Chapter 14

There was a tense silence in the room, a cold drop of sweat rolled down my temple, but Shizuka calmly and patiently waited for my answer, or rather, for an explanation of how I had changed so much in half a day.

If I had trained as usual, it would have taken me at least a year of hard training to achieve my current results, and that's taking into account if Shizuka was looking after and mentoring me in my training. And I'm BAM, I made an incredible leap in my development in half a day, thanks to Amaya for her "delicious" food.

Naturally, this oddity of mine will arouse some suspicion on Shizuki's part.

And how do I explain it in a way that makes Shizuka believe this nonsense, and not completely lose her trust in me, if she has any, thinking that I am hanging noodles over her ears as usual? And what's going to hurt me the most is that I'm telling her the truth...

I could have stood for a long time with my eyes closed and enjoyed the warmth of her hand, but my named sister got tired of waiting and pinched my cheek.

Shizuka didn't ask to be called "Mom," "Mistress," or "Mistress," no. I called her sister when I was a child, and she didn't mind, so we silently agreed on it.

"Tai Lung, don't try my patience. You know what happens if you upset me. Or shall I remind you? She removed her hand from my face and clenched her hand into a fist in front of my face a couple of times. For me to see him and remember that pain... And she managed to cause those unpleasant sensations in me.

I swallowed a dry lump in my throat. My ass still remembers the pain when I got burned and confessed that I was stealing her underwear...

"Hehe. Sister, don't remind me, of course I remember everything..." I laughed nervously, trying to hide the growing panic with my laughter. It didn't work. Shizuka narrowed her eyes slightly, wondering if she was already hitting me or not, which I understood to be the organ responsible for the sixth sense, the fifth point.

My eyes were quickly darting back and forth, trying to find a way out of the situation, and it seemed that I saw a chance to win and survive! A terrific plan quickly formed in my head. And I did not hesitate to implement it.

I inhale and exhale slowly.

After calming down, I concentrated as much as possible and began the first stage of my plan, which was to relax Shizuka as much as possible so that she did not have time to react to the second stage of my plan.

"That's it, that's it, I've lost," I humbly raised my hands in the air, admitting defeat.

To make it more convincing, I even slowed down the flow of ki in my body. My heart began to calm down, and I stopped sweating and trembling nervously. All of this required a monstrous ki control, but all this time I was not sitting on my ass right here, but training, so somehow, but I managed to do it.

Shizuka narrowed her eyes suspiciously, but quickly dismissed all strange thoughts and relaxed, for what would a three-year-old child do to her, whom she had been sparring all these years in sparring with the little finger of her right foot? That's right, nothing. At least that was until this day, but now everything has changed!

For the sake of appearance, I lowered my head like a loser in a battle...

Shizuka removed her hand from the wall, opening the way to the window, but the plan had changed and there was no need to escape through the window, and took a half-step back from me.

The first stage has been completed successfully. Even overfulfilled, Shizuka took half a step away from me! This increases the chance of success of the second stage by about 30%! As a result, I now have a 31% survival rate in stage 2...

I'm moving on to the second stage, the escape. In order to get to the third stage, the final stage of my plan, I need to buy some time, so I need to delay it somehow.

And I even know how to hold it for a minute! For a full minute! And that's a lot. I need to lock myself in her room on the second floor. There are runes of either a barrier or a castle inside, but the fact is that they will be able to stop her!

While I was standing there with my head down, Shizuka moved another meter away from me, increasing my chances by 20%, now the chance is 51%

Crossing her arms over her chest, Shizuka began to speak with a smile.

"Well done, now let's talk normally." You're going to tell me what happened while I was gone—" The girl behaved like a cat that plays with a mouse (with me) and feels that everything is under her complete control, that everything is in her power, but! Not this time!

I raised my head resolutely, looked into my astonished eyes at the abrupt change in my demeanor, and...

— ... I lost the battle, but not the war! And he interrupted her in mid-sentence! What impertinence! What determination! What courage!!

