Chapter 35: Oh Crap!

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Value: [System Point]/(Cannot be sold to [Persona System])

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Chapter 35: Oh Crap!

Days?: Time Wait For No One! Part 2

(Vale: Vale City: Unknown Abandon Warehouse)

It has been over a few minutes of silence; neither Shigure or Narberal move a single muscle and if I didn't quietly tell Yukiko to quiet down because there is a high-risk chance of her getting attacked by Shigure, who is so focused on the battle, that she would react to any sound.

At first, Yukiko questions me if I was messing around with her until I catch a [Kunai], which literally just an inch away from piercing through her left eye and it was only thanks to Weiss being next to Yukiko, that Yukiko couldn't scream in fright from almost losing an eye, or worse, killed by Shigure.

If that wasn't enough to stop Yukiko from trying to scream out loud. The next thing she felt from Shigure would haunt her for the rest of her life and a mental trauma whenever Shigure is near her. Would lead to her flinching every time Shigure will bring out one of her sharp weapons in front of her in the future.

As Shigure release a wave of killing intent to place a pressure onto Narberal, who went stiff at this intense killing intent aiming straight at her. Yukiko is already shaken in her spot from just feeling Shigure's killing intent from her spot and it wasn't even aiming at her.

Shigure's figure fades from existence, causing those whom never seen Shigure fight before are surprised to see her disappear in front of them.

The pressure Narberal felt by Shigure's killing intent disappeared instantly, making it more horrifying to her and what's worse is that she can't even detect the presence of her opponent. As if they never there in the first place, which is pretty bad for her end.

Quickly, Narberal pulled out a [Lightning Crystalline Dust] and crush it in her right hand, then a few seconds later her right hand cover in electrical current and slam against the ground. Sending a wave of electrical current around her. In the hope, she would attack Shigure, who she thinks has the semblance to blend with the surroundings.

"Come on, Narberal. You got this." Yukiko cheers quietly, as she stares at her maid without trying to blink until Shigure is forced out of hiding due to being shocked by her maid's [Lightning] area of attack.

I allow one of my [Persona] to switch places with my previous [Persona] as they begin to analyze Narberal's usage in [Lightning Crystalline Dust]. To the strong point, which Narberal somehow absorbed the raw energy belong to the [Lightning Crystalline Dust] into her right hand alone instead of spreading it throughout her body; and the weak point, where Narberal had to take a few seconds to control the raw energy before she slams her charged right fist into the ground to create a [Lightning] area of attack.

"It would seem that Narberal requires around 5 seconds at the minimum to absorb the [Lightning Crystalline dust] and another 5 seconds to release a discharge through the ground." I whisper to Weiss, as she nods in silent while continue typing the newly form document on Narberal's fighting style, along with its advantages and disadvantages in using this kind of fighting style.

As we continue to watch Narberal still releasing discharge of electrical currents around her for like half a minute now, and so far, Shigure still haven't reappeared in the fight. I could tell Narberal is literally wasting her aura reserve from this action of hers.

Once a whole minute is up; Narberal had to forcibly stop releasing [Lightning] around her. As she felt her aura reserve begin to drop to the level she would put her at a disadvantage.

This is the moment when Shigure is falling down from the ceiling with her [Nodachi] aiming to cut down Narberal's left shoulder. However, instead of Narberal's aura protecting her from this ambush of Shigure. Narberal's body leans in the same direction Shigure's [Nodachi] cutting down from, which she had to use aura enhance to increase her speed as Shigure is trying to break down her aura shield.

"I see you have some [Skill]." Narberal makes a comment to Shigure, who didn't reply back and continue to focus on her task to take down her opponent. "Let's see if you could handle this." Narberal points her left index at Shigure and fire off a bolt of [Lightning]. Forcing Shigure to retreat before she could begin her next attack.

Narberal claps her hands together; and to my surprise, the clap's noise echoes loudly. As Narberal's large amount of [Lightning] gathers between her hands as she slowly separates them while the [Lightning] in each hand still connected with each other.

