There are many things my comrades and I need to do during the weekends when there are no school activities. And what we need to take into our priority is—our personal training to strengthen ourselves. Training and practising. We are now gathered at the training space that had been prepared for us below the Gremory territory. While all of us scatter to different locations individually or in a group to train the areas we must polish, I……am facing against a white matter while I have my Boosted Gear activated. What I mean by a white matter is that it’s like a First-Gen Sun Wukong’s shikigami like thing that was created from his hair and his youjutsu. It has a shape of a human and it’s acting as my training partner. What the First-Gen geezer asked me to do is to “Attack my opponent with the gauntlet that had been powered up for a minute”. Except, I have to do this many times and not just once. It may sound easy if I say it like that, but it isn’t that easy in reality. Hitting this thing after increasing my power is only the part of my training. I have to hit this thing ten times where I have increased my power for a minute, and all of those ten hits must have the same output. ……And this proves to be insanely hard. For me, it’s something which will be considered extremely hard to do. Powering up and hitting it will be too simple. But if he asks me to hit it ten times consecutively with the same output, then the complexity will increase dramatically. If my first powered-up attack has the output of 5, then I have to hit it ten times with the output of 5 as well so it means I need to give a total damage of 50 to that white shikigami. ……And I can’t seem to do this no matter how many times I do it. Say I hit this thing with the output of 5 for my first and second attack. But my third, my fourth, or my fifth attack happens to have an output of either a 4 or 6. Even a single failure will result in the white shikigami saying, “You have failed. It will reset from one”. This shikigami was made by the First-Gen where it can calculate my attacks output. So it can calculate the damage I give it precisely. ……The reason why I’m doing this training is due to the weakness I have that the First-Gen pointed out. —My Balance Break (or my Crimson armour form) state can’t last long. In other words the way I use my power of the Sekiryuutei is rough. If I compare my state when I’m wearing the armour to the time when I first reached Balance Break, the time I can maintain its form has improved very rapidly. But still, there is a limit to that. I’m in a state where I don’t clearly know what my limit is and how many times I have to use my power of a certain level to have my armour disappear. ……According to the First-Gen, I had been releasing my own power and stamina without thinking about how much I had been using. I thought I had been fighting while controlling my own pace, but in reality, the First-Gen geezer said that I was maintaining it while I went with the flow of the situation I was in. ……I can’t find any excuse I can use against that claim. That’s because there were many situations I experienced which he could be mentioning about. For that reason my current aim is to become capable of releasing my power as I want it to. If I am able to do this at all time, he said the time I can maintain my Crimson armour will improve in several folds. I think so too. If I master how I use up my power, then I will be able to fight while knowing how long I can last for with the remaining power I have left in any situation. My attacks won’t work on the enemies that I would face in the future if I use up my power without thinking about it. Especially against Euclid who has that Replica Boosted Gear—. This was what Azazel-sensei added to First-Gen’s opinion. [The swirl created by Great Red and Ophis’s power that is inside you may become stable if you master the task the First-Gen gave you. Your life force is in a state where it turns between zero and infinite, so if you are able to stabilise it……you may progress to the next stage.] The next stage—. Everyone says that I’m the only existence to ever have received power from both Ophis and Great Red. But even now, not only can’t I master using it, but I also can’t come into contact with those powers. If those powers are to be unlocked by the end of this training……then I certainly want to get my hands on those powers! Since my opponents are those I won’t be able to let my guard down against, someone among us will definitely get sacrificed if I don’t have the power. And I don’t want that! I……no, we will survive and continue to have a peaceful school life! I punch the First-Gen’s shikigami with high spirits, but……
“You have failed. The attack just now was 8. Restarting from the beginning.”
Ah…… Ah, I messed it up. I couldn’t help but to punch it while being worked up. This is my bad habit. I show what I’m feeling inside on my outer appearance. I lack in being calm. I need to punch calmly even if I am getting heated up inside me. Well, I guess attacking heroically when I’m in a rage may be good. —As I sighed, a white flash moves in a zig-zag above me. It’s Vali in his armoured state who is flying with his wings of light. He also participates in our training sometimes……but the one who is being his opponent for this mock battle is none other than the First Gen Sun Wukong. The white geezer who is short is evading Vali’s attack with minimal movements while sitting on the cloud, the Jindou Yun. ……Vali’s demonic-power and his magical attacks are being taken down with the Ryui Jingu Bang. Vali. The Hakuryuukou who is said to be the strongest in history……being toyed around by a geezer who is a size of a kindergartener! Though neither of them is being serious. If they fight seriously, then this battlefield will collapse even if this place is huge. But for him to block Vali’s attacks without moving much! ……The geezer is taking down Vali’s attack only by focusing a small amount of touki to the tip of the Ryui Jingu Bang. He isn’t covering his whole body with his touki. Vali descends to the ground after the battle that lasted for several minutes. The First-Gen-geezer also comes down with him towards here. Vali shrugs his shoulders. “……This is frustrating, but my attacks sure aren’t landing on you.”
The geezer smiles while smoking a pipe. “No-no, you certainly deserve to be called the Hakuryuukou. Even I will turn into ashes if I get hit by the attacks of you two, the Two Heavenly Dragons. You do know that the two of you are above me in terms of the attacks output?”
Even though he said that, it sure is terrifying to see none of the attacks being close to hitting him. It may be true that Vali and I are above the geezer in terms of the power of our attacks. But it doesn’t feel like I can beat him. The legendary Youkai who mastered youjutsu and senjutsu that Bikou mentioned of—. I’m sure First-Gen Sun Wukong is that existence. First-Gen then says it to Vali and me.