4. Practice Training – 02

At the gymnasium dedicated to Class A, Jin and Altina were swinging their swords at a distance of about 10 meters no matter how little they held them.

Altina was testing her swordsmanship towards the Scarecrow, who was furthest away from Jin, and Jin was practicing his posture by swinging his sword in the air.

The reason he didn’t strike the training sword at the scarecrow was because he didn’t have the courage to do so.

Because Jin’s current physical condition is a state where everything has been initialized due to regression.

His hands, let alone calluses for wielding a sword, were as soft as those of an aristocratic woman whose hands had never been dipped in water.

If so, by tomorrow morning, I would be in a situation where my hands were shaking like a patient suffering from tremor, and I couldn’t even hold a spoon properly.

It’s good to practice swordsmanship, but isn’t it urgent to train the body to wield that sword?

– But you really have no talent for swordsmanship.

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Meanwhile, Erekaya, who had been watching Jin swinging his sword, groaned.

– The way to hold the sword was wrong. No, in the first place, a sword is not something you wield with your arms. It means to swing the sword with the recoil after connecting the power generated from the ankle, through the waist, and finally to the wrist. You can’t properly catch a puppy with such a crazy sword dance.

‘I told you. I’m not good at swordsmanship.’

It wasn’t that Jin also had nothing to say, so he pursed his lips and muttered.

‘In addition, it’s been too long since I last held a sword. No matter how badly I try to hold it in 50 years, wouldn’t it be even more strange if I still remember how to wield the sword?’

– Ha, my calculation is wrong. I thought that even if you were rotten, you would have some aptitude for swordsmanship as a regressor, but I never thought that you were a person with no answers to this extent. Only then will it be impossible to learn Pendragon’s swordsmanship even if I help him every day.

‘Well, why are you killing people’s spirits? No matter how much I’ve had the jjambab I’ve been eating, can’t I properly learn a swordsmanship like that?’

– Yes, you never learn. Because Pendragon’s swordsmanship is only for geniuses. No, it was originally a swordsmanship that even geniuses could not learn. At least, it was only after I had repaired the basics of swordsmanship that geniuses could learn it.

‘… What?’

When Jin couldn’t hide his embarrassment for a moment, Erekaya let out a deep sigh and continued.

– You know that the nobles of Qin and the Empire originated from the military family, and that they inherited blood line abilities from their ancestors, right?

‘Of course you know. In the first place, the reason why nobles can be treated as nobles is because of the supernatural abilities that run in their blood.’

– However, even if it is a supernatural ability, there are many different types of it. For example, the supernatural ability of the ignorant woman wielding a sword over there is ‘Time Interference’. It’s literally a fraudulent ability to manipulate and interfere a bit with time factors.

It was a fact that Jin was already well aware of that Altina had the ability to interfere with time.

– However, no matter how powerful a person may be, it is the human being who possesses and wields that power. If Altina von Rudel Serias had been able to properly wield her power of ‘time interference’, that woman would have reached the level of a god long ago. But, that woman is still human.

– That’s why over hundreds of years, the samurai came to find and devise a solution. As human beings, it is impossible to completely control one’s supernatural powers. If so, how about applying that power to ‘process’ one turn with smooth control?

– There were countless trials and errors. However, in the end, the throwing method that symbolizes each family was completed. A fighting technique based on the supernatural ability they were born with and the concept of controlling it as a martial art that they honed and polished themselves.

‘Is that the swordsmanship that symbolizes the Pendragon family?’

– Yes. As I said before, the blood line ability passed down in the Pendragon family is synesthesia. A sign of a transcendental being that connects different senses and makes it possible to feel what is not normally seen or felt.

However, no matter how great the ability, in the end, the ability of synesthesia was also a flawed ability that had no effect on reality.

That’s why they came to develop a martial art that applied their ability of synesthesia.

– That is the swordsmanship that symbolizes the Duke of Pendragon, the ‘Dragon Dance’.

‘… It’s the dragon’s dance.’

– ‘Dragon Dance’ is a swordsmanship that is generally impossible to learn because it was created with the assumption that only those with the supernatural ability of Pendragon can learn it.

However, instead of having such strong restrictions, the power of ‘Dragon Dance’ is absolute.

Pendragon’s successor is able to capture not only sight but other things with his eyes through synesthesia, and is capable of interfering with them.

And by applying it, the dragon’s dance meant that it was possible to see the grain of an object, ignore the object’s defense power, and perform absurd things by cutting down even the space itself.

– At least after 10 years of tweaking my swordsmanship, I made adjustments so that if you are a genius with natural talent and sense, you can learn it…

No matter how much Erekaya tried to adjust again and again, in the end, the dragon’s dance was a martial art for geniuses.

