Just as Lancer had something stuck in his throat and wanted to get it out, the training room door was suddenly pulled open.
"Um... Mr. Lancer, how do I get... out?"
Shoto Todoroki's expression was incredibly awkward at this time. He had always thought that 'getting lost in someone else's house' was just an urban legend, but he didn't expect that he would actually encounter it.
"I'll walk you out!"
"Never mind, I'll go instead. Todoroki doesn't have a record of coming in after all, so it would be strange for you to walk him out. Besides, I'm more familiar with the other areas."
Momo Yaoyorozu, whose words were interrupted, looked at Lancer incredibly calm expression with a strange look. She always felt that when Lancer said those words before, he seemed... proud?
'Was the feeling that the other person had the aura of a master just my imagination?'
There was no doubt that Lancer teaching style was very 'brutal'. You could see some things from the increasing number of wounds on Shoto Todoroki's body during this period. However, his wounds were basically all self-inflicted. Lancer could indeed treat frostbite, but he was not a professional 'druid' after all. If he got injured too many times, there was nothing he could do, but Shoto Todoroki himself seemed to be very satisfied.
Indeed, Lancer couldn't help him get rid of all the negative effects, but it was already much better than before. You have to know that for the somewhat paranoid Shoto Todoroki at this time, as long as he could gain 'power', he could definitely do many things that others couldn't even imagine.
"I don't know why you are unwilling to use your other quirk, but since you have chosen to only use this one, then use it well! Calculate your own limits! It's like swinging a spear. When you thrust the spear, it is both the strongest and the weakest time! Your quirk will freeze you if you use it for too long, so you must learn to control it! Against agile opponents, a large-scale attack is indeed the best choice. At this time, an opponent with some common sense would choose to dodge instead of attacking head-on. Then you can use this brief gap to recover or set up traps..."
Shoto Todoroki, who was wearing a training suit, had ice particles all over his face at this time, but he had no time to care because Jack, who was like his 'nightmare', was running around him as usual, and the ice pillars he was constantly creating or the hail that was falling from the sky didn't even touch the other party.
"Meow~!"
Just at this moment, Jack's meow suddenly came from his side. He reflexively put up an ice shield and then————————
"Snap~!"
With a crisp sound, a green paint mark appeared on the ice shield, and Jack retracted the wooden sword with paint on it and started to move around again.
And Shoto Todoroki was constantly pushing himself to his 'limit'. Without him even realizing it, the speed at which he was creating ice pillars was getting faster and faster...
Lancer also nodded in satisfaction as he watched Shoto Todoroki's movements.
There was no doubt that Shoto Todoroki's ability could easily suppress 'close-quarters fighters' of the same strength, but opponents who were good at high-speed movement were his weakness. So Lancer was strengthening his ability to deal with this. He had always believed in one sentence: 'A person's strength is reflected in their weaknesses'.
A real battle is not a duel. There is no such thing as 'fairness'. Your opponent will always attack your weaknesses and avoid your strengths.
Although it was only a short-term intensive training, its impact on Shoto Todoroki was not small. One of the most obvious changes was that he was no longer afraid of close-quarters enemies.
When Jack was holding the sword against his abdomen before, he had almost completely frozen there, but now, even when he saw the wooden sword swinging at him, he could calmly put up an ice shield to defend himself.
If Shoto Todoroki's training could be said to be smooth sailing, then Momo Yaoyorozu training was more 'troublesome'.
Compared to Shoto Todoroki's very distinctive quirk, Momo Yaoyorozu ability was more comprehensive, but the price was that she didn't know where to start. However, Momo Yaoyorozu herself was also clear about her own 'positioning'. She didn't blindly compare herself to Shoto Todoroki.
"Although you said you wanted to learn from me to learn self-defense moves, I still have to confirm with you again. Do you really want to learn it? As a long weapon, spearmanship has obvious disadvantages when its advantages are clear. In small-scale battles, it is not as flexible as a short weapon. For you, a short sword or a baton should be more suitable."
"I'm very clear!"
Generally speaking, people who are good at a certain weapon will have a special feeling for the weapon they use, and they will instinctively dislike people who don't want to learn it seriously, but Lancer happened to be the 'unusual' type.
His understanding of the 'spear' was more 'simple'.
He was good at using it, so he used it.
A spear is a spear. It is just a weapon. Its reason for existence is to be swung by him, nothing more.
And although Momo Yaoyorozu had clearly stated that her goal was not to become a 'lancer' but only hoped to learn Lancer skills and then transform them into something that was suitable for her.
If a metaphor had to be made, it would be a parasitic organism that takes nutrients from other things to grow itself, but Lancer didn't mind being parasitized by her. Although the other party didn't want to become a lancer, the look in her eyes that longed to make herself stronger was serious.
Was Lancer so easily threatened?
The first time he faced a death threat, his choice was to 'injure the other party even if he died'. On the battlefield, he didn't retreat at all in the face of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. In his daily life, although he was lonely in the face of the curses of aliens and the fear of the people of the empire, he did not give up.
So what really moved him at that time was the other party's 'eyes'.
Momo Yaoyorozu may not have felt it, but as an observer, he almost saw the fear in her as soon as she opened her mouth. And as he released his aura, the other party was so scared that she could barely stand, but even so, her stubborn gaze and the fact that she was still holding on to her body in the end moved him because the other party was very similar to him.
According to Mado Kureo's words when he was drinking, he also had a similar look in his eyes when he was rescued by the other party at that time.
'I thought at that time that you could become an excellent investigator, so I gave you a chance! There is no doubt that my choice was correct.'
There was no doubt that as his 'journey' continued, he would meet more and more people, and the strength of these people might become stronger and stronger. So Mado Kureo, this hunchbacked middle-aged man, seemed incredibly insignificant compared to them, but for Lancer, the other party was his first teacher.
This man influenced Lancer with every word and action, so Lancer made a decision.
'Maybe she can become a good hero.'
So Lancer decided to agree to her seemingly childish 'threat'.
At this time, looking at the other party's similar gaze again, Lancer showed a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth before becoming serious again.
"Okay! In that case, let's start with the simplest 'thrust'!"
The previous lessons were all basic physical exercises, and the official lessons would begin today!