Chapter 47: Shatter Stream Rock Smashing Fist!
"Your back, I was beginning to think you'd be gone forever." Robin said with a smile, a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"Well now I'm back, right here in the flesh. How has everyone been treating you while I was gone?" He inquired.
A smile unconsciously plastered her face.
"It's been great. Morley's been treating me nicely, and I've made good friends with Koala?"
"Koala?"
Robin nodded before saying, "Both of us think it's great to finally have a proper female friend with similar interests. Morley is nice, but we have very different interests, with her Okama thing and all. Koala is much closer to my age, she has even begun teaching me fishman karate."
August showed a visible reaction to that, he was impressed. It looks like it wasnt only him and his group who had gotten stronger in the past couple of months.
"Fishman Karate eh? Now that I think about it, it would make for a nasty combo to combine your devil fruit along with fishman karate. Good thinking."
"Thanks." She took the praise with a nod.
"Have you been training your body?" He suddenly asked.
Robin looked at August with a suspicious look, but answered the question nonetheless.
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"There's something in particular that would drastically increase your combat skills. It's called the Rokushiki. There's 6 of these techniques, and some in particular would work perfectly with your devil fruit. It would be an insult not to learn them."
August remembered watching one piece for the first time. During his watch, he found it odd that Robin did never learn the Rokushiki. During the Fishman Island arc he was anticipating that Robin would show what he had been hoping for, but he was left disappointed.
Leaving his thoughts, he looked towards Robin who had a determined look on her face.
"I want to get stronger. I can't have the Revolutionary Army protecting me all the time, I need to contribute. When do we start?" She asked eagerly.
"Not yet, your body still isn't strong enough. Give it maybe one or two years before I can start teaching you." August waved her excitement off nonchalantly.
She covered her mouth in shock, "Years!"
"At the rate you're going, yes. If you want to learn them sooner, you're gonna have to cut down on your training sessions with Koala."
She was silent for a moment, she didn't know what to do. Train to learn Rokushiki or keep learning Fishman Karate, or maybe both? She wasn't sure, so she turned to August for help.
"What would you suggest? Although I can't throw water like a normal fishman, I still do believe it's useful. I could possibly end fights in one punch with this." Robin explained.
August's eyes suddenly went wide, surprising her. The smile that shortly came after was the biggest she had seen August smile. It only shocked and confused her even more when he began laughing to himself.
"Haha! You're a genius Robin!" He enveloped Robin in a big hug, laughing all the same. She was thankful hugs couldn't allow you to see the other person, otherwise August would have noticed the slight blush on her cheeks.
After ending the hug, he gave Robin one last look of gratitude and walked away.
"But you didn't give me an answer…"
Men were confusing, is that why Morley became a girl?
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The combination of words said by Robin seemed to have set off a reaction in his head, causing him to remember something from an anime with a popular bald headed man as a protagonist.
Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist!
It was a martial arts technique in One Punch Man, it's most notable users being Bang and the hero hunter, Garou. It was invented by Bang and described as a martial art that was the perfect balance of offence and defence.
August was smart enough to know he could never learn the martial art, but he had hoped he could replicate it using his devil fruit powers.
Instead of water that flowed when using the techniques, it would be Shatter energy!
If August succeeded, he could birth a completely new martial art, the Shatter Stream Rock Smashing Fist!
He took a moment to calm himself down from his elated high.
'First I need to change the movement of my Shatter energy.'
From August's knowledge, the foundation of this martial art was to move like a calm stream of water, all the while finishing enemies off with a punch that could smash the rocks of a river.
Instead of water, he would be using Shatter energy to replicate this martial art and it's techniques, so he needed to change his Shatter energy to flow like water.
'If I had to describe it now, it moves like thick oil.' August thought.
Once his Shatter energy could flow like water, he could get to work on replicating what he saw in the anime.
Currently all August had been fighting with was nothing but his honed instincts and basic martial arts skills he learned from Dragon.
With this, his technique would increase by leaps and bounds!
He wanted to get to work immediately, but managed to stop himself. He had just gotten back from a 3 months training trip, and he hadn't slept on a proper bed in what seemed like years.
With how fast everything has been moving, August would most likely be requested to go on a mission soon.
He needed to take this time to relax and rest, then he would start working hard again.
As his body hit the soft pillows of his bed, he found that it agreed with him.
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