0013 - Training

I stopped my fake, sword practice as I greeted the 3 girls.

"Mr Dave, my father is looking for you, it's already the time for dinner and he says your job starts from today," said Brice with a smile.

"You better get going or you'll be scolded on your first day," said Bonnie, making fun of me.

"I never realised we were this close," I said.

"I am sorry for her rude behaviour, please excuse her," said Donnie apologetically.

Donnie looked very cute at this moment, I departed from the ground with a smile.

Soon after the 3 girls followed suit and Brice took her position. With one or two orders the night started. It was the same as yesterday but today the waiter was alright and was managing the new customers along with doing the dishes.

All the orders and customers were handled by me. Pretty effectively I moved around the tables and customers, when suddenly I felt a customer not too far from me sitting on the bar stool was looking at Brice or rather the thing in her hands, coins.

I noticed the restlessness in the customer when he put his hand in his pocket. The aura around the customer changed and turned red. This alerted all my senses. I had only one dish in my hand, which I delivered and I realised that the customer had his hand on a weapon. He was about to pull it out when I turned and dashed towards the customer.

As soon as he took out a knife I reached him, just like Maxwell he was slow, even slower. I saw his knife's trajectory and with my right hand punched on the forearm of his right hand. With immense pain he felt, he dropped the knife. While this happened I grabbed hold of his right hand and twisted it on his back and banged his head on the bar.

All this happened in a couple of seconds. The knife was then confiscated and the man was tied with ropes. The commotion took place for 10 minutes and got back to normal while I served the food. The guards came and took the weapon and the man away. The whole night people made stories and wondered how I was able to do that, while I listened to that merrily, I was worried about Brice.

The night died down and all the customers left. Only me, Brice and the waiter were present at the bar, when the waiter left as well. Brice served me a mug of cranberry juice, but refused to accept any payment. With a tear almost dropping from her eye she said, "thank you for saving me."

"You're one of my few friends in this new city. I care for you and also protecting young girls in distress is the job of a man," I said. These cheesy lines were the ones which I always wanted to use. I was literally fulfilling my small wishes in this world.

What Dave was unable to notice was as he said that, Brice's face turned crimson red from ear to ear with embarrassment or something else will only be confirmed in future.

As I climbed the stairs to my floor I was greeted by the twins, " Good job in apprehending that man," said both in unison.

"I look forward to training with you tomorrow," I said as I entered my room.

I locked the room and entered the bathroom, "sense water". I started water magic control training. A layer of water formed on my body. I had the same experience as fire magic. I played around with water, I was able to manipulate the temperature of water as well. I was able to convert the small amount of water into ice and into steam as well. "I can have my own sauna in the future," I said while giggling and thinking about the future.

I played till I got bored, exited the bathroom and sat by the window watching the 2 moons. Thinking it's a beautiful world, I headed to bed.

******

I woke up at sunrise and got ready, as I was about to exit the room. I felt a room opening somewhere in the building. 2 sets of footsteps got out of the room and approached the first floor. I waited to see what was happening. Thinking someone was trying to mug me, I got alert. The footsteps turned towards my room and I readied myself with the sword when I realised it was the twins. I opened the door and went to the stairs and greeted the twins,"good morning ladies." "It's good you're awake, otherwise we would've come to your room," said Bonnie.

"Good morning Dave, shall we begin," said Donnie. We headed to the empty ground and my first training lesson began.

I was training with Bonnie first. "Okay, show me how you throw a punch," she said, trying to judge me. I threw a punch as hard as I could, in the best form I could. At the sight, Bonnie started laughing hysterically, when Donnie karate chopped her sister on her head. Holding her head Bonnie apologised to me.

Sighing she said, "I now know why you opted to learn. Good decision not going into fighting with that stance. Let's train for real." She approached me and adjusted my body, knee and arm. I got in position and punched again. "Good," Bonnie said as she checked my form. Now do this 100 times.

I was training and got hold of the form in 50 tries or so. The rest of the punches were up to mark as well. Secretly surprised, she said, "change sides." I saw that coming and changed my side. It took me 25 tries or so and I got it in the acceptable range.

Now they both were genuinely surprised. "You have great muscle memory," said Donnie looking at my stance. Then we did some speed training, I ran and ran without feeling tired. 'God gave me some powers,' that's great.

Then Donnie told me to hold up my sword. I held the sword high and showed her some of my movements which I learned in my previous life. Donnie calmly saw my movements and said, "they are not bad. With practice you can learn swordplay properly." As she said that the sun was already up and there was a little time left before I had to leave. They took this time to explain to me the theory behind fighting. How we should read the movements and thinking behind any attackers' attack.

We were done for today, as I left I thought 9 coppers are expensive for this training, but I will be able to learn a lot. "This is an investment not an expense," I mumbled to myself and went to my room.

As I sat on the bed, I chanted 'sense light'. Maintaining the amount of light I was able to play with it just like other classes. I was able to focus it on other body parts as well. Same thing went for dark magic as well.

Remembering the advice of Brianna I was able to learn to control the elements, though in little amounts.

"I have to make a schedule and a plan," I said to myself as I thought hard. After a while I summarised the whole thing and the plan went like this.

Morning to breakfast time I will train hard in fighting and then work till dinner time. I will then practice the classes which will not attract attention. Then as soon as possible I will cancel the fight training and practice magic in the morning as well but I will need a desolate place. So I will venture into the forest after I learn how to fight and find a good spot. My 'sense magic' will work continuously but not during training.

******

I got ready and reached the bar area. I did my breakfast and my job started at the time the inn opened for breakfast. The crowd was decent enough and we got free on time.

I was sitting at a table when Marcel approached me, though I knew it was him I still acted surprised. Marcel came to me and said, " thank you for your help yesterday. Though he was a weak man in front of me but for my daughter he was a wolf. She is alright now and it's all thanks to you," he said pointing towards Brice.

I gave Brice a huge smile and said to Marcel, " she is a friend and protecting her is one of my jobs." I felt good inside because I said one of those cheesy lines.

I sat in a corner waiting for customers. The inn was empty during the hour. I got bored and chanted 'sense water' while imagining a small drop of water. A small drop of water appeared in my hand and I started playing with it.

I made the drop float, run through my body. I swallowed it and extracted it back through my mouth. I gained control of its speed and temperature. It turned into ice and steam alternatively.

There was no sign of customers so I increased the difficulty. Along with the water droplet I also summoned an air droplet. I put the water drop aside and played with the air droplet just like I did with water drop.

As I gained control of the air droplet, I started mixing the 2 drops and thus I started messing around with 2 different elements at the same time. They fused together and then divided. I gained control of them. As I was engulfed in the fun, a customer entered the inn and I realised it was already lunch time.

What Dave didn't realise was that in his fun he discovered fusion magic for himself. This magic was state of art secret technique and could be performed by very talented and few nobles, kings and high level wizards. This development will make Dave a powerful wizard in future.