It should be said that, far from being a genius in martial arts, Jin, who has a talent like trash as a public figure of his teacher, learns the dragon dance in the end.

– But it’s not a very impossible story either. Although it’s an expedient, there’s a way for you to embody Pendragon’s sword.

At Erekaya’s words, Jin made a tempting expression.

If there was such an admirable method, I would have liked to have started talking about it from the beginning, but why the hell bother people by going round and round?

‘what is that?’

– That’s right…

But that was the time.

– jin! Take a step back! hurry!

Erekaya suddenly screamed while explaining.

At those words, Jin took a step back without even having time to think.

Shuk-

And the training sword penetrates the place where Jin’s head was located a second ago. If it hadn’t been for Erekaya’s warning, the momentum was so frightening that it might have created a pretty bump, if not a head explosion.

“Ah mistake. Sorry.”

When I turned my head, I saw Altina shrugging her shoulders on one side of the gymnasium with an expression of no regret.

– I’m sorry, but it’s really a mistake. Just a moment ago, he was uneasy about swinging his sword dangerously, so he ended up having an accident.

If it wasn’t for a mistake, it couldn’t be anything other than a tone full of regret that he could have managed to catch the pod somehow.

“… What on earth do I have to do to make the sword fly towards the person’s head?”

“Sorry, that was unintentional. My family’s swordsmanship is still very immature, so it seems that my arms have put a lot of strength into it without even realizing it.”

Altina’s face, as she said that, showed a bit of embarrassment. It seemed that it was not a premeditated crime to try to pierce a hole in the head because he did not like Jin.

So let’s be generous this time. If the black man did that, he would have thrown his fist first without looking at the circumstances.

“Family swordsmanship? Can I practice that in a public place like this?”

“why? Are you trying to imitate my swordsmanship while watching me practice? I’m sorry, but that’s impossible. Because the swordsmanship I am using cannot demonstrate its true power unless it is someone who has inherited the lineage of Count Serias.”

This is a fact that Jin knows all too well.

This is because, in the episode where she was a lover, Jin also made an effort to learn the swordsmanship of Count Serias from Altina, but ended up failing.

“Besides, even if I taught you swordsmanship, you wouldn’t be able to properly practice it, would you? Apparently, he doesn’t seem to have any experience wielding a sword properly, so even if I stick to him and teach him from one to ten, it would be nice if he learned half of it.”

As she said that, Altina’s gaze was fixed on Jin’s white and soft hands.

Hell, if I had known it would be like this, I would have brought at least calluses on my hands before entering Nineveh.

“Well. It’s true that I don’t have much experience wielding a sword, but I think I can easily learn at least your family’s swordsmanship. In fact, I also watched my practice from the sidelines all the time, but I just wondered why there was a blockage.”

Jin was momentarily furious and made a bluff that could not be stopped. In fact, there was also a childish mind that did not want to show a weak appearance in front of Altina, not other people.

“Ha, what nonsense are you talking about without knowing anything… ”

“Did you know that you have a habit of leaning your right foot slightly to the left when swinging a sword to balance your center of gravity?”

“… What?”

“The basics of swordsmanship come from the lower body, and if the basics are not established, any magical swordsmanship will degenerate into mere cutting. That’s why you’re stuck right now against the wall. The minute error in your stride, at first glance, seems like nothing, but that simple reason has piled up and piled up to become a huge wall blocking your way.”

Actually, this wasn’t advice that Jin could give because he had great insight into swords.

It was nothing more than reciting one of the stories that Altina had told Jin in her own mouth when she and Altina were talking about each other’s past before returning.

In other words, Jin also doesn’t know much about swordsmanship, but he is just talking about whatever comes out of his mouth.

‘Well, basically, I have nothing to lose.’

If Altina thinks Jin’s words are nonsense and passes them off with one ear, nothing will happen, and if she can accept Jin’s point and overcome the wall blocking her path, then that’s a good thing…

Even if Jin’s point was wrong, he had nothing to lose. Because it doesn’t cost money to make fun of your mouth.

“… madman.”

Contrary to Jin’s expectations, however, Altina was staring at Jin fiercely, like a person who found gum scabs stuck to the soles of her shoes.

“It’s a pointless bluff.”

Altina spat out words full of contempt and turned her back on Jin. It seemed that all of the weak feelings he had towards Jin had just fallen away.

“Mmm.”

… Did you tremble for nothing? Had I known this would happen, it might have been wiser to just keep my mouth shut.

– Oh, that’s soggy. This is why a man clinging to a woman from the past is ugly.

“I wish I could call you a romanticist.”

Originally, men couldn’t easily abandon their attachment to their ex-girlfriend.