DEVIL'S FAULT

I have what? Is this sword's name devil's fault? Whoever named this sword has some... unique taste, I guess. Everybody was looking at me with shocking eyes except for Hoover, Ellie and Emma. Emma was busy polishing her sword with her sleeves, so she didn't pay any attention to it. Even Gil and Rich were looking at me with shock and fear. 

Now what do I say to slide this trouble? Why didn't old Seth write anything about this in his diary? Old Seth surely forgot to write about important things in his journal. Is this really that big of a problem he couldn't even write about in his journal? 

"I told you he would bring doom to everybody!!" Andre was shouting with his index finger pointed in my direction. 

"Oh, shut it! Andre!" His partner rebuked him. 

"Tell us Seth!! Why didn't you tell us about this before!?" Clawford inquired me with suspicion. 

Dammit, now I am in serious trouble. Guess I will do something, even a donkey would do in this situation!! 

"This is the first time! I swear! I had a different sword before in the training camp, why don't you ask the people who were in my group in the training camp! They are just putting the blame on me now!" 

I gambled on my words. If Seth had shown them this katana before it would work- 

"How were we supposed to know!? You never showed us your sword before!" 

Shit, it is impossible. Old Seth must have known how bad it would be for him if he ever unsheathes this sword. The way Clawford is shocked it means that even the trainers don't know what type of Holy arm a person gets. Now, even Emma was paying attention to this situation. 

"I am sorry if I never showed you this before but, believe me this is the first time I got this sword!" I appealed for my innocence. 

"It's not that bad, but you should have told us if you've a royal Holy arm! Your ranking of caliber is very low considering your Holy arm." Clawford scratched her head slightly, a faint smile triggered by confusion was visible on her face. 

"S-so, is it all okay!?" I asked because my soul was struck in my throat thinking about what they might do to me. 

"No, it's not!! He should be inquired by the bureau!" 

"Andre! Stop it!" Clawford told Andre to calm down. 

Shit, after all of this is done, the first thing I should do is to search about almost everything in the books, since I have not got something like google in this world. If only I had some time to study the books! 

"Seth, give me your sword I will ask the trainer about this. He might have to consult higher ups in this situation." Clawford demanded my sword from me. 

"Here you go! It's not a hundred percent my Holy arm will be the same one I pulled out from this machine." I wanted to confirm the probability of this. 

"You are right but, in those cases, it is later revealed that the user didn't have any caliber, and it was just a malfunction in this machine, which recommended the Holy arm prototype." 

 Everything is just confusing to me! Do they not check for calibers prior to the use of this machine? If they do than how the hell do they miss it if somebody has a caliber or not? 

"I will be waiting for good news!" I exclaimed shamelessly. I didn't have a choice. 

"Hmph! I hope he gets summoned by the bureau." 

"Andre!!" 

Clawford after rebuking Andre went to the trainer and told us to spar with each other when she went this sword to the trainer. 

Dammit! I finally got an overpowered sword, but it looks like I would not get the chance to use it. 

Emma was looking at me with shock. After looking at me for almost 10 seconds she walked towards me. 

"If you knew it was this op then why did you not hide it. Why are you making a long face now huh!?" She scolded me. 

I would have done it if I knew Old Seth was hiding it! I wanted to say this but, "I am a good guy! I cannot afford to lie!" I Chose to say this because now there was no other option. 

Emma looked at me in disgust and shock. "If you were this much of a saint, why didn't you tell them before that you had this sword!?" 

"As I told you I didn't knew I had this sword!" 

"You think anybody would believe that?" 

"I would believe that!" The one who just said this with so much spirit was none other than Hoover. 

It looks like Ellie did not tell him about our situation as he just declared that. 

"Yeah, you would definitely believe him since you were the one who went inside that pit with him along with that girl." 

This time who said this was not Andre, it was someone else who had blond hairs similar in looks to Hoover and was very tall. 

"To keep your evil intentions hidden you would definitely say that!" 

"Seriously, stop it boys, it will do no us good if we fight with each other." 

Emma tried to stop all this nonsense. 

"Hmph!!" Andre and tall boy turned their head in anger. 

I seriously had to think about what to do. It looks like Seth had many problems with a lot of people. 

"Don't worry!" Ellie tried to comfort me; it looks like they have forgotten what kind of relationship we have in this world. 

Hoover patted me on my back and said that I should do training with him. 

I immediately nodded my head as it would be good for me and Hoover as well. 

I don't have enough time to think about what others might presume! Ellie agreed to train with Emma. It was training for increasing your skills in your weapon, but because I did not have any weapon Hoover decided to do hand to hand training with me. 

But because it also required small use of caliber, he advised me to use my ability. 

We both started using our ability but one succeeded and one failed. Well, it shouldn't be difficult to guess who failed. 

I didn't even know how to use my ability. Hoover told me to just think about using it like when you go to the washroom and think about urine it is then secreted if you are not in pressure, it is the same with calibers. 

