by Max Barry

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Region: The Great Chili

Synnadine wrote:A part of Pearle simply wants to walk away from this right here and now, deeming him a lost cause that they can't help. There's no chance of proper growth for someone who insists on stunting that very growth. But she can tell there's something deeper than that going on here, something he needs to work out.

And she'd be happy to work him through forcefully it if that's truly what he needs.

She half allows herself to be kicked off of him and offers no resistance towards it beyond the force she had already been using to pin him. She takes a few steps back from being kicked off while Jacob yells and screams, finally reaching the boiling point that both sisters are woefully unaware of how much he actually needed. "THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT YOU ARE WASTING EFFORT FIGHTING HOW YOU ARE! You're wasting energy needlessly, wasting time learning it! How you fight is going to prevent you from growing much farther than you already are! All these gears and special tricks, trying to use your smoke to copy powers you've seen others use, do you honestly think you can grow by using the power of others?! I've never seen a logia fight like you and your style has its merits for the level you're at, but moving forward you have to grow past them! You have to learn to fight with your own abilities and techniques instead of copying what you've seen! Adaptability is important, and you have that in spades, but you can't just adapt to defeat people who are simply out of your league! You have to get stronger, reach their level or even surpass them!"

And need it he did, what he was doing up until now pretending that everything was fine was super unhealthy for him. Physically and mentally, no one besides those who were there in Calsnova could really understand what happened, and he didn't even want to think about how he would go about explaining everything that happened to someone. But now that he finally blew up it was a chance to actually recover from what happened, though how that was going to happen was another problem entirely.

He didn't even need to think that hard to know that surpassing a monster like Enkara was impossible... But... Did he need to surpass him? That little thought popped into his mind from nowhere after hearing Pearle shout back to him. It was enough to give him pause as that crazed desperation and all the fear and worry just, well, wet up in smoke. Much like the warped armour and his haki as his body just gave out from all the stress, landing flat on his back with a sandy thud. It was really unlikely that beings like him existed in the Blue sea, and even more unlikely that they would go after him... I... I don't need to be stronger than him. I just need to be strong enough to protect what's important... I shouldn't gauge my home by the monsters that live here... I'll leave that to my cousins and their impossible Vampire friend... No man should be that strong... He says remembering back to Sam's fight with Enkara and how he overcame the gap after so much stress and all the nightmares that Enkara inflicted on him and his wife. Makes me think though... Can anyone get that strong under the right scenario? Maybe that could have been me if things were different... Naah... That could never happen.

Jacob lay there steaming against the sand beneath him as he looked up to the sky beyond him, his brother lucas being the one to step up and be nearby just incase he starts going off again. "... So how are two paramecia's gonna teach a logia how to stop acting like a paramecia...?" He weakly gets out to Pearle, a smile returning to his face while Lucas just sighs happily that his little brother was somewhat back to normal as he stays sat at the with his feet off the side. Speaking to himself "Jacob you idiot... You're gonna have to really make it up to those girls for going off like that. And to the crew for making them worry so much."

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