Not a bad night

I woke up, completely enveloped in silky soft flesh, belonging to Misa, one of the ladies we had drunk with.

Moving my head away from her warmth, I sat up at the bedside, accidentally waking her up in the process.

"Hrmm... You're already awake? Come back and snuggle with me for a bit."

She dragged me back into her embrace and held me tightly enough for me to be stuck.

I had somehow managed to lose my innocence last night, with a complete stranger to boot. It wasn't something weird for a 16-year-old to have some nightly fun in this world. I also had a collective age of 40, so I didn't feel like I did anything wrong at all.

Being spooned by the taller woman forced my body to relax, almost making me fall asleep once more. Thinking back at last night's activities, it had also been her who was mostly in charge of our collaboration, as she was physically stronger than me.

'I need to get going though...'

After a half-assed attempt at regaining my freedom, I let myself fully relax and took a bit of a break this morning.

'It was a good night...'

****

"So, did you have fun last night?"

I had been met by a teasing grin on the Gorilla's face when I entered the practice room. Standing tall, he looked incredibly satisfied with how the night had ended for me.

"Yea, I did. It was a good night."

I was too, mentally, old to even care about his teasing, and just spoke the truth immediately.

Taken off guard by the student who didn't show any signs of embarrassment, Mike looked a bit sullen, seemingly disappointed by the response.

"Oh... That's good."

Recharging himself with vigor, he went back to being a teacher, "One can't just train without rest. Even during the upcoming weeks, I want you to find opportunities to socialize and do other things. Now, let's start training!"

As we wouldn't have access to Sarah until a bit later, I started with practicing unleashing elemental attacks on the dummy.

After about an hour, the alluring girl had arrived.

"So why did you need me here Mr. Borr?"

'He didn't even tell her about the situation?!'

"Haha, well you see, me and the little hare here have a slight problem."

Wearing a confused face, Sarah inquired, "Problem?"

Signaling toward me, Mike explained, "Miren needs to spar, but unfortunately there is a big possibility of him getting hurt because of his weak constitution. Therefore, we need someone to heal him."

Crossing her arm, making her chest look even fuller her brows furrowed a bit, "Why would Miren have to get hurt?"

Her words hurt a bit, as they implied that I shouldn't have to fight because I was weak and small.

'Seems like she still doesn't see me as an adult, after all. Wonder what she would say if she knew about my adventure with Misa?'

While I was thinking about completely destroying her opinion of me, Mike spoke, "He needs to get stronger to survive, and without combat experience, nothing else matters. Please do lend us your time!"

Flustered by the teacher's honest approach, she waved her arms and accepted readily, "No, it's fine. I'll get to practice as well, right? It's not often we get to heal someone who is hurt during our lessons, so this is a good chance."

Glancing down at me, she added, "It's just that I don't want Miren to get hurt..."

Mike's teasing grin came back in full force and he looked at me, "Oho, we have a little Cassanova on our hands? First last night and now this? You are truly charming ladies wherever you go!"

'Please don't do this!'

Praying internally, I tried to divert the conversation, "Anyway, let's start, shall we? We don't want to waste time for no reason!"

"Last night?"

Alas, my efforts were in vain. Sarah didn't let it go, and with a questioning face, she awaited an answer. In order to control the conversation, I took the lead before Mike could open his mouth.

"Ah, it's nothing. Mr. Borr was just talking about the fact that some women find me cute, even though we all know it's more like an animal than anything else!"

'Please empathize with this and let it go!'

The girl appeared to believe my explanation, as she was most likely part of that group as well.

Unfortunately, my teacher obliterated my hope.

"Oh really, is that it? Is Misa into that thing? No wonder she always rejected me!"

...

"Miren?"

A disappointed Sarah stared at me, seemingly hoping for me to shatter her correctly made assumption, "Who's Misa?"

'Might as well just tell it how it is I guess, though it has nothing to do with her...'

Resolving myself to act like an adult and just get the conversation done with, I met her stare.