The last time I died, I ate Amaya's cooking, and a new person was born! Yes, the past piss is gone!

I'll drill my way into her room with my new ki! Even if it becomes my grave. As long as I fight for my life, this will be my victory! Who do you think I am?

I am me!

And while Shizuka is coming to her senses, and she will react in exactly two seconds, I entered a state of meditation in one breath.

In two years, I've made a lot of progress in many things, and one of them is my improved meditation technique!

My mind was cleared of the stupid thoughts that had been like chaos, and they began to become orderly and clear.

All my problems, anxieties and worries became not so important and it turned out that they were quite easy to solve.

Ki has become softer, no, it is my consciousness that has become stronger, and now ki is listened to more willingly than before. Even with the increased volume of ki, I can still control it quite easily. And all thanks to the incredible concentration that meditation gave me.

All these changes flashed through my mind in a split second. And it will take another second for Shizuki to react. In that time, I'll have time to escape! Ahem, that is, tactically retreat.

If she hadn't relaxed, she would have quickly cut through my attempt to use the battle meditation, but as it was, everything went more or less successfully and I entered it first.

Of course, when she enters her own battle meditation, I don't care...

So let's go. And as quickly as possible.

Strengthening my ki legs, I crouched down a bit and pushed off with one foot against the wall, launching myself like a bullet forward. I briefly noted how easily I did it, and I was also frightened, because there were large cracks on the wall from which I had pushed off. It's not surprising that after realizing this, I accelerated even more, because if he catches me, it will hurt me.

"Wait! Shizuka reacted half a second earlier than I expected, but it's acceptable.

Rushing towards me, she immediately stretched out her hand in my direction, trying to grab hold of me, but only managed to slightly touch my clothes with her nail. Phew. It was close.

I rushed to the stairs leading to the second floor. With each step, the floor beneath my feet creaked and cracked.

If someone were to take a picture of us from my past world, even if we slowed down a lot, they would only be able to see our blurry silhouettes.

"Grrr!" "I heard a growl behind me, and my heart, in spite of the calmness of meditation, flew into my heels!"

Behind me, I felt an overwhelming thirst for blood, not as strong as my mother's, but somewhere very close, and thanks to this, I was more than doubled again!

"You're not leaving!" "Like me, Shizuka pushed off the wall and flew like a projectile in my direction.

Instinctively, I pushed to the side, followed by a blow, and at the edge of my vision, I saw the floor on which Shizuka had landed turn into a small crater...

My soul, come back! I still need you! In my mind's eye, I forcefully pulled my fleeing soul from my heels back into my body.

"I just wanted to eat!" I screamed, burning an incredible amount of my ki to speed up again!

Who knew that if I ate Amaya's food so as not to upset her, I would receive such an unexpected gift that turned into a huge problem for me?!

"Tai Lung!" I'll spank you if you don't stop now! Shizuka yelled at my back, but I ignored her and ran upstairs.

In two jumps, I climbed to the second floor, turned sharply and ran to the cherished room. Once at the door in one breath, I grabbed the handle and yanked it, but it didn't open.

It was locked. And not for a regular key, but for a special rune. And in order to open it, it is necessary either to supply the energy of the mistress of the room, because all beings have an individual spectrum, or to introduce a key-rune.

"Well, it doesn't open?" With a slow gait, like a cat, Shizuka came around the corner, smiling sweetly at me.

That's why she didn't use ki to catch me, Shizuka was sure I couldn't do anything. And it is useless to run to her room, for it does not have the same protection and will not be able to detain her even for a second.

"Why doesn't it open?" I turned to her with the same sweet smile, turned the knob, and the door opened with ease.

"See? Opened. I gestured to the open door with my free hand, quickly stepping inside.

A snide grin never left my face. Shizuka almost outplayed me, but in the end I was the one who outplayed her.

Her beautiful, stony and calm face cracked and shattered into small pieces, showing me an expression of utter surprise and pure shock, which was soon replaced by another emotion: the realization that she had been deceived and outplayed.

