Girl?!

Belinda watched the weapons and sighed. Using 2 one-handed weapons was the best idea.

„Wait! Won't I be in disadvantage with one sword?!"

„No." Bertold denied. „It's a good chance to learn. When you'll be attacked by more than one opponents you need to focus on all of their weapons to protect yourself. I intend to give you a special training, so this will be a good warm-up."

„What kind of training?!" Belinda had a bad feeling, but Bertold didn't tell them more.

Gregori was interested but chose to stay silent. He hoped to learn something from Bertold, so he didn't want to make him annoyed.

The two students stood face to face and followed Bertold's instructions. They only used normal attacks.

For Belinda, it was easy. She fought a lot with Bertold and learned different attacks and defenses' moves without skills.

Seeing the difference, Gregori was sad. Zotmund never gave him a proper lesson. He was forced to train with Dárius and Naómi, but they were too lazy. Sometimes he asked Kleon and the other boys to fight with him, but none of their fighting levels were as good as his. He always thought that even if alone, he could be the strongest. But now he realized how important a good mentor was.

Gregori suddenly smiled. He remembered how the others told him he did a mistake choosing Belinda and introduced him to other students. They hoped he would change his choice. He was almost shaken by them. If Belinda came back some days later, he would really have another partner.

He watched Belinda's movements and saw she has a good foundation. Even if Bertold didn't help him, he could learn a lot just watching her.

After an hour, Gregori slowly changed some of his movements. He had a good perceptibility and learned a lot from Belinda. But the more he watched her body, the more he felt that something was wrong. He was sure, a boy didn't have this kind of figure. He never understood if she was a boy why she never changed her name, but now he was baffled. Maybe not her name, but her boyish aura was wrong!

Gregori suddenly stopped and looked at her with disbelief. „You are a girl?!"

Belinda was surprised. „You can see it?!"

Gregori felt that his world view collapsed. He believed that he found a good friend. He never suspected it was she, not he! He always believed all the girls would be the same as Naómi. Loved cute things, hated to fight, and always looked for boys to help them. Yet one stood in front of him and even was stronger than him! He couldn't accept it!

Feeling Gregori's burning eyes on her body, Belinda was shy. „I never intended to hide it, but everyone misunderstood me. In the beginning, I didn't even know what caused the misunderstanding, so I didn't know what to say about it. Later, I learned that there is a problem with my aura, but I can't find the cause. Even Horác can't help with it, so in the end, I just let it be."

„Even if you don't care about the others, but why not tell me?! Aren't we friends?!"

„I'm sorry." Belinda lowered her head. She didn't dare to say that she forgot it. Those who were the closest to her noticed the problem with her aura a long time ago. So she thought that Gregori was the same. She forgot that he was too young to think about it.

Gregori didn't know what to say. He was angry and sad. He felt that Belinda betrayed him, but he knew, if she told him, they would never become friends. He remembered once Bertold despised Zotmund because he looked down on girls. That was the only time he had the same thought as Zotmund.

He looked up at Belinda and sighed. He inherited some memories from his previous life. In that world didn't exist immortals, superpowers, or anything alike. There were only ordinary humans. As an assassin, he went thought a lot of training and he had a strong body, but nothing else. His favorite targets were women because they were too easy to kill. That's why he always looked down on them. But in this world, anyone could become immortal. Even those weak women could become life-threatening opponents! If he continued to believe they were weak, it would become his weak point in the future.

Gregori closed his eyes. He was glad he only realized Belinda's gender now. It gave him a good lesson. He felt his anger and sadness slowly fading away and opened his eyes. „I forgive you if you help me with some tasks."

„Leave it to me!" Belinda laughed happily.

Gregori smiled back at her. „Let's continue!"

Belinda nodded but suddenly stopped. „Umm... can you keep it as a secret? I don't want Zotmund to find it out. At least not now."

Gregori remembered Zotmund always hated 'him' because she didn't please the girls. The later he found out the truth, the more his face would hurt. He laughed. „You can count on me!"

They continued the training with ease.

Bertold watched them and narrowed his eyes. He knew Gregori didn't have a good relationship with Zotmund, but he couldn't trust him. Maybe he didn't tell this to Zotmund, because the later he found it out, the bigger the effect would be on him. But it wasn't true about other things. Even if they tried to hide, he would see things he still didn't want others to know. It would be better if he could take him under his hands, but he already used all his free time to train Belinda. He didn't know if he could find any trustworthy person.

Mentors could ask for permission to take over other's students if their mentors didn't pay enough attention to them. But it was rare because even if they didn't spend too much time together, some kind of connection slowly formed between them. Not to mention it was already the 3rd year. Even if the students were hardworking, with lesser help they would fall behind. That's why even if Gregori's cultivation level was higher, he wasn't Belinda's opponent.