My mother's deadly blood swipe headed straight for me. I imagined a circular wall in front of me and withdrew the blood from my forearms. I barely got the shield up in time.
Didn't help me much. The blood swipe slammed into my shield and sliced right through it. Deep gashes appeared on my legs, stomach, and chest. I waited until I healed.
Then I said, "What the hell was that?"
"Just keeping you on your toes," she said. "You didn't do the swirling effect and your shield was more of a flat circle than a sphere. Work on that."
I practiced my shield for 30 minutes and then said, "Hit me."
"Ok!" Shikasa threw out another blood swipe, just as huge and deadly as before.
But I was ready. I called up my shield and immediately applied the swirling effect. This time, when the blood swipe struck my shield it broke up, but just barely. I could feel my shield about to fail.
