she looked again, the hanging punching bag was only half remaining, with the other half now lying on the ground.
This...
Did Judai hide a gun on himself?
Apart from this guess, Erina really couldn't understand what Mutou Judai had just done.
But if he had hidden a gun... what kind of fighting technique training would that be?
Erina couldn't understand at all.
At this time, Mutou Judai also noticed Erina's arrival.
"Erina, you came to call me for a meal, right? Perfect timing—my training here has reached a stopping point. I was just planning to take a shower and then come find you."
Hearing Mutou Judai's voice, Erina snapped back to attention and asked directly.
"Judai, did you hide a gun on yourself just now?"
A gun?
Mutou Judai was stunned for a moment, then followed Erina's gaze and realized she was surprised by the broken punching bag.
"How could I hide a gun on myself..."
Mutou Judai tapped Erina's forehead with one hand, making her instinctively cover her head, then smiled and continued.
"It's a fighting technique—just a rather unconventional fighting technique. I'll probably research one more technique like this, since I have to deal with that Tiger and participate in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament afterward. Although I don't think I'll lose, since I promised you, I still plan to take this matter more seriously."
If Mutou Judai's words were heard by others who understood fighting techniques, they'd probably pop their eyes out.
—You call something that cuts a punching bag in half from five or six meters away a fighting technique!
No, that's not a fighting technique! That's sorcery!
But Erina didn't know this.
After hearing Mutou Judai say this, she instinctively categorized such moves as fighting techniques, opening this door for the first time.
But not understanding didn't mean she was stupid.
Even as a layperson, she could understand the power of Mutou Judai's technique, so Erina looked at the broken punching bag in the distance, then at Mutou Judai.
She recalled how she had just thought Mutou Judai had hidden a gun on himself.
Instinctively, these two words began appearing in her mind.
—Magic Spear!
Now she began to think that compared to Mutou Judai casually taking some famous fighter's name and applying it to himself as "Tiger," perhaps calling Mutou Judai "Magic Spear" would be more fitting!
Mutou Judai wasn't aware of Erina's thoughts.
After completing Rankyaku, he began attempting Geppo.
But unlike Rankyaku, which he quickly found ideas for, Geppo—this thing stumped even him.
However, Mutou Judai roughly had some clues.
In the Marine Six Styles, if Soru was the ultimate application of hardness to the legs, then Rankyaku was a combination of hardness and softness.
You couldn't complete Rankyaku without combining hardness and softness, and if your physical fitness wasn't up to standard, you couldn't complete purely hard techniques like Soru either.
Calculating this way, Geppo was probably the ultimate softness.
First, you probably needed to relax your whole body to a certain degree to meet Geppo's prerequisites, then you needed to infinitely shorten the process from relaxation to exertion. Being able to do this probably satisfied Geppo's prerequisites and truly began accessing Geppo.
So Jack Hanma's template wasn't suitable for practicing Geppo.
If you gave him Guo Haihuang's template, Geppo and Kami-e might be completed in one go!
But Mutou Judai just discovered this point.
After being stuck with Geppo, he simply gave up on Geppo and Kami-e, turning to work on Tekkai and Shigan instead.
Then he put his heart and soul into it, brainstormed extensively, went through countless hardships, and spent tremendous effort!
Finally—
He drew Tekkai the next day!
And after drawing it, he discovered that Tekkai was completely different from what he had imagined!
Tekkai was, after all, one of the Marine Six Styles, a type of superhuman technique, so although it looked like someone stupidly standing there taking hits, Tekkai was actually a very sophisticated technique.
It wasn't tensing all your muscles, but tensing the needed muscles.
And using special exertion techniques to squeeze out this part of the muscles, then squeeze them all together—so when opponents attacked you in this state, it was like hitting an iron block!
In this state, most vital points on your torso and limbs were eliminated!
And because only certain muscles were tensed, the muscles the opponent hit you with the first time might be different from the second time!
This meant this technique differed from general defensive techniques of tensing the body in fighting styles—it could truly let you keep taking hits while using the time difference between resistance and recovery of different parts to achieve a different kind of "no damage"!
This was a very advanced technique!
And it was very suitable for the already durable Jack Hanma.
After using Tekkai, your center of gravity would be hidden, most vital points would be eliminated, and you could resist attacks while taking basically no damage.
But the drawback was also obvious.
When using Tekkai—you couldn't move.
And if you insisted on moving while using Tekkai, the overall effect would greatly decrease, becoming ordinary resistance methods of tensing muscles from regular styles.
Although that was also a type of technique... that kind of Tekkai probably didn't deserve to be called a superhuman technique.
Mutou Judai learned all this, then began practicing Tekkai.
He practiced for a whole day.
Then his Jack Hanma template merged to 90%, but the new lottery didn't give him something to make him stronger, but gave him a USB drive containing novels from the Monogatari series.
He quite liked the Monogatari series, but he didn't plan to publish it yet, just wanting to read it himself.
As for why...
—A Certain Magical Index just released its first volume, so let's wait until Index is finished~
Mutou Judai continued training with this thought.
Then on the last morning.
Mutou Judai pressed sign-in.
Jack Hanma's template merged to 100%.
Then that day's sign-in reward was also distributed.
[Sign-in Reward: Marine Six Styles - Shigan]
Mutou Judai directly chose to receive it, then during Shigan's integration process, Erina came over.
"Let's go, Judai. Today we're going to the Kengan match."
Hearing Erina say this, Mutou Judai organized the information about Shigan, then nodded at her.
"After all, we've prepared for so long—although it was more for the Kengan Annihilation Tournament after defeating Tiger rather than for Tiger himself, but before the tournament starts, passing some time isn't bad~"
"No one would call three days of effort 'preparing for so long'... but for you who's only been in contact with fighting techniques for about ten days total, perhaps it can indeed be said that way."
Erina looked at Mutou Judai helplessly, then walked side by side with him toward the car that had been arranged downstairs.
They were now heading to the venue.
Then at noon, this Kengan match between Toyo Electric and Totsuki would begin!
And this Kengan match had very high attention.
Besides the popularity of the legendary fighter Tiger Wakatsuki Takeshi, people were also very interested in this showdown between Tiger and "Tiger."
As for who was Tiger and who was "Tiger"—if you asked Mutou Judai, he would definitely say he was the real Tiger, and Wakatsuki Takeshi was the fake one!
Why?
Because he registered the patent!
The law stipulated he was Tiger!
So no matter who asked, he dared say—Wakatsuki Takeshi copied my title and still won't admit it! I've never seen someone so shameless!