4:50 PM.
Lu Yu said goodbye to Cioara as well as Bronny, then pushed open the door and left Raven's.
And after Lu Yu left, Cioara curiously came to Bronny who was sitting on a chair playing with her cell phone.
"Bronny, how's it going?"
Bronny, who was playing with his cell phone, didn't look back at Cioara.
"What about?"
"Lu Yu ah, how did you guys get along today?"
"Lu Yu??"
Bronny glanced at Cioara before picking up his phone and continuing to tap something on the screen.
"It was alright, that guy is very much to my liking."
"Wow? That means you two are getting along just fine ..."
Just as Cioara was gossiping about how well Bronny and Lu Yu were getting along, Lu Yu, who had returned home, was also faced with this situation.
Having only just arrived home, Lu's father, who was waiting for Lu Yu at home, inquired about how Lu Yu's day was today.
"Brat, how was it, did you meet your online friend?"
Lu Yu answered truthfully, "Yes."
"It's a girl, right?"
Lu Yu continued to answer, "Yes."
"Good-looking?"
Lu Yu thought about the delicate little face under Bronny's hood, which Bronny felt was considered to be in the good-looking category.
"Good looking."
Three waves of questions in a row, and Lu's father, who got the answer, had some smiles on his face.
"..."
"The brat is lucky ah, how did you spend your day today? Did you take someone else's girl to play ah?"
"Let me think."
Lu Yu pondered for a while, it seemed like he didn't do anything today?
Chatting, chatting, chatting with Bronny in Raven's.
Then when Cioara got back Cioara made a meal and we all ate together.
Then he and Bronny went to Bronny's house together and ...
Then Bronny went straight to his nap while he took out the book he had bought this morning and read it, and then time passed in a few hours.
By the time Bronny woke up from his nap, it was after four o'clock.
And then it was back to Raven's with the sleeping Bronny, then declined Cioara's offer to stay for dinner and came back on his own.
"No, I'm having a ... day."
Luke told his family's old man the truth about his day.
"????"
After listening to his son's day today, Lu's father had a question mark on his face.
When people ran out to meet their female internet friends, who didn't go out on a date to watch a movie and eat and drink.
How come his own son here is to go to someone's home to read a book and dine out?
His own son's IQ is indeed top-notch, but it seems that his IQ is not quite enough?
Ignoring his old man's dumbfounded expression, Lu Yu directly went back to his room.
"I'm not eating dinner, I ate something else on the way back."
Dropping this sentence, Lu Yu who entered his room unlocked the door then opened his computer.
God City Technology.
Taixu Sect.
Underground Industrial District.
Human experimentation.
One word after another surfaced in Lu Yu's mind.
Opening his computer's browser, Lu Yu searched for the words human experimentation.
However, unsurprisingly, the webpage was blank, not in the sense that there was no relevant information, but in the sense that the search was not allowed at all.
Then Lu Yu tried searching a few more related words, but the results he got were similar.
"..."
It seemed that Bronny hadn't lied to himself.
It wasn't that Lu Yu didn't trust Bronny, it was just that there were some things that he had to personally seek confirmation on.
"Wait, I might need to try a different angle ..."
Thinking so, Lu Yu searched for something else.
Lu Yu's search this time was for missing persons, people searching, and this time, he got the answer he wanted.
On different forums as well as web pages, Lu Yu saw a huge number of missing persons notices.
Some were looking for parents as well as family members, some were looking for friends, and just within this year alone, there were whole dozens of related messages.
Lu Yu remembered the scenes he had seen of people crying because of the loss of their loved ones, and each one of those scenes was unforgettable to him.
What a Divine City Technology, what a Taixu Sect!
[You became good friends with a young girl named Bronny.]
[In your exchanges with Bronny, you learned some shady things about Sky Vault City.]
[After returning home, you inquired about some relevant information in order to seek confirmation of the authenticity of this information.]
[After roughly confirming the authenticity, you, who honors life, are a little angry.]
