Flame breathing
-Kodama pov-
The demon slayer corps crumbled after the war. All Hashira died, and the remaining demon slayers were filled with desperation, which made them leave, until one day I was alone. Honestly, I don't blame them as we didn't even manage to kill one upper-rank demon.
All hopes of defeating the demons were gone, or at least that's what I thought till I saw someone fighting a demon with his fist and winning, killing the demon with sunlight. His potential seemed immense. I knew I had to train him. When he arrived, he said the name of Florida man who I recognised very well as he 'fought' with me a while back. After that, we made a deal that he could temporarily join the demon slayer until the demon king was killed by him, and in return, I'd have to give him info on demons. The test was well beyond my expectations, even though I thought he was done in a 1v8 but he won. ("We" refers to Kodama and Alex.)
-Alex pov-
I sensed someone in front of me, but before I could open my eyes, I received a hit by a branch on my head.
"You should work on your awareness. I was standing here for about a minute," said Kodama.
"Isn-"
"Anyway, now that you're a demon slayer, you need a breathing style."
He cut off what I was about to say, but his point did make a lot of sense, and I was interested in it.
"Which one am I going to learn?" Asked Alex.
"Mine, of course."
'That didn't answer shit.' I thought as Kodama was walking away. I then looked at the few new red flying windows that appeared.
*Acheivment: Become a demon slayer*
*Reward: (title: demon slayer)
*Reward description: Gives 10% more Agility while fighting demons*
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*Acheivment/System feature unlock: Unlock your first title*
*Reward: Affinity*
*Description: Tells you your affinity for certain techniques or elements*
After reading the second window, I knew this would be perfect because if there were demon slayers, there would be many other anime involved, and with them came their technique. Even though he would like to take the lazy way and gain skills, he couldn't always be dependent on the system because one day the system wouldn't be able to help and on that day he needed to be capable of handling the situation by himself. 'Accept all rewards'
The windows disappeared and Alex couldn't feel anything different except for his stat window.
*Name: Alex*
*title: demon slayer*
*Acheivments: Restored a severed arm, survived snake poison, survived a 100 feet fall, defeated demons, defeat a demon who was once a lower moon and ???*
*Vitality: 36*
*Strength: 25 (+3)*
*Defense: 25 (+10)*
*Agility: 10 (+10)*
*Energy: 17*
*Total stat: 113 (+23)*
*Element affinity: Space, fire/flame and ???*
*Stats ranks:*
*Strength 2*
*Defense 2*
*Agility 1*
Alex looked back at Kodama and followed him. Once they arrived, Kodama gave the rest of the day as a break for Alex to learn the breathing style the next day.
(Next day)
Alex was woken up by Kodama looking at his face without blinking and right in front of Alex's face.
"Are you awake?"
Alex, surprised, punched Kodama straight in the face. The punch got through Kodama's head, or so he thought as Kodama disapeared. 'An Afterimage!'
"That's rude." Alex heard from his right.
When he looked, he found no one.
"Did you think i was this slow."
Surprised, he looked to his left and saw Kodama looking disappointed. 'This guy is flexing. Just you wait till I'm faster than you.'
"You never will." Said Kodama.
"Did you just read my mind?" Asked Alex.
"Nah, I just know what you're thinking because I predicted it." Answered Kodama.
'That's scary' thought Alex.
"Well, we should start your training, so get dressed. I'll be waiting outside," said Kodama as he left the room.
After getting dressed and going outside, I noticed that he was waiting with a wooden sword on the ground next to him.
That confused me a bit. After all, I watched Demon Slayer, and I knew that normally they would need to understand the breathing pattern and all the forms before weilding a sword.
"Why the wooden sword?" I asked as I walked closer to Kodama.
Kodama spoke after a brief pause.
"Because we are training one technique at a time." He answered.
"Ok."
I listened to him explaining how you needed to breath and the movement of your body for the technique, and I realised that this was flame breathing.
"-And the name of the technique is Unknowing Fire."
"So it's flame breathing." Alex said.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that." Kodama answered.
He then proceeded to show me the technique directly and asked me to try it myself. After my try, he hit my chest with the hilt of his sword and said. (He tried against a tree.)
"Your breathing is wrong and your stance is not half bad..."
I was relieved until he said.
"... until you arrived at the tree. Flame breathing is about powerful and swift strikes, but your stance made the hit much weaker."
I continued to try the same technique over and over until evening, when Kodama dismissed me back to my room. I was satisfied with the progress and passed out on the bed.
-Kodama-
I started training him today and to be honest, he was a genius. In less than a month, he would probably master fire breathing. I had come to this conclusion because he had already nearly mastered the first form in a day. All hopes were back. With the ability to grow like he does, plus fire breathing, he would probably be able to beat the demon king soon.
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I'm getting better and so with it comes a new chapter.
Even though I'm tired as hell because I wasn't able to sleep yesterday.
Good day to you.
I'm just trying to reach 1000 words and I need even more words, so here we go, I guess;
Have some ideas about my story? Comment on it and let me know.
*Next chapter maybe time skip training arc i mean what do you want me to write. It would be too repetitive*