-You must learn how to use your ability with your sword with more proficiency, master- Said Claire while moving her sword towards Mike.
He used the opponent's slash to get distance from her while defending.
-Easier said than... done- He was tired, even if completing the hardest challenge, it still didn't help you how to use his sword with his ability.
Claire gave him no time to think, she adjusted to give him the right time to think, no more no less.
Her moves were as fast as Mike's, but her sword had more technique to it, after all, Mike had no experience or training with swords. Much less when talking about uncommon swords.
Each time he decided to attack, she defended with the moves that suit better with no doubt,
Allowing her to attack again, and even finding the openings in Mike's defense.
Training with real weapons was a hard challenge.
Even if Claire avoided dealing great damage, she still left him no way of winning, but that was the idea.
The harder the victory or defeat, the higher the improvement. This was the idea of using training above his current level.
For attack training methods with the Bloody Hand, it started in phase 2, and Mike was in phase 1.
Anyway, only in phase 3, or in the peak of phase 2, would a Blood family member make decent attacks with his ability without using a weapon.
The method she used for him, however, was working at a slower speed than before. But it had its reason.
It was the normal speed for Blood when in phase 2. And for phase 1, he or she would not get great improvement from this.
Still, Mike was at a middle point between the two.
If only Mike was better at theory, at least at the average level, he would be improving even faster, almost compared with a real phase 2 genius from the family.
After the training, Claire left the area to search the medicine, it was the morning training with weapons, he would ask her to train in the evening with weapons too, but...
-"It hurts! Even if the cuts are not deep, still hurt!" - It was too painful to resist the bleeding for an hour,
He was also afraid that the android would leave him at the edge if asked for longer training in the morning.
Just yesterday he completed the hardest challenge, but what was it for? He got nothing from it anyway.
He only could understand that could not control the weapon with his ability, but still, it was like a part of it.
-"Just what is it for? Why training with a weapon...?" - He never made the question directly not even in his mind, but finally something like a bulb illuminated his mind.
He got up from his position, the pain was there, but the adrenaline rushed into his body. And the pain was tolerable anyway.
He prepared to swing his word.
-Master, wait until you are healed. - He ignored Claire's voice.
She would not insist, he was the master anyway, and his injuries were not lethal to begin with.
With the sword beside him, holding it with one hand first, then using his other hand to hold it too.
Concentrating on his other "hand", the blooding hand, in the sword, he felt the familiarity with it again.
But what was it for anyway? The enlightened Mike felt like the answer was the purpose of the weapon.
To attack, to defend, the answer was simple.
-"To kill" - He then swung the sword.
The sword made an arc in the air, it was so natural that felt like the sword itself was part of his body. Then,
Nothing.
Nothing happened in his eyes, but he felt like he did something, he already knew what it was for.
-Looks like you got the basic idea looking at your facial expression, master- The android reached the place again and started healing Mike, he wanted to keep practicing anyway,
But the android already started the process. And when the adrenaline disappeared slowly, he felt the pain again.
So, in the end could not help but wait until next time.
-The theory is ready for you when you have time to read, master - Said Claire.
The theory was for him to find his own answers quicker about the uses of his new knowledge.
He wanted the android to teach him herself but got rejected. That step was important for the user to understand by himself.
Anyway, he would now stop the sparring combat with Claire in the evenings.
Now his training routine was evolving again.
-At this pace, I would wish nobody asks for me at work-
-Master, when you mention it is when something will happen-
-Aren't you reading too many novels?-
*DING*
This time, he heard that sound from not far away, it was his phone.
-Funny, I know you can hack into my phone - He thought it was the android since the coincidence was too much.
-Master, it wasn't me; I won't hack into your phone without permission... actually forget the last part, but it wasn't me anyway.-
-What? Wait, no, what? I mean both things, both things are bothering me, but what with the last one? - Claire got his phone and handed it to him.
Yes, it was the company.
-Requested specifically from a client, fuck...-
-I suggest you do something with your personal life, master. You can't live your life from other's money.-
-... It was my money, you crazy bot-
-Oh! it was?! Sad I cannot remember-
-You sure you don't want to be an actress? you will be the best villain in any movie.-
-I can't, master. You will take advantage of me and get my money.-
-Yeah, I forgot you want to win sarcastic fights, right then, here we go, the work is next month anyway. Easy...-
He got up, if he could not advance to phase 2, then it was his fault, but at least would go to the peak of his current phase before the work.
-Master, you even lost track of time... poor dumb master...-
-What?-
-Next month starts in 3 days-
-... Give me back my happiness-
-No. I will prepare the next training session right away; you should get used to your new moves soon, and practicing it without proper preparations is a bad idea, you would end up cutting everything in the house.-
-What am I? A cat? - was that dangerous the new use of his ability? There was only one way to know.
By the morning, he helped Claire to get the training ground ready, the android rejected the help, but he insisted, and regretted next minutes later,
He could get tired, but the android can't.
But all in all, he left to get his license for his weapon.
Claire made sure to fake the papers for the weapon's origin. She even approved it herself, again breaking the guild rules.
But since there was no Deity's Guild in Gaia anymore, she had no problem to deal with later.
The moment he arrived at the place, got his license quick. Waiting for approval would take forever; for someone giving money to the corrupted ones, would take a long time,
But for someone with an already accepted request, the license would take just a few minutes to be handed to him.
The central in the capital city made licenses very fast, just that approving any kind of license usually takes a long time.
It was not cheap to get this kind of license, it wasn't free after all. All he needed to do was to show his sword there.
On the way back, he was impressed by a delicate topic. His sword was in a long back all the way from his house to that place, and too from there to his house,
But still, wasn't it illegal to hold a cold weapon outside without a license? He held it all his way to that place without a license.
-"Weird rules" - He got house excited, got lunch, a rest, and then went to train again.
He helped the android to prepare the arena for him before.
The training area was now prepared for him to practice, there were objectives all around the place, all made of metal.
Those had a mechanism and paper on it too.
-The idea of having the paper is for you to cut it while hitting the objective, the mechanism will tell if you made a strong attack too. - Explained the android.
He was already hoping for something like that.
-So, my attack from earlier was not a simple one, but one that can cut? - He prepared to unleash the attack again.
The android didn't stop him and did not answer until he finished his slashing.
The concentration was similar to before, the position, the way of holding the sword, all very similar to before, just his speed was faster.
Still, the attack would be similar to before, he aimed the attack to an objective 5 meters away from him, the paper in lines in the objectives stated the distance, and then...
*Thud!*
A not-so-noisy sound, more like a soft one, the paper... barely cut, the objective mechanism... remained unmoved.
-Hm... you sure you configured it well? - Mike questioned the android.
-You are asking for a beating in our next sparring with weapons, master? - The android had the right answer for the right moment as always.