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Chapter Twelve: Training for Hisui
"Are we near a town yet?" Nixxiom questioned, as he and the group continued onward through the forest.
"For the hundred time Nixxiom, no we're not." Moocluck replied back to his blue armored friend, who only grunted in disapproval by his answer.
"It's not even noon yet," Matty started to say, "According to our map, it will take at least the whole day to arrive to the next town. And that's not counting any breaks we might take." The leather wearer answered, "So there's a big chance that we might have to camp out for tonight mate."
"But I want to find a town!" Nixxiom exclaimed, not at all happy with the answers he got.
"Well tough luck. So shut up." Ragtagg replied, as the blue armored Knight's complaining was getting on the Warrior's nerves.
Both Natsu and Hisui, who were a bit behind the rest of the group, couldn't help but sweat drop by the four in front of them. Though Hisui had to admit, it was kind of funny to the green haired princess.
"They sure are a lively bunch aren't they?" The green haired woman spoke to the pink haired male next to her.
"Yeah, but hey it would be boring otherwise right?" Natsu replied back to her, to which she nodded in agreement with a smile on her face.
Eventually, the group founded an opened clearing in the forest, and since everyone was getting hungry, decided to set up camp for lunch.
It didn't take long for them to set everything up. Natsu started the fire; Ragtagg got the wood for Natsu to start the fire with, Nixxiom and Matty went to grab some logs from the trees for them to sit on, Hisui helped to get the food from their bags out so they can cook them, and Moocluck simply stood there bossing Nixxiom and Natsu around due to finding it funny, which got on both the Fire Dragon Slayer's and the blue armored male's nerves.
A short time later, and everyone was now sitting, chatting, and eating as they filled their stomachs. Hisui though, looked a bit troubled on something, which got everyone else's attention.
"Hey Hisui, are you alright?" Natsu asked the green haired Princess, wondering why the Fiore Princess was making such a face, to which got her attention to look at the pink haired male.
"Yeah I'm fine. It's just…," Hisui stopped for a moment before she pulled out the gun that Brutall lend her as she looked at it, "I don't think this whole gun thing works for me. I don't even know how to properly fire one, let alone know how everything else about it works." She explained to the others.
"Oh, so you don't think having a gun is your kind of thing?" Ragtagg asked, wanting to make sure that is what they all were getting here, to which she nodded.
"Yeah, I mean, I want to be able to fend for myself, so you all don't have to worry about me all the time. But I don't know the right thing for me to do that." Hisui explained to the others, voicing her concerns. She doesn't want to be a burden to them all, yet she can't help but find discomfort with finding a way to do that.
This got the other five in the group to look at each other for a moment, before Ragtagg had a suggestion.
"I think I know how to see what would work for you and what wouldn't." The grey armored Warrior started to say, getting the green haired woman's full attention.
"You do?" She questioned.
"You do?" Natsu, Nixxiom, Moocluck, and Matty also questioned at once toward the Warrior.
"You bet I do!" Ragtagg stated happily as he stood up, "I can teach you the basics of the way of the Warrior!" The black haired man exclaimed to her, getting Hisui to be surprised by his claim.
Before she could speak up though, Moocluck beat her to it.
"Are you sure about that? Hisui doesn't seem the type to be someone charging into battle and cleaving them in two." Moocluck told the grey armored male, who looked annoyed by the red clothed male's words.
"And how would you know that? It's not like she would want to learn what YOU can do." Ragtagg responded back, a bit mad that someone was challenging his right to train the green haired Princess.
Moocluck stayed silent for a moment before he looked at Hisui, and then back at Ragtagg as the Warlock spoke once again.
"Actually, I wouldn't mind showing her the powers of a Warlock." Moocluck stated, getting everyone else to be surprised by his statement.
"Really?" Hisui questioned, as she figured Moocluck would be the last person to be willingly to train someone like her.
"Of course, as long as I get paid from the Fiore Kingdom's treasury later on for this," Moocluck stated, getting Hisui to sweat drop from that, "Besides, nothing is cooler than being a Warlock." The red robed male finished saying.
"I don't know about that." Nixxiom responded after finishing up his meal.
"Screw you." Moocluck responded back to the blue armored male, who only shrugged by the other male's response.
"I have an idea," Matty spoke up, as he too stood up like Ragtagg did, "How about we take turns to attempt to teach Hisui the basics of our abilities? Whatever she liked the most afterwards gets to be trained by the winner to be whatever she ends up liking the most." The alcohol addicted Monk informed everyone of his idea.
This got the others, aside from Natsu as his Dragon Slaying Magic can't be teach to others due to it being a lost magic, to think for a moment about this. A few moments later, they all had a large grin on their faces.
"You know what Matty? You're on!" Nixxiom shouted with confidence.
"Yeah, we all know that Hisui will prefer the techniques of a Warlock." Moocluck stated with a grin, though none of them could see it due to his hood.
"Oh please, by the time this is over she will be a might Warrior!" Ragtagg roared with confidence and pride.
'Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to end well?' Natsu thought to himself as he looked over to the green haired woman, who seemed to be a bit embarrassed by all of this.
'RAGTAGG'S ATTEMPT'
Currently it was just both Hisui and Ragtagg around as the rest of the group went to do some normal training on their own for the time being to give them some space.
