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Akane entered the office. She was smiling, as usual, but there were some traces of fear and confusion in her eyes. "This place is creepy." She thought and shuddered. It was still hard for her to adapt to this nation, since all she saw before was the dark city of Lumira. All those roots looked like alive and dangerous enemies to her. But the eagerness to train was stronger than any fear, so she just sat down on one of the chairs in front of the desk and waited. She was not sure for what, though.

She was staring at her feet when Feather introduced herself. Akane rose her head quickly and made a sound that was suppose to be a laugh. "I'm Akane Saito, nice to meet you!" She said while standing up. "Of course I'm here to train!" Akane made that ridiculous sound again. "And is there any chance that you could help me?" She looked at Feather with childish eagerness in her eyes.

Akane smiled. "Of course! I'm an assassin and my element is fire. And.." She looked at her feet and blushed slightly. "Well, I'm just a simple human, I don't have a bloodline." Akane was a bit ashamed, though it was hard to explain why. "But you're still gonna teach me, right?"

Akane cheered up a bit. Of course I'm gonna work hard, I won't give up just because I'm a human!" She thought. But when Feather started explaining the skills, her smile was gone and she was listening very carefully. Her face still looked happy, though. Akane imagined herself coming from the shadows and striking her enemies with her two daggers. When Feather finished explaining, Akane was silent for about half a minute. She then realized that she should do something. "Wait... But how can I try these skills? On a training dummy? She looked around the office. "On her?" She thought and shuddered. "No, no way." She took a deep breath and calmed down.

Akane looked to where Feather was pointing. "Of course!' She said as she took her two daggers from the bag she was carrying on her back and walked to the training dummy. She was wondering, did anyone actually used this dummy before, since it was undamaged.

"Here I go!" Akane shouted loudly as she twisted her dagger in the right hand and hit the dummy with it, while trying to do the same with the left hand. It came out awkwardly, since the daggers crossed each other and did not hit the target how it should - just left a small cut. "I wouldn't kill a puppy with that kind of a hit. This will be harder than I thought."
Akane trained for hours. Her biggest problem was that the daggers usually crossed each other, causing them to miss the target or her to drop the dagger from her left hand. She was not planning to give up, though, and the smile never left her face, even when she cut her arms. She saw that she was getting better with every try and that made her even happier. She took a deep breath and focused. Akane twisted her right dagger and hit the dummy with all the strength she had left, while, at the same time, successfully doing the same with the left hand. That's when she knew, that the move was done correctly. "I think I would even be able to disarm an opponent with this move. At least the weaker one"


[Double Edge mastered]

"Alright!" Akane said happily. "I'll just... She showed her wounds on her arms, sat down on the ground and took some bandages from her backpack. When she took care of the cuts, she was ready to learn another skill.

Akane stood up and readied her weapons. She stretched out her arms, trying to spin as quickly as possible. That looked rather funny, because she was spinning so slowly, that she just stopped when the dagger in her left hand touched the dummy. Akane decided, that she needs to learn how to actually spin quickly first, and then try to hit the dummy. So she put her daggers on the ground, extended her arms and just began to spin. After a few attempts her head got dizzy. "I need to look at the same spot all the time, that way it will be easier." Akane learned that from her mother, who once tried to teach her how to dance. "It actually came in handy!" She thought as she tried spinning while watching the dummy. It wasn't that hard, when she understood the trick, so she took her daggers again and tried to spin with them. She was spinning like that for a while, hitting the dummy again and again, trying to spin even quicker by pulling her arms inwards. Akane focused on the force of the spin and she finally hit the dummy so hard, that it got divided into to pieces. "I really hope you have more of these" She looked at Feather and pointed at the dummy.

[Rotation Slice mastered]


(Oh, that's quite convenient, then ^^)

"Fire skills are amazing!" Akane said happily, watching as Feather performed a move on the dummy. "And hard to learn." She thought, since she never trained her fire abilities, just knew that she had them. Akane put her daggers into the backpack, so they wouldn't get in the way, and focused.

Akane punched the dummy with her right hand, trying to let the fire energy she had inside her through her fist. All she got was a soft smoke and a great deal of pain. "Ah! Metal! Metal!" She shouted while shaking her right hand. "Maybe I'll try it without the dummy first." Akane tried to ignore the pain, and after a few minutes it was gone. She concentrated and punched the air, letting the fire out though her fist. Still, only smoke came out. She was not about to give up, though, so she continued punching the air for quite a while. She was getting more and more tired, the wounds she made before were also hurting. The technique, however, was getting better, and she finally made a small fireball from her right fist. The left one was a bit more tricky, though, but she managed to get it right after some more attempts. When she knew she'll make it, Akane punched the dummy twice with each fist, producing small fireballs.

"Yeah! I made it!" She shouted as she sat on the ground, drained from hours of training. "Do you mind if I rest for today? I don't think I have the energy." Akane was eager to train, but she did understand, that there are limits. "Is there a place to stay in the city?" She was still new, so she had no idea where you can possibly sleep. She usually hid in the shadows, hiding behind some root, but she wanted something more comfortable, if that was possible.

[Fireball mastered]