Ch. 13 Yuriko' Training

(Third Pov)

Yuto woke up to the next day. Sitting in bed, he pulled his daily gacha pull.

[Chakra potion] [Common]

[ Restores 25% Chakra]

After Yuto put the [ Chakra potion] in his inventory, he got off his bed and started to do his morning routine.

*2 hours later*

[ Strength 15 -> 18]

[ Endurance 44 -> 48]

[ Agility 20.25 -> 21.25]

[Dexterity 23 -> 24]

[Ryo 19,000 -> 20,500]

[ 225/500xp -> 425/500xp]

[ stat points 24 -> 26]

[ stamina potion x3 -> x4]

After checking his status, Yuto began to head to Yuriko house to meet up with her and Hiroshi. Arriving at Yurikos' house, he knocked on the door, not waiting long, Yuriko answered the door.

Yuriko:" You're here. Yuto, come on in, we'll meet with Hiroshi at the training grounds. I just need to finish up a bento for lunch."

entering the house, Yuto sat at the living room while Yuriko was in the kitchen, making bento. Yuto does not want to be bored, so he just helped Yuriko in the kitchen. Yuriko was surprised at first but accepted the help with a smile.

[Yuriko Kobayashi Favorability 35% -> 40%]

After making bento before leaving, yuriko grabbed two Bokken. Both Yuto and Yuriko walked together to the training grounds. Reaching the training grounds, they saw Hiroshi standing there, and he looked like he overslept because of his bed hair and eye bags. Yuriko looked at him with a glare, Hiroshi looked away with a sheepish smile. and Yuto looked at him with a blank face as always.

Yuriko moved the bento under a tree, not far from them, and Yuriko began to explain the training regime since Yuriko will be teaching me, taijutsu shurikenjutsu, and kenjutsu Hirsho will be teaching Chakra control, ninjustu and surprisingly genjutsu. The first to teach would be Yuriko in the morning till lunch, and after lunch would be Hiroshi till late afternoon. And now Yuto would be training with Yuriko.

(Yuto Pov)

After they both explained about training me, Yuriko handed me a Bokken.

[Bokken] [Common]

[ 25% Learning speed in kenjutsu]

[ +5 agility ]

[+5 strength]

Quickly switching this with my other bokken in the inventory when they were flirting with each other.

[Bokken] [Uncommon]

[ 50% Learning speed in kenjutsu]

[ + 10 strength]

[ + 10 agility]

[ Strength 18 -> +28]

[ Agility 21.25 -> +31.25]

Equipping the bokken had temporarily increased my status. After the two couples stopped flirting, more like Hiroshi, saying cringe words. Yuriko started to explain the basics to me after hearing about the basics I started to think to myself.

'Now that I think of it, I never had any experience with a sword except killing that assassin with his own sword.'

*Flashback*

???:" Matte!! matte!! "

*sshhhunk*

* thud*

Watching the body fall after killing the assassin with his own katana, I dropped it after finishing the blow.

*clank*

Walking out of the room, I called for room service about the mess.

* Flashback end*

Getting rid of those memories, I started to do the basics that Yuriko explained to me stab, block parry, and dodge. doing this for a while, I got a notification from Iris

< Congratulations, sir, you've learned a new skill>

' I'm busy now, show me later, alright?'

<understood>

After talking to Iris, I started to notice that I was improving at a fast rate, and Yuriko seemed to notice that as well.

Yuriko:" Well, it looks like you're improving fast. Why don't I improve the difficulty. After saying that, she picked up the other Bokken and stood in front of me.

Yuriko:" Come."

After she said that, I moved forward, swinging the bokken towards her only for her to parry it and trip me. Quickly getting up, I dodged an attack and made distance from her, but the next moment, I saw her sword in front of me. seeing this, my [sixth sense] kicked in, and I barely blocked it. before I could catch my breath, she immediately followed up with another attack.

'Focus'

Activating [focus], I saw her attack slowed, but only by a little. Dodging her attack, I could only block, Dodge, or parry. But slowly, it seems that [Focus] was improving at a fast rate cause her attacks were getting slower. Before I could get used to her attack speed, she suddenly delayed her attack when I was about to block overhead, which cause my sixth sense to flare up at my left side. moving the bokken to my left, I barely managed to block, causing my hands to numb.

*breathing hard*

I made distance from her, and as I did, she had a surprised face.

'That delayed attack, she knew my eyes were keeping up accept my body the only reason I manage to block was of [Sixth Sense] "

Knowing that she was still holding back a lot, I knew that she was going to increase her attack speed to not hurt me too much but enough to react to dodge or block. and this could be an opportunity to increase my [focus] skill and get familiar with my [sixth sense].

Getting rid of her shock, we continued to spar, or more likely, me trying to survive her attacks. after an hour of doing this, Yuriko taught me a few new skills [Taunt], [Perfect counter], and [Delayed attack]

We spared once more so I could get used to the new skill with Yuriko. After sparing, it was time to train in Shurikenjutsu. After Yuriko explained to me about Shurikenjutsu, I got a notification to upgrade [Dagger Throwing ] to [Shurikenjutsu]. clicking, yes, I continue to do what Yuriko taught me.

Grabbing the kunai from Yuriko and aiming from a makeshift target, I managed to hit 2 out of 10. But I guess it was good for a kid with no prior training for Yuriko and Hiroshi. I kept practicing until I got 3 out of ten. Next up was the Shuriken, which I hit 3 out of ten, Yuriko and Hiroshi thought that I had better affinity with a Shuriken. I'm still practicing the Shuriken until I got 4 hits out of ten.

After practicing Shurikenjutsu, it was time to practice Taijustu, I knew how to fight, but I had no techniques and mostly used guns or knives. and focusing on Yuriko explaining to me about Taijutsu, I had to get into a balance stance and learn to block, punch, kick, dodge, and counter. Practicing these, I heard a notification from Iris about a new skill. I knew this was Taijutsu.

Still practicing these, I managed to improve at a fast rate just like with kenjutsu, and it seemed that Yuriko and Hiroshi weren't surprised at this as well. So Yuriko just went ahead to spar with me.

Yuriko attacked first, which I counter with a uppercut, but she dodged it and counter with a kick, which I blocked with my thigh. I faked a left punch by using the same force but switched my stance at the last second. Yuriko put her left hand up, but I used [ delay attack] on my left punch. With Yurikos' experience, she managed to dodge at the last second. This kept on as I used [Focus] and [Sixth sense] in this spar.

It was time for lunch, and after I and Yurikos spar, we headed to Hiroshi as he was placing down a blanket and the bento. sitting down enjoying lunch as Hiroshi and Yuriko were flirting in front of a 5 year old. I checked my status and new skills

[New skill]

[Kenjutsu] [ Level 21]

[+ 21 strength]

[ Shurikenjutsu] [ Level 43]

[ 43% bullseye]

[Taunt] [ Level 3]

[ causing aggro]

[ perfect counter] [ Level 13]

[13% perfect counter]

[ Delayed attack] [ Level 12]

[ 1.2 x attack damage]

[Focus ] [ Level 24]

[ + 24 in agility and dexterity]

[ Agility 21 -> 45]

[ Dexterity 24 -> 48]

[Strength 18 -> 39]

After checking the skills, I started to focus on the bento.