11 chapter 11
Castiel P.O.V.
Sometimes I wonder, where did this come from?
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*pant* *pant* really where did my life go so bad like this?
"Castiel no spacing out. Focus on the training more!"
"Yes, Saber-sensei!" I exclaimed.
Honestly, this sucks.
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A few minutes earlier
"It is good for you to come back; we did miss you." Saber-sensei said with a little smile on her face.
She is a petite woman that looks barely 20 with a really slender figure, golden short hair done in braid, blue eyes and a white but healthy skin. She also had a regal aura around her that makes most want to bow to her and serve her for eternity. Really, it seems like in this universe the effects of charisma are much greater than in the other word. Mine while using the sword of the king of conquerors was only D-rank but already could charm many people, Saber's B+ -Rank is capable of making people want to serve her forever at first sight. Honestly, I wonder what would happen if someone got an Ex-rank charisma, they'd probably be the automatic king of the world just for existing.
"I am doing great, sensei." I answered her.
"Good, good, I heard that you entered a fight with some of the fallen to make sure an innocent was unharmed."
"Yes, sensei." I said in an excited tone. Saber always had a soft spot for people that get in a problem for saving others, case in point my dad.
"But," shit a 'but' in these situations is never a good thing. "I also heard that you got a slight wound during the encounter." Her tone hardened, I am so dead. Better try to make things look better.
"Well, it happened but it was just a graze and-"
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Shit, did she need to hit me with the flat side of Excalibur while using mana burst? I feel like shit already and some of my ribs are cracked, good thing that on the training grounds these kinds of wounds heal in a question of seconds.
"Castiel, I had warned you to never underestimate any opponent. Not only you had not used one of your weapons you had not used your armor as well according to the repport. This is an unforgivable sin on any battlefield." She said with a glare that would make any weak-minded man tremble in fear.
"Sorry sensei. I swear I will not do it again." I said giving a polite bow while ignoring the pain of my ribs regenerating.
"Good, next time I hear of you going easy like this on any opponent I will retrain you from the start." A shiver ran down my back from hearing that.
"Ok, sensei." I said and she gave a confirmation nod. "By the way, how did you know I had been wounded and that I'd not used my weapons or armor? I don't recall Kuroko looking at me during the fight so it couldn't be her to say for certain that I got grazed or that I didn't use a weapon."
"Oh, Yuno-chan had found that out and told us all." Yuno why did you do this? Are you still mad at me for going to Kuoh? I thought we agreed that I'd go there and later I'd marry you (no point in not taking advantage of the contract that she made me sign long ago anyway).
"*sigh* soo… what is the training you planed for me sensei? Aunt Rin said I was going to be a beta tester or something." I said changing the subject, no point in focusing on this.
"Glad you asked, this here is a suit I need you to wear for this." Saber said while presenting me a blue leotard that looks awful in all possible manners.
I sighed and went ahead to dress on this monstrosity, really it looks like something Lancer would approve with his fashion sense.
FLASH
Wha- where did this come from. On the corner of my eye, I see some long pink hair vanishing with a camera in hand, I wish so much that Yuno did not have her sacred gear these times. So freaking much.
After I put the *shudder* clothe Saber-sensei decided to explain the exercise to me.
"As you finished with that I want you to do something simple, I want you to show the forms that you practiced before."
"Ok, this seems simple enough." I first put myself in position. Relax the shoulders, firm back, up the arms on the ideal position to not let any ope-
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Shit. Where did this shock come from? I was just going into the proper posture and suddenly I received a thundershock not unlike the one from one of my familiars.
"Again!" Saber said beside me unperturbed.
Breath in, breath out. It is probably some new thing of this suit. Probably as long as I got the movements right nothing will happen. Now let's do it like before but more carefully. Relax the shoulders and-
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The hell. I barely even started.
"Too slow. Again!" Saber declared.
I tried again.
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Again.
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And guess what, again.
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Until finally I managed to get the right initial posture. At least now there won't be any more shocks.
"What are you waiting for? I want to see ALL attacks on the right way. And if you finish it on time we will do a sparring session between you and Arthur." And that is why I say Kiba can't be a good sparring match to me.
Arthur is the real deal when it comes to talent for pure swordplay and I am used to sparring with him or heroes of legend (A.K.A. my senseis) or their students. I can't match Arhur or probably even Kiba's talent for most swords but I compensate with other things so I won't lose so easily in a full bloom combat.
Oh well, at least this training could be worst.
"While using this suit."
