A Weapon Gained

Anyway, getting past that existential crisis, I started testing out my current limits with Blood Manipulation. Since it currently is at rank C I shouldn't expect too much from it, but either way, it's best to get a proper idea of what I can do for the time being.

I brought out all sixty ounces of blood from Inventory and tried making various constructs with the blood. From this, I managed to learn something important, turns out my quirk has a set area of effectiveness (for now) which means the farther it is from me the harder it is to make complex constructs. However I can still move it around even when it's outside of that area, so at least it can still be effective while it's further away from me.

Currently, though I can only make simple shapes outside of that area, so sadly I won't be raining down blood swords on my enemies anytime soon. But this doesn't mean that I can't make weapons like swords completely, they just need to be within my reach or touching me to be useful.

Though even if I keep mentioning using swords, I don't think that would work out for me that well. If I did start using swords, I would have to learn how to even fight with one, but that hasn't been my style even in my last life.

Don't get me wrong swords are awesome, but whenever I got in a fight I always preferred to use my fist. Because a weapon could be knocked out of your hands, but if you just used your fist you wouldn't have that worry. Though you would have to obviously be good at hand-to-hand combat to be a serious threat without a weapon, especially if you were suddenly placed in control of a six-year-old child's body like me.

But, I can't really say that I knew a proper fighting style in my previous life, it was more like street brawling than anything else. However, I at least made sure that anyone who tried to mug me or think I was easy prey, would think twice before trying to fight me again. Mainly due to me not having self-preservation in my mind anytime I did fight.

This meant that even if I broke an arm or was bleeding out I would keep fighting until either they were in worse shape than me, or I killed them. Honestly, I'm surprised I even lived as long as I did at the time, especially since most of my fights happened when I was still in my pre-teens, though it may have been from me getting the reputation as the dead girl walking who would always have the last laugh.

Now that I think of though, my none existent self-preservation may have been from me not being able to feel pain from my time as a lab rat. And, yes at one point I was actually constantly experimented on day in and day out. Why do you think my first idea was to claim that my multitude of quirks was due to experimentation, instead of something like my actual quirk just gave me random quirks at random intervals?

This is what I meant by having plenty of trauma to make my story more believable to lie detection quirks because many of the things that I'll use as an explanation when the time comes actually did happen to me in my past life. I was experimented on, even if it wasn't for the same reason, I was actually abused as a child before being kidnapped one day, and I did eventually get out by killing all the scientists which led me to being homeless since I had nowhere safe to go.

Hell now that I think about it my life could have been one of those anime with a tragic story because of all the shit I was unlucky enough to go through. But at least in this life, everything that happened to me may actually be beneficial if it could mean getting to live the life I want to without having to fear anyone again.

Wait, dammit I went on another rant again, I really need to get that habit under control at some point. *sigh* Let's just get back to the point I was trying to make earlier.

Because of this body being able to feel pain, I can't use the fighting style I used in my past life. So, I'll need to fight differently than how I used to, and this is where Blood Manipulation will become my greatest asset whenever I get in a fight.

I make the blood I was practicing with before come closer to me until it's in the form of one big blood ball in front of me. Then I plunge both of my hands into it and start making the blood ball split in two and completely cover both my arms in their own smaller blood balls.

With this I make them form into a different construct than what I was practicing with before. I start solidifying the blood and make them become two red plated gauntlets with claws that come up to my elbows. The plating on top of the gauntlets is more spiked and jagged to be used for more offensive purposes, while the bottom plating is flatter and thicker to focus more on defense.

If needed I could make them all spiked or flatter, but I feel like for now this will be more effective for the time being. With these, I won't have to change up my fighting style that much, but at the same time, I could technically be using a weapon. The claws however are my favorite part because, like Toga I do like making and seeing people bleed. But I only if their my enemies instead of those I love and care for.

These claws could also help me with scaling a building or wall more stealthily. That way I could still use the rooftops to move around more easily without using Lightning Body.

Now I should probably test out how effective these gauntlets are for ripping and tearing while there is still daylight out because once that sun sets I plan on making my way towards Yokohama. Because one of my other favorite characters lives there if I remember correctly, and in the future, I'll definitely want to get closer to her.