With a flicker of Shigure's left wrist; a dozen of [Shuriken] is already flying in the air and straight towards to Narberal in to interrupt whatever she is trying to set up her next attack; however, instead of Narberal trying to stop. Narberal actually uses Shigure's [Shuriken] against her by letting them merge into her [Chain Lightning] as she charges up the [Shuriken] with the element of [Lightning].

"Huh, I didn't think those would be able to channel [Lightning]." Weiss was surprised those [Shuriken] belong to her friend didn't turn into ashes from the high volts being generated by Narberal. "Did you know about this, Enma?" Weiss glance at me before she turns back her attention to the fight.

"Kind of." I answer a little confused, "I know she possesses some other types being [Dust Infuse] with other elements. I just didn't think she would use them in this sparring match." After all, those [Shuriken] being able to channel/infused with [Dust] tend to take some time to make and one mistake is all it takes to cause a huge problem.

It only took a matter of few seconds before Narberal's [Chain Lightning] begin to overcharge the [Shuriken] and with a wave of both her hands. Narberal sends back the overcharged [Shuriken] straight back its owner, along with a few [Lightning Bolts] following behind. Making it look like a shooting star made of [Lightning].

Shigure may not be able to parry away her [Shuriken] without getting shocked. So, the only few solutions she could come up on the go. Is putting away her [Nodachi] real quick as she needs both her hands to throw two dozen of [Kunai] to allow the [Lightning] to strike the [Kunai] instead of her.

With a burst of speed, Shigure appears behind the surprised Narberal at this sudden incredible speed, but before she could shoot out another [Lightning Bolts] at Shigure to get her away. Shigure disappears once more and appears behind her a second time, with two [Kunai] in a reverse grip.

As Shigure place one [Kunai] near Narberal's neck while the other placing the tip of the other [Kunai] directly at Narberal's chest, where the heart should be if Shigure plan on stab Narberal into the heart, but instead, allow Narberal to know she outmatch by showing how Shigure been playing around with her the whole time and could have ended it much sooner.

"Alright. I know when the battle is over." Narberal calmly said to her opponent. As she raises both her hands to show she surrender and won't attack unless she decided on trickery, which isn't a good option for her if the way she notices my eyes glowing blue instead of my birth eye color. If she dares to attack my fiancee after she admitted she lost.

"Okay, bet over. You're joined now. If you need to find out what our rules are. Ask your Mistress here for her scroll to read it. Also, don't think you're safe after going back home. Trust me, the last former member of ours didn't stay...living. After trying to sell us out." Weiss said to Narberal as all of us walking towards both Shigure and Narberal once the fight is over.

Shigure let Narberal go and put away her [Kunai], then disappear to go collect her [Shuriken] and other [Kunai] she used in the fight; well, if they're still usable for the future. If not, she is going to be pissed off, because she doesn't trust the one crafted by the [Blacksmith] in the Vale Kingdom. In the case of low quality exchanged for quantity for profit.

As always, pretty much almost all our weapons are created by Shigure herself, along with other consumable [Item], that required a [Blacksmith] or someone in the medical department.

"Aw, it's too bad you lost, Narberal. But, now you are a member as well! Aren't you happy you don't have to leave and wait for me anymore?!" Yukiko pulls her maid into a hug as she forces Narberal to jump along with her in a cheerful moment.

"I'm...disappointed." Shigure walked over to me as she whispers, "She destroyed...my [Kunai] and [Shuriken]...on pure [Lightning] alone...I've only seen...her use a [Lighting Crystalline Dust] only once." As both us stare at Narberal while she sweatdrop of her Mistress' action.

"She could be a Maiden like the fairy tale of the Four Maiden." Weiss give her own opinion, as she even find it a little weird that Narberal only required a single [Lightning Crystalline Dust] throughout the whole fight; a short spar than a fight, but still using only a single [Lightning Crystalline Dust] for the amount of [Lightning] used in her attacks is unreal.

"Think we should ask?" I could tell Narberal is annoyed by how long Yukiko continue to force her to jump and how she is forced to join a criminal group against her will.

"No. Are you crazy? Wait, don't answer that. You are." Weiss rejected the idea of plain out asking Narberal if she one of the Four Maiden. Plus, I could cut off the Fall Maiden off my list on which one is Narberal if she is one that is.

