Truthfully, most of Kurai's friends had known that he would be able to utilize the abilities since he seemed to be able to adapt to anything that crossed his path, but what they didn't expect was for the two energies to clash and cancel each other out, leaving them with quite a problem on their hands as Kurai looked at his two hands in confusion.
He looked at Hozumi, "Why isn't it working? I haven't had a problem with using these two energies together before."
Hozumi looked just as confused as he was as she shook her head, "I don't know, but we have to…" she didn't even get to finish her sentence before they were being swarmed again and Kurai gritted his teeth as he tried to block the onslaught with a shield.
Sure, he knew that he could use the shadows to slow them down, but that required quite a bit of energy…wait…that could be it, maybe he didn't have enough energy to utilize both techniques at once.