Take this second chapter as an apology for the horrible first edition of the 3rd chapter, and the long wait you had to go through, only to get that bullshit.

I see the rewrite received some good reception, which is a relief.

And with no further delay, let's get into it~

~oOo~

I wish.

After I walked out, with his insane speed, he appeared besides me before the door even swung close. Obviously, too smart to attack me or appear threatening in any way, he just leisurely walked besides me.

He retrieved a cigarette packet from his pocket, took one, and was about to light it when he stopped, looked over at me. "Do you mind?"

I ignored him. I knew he would follow me from even before I declined him. He didn't look the type of person to let his target escape. There is no need for a teacher to begin with. He's no doubt going to attempt to teach me the techniques I already know from the show. Thanks to assassin I can clearly remember every single basic and advanced nen technique, as well as Gon and Killua's exercises for them.

Therefore, I was going to ignore him, and do my own thing. Hunters are selfish, there is no way this teacher is going to stick around after he realizes he's talking to a brick wall. He'd be wasting time that he could spend hunting down a new ingredient or delectable beast. The issue is how long that would take. I couldn't practice with my cards while he is still around. Netero might have given him information on how he thinks my cards work, but I still have 5 cards yet to be exposed.

The rest of the hunter exam applicants were making their way off the blimp, and I happened to be the last one off. The second I got off, the bean started his explanation of this exam. Trick tower, and the goal of getting to the bottom of this tower alive.

I didn't stick around. I walked towards the edge while everyone was paying attention to the bean, staying wary of any hidden doors. Apparently you had to stand on the trap door for a second before it actually fell through, if what I saw in the anime is correct.

I didn't stay on a single brick for a full second, and walked with a brisk pace. The Gourmet Hunter, Zato Naktaar, was still following me nonchalantly, though I noticed he always made sure to step on the crack in between two different bricks at all times. Clever, I'll admit.

I did the same, and soon got to the edge without issue.

Now, I just have to climb all the way down without getting eaten by those demon birds.

That's the easy part.

I stood up from where I crouched, turned around and carefully walked backwards until my heel was literally on the edge. Then I skipped backwards, and fell parallel to the tower.

"Hoo~, you have guts, oujo-chan.."

I summoned two dirks, and stabbed with all my strength into the wall. The results were instantaneous, and my descent started slowing down.

I let go of those daggers the second I judged my fall slow enough, fell, my fall accelerated, and then I repeated the process.

If I had another card installed, I could literally just jump to the bottom without taking a scratch. But as assassin, I'll have to be a bit more cautious. I am fairly certain in my ability to climb down, but that would be much slower, and I don't need the silent approach right now.

I looked up just after I let go of another pair of daggers, and the Gourmet hunter in his twenties was following me at a slower pace, using his bare hands to pull off a feat similar to mine.

He must be using ken or ryu. Perhaps gyo but I don't think so. My incredibly sharp eyes didn't see a single sliver of dust cling onto his gloves. Though, the same applies to me, but I'm literally made to be stealthy and not leave any evidence. Quite some mastery of nen, I bet.

And finally, I heard the screech of the demon baby-looking birds the total height of 4 meters tall per bird. This is not counting width or length.

To see them face to face, they really looked… disgusting.

"Zabaniya.."

8 clones sprung out of my body, heading for the 4 birds in groups of two. The birds were instantly deemed unfit for flight when their wings were impaled with dozens of holes each.

I didn't expect more from those abominations.

"Not bad.."

I continued scaling the tower like nothing had happened.

After descending here, my next destination is Zaban city, which I know is somewhere near here, and after that, an airship to some city east of the Republic of Padokia, on the same continent.

That's where the first step of my training will begin, the four major principles, and nen combat in general.

Another 20 minutes, and my feet touched the ground. The sound of another's feet touching the ground safely behind me disappointed me severely. My initial plan would have my travels go off so much easier, but I can't install the card I want, hence, I'll have to run..

All.

The way.

To Zaban City.

Sometimes I ask myself if it's really worth it to keep my cards hidden under my sleeve. Then I am reminded that, yes, it's definitely worth keeping the fact that I can access the powers of the supreme incarnations of grand figures of my world's history and mythology hidden.

All the more reason to develop my nen ability. I already have an idea in mind for what my ability should become, as an emitter.

So, for now, I'll endure the mediocrity of this supernaturally fast sprint to Zaban City, for the sake of my secrecy.

~oOo~

Unfortunately, I am a human before I am a supernatural installer of cards. I had human needs to attend to, amongst those, priority was in two.

Food, and urination. I'd be ashamed in having to do the latter in this body, if my mind had a single care about sexuality. I could comfortably admit to being asexual, and the only reason I did end up becoming a girl upon my reincarnation, was because I wanted to be the exact opposite of what I was in my past life. I wish for no association with that time. Zato was still stalking me, so I deployed a group of clones to guard the parameter while I did my business, for the sake of decency.

I was already fed up with the mediocrity of the last few hours, so I sent out a few clones to hunt for ingredients. All the while, the Gourmet was just observing with his familiar amused smirk.

I could assume his thoughts were along the line of, she won't ask for the pro's help in cooking because she's wary of a repeat of the pancake incident. Damn right.

I have the skill Expert of Many Specializations, so my cooking is as good, or better than most experts. I'll admit that he cooks better than me, but my cooking is still more than delicious enough.

Eventually the clones returned, and I remembered something.

