episode_0095

I checked my appearance in front of the mirror.

The pure white forehead, free of the bandages that had been wrapped around his head for several days, was clean without a single scar.

“Hmm.”

I thought, stroking my forehead.

I was worried that there would be a scar, but it was a needless worry.

“Can I start training today?”

I asked Amy in the mirror.

She nodded slightly as she sat on the chair drinking coffee.

“Yeah. Starting today.”

The training began after lunch, with individual lessons from Victor.

“Jeff.”

“Huh?”

“Do I really have to take the test?”

“Of course. Shine passed, so there’s no way I can’t do it, right?”

I started striking different poses in front of the mirror.

Because right after passing the test, I thought it would be nice to strike a cool pose.

When Shine reached her destination, she remembered the sight of onlookers taking pictures of her.

I wanted to be remembered for my special moments and for being awesome.

“After…”

Amy sighed softly at my answer.

I knew what she was worried about.

Amy didn’t want me and Shine to be in danger.

I also knew that the reason she suddenly joined the team when she had never been on a team before was to keep me and Shine safe.

But I wanted to help Amy.

Was it because he knew my feelings?

Amy never spoke again about the test.

He just looked at me and smiled faintly.

“Starting today, Jeff will receive one-on-one tutoring from Victor.”

“Like before?”

“Yeah.”

I nodded, looking around the empty room.

Shine, who passed the test, has already started training.

I clenched my fist as I thought about Shine training hard to prepare for the next test.

I couldn’t fall behind.

As it is late, we must work harder and run together with Shine as soon as possible.

After lunch, I followed Amy to the training grounds.

A place I arrived at after a long time.

The noise coming from everywhere was familiar.

I stood up and stretched my body briefly.

“Jeff! Amy!”

While I was loosening up, Rain came to me.

Rain, who came running with a towel around his neck, shook his tied-back hair wildly like a puppy wagging its tail.

“Hello Rain.”

“Everything is better!”

Rain circled around me and shouted.

Her loud voice draws everyone’s attention.

I hung my head in shame.

“Yeah. It’s okay now.”

“Thank goodness. Now we can train together, right?”

“Yeah.”

Rain was delighted by my answer and grabbed my hand and shook it wildly.

“What about Shine?”

“Shine isn’t here. She’s sparring.”

“Sparring?”

“Yeah.”

I squinted my eyes at the word sparring.

I couldn’t help but worry as the small and fragile Shine was sweating on the ring.

“Who are you doing this with?”

“Trainees similar to Shine.”

“Aren’t you saying that we’re similar in height?”

“Yeah.”

“Is Shine in danger?”

“Well, I don’t know because Shine has never lost to me before.”

I breathed a sigh of relief at Rain’s words.

The fact that she has never lost means that Shine has never been seriously injured.

But I was still worried.

“Can you tell me where to do it?”

“They’re doing it in the room over there.”

Where Rain’s finger is pointing.

I was facing beyond the large iron gate at the corner of the training grounds.

“Amy, can I see Shine?”

“Is that so?”

Amy readily accepted my offer.

Me, Lane, and Amy headed to the sparring area.

Next to the huge iron door there was a large window.

The windows were very wide on the sides, as if they were made to allow a view of the inside from the outside.

In the ring, Shine was facing off against a man larger than her.

I walked right up to the window and stood on tiptoe.

Because I’m short, I had to hang on the window to look out.

“Come here Jeff.”

Amy hugged me, perhaps because she felt sorry for me.

“Me too! Hug me too!”

Rain also couldn’t see inside because he was short.

Lane didn’t wait for Amy to hug her.

She jumped up from her spot and clung to Amy’s body as she climbed up next to me.

Rain and I put our hands on the glass wall and looked beyond it.

At the same time, Shine and the man began to move.

A man’s fist extended outwards.

But it didn’t reach Shine’s body.

As if reading his movements, all of the man’s attacks passed through Shine by a mere sheet of paper.

Her white hair flowed like a tail.

Once, twice, three times.

Shine dodges the attacks that follow like flowing water.

At that moment, when the man’s movements became slightly disturbed, Shine’s movements changed.

Shine approaches at high speed, stepping left and right.

A man swinging his arms to try to stop Shine’s movements.

Shine grabbed the man’s arm and jumped up from her spot.

It’s a quick movement like a squirrel.

Shine jumped up to the height of the man’s head, reached out and placed her hand on the man’s forehead.

At that moment, the man rolled his eyes and fell down.

The movements of the fallen body trembling were as if it had been shocked by electricity.

“Wow…”

Children grow quickly.

But Shine’s growth rate was unusually fast.

It’s only a few days difference.

Shine, who started training first a few days before I took off the bandage on my head.

It wasn’t like this before she started training.

“Shine is doing well.”

I nodded to Amy’s words.

There was no need to worry.

