A few days later Kouji and his crew aboard the Amaterasu and their supporting Tsukuyomi detachment made their way to Earth from the Khyber belt. As they entered the range of the inner planets, they were intercepted by one of the smaller leader class ships of the Magia fleet flanked by a few similarly sized Federation ships.

They received a hailing transmission from the lead ship, Tallia quickly pulled a feed up on the main communications panel but had it simulcast throughout the ship.

“Unidentified vessel please present some form of proof to your purpose for being in Federation controlled space.” said an automated message.

“We are the crew of the Amaterasu no Okami Mk4 Battlecruiser, Formerly of the Separatist army.” Kouji declared as he made a gesture to Tallia and Alicia on the deck. “We have come to declare our departure from the Separatist army and our unified wish to join with the Federation in their fight against them.” he continued as the ship’s modular weapons systems disengaged and began to separate from the ship’s hull with the Tsukuyomi units following suit

“We hope you’ll take this as a sign of our willingness to remain peaceful. We would disarm completely but the mounted weapon systems require a lot more work to disengage. Although we do have all the power to the remaining systems disengaged.” He concluded as he waited for a response.

“Well It’s nice to see you again, you welp. Have you any intentions of apologizing for your comment toward my daughter or the way you conducted yourself when you thought you’d won the fight against Takaru.” said a voice he recognized as the old codger that had blown up his ship along with the girl and disabled most of the mini-rasu fleet.

Kouji gulped slightly as the old man appeared on the main screen among the main deck crew of the ship that hailed him. He felt the eyes of his entire crew draw focus on him. as he thought back to the scene that the old man was referring to.

“My apologies for my conduct. I’ll address a more direct apology to her in person once I’m able to disembark on Earth. But spare my crew the trouble and allow us to pass.” He said his skin crawling at the thought of what he’d done under the influence of the Zoracite. While he admitted he would take someone like her prisoner his main reason for doing so would be for information rather than what he had stated his intentions were at the time.

The old man nodded and said “I’ll hold you to that. As far as your crew coming through to Earth I don’t see any problems with that since the men we took in were relatively hospitable once we got them settled down.” He made a motion to one of his deckhands and the ships split apart to clear a path for the Amaterasu

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A few hours later on Earth, after the Amaterasu and its crew had disembarked from the ship at Port Side North Air Force Base in South Harbor. Kouji allowed his unit to disperse as they pleased knowing a large number of them would be needed to help clean up the mess in the area both in South Harbor and North City as well as the surrounding areas they attacked.

As they finished unloading materials from the ship a familiar voice rang across the air.

“Well I guess I can take it that y'all decided to defect?” the voice said a slight southern drawl ringing his voice.

“Yep. We left it up to the crew and it came to pretty unanimous vote that we break things off. While we didn’t communicate our resignations to the brass I somehow feel the Admiral won’t pay too much mind to our departure. Eh, Toushi.” Gen replied.

“So think you’d like to see what life is like on the other side of things.” Takaru said as he smiled at Kouji. He extended a hand offering a handshake to ease Kouji’s nerves knowing he didn’t have much of a life outside the military and would probably need to adjust a little.

Kouji shrugged his shoulders and accepted the handshake, “So what do you have planned?” he asked smugly.

Toushi let out a sigh. “I guess it's to be expected to be antisocial just like his father was. Makes sense on account of how long he’s been in the service and no doubt he was probably isolated intentionally to keep him blind to the outside world. But I’d say we could have you a lot more down to Earth before too long.” he said as he walked up and patted Kouji on the shoulder trying to get him to ease up a bit.

“Well we had a trip to a local beach planned for later this afternoon and when we heard you were on your way in from the brass at command we thought we’d drop in and toss an invite your way.” Takaru said with a warm smile on his face.

“I guess it couldn’t hurt to try this out.” he thought to himself. Tallia could see the uncertain look in Kouji’s eyes as she stood there chatting with Gen and Toushi. “Alright I guess I’ll tag along. Besides it's better to adjust now than later.” he said reluctantly as he saw the others light up with ear to ear grins.

