Pirates: The first partner is Tom Cat

There is no lunch break. After finishing his work, Zhang Da will start class with Teacher Artoria.

It was the same sword swing training as yesterday. Zhang Daye's movements were very standard. However, with the actual combat (beating) experience in the morning, he knew that most of the time, except for the first move, the enemy would rarely let you look cool.

Position, call out the name of the second player and then move comfortably.

The significance of practicing basic moves is to familiarize him with the way each move is exerted, so that he can exert the power of each move as perfectly as possible in battle.

Of course, if you want to do this, you still need to go through long-term practice and battle.

"drink!"

"ha!"

Zhang Da also felt that shouting while swinging the sword was more powerful and reminded him of early martial arts movies.

Arturia didn't care about him. In fact, she didn't need to care about him, because it didn't take long for his throat to be unbearable, and he had to pay the price for being a second grader.

As for Tom, he picked up his small bamboo sword and swung it around a few times before running back to sleep impatiently.

The two of them knew that even if they forced him to continue practicing, he would come up with inexplicable ways to be lazy, so they simply let him go.

"Tatsuya, stop for a moment," Artoria said.

Zhang Da also put away his sword and stopped, asking: "What's wrong?"

Arturia stood in front of him and looked up slightly for a while, then said: "Take off your clothes."

"Huh?" Zhang Da was also a little confused.

"The bruise on your forehead has disappeared. I want to confirm how your injuries are." Artoria tilted her head: "What's wrong?"

"...It's okay, please don't say anything misunderstood with a calm face." Zhang Da also lifted up his shirt as she asked, revealing his abdominal muscles that have become more and more obvious these days.

Arturia didn't have as many messy thoughts as he did. She stretched out her finger and poked a place where there should have been a bruise: "Is it really completely gone? Is the medicine you applied before a special medicine?"

"No, it's just an ordinary medicine to reduce swelling and relieve pain." Zhang Da also touched the original injury himself and felt that he had completely recovered.

The medicine in the medical kit is just ordinary medicine. That's what the introduction said when you picked it up. When Tom is injured, he doesn't need to rely on medicine to recover. Even a bandage will give him psychological comfort.

"Before I came to this world, I was just an ordinary person. I'm sure I don't have any special powers like super resilience..." Zhang Da also raised his left hand, "If there is any difference, it is this."

He has already tried it. The magic circle in his hand is something that only he, Tom, and Artoria can see. Now he is a little doubtful whether this thing has changed his physique.

Artoria nodded: "This may be the reason. Please pay more attention to any abnormalities in your body. In short, it seems to be a good thing now."

"Well, now that the injury is healed, let's come to sparring! ... Oh no, let me finish the basic training first." Zhang Da also had plans to exercise his arm strength, but he was worried that he would be scrapped and would not be able to complete it.

During this period, he watched the energy fill up and drew another prize. Now he no longer draws at 90%, but has to wait until it is full, thinking that maybe the explosion rate will be different or something.

However, he probably overthought it. Summoning items still consumes 80% of the energy, and the items that come out are nothing outstanding:

[Congratulations on getting the kotatsu from the Emiya family and the rolling pin from the Tom family.]

[Saved to inventory.]

The rolling pin was ordinary. Anyway, this broken magic circle couldn't get through the kitchen. It either caused harm to the Emiya family's kitchen or to the Tom's family. I don't know if these things disappeared directly in their world or were copied.

I've never seen a real kotatsu, but I've only heard that it's a seductive and depraved artifact in winter, the kind where anime characters become lazy and don't want to come out as soon as they get in.

You can experience it in the winter... By the way, is there winter in the Shampoo Islands?

He really didn't ask about this specifically, and the weather in the Grand Line was very messy. It wouldn't be surprising if winter would begin in the next second, right?

After a short break, Zhang Daye and Artoria fought each other with bamboo swords.

After the experience of being beaten in the morning, Zhang Da also made some progress, at least the frequency of beatings was reduced.

From being defeated by Artoria in two seconds to being able to last up to three moves in the afternoon, it has improved by 50%, which is gratifying.

At the end of the training, he was inevitably injured again. At this time, Zhang Da couldn't help but think of Zoro, who was beaten two thousand times by Gu Yina since he was a child - I won't have to be beaten thousands of times in a row, right?

"It hurts, it hurts..."

It is still necessary to take medicine, which can at least temporarily relieve the pain. The tavern will be open for a while at night so as not to affect the movement.

Lifting up his shirt to reveal the scars on his body, Zhang Daye did it properly, or a little stiffly, and left all the tasks of applying the medicine to Artoria.

It was impossible for her to stop at the critical moment during sparring. Teacher Artoria took the teaching task very seriously, but afterwards she still wanted to do something within her power to express her apology.

Zhang Da also refused at first because he was a little embarrassed, but with her insistence, he accepted the offer half-heartedly.

"If you don't want to trouble me, just become stronger quickly." Artoria said.

I don’t know how long she will have to be beaten in the future. In order to let her have no burden when teaching, I will adapt to it slowly and reluctantly. I don’t know how much secret joy there is in this reluctance.

"Artoria."

"Um?"

Zhang Daye said half-jokingly: "Have you ever heard of the saying, 'Playing chess with a stinky chess basket, the more you play, the stinker will get worse'. If you practice swordsmanship with a beginner like me every day, will you become weaker and weaker?"

ah?"

Artoria kept applying medicine on her hands and explained seriously: "There will be no such thing. I don't know about other people, but for me, every time I swing a sword, it is a process of accumulating experience, whether it is practice

It's still fighting, no matter whether the opponent is strong or weak, because every sword I swing is done carefully, no matter how small it is, I will become stronger as long as I swing the sword."

"..." Zhang Da was silent for a moment: "I feel like I was hit."

This is simply a built-in swordsmanship experience bar. She is good-looking, strong, and has cheats. Arturia is treated as the protagonist in the novel. Should I say that she is worthy of being the king of knights who became a hero by her own strength?

"Okay." Arturia threw away the cotton ball, put away the tweezers and wound medicine, and encouraged, "Don't belittle yourself. Even I rarely see people as hard-working as you, plus you have such a recovery.

The power is there, Tatsuya, you might become stronger than me in the future."