Chapter 52 - M.D.B 52: Conquering the Sky (1/2)
Chapter 52: Conquering the Sky
Like the Wind, Saint rushed out of the basement, and then left the restaurant through the back door. Following the fire ladder of the building next to his, he climbed his way to the roof.
After getting in the center of the roof, he began to slowly rise, floating as if he was a balloon filled with hot air: It was Bukujutsu!
To be accurate, this was the primitive form of Bukujutsu, which relied on consuming the body's Ki to propel one's body upward, countering the force of gravity and going beyond that ever so slightly in order to slowly move within the air. It was less like true flight, and more like a state of ”relative weightlessness”.
In fact, Saint, who was very excited about flight, had already tried this level of Bukujutsu before. However, with his weak Ki, he couldn't maintain the weightlessness state for any useful amount of time, let alone fly.
With this step out of the way, the next logical step was to increase Ki output to fly. The problem was that Saint felt a little uneasy about the whole deal; not only was this something that he had never tried before, the knowledge that he had inherited from Goku was also somewhat unreliable here…
Goku had been flying for so long, and with the talent and experience he had, no theory or actual knowledge about flight was left for his 'ultimate comprehension' of Bukujutsu. It was more of a feeling, and all that Saint had gained from his knowledge was: get up and float, thinking about flying, and then fly.
As for Goku's actual experience and knowledge of flying tactics and maneuvers, that was a wealth of knowledge that Saint had gained. The problem was that Saint couldn't just grasp how to go from floating to flying….
”You only live once! Death is just that!” Saint kept repeating to himself.
It only got him more freaked out, but he went on and tried to float again anyway. As his feet left the ground, he got his body straight from calves to shoulders. Being careful, he used as little strength as possible. From his toes, Ki began to shoot below.
”Oh, oh, OH YEAH…”
The next second, along with Saint's cries of fear and excitement, his whole body rose into the sky in a zig-zag pattern, like a balloon that was deflated. He was fast, as fast as a bird, and in the blink of an eye, he was hundreds of meters high into the air. His trajectory remained wobbly, and he went all over the sky…
As time went by, Saint instinctively managed to get himself flying in a straight line. Through trying flight firsthand, he could gradually benefit from Goku's experience, and learned how to use his arms to adjust his balance. First, he drew a beautiful arc in the night sky, and then he slowly began to increase the Ki output and go through the air faster and faster. In the end, he had to wrap his body in Ki to resist the massive wind pressure on his face.
In this state, his whole body started looking like a massive blue light bulb going through the sky. Obviously he became too obvious in the dark, but more importantly, his Ki consumption skyrocketed, so he had to stop. He didn't want to test his full limits for now, so by propelling Ki in the opposite direction, he greatly lowered his speed, and dispersed the Ki surrounding his body, remaining suspended in high altitude after an abrupt stop. From there, he watching the dazzling New York from above, hearing only his own intense heartbeat. After gasping for a while, he suddenly started laughing like a neurotic ”HAHAHAHA! I can fly!”