"She is just a girl who I spent the night with yesterday. Now, let's start training."

The girl crumbled to her knees, mumbling some stupid things, "Miren had.... That little guy... Even before me?"

After about ten minutes, she had finally recovered, and we got ready to spar.

While taking a low stance and raising his arms, my teacher shouted, "Come!"

I dashed towards him, equipped with the brothers in my hands.

I started to test the water by doing non-enhanced attacks. Slicing, stabbing, and shanking, but all my attacks got parried.

After one last thrust towards his neck, he caught my arm and flung me into the wall where I instantly blacked out.

Warm winds started to surround me, and I woke up feeling relatively good.

"Did you really have to throw him into the wall?"

"How else will he learn about danger in battle?"

Sarah and the monkey were having a semi-heated discussion about the spar, while the girl healed me with her winds.

Not wanting to waste my time listening to them, I took the lead and stood up, "Let's go again."

Where Sarah gazed at me with a bit of pity, Mike took on a look of pride, "That's right! We don't want to waste Ms. Lindt's time!"

We took our stances again, but this time I decided to go all out, barring my Art.

"Come!"

I executed a [Lightning Step] to his right and then did a consecutive one to arrive at his back.

Enhancing my brothers with lightning, I attacked with them simultaneously making a cross on his back.

Unfortunately for me, he somehow managed to turn around and block it with his arms, making me slide backward because of the force.

After the little exchange, he complimented me,

"Not bad, not bad at all little hare! That's how you should be, don't focus on quantity, focus on quality. End it with one strike. Now let's continue!"

'I guess I was too naive to think that he would fall for that...'

Once again I dashed forward, but this time I tried my new little trick.

Using one-step, I instantly arrived in front of my teacher. Taking advantage of him being caught off guard, I stabbed with Khanda between his arms, aiming at his heart. Without taking note of whether the attack was successful or not, I managed to a second step back before the window was gone.

"What was that?!"

The gorilla looked as if he had seen God.

"You can actually attack between using your skill, how is that possible?!"

Thinking he had a bit of an overreaction, I took advantage of his stirred mind and once again did a double step to arrive at his back.

This time, my attack went through. Spinning my whole body, I managed to do a double electrical slice right in his back.

'I got him!'

Euphoric about my victory, I felt my legs give up and the pain of destroying my legs emerged.

Falling down to the floor my sweat started to pour and I had to grit my teeth in order to not scream.

My classmate started to run towards me, which was quite a delightful sight with her curves, and shouted, "Miren! What's wrong?!"

Mike had also turned around at me, appearing to be completely unscathed from my ferocious attack, and responded to her.

"Oh right, it was like this. Well, Sarah, you see... When the little hare uses that instant movement it appears that his legs sustain quite some damage in the process."

Shocked at the sudden information, her face paled and spurted out,

"What?! So you mean he hurts himself every time he uses that skill? How can you let that happen?!"

Laughing, our teacher dismissed her little outrage, "It's fine. It's only natural that a skill that potent would have some kind of weakness. And aren't you here to heal him anyway?"

"That's beside the point! Why does he have to get hurt just to get stronger?!"

A cold pressure got released from Mike, and an equally freezing voice came out,

"Stop treating Miren like a kid. He is of the same age as you and is trying his absolute best to get stronger, no matter what pain he has to endure."

'Guys, I'm right here. And it hurts a fuck ton, maybe we can just heal me instead?'

Thankfully their conversation ended with our teacher's little sermon. Looking a bit sad that she had, once again, regarded me as a kid, she replied,

"Okay, I understand. I'm sorry Miren, I will heal you right now."

Still gritting my teeth, I tried to convey my gratitude.

"Tha..nk...s"

"[Gust of restoration]!"

As she shouted her spell, warm winds started to repair my body, and I got a newfound appreciation of what magic was actually capable of.

With my body up and running once more, even though my legs were still a bit weak, we continued our sparring.