In The Academy As Sukuna

Ch 29 - Untapped Potential - A Necessary Evil

"There is a thin line between sanity and insanity, you are the one who decides which way to go."

It was early morning, a cloudy day, the sun was almost fully hidden behind the clouds as scattered sunlight hit the training grounds.

The smell of fresh dew wafted in the air. The ground was slightly muddy due to recent rains, making squishy sounds when one stepped on it.

Around 40 people were training here, their motivation coming from the attack on their academies.

The realization that they were actually weak showed them the reality, the reality which they wanted to change.

Among these people was a ginger-haired child, who was running laps around the ground.

Her clothes stuck to her body due to the insane amount she was sweating, which emphasized her features.

Even though she was built like a child, her bust size was above average, which would, normally, attract some stares.

But, right now, nobody was looking at her, not even a little glance, the reason being her mana pressure.

Her insane amount of mana naturally repulsed people, and she could not even control the mana she emits due to her lack of training.

Sukuna had realized this, and was training her to the limit.

Sitting on a bench near the grounds, he had just finished his workout and was resting, reading something on his phone.

He occasionally glanced at Nect, making sure she was still going.

Sadly for Nect, her body was unlike others, and Sukuna took full advantage of that.

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(POV: Ryomen Sukuna)

Eva's ability is not that difficult to understand.

She has almost never used ice attacks on large-scale, disguising her ability as slashing attacks, keeping it as a hidden card.

Since I use slashing attacks myself, I just gave her a few tips that could make it easier for her, such as the orientation of the slices.

I told her to practice creating the ice she uses to slice, as its shape was still imperfect.

I left the physical training for later, as she was currently recovering.

I will test some of her abilities later to find out more variations for them, but I believe that I would only have to give hints and pointers, she will take care of the rest.

Right now, I'm sitting on a bench, reading a novel on my phone.

In this world, technology has advanced faster, due to the existence of mana.

The best improvement has to be the machine translators.

In my world, reading a Chinese MTL novel was like trying to decipher a love letter written by a drunk panda on a sugar high.

But here, the MTL's are much better. They even get the pronouns right every time, doing which is much harder than I originally thought.

I glanced at Nect, she was panting heavily, but wasn't stopping.

This was obviously because I had threatened her that I'd disrupt her internal flow of mana.

This basically meant that she wouldn't die, but would go through excruciating pain.

She wouldn't listen, so I even gave her a demo, I'm such a good person.

Although the demo was only at about 10%, she was lying on the ground for a whole minute after that.