At that moment Hendricks's gargantuan build arrived!
Hendricks stood there watching, as Janette and Jyro finished their exercises and realized he was there.
When Jyro found out he stopped immediately and Janette took her time in order to finish correctly.
"You have got guts. I respect that."
Janette stood up and approached Hendricks as Jyro did too.
"I will only give you a few pointers, I won't teach you anything you don't know already. Don't expect me to impart any technic, but my library is open if any of you wants to study on your own."
Hendricks placed his hand forward in front of Jyro.
Hendricks's hand blocked most of Jyro's field of view as if a huge wall has been erected in front of him in a matter of seconds.
"Hit me with all you got." Hendricks showed a shiny set of teeth as he smiled, he prepared himself in order to cushion Jyro's blow. He was sure that if he didn't Jyro could probably break his own hand accidentally.
After all, would you hit a wall with all your might? probably not, but a pillow was another story...
Jyro breathed in deeply, his stance changed to that of a horse stance by bending his knees and straightening his back, he clenched his fist and attacked!
*Plam*
A sharp noise could be heard for a moment but after a few seconds, a low squeak could be heard too.
*iiiii*
Jyro pressed his fist with his other hand firmly, his expression looked as if he was going to cry, but he gritted his teeth and moved to the side.
Even after taking into account Hendricks's"consideration" Jyro still felt as if he had just punched a piece of steel.
His hand turned red and started to swell up in a few moments.
"Janette it's your turn, you can use that thing if you like."
"Sir Hendricks are you sure?" Janette said, her tone showing expectancy instead of hesitation tho.
"Do your best." Hendricks was also fired up, Janette's technique was new in his books, and he wanted her to use it on him to see if he could replicate it later.
[I'm lacking some serious UUMPH. Let's do this.] Janette rubbed her hands against each other with a brief smile.
Although Janette hadn't trained her punches she decided to copy Jyro's stance as she didn't have any other idea.
Closing her eyes, she started to circulate her breathing and started to charge herself with static.
Janette suddenly opened her eyes and sparks could be seen through them, then it happened.
*BAANG*
Janette's punch connected with Hendricks's palm and made a thunderous sound immediately upon impact
Hendricks's entire body twitched slightly, he was not expecting what had happened...
"That's impressive, My skin should have been impenetrable for someone like you. To be fair, Jyro's punch was way harder than yours but your technic passed through my defenses like a hot knife passing through butter. It doesn't matter if my muscles are as hard as steel if you can attack my internals directly. Well done."
"Jyro!"
"Yes sir!."
"Your stance was off, it looked alright but the purpose of such a stance is to be able to harness the strength of your legs and transport it upwards to your fists. Plant yourself firmly next time. If you need to strengthen your legs in order to punch harder then so be it."
"Janette, there's no point on me to talk about your stance, you were probably just copying Jyro. My advise? Don't. Jyro's stance is flawed, if you learn by watching it then yours will be too. I will show both of you the correct stance once look closely."
Hendrick stood upright and proceeded to flex his knees, His legs were separated from his body, his back was upright and both fists clenched close to his body. At first glance, there was no difference between his and Jyro's stance but his demeanor was like day and night.
The muscles of his body bulged the sound of leather rubbing in on itself coming from his fist and after breathing deeply Hendricks started to move.
His movement was fluid like a flower being carried by a river into a lake, he purposely moved slowly to give the kids the opportunity to watch closely, this only made his movement look more elegant as his mastery over this simple skill was beyond their comprehension.
His fist untwisted and finished its movement very slowly but when it stopped a huge explosion occurred.
*BAAAAAAANNNNGGG*
The air around his fist got displaced with scary precision and a fist mark appeared on the courtyard walls a hundred feet away.
The stone slabs where his feet were was fractured completely.
The simple, slow, and unassuming movement demonstrated that simple skills trained to perfection could have terrifying results.
Strangely even though an explosive sound came from his backyard no one looked his way.
The people of the mansion seemed used to this kind of occurrence so no one paid any attention to it.
Hendricks just came to his usual posture and walked away without another word.
After such a demonstration no words could express the technic better.
Marcus and Janette were engrossed in their conversation but they got woken up by Jyro who started talking enthusiastically.
"... him, it was so cool!"
"What? aah yeah, I wonder how long it took him to be able to do that."
The moment Jyro heard those words it was as if a bucket of cold water was dropped on his head. It seems he was Imagining himself doing what Hendricks just did only to be rudely pulled back to earth.