FAULT LIES IN

I looked at the guy who elbowed me just now, he said how does it feel like to be the cause of causality? What unlucky incident I caused? Don't tell me that the reason only my division in the training camp went through that hardship was because of me. I hope that I am not! Those screams which were the first thing I heard coming to this world will haunt me for all my life if that is true. 

"It doesn't feel great; I can tell you that!" I said with a mocking smirk. 

I knew that this guy was now going to persecute me no matter what I said. So, I decided to play cool as if I would not be trouble by anything he would do to me. 

"Hmph, just what can I expect from a lowlife like you." He mocked me while looking straight ahead. To answer his mockery, I just gave him a side glance. 

I knew that this guy is just like all the school bullies I have seen in shows and faced in real life. Ellie and Hoover who were both in front line looked back with their side glances. 

Well, they don't need to worry since now I am an expert in handling these situations. 

Because there were 135 groups each with 16 members, it would have been difficult for only a single trainer to train them. To remove this hindrance there were 101 junior trainers in the hall. As the classes in Heinsberg were conducted combined, there were female teachers and trainers also. 

A female trainer came near our group. She was a beauty to behold with her white silky hair and white lashes, the light blue colour of her eyes shone brightly. She was wielding a spear some inches taller than her. Blade of the spear was doubled edged. Black and golden colour of her spear signified its glory. 

"I've heard that you guys got the worst luck in the training camp!" She commiserated. 

Man, would you believe that she has heaven rivalling looks and heart of a saint. 

"It was all this guy's fault!" The guy who elbowed me before, complained pointing his index finger of left hand in my direction. 

"How was it my fault?" 

Now, I am very short on knowledge about most of the things, but according to me the correct way to get information out of others is to act either ignorant or rude, I chose the latter. 

"Huh!!!" The boy gasped heavily. 

"If only you had not insisted on saving those peasants, we would not have received any order of saving lives in that confined area. You knew there was no hope for them, but you still persisted to-" 

"Ok, don't fight amongst yourselves. You are a team for now, it will be better if you will try to be friends with each other." 

The boy glanced at the female trainer before shifting his head with a 'che' sound coming from his mouth. 

"Ma'am, can you please tell us how the war of Emerald nation ended. Our group became the victim of poor fate, we could not see the end of that war." Ellie asked this question. She always asks what is important. 

"Well, first thing you need to understand is that no war occurred at that place. It was a rescue mission planned and organized by the help of Rubridoire government!" 

She tried to clear the misunderstanding and tried to increase the respect of Rubridoire in our eyes. Which is quite difficult for me cause of all the stuff Seth had written in his journal. 

"Yeah, and then there are stupid people like this guy who tries their best to get their whole squad killed in a serene rescue mission where our main objects of opposition were some animals who cannot even think!" 

The boy again accused me, it looked like he was not capable of saying even a single sentence without mentioning me in it in some way. His poor self-esteem. 

"Andre! Stop it! He did not know anything!" The female trainer tried to stop him. 

"Right and when you don't know anything you shouldn't do anything!" 

"Why are you such a coward, are your balls the same size of your pea size brain?" 

Clang!! 

"Stop it both of you!" The trainer rebuked both of us by hitting the base of her spear to the ground. 

"Miss Clawford! These boys are just stupid, let's start the training, they will never be over this." 

Well thanks to the girl who just spoke, I got to know the name of this angelic beauty. Clawford nodded her head in agreement and instructed us to first form pairs of two. To prevent Andre and me from fighting she separated us and made me partner with a girl I saw for the first time. 

Luckily, Hoover and Ellie both were selected as partners of each other, the only problem is that they have to act like they hate each other. Ellie knows about that problem, but I am doubting that Hoover does. 

The girl who became my partner looked at me with a gloomy expression. 

"Boy! What are you looking at?" She scoffed. 

Shit, I was too immersed in the sea of my thoughts I didn't even realize I was staring at her while thinking. 

"Uh, yeah.. It's just that, you don't have any complaints joining me for the training." I somehow managed to produce a good sentence. 

"Well, aren't we supposed to work with each other, and it was not your fault at the training camp, anybody would've done the same!" She said with no particular expression on her face. 

"Is that so, well thank you!" Hearing her words produced a faint smile on my face. I see, so there are still people who appreciate other people's good deeds.. The girl who was my partner was of average height of almost the same height as Ellie or shorter than her. Her skin had fair complexion, and her short black hair covered her neck. 

"Mister, you are again staring at me!" She gave me a frown. 

"I am sorry! What are we supposed to do?" I asked while smiling awkwardly. 

"Huh!! Well, if you don't know even that I guess we can look around to find out." 

"You also don't know what to do, do you?" I inquired with scrunched eyes. 

"It would have been better if you had focused on finding what we should do instead of glaring at me." I see so now she is putting everything on me, huh! 

"Well, I am sorry, but I cannot seem to remember somethings correctly." 

She looked at me and let out a huge sigh. Then she put her right hand on her waist and pointed at the right direction through her chin. 

There were two boys putting down their bags and were getting ready to run. 

"We have to do that!? 

"It seems so!" She again let out a big sigh, acting like she was dealing with some idiot. 

"Hey! Stop talking and start to practice! Don't waste any time." Clawford was saying this coming towards us. 

"We are on it, mam!" 

"Come on, Seth I have high hopes for you, how are you going to fulfill them if you will slack off in training like this?" Clawford had a teasing smile on her face. 

I never thought that getting teased by someone would feel this good. 

