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Hunter X Hunter: Grounded
🕑 Added 2020-09-08 15:12:51 +0000 UTCChapter 14
Title: Efficient...
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When she told me that we would learn joint dislocation. I immediately decided to accept it. "Sure, when do we start."
Azula smiles at me, showing her jagged teeth. "Right now."
She jobs her hand towards my shoulder and she kicks my stomach, knocking my breath out. She uses her hand which she had on my shoulder to dislocate it, she then tries to jump up from her place that she is sitting on. But suddenly she stops and looks at her leg that she used to kick me. It was twisted in a weird way.
Azula has a surprised look on her face. "You dislocated my foot as soon as I kicked you?!?!"
She looks at me and says out loud. "Damn… you are a real monster."
Well, that is rude of her. Calling someone a monster. I mean I could have broken her leg, but I didn't because that wouldn't be a good move on my part.
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-General POV-
What neither Sub nor Azula noticed was that the six-year girl, Karla, looked at them and saw Sub's dislocated shoulder. A strange look appears on her face, while on the outside she didn't show anything of what she was feeling.
She stopped her training of the Silent Step Technique and just looked at Azula intently.
Ogre notices this and he looks at Karla. "Hey Karla, you should concentrate-"
Karla just gives a side look to him. Her black eyes white pupils seem terrifying as veins appear all over her face as if worms are crawling under her skin.
Ogre's words get stuck in his throat when he sees Karla like that. She seems to be angry about something. He immediately backs up and goes back to his training. 'The hell is wrong with her.'
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On the other hand, Azula just puts her dislocated foot back in place and Sub puts his shoulder back in place without even wincing as he looks at her in the eyes. "Can we start training for real now, miss Azula. I would like to train and not keep playing around."
She sighs in annoyance. "Sure kid, whatever. Anyway just turn your back and take off your shirt."
Sub complies and shows Azula his back. She then gets up and crouches down on her knees getting to Sub's level. She reaches out with her hands and grabs Sub's shoulders.
Crack!
And easily dislocates both of them, she then takes one of his limp hands and starts dislocating his fingers one by one. Sub doesn't even wince at this, the torture training makes this pain seem more like an inconvenience than real pain. Slowly her finger delicately goes along Sub's surprisingly muscular back for someone his age.
It dislocates all of his ribs which connect to his spine, leaving Sub breathless for a moment as he feels his ribs touch his lungs. His eyes widen a little as he starts breathing heavily. But Azula simply whispers to him. "Don't breathe too heavily, breathe calmly, don't take fast deep breaths, take as much oxygen as you need. Not anymore."
Sub nods at this and calms down his breathing, his ribs only touching his lungs a little, but still not hurting him. Azula isn't surprised by this as she has already started expecting excellence out of him.
Her finger then delicately trails down his spine until it goes to his lower back. "Ok, now we have dislocated almost every bone in the upper body. I want you to try and move your arms now. Use muscle strength alone, don't rely on the bones for support."
Sub tries to move but surprisingly he can only do slight movements. He feels like a baby who has to learn to walk. It feels so difficult trying to move his arms.
'This could be used as a good training method.' Contemplates Sub, as he tries to move his arms. But the best he can do is just weakly bring one of his hands to his face. Also, his arms seem to move like snakes…
Azula on the other hand nods at Sub's progress. 'That is some good concentration to have for someone his age.'
She didn't know that it was the concentration of an adult that Sub had and it wasn't anything special either.
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Like this two month pass, and Sub is currently in his room. Dislocating all of his bones in his body just by flexing his muscles in a certain pattern. There were countless techniques that one could learn in this world, and Sub showed interest in a lot of them and started learning them. Especially techniques that can help with his training.
He also learned some traditional training medicine. It was in the library in the Crimson Hand institution, not a lot of people go to this library so Sub is usually the only one in there and some books on some old traditional medicine were left. They were from a clan who seems to have been exterminated, Sub mostly brewed the internal organ strengthening medicine and some healing ointment to help his muscles heal.
It isn't anything revolutionary, but to Sub, even helping him raise his training speed by 5% is something that he is willing to look into. Currently, he is at the phase of muscle control, really more like internal blood flow control. Surprisingly he learned those types of techniques fast. They require someone to be good at knowing himself on the inside and self-control. Sub can literally control his Life Energy, and it was in a way kinda like it. So now he can stop his bleeding injuries by just contracting his muscles.
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-Sub (MC) POV-
After dislocating my bones all over my body, I start doing some push-ups. No one really comprehends how much bones help a body, until you do a pushup like this.
I have to keep my spine in place by using muscles, muscles my breathing and keep my body straight using just muscles while at the same time using only muscles to do a pushup, with no help whatsoever from the bones.
But really though, I remember from the anime that when Gon broke his bones when fighting against Hanzo. It was said that after Hanzo broke Gon's bones a certain way, they got stronger after they healed. If I can figure that out, I can just break my bones repeatedly and then heal them until they grow strong to their limit. There was no mention of that technique in the Organization's Library, so it seems like I will have to go to Jappon.
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Another month passes…
I look at Azula, she is wearing her usual smart pants. But she is also wearing a crop top, she looks at me with an annoyed look on her face.
"What did you say brat!?!?!" Says Azula as her shark-lite teeth are on full display to me.
But I am not really intimidated. Being intimidated at someone weaker than me is something illogical. Still in the end I repeated my question to her again. "I would like for you to make some poisons for me so I can raise my poison immunity."
She sighs in annoyance again and she scratches her head in annoyance. "You really piss me off sometimes Sub. Can't you just ask for normal things once in your life."
I think a little and in the end, say. "Ok then, how about you just directly pump the poison into my bloodstream."
She grinds her teeth when she hears me say that. "Why! The! Hell! Would you even need something like that!?!?"
I shrug at her question. "Well, what if I get hit by some lethal poison."
"Ugh… you are so annoying. We only raise poison resistance here because when you do something like bring a poisoned bottle of wine to your target you can drink it first and relieve his worries." Explains Azula to me. But I am only half-listening to her, I don't really care what way assassins use to kill normal people. I don't want to be just an assassin. So I open my mouth and am about to speak to Azula again but she just looks at me even more annoyed than before.
"Ok, ok whatever I don't care, just come here tomorrow and I will give you some lethal poison for…" Azula stops as she relishes how ridiculous things that she is saying sound. "Ok, whatever I will make one for you brat."
I smile at her. "Thanks, Azula, I owe you one."
"Sure whatever brat…"
Then I run away and go towards the cafeteria.
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But when I arrive there I notice that Machi has returned but when I look at her closer… my eyes widen a little in surprise. No way… She…
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AUTHOR NOTE:
We see that this MC looks for the most efficient training methods and ways that he can get results. This is the difference between him and the other people, he likes to work hard but also smartly, he likes to keep his progress speed up there with Gon and Killua, though he trains way harder and efficiently than them.🤣🤣🤣
One word that I would use to describe this MC would be 'Efficient'.
