“Do not worry.” the young man stated calmly, as he led her towards the yard in which the local guards would practice. “I will not need use of any more than my left arm, to train you in swordsmanship.” There was a cocky smirk on Alberio’s face, as he claimed this. Though, in reality, he didn’t know if he would be any good with only the use of his formerly non-dominant arm. Making this training session of Haruhi’s a session for himself as well.
Reaching the door to the training yard, Alberio pushed it open with the heel of his boot, revealing to the two a large spot of land with sections for both melee and archery training. To the right were some training bows, with full quivers of arrows, that were just waiting to be used on the targets that had been set up. Whereas, on the left side of the yard were blunted training weapons, and scarecrows for the guards to test their blades on. Though, it appeared that some of the guards had a sick since of humor, as the heads of some of the scarecrows had been replaced with the heads of ghouls.
Walking over to the training weapons, Alberio set down his own blade and picked up a standard long sword.
“We should use these blunted tools, whilst we train. Lest we want to dull that which might save our lives on the battlefield.” Swinging the weapon as he spoke, Alberio struck the torso of a nearby scarecrow, to give the young lady further proof of how blunted the blades were. As the weapon didn’t even tear more than one or two straw.
“Now, Haruhi. Grab a weapon from the rack, and a shield. Your training begins here and now.”
