Heaving gasps escaped BoBoiBoy's mouth as he continued to augment his abilities and his own breathing style in private. He had given Tanjiro time to train on his own as they sparred one another. The victor resulted BoBoiBoy winning first, Tanjiro second after, and vice versa. But he couldn't give up there.
He spent several days working on his breathing technique. To his frustration, he's having trouble getting used to the Water Breathing technique as he realized that his breathing is different compared to his.
BoBoiBoy gasped for air after a failed attempt to utilize the Water Breathing technique. Compared to Tanjiro, he's progressing amazingly well with his breathing technique. He already narrowed it down to the point that he almost mastered it. He gritted his teeth.
"Why...? Why can't I do it?" He banged his fist on the ground to express his anger. For the past days, he didn't have much success. He tried heeding in Urokodaki's teachings. He did everything according to that. Again, it didn't go exactly what he wanted to do.
"Are you having trouble with your breathing, BoBoiBoy?" Makomo questioned as she spectated the ex-TAPOPS member.
BoBoiBoy lost his concentration and fell down in both knees. "Yeah... I can't get a grasp on its capabilities. Am I doing something wrong here or what?"
All the information BoBoiBoy knew is flowing in his head. The techniques in which he had to memorize. The flowing in your body while in deep focus. All he did was replicating them in reality. But alas, nothing came up so far.
"Actually, you are."
His head sprang up. "Huh?"
"You remembered Mr. Urokodaki's words and teachings. You indeed memorized them all, but it doesn't mean you can bring them out into the open just like what you were doing. In other words, you memorized them as a fact. You're driven determination is what makes your flow uneasy and hyped up."
He listened intently to what Makomo is trying to tell him. She continued correcting him his mistakes of his training and gave him multiple suggestions to his training regime.
"All this time, I've been doing it all wrong!" BoBoiBoy facepalmed for being a complete dunce.
She giggled. "I had a feeling that you wouldn't be able to notice it. But thankfully, I'm here to tell you about it."
BoBoiBoy smiled at Makomo. "Thank you so much, Makomo! I'll promise, I'll work hard for my own good!"
With that said, he sped away to search for Tanjiro somewhere. Makomo watched his disappearing figure zooming out of the forest. Sabito appeared along side after he left.
"Didn't I tell you not to help BoBoiBoy with his training?" He sounded mad but Makomo is unfazed of his demeanor.
"He needs to know, otherwise, he never would have master his other breathing techniques."
Sabito sighed in his fox mask. "But still, he should do this on his own. I'll be waiting until the time comes." He started to disappear and Makomo followed.
In the next days, BoBoiBoy did as what Makomo told him. Right now, he's in his meditating stance. He focused deeply into his whole being remained calm.
'Mastering one technique would be difficult for anyone with no physical and mental experience. Luckily for me, I've been training with Tok Kasa and I honed what he taught me, combined with Mr. Urokodaki's.'
He breathed slowly and generating slow air into his mouth and blew them out gently. The trees around him swayed in a calm breeze of the wind that picked up. It was a warm, sunny day outside. So he did this training, shirtless.
'If what Makomo said is true, then I need to change my style in order to draw out my hidden power. To what she told me, meditating is the first step. Since it's all about mental training, I've gotta make this into full effort if I wanna catch up to Tanjiro.'
His two hands formed into an 'O' shape as he continued to feel the energy in him. He could feel the warmness, not just from the sun's heat, but the warmness in his body. And surely after that, BoBoiBoy feels like he's floating.
'I did this many times before, but this time, it feels so... natural. This sensation is quite incomparable to what I've been doing. Now to draw out my power, I need to...'
He breathed in the air slowly, sucking in the air until he generated enough to release them all out in one exhalation.
'Total Concentration!'
His eyes snapped wide open.
'Lightning Breathing!'
His eyes scanned for a nearby object. There weren't many objects in the area except the trees. With that in mind, they could be good target practices.
'Second Form!'
A sound of thunder can be heard. Although not a single cloud is hovering above the blue sky, instead, it was BoBoiBoy, who darted past the tree and sliced it with his sword in half. The tree came tumbling down and landed with a big crash.
'Electric Stab!'
'I spent four months perfecting my Lightning Breathing technique. If I can't master the Water Breathing technique, then I'll do it with just my current one for now.'
He decided to activate his Heightened Senses to try and further himself in these trying times. There were times activating this abilities gave him a massive headache and rendered him immobile for a day or two. However, he's able to overcome that side effect by sheer effort and training.
