Sadistic Lisa

After many training and rest sets, Lisa decided to quit the workout for today, as she knew I couldn't go on much longer. I thought, I had to think over the whole thing with Lisa being nice and so on. She's a hidden sadist. The worst thing was, that we quit early, so the training today would probably be one of the easier ones. I could feel all my muscles aching in pain, not only the ones in my arms but also my entire upper body.

"Won't I get all macho looking, if I continue to train like this?" I asked Lisa.

"Don't worry, hybrids are built different. Our muscles don't grow in size as much and get stronger by refining what is there already. You will get muscular for sure, but not to the extreme. For now you will try to get rid of all your baby fat which you still have on your body. The most important thing is that you will have to eat lots, but the military takes care of that quite good. More nutritious food than around here is hard to come by", she explained while we were walking back to the others.

I wasn't really able to walk anymore, so it was more like dragging my body over there. Every step I took was hard and I was already hoping to see my bed soon. I just wanted to fall into it and sleep for a week.

As we arrived, Emilia noticed my exhaustion and promptly got worried but I calmed her down and told her I was just training. She put her hands on my shoulder and suddenly the pain in my muscles got better.

"Wait, did you just heal me, Emi? Since when can you do that?" I asked her.

"You weren't the only one training, Yoru. I'm also doing my best and I got the hang of it already. Stephen, the healing teacher taught me well today and even he was surprised by my fast progression. I might not partake in future lesson, as I will be helping him out healing other students, which also doubles as my training. Anyway, where have you been?" she asked.

I told her what happened with Lisa and she got very excited for me. She promised she would heal me every day, so I would be able to withstand future trainings. I just hoped Lisa won't get to know of it, else she might intensify the training further.

We chatted a bit longer and soon after the practical lesson for today was over. It seemed like most students were already grouped together and assigned different teachers. Lisa was also happy with the results and told us all to rest well for tomorrow.

After a hearty dinner, where I ate twice the amount of yesterday, we went to sleep.

"…."

"Yo…."

"…ru"

"Yooorr..."

This night I once again had the strange dream with the voice whispering my name. I didn't know why it did that or what it wanted but for now I let it slide. I was my worried about the state of my body but after Emilia's healing and a good night of sleep I felt energetic like never before. We prepared ourselves for school and then we headed over together with the rest as usual.

Today's lesson was about the individual trademarks of both angels and demons. Mr. Black even began drawing some rough sketches on the blackboard to elaborate further while he explained.

It took all morning and we nearly came late to lunch but to summarize: Angels have huge wings, which can be retracted completely, unlike hybrids which have their wings always on their backs at the same size. They are a quite straightforward, they will take you head on and overpower you with their bare strength. Their main weakness is their halo, if you manage to attack and damage it, the angel will be in great pain and most of them will stop fighting and try to recover from it. They can fly high up without much problem and for a duration of about two hours before needing to take a break. Almost all of them have blond hair and blue eyes with a pale skin colour.

Demons are different from them in almost every way. The only time they are known for working together with angels was the time were they eradicated the celestial humans, as told by Mr. Black yesterday.

Demons have horns on their head, which can vary in amount and size by a lot. Some have up to three horns and they can get around 50 cm long. Their tails can be used like a third limp and are able to move freely, this requires training however. Their skin comes in almost all shades, ranging from red to blue to green to violet tones. It can be of any colour expect pale skin like angels and humans. Demons like to fight in wicked ways and trick people. They also enjoy playing around with their enemies and not overpower them straight away. Their main weakness are their horns, which contain great amounts of celestial energy. If one manages to damage those, they can even explode. After a while the horns will grow back however.

Both angels and demons have very strong regeneration abilities, which allows them to recover lost limbs and body parts. This regeneration is powered by their celestial energy, so if they run out, they aren't as invincible anymore.

Overall they are both very fearsome opponents which will give any skilled fighter a hard time. Most of them just rely on their raw power, while only some train themselves to become even stronger. This puts the ordinary ones at a B to A rating and the best at an S rating. In actuality, the S rating only means they surpass a certain threshhold of power but the skills between individuals of the rank can vary widely. Mr. Black told us that the gap between two S ranks can be as big as a rank A compared to a rank F.

If we want to catch up with those, we would have to train for a long time.