Capítulo 10: 10 - Elemental Reiatsu
As the spar came to an end with Rumi's call for a draw, Rumi decided to go back first, surprising Renji and Rukia.
"Aren't you going to train more?" Renji asked, still recovering from the aftermath of the spar.
"Well, I already did." Rumi said with a playful smirk, "I learnt how to exert my reiatsu and even a little trick to help me in battle. Isn't it amazing for one day's effort?"
"..Stop being so cocky!" Renji said.
"Nope!" Rumi said, laughing at his reaction. She then turned to Rukia and said, "Hey, I'm heading back. See you later."
Rukia said with a nod, "Un. See you later."
After leaving Renji and Rukia at the training spot, Rumi headed straight to the house. She was acting like there were no after effects of activating Mind's Momentum but she knew it was far from the truth.
As Mind's Momentum forcibly enhanced her reaction speed, reflexes and even the speed she moved at directly, her muscles were overworked breaking through its limits in the short span of time. In addition to that, her brain was forced to perform information processing, strategizing and thought process to its maximum capacities during the activation of the skill. As such, she was hit by a wave of mental exhaustion soon after deactivating the skill.
In short, it could be said that she was experiencing a crash comedown, something akin to a low point after the adrenaline from the drugs had worn off. Her whole body was sore and she was so mentally tired that she felt like she could sleep for hours straight.
'But before that, let's check on the cooldown and how much reiryoku this skill has used up..' Rumi thought as she struggled to stay awake, laying on her bed.
[Name : Fujiwara Rumi.
Age : 2 days. (Soul Society)
Race : Newly crossed soul.
Relationships : Abarai Renji (Friendly acquaintance), Rukia (Friendly Acquaintance).
Reiryoku level : Moderate.
Stored reiryoku : 157/1000.
Skills : Sloth (Passive), Guradian's Vigil (Passive), Fire Resistance (Passive), Mind's Momentum (Cooldown : 1 hour 22 minutes).
Tools : None.]
'System, what was the initial cooldown period?' She asked as she realized she didn't check it as soon as she deactivated the skill. Since the cooldown would start counting right after the use of the skill, the cooldown she was seeing on her stats wasn't the one she could refer to.
[Answer : The cooldown for this time is 1 hour and 45 minutes as you used the skill for a total of 7 minutes.]
'I see..' Rumi nodded in understanding. The cooldown was almost two hours for a short duration of activation but truth be told, she doubted if she could handle longer activation for more than fifteen minutes. She probably wouldn't have much problem maintaining it during the use of skill but the after effects of it would have been terrible. It was a good thing she tested this out sooner than finding out too late.
'Seems like I need some actual training to strengthen my body as well.' Rumi thought to herself.
Then, she checked the reiryoku amount she used up. To her surprise, there was really no change to it.
'Could it be that my own reiryoku was enough?'
[That is the case. With your passive skill Sloth's energy efficiency, the reiryoku cost for Mind's Momentum has been reduced by 90%.]
That was another surprise for Rumi. Even though she knew Sloth boosted the efficiency, she wasn't expecting it to be this amazing.
With this, her reiryoku amount wouldn't pose as much problem than she initially thought.
Rumi was happy with this development. After checking what she wanted and briefly doing her sleep ritual, she finally dozed off.
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When Renji and Rukia came back, they found Rumi already asleep in her bed. Renji looked at her and muttered in disbelief, "Is she seriously sleeping? It's like all she ever does is sleep.."
"I know right? How's that even possible to sleep that much?" Rukia agreed with Renji, looking at Rumi.
"Seriously." Renji said with a sigh, "It's hard to imagine her being strong when all I see her doing is sleep and five minutes of training."
"Yet, she's strong. Did you see the speed she picked up reiatsu? It's like she has been training for a while. Except that she was new here and wasn't even training for a long time." Rukia said, remembering the events earlier.
"I know, it's almost like she learnt it with a glance, also her reiatsu during the spar and the way she got stronger so suddenly, it was really something else.." Renji said.
"For real..I feel like I'm witnessing a monster instead.." Rukia muttered, to which Renji agreed.
Her immediate hunger, the astounding speed of learning things and the way she was unhinged, Renji couldn't help but feel intrigued the more he thought about it.
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Rumi didn't wake up until the next afternoon. As she woke up, she realized that she was alone in the house again.
"Seems like I'm really turning into a sloth." Rumi chuckled to herself at the thought. While she was sleeping in, Renji and Rukia had already headed out to train.
"Well, first of all, I should check on my stored reiatsu. I wonder how much I have stored up.." She muttered as she opened the stats screen first thing after waking up.
[Name : Fujiwara Rumi.
Age : 3 days. (Soul Society)
Race : Newly crossed soul.
