I am a little nervous in the lift to be with Mr. Cooper who looks angry at something and I am not sure if it is because of me. He looks at me saying "My daughter is childish and doesn't know how this world is. Protect her when you are out there, please."
I look at him thinking for a second before I reply "On my life I promise I will not let anything happen to her." To which he smiles and says "Thank you Alexander. You have given peace to my mind."
He was asking to protect his daughter as a father and not as a manager of the Hammerand, Havet branch. And I know how it will affect him if anything happens to her as I remember seeing my parents when I was hospitalized.
He goes to the 3rd floor and I come back to the ground floor. I see Jack nodding at me while Snowfa comes to me asking what we talked about to which I say "It is nothing. I asked to be solo and he said it is not gonna happen." To which her expression changed.
"You don't want to be with me?" She asks fighting to keep her tears at bay. I reply seeing her sad face "It was when I joined the company I asked it, before we met and now I am not going to change my team or go solo."
Hearing that, her face lights up like a bright head light of a vehicle with a smile that shows all her teeth. Her blue eyes with slim, fit body and blonde hair makes her look like a child who has got her favorite toy after yearning for it a long time.
She comes close to me trying to hug me, to which I push her away gently saying "Respect the place you work girl, be professional." To which she pouts and has a mock angry expression on her blushing face.
After having snacks in the office cafeteria, we leave for our homes. I want to work on battle exercise, but I have to wait for the doctor's approval to start practicing it again. I wish I could get any action in the patrol as there will be mostly low grade animals in the farmlands.
I reach the office by 7:50 AM the next day and see Snowfa again waving at the me from the lobby. I am little surprised to see her coming so soon, as herĀ father comes only after 8:00 AM.
I am also not sure, how a powerful man like Mr. Cooper will let her daughter to be so childish without any experience in the wilderness. But I can't ask them directly as it is their personal and I don't want to offend them asking about it.
I wave my hand at her before going in. We waited for about 15 minutes and Jack comes with a smile on his face. He says we will be going for training with more difficulty.
We enter the room 12 for our training and see the robot tigers are changed to robot bears with Low-F grade power. It makes the training a little harder, but not with the difficulty I expected.
The red bar on their head did not reduce as quick as the tigers, may be because of the defense from the bears, but it wasn't difficult for me after I started using the Ice Armor. It no only increases my defense, but also attack attack power while increasing speed lightly.
The only drawback is the speed which I usually rely on with my original element, which I am still using. Now I will have to change my battle style to use the defense and offence of the Ice Armor.
I can see why Snowfa uses a hammer instead of a sword, but I prefer sword and will stick to it. I just need to focus on increasing mine and Snowfa's power level so I can stop patrolling the outer areas and go on real missions.
To fulfill my promise to Mr. Cooper, I tried to give some advice for her to increase the attack power, but since I am using a different weapon, it was not efficient and hence our trainer Jack said he will take over that part as he is also using blunt weapons like her.
Jack gave her many points to use her weapon effectively while he said my attack and defense are good, but will have to change my tactics as I mostly relied on speed and not on my defense or offence.
It will be difficult as I have been training from childhood to rely on speed due to me being skinny and doesn't have much power. Even now, I look skinny, but with the Ice element, I get endurance and strength which will help me in both attack and defense.
I still have not lost my speed as Air element has merged with Water element to create the Ice element. So I have speed, but not as much as I used to have with Air. I want to be an all-rounder with attack, defense and speed, but only time will tell if I can achieve it.
I wish I can use the Fury Slash from the Air element, but as per the researches that has been done so far, I can use only use the basic skills of the original elements I have and not powerful skills like Fury Slash.
I need increase my grade and my constitution which will be difficult for me as the researches say that the people who has merged elements have difficult time in upgrading their grades and most doesn't go above the High-D.
My parents are still in D grade as they have decided to stop upgrading their levels for some reason and are focusing on their work and helping people. Myself and my sister tried to know why they stopped leveling up, but they just said it is only for our good and not to ask anymore about it.
But, they would have reached at least Low-B grade if they wanted, but they don't want to and we have stopped asking them why they didn't as it only makes them angry whenever we bring that topic to them.