[Little you have a huge goal.]
[You have no complaints about living in Sky Vault City, but human experimentation is a contempt for life, and that's something you can't accept.]
[You are determined that you will use your own power to bring down God City Technology and make those inhumane experiments disappear from Sky Vault.]
[15 years old: You and Bronny became good friends, and you would often look for Bronny in Raven's.]
[You begin to seek breakthroughs elsewhere as you improve your skills.]
[You begin that simply having knowledge isn't enough, and you feel you need some strength to deal with the violence.]
[You decide to go for a boost in your personal strength.]
[There are quite a few places you can use to boost your strength, where are you going to do it?]
[1: Sign up for a martial arts school on the internet.]
[2: Go straight to the street punks for real combat.]
[3: Cioara, the owner of Raven's, seems to have been a mercenary at one time, she might have some methods.]
[4: Your herbalist master might have some methods.]
"I'll take 3."
The one you took was an assassin talent not a martial arts talent, and if you wanted to improve the strength of the talent in question, going directly to Cioara would be the most reliable.
[After some thought, you decide to seek help from Cioara, the beautiful owner's wife in Raven's].
[You and Bronny are good friends, and you often frequent Raven's, Cioara's opinion of you is not bad, after learning of your needs, although Cioara was a bit surprised, she still agreed to briefly guide you a bit]]
"Lu Yu, although I'm not sure why you want to improve your strength, but for Bronny's sake, I can slightly teach you some self-defense techniques."
Saying that, Cioara, who was standing busy at the bar, handed Lu Yu a glass of liquor.
"Thank you Sister Cioara."
"It's nothing, this drink might be a bit strong, pay attention when you drink it."
Cioara hadn't known this teenager in front of her for more than a day or two, ever since he and Bronny had become close friends, Lu Yu would often come to visit Raven's, and over and over again, Cioara and Lu Yu had become familiar with each other.
Cioara was quite fond of Lu Yu's polite and capable little brother.
Lu Yu picked up the wine, this time the bottle was blue, in the glass like a river of stars that kind of deep blue.
A sip was taken.
"The alcohol content is about 38 degrees, the base liquor is rum, and the ingredients are lemon, mango, and, uh, a little bit of spice? Cioara-san, how did you match the blue color with these things?"
"Well, although the degree wasn't high enough, the use of spices to create a taste of a high-count spirit is quite impressive."
Hearing the teenager in front of her report the ingredients of her drink word for word, Cioara made a somewhat helpless expression.
"Lu Yu, seriously, if you weren't a friend of Bronny's, I probably would have kicked you out of Raven's after you said that."
Lu Yu laughed, "What's the matter, did I say something wrong?"
"No, it's precisely because you're absolutely right that I want to kick you out!"
Speaking of this, Cioara sighed.
"As a bartender, it's really bad luck to meet a customer like you."
Hearing Cioara say this, Lu Yu smiled happily instead.
"I'm flattered, Sister Cioara."
Cioara retrieved the wine glass that the teenager had finished drinking from and then looked at Lu Yu.
"This time, what's the matter, if you're looking for Bronny, she took the day off, saying that she had some personal matters."
Lu Yu shook his head, he didn't come this time to look for Bronny, but specifically to look for Cioara.
"Well, there are indeed some things that I need to find Sister Cioara for a favor."
"Wow?"
Come specifically to ask for her favor?
Cioara was a little curious, this teenager in front of her usually came to Raven's to find Bronny, and it was the first time she came specifically to find her.
"Tell me, what's the reason for looking for me?"
"I heard that Sister Cioara used to be a mercenary?"
Mercenary.
The moment after hearing that word, Cioara's eyes sharpened, and then her tone changed a bit.
"You, where did you hear that?"
"Bronny."
"Bronny? What's that little girl telling you that stuff for ..."
"I asked her to, because there's something about wanting to elevate yourself."
"Elevate yourself? What do you mean?"
"Simply put, I want to upgrade my personal strength, in the physical sense."
