Another Life (Tokito Muichiro X OC)

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3rd person POV
As Toshiyo was running down the mountain at full speed, she suddenly tripped on air and facepalmed right into the snow.

She lets out a painful grunt as she sits up rubbing her face, "Ughh what was that??" Complaining, she gets up and decides that she needs to get down soon and starts running again.

By evening she finally reached her master's house at the base of the hill.

"I'm back." She said sitting down on the platform infront of the house and tried to regulate her breathing back to normal.

There was no response from the house for a while, so she peeked inside, "Master?" She questioned, curiosity getting the best of her.

After a few seconds of silence, the master appeared with some riceballs and placed them next to her, "Eat up. You've got sword training next." Saying that he went out to go and grab their wooden swords specifically for practise.

She took one glance at the riceballs and immediately her hands moved on their own, "Shure nou problum." She spoke, stuffing her mouth with her master's delicious riceballs.

Finishing the food, Toshiyo    took the tray back to the kitchen and came out. The sun was already setting at this point.

The descending rays of the sun coated the sky such a beautiful shade of red and orange, mixed with yellow hues. It was absolutely mesmerizing to look at. Unintentionally, Toshiyo kept staring at it.

"You aren't gonna keep zoning out in the middle of training now, will you?" Her master warned her as they were about to have sword training now.

Snapping out of her thoughts, she looked at the master and said, "Right, sorry."

Then began their intense training to turn the young girl into a full fledged swordsman.

Toshiyo's POV
It hadn't been that long since my training started. I guess it had been about 2 weeks since I started it? Maybe a little longer. Yeah it wasn't that long but it was pure torture.

Not all parts though, just the sword training part and the reflexes training part and the physical exercise part...

Ok pretty much all the parts are like torture. But can you blame me? I never went through such vigorous training in my whole 13 years of life.

Like every four days in the week, I'd wake up before the sun could and I'd run down the mountain. Which would take until noon. And I was only allowed to have one riceball with two ohagis before l could start my run down the mountain.

Then I'd run down with all my strength and my top speed. After which, I'd be greeted with an amazing lunch. Anything my master makes is amazing, honestly.

After lunch he'd tell me to give him 40 pushups and 40 sit ups along with 30 pull ups. I get why this is important for your swordsmanship. It really helps deliver a sharp and strong blow to you opponent as your arms and legs are strong enough to deliver deadly blows. But anyways that would take another few hours.

Specifically it'd take until evening and after that, he doesn't put me through much, just tells me to focus my breathing and meditate.

Then the other 3 days of the week, I'd wake up at dawn and immediately go for sword practice with my master and we'd get at it until noon. Then, a delicious lunch followed by a little bit of relaxing. Then I'd go down the mountain again, this time avoiding traps set by him. So that'd take until evening. Well, atleast I come back to some riceballs. But then we're back to sword training.

Ryouji's POV
"Nope, faster! Demons will slay you instead if you're this slow." I instructed the young girl as she was still too slow in delivering a strong blow.

'I wonder, if I were to send her to the next final selection that's in a month, how it'd be,' I thought to myself as I dodged one of her attacks.

"Master! You're not paying attention. C'mon don't underestimate me that much!" Toshiyo whined as she hit me with one of her half-assed attacks again.

"Pay attention? You should pay attention to your moves more. C'mon, these half-assed attacks aren't gonna slay demons for you. Swing with more determination! Pour your whole body into the attack. Come on, kid!" If I had to turn her into a full fledged swordsman, I couldn't be going easy on this training.

'yea she'd die. A month's no good. Maybe a year or so.' I concluded finally.

This kid has a lot of potential and a knack for slaying, naturally. She just needs to open her heart and see it herself. It's no good if I recognize her potential, she needs to recognize it herself or else she'd be no good in the demon slaying world.

"Alright, maybe we can take a break. It's been quite some time. Let's go." I said, finally deciding to retire for the night.

Toshiyo lets out a tired sigh and goes to sit on the platfom. "What do you want for dinner tonight?" I asked. I honestly didn't know what to make so l figured why not just ask her.

But to my surprise, she said, "Oh I don't want to eat anything right now. I don't know if I even want to have dinner tonight, master."

This kid.

Don't want to have dinner tonight? What a load of bullshit. She'll have something even if it's plain rice. "Nonsense. You need to eat something. You've got to run down the mountain first thing after you wake up tomorrow. So eat and then go to sleep."

I left after saying that. I'm gonna go prepare something to eat since clearly Toshiyo's lost her mind.

'It shouldn't hurt to go a little bit easier on her right? Ugh snap out of it. I should continue like this if not harsher.'

3rd person POV
After the master left, Toshiyo decided to do some training to focus her breathing more. The master won't let her retire for the night without eating something, so she decided to pass her time training, cuz why not.

After a while, the master came back with some miso soup and some rice and natto, "I didn't know what to make, so this is gonna have to do." Ryouji confessed to his young student.

"Oh please, it's no big deal. Anyways thanks for the food." Toshiyo said before digging in. The food was amazing, as usual.

After a hearty meal, they both finally decided to actually retire for the night this time. Both went to their separate rooms and immediately succumbed to a deep slumber.

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•|→|• This is definitely my longest chapter yet! Pls do tell me, in the comments, where I can improve .
But for now, imma try to make the future chapters like this one. Let me know if u want long chapters or short chapters! •|←|•

Chapter four's coming out this Monday! (iA)

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