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Vol 4 Chapter 3 Part 4
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Part 4
Luna’s training was over, and she took a break.
Gloria resumed Tito’s training.
“Now, Tito! Don’t hesitate to come at me!”
“Yes! I’ll take your word for it, Master!”
Tito turned into a flash and jumped at Gloria.
“Hyaah!”
Clank! Clank! Clank, clank, clank!
The claws clashed violently, the aftermath creating a ripple effect that spread throughout the area.
The trees on the beach swayed as the deadly atmosphere erupted.
“A-amazing… I feel like I’m being blown away by the wind pressure…!”
Watching from afar, Giselle’s voice was muffled as she observed the serious clash between master and disciple.
Lexia nodded, her cheeks tightening.
“Gloria-sama really intends to train Tito, doesn’t she…!”
The fierce exchange of claws conveyed their seriousness.
Gloria secretly mumbled in her heart.
“(You’ve grown up a lot… being able to fight consistently even in such fierce battles)”
In the past, Tito was weak in irregular situations, and her strength was inconsistent.
However, she has grown through her journey with Lexia and Luna and has fought a variety of enemies in a variety of environments, which has allowed her to display her power in a stable manner.
Gloria then has a harsh word for Tito.
“You are naive! You can’t take over the Holy with that kind of approach!”
“Yes…!”
Tito’s speed increases as she gets back into the swing of things.
“Kuh! Hah, hah…!”
Tito looked pained, but more than that, her golden eyes were filled with a strong will to bite into Gloria’s training, no matter what it took.
Gloria, too, is determined to answer this desire, and she trains her apprentice with fierce determination.
“All right, I think that’s it.”
“Fuahh… Th-That was just a warm-up…?”
Tito wiped the sweat from her chin as she breathed heavily.
Gloria, on the other hand, tells her without changing color.
“After rehydration, we’ll move on to the next phase.”
“Y-yes!”
“Tito, as far as I can see, has no problems with the flow of your ki. We will focus on how to use your ki.”
“How to use it, you say?”
“Yes, that’s right. So you will use this for your next training.”
“Ara? That’s…”
Lexia rolled her eyes when she saw the cloth Gloria took out.
Giselle tilted her head as well.
“Isn’t that the blindfold Tito used when she broke the fruit…?”
Gloria laughed as if their voices had reached her.
“That’s right. Tito will fight with the blindfold from now on.”
“E-eeeeeeeeeehhh!?”
Gloria’s mouth turned into a smile when Tito raised her idiotic voice.
“Lexia-kun told me about it. I heard that you broke a piece of fruit while blindfolded.”
“Yes, yes! Tito, it was amazing!”
“You were so precise; it was almost like you could see.”
“It is an interesting idea to deprive a person of their most important perception, their sight. I thought I would use it in your training.”
“Fuaahh…? B-but that time I was able to do it because the target was a fruit, but… this time the target is…”
Gloria’s chest heaved in the face of the fearful, peering eyes.
“Of course, it’s me.”
“Awawawa…!”
“Unlike fruit, living things have sounds and signs. It’s easier than fruit. So why don’t you attack me blindfolded?”
“I-Impossible! I’ve never been able to defeat Master, and I can’t fight blindfolded!”
“Is that so? I thought you had grown a lot since your trip with Lexia-kun and Luna-kun.”
“!”
Tito opened her eyes wide.
She heard Lexia cheering in her ear.
“Tito, keep up the good work! I know you can do it!”
“…..!”
Tito straightened her back, her big cat ears pricked up.
Her golden eyes sparkled as she looked up at Gloria.
“I will do it, Master! I’ll do my best to beat you!”
“That’s the spirit.”
Gloria covered Tito’s eyes with a cloth.
She turned around and walked away from her.
“Now, try to hit me in this state.”
“Yes…!”
Tito focused all his attention on her ears.
Her big ears picked up the faint sound of Gloria stepping in the sand.
“Eeii!”
She stepped forward and, at the same time, thrust out her claws sharply.
But the blow was empty.
Gloria’s footsteps moved to the right.
“There it is! Claw Flash!”
She immediately twisted her body, took aim, and released the technique.
But…
“Too close, this way. There!”
“Whoa!”
As if Gloria’s voice came from behind her, there was a sound of air being cut off.
A sharp flash of light split the top of Tito’s head as she hurried down.
“Ugh, I can’t keep up with your movements at all…!”
“I-I guess it’s hard to hit Gloria-sama when you can’t see, isn’t it…?”
“Y-yes… but I’m sure Tito will be able to overcome this and grow…!”
The two watched the battle with amazement.
“Fuh…!”
Tito relies on sound to launch her attacks, but she cannot keep up with Gloria’s speed.
And since she was using nerves she didn’t normally use, she quickly became tired.
“U-ugh…!”
She gritted her teeth as she struggled desperately in the darkness.
“I know how much I rely on my sight… and it’s no good if I can’t see things the way I used to… I need to refresh my consciousness! It’s not just the sound of footsteps… but the rubbing of clothes, breathing, heartbeats…! I need to gather more information…!”
She mumbles to herself, then suddenly realizes.
“That reminds me… Master, you said you were going to teach me how to use my ki…”
Tito focused all her attention on her ears while she was aware of her ki.
As she let the ki flow into her ears, the sound became clearer and clearer.
And then her ears, facing the wind, caught a faint sound mixed with the sound of the waves…
“Fierce Wind Claws!”
