Chapter 20: Susanna's Instructor

Sweat dripped down his cheeks and gathered on his chin, trembling gently with his breath. When there is too much convergence, it will drip on the ground and "click".

Xiu felt that not only his hands, but also his legs, and his waist were trembling from excessive exertion, and he desperately supported his body, but he couldn't hold on anymore.

Among the recruits, he was the youngest and in the worst health. The only thing that was better was the endurance that Francis had trained all year round, but his physical strength did not keep up.

The soreness in his arm made him feel a few tendons in his hand throbbing gently, and he felt the blood in his arm's veins burning.

At this time, a burning sensation started from his limbs, spread to his body little by little, rushed to his brain, and gradually sank to the middle of his spine.

It was a wonderful sensation, and the physical pain seemed to be consumed a little by this burning sensation.

Although it was only a little bit, it made Xiu Neng clearly feel that the pain in his body had found the source of venting.

He kept thinking about what he had just felt like crazy.

Searing, burning, tired, sore...

I'm so tired, my arms are so sore, I'm so uncomfortable...

Xiu gritted his teeth tightly.

Unintentional feelings may be triggered, but once you consciously control them, you can't find that feeling.

The soreness in Xiu's body grew heavier and heavier, and the feeling gradually began to engulf his consciousness.

Where the hell is ... How do you use it...

It's uncomfortable... It's painful... Can you take a break, just a little, please any of you can let me take a break...

In the extreme pain, he only faintly saw a shadow, a light, and a smile.

"I can't fall, I can't fall... I can't be weaker than others..."

Half an hour later, Suzanne glanced at the group of recruits below with pained faces, and finally nodded.

"Good, it looks like you guys have a bit of perseverance. All rest! ”

Like a slogan of liberation, the students shouted and turned their bodies around - they had been characterizing for too long, and their limbs could no longer relax at once, and they had to move their bodies slowly.

"Huh?" Suzanne saw another man lying on his stomach, and she couldn't see his face, only a head of white hair.

"That soldier, it's over, do you want to be trained?" Suzanne said to him.

But the man still didn't react

Suzanne raised an eyebrow.

She walked over and pushed him, but with such a push, she pushed him to the ground.

His face was pale, his lips were not bloody, and only his breathing was still stubbornly maintained.

"Quick! Come a few instructors, the recruits faint and deal with it urgently! Suzanne picked Xiu up and took him to the shade of the nearest tree, where several Valkyries rushed over to deal with Xiu.

Xiu felt that he was in a haze.

This piece of chaos is somewhat familiar, as if it has been seen somewhere. He can hear and see a lot of people and things that are chaotic, but he can discern them. People are arguing, communicating, and separated. They seem to be something like some fragment.

Xiu knew that as soon as he opened his mouth, this chaos would shatter. It's like... It's like having my sister by my side!

I don't have time to waste here, I can't afford to waste any more time!

Xiu struggled to open his eyes, and he found himself lying on a grassy field with a green leaf above his head. He tried to move his body, and as expected, there was a tearing pain.

"Awake? How does your body feel? A female voice suddenly sounded beside him, and he glanced back, it was Susanna.

She was half-lying on the trunk of a tree, holding a blade of grass in her mouth, slowly chewing on the roots. Her slender legs crossed casually in front of her, swaying slightly.

She threw two things at Xiu, and when Xiu caught them, it was a loaf of bread and a meatloaf.

"You can, so you can get dizzy, your physical fitness is really not ordinarily bad." Suzanne looked at Xiu and said dissatisfiedly, "Everyone has persevered, even the young master of the Apokalis family has persevered." At the mention of Otto, she seemed a little disdainful, "But you fainted directly." Do you know how ridiculous this is? ”

Xiu lowered his head.

He slowly struggled to get to his feet, but Suzanne stopped him, "That's enough, you can sit first." ”

The repair stopped.

"How old are you?"

"Seven years old."

"Seven? Who are you from, and why did you send you in at the age of seven? Suzanne looked incredulous.

"I am the second son of Francis, the head of the Caslana family, and my name is Xiu Caslana."