Relationships : Abarai Renji (Friendly acquaintance), Rukia (Friendly Acquaintance).
Reiryoku level : Moderate.
Stored reiryoku : 283/1000.
Skills : Sloth (Passive), Guradian's Vigil (Passive), Fire Resistance (Passive), Mind's Momentum.
Tools : None.]
"283?" Rumi was surprised to see the dramatic increase in the stored reiryoku. Yesterday, she remembered she had somewhere around 150 so the amount had almost doubled in one sleep.
Just how long did she end up sleeping again?
System answered her doubts, [Answer : You were asleep for 19 hours.]
"...No wonder the amount almost doubled. I almost slept for the whole day." She muttered, still in shock that she ended up sleeping for that long.
At the same time, she felt a little concerned about how much she was sleeping everyday. Shouldn't it be bad for the body and health?
[Answer : As your passive skill is Sloth, being lazy and excessive sleeping does not negatively affect your health. There is no need to worry.]
"Huh, is that so? That's good to know." Rumi nodded in relief. She was thinking how bad it could be to die of health problems after getting an amazing life because of her excessive sleeping but since there shouldn't be any problems, she felt that there was no need to worry at all.
She stayed in the bed for a while playing with her stats interface screen and spacing out before finally deciding to get out of bed.
Getting up lazily and stretching her body, Rumi searched the house for food. Soon, she found Renji's secret stash of cotton candy and ate half of it. She was still hungry even after eating half the bag but Renji would probably kill her if she ate all of that.
'Well, at least I ate some candy. Should be good for a while.' She thought to herself as she cleaned up the evidence. She couldn't let Renji find out she was the one who ate the candy.
After that, she decided to do some training on her reiatsu. Although she knew she needed to train in combat and physical fitness, she wanted to prioritize reiatsu training as she heard from Renji and Rukia that reiatsu was a requirement for the entrance exam.
"Alright, let's get to work for a while then." Rumi muttered as she went outside the house. There was a small open space just outside the house. It wasn't big enough to do spars or physical training, but if she was just trying to practice reiatsu, it should be okay.
So, Rumi stood in the space and began to recall how she managed to exert some of her reiryoku the previous day. As she focused on the reiryoku in her body, she noticed that it was a little stronger than the first time. While it still felt like a gentle breeze, cool and comforting, it also looked there was now an underlying sense of power, like an untapped reservoir waiting to be released.
Just like the last time, Rumi exerted some of that reiryoku out. A pale blue light appeared as she successfully emit her reiatsu, followed by a small gush of wind.
Rumi didn't stop there and imagined herself exerting more of her reiryoku. As a result, her reiatsu got stronger, the pale blue light more evident and the small gust of wind turned into a strong wind surrounding her.
As she focused on the wind surrounding her, she realized that it was reacting to her reiatsu. With the amount of reiatsu she was emitting, the strength of the wind around her changed and adjusted.
'Could it be that my reiatsu is related to wind?' She couldn't help but think.
[Answer : This is the case. You possess a rare elemental reiatsu type, Wind. As such, your reiatsu has the properties of wind and a level of wind manipulation.]
System's answer was a little unexpected as she wasn't really expecting to have a rare elemental type reiatsu.
'Now that I think about it, I did notice a small wind the last time I used reiatsu.' Rumi realized as she reflected on her reiatsu 'practice' last time. She didn't really think much back then because she didn't know reiatsu could have special attributes and properties. Besides, she got sidetracked by system's reward option and then testing out Mind's Momentum to properly reflect on her reiatsu that day.
But now, it was evident that her reiatsu actually had wind attribute to it and even could manipulate wind itself to some degree.
Rumi was excited at this aspect, especially because wind was a fun element to work with. It was usually symbolized as freedom and flexibility, and probably one of the most versatile elements out there. From simply using wind to blow away enemies, it could be used in finer, more strategic ways like enhanced mobility, traps and so on.
As such, Rumi found it hard to contain her excitement and curiosity to find out more about this reiatsu.
She ended up training reiatsu for a while until she saw Renji and Rukia came back.
"You're training here?" Rukia asked, a little surprised to see Rumi training.
Rumi turned to look at her and laughed playfully, "Why're you surprised? Do I not look like a very hardworking person?"
Rukia stared her down and after a brief silence, she replied, "Not at all. You've been training for what? An hour?"
As far as Rukia knew, Rumi was sleeping all the time, except for trying out reiatsu and her brief spar with Renji. Even when she saw her training today, she couldn't help but think Rumi couldn't have been training for more than an hour.
"How do you know?! This is like my new record!" Rumi exclaimed, making Rukia shake her head.