Kill me, now. I either lose and possibly get killed or go forever having Arthur calling me Lancer wannabe... I don't know which one is worst at this point.
3 hours later
And that is how I got on this situa-
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"Again. The moment when you make a stab motion you should lower your elbows 2,53 centimeters more and 2 millimeters to the right."
That is why I hate being a beta-tester. It always involves too much pain. I seriously wonder if they make these trainings just as punishment or they actually think of using them on anyone else.
Saber P.O.V.
This really is surprising. Castiel really has some talent on the art of the sword. He already managed to go this far on this regime that I made for him. Considering that this suit takes the example of swordsmanship of myself and Assassin as bases and computes the best possible movement it really surprises me that he managed to even complete more than 5 forms on these three hours. Much more talented people would not have been able to get anywhere near this far on the same time frame, fruits of his hard work for years I suppose.
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"Again. Your left foot was too much on the inside, correct that as it can unbalance you if you are to move too quickly." I explained to him how to better move. Considering that his focus I distributed between many different areas it is surprising that he got this good.
If we were in Camelot I'd make him and Arthur squires and possible a knight, not one of those that sit on the round table just yet but a knight nonetheless.
The only shame is that Rin-
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Decided to triple the shock I set as the normal limit for anyone else as punishment for what he did.
Well, it seems like he won't finish this on time for the next lesson so there will be no sparing with Arthur. A shame really, I'd like to see a battle between my two main students, and I still want to see if we can find a Katana for Castiel as, according to Assassin, Castiel's talent for it may not be much smaller than Assassin's own, it is just that there is no weapon we could create that matched him well enough. A shame, really, Castiel was just unlucky with this like he was with so many, many other things that originated by that woman's actions.
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"Again" I yelled while wondering what there will be for dinner.
Castiel P.O.V.
Finally, it is over. Took me 5 hours to finish all the necessary moves that Saber-sensei wanted me too. Don't even know how many shocks I took.
Now I am going to Kuzuki-sensei as my next special class as beta-tester.
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As soon as I opened the door there he was. He was sitting in his chair correcting a bunch of tests, he is one of the teachers here after all.
He is a tall and physically fit man, short dark hair and a stoic and most of the time emotionless face. He also uses glasses even if he does not really need them all that much.
"Oh, Castiel-kun I was told that you would be coming."
"Yes, Kuzuki-sensei."
He then knitted his brows and said.
"I see that you have not improved in your breathing technique." Shit. "Here, you are to use this during the training I was requested to give you."
He gave me a face mask that covers everything from my nose to bellow. I put it and I don't see the differ-
Can't breathe, I need air fast. It must be this mask I must remove it.
PUNCH
The hell, Kuzuki-sensei punched my hand away when I tried to remove the mask.
"Relax, this mask only allows someone with a perfect breathing to take in air. You will be capable of breathing like normal as long as you control yourself properly."
I tried doing as he said. It is harder than it may seem, too much and it blocks, too little and it blocks, exhales too much and it blocks. I can barely breath more than 40% of my normal and this is when I am focusing on my breath, how Kuzuki-sensei manages to do it all the time is way beyond me.
"Good. Now you must wear these special clothes as well." I can feel myself hating these clothes even before wearing them. At least they are not blue leotards like previously, these ones are closer to regular gym clothes but have some small metal wires all around them.
I wear them and they feel fine, no shocks (what a relief) nor anything.
"Good, now accompany me. We are going to the gymnasium to train your physique." He turns around and begins walking. I tried to follow but I just can't move well. Why can't I move?
"You must have a perfect walk or this clothes will not allow you to walk." Well, this is going to su- can't breathe again, focus, focus- this is going to suck.
Finally getting to the gymnasium after 30 minutes (it was a 5-minute walk normally, stupid clothes) Sensei made me do basic weight lifting stuff.
"First, do push-ups. 200 should be enough." He said and I cheered inside. Compared to most things he makes me do this is easy.
As I started it did not seem so bad, hard to breathe for sure but not bad. Then he puts something on my back.
Heavy.
Why the hell is he putting weights on my back.
"These are 1200 kilos in weights. It is so that your arm strength rises." He then jumps on top of it, just to make things more ideal. "What are you waiting for? Keep going."
I started again, but it is hard as hell. Doing this bullshit is taking everything from me.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Castiel, I heard you got an A- in the last world history test." This is so going to suck.
"Y-yes!" I said focus on my breathing. This mask is NOT making things any easier for me.
