Watching his hand reform was eerie as hell but he could at least deduct where the sharp counter came from, no matter how. He could feel the cuts accumulating to his senses as his heart rate lowered from the result of his boosted abilities. The commotion of the crowd finally being processed by his eardrums, while he tried to tighten his stance through the pain.
“Of course.-“
Biting his tongue short of a sharper reply as he stopped moisture from making into his eye and seeing both the blood and the slices on the back of his arm. That would be when his adrenaline took a dive, the lightning naten coursing through his arms was stopping them bleeding but taking step back he saw his legs were not much better and actually failed to catch himself on his right ankle.
“-shit.”
Recovering on his knee however as he released his high powered gloves, the lightning naten coursing through his arms pulsed away as it flexed down to his legs. Axel was furious at his weakness, his ankles wouldn’t be gushing blood if they had been conducting lightning energy. They could have still been sliced sure but his muscles would still respond to impulses and stopped the bleeding by force with enough naten. This was the condition he was now forcing them into however, his arms started leaking as the muscles relaxed and blood flow from his feet was staunched.
“I mean… I can manage”
He groaned out as he stood, naten now coursing through his legs as a lightning current. This technique did harden his nerves after training so consistently with it but not nearly to the point of imperviousness. Like the muscles in his arms for instance, they were conditioned to be able to deflect kunai with very little naten so the cuts were less deep. The slices to his skin would have gotten considerably worse as they went down however, where his body was generating the most arcs, to his legs.