[ Here's where things get a little bit weird. Most people, when hit, immediately go with the direction of the punch to try and minimize the pain. Not here. It's definitely like punching someone, it's still strong enough to leave one hell of a bruise later, but at the same time, it's like punching a wall. The only thing he gets as a reward is the head turning slightly from the force and actually getting proper eye contact with those weird cat-slits. It means he gets to watch idle disdain immediately swap to Knives. This is possibly a victory - Shinjiro has earned his Attention.
This is also bad. Shinjiro's used to choreographed street urchin punches, or Akihiko The Punch King, these long drawn-out affairs that emphasize the fight itself. But there's a level of training he's up against that fits more in line with military, where fights are made to win.. That means quick and ruthless. In retrospect, it's one fluid motion split into so many smaller ones: grabbing the wrist right as it connects, yank forward to disrupt his balance, other arm raised close to chest and step inwards, and then the world whites out. This is entirely from an elbow meeting Shinjiro's eye. Hard.
And the fun thing about excessive force put on an object is, thanks to physics, you get this fun thing called Momentum. An object in motion stays in motion, unless stopped. So releasing his wrist (what would have stopped the object) allows the object (Shinjiro) to remain in motion.
Right off the side of the boat.
Ah, hell, he's gonna have to reset the net now. How obnoxious. ]
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This is also bad. Shinjiro's used to choreographed street urchin punches, or Akihiko The Punch King, these long drawn-out affairs that emphasize the fight itself. But there's a level of training he's up against that fits more in line with military, where fights are made to win.. That means quick and ruthless. In retrospect, it's one fluid motion split into so many smaller ones: grabbing the wrist right as it connects, yank forward to disrupt his balance, other arm raised close to chest and step inwards, and then the world whites out. This is entirely from an elbow meeting Shinjiro's eye. Hard.
And the fun thing about excessive force put on an object is, thanks to physics, you get this fun thing called Momentum. An object in motion stays in motion, unless stopped. So releasing his wrist (what would have stopped the object) allows the object (Shinjiro) to remain in motion.
Right off the side of the boat.
Ah, hell, he's gonna have to reset the net now. How obnoxious. ]