'I practiced my external senses more often just to give me a clear head and more time to react faster.'BoBoiBoy practiced by having to balance on the tip of the branches. He wobbled and ended up falling down on the ground comically. Next, he went and trained his swordsmanship skills. Having to go BoBoiBoy Lightning should have been easy as he is more adept at that form. BoBoiBoy would have to learn this the hard way if he wants to defend himself from strong demons next time.
'I trained like crazy. I started developing more than I ever could. Tanjiro looks like he's done with his training but I'm not stopping there! Later, I encountered a wild animal.'While in his training, he encountered a wild boar since BoBoiBoy kept going from one place to another away from Tanjiro and Urokodaki's home. The wild boar charged head on towards BoBoiBoy, who remained calm in his spot.
'Lightning Breathing, Fifth Form, Shock Dance.'
BoBoiBoy vanished in a speed of light and zigzagged across the forest, leaving the wild boar rearing its head around to look for its prey. BoBoiBoy reappeared behind the boar and slashed the wild carnivore.
The next scene shows him cooking the boar along with Tanjiro. They both happily munched down on the cooked boar that BoBoiBoy caught for them. Tanjiro asked where he got the fresh meat of the boar and BoBoiBoy answered him meekly.
'Soon after that, I made progress. Two months had passed and I was able to make the Water Breathing Technique at last!''Water Breathing! Fourth Form! Striking Tide!' He successfully performed the spell and slashed a bamboo stick in front of him. He couldn't contain his excitement as he finally got it down right.
Makomo watched him from far away. She couldn't contain a smile as it already spread across her face. She's proud of his achievement in doing the Water Breathing technique.
'I started doing my own moves, and to my amazement, shock and surprise, my breathing barely resembles my old powers, and speaking of them, I accidentally did something that would change my mind about my powers.'Still doing his breathing technique, he yelped in surprise when a thunderstorm cracked in the sky. He looked above to see dark clouds plaguing the once blue sky and gusts of winds entered the fray. A heavy storm is approaching.
Realizing his mistake, BoBoiBoy made no struggle to get back as he kept running to his home, Urokodaki's home. Thunder strikes on the tall trees and one of them almost hit BoBoiBoy. He clenched his teeth as he tried his best to not get hit by one. There are instances the earth beneath would tremble from the consecutive lightning that strikes above.
He breathed rapidly to get back to Urokodaki's home. He made a great mistake by running out into an open field and finally, thunder struck him down, screaming in agonizing pain, leaving him unconscious there while the rain poured him down.
'I got hit by the thunder. Well, thankfully I survived. But when I woke up, to the spot I was knocked out of, I awoke to see this.'He found himself staring at four pairs of brown orbs staring back at him. His dumbfounded expression didn't leave his facial features. He recognized this person. In fact, he remembered these two people.
BoBoiBoy looked and examined himself. He felt really flabbergasted as he saw his robe coloured in a tinted brown. His haori changed colour and it was colour brown but leaving a hue of black on the bottom part of the haori.
This person, the one he's in control, is undoubtedly, BoBoiBoy Earth."What's going on!?" A boy similar to Earth spoke up for them. His countenance spells confusion and worry altogether. His clothing is similar to Earth's yet coloured tinted blue. His haori is a matching blue.
This person is BoBoiBoy Wind!
"This... This can't be real!" Another boy exclaimed in an astounded demeanor. His clothes are slightly yellow like his haori except this had black zig-zag patterns on the bottom part.
This person is BoBoiBoy Lightning!"How...? How is it possible?"'We stood there, our minds racing in this tense atmosphere. Eventually, I was able to calm myself and discussed with them for a while on how on Earth I was able to momentarily split! It must be from the lightning strike that happened probably yesterday or a few hours ago, god knows what time had passed. But we didn't understand how it happened. It didn't make any lick of sense whatsoever.''But it didn't matter at the least. I can now split! I can now do Elemental Split! I think I still have more to go before I'll unlock the rest. In the meantime, I practiced my breathing, which I will call Elemental Breathing from now on, but I run out of time.''It was when me and Tanjiro faced off Sabito. I didn't use my breathing and I basically went with my instincts. My sense are keener than they should've.'He sheathed his sword as he finally got done with his training regime and went home to Tanjiro and Urokodaki, who were waiting for his return.
Back to the present at hand, Earth looked at his hands and was astonished that the breathing technique worked. "Yes! It worked!"
Wind copied. "All right!"
"Hmph." Lightning crossed his arms.
Tanjiro, still sitting on the ground after his unconsciousness, has his eyes glued to the mysterious three people. Not to mention, they all look just like BoBoiBoy.
