Chapter 19- Training III

Leaving him in confusion and soon they both leave the room, starting to walk, "So Kiyoshi, How was your first day? How were your class mates?" Yuki asks while they both were walking towards the practice ground. Kiyoshi replies that it was a great day and his class mates were actually very sweet and welcoming other than one boy, He stops and Yuki looks at him before asking about that boy.

"Who was it?" he asks and Kiyoshi replies, "I'm not sure but he kept on ignoring me for the whole day." Yuki patts him on the head before Kiyoshi notices the same blue hair'd guy he saw a few days ago. This makes him red and nervous and he started to question everything while walking behind Yuki, "What", "Is he going to teach me", "Oh my!" all kinds of thoughts come through his nervous mind, Soon they both reach there. "Hey there, Good to see you." Yuki says as they make their way towards that person and he replies, "It's really good to meet you too Yuki." and they both hugged before Yuki turned to a frozen Kiyoshi after noticing this state Yuki chuckles and shakes him a few times before Kiyoshi finally moves and quickly apologies while doing that he thinks to himself, "Great job done. Dumbass you already made a fool outta yourself."

That person chuckles before introducing himself "Good evening, My name is Tofu Uchida and I'll be teaching you the basics related to fights." Kiyoshi finds himself warming up and introduces himself, "Good evening Tofu, I am Kiyoshi Kaneko happy meeting you." Yuki then tells Tofu some points about Kiyoshi before finally leaving them to practice. "I'll see you soon Kiyoshi." Yuki says while leaving before he could even reply Yuki vanishes and leaves Kiyoshi speechless.

Tofu chuckles and turns to Kiyoshi before asking him a few questions, "So Kiyoshi allow me to ask you a few questions." he just nodds giving Tofu a chance to ask him some questions. "First, For how long have you been here and has your practice already started?" Kiyoshi calmly answers "I've joined The Agency yesterday and my practice started from today morning." Tofu seems like he is thinking something and he replies "Oh I see, Yuki isn't wasting any time so we should also get to work." Kiyoshi smiles and agrees before Tofu asks him to do some basic exercises to see if he has enough muscle power.

Kiyoshi agrees and Tofu guides him through. After they both are done Tofu tells him that surprisingly he has enough strength so without wasting any time he straight way gets on to teaching Kiyoshi the basics and also tells him facts about the weapons. "First of all each and every weapon is differently used and built so you have to actually know your Cursed ability for that but as you don't know your cursed ability so we'll start with swords." Kiyoshi nodded and proceeded to ask a question from Tofu, "How long do you think it'll take for me to learn this?" Tofu chuckles and says "Let's see."

With that he handed Kiyoshi a sword which was made out of bamboo. Tofu tells him that for the first two weeks they will practice using this and then with a real sword. Tofu then goes on to tell him how to place his hands and hold a sword, "Turn your body a bit and hold this tight." he says and Kiyoshi follows. This goes on for some time as Kiyoshi has to learn from the basics and after that he asks him to swing the sword with his whole strength. Kiyoshi does as he says but Tofu tells him to correct his hand movement, After his second try Tofu again tells him but Kiyoshi doesn't understand so to teach him Tofu stands behind Kiyoshi and holds his left hand and shifted it so that his physical strength could have effect when landing a hit, Kiyoshi's face turns red as he could feel his breath and it also makes him nervous.

Tofu then asks him to swing the sword again and when he does this time Kiyoshi does it the correct way, "Great now with that up your sleeve. I'll teach you a few more ways to tackle a sword." Tofu says with a proud smile and Kiyoshi replies by thanking him which is followed by him agreeing. Tofu spends the next hour teaching him all the tricks, "I guess that'll be enough for today." Tofu says after they both are done with their practice but before leaving Tofu asks Kiyoshi to show him all the techniques he's taught him today and Kiyoshi agrees. When Kiyoshi starts with his technique Tofu looks at him in surprise and wondering, "He is actually a really fast learner. Yuki was actually correct about him." After Kiyoshi is done he looks at Tofu breathing heavily and Tofu can just compliment Kiyoshi on how gracefully he did that and how fast he'd learn that.

He softly chuckles and thanks him for his kind words. "Have you meet the other second year students?" Tofu asks him and Kiyoshi replies, "Actually the only people I've meet till now is Saski, Yuki, Miss Arai and you." Tofu laughs and promises Kiyoshi that he'll make sure he meets the other students. While they were talking Yuki suddenly appeared and asks them about their training session, "Hey Tofu, How was it?" Tofu smiles and tells Yuki that it was really great teaching Kiyoshi and as he said he learned everything very quickly. Yuki then tells both Kiyoshi and Tofu that from now on they both will be practicing here every evening for two hours. Tofu happily agrees and Kiyoshi also seems fine with it but just as Kiyoshi thought that his practices for the day were done Yuki asks him to follow him.

Kiyoshi hesitantly gets up and asks Yuki where they both were going but Yuki doesn't drop a hint, Instead he winks at Tofu and leaves with Kiyoshi. Yuki then tells him that, "In order to boost your Dark energy you need to have good control over your emotions and then the second step is combining them with your negative emotions. So first we'll be working on controlling your emotions." Kiyoshi asks him how they are going to do that but Yuki again doesn't tell me much before Kiyoshi for himself notices that they are approaching the Time Castle. " Yuki where are we-" before he could even finish Yuki pulls him a bit forward and Kiyoshi for the first time notices the beauty waterfall behind the Time Castle. The cool breeze touches him face making him feel really good and the sound of the water is also very refreshing but Yuki has another plans for this place. "Kiyoshi follow me." and so he does Yuki takes him near the waterfall and tells Kiyoshi to take off his shoes. Kiyoshi follows his orders and freeze upon hearing the next thing Yuki says, "Get in the water and sit on that rock." Kiyoshi looks over to the rock at which Yuki pointed and notices that the water straight way falls on that rock, He looks back at Yuki as to confirm what he really said has to be done by him and Yuki smiles before telling him that from now on his Dark energy practice will start.

Not having much of a choice Kiyoshi follows and as soon as he steps in the water he notices how cold it is. "Yuki really?" he says with a confused face and Yuki tells him to get in, soon Kiyoshi reaches the rock but struggles to sit under it. At last he finally managed to sit under it after seeing that Kiyoshi has successfully made it to the rock Yuki tells him to close his eyes and tells him that he has to sit under the rock no matter what. Kiyoshi agrees thinking it won't be such a difficult thing to do but he couldn't have been more wrong, Yuki using his Dark energy manipulates Kiyoshi's subconscious mind and play tricks on him by showing him something he's really scared off and even messing with his vision to make him see things that are not actually around him. Kiyoshi on the other hand, has difficulty staying on the rock cause all of a sudden he feels that the water dropping on him hurts and when he opens his eyes the vision takes him for a shock making him instantly fall in the water from the rock before crying in fear.

Yuki helps him get out and tells Kiyoshi that it was all a way to help him control his thoughts and emotions. Kiyoshi still looks shaken from the experience so to help him learn in a quicker way Yuki tells a trick. "Kiyoshi let me tell you a better way, From tomorrow onwards we both will be watching movies together but every time you show any emotion you'll get punished. The whole time we'll be watching a movie I'll be doing the same as I just did." Kiyoshi agrees and says in a shakey tone "Sure I think that'll be better than this but what is the punished tho?" He asks and Yuki replies "For you to sit under the waterfall for ten minutes every time you show any emotion."