The Training of the Invulnerable.

After Haruki accepted the pact Hiraki said ''very well, from today I will always be with you, I can become invisible if you want'' and Haruki thought for a while and asked ''Hikari, you mentioned that the spirits can become visible and invisible besides changing form'' Hikari confirmed moving her head, ''Could you assume another form?'' Hikari says ''Yes,'' hearing that Haruki did, she got a winning expression on her face, ''Well, could you assume this form?'' said Haruki as she took out and opened a pornographic magazine from under her bed, Hikari just stayed silent for a few moments until she said ''Haruki, I'm not an idiot,'' Haruki made a disappointed face, but when she turned her head she found an old piggy bank in the shape of a maneki-neko, ''And this form? can you do it? '' asked Haruki, at the same moment Hikari transformed into a maneki neko, it was a white cat with red hair in the shape of a mustache on its cheeks, red details on the tip of its tail and the tip of its ears, Haruki was impressed and he said: ''Wow, very nice, this appearance of yours is more friendly, in your other form you looked like a ghost'' and Hikari said ''I understand'', Haruki said ''Oh that's right, I finally convinced Emi's grandfather to give me martial arts lessons, it's almost on schedule, I better hurry up''.

Haruki went down the stairs at great speed and headed for Emi's house. He didn't have to walk far, because Haruki's house was next to Emi's grandfather's dojo, who's name is Hiroshi Tanaka, having the same last name as Haruki's mother helped them become good neighbors, when he arrived at the dojo's entrance, Haruki saw Mr. Hiroshi sitting on the floor while enjoying some good noodles, he looked at Haruki and said, ''Young Nakamura, you are 5 minutes late,'' and Haruki said

"Please don't use my last name, you know I don't like it. Mr. Hiroshi looked at Haruki, closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "I can imagine what happened to you, those boys picked on you again, didn't they? Haruki thought, ''Oh that's right, when I fought Ryota, I didn't have the power of invulnerability yet, so it must look like I got beaten up'', ''Let's get started, put on your uniform,'' Haruki did so and positioned himself in front of Mister Hiroshi, At that moment, Haruki punched with all his might, but Mister Hiroshi held Haruki's forearm and spun Haruki's body in the air, so that he fell backwards onto the ground, ''Wow, Mister. Hiroshi, that was so fast!", Hiroshi smiled, looked at Haruki and replied, "I hope I didn't hurt you", "No need to worry, that blow didn't hurt me".

Hiroshi taught Haruki basic techniques, twists, kicks and punches, it was an intense training routine, but thanks to the blessing, Haruki didn't get tired, yes, Haruki was invulnerable to fatigue, and Lord Hiroshi said ''In all these years, most of my students couldn't resist until the end of the first training session with me, but you don't even look tired or hurt." Haruki smiled and used the thumb of his right hand to point at himself, closed his eyes and said, "What can I do, I am a martial arts genius", To strengthen your body and make your punches and kicks stronger we will now train your muscles," Upon saying this, Hiroshi took Haruki to the back of his Dojo, where there was training equipment, and said: "Well, Haruki, since it's your first day, let's train the muscles of your whole body, I want you to do 100 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 squats and 100 sit-ups." Upon hearing this, Haruki positioned his feet, legs and arms on the floor and did 200 pull-ups in a controlled and uninterrupted manner, yes, Haruki was also invulnerable to muscle fatigue. When he finished, he stood up and looked at Hiroshi with a smile on his face. ''YOU MANAGED TO DO THE EXERCISE LIKE THAT EVEN AFTER TAKING ALL THOSE BLOWS? YOU ARE A PRODIGY. Haruki said, ''And did you doubt that for a moment?''

