Actually, Jerry's pranks and playfulness basically carried no malicious intent.
It was just that before Miyauchi Hikage, who understood the personalities of these girls very well, had let it out, he had carefully mentioned their personalities to Jerry and had asked it to properly temper these inexperienced girls.
It was very clear that although the current Yukinoshita Yukino had already deviated quite a bit from the trajectory of the original work, she was indeed still relatively naive.
After meeting Jerry for the first time and a simple greeting, she had just taken out the snacks she had prepared when Jerry scanned her flat board with a subtle gaze, then turned its head and compared it with Goko Ruri.
It even turned its head afterward to look at Goko Hinata, who was still an elementary schooler.
And then she was somewhat pushed to her breaking point by Jerry's helpless, shrugging expression.
Because Jerry's expression at that time was as if to say: Are you really a girl? How can you not even compare to an undeveloped elementary schooler?
Although Goko Ruri's side wasn't great either, after all, she was the type of girl with a smaller frame, and if you really had to say it, it wasn't completely non-existent. You could still see some development trend.
But on Yukinoshita Yukino's side...
In short, it was a wide, flat plain.
No wonder when Miyauchi Hikage was explaining her personality and image to it at home, he had specially used the title "Hiranoshita Hirano". [note 1]
How pitiful.
Feeling the pity in Jerry's eyes, Yukinoshita Yukino gritted her teeth, getting a preliminary taste of this little mouse's malicious personality.
But she still endured it.
She was still in her developmental period. She didn't need to care about the opinion of a mouse.
And so, after adjusting her mentality for a while, she handed the snacks she had prepared to Jerry and expressed her desire to learn some advanced training methods for ripple breathing from it.
And then Jerry nodded as a matter of course, then made an "OK" gesture, and made a chest-out, head-up posture towards Yukinoshita.
It was as if it were saying that it could teach her a set of breathing methods that would supplement the nutrition for her flat board and promote its development.
Looking at this gesture, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but clench her fists.
She really wanted to tell Jerry that she wasn't here for this!
She wanted to see what level her ripple breathing had reached, and how big the gap was between her and this Jerry, who was called a genius by the mysterious person.
But reason told her that although she herself didn't care about this matter, at this time, it was best for her to do as Jerry said, to avoid being further teased by it.
Therefore, after a quick change of face, Yukinoshita Yukino still humbly asked for Jerry's guidance.
Jerry, seeing Yukinoshita Yukino being so cooperative, also nodded with satisfaction.
While eating the exquisite snacks sent by her, it beckoned to her.
This was to have Yukinoshita Yukino use her ripple on it, as if it wanted to see what level her Hamon practice had reached.
Before Goko Ruri on the side could even speak a reminder, Yukinoshita Yukino was taken down with one hand by the snack-eating Jerry.
The entire process was without any waves. Even Yukinoshita Yukino, who was lying somewhat wretchedly on the tatami mat, didn't know how she had been taken down by Jerry.
She only felt that she had just made contact with Jerry, and its ripple had completely suppressed hers, even making her body unable to obey her own control.
Goko Ruri on the side walked over and helped her up.
"You'll get used to it. Martial Uncle Jerry's ripple is much stronger than ours. This is the only outcome when you fight it."
Goko Ruri showed the results of her learning with Jerry these past few days.
Even with the effect of the ripple accelerating her recovery, she could still see many bruises on her body that had not yet completely faded.
"Because Martial Uncle Jerry can't speak, and doesn't like to write too many words at once, the only way to learn Hamon from it is to feel it in this way."
"As long as you can feel the fluctuations of those ripples, and then adjust your own breathing to the corresponding rhythm, you can regain control of your body."
"You can also wait for 10 minutes. After the effect of Martial Uncle Jerry's ripple dissipates, you can also regain control of your body, but that way you'll have wasted a learning opportunity."
To this, although Goko Ruri was a little helpless, because she could feel the obvious improvement in her proficiency with the ripple, she was still tireless in continuing to come and learn from Jerry.
This is a rather intuitive way of assisting.
Under careful perception, Yukinoshita Yukino could indeed feel that the ripple in her body seemed to have become much more active.
It can only be maintained for ten minutes at a time...
Yukinoshita Yukino didn't waste any time, closed her eyes, and began to feel the ripple in her body even more seriously.
However, a new breathing rhythm was obviously not so easy to master.
A few minutes later, gradually feeling that she was regaining control of her body, but having not found the knack at all, Yukinoshita Yukino finally opened her eyes and looked at Jerry again, as if she wanted it to do it one more time.
However, Jerry held up two toes and signaled for Goko Ruri to explain to her.
"Martial Uncle Jerry means that it's very satisfied with the snacks you brought, so you can still receive its teachings twice more. If you still haven't mastered the breathing rhythm after using up these two teachings, then you will need to complete the mission that Martial Uncle Jerry has arranged for you."
Speaking of this mission, Goko Ruri felt a bit of a headache again.
Actually, most of these missions were quite easy to complete.
Like if Jerry wanted to eat something at night, she just had to buy a portion for it or make a portion herself.
There were also some physical training tasks to be completed outdoors according to Jerry's requirements. Although her stamina had always been poor, with the help of ripple breathing, she could still complete these tasks before she reached her limit.
It was just that occasionally some tasks would be a little shameful.
For example, having Hinata take the self-indulgent novel she had written before and read it aloud in front of her and Tamaki. After listening, not only did she have to ask for her two younger sisters' opinions, but she also had to write a review for the novel she had written herself.
If it were before, she wouldn't have felt so ashamed.
But after having truly practiced ripple breathing and come into contact with the real hidden world, when she looked back at these imaginary chuunibyou works of hers, it was completely equivalent to her own dark history.
It had to be said, in terms of being a chuunibyou, her level of obsession was indeed far inferior to that of the Tyrant's Eye.
I wonder what kind of mission Jerry can come up with for Yukinoshita Yukino, this very aloof-looking "well-bred young lady"?
To this, Goko Ruri couldn't help but feel a little expectant.
After all, as long as these things didn't happen to herself, it was indeed quite fun.
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TLNote : [note 1] Yukinoshita Yukino (`雪之下雪乃`). The character `雪` (yuki) means "snow." Literally means "Snow-under Snow".
Hiranoshita Hirano (`平之下平乃`). The character `平` (hira) means "Flat". Literally means "Flat-under Flat"