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Post by Nashi on Apr 27, 2020 18:54:54 GMT -6
”Oh, yeah, no problem,” the senzu bonsai was going well as, after all, the notion that death had any effect on growth was ridiculous, ”it’s fine.” Nashi didn’t react to Suri mentioning the Furnace, denoting that he knew of it and wasn’t especially surprised by its involvement. Nashi pulled up the bonsai from under the table— was it in his pocket the whole time? Couldn’t have been, it was far too big for that— and showed it off, tapping the largest senzu bean growing from it. ”See?” And just like that it was back under the table. Was it in his pocket? Was it brought of the scene for narrative convenience, precisely how it’d been brought in? It was surely in the top 10 questions scientists can’t answer. Nashi shrugged. ”If they’re your friend, it doesn’t matter how strong they are, they’re your friend. If they’re your enemy, it doesn’t matter how strong they are, you’re gonna punch ‘em. That’s just what heroes do, after all.” If Nashi hadn’t found the technique accidentally, he prolly would have tried to spend the time working on those cool King Kai techniques. ”Besides, ya can usually tell anyway, by how well they can take a blow.”Nashi flung the bowl of rice so quickly the rice left the bowl as one continuous body which flew in the air and landed in Nashi’s waiting, open mouth. Chewing’s for chumps. ”Oh, cool! What’s it like! Oh, no, er, like, what’s it… represent?” As the chakra expert by virtue of a lack of competition, Nashi should have immediately asked that second bit instead of the first. Transformations usually had cool meanings, right? Representing some shift in the character, or emphasising some part of them. Even the Super Saiyan form, which didn’t change between individuals, had some conceptual significance deep in there somewhere! Presumably! |
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Post by Suri on May 1, 2020 23:29:53 GMT -6
"Wh- Did you always carry it like that?" Suri asked, eyes briefly widening at the sight of the bonsai's sudden appearance from Nashi's pocket. And did it get smaller "Well, I guess. Look at the size of that bean."
Suri raised a finger to say something, but she decided not to and let Nashi continue uninturrupted. And after that, she nodded. "I...guess you're right. That, and how fast they can move. So, I guess I should just pay more attention, then." 'That's what heroes do', the words repeated in Suri's head. A hero... She wondered if she deserved to consider herself as one.
Suri watched in awe as Nashi one-shotted a bowl of rice, while she chewed on her own food. And then came the topic of her new transformation. "Oh, it's- Huh, represent? Well..." Suri pondered on that for a moment, head cocking to the side. She hadn't really thought about it before. "Er, stability and calmness, I guess? At least, that's the effect I was hoping to get..." Where to start...
Well, "My energy went haywire one time, a while ago, and it sorta...put me into a coma for five months. That's why I suddenly stopped visiting you, actually." Feeling like she was making an excuse, she let out a nervous laugh before continuing. "Anyway, to stop that from happening again, I focused on stabilizing my ki and magic, and calming myself. So, this lets me use my full power. I haven't got much use out of it, though. Not yet."
Suri leaned forward, before making her suggestion. "So, I was thinking... Could we have a training session, like we used to? I'd like to try it out some more, find out what I'm doing wrong... Oh, after you're done with eating, of course." Though at this rate, it seemed Nashi would be finished in no time!
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Post by Nashi on May 4, 2020 7:14:14 GMT -6
”Carry what like what?” Very conveniently, Nashi had already forgotten the general train of conversation. The Senzu Bonsai was not even slightly a matter of concern on his radar of consideration, as if it had never been brought up at all. It was a simple fact of reality that the very best of things could only happen when you weren’t thinking about them much: consider the concept of nothing, which is made something which isn’t itself whenever considered in thought. Or, byxhingles, unknown creatures that were doing just fine until you read this sentence. You monster.
”Stability, calmness, that’s good!” And just like that, he was already talking about the next matter. In the biz we call that conversational parkour. Nashi nodded along. At one point he felt like interrupting with how the coma was only a comma in the sentence that was her life, but decided against it because it was A) too dumb and B) not dumb enough. ”Hmm, hmm. It’s like the active faucet filling one’s bath with hot water: if there’s too much force, none of the water will stay in the tub!” Thank you, Nashi, very cool. Nashi’s mind just sorta looked over Suri mentioning magic: it was like, if it was a subtitle, he just sorta skipped over the word in reading— not literally, of course, Nashi would only learn the forbidden subtitles-reading art when he unlocks at least the first god form. ”Prolly some overactive chakras, ey? It’s easy to happen if there’s too much energy and your chakras can’t control them. It’s like there’s no force with them, and the energy is allowed to flow freely through the body without regulation. Maybe that was it?”
A training thread? I mean, er, session. ”That sounds fun! I’d be happy to!” ’After eating’? He’d almost forgotten there was still food to eat at all. Feeling as if there was suddenly a reason to finish quickly, Nashi started stuffing all his remaining food in his gob… he would come to regret this decision, though perhaps calling it a ‘decision’ assumes too much of Nashi’s thought process at the time.
Y’see, Nashi, as a cat, was rather picky about his food. But, as someone who effectively brimmed with shonen anime protagonist energy, he could also eat comedically vast quantities of food. You’d think this was quite the predicament, and perhaps sometimes it was, but in a controlled environment such as this he could order vast quantities of food and eat it all very, very quickly and in obscene volumes. No problemo!
”Let’s head back to that hill. It’s (hic) a very nice hill!” Uh oh, hiccups...
… Perhaps some problemo.
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