Hiroshi was excited to finally find someone who could stand his training routine and said, ''Incredible now double the number of all the repetitions that you will do in all the exercises! Only this way you will be able to stimulate your muscles'' after saying this Hiroshi thought: ''It's incredible, he has a slim body and yet he endured this hellish training, even I have a hard time withstanding this routine'' after finishing the physical exercises Haruki put on his clothes and said goodbye to Mr. Hiroshi, Hiruki, however looking at the wall of the dojo he saw a katana stuck in a wooden support, the hild of this sword was white and his hand guard was gold, ''What sword is this Mr. Hiroshi? Hiroshi smiled and said ''This sword is in my family for over 400 years, it was used by my ancestors, it has always been well preserved and is almost intact even after so much time, Haruki said ''I see...you also inherited something from an ancestor of yours'', Hiroshi made a doubtful face and asked ''What do you mean too?'' Haruki realized that he had said too much, Haruki decided not to say anything about Hikari, his powers or about Kurogami, he just looked at Mr.Hiroshi and said: ''Well, it's just that once in a while my grandfather sends me old things'', Hiroshi realized that Haruki had been very nervous when he gave the explanation but he just said ''Ok'', Haruki headed to the exit of the dojo when he bumped into Emi who was going to take dinner to Mr.Hiroshi.

"Oh...Haruki, is that you?" said Emi, and Haruki said "Yes, I started my training with your grandfather today, and apparently I'm a prodigy haha", Emi made a sad expression and said "I heard about what happened at school today between you, Aiko and Ryota. Well he got what he deserved, I threw dog shit on his head hahaha'' Emi made a surprised expression and said ''No, how can you do that? he may want to take revenge'' But Haruki smiled and said looking into Emi's eyes ''Relax, Ryota can't hurt me anymore, don't worry about it ok?'' she got a blush on her face, and stuttering said ''Ah,oh, well then....AH! yes, the lunch I made for you? did you like it?'', Haruki thought ''If I tell her that one of those guys took the lunch box from my hands and ate it in front of me she might get hurt and think I'm weak, ''Ah yes! the fish you cooked was great! well I'll be going'' Haruki ran off and left Emi watching him, and Emi said in a low voice ''But I had made noodles and chicken for you....''.

As he was running home Hikari appeared to him in the form of a cat and said ''Hello'', Haruki said ''Haha, it was you I wanted to see! You won't believe it I made it through all of Mr.Hiroshi's training and I'm not even a little tired! it's amazing!'' Hikari said ''Really?'', ''Yes! I can train as much as I want and I'll still have energy, I'll get muscle quickly!'' Hikari however said ''It doesn't work that way, for muscles to grow, become stronger and more resistant the muscle fibers need to be broken and after recovered they will become stronger, however your blessing makes this impossible to happen, no matter how much you train, if your blessing is activated you won't become stronger, more resistant or faster because they will not break, to get results you must train with the blessing deactivated'', Haruki upon hearing this stopped celebrating, he was paralyzed for ten seconds and thought ''My God...am I going to have to go through all that training?''.....Hikari said ''Ah...well, I'm sorry....'' ''no, you don't have to apologize.... I'm the one who jumped to conclusions'' Haruki said while crying, Haruki thought ''Ah, at least I don't have to worry about getting another beating from Ryota, or Aiko, anyway I don't know why she hit me, after all the one who spilled piss on her was Ryota'', while Haruki thought this Aiko arrived home, she was quiet, she didn't talk to her parents or siblings, she just went up the stairs, entered her room, and jumped on her bed. ...then as she blushed and hugged her pillow she said "Ah, Ryota you bastard! How could you ruin the most important moment of my life? When I heard from one of your idiot henchmen that Haruki was going to declare his love for me I was so excited! I always thought he hated me after what happened three years ago .....0my joy was so great that I skipped class so I could put on makeup in the bathroom, and only when I finished I remembered that Haruki prefers natural beauty so I had to take everything off, ah but that's ok .....0at least I was able to touch Haruki after so long, and tomorrow is a new day, he can try to propose to me isn't it?''

