Chapter 688: Desensitization Training for the Easily Nervous Elf Girl

Feeling her progress, under the Saiyan boy's precise guidance, the Sword Princess girl quickly immersed herself in the rapid advancement of her own swordsmanship.

However, as the first movement was fine-tuned to its conclusion, and Broly indicated switching to a different sword swing, Ais, who also possessed considerable swordsmanship attainment, detected something amiss within it.

"I can feel that I still have room for improvement, so why are you having me switch movements?"

The Sword Princess girl asked with some confusion.

"Then you'd probably have to take off your breastplate, let me lie on your back to feel your back muscles exerting force, and agree to let me put my hands on your chest to feel your pectoral muscles channeling power, before I can continue fine-tuning."

Broly answered truthfully; his personalized guidance required a thorough understanding of the trainee's body, and having only met the Sword Princess girl yesterday, with her entire body never having been touched and familiarized by him, this was the extent of what he could do.

Broly thought that would be the end of it, after all, a woman's chest is still a somewhat sensitive area, but unexpectedly, after hearing this, the Sword Princess girl only said one sentence: "So that's what's needed?"

Then, without another word, she directly took off her breastplate, crouched down, carried him on her back, and upon sensing the boy's hands hadn't directly touched her, even turned her head to ask: "You're not going to feel my pectoral muscles channeling power?"

Broly: "..."

The Sword Princess girl seemingly didn't know what shame was, possessing the same air of gender-ignorance he had in his childhood.

And since the other party didn't think there was any problem with this, Broly also stopped being reserved.

Anyway, in the end, this girl before him would be his wife, so a little intimacy between them was nothing.

He pressed against Ais's back, both arms passing under the girl's armpits like an octopus, trying to keep his body in maximum surface area contact with hers, wanting to understand the girl's force exertion and power channeling on a deeper level through this method.

However, while he had no issues, a Pallum girl doing practical combat training not far away, glancing over in her spare time and discovering the intimate embrace situation here, developed a problem.

"Miss Lili, careful!"

A green-skinned Beastman monster approached the Pallum girl from the side-rear; Liliruca had her attention dispersed, the white-haired boy detected her abnormality and hurriedly gave a warning.

But before the Pallum girl could come to her senses and react, a string of incantations was completed by the Elf girl next to her who had been staring this way the whole time, watching over both of them with full concentration.

Flame magic arrows filled the sky, appearing out of thin air, and the next instant, as if they cost nothing, they bombarded toward Liliruca and Bell's direction.

A rumbling sound rang out, the ground of the Dungeon Labyrinth's Tenth Floor underwent a violent tremor, and after the tremor ended, the monster group serving as sparring partners had all been annihilated.

Bell and Lili were a bit dumbfounded, looking at the scorched earth bombarded out beside them; the Elf girl's attack magic hadn't hit them, but the fierce output had bombarded all the accumulated drop items and magic stones on the ground clean.

And at this time, Broly had also already come down from the Sword Princess girl's body, walked over to this side, looking somewhat puzzled at Lefiya who seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief, not understanding what this Elf girl was doing.

Of course, Broly could understand the situation of the other party using magic to help Bell and Lili remove danger, just didn't understand why the other party would kill off all the other monsters serving as practical combat practice targets.

"Uh, did I overdo it?"

Lefiya, who had breathed a sigh of relief, upon detecting the astonished gazes of the others looking over, only then reacted, asking in a small voice.

"Miss Lefiya, can you tell me what just happened?"

Broly asked; when Bell had shouted just now, he had also noticed Lili's situation, and by his estimation, the Pallum girl should have been completely able to react in time.

"Lefiya has a nervous habit; although her magic power control technique has no issues, when she's nervous, magic power disorder inevitably occurs, like magic being unusable, or overused."

When the Elf girl didn't know how to answer, the Sword Princess girl walked over and helped explain.

"I-I'm sorry, I went too far."

Lefiya lowered her head somewhat red-faced; she clearly wanted to help Miss Ais, and had been entrusted by Mr. Broly as a reliable Adventurer senior to look after the other party's junior, but now she had shown such an immature side.

Although the flame magic just now hadn't hit Miss Liliruca and Mr. Bell, that scene just now would definitely make people feel uneasy, right?

Perhaps Mr. Broly would use lack of peace of mind as a reason to say he's pausing the swordsmanship guidance for Miss Ais.

"So that's how it is, then, Miss Lefiya..."

"Ah, I'm here!"

"Do you want to try overcoming your nervousness?"

Broly asked.

"Eh?!"

Lefiya looked at the boy with some surprise.

"Is that possible?"

"Of course."

Broly answered without hesitation, but added a sentence afterward.

"However, if I can help you overcome your nervous habit, you also need to pay the corresponding price to me, just like Miss Ais, how about it?"

Hearing this, the Elf girl didn't hesitate in the slightest, giving an affirmative answer: "No problem, if Mr. Broly can really help me overcome my habit of being easily nervous, I'm willing to pay whatever price."

She also wanted to help her companions, rather than always being the role that drags them down.

Liliruca: "..."

