Chapter 877 - Kendo

"Hey Kid, what kind of training do you want me to do?" Kenp[achi asks Xin after bringing him to a training room.

A room full of rocks and sand, there's nothing in the room at all that makes Kenpachi excited, he can easily find a place like this in Soul Society.

Xin took a wooden sword and swung it and asked," Do you know what a sword is?"

"A sword art? Who cares about Sword Art? What i want is to fight you!"

Seem Kenpachi sees Xin as a living target so he pulls his sword and tries to slash him but suddenly he shivers and hurriedly takes distance.

"Why?"

'This bastard!.' Kenpachi doesn't know what Sin did, he only knows that his body triggered something that made him escape fast.

"Zanjutsu or Way of the Sword is the fighting style for the Zanpakutō and is one of the four basic fighting styles of the Shinigami. It is shameful for a Shinigami to not master at least this technique. It is the specialty for you, Captain Kenpachi."

"Kendo is a modern martial art, descended from swordsmanship, that uses bamboo swords or an iron one."

Xin waves at him to come closer, Kenpachi looks irritated when he sees it but still he comes closer to see.

"Do you know why you back away just now?"

Kenpachi look at Xin and said," Instinct, my instinct told me that if i move closer I'm dead,"

"That's right, every inborn fighter has an animal instinct that is higher than normal being, Your instinct triggers when I use my own Way."

"The Way of the Sword is not only useful in cutting, it's also useful to give warning to anyone by giving fear using the Way."

"Like Killing Intent?"

"Yes, but the Way is different, Killing Intent is simply the user exuding pure killing intention, and having it affect their opponent, themselves, and others around them, up to the point of paralyzing them with fear."

"While the Way i use is to give warning and plan fear to my opponent, and that is your first lesson, to overcome the ear that i put in your heart,"

"So how can I overcome that so-called fear you are talking about?"

"Simple, you need to attack me."

"Simple." Kenpachi took his sword again and waved it to Xin without any second thought, but he realized something.

It seems that his body starts to tremble unconsciously, while his grip on his sword seems too soft.

'What the hell!!' Kenpachi doesn't know what is the seed of fear of Xin talking, but his body is different.

Instinct is the natural tendency that a person or animal has to behave or react in a particular way.

A rabbit that is being hunted by an eagle can easily trigger a natural instinct by just being gazed upon by its prey.

Just like right now, the Kenpachi body already develops a natural instinct for Xin, a fear instinct that triggers without any Kepachi thought.

Kenpachi tries and tries again, but it's useless, his body seems powerless in front of Xin, he doesn't know why even cursing Xin is hard for him.

"Done?"

"I'm not done yet kid!"

Kenpachi tries to hold his body firmly and slash Xin down but in the end, he can only touch Xin gently without even hurting him.

"Good, even though its soft, you still overcome the fear, after all, lets go to the next lesson,"

Kenpachi looks at Xin and his sword, for some reason, something inside of him feels boiling, he doesn't know why he felt it but for him, it's too bad at all.

"The Way of the Sword only has 2 important things, and that is to Cut, and Speed."

"For swordsman, speed is everything, after all, you can easily overcome any enemy with just pure speed,"

Kenpachi nodded, saying that it's easy to understand that speed is more important sometimes.

"And you already have the speed that requires so we will skip that lesson, let's talk about CutDo you know how to cut?"

"Are you kidding me kid? I've already killed hundreds of people, thousands of Hollows, do you think i can't cut?" Kenpachi angrily asked.

Xin looked at him and then bent down to pick a rock on the right size.

"Then, can you cut this?"

Kenpachi took it to throw upward and wave his sword.

Bang!

The rock turns into a powder, he said," Easy right?"

"I said to cut not to crush."

Kenpachi took another stone and threw it, this time the rock did not explode but it crumbled into small pieces.

He then realizes something, it seems that the rack can cut easily at all by his normal way.

Xin said," That is not cutting, cutting is the basic and the most fundamental way of the sword."

"To cut means to split something without undoing anything more than that."

Xi took a rock then cut it in half and showed it to him," That's cutting, if you can cut the rock without leaving any crack or turning it into powder, then I will give you the next lesson."

Kenpachi took a rock and tried to cut it and the result, the ruck cut in half but he can easily see that there's a small crack on the cut part of it.

Xin looks at him and walks to the other training room to help the other, it seems it will take time for him to realize how to properly cut.

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Meanwhile in the second training room, Unohana looks at the rock in her hand, she waves the small wooden knife, and then the rock is cut cleanly, without any damage and change except for the clean cut.

"So that's how to Cut,"