A week has passed since the group's hangout. Yato, Andy and Jimmy followed Kei's advice of using all of their I energy to train their control and ignore their muscles for now. They made a huge progress during the week as they spent 5 to 6 hrs of practicing daily.
Kei was in his room, sitting cross legged, with his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. He touched the water in the cup with his finger tip letting the I energy go inside and fill the water. Afterwards he returned his hand back, and focused on using the energy without direct contact. The water started to rise out of the cup and formed a ball. 'appearing to control water, tick'.
Then he started to make the molecules separate, splitting the water till it wasn't visible. Following that he got the invisible water in the air to move quickly in a mini cyclone shape right in front of him. This made it look like a mini tornado. 'appearing to control air, tick'
The tornado stopped and the water ball reformed. Quickly sucking away the energy from the core of the ball, and passing it to the other layer to make it vaporise, the ball turned to ice. 'Some people may argue that making ice doesn't mean I can control earth, but I'm willing to kill those people. It's solid so it'll count as earth. I can't get it any closer than that.'
Finally the water vapour that had already accumulated energy from the freezing process got gathered together and the energy quickly compressed and made friction producing a spark. At the same time the water molecules got split by his I energy.
Using the hydrogen as a fuel for the spark and concentrating the oxygen to maintain it a candle flame appeared on the palm of his hand. 'And appearing to control fire as well. Now I can convince anyone that I'm a full fledged magus. Just in time I have to leave the house in 2 hrs to meet up with them.'
'I think I have enough control now to attempt restoring my eyesight'. Healing flesh wounds was quite easy, as long as you directed the right type of I energy to the damaged area. The cells would supercharge and speed up the division process, thus resulting in a fast regeneration process.
While this method will work on flesh wounds it won't work on other problems, as it can just speed up the natural body recovery. In other words if the injury is not something that would be naturally cured with time this method won't solve it.
Organ failures and eyesight problems won't heal with the increase in the rate of cell division. They need detailed altering, something which can't be done without extremely minute control over one's energy.
Naturally before Kei didn't have the ability to heal his eyes. When he told Jimmy that he did he was just spouting nonsense cause he liked to show off. Showing is among the main hobbies Kei picked to relieve his boredom of this slow paced world. After 10 minutes of relaxation Kei went back to his focus mode.
The I energy in his body started going toward his eyes. After half an hour of focus kei opened his eyes with a bead of sweat rolling down his face. He took of his glasses and looked around. "perfect. Time to get lenses that don't have a correction factor, cause I'm really used to how I look with glasses"
Later that day Kei and company were sitting at Andy's house eating while chatting. The reason they always grouped at Andy's house is that this was his extra house. They prefered going to a house where there will be no family members and thus guaranteeing that there will be no interruptions and freedom to do whatever shit they felt like doing.
After eating and admiring his new glasses, that were exactly the same as his previous one, they started discussing their progress in I energy. Once they were done with that they decided to start some sparring matches as combat training. " Weren't you talking about a new start? You even went as far as choosing a new name, so shouldn't you change your default style? You know what I mean... You have blue in everything you're wearing" exclaimed yato while going to the empty room in the house.
"yeah I was actually thinking about dying my hair blue" - Kei. "you know what let's just start". They tossed a coin to determine who will fight. First Andy was paired with Kei. Yato was appointed as the refree. Standing at opposite sides of the room yato started the match" ready, steady, go! "
The match was over in a second as the moment Yato said "go", kei raised a finger and a while I energy bolt slammed into Andy's forehead shocking him and knocking him out.
"Now yato and Jimmy. Don't hold back, we can all heal now, so fight to your heart's content. I'm even thinking that, if in the future we reach a level where our regeneration makes us immortal, we can try to kill each other in creative ways for fun" Kei dragged Andy's body to the side.
"But I don't want to fight" Jimmy said feeling aggrieved. He was never the type of person who enjoyed harming or being harmed by others. "In that case you will be yato's punching bag. This match will stop only when I say so or one participant gets knocked out. You can't give up. Fight start!" - kei
The match was basically one sided bullying. Yato kept pummeling Jimmy, while Jimmy didn't try to retaliate. Eventually after Andy woke up Kei announced an end to the match, as Jimmy looked pitiful. "Before we start the final match, I want to point out how, other than me, you all seem to have forgotten about your I energy. Yato you didn't use it at all. I hope you'll use it now"
With that they started. Yato lunged towards Kei with I energy tendrils coating his whole body. Kei ducked dodging yato's right swing that was aiming at his face, and countered with an upper cut. It connected but the energy blocked most of the attack, and the damage was barely noticeable.
Directing most of his energy to his foot he caused a mini explosion that propelled him backwards and out of yato's reach. Yato tried to imitate Kei by shooting out his energy like a projectile from his hand. As a result Kei absorbed it with a laugh.
"Hey that's cheating" shouted yato. "you didn't attack just now. You simply just discharged your energy. Why shouldn't I absorb energy that's lying around with no owner? Did you think just getting your energy out of your body would make it become an attack? If that's true I would have been wasting my 15 hrs of daily practice for the last week"-Kei
Suddenly kei compressed his energy into a ball and fired it at yato. Despite trying to block yato still slammed into the wall and gave up saying he depleted his energy to block that attack.