Naruto: Failed Knight

Hayate picked up a leaf from the ground and gave it to Ikki.

Hayate: "As you have seen wrinkled paper, you need to do the same with this leaf. After you exhaust your chakra, you can proceed ahead with your individual training."

Ikki: "Okay."

Ikki took the leaf and sat down near a tree. Hayate started to teach Chikako and Hinari about how to use basic tanto usage. Ikki started to channel chakra into the leaf and imagined turning chakra into lightning. Of course, nothing happened.

Ikki: [How should I proceed? Imagination is not working. Let's try a scientific approach. How can paper wrinkle? Of course, the answer is heavy static charge.]

Next, Ikki imagined the removal of electrons from the leaf to the ground. After 1 minute, the paper wrinkled.

Ikki: "Whew, this is hard. Just doing this took 5% of my chakra. Now, as I know how to do it, let's move on to the habit of doing it."

Ikki continued this process until he exhausted his chakra, which took around 2 hours. Even after practicing for nearly 2 hours, Ikki didn't see any improvement. But he knew he didn't have any golden spoon like Naruto, who had an unlimited supply of chakra from Battery—sorry, Kurama.

On the other side, Chikako and Hinari were waving their tanto in one motion. Hayate observed this and gave instructions whenever they missed something.

Ikki: [Now, let's move to special techniques. What should I start with? I have close-range attacks. What I need is a medium-range slash and a long-range slash. For a long-range slash, there is the First Sword, Flying Shadow (Tsubame Gaeshi), and its evolution, the Sixth Sword, Dark Roar. They should cover both. Another option is to increase my repertoire of close-range techniques with the third secret sword, Madoka, or the sixth secret sword, Dokuga no Tachi. Kurogane Ikki's techniques heavily rely on both control, whereas Allon Rodol takes the cake in strength. Yaaaa!]

Ikki started to ruffle his hair. Seeing this, all of his teammates gathered around him.

Hinari: "Did he lose it?"

Chikako: "No, he is stuck. This is the first time this has happened."

Hayate: "Ikki, what happened?"

Ikki: "I am stuck with how to proceed ahead—with long range or close range?"

Hayate: "Why are you stuck?"

Ikki: "Long range requires a lot of strength, and close range requires a lot of body control. I have both but not enough to proceed ahead. I am stuck."

Hayate: "Continue with control. Control also brings basic strength. You can proceed ahead with strength later."

With these words, something hit him.

Ikki [murmured]: "Fuck. Why didn't I think of that? His technique will come naturally afterward if I proceed with her method. I already have high body control. I am eligible for starting that—Twin Wing's technique."

All other three orca looked at him like he had lost it.

Ikki: "I have got it. I was staring in a totally wrong direction. I know what to do now."

Hayate: "What are you trying to do?"

Ikki: "It's a totally different direction of fighting. Can you become my fighting partner?"

Ikki brought out two bokuto from the ring and passed one to Hayate. They positioned against each other. Ikki rushed at Hayate and slashed at him, and Hayate blocked but with some delayed time. But this slash was somewhat different and fast. Hayate felt that.

Hayate: [Why did that normal attack feel fast?] Hayate started to rummage his hair.

Hayate: "Ikki, what was that?"

Ikki: "You are a nice swordsman, Sensei. You found out something was different."

Ikki: [Of course not on the level of Failed Knight or Twin Wings Edelweiss. But it was fast. How did he find out the difference?]

Hayate: "What was that? Explain."

Ikki: "Let's see. When we start any attack, our speed starts from 0 and then increases exponentially. But still, there's a gap between 0 and 100. I have found a way to remove that gap."

Hayate got flabbergasted. Chikako and Hinari looked confused.

Hinari: "What happened, Sensei?"

Hayate: "This, this is just wrong. It's impossible to go like that."

Chikako: "If I know correctly, when we start any slash or attack, we start, and slowly our muscles add speed, which increases speed. Let's take it as 0 to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 40 until we reach full speed. It takes time."

Ikki: "I haven't mastered this technique yet. As I attacked now, I had to take three steps between. I want to remove that to instant. [It was absurd how Ikki learned it instantly. But he has high body control, so it was possible. But still, it was absurd. Though he had to contemplate this technique for 10 days, he learned it in the fight between him and Yudai Moroboshi. It was absurd.]"

Hayate: "So you are going to decrease the gap between speeds so you can reach full speed instantly. But this should be theoretically impossible."

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