"B-BoBoiBoy...?" Tanjiro stuttered, still staring wide eyed. His hands are still trembling.
Earth faced him. "Don't worry. I'll explain later. But for now." He directed his head to the morphed demon.
"It's time to slay a demon, wouldn't you two agree?"
When he meant two, he meant Wind and Lightning. The nodded in agreement and got into their stances.
The monster stood idle, shocked at the revelation of BoBoiBoy who had the ability to split into three.
"Well, then." The demon sprouted out more arms. "Since there are four of you now, it will keep my belly satiated when I eat all of you!"
"On your guards!" Earth commanded. Wind and Lightning both got on guard. Tanjiro hesitated but he put on his guard as well. He's equally confused as the demon that seemed confused but went with the flow anyway. It's quite an unexpected advantage now that there is no manpower shortage among the boys.
The demon thrusted all of its green arms to the boys. All of them jumped out of the way. Wind came thrusting his sword down on one of its arms and continued slashing the rest. Earth teamed up with Tanjiro and slashed any remains that were coming right for them. Lightning solo-ed the arms by himself since he is more experienced with wielding a sword before.
Once the arms are dealt with, they slowly regenerated back into their original shape like nothing ever happened.
"Hey, just so you know!" Wind said sharply. "I don't have a breathing technique!"
All of them, except Earth, turned towards Wind. "What?"
Earth raised his hand. "I'm not gonna lie, I also don't have a breathing technique as well. It's because me and Wind don't have the ability to forge our own breathing while we split."
Lightning clicked his tongue. "So that just leaves me and Tanjiro with breathing techniques then. Well, this sucks."
"Wai, hold on, what about the Water Breathing? Can't you guys use it?" Lightning asked.
Earth shook his head. "We can't. That breathing is incompatible to us."
"I have no idea what you just said but it doesn't sound good on my case!" Tanjiro is sweating beads after hearing the bad news.
"We'll distract the demon. Lightning, protect Tanjiro at all costs!" Earth ordered Lightning to guard Tanjiro.
"We can't just let this one go!" Tanjiro said. "Before any more lives are sacrificed, we gotta bring him down now!"
Earth and Wind scattered around the battlefield and deflected the demon's attacks with their swords. Even without their breathing techniques, they're still able to effectively slice the demon's arms thanks to their training.
"You think just because I'll be distracted by your plan doesn't mean I'm letting my eyes go from those brats!" The demon quickly emerged more hands out of its body and thrusted more at the Earth and Wind.
Tanjiro and Lightning sliced the demon's hands one by one. Giant arms emerged out of the ground but thanks to their enhanced senses, they evaded it.
'T-they jumped! Dammit, I missed them! Yeah, but no way can they dodge these attacks in mid-air!'
The demon thought as the arms quickly zoomed on their faces.
"Do you think they're going to lose, too? His neck is so tough after all." Makomo questioned her partner.
"They may lose, and yet, they may win." Sabito gave his head and tail. "Either way, there's one irrefutable fact. That Tanjiro and BoBoiBoy... are the men who sliced the toughest, largest boulder of all."
"Now!" Earth and Wind intervened and helped sliced the arms before they can get ahold of Tanjiro and Lightning.
'They slashed my arms off before I cam get them!'Tanjiro used his two feet to get on the arm and ran to rhe demon's head. While the arms are trying to get to Tanjiro, Lightning used his Lightning Breathing to intercept its attacks.
'Total Concentration! Water Breathing!' Tanjiro gathers air in his mouth and sliced the oncoming arms. He leapt off from the arm and was ready to slice the demon's head off.
'He got too close to me! Not to worry. My neck is tough! He can't slash it!' The demon thought, completely forgotten about the other three.
'First Form!''As soon as he fails to cut my neck, I'm going to crush his head! Just like I did to the other one!'Before the arms can get grab Tanjiro, Earth, Wind, and Lightning simultaneously slashed the arms before it can reach him. They all heard the sound of the thread that popped out from their ears and saw it.
"Do it now, Tanjiro!" They encouraged him to deliver the final blow.
And so he did, Tanjiro slashed its neck off completely, leaving only blood to gush out where the neck used to be.
'Water Surface Slash!'
I know it's a short chapter but I can end Part 2 of the Final Selection episode right over here. I'll be continuing it off in the next chapter which might come out this week. Depends on how school will treat me but I'll do what I can to bring you all another one.Hope everyone enjoys this short chapter and I'll see you guys later. :D
