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Chapter 151: Spirit Magic Training

"You got caught again. From the beginning."

"Yes..."

Today, my training began in earnest. I've never had anyone teach me how to fight before, so I was looking forward to it. But the training was much harder than I expected. Considering the way I’d been treated, I thought they would teach me gently, but that was not the case at all.

“You haven't even used spirit magic for up to three minutes. From the beginning."

"Yes..."

Now Tiya-san is teaching me spirit magic. What I'm doing is wrapping a cloth around my eyes to block my vision and I'm not allowed to use any sensing skills except for magic sensing. The training is to avoid spirit magic from Tiya-san using only magic sensing. By the way, I can’t use any enchantments.

Tiya freely transforms her own shadow using spirit magic, increasing and stretching it. If the outstretched shadow and my shadow touch, even slightly, I will be unable to move and the game is over. Since Tiya is using magic to create the lights, they move around and the position of my shadow changes over and over again. Therefore, I have to know both Tiya's spirit magic and the position of the lights by sensing their magic power.

The condition for clearing this training is to escape from Tiya's spirit magic for 30 minutes, or to hit her with the spirit magic I released. By the way, my spirit magic has to be released while keeping Zeal inside my body. This is quite tricky. I can't use my unique method of forcibly transferring magic power to Zeal because he's inside my body. So I have to pass the magic through the connection. And if I’m aware of the connection and prepare for the spirit magic slowly and surely, I can’t easily avoid it.

By the way, if I don't cast a single spirit spell in three minutes, it's game over. And if I cast a spirit spell more than three meters away from Tiya, it's game over. In addition, spirit magic must be released in a straight line with a width of 50cm or less. If I break that rule, it's game over. Also, there’s no break when the game is over. The 30-minute timer just starts again and I’m off and running.

The minimum I had to do was to check the location of the lights, check Tiya's spirit magic, check Tiya's own location and prepare my own spirit magic. At the very least, I need to do all four of these things at the same time. That's difficult to do even if you have parallel thinking. And the nasty thing is, Tiya's spirit magic is just fast enough to be avoided if I know what I'm doing, but if I'm not careful for even a moment, it will gather around my shadow. If it comes closer to my shadow, I can quickly avoid it with high speed reflexes. Or rather, I was able to. However, in order to prevent me from using fast reflexes, she surrounds my shadow by keeping a distance where I can't move reflexively while I'm distracted. When the shadows surround me, she doesn't move the lights, so there's no way to escape and it's game over.

“Lunch break, you can take off your blindfold.”

"Haa ...... haa..."

I lay down on the ground with my head on the floor. My brain was more tired than my body. I don't want to think about anything else. I just want to be in a daze.

"How was it?"

"It was ......... hard........."

My brain was so still that it took me about thirty seconds to understand what was being said and reply.

"…that? I wonder... something like this might be good..."

"?"

"Zeros-sama is suffering and tired… but the thought that it's my fault that he's like this excites me to no end..."

“??”

I wonder. I don’t understand what Tiya is saying. Is it because my brain has reached its limit?

“You seem to have gotten used to it, so I'm going to increase the number of shadows by three this afternoon.”

“.....!? Absolutely... impossible... I can’t…”

But it had already been decided forcefully. Even now, I haven’t been able to do it for three minutes and it’s impossible if she increases the shadows further.  When I looked at Tiya to ask her to stop, she blushed and shook her body with a look of ecstasy. I fell asleep thinking that when I see that kind of expression on a loli face, I feel like I'm seeing something I shouldn't....

After that, I was woken up 15 minutes before the end of the lunch break and had lunch for 15 minutes. Then the afternoon training began. Incidentally, the number of Tiya's shadows did not increase. I wondered if it was Tiya's own joke to lighten the mood. Or was it just an auditory hallucination caused by my overly tired brain?

I was exhausted from today's training. I wonder if tomorrow's monster hunt will be as hard as today's. ......

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