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- A few days before Alexander started teaching Rin.

"Now then, today we will start your training.

Before we start I will tell you one thing, this style is not easy to learn and it"s even harder to master it, but Im not saying it"s impossible, It took me A year to develop It fully, but back then I didn"t know what I was doing, I didn"t have a master to teach me like you have now."

-Rin"s eyes glow up in excitement as Alexander othered those words.

"Im ready, let"s begin."

-And so the training with Alexander began.

"First let me explain one more thing.

As you surely know there are many types of swords in the world, we have your standard normal sword with two edges and a pointy tip then we have a smaller version of that one called a short sword and my personal favorite a katana, It"s by far the most effective in battle."

As he was explaining this to me he showed me the swords, their parts and for what each was good for, to show me in person he used "the merchant". He was looking happy as he was doing it, I guess he Enjoyed it.

"Now what do all these sword"s have in common?"

"...Ther weapons for killing?"

"No, well yes, but that wasn"t the answer I was looking for, they are all used in close range combat."

"Oh, your right."

"Now say you"re locked in combat with a samurai and you and he were using a normal katana, the result will depend on who gets closer to the other person first and strikes, but what if you had a sword longer than his?"

I get it.

"Then It wouldn"t depend on who got closer to the other person first, I would have the range advantage for the most part of the battle."

"Yes, you would have the advantage for ninety percent of the battle, or even a hundred depending who was the better swordsman."

So that"s what he"s trying to teach me, not to fight with a normal sword but with a longer one, now I get what he meant when he said that it won"t be easy.

"So all I need to do Is to become that "better" swordsman, right?" He sad smiling while looking towards Alexander.

-Alexander smirked to Rin"s confident answer and activated his ability "The Merchant" with which he created two swords double the length of a normal katana, the swords had no guard and its handle was also double the size of a normal katana, they were sheeted with a nicely carved wooden sheet.

He takes the sword into his hands, one in his left and one in the right hand, Tosses the one in his right hand towards Rin and begins to unseeth his.

"Now then, let"s begin," He tells to the surprised Rin.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait just a moment you haven"t explained anything yet, how am I supposed to fight if you didn"t tell me how to to use this thing?"

"That"s the point, words are meaningless, the only way for you to learn this is by experiencing it first hand!" Alexander tells Rin as he swings his sword with speed Rin isn"t even able to see it, but he stops it just before his sword touches Rin"s neck.
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-Rin starts breathing intensely, wondering what just happened, he saw Alexander Preparing to swing his sword but when he actually did it, he couldn"t see it, the next thing he knew, he almost died.

"If this was a real battle you would be dead, right now I a.s.sume there are only about twenty or so people left here and all of them are as, if not stronger than me, not to mention that for all we know Hora could be an actual G.o.d, and if that"s true you will die before your able to face him."

-Alexander jumps back and pulls his sword in front of himself sideways, his look becomes serious and he attacks the still shook Rin once more.

"If you have the resolve to fight, the resolve to survive, the resolve to go home, then show me and FIGHT!"

-As Alexanders blade rushed to cut off Rin"s hand it was stopped by the same blade just before it could do it.

"I do have the resolve, and I"ll FIGHT!"

-Rin pushes Alexander"s blade off and jumps back almost losing his balance because of the length of the blade.

It looked so easy when he did it.

"Now that"s what I wanted to hear, come, with the attent to kill on your side!"

-Rin grips his sword and puts one leg forward to start the charge on his friend in front of him. when the two come in close enough distance Alexander throws a slice from Rin"s left side which he doesn"t see coming and Alexander changes the course of his attack upwards."

"You"re not concentrated, focus, watch my body movements and see where I will strike, don"t just slice." Alexander angrily tells Rin while shouting.

"Focus, and watch your movements, right, one more time."

-Strait away Alexander throws a slash from the above, Rin, just in time jumps back and puls his sword in front of him sideways, still, the sword was too heavy for him to hold like that, so shortly after he pulls it back. He rushed to Alexander in an attempt to attack.

"Your movements are too rough, relax your body." He tells him while easily deflecting the blade coming for him and counter-attacking, putting his own blade above Rin"s head.

"once more, if your body can"t handle the weight of the blade hold back from performing any stances."

My movement is to "rough" what does that mean, the blade is too heavy to just randomly swing it around, I have to think.

-They continued to fight but each fight was only Rin"s attack and then Alexanders block and counter-attack.

"You"re not getting it, watch my movements."

-He tells him while he starts an attack putting his blade behind his back holding it in his left-hand and the edge going to his right one,

he puts one leg in front and pulls his body forward cousin in a devastating attack.

d.a.m.n it I have to deflect it!

-Rin puts his sword to his right side to the ground.

I"ll just deflect it upwards.

-He grips his sword and pulls it, but he notices that the sword isn"t moving, It got stuck in the ground, Its length was too long for a maneuver like that.

-Before he gets cut he jumps back surviving.

"This is not a normal sword Rin, tactics like that won"t work, think."

Ahhhhh what am I doing wrong, let"s do just that, let"s think, the sword is to long for most attacks that you could perform with a normal blade, it has its advantages but also disadvantages, just how is he able to move it with such ease?

-Rin"s eyes widened as he found the answer to his question.

"I get it now, hey Im ready, let go again!"