“First we should all probably go into town and get you guys some actual clothes since those combat fatigues wouldn’t fit in at the beach. The girls are already beach side so we could probably meet up there and split off so Tallia and Alicia can get their stuff while we help you and Gen get set up.” Takaru said as he waved toward his car. As they started to make their way to it Takaru smirked and patted Kouji on the shoulder “Wanna race?” he said as he got down into a sprinting stance. “Winner gets to drive.” Kouji’s eyes lit up at the challenge considering he still thought of Takaru as somewhat of a rival even though he had intentions of joining the team.

“Alright.” he replied as he assumed a similar stance, with Toushi and Gen following suit. Alicia smiled and waved her arm like a flag and signaled them to go.

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About an hour later as the guys were busy helping Kouji get some serviceable casual clothes Takaru was sitting there and decided to strike up a conversation with Kouji.

“So you and Tali seem to get along pretty well together. I’d guess you’ve probably had a few years to spend together as well as you seem to match up on things.” he said as he saw Kouji walking into a changing room near the bench where he was seated.

Kouji abruptly froze and started to stutter a bit. “Yeah.. We’ve been in the same unit for about two years. But it's nothing like that. We just have a good working partnership, I hadn’t considered us as having any more than that.” He said with a slight tremble in his hands as he entered the changing room and shut the door behind him.

“You know I’ve heard that people who have repressed feelings often act them out toward other individuals using them as surrogates. If I had to put a little bit of analysis into how you acted during our fight on the rooftop I could imagine the Zoracite was drawing on your repressed sexual tensions with Tallia and having you act them out toward Anya in the weakened state she was in.” Takaru replied as he lounged on the bench waiting for Kouji to come out.

“Am I that open of a book? Are things that obvious to you?” Kouji said as he began to get dressed in his new outfit. As he thought to himself wondering if he was really that one dimensional.

“Nah. It's not that. My sister is studying psychology and through digging in her books I’ve picked up a bit of info about Freudian psychoanalysis. Freud was a very prominent figure in the study of psychology here on Earth and most of modern psychoanalytic study is based on his work and the work of those who followed him. He believed that the subconscious was a reflection of suppressed thoughts and feelings that our minds want to act out.” Takaru said as he heard the door to the changing room creak open

“Heh you never struck me as the bookish type. But I guess everything has something that they can hide. I’m sorry about that whole mess with Anya. I genuinely don’t know what came over me.” Kouji said as he stepped out and looked himself over in the mirror. The outfit seemed to fit him nicely. It was comfortable but not too baggy and it kinda went with the aesthetic he’d had the last time he was on Earth posing as a student.

“Going with the black and gold motif you had before? I think it suits your rather electrifying personality.” Takaru said as he noticed the lightning bolt pinstripes that went up and down the sides of his shirt and pants. “I’ve always been partial to red and blue although I don’t incorporate it into all of my outfits.” he continued as he gave Kouji a thumbs up showing that he liked the outfit.

“It’s alright I can guess you’ve seen what kind of things Zoracite can do to people and now you have experience of what it can do first hand. If I hadn’t broken your gauntlets and the crystals inside them you would have turned into one of those mutants you sent down here.” Takaru stated as he watched Kouji head in and change back into his fatigues so he could go hunting for a few more outfits.

“Of course that said I don’t think she’ll take a simple I’m sorry. According to Hikari, she was pissed when she found out what you did and said. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d be inclined to blast you on sight.” Takaru said as he trembled a bit thinking back to how angry Anya was when she’d found out.

“It’s understandable.” Kouji replied. “I effectively threatened to take her as a trophy and make her a piece of property. I hope she’s willing to give me the benefit of the doubt on that.” Takaru smiled and nodded as he walked with him up to the counter to help him pay for his new clothes.

When they got to the counter they met up with Dojiro and Genichi, Gen had several outfits slung over his shoulder just like Kouji. In his case the color scheme seemed to be white and green with bronze trim.

“My family, at least before the war, tended to be travelers always moving on the winds. “Stubborn as rocks but free as the breeze” was our family’s credo back in those days. So I think these colors fit.” Gen said with a smirk. “Green and white have connections to the wind and bronze is emblematic of the Earth and it's one of the more common metals found near the surface,” he continued.

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Meanwhile the girls had been chatting with Hikari and Tallia having a similar dialog tract to what Takaru had with Kouji And she’d been quite a bit more open with Hikari about wanting to settle down with Kouji than he had been.