It was an unbelievable sight, I had never seen such an expression on her face.

And even if I die after that and go to another rebirth, I will not regret my death, and I will defend this memory with all my might, like a beautiful picture that I have engraved in my soul.

"W-What?!" How are you doing... Shizuka began to react with great delay, only starting to move when I was already closing the door, waving the handle sweetly at her.

(Clap) I had already closed the door and did not hear the second part of the sentence.

This room has amazing sound insulation.

By rotating the rune 180 degrees, and then erasing the imprint so that no one else could enter or exit, I completely locked myself in this room.

No wonder I've been digging through runology books all night long. Of course, just by reading those books, I wouldn't have been able to break down that door. This is where some knowledge from my past world came in handy.

These runes were a bit like software code, very simple code that a beginner like me could write.

The main difficulty in this code is to write it. For one miserable key-rune, I took the lion's share of ki and mental energy.

In general, the second stage "escape" has been completed successfully, I am moving on to the third stage - to find the weapon.

What for? To defeat Shizuka in a fair fight, then tie her up, spank her, and crush her as the winner...

(Bang!) I jumped half a meter away from the door, because from the other side someone began to crash into the door like a battering ram.

Mommy, I think I made her "a little" angry. Once, this cold queen, instead of breaking down the door, decided to break it down.

Throughout our training, Shizuka and I fought with fists, sometimes with wooden swords, but they didn't give me any real weapons yet.

If I hit her on the head with something heavy, I think I can knock her out, but then it's a matter of technique, so to speak. He he.

Without wasting precious seconds, I began to quickly look around.

The wooden walls are the same as mine, there are a couple of paintings hanging on them, both of them have mountain landscapes, a large soft bed on the right side, there is a large dressing table opposite me, and on it there was all sorts of garbage, like cosmetics, next to it on the left is a cabinet with books, on the floor there is a red carpet. Where's the gun?!

(BANG!) Again there was a new blow, which was stronger than the previous one.

Various runes glowed on the walls and began to pulsate. It's bad, just a little bit more and she'll burst in and... And that's it, finita la comedy.

And there's a big cabinet on the left wall! That's right! She must be storing weapons there. Or clothes... Or clothes with weapons.

Running up to him, I grabbed two handles and opened it wide.

A shelf with outerwear, a shelf with underwear, a shelf for socks. Damn, there's only clothes here. Oh, and here are the panties, I'll take a steam...

(BANG!) Or I'd rather continue to look for weapons. Yes.

After searching the entire closet, I couldn't find even a pitiful stick.

Think, Tai Lung, think. Where would you keep your weapons...

A thought occurred to me, and I put something in my pocket and went to the bed. Pink blanket and pillows, oh that's so cute. And I wouldn't have said that this was Shizuki's room if I had seen such a child-girl bed.

(BANG!) The runes have faded, and there are distinct cracks in the door, they will be able to withstand a couple more blows at most, and that's it, you need to hurry.

I lay down on the floor and looked under the bed.

- Bingo - I saw a big black box. Not tempting fate, I hurriedly took it out and laid it on the bed. There wasn't a speck of dust on it, it looked like it had only recently been opened.

And the most surprising thing was that it required exactly the same rune key to open. Questionably. What is stored inside this box, since she took the time to install runes there.

Gathering the energy in my palm, I touched the lock and concentrated.

Going through different variations, rebuilding the design of the key, I selected, by poking, the right rune.

And, after a couple of seconds, the necessary rune began to form on my palm. Once the rune was fully formed, I inserted it into the castle and...

With a pleasant click for my ears, the lid of the drawer opened.

(BAH!!) Another blow followed, a pair of runes flashing with a bright light and disappearing.

The last blow, which made the door bend slightly, was able to sober me up completely, without wasting time to be proud of picking the lock, I quickly looked inside the box.

I expected to find at least an iron rod in it that wouldn't break after a single blow, but what I found here... Completely exceeded my expectations!

To be continued...