"Did you learn some new move?" Chen Yu asked, looking at Kinro.
Kinro looked up at Chen Yu and nodded.
He had carefully studied the Tube Spear Style Chen Yu had demonstrated back then, along with Hyoga's attacks, and then tried it himself.
Going all out, he could briefly suppress Kohaku while forcing Magma back, but only for a little while. Any longer, and he would be left exhausted and drained of strength.
This time, he had wanted to demonstrate it so Chen Yu could give him some feedback and help him improve. After all, Hyoga had put him under tremendous pressure back then.
"What is it?" Chen Yu asked.
He was also curious about what had happened while he had paid little attention to their training. Everyone seemed to be growing. Kinro seemed more resolute, Kohaku seemed more agile, and Magma seemed to have changed quite a lot. His improvement felt especially significant. Chen Yu would take a good look in a moment.
"The tube spear. The one from back then," Kinro said.
The tube spear? Hyoga's technique? But what was so worth learning about that? To Chen Yu, Hyoga's Tube Spear Style seemed to be nothing more than an introductory technique.
After all, there were countless spear techniques, with several variations on thrusts and upward strikes alone.
The style passed down through Hyoga's family seemed to specialize in exactly that: a technique that pushed the speed of thrusts and upward strikes to the limit.
The key component of the tube spear was the hollow piece of wood or bamboo around its shaft.
It used a point within that tube to retract the spear and thrust it out, but someone who only had that technique was easy to defeat.
All you had to do was destroy his weapon, and