Okay, there might be one too many things to comment on here. So, pal...you’re the demon king? Uh...seriously? Who the hell just shoved this nuclear warhead in my way? Also, what the hell was up with his stats?! What the hell’s up with his races?! Oh god, I couldn’t stop thinking about all this. Could somebody tell me that my Appraisal had just bugged out? Please?!
I prayed that my surprise didn’t show on my face. I wasn’t sure if Poker Face was helping to keep my face straight. Just as I was drowning in my thoughts about the old guy—the revived demon king sitting right in front of me—the guild doors opened.
“Sorry for the wait, Kiri.” Sister Sensei had returned. You’re back a lot sooner than I expected. She still smelled like a virgin. I’m so happy he didn’t get to you! This wasn’t the time for stupid thoughts, though. I needed to get my head straight and realize how fortunate it was that she’d walked in right now.
“What’d you two talk about?” I asked.
“He asked me about the guy I’d brought to the church—you, of course. He told me that Holy Knights are supposed to be virgins and to avoid any illicit relationships.”
Says the hero who gobbles up virgins like they’re snacks!
“So what’d you tell him about me?”
“I told him that we’re just teacher and student... Oh, and that you’re weaker than me, so it’d be physically impossible for you to assault me.”
Dammit! If he’d told her to stop, that might’ve freed me from this annoying training. Also, I’m a lot stronger at night, okay?! I could have you for breakfast with my level 5 Sexual Prowess, okay?! But then something occurred to me.
“Wait, what about that guy you brought here on your first day?”
“Oh, him? I was just using him to ward off other guys. I asked a priest for help. But it looks like I ended up getting involved with a guy, anyway...” Oh, you’re talking about me? At the time, I hadn’t been thinking about whether she was with a guy or not. All I’d wanted was to act out the cliché.
“Well, that’s that...so let’s get back to training!” You mean “hell,” right? Sister Sensei yanked me out of my seat and began pulling me away.
“See you around, old man.”
“What about your drink?”
Oh, right. I hadn’t noticed until he’d pointed it out, but I still had a half-full tankard left. “You can have the rest.”
“I’ll pass. You’re the only one who drinks crap like that. I don’t wanna kill my liver.”
I had a feeling that he could have put lava into his body and still been okay, but either way, I was calm again. I swiped my tankard and chugged the rest of it. Ugh... Drinking poison is rough. I wasn’t sure if it was thanks to my regenerative abilities as a vampire or my Poison Resistance, but I wasn’t immediately affected by it.
“Come on, Kiri!”
“Okay, okay.”
I was rushed out of the Adventurers’ Guild by Sister Sensei.
A sharp kick was thrown at me. I did my best to avoid it, but it still grazed my arm. Even just being grazed hurt a lot because of the immense power behind it. I could feel my arm going numb as well.
“See—I hit you again. You can’t look and then dodge; you gotta anticipate the attack. You’ve got good eyes, so put them to use.”
I was out of breath and being lectured by Sister Sensei, here at our training ground. She’d never touched on the basics or anything—she just went full throttle into practical training.
“Even if I can predict an attack, who’s to say that they won’t change tactics?” I asked.
“You gotta anticipate that too.”
You’re asking for the impossible... Was this training useful for me? Well, it had its uses. I had a tendency to use Absolute Tracking to dodge attacks. Dodging attacks that had a set trajectory like Fenrir’s projectiles was one thing, but it was impossible to predict the movements of masters like Aegiana. There might have been a skill out there that’d help me do so, but for now, it probably wasn’t a great idea to keep relying on my eyes when there were people with higher AGI out there than me.
Overall, this training wasn’t incredibly useful for me since I couldn’t level skills during the daytime. It would’ve been better if I’d trained at night on my own. It wasn’t my fault that I couldn’t find the motivation to do so, though...
“Well, don’t just stand there. Let’s keep goin’!” Sister Sensei said, grabbing my arm and forcibly pulling me to my feet.
Her muscleheadedness reminded me somewhat of Aegiana.
“Oh, right,” she said, apparently remembering something. “Sorry, I have Guidance tomorrow for the training camp, so I can’t train you.”
Oh, so no training tomorrow. Hell yeah! Finally, a break! What should I do? Heh, like I don’t already know. I was gonna catch up on sleep. I wouldn’t even go into the guild—I’d just stay in and sleep the entire day.
“But you shouldn’t sleep all day, okay?” she added on. What?! “You should try getting some real-life fighting experience.” I think I’ve already gotten a lot from our regular training. “So I want you to have a proper weapon. Do you have one?”
I do. A whole Shadow Storage full of knives and swords. I wasn’t about to show her, though. That’d be stupid. They were all made of shadow metal, which had been created by my dark magic. They shouldn’t have existed in this world, so I couldn’t have her inspect them.
“I don’t have any.”
“I already kinda guessed as much, but still... It’s amazing that you consider yourself an adventurer without any weapons.”
Well, all I do is drink and sleep all day. Wouldn’t it be weirder if I did have a weapon on me?
“How about you take some time to look for a weapon that suits you—but don’t buy it, okay? Wait until I get back in two days so I can sign off on it.”
Fine. I was already making plans to choose something at random and then immediately go back to sleep.
“Don’t choose one at random, okay? Really think about it. If you don’t, I’m gonna make training even harder.”
Understood. Could she read minds? “...Okay.”
“That took you a second. Was I right on the money?”
“Let’s get back to training,” I said, trying to change the subject before she could make the training even harder.
She looked at me and let out a heavy sigh.
The sun had begun to set before I was finally freed from training. There was only a little time left before it was fully nighttime, so I decided to sleep for the time being. I opened the door to my room and collapsed onto my hard bed. I peeked into the room next to mine with Clairvoyance, but Ariya still hadn’t returned. That was fine. I wanted time to organize my thoughts about the events of the day, anyway.