Qin Qi: Lisa Lisa, I Didn't Expect You to Be So Funny! / Complete Realm Plus Magnetic Field Rotation Equals a Magnetic Field Maniac!

"Little Garden's power system lets you grow stronger pretty quickly. All you have to do is buy a strong enough Gift."

"But power obtained that easily... it just doesn't feel reliable. Besides, money alone isn't enough to buy a sufficiently powerful Gift."

Qin Qi had bought some Gift items, but he had never bought those Gifts themselves. For one thing, there was no need.

A major conflict was unlikely to break out on the seventh level of the East District, and since he had joined Thousand Eyes, no one would challenge him either.

For another, he had some misgivings about Little Garden's Gift system. Compared to power he had cultivated himself, power that could be sold freely as a commodity...

It just didn't feel reliable. If he had a choice, he preferred the kind of power in Dragon Ball, where one's great might belonged to oneself.

"Hm?"

As Qin Qi pondered, he suddenly noticed something: the Hamon on his finger was still going.

Normally, Hamon should be discharged like a water gun, gathered and then fired to unleash its maximum power.

At the same time, that conserved as much physical and mental energy as possible.

But Qin Qi realized that he seemed capable of more than just maintaining Hamon breathing indefinitely. He seemed able to keep using Hamon indefinitely, too!

"Once Proven, Forever Proven covers that too?!"

Qin Qi immediately flung his earlier question aside and began studying his Hamon in earnest, maintaining it for a long time.

One hour, two hours, three hours!

"I'm not tired at all! This has become an instinct for my body too!"

Qin Qi remembered that Hamon actually used special vibrations to gather the energy the body normally emitted, then discharged it as Hamon at a special frequency.

In other words, producing Hamon didn't consume much physical energy, because as long as you were alive, your body emitted life energy at every moment.

Using the energy that would otherwise go to waste-that was Hamon.

It didn't consume much physical energy, but it was very mentally taxing. To produce Hamon, one had to stay intensely focused to gather it.

But maintaining such intense concentration for a long time put too much strain on the mind, which in turn consumed a great deal of physical energy.

Qin Qi, however, didn't need to expend any mental effort!

Once Proven, Forever Proven had turned Hamon into an instinct, a passive skill. He could use it without putting any mental effort into maintaining it.

"Wait... strengthening the body, healing injuries, energy within the body, maintaining it for long periods... is this really fucking Hamon?!"

"Isn't this Magnetic Field Rotation?!"

Qin Qi couldn't help thinking of that magnetic field maniac's power system. The more he looked at Hamon, the more it resembled Magnetic Field Rotation.

"One uses mental power to drive cells to rub together and generate electricity; the other controls breathing to make cells vibrate and produce Hamon."

"They're practically the same! But my Hamon is too weak right now. At most, it counts as Electric Current Push."

"But... once I get stronger, switching to Magnetic Field Rotation later might not be impossible!"

Qin Qi's thoughts immediately sprang to life. Viewed this way, their basic structures were much the same. Perhaps he could develop it in the direction of Magnetic Field Rotation.

Compared to Hamon, the Magnetic Field Rotation system had greater offensive power.

"Hamon's upper limit lies in the fact that it's bodily energy. There's enormous room to develop it!"

"And with my Once Proven, Forever Proven ability, whether it's a coincidence or a miracle, I only need to succeed once!"

Qin Qi's fighting spirit immediately flared. He could fail countless times, but as long as he succeeded once, that success was absolute!

"Right, I'll rest and restore my energy. Tomorrow I'll learn more from Lisa Lisa and see if she can keep using Hamon for a long time."

Qin Qi forced himself to lie down and rest, preparing for the next day's training and hard work.

I was surprised myself when I looked into it. These two systems really can connect seamlessly! I didn't write too much about it here, to avoid padding the word count.

Anyone interested can look it up.

Also, my take on Little Garden's Gift system is entirely my personal opinion. Feel free to share yours if you disagree.

Chapter 5: Qin Qi: Lisa Lisa, I Didn't Expect You to Be So Funny!

The next morning, in the clearing outside the castle.

"Lisa Lisa, I noticed something last night. Wouldn't it work better if you maintained Hamon for a long time?"

Qin Qi demonstrated how long he could maintain his Hamon, drawing a series of astonished exclamations from Lisa Lisa.

"You can maintain Hamon, but it's too mentally exhausting. You can keep it up while you're awake."

"But can you still maintain it after you fall asleep? It's already impressive that you reached this level so quickly."

"But there's no need to maintain it for long periods. After three days without sleep at most, a person's mind will start to become disordered, and by then their breathing and ability to gather Hamon will become disordered too."

"Rather than studying that, you'd be better off improving your ability to gather Hamon and training your body."

Lisa Lisa told Qin Qi outright to give up on the idea. It simply couldn't be done. You could keep breathing all the time.

But Hamon was impossible. Once you fell asleep, it would naturally settle into a dormant state.

"Is that so? I understand."

Qin Qi nodded. As expected, he could maintain Hamon for so long because of Once Proven, Forever Proven, not because of Hamon itself.

That meant he would have to research how to develop Hamon in the direction of Electric Current Push himself.

"All right, though you're very talented, you still shouldn't aim too high. Hamon cultivation requires perseverance."

"Next, I'll teach you a more difficult Hamon breathing method. It will help you gather the energy in your body more effectively."

