Opening his eyes Mike decided to close them again, it was already morning but didn't close his eyes to sleep again, today was his free day; Sunday, and Monday were his free days too since there was no any special mission. He gets up while receiving the assistant Claire's good morning.
He decided to follow the advice to use his ability every single day, so decided to not trust his eyes for the day, he sometimes needs to deal with the desire to open his eyes subconsciously, but usually dealt with it easy.
Since yesterday Claire already cleared the garden in front of the house and took care of everything while Mike was healing and taking his sleep, today's agenda was to train.
Claire never specified how it dealt with the people outside, but Mike suspected it just threw the unconscious people away, in a corner alley or something like that.
To start with, he never thought the android could leave the house, but suspected it since last night's events.
After breakfast, Mike was ready to start the training but got notified by the android that the food was running low. They agreed that the android would carry the money and go to buy something.
Well, it already had Mike's money since his account got emptied by that same android.
Meanwhile, he got two training instructions from the android while it was buying ingredients and so on. He went right to the training area and started running around.
Running was to keep his physical fitness and warm up for today's training, but after a minute or two he decided to stop and after some thinking he moved out of the training area, went directly to the secret office, he never explored the underground office, nor even the upper office.
He was there before but really didn't pay too much attention to it.
Claire would take some time while searching for the lower prices in the market and buying, but it still could not feel tired and would no run its way to the market, so he had a short time before resuming training.
He got inside the secret office quickly with eyes closed as usual, in there he found...
-What the actual fuck?... - A lot of weapons, equipment, tools and so on.
The computer there didn't look like any kind of a computer in the market, it doesn't matter but what surprised him were the weapons and tools when he used his senses,
In many cabinets and shelves the weapons were easy to find. His ability was not that advanced yet and there were things too complicated to feel unless he opened the boxes and so on.
He still found that some notes were added to some boxes and shelves, but could not read them since he wanted to keep his eyes closed, still, he opened them and went in front of the computer.
After a minute of trying to turn it on, he gave up, he could turn it on but could not unlock it, maybe the android had the answer but it was busy in the market.
Just as he was about to leave, he heard Claire's voice -To unlock the computer in there you need to drop your blood on the screen, but I can unlock it for you, I bypassed the security after sir Alex Blood left the house-
-... aren't you in the market? Oh right! You have access to the house anyway. Doesn't matter, I had curiosity but can solve it after training.-
Mike closed his eyes and left, he had curiosity about it and the house but didn't want to lose too much time when he could train. And most important...
-"Doesn't that android know what privacy is? Wait, it could have done it on purpose, right?"- the possibility crossed his mind and never left.
The android could clearly understand Mike's intention and his mood, did it ruin the mood so he could go back to training? The true answer could never reach light anyway.
After running and some warm-up, the android was already back at the training area, it instructed Mike sometimes while it was away through the house speakers.
-You can be a full-time coach if hack into the speakers of any gym- teased Mike.
-Master, for your quick improvement in the recent training, what is about to come for you, I need to explain to you that from now on you could get hurt, and not just at the usual level but almost at yesterday's level, but it's taking in mind the worst scenario.-
-What? -
-Anyway, I will reduce the intensity to the lowest level so you can adapt without getting hurt badly-
-What do you mean by yesterday's injuries? How badly would I get hurt from training?-
-First, please let me put this on you- said the android without answering Mike's sarcastic questions.
-Tch, you are heartless; because you know it is sarcasm doesn't mean you won this time- The android took Mike's words as approval and went behind him.
The thing Claire had in its hands was just a piece of cloth, Mike now understood what it was meant for: to cover his eyes.
This way, even when trying to open his eyes as a reflexive action, he could still see nothing or could barely see.
-Ok this is good, then what's next? -
-Get in fight position-
-Will you teach me some moves? I already know how to fig...-
Mike got cut mid-sentence by the android's actions, it assumed a fighting stand too.
-Am I going to die? -
-I cannot kill my master on purpose, and it's only a sparring session-
-Why do I feel like you said 'on purpose' with a different voice? -
-Master, please concentrate on the lesson. Try to feel my moves and think of a way to defend against it or evade it, I will use lower speed at first, and take in mind my body is not the same as a human's, feel no fear of hitting me and don't think my body will react the same as a human.-
-I am ready, but can I write my last will first? -
As he finished asking the android attacked, it was a punch aiming for a low hit. He could barely react and tried to block but it was late and the punch hit him, Lucky it was not very strong.
They do not tell the other a word, aside from Claire's advice from time to time.
The following punches all reached him, but taking the moment, he attacked Claire after receiving another punch, if he could not defend, he would attack; sadly, the android easily evaded.
-Good judgment, master, but to attack you should use your ability too, don't limit it to only see my attacks-
How can he use a non-offensive ability to attack? He tried but could not find a way. The android kept the same speed and attack frequency but had sudden changes so Mike could not adapt to it.
The android aimed to not hurt him badly as it said before, but it still hurts him enough. Even a lot of not-so-painful strikes would hurt if keep accumulating.
-Master, wait a moment.- Said the android and he stopped as instructed -You are not using your ability to attack, think of it as reading your opponent's muscles when attacking, so you can judge whether it will defend or evade, which direction and which side it will move its body and even the speed, it sounds complicated for a human, but it's possible to guess to some extent, even if my body doesn't work the same as a human, I will try to imitate it for you so you can adapt.-
-Easier said than done... I will try-
-And... to defend or evade, you are not slow at all, average maybe, but the problem relies on the same as previously I mentioned. In conclusion, read my body moves before anything.-
Those words illuminated Mike, although he knew it was hard as he said, it was still something new to try.
As the sparring resumed, Mike had a serious face, more than usual. He started with reading the android's body moves, even while taking punches from it he still could learn from it, each move accompanied a certain change in stance, it was barely impossible to read it clearly, but still could tell him when a certain kind of move would be done, and taking punch after punch, he finally moved to defend and... still got hurt but could almost block it, and the next one, he could block, it didn't take more than 3 sessions until he finally could improve in blind combat.
Anyway, it was just the start, by the next hour each time he improved each time the android made the training harder. At the end of the morning, he could fight head-on as if he had his eyes open, his moves were faster and without doubts, even when the android could still land hits on his body and sometimes aimed for his head (they used boxing gloves from one point in the middle of training), he still could get the hint of its body, with fast moves he used his arm to defend or deflect the android's fist.
-Master, since you are getting used to this, I can finally start the real training-
-Wait, what? -
-But since some time has passed, I recommend you take a rest-
-It was still the introduction? ... why you never make me feel happy?-
-I do that when I cook for you-
-That is...! Right... Anyway, just a rest, I am tired but I want to keep going-
-Exhausting your body while training your Bloody hand is good, but not while exhausting your body-
-Yes Mom, yes...- he said while getting out of the training room, he left to use the secret office, first went to change clothes and let Claire do the laundry, and he went then to the secret office.
Now the android would not interrupt since he doesn't have training for now. It was almost mid-day so the droid still needed to work (cooking lunch).
He was still wearing the cloth on his face, covering his eyes, so he took it off when sat in front of the same computer. Soon the user interface showed and the computer unlocked, clearly the android's work. It has, after all, control all over the house. Mike wondered if it was the real master of the house and not him, were all androids from the Deity's Guild these broken characters?