It has been a month since the ranking examination and I haven't improved one bit. It would seem that my current pace was no longer enough. Though I did come to an understanding that normal children even those considered geniuses by others weren't improving as fast as me. That was the information I got from Eri and Gerard. But that information wasn't too credible since they were still kids. Even if it were true, I still didn't like the pace of my improvement.
Even though there's no war to be fought at the moment. One cannot be too careful. After meeting Roland, I finally realized that no matter the world, humans will still be humans. Peace is such a fragile thing and could break at any moment. Knowing this, to have my life in fulfillment I must gain enough strength to acquire such a life.
So I decided to double the intensity of my training, but training by myself was no longer as helpful. I can't spar with my dad all the time since he's pretty busy every now and then. Oh right, don't I have the perfect sparing partners.
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I called Eri and Gerard to come and help me think of ways to improve. Well, not only me but for them as well. It was fun exchanging ideas on how to improve ourselves. So this is what it's like to have friends. It was better than expected.
All I had in my past life were people that were my allies but never my friends. I never bothered to know more about them, as I was entirely focused on my revenge. Only at the end did I have that moment of clarity.
If only I wasn't focused on my revenge would I have a better life, as I have now? It's no use thinking about it now. So I better enjoy what I have while I still can.
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After my friends and I finished theorizing about what moves we can do we would immediately put it into action and spar. This was Gerard's favorite part of the training.
"So who's going to fight me first? Is it you Eri, or is it going to be you Edge?" Gerard delightedly called the two and challenged them to a spar.
"Why are you so excited to get your ass kicked?" Eri spoke in her usual indifference.
"Is that a challenge? You don't know if today's the day you fall, Eri." Gerard grin as his battle aura was on the rise.
"Against you, I can never see that coming," Eri responded as her battle aura was also on the rise.
"I don't know what you two are arguing about, but neither of you can beat me." Edge shrugged his shoulders as he joined in the conversation.
"Oh, now you said it!" Gerard looked at Edge while pointing his wooden sword at Edge.
"Two on one, Edge will be the loser." Eri also pointed her wooden sword at Edge.
"Fine, even if you two multiplied into a dozen, I'll still win." Edge cheerily replied, with a vicious looking grin on his face. Even while training, he was truly having fun. having friends really is the best.
The three of us then started to spar until we fell to the ground exhausted.
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Sometime during our breaks after sparring, my little sister would join us and play with Eri's tails. Every time she would appear, my friends and I couldn't help but smile seeing her happily playing around. It was quite enjoyable watching her.
Every day was fun, magic training, sword practice, and sparring with my friends. Playing with my little sister every day was truly fun. Sometimes we would go to the village to play around, but every time we go to find others to play with, they seem to be running from us. Do they still remember what I did to Roland? Well, that can't be help seeing as I did too much.
Either way, doing these things that I couldn't do in my last childhood phase, was truly enjoyable. I once again thank whatever deity or being that allowed me to reincarnate with my memories intact.