While Anya had accepted an apology from Tallia on Kouji’s behalf she was still insistent that he give one to her personally. Tallia could understand why considering the circumstances but it was kinda surprising to see her be so mellow about it considering the reactions she apparently had according to Hikari.

Before they left both Tallia and Alicia decided to switch into one of the outfits they’d newly bought. Tallia was in a pair of denim shorts and a tank top while Alicia walked out in a pair of jeans and a low cut t-shirt.

As they walked out of the store Tallia walked over to Anya and said “I kinda hope things with Kouji work out. After seeing what happened back on Valin I don’t doubt we’d need everyone we can to turn things around and save it.” her lips quivered a little with nerves as she said it.

“Don’t worry I won’t be too harsh with him. I’ll admit I was upset when I heard what he did but at the same time Knowing now a lot of it was the Zoracite in his gauntlets affecting him I can’t hold it massively against him I’ll probably give him a little lecture but so long as he’s sincere with the apology there shouldn’t be too much trouble.” Anya said with a warm smile going across her face.

“You think the boys will like what they see when we meet back up with them?” Alicia asked with a wild smirk forming.

Hikari nodded and hopped into her car as Alicia and Tallia followed suit with Anya riding in the back next to Tallia.

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When they arrived at the beach the girls were blaring the radio listening to an oldies station that specialized in music from the 1990’s on back

As Takaru and the boys walked up it seemed they were singing along and trading off here and there as a new song started. Hikari piped up singing slightly altered lyrics from what was coming out of the radio.

After a little bit they settled in on the beach and began to break into discussion. As the various conversations ticked on, Anya finally stepped up and confronted Kouji on the incident.

“Anya,” he said as she walked up in an outfit similar to the one Tallia was wearing. His face started to turn slightly red as he looked her up and down aimlessly, noticing she looked a fair bit different from the last time he’d seen her up close

“..” he began to stutter slightly as distraction overtook his normal demeanor. After a few moments she began to glare at him and reared back before punching him square in the nose.

“Stop gawking and start talking asshat.” she said her glare intensifying as he stumbled backwards from the force of the punch. while the others began to giggle in the background.

“Sorry, your new look kinda caught me off guard.. last I saw you, you were a little less endowed.” he said trying to cover up for his leering as he clutched his nose feeling some blood trickling out of it. “I’m sorry about what happened on the roof that day. I’ll admit the thoughts of what I said had crossed my mind but I had no intentions of following through on them.” his eyes showing a sincere look that Anya could read with her watcher’s eye as being truly heartfelt.

“Alright I’ll accept the apology, but you do anything like that again and I may not be so willing to forgive you.” as she pulled out her sentient arm and cast a simple healing spell to fix his broken nose. “We’re here to enjoy ourselves and not sweat over things that are in the past. So let's get down to it.” she said as she walked over to her car and pulled a large boom box out of the trunk and turned it on after setting it on a solar power charger.

The girls smiled as they began to walk down the beach Tallia turned back toward Kouji and gave him a flirtatious wink which caught him off guard.

“Wanna see a little more.” she said, teasing him as she started to lift her top noticing his blush from looking at Anya had been replaced with one that was a few shades deeper red as his eyes followed the sway of her hips in the shorts she wore.

Within seconds the girls had all peeled off their shirts enmass revealing they’d put on their swimsuits underneath their street clothes. Most of them with the exception of Hikari were wearing two piece bikini style swimsuits.

As Kouji walked along the beach with Tali he couldn’t help but grin as his eyes looked her up and down. While this wasn’t the first time he’d seen her in a similar state of undress, the last time he’d see her like that was a less enjoyable occasion. Due to it being during the breakdown that spurred him to push for the defection.

She reached down into a bag Hikari had set out and pulled out a large towel and set it out flat on the ground After getting it situated and adding a few sealed pillows over it to make it a bit more comfortable to lay on.

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It had been just over a year since Kouji and his unit defected from the Separatist Army and things had been going well. While the Separatists no longer had a means of attacking Earth directly the still continued to escalate their attacks elsewhere but the tradeoff was that the Federation no longer had to divide their defenses between their main planets and Earth since the Valion Force had been able to expand due to Kouji’s unit joining up with the branch of it that was attached to the Joint UN/Federation forces.

