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What? A Group Chat? Chapter 20: Humanity's Very Limit
🕑 Added 2022-03-08 14:34:20 +0000 UTC-Blake-
Turns out Archer never agreed to become the adopted father of Kanao, this was the first time he had heard of it according to him.
But I say, he probably didn't listen to Kanae and he ended up becoming a father without knowing he was because Kanae would never lie about it unless I misjudged her?
"Then if you're not the father, then say it to Kanae it would save you from misunderstanding, go before it's too late," I said with a serious expression.
While he's an asshole. I do care about him if he didn't want him to dig a bigger hole than what he already has, but then again his Luck is E, not surprising.
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-A few minutes later-
Archer came back, and I asked him curiously, "So how'd it go? Did you stop the misunderstanding?"
Archer suddenly stopped looking at my eyes, as if he couldn't look at it.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh."Let me guess you failed?"
"Well…not exactly…" Archer said with a wry smile.
"Tell me." I wanted to know the details.
"You see.. while I did stop the misunderstanding…"
"I sense 'but' there,"
"Yeah…. about that I end up as Kanao's adopted father for real," Archer looked away in shame.
I couldn't help but facepalm, and exclaimed. "How?! Archer, you have one job and you keep digging a hole for you to jump in!"
"To be honest with you I don't know, it just happened okay? That woman is scary!" Archer said as he shuddered.
Who?!
"Who?!" I wanted to know who the hell is this 'scary' woman he speaks of! There is no way such a gentlewoman like Kanae is scary…right?
"You don't need to know, trust me it's for your own good," Archer said seriously like he was giving me a chance to survive or something.
"You know what? Forget it, you're an expert at digging a hole for yourself." I decided to stop pestering him.
Why bother if you can't save a man who is digging to bury himself, but then again it's EMIYA his luck is shit, nothing good comes from that.
"Whatever, now that you are here, help me in the kitchen. I need extra hands!" Archer pointed at me.
"Right now?" I said with a deep frown.
"Yes."
"Damn it Gordon Ramsay's balls! I just got home, fine let's go."
After that, I went to the kitchen with Archer, but I dragged Jaune with me, there is no way I'm going to tire myself alone I have to drag him with me!
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-A few months later-
A lot of things happened, there are too many on the list but I'll say a few. First, the Katana turns out Akane forgot about it, how irresponsible but at least she got it delivered.
Second, this is a bit surprising to me, Echidna made Tamayo a human! Which wasn't supposed to happen, but then again our presence here just changes everything, so I stopped caring about it after a day.
And about Tamayo's assistant, what's his name again? Yu? Yushi? Yeah, that must've been his name, so yeah Yushi was dead.
Dead as hell, it turns out he got aggressive in front of Archer, and it made Archer misunderstand that he's an enemy, thus he ended up blowing his head and dying.
So he died because of a simple misunderstanding, how sad.
Funny thing is that Tamayo didn't even know Archer killed him, though she grieved Yushi's death and moved on the next day.
Wow, I guess he wasn't that important to Tamayo, not that I cared, never met him personally anyway.
Third, Echidna was at the peak of her research about demons and their immortality. She's getting there and now she stayed in her lab along with Tamayo for days. She was too excited because she was almost finished, better not disturb them.
Fourth, habits die hard. I would always feel uneasy if I missed a day's worth of training. Jaune was also the same, so every morning we spar so we could lose some sweat and improve.
When we first started sparing, I almost lost to Jaune with his aura.
Keyword: Almost
I managed to win because of my superior breathing style and training, the second time I won again.
Days have passed, the skill between us had noticeably changed, while Jaune did improve, however it wasn't as fast for me, the more we spar the easier I could beat him without or with his aura.
And it wasn't 2 months later than I noticed the mark on my forehead, that day I realized I was already a peak demon slayer, this was the very limit a demon slayer could have and my improvement is noticeably becoming shorter and shorter until there wasn't anything to improve anymore.
Now I've reached the absolute limit of what humanity could have. I couldn't improve anymore not with my current breathing style.
However, despite nothing to improve anymore I didn't stop because I wanted to break that limit, and I'm 100%sure that the first breath of the sun user Yoriichi managed to break the very limit of what humanity could offer, and because of that he managed to live despite having a mark.
It was very common for a demon slayer that has a mark to die at the age of 25, so I have to at least achieve that.
Currently, I'm sparring with Jaune. Both of us move at a speed that breaks the sound barrier. We had already stopped using wooden swords in our sparring match but were using the katana that Akane gave us.
We held back nothing; each strike was aiming for our vital spots that could cause us to die with just the slightest mistake.
Clang! Clang!
Blades hit others without breaking, it's only possible because both of our strikes are timed and precise.
We are only doing this life-threatening spar because we trust each other's skills or else we would have used sticks instead of a real katana.
Our clash lasted for a few more minutes before both of us stopped.
"Pweh, that was exhausting Blake, you totally held back you know? You could have hit me if you wanted to but you didn't." Jaune shook his head with a wry smile.
"So what if I did? We are just sparing not fighting to the death unless I want to kill you then I'd strike that opening already." I shrugged at him, I've become too skilled to the point I could accurately change my skill level.
Let's say if humanity's very limit is Lvl 10, then Jaune is about LVL 7, even though he already has a mark, it wasn't just on the same level as me.
I still wonder how our skill gap became so wide, even though we started training at the same time and had the same tenfold learning capability.
Maybe I have a superior battle IQ than Jaune? Who knows, not that I'm desperate to know about it.
Anyway a month after I got my mark, it noticeably became bigger and bigger to the point it reached my neck like a tattoo.
Not that I complain though, my mark looks similar to a western dragon, it looks cool that's why I didn't complain though after I go back I wonder how I should explain this to mom.
As for Jaune's marks, they were similar to Tanjiro's on both sides. He's the same as me. He was too worried about the mark, he wondered how his team would react to this.
"Well, you do have a point!" Jaune awkwardly scratches the back
of his head, despite becoming so strong, he was still the same blonde dork as before the training.
He didn't change, nor did I at least in personality, our appearance did change while there are some obvious similarities from before anyone who knows us could tell the difference.
Jaune's mop-like hair was nowhere to be seen, his hair was now undercut with a line in the middle of it.
He also has perfect 6 pack abs like mine, that any woman would drool from the sight of, well maybe except for Echidna and Lucifer they weren't exactly 'normal'.
"Either way, it's also time for the final selection. Akane's message said that it will start within the next few days." I reminded Jaune about the final selection.
"Oh yeah, that…actually do we even need to do the final selection? I mean we've already qualified as a Hashira according to Kanae-san." Jaune said as he touched his chin.
"I see your point, but still I want to go," I said with a smile.
"And your reason is..?"
"To have fun and also to save as many examiners as I can. I mean each year about 90% of the demon slayer in training dies in the final selection, so I want to change that."
I'm not going to deny that I'm trying to be a hero in the final selection, that's because I can do something about it, however, I'll only save those who are worthy of saving, there is no way I'm saving everyone. I'm not Shirou after all.
Thus after that, a few days have passed and the final selection has started.
(End-)
Merlin's balls! This chapter was too hard to update because of shit like internet connection!
Comments
Ototsu_Yume
Great chapter, although this is chapter 20 and not 21.
