While the Drunken Brats were busy training their Natural Verb Force atop Jin Hennessy’s mountain, Cinder Burn was at Caromine Institute releasing all of her stress on a dummy within the training grounds for Word Augmenters. She was still upset about her loss against Red Bull, but the thing that drove her to the brink of insanity was the fact that Dam Son defeated an opponent that she could not beat.

“I’m not a loser! I’m not a loser!” Cinder Burn continued to deliver fierce slashes at the dummies surrounding her. The raw attitude of her actions caused the remaining students who were practising close by to run away in fear of agitating her. Somehow, she was still being affected by Red Bull’s Loser Eyes.

“I wonder what Ms Enjoy is up to… Huh?” On her way past the training ground, Ms Ever Moist spotted a lone student madly slashing away at the practise dummies. “That girl… what is she doing.”

Feeling curious, Ms Ever Moist decided to go over and greeted Cinder Burn. “Hey, girl. That isn’t the proper way of strengthening your Word Augmenter abilities.”

“Huh?” Cinder Burn stopped abusing the dummy after spotting Ms Ever Moist coming over. “What do you know?”

“Well, I know that dummy won’t be able to fight back against your incessant abuse. Why don’t you spar against someone who can give you a challenge?” Saying this, Ms Ever Moist reached for the miniature dumbbell locked within her glossy hair. The moment she disentangled her weapon, it enlarged to her body’s height. “Come here little girl, I’ll teach you how to properly handle an Augmented Weapon.”

“I’m not a loser!” Screaming wildly, Cinder Burn dashed towards her instructor without warning. Ms Ever Moist was a bit startled to see her livid expression.

“What has gotten into you? You seem troubled by something. As your teacher, I will surely lend a helping hand.” Ms Ever Moist retaliated to Cinder Burn’s advance with a forward thrust. Cinder Burn parried her strike, moreover leapt above to execute a downward slash.

“Your temper is clouding your view of the situation. You need to calm yourself, child.” Ms Ever Moist realized that something was bothering Cinder Burn by the relentless way in which she fought. After exchanging a few more blows, Ms Ever Moist knocked Cinder Burn on her ass and told her to curtail the rage that was building up inside.

“You will never be able to beat me or anyone for that matter if you continue to let your rage consume you.”

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“Are you saying that I’m a loser?”

“Of course you are, I beat you didn’t I?”

“What?” Cinder Burn was veritably pissed off to hear her instructor calling her a loser. It reminded her of Red Bull and Dam Son’s battle.

“Don’t glare at me like that child. You’re too beautiful to be spoiling your face with wrinkles.” Ms Ever Moist used the palm of her hand to loosen the tension inside Cinder Burn’s face.

“What are you doing? Unhand me!”

“Not until I see that elegant face again, you know, the one that makes all the hot guys drool.” Ms Ever Moist kept on massaging Cinder Burn’s face until she was no longer seething with anger. “Now this is more like the beautiful girl I know. Now that you’re no longer possessed by anger, why don’t you tell me what is bothering you.”

“Alright…” Cinder Burn explained thoroughly to Ms Ever Moist what she had been going through. She told her everything, including the humiliation she suffered at the Page Coliseum and how she hated Dam Son’s natural talents.

“So is that what you’ve been moping about all this time? Don’t be jealous of others for their talents because you are stronger than most of the students who I’ve taught thus far. If you’re weak then all you have to do is work hard to get stronger. From what I’ve seen so far, your basis as a Word Augmenter is very solid. You just need to be more polished in your movements, in your technique application and increase your Guide evolution.”

Ms Ever Moist gave Cinder Burn a lot more valuable advice. “I’ve seen your battle at the Page Coliseum and let me just say this, you did your best out there so don’t let anyone tell you differently. The reason why you lost to that blindfolded kid is that you allowed him to influence your mind too deeply. He used the same technique on that Dark-Human but it didn’t work, why do you think that is?”

“Because Dam Son is an idiot?”

Ms Ever Moist chuckled when she heard Cinder Burn’s answer. “Well, that might be one of the reasons but I think it has a lot to do with his determination to progress no matter the outcome. If you adopt the same mentality, I’m sure you’ll be able to surpass anyone you desire to, even me.”

Cinder Burn was sceptical of Ms Ever Moist’s sincerity. “Are you sure, teacher? You’re not just saying that to cheer me up are you?”

“Of course not. You’re a very talented young lady with a lot of potential. Don’t believe me? Let me show you something.” Ms Ever Moist took a few steps backwards from Cinder Burn. Next, she extended her arm that was equipped with her Augmented Weapon. “Watch carefully.”

Keeping her focus on Ms Ever Moist’s dumbbell-shaped weapon, Cinder Burn witnessed a fizzing element of orange N’s fading into existence until they fully encompassed the weapon. Each combining element exuded an overbearing pressure that almost made Cinder Burn choke to death.

“That bizarre element of auburn N’s, what are they, teacher?”

“This technique is known as Nounal Drive. It is achieved by the compressed combination of Nounal Force.” Ms Ever Moist resembled a badass empress with her glowing dumbbell poised at her side. Seeing this, made Cinder Burn desperately want to learn that technique.