Several months had passed since Cui Ciyou, Roxy, and Lilia moved into their new home, and their lives had gradually settled down.
Cui Ciyou's life was clearly divided into two parts.
He regularly alternated between the bustle of Roa City and the tranquility of Buena Village.
Every three days, he would mount his white horse, Gale, in the morning light and set off back to Roa.
His main purpose was to teach Alice.
Alice's progress was impressive.
She could now even stumble her way through a short passage from a novel, though she still had little patience for reading and learning words.
Whenever Cui Ciyou checked her homework and praised her, Alice would awkwardly puff out her chest, glare at him with her spirited red eyes, and growl:
"Something this easy! I... I did it without even trying! It-it wasn't for you!"
"It's not like I... worked hard studying on my own while you were gone..."
Her tsundere act always made Cui Ciyou chuckle, but it also left him feeling a little pleased.
Of course, her passion for swordsmanship had not diminished in the slightest. Every day, she worked up a sweat under Ghislaine's strict instruction, and her sword skills improved by leaps and bounds.
In Ghislaine's words, "She's almost at the level of an Advanced Swordsman."
Sparring with Ghislaine was another of Cui Ciyou's activities in Roa.
They would practice pure swordsmanship together on House Boreas's spacious training grounds.
An experienced Sword King, Ghislaine freely demonstrated the essence of the Sword God Style to Cui Ciyou: speed, precision, and ferocity.
From basic footwork and slashes to the subtler techniques for generating power in the Sword of Light, she taught him everything she knew.
Cui Ciyou's physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people, and his learning speed was frightening.