"Let's tell about the new bandit arts today!"

The day after breaking through two levels.

I was called out to a vacant lot outside the town, and told me that opening was the first.

"Is it a new art?"

The words are a little exciting.

"Well, Note's Search, Trap Detect, and Trap Release have already improved enough, and I'm convinced that it's time to work on other arts."

"Oh really! Thank you very much!"

I was glad to be recognized by Jin and to take the next step, and myself was surprisingly loud.

Jin looked down at me with her head smiling.

"So what's the new bandit art?"

"Now you'll be able to wear Notebook with Stealth and Evasion Arts."

" and avoidance?"

Jin affirmed the words I repeated and continued.

"First of all, let's start with Stealth. It's an art that's less likely to be targeted by monsters. If you learn Stealth, we'll take note from the threat of monsters You don't have to devote your strength to defending it. ''

"It's definitely a useful art."

If you wear Stealth, your luggage in combat may not pull you.

It was an art that I really wanted to learn.

"So evasive art is literally art that avoids attacks, right?"

"Yes. Evasive arts is a generic term for such arts. Do you want Note to master some of them?"

"I know << Stealth >> is useful, but why is another one an evasion art?"

"First of all, I want you to give priority to the technology that does not lose your life. It is a dungeon capture only when you are alive. When Stealth can not completely eliminate the sign from the monster, when the bullets fly, Note I want to be able to cope with it.

-Combat technology.

In response to the words, my shoulders popped up.

When I entered Arrivers, I wanted to be a strong and cool adventurer that everyone would yearn for, even when I wanted to be an adventurer.

I realize I'm far from that now, but I can say that my dream has disappeared.

If you know the reality, your dreams will fade, but that doesn't mean you never did.

I want to give back to everyone in "Arrives".

That is, of course, my best feeling right now.

That's why I'm prepared to abandon my dream and go behind the scenes.

But the path I walked was not far from my dream.

He was steadily taking the steps to his dream.

I was happy.

"Now, for now, I'm going to teach you about Covert Stealth, which is unique in that it can erase not only the sign of the object you're touching, but also the clothes and weapons, as well as a human being. With that feature, I'm going to use it to remove Note's sign from now on, so I want Note to feel like it's gone and copy it. "

"It seems difficult to imitate the senses ..."

"Isn't it? That's much easier than hearing and learning, and I think it's easier to learn than Search for."

Jin put his hand on his shoulder.

"Ikune-"

-Immediately, I was left out of the world.

You can see that my presence is sparse.

The scenery that spreads out and the self is separated.

I feel even alienated as if I were not a resident of this world.

I'm actually dead, only my soul is left behind.

All my memories so far have been fake, and it seemed that this loneliness was true.

"Yes, release"

I returned to me with those words.

Repeat to regain the forgotten breath and calm down.

"This is the feeling of" secret "-"

"Did you do something? Well, if you forget this feeling, tell me as many times as you can tell me."

"understood……"

Jin followed me, but I didn't seem to forget this shocking feeling.

***

With Rozria joining the party, Arrivers has decided to resume the dungeon strategy in earnest.

My arts practice seems to be done at the same time as the dungeon search.

The next day after I first learned Stealth, I spent three breakthroughs, and the next day I was trained in my evasive arts.

"Did you see me using evasive arts yesterday as instructed?"

"Yes. It was too fast to catch up with my eyes, but for the time being ..."

Jin was supposed to fight mainly in yesterday's search.

The reason is that he wanted me to see what an evasion art is.

To make it easy for beginners to understand, I used to use exaggerated arts, but I was just crazy.

They couldn't see how many types of art were used or how they moved their bodies.

So, I was wondering if he could teach me carefully.

"Then, I'm going to attack you now, so let's look at it and try to avoid it."

The world was not so sweet.

Not good at all ... There is also a degree of unreasonableness ....

"Isn't it reckless, how do you practice ... There seems to be a more efficient way ..."

"I think this method is the best for me .... Evasive arts are something that you can naturally acquire in a fight. I can only do it. ''

"I understand that, but Jin-san's partner .... Honestly, I don't seem to be able to avoid ..."

"That doesn't mean I can't fight dungeon monsters."

