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Today is the day! Today I will finally be done with training. This is what I told myself a few days ago. Turns out I was wrong.

Upon seeing me improve, he simply increased his speed. How to dampen someone's joy quickly. In such a way, he crushed my hopes easily, only my hopes of a respite to happen soon that is.

Overall my spirit remained strong and I kept training and training. Until I could finally tell myself: Today is the day! …. Except it wasn't again.

I kept training some more. Until once more I told myself…. No, that one time I didn't. That's how my training came to an end.

I guess I just had to stop with the flags. I would have stopped sooner if I knew. Oh well…

****

In front of me is the old ghost.

"I see you have finally managed to reach a beginner level. This is good."

Wait! So let me get this straight, all this training for a beginner evaluation?! Wow. Earlier I was talking about increasing all my skills until S rank. How long would that take?!

First thing, while leveling up there are diminishing returns. While the first level may be easy to reach… The more the training progresses the harder it becomes. That is only normal.

Now he is telling me that all that suffering was to reach the beginner level?! This is insane! I would run out of lifespan for sure if I wanted to reach the intermediate level!

Actually, what is my life expectancy in this body? Some plants can live a very long time. Would my soul itself start to deteriorate after a while? Then again, I have a literal entity that is nothing but that in front of me.

He seems to be doing very well too. Well enough to beat me up over and over. Enough to push me to my very limits.

"Now that you have reached this level, we will go over the etiquette class. This way."

He gestures to me to follow him. I'd like to run, but I'm sure he would just chase after me again. This ghost seems not to have any speed limit.

Every time I thought I had bested him he would just increase it. Reminds me of that show where the longer it went, the stronger all characters became. Somehow their hairstyle would grow with them. I guess that was a really weird show now that I think about it.

Thus I will courageously brave this challenge! Does not having the option to run render this invalid? Perhaps. We proceed until we reach the small clearing with the tree stump. On it is a small white tablecloth.

When did he prepare this? I never even realized. This just shows the difference in our power. He managed to accomplish such a task easily. This has big implications.

There never was a time where he was significantly slower in catching me. This means that what I saw was not his maximum speed at all. Good thing I obediently followed him here.

"Etiquette is the very core of civilization. Without it, we are nothing but animals!"

Wow, that is exaggerated. Animals? Really? This sounds like such an elitist point of view. Also sounds extremely depressing.

That is how he starts his lecture. The beginning is already bad...It doesn't get better.

This guy reminds me of a science teacher I used to have, an older gentleman. He had the softest, deepest voice and he kept rambling. He was the ultimate best. The best sleep of my life happened in his classes.

Probably the only thing I do miss about school. Well, that and the ultimate food-fight battles.

Anyway, there is one problem. Right now his lesson is extremely boring. Extremely soothing too somehow, also endless.

Yet I need to remember all of it. This is almost torture. Actually, it may very well be worse than the earlier events.

At least when you are getting physically brutalized you can just lie there. Then you just wait for it to be over. Here I have to spend an inhumane effort to keep my eyes open.

This is impressive in its own way. I should have infinite stamina. Sleeping should be more for the mind than the body and yet he almost puts me to sleep instantly.

I swear this guy could have released the ultimate sleeping music compilation. Most of these videos tend to be hours long with soft and relaxing music. Not him. Five minutes would be all that was needed. Launch the 5 minutes video, fall asleep after 10 seconds.

This guy and the 10 seconds really. Ah, I just thought of something. Such music could turn out to be dangerous. More than dangerous, even mortal. Could you imagine this playing on the radio?

*Sound of thousands of car crashes happening at once!*

What if we add planes to the mix?

*Sound of planes crashing left and right!*

What if we add trucks?

*Sound of hundreds of isekai transmigrations happening at once! *

Could you imagine the cliché scene where the goddess welcomes the hero?

She would say:

[Welcome hero, you have been summoned by the …. why are there hundreds of you guys?! Also, why are you all staring at my boobs!?]

Or something like that. I'm not sure. Maybe I would get new friends too. Perhaps even some rivals. Maybe some potential harem members too.

I mean so far, the harem potential is pretty bad. Yggdrasil is a plant. There are lots of animals. The seductive-sounding siren is a fish. The only elf is dead, plus I don't swing that way. The dwarf is just at the right height for …. but a bit too old. That leaves the spider.

Yeah, she remains a spider no matter what. I guess we will classify her in the eye candy section. If my life was a novel she would be on the cover for sure. With little clothing. You know, to bait horny readers.

Heard there are many of these guys. Could you imagine thirsting on a fictional character? *Scoff* okay, I actually can.

However, before any of that, I need to keep fighting. To resist the drowsiness of such a lullaby. The lullaby called teaching etiquette.

****(POV)

In the end, I need to rely on secret techniques. Otherwise, I would have been left in the dust.

I have to sacrifice a bit of my life essence, but I believe it is worth it. This way he won't become too proud and careless.

I lie to him about his proficiency too. If that is the beginner level... There would no expert in the world haha.

Time to switch the training up. I include an ancient elvish art in my teaching to make it more efficient. One to train his mental defenses.

I have high hopes for him. Let's see how he fares against that...