Chapter 31: The recovery ability is indeed not right
There is no lunch break . After finishing work, Zhang Da will start classes with teacher Altria.
It was the same sword-swinging training as yesterday, and Zhang Daye's movements were very standard. However, with the actual combat (getting beaten) experience in the morning, he knew that most of the time, except for the first move, the enemy would rarely let you strike a cool pose, shout a chuunibunny name, and then attack comfortably.
The purpose of practicing basic moves is to make him familiar with the way of exerting force for each move, so that he can exert the power of each move as perfectly as possible in battle.
Of course, to achieve this, long-term practice and combat are required.
"drink!"
"ha!"
Zhang Da also felt that shouting while swinging the sword was more powerful and reminded him of early martial arts films.
Altria didn't care about him. In fact, she didn't need to care because his throat couldn't take it after a while. There was a price to pay for being a chuunibum.
As for Tom, he picked up his small bamboo sword and swung it a few times, then he ran back to sleep without any patience.
The two knew that even if they forced him to continue practicing, he would think of some inexplicable way to be lazy, so they just let him go.
"Tatsuya, stop for a moment." said Altria.
Zhang Da also put away his sword and stopped, asking, "Is there something wrong?"
Altria stood in front of him, looked up slightly for a moment, and said, "Take off your clothes."
"Huh?" Zhang Da was also a little confused.
"The bruise on your forehead has disappeared. I want to confirm the severity of your injuries." Altria tilted her head: "What's wrong?"
"…It's okay, please don't say things so calmly that may cause misunderstanding." Zhang Da also lifted up his shirt as she said, revealing his abdominal muscles that have become more and more obvious in recent days.
Altria didn't have as many messy thoughts as him. She stretched out her finger and poked the place where the bruise should have been. "It's really completely gone. Was the medicine you applied before a special medicine?"
"No, it's just an ordinary medicine for reducing swelling and relieving pain." Zhang Da also touched the original injured area himself and felt that it had fully recovered.
The medicines in the first aid kit are just ordinary medicines. That's what the description said when I drew it. Tom doesn't need to rely on medicine to recover when he is injured, so even if he is bandaged, it is just for psychological comfort.
"I was just an ordinary person before I came to this world. I am sure that I don't have any special abilities such as super recovery ability..." Zhang Da also raised his left hand, "If there is any difference, it is this."
He had tried it, and the magic circle in his hand was something that only he, Tom, and Altria could see. Now he was a little doubtful whether this thing had changed his physique.
Altria nodded: "This may be the reason. Pay more attention to any abnormalities in your body from now on. Anyway, it seems to be a good thing now."
"Well, now that your injury has healed, let's practice!... Oh, no, let me finish the basic training first." Zhang Da also had plans to train his arm strength, but he was worried that he would be beaten and unable to complete them.
During this time, he drew a prize again when his energy was full. Now he no longer draws when his energy is 90%, but waits until it is full, thinking that maybe the drop rate will be different or something.
But he was probably overthinking it. Summoning items still consumed 80% of the energy, and the items that came out were nothing special:
[Congratulations on obtaining the Emiya family's kotatsu and Tom's rolling pin. ]
[Already stored in inventory. 】
The rolling pin is nothing special, but this broken magic circle has nothing to do with the kitchen. It either brings disaster to the Emiya family's kitchen or Tom's family. I don't know whether these things in their world disappeared directly or were copied.
Zhang Da has never seen a real kotatsu, but he has only heard that it is a tempting and decadent artifact in winter, the kind that anime characters will immediately become lazy and don't want to come out once they get into it.
I can experience it when winter comes...By the way, is there winter in the Chabaoti Archipelago?
He really hasn't asked about this specifically, and the weather in the Grand Line is a mess. It wouldn't be strange if it were to turn into winter in the next second, right?
Crackling, after a short rest, Zhang Daye and Altria started fighting while waving their bamboo swords.
After the experience of being beaten in the morning, Zhang Da made some progress. At least the frequency of being beaten decreased.
From being killed in two moves by Altria to being killed in three moves at most in the afternoon, it is a 50% improvement, which is cause for celebration.
When the training is over, he is inevitably injured again. At this time, Zhang Da can't help but think of Zoro who was beaten two thousand times by Kuina since he was a child - I won't have to be beaten thousands of times in a row, right?
"It hurts, it hurts..."
It is still necessary to apply medicine, at least it can temporarily relieve the pain. The pub still needs to be open for a while at night, so as not to affect the movement.
Zhang Da lifted up his shirt to reveal the scars on his body. He did it very properly, or a little stiffly, and left the task of applying the medicine to Altria.
It was impossible to ask her to stop at the critical moment during sparring. Teacher Altria took her teaching task very seriously, but she still wanted to do something within her ability to express her apology.
At first Zhang Da refused because he was a little embarrassed, but under her insistence he reluctantly accepted her kindness.
"If you don't want to trouble me, then become stronger quickly." said Altria.
I don't know how long I will be beaten in the future. In order to let her teach without burden, I will just adapt slowly and reluctantly. I don't know how much joy is contained in this reluctance.
"Altria."
"Um?"
Zhang Da also half-jokingly said: "Have you ever heard of the saying 'playing chess with a bad chess player makes you worse'? If you practice swordplay with a beginner like me every day, will you become weaker and weaker?"
Altria continued applying medicine on her hands and explained earnestly, "No such thing will happen. I don't know about other people, but for me, every time I swing the sword, it is a process of accumulating experience, whether it is practice or battle, no matter whether the opponent is strong or weak, because every time I swing the sword, even if the difference is tiny, as long as I swing the sword, I will become stronger."
"..." Zhang Da was silent for a moment: "I feel hit."
This is simply a person who comes with a built-in swordsmanship experience bar. She is pretty, powerful, and has cheats. If Altria were put into a novel, she would be treated like the protagonist. Shouldn't we say that she is worthy of being the Knight King who became a hero through her own strength?
"Alright." Altria threw away the cotton ball, put away the tweezers and wound medicine, and encouraged, "Don't underestimate yourself. Even I rarely see people as hardworking as you. With such recovery ability, Tatsuya, you may become stronger than me in the future."
