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OROCHIMARU: Sorry nephew I already closed the rift.
HAZOU: oh, okay.
OROCHIMARU: [hmm, he took that better than I expected]
THE SUSPICIOUSLY "REWIND LOCAL SPACETIME" SHAPED RUNE IN HAZOU'S BACK POCKET: 🗿
OROCHIMARU: Sorry nephew I already closed the rift.
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #7: S: 0, B: 50, R: 0
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #8: S: 0, B: 49.5, R: 0.5
Orochimaru's TH notes #1: S: 0, B: 164, R: 36
Orochimaru's TH notes #2: S: 0, B: 160, R: 40
Orochimaru's TH notes #3: S: 0, B: 60, R: 90
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[X] Hazou Training Plan: PS Step
PS 20 -> 23 (-132 XP)
Save 1 XP
[X] Training Plan Hazou: Sealing Step
Sealing 51 -> 53 (spend 208.5 Sealing XP and 1.5 regular XP)
So that means we have, what 384 THing XP banked?
It's really not worth spending until we have a TH project to work on. Just stagnates Hazou.So that means we have, what 384 THing XP banked?
We should be able to get up to THing ...21? 22? Something like that.
Presumably, Oro did these Runes in order, so Hazo's day 0 prep day for Rune 4 is probably not the best indicator for whether Rune 4 is within Hazo's current ability to reach as part of a coherent and disciplined research agenda.we probably need at least a few more PS levels before that last rune's within our reach
This strikes me as the same mistake we were making with the time runes: thinking that trying to make rune effects shorter and smaller always make them easier. We should never try to put a cap on how much effect a novel rune can give us unless we actually want no more than that. If you want to be able to trade off duration for easiness, just specify that Hazou does not care about duration.Tenketsu Rune
A rune that skips the water as a medium and opens one's tenketsu directly when touched while active. Tenketsu opening persists for only a few hours afterwards. But the process can be repeated.
Yeah that makes sense to me and was my read.Presumably, Oro did these Runes in order, so Hazo's day 0 prep day for Rune 4 is probably not the best indicator for whether Rune 4 is within Hazo's current ability to reach as part of a coherent and disciplined research agenda.
Oof.He'd left behind Gaku, Atomu, Honoka, Sasha, and a dozen other Gōketsu who meant something to him when he remembered they existed.
Yes. Tenten mastering banter is the only thing that stands in the way of Project: Omincule."You may need to work on the banter," Hazō said with deadpan seriousness, "but you've already checked off the treason, family loyalty, Uplift compatibility, complicated love life, and 'being prepared for me to cause trouble' requirements. All you need now is a distinctive special interest and–"
Tenten tapped her shuriken holster meaningfully.
"–welcome aboard," Hazō concluded.
What the hell, great scene!?And then Mari was behind him, kicking his knee forward to bend him over so she could ruffle his hair.
"Also, dammit Hazō! I was having Yumenori prepare me a hundred different perfumed baths, all sealed up at exactly the perfect temperature, but you called right before she finished and now I don't have any perfumed baths at all!"
"That's what you're worried about?" Hazō said, bending lower to get her hands off his hair and ducking away. "I'm sure we can heat some water with some nice plants in it for you, Mari."
Mari barely quirked her lips and glanced at Noburi and Yuno for an instant. Right. Mari was trying to lighten the mood, but Noburi and Yuno had both had deep social connections in Leaf, futures that they were looking forward to, and that Hazō had now yanked away from them (for very good reasons!). Noburi trusted Hazō, but Yuno… Well, for better or worse, Hazō's strongest connection with her was their shared religion, and he wasn't sure if he should leverage it to win her approval or forgiveness.
"Well," she said, as Noburi and Yuno came into earshot, "Noburi has already given us the run-down, so we can skip the whole 'What the hell, Hazō?' part of this reunion."
"What!?" Noburi exclaimed. "Why would we skip that? It's the best part! What the hell, Hazō?"
"What the hell, Hazō?" Mari agreed.
"What the hell, Hazō?" Hazō heard Kei say from behind him.
"I thought it was pretty reasonable," Kagome-sensei said. "Gotta get away from the Akatsuki stinkers."
"What the hell, Hazō?" Tenten said.
Yuno looked back and forth between everyone, confused.
Noburi took a step to her side and reached around her shoulder with one arm, gesturing at Hazō.
Yuno hesitated. "What the hell, Hazō?" she finally said, slowly.
Could we make a rune that shards summoning permissions from one scroll to more people?"I want to teach everyone shadow clone," Hazō said. "We're missing-nin anyway, and it's the single most powerful technique we have, except maybe the Summoning Technique. It's non-elemental, so everyone can and should learn it."
Eeeeeeeee!"No such thing as absolute certainty, sis," Noburi said. "Not when working with bodies and bloodlines. But I'll see how close I can get."
🐍 Nephew."That does look like a zigzag streak of red in the wall," she said. Immediately, she started scanning her telescope back and forth. "And look, I think I see a square shape in that pile of stones there. That must be the building foundation that Hazō mentioned."
Noburi followed her gaze, then took a step to snake his hand around her waist. "Good eye! I love how observant you are."
You are Kxxrrrssszwww Hzxzzzwww, what do you do?"That's a problem," Hazō said.
"It's a problem, yep," Kagome-sensei agreed. "But hey, the rift is closed!"
At least that was true. Years ago, the bladehorrors, Hazō-imitating monstrosities of razor-sharp steel, had sprung from a rift that looked like a shimmering piece of dark metal in this spot. Now, there was no sign of that metal hovering in the air. That was good.
Unfortunately, Hazō could see the rift's former site. Granite rubble surrounded the old foundations of the box, which varied between a couple inches and a couple feet, all connected by the smooth cuts of a razor edge rather than the jagged fractures of intense force. That was bad.
"So, the bladehorrors got out of the box, and then did… what?" Hazō asked.