Chapter 56-

After Yaku handed Toshio the broken sword and the two cooked the bear for dinner, Toshio started his training.

The first day of training Yaku had Toshio practice the movements and techniques of the Azure Tiger sword style. He practiced both with and without the use of the Friction spell. Swinging the metal rods around with the Friction spell causes them to have the same resistance as if Toshio was trying to pull a heavy object forward. He could tell that doing this could give enough resistance that’s similar to exercising with elastic bands. But he didn’t know why the Friction spell was used with the sword style since he felt that it made his strikes weaker.