[Before you can figure out what's happening, a beautiful sister nearby helps you up, holds you in her arms, and keeps comforting you.]
[You immediately immerse yourself in her generous embrace, shamelessly puckering your lips and crying.]
[Using your child's appearance and excellent acting skills, you successfully obtain a wonderful morning.]
[It's not until your father appears that you reluctantly bid farewell to the young lady's broad embrace.]
'Is the talent starting to take effect?'
Takumi became interested. 'I wonder if he'll be able to realize it.'
'After all, Armament Haki isn't an ability from this world. If he can realize it, he should be able to systematically train it.'
But after all, he only had a partial understanding of Armament Haki training.
There was no detailed explanation of the training process.
He figured as long as he kept using it, there would eventually be an effect.
[Returning home, you think hard.]
[You don't realize what happened, so you decide to test it.]
[The feeling of that invisible thing surrounding you is still there.]
[You grit your teeth and throw yourself down from a height of one meter, arms outstretched.]
[You hit the ground with a smack, but feel no pain.]
[You immediately understand that this is a special defensive ability.]
[You continue testing.]
[This time you take out a kunai.]
[Holding the sharp kunai, you are very worried inside, fearing that this defensive ability might not resist the kunai's sharpness.]
[First, you gently draw it across your palm.]
[Nothing is left behind.]
[You grit your teeth and use a little more force; still nothing happens.]
[Seeing that nothing happens, you harden your heart and draw it forcefully.]
[This time, you clearly feel a distinct obstruction between your skin and the kunai.]
[It is precisely this obstruction that protects you from harm.]
[The testing ends here.]
[Your strength is still small, and you can't conduct more risky attempts. At the same time, you are also afraid of actually hurting yourself.]
[After the testing ends, you start thinking about what this ability is.]
[An ability that can defend against attacks while reducing pain. You quickly think of a very famous ability.]
[Haki, or more specifically, Armament Haki.]
[An ability focused on defense while converting that defense into attack power.]
[To further confirm, you clench your fist and punch the wall.]
[Under normal circumstances, with the strength of a two-year-old child, punching a wall would only hurt your hand.]
[But in reality, your fist leaves a shallow imprint on the wall, and you don't feel much pain.]
[Now, you finally confirm the source of your ability.]
[This immediately excites you.]
[You know how powerful Armament Haki can be when trained to the extreme.]
[It can be called a humanoid Gundam.]
[With this ability, plus the family's Eight Gates, you believe you will definitely have a place in the future Shinobi World.]
'Trained to the extreme, I estimate being able to trade blows with Susano'o would be fine.'
Takumi believed that Armament Haki trained to the extreme could definitely achieve this level.
Of course, when facing the unpredictable and strange Dojutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan, Armament Haki sometimes couldn't provide good defense.
For example, Kakashi's Kamui could distort space, and everything in that distorted space would be torn apart.
No matter how high the defense, it couldn't block it.
Even the Ten-Tails couldn't withstand it.
Even with Takumi's confidence in his own defense, he could only dodge in front of Kakashi's Kamui.
[After confirming the ability, you reluctantly give up playtime with the older sisters.]
[You no longer follow Guy running, but instead train against a wooden post in the yard.]
[But the wooden post is soon broken by you.]
[It is then that your father discovers your talent.]
[Your simple father is very happy about this, and you take the opportunity to ask for a custom-made iron post for training.]
[Your father readily agrees and brings back a custom iron post three days later.]
[On the first day of training, your father watches from the side the whole time. Only after confirming that training with the iron post won't hurt you does he leave with peace of mind.]
[You can feel that with every punch you throw at the iron post, your sense of the Haki on your body becomes clearer.]
[And the amount of Haki also increases little by little. One punch might increase it by one ten-thousandth.]
[Although it's not much, it's constantly increasing, as if there's no limit.]
[Motivated by this, you train until you're exhausted every time.]
'As long as you can feel the improvement, that's the biggest motivation.'
'Even a tiny improvement can be encouraging.'
Takumi understood this well.
It was like losing weight.
Every time you check after exercising, even a tiny change is very happy.
Of course, that refers to a decrease. An increase wouldn't make people happy.
[With your day-after-day efforts, your Haki improves at a visible rate.]
[The iron post is now covered with your fist and footprints.]
[Seeing this, your father prepares several new iron posts for you in advance, so you won't be without a replacement if you break this one.]
[Guy is very envious of your talent. He once secretly tried the iron post, but ended up with his hands bloody and was scolded by his father. He was also stopped from training for three days to let his injuries heal.]
[For Guy, who loves training, this is undoubtedly the cruelest torture.]
[Finally, you turn three years old.]
[And Guy reaches the age to enter the Ninja Academy.]
[You also begin Chakra Refinement.]
[Compared to your ability, Armament Haki, your talent for Chakra refinement is only average.]
[Only slightly better than your father.]
[Relying on Chakra to learn Ninjutsu and become a Shinobi, you'd at most reach Chunin level.]
[Aiming to become a Jonin is just wishful thinking.]
[But with the enhancement of your ability, you believe you will definitely have a place in the future.]
[Your first iron post, under your daily abuse, finally can't withstand it anymore and breaks into two pieces, completing its mission.]
'Able to break an iron block already?'
Takumi was a bit surprised.
Even with Ninjutsu, destroying a thick iron block like an iron post would require a very strong Ninjutsu.
At least B-rank, maybe even A-rank.
But little Takumi, now only three years old, had already been able to do it.
Although it relied on accumulation over time, like water wearing away stone,
Achieving it was still achieving it.
As little Takumi continued training, he would eventually be able to punch an intact iron post in two with one blow.
This level of attack power, combined with the speed enhancement of the Eight Gates, would then be more than one plus one equals two.
One plus one could be greater than three, or even greater than five.