"I agree……"

Certainly, if I fight a dungeon monster, I'm sure I'll die in a single blow.

If Jin is your opponent, no matter how much you fail to avoid, it will not be fatal.

At that point I was relieved, but it seemed more difficult to avoid Jin's attack than to avoid dungeon monsters.

Suddenly too hard mode ...

Well, Jin will probably take care of it.

I accepted the proposal and decided to face each other.

From now on, I will begin to avoid Jin's attack.

"Well, let's get started."

Nod back to Jin's words. It is a signal of the start of the war.

I squint so as not to miss his every move in front.

"-Zekage

--eh?

The next moment I saw his mouth move, I was flying in the air.

I do not understand what it means.

Finally, I was hit by the ground and realized that I had been thrown.

After stunned for a few seconds, the pain in his back struck and he regained his thinking.

For now, say what you think.

"Isn't it all right suddenly?"

"What is that?"

Jin raised his hand on purpose.

"In the dungeon, monsters don't take care of themselves, so it's natural for me to be serious too."

It's true, but ...

There are things that don't make sense.

I didn't expect any anger or regrets, or feelings of dislike in myself.

All right. If that's the case, I'll avoid it too.

I'll mobilize all the techniques I can use and avoid them with any hand.

Jin in my heart.

He had already abandoned his common sense that he would not be able to beat Jin.

I'm serious. I will do it seriously. Seriously beat Jin.

It changes from the defenseless posture of the past, and pulls out the dagger knife that was inserted at the waist.

The other day, I got one from Erin.

Hold it in your right hand and get ready for battle.

Jin lifted her mouth to spare my serious expression.

"Like, I think you have some room to stretch. Yes, you have to keep your weapon up to concentrate on evasion. It's just the target of your opponent if you run away completely."

No more logic or theory.

Jin's commission had hardly come to mind, and he wanted to start at last.

From his glance, he seemed to know what he was thinking.

A responding nod comes back.

"-Zekage

A black shadow was approaching past my eyes.

No one will have a hard time if you become stronger just by changing consciousness.

It was a day when I learned important lessons.

15 wins and 0 wins. This is today's record.

Instead of winning, I couldn't avoid Jin's attack, but in fifteenth battle I was conscious of his blow, and when I woke up I was in a party house.

Apparently, while he was fainted, Neme used a healing spell.

The pains I felt during the battle were pulling as if they hadn't existed since the beginning.

For the time being, I would like to express my gratitude,

"How is it? I want to be grateful!"

I put my hand on my waist and returned with a grinning face, so I was a little irritated.

Swing (physically) around a sickle and a slug and leave the living room.

Then he headed to Jin's room with his feet.

To thank them for their training and to reflect on them.

“――How was it? What ’s your progress today…?”

"Hmm ... I can't say anything, it's the first day ..."

Jin nodded, "but I don't think it's bad."

Not bad-yes.

From my point of view, I couldn't find any good point in my training today.

He may have taken care of me and used gentle expressions.

I feel sorry.

Then I got some advice from Jin and left the room.

All of Jin's advices are abundant and abstract.

When I trained on Search for Enemy, I saw similar characteristics, but I can't tell if it wasn't good at teaching Jin or teaching arts itself. Was.

But all of the advice I've received in the past has been such that I can only understand the meaning when I look back at some skill.

Evidence that the advice is not out of the question.

However, I feel that Jin is a genius skin or the process of wearing art is different from ordinary people like me.

His advice is that it can be useful to me or not at all.

Then I decided to take a bath to get rid of the dirt on my body that was repeatedly slammed on the ground.

After taking a shower and soaking in the bathtub, look back on your training today.

The only thing I can do now is to do image training on fighting with Jin.

I don't know how useful it is, but it's better than not doing it.

Dozens and hundreds of fights imaginatively and keep losing.

Still, let's try tomorrow's hand that looks good.

And what I can do now is just to practice Stealth.

This is a type of art that can be trained independently, regardless of the opponent or situation.

It's a similar kind of thing like Searching for Enemy.

I liked practicing arts like that.

Now, let's take a look and practice << Stealth >>.

What matters is how much time you spend practicing the arts.

The three arts I've learned so far are like that.

I immersed myself in the bathtub, remembering the feeling of excluding myself from the world the other day.