Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Power of Storm!!

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Summary
The chapter begins with Kitaro saying farewell to the towns people, alone. As he walks away he notices someone following him, with a sigh he turns around and shouts, "I already told you, I don't take students!!" As expected the follower is Rika and she comes out of hiding to confront him. Pleading for him to teach her in the ways of the Storm, however he repeatedly refuses.

As the chapter progresses Rika continues to follow Kitaro as he hunts for food and continues to walk. Before long she becomes tired and malnourished. So she attempts to get food from a seemingly small reptile creature, however to her shock it was much larger as most of it rises from the desert sand, threatening her life. She attempts to fight back with her dagger but it doesn't do much, forcing her to run for her life. Last minute, Kitaro steps in and takes out the beast with ease.

Kitaro finally decides he'll help her, under two conditions. One, if by one month she doesn't learn Storm, she has to run home and two, if she learns it, she shall never use it to kill. She of course, accepts!!

In the final quarter of the chapter, they set up camp for the night, still in the desert. Kitaro asks why she wishes to learn Storm in the first place and she replies that it is to be able to safely survive the Dark World to find someone, she doesn't go into much more detail.

Before heading to sleep Kitaro tells her to join him in the first step of learning and maintaining a strong flow of Storm, meditation. For him, he sits comfortably while placing a rock in front of him. He closes his eyes and imagines the rock floating in front of him. And to Rika's amazement, the rock floats up in matters of seconds. Maintaining the floating rock in place, he tells her to attempt the same. She does, but gets nowhere. Kitaro opens his eyes and tells her to imagine the rock and without moving a muscle, imagine yourself picking up that rock. To Kitaro's amazement, Rika ends up being able to lift the rock, if only for a millisecond...