Hello,

First of all, i want to say sorry for not posting chapter 9, actually not completely posting chapter 9. due to various reason, i didnt manage to finish chapter 9, first reason is, im flying out of the country today to work, so this past few weeks, most of it was spend preparing my documents and things to carry, and the second reason which im most ashamed of is, ive been engrossed reading "Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo" the whole vol. 1-6, im really sorry,

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, as an apology, i will post some part that i finished in a spoiler, for those who want to read it even thought its not finished yet, then feel free to do so, but if you can still be patient with me, i promise to post the whole chapter by this week to come. (i hope so :?: )

again im really sorry

Spoiler :

Chapter 9:Cannot be shown cause it will spoil the whole chapter.

3 days before we reach our destination, I felt that I can already use my right hand, so to confirm my feelings, I looked at my stat and noticed that the sprained stat where gone. I told this the old man and he told me that why don’t I try it, so I tried it, it hurts a bit but still, the main point is, I can use my right hand already! I don’t want to get over excited and strained my right arm causing it to be in sling again, so I do some stretches making my right arm be familiarize again to movements. Then the night the same day my right arm recovered, I started practicing my bow again, oh how I missed my bow so much. How I nock the arrow, pulled the string, breathing in and out while keeping the tension of the string on my check, then the moment I released it, as the arrow fly thru the bow like lightning released from heaven, how the vibrating sound of the string reaches my ear as it fixed its position still, and most of all, how the arrow zoom into the air then plunging deep into the target. Oh, how I miss this feeling so much. Since that day, I added training my bow when I practice.

Now, here we are, standing atop of a small hill, facing a town, not just a town, it’s a ruin of a town, you heard me, a ruin. Capital R u i n. RUIN! Damn! What am I going to do in this ruin? Build it so I can train? Train what? My architectural skill? Damn! Damn! Damn! I want to be an engineer, not an architect, wait, what engineer do I want again, damn engineering courses, too many to choose from, oh and I hate math, on a second thought, I don’t want to be an engineer I’ll just go for uhmmm…

“You’re not here for the ruins, you’re here because of what’s in the ruins” the voice said from beside me, and it’s from the old man, who else would be with me in this archeological site except for the old man. It seems he noticed that I’m making weird faces and thinking that I’ve been con.

“Wait, did you say what? Isn’t it who you’re supposed to be saying, since it supposed to teach me how to fight?” I asked bewildered

“You have a point there, but what is the more appropriate word, for they are not human or any races anymore in this world, or you can say they do not belong in this world anymore?” he said

“WHAT?! ARE THEY GHOS…”

“SLAP!” I didn’t finished what I’m about to say, because, because, because, I just slowly crouch where I was standing and cover my head for protection.

“I’m sorry.” I said weakly

“Anyway, they are not ghost.” He said

“Good they are not ghost, I’m quite scared of ghost. Are they some kind of a spirit?” I ask excited, already forgetting that I was been hit earlier.

“Don’t call them Spirit, because when the spirit heard what you just said, they would take it as an insult and be mad at you. You don’t want them as an enemy, anyway, they are… it’s hard to explain, you can just call them as immaterial, bodiless, formless, or incorporeal for they are like that, when they were living, they chose to become like that instead of dying, I don’t know why they chose to become like that so don’t ask me.” This old man had the ability to anticipate me, he seems to know when will I interrupt him when he was talking, am I that obvious? I thought

“Anyway, it’s not because I didn’t even tried to ask, that’s why I don’t know, I tried many times, but they don’t tell their reason to anyone who didn’t finished their training.” I immediately jump backward and interrupted what he was about to say next.

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“You didn’t finished your training? And yet, you’re that strong? Where do I sign up?” I asked excitedly. It seems the old man didn’t anticipated this. Hahaha, I’m getting genius by the moment.

“Do that again and I’ll kill you.” He casually said, I felt scared and threaten at that moment. I was sweating cold marbles when he said that. I took a step forward placing myself beside him again. Then…

“SLAP” I was, you know, then I was about to ask why he did that, but when I looked at him, I just slowly crouch and protect my head again. Then I heard a snicker behind me, I looked back and saw Misha, lying on her belly on all four, except her two front paw was covering her snout. Wait, am I imagining things or seeing things, for Misha was doing something like giggling motion. Right, she was giggling, wait a minute, does she understand what was happening? Or this devil beside me taught my cute Misha something evil like this. Oh gods, I can see my future already.

“Anyway, I didn’t finished the training because I can’t do it, but because, oh I forgot I was not supposed to tell, and anyway, you’ll know soon enough if you reach the last stages of the training.” He said explaining. You just don’t want to tell that you failed, making excuses. Stupid old man!

“SLAP” he hit me while I was crouching. “I know what you are thinking right now.” He said. I was about to refute but decided not to, my head is already hurting, and I think I can’t take any more damage this day.

“Good, back to the topic, they chose to be like that because they had their own reason, let’s just put it like that. Not anyone can become like them, it’s not like if you think you want to be one you’ll become one, the gods must grant it to you, so expect all of them to be strong or strong in their living life, for the gods only grant something if you offer them something in return and that something must be a High mana condensation or almost equal to it.” he said, I stand up amaze at what he said. Then I remember all the hitting the old man did to me, it made me scared, did the old man learned it from them? Am I going to hell?

“Then they can hurt me much stronger than what you are doing?” I asked scared

“When did I ever hurt you?” he asked puzzled, then he tilt his head, he seems thinking something. “That’s right, I didn’t hurt you because if I did, I can remember when.” He said with finality. Damn he didn’t even gave me a chance to refute!

“Anyway, if you’re thinking that you’re going to get hurt out there, let me ease your mind a “little bit”, they can’t hurt you themselves “most of the time”” he said, emphasizing two phrase that scared me. “What I mean is, they really can’t hurt you unless they decided to, for they incur some sort of punishment to themselves if they do so. I’m telling you this so you won’t be complacent in front of them thinking that they can’t hurt you most of the time, if they decided it was worth it to be punished just to hurt you then you’re on your way to hell.” He said threateningly

“You will know other details about them as the time goes by accompanying them, that is if you pass the trials to be trained by them.” He continued.

“What? There is a trial? What is it?” I asked

“About the trial, I can’t tell you anything about it, for if you know even a single bit, they won’t teach you, all you need to know is the requirement, first must not be over 70 years old which you pass, and second must not be higher than Commoner Grade 4, which you also pass and with flying colors.” He said with sarcasm

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” I said excitedly, then I walk forward with a grin on my face, but.

“Hold on Reiven, you will be going there alone.” The old man said, calling me with my previous name, this is the second time he said my name. The first time he called my name, was the moment he deemed he was asking something serious, using my name again seems to bring another serious matter.

this post will be deleted or edited when i post the whole chapter. again im really sorry, hope you can find in you to forgive me.

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