The Arks - Chapter 424

Bryan stepped into the conversation and sat beside the child. Mavislin smiled and sat by Bryan with Raiyen following her. Gillian, Z, Baldwin, and Ysabeau were at the side, away from the main audience. Rina had Kai on her shoulders and stood by the side.

“It’s called ‘Hinokami Kagura’, otherwise known as ‘ The God Of The Fire’s Ritual Dance’. Long ago, the goddess of the sun in Japan, whose name was Amaterasu withdrew into a cave, never coming out. That ended up making the whole world go dark,” explained Bryan.

He then lifted the small child onto his ŀȧp and propped him up to see the dance. Tomoe bowed and extended his arms in a T-pose. Blue flames erupted from the palms of his hand, impressing the children.

“Oh… I don’t like the dark…” complained the child, pouting.

“That’s why another goddess couldn’t stand the dark and came up with a way to ask her to come out again. This was Ame-no-Uzume, goddess of revelry and dawn. And in response, she danced outside the cave to entice the sun goddess out.”

“From then on, the people born generations after honored this dance as their ritual dance to perform for the gods and goddess. But this particular one is the original one to celebrate the oncoming of the new year and to ward of threat and evil spirits,” finished Bryan, pointing at Tomoe.

“However, this Kagura should be performed by maidens, not men. And it should be at the start of the year, dancing from sunset to sunrise of the next year. But I guess he did it to make me understand what fighting style he used,” said Bryan, adding the last part for Mavislin.

Tomoe finally started dancing, even though he lacked the proper instrument to perform. But his arms were flexible enough to perform the ritual flawlessly. He first stuck out his left arm and brought it down in a vertical motion, creating a line of blue fire.

When his hand reached the bottom point, Tomoe jumped and spun himself, creating a ring of fire for a moment. The audience looked impressed with happy kids. When he landed, he wasted no time going for the next step, which was using both of his arms.

With the blue flames engulfed on each hand, Tomoe drew a horizontal slash from right to left with his left arm. He followed up with his other hand going from the left to the right, creating two beautiful horizontal lines of fire. Taking another breath, he proceeded on.

Tomoe shocked the front audience by charging forward by a strong step and thrusting his left arm out to the kids and swung his arm to create a slash, though it was covered with haze. Next, Tomoe spiraled up into the air with a powerful jump, surrounding himself with a long strand of blue fire.

Maviuslin looked impressed as he performed that technique, reminding her of how she modeled her whip fights to be like his.

When Tomoe was grounded, he took another step forward, thrusting out his left arm once more. At the end of his fingertips, blossomed a flower made out of the fire. The children smiled looking at it. As quick as he could, Tomoe shifted to the next move, which was one of the harder moves to do.

He took in another deep breath and performed. His arms sliced through the air that surrounded him, causing slashes of fire to dance through the air. When he increased his pace of the movements, the flames gradually created a figure of a dragon’s head.

When it was visible, Tomoe proceeded to leap into the air once more. Using his left arm as a stand-in for the weapon, he spun downward to create a circular fire slash. When he landed, he released his breath to get a fresher breath. If the Dargon one was difficult, then the next one must be worse.

Tome closed his eyes and performed high-speed twists and rotations, using his body and arms. It was blindingly spectacular, with all the flames going everywhere. It reminded Bryan of a rainbow, though it was quite straining for him to see what was going on.

And finally, the last part of the dance ended with Tomoe still; in midair and bringing down his master arm along with his body to create a verticle slash.. And upon landing, he dragged his arm to his right side, creating the final two slashes of the dance.