"Don't be mean to my brother, Weiss. You know he has a mental illness." Pyrrha said to her friend, causing the said friend to roll her eyes.

"Pyrrha. We both know Enma doesn't have a mental illness." Weiss knows for sure if one of her friends has a mental illness. She would do her best to help them out; well, if there a possible solution to cure this mental illness.

"Weiss. We'd talked about this last night." Pyrrha's polite smile begins to strain a bit, as she doesn't want either Narberal or Yukiko to know about this touchy subject.

Once Weiss notices the look on Pyrrha's face, she knew when to drop the subject and finally remember the reason we all here for; also last night memory resurfaced her mind and Weiss' face begin to pale in fright as she realizes her friend, Pyrrha, is right. Her brother does have a mental illness if being contracted with multiple powerful [Spirits] and live within someone's soul. Tend to cause some problems as a side effect to go along with those extra powers given to her friend's brother. Maybe that's why he went crazy a few years back in Mistral and taking on both the enemies and his own team by himself.

"I could hear both of you." I whisper to both Pyrrha and Weiss, as they try to not look at me in the eyes. Much to my amusement and even Shigure find this amusing as well. Only Weiss is the one that feels pity for me while both Shigure and Pyrrha know the whole truth.

"Anyway, I'll be helping out Weiss train in her summoning now this all over." I said to everyone as Yukiko finally stop jumping in happiness, then glance at my fiancee, "Sorry about this, Shigure, but do you mind watching over Yukiko and Narberal while both Pyrrha and I help Weiss out?" I didn't feel like it safe to leave those two alone without under the supervision of someone to keep an eye on them from doing something stupid.

"With that said, dodge!" I throw a powerful punch directly at the off guarded Weiss and blast her off her feet before she did a few flips to land back on the ground. As Weiss glared at me with eyes filled with cold rage, causing the ground to cover in frost due to Weiss' aura tune to [Ice] compared to the other [Element] from overusing [Ice Dust] over the years.

Also, because Weiss trained under Momoyo for a long time, has managed to create a variant from watching Momoyo use one of her personal [Technique]. As a result, Weiss uses pure [Ice Dust] to create a similar effect as Momoyo's freezing her target without [Dust].

A side effect from overusing this [Technique] Weiss created had caused her aura to gain a bit of [Ice] in them. Leading to the ground, covered in frost due to her aura shield releasing cold air around Weiss whenever she gets mad enough to enter the state of cold rage. Silence as the cold snow begin to form, then devour everything around it until it becomes frozen.

Weiss creates a white [Glyphs] without the help of her [Myrtenaster] to boost her semblance, as she fired off multiple [Ice Bolts] in my direction to stall me from advancing my attack on her.

Pyrrha grabs Yukiko and quickly get away, with both Shigure and Narberal doing the same by themselves without help before anyone could get hit by one of Weiss' [Ice Bolts] coming in fast.

Once Pyrrha placed Yukiko near Shigure and Narberal, where they're near the back wall of this Abandon Warehouse, then quickly rush into helping me force Weiss to summon without having to take time to set up a summoning [Glyphs].

I took a deep breath before sending out another single powerful punch at the incoming [Ice Bolts], scattering them to bits but at the cost of some frost to appear on my right arm and a bit on the right side of my face.

However, those frost disappears a second later due to my aura protecting me from Weiss' [Ice Bolts] that tend to freeze thing but at a slow rate. Good for stalling against those with low aura or those weak against [Ice] would slow them down due to their body begin to go stiff from the coldness of the frost entering their body.

This had happened to me before in the past and was caught off enough for Weiss to managed to get me to fall to the ground, not before I send her out cold afterward from out of sheer confusion. As Weiss' [Ice Bolts] is a result of her trying to replica my [Bufu]. But, without the ability to instant cast like [Bufu] and already affecting the target right away.

Still gave me a scare on how a genius Weiss is to try to replicate all of her friends' [Element Technique/Magic] from studying them a few times and using everything she has available to her usage to see if she could replicate it. Of course, Weiss' versions are a downgrade but she improving them still.

"You're going to regret that sneak attack, Enma." Weiss said in a cold tone, then finally take out her [Myrtenaster] to help her in the next attack. A [Time Dilation Glyph] appear under Weiss as she literally appears in front of me in a single second before I had the chance to make a counterattack.

