“Tsubame Gaeshi (Swallow Reversal)”
Immediately, three slashes are made at the same time, and it cut the dummy from 3 sides simultaneously, leaving no way for this (stationary) straw being to escape.
“Hm, look like I can do it just fine, if it was just this much.”
Drawing back her transforming sword currently in the shape of a nodachi, and converting it back to ether, Roadside Rose commented upon the result.
"Big Sis, that is very nicely done! I didn't know that you like doing this move in-game as well."
“Kyu! (And I thought you don’t have a taste in anime).”
Chiming in, Marigold and JustADragon praise her wholeheartedly, as they admired the clean symmetrical cut made on the dummy with inspectful eyes.
"I am not doing it for fun here, you two...I am doing it to test out whether we can fully use our techniques inside this game. After all, there is a difference between using it in reality, and using it in the game."
Joining the empty handle back into the black scabbard on her side (recently made, expertly produced), she widens her feet, and put her right foot perpendicular to the dummy in front.
“Hyaku Tsubame: Hikou (Hundred Swallow’s Flight)”
Hovering her hand one moment, she instantly drew it the next. Escaping from her scabbard, a hundred blades come out at the same time, cutting the dummy into a hundred pieces. Then, as if catching the wind, her hundred blades soar away to the sky, flying beyond the horizon, before blending into the air.
“For example here, in this world, I can only manifest 100 possible possibilities at the same time, without harming the integrity of this world's dimensional structure. To manifest even more possibilities would force me to either damage this place, or overlay another dimension to make up the number."
“Ahhh...I suspect that was the case myself, but thanks you sis for the demonstration!”
“Kyu! (So just encroaching it exactly 100 times, got it!)”
“...Although, to create multiple "right" answers, just for capturing a swallow…A technique employing great principle, for such simplicity."
“Mm...ultimate mastery, for ultimate mundanity...”
“Kyu...(It’s definitely cool, isn’t it?)”
Silently putting her sword back, she found herself nodding along with those two, silently admiring the simple swordsman from beyond the screen.
“Well, it’s my turn next!”
Having the instructors setting up the dummies for her, she briefly thanks them with a wave, before winding up her arms for a strike. After that, she also took a fighting stance like Rose, holding her right fist in front of her and accurately aiming for the target.
Then, she passes through the dummy in an instant, striking at a speed faster than the eyes can follow, and come out to the other side in the same stance as the beginning, leaving the dummy as still as a corpse. The only sign she left on the dummy which indicates her attack, is a chain of glowing stars, strewing across its body from head to toe.
“Hokuto Shinken Kai: Mugen Uchuu Ken (Modified Big Dipper God Fist: Endless Universe Fist)”
Forcefully creating endless pressure point onto the victim's body and rearranging it into a new internal universe, she twisted the flow of the dummy's internal energy, forcing it to destroy itself, completely bulging and blowing up into pieces of straw.
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"Hm...this time are you trying it with only your avatar alone? Needing to rapidly switch your status from speed to offense with each strike leaves too much gap for my liking though."
“Kyu (Though at least the technique alone is flawless as always)”
“Thanks for the praise, but I don’t think this pet technique could be considered perfect, until I leave out no gap in my current avatar...This body needs a lot more strengthening."
(Eh? But we literally see no way to fight against it, even if we’re 10 times stronger though?)
(The technique that we wouldn’t even dream to touch its pinkies for all our life is considered a pet technique?? And it’s incomplete at that???)
(Thank goodness she is willing to teach us on the side, otherwise, we wouldn't even see how it was done)
As the instructor is having their own peanut galleries on the side, Marigold swiftly returns back to her seat, constantly thinking about ways she could improve on the EX-tier qualified techniques, with her eyes close and her head tilted cutely.
“Kyu (Finally it's my turn. Since everyone has been pulling out anime techniques, it would be remiss of me not to do the same)"
Having the shadow dragon girl preparing the dummy this time, she walks up close to the dummy one small step at a time, before finding herself touching the pole, looking up from below.
"Kyu (Now then, something simple and effective...I know!)"
Opening her wings and hovering around the dummy's chest, she held her little paw straight, pointing directly at it.
“Ryuu-Kai (Draconic Destruction)”
Then, the dragon element within her viciously assault the dummy, and force it to undergo destruction itself, as the dummy mercilessly tears itself apart and returns itself to nothingness with a white particle glow.
“...Dra-kun, does that count as a technique at all?””
“Kyu (Well, the God of Destruction has to spend a lot of time and effort to harness the Ki of Destruction, so I think that counts.)"
“Also, aren’t we supposed to preserve even a part of the dummy intact for Marigold’s mission? You have destroyed it too cleanly.”
“Kyu! (Don’t worry, bossess! That’s what the Dragon part is for...Dragon Reversal)”
Immediately after, the glow that's still lingering in the air return back into the shape of the dummy, before slowly reverting back to the material and parts used to make such a dummy, laying neatly on the ground in proper order.
“I see...in that way, your technique is reversible, and you can control the process in anyway that you want.”
“Kyu! (Yep! Definitely would be superbly convenient when we need to preserve and separate raw material out of monsters in the near future.)”
“Oh, how economic, Dra-kun!”
(...So, in other words, even Life and Death lay at the top of the Absolute Dragon’s little paw, huh)
(Can’t die while leaving a corpse behind, and can’t live while escaping her clutch...that technique is as mischievous and terrifying as she is. Definitely a role model!)
(Now if only the foolish son can learn something from this, instead of busying himself admiring his own pecs)
Stealing the glance at the Third Son busily training while making a fool of himself with his smug smile and swelling chest at any passing female close by, the Elite Four Shadow can only shake their head and clicked their tongues, before returning back to secretly admiring Dragon, who's now sitting at the top of Mari’s head again, looking smug as always.
“Well, from that, we can surmise that while we can exhibit our skill in some capacity, many considerations need to be made when we decided to pull out some of our original techniques. Especially at this stage of our vessel, the techniques we usually employed outside are too terribly mismatched with our current body, which leave gaps and unintended consequences."
“Plus, even if we can supplement our current power with Conceptualization to match our actual strength, we're constantly having to think about how our conceptualization can affect, or even break the world, which forces us to walk on eggshells. Roughly speaking, we need at least 10 times more willpower and control for each action we do while employing it.”
“Kyu (It’s like that “World of Cardboard” quote, but scaling it to the entire game setting...Well, can't deny that it's an interesting problem to have.)”
“The mechanics that allow other players to exhibit strengths beyond the bound of their world, end up becoming the chain which limits our own...having to work around that, while still being able to enjoy ourselves and be able to see the view, lay so much avenue for training.”
“Plus, not like there are many things that would require us to use Conceptualization in the first place. And as long as it keeps being that way, we have nothing to worry about!"
“Kyu (...Well, the mission you’re doing right now probably needs you to use it though)."
“Probably yeah, Dra-kun...That reminds me, now it's my turn to fix up all these dummies! Dra-kun, Big Sis, can you help me with all the little stuff?”
“Sure thing.”
“Kyu!”
After that, the two of them then go around to collect spare and leftover parts, while Marigold sits beside the broken dummy, happily fixing up and upgrading these straw figures with her playful, yet meticulous hand. With how eagerly they're doing it, there is no mistaking the fact that they're enjoying playing around.
“...Even when playing around, you three are truly absurd as always.”
“Oh, hello Big Miss Godiva!”
Waving back at them, Godiva Cassandra, who have been secretly watching at the sideline with her pair of emerald and topaz eyes, finally joined up with them.