Re:Zero: Starting from the Great Transformation

Watched Ron leave the dojo.

The smile on Gar's lips remained unchanged.

Suddenly, a figure walked out from the corner of the dojo.

He was a man with a very strange appearance.

He wore a rainbow-colored top, knee-high boots, four swords on his waist, and a peacock-like tattoo on his face. But the most impressive thing about him was his open hairstyle that looked like a parabolic antenna.

If Ron were here, he would be able to easily recognize this person's identity.

Even though he had never seen it before, this iconic look was unmatched anywhere else in the world.

Northern Emperor.

Aubert Colbert.

It is known as the Peacock Sword.

"Lord Sword God."

Ober stood beside Gar, watching Ron and Gino leave with him.

Then he asked the doubts in his heart.

"Those two people clearly don't get along, yet you're deliberately trying to get them to practice against each other. Is there really any point in that?"

"Hmm? Didn't I tell you the reason? Because it's very interesting."

Gar stroked his beard, and the smile on his lips became more and more intense.

Under Ober's puzzled gaze.

He said slowly:

"Someone who clearly doesn't have much talent, but who stubbornly becomes stronger because of trivial desires."

"Someone born with talent, but lacking the desire to become stronger, someone with no reason to wield a sword."

"To me, these two are complete opposites... I'm really curious what would happen if I put them together..."

Sword Sanctuary Arc: 62, Communication with Alice

Start by sparring with Gino.

Basically about a month passed.

My training progress is no different from before, except that I have added the extra daily sparring with Gino.

In comparison, Gino is much worse off.

Basically, I would beat him until he couldn't stand up every day.

Even after such brutal training, Gino still made little progress, and his swordsmanship improved slowly.

Ultimately, continuous failures alone won't motivate Gino to become stronger.

and.

Seeing Gino being beaten like that by me every day, I felt a little sorry for him.

This cannot go on.

I began to think.

Although I don’t know what Gal’s purpose is in doing this, it will not be good for Gino if it continues like this.

Gino is really unbearable to watch now.

Now I can roughly understand why those people in the dojo treated Gino so badly.

There's clearly no determination or awareness to become stronger.

Reaching this point solely by relying on innate talent, and then wasting this talent with an almost awful attitude is unbearable to watch.

Even though I know that Gino will get out of this situation one day, I still feel the same way.

And then again...

Gino has been practicing with me almost all the time lately.

Nina doesn't go out very often anymore.

If my appearance caused Gino to lose interest in Nina and he never gained the motivation to become stronger until the end...

Uh……

Then I feel really sorry for Gino.

Although there were no other suitable men of the same age around Nina, it was natural for her to end up with Gino.

But anyway.

It would turn out to be that situation sooner or later anyway.

Just let me intervene.

……

……

Another sparring session ended.

I looked at Gino recuperating in bed and asked tentatively:

"Gino, do you have a girl you like?"

"……what?"

A strange look came over Gino's face.

"what does that mean?"

"That's exactly what it means. You're almost 15, and I know people who were already seasoned at 15."

"..."

Gino said nothing.

He was silent for a long moment, then shook his head.

"No."

"Uh, no?"

"Not now."

"Don't be embarrassed. Isn't it normal for men to talk about women? Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

"No, I really didn't."

"What about Nina? You have a good relationship with her, right?"

"...Yes, the relationship is good, but not to that extent."

I asked several times.

However, Gino always said that he didn't have any girl he liked.

It's the same even if I mention Nina's name.

This really strikes me as odd.

Even if I showed up, Gino and Nina should be childhood sweethearts, so they shouldn't hate each other.

To be on the safe side, I asked again:

"When you say now, do you mean it happened before?"

"...I quite liked the old Nina."

Gino, lying on the bed, blinked.

"Nina used to be more lively, more charismatic, and more popular than she is now. But since Alice came, Nina has become a completely different person. I don't like the Nina she is now."

"That's it..."

I touched my chin.

The problem lies with Nina, not me...

Maybe we should start with Nina?

But even so, I don't know how to improve the relationship between the two... No, in the final analysis, my goal should be to make Gino like Nina, that is, to help Nina get out of her current situation?

But then again.

The reasons behind Nina's change are complicated.

Nina, who had always been considered a genius, was suddenly defeated by a peer who came to the dojo. This must have been an unprecedented sense of frustration for her. Coupled with Alice's unsociable personality, Nina's dislike for her continued presence only grew.

This disgust seriously affected Nina's mentality over time.

This also caused Nina to lose her charm in Gino's eyes.

"..."

It went around in circles and finally landed on Alice.

OK OK.

My head is starting to hurt.

To be honest, I'm not good at dealing with Alice's personality.

It would be fine if we could have a normal conversation.

But Alice...

That guy's mind is full of sword training and Rudeus.

Want her to get along well with Nina?

What the fuck...

It would be better to write a letter to Rudius and ask him to come over and slap Alice twice.

"Huh... No, calm down. This isn't impossible. Alice is just stubborn, not an idiot. As long as we talk it over nicely, everything will be fine."

I took a deep breath and adjusted my mindset.

After leaving Gino, I left the dojo and headed north along the path to the Sword Sanctuary.

It took about an hour to walk.

You can already faintly hear the sound of waves hitting the rocks on the shore.

I continued walking, and then my eyes fell on a protruding headland.

A woman with long red hair was swinging a sword there.

It wasn't a move from the Sword God style, it was just the swinging of the sword with full concentration.

This kind of training has been going on since half a year ago when I arrived here. At first, I also had some doubts about Alice doing this kind of training, but this is Gar's strategy, and I have no right to interfere.

I stopped and kept my distance, watching Alice exercising from a distance.

"..."

This continuous sword swinging lasted for about two hours.

It seems like I have run out of energy.

Alice put down her sword, slumped down on the ground and began to rest.

He kept swinging the sword like this, and when he was exhausted, he sat down to rest, eat, and then continued swinging the sword.

Alice has been sticking to this monotonous exercise method.

I took a step forward.

As soon as we got to about thirty meters away, Alice suddenly turned around and looked at me as if she had eyes on the back of her head.

"Uh, good morning?"