Erina knew nothing about martial arts.
She had only recently come into contact with martial artists, and her understanding of what they could do was close to nonexistent. Even watching Jaden's Kengan matches hadn't really opened that door for her.
After all-
Jaden's fights ended far too quickly.
Still, even if she didn't understand martial arts, she had seen other fighters train before.
Sandbags, usually, were something fighters stood in front of. They punched them. They kicked them.
That was normal.
But when Erina came to bring Jaden his meal, what she saw made her stop in place.
Jaden was standing several meters away from a hanging sandbag.
He wasn't moving.
He was just staring at it.
Erina hesitated.
-Do martial artists train like this too?
She didn't understand at all.
But Jaden looked focused. Extremely focused. So she didn't interrupt him and waited quietly.
Ten minutes passed.
Then she saw Jaden take a single step forward.
She couldn't tell what he did next.
She only heard a heavy, dull thud coming from the distant sandbag.
When she looked again, the hanging sandbag was no longer whole.
Half of it had fallen to the ground.
The other half was still swaying weakly from the hook.
Erina froze.
...What?
Her first thought surfaced almost instantly.
Did he hide a gun on his body?
Aside from that, she genuinely couldn't think of any explanation.
But if he had hidden a gun-
Then what kind of martial arts training was this supposed to be?
Erina couldn't understand it at all.
At that moment, Jaden noticed her presence.
"Erina," he said naturally. "You came to call me for lunch, right? I'm basically done here anyway. I was just about to go shower and come find you."
Hearing his voice, Erina snapped out of her daze and asked the question that had been stuck in her head.
"Jaden... did you hide a gun on you just now?"
"A gun?"
Jaden paused, then followed her line of sight and saw the ruined sandbag.
"Oh. That."
He shook his head.
"How could I hide a gun on myself?"
He reached out and lightly tapped Erina on the forehead. She instinctively covered it with her hand.
Jaden smiled.
"It's just a martial arts technique," he said. "A slightly unconventional one. I plan to study another technique like this as well. After all, I still have to deal with that Wild Tiger, and I'll be participating in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament."
He spoke casually.
"Even though I don't think I'll lose, since I promised you, I'm planning to take this a bit more seriously."
If someone knowledgeable in martial arts heard that sentence-
Their eyes would probably widen in disbelief.
-You call something that cuts a sandbag in half from five or six meters away a martial arts technique?
That wasn't martial arts.
That was magic.
But Erina didn't know that.
After hearing Jaden explain it, she subconsciously accepted it as a martial arts technique. A door she had never even realized existed quietly opened for her.
Still, not understanding something didn't mean she was foolish.
Even as an outsider, she could sense how terrifying that move was.
Erina looked at the broken sandbag.
Then she looked back at Jaden.
She remembered her first thought.
A gun.
Without realizing it, two words surfaced clearly in her mind.
-Demon Spear.
Compared to the "Wild Tiger" title Jaden had casually taken from a famous fighter, this name felt far more appropriate.
At least to her.
...
Jaden, naturally, had no idea what Erina was thinking.
After completing Rankyaku, he began attempting Geppo.
Compared to Rankyaku, however, Geppo gave him real trouble.
Rankyaku had clicked quickly once he found the right approach. Geppo did not.
But even so, Jaden gradually formed a rough understanding.
Among the Navy's Six Powers, if Soru was the ultimate application of Go-hardness-focused in the legs, then Rankyaku was a combination of Go and Ju.
Without combining Go and Ju, Rankyaku couldn't be executed.
And without sufficient physical qualities, even a purely Go-based technique like Soru was impossible.
Which meant-
Geppo was likely the ultimate expression of Ju.
First, the entire body probably needed to relax to a certain degree to meet the prerequisites of Geppo.
Second, the transition from relaxation to exertion had to be shortened infinitely.
Only by doing that could one truly approach the essence of Geppo.
Because of this, Jack Hanma's template was unsuitable for practicing it.
If he had the Kaku Kaioh panel, he might have completed Geppo and Kami-e in one go.
That realization came too late.
After being completely stuck on Geppo, Jaden decisively gave up on both Geppo and Kami-e.
He shifted his focus.
Tekkai.
And Shigan.
From then on, he threw himself into it.
He worked nonstop. Thought constantly. Tested ideas again and again.
Countless attempts.
Countless failures.
Then-
The next day, he drew Tekkai.
Only after successfully drawing it did he realize how wrong his initial assumptions had been.
Tekkai wasn't simple.
As one of the Navy's Six Powers, it was a superhuman technique. Even though it looked like someone just standing there waiting to be hit, the actual mechanics were extremely complex.
It wasn't about tightening every muscle in the body.
It was about tightening specific muscles.
Using a special method of force exertion, those muscles were squeezed, layered, and compacted together.
When an opponent struck him in that state, it was no different from hitting iron.
In that state, most vital points on the torso and limbs were effectively removed.
More than that-
Because only certain muscles were tightened at any given moment, the muscles struck the first time and the second time could be entirely different.
This made it fundamentally different from the brute-force defensive techniques of ordinary martial arts schools.
It allowed continuous damage negation by exploiting the time difference between resistance and recovery across different muscle groups.
A true superhuman technique.
And one that perfectly suited Jack Hanma's naturally tough body.
When Tekkai was activated, Jaden's center of gravity disappeared, most vitals were eliminated, and he could endure attacks with almost no damage.
But the drawback was equally clear.
Once Tekkai was active-
He couldn't move.
If he forced himself to move while using Tekkai, the effect would drop sharply, turning into nothing more than an ordinary muscle-tightening defense.
That kind of technique, while still useful, no longer deserved the name Tekkai.
Jaden understood this.
So he practiced.
For an entire day.
His Jack Hanma panel integration reached ninety percent.
But the next round of drawing didn't give him anything that directly increased his combat power.
Instead, he received a USB drive containing the Monogatari series novels.
He liked the series a lot.
But he didn't plan to release it.
He would just read it himself.
As for why-
-A Certain Magical Index only had its first volume released, right? He'd wait until Index was finished.
With that settled, Jaden continued training.
Then came the final morning.
Jaden pressed the sign-in button.
Jack Hanma's panel reached one hundred percent integration.
The sign-in reward was issued immediately.
[Sign-in Reward: Navy Six Powers · Shigan (Finger Pistol)]
Jaden chose to receive it without hesitation.
As Shigan began integrating, Erina came to find him.
"Let's go, Jaden," she said. "It's time to head to today's Kengan match."
Jaden organized the information flowing into his mind and nodded.
"I've prepared for so long," he said. "Even if most of that preparation is really for the Kengan Annihilation Tournament after defeating the Wild Tiger, not for the Wild Tiger himself, it's still fine. It helps pass the time."
"Nobody says they've prepared for a long time after only three days," Erina replied flatly. "But for you, who's only been exposed to martial arts for about ten days total... I guess it still counts."
She looked at him helplessly and walked alongside him toward the car that had been arranged downstairs long ago.
They were heading to the venue.
By noon, the Kengan match between Toyo Electric and the Totsuki Group would officially begin.
And the attention on this match was extremely high.
Aside from the fame of the legendary fighter Takeshi Wakatsuki-the Wild Tiger-many people were also curious about this duel between the Wild Tiger and the "Wild Tiger."
As for who was who-
If you asked Jaden, he would answer without hesitation.
He was the Wild Tiger.
Takeshi Wakatsuki was the fake.
As for why?
Because he registered the trademark.
The law said he was the Wild Tiger.
So no matter who asked, Jaden would say it confidently-
Takeshi Wakatsuki copied my title and still refuses to admit it.
I have never seen someone this shameless.
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