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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4 - Combat

Authors note - I've received small critique from people that talk about the character and his power, in the show manipulators are mentioned to be smart thinkers which is what I consider our little MC in which I consider. And for his nen and how he supports it will be revealed later! Thanks for reading.

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Focusing aura into your eyes only?

"Wait, which nen technique is this?" I press, he responds simply with, "Gyu."

Well that answers that.

Ten!

A white aura begins to develop around my body, sluggish and leaking constantly but it does the job.

Gyu..!

The aura begins to become thinner as it starts to morph shape. The lower body.. upper body is removed of nen and only the head remains.

I could be seen sweating heavily.

This is way harder than I thought!

The aura remains on my head, slowly contracting to my eyes. Done! It reached my eye socket, but it only stayed for 3 seconds.

"Haha..! See I did good, hey how long do I need to keep this on in battle by the way?"

"Good question, considering how fast battles go, I'd say basically the entire fight which can range from a couple minutes to maybe even seconds." He smirks as he watches my dejected face.

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Gyu!

Aura rapidly goes into my eyes, still somewhat sloppily. I've mastered putting into my eyes, but now I'm training on increasing the time.

It's easier once you've done it over and over, but this nen is still somewhat hard to control.

The nen remains in my eyes, I stay in a relaxed yet focused pose.

1 minute..

2 minute..

3 minute..

4 minute..!

My aura disappears and I could be seen heavily breathing. Amazing! I feel so.. accomplished!

"Don't get your hopes up, that was probably the easiest one you could've done. Any more and you would've half killed yourself, almost did with your ren."

"What? Why so?" I ask him, confused.

"Because your body is too weak, to support large amounts of nen you need a strong mind and a strong body, so we're going to do some more physical training along with nen so you can develop hand to hand."

"Alright, what type of physical training now? I've just been sitting in this room all week too.."

"We'll first get you some better equipment as yours at the moment is only slightly better than the average training setup. This is the most common method for nen users and probably the most efficient, we'll use weight vests."

"Weight vests? Interesting idea, say.. I have a question."

"Hmm? Go ahead, ask it."

"Are there.. other people like me? Living, breathing, talk and look like me? I've really only seen that spider and you ever that are this intelligent."

Velocita would sigh and respond coldly, "The world is a vast place, albeit I cannot track every human and individual like you, I can surely say that there is lots of people like you besides the nen however, that is kept a secret for world balance."

More people like me? Haha! Sounds like fun to me!

I could almost be seen jumping up and down out of excitement.

"Alright alright, calm down. We still have training to do yet before you can goto the next level. First the weight vest.." He mumbles as he hands me the vest.

"Where dis you-"

"Questions later." He says firmly

I put the vest on, it felt like when I did zetsu, so weak and heavy! Eugh..

"How heavy is this thing anyway?" I ask him, shifting around unconsciously.

"Because of your recent nen initialization, it's about one ton."

What? One ton?

"Training pays off, what can I say?" He shrugged.

"W-wow.. I could of never dreamed of myself casually carrying a ton of weight on me.."

As I wear the vests I could almost feel my bones churning and twisting against it!

"I have to fight and be nimble with this?" I ask, shifting my feet.

He gives a nod as he leads me away into a clearing.

"Alright, I want you to be able to avoid its attacks while at the same time using gyu to avoid nen attacks too, I am a transmuter so this'll be easy for me. Go."

What? Go already? Gy-

I'd feel a sharp pain in my chest as I get knocked back a yard away, damn that stings.

"Don't wait does your nen to activate, always be on the move."

As he says that a shadowy figure appears. So that first one was him..

The shadow figure rushes at me, I unconsciously prepare gyu as I focus on his actions, he aims a blow at my waist, I duck under and slide back.

He comes back even faster, zigzagging so it makes it harder for me to predict his moves, how is he so fast?

Before I could even fully comprehend, I could sense whip made of nen rush towards my back.

Turning back I prepare to dodge, my back stings as I'm flung away to the side.

"Remember, enemies can always send in feint attacks or multiple attacks at the same time."

This dude has way more experience than me! I don't even know how I'd be remotely able to dodge for even a couple minutes with this vest on!

"Wait! Huff, for nen am I able to use anything besides gyu?"

"Oh give me a break, I thought you were smart, of course moron. You'd be using loads of techniques in every fight, of course. Go."

If that's the case, this'll be much easier. I can use other techniques! Albeit I only know a little I'll make use of what I have.

Using hatsu Id focus my nen on my leg, making it more reinforced and responsive. I also apply a little to my chest to somewhat release the burden of the vest.

Now of course I'll be less defended but I can manage.

As we get back into position, this time they immediately rush at me, sending in multiple nen whips. Very left is a feint, middle is real.. god there is so many.

They land towards me but I'm careful to check for my surroundings at the same time. To aid me a little more I expanded my ren to make me feel my surroundings better.

Just try getting me now!

Fin