Subaru opened his eyes and greeted a brand-new day.
Waking up inside the Green Room, the first thing he saw when he looked up was a great deal of vegetation.
This place was called the Green Room precisely because it was filled with green plants, and it was also an excellent place for healing wounds.
By now, he basically slept here every night to recover from the damage caused by his special training.
To be honest, he did not know whether pushing his body like this would have any side effects.
After all, the number of times the body’s cells could regenerate was limited.
Overworking the body too much would only permanently affect its performance.
Fortunately, Subaru’s diet was not that bad.
Shaula’s powerful sniping ability could easily strike down the mabeasts in the sand dunes, and the flesh and blood of those mabeasts was the perfect source of protein.
“Ahh~~”
After a comfortable sleep, he sat up and stretched his body.
“Somehow, everything here feels a little too dreamlike…”
Subaru thought back to when he had first arrived in this world.
After dying twice in a row, the biggest blow he had suffered was against the mabeast and Reid.
But now, even Reid had basically become a good friend of his, though Reid himself would never admit that.
A ridiculously strong friend willing to give him special training, and a beautiful girl whose affection had been maxed out from the start…
Thinking about it now, his current situation was unbelievably good.
Even his trump card, Return by Death, had completely lost any place to be used.
“Maaaster————!!”
Shaula dragged out her voice, but her body arrived beside Subaru even faster than the sound.
Then, in one breath, she threw herself into his arms.
Perhaps because Subaru had complained many times before, her movement this time was much gentler.
At the very least, it could no longer be called a high speed collision.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m here… I swear, do you have to do this every single morning?”
Subaru skillfully patted Shaula, who had buried her head into his chest.
“After one whole night, I’m severely lacking Master Energy, so I need to replenish it right now!”
“Ah, is that how it works?
I thought that strange energy tank of yours could last at least three days, but it turns out one night is already too much?”
“Three days?!
No, no, no, no!
If Shaula went one day without seeing Master, the feelings inside my body would overflow, and I would explode to death!”
Hearing Shaula say something ridiculous in such a serious tone, Subaru smiled warmly.
“If that were true, you should’ve self destructed already… 400 times 365 days ago!”
“Ehehe.
Because my feelings for Master are too strong, even if I self destruct, I can revive afterward~”
“Don’t casually add new settings like that.”
Subaru first struggled to push Shaula away, then began preparing today’s breakfast.
“Same as before.
Bring Reid a portion too.”
Subaru did not forget to say that to Shaula behind him.
“Awwww— No way!
I don’t want to face that vulgar scoundrel alone.
What if he bullies me while Master isn’t there?
Does Master want to see his adorable disciple being bullied by that hoodlum?”
Shaula said that pitifully.
“Even if your Master were standing right there, if he wanted to bully you, I wouldn’t be able to stop him at all.
Besides, he can’t come downstairs.
If he shows any signs of doing something, just hurry back down.”
Subaru mercilessly pointed out the cruel truth.
“I know your impression of him is really bad, but in the end, there are only three of us in this tower who can talk to each other.
Even if his personality is awful, he was still someone you knew a long time ago, right?
Try to get along with him.”
Hearing Subaru say that, Shaula showed a very surprised expression. You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.
“Even though Master lost his memory, why hasn’t your way of speaking and thinking changed at all from before?”
“It’s a coincidence… just a coincidence.”
Of course, Subaru did not admit to having lost his memory.
He did not believe for a second that he had actually hit his head on a toilet and gotten amnesia.
Besides, the Master Shaula had been waiting for had to be someone from at least four hundred years ago.
Maybe he had long since reached the end of his lifespan and died.
There was no way Subaru could live that long.
“Don’t eat it halfway there.
Make sure you properly bring it to Reid.”
“YES!
Shaula guarantees the mission will be completed!”
Today’s special training began once more.
However, today was a little different.
Reid suggested that Subaru try again, to test the results of the past half month of special training.
“Same as before.
Let that dumb woman attack as much as she wants and interfere with me.
As for you, use every method you can think of and run to the stairs.
If you succeed, this floor counts as cleared.
