Seeing we were no longer welcome, Malavai ushered us out of the principal's chambers before motioning for us to follow him toward that Fufflesnake's laboratory. Before I could ask about our new teacher, Shira beat me to it as she asked in a sweet tone of voice: "So, who is this professor anyways?" Malavai continued walking into the hallways, taking turns, opening doors that made us go through certain empty rooms, and sometimes returning the greetings of the students we met on the way. "Old Fufflesnake? He used to be a top fighter in our army, but he retired and decided to teach seedlings in the academy after gaining enough merit and the things he wanted from the Universal Catalog. He is a pretty eccentric person, but he is also quite normal at times, it's like he has two personalities that he randomly switches between. However, neither is too problematic to deal with, so you can easily learn from him whatever you need." Malavai made his way towards a particular door that had the
Waiting was boring, especially since we weren't technically allowed to do actions that might damage the surroundings too much. A small crack or breaking of a table or two was allowed, but activities beyond that range would become too visible in the barrier, so they would most likely send some law enforcers of the academy to penalize us. The small scuffle with Lisar wasn't anything to be taken note of, but if things became too big, things would become troublesome. However, there wasn't much to do besides waiting, and it was quickly getting quite boring, for some reason, my attempts at meditation failed, Shira just kept herself close to me as she moved the desk slightly closer to mine, combining them into a slightly longer desk. She didn't even care about the gaze of Lisar and the other girl (Malaria was it?) as she gave me a deep kiss on the mouth. I rose an eyebrow at her actions, we were in 'public' and we had two spectators right now, was this appropriate? I stopped her briefly
Seeing how we learned the techniques he gave us rather quickly still impressed Fufflesnake, regardless of his personal feelings toward us. And as a teacher, he needed to be unbiased, at least on the surface. He could see from our expressions and the fluctuations in our energy that we have learned the techniques. Fufflesnake nodded to himself shortly before his croaky voice was heard: "Since you two can learn these techniques so quickly, I guess we can move our classroom to the practice area, Lisar, and Malaria should also be able to learn some things from sparring with you two." Fufflesnake tapped one finger on the teacher's desk, transferring us from the room towards a huge and somewhat empty room filled with training devices, heavy weights, meditation mats, sparring rings, etc. "For starters, you two should go and practice the technique you learned while I teach some things to Lisar and Malaria, after that, you four can spar. Of course, Shira and Minato, you two will have to sea
My speed had been adjusted to their level, or else they wouldn't have been able to lay a hand on me. Lisar was almost out of the ring as he caught himself on the edge, taking two steps forward so he won't drop down. Malaria frowned as she clenched her fist and felt that she was unable to get out of my grasp. However, a small smile appeared on her face as dark purple ooze started to appear on her fist's skin, making direct contact with my palm. The ooze made sizzling sounds as it made contact with my palm, but I felt no need to do anything as I clenched my fist onto her fist even harder, making her feel that the bones in her fist were most likely going to break soon if she didn't somehow get out of my grasp. I narrowed my eyes lightly as I stepped to the side, letting go of Malaria's hand as I threw down the toxic poisonous sludge that was retained on my palm. Lisar had appeared out of my shadow once again, right now wielding a dagger made out of the pure shadow that glistened wi
Shira's head moved slightly as she opened her eyes and glanced at me before smiling, giving me a peace sign as she said cutely:"Success!"I nodded at her, then I sat near her as the somewhat weakened and slightly injured Lisar and Malaria sat opposite of us on the meditating mats.Professor Fufflesnake made his way toward us, standing slightly farther from the center of the half-circle we made.He looked down at our sitting forms and coughed a bit to regulate his voice, then he started to explain using a raspy tone:"The metal and poison laws interact quietly through fusion, but instead of going directly to the relationship between these two, I shall start with the easier law."Using his pale skinny fingers, he drew a grey-colored shield made out of energy into the air.He then started to dissect the shield slowly as he explained:"The metal law is made of 3 big segments, sturdiness, sharpness, and malleability.""Sturdiness is how hard you can make your metal be or how hard you can
This time around, instead of needles being inserted in our brains, Fufflesnake changed the way he imparted the law to us.We were all sitting on the meditation mat, just like before, our eyes were wide open as we concentrated on Fufflesnake's figure.The teacher in question was currently sweating a little bit as he created a small green powder cloud before he opened his mouth to say:"Before I impart you this knowledge and experiences, I will first explain to you about the poison law."He glanced toward Shira as he continued:"Some people can comprehend the poison law from either encountering too many poisons, getting afflicted by them or simply due to the specialty of their bloodline. Even though I have encountered quite a lot of poisons during my life, I belong to the latter category, just like my name indicates, I have a snake bloodline.""I won't go into details about the bloodline, but all I can say is that it helped me greatly to learn and master the poison law."He then glanced
My train of thought was broken by a quick slashing attack that almost cut through my sides with its sharpness. I had reinforced that part preventively using the metal law's hardness, but it wasn't enough considering how far Fufflesnake was ahead of me regarding the metal law. His appliances were pretty smart as well, which made me copy them and attack him in the same way, slowly adapting to his fighting style while learning more and more about the metal law. Unfortunately, the more I learned, the harder it became to master it. I was slowly touching upon the limits of the laws. They couldn't be mastered immediately in quick bursts, there needed to be delays between them, it was just like muscles and other aspects of the body. Training too much without any rest would lead to the muscles breaking. Any sudden and constant changes would need to be adapted, and it seemed like this applied to the laws as well. The moment I reached 60% mastery, I realized that I couldn't take any more
After the door closed behind us, Shira and I entered the room.The walls were bare, and there wasn't much in the room besides a bed and a desk, but it was pretty spacious as there was an empty training area to the side where you could meditate or learn some offensive techniques...After I finished looking around, I turned my gaze toward Shira, who had already dropped off all her clothes and revealed her naked body to me.She gave me a natural look and said:"Well, now we have to consume our marriage, right?"I nodded toward her and took off my clothes before directly pouncing on her, pushing her onto the bed...The sound of clapping and Shira's moans could be heard echoing in the room, but nothing else could be heard from the outside as the room was soundproof.After a few hours passed, I and Shira were staying down on the bed. Her head was on my chest as we looked at the ceiling of the dorm room.Her forehead was filled with sweat which stuck some of her blood-red hair to it.Shira's