When Haruki entered the house he saw a man coming out of the bathroom, all the lights except the bathroom were off, Haruki thought at that moment "What is this? Is this some kind of robbery? mom always locks the door and only I have another copy of the key'', at that moment Haruki ran and punched that man so that both of them fell on the floor, Haruki put his hands on the man's neck, looked him in the eyes and said ''who are you? what are you doing here?'' the man hit Haruki's head but he didn't suffer any damage thanks to the blessing, at that moment Haruki's mother comes down the stairs wearing only her underwear and shouts ''HARUKI! STOP!" at that moment Haruki releases the man, the man gets up breathless and says panting ''Is that your son?'' at that moment the man with anger comes out of Haruki's house and slams the door hard, Haruki confused asks ''What happened here?''.

After putting on some clothes and making some tea Haruki's mother sits down and explains, ''You know Haruki, I've been going out with that man for a while, he has a stable job, he's divorced and has 2 kids but he's well off, he'd be good for us'' and Haruki angrily says ''It's always yes, My problem is not that you have a new boyfriend a week, my problem is that you act like a self-interested prostitute because they are the ones who pay for your luxuries and rent, while you don't even remember to buy food'', and she reply ''I AM YOUR MOTHER!'' and Haruki responds by shouting even louder ''AND BY THE WAY I SAID SOME LIE!? YOU'RE ON YOUR FOURTH JOB IN LESS THAN A YEAR, YOU'VE ALWAYS COME HOME DRUNKING AND WAKING UP LATE, IF YOU HAD THE LEAST RESPONSIBILITY YOU MIGHT NOT NEED TO ACT LIKE A BITCH IN HEAT' Haruki goes up the stairs and locks the bedroom door, Haruki's mother sits up with a sad expression in her eyes and begins to cry.

Haruki then throws himself on his bed with his head up, ''a this sucks'' he said, after that he asked Hikari to come over and he came over, ''Did you see that?'' Hikari just nodded, ''Aren't you going to say anything about it?'' Hikari said ''I'm just a spirit who is here to fulfill the pact I made with your ancestor, I won't interfere in your personal problems'' whenever she spoke Hikari kept the same expression on her face, always neutral not passing any emotion but a slight melancholy, ''Hikari your face scares me, go back to the cat's form'' and Hikari did as Haruki had asked, and he said''Haruki what do you intend to do with your powers now?'' ,Haruki made a wry expression and said ''I thought you didn't care about my personal life'' Hikari in her cat form said ''What you're going to do with your powers goes beyond your personal life'' Haruki turned her face smiling and said ''I'll find a way to make money with this, Hikari jumped on Haruki's stomach and said ''You better not be thinking of doing anything wrong, as I said before if you use this blessing to commit injustice I will take it away from you'', Haruki looked into Hikari's eyes and said ''You don't have to worry, the method I'm thinking of won't hurt anyone. .... at least no one who doesn't want to be hurt'', Haruki got up from his bed and started walking in circles thoughtfully in his room, ''Hikari, you said that spirits can give blessings to humans, can humans give this blessing to someone'' Hikari said ''If the spirit is in agreement yes it is possible, however there are rules for this process, the human who is going to receive the blessing must not be using another one at the same time since blessings and curses are connected to the person's soul, if the person has been a curse bearer he will need to go through purification before receiving the blessing'' and Haruki asked ''But didn't you say that the Onis who can give a blessing always ask for the person's soul in return? How can they get rid of it? Hikari replied ''We spirits take the blessing from humans if they corrupt themselves or ask for it, if they wish they can also forget that they had this power, Onis however only remove the curse from people if they want to regardless of the human's will, as this configures a breach of contract the human's soul is returned however, how can I put it in human terms, soiled', ''got it'' replied Haruki, ah well, I better sleep, tomorrow is Saturday but I still need to train with Mr. Hiroshi.

When the day dawned Haruki went downstairs slowly, he thought about the things he had said to his mother the night before, she however had left some rice and curry on the table, she was in the bedroom sleeping, Haruki smiled discreetly, ate and went out the door towards the house of Mr. Hiroshi rang the bell and Emi open the door, ''ah ... Haruki what are you doing here ...? Haruki replied in a deep tone of voice "You know very well why I'm here" and Emi blushed and asked "And what reason is that?'' , Haruki said "It's in front of me". Emi's heart began to race when she heard Haruki say ''It's in front of me and behind you'' Haruki greeted Mr. Hiroshi who was behind Emi and the two of them headed for the dojo, Emi was paralyzed with a face of disappointment and fright at the same time.

