Trained Until She Was Scared

Terrified of Training

The cold-weapons training ground.

Ren Yu held a wooden sword in his hand, and the sharp clacking of collisions rang out without end.

He kept repeating the same thing.

—Block, block, and block again.

Ren Yu attacked at a very low frequency, yet every strike precisely knocked against the other wooden sword, deflecting the girl's slashes.

Before long, the girl sparring with him was panting from exhaustion. She voluntarily conceded and begged, "Too fast... Assistant Teacher, you're too fast... Slow down, stop... stop!"

The moment the word "stop" left her mouth, the wooden sword in Ren Yu's hand halted with a swish, less than twenty centimeters from her forehead.

She was done already?

Ren Yu checked his watch. It had not even been two minutes.

Before he could say anything, the girl started complaining first.

"Assistant Teacher, I'm not playing anymore. Sparring with you is practically like hammering iron. No matter how I attack, you block it all. This doesn't count as feeding moves at all!"

"..."

Ren Yu looked at the wooden sword in his hand. It did seem to be the case.

After thinking it over, he dismissed all the power from his badge and said somewhat awkwardly, "How about I don't use any strength this time? Shall we try again?"

After all, Ren Yu still had the title of Assistant Teacher. Since he was getting paid, he could not just coast along.

"No, no!" Nina shook her head repeatedly, her ponytail bobbing along with it.

"Maybe next time. Both my hands have gone numb from the shock."

Afraid Ren Yu would not believe her, she held both hands up before him. "Look, see? They're all swollen."

—Sure enough, they were bright red.

She then walked down and picked up the emergency spray placed below the stage, spraying it over her hands as if it cost nothing.

"Ah—much better."

Nina finally let out a breath, and a string of tiny water droplets formed over the areas of her hands covered by the spray.

At the same time, she felt rather resentful.

No matter what, she was at least a beauty. Was this how Assistant Teacher treated her?

Couldn't he go easy on her, even a little?

Ren Yu ignored her. Instead, he swept his gaze around the room and asked the students, who were trembling like a flock of quails, "So... does anyone else want to give it a try?"

No one answered him.

Instead, the girls his gaze passed over shrank back even harder.

Assistant Teacher really was so strong!

Aside from Mei, Nina was the best swordswoman in the class. Even she could not hold out, so how could they dare go up and try?

"Assistant Teacher... it's not that we dislike you. It's just that the gap between us is too great. There's no point in fighting you."

One student swallowed and gathered her courage to speak.

"..."

Ren Yu fell silent.

This really was his mistake. He had instinctively assumed it would be like his usual training, so he had used the badge enhancement right from the start.

Then, he had accidentally scared them.

"Then I won't use any strength this time. Want to try?"

As he spoke, Ren Yu put on the friendliest smile he could manage.

But in the students' eyes, that smile was practically on par with an evil ghost's. They merely exchanged glances before all shaking their heads in unison, their eyes falling on Nina, who was resting nearby.

We're not blessed enough for that. We're not blessed enough for that...

Let poor Nina go up. We'll just watch.

Ren Yu frowned. He had finally come up with an excellent method, yet no one was willing to be the test subject?

Just now, Ren Yu had tried switching places with the girl in his mind, attempting to make himself face "himself."

And that attempt had actually produced results.

He had come up with several ways to deal with himself, including how exactly the girl's move should change and what footwork would be the best choice.

Yet no one was willing to come up.

"Ah—"

Ren Yu shook his head and sighed. Just as he was about to step down from the platform, the training ground doors were pulled open and a black-haired woman walked in.

He looked toward the sound and immediately recognized who she was.

It was Mei!

She had just returned after delivering something to Kiana when she discovered that the students in the training ground were all trembling, while even Ren Yu on the platform wore a serious expression.

"What happened?"

Her heart skipped a beat. Could it be that these students had offended Assistant Teacher Yang? That would be bad!

But things were not as she had imagined. Seeing Mei return, everyone seemed to have found their backbone. One girl even cried out in grievance, "Mei!"

"Assistant Teacher is way too terrifying! We've all been trained into submission by him! If you'd come back any later, you might've seen all of us lying on the ground..."

Ren Yu: "..."

Didn't you ask me to be your sparring partner? How did you end up slandering me?