Today Bryan and Bruna were having their usual compet.i.tion to see who would improve the most in the training that their older brother had shown them.
When Bryan saw that Bruna was more advanced than he was in cultivation, he began to devote even more time to catch up to her.
They had both woken up together and instantly sat in the position that their brother had told them would be best to practice, with their legs crossed, their spines straight, and focused on their own cultivation.
They kept cultivating for an hour until they felt that the energy that was circulating within them was no longer improving.
For two small children, just 4 years old, focusing on something for an hour nonstop shows how much they got into it.
At first, they just did it to impress their brother, but now the twins realized how stronger and faster they could become and began to cultivate to feed the desire they were having to become stronger.
After daily practice, the two looked at each other and smiled happily because they felt stronger.
"Are you growing again?" Amanda said as she opened the bedroom door and saw their posture as she sighed. Since Benjamin had taught the twins to cultivate, they never stopped, all they talked about was cultivation, the games were about cultivation, they were really doing that a lot.
"Yes mom, we"re getting better to help our big brother." Bruna replied with a huge smile on her face.
"Just don"t overdo it, let"s have breakfast." Amanda said as she gave up on these two. At least she knew this was doing well for them. She hadn"t grown much since she didn"t have much time. She was a translator for a major American publisher. By knowing how to speak English, Portuguese, Spanish and j.a.panese, Amanda was able to do book translations for many countries, making her very busy, even while working from home.
But even with all the work, what Amanda valued most, above work was her family, especially after "losing" Benjamin. Now that he was back, she didn"t let work influence the time they could spend together.
Listening to Amanda call them for breakfast, the two of them ran to brush their teeth in the bathroom and then to the dining room to eat. At the early stages of cultivation, rather than inhibiting the body"s basic needs, it further increased how much one needed to eat to be satisfied. Since the body was undergoing such a dramatic transformation, the children needed to ingest the same amount as an adult, even when they were only 4 years old.
After breakfast, Bryan took his tablet and opened the Crunchyroll. His mother had signed so they could see the Asian cartoons when they got sick of the television cartoons. Bryan and Bruna were very fond of a cartoon about a boy who wore an orange sweats.h.i.+rt and had blond hair. This boy was very weak when he was little and could not do a simple Jutsu, but after training hard, he was becoming one of the strongest ninjas of his age.
Bryan was very fond of all the characters, but what he liked best was the cartoonist"s best friend, who wore a blue t-s.h.i.+rt, because he felt they were the same. When he was little, his brother was gone after doing something very bad. Bryan knew that his brother Ben had done nothing bad, but he felt that he was similar to the character"s older brother.
Bruna liked the character that had pink hair more, she was very strong and cute.
The two always watched the episodes that released with English voice acting, since they still could not read.
When Bryan asked his brother if he could do jutsu like the anime character and his brother said yes, Bryan thought that might not be true. But as he began cultivating, he realized that he was becoming better than the other kids in physical activity. Even though he was 4 years old, he realized that it had to do with cultivation and began to dedicate himself even more to launching jutsus just like the characters he likes.
Today Bryan came up with the idea of trying to do some jutsu after seeing the blue-s.h.i.+rted character launch a giant fireball. Seeing Bryan"s excitement, Bruna asked him what he was thinking of doing and when she heard what he wanted to do, she became even more excited than him.
Since they couldn"t write, the twins asked their mother to look for how to make anime jutsus on the computer, since the screen was bigger, and they didn"t want to miss any details.
Amanda was a little surprised, but after watching the video they wanted to see, she didn"t care and left them both watching the video looping on Benjamin"s computer.
The kids were at least an hour watching the same video. With cultivation, their speed of learning was improving without their knowledge, so something that would take an average person several hours to learn, took the twins just an hour of total dedication.
Their little hands were moving at a very high speed, most likely because of their improved muscles thanks to cultivation.
In one attempt, Bryan was very focused on the video and the hand stamps he was making at the fastest speed he could that didn"t notice their brother sneaking up from behind.
After repeating the hand seals, Bryan used all the will he could muster and trying his best to use the energy he had gained in cultivation he tried to get the fireball out of his mouth.
"Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger, Fire Style! Fireball Jutsu!" Bryan said as he made the hand seals and put his hand over his mouth. To his surprise, for a thousandth of a second, all the energy in his body was drained and he felt a warm sensation as if a small fire had pa.s.sed through his mouth and left.
Before he could see the surprised look in Bruna"s and Benjamin"s eyes behind him, Bryan pa.s.sed out.