Side Story Practice Peeking
This chapter is from Hero's POV
"Alrighty, that concludes our training today~. Make sure you have a good night sleep tonight and get ready for tomorrow~."
"A, agagaga..."
"U, uh, I died, so many times again..."
"...I'm used to it."
Hello there, good evening. It's me, the final hope of the world that will save mankind from Demon King, the hero in the flesh.
That final hope has been dying again and again day by day. The amount of deaths easily exceeds triple digit when we fight these instructors. What is this place, hell?
'Sword King' Dukeris fights us head-on with a wooden sword without resorting to trickery.
He also uses 'Mana Blunt' to increase his wooden sword's durability, yet it still boasts more than enough power to deal a killing blow. What's even blunt about it... Ugogogo...
'Archmage' Lunatiara shoots elementary spells with the same firepower as Advanced Magic spells cast by Mages and Sorcerers, a direct hit will kill you instantaneously.
Even if you manage to get past her magic bombardment and engage in a close quarter combat, she possesses superior strength and techniques over us, killing us with a whack of her staff. This game is just impossible.
Aina-san was so gentle with us... Hindsight 20/20. Come back Aina-san.
Training with these two is just terrible. Dead. I'm gonna die. Heck, I did die. Countless times.
We died so much that by nighttime everybody looked dead on the inside. H, how long must this go on...
"You guys alright? Sure don't look well."
"You guys are being way too hard on us just because we can get revived..."
"Even if the body is sound, the mind..."
"Dunno how much shock you get when you die, but I see it's gotta be quite mentally draining huh."
"You simply get used to it... Fufufu..."
Olivie, are you alright. Your eyes are unfocused even though you're laughing.
As she's usually very meek, getting driven to the corner like this might be risky for Olivie...
"Are you making other groups go through the same life-threatening practice as ours? Somebody might die at this rate..."
"Nothing this dangerous, course'. Unlike you guys, it'd be like putting the cart before the horse if any of 'em died."
"So our training is the harshest huh..."
"There's an exception, but yeah that's about right."
"By that you mean Kajikawa-san's group?"
"Yea. Oh right, he hailed from the same land as yours huh. Him and you, you otherworlders sure have some incredible latent power. We musta look like common people by your world's standard."
"No, that person is just abnormal. Ordinary people don't fly in the sky without any gear."
They pin their hope on Kajikawa-san's group huh. Guess that's only right.
Though not even that Kajikawa-san managed to land a hit on these two.
Their daughter, Alma got a successful hit on Instructor Lunatiara the other day though.
Did she get past that barrage of death and squeezed a hit in melee range? How?
...Was instructor going easy cause she was up against her daughter? Considering their usual antics around Alma, that sounds plausible...
I think tomorrow is Kajikawa-san's group turn.
Tomorrow is our rest day and all, maybe I should go and take a peek.
Kinda curious how they're dealing with these two, I might even catch a hint or two.
...Honestly, half of it is motivated by the thrill of watching something scary.
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The day after.
I went to look for a nice spot to peek at their training with Ultimate Martial Art Skill 'Clairvoyance' that allows me to see afar like a telescope from a safe place but there were preceding visitors already.
"...The hell you doin' out here, okama bastard."
"...That's my line. Ain't this your leveling day, why'd you all be here."
That damned brat, Alancyan or something was already standing by.
Not just this brat. Every members of the other groups are all here too. What about your training, guys.
"Look who's talkin' on the high horse. Ya ain't no better."
"Too bad~. Today is our group's rest day~. Our free time, unlike you~. Can you not lump us together puhlease~."
"You're such a pain in the arse, wanna die?"
"Ah, you mad~? Are you mad~? M'bad, wanna try killing me~? I'm just gonna get revived right away though~."
I do think I'm being quite a pest myself, but I can't stand this guy calling me okama either.
Guy looks easy to provoke and he's frowning hard, but he's being patient prolly because he wants to watch Kajikawa-san's group. NDK? NDK?
"...I got no time to play around with ya bastard. Piss off if ya got no business here."
"Who the hell wanna stays next to you. This is the only good place to peek from."
"You guys, shut it. Keep it down if you're here to peek."
Green hair, Radiasta, was it? Warned us with an 'I can't believe you guys' look. Soz.
Oh? His previously Martial Arts Lv9 has evolved to Ultimate Martial Arts Lv2. He got that up so quickly.
His base level also went up from 35 to 40. It's only been around a week since we started the training too. That's an amazing pace.
No wait, I'm curious about him but I gotta focus on Kajikawa-san's group.
Gotta learn how their training goes.
Activating 'Clairvoyance' and start watching.
...And, once their training started, all I could see are two black shadows swaying around, what are those even? Who? What are they doing? What's happening?
I can't even make out their outlines. Are those human beings? Or are they straw men bending back and forth?
<<...Err, those are Alma-san and her Papa-san exchanging blows at super high speed. They're moving too fast your kinetic vision can't catch up it seems Neora-san.>>
Wait you mean Alma-san wasn't at her full speed during the tournament!? I can't make heads or tails where she's moving now!
I mean, Papa-san's speed is no joke either. It's as if I'm watching an anime high speed battle.