She hadn't even become friends with the Elf girl yet, but Broly-san's side had already successfully set the trap and let the other party step right in with one foot.

"Miss Ais, for your swordsmanship guidance, we might have to pause slightly, I need to ask Miss Lefiya the reason for her nervousness."

Broly looked at the Sword Princess girl and said.

"I have no problem."

Ais answered without hesitation.

If Lefiya could, with the boy's help, change her bad habit of being easily nervous.

Then skipping one or two days of swordsmanship training was also completely okay, something she could accept.

Broly nodded, then asked Lefiya the cause of her nervousness.

And soon, he obtained the corresponding conclusion.

"Miss Lefiya, this is a manifestation of lacking confidence in your own strength, and it's related to the fact that the companions around you are much stronger than you, giving rise to the thought that you can't do anything well."

"Mr. Broly, you're absolutely right, then may I ask, for my situation, is there any good solution?"

Lefiya looked at him with great expectation.

"The solution is very simple."

"What is it?"

"You just need to become stronger than your companions."

"Ah, this..."

Lefiya's face showed a look of disappointment.

"What's wrong?"

Broly looked at the disappointed girl, somewhat not understanding why.

"Broly-san, your method certainly treats both the symptoms and the root cause, but the problem is, if I could become stronger than the companions around me, then I wouldn't have this situation of insufficient confidence."

Lefiya said somewhat listlessly.

"I can help you become stronger."

Broly then said.

"Eh?!"

The elf girl looked over with some surprise, then asked: "But how are you going to help me become stronger?"

"Very simple, you just learn the sword from me too."

Broly's answer made the expression on Lefiya's face go blank for a moment.

The elf girl first looked at the staff in her hand, then reminded him: "But I am a Mage, I have never touched a sword before."

"No problem, four days ago I was also a swordsmanship novice, but under Broly-san's guidance, today I already know a pretty good swordsmanship."

Liliruca appeared at the side as living proof; her words made the elf girl and the Sword Princess girl both look over sideways, because from the Pallum girl's practical combat scene with monsters, one completely could not tell that four days ago the other party was still a person who didn't understand swordsmanship.

"Someone like me, who was still a Supporter four days ago, can do it; then someone like Lefiya-san, such a powerful Lv. 3 Adventurer, definitely can also do it."

"Then... I'll try?!"

Lefiya seemed to have been stimulated into a bit of confidence.

Broly simply taught this elf girl the correct sword-swinging movements, then let her directly engage in actual combat with monsters newly spawned by the Dungeon.

"Lefiya-san, don't be nervous; with your Lv. 3 ability values, even without using Magic, wanting to solve a Goblin should also be a very relaxed matter."

Under the boy's encouragement, Lefiya took up the sword lent to her by a companion and went up.

The Goblin charged at her; the Goblin was very quickly killed by her with the sword.

But...

The elf girl had her eyes closed, wildly waving the long sword in her hand to kill it.

What correct sword-swinging movements — they were completely thrown to the back of her mind; she was entirely in a state of extreme panic.

"Lefiya-san, please stop waving the sword wildly; you've already killed the Goblin."

Hearing this, the elf girl only then stopped.

"Now, you should also have recognized your own strength; let's try a Ground Spirit next."

Broly originally wanted to raise the elf girl bit by bit, increasing the difficulty of the opponent monsters she faced with the sword, but after seeing the elf girl's performance of wildly waving the sword like that, he felt he still had to start slowly from the weakest monsters as opponents.

However, his idea of wanting Lefiya to regain confidence from the weakest monsters, after consecutively letting the elf girl kill more than a dozen weakest monsters yet she was nearly injured by the weakest monsters, Broly had no choice but to admit that making Lefiya not nervous was a difficult thing.

This is not only the problem of this elf girl feeling unconfident in her own strength, but that the other party fundamentally has not made the preparation to become a combatant.

To use a more vivid description: Lefiya is not a warrior, but more like a civilian girl possessing fine warrior Equipment.

She cannot decisively use the weapons she possesses, for example Magic, and for example swinging a sword; her mindset is completely unqualified.

"S-sorry, you said to let me not close my eyes, but I always close them."

Lefiya also knew her performance was very bad, and bowed to apologize.

"It's fine, you closing your eyes only proves your heart is relatively slender and sensitive."

Broly waved his hand, as if this wasn't any big problem.

"Eh?!"

Not hearing reproach and sighs made Lefiya a bit surprised; then, she heard the boy's next sentence.

"I know how to correct this situation of yours, it's just the process may make you feel uncomfortable; don't know if you can accept it?"

"Ah, I can."

Hearing this, Lefiya first froze for a moment, then hurriedly nodded in reply.

"Good, then..."

Broly struck out with his sword, and his sword almost brushed past Lefiya's ear tip.

The icy and dangerous sensation, just once, made the elf girl's goosebumps all rise.

"Ah—"

When Broly struck out with his sword again, letting the sword tip graze past the skin in front of her throat, the elf girl who had reacted finally let out a sharp scream.

"Clang—"

Broly's sword was very quickly blocked by someone.

"Broly-san, what are you doing?"