All I could do at the moment was to use a burst of aura enhance to weave around Weiss' multiple tries on stabbing me with her [Myrtenaster] in high speed that makes her a blur to those that not used to seeing something so fast.

Luckily, I switched over to [Edea Florence], who has trained in a high-speed fight thanks to her unique fighting style with [Mana Gun], by the time Weiss used her [Time Dilation Glyph]. Along with [Edea Florence]'s [Mana Source] to increase my speed together with aura enhance to allow me to dodge Weiss' attacks with ease.

"Stop running away and fight!" Weiss growl at me, as she creates a [Glyphs] under me to stop my movement, which I allowed to happen. And Weiss finds this a little suspect; however, she didn't get the chance to think about this as she senses someone about to attack her from the back, forcing her to abandon her plan to continue to take me down as fast as possible and recast [Time Dilation Glyphs] to get herself away since she doesn't have enough physical speed to do so on her own. Plus, the previous [Time Dilation Glyphs]'s duration expired.

The one who tried to attack Weiss from the back was Pyrrha, as she stands next to her older twin brother in her fighting stance. With Pyrrha's [Akouo] place in of her and [Milo: Xiphos] raised just a few inches below the shoulder level, with the tip pointing forward.

"Tch, I forgot about you, Pyrrha." Weiss feel a little frustrated that she let her emotion get the better of her and causing her to forget that she got another opponent to face against.

"You forgot one of the important rules in a fight. Always be aware of your surroundings. You would never know what could come from behind you." Pyrrha grin at Weiss, as she quickly switches [Milo: Xiphos] to [Milo: Rifle] and fires at her friend with a 3 round burst.

Weiss creates a wall of [Ice] in front of her with the help of her [Glyphs] and [Myrtenaster], to block Pyrrha's [Bullet] and not pausing for a moment of rest. As she pokes her still solid wall of [Ice] a few times with her [Myrtenaster], creating multiple small [Glyphs]. Before a dozen of [Ice Spears] burst out of the other side of the [Ice Wall], flying straight at the Nikos twin.

I move in front of Pyrrha and grab one of the [Ice Spears] while covering my hands with aura to protect my hands from freezing due to how cold the [Ice Spears] is, as I use my newly acquired temporary weapon to parry away the rest of the [Ice Spears], then throw the one in my hands back at the owner. Also, I made sure to put a bit of extra strength into that throw.

Where the [Ice Spear] I'd thrown manage to pierce through the surface of the [Ice Wall], but only to be broken down right in the middle as the whole thing collapse due to the multiple large holes formed due to creating a dozen of [Ice Spears].

Of course, Weiss wasn't behind the now broken down [Ice Wall] once it completely collapses to the ground. Pyrrha easily finds where Weiss is and begin to shoot at the ceiling, which is where Weiss is using her [Gravity Glyphs] to cling to the ceiling.

Furthermore, Weiss didn't just keep sticking to the ceiling and wait for an opening to attack. Instead, she has already begun to set up her next attack by creating around five [Glyphs] in a cross formation in front of her just right when Pyrrha started firing at her.

One of the five [Glyphs] started spinning, which happen to be the center of the cross formation and a barrier formed in front of Weiss to block Pyrrha's [Bullet] from hitting her. Then, the left [Glyphs] turn into the color black as Pyrrha's [Bullet] soon begin to stop midway to the ceiling and fall back down.

Which lead to Pyrrha moving away while continue to firing in different angles to see if she could find a weak point. While for me, I've already moved to a different spot and draw out two [Velvet Nightmare Arcana Custom] and help Pyrrha out with my own firearms.

Luckily, I loaded them with [Wind Dust Round] beforehand for better accuracy and air travel resistance. To tear down Weiss' barrier, as she is already setting up another set of [Glyphs] for a chain attack.

"You got to do better than that to break down my defensive you two." Weiss sends a smirk at us before it disappears a second later from regretting her choice of words. As both Pyrrha and I changed our approach.