Well, thank you for that disgusting example. 

When I started thinking about using my caliber some blank voices started to appear in my head. The voice was saying two lines like it was giving me two options, 

['--' one who endured the deadly flames is available.] 

['--' one who created flames by luck is available.] 

What is this? Why am I hearing voices in my head and what are these options? 

Enduring and creating, Seth had written about this in his diary! He first got flames enduring power and then he got flames creating power. 

I thought about using the one who created flames by luck but soon had to change my mind as it was burning my body. Shit, shit now what do I do? 

......................... 

Hoover saw Aurelius igniting and dismissing the flames, and he started running to land a blow on Aurelius. 

Pow! 

............ 

"Hey!! Why would you hit me for real!?" I asked Hoover in pure disbelief. 

"You ignited your flames and when I came to hit you, you dismissed those flames, but it was too late as I had already thrown my punch." 

"Don't lie, bastard! I saw you came running when I had already dismissed my flames." 

Pow! Pow! 

"Hey! Why do you keep hitting me!?" 

"It is training Auri, how else are we going to train!?" 

Don't ask me that after hitting me thrice. 

Pow! 

I returned a blow to Hoover. He looked at me with disbelief in his eyes. Yeah, you asshole, that's the same look as me. 

I hurriedly ran backwards to avoid another punch Hoover had thrown at me, rather than a punch it was straight an uppercut. 

I immediately shifted my head backwards to avoid the uppercut and saw his fist going upwards in slow motion. 

"Why are you running!? If you are a man, take this blow in your face!" 

Hoover spouted bullshit. 

"Bro, we are in another world now and you are still like that, I mean it has just been one day but sti-" 

"Kuooh" As Hoover hit me in the gut with his punch I spit some saliva from my mouth. 

"A-asshole." 

I said it after seeing a smirk on Hoover's face. "Are you satisfied now?" 

 Ellie was also focused on our fight as Emma also punched her in the gut. 

Even though we are at each other throats the feeling that is dominant in me right now is of happiness. I think it's because I have met them in this world after a long one day! 

As I was thinking about how happy I was feeling, I saw Hoover activating his caliber. Faint sparks were appearing all over him. He was looking at me with eyes illuminated by the light, he gave me a smirk before disappearing right before my eyes. Hoover crashed at the walls of the training hall. The thick wall of training hall now had cracks in them. 

"Shit, this speed is too much!" Hoover exclaimed with joy. 

Wait a minute was he going to hit me with this move!? Is he out of his mind, I was lucky that he had no control over the speed and momentum, but it is not guaranteed that he will never land a blow on me. At this rate he will punch a hole through me. 

Everybody was training with their weapons except for me, Ellie, Hoover and Emma. It appeared as Ellie had asked Emma to do hand to hand combat, but Emma clearly had a sulking expression on her face. 

I immediately activated my caliber and chose the first option, 

['--' one who endured the deadly flames is chosen.] 

After I heard this sound, I was not sure of whether I would be able to do anything or not! As I saw Hoover menacingly smiling at me and sparks around him were increasing dramatically, the next thing I saw was Hoover again disappearing in front of my eyes, but this time rather than crashing he appeared right in front of me. It was like a scene straight out of an anime. He had already loaded his right punch, and I also had both of my arms in front of my face to form a guard, but as you have guessed it was of no use, and I went crashing into someone else. 

To my bad luck it was a girl, and my head hit her on the nose, she had tears in her eyes. Shit, we messed up really bad. Soon I saw Hoover being lifted by the back of his collar like a cat. The one lifting him up was the trainer. 

He had his right arm behind his back and was lifting Hoover with his left arm. 

"Haven't I already told you dozens of times that don't use excess power during training with each other." He said it very calmly. The trainer was dressed in an old British robe and looked like a priest from the medieval times. 

I know it is the calm before the storm. All the guys who dresses like him are a real deal. 

"Norde McClark! Mind telling me the basic rule of training hall!? 

"S-sir, it looks like I mind!" Hoover said it with his eyes closed in grief. It's not his fault, even I don't know the basic rule of this place. 

"...." After hearing his words, the trainer went silent for some seconds before shaking Hoover vigorously. "The basic rule is to not be a showoff during the time of learning and executing. Now, let's hear you say it!" 

"O-ooh,.... kuh!" Hoover was letting out silent screams from his mouth. 

I looked at the girl I bumped into, she was not one of our group members but still I wanted to help her out so I decided to give her my handkerchief but when I tried to reach my pocket I saw my broken wrist, which was hanging in the downward direction because of the weight of my hand. 

I wanted to scream as the shook and pain both hit me suddenly. The girl I bumped into already had handkerchief with which she was wiping her blood but what am I going to do now? 

At the same time, I saw Ellie getting knocked out by Emma. Hoover was now unconscious due to hellish shaking, my wrist was broken, and Ellie was knocked out. Emma had an expression of pure disbelief. 

Trainer turned his head to look at Emma and said, "Hmm, it seems like there is another accident."