Talk:White/@comment-26484417-20160131162247/@comment-26484417-20160207211807

Then there must be some misunderstanding, because from all we know, this is precisely what Arie swordsmanship does. And since it mitigates the issue of handling a sword in high density Shinsoo, something that troubles users of any other swordsmanship style, it could be considered cheating... Especially by those who cannot use Arie swordsmanship... =P

From what we know, Hoaqin's sword doesn't behave as a regular sword, and Boro's description that "it's the space itself" is tantamount to saying that the sword's physical appearance and / or properties are not what they appears to be.

Imagine that the sword was originally quite ordinary. If Arie swordsmanship works anything like I speculate, then when a practitioner of this style handles a sword, they merge together on some level. Now, if we assume this is how things really work, we can further speculate what is exactly the sword we see after the merging. It could be a physical extension of the user's body, but so far it's suggested that it's more of a metaphorical extension thereof... For instance, consider the situation in chapter 265, where Hoaqin has the sword at Baam's throat (doing nothing else), and Baam pushes the sword away... Yet this seemingly mundane action somehow managed to surprise Hoaqin. If the sword is perfectly ordinary physical object, what could be so surprising about someone touching it and even pushing it away when Hoaqin isn't even attacking or using any techniques...?