Chapter 10 Party And More Training

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Inside the castle there can be seen the Band of the Hawk, having a party after the battle they had just won. Everyone can be seen having fun but one person. Sin can be seen in a tent putting on bandages on his shoulder wound and was in deep thought as he began putting on his clothes, and heading out into the party that was going on. 'I really need to get better at fighting on a horse, Luckly I stop the bleeding from the arrow wound with Total Concentration. I'll enjoy the party for now then it back to more training.' Outside the tent people can be seen party drinking happily and eating freshly cooked food, eventually the band of the hawk began to wonder where Guts was seeing as this was also a welcoming party for him as well.

"OH, Sin you're back. How's your wound?" Judeau said to me as he was walking with Pippin, and Rickert.

"I'm fine it's nothing to worry about."

"That great, want to come with us to get Guts?" 

"Yeah, I'll come. This is a welcoming party for him as well." with that all four of them went to Guts on the castle wall, and after talking with Guts. Pippin just grabbed him to which he didn't like and hit him making him bleed, but Pippin just placed him right in the middle of the party and told him to drink. Everyone started enjoying the party, and eventually the party die down with the night bring everyone to sleep.

The Next Day

The Band of the hawk returned to the camp after finishing the business that they have in the castle, and Sin can be seen in his tent sitting on the floor in a Quarter Lotus which is a meditation position. 'I can feel it, I'm almost there but I'm doing something wrong. I'll have to focus much more; I can only see a partial golden outline of myself when I close my eye. It's progress but I need to train more if I want to learn magic or to summon shikigami or what they're called in this world Familiar.' Sin got up and began heading out of his tent, walking thought the camp and into the training field. He began training vigorously, swinging his sword, and even shadow fighting with his fist, legs and sword. This went on for a couple hours, the other people training eventuality left seeing as they were tired and exhausted of training of one day. 

"Are you going to keep on training, you'll do more harm than good to your body you need to rest too." Said Judeau

"I suppose you're right; we might get some missions I don't want to be exhausted when the time come."

'I Can keep on training but it's best to not draw attention, I don't want Griffith knowing about Total Concentration.'

"Good, I'm done training today. I'm leaving." with that Judeau left the training field, leaving only one people on the field. Just as Sin was about to also leave the training field, he saw Guts walking up to him with his sword. 

 "What up Guts, do you want to do some dual?"

"That exactly why I'm here. I know you were holding back during our fight." he said to me.

'He noticed that? Guess I'll teach him Total Concentration; I want him to get as much experience with it.' Sin unsheathes his katana and attack Guts doing a horizontal slash, to which Guts block with his sword and then does a slash at me, and it get parry he continued to strike with his sword, but it gets blocked this continued as the two trade strike until I said something to him. "Like I said, it was a good fight. If I fought you for real, I'll win. As you are now you can't beat me." I said to him as I stop my sword close to his face. "But you have the strength to get stronger, follow me Guts I have to show you something." I said to him as he was shocked how fast the sword strike was, but he quickly got over it. He follows me into the forest as we got into a clearing with multiple huge boulders in the middle of it. "Guts what I'm about to tell you can't tell anyone, if you understand Pay close attention to what I'm about to do, and I'll guaranteed if you master this technique, you'll get stronger." Guts seemed a little suspicious about all this but pay attention either way. Sin took a stance with his katana in front of him, then did a vertical slash at one of the boulders in front of him. Guts look on in shocked as he just saw what happen, the boulder was cut clean in half down the middle. "Sin, how did you do that?" 

"I'll tell you, but you can't tell no one about it."

'I already know Guts won't tell anyone about it, he not like that.' 

"I won't, I want to get stronger."

"Very well but let me tell you this now once we start your training you can't stop, you'll have to train until your arm fall off, until you can't run. And with Mission on top of that it'll be hard. It took me two years before I could even use it."

"I'll do it, but how long you'll think before I can use it." Guts asked with curiosity as he look at me.

"Well for me it took two years for just training, but that only because I had a safe place to train without any distractions. So, it'll probably take Three Year." 

A/N: That's convenient 

"I explain it as best I can to you. What I use is called Total Concentration Breathing, you take as much air as you can in your lungs, which accelerate your blood flow and in turn that make your muscles become stronger for a time being, and if you breath the right way you can stop bleeding from wounds you get in the battlefield."

"All that from Breathing?"

"Try not to think about it too hard. We'll start your training tomorrow, let head back it's getting late." I said to Guts as we both began heading back to the camp, Guts seem to be in deep thought as we got to camp and went to our own tents. 'Now that I can start teaching Guts Total Concentration, he'll be stronger it's going to take time but the fine, me on the other hand, I'll need to increase my Magic training. I only have Three to four years before that happens. Man, I hate training arcs.'

A/N: Which Berserk arc is your favorite? My is Tower of Conviction.

To Be Continued