Friendly Reincarnator Chapter 109: First Class – Part 2

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　I ran around the schoolyard with the others.

　After two laps, a few of the students were already out of breath, and I wondered if they could make it as adventurers. After running, while my body is still warm, I stretch to increase the range of motion of my joints.

　As for the sword, I had a meeting with Micah beforehand, and I taught him practice swings and stances.

　The stances consisted of seven: a quick draw slash, an overhead slash, a side slash, and a slash from below, a slash from the left and from the right, finally a frontal thrust.

　Based on interpersonal combat, Micah teaches how to swing a sword and defend with a buckler.

　After about 20 minutes of practicing stances, the students were paired up to attack and defend using the stances.

　During these movements, Micah would look around and instruct the students on how to correct the mistakes.

　With about five minutes to go, Vince shouted again,

“Hey, will this really make me stronger?” (Vince)

“We’re teaching the basics of the basics. If you can’t even do that, how can you be strong?” (Micah)

　Micah answered calmly, as he had expected this question.

“Do you want me to check?” (Micah)

　He offered, and Vince said he’d do whatever asked, and he just returned doing the stances.

“Then let’s begin!” (Micah)

　Micah announced, and we began a three-minute mock battle.

　Vince struck me with a lot of random attacks. He said he had a little confidence in his sword, but it was more of a muscle-brain sword.

　Normally, I would have hit him somewhere, but since I have been practicing Aikido for a long time, I know a little about using the body and footwork as a martial art, so I used the stances I had taught him and let him defend himself for two minutes.

　After two minutes, when Vince was breathing and slowing down, I attacked him.

　Just before the three minutes were up, I made a thrust to the body, and when Vince lost his balance and fell down, I pushed a wooden sword against his neck to end the attack.

　I could hear Vince’s teeth grinding in frustration.

“Just like you saw the mock battle just now. We’ve got a month left, but there’s no harm in learning the basics. Everyone, if you have any questions in class, voice them as Vince did.” (Micah)

　I think Micah made good use of the situation.

　After a 10-minute break, it was Maggie’s turn to teach a magic class in the training area.

“Today we are going to teach a class on controlling magic. After 20 minutes of basic training, we will do target practice. It may seem simple, but by doing the basic training every day, you will be able to adjust the amount of magic power you put into your body and control it precisely.” (Maggie)

“How much control does the D-rank Teacher Maggie have?” (Courtney)

　Courtney asked mischievously.

“Well, at my level, it’s something like this.” (Maggie)

　She chanted and produced three water balls and successfully hit three targets at the same time.

　The power was not strong, but the control was excellent.

“Three if it’s D rank. What will happen if it’s C rank?” (Courtney)

　I sensed a little malice in her words, but Maggie ignored it.

“Well, whether you are good at it or not at a higher or lower rank, your current goal is to control your magic. That is your goal, so please focus on getting better at control first.” (Maggie)

　Everyone went through the general basic magical power circulation training in silence for 20 minutes.

　I’m the only one who has a different circulation technique for magic, but that’s okay because others can’t see it.

　Each of them started practicing hitting a target with their good aptitude magic, and while I was just observing when Courtney, who was very perceptive, asked me if I wanted to try my hand at target practice.

“I can’t break the target like I did yesterday, and I usually don’t hit the target by doing basic circulation training for a long time.” (Louis)

“How can you hit a monster during a real training session if you don’t train to hit the target?” (Courtney)

“I think it’s good for control, to speed up the activation of magic if you are aware of your control, but I usually use a different control method.” (Louis)

“Well, let’s see how you control your magic Teacher Louis.” (Courtney)

“Only if everyone had hit their target and Teacher Maggie allowed it.” (Louis)

　Courtney turned around and said to Maggie.

“Teacher Maggie, after everyone’s target shooting is over, can I see Teacher Louis’ control technique for reference?” (Courtney)

“I will allow it. However, I think it will not be helpful for you.” (Maggie)

　In the meantime, everyone’s target shooting was over, so I asked everyone to gather around and showed them my water ball control.

　I show them how I juggle by moving 100 water balls at once, half the usual number.

“““Wow!!!!””” (Students)

“How many are there?” (Courtney)

Courtney asked in a dazed voice, and I answered that there were 100.

“Am I correct in assuming that being a C-rank adventurer does this kind of thing with water magic?” (Courtney)

　I gathered the water balls into one and let them mist up in the air.

“Rank doesn’t matter, moreover this isn’t Water Magic, it’s Non-attribute Magic. I just use Life Magic to cast [Water], and I’m doing about half the number I usually do.” (Louis)

“Whaaaat? That isn’t Water Magic? What in the world is going on?” (Courtney)

“Right? I told you it’s non-standard and not helpful, didn’t I?” (Maggie)

　For some reason, Maggie turned her chest away and proudly said it.

“I don’t know, but I think it’s time to go, don’t you? Let’s finish up and get back to class.” (Louis)

　I urged everyone to go to the classroom.

“The fourth period is my classroom lecture. It will be a time for you to learn about monsters and gathering.” (Louis)

　Since there were no teaching materials this time, he decided to conduct the class through a lecture.

　There is no end to the number of people who, after registering as adventurers, feel like they can do anything they want and end up dying fighting high-ranked monsters.

　The first thing I tell them is that it is important to do work that is appropriate for their rank.

　Usually, the workflow for registered adventurers begins with gathering medicinal herbs in the safest possible location, and as their rank rises, they are assigned to fighting monsters.

　If you don’t work well together in a party, you can easily get killed when fighting monsters or bandits.

　I talked about these things and asked questions in the case studies, so we had about 30 minutes of class without letting up.

　The other 20 minutes would be spent listening to their thoughts on today’s class.

“I’m going to end today’s class now, but since I joined the class, the class policy has changed. So, I want to ask you all. What did you think of today’s class? Did you get a little something out of it for yourselves?” (Louis)

“I have been taking classes for two months, and today was the shortest. It was good to realize that each one of them is about becoming an adventurer. I assume that Teacher Louis will still be teaching after the break?” (Vince)

　Surprisingly, Vince was the first to give me a favorable answer.

“Yeah, I’ll be a temporary instructor for a month, but I’ll be teaching as much as I know about what it takes to be a survivable adventurer, so let’s enjoy our time.” (Louis)

“I’ve never found a class so interesting. I’m looking forward to working with you after the break.” (Courtney)

　Courtney felt good too.

“I’m going to prepare some material for after the holidays, so I think it’s going to be a little bit harder, but I think you’ll be able to keep up with it.” (Louis)

　The other students also responded that it was good to see what they could do and what they could not do.

“Last but not least, the principal has given us permission to move into the dormitories after the break. All current students will be able to use the dormitory free of charge for the remainder of the month. If you have not paid for the dormitory for a long period of time, or if you are willing to pay it back, you can use the dormitory. From the next students, we will start charging for the dormitory. And we’re planning to have outside teachers, so you can look forward to that.” (Louis)

“””Whaaaat??”””” (Students)

“Dorms, when you don’t have a building? How?” (Vince)

“And even if they do, will they really let us use it for free?” (Courtney)

　I answered with a relaxed expression on my face as the questions I had generally anticipated came in.

“Don’t worry. After the vacations, the dormitory will be completed on the school grounds. The principal of Sennett has given us permission to let you use it free of charge until you graduate. You can visit the dormitory after classes are over after the vacations.” (Louis)

“Yes!” (Students)

　All of them gave happy replies and we finished today’s class.