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"All right, let's get to it. What do you want me to do?　Also, mock battles?　Or do you want to start with a swing?"

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Are you feeling better now?

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"Yes. I'm fine now. So let's get started."

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Okay. Then, let's start the training immediately.

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　I was breathing hard, but I wanted to practice swordsmanship.

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　I beg Ai to teach me how to use the sword.

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　What is he going to do?

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　I can do anything if I can learn that swordsmanship.

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Let's get started. What I want you to do now, Mr. Alphonse, is to practice with me.

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"...... practice watching?　What's that?"

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"Watching is practicing by watching. I will hold the sword and show you various moves, and you will watch me.

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"Uh huh. Just watching?　That's not training, is it?"

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"No. No. Practice is important. Master Alphonse doesn't know how to use a sword. He's just swinging it around like a madman. But there is a proper way to use a sword. I want you to learn how to use the sword with your body by watching my movements.

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　Hmmm.

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　Is that what this is all about?

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　In order to absorb magic power from food, we need to understand things like body structure.

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　In the same way, Ai might be trying to say that we need to study in order to use swords.

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　In order to know how to use a sword properly, Ai shows us an example instead of a textbook.

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　Maybe Ai is trying to tell us that we need to watch and learn how to use a sword first.

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"It doesn't sound very interesting. Can you really get stronger just by watching?

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"Of course it wouldn't make sense to just watch without thinking."

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"So, is there a way to watch?"

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That's right. I am going to have Master Alphonse watch my swordsmanship. Please control your magic power. You must distribute the magic power of your whole body to your eyes and brain.

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"The eyes and the brain?"

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Yes. This is a surprisingly difficult technique. Some people are able to manipulate magic on their own. But most of them concentrate their magic power on only one point of their body when they manipulate and move their magic power. However, if you can disperse and concentrate magic power to multiple places at will depending on the situation, the range of application will expand greatly.

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"Heh. I remember that I used to concentrate on my brain when I studied and on my intestines when I ate, but I didn't distribute them to different parts of my body. Are you sure you want to strengthen your eyes while improving your memory and cognition to see the Eye?"

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"That's right. Then, please try it right away."

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　As soon as the Eye tells me this, I try to manipulate the magic.

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　But this was surprisingly difficult.

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　I thought I had gotten used to manipulating magic by now.

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　However, dispersing the magic power to different places is more difficult than I thought.

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　It is difficult just to distribute it, but it is also difficult to maintain it.

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　For example, if you divide the magic power half between the eyes and half between the brain, it is very difficult to keep it constant.

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　If you are not careful, one of the two will become too much, and when you try to restore it, the opposite will become too much.

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　It took a lot of concentration just to keep the intended amount in different places.

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"This is harder than I thought it would be. I don't know if I can practice with this."

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Please do it. You will learn swordsmanship faster that way. Besides, your technique can be applied to other things. Ars Valka, for example, is constantly manipulating his magic power while fighting. By strengthening the eyes and brain, you will be able to recognize the movements of your opponent more accurately, so it is an important technique.

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"...... Okay, I get it. I'll do it. I'll do it."

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　Brother Ars again.

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　Do we really manipulate so much magic in the middle of a fight?

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　But if that's what Ai is doing, then it must be true.

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　Then we have no choice but to do it.

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　For a while after that, I asked Ai to wait until I was able to concentrate and disperse the magic power, and although it took some time, I managed to get it into shape.

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　Finally, Ai's demonstration began.

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"Wow. That's really great. It's so easy to see how the Eye moves."

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　Concentrating magic power on the eyes and brain had more effect than I had expected.

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　First of all, the more magic power is concentrated in the eyes, the more it changes the way we see.

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　Especially, my eyesight seems to improve tremendously.

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　I don't have bad eyesight, so I can see well, but now my eyesight is even better.

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　I can see farther, and up close I can see more accurately.

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　And I now understand what it means that the more magic power I gather in my brain, the more I can understand.

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　I mean, first of all, the opponent's movement seems to be slower.

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　It is as if time is stretched out, so that the opponent appears to be moving slowly, so that you can recognize his movements more easily.

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　Sword movement and body movement.

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　Using eyes that can see well and a brain that can perceive slowly, we learn from Ai's demonstrations.

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　We were shown a series of swordsmanship moves that were said to have been used by a sword saint in the past, and we just kept on watching them.

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　Such practice continued for a while.

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　As I watched, I understood what Ai wanted to say.

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　I understood what he meant when he said that all he had been doing was swinging his sword around.

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　There is no waste in Ai's movements.

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　Every movement had a meaning and led to the next movement.

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　Watching Ai's sword dance, which I felt was even a kind of artistic beauty, I began to memorize her movements.

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