She turned around and let out a vacuum wave.
“Oops!”
Gloria nimbly dodged the vacuum wave right in front of her.
“Fufu. I thought I had muffled my footsteps, but… it seems you’ve got the hang of it.”
“Hah, hah…!”
Tito breathed heavily and wiped the sweat from her chin.
“I think I may have memorized Master’s ‘sound’…!”
The two clashed again.
Each time she launched a fierce attack, Tito’s reactions became a little faster.
By putting herself in an extreme situation with her vision blocked, her body began to adapt quickly.
“I got you! This is the end──!”
Tito rushed towards Gloria’s ‘sound’ like light, swinging her claws.
“Claw Flash…──!”
Just as she was about to unleash her technique, Gloria’s presence was gone.
“!? Master’s ‘sound’ has disappeared…?”
It was as if Gloria’s bio-reaction itself had disappeared, and there was no sound coming from her.
The next moment, a bad premonition ran through Tito’s back.
“Hyaaahh!?”
Tito turned around quickly, and a sharp object caught the tip of her nose.
“Fufu, you managed to avoid it.”
“Ugh… it’s so messed up that you’re even suppressing your heartbeat…!”
Gloria even managed to eliminate the heartbeat, which is an important clue.
“If you’re a Holy, you should be able to do that.”
“Gloria-sama can even control her heartbeat?”
“What in the world is going on…?”
Gloria shrugged her shoulders with a calm face while Lexia and the others shivered.
Tito took a breath and focused her mind again.
I can’t rely on sound alone…! I have to use all my senses too…!”
She let her ki flow through her ears and nose and sharpened her senses.
Not only scents and sounds but also the flow of the air and the slightest hint of a deadly atmosphere on her skin and tail.
“This time, I will win!”
Tito kicked the ground at Gloria’s presence.
“Hyah!”
Sharp claws turned into flashes and lunged forward.
Gloria dodged Tito’s onslaught and, as if remembering, launched a powerful attack.
Tito, however, dodged each of them.
“A-amazing, Tito…! It’s like she can see Gloria-sama’s movements.”
“She’s getting faster and faster…!”
Under the extreme conditions of fighting her mentor while being blinded, Tito’s originally acute sense of smell and hearing continued to develop.
Tito’s movements were the same as before the blindfold; in fact, they became even sharper.
However.
“Hah, hah…!”
Footsteps, sweat, breathing, the sound of claws cutting the wind, and the murderous intent.
The information flowing in at a tremendous speed began to tangle in Tito’s brain.
“I can’t process the information; I can’t keep up!”
Tito’s body cannot keep up with the exploding sensations.
Tito’s movements slow down, and Gloria begins to push her.
“What’s the matter, Tito? Is that all you got?”
“Kuh…! No, I can’t go on like this…!”
As Tito grits her teeth, Lexia’s voice cuts through the maze of information with an interesting note.
“Tito, it’s okay, you need to calm down! I know you can do this!”
“…..!”
At the sound of her voice, she took a deep breath, regaining the breath she had forgotten she had.
A moment later, her head cleared.
The disorderly jumble of information dissolved and quickly converged on a single point.
And behind the closed eyelids came the image of Gloria, about to launch an attack as if scooping her up from the right.
“I saw it──right there! Fierce Claw!”
Swosh──Zubaaaaaaaaaaa!
She takes advantage of the split-second opening and swings out her claws.
“!”
The vacuum wave shot out at an instant speed exceeded Gloria’s speed, and ripped off her steel right arm.
“S-she did it…!”
Lexia and Giselle shouted involuntarily as they clasped hands.
Gloria looked down at the scratches on her prosthetic hand and huffed.
“──You passed.”
“Hah…”
Tito’s blindfold loosened.
The moment Gloria’s smile appeared in her vision, Tito crumpled to the ground.
“Fuahh…!”
“Tito!”
“Oh no! Tito-san, drink some water…!”
Gloria laughed as she looked up at Tito, who was being given a drink of water by Giselle.
“I thought I had completely killed my presence… but how did you manage to catch me?”
“Yes, it’s a miracle even for me… my eyes were closed, but at that moment, I could see Master’s image clearly…”
“I see.”
Gloria’s eyes narrowed as if she had just been told the truth.
“The visual sense is strong. The amount of information and the speed at which it is processed is far superior to other senses. Because of this, we subconsciously tend to rely on the information we receive through our eyes… However, depending on the situation, it may be best to use your sense of smell, your sense of hearing, or your sixth sense. Tito is originally a beastman. Furthermore, by using your ki well, you will be able to strengthen it significantly. If you sharpen the senses you’ve just acquired, you’ll have a weapon that no one can defeat.”
Gloria patted Tito on the head.
“You have done a great job. I am sure you will be able to use your abilities in the fight against the alien beast. Remember what you feel now.”
“Yes!”
Tito nodded vigorously with tears in her eyes.
“Now, let’s try five more rounds before the end of the day.”
“Five more rounds?”
“What’s the matter? You don’t think a disciple of a Holy would make a fuss over something like that, do you?”
Gloria bared her fangs and laughed wildly.
Tito brushed off the sand, stood up and yelled happily.
“No, I’ll do my best!”
Lexia, watching them, smiled.
The two of them look so happy.
“Yes.”
Giselle pressed her hand to her chest.
“It’s really amazing. Luna-san and Tito-san are getting stronger and stronger. I have to do my best too…!”