Pyrrha throws her [Shield] at Weiss while using her semblance to counter Weiss' [Gravity Glyphs] while I forcibly drag Weiss down with [Gravity Magic] against her will. As my [Gravity Magic] is a lot stronger compared to her [Gravity Glyphs] and also interrupted her progress on setting up her next set of [Glyphs], which is a result of wasted aura due to her losing her concentration from the sudden shift in gravity.

This caused Weiss' almost completed set of [Glyphs] to disappear as she not experience enough to keep different types of [Glyphs] to appear together compared to creating multiple [Glyphs] of the same type is much easier for her to do so. Furthermore, she is required to put which [Glyphs] in a different position to suit her needs or else they end up countering each other.

And so far, Weiss only goes to the point of being able to set up chain effects without the need to take time to use each different [Glyphs] one at a time and she still could, but sadly, there is another downside to this as Weiss' speed on setting up a set of [Glyphs] in different formation take time and most of the time she could only fire off one [Glyphs] at a time instead of mixing the effects together.

In the future, it may be possible for Weiss to do so, but this is still the testing phrase for her core set of fighting style with using her semblance to take on multiple enemies or a single strong one. If she has someone to protect her during the progress of her setting up her [Glyphs] that is, which is why she decided on training this way of using her semblance along with summoning [Glyphs] as well this year.

"Hold back, will you! I was joking!" Weiss cried out, as she creates multiple [Gravity Glyphs] to get back her center balance and change the trajectory of Pyrrha's [Akouo] from ramping into her stomach, which took a good chunk of her aura to create 3 overlays of [Gravity Glyphs] to suppress Pyrrha's semblance over her [Shield].

Another thing Weiss managed to discover and improved on by using her semblance. Is by overlaying her [Glyphs] to create a stronger effect without having to spend a ton of aura to expand the size of the [Glyphs] while overlays her [Glyphs] still take lots of aura, but the effect is even stronger and much easier to control instead of a giant size of [Glyphs].

Pyrrha seeing this decided to switch her [Milo: Rifle] to [Milo: Javelin] and charge right at Weiss. At that very moment; I put an extra aura into my [Gravity Magic] to surpass Weiss' [Gravity Glyphs] and falling straight to the charging Pyrrha, with the intent of stabbing her.

Just before either Pyrrha could attack or Weiss is trying to create a 5 overlays [Gravity Glyphs] to see if she could regain control over her [Gravitational Force]. As I forcibly stop both of them when my scroll vibrate in my hidden pocket by using a stronger version of my [Gravity Magic].

"Oh, hang on a second." I said to everyone, causing those who don't me that well to find it shocking that I would dare stop everything in the middle of the fight as I pull out my scroll to check who texted me.

"Well...this is interesting." I thought out loud, which lead to Weiss to break out of my [Gravity Magic]'s control and Pyrrha made her [Shield] return her, as they walk over to me to see what I'm reading, with Shigure already behind me reading along.

Only both Yukiko and Narberal are standing where they are in an awkward moment with the sudden action pack scene was instantly stopped near the climax and was forcibly stopped just like that.

"WHAT!" Weiss screech so suddenly, that it caused Yukiko to jump in fright and almost knocked her maid over, but luckily Narberal wasn't that quick to be frightened by any sudden noise and help her Mistress from falling down.

"I can't believe this! Of all the things he could have done. This...this is what he came up with?!" Weiss growl in rage, not that I blame her because even I find my disgusted by what I'm reading and it was only thanks to Izaya paying attention to Weiss' family this whole time just in case.

Well, it paid off, but not in the way we liked it. As Weiss' Father had made an announcement to the world that Weiss is stripped of her position as heiress as punishment for becoming a Huntress and made Weiss' little brother, Whitley Schnee as the heir to the Schnee Dust Company and the family as well.

"I guess we're going to have a chat with your Father later, after the Vytal Festival tournament is over." I said in a deadly serious tone since this is a major problem for us. As Weiss is pretty much trying to change her family from the inside instead of trying to outright make her life much dangerous by supporting equal rights between faunus and humans out in the open, where more people have an excuse to attack her.

After all, she is the one who managed to replace the faunus within a dozen [Dust Mine] with robots to mine the [Crystalline Dust] while at the same time giving those faunus safer jobs in secret, which would boost her hidden reputation among the faunus.

