Bab 28: Storytelling
Rudy decided to teach Ghyslaine on how to properly control her mana, since he already tell her that touki and mana are similar, she didn't do much effort until Ghyslaine didn't need eye-patch anymore and she can properly manipulate her demon eye.
Eris however tried so hard but her efforts are not enough since she still can't do the Shunpo. But she really is a sore loser, that's why Eris approach her home tutor to give her tips on how to do his afterimage trick.
"Do you know why you still failed in doing Shunpo?" Rudy wants to asked her if she noticed something wrong.
"I don't know..." She throw her pride for now and become honest to him.
"Because your body is too stiff." When Rudy mention this, Eris was now confused.
"This is also why you can't properly do dance moves." Rudy rubs another salt into her wounds.
"Hmmmph! So what?!" Eris crossed her arms while pouting, despite of admitting her powerlessness, it doesn't mean that she was immune to the hard truth.
"To successfully perform Shunpo, you must imagine that your whole body was made up of water." Rudy describe on how Baki from Baki the Grappler achieve the Gokuburi Dash.
When Baki saw a cockroach in his room, he's confused on how this insect can dash as fast as moving car and successfully control it, then when he killed the cockroach, he suddenly saw that the inside of this insect was only made of liquid.
Then he was inspired to imagine that his organs, bones and entire body are made up of liquid, until he achieved a human defying speed. The method of imagining yourself as made up of liquid is called Liquefaction.
Eris was inspired by Rudy's unique method and start to do Shunpo once again. With enough effort, though she can't copy Rudy's Utsusemi, Eris can properly perform Shunpo now.
"I want to challenge you in Arm Wrestling once again." Eris was confident and she feels that her new found skill are enough to beat him.
"I don't want to burst your bubbles, but you're being reckless." Though he can humor her by doing what she wants, Rudy chose to lecture her about warrior's attitude.
"I admired your attitude of being a sore loser, you remind me of Souma Yukihira." Rudy pats her head and smiles gently to her, making her blushed and confused on why was her heart palpitating.
"Get off your hand..." Eris feels embarrassed and immediately brush his hand off.
Rudy didn't mind and retracted his hand so he won't push his luck. It's better to not disturb the sleeping dragon.
"But being reckless might be your downfall." Rudy becomes serious and continued. "Once upon a time, there exist a warrior that was so strong and he is not a human, he is the God of War... His name is Ares.
He was confident that any being can't defeat him, so he always brandish his swordplay recklessly without care from strategies. To him, any kind of strategy are nothing to an overwhelming power." Rudy paused for a second to build a momentum.
"Then he met a demigod, Percy Jackson. His parents are the sea god Poseidon and a mortal mother.
One thing led to another and Percy Jackson defeat Ares, the god of war." Rudy deliberately cuts his story.
"Hey! How did Percy defeat Ares?" Eris was now confused because his home tutor was irresponsible in story telling.
"The moral lesson of the story is don't be reckless. Ares was defeated because Percy was calculating how Ares will moved based on his habits, making him lose." Rudy doesn't want to admit that he forgot the details of Ares's and Percy's battle.
If only her punches was connecting, Eris will really punched him hard for being a sloppy story teller.
"Okay, let's play some game." Rudy then gets a ball then approach his auburn student.
"If you can stole this ball in my hands, then you win. You can use whatever you can use, just make sure you won't hurt yourself." Rudy counted to three and start the game.
Eris suddenly remember his story before he started this game. Something like learning your opponents habits and calculate to win. She decided to trust him and apply it for the first time.
Right now, Eris respected Rudy like she respects Ghyslaine. She can feel that his home tutor was seriously teaching her, because everything that he teach her in math are always engraving in her head and Eris can do multiplication table and division.
The auburn student use her sloppy Shunpo but to no avail, Rudy was effortlessly guard the ball. Eris didn't give up and tried to read his movements, eventually, she was lying in the ground, gasping some air.
"I'm going to ask you a question. Why can't you stole this ball?" Rudy started to lecture her since the game was over the moment Eris can't move due to fatigue.
"Because I thought you will go there, but you suddenly behind me. Then I tried to approach you but it was only an afterimage, until I saw you, but you are already far away..." To think that she still has energy to keep telling her reason was she lost, Eris was really gifted in stamina department.
'Red hair and has a lot of stamina. Maybe you're not a Boreas, you might be from the Uzumaki clan.' Rudy humored himself at the thought of Eris unrelenting stamina. Because after a few breaths, she was now standing before him.
"Eris... I guess I have to tell you another story, since you didn't get what I mean to say." Eris rolled her eyes at the thought of Rudy's story telling.
"Once upon a time, there was an avatar who seeks a cure due to being traumatized and can't used her bending properly. That is Avatar Korra.
In her journey, she found a very old woman who was an expert on teaching the Avatar. That is Toph Beifong, the strongest earth bender and the inventor of metal bending.
The two do some mock training and Korra couldn't even win once on Toph..." Rudy looks at Eris to hint her that the next portion of the story is the key why Eris lost.
"Toph asked why she couldn't win. Korra tells her that she was thinking that she will do the attack here but instead she attack there and something like that." Rudy paused for a minute to catch his breath.
"Do you know what Toph said? She said to Korra, 'You can't win because YOU. ARE. THINKING!'" Rudy tried really hard to imitate Toph when he tells the main reason why Eris lose.
"..." Eris didn't have the energy to talk back. Previously, he tells her to think to win, now he tells her to don't think to win. She really wants to punch him in his perfect teeth.
"What Rudy wants to tell you is to think the habits of your opponents but don't depend yourself in those so you can adapt to the unexpected actions of your opponents." Ghyslaine interjected and explains to her the deep meaning of Rudy's stories.
Eris look at Ghyslaine with awed look. She was impress that she can understand Rudy's weird stories. And Rudy also look at Ghyslaine with a pleased look, he really underestimate the wisdom of the Sword Saint.
First, she was the one who suggest him about 'The Zone' so he can now materialize his Zanpakuto, then she elaborate his ambiguous moral lesson of the stories, making him impressed.
Rudy decided to make Ghyslaine become innovative regarding her voice magic. Since in original story, they only used there voice magic to make enemy stunned.
But for now, he will focus on Eris's growth since she would need it when they go to the demon continent in the future.
The day ends while Eris was lying on the ground, panting and trying to catch her breath.
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
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FujiTatsumaki Hey guys!
Here's your chapter for today.
(1 out of 3 chapters.)
I'm also going to make Ghyslaine have a power up in the future. Until then, I'm going to focus on Eris first.
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