"Hurry up! Or you will stay like this forever!" She continued to tease me. I am guessing that Seth was in good terms with her like she was his favourite teacher or trainer. 

Pow! I felt someone hitting peripheral part of my stomach, it was my partner. 

"What, what do you want?" I demanded. 

"Hurry up! We don't have all day for this." She scolded me. 

"By the way, what's your name? I asked her. 

"Emma Scott!" She said her name and instead of asking for my name she continued saying, "And stop having dirty thoughts about our trainer, she is way older than you." 

"I was just praising her beauty in my mind." I gave an awkward smile while scratching the back of my head. 

"Yeah, sure you were." 

This girl just refuses to listen to me. Anyway, I paid small attention to her taunts and started my training. The one thing I was sure of after coming in this world was that I definitely got some good muscles. My skinny body now had fair number of muscles. 

"Remember, you are not allowed to run using your vital force as a source of boast!" 

Emma shouted at me from the front. Damn she is fast. I was running without much difficulty because this guy Seth had built some good muscles in his life, and it looks like I obtained some of those after succeeding his identity. Well, Chloeir did say that I would be getting necessary assist. 

"You are too slow! Hurry up! I don't want to drag this for too long." 

Emma running in front of me, exclaimed her disappointment in me. 

"Huh!?" I gasped in shock. I think I was running pretty well. Not that it matters but this girl might start to get on my nerves. 

"What do you mean huh!? Run fast! We have to do other training exercises as well." 

After listening to her jeers, I looked around to see what others were doing and they were also just running. It was confirmed that she was just giving harsh comments to me again and again. 

"Why are you in so hurry!?" I shouted from the back. 

"I want to confirm my caliber! There is something I am not sure about." She said with panting. 

Pant! Pant! It looks like I am losing my stamina faster than her. 

"Hurry up!" 

"I am trying!" 

......... 

Hoover was very happy on getting paired with Ellie, because it had been a whole day and nobody talked to him. 

"Ellie, did you find anything interesting about this world?" Hoover asked Ellie while running at the same pace as her. 

"I found that our new identities were enemies of each other!" 

"What!? Wow, what a turn of events! But you know I think I am the only one whom nobody talks to." 

"I am talking to you right now." 

"Pant! Yeah, but Auri just turned his eyes away when I was going to talk to him!" 

"What did I say just now!" Ellie said with a serious face. 

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Now I understand why he didn't talk to me. But you guys have friends, and I am the only one nobody talks to." 

Ellie looked at Hoover in exasperation and just patted him on his back while running to comfort him. 

.............. 

"Now, it's time for your second exercise. Prepare to enhance your combat skills!" 

Clawford exclaimed with joy. 

From her expression it looks like her favourite exercise to teach was this. 

"Come and get your weapons!" She declared. 

"Look! Because you had dirty thoughts in your mind all the time, we were not able to do the exercise properly and now had to do other exercise." 

"But you were excited for this exercise, weren't you?" I looked at Emma with scrunched eyes. 

"Anyway, let's not waste more time and move along to practice." She said while jogging toward the Clawford. 

"Yeah, sure!" This girl has a unique personality, I tell you that. 

I saw trainees picking up all types of weapons, some had iron club in their hands some had double edged swords, some had bow in their hands, I saw Hoover picking up an axe. 

They were picking their weapons from a box like gadget which was as big as a family size bed. The box our group were taking their weapons from had 135 written on it; I saw Emma hurriedly going toward the box and shoving her hand in it to get her weapon. 

What she got was a double-edged sword, she immediately unsheathed it, its blade was silver in colour which was shining due to light, its hilt was brown in colour. She looked extremely happy upon getting a sword. I also went there to get my weapon. 

"Make sure to remember that these are not Holy arms these are just prototypes made for you after analyzing your abilities." Clawford explained. 

"Che." I heard Emma complaining in disappointment, what was she expecting? 

I went to the box tottering very slowly as I was looking around to see what type of weapon everybody got. I was confused about one thing, to get rid of my confusion I asked Clawford who was standing near the box smiling at everyone, "What Holy arm does a person with no caliber gets!?" 

I asked the thing which was on my mind ever since after listening to James's speech. 

"They get no Holy arm, they just get normal weapons which are best for the combat. Why are you asking the obvious!?" 

She exclaimed in wonder. 

"No, it's just that I forgot a lot of things after coming from the training camp!" 

"Well, if your questions are answered than pick your weapon, everybody is done in our group except you." 

I nodded my head. 

I put my hand in the box, it felt like I had put my hand in nothingness, but in an instant, I felt my hand touching the hilt of a sword, I pulled it out immediately. 

It was a Japanese style sword with a single edge. It was called katana back in my world. I had watched this sword in many movies. It was used by the Japanese in my world almost 600 years ago. 

After I pulled the katana out, and unsheathed it, its blade was red and black in colour, majority of the colour was red with small patterns made on the red with black. 

"Look!! I told you! This guy will become the reason for our doom!" Andre again started to talk bullshit. 

"It is because of this he never showed us the blade of his sword, but now it looks like he has valor of God! Having the guts to show this sword!" Andre did not stop talking. 

I thought it was just because he had some grudge against me, but when I saw the expression of shock in the face of Clawford, I became worried. 

Is it really that dangerous!? Did I pull the sword of an apocalypse or something!? I still had to look in the books of this world, about many things especially this world's history, it's government and its power system which include calibers and Holy arms. 

"Seth! Why do you have the devil's fault!!? 

There was expression of great shock in the eyes of Clawford, who was tightening her grip on her spear.