Takaru had spent time training with his sword following its transformation and while he’d yet to master the glyph amplification that he’d performed during the fight he’d managed to get a basic understanding of how it works. He’d also studied some of the workings of Sentient Arms after some discussion he’d had with Anya about how the gems in her and Kouji’s arm weapons glowed with names for various abilities like Kouji’s Lightning Drill and her Nova Strike attacks. She explained that those were something called “Key Names” special code words the sentient arms use to quickly reference the glyphs needed to call on the ability and the runic formulas needed to amplify mana or spirit energy to use it properly.

Normally these phrases or words didn’t need to be vocalized by the caster since they could be called upon by telepathy between the caster and sentient arm but occasionally verbalizing them proved beneficial to the caster by allowing them to mentally process the glyphs and hasten the charge time on more complex abilities. This also extends to various invocations for extremely powerful spells for Magia, although the spells can be vocalized telepathically between the wielder and weapon if they’re synchronization is strong enough.

In that time Kouji had gotten a replacement set of gauntlets, these were based off the latest revision of the tech behind the weapons the main team used. The only huge difference was the lack of a proper AI companion for it. As Kouji had no knowledge of his family beyond the admiral and while Hayato’s journals made reference to a late princess of the Isagarra family who traveled with him there wasn’t enough data to build a personality profile.

While the journals that Dozara had inherited from Hayato were mostly composed of what he could physically carry, in handwritten manuscripts Han had backups of logs from his ancestor Sanjiro Nisaharra in digital form prior to the war breaking out on Valin.

The lab staff worked out the details of developing a proper AI for the new gauntlets while they threw together a prototype of the gauntlets for Kouji to use since he’d been itching to spar with Takaru since he’d joined the team and try out the new generation of Hybrid arm tech that was in his gauntlets and Takaru’s sword.

The sword had been reconfigured to better use Takaru’s spirit energy and mana hybridization capabilities. In the process of the modifications Takaru had opted to have them added in an ACS drive module to enhance his control over his abilities.

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Takaru and Kouji met up in the training room and began to square off with the others watching from an observation deck above them. As they squared off in the rather bare looking room Norton called over the loudspeaker saying “Let’s give this fight a bit more flare.” as he engaged the holofield system and the area began to take a new form.

“T.K my good boy, I think you’ll recognize this arena. I chose it special for you from the roster since I know you might have a bit of nostalgia for it.” he continued as the field began to manifest and they squared off in what appeared to be a jungle clearing.

Takaru began to glance around the area and as he stood there preparing to draw the Blue Dragon Blade -ACS style-- as he’d taken to calling it following the addition of the ACS drive. Kouji jammed a key, his personal choice of activation catalyst. Into a concealed slot in his gauntlet as the claws extended and he struck a stance and raised his arm into the air as the voice of the blank AI called out saying “Changing.” to indicate it was activated in its summoning mode as he did a series of sweeping motions with his arms and shouted “RaiRyu Henshin!” which in Japanese translated to Thunder dragon Transformation, He’d taken the phrase from the logs that Han had kept it being the phrase the Isagarra siblings had used for their weapons.

He thrust his right gauntlet into the air and a bolt of lightning flew up into the air, At the apex of its climb it briefly took on the appearance of a golden dragon and let out a loud roar before descending and crashing into Kouji forming a suit of full body armor rather than a typical Barrier Shell armor suit most of the other Hybrid Arms used.

The black and gold armor had similar dragon inlays to those on TK’s sword, mostly an artifact of basing the armor’s design on that of the armor the Isagarra siblings wore.

Takaru stood there clapping with a smirk rather impressed with the light show Kouji had put on. He followed up by drawing his sword and holding it straight above him catching a glimpse of the artificial sunlight projected through the dense jungle arena and in a subtle flash Takaru’s armor formed looking like a mix between his original barrier suit armor and the style of armor that Kouji wore.

Takaru glanced around the arena as their respective armor’s finished forming and he realized the place they were in was familiar, it was the place he’d seen during the sword exhibition he’d seen as a kid.

Off in the gallery the magia officer who Takaru had seen fighting that day during the demo watched on, having heard of the things Takaru had accomplished in his training he wanted to see him in action, seeing as that sparring match was an inspiration for his training regimen. He was one of Norton’s close friends from his military days, a venerable officer named Sidney “Sid” Rothwell.