I glared– glanced at the pro hunter, and his amused smirk widened. "Only if I get an equal serving," he condescendingly bargained, and I had no choice.. No choice but to accept..

At my begrudged nod, he smiled and retrieved cooking utensils, along with a… portable stove. I need to get myself one of those..

I summoned two clones to take care of preparations while I took care of the more delicate process of processing the boar they hunted down perfectly.

I first drained the blood, figured that there was no real need to drain it into a river since no one would be passing through here for a while after us, before skinning it. I cut out the parts I needed for the dish, the ribs, and was about to discard the rest..

"Wrong!" Zato yelled. "When preparing an animal, it is your duty as the one who ended it's life to make full use of it. Otherwise you may as well just hunt them for the sport," he lectured aggressively as he walked up next to me. "Watch."

He proceeded to perfectly strip every valuable or usable part of the boar with a margin of error within millimeters. He was flawlessly stripping and organizing everything in a third the time of my own attempt, before leaving the rest in an easy to spot area, most likely for the animals of the forest to feast on.

"That is how you strip a boar, but the same applies to all animals. If you just kill them and take what you want, you're nothing more than a senseless killer. You must always make maximum use of your kills."

I hated to admit that my eyes were awfully drawn to the ground as I felt like a child that just got scolded by their teacher or parent. "Understood.."

"Good, now cook."

Did he actually just integrate himself into the role of my teacher, like that? Fucking manipulators..

"What are you waiting for? We're burning daylight."

"..I'm on it."

His amused, superior smirk seemed all the more infuriating now that he actually scored such a huge victory over me, psychologically and mentally.

I cooked my dish, and got told it wasn't half bad.

I guess I scored myself a one star teacher…

Yay…

~oOo~

The next day, I woke up in the camp we set up, and decided that I'd gotten used to running through this forest. I know the direction of Zaban City, and I know my max speed. I will now try out what I'd been hesitant to do.

Run at the speed of sound.

There is a specific measurement of Parameters in the Nasuverse. It's done through numbers, and generalized through letters. A normal human's strength stat would be 1, because that is the normal value. This means that 2 is twice as strong. 10 strength would equate to E rank strength. 20 strength would equate to D rank strength. This would mean, 20 strength is equal to 20 times the average strength of a normal human. Every letter rank up is 10 above the last.

Assassin has A rank agility. A rank equals to 50 agility. 50 agility equals 50 times the average agility. The average running speed of a human is around 24 kilometers an hour. 24 km/h multiplied by 50 is 1200 km/h. The speed of sound is 1234.8 km/h. With my nen unlocked I should be naturally stronger than the average human. Apply this, and I believe my top running speed should be, the speed of sound.

Let's see if my teacher can keep up.

I glanced at him before starting my sprint. I guess I could warn him. I'm not the type to create relations, and then break them. If I've accepted him, grudgingly or not, as my teacher, then that's that. I will be his student until it is time for me to move on.

"Meet you at Zaban city, shishou," I'd noticed this throughout my short time in this world, but japanese proverbs are in frequent use here. Among the proverbs I could use for addressing my teacher, that I know of, this one is my favorite.

I noticed the heightening of his right eyebrow, but only emulated his superior smirk in return, before turning forward, focusing with all my attention to make sure I wouldn't run into anything and injure myself, and then, I ran.

I ran, I sprinted, I accelerated. I started off fast, that I could clearly admit. I wouldn't even be able to see myself moving around if I bounced around a room at the same speed as I did with Netero.

That was nothing, compared to this. I could clearly see the air bending around me, I have 20 times the endurance of an average human, and I could handle this speed and air pressure with only a light sweat. But I need more speed. I need to break the sound barrier before I'm satisfied.

I put more and more strength into my legs. More power, more energy, more speed.

I didn't for even a split second lose my concentration of what is in front of me.

It was so close, the air was bent as sharp as the tip of an arrow.

Just one.

Last.

Push.

I could clearly tell that I would only have a few seconds, maybe a dozen at most after surpassing the sound barrier, to enjoy the speed I'd be running at, before I'd be thoroughly exhausted. But it would be worth it. I'd be running as fast as sonic, for 10 seconds.

The last push, came when I saw a descending slope. I sprinted even faster, surpassing the bottleneck it felt like I reached, squeezing through, dashing down.

BOOM!

And like that, I felt myself enter a new realm. My body was as light as a feather, my legs felt like they barely tapped the ground every time that I knew they did.

My awareness felt so much clearer, the world felt so much slower.

And then I felt the burn in my legs, and knew that if I didn't slow down now, I would fall out of the speed of sound, and I am pretty sure my landing wouldn't be pretty.

But this, was hands down, the current highlight of my time in this world, as of yet. To me, this moment was special.

So, as safely, gradually as I could. I slowed down my sprint, one percent of the speed at a time.

And when I came to a full stop, Zaban city was in front of me, yet again.

Now, what to do while I wait for shishou?

~oOo~

Okay, this chapter, more about character development than plot and combat. I had another plan for Zato, and I will implement that too, but then I was like, he's a gourmet hunter, so his first lecture being something like this makes sense. The mc wouldn't seek out a teacher, as she knows nen exercises already, and a teacher forcing his tutelage on her like this would be the only way. I don't want my mc to be a loner for her whole life.

Believe me when I tell you that Zato Naktaar isn't like most teachers in shounen anime, by the way.

Now, I think I have my Saber now. Know that I am still accepting Card suggestions for cards yet to appear in the story. And as you know Caster and Assassin are the only ones our little mc has used as of yet.

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