There seemed to be no danger of her getting hurt.

In the sparring room where people train with minimal use of their abilities, there are always people with healing abilities on standby.

“Amy, go to Victor.”

“Is it okay if I don’t say hello to Shine?”

“Yes. I don’t want to bother you.”

Shine was more passionate than anyone here.

I didn’t want to break her flow.

Amy picked me up and Lane up in her arms and headed towards Victor.

Victor was sitting on a soft mat, yawning lazily.

“Hello.”

“Uh…”

“Hello Victor!”

“Uh…”

After confirming that we had arrived, Victor got up from his seat and began to stretch slightly.

“Is it starting today?”

“Yeah.”

Amy dropped me off in front of Victor.

“Where are you going, Amy?”

“I have to go train too. I can’t rest forever.”

Amy is a busy person.

I understood it, but it wasn’t without its disappointment.

I nodded and waved.

“See you later, Amy.”

“Yeah. Listen to Victor.”

“See you later, Jeff!”

“You come down now.”

“No! I’ll hang on longer!”

Amy shook Lane wildly, who was hanging on her arm.

Rain, hanging on tightly with his eyes tightly shut as if trying not to fall.

But with Amy’s strong swing of her arm, Lane was blown far away.

A situation where I was left alone with Victor.

An awkward silence fell.

“Um…”

Victor also scratched his head awkwardly and took out a wad of white paper from his bosom.

“Almost all abilities are at their best. If only I could raise control a little bit…”

Victor, who had been mumbling softly, let out a sigh.

“Sit down first.”

“Yes.”

I flopped down on the soft mat where Victor had been sitting.

Victor also sat down in front of me without any particular reason.

“Victor over there.”

“Yeah.”

“When does our training start?”

“I’m thinking about the training content.”

I sat next to Victor for a while.

Thirty minutes have already passed.

But there was no progress in training.

I just sit there blankly and let time pass by.

“Really?”

“Yeah.”

Time passes again.

Thirty minutes pass by again.

In total, I just sat there for an hour.

I started yawning, unable to overcome my boredom.

“Decided.”

At that moment, Victor, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly got up from his seat and said.

I also got up from my seat and followed him.

“Are you starting training?”

“Yeah.”

Victor said that and ran to where the water purifier was.

He came back to where I was holding a bunch of paper cups.

“Cup?”

“This is the perfect training for you.”

Victor lined up several cups on a small desk.

While I was watching him do something, he took a small coin out of his pocket and placed it on the desk.

“Guess where the coin is.”

“Huh?”

Victor put a coin in an identical paper cup and spoke to me.

Gambling is a common sight on the streets.

It was a wild goose.

Is this what you call training?

“Is this really training…?”

“Why aren’t you confident?”

“No, that’s not it…”

“Start.”

Victor’s hands began to move.

And the paper cup moves too.

Victor’s hands move quite quickly.

Paper cups spinning quickly, making a swishing sound.

“Where are the coins?”

I sighed and pointed to the paper cup in the middle.

“Not here?”

“That’s correct.”

Victor said so and showed me the inside of the paper cup.

As I said, the coin was inside.

“Hey Victor…”

“Start again.”

Victor cut me off and started shuffling the paper cups again.

The total number of paper cups was four.

Swish swish swish – The paper cup starts to rotate.

I was able to get the answer right this time too.

“Over there…”

“Go faster.”

The moment Victor finished speaking, a blue electric current flashed from his fingertips.

The afterimage of the hand slips.

The sound of paper cups rubbing against each other on the desk continues for a long time.

Several sounds overlap at the same time, as if they were all heard at once.

More than twice as fast as before.

I was so careless that I missed the location of the coin.

“What is the answer?”

“in…”

The correct answer is one of four.

I had to take it with a 25% chance.

I closed my eyes tightly and pointed to the cup on the far right.

“This is it!”

One of Victor’s eyebrows twitches.

The corner of his mouth twists slightly and the cup moves.

“Wrong.”

“Gasp…”

The correct answer was the cup on the opposite side.

“You weren’t concentrating at all, were you?”

“Yes…”

“Focus, Jeff.”

“Yes!”

Victor wasn’t joking.

I shook off the thoughts I had just had and reflected deeply.

“This time instead of coins.”

Victor pushed aside the coins that had been lying on the desk and took a small piece of candy out of his pocket.

“I’ll do this with candy.”

“Candy…?”

“If you guess the correct answer, you eat it.”

“Me…?”

“But if I’m wrong, I’ll eat it.”

I swallowed dry saliva.

“These candies are your snack for today.”

Before asking, “Yes?”

Victor’s hands began to move.

Chomp!

Victor’s hand, which had been shaking on the desk, stopped.

A sharp blue current blossomed on his arm.

“If you keep getting it wrong, it means you won’t be able to eat a snack today.”