The breathing method Lisa Lisa had taught Qin Qi before was the simplest Hamon breathing method. It gathered very little Hamon and was intended to introduce beginners to the practice.

Now she began demonstrating a more advanced Hamon breathing method. It was harder, but it also gathered more Hamon.

"Got it, Lisa Lisa."

Qin Qi watched Lisa Lisa's movements closely and began to imitate and learn them. At first, he failed, as expected.

This won't do... I need to make effective use of my talent.

After failing twice, Qin Qi stopped for the time being. He began thinking of a solution, a more efficient approach.

He had learned one thing doing business in Little Garden: stubbornness was useless. When faced with something you couldn't solve, you had to think first.

Perseverance and stubbornness were two different things. Finding the right direction was perseverance; failing to find it meant trapping yourself in your old ways.

"Hit a setback, have you?"

"That's only natural. You learned it easily before, but now it isn't so easy, is it?"

"Although you may feel frustrated, this is a good thing too. It can temper your state of mind."

Lisa Lisa saw it all. She said nothing and instead nodded. Sometimes, suffering a setback was a good thing.

When things went too smoothly, problems were more likely to arise.

"All right, again!"

Qin Qi had come up with a solution. He began learning again, breaking the breathing method down into individual steps.

Then he practiced them one by one. He failed at first, but mastered each in no more than two tries. After all, each was only a single movement.

Compared to the whole sequence, practicing just one movement was far less difficult.

"That won't work. Even if you learn one movement, it's useless if you can't string them together."

Lisa Lisa spoke up as soon as she saw this. She hadn't interfered when Qin Qi suffered a setback, but now that he was on the wrong path, she had to say something.

"Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale."

Qin Qi ignored Lisa Lisa and continued practicing the movements one by one. Once he had learned them all, he naturally completed the Ripple Breathing Method.

This was the learning method Qin Qi had devised, the one best suited to him and most capable of making use of his Once Proven, Forever Proven talent.

Unlike others, who might forget or make mistakes again after learning something, he would never forget or fail once he had learned it.

In that case, learning one movement at a time was the best method, much like memorizing an English sentence.

Some people memorized it word by word, then remembered it based on its meaning, but Qin Qi memorized it letter by letter.

Because once he remembered the order of the letters, he could automatically form the word and would never forget it again.

"You... you did it?"

Lisa Lisa stared in disbelief at Qin Qi as his breathing began to stabilize, her mouth falling slightly open without her realizing it. She had Qin Qi move around and release some Hamon to test him.

"Your breathing remains stable even while moving, and the Hamon's power really has increased. This, this... I don't know how to describe it."

Lisa Lisa didn't know how to describe Qin Qi. If he had learned it in one try, she might not have been so surprised.

But Qin Qi had been clumsy at first, yet once he learned something, he immediately became as proficient as if he had practiced it for who knew how many years.

Wasn't that progress far too fast?!

"Qin Qi, have you studied Hamon before? Are you pretending not to know it just to tease me?"

Lisa Lisa couldn't help growing suspicious. Could this kid have learned it before and be teasing her on purpose now?

"Come on, Lisa Lisa. Do you really think that's possible?"

Qin Qi looked helpless. He hadn't noticed before that Lisa Lisa was quite funny, but she really didn't need to make such a lame joke.

"Mm, I was only joking. Let's move on to the third stage. It's also the most difficult breathing method in the Ripple Breathing Method."

Lisa Lisa was a little embarrassed. The idea really was a bit childish; she had been so surprised that she had spoken without thinking.

If Qin Qi had known Hamon from the start, she would have noticed the instant they came into contact.

Moreover, hers was the only school still practicing Hamon. If Qin Qi had really learned it before, she should have known him, or at least known of him.

But in fact, she had never heard of anyone named Qin Qi.

Chapter 6: Complete Realm Plus Magnetic Field Rotation Equals a Magnetic Field Maniac!

[Using your talent, you successfully mastered the most difficult Ripple Breathing Method in just three days.]

[At the same time, because of your unique nature, your physical condition improved faster. In just three days, you achieved as much improvement as others did in a month.]

[On the fourth day, Lisa Lisa prepared to impart the second stage of knowledge to you.]

They were still in the same clearing.

"The second stage is changing the nature of Hamon. This stage can be collectively called Ripple Overdrive."

"If the Ripple Breathing Method is a way to refine and release your own Hamon, then Ripple Overdrive is a technique for using Hamon in combat."

"The most basic is Ripple Overdrive, which sends Hamon outward."

As Lisa Lisa spoke, she brought over a stone from nearby and placed her palm on it. The next moment, Hamon appeared, and the stone was sliced straight down the middle.

The cut surface was perfectly smooth, as though an incomparably sharp blade had passed through it.

"That is the most basic Ripple Overdrive technique. Beyond it, you can develop techniques like the flame-like Scarlet Ripple Overdrive."

"There's also Turquoise Blue Ripple Overdrive, which spreads extensively through water, and Sendo Ripple Overdrive, which travels between solid objects, among others."

"But for now, you only need to learn the most basic Ripple Overdrive."

After speaking, Lisa Lisa began teaching Qin Qi firsthand how to unleash Ripple Overdrive and how to use it in combat.

It didn't take Qin Qi long to learn Ripple Overdrive, and an idea came to him at the same time.

"Lisa Lisa, why does Hamon have to travel through an object? Can't I just release it into thin air?"