If you fail, that means you haven’t improved at all after half a month, and the training continues.
Got it?”
Reid held his chopsticks as if he were a real examiner reading out the rules of an exam.
“Yeah, I understand perfectly, Reid.”
“Don’t call out my name like that, bastard.
Who gave you permission?”
“Haha, sorry, sorry.
Then how about Big Brother Reid?”
Subaru immediately changed to a more respectful term.
Hearing that, Reid thought carefully for a moment before answering.
“Hah!
You want to become my little brother?
Then let’s see if you’re qualified, small fry!”
If this had been before, Reid would definitely have shouted, “What right does a bastard like you have to call me Big Brother?”
But after spending half a month together, Reid no longer seemed quite as aggressive.
“Three.”
“Two.”
“One.”
“The test begins.
Put everything you have into getting past me!”
“Got it!
Shaula!”
Following Subaru’s shout, Shaula, standing not far away, decisively fired a white beam.
That white light could instantly melt steel, and its true form was a sharp white needle.
“Not fast enough, and the force isn’t ruthless enough either.
At this level, it won’t help distract me from the brat at all!”
Reid still caught the white needle with ease.
Almost at the same time the needle was fired, Subaru began moving.
He ran with all his strength.
His steps felt unusually light.
His body was stronger than before.
Was it because of the mabeast flesh?
Had eating mabeast flesh for so long not burdened his body, but instead benefited it?
Subaru found that unbelievable.
“You’ve improved a little.”
Reid’s figure moved like a ghost, appearing in front of Subaru.
He flicked his wrist, and the chopsticks stabbed forward at extreme speed.
“I won’t let you do that!
Don’t even think about touching Master!”
A needle once again streaked across like a meteor.
It tore through the air with a thunderous boom.
Reid had no choice but to immediately switch from offense to defense, withdrawing the chopsticks that should have struck Subaru and using them to deal with the white needle instead.
Clang!
It was caught again.
Using that opportunity, Subaru had already run forward.
His goal was simple and clear: the staircase behind Reid.
As long as he went up, the winner would undoubtedly be him.
“Hah, as if it would be that easy, small fry!”
Several more beams of white light came rushing at him.
Reid calmly gripped one of his chopsticks in his palm, as though he were holding a sword.
The corner of his mouth lifted slightly, as if he had never taken these attacks seriously at all.
First, he threw one chopstick backward.
That chopstick immediately shot forward as if it had been equipped with a booster, lunging toward Subaru.
Then, using only the single chopstick left in his hand like a sharp iron sword, Reid precisely deflected every incoming white beam without missing once.
“Gah!”
Subaru, focused only on running forward, naturally had no way to notice the high speed chopstick flying toward him from behind.
The chopstick easily pierced through his shoulder.
Not only that, the remaining momentum dragged Subaru forward even farther.
Pain rushed into his mind.
Subaru rolled across the ground several times before barely coming to a stop.
Realizing that he had fallen, Subaru knew he had to get up immediately.
But when he raised his head, Reid was already strolling leisurely toward him.
“This is as far as you go.”
Reid suddenly kicked.
Subaru’s nerves stretched to their limit.
He rolled sideways and actually avoided the kick, making Reid’s attack miss.
“Oh?
Your reaction speed isn’t bad, small fry.
Compared to half a month ago, you look a lot more proper.”
“Haha… It’s still nowhere near enough…”
White needles rained down once more.
Reid had no choice but to continue defending against those attacks, and Subaru used that chance to climb back to his feet.
Victory was just one step away.
The distance to success, the distance to escaping this place, the distance to his beautiful Isekai life—
The white needle offensive…slowed down.
Even if it only slowed by the tiniest fraction—
For the Sword Saint in front of him, that was more than enough to break free.
“Test failed, small fry!”
Reid appeared behind Subaru again, pressing him down to the ground with one hand and declaring his failure.
“So it’s… still not enough…”
Subaru was frustrated that his speed was still not fast enough, and his movement was still not nimble enough.
But he did not notice the complicated expression on Shaula’s face behind him.
(TL:Oh~?
she is sabotaging huh?