This way, less faunus would try to stop aiming to assassinate herself, family, and people under her family. Plus, with a bonus with tearing down the numbers of faunus being recruited under the banner of the White Fang.

Also, the White Fang is beginning to gain too much power to the point of being able to take down one of the Four Kingdoms. Even the people in the lower section of the Mistral Kingdom know a line to never be crossed and the White Fang is pretty much planning to do so.

"We need to get your heiress status back as soon as possible or else more faunus will join the White Fang." Pyrrha gives her own thoughts as she knew when a storm about to come and the chance of countless lives going to be lost.

Of course, most of the members in the Arcana don't make it their mission to protect innocent lives, because it isn't. We kill and we steal if required to do so, but we don't go for the innocent unless they end up causing a major problem for us, then they no longer count as innocent to us.

"This is bad. With Whitley is the heir. All my works are going to be destroyed beyond what I could repair before I could regain my inheritance." Weiss' rage soon to be replaced with anxiety. "I need to talk with my sister." Weiss quickly rush over to where Winter is staying while quickly taking out her scroll to call Winter to speak in private as soon as possible.

Pyrrha, Shigure, and I share before we look at both the surprised Yukiko and Narberal. "You two are coming with us." I said to them in a tone that take no as an answer and message Izaya back, then to Momoyo.

"Come on you two, we need to move now." Pyrrha agrees with me and look at them with a serious expression, even Shigure took out two [Kunai] to prove her point, that they don't have a choice in this matter.

"Can you tell us what's going on first?!" Yukiko shouts at us, with a frustrated look on her face to show how she wants some answer now. "Since we're in the same group now. Can't you tell us something so we don't end up misunderstand something important?"

"You want to explain it to them or should I?" I ask my younger twin; I would ask Shigure, but I rather not have Yukiko end up confuse and forgot some major facts because she trying to remember all the words Shigure say while pausing a second or two every time.

"I'll do it." Pyrrha understands why she was asked instead of her future sister-in-law. Then, look over at both Yukiko and Narberal with a serious expression. "Okay, listen, because I won't explain a second time. Got it?" Pyrrha wait for a few seconds to see them nods before continue.

"As you know Weiss' reputation of hating the White Fang, faunus, and murderers are known throughout the Four Kingdoms. But, what most people is that Weiss is secretly helping out the faunus, that's being treated unfairly under her family and getting them out to safety while help proving them with Lien to support them in secret. Now, that she is stripped of her heiress status. It's going to be a lot harder for her to help out the faunus, along with accessing the Schnee family's database of new files we may need. As Weiss is our inside source for the Schnee family." Pyrrha calmly and explain to the new members of Arcana while letting them know that Weiss' cover stories are just a cover to stop people from thinking she has any connection with the Arcana group.

Anyone that visits or know someone, who had visited/live in the lower section of the Mistral Kingdom for the past few years would know the Arcana group is one of the most dangerous criminal group to be formed and among the criminal group with lack of knowledge about them due to appearing out of nowhere, along with the help of the [Arcana Uniform], which made it even harder for those trying to gain information on the Arcana.

"Wow." Yukiko looks at us with wide eyes, then glance in the direction Weiss went and back at us. "I think I need to apologize to Weiss later." Neither Shigure or Pyrrha or I know why she needs to apologize since none of us remember anything where Weiss speak a single bad thing about Momoyo's cousin up to now.

"Okay, you do that, even though I don't know why. Anyway. We need to go meet up with the others." I said slowly to Yukiko while looking at Narberal with my left eyebrow raised, but she didn't say a single word and continue to look at me with a blank expression.

With that said, we exit this Abandon Warehouse and rush over to Momoyo's current location to meet up. Since she managed to get a private room in Junior's Club somehow; well, maybe she threatens him for one. Who knows, but we decided to meet up at Junior's Club instead of meeting up at the Hotel.

Omake: How Jaune Regret Agreeing to The Training

"Now, Jaune. I hope you have some basic knowledge on how to use a [Longsword]." Pyrrha said to her partner in a gentle tone, which made Jaune relax a little and knew she wasn't strict at all.