When Lu Yu said that, Cioara probably understood the intentions of the teenager in front of her.
"You want me to teach you to fight?"
"Pretty much the same thing."
After learning of Lu Yu's needs, Cioara thoroughly scanned Lu Yu's entire body with her sight.
Lu Yu's figure wasn't considered tall and lanky; instead, it could be said to be rather light and thin.
Cioara suddenly asked, "Why do you want to fight?"
Lu Yu thought for a moment.
"To strengthen my body?"
"And?"
"Well, what else is there to hit back when you get hit?"
"No?"
Lu Yu shook his head.
"Nope."
He wasn't a violent person, and reinforcing his fighting strength was just a way to prepare for his future goals.
Cioara glanced at Lu Yu with a complicated expression, "The reason is quite passable, alright, you come with me."
Now that it was broad daylight, Raven's didn't need to be open for business, Cioara came to the gate of Raven's and after locking the gate up, she led Lu Yu to Raven's warehouse.
After arriving at the warehouse, Cioara went to a corner, and then she picked up the block on the floor, and then a dark stairway appeared in front of her and Lu Yu.
"Sister Cioara, there's actually a place like this in Raven's?"
Lu Yu had come to Raven's so many times, in with the warehouse he wasn't the first time, but it was the first time he knew that these two had such a tunnel opening.
"It's not a special place, and its previous role was just a place to store liquor."
After following Cioara down the stairs, Lu Yu came to a basement.
The basement was large but empty, with nothing but a table and a few chairs in it.
"Take it."
Leading Lu Yu to the center of the basement, Cioara suddenly fished out a dagger from somewhere and threw it to Lu Yu.
"Attack me, if you want to learn how to fight, let me see your current strength first."
Lu Yu took the dagger that Cioara threw over and looked at it, it was a very ordinary dagger, Lu Yu gently touched the edge of the blade then he frowned.
"This dagger, it's open edged."
Cioara had a matter-of-fact expression, "Of course it's open-bladed, I don't have any toys here that aren't open-bladed."
"Don't worry, you can't hurt me."
Since Cioara said so, Lu Yu also stopped talking nonsense, he grabbed the dagger in his hand and then swung it towards Cioara.
Looking at Lu Yu rushing over, Cioara gently dodged, and then she was violently reaching out to grab Lu Yu's knife-wielding wrist.
Next, Cioara let go of Lu Yu.
"Come on, keep attacking over ..."
Under Cioara's arrangement, the two of them next repeated this operation of one person attacking and one person defending many times.
One hour later.
"...."
Ending the sparring session, Lu Yu and Cioara each sat on a chair to rest, while looking at the calm Lu Yu, Cioara remembered Lu Yu's actions just now.
As if she had thought of something, Cioara was about to open her mouth to speak, but after pondering for a while, she did want to speak.
Looking at Cioara's speechless face, Lu Yu asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just don't know how to say it."
"Sister Cioara, just say it directly."
"Then I'll start with the basics."
Lu Yu nodded.
"In the hour I just spent, I probably made the most basic judgment of your situation."
"First of all, the movement as well as the posture of the knife you're holding is not right ..."
This was something Lu Yu knew very well, it would be strange if his posture and movements were right.
"Then there's the fact that your aura is also a bit lacking, well, judging from the frequency of your attacks, your physique isn't very good either, to put it simply, you're not fit to fight."
Hearing that he wasn't suitable for fighting, Lu Yu wasn't surprised at all, but Lu Yu didn't rush to speak, he was waiting for Cioara to finish.
"Normally, in your situation, I wouldn't recommend you to learn combat methods, because there's not much use in learning them, you're destined to be unsuitable for combat."
"But ..."
Cioara took a deep breath.
"But Lu Yu, there is one thing about you that has changed my mind."
"What is it?"
"It's the location of your attack ..."
Cioara: "Lu Yu, I don't know if you've realized it yourself, but in this hour of sparring, the position of every blade you've swung at me has been almost always a vital position!"