Chapter 19

"Hmmm, this is delicious."

I chewed the meat from the animal we hunted last night, and it was really delicious. The ingredients used are really simple, salt and pepper.

"It really is! Where does the spicy and sweetness come from? Does it come from charcoal?"

Gion is a quiet and stern young woman, but she can be chatty when it comes to food. She likes to eat and knows how to make the food she eats. She likes to cook and sometimes she personally cooks for me.

"Ah, it was coming from the meat. Each beast has a different kind of taste. Lakurts bears have a distinct taste of sweetness and spice. One of the tastiest meats is from the Golden Talon birds. Sadly, they will immigrate to the north at this time of year."

"I see. So it was not the ingredient but rather the natural taste of the meat."

I can see Gion start to write something on her little note while nodding her head. It was cute. I take another bite and enjoy the festivities. After we finished our morning and afternoon work, the village leader decided to throw a small party to welcome us and for our successful hunt.

While eating the food, I can see a pair of father and son walk toward me. I look at them and smile.

"Hmmm? What is it?"

The father pushes his son forward, and I can see him take a deep breath before suddenly he bows at me.

"Please take me with you!"

"What?"

"I want to be a marine!"

"Sure."

The young man looked at me with a surprised expression before shouting.

"Really?!"

"Yes. You can join in our night training and morning training. I will take care of the paperwork."

"Thank you! I will not disappoint you, sir!"

I nod at him and see him celebrating with his father. Well, I hope he is prepared for the training I will give him because all the training I know is coming from the people who are insane in their training.

|Lun Chi - Warrior of Long-Lizard Island|

"Haaaa… Haaaa…"

I panted just like the rest of the people around me. I never thought that the training would be this hard. We had been running for three hours and were not allowed to stop even to catch a breath.

What about the captain? He is throwing a massive boulder at us, and we need to dodge it. At first, I thought that a healer in this training would be a blessing, but it turned out it was a curse. Nevertheless, because we have a healer, we must keep going until our body breaks again, and the captain will heal it again.

"I… I thought… I can survive… this…. I hope it will not be the worst."

"Hahahahaha, you would be wrong."

I look at one of the crew and see him giving me a water bottle. I take it and say.

"Wrong?"

"Wait when you get the morning exercise. You will be grateful for only getting this much training."

"... Will it get worse?"

"Worse? Oh yeah. We need to spar with the captain."

"That is not too bad."

We need only to fight him, right? He is one person, and we are a hundred or so.

"Whatever you are thinking, it was wrong. The captain can fight all of us without breaking a sweat. He is trained by Vice-Admiral Garp and the first thing that man teaches him is endurance and how to dodge."

"Just like us doing right now?"

"Worst. Imagine this training in your head."

"Got it. Easy enough"

"Then imagine the pebble that the captain throws is an explosive cannonball and he throws it a hundred times faster and yes. It was even faster than the captain and his clones."

"Damn."

"Yeah. You are lucky he did not follow us here. If he did, your soul will also be crushed by the training that will soon come."

I look at him and see him shudder. I look around me and see if he is joking, but the same haunting expression is all I can see.

"Alright, people! Your break is over. We will start the second session of our training! We will hunt more beasts!"

Well, at least we will be doing what I have been doing for years.

"While your eyes are blindfolded!"

What kind of job do I sign into? A mental institution?