"Alright Hisui," Ragtagg started to say, getting the green haired woman's full attention, "If you wish to be a mighty Warrior, then you got to understand what it means to be a warrior."
"And that means…?" Hisui started to ask, hoping that Ragtagg would give her the answer, to which the grey armored Wariror grinned by her question, though it was hard to notice due to his helmet.
"That means that you need to know that everyone f**king sucks compared to you!" His sudden shouting caught Hisui off guard, but couldn't say anything about it as he went on, "A Warrior has no time for such puny things like safety or planning. A warrior, covered completely with metallic plates of armor, charges right into the battle with no thoughts other than the complete annihilation of your enemy! You spill there blood as they cry out for mercy, but you ignore their pleas as you crush them into the dirt like the pathetic deflated sacks as they are! You crush your foes and stomp on their testicles until they turn blue! You drink the blood from their empty sacks, and to finish it off you shove up their d**khole a two handed axe!"
Ragtagg went on to catch his breath as he finished his ranting, before looking back Hisui.
"So yeah, that is why you becoming a warrior are the only optional choice." He finished happily, "So what do you say?"
Hisui was completely paled as Ragtagg's… choice of wordings… may have scarred her a bit.
'MATTY'S ATTEMPT'
"Yikes, that sounds rough. I don't see how Ragtagg could get anyone to agree with him if he explains about Warriors like that." Matty told Hisui, as he drank another from his beers that he had on hand.
"Y-Yeah, it was a bit too much for my liking." Hisui managed to reply back to the brown haired male.
"Well don't worry, for you are about to see that a Monk is clearly the best choice for someone like you," Matty started to explain, "We're a whisper on the wind, a voice echoing inside a cave, we're the sound that you make when a upgrade drops in the rain." He finished as he drank more from his beer.
"Whoa," Hisui couldn't help but feel interested by all of that as a smile took hold of her face, "What does any of that mean?" She questioned.
"Mate I don't f**king know. I was just tying to sound all dramatic and crap." Matty admitted.
"Oh."
"So anyway, let's get onto the basics shall we?" Matty suggested with a grin, to which got Hisui excited again.
"Of course, I am ready when you are Matty!" Hisui replied to the Monk, confident that she can get a handle on this.
"Great!" Matty started to say happily as he walked toward Hisui, before stopping in front of her. Hisui gulped as she prepared herself for whatever Matty has planned. Whatever it was though, she will overcome it! "I need you…" The Monk started to say…
…As he pulled out another beer from his bag and put it in Hisui's hand.
"…To start drinking." He told her.
Hisui stayed silent for a moment before she spoke up.
"…Eh?" The green haired woman questioned.
"You heard me. We Monks can get abilities and power ups from drinking our brews. So start drinking." Matty informed her.
"Uh… forgive me for saying this, but doesn't this just make you Monks seem like a bunch of drunks?" Hisui asked him, as she couldn't help but find this whole drinking thing a negative for these Monks.
"What? Don't be ridiculous!" Matty stated before he drank more from his beer he had on him, "We Monks simply specializes ourselves with our brews to… to…," The leather wearer started to feel a little nauseous," Oh… uh… c-could you give me a moment?"
He didn't wait for her to answer as he bolted to a nearby bush as Hisui could hear him vomit due to drinking so much in a short amount of time. She couldn't help but feel a little grossed out due to hearing him emptying his stomach like that.
"Ugh… that wasn't nice. That brew must have been way stronger that usual," Matty stated before he walked back over to where Hisui was, "So yeah, ready to get back to it?" He asked her happily as he drank more of the beer.
The green haired woman merely looked at him with a deadpanned stare.
'MOOCLUCK'S ATTEMPT'
"Ugh, I don't see how anyone would want to be some sort of alcohol addict Monk if what your saying is anything to go buy." Moocluck stated, as he thought the way Matty tried to teach her the basics of being a Monk was completely idiotic.
"Yeah, I don't really want to be something if I have to keep drinking like that," Hisui replied back to the red robed male, "So… what is it like being a Warlock? What makes it different compared to that of a Mage?" She questioned.
Moocluck laughed at this before he started too explained.
"It's quite simple really," He started to say to her; "A Mage tends to finish the job too quick. You can't savor all the little… details… that you get by slowly watching them die painfully to abilities that you inflict on them that hurt them overtime. You see, in people's last moments they show just how salty they really are. You can't help but get satisfaction and see how much salt is in them as you burn their soul away from the inside."
Moocluck finished explaining as he then smiled happily, though one couldn't tell due to his hood.
"So yeah, ready to know the basics of being a Warlock?" He asked her with excitement.
And just like with Ragtagg, Hisui was a bit scarred by his choice of words.
'NIXXIOM'S ATTEMPT'
"-And then I showed off my big, strong, godly arms and lift the boulder over my shoulder before throwing it far away from the bridge. The people were joyful for me so much for this, that they renamed their bridge after me. And there was this one time where I defeated an entire army of soldiers single handily with by great muscular strength, that they pleaded for mercy as I showed off my greatness and-" Nixxiom continued to go onward with his tales.
Hisui couldn't help but cry anime tears as she realized that Nixxiom wasn;t actually planning on training her for anything and only trying to show off accomplishments that she knows that didn't actually happen and were just making it up.
Man… they are awful teachers aren't they? I sure think so.
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See you all next time, whenever that will be.