I had unlocked yet another core piece of memory about what my past life was like, details about it are still quite vague, truth to be told i was now filled with infinity amount of questions about the past life of the previous me, till this day i didn't even get the chance to know of his name .
But his strong resolve and determination that i was able to feel and touch left me in awe and wonder of what kind of person he was, the memory flashes kept skipping a few important parts, like how he trained, how was he able to survive alone in what appeard to be a quite cruel world .
This was the first time i had been exposed to such a long length of memory recal, it also allowed me to understand different kind of things about the me in my past life, in the memories i was able to just recall, i looked almost insanely similar to how i looked when i was younger in my current life, the only bit of difference would be the jade like eyes that were dangerous to look at .
It was so mesmerizing that one look at it and you will find yourself sucked and drowning into them, most of the time, they were calm and collected, but in battles, they would be like two green flames illuminating the path towards the enemies were, their appearance on the battlefield was enough to strike fear in the heart of all the enemies and comrades alike, remembering all this made me also feel more blessed about my current life .
The me on my past live didn't have that privilege that i have today, he didn't have a family, if he did he might not have accomplished what he had, but i felt it in him, he was indeed yearning for one, but that yearning was buried deep under the struggles he needed to deal with to barley have a chance to survive .
So I'm really grateful for this life i have and for the one i had, i hope i can understand more about the other life that i had, but at least for now i got enough help from all those memories that gushed suddenly, i remembered now .
Seeing the sword coming towards my chest, i found that i wasn't nervous like before, i was calm to the point that it was beginning to even scare me, i rolled on the ground and was able to barley parry the attack, but the sleeve of mine still got stabbed .
Wasting no time, my hands once again moved and i began to inscribe glyphs in the air much faster than before, the third attack of Momochi-senpai came at me, but it was just too late .
I had already finished writing my spell and was now able to see her movements more clearly and block in time, that surprised her and all the people present, this was due to the fact that i parried with the snow that i should have lost a few seconds ago, but it was now in my hand like that scene when it flow from my hands never happened .
I used the Reverse Time effect of Paradox on the sword, making it return back to its previous state, being held in my hand .
Then once again used the other effect of Paradox to increase my speed by 10 seconds, enabling me to able to parry the incoming sword attack with no much of a problem, the battle experience i had accumulated in those battles that i was in allowed me to control the effects of Paradox better and much faster, all these actions were made without an ounce of hesitation .
The shift between the effects of the spell was also instantaneous, the shift was commanded by my thoughts, sadly the two effects can't be simultaneously on, one must be turned off for the other to take effect .
My new founded memories didn't help me use Paradox better, it completely changed me as a person as well as giving me enough experience with using the sword, after i parried the attack of Momochi-senpai, i was more than capable of finishing this battle in one move, i had not only one or two actions that i can do to make this happen, no i had countless actions, i can make .
Why i didn't, it was out of pride, i didn't just inherited the power and abilities the person in my past life had, i also inherited a bit of his ego and pride as well, that same pride felt as if it was being challenged by the speed that Momochi-senpai was moving with .
This pride wanted to win in terms of speed not fighting experience or strength, so as to relay a massage, that it wasn't wise for her to compete in terms of speed .
We currently was standing in a stalemate, my hand that was holding the sword was shaking a bit due to the tyrannical strength that Momochi-senpai had, but my parry technique luckily worked in away that allowed my sword to direct the strength of that thrust of hers away, by just using the momentum of her attack against and redirecting it somewhere else with my sword .
What helped me was the durability of my sword, otherwise the sword in my hand might have been broken, the moment that i came into contact with the sword .
As if again linking with my thought, the red edge of the blade began to flicker happily as if it was enjoying the praise and asking for more, i smiled a bit at how comically it acted, but seeing that its flickering wasn't going to stop, i flickered it with my fingers affectionately, as if saying " alright, alright, i understood how great you are, now allow me to focus on the fight at hand " .
Luckily it was a bit docile and adhered to my intention, suddenly again my instincts alerted me of an incoming attack, now coming from my back, i didn't need to even check to know that Momochi-senpai who was just in front of me a second ago, had now once again vanished from my vision and was now attacking me from the back .
Her ability to hide her presence was really something else, i had memories from my last recall of having been the target of many assassination attempts, but ever time i was able to sense the moment they choose to attack and i killed them that exact same moment, i even once had a dream where there were hundred masked assassins coming after me.
Yet they were all slain by me, dreams like those filled me with a heroic spirit and feelings before, but now i was beginning to understand that there was a devastating story and history behind them, but the fact was still that no matter how hard they had tried to mask their intentions, i was still able to sniff them out .
But with Momochi-senpai, things were entirely and completely different, i only able to sense the attack after she attack and that with my sharpened by numerous battles instinct, that was just incredible .
The sword struck but it hit nothing but empty air .
Woahh .
" Careful .
The senpai was suddenly spooked out due to the fact that i appeared behind her the moment she struck me with the sword and tapped her shoulder which spooked her out completely, she had a frustrated face that i was able to see now that she turned around, me asking her to be careful was due to the fact that she swung her sword around randomly while her eyes were shut as if she was fighting a ghost, so i advised her to be careful mostly for her sake .
~ Clank, clank, clank ~ .
