Super Gene Ascension Chapter 14

The following day came all too soon as I planned to spend the rest of the day in the gym and training area. Training my body, swordsmanship, and arguably most importantly spending more time on my Haki.

'And of course... Having some eye candy while training is very nice as well!' I mused with a small grin as my hope in getting to see Mio in yoga pants was more than fulfilled.

As she was also wearing a tight fitting sports top that left little to nothing to the imagination while also leaving her stomach bare.

My appreciation of her form most certainly did not go unnoticed but she knew she was hot, beautiful, and sexy so she only gave me a teasing smile as she bounced in place in multiple ways as she asked.

"So Jake!" She spoke clearly to get my attention teasingly before she spoke more seriously. "What are you planning to do for training today?" 

I gave a wry smile before gesturing at the turrets mounted on the walls and I said. "I am going to get warmed up by starting with some dodging and agility training. You should probably wait for me to finish before you join though."

Mio sniffed and gave me a look of annoyance before she said flatly. "The Xuan clan has dozens of high grade Geno arts in the library. I can keep up with you as I have trained in sensory based geno arts!"

My lips twitched at how 'fierce' she sounded but it was kinda expected actually. She more than Runueas or Rias especially wanted to be independant of her clan's control over herself.

She had alot more drive to get strong then her cousins anyway.

So I just nodded and switched the rubber bullets back to foam tipped darts. So although these darts would still hurt with the hard foam tips. They woudn't bruise you down to the very bone.

"Alright... Hell, lets practice projectile deflection then and group awareness." I said thoughtfully as honestly Mio with her drive had good potential and I could see her meeting up with me in the Second Sanctuary without too much drama.

So getting used to fighting with her would be good. 'Actually, could Mio learn how to use Haki? I don't know about teaching her Armament Haki as that can be the hardest, but if she can get the effects of even a bit of Observation Haki that would be very good for her?' 

The thought stuck with me as despite Mio's boastful words... She got nailed several times by the high speed foam darts and all too soon she had to drop out as her tight fitting yoga/sports clothes didn't provide any protection from it.

And there was some very small coin sized red bruises on her stomach and back where she got hit that were clearly visible.

"Sooo! Let's get to the swordsmanship then haha!" Mio said a bit forcefully as she was clearly still a bit flustered after having to drop out of the warm up session as I was training at a higher level.

"It's fine Mio. the foam dart method is meant for people who already went through the baptism and reached the Second Sanctuary." I said to console her.

And hearing that she definetly did perk up, but then she looked at me with a raised eyebrow as she pointed out. "And yet, you have not gone through the baptism and you were going to be training in the next level above that!"

To which I just shrugged and said helplessly. "I wanted the harsher wake up." Which wasn't the answer she wanted obviously but still we went to the sword training area and I raised an eyebrow as the gym actually had hard light swords that were closer to rods that would break on contact with the special vests and hood's we had to put on.

Which would allow us to fight at full force. But should we hit one another, all the force would disperse meaning we woudn't get hurt!

"You aren't going to hit me too hard are you Jake?" Mio teased me as she chose a configuration of a hard light sword in the form of an extra long but thin straight sword.

I hummed thoughtfully as I found 'IT' A long western handle sword with a curved edge that although smaller than Yoru from One Piece it had a similar shape.

I gripped the hard light sword and I saw Mio's face twitch as the lightly glowing sword darkened as I pushed my haki into it and strengthened it.

'Wait... With my haki enhancing this blade, would it still break if I hit Mio with it?' I quickly realized and I pulled back the haki before Mio could asked what it was.

Still I held the sword out and I noticed that Mio's sword although very thin was a bit longer than my blade technically so I came in with a sharp but short slash that aimed to pushed her sword aside.

And like a fencer she rolled with the blow on her swords edge with her using one hand to twist her much lighter sword around to stab at me with the sharp point of her sword.

I stepped in to meet the blow as I knew that Mio was actually trained in using that sword while I... Very much was not even if I inherited Garp's martial arts.

But I not only had my own talent for martial arts, but I also had Garp's. And Garp if he wanted to, could have become a powerful swordsman in time in the One Piece world as well.

'Hell, maybe I am even picking up some of Garp's memories of Roger's sword talent and techniques as well.' I thought as I kicked at Mio who met my kick with her own kick to my shin to push us both back even as she sent a swift slash at my neck in a clearly practiced technique.

The sparring session went on for a good while as I got more comfortable in fighting something akin to a real swordsman and getting more comfortable with it until we decided to take a break.

And while we took a break Mio sighed and said with a wry smile. "It's honestly a pity. With how humanity has to constantly replace their Beast Souls whenever they get stronger and especially when they reach a new Sanctuary. It's not like we can mono-focus on a single weapon type or style."

I knew exactly what she meant... Even after all this time, I still hadn't gotten a single sword themed Beast Soul. And I was using the Scorpion Spear, I had gotten and evolved to Sacred Blood tier for the simple reason of it being the strongest weapon in my arsenal currently.