Sid watched as the fight began to escalate after their respective armor activations. “So these two are the boys you were talking about? Their armor’s do make me think of the armor used by the Shuria elite guard. It was known that the Ancient Shuria guard had an affinity for dragons and from some of the documentation that Dozara and Han have submitted the gear used by their ancestors had a similar characteristic. I wouldn’t hesitate to imagine that the weapons that inspired the designs of these hybrid arms used tech from the Shuria period while most of the archives from that period have been lost “ he thought to himself as Norton smiled letting out a rather jovial laugh.

“Makes you think back to our old days back in the Academy doesn’t it Sid. These two boys seem to have the same competitive nature we had back in those days.” he said as he and Sid began to chat back and forth about the fight.

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After what seemed like a few hours to them Kouji and Takaru decided to let things come down to their next attack. Kouji took a stance and began to go through the motions to invoke his lightning drill as the AI core flashed with the name of the ability.

Takaru said to himself, “Well looks like this will be the test of how well my training went.” he quickly struck the Blue Dragon Blade into the ground and traced a circle around himself with it. “Load Cartridge!” he called out as the ACS Drive loaded in a few cartridges discharging the alchemic amplifier into the air and expelling the spent cartridges.

Takaru quickly drew the sword and struck a defensive stance as a large glyph formed over the circle under him as he began to mimic the motions that Kouji was going through. The automated response system spoke back saying “Zander Mode!” as the sword reconfigured itself to that of a short handled Zanbato, or Japanese claymore.

“Lightning ---- Afterglow!” Takaru called out as the sword reached its apex and he slashed into Kouji as he flew toward him. The sword’s AI core began to glow and the phrase Takaru called out glimmered in the gem.

The arch of lightning charged spirit energy and mana flew at Kouji clashing with the field of his lightning drill as Takaru’s sword clashed with his claws. Eventually Kouji’s attack fizzled under the force of Takaru’s raw energy and the magnification of the ACS cartridges

Suddenly the holofield began to distort and fizzle. “Holy shit! I think that attack just juiced the holofield stabilizer.” one of the technicians called out over the intercom. as the field began to dissipate and the room returned to the blank white tiled room they were in before.

They both broke off their attacks and powered down their respective armors feeling that fight was enough for a sparring match. Up in the gallery Norton and Sid practically stumbled out of their chairs from the shockwave of energy that came off the two attacks clashing.

“My goodness those boys have some power behind them. I’m kinda shocked they canceled each other out like that granting Takaru’s ACS enhanced attack but I guess it comes down to Kouji knowing more about electric type spirit energy or having a more prominent affinity for it.” Norton said to himself as he pondered what just happened.

Kouji stood there with TK and smiled. “Great fight. Seems we’re a lot more even than I expected. These new gauntlets feel like a massive improvement over the ones I’ve used previously, and according to the techs these aren’t even finished. That said I may consider having an ACS module added in if they could adapt it for pure spirit energy users.” he said as he flicked his wrist.

Takaru looked on and replied “Yeah the ACS system seems to have a lot of potential, I think i’m kinda lucky I can use it without modifications since I’m able to process mana thanks to Anya. But one of the flaws with it is that the catalyst compound they use can cause some short term mental instability due to contact exposure from the vapors discharged from the chamber. Those vapors contain a large amount of the compound that was unspent from the amplification. While using a few cartridges during a fight won’t cause any harm using a large number can cause a state similar to what happened to me on the roof during that fight we had.” he said as he let out a sigh and sat down on the floor feeling his body’s exhaustion finally catching up to him.

Kouji looked over and saw Takaru lurch over not quite passing out but looking a little shaky all the same. “What’s wrong?” he asked with a somewhat confused look on his face. He’d admit he was tired, but the fight didn’t seem like it took nearly as much out of him as it did Takaru.

Anya and the others walked in with a few medics to help clean up any injuries they sustained and some technicians to look over the equipment they’d overloaded.

“Don’t worry he’s fine. This is perfectly normal for him, when he overexerts himself while on an adrenaline high he goes into a state not unlike someone coming off an extreme sugar rush. His body crashes out from exhaustion and while he doesn’t usually completely pass out from it unless it's an extreme case. He normally comes out of it feeling like his body weighs a ton for a while and he doesn’t have the strength to move under his own power. He should be back to normal after a few hours of rest though.” Anya explained as she leaned down and helped him to his feet bracing him against her.

He wrapped his arms around her waist limply leaving his hand to slide a little further down her back.