"Hah, I knew you couldn't be that hardworking!" Renji pointed his fingers towards Rumi and laughed. Rumi rolled her eyes and said with a playful smirk, "Ara, are you looking for a fight, Renji?"
"What? You scared?!" Renji said.
"Of you? Never." Rumi replied.
"Then, we're settling it here! I'm going to show you that you can't beat me." Renji said as he prepared to throw punches at Rumi.
Rumi didn't reply but casually waited for Renji to actually make a move. While it was true that she was barely keeping up without Mind's Momentum yesterday, she was able to figure out some basic control of her reiatsu after training for a while earlier.
She still couldn't do complicated stuff with it yet but she wanted to test out how much she could do with it.
With that thought, she watched as Renji charged towards her, aiming to punch her.
'This can't be good if I don't do anything.' Rumi thought as she prepared to use her reiatsu. As Renji got closer, she exerted her reiatsu and watched as the wind surrounding her pushed Renji back.
Rumi's face lit up when she saw that the wind effect was working and Renji seemed to be having a hard time resisting it. He could barely stand straight with the wind be was caught up in, let alone attack her.
But soon, Rumi found that the wind kept getting stronger and her reiatsu was all over the place, making everything starting to get caught up in a whirlwind.
'Crap..I'm losing control..' Rumi realized a little too late. The whirlwind was starting to consume everything nearby, including the grass on the ground.
"Run!" Rumi turned to Rukia and then Renji.
Rukia stared at the scene in front of her with wideyes. The way Rumi's reiatsu was controlling the wind, the way it was getting stronger and even summoning the whirlwind was too amazing and terrifying. She couldn't move.
Renji seemed to be in the same boat as he stared at the scene in front of him.
"You two idiots." Rumi muttered as she tried her best to keep her reiatsu back in but it was hard for her to just stop all this so suddenly. As such, she could only disperse some of it in the other direction first.
The whirlwind was sent in the direction of the house and as a result, half of the house was directly blown away by the wind.
'Crap..they're going to kill me.' Rumi thought. Fortunately, after the whirlwind being sent to blow the house away, Rumi could finally control her reiatsu again.
With a sigh, she thought back on the incident and came to the conclusion that the reason she couldn't control it earlier was probably because she was getting excited to see her reiatsu working and subconsciously exerted more of it, making it harder to control, especially with her lack of experience and the unique nature of her reiatsu. She didn't exactly know how much reiatsu meant how much wind and destructive power it could have, and most importantly, she hadn't exactly learnt how to control the wind aspect properly.
'In short, I f*cked up..haha.' Rumi thought to herself as she looked at the aftermath.
The ground she was standing on was devoid of any plants or grass now and half of the house, including the small dining area and her bed.
With all the smoke out of the way, Rumi rubbed her head and said sheepishly. "Well, at least half of the house is intact-"
Before Rumi could finish her sentence, she was hit in the head by Rukia. Rukia pointed to the house and said, "You think that is intact? If you messed up, shouldn't you at least say sorry?"
"Sorry..sorry. I didn't know it was gonna get this strong?" Rumi said, rubbing her head in pain. She didn't expect Rukia of all people to actually hurt her since Renji looked more like the type to do so. But with a glance at him, Rumi realized that Renji was more in shock than anger.
"What is that just now?" She heard Renji ask. "Yesterday, you suddenly got faster, and even started to predict my next moves. It was as if you suddenly got the experience of fighting for years. And now, your reiatsu..it summoned a freaking whirlwind and destroyed the house." Renji's voice sounded like he still had a hard time believing this, but his voice was firm like he was determined to get answers, "Tell me, Rumi. What the heck are you? What is all of this?"
'Ah..there we go. Should I have toned it down a bit?' Rumi thought when she heard Renji's question. 'Probably', she thought, she probably shouldn't have make it this obvious.
But since things were already like this, it was useless to mope over. As such, she just smiled playfully and said, "I told you yesterday. It was just a little trick I found out."
"And it just happens to summon a whoke freaking whirlwind too?!" Renji asked, not believing her.
Rumi replied with a chuckle, thinking Renji getting so worked up over her dodging the quedtion was amusing, "Of course not, the wind just happens to be the element of my reiatsu. You see I have an elemental reiatsu."
"So you can just control wind with your reiatsu? Stop joking.." Renji said.
"Does that look like a joke?" Rumi pointed to the house that only had half of it intact.
"..Don't you dare be proud of destroying our house!" Rukia said.
"Renji started it!" Rumi told Rukia while pointing her finger towards Renji.
"You're the one who destroyed the house and now refusing to tell how you did it!" Renji retorted to what Rumi was saying.
It was an absolute chaos.
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A/N:
Sorry for the messed up schedule. I was planning on updating on Wednesday but I got sick and ended up sleeping for pretty much the whole day.
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