I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

Chapter 24

24 – Training (2)

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I honestly thought it would be a little bit.

Legendary master’s unique, radical, yet practical training.

Severe pressure on both body and mind.

In it, the manifestation of a shining talent that I had not known until now.

It was a cliché among the many novels or experiences that you may have heard dozens of times.

That’s why I thought I would succeed at least once after all this hard work.

I thought it would be possible too.

However, while I was being chased by her all day today, I couldn’t use my magic even once.

I was hit by a piece of ice and fell to the floor with bruises all over my body.

Of course, I didn’t run that fast because my legs were in a bad condition in the first place, but I don’t think I’ll be able to walk a single step anymore.

As I lay down and catch my breath, she slowly approached me, leaving bruises all over my body.

“…Ash, didn’t you say you could use advanced magic?”

“… uh.”

I tried to answer yes, but my tongue didn’t have enough strength, so my pronunciation leaked a lot.

Her bewildered expression was natural, if only natural.

In fact, I could use all basic magic, most intermediate magic, and a few advanced magic.

In terms of the number of types of magic that could be used, I was able to enter the lower end of the Royal Magic Research Institute.

After taking a deep breath, I slowly answered, paying attention to my pronunciation.

“…I studied hard.”

“No matter how much you master the theory, it’s useless if you can’t use magic because it’s hard to run.”

“…why don’t you leave out the magic that seems to break if hit?”

“Yes, it makes no sense to not be able to use magic just because you are embarrassed. I don’t know if you’re working in a research lab, but if you’re living in a forest that’s no different from a backcountry like this.”

“Whoa…”

“To be honest, there are more adventurers who can’t use as much magic as Ash, no, most of them can only use three or four. But those guys don’t fail their magic at the crucial moment.”

Of course, it was right a hundred times, a thousand times.

At a critical moment when life is in danger, what use would it be to know the strongest magic in the world if you couldn’t use magic because you were flustered?

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A wizard who can accurately fire one fireball would be more useful than me who only knows how to use countless magics.

“Hmm… this is true.”

She sat on the floor, lifted my head slightly, and placed it on her lap.

I was well aware that I had no talent.

But why did I learn magic?

Ah, it was to catch up with her older sister, who showed exceptional talent in magic from a young age.

To be honest, it seemed very easy because Maria, who was a bit stupid, used magic casually.

The time I realized that my sister was a genius was when I was 13 years old, studying like crazy and barely mastering intermediate magic.

Even that was learned a year or two earlier than ordinary people, but my older sister had already started learning advanced magic at the age of eight.

I was able to learn a lot of magic by immersing myself in studying as much as I lacked talent, but it was difficult to activate it unless I was in a quiet and focused environment, probably because I only learned magic with my butt on the chair for a long time.

“As expected, it’s difficult… I guess I don’t have any talent.”

“…Talent?”

“By the way, Mr. Sylvia… He said he had no talent for magic…”

Sylvia said that she had no talent for magic, but considering the number of times she used magic today, it wasn’t like that.

Wizards had a limit on the number of spells they could use without rest.

It depends on the amount of mana that can be absorbed by the body from the air when breathing, but the amount of mana that is absorbed does not require a special breathing method, and in most cases it does not increase significantly even with training.

It’s like you can’t forcefully increase the size of your natural lungs.

Normal wizards were limited to being able to use magic ten times in a row, and even if they tried their whole lives to increase the amount of magic, the limit was usually to increase it two to three times.

But she shot ice cubes at me over 30 times today.

“I have plenty of magical power… but I didn’t have the talent to learn magic. Still, it was useful. If you have a lot of magic power, it will be easier to resist magic such as paralysis or poison.”

“okay.”

“How much magic power does Ash have?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never pushed myself to the limit.”

“Oh, isn’t that a lot, then?”

“No, I’ve never used it consecutively.”

Silvia-san looked down at me with a puzzled expression.

I said with an awkward smile.

“Apart from learning, what else is there to do with magic while living in a mansion?”

In the first place, I learned that using magic inside a building or in a public place is rude.

