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Toru took a deep breath as he raised his fist up to his neck. "GO!"
He threw a strong punch...well, as strong as a skinny and frail thirteen year old boy from Shimane could muster.
Two black, smokey tendrils emerged from Toru's shoulder as he did the motion, he tried his best to summon more so he could utilize the attack he had invisioned.
"Dang it!" The boy cursed.
'Still not working?' A voice from inside him asked.
Toru sighed. "Yep, I'm still currently stuck at two tendrils, Yuuin. I though this would be easier."
Yuuin came out of Toru's body onto his shoulder, he was a small black blob with circle-shaped white eyes that lacked pupils, but with blue rings surrounding them that connected into two small antennae-tendrils on his head, he had a mouth but with no tongue or teeth, instead he had spikes on his lips that acted in place of incisors. "What if you tried imagining something like a Moon bear coming at us and summoning multiple tendrils at once to stop it from hurting us?"
Toru bit his lip, while there were deadlier species of bears, Moon bears(also known as Asiatic black bears) were still no joke in terms of deadliness, they were far more aggressive than their American counterpart and had a higher bite force, while most people in Shimane didn't leave the village to go for Tokyo, Kyoto, Kanagawa, and other wealthier prefectures in Japan, many other young people from other places in the countryside did, causing more Moon bears being born(as not many were there to become hunters, or scare them off with large numbers) and killing more people as a result.
While Shimane was a cold, snowy, and barren place(people often fished for their food, resulting in there not being many fish for bears to find in the forest's streams, there also wasn't any honey to be found outside of expensive imports from the wealthier prefectures(like Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Kanagawa, Aichi, etc.), but there was always a chance they could come into the village and murder several of it's residents(like if the fishermen were sick, or overworked, leading to more fish being available in the rivers).
Toru's life had almost permanently ended once, he couldn't let it happen again, and while there were Demon's out there that he could argue were vastly more lethal and dangerous than a Moon bear, he couldn't take a potential risk.
He closed his eyes, opened them, and imagined a Moon bear standing near the alleyway, snarling at him, ready to charge at him and kill him.
Toru clutched his fist and and shot it forward into a punch. "Umbrality: Fourfold Tendril Manifestation!"
This time four black tendrils with blue outlines came out and struck the imaginary bear, tearing it apart with it's darkness. These tendrils were known as "Tendribrae" a crude mixture of the word "Tendril" and the word "Tenebrae".
Yuuin smiled. "YAY! We did it, Toru!"
Tour laughed madly, he had finally summoned four tendrils after so many tries.
Toru turned to his companion. "I'd fist bump you...if you had a fist, Yuuin...sorry." the boy turned sheepish as he recalled Yuuin lacked hands as a Gankyoku.
"We could fist-tendril bump." a tiny black biomass tendril came from Yuuin's side to Toru.
His fist met the tendril, a good compromise...until they heard infrastructure falling.
Toru's joy vanished as he realized his tendril punch had shattered part of a small building.
"Dang it! That's the fifteenth time we've broke something using Umbrakinesis! Why does this keep happening?!" Toru's mind went to a moment where he and Yuuin accidentally busted an expensive car of a haughty Tokyo-ite who had visited Shimane to make a stupid Boobtube(it's not as sexual as it sounds) video, and another time where they absolutely destroyed a hornets nest(granted it killed all the hornets inside, alongside the nest) after seeing it near Toru's home.
Yuuin gulped too. "Toru?"
"Yuuin...I think we should skedaddle on out of here before people begin noticing."
"Good call." and with that Yuuin vanished into Toru's body as the boy used a tendril to swing away from the minor destruction scene.