18 The Mad Breathing

-Blake-

Why? Why is this happening to me?!

The exhaustion I felt made me feel like I'm about to die, this was not training this is pure torture!

My hands were tied with a heavy hand-cuff, there were at least 20k on both sides, even my neck had a heavy collar, lucky my legs weren't tied or else I'd be screwed, and besides me Jaune who was running for his life, he had the same kind of treatment as me.

Both of us are running for our lives, behind us is a huge round boulder chasing us. If it manages to hit us, we're dead, we'll be human mash potatoes it manages to catch us!

And in front of us is our devil teacher, who was grinning, she looked back at us, "Slow! Go faster! Even a girl runs faster than you! Come on!"

Oda Akane was enjoying this very much!

This bitch! My eyes and Jaune were bloodshot, this woman has the gall to mock them in a life-threatening situation! We'll show her!

I gritted my teeth and ran faster than before. It shouldn't be possible for me to run faster, because of how exhausted I am. However, I've unconsciously controlled my breath, and it excites my blood vessels in every veins in my body!

I was using the breathing technique, but I didn't realize that because I was desperate to prove Akane wrong!

"RAAAAAAHGGGGHHH!"

I was getting closer and closer to her spot, Akane had a surprised look on her face like she didn't expect me to actually get closer to her.

"Impressive, hahaha! Keep up! That's my disciple for you!" Akane laughed hard.

Bitch fuck you!

However, I can't say it due to how exhausted I am, then I looked back and I saw Jaune dead tired. He looked like a pale corpse at this point, suddenly he fell to the ground as he couldn't take it anymore.

No! Jaune!

I had no choice but to stop running forward, and I rushed toward Jaune's collapsed body.

I may not the best leader around, but I won't just leave my teammate to die!

I managed to reach Jaune, however, the boulder was already reaching them, and a second it would surely hit them and die painfully.

All suddenly Akane instantly arrived in front of us, and I could hear her taking a deep breath.

"Hssssssssssss….." Then smoke came out of her mouth, and she drew her blade at a speed that I couldn't see, 0.1 seconds later the huge boulder was perfectly sliced vertically.

In the end, the boulder didn't hit either of us, and we managed to avoid death, then I looked at her with my exhausted face.

Amazing, she's seriously amazing I have to admit that but at the same, she's extremely irritating! Her methods were brutal, yet they were effective!

How could someone like her not be part of the Demon Slayer series?! Why wasn't she shown? Did she die when the canon started?

Honestly, if someone like her existed in the canon they might have killed Muzan early, her skills were the real deal.

Though it wasn't that visible I could see a flower mark on the right side of her forehead.

"Hooh..! That was a close one, y'all alright? Yep, you are! Honestly, I didn't expect you to last this long, good job you two!" Based on her tone, we exceeded her expectations.

I couldn't take it anymore, my entire body hurt like hell, and I couldn't even feel my feet anymore.

I slowly lost consciousness, for now, I'll rest first….

The last thing I saw was a smiling Akane. "Sleep..boy."

—

It's been two weeks since we started our hellish training. It could now use the breathing technique. I've actually managed to properly learn it within the first week of training.

Which made Akane surprised, she didn't see this coming, of course, she didn't honestly she just didn't show it, she was shocked inside.

From what she knew, no one ever managed to learn the breathing technique within a week, even though it didn't have forms yet it shouldn't be possible for anyone to learn that fast.

And the fact that I've been using the breathing technique like a pro, and not a beginner at all, it only added to the shock to Akane!

To her point of view. I was like a person that was using this technique for a year or more, but she knows that I just learned this technique!

It doesn't make sense!

She thought, if I keep this up just a little over a month, she would have nothing to teach me at all, she has never met a talent of my caliber!

But in reality, it was thanks to the support item that I got from the group chat since I've learned the secrets of breathing techniques, for the last week I've been training with how to handle a blade and my improvement rate was fast, really fast to the point that I only need to see it once to understand it.

Though I did fully understand the essence of the blade technique that Akane taught me, my body couldn't keep up, it lacks training, lacks flexibility so the only limitations that I have are my body.

Like every time Akane sees my improvement, she couldn't help but mumble the words, "What a monster…"

Honestly, it was satisfying to hear, it's my payback for that hellish training, if you can't physically win, then you just have to win mentally, exceed her expectations and her reaction was priceless!

Jaune has now learned the breathing technique, although it wasn't as fast as mine, it still made Akane surprised, she started calling us 'The Two Monsters'

While shocked, she was also proud and lucky to have a student like us, definitely earlier than she originally planned, she started teaching us her personal breathing style.

She calls it The Mad Breathing, it's a new variant of breathing style that I haven't heard of or seen in the series, anyway I don't know about Jaune but I'm not using this breathing style as my main style, because I'm making my own personal breathing style, not just a degraded one but the one that could be par with the first breathing style, The Breath Of The Sun.

It was a short-term goal to me, not to be arrogant but despite this technique being overpowered, it's just a mortal level at the most.

If I wanted to survive every mission. I have to learn the best powers in that universe so that I could be ready and would lessen my chances of dying.

I always have to move forward and be the best I could be.

Akane started teaching us her breathing technique, to be honest when she first explained how her breathing style works. I was speechless. I couldn't believe it, her style is just different from the rest of the style that has relation to the first breathing style, instead of being calm, hers is a mix of being mad and calm. You should be mad yet calm at the same time to use this breathing style.

No wonder she calls it The Mad Breathing. It makes sense, to apply it is easy since I could get mad using the most disturbing scene that I have in mind, however maintaining it is hard.

Like really hard, I don't know what to say even with my tenfold learning capability. I couldn't maintain it, then Akane noticed my distress and she said, "Don't be discouraged, even if you're such a monster there is no way you can learn it easily. It took me decades to completely master it, you know?"

Decades..? She looks like she's 17! How old is she anyway?!

"Right…"

"Good luck, I'll be expecting you to exceed my expectations again!" She wore a smug expression on her face, and it honestly made me annoyed.

I thought, 'Just you wait, I'll wipe the smug expression on your face!'

Meanwhile, Jaune was on his way to becoming a Super Saiyan.

—

-Echidna-

It's been weeks since her leader went to train, she wasn't too worried about his well-being as strong as he is, it would have been an insult to worry.

Anyway, for the past weeks, Archer had caught a demon for me, from male to female. She had been experimenting on them and they were as fascinating as she thought they would be, to think a single person managed to create something as amazing as this?

Though the only flaw of these so-called Demons is the fact that they need blood to survive and would die if they were exposed to sunlight, pretty much like vampires.

Ever since she got a demon sample, she didn't stop experimenting on them, what she did wasn't anything too cruel after all she didn't kill them, well just some.

So within those 2 weeks, she got a lot of results. For example, she found out that they would die if they said the word Muzan.

Also, I know a way to turn them back to s humans, and a way that they don't need any blood to survive.

But that wasn't her goal, her goal was to create an immortal that doesn't need any of those flaws, like Lucifer she was the living example that an immortal being exists.

If she were successful, she would share this great news to her teammates, they would be immortal if this goal of hers succeeded.

Suddenly someone arrived at her lab. She looked at the person with a business-like smile and said, "You're here Tamayo, shall we resume our previous experiment?"

"Yes, mistress." Tamayo bowed.

She also met this interesting demon a week ago, now that she turned her into a human, she became her assistant, she was quite the help.

Thus both women continued their research and experiment.

(End-)

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