In common sense, what would you do if an accident happened while using magic in a place with many people?

No one knew what might happen, and no one wanted to waste magic anyway because of the amount of magic, so this was common sense and manners that were well accepted by the public.

Of course, there are geeks everywhere, so my sister used to get in and out of the window on the upper floor with a levitation magic when moving around the mansion because it was cumbersome to walk.

I heard that there was a day when my sister used magic over a hundred times a day at the academy.

When I thought of my sister, I suddenly felt a wall so big and high.

Let alone my older sister, why did I, who couldn’t even reach the level of an ordinary person, spend so much time on magic?

No, I wonder if I tried.

Wasn’t it that I neglected to practice using magic and became too engrossed in just putting new magic into my head?

Did I, who have no talent, even make a foolish effort?

It felt like all my past years had been wasted.

I was so pathetic that I suddenly burst into tears, so I raised my hand and covered my eyes.

“ash.”

Sylvia quietly held my hand covering my eyes and called my name.

I answered with a clear voice, hiding my tears as much as possible.

“…yes,”

“don’t worry. There is still a way.”

Sylvia slowly peeled off the bear skin that was clumsily wrapped around my body.

The bruises throbbed as the weight of the thick leather brushed against her body.

Sylvia-san quietly put her hand on my stomach.

She felt the pain of the bruise slowly fade as her hand emitted a green light.

“It is convenient.”

“It is the divine power bestowed by the goddess. You will be punished for treating it as a convenient tool.”

“…hahahaha,”

I laughed bitterly.

For some reason, it seems that Sylvia-san can do anything.

But Sylvia-san didn’t care and continued.

“It is only the first day. Don’t be too heartbroken.”

“…but,”

“You said it earlier. There is still a way.”

“What method?”

“If you do a training to familiarize yourself with magic in parallel with the training you did today, it will be good.”

“… well.”

“Oh no, don’t think negatively. I can absolutely do it.”

“…”

I only twitched my lips.

She touched my lips and said.

“Ash, you can absolutely do it.”

“…I do not know”

“It is now. You have to have guts and mental strength to use what you learn in the moment. It doesn’t matter if it’s not magic.”

Well, with a bow or a sword, a moment’s judgment will decide whether to hit or miss.

“…I guess so.”

“I will develop your guts, and your mental strength is already enough.”

I chuckled.

Her clumsy consolation was rather miserable, so it was a self-deprecating laugh.

“Me, scared of the bear and running up a tree?”

“First of all, the bear you encountered is no ordinary beast, is it? Oh, even a 6-year-old adventurer can barely survive. He’s looking down on wild animals.”

“…”

“second. You walked from the carriage accident point to my cabin with a body that doesn’t look strange even if you die. Even I can’t do that. You will die along the way.”

she said with a laugh.

Certainly, I couldn’t even figure out how I had made it this far without dying that day.

But what I can say for sure is that I did a great job.

Legs broken to the bone, arms bent in all directions, organs out of place.

I walked that long distance with a body that was impossible to even stand.

“…ah,”

“right?”

She slowly removed her hand from my eyes and our eyes met.

It was already getting dark, so I couldn’t see her shadowy face looking down at me, but I could tell that she was smiling kindly at me even without looking.

“Follow me when we hunt tomorrow.”

“Are you hunting?”

“It’s safe because there’s no threat to your life, but if the timing isn’t right, you’ll miss the prey, so you need some tension. Don’t you think those conditions will help you with your magic training? Of course, I will also do today’s training every other day.”

“…”

“Actually, I was going to order it once I got used to it a little more, but it seems like what you lack is not skills, but actual combat experience.”

Silvia-san seemed to have thought of quite a few different ways for my training.

It somehow made me feel a little happy that she had been thinking about it for me.

Well, when you think about it, it was a really great thing.

She’s not a magician, but I’m still receiving one-on-one tutoring from a hero.

Where is this luxury?

Besides, as she said, I might not need a magic master right now.

What I had to learn now was not magic knowledge, but how to fight.

“Miss Sylvia.”

“hmm?”

“thank you.”