I kept parring some and evading other until she finally opened her eyes, she stared at me with wide eyes and said absent-mindedly :
How did you appear here, weren't you just there, at seeing her frustrated like this i was more than inclined to tease her a bit more, so at her pointing i moved and appeared to where she was pointing at, her eyes widened even more to see me standing there waiving at her, she once again turned her head to look back and i was there as well, she kept turning her head a few times, then she actually pinched her hand as if she wanted to check whether was she dreaming .
She pinched her hand and i seeing that i had enough fun, finally appeared in front of here and said :
" What is wrong, senpai ? .
How are you doing this, aren't you a Kuroma, how are you creating afterimages as you move ? .
Seeing that her face looked very aggravated, i decided that it was better to just tell her the truth about what was going on, i said :
" It is an effect of my Spell, those aren't afterimages senpai, that was just me moving a bit more faster than what the eyes can keep up with, so it looked like an afterimage, but in truth i was just able to move fast enough to appear to the place you were going to look at, the moment you were about to look at, that's all .
The whole arena was engulfed in a complete silence, the cheering stopped a long time ago, the whole atmosphere in the room was weird, but the one weirded out the most was still my opponent Momochi-senpai .
She first didn't believe what i was saying, but after she tried to point towards random direction and finding me in each and everywhere in those places, she just nodded and once again held her sword and disappeared from my vision, i took a step and saw where she was, i was a bit taken aback due to the fact that her speed movements have become even faster than before, she was still walking in slow motion to me but the speed of how fast was she moving increased a notch .
But that wasn't the only reason to why was i surprised, the senpai had appeared behind me once again, but this time the distance between the two of us was even shorter than before, she already attacked yet there were no alarm ringing in my head, meaning that if i hadn't taken that step, i would have been attacked and i might not reacted to it .
This is how strong Momochi-senpai was, i was once again amazed by that display of rare power, but i felt that it was time to end this, after all i had already proven that i was much faster than the senpai .
I moved and appeared instantly in front of her, i saw that her eyes were glued to every move i do, i pointed my sword towards her throat and saw that her brows wrinkled a bit at seeing me like this, probably trying to force her body to move, but it wasn't listening to her .
Knowing that you have to react may be quite easy, but forcing your body to react to something it just wasn't suited to react to is another whole level of difficulty, that was how it normally went, but things in this school was far from being called normal .
The moment i took my position, i missed up the chance to win, i lost the 10 seconds advantage and allowed the senpai a few milliseconds barley enough for her to adjust her body to the side to evade my attack, but seeing this i moved once again and her movements speed slowed down once more, but this time luck wasn't in my favor .
I suddenly felt my body become cold, weak and my body began to hurt me like crazy, then the last thing i saw was the handle of the sword coming my way, but then i collapsed on the hard floor and lost conscious, my last thought was more like a sarcastic remark aimed at myself, that thought was " me and Kamekichi-senpai weren't so different from each other after all " .
When i opened my eyes, i found that they were a bit watery for some reason, maybe it was because of the vision i saw, but other than that shadow figure hiding behind a tree in the garden near the palace of light, weird .
I was unfamiliar was with the ceiling in front of me, but remembering what happened before, i was able to guess where i was currently, i was in the school infirmary, weird enough there were no doctor or nurses in sight .
~sgzzzgggh .
I turned to the side to where the that weird sound came from and found out that it came from the curtains beside me, i still my body was a bit uncomfortable but i still have enough strength to move around, my movements was albeit a bit weakly .
I removed the curtains and found that the sounds were actually just Kamekichi-senpai snoring beside me, it was that same voice perhaps that had awoken me, i seem to heard something similar in the vision i was having, but i didn't thought much about it that time, i wanted to see what that shadow figure was, but pity, i have no control about the vision that i'm capable of seeing .
~buzz~ .
Suddenly the new phone that Man gave me in the morning rang, i involuntarily reached for the phone, before i would have hesitated to even reach the phone, but a newfound confidence, i directly answered the call, but i didn't speak a word, not afraid nor uncomfortable but mostly scornful .
The guy on the other side just called to say "you did well " then he ended the call, he didn't even wait for me to respond, i'm thankful to that .
What surprised me the most was how much time i had slept for, it was late noon when i went with the captain to the training arena, but now in half an hour the sunset will be upon us, i estimated that i have been asleep for 3 hours and if not for the annoying symphony that Kamekichi-senpai was playing, i could have slept even more .
Did i pass the assessment or did i fail, did he left me a massage with the result or anything, i fainted due to the fact that just like Kamekichi-senpai, i overused my Mana to the point of exhaustion and i ended up not giving it enough time to regenerate, i couldn't help but recall that the me in my past life had no such a problem .
I never saw his face have even a little bit of tiredness on it, was he faking it, that wasn't possible, he never once back off from a fight, on the battlefield he was a unstoppable killing machine, never once had he been exhausted, then what was exactly the difference between my use of Paradox and his, i'm beginning to enjoy this new school life of mine .
~smack .
How did i forget about that, i face slapped myself and reached for my old phone and saw that there were a 99+ missed call from mom and immeasurable amount of massages all were like screaming at me out of concern .
I instantly tried to call back, if i didn't calm her down, i have no doubt that she might climb the hill that the school was built on to check on me .
I tried over 10 times, but the call never connected, the reason that the phone i was trying to dial was now out of service, at this i was the one who was beginning to panic .