The two men stared at each other for a few seconds.


    "Youid that out better than I could," Julian sighed. "I hadn''t realized your project was that ambitious. Is there a particr reason you have confidence that fulfilling such a project is realistic? I don''t mean to be discouraging, but setting extremely unrealistic goals is usually not only a waste of time and energy but also actively counterproductive."


    "You''re right." Rui nodded. "And to answer your question, yes, I do have a reason."


    "Well, let''s hear it then."


    "The difficulty of oveing the three problems I justid out for you lies in the difficulty of processing avable urately and quickly enough to aim in exactly the right direction, to ount for environmental factors, to ount for the target''s movements." Rui diligently exined, before pointing to himself. "I, however, possess a much greater ability to process information systematically in the manner needed to obtain urate answers quickly, putting aside false modesty."


    "I''m not sure I entirely agree with your characterization of the difficulties you just illustrated." Julian frowned. "uracy of aim is generally not a mental exercise in the manner that you describe it so much as it is a pure skill. Skilled marksmen do not solveplicated projectile mechanics equations when they fire urate shots, they simplyunch their attacks in exactly the right matter through judgment born out of abination of talent and a vast amount of experience."


    "You''repletely right about that." Rui grinned. "However, just because that is the norm, doesn''t mean it is a paradigm I need to abide by, especially when I''m better of not doing so."N?vel(D)rama.Org''s content.


    "So, you''re telling me..." Julian looked at him with a hint of skepticism. "You''re telling me that you''ve created a new and superior paradigm for the very concept of long-range uracy?"


    Julian knew that his brother was quite strong, special, and brilliant. But as a schr with a background in the study of Martial Art, he understood the sheer magnitude of ims that Rui was making at the moment. What he was talking about was nothing short of revolutionary.


    "Hear me out, Julian." Rui smiled. "We already know that there are rather simple equations defining the motion of projectiles that are quite easy to understand, correct?"


    "To you and me, perhaps, but neither of us is particrly average, are we?" Julian sighed. He wasn''t tooting their horns, it was merely an objective fact. "Projectile mechanics is cutting-edge theoretical science, Rui. How did you evene about learning about them when you didn''t go to a science university?"


    Rui suppressed a snort. Projectile mechanics was extremely elementary physics back on Earth. He had studied it in middle school and more extensively in high school. However, Julian''s words allowed him to discover the actual limit of understanding of theoretical physics of the Kandrian Empire. "Oh, you know, I read some of your old books when you were away living at the university."


    Julian looked at him with skeptical eyes.


    "I''m not lying, okay!"


    "If you say so..." Julian shook his head with resignation. "Anyways, you were saying."


    "So, as I was saying," Rui exined. "I understand projectile mechanics extremely well, and I''m also capable of systematically and objectively processing information quickly and urately in the middle ofbat. With these two traits, I should be able effectively to calcte my aim, making my uracy objective rather than relying on skill."<novelnext></novelnext>


    "Even if that was possible, you may not necessarily be able to execute your calctions urately. It''s one thing to calcte exactly with how much force, and at what angle you mustunch your attack, it''s another thing entirely for your body to precisely and urately execute those results." Julian astutely pointed out.


    "True, that is where the true challenge lies, honestly. I might need to train my hand-eye coordination if I want this technique to work the way it does. But my hand-eye coordination is not a weakness of mine or something, not by any means. As long as I work hard and train my body to execute my calctions urately, there is a decent chance that my vision for this project will be entirely realized." Rui exined with an excited grin.


    "Hm." Julian considered his argument for a moment. "Well, there is a chance, of course. Provided your assumptions about your mental faculties are not inurate. I can''t think of anything else to offer about this project, I''m afraid. My background doesn''t really ovep with this field."


    "No worries." Rui friendlily replied. "The fact that it has, at least tentatively, earned your approval is quite a encouraging news. It''s a good affirmation that I''m not crazy."


    "Oh, I don''t know about that." Julian chuckled.


    Rui was far removed from normal in many ways that it was sometimes hard to consider him sane. Even if he wasn''t insane, he certainly wasn''t normal in the head. There were just too many abnormalities that when considered individually, could be written off with his genius-level intellect, talent, or hard work, but when one zoomed out and looked at the big picture, it was truly mind-boggling.


    Julian knew this because he had done exactly that, he had even jokingly insinuated that Rui was an adult in a child''s body, a long time ago. As time passed, the more urate that joke seemed to be.


    Julian shook his head mildly. A joke was a joke.


    "What about the final project?" He asked.


    "Ah, it''s a development project centered around an active defense technique," Rui exined. "I''m trying to create a technique where I transfer all the kic energy of an attack to me while ensuring none of it damages me, then I disperse that energy instantaneously, ideally."


    "...That''s it?"


    "So far, yeah."


    "That''s not a goal, that sounds more like a pipe dream." Julian chuckled. "You need to have a more concrete way of aplishing what you want instead of just stating as much."


    "I know, but it''s difficult to form a concrete n for this one, that''s why I wanted you to help me out," Rui exined.


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