“Yipe!” she squealed as she felt his hand twitch and pinch her butt as a smirk crossed his lips as the rest of them broke into giggling. “Somethings don’t change with you do they T.K. you may be dog tired but that doesn’t stop you from getting frisky when you can tell I’m next to you.” she said to herself.

“It was a reflex I swear!” he called out telepathically as she grabbed his hand and put it on her hip. She crossed her free arm and let out a sigh as she continued to help him make his way out of the room noticing Kouji being helped out by Tallia.

“Alright, I’ll let that one go.” she replied. “But try to keep that kinda stuff private. I don’t think Dad knows how active we are yet.” Takaru agreed as he giggled telepathically at her reaction.

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It had been a few weeks since the sparring match and Kouji had been working on getting adjusted to the perfected version of his new gauntlets which he named the Raging Thunder Gauntlets after those that the Isagarra siblings wore. He’d also started training to develop a fighting style that would suit him. While the journals mentioned the school that the Isagarra twins had trained at it didn’t detail the training they underwent.

His gauntlets had been designed to allow the blades to assume multiple configurations depending on his needs. Along with that he’d taken the opportunity to develop a few new techniques to go with the new forms.

His favorite configuration at this point was having them form into a set of giant hands that went over the top of his normal hands. They could mimic his motions and he’d also had them configured to be able to launch off with assistance from an ACS cartridge for a ranged rocket punch type maneuver. He had two different versions of it that he worked on, a normal rocket fist. Which he mostly used as just a ranged attack The other he’d named the Revolver Magnum which was an enhanced version he used with glyph amplification.

He also had another one that allowed the claws to sheath over his fingers and be joined independently of each other and conform to the motions of his fingers. He’d been testing an invocation for a finisher in this configuration but he was still having trouble finding a phrasing for it he liked.

One night while he was practicing it in the backyard of the apartment, they’d been granted for their work under the Valion Force, was in the process of meditating to cool down after an intense training session. As he began his meditation he could hear the sounds of thunder in the distance. It had been drizzling off and on all day but he didn’t mind the rain. He found it kind of refreshing and relaxing as he felt the drops misting against him in the wind his breath eased up and a glyph began to appear beneath him.

The sky began to darken and the sound of thunder began to grow louder. He raised his hand into the air above him, His armor formed up around the gauntlet and his claws sheathed up over his fingers as he began to feel arcs of electricity building around his feet.

As the energy began to build around him he felt his muscles tighten up in response to the nerve endings reacting to the current going through his body. He took a deep breath and concentrated drawing his spirit energy into his hand.

“Argh this hurts.” he thought to himself. He drew a sharp breath as the Hybrid arm began to draw his hand in closer to his body with his fist clenched tightly. A few ACS cartridges cycled through the chamber as he felt big surges of energy wash through him feeling like his flesh was being seared from the inside out.

“This hand of mine glows with an unbound power! Its raging grip tells me to defeat all those who oppose me!” he said as he felt his armor starting to reconfigure itself “What’s going on?” he thought to himself as panels on his back and the back of his boots moved aside to reveal concealed booster jets.

He glanced down at the AI core which flashed the words “Air Road.” as a stream of energy formed in the glyph beneath his feet and a golden trail began to rush forward. The voice of the AI Core spoke saying “Excellion Formation!”

“Roaring Lightning Finger!” he shouted as the boosters on his back flared and he began to dash toward his target, in this case a training dummy. He reared back his hand as he rushed forward and let his body flow on the current of electricity as he reached his target and jabbed the dummy.

The energy he’d built up in his hand arced around him as he picked up the dummy lifting it above his head while the AI core flashed the kanji script character for the phrase “Denji End!” appeared inside it

Kouji called out “Strike now!” as the flared bolts of lightning coming off his boosters shot through the dummy like spears and exploded leaving the dummy destroyed.as Kouji began to pant feeling the strain of the amplification starting to hit him.

“Wow! That was intense.” he said to himself as he noticed the sky above him sparking with lightning as a stray bolt hit a tree off in the distance and split it down the middle. His armor dissolved into energy, and he stood there as the rain began to pelt him feeling almost like hail.

He thought back to what his instructor had mentioned: the fact that spirit energy and mana can cause artificial influence on the weather due to those energies having deep ties to the raw forces of nature.

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