"Figuring out what works, that's the natural way of things. I'm glad you had your wits about you so you could come back to us and all, and Tundra sounds like he was no joke."
There'd been few opponents to press Sarada this far...and have her
admit it, after all.
"Suppose that's another thing we have in common. The foudation of many of the martial arts on Earth, after all, were inspired by what humans saw around them in nature. Compared to a lot of the animal kingdom, we don't have fangs, claws, shells or wings. But we, just like Saiyans, have eyes, ears, sharp memories...and a certain wilful stubbornness. Our appendages aren't so specialized, but oh, are they ever so adaptable...in fact, you could say we had to adapt, because nothing was working, ha-ha!"
Oh no...
"...now then, I don't want you to waste time, yours or ours, so I'll be straight about it. You're probably wondering what any of this has to do with the
Fusion Technique, aren't you?"
"When I was learning it, it seemed just as simple as it soudned at first. Add two things of a fixed quantity together, that would make one, larger thing. Well it's a
lot more complicated than that."
One nest of noodles finished, Zaofan swiftly began to work on another, kneading and stretching a tacky mound into an elongated, uniform shape.
"If, say, the individual parts were all we were to judge these noodles by, what I'm working with right now is just flour, water and salt. They'd be considered quite useless, wouldn't they? But the difference between flavourless sludge and something with bite and chew-"
Knead. Roll. Stretch. Slapped onto the counter, the springiness held.
"-method. Don't just consider the quantity of the ingredients, but their qualities. The ways they interact with each other provides the sensation of their potential."
Dust and fluid could hardly be said to be entirely cohesive or tangible in this spry a manner, after all, but in his practiced chef's hands, he pressed just so that it was stretched taut yet never snapped.
"There's a- a subtle conversation going on, so to speak, if you're able to hear it. Like, even as you put in the work to coax it out, you've got to be receptive to the feedback. It's not a matter of chasing after a fixed result, necessarily, but intuiting what will happen and facilitating that sort of dynamic change for what it is."
Like that, multiplicity into another neat 256.
"I wager you might understand it, this conversation, in a different manner. This also exists between fighter to fighter, whether the most gracious opponent to the most severe enemy."