"We will do some recap of the subjects. I also want to hear in loud and good sound the relation the events in recorded human history have with the many pantheons. For every wrong comment or answer, I will add more 50 kilos."
Did I say that my teachers are sadists? Well, they clearly are.
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After spending a total of 2 and a half hours on the gym doing this kind of thing (after push-ups were weightlifting, abdominals, and stretching[which entails being put into and machine that forcefully stretches me until my bones and joints to the point just when they are going to break, and then stays there for a few minutes]) he decided that I needed to train my stamina.
So here I am in the tracking field with him and Rider. He asked her for help for the next exercise. The two are so funny together that a funeral seems closer to a happy place… well, it may just be the opinion of my brain working at 50% the regular oxygen (stupid mask).
"For the next exercise, we will do something different. Rider here agreed to help you as I must go back to correcting those tests." He then gave a formal bow in my direction, he really is a formal dude when he is not torturing my sore ass. "Have a nice day." then he turned around to go back to his tests.
How he can be such exemplary teacher for some and a sadist to me is unknown to my mind... it 'may' have something to do with Yuno proclaiming she loves me more than him when she was 7, it is just a possibility.
"You will run in this area for the next hour." That's it, no more explanation. She really takes the quiet beauty stereotype seriously.
I then started jogging, it still sucks as this clothes get in the way quite a lot.
PIERCE
Shit, something hit my leg.
"No slacking off." Rider said with a small smile and her chain-nail with some of my blood on it.
I tried to run but these clothes are getting in the way, I must go as fast as I can with a perfect walk.
As I put my whole mind to going faster in a perfect moving way I managed to reach a decent speed. I hope that it must be enou-
PIERCE
Yep, not enough. This fucking hurts, if this room was not made with the express intent of healing faster I doubt I could move if I got a few more of those.
If this speed is not good enough I have no choice. I activate my field so as to better protect myself. This field is a combination of a bounded field that uses me as central coordinates and runes. Its main function is to detect the intended path AND, by using the runes, create small space distortions so as to better protect me from projectiles.
It can even be linked to my subconscious so as to let me automatically evade any attacks that I can't fully redirect. The good part, it helps in my more than lackluster defense; the bad part, it spends A FUCKING LOT of energy and I can't keep it up for more than a few minutes. This is only a temporary solution but it may just be enough.
PIER-fail
PIER-fail
Haha. Finally, something is going my way. Managing to evade her nail is just too good, I know it is FAR from her full speed that she can do it but if it goes any faster she would hurt me seriously and she would not do that.
It would make me incapable of training for a time after all.
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Why is there a growling sound coming from my back?
I took a small look back. Yep, Rider had summoned and was sitting on her Suicune (This is the offspring of one of the guardians of the lady of the lake, he shoots ice beam, water canon, Blizard and he even shoots some ice shards) and by using her noble-phantasm Bellerophon to 'force' it to shoot ice shards at me. That is a lot of ice.
And by 'force' him, I mean to force him NOT to shoot me with more of those as I know for a fact that he hates my guts. Maybe it somethinging to do with another one of my swords. Most beasts hate me by sheer instinct.
Before I realized my body moved to the ground, that is one of the bad points of my special field. It allows me to evade automatically, but it also forces me to evade automatically independent of what my conscious mind may want.
"Get up or I will bring more of my mounts."
I got up and suddenly I see more shards coming to the position I am now, the only way to avoid it is by running faster.
See, that is why I hate the trainings they put me through.
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Saturday's nightfall
Finally, it is night. My training with Rider ended an hour ago and I got a whole hour to recover. My body still feels like it went through a meat-grinder, which is not far from the truth, but at least now there is only one training left for my weekend. The survival one. I somehow want to repeat all previous trainings just to not do this one at all.
As I reach the mountain I see some people are already there waiting for me.
"Hello, Castiel. How has your day been?" With a smile on her lovely face, Illya asked.
Sella and Leysritt also looked at me and gave a polite bowl for me. Since small they helped take care of me once in a while, I am 'according to them' the 'protection target number 2'. Orders of Illya when I was born apparently, her orders still are more important than my life but at least they do protect me whenever it is needed.
"I had been better. Had a training with Saber, Kuzuki and Rider today so you can imagine how my body feels." I tried to throw the pity card, but if her unchanging smile was anything to go by, it did not work. Resisting a sigh I said. "And you? Had you been doing something interesting?"
"Oh yeah. I have made many advancements in my new homunculus project. It will probably be ready in a few weeks. I just need to think of what her main directive will be and wait for her full maturation."
