Training Or Sheer Insanity?

The sneak attack did no damage to Milek as he lightly smiled while dodging.

'The attack was supposed to hit him square on the face how did it just graze him?!'

He then swung his left leg to his right, quickly followed by a right handed jab to the left of Milek. The attacks were slow, wobbly and weak, easy to dodge, yet to Milek, the 3rd seat of the 3rd division, Bultear was very impressive.

'He's taking my [Nerve Death] pretty well for a newbie, I also forgot to control myself a tiny bit. He's got good stamina and resilience, high potential for a close quarters fighter.'

His thoughts whirled as Bultear approached from his side, trying and failing to land a second hit.

'Shit, I'm not doing anything! I'm still weak from his stupid attack, I have no form or clue what I'm doing. I look like a clown!'

"Good try newbie! But you were supposed to show off your abilities, I don't suppose you flailing wildly like this is an ability right? I sure hope not."

Mocked Milek with his white teeth peeking through his grinning mouth. Every swing, every punch thrown was dodged with minimal movement and effort.

"Fuck you."

'The only thing I learned was that the me from four days ago would get completely knocked out by that attack or worse, which means I'm definitely not a regular human anymore. '

"Let's kick it up by a notch."

After dodging a left hook from the left, the movement of his right palm sped up considerably as Milek's shoulder jerked with stunning speed, his palm now a hair's breath away from Bultear's shoulder.

'Shit! He's going to do the same thing again!'

Panicked Bultear as he knew that if it happened again, he would not be standing up any more. Remembering the searing pain, the moment in Bultear's mind stretched beyond its normal length. The deathly palm of pain was upon him as he heard a bell-like voice.

"This is no good."

*Fwoom* *crash*

"Oi, Sinthia, not funny!"

It was like a blur to Bultear, the pale palm that would have defeated him by a simple touch was nowhere near him. Not only was the palm not on his shoulder, neither was Milek who was standing a few meters away from Bultear in a half crouched position indicating a need for unexpected, quick dodging. When Bultear's eyes focused he saw Milek's previous position taken up by a two-three meter deep crater with a crystal flower imbedded in the center of it.

Taking all of this information into consideration, Bultear gazed upon Sinthia.

'Holy shit, had that hit me I would've been in pieces...'

The realization was equally as fear inducing as it was awe inspiring.

'...Maybe Milek is not that bad compared to her.'

"Milek, I told you already, how is he supposed to learn anything if you render him immobile so quickly."

"What, so you tried to kill me?"

"Something like that would never kill you."

*hmph*

Looking closely at the current Sinthia, one could see that her lower and upper eyebrows had turned completely green as her eyes were now two purple crystals with no pupils. [Crystal Rose]; Since her eyes were her evolved organs, she gained the ability to form crystal roses . The ability works in such a way that her eyes first turn into crystals, when that happens crystal tears begin to flow. Her crystal tears then form the shape of roses as they hover in front of her face, which are then shot off at high speeds by blinking at wherever and at whatever she is looking at, allowing her to literally attack in the blink of an eye. The only down side is that even though her eyes are crystals they act no different from regular eyes, meaning sudden bright lights, or different inhibitors can disrupt the forming of the roses.

If we compare Milek and Sinthia; Milek, a close quarters physical fighter, has the fastest reaction speed because of his second evolved organ: the nervous system. While Sinthia, a long range fighter, has the fastest attack speed.

The crater served as a reminder of the danger she possessed, Milek slowly calmed down and spoke.

"Okay, so are you teaming up with him to gang up on me...Oh shit!"

His words got stuck in his mouth as he saw her mouth open.

"Bloom."

And so the crystal rose bloomed deadly. Hundreds of lethal shards exploded indiscriminately, stabbing themselves everywhere.

Sinthia's second evolved organ: vocal cords. By using her voice a sound wave is sent to the rose like a code activating its explosion into shards. Since the sound wave is the only thing needed she doesn't have to say 'bloom', she just thinks that the phrase makes her look cool.

When the deadly crystal shower subsided. A bloodied, injured Milek could be seen shielding a perfectly unharmed Bultear in his hands, yelling.

"Insane woman, are you trying to kill him!? Hypocrite, how is he supposed to learn anything if he dies, huh?!"

"Now the playing field is even. This should make it easier for Bultear to fight you and learn."

"What.. what if I didn't save him in time? What if I was the one who died? What would have been you're plan then?"

"I had no need to plan for that; I knew you would save him at the cost of your own well being and also, I purposely opened my mouth slowly so you had just enough time to save him and protect yourself; your reflexes are the best after all."

The shards were stabbed all over him. His legs, arms, chest. Luckily, the E.S.O.P coats were not just for show, they served as light armor in a sense, stopping the shards from penetrating too deep plus Milek was able to deflect those approaching his vitals and at the same time keep Bultear completely unharmed. He was truly worthy of the 3rd seat.

As the back and forth continued a petrified Bultear thought to himself as Milek's words in the beginning now made sense.

'Insane... these people are actually insane!'

Seeing as this was no longer a training session Bultear clamed down after he stopped trying to apply logic to these people.

' So I'm supposed to join them huh? Well these four days were insane enough, might as well make it more insane.'

Milek, who in the midst of bickering with Sinthia and was still holding Bultear in his hands, didn't notice Bultear who had suddenly stretched his hand at the shard embedded into his thigh. Sadly for Bultear he did not need to notice him as his inhumane reflexes did the work. He quickly let go of Bultear, who fell to the ground, as his face grew even more annoyed.

"This was your second sneak attack that you failed. It wont work."

"Who knows? It seems to me you're not as fast anymore. *hehe*"

Now it was Bultear's turn to mock him