''Mister Hiroshi, you have that sword in the wall, why I never see you training kenjutsu?''

''Ah young Haruki, neither I, my father, grandfather or great-great-grandfather know how to use a sword, it belonged to an ancestor from long ago, but for some ironic reason our family is not in the habit of practicing kenjutsu''

''Ah, well it's strange but okay''

"Enough talk Haruki, let's start today's training.

Haruki's training was heavier than the day before, but because his blessing was not activated he received all the damage from Mr. Hiroshi's blows, despite being a kind man Mr. Hiroshi was not very good at restricting his own strength.

I don't know what you had yesterday, perhaps because of the excitement of being your first day of training you had an excellent performance, but we haven't even reached the halfway point and you can barely stand up, I will reformulate your training, we will continue on Monday.

Hearing this Haruki says panting ''Thank you Mr. Hiroshi, I will do my best'', Haruki went back home and in his room he began to laugh alone, at that moment Hikari appeared, and Haruki said ''Hikari, what do you think of revenge? '', and Hikari said ''That depends, in general it doesn't solve human problems but justice should be applied if the cause is right'', on Monday while Haruki was coming to school he see Ryota and his goons together going to school too, and they said to each other ''Come on Ryota, forget Haruki, didn't you already beat him up?'', ''NO! that little punk defied me, he'll pay me back" Ryota replied, "Hey guys, isn't that Haruki over there?" one of the goons said.

Haruki stood in front of them with his hands in his pants pockets staring at them, a menacing pose, and Haruki said loudly ''Hey Ryota, I see you took a bath,'' Ryota then ordered his goons to hold him down and they obeyed, Haruki however did nothing to stop it, Ryota began to punch Haruki several times in the stomach, But Haruki kept the same serene expression on his face, he did not suffer any damage thanks to the blessing of invulnerability, Haruki said "Come on Ryota, try harder, it seems that you are doing a bad massage on me'' When he heard this Ryota became as angry as ever and punched Haruki in the nose, the impact of the punch on the nose was tremendous, when Ryota removed his fist from Haruki's face his hand was broken and bleeding and the pain was intense, however Haruki's nose was intact, Ryota's goons could not believe what they were seeing, two days earlier Haruki had been beaten by Ryoda and thrown to the ground, but now Ryota breaks his hand without even being able to do any damage to Haruki, at that moment Haruki breaks free and strikes the goons with his elbows, he holds Ryota by the shirt and begins to throw several punches, as he hits blood and tears flowed over Ryota's face, and Ryota said ''s. ....sto.....stop'' however Haruki just thought ''Incredible, with this power I can throw as many punches as I want, my hand will not suffer any damage'' At that moment Hiraki materialized and just watched what Haruki was doing, Ryota's goons applied a sleeper- hold on Haruki, however Haruki didn't feel the effects, he was invulnerable to asphyxiation, Haruki stopped hitting Ryota, with his fist still soiled with Ryota's blood he hit the nose of the boy who was applying the sleeper hold, he let go of Haruki after being hit, Haruki knocked the others down and started kicking their heads, he felt powerful like never before in his life, when he left everyone unconscious he went on his way, he didn't go to school or back home.

Haruki ran through the city until he checked in a warehouse that was empty, he climbed the structures and stairs and threw himself headfirst, but his neck didn't break, he stabbed his body with shards of glass but his flesh was not pierced, he smiled and shouted ''I am invulnerable! It was as if all his problems at home, bullying and poverty didn't exist, he spent hours and hours doing this, when the sun was setting he climbed to the top of the warehouse, while watching the sun go down he said to Hikari who was standing next to him, "I'm going to use this power to fight, I'm going to enter the underground rings and fight for money, do you have any objections to that?" and Hikari replied, "Like I said before, I don't care.

To be continued......