Chapter 142

Chapter 142: Retraining

After a whole day of sleep, Loki was feeling slightly better, his body was no longer heavy and numb the mana that he had drained yesterday was refilling. The inner energy he unconsciously used in the battle was now supporting him as he recovered.

Loki did a quick check on his body, to see if there was something else wrong with him. After scanning his body, he was relieved that there were no other complications. Loki then opened his eyes stood up and stretched his arms.

When Loki looked at his side there was his little sister sleeping, on a futon. Seeing Alisa sleeping there, Loki tried to recall what happened after he fainted. The last clear memory he had was when he got home and hid his work clothes, the memories after that point were blurry.

‘Tsk, I made so many mistakes yesterday... Damn, I already said that I wouldn’t think of myself as my old self, but every time I head into battle I can’t stop but think of myself as that guy. I might still have the same memories, with all that experience and skills, but this body can’t handle my hundred percent. Sure in the past nine months since I’ve arrived here, I have never forgotten to train my body, but it’s still a long way to go before I can get to the strength of my former body... Well, the inner energy of this body does bring me some advantages... I just need to train this body the same way as my old one to resist poisoning.’

Loki started planning his new training regimen. He was still holding back on his training as he wasn’t accustomed to his new body at the time, but now that it has been nearly a year since he started training he should be well accustomed to his new body. Also after all the basic training that he did, and the inner energy he had gained, he should be able to finally push his body even further.

“Big brother?” While Loki was deep in thought, Alisa woke up. Alisa rubbed her eyes when she saw Loki awake and looking at her.

“Big brother you’re finally awake! Are you feeling better?” Alisa quickly stood up and hugged Loki after which she touched Loki’s forehead.

.....

“Sorry for worrying you, but I’m fine now... Also, what day is it?”

“It’s a Sunday,” Alisa responded as she sighed in relief. It seems this time Loki was truly in a better state than before as he was now able to talk more coherently. Since Alisa’s voice was rather loud Liam who was in another room heard her and burst into Loki’s room.

“What happened?!”

Liam entered the room while in a fighting stance. Due to his continuous training, his stance was rather good. When he saw Loki was awake he sighed and eased up.

“... Huh, so you finally woke up. Hmph, always getting sick and making everyone worried, some big brother you are.”

“Liam!-” Alisa was about to scold Liam, but before she could do so Loki stopped her. Loki then smiled awkwardly at Liam and bowed his head.

“You’re right I apologize.”

Liam was stunned as he looked at Loki astonished he then awkwardly nodded his head and left the room. After Liam left, Loki asked about what happened during his sleep. Alisa started telling Loki what happened yesterday from his high fever to the time he was visited by Matsuri. Hearing that Loki could vaguely remember Matsuri coming in.

Once Alisa was sure that Loki was better, she left the room to make breakfast. Loki then texted Matsuri thanking her for coming over yesterday. It didn’t even take a second after he texted before Matsuri called.

“You really should take better care of yourself. You might be a martial artist now with inner energy, but you’re still human.”

“Yeah, I know. Thank you again for helping me and my siblings. Hm, how about as a thank you, I treat you to a meal sometime.”

Loki could hear the sound of something crashing on the other side. Matsuri was silent for a while, as Loki was about to ask if she was alright, Matsuri finally responded.

“Ahem, I’m going to take you up on that offer. I’m free next Sunday.” Matsuri tried to act like she was cool and all, but then her tone was higher than normal, and the way she spoke seemed to be faster.

“Alright then, next Sunday, I’ll take you out for lunch. My siblings should also be free then.”

“Oh, so it won’t just be the two of us.” Matsuri’s tone then became a bit softer which confused Loki a bit.

“Yeah, why, is that not alright?”

“No, of course, it’s alright.”

Loki and Matsuri then talked a bit more before ending the call. After talking with Matsuri, Loki saw that Harold had texted him numerous times when he was asleep, he then texted the young man back.

“No need to worry, I’m alright, I was just a little bit exhausted. Can you contact Larry and tell him that I would ask for my payment two weeks from now, in the meantime, he should take care of his mother properly. Also, if possible can you send me different kinds of poisons, just the nonlethal ones would do.”

After sending the text Harold quickly texted back with a thumbs up.

...

The following day, Loki told his siblings that he was going to rest at home and wouldn’t be able to go to work.

“If you’re not feeling all that well, I could stay and help you.”

“Hmph, you’re really weak you know that. You’re supposed to be our big brother and a higher-level martial artist. Heh, if you really can’t move around, I guess I can stay behind to look after you.”

“No, there’s no need to do that you two. You can’t be absent when the school year is about to end. Especially you, Liam, you need to prepare for your exams. There’s also your graduation from middle school to high school, that you need to get ready for.”

“... Alright, if we can’t stay, then how about I call Matsuri?”

“You know she has her own work and can’t babysit me. Don’t worry, like I said I’m fine, I’ll just rest for a bit.”

Alisa who offered to stay behind looked quite worried, in fact, it was surprising that even Liam had the same idea, but unlike Alisa who spoke in a direct manner, he said it in a way like he was doing Loki a favor. It took Loki quite a while to convince his siblings and in the end, they reluctantly left for school.

Now all alone the first thing that Loki did was some light exercise. While he was exercising he didn’t use any mana or inner energy. An hour after he started exercising somebody rang the doorbell. The one who came was a delivery man, who had a package that came from Harold.

The package was filled with different kinds of poisons with numbers indicating how strong they were the weakest was labeled with the number one, the higher the number the stronger the poison. Alongside those poisons were the antidotes. Loki took those poisons and antidotes and headed to his room. He had his phone by his side and it was already set to call a hospital just in case something goes wrong.

“Alright, let’s start with the weakest one.” Loki then drank the poison.