Chapter 21: Mr. Lu, you want rules
Chapter 21: Mr. Lu, you need to exercise restraint
Quebu was a little surprised when he heard this, "Are you... going to reopen the Yuanliu?"
The captain shook his head and said, "Of course not. I don't have that much time to teach now. As the dean of the Maou Spiritual Academy, I am just here to teach a few classes."
Although he was not going to reopen Yuanzijuku, Suzube was surprised by the captain's answer. He did not expect that the captain would be so interested.
At this time, the battle in the field was over. Although Lu Li's overall speed was slower than Ye Yi's, Lu Li was the winner of this sparring match.
"Interesting, the little girl from the Shifengyuan family didn't lose to Lu boy in fighting skills for nothing."
The captain commented, "She lost to judgment."
"judge?"
Que Bu had not carefully watched the battle in the arena just now, so he asked curiously.
"Fighting is actually like answering multiple-choice questions. How do you break down the opponent's moves? How do you attack after breaking down the moves? And so on. Every confrontation is a process of making choices."
The captain said, "Choujiro, let me ask you, how do you make decisions in battle?"
After a moment's silence, Que Bu replied, "The actual combat situation is very complicated. If we break down the process, then every move may be a game of chance. For me, it may be a simple counterattack. For example, if the opponent attacks me head-on, if I judge that I don't have time to counterattack, I will retract my sword and defend myself. If my sword can hit the opponent first, I will choose to attack the opponent's vital points..."
At this point, he paused again, "If you compare fighting to answering a multiple-choice question, there are too many options, and the opponent also has many options. With the change of one option, everything will change, so it is difficult to predict. Thinking about it carefully, I actually made judgments subconsciously."
"What a subconscious move."
The captain looked at Que Bu, which made Que Bu a little confused.
Quebu thought for a moment and added, "In summary, daily training is very important. In battle, muscle memory often helps me make decisions. It's probably correct to say it's subconscious."
"You're not entirely right, but you're not entirely wrong either."
The captain nodded and said, "So a qualified god of death should practice every day and should not slack off. The fighting skills engraved in his bones will save his life in a life-and-death battle, but..."
When Quebu heard this, he knew that the captain was about to tell him the essence, and he pretended to listen respectfully.
"...Choujiro, some people make decisions in battle not based on honed skills or muscle memory gained through daily practice, but... on instinct."
The captain's old eyes narrowed even more, looking at Lu Li who was wiping his sweat with a towel below, "He instinctively chose the best solution for each move, so even if the little girl from the Shifengyuan family can suppress him in speed, he can still win."
"Instinct..."
Quebu pondered over this word, and when he thought about it carefully, he really didn't have time to think so much when he was fighting. Even if he had tactics, they were long-term and not limited to a certain move in the confrontation.
At the moment of the swords clashing, no one had any extra time to think. It seemed that the only thing they could rely on was instinct, which could also be understood as the subconscious he had mentioned before.
He looked towards Lu Li with a serious expression. If this young man really had the instinct to make the best solution in battle, wouldn't it mean that he would be invincible if the spiritual pressure was equal?
According to the captain, the level of combat skills and the ability to make choices and judgments should be viewed separately.
To put it simply, under the same spiritual pressure, Yaichi can kill ten Hollows with one punch, and Lu Li can kill eight Hollows with one punch, which means that Yaichi's "fighting skills" are at a higher level.
Choosing whether to punch or kick in a fight is a function of one's ability to choose. Suppose Ye Yi made a wrong choice and the attack missed, while Lu Li made the right choice. Even though the power of that move was not as strong as Ye Yi's, he still effectively killed the opponent while avoiding damage from the enemy.
In this way, the importance of the ability to "make choices" in battle may be even greater than combat skills. Instinct?
"Let's go, come back the next day."
The captain said that since the class was over, he planned to educate this ignorant boy during the next free class.
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"Why do I feel a little cold? Could it be that I didn't eat enough at noon and didn't get enough nutrition?"
Lu Li just felt a chill, as if he was being stared at by some terrifying being, but when he looked back, he didn't see any ruthless person.
"Lu Jun, let's go, the next class is Zanpakutō resonance."
Aizen called out to the thoughtful Lu Li. After two months of getting along, they became more and more familiar with each other.
And he had to admit that, apart from the field of spiritual pressure, Lu Li's talent in other areas was not inferior to his, and was even stronger than his.
But what made him feel "disappointed" was that Lu Li's improvement in the field of spiritual pressure was extremely slow in his opinion.
From Aizen's perspective, Lu Li definitely had the talent to cultivate spiritual pressure, but he had been very lazy in the past two months and no longer practiced with him late at night.
It's all Captain Unohana's fault...
Aizen couldn't quite understand why Lu Li was so crazy about Kaido. In his opinion, instead of practicing Kaido and then using it after getting injured, it would be better to improve his strength to an extremely high level to crush his opponent, rather than simply not getting injured.
He could also feel that Lu Li had a strong obsession with becoming stronger, so he totally didn't understand why Lu Li would give up in the spiritual pressure training which was the most direct way to improve strength.
Oh, it's not appropriate to say that he was giving up. At least Lu Li did practice hard in the spiritual pressure training class three times a week. The real reason why Lu Li didn't go with him at night was that Lu Li was always "feeling weak" recently.
I don't know what he played with Captain Unohana every day. When he returned to the dormitory, his steps were weak and his face was pale. He fell asleep while lying on the bed and chatting with himself. He didn't practice his spiritual pressure at all.
He replied so enthusiastically, could it be that... Lu Jun has fallen in love with Unohana-sensei?
Aizen felt that he might have analyzed the truth, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why a reckless battle maniac like Lu Li only practiced Kaido instead of Reiatsu every day!
Thinking of this, Aizen couldn't help but say, "Lu Jun, I think you should exercise some restraint recently?"
"Ah? What do you want to control?"
Lu Li was completely confused and had no idea what Aizen was talking about.
After some thought, Aizen said, "Although I know that Captain Unohana is very attractive, and it is exciting to conduct forbidden experiments with a female teacher, but you make yourself so weak every day. How long will it take for you to be able to open your Shikai?"
Lu Li: ???
Because Captain Unohana said that the content of her after-school guidance must be kept confidential, he never mentioned to Aizen that he was being chopped every day.
Sosuke, how on earth do you know that I'm doing forbidden experiments with Unohana-sensei every day?
Besides, did you misunderstand something? I'm not the kind of person with a weird XP system, so why would I be excited about being hacked?
(End of this chapter)