The one who blocked him was precisely the Sword Princess girl; she snatched the long sword from the elf girl's hand, completing the block against Broly's short sword.

"Lefiya-san is too sensitive; I am doing desensitization training for her."

Broly explained.

"But you nearly injured her."

The Sword Princess girl said, Broly's sword just now nearly slit the elf girl's throat.

"Please rest assured, I am still very confident in my own swordsmanship; even if Lefiya-san moves wildly it's the same, and moreover, I know Healing Magic; even if she gets injured, I can also help her recover from the injuries."

The Sword Princess frowned; the boy's answer could not make her feel satisfied; she had no intention of yielding her position.

"Looking at your appearance, I roughly know why Lefiya-san would be in this situation."

"What do you mean?"

"You Loki Familia protect her too well; probably haven't let her experience any dangerous battles, right?!"

Broly said with certainty.

"You mean it's because of us that Lefiya developed the habit of getting nervous easily?"

Ais's words brought the elf girl back to her senses from her fright.

"Ah, no such thing, it's because of myself..."

The elf girl began to explain, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by the boy.

"It might not be a subjective reason, but it counts as an objective reason."

Broly held his sword, facing off against the Sword Princess girl.

At the side, Bell and Lili, the two of them, were already staring in a daze.

Just now, Broly's sudden sword strike was something very unexpected to them.

And that attacking posture, the aura revealed at the moment of attack, almost made them think the boy really intended to kill the elf girl, made them think 'capture' meant capture in the literal sense, meant subjugation, meant killing.

"Is there no gentler way?"

Ais asked, just when she thought she would get a negative reply from the boy.

The Broly opposite her, however, nodded, sheathed his sword, and said: "There is, it's just that a gentler desensitization method might not produce immediate results."

Ais fell silent for a moment, then sheathed her long sword as well, and said: "Lefiya cannot accept overly stimulating desensitization training, Mr. Broly, please be more gentle with this child."

"That depends on her wishes."

Broly replied with a sentence, then looked at the elf girl.

"Miss Lefiya, do you think so too?"

The Sword Princess turned her head back, and the elf girl had already calmed down, knowing the boy just now wasn't really trying to kill her.

However, the life-and-death crisis by a hair's breadth just now still left this elf girl with lingering fear.

She thought for a bit, then answered with a bitter smile: "If possible, please be gentle."

"Since it's like that, then..."

Broly took out a rope, picked up the wooden stick dropped by the goblin on the ground, tied the wooden stick securely, and hung it on a white tree.

"Miss Lefiya, please stand here, then close your eyes."

Broly pointed at the open space in front of the stick and said.

"Ah, this is?"

Lefiya was somewhat at a loss.

"In a moment I'll swing the wooden stick, what you need to do is, in a state of closed eyes, attempt to dodge the swinging wooden stick."

"Eh?!"

"Although this is closed-eye dodge training, from a certain meaning it also counts as a kind of desensitization training, although I personally feel this way you're more likely to get injured, like getting a bump on your forehead from being hit, it's still not as good as my swinging a sword at you where I can control the force for desensitization training, but, I'm willing to respect the choice you made."

Lefiya: "..."

Time flew by, arriving at evening dusk, the group of five came out from the Dungeon.

Lefiya walked beside the Sword Princess girl, hand covering her forehead.

Although the swelling on her forehead from being smashed by the wooden stick had already been healed by the boy, she still had a slight phantom pain sensation.

"Mr. Broly, you actually could have handled it alone, right?"

【155】 Lefiya asked with a bit of regret.

Lefiya somewhat regretfully asked it out.

Because when the boy was in the Dungeon, he was doing the closed-eye dodge wooden stick training for her on one hand, guiding Miss Ais's swordsmanship on the other, and could still remind Miss Lili and Mr. Bell of their mistakes from time to time.

Even with her eyes closed, she could feel this boy's terrifying field control ability, simply like the captain of their Familia.

"I can handle it, but I'd be distracted, thereby causing the swordsmanship teaching quality to drop."

Broly wasn't lying.

Regarding the guidance of the Sword Princess girl's swordsmanship, because he couldn't clone himself, he only conducted a small part.

Complete close-range fine-tuning couldn't be carried out.

"Ugh..."

Lefiya was a bit struck, her heart always having a feeling of sorry towards Miss Ais, feeling she was dragging the girl down.

"It's fine, Lefiya, I feel that after training all day today, my swordsmanship has already improved greatly."

Ais saw the girl's self-blame, so she spoke a word of comfort, then asked: "As for you, have you overcome a bit of your own habit of getting nervous easily?"

"Ah, very sorry, I don't know about that, I just feel my forehead has been buzzing from being hit by the swinging wooden stick today, feel more resistant to wooden stick hits."

Lefiya still had no confidence in this.

"Please rest assured, my training is useful, when Miss Lefiya was hit in the face by the wooden stick, the subconscious shrinking-neck action.

By the time training reached the afternoon, it had already rarely appeared, compared to shrinking her neck and taking the hit, she had already understood that attempting to dodge could reduce the wooden stick's harm to herself."

(Chapter End)