To shift the focus, what is Koushi doing now?
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The azure silhouette of Earth quietly hovered against the backdrop of the pitch-black cosmos, like a precious gem. And on the lunar surface—desolate, silent, and covered in craters and gray dust—two figures abruptly appeared.
A spatial gate quietly closed, and Chinatsu and Aqua stepped onto the lunar surface.
Chinatsu still had blue hair, but features of the Herrscher of Reason Astral Dress were already manifesting on her—mechanical patterns adorned the hem of her clothes, and her eyes occasionally flashed with blue light resembling data streams.
However, this transformation was incomplete, looking more like the result of forcibly activating the power of a core that had yet to fully recover. Most of her attire remained her regular clothes, appearing somewhat strained.
Aqua, who was accompanying her, wore a complete Heavenly Judgment Herrscher Astral Dress, rendered in black and white tones that conveyed both rebellion and splendor. Her long white hair floated effortlessly in the vacuum, and her golden eyes curiously surveyed the unfamiliar land, sparkling with unconcealed excitement.
"Wow! So this is the Moon? ~ ☆ It's so quiet! So vast! I can blow up anything I want, and nobody will scold me! ~ ☆" Aqua excitedly jumped in place, soaring high in the low-gravity environment.
"Quiet down, Aqua." Chinatsu's voice carried a hint of fatigue, but more importantly, seriousness. "I didn't bring you here to play."
She surveyed her surroundings, taking in the absolutely silent environment devoid of any traces of life or civilization, and nodded: "There's no atmosphere here, no interference, and nothing we need to worry about. This is the ideal place to practice controlling your power."
Aqua landed back on the surface and tilted her head at Chinatsu: "Control power? Shouldn't my power be usable whenever I feel like it? ~ ☆ Why do I need to control it?"
"It's precisely because of your 'use it whenever you want' attitude that you caused such a huge mess!" Chinatsu glared at her exasperatedly. "As punishment, I will temporarily disable your authorization to use the Heavenly Judgment Core while we are on Earth."
"Your current power is like a breached flood—fierce but unsustainable, and it destroys everything in its path. What you need to learn is how to turn this flood into a river that you can guide at will, whether it flows as a raging torrent or a gentle, long-lasting stream."
Looking at Aqua's still bewildered eyes, she knew that explaining overly profound concepts to her would be useless. She had to use a method that Aqua could understand and find interesting.
(Fortunately... the The core of reason contains enough knowledge recorded from my mind, even including things I had already forgotten.)
Chinatsu took a deep breath (despite the lack of air on the Moon), quickly searching through the fragments of knowledge from the "Honkai" world in her mind until she found a technique most suitable for the current situation.
"Listen, Aqua," Chinatsu assumed a peculiar starting stance, her gaze becoming focused. "What I'm going to teach you is a method of power application called 'Taixu Sword Qi'..."
"Taixu Sword Qi? ~ ☆ That sounds incredibly powerful!" Aqua was instantly captivated by the cool name.
"This is a very ancient and powerful technique," Chinatsu began her "ad-libbed" teaching, combining the principles she gleaned from the The core of reason's Understanding and her own talent with the manipulation of spiritual power.
"It doesn't focus on unleashing power all at once, but rather on letting the power form a unique 'Qi Resonance' within the body, circulating endlessly. The goal is to achieve clarity in 'Heart Resonance,' precision in 'Form Resonance,' and unity in'Soul Resonance'..."
As she spoke, she tried to guide Aqua to sense the flow of her own spiritual power: "Try to feel the spiritual power inside you. Don't treat it as stagnant water or a bomb. Imagine it as... flowing water, or the air you breathe. Guide it to circulate along specific routes inside your body, making it active, yet keeping it completely under your command..."
Although Chinatsu was explaining the profound principles of Taixu Sword Qi, she combined her Understanding of the essence of spiritual power with Aqua's actual situation, using the simplest and most direct method to help Aqua grasp the importance of "control" and "circulation."
"...This way, when you need power, it can respond instantly, unleashing far greater might than your brute-force attempts. When you don't need it, it can lie dormant obediently, and won't easily lose control. That is what it means to truly master power, rather than being mastered by it."
Although Aqua only half-understood the explanation, she possessed a naturally keen intuition for power.
Imitating Chinatsu, she closed her eyes and began trying to sense and guide the vast yet restless spiritual power within her body.
Initially, the spiritual power still behaved like a runaway wild horse, wildly surging inside her. But under Chinatsu's patient guidance and the subtle influence of the profound concept of "Taixu Sword Qi" (even if it was the ad-libbed version), Aqua began consciously restraining and organizing these forces.
Thread by thread, wisp by wisp... the originally chaotic spiritual power began attempting to flow slowly along a certain mysterious trajectory. Although still clumsy and occasionally splashing up "waves," it was already a world of difference compared to the previous state of pure accumulation awaiting explosion!
The surface of the Moon was utterly silent. Only two figures, one large and one small, remained: one patiently explaining and guiding, the other diligently attempting control. Blue data streams and dark purple spatial electric light occasionally flashed around them, illuminating this eternally desolate land.
Chinatsu looked at Aqua's profile—gradually immersed, slightly furrowed, yet intensely focused—and felt a slight sense of relief.
(Taixu Sword Qi can even manage energies as corrosive as Honkai Energy; using it to guide and control this meager spiritual power is massive overkill, like using an ox cleaver to kill a chicken... But as long as it helps her, an ox cleaver it is.)
She knew this was only the beginning. There was still a long road ahead before Aqua truly learned to control her power and understand its boundaries and responsibilities. But at least, on this Moon far removed from the clamor of the world, this first step had been successfully taken. The spiritual power that was now beginning to circulate endlessly within Aqua was the dawn of hope.
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