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-Kael! Don’t watch only your opponent’s fingertips. Some people move their feet before their hands.

-I’ll admit your mind is extraordinary. But that’s precisely the problem. You think too much, so your movements are slow!

-It’s good to try to predict what your opponent will do. But sometimes you have to rely on instinct and intuition. Kael, in that regard, you’re far behind Leon.

It was the same nagging Kael had heard every time he trained with Leon under the captain of the kingdom’s strongest knight order.

‘I heard it until my ears were numb.’

While he was face down in the dirt.

After taking a wooden sword to the ribs.

While watching Leon roll around beside him, laughing.

There had even been times when he wondered why a mage had to be made to do things like this.

Still, well… he thought all that grueling training had paid off...