If I became a little more serious, by the time she predicted my actions, her body wouldn't be able to keep up with my speed.
Even when I pulled my punches, the shock of the impact from my pole hitting her traveled throughout her body, knocked the air out of her lungs, and she began rolling on the ground, writhing in pain.
After doing this several more times, she finally stopped. But she was still unable to get on her feet.
In order to numb the pain, she curled up into a fetal position and trembled. To fall into this state from a single strike, it's no wonder she didn't have the motivation to go into the dungeon.
Kugime had a strong sense of responsibility, that's why she was worried she would become a burden to others.
But from my point of view, her low combat abilities aren't a problem at all. If there's a problem with her defense, we'll simply need to help her get better. Since Seiji is coming along, and he has the ability to defend and heal himself and his comrades, we will be able to recover.
Even if she isn't directly involved in the fight, Kugime can still collect information from her surrounding with very high accuracy. She can be a biological radar for sensing enemies and traps.
That's why, to me her fear of being a burden is only groundless fear.
Since her role isn't to directly fight, her combat abilities will be sufficient if she can defend herself for just a few seconds.
And she cleared this condition.
All she needs to do is try it once, and her anxiety will dissipate.
Although, we'll need to work on her lack of confidence and emotional control. Because of her fear of going into a [God] class dungeon, I tried to convince Kugime gently at first. Since that didn't work, I'll carry out training which she reluctantly joined. I'm going to pound some self-confidence and readiness into her, even forcibly if I have to.
"All is well, all is well. Even if 1 or 2 of your arms are broken, or 1 of your organs ruptured, my [Blood Elixir] will be able to patch you up."
ED Note:The original text didn't say blood elixir in particular (just elixir), but what other kind of elixir would Aporou have to mend this kind of injury? Are you even trying to calm her down Aporou? that's just gonna scare her even more!
"Therefore calm down, and let us continue training until the anxiety has passed."
After that Kugime had a look of despair on her face, as if her spirit had left her.
ED Note:What did I tell you... Anyway, the Google translate says consciousness, But there are a lot of words in Japanese that could have similar meanings when translated to English, but different concepts in Japanese, in this case soul or mentality, So I chose spirit instead. That made more sense. Someone give me the raw please.
It's like in anime when a person passes out from dread or shock and the soul comes out.
The training continued for about half a day.
Finally after rolling several hundred times on the ground, breaking bones and rupturing organs, we successfully completed the training.
Since I have to beat her into shape, we will be continuing until tomorrow; though Kugime-chan had a look of disappointment on her face. She shouldn't be so perturbed from just this.
Kugime-chan continued on while completely covered with blood, breaking half of her bones, and receiving countless wounds while under the influence of high-speed healing; nothing scary really.
If she was motivated from the start, we wouldn't have to go through this. I'm keeping that thought inside.