Fun fact about homunculus in general, they need an objective so as to define their basic objective so as to allow them to be anything more than just an object. It can be something simple, like help on my homework or difficult like save the world. It does not matter what it is, it can be anything as it is a way to give them an initial drive to start living.
"Interesting. So… what will be the definitions of this training this time around?" I asked hoping it would be simple. And better yet, survivable.
"Nothing complicated. I just need to have somewhere to throw all my frustration with that annoying brat. I can't kill him, but I sure need somewhere to release this stress." Illya said with a smile even though she obviously is full of hostility right now. For what I heard she was like this since a long time ago, she smiles sweetly while planning the death and torture of others.
Did I say before that she gets along VERY and DISTURBINGLY well with Yuno? Well, they do.
"Is the annoying bastard in question, Sairaorg-san?" I asked.
"Yes! That plague just won't leave me alone." She said with clear irritation in her voice.
Since two years ago Sairaorg comes here every week to declare his love for Illya, and she hates it. According to him since the first time he saw her, he decided she was the queen of his heart and he'd do anything for her. According to her, he is just a brat that things with his fists and she has no interest in devil high-society OR Sairaorg himself.
Last time I saw them together she sends Berserker *shivers* to, and I quote, 'make it so that he can't move for a week' and that Berserker did, unfortunately, one week and a day later he was back again with roses and chocolate and a thank you for helping him train with the help of Berserker.
She was not pleased with this at all.
"Oh, as you are a good boy I will give you an advantage." Illya said in a happy tone. "You will only have to go 14 hours instead of the 15 that you should have to do after your training with Kuzuki. I am a good person don't you think?" she said with a pretty smile. Looking at her like this, big smile, white straight hair, red eyes and a slender (as in no boobs) body type of a typical 20-ish girl could make most think of her as a pure and adorable angel. For me that does know her, I can only feel a sweat drop and terror for knowing that smile.
"Ok, let's get started them. Do I get a head start Illya-obasama?" I said using puppy dog eyes on her. She saw me growing up and even held me in her arms as a baby, it will work somehow.
"Hum, fine you get two minutes starting now." As soon as she said that I darted forward putting all I could in my reinforcement and even making some runes to help accelerate myself. Now there is just one thing to do.
RUN, CASTIEL RUN!
Five minutes' latter
3° person P.O.V.
"Well, now the time is up. Sella, had you kept the tracking spell on him?" Illya said.
"Yes, Illya-sama. I used the spell as ordered while he was distracted talking to you." Sella said. "But was there any real need for doing something this underhanded to him? It is not something a proper lady such as yourself should do."
"That is where you are mistaken. Lying and deceiving may seem bad but they are the nature of all magus such as myself." Illya said as if natural and with no trace of shame. "Also, he must learn how to deal with underhanded tactics and if he fell for that he really needs to understand."
"You just…wanted a…punching bag fast…right, Illya-sama?" Leysritt asked.
Illya getting a small red hue on her checks said.
"No matter, we must get going. Leysritt, use your halberd to attack him whenever you can, Sella, rain fire on him as much as possible. But you both must remember that in case he ends up dismembered do not attack the arm or leg that falls as remaking them is too bothersome."
""Understood Illya-sama!""
"I meanwhile will keep it simple." She then turned to the tower where the homunculi research facilities are and said. "Come, BERSERKER!"
Suddenly a huge figure off about 3,5 meters high with a gray skin, wild big dark hair and using a Kilt made of iron and a 'sword' that is closer to a castle wall forced in the rough shape of what may or may not be classified as a sword appeared. His golden eyes looking around until he found the one he decided, even during his madness, to save and help forever.
With one jump he managed to travel the 3 kilometers distance as if normal and as soon as he arrived he pulled Illya to his shoulders that were so big that she could still sit on one of them even after she has grown up.
"Let's go. The survival training still has more than 14 hours to go." And with a smile that would not be misplaced on Lancer's face, they went after their poor pray.
"RRooOoaAAaaR!"
Omake:
Asia's day has been going wonderfully. She met many people and is helping in healing many different people.
Hearing they thanking her in earnest, knowing that she is helping in relieving their pain... that was wonderful for her.
It was almost like a dream come true, and Okuyasu by her side making jokes and trying his hardest to make her smile was heartwarming.
But if there is something she could not understand was,
Why was there a note on her desk saying 'if you go for him I will kill you, slowly and painfully so'.
Who could have sent this message? The writer just put one thing on the end of the message, a sender signed 'Y.K.'.
Who could it be?
