Tibaut leaned against the mop he was holding as he lost himself in thought.

("I've tried everything I can think of.")

He then came to a conclusion.

("Ki is probably a scam. I mean, I haven't heard of or seen anyone out here or throughout my travels who's used anything like that.")

He didn't see any magicians during his travels either but that wouldn't get in the way of his theory.

("I mean it's probably just a different flavour of magic that people convinced themselves was different.")

If any competent martial artist heard what he was saying he'd probably be forced to learn ki through it being used on his body.

("Alright let's test me using mana instead with those techniques I saw.")

He then put aside the broom and got into a fighting stance. Instead of listening to what that book was saying he was going to use his mana instead of trying to figure out this ki nonsense.

He stood in silence for a few seconds tensing up his body and generating mana. He took a deep breath before letting loose his fist.

*wosh*

While it was a textbook punch it really wasn't anything special.

("Okay, getting it on the first may have been a bit too presumptuous. However, this probably shouldn't take too long.")

*woosh*

*wosh*

*wooosh*

*fwip* (he didn't make a fist for that attempt.)

*woosh*

…

After thirty minutes or so of trying Tibaut quickly lost interest and was trying something else.

He had both his hands clutched at his side and a fireball between them.

"Ka"

The ball got a bit denser when he said this and a smile formed on his face.

"Me"

It was now producing a high-pitched sound.

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"Ha"

"What are you doing?"

And just like that Tibaut quickly dissipated the magic and quickly grabbed his broom.

"Uh, there was an odd smell so I decided to see if I could get rid of it with my magic. (I wonder if there are any holes nearby I can bury myself in.)" He said while trying to hide his blushed face.

"But what about those punches you were doing earlier?"

"(She's been here that long!?) Uh, I just felt like doing some stretches. " He said while trying to maintain a normal expression.

"Pft,"

("Did this bitch just laugh?")

She then cleared her throat.

"Well, it's good to see you're concerned about improving yourself," Elizabeth responded.

He then looked down at her hand and grabbed it.

"Why the hell did you take the gauze off?"

"Because I don't need it anymore."

"Hmm, I guess it has been a few days but couldn't you have kept it like that for longer? (After all, you were a pain in the ass when you were talking about how other adventurers don't have a healer like you and I take it for granted yet here you are deciding you don't wanna deal with pain and healing yourself.)"

Tibaut forgot about the fact that Elizabeth lost this bandage in the same amount of time she had waited to heal him.

She looked confused for a second by this comment.

"Oh, I suppose I never told you or never listened."

Tibaut wondered where she was going with this and she continued

"I can't heal myself."

"Huh?"

Tibaut looked as though he had just been told that the sky was in fact green and he had just been looking at it wrong.

"What do you mean you can't heal yourself, what about when we first met?"

"Are you an idiot? That wasn't my power and besides that wasn't just healing that was resurrection."

"Wait, you actually died!?"

"Yes I did, did you think I was immortal?"

Tibaut couldn't hide his surprise. If what she was saying was true he had actually won in their first encounter, though that wasn't important right now. What did she mean by 'wasn't my power'? Did she know someone who could resurrect her without having to be anywhere near her?

"Dead, dead?"

"Yes, I truly died."

"Like, you saw the afterlife?"

"I suppose I did see a certain part of it."

He was speechless, he couldn't think of anything else to say. If someone reduced him to a black mass yet he was immortal he believed it was somewhat reasonable to punish them. However, if someone had killed and truly sent him to the afterlife he wasn't sure he'd hold that same opinion.

He then put his hands on her shoulder and started sweating.

"Eli-, no Liz, we're cool, right? You're not planning on killing me when I achieve my dream or something to that effect right!?"

He desperately pleaded while slightly shaking her.

She brushed his hands off.

"I can assure you that I would have killed you long ago if that was the case. A complex revenge is one thing but if you're simply planning on killing someone, the sooner the better. I truly don't understand why some would bother making a whole song and dance of it instead of getting it done with and moving on with their life."

It was frightening how casually she said this. This both reassured and slightly unnerved Tibaut.

With this revelation, he decided to quickly move on out of there, before he remembered something.

"Wait a minute then why don't you have the bandage on?"

"Oh, I heal quicker than the average person."

She lifted up her hand

"This should be fully healed by the end of the weak."

"Ah, is that so (I don't know what to think anymore. Is she next gonna tell me she was the god that brought me to this world? An alien from another planet? A princess from another world? Honestly, she could add on anything at this point and I'd believe her.)".

She then felt near her rib cage. Although she showed no reaction she could tell it wasn't in the best shape.

"Well, I guess we might have to wait longer than the end of the week to start back our training."

("Thank fuck")