Bloodless

“Done with that already!? The day is about to end.”

“Koda, sir. This little rascal keeps slowing me down.”

“Liar! He was the one goofing off and leaving the job all for me!” Josiah shouted.

Both him and Reeve were designated to cleaning duty. They had been mopping the room for the last couple of hours while the others went for physical activities. They were inside the men’s room during the time they went there to get dressed for the bloodless training.

“You two still can’t get along? I guess you’re going to have to be the duo on the cleaning until you learn how to.”

“…”

“Finish that already and come to the bloodless training.”

Josiah felt a chill down his spine.

The bloodless training was a modality where the holder didn’t use the bloodbound power of his weapon at all. Aiming both for perfecting common-weapon wielding and beginning on blood control.

“Sir…” Josiah asked in a low voice as he went near Sergeant Koda.

“Say it.”