"Kind of? I mean, what's there to understand about swish-swish-stab? It's a [Sword]. Pretty sure that's it, right?" Jaune gives Pyrrha a goofy smile.

However, once Pyrrha heard this, her smile went stiff and slowly blink once before looking at her partner just to be sure he's not playing a joke on her.

"Okay then. I guess our first lesson on how to use a [Longsword]. Is don't let go of it. Also, it's not just a [Sword]. Do please remember there are names belong to different types of [Sword] and just fall under the category named as [Sword]." Pyrrha said calmly to Jaune, who look pretty confused at the moment.

"Really? Do I need to learn how to not drop my [Longsword]? Not a way for me to take down my enemy with a single swing?" Jaune begins to doubt if his partner is training him seriously at all.

Pyrrha quietly nods to herself, then bring out her [Milo] in [Xiphos Form]; and slowly walk towards the still confused and doubtful Jaune, who is filled with countless openings for her to take advantage of.

"Dodge." This is the only word Pyrrha said to her partner before she begins attacking him. In some other dimension, she would have the patience to teach her partner at a steady pace, but she would do no such thing.

As one of her older twin's favorite motto: Time is money, and she shall not waste precious time by having her partner learning the basic of the basic on how to use a [Longsword] without getting himself hurt; well, more than usual. Instead, she would make him learn what would happen to him in another training session later in the future if he dares drop his weapon due to the sudden intense pain.

"Wh-what?! Woah! Wait, Pyrrha! Why are you attacking me?!" Jaune screams like a little girl as he started running away from his hostile partner, who currently charging at him with intent to strike him down.

"What did I say?! Please tell me what I said wrong! I'm sorry!" Jaune begs for Pyrrha to response back to him, but end up getting hit in the gut by a strong elbow strike from his partner, knocking the air out of his lung and made him drop his [Longsword] out of the instinct to hold his stomach with both arms.

Pyrrha narrow her eyes at the kneeling position of her partner, as she waits for him to recover.

"Cough!* Pyr-Pyrrha! W-Why?" Jaune looks at his partner, with teary eyes and cough a few more times until he stops feeling like he about to puke his dinner all over the place.

The only response he got from his partner was Pyrrha kicking his [Longsword] back to him before she raises her [Milo], to his eye level with a blank expression.

Jaune knew something was wrong and by the small facts, he gathers in such little time. He quickly grabs his [Longsword] from the ground and get back on his feet as fast as possible, then retreating a few steps. He may be weak, lack courage, and even fail at getting a girl's attention, but he no by mean stupid. After all, how would he manage to fake his way into the Beacon Academy is proof enough of his intelligent.

Right at the moment, he took his third step; Pyrrha went in for a second strike, but slower this time and thrust her [Milo] at Jaune, with the aim to disarm him by attacking his [Sword] arm.

Luckily enough, Jaune manages to block his partner's [Sword] strike but didn't calculate the strength behind the attack and end up losing his grip on his [Longsword]. Once more, as it drops to the ground, causing echoes to appear upon contact.

"Pick it up." Pyrrha said in a monotone, as she looks at her partner with dull eyes. "We'll continue this until you won't drop your [Longsword] outside of battle and only when you are unconscious or dead. Now. Pick. It. Up."

Jaune didn't need to be told twice, as his [Fear] of his partner is planted within his heart, where time will tell if this little seed of [Fear] would wither away or grow; and the way his partner heading towards him with her [Xiphos] just ready to stab him once and getting hurt further, even with his aura helping him.

Sadly, instead of attacking with [Milo], Pyrrha went with a left knee attack to Jaune's head. Knocking him to the ground along with him dropping his [Longsword] for the third time of the night.

Jaune only saw a second of his partner a few meters away from him, then suddenly she appeared in front of him a second later with her knee already smashing against the right side of his head, with him dropping down like a falling tree.

"Get up, Jaune. Until you could at least manage to hold onto your [Longsword] without dropping it from getting hit by me once. We could stop for the night." Pyrrha hoped this would motivate him to get his act together and do this seriously instead of panicking.

This is the very moment, where Jaune would always tell his first time training with his partner in the future and also one of his moments of biggest regret. As he should have at least learned how to wield a [Longsword], basic at least, before asking his partner for help in swordsmanship.