Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 8] by Akito Narusawa

Author:Akito Narusawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 13: How We Know Each Other

I stuffed the remainder of my bun into my mouth, washed it down with milk, and changed into my gym clothes. Then, I walked toward the third Arena room, where the sword fighting class would occur.

Kirara had annoyed me. My unplanned conversation with her had drained the energy I needed to get through the physical activities of the next class. Since this was our first sparring lesson, perhaps it wouldn’t be too physically taxing. Nitta was as relaxed as they came, so I couldn’t see myself breaking a sweat sparring against her.

If anything, I’d spend the lesson flirting and having fun. I can’t wait!

Thus, my annoyance quickly changed to excitement, I walked the rest of the way with a bounce, having to stop myself from skipping.

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I reached the third room of the Arena, which had a thick outer wall surrounding it. The intense lighting on the inside was almost blinding. We were in the third biggest of the four rooms in the Arena, but it was still as large as the gym at the high school I’d attended in my old world and had a staggeringly high ceiling. The magic field contained the entire room. Even the walls and floor could withstand powerful impacts, making the room suitable for training with physical enhancements.

“Has anybody not found a partner?” asked Murai as he walked into the room, checking the class register. Any leftover student would have to pair up with him, which seemed like punishment.

It might seem odd that a homeroom teacher was running a gym class. Still, Murai was an alumnus of Adventurers’ University and a graduate of Adventurers’ High in Class A. He was at a higher level with more experience when compared to the average adventurer, so he was more than capable of instructing us. I would’ve loved to glimpse his strength with Basic Appraisal, but I resisted the urge.

Behind Murai were several other instructors and the handsome school Priest. We could rest assured that we’d be okay if any accidents occurred because the Priest could provide first aid and regenerative magic, all free of charge.

The instructors distributed black full-body combat suits along with hard plastic swords. We listened to Murai’s instructions while putting on the suits. In today’s lesson, we’d be striking at our partner with the training swords.

The sword fighting we would practice wasn’t the same as kendo; instead, we would learn how to fight against monsters rather than other people. Monsters varied in size and shape as well as attack patterns and weaknesses, which required very different combat styles from fights against adventurers.

There was no standard weapon for sword fighting class either; shortswords, longswords, katanas, and daggers were all viable. The recommended style was to attack and retreat continuously rather than maintain a fixed distance from your opponent because the ideal distance depended on your opponent and your sword’s length.

However, we wouldn’t use the attack and retreat method since we would all use the same light plastic swords. We’d stand still, face our opponent, and strike each other with our swords, similar to kendo practice.

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