I take back about them taking it easy on their daughter, he's going at it far faster and stronger than with us.
Papa-san was actually holding back against us... Uwaah, I feel pitiful about myself.
"...What, are they doing?"
"Alma and Duke-san are sparring it seems... They're too fast nobody can tell what's going on."
"That's Alma and his dad? For real?"
Radiasta and the damned brat muttered with their mouths agape.
Yup, their reactions are normal after watching that. No ordinary human can move like that. Weird.
They're way too incredible their training is no use as a frame of reference. Is there even a point to watching them?
"Ah, they finally stoppe...!? Alma-neechan's sword turned gigantic, she thrust that forward and then it multiplied!? And that guy just casually dodged them all!"
"How many times did they swing their swords just now...? I couldn't tell at all..."
"They never showed their true strength against us. Not Duke-san, not Alma..."
"Like that time at the tourney."
....Yup. Honestly, somewhere in the corner of my mind, I knew that already.
They were holding back against us so we don't lose heart from too lofty of a goal.
In fact, I'm kinda losing my confidence after watching this... I gotta get stronger than that? Aren't you asking the impossible?
Just as that thought crossed my mind, the damned brat stood up and walked away.
"Oy, where you going?"
"...Leveling. I've seen it all. I ain't gonna waste any more time."
"Yeah?"
He's going to work harder instead of losing heart even after seeing this huh.
Or perhaps, he's the type that gets fired up the taller the wall to scale.
...I hate him, but I gotta learn from that undaunting will.
"R-Reina!"
"Eh? ...!?"
Radiasta suddenly called out the name of that blond little girl.
What's wrong with her? I used Clairvoyance again and then...
When I turned my sight back at Kajikawa-san's group, a humongous giant of flame visible with bare eyes even from this distance showed up.
W-what the heck is that thing...!?
<<That will be Advanced Spirit Magic 'Cthuga'. The apex of all flame spirits... Instructor Lunatiara summoned that. Is she planning to kill Reina-san...?>>
...Wha? She summoned that monster against Reina!?
No no no, that's just way absurd! I can feel the heat even from all the way here! She's gonna get burned just getting close to it!
<<No, looks like that's not quite right, see? ...That girl is just as abnormal.>>
Wha?
....
Y-you're kidding me, she's barely managing to dodge that giant of flame's assault...!?
Looking again, I see that she's staving off the attack with an ostrich-like big golden chicken. They're training as a pair huh.
They're two different species yet they're fighting like a pair of combat veterans, complementing and covering each other splendidly.
...Was that chicken Reina's tamed beast? No, I think it was Kajikawa-san's, yet they're so in sync...
Ah hey, Instructor Lunatiara is following up with more magic. Is she a demon.
Reina entered a gigantified shadow alongside the chicken, but they got chased out by the flame shining on it and ate instructor's magic directly.
A-are they alive? That was a direct hit.
Ah, they are alive. Barely at that, they slumped down while shaking.
Both Reina's and chicken's HPs are at 20. That could have killed them, no...?
Kajikawa-san ran up to them in a hurry.
He held his hands over them both, then their wounds got healed and their HPs went back to full.
Kajikawa-san's HP decreased instead. Is he able to share his HP...?
<<Looks like he can also control his life force on top of mana and stamina. Common sense really doesn't apply to that man...>>
...I'm used to him being extraordinary. I ain't gonna get surprised anymore, no matter what.
The girl and the chicken went up against Lunatiara again once they were fully healed. Can't believe they didn't lose heart after experiencing that.
"...Can't afford to play hooky now, can we."
"That missy's the real deal. Ain't she an item with ya? Someone's gonna be on a tight leash."
"Y-you're wrong! What are you talking about Baredo!"
"Fufu, oh it's nothing to get all flustered about."
"Nobody's flustered! Let's go and level up, now!"
Baredo and Rasfin who were peeking next Radiasta teased him, to which he responded by standing up with a reddened face.
He must have gone to peek at Reina only to get all competitive when he saw her undergoing a much severer training regime than him.
Well, guess you gotta get stronger than the girl you want to show off on. Do your best.
I stayed around and watched for a while only to see Alma, Reina, and the chicken re-challenging the two instructors over and over again to the point of exhaustion.
...Our group didn't have it the harshest. It's this group's.
They can't get revived yet they have to constantly deal with attacks that could get them killed by a hair.
All of them manage to get by such a severe training even if just barely. Their gutsiness is on a whole other level.
Heck, what's Kajikawa-san doing anyway?
All he's been doing is healing them whenever. Is he not gonna train? Well I mean, guess he doesn't need it when he's already that strong...
Oh, they're all taking a break. Good work~.
...Hm? Both instructors are walking to the training ground with Kajikawa-san, what's wrong?
...Eh, why are they taking combat ready poses?
Why're two instructor facing off Kajikawa-san.
That makes it look like they're gonna fight in a two-on-one.
<<That appears to be the case. What an elaborate way to kill yourself~. Oh wait, those two suggested this?>>
....
Well, uh. Live on. I'll make sure to pick up your bones if things went sideways, Kajikawa-san.
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