"Kaslana's?" Suzanne put away her casual sleeping position and sat upright, "No wonder... The people of your family, who are born warriors, are understandably sent here to train at the age of seven. Let me take back what I just said. Suzanne pressed Xiu's head and rubbed it, "If you're only seven years old, you're much better than most ordinary people." Even the Shaniyat and Apokalis families, no one has done it better than you. It's just that in the Kaslana family, you're not good enough. By the way, what do you think of yourself? ”

"What do I think of myself?" Xiu was stunned.

"Yes, that's what you think of yourself!" Suzanne gave Xiu a big smile.

Xiu was silent for a moment.

"I don't know. But my father was never satisfied with me, never gave me a word of praise. My grandfather gave up training for me when I was very young... Later, I could only read in the library in the castle. But in the end, I just got to know the words, and I couldn't understand what the book said...

"Instructor, am I useless?" Xiu moved his gaze to Susanna. Suzanne only felt that the pair of crystal eyes were full of confusion... and pain.

What exactly have you been through...

The strength with which she rubbed her head became gentle.

"You can't count as a waste right now. But you're not good either. Your performance is okay among ordinary people, but you are a member of the Kaslana family, and you are naturally better than ordinary people, so you can't be expected to be held by ordinary people's standards. In this way, you are just an ordinary person. She let go of Xiu's head. You didn't stand up to the training, but you didn't faint and flinch. Even if you faint, you will remain on the ground. Not many people can do this insistence on yours. So, you didn't disgrace Kaslana. ”

Suzanne comforted the child softly, "Do you know anything about the Kaslana family?" Like your brothers and sisters? ”

Xiu shook his head, "I only know that I have an older sister, and she is very good and powerful. Recently, I found out that I also have a cousin named Charlie. But I've never seen him before. ”

"Actually, when I was a recruit, my instructor was a Valkyrie of the Kaslana family."

Xiu raised his head with a hint of hope in his eyes.

"She was very strict with us in training, but she was very attentive to us in life. At that time, we were both in our teens, and we had just left our parents' side. Especially me, I come from a place that used to be called Constantinople. If I want to go home, I have a month to go. We all left home, away from our parents. At that time, we all thought of that instructor as a mother. It seems that because of the thought of happy things, a smile appeared on her face, "She is indeed like a mother to us, she does not hesitate to let herself stand in the most dangerous place to protect us in the face of Honkai, he always tries his best to help us solve our difficulties in life, but once it comes to training, her seriousness, her strictness makes us all fear her, but once she is injured, she is more nervous than anyone else." She is a person who shines brightly, gentlely, and powerful. She looked at Xiu's immature face, looked at the Kaslana family's iconic white hair, she stretched out her hand, and gently combed it, "She will also help the Valkyries comb their hair, she will not have complicated, beautiful hair, but she can always comb it very smoothly and cleanly." It's like this. ”

She let Xiu's head lie gently on her lap, slowly combing Xiu's untreated hair.

Fingers gently ran through the roots of the hair, fingers rubbing against the scalp, nails parting and tangling the hair.

"Your hair is a little long, it's time to fix it." Suzanne said softly as she recalled the tone of the person in her memory.

Xiu rested on Susanna's lap, constantly thinking about the Kaslana in her mouth.

"Instructor, what's her name?"

"Her name is Emilia. Emilia Kaslana. ”

"Where is she now? Will I be able to see her? ”

Suzanne was silent for a moment.

"She's dead. Died on the battlefield of Honkai. By that time, we had already graduated, and she was ordered on a reconnaissance mission and never returned. A few days later, a small wave of Honkai beasts broke out in the area she was scouting, and Destiny was prepared for her disappearance, and we defeated the Honkai at a very small cost. ”

Xiu was silent.

"Instructor, am I going to be like that?" Xiu asked.

"If you can keep going, you're going to be like that." Suzanne replied in the affirmative.

Xiu sat up and said, "Instructor, I don't want to rest, I want to become a qualified member of the Kaslana family." ”

"You will. But you'll have to eat your lunch first. ”

"Yes!" Xiu gulped down the food in his hand, he ate it so quickly that he was simply gobbling it up.

"After eating, you're going to make up for the training you missed, you know?"

"Uh-huh..."

"Will you be able to hold on?"

"Uh-huh..."

"This is Kaslana's child..."

"Uh-huh..."

Suzanne felt that something was wrong. When I looked back, I realized that Xiu seemed to be choked... Suzanne reluctantly handed him the water bladder...