The next dayー

Today, I finally managed to land an attack on master. As usual the both of us stood in the garden, while he waited for me. After seeing his attacks for a week, I finally got a grip on what to do, I took a breath, crouched down, and got ready to charge at him, the breeze flowed through my hair. Focussing on him and nothing else, I charged. But this time it was different, I could see his sword’s movements, I could finally see what he would do, unsheathing the Thulwar, I took it out to slice his legs, but he had blocked it. Kicking me back, I slid back, getting a grip with my feet, I charged again. 

Taking a gamble, I threw my sword at him, his eyes focussed on it, soon I kicked him with all my might. Yet…. He wouldn’t even budge. Immediately looking down, he smiled at me, Ah…. He knew. Taking the hilt of his sword he hit me on the head. I fell unconscious.

Soon, I woke up after a few minutes, I expected to be scolded for this, yet he said “good going, I didn’t think you’d figure it out.”

“Huh?” - “Really? Did you think I would scold you for this?” he continued “Although, it can be really bad against certain opponents, it’s not a bad strategy in and of itself, it depends on who you fight. I expected a little more from you, but it’s fine. Remember; No matter what, stay alive.”

I see, I hadn’t thought about that. It’s reckless to fight and die.

“Sorry master!” - “No, no, it’s fine. But now, I think you’re ready for some real training. Right. We’ll start tomorrow.”

He then continued to explain about the southern sword style, apparently it has thirty-two different movements, which all have their own purpose. But he refused to expand anymore, saying that I wasn’t ready.

Soon, both me and Elena went to the library again, both of us sat down at the table at the end, with Alf serving us both some tea, Elena taking a sip asked me “So, do you remember what I taught you yesterday?”

Nodding my head, I continued drinking the tea. “Really? Then how about this, read this page here.” pointing to a sentence in the book she smirked at me, almost like saying ‘you lied, didn’t you?’

I then kept the cup down, and pulled the book near myself and started reading “Mickael Vi Avant was the rek- recorded 37th prince of the Ar- Alpa- Albainan kingdom.” - “Enough.”

“Did you practice this before?” - Alf then replied to her “Master, doesn’t remember anything, not after the recent event. He constantly wants to eat, and he’s forgotten table manners, quite frankly; he’s like a different person.” - “Huh? Is that so?” she replied back.

“Also, you’re being quite relaxed aren’t you? Butler.” - “Well… Though he might have all these flaws, I personally like this master more.” 

“Well, if that’s true, he has a crazy memory, and he’s probably the only person who ever learned it this fast. I don’t think anybody else has. He only has some problems with pronunciation. Which I can fix easily enough.” - “Really?” - “Oy boy, do you want more compliments? Because I have a good and hard fist waiting for you, if that counts.” - “No, No, No… I just didn’t think I’d have anything special...” - “We’ll continue learning more of it. Don’t get conceited.” - “Yes!”

Soon she fixed my pronunciation problems, and taught me more of the letters and operators. And I had gone to sleep after a day of work. But thenー

| Factor (Spatial Understanding): Unlocked. |

| Factor (Lingual Understanding): Unlocked. |

| Factor (Magical Understanding): Unlocked. |

| Level 2 has been Unlocked. |

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| ‘Sarah’ Reactivation Attempt #1: Failed |

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| ‘Sarah’ Reactivation Attempt #2567: Successful |

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| Hey maru…. How have you been..? Been a while, haha… I’m sorry… |