Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Chapter 114: Training 64 Hours a Day

In the kitchen, Jamina was actually smiling and singing in happiness as she prepares a pot of water to boil.

Yesterday, when she felt she was trapped, the request was so different from her expectations. It was as if a mountain was lifted from her shoulders.

Then when she helped Relle, she didn't do much except tell him where the storage room is and what things he could use and guide him where he could place them.

Then his request was for her to cook tons of food for him!

It was easy!

This could not be compared to her normal job where she is always multitasking and always sweating. The Romen Mansion is big and there was still a large garden outside!

The servants were not few but the work is just immense.

Now, she was relieved of her duties as the head maid, temporarily. What she thought was hell was actually heaven.

The only downside was that it was the despicable Relle whom she was serving. But as long as he doesn't cross the line, she would gladly serve him.

"Oh... I forgot to ask how many servings he needs." she muttered as she lowered the flame of a tool that conveniently uses fire-releasing stones.

With the help of essence storage tools, even as a Non-Elementalist, she could just twist the tool and adjust the fire how much she wanted.

It looks like a stone stove and expectedly, it is normally called "stove" for them. They were not far from modernity. Just that Elementalist pursuit strength more than technology.

These tools were made by enthusiasts that revolutionized the commoners' world. That is why pseudo-nobles appeared. They have the perspective of a commoner and know the potential innovation of Elementalists, inventing such tools.

There are so many elesp tools that were made by Innovators. These Innovators are almost all Elementalist. When they failed, some commoners would buy these "failures" and try to modify them to become convenient for commoners such as this stove. 

Jamina hurriedly went outside but when she was about to exit, she breathed deeply and showed a cold and aloof expression.

'Don't let him know that you're job is actually easy, he may increase it.' she thought, making a dissatisfied expression.

As soon as she opened the back door, she saw a figure in black wobbling as he ran. Jamina walked as she looked with curious eyes.

The figure in black then reached the mannequin and raised his leg with a twist of his body. But with terrible footing and wrong distribution of weight, before the figure's leg even hit the mannequin, he fell and shoved his face onto the ground.

Jamina who was watching smiled and couldn't help but lightly laughed, "Hahaha..." she wanted to restrain it but that scene just felt so good.

"You don't have to laugh, you know." Avion gave a dissatisfied comment.

"Hahaha... sorry, sorry... hahaha."

Avion just stared with dead-eyes while he looked at the laughing maid. It took a while before she calmed down.

"So this is your training ground now. Sorry, hahaha, I mean thinking how you prepared all this, and then I just saw you do that... it's ahahah." tears came out of her tears as she felt her face cramped from restraining her laugh.

The man she feared greatly yesterday actually showed her that. If it was any other person, she would laugh, and that's it. But it happened to Relle so her body shuddered, wanting to roll on the ground.

Somehow, another weight released from her shoulders.

Avion crossed his arms, looking at Jamina's laughing made him feel that he was right on not judging her for being cold last time.

However, he still didn't want to take the mockery, "I'm just starting. Soon, I'll get better, maybe even the best!" he determinedly said.

Jamina treated his words like they were nothing as she smiled, thinking that this man was cute other than threatening. Cute as an insult.

Noticing her gaze, Avion continued, "I just need a few days. After that, I can become the best."

"Heh, a few days?" Jamina snorted and continued, "If that miracle happened, I will let you do me."

"Hm?"

"..." Jamina's face and neck slowly turned reddish. Her brows knitted tightly.

She just thought of the worst thing she could think of as part of the joke but her nightmare instantly appeared in her head.

Obviously, our super virgin protagonist didn't understand it.

"So.. umm.. I'm actually here to ask how many servings you want... for the food."

"Oh, you say that after you got your laugh." Avion sighed, "How many servings?... how about sixteen?"

"Sixteen?!"

"I need four meals every two hours." Avion showed his fingers.

"You mean I will cook for eight hours?" Jamina asked in disbelief but cooking four meals could approximately be done in just an hour. Meaning, she had an hour of rest right after.

But what bothers her the most was, 'Why would he need so many meals?'

"Is that hard?"

"Yes, But sure, I can do it!" Jamina said but inwardly, 'So easy!'

"Oh, then thank you very much! I'm glad you're here, Fuck." Avion smiled but it was hidden behind the black cloth mask.

'He's still messing with me!'

Bam!*

Jamina heavily closed the door but afterward, skipped in joy.

"I will only work for four hours? Maybe I'll go out and do shopping. Hehe... I've never had this much free time before. I haven't used up my savings over the past months." she grinned.

While she also sighed in relief, realizing that the topic she fell into earlier ignored.

'Maybe he's not some sort of sexual predator and just someone who messes around?' she thought as she started her cooking.

Meanwhile, Avion stopped time. 

"If only I can eat while time is stopped." he sighed first before he then muttered his plan for him to follow and remember it.

"After approximately four hours of training, I will meditate for approximately two hours."

He added approximately since that was just his plan. He didn't have a clock watch and even if he did, he doubts it would work in the stoppage of time.

"Then if I feel sleepy, I will sleep. After that, I will deactivate the time stoppage and eat for thirty minutes. Bathroom breaks can be whenever."

"If I train for eight hours a day, I have sixteen breaks which I will eat. Meaning, I have sixteen periods for me to stop time and train for six hours or so."

"Meaning, I will train for sixty-four hours in one day!"

Later on, Avion didn't know that things weren't going as he planned. 

For the first part out of sixteen periods of training, Avion was too focused on practicing. After twenty minutes, he would get tired.

With time stopped, he can laze around forever. But he didn't do so. After resting, he went back.

At first, he could only do twenty minutes, soon it became eighteen, then fifteen. He didn't know but he was becoming more and more tired.

In the end, in the first part, he got hungry after just two hours. But he endured and meditated for thirty minutes instead of two hours.

With fatigue and hunger harassing him, a minute feels like an hour to him.

He didn't know but he only trained for two hours and thirty minutes before ending the first period.

Jamina was still not finished cooking since a moment had only passed.

Avion thought that he should use this time of waiting to execute the results of his waiting towards the mannequin. If time was stopped, he wouldn't dare attack the mannequin.

Although hungry, his tiredness almost faded after thirty minutes of meditating.

There would be an hour before Jamina finished cooking...

An hour later, she came out with a large silver plate in her hand and a pair of hot pots on it.

When she opened the door and the figure in black running entered her sight.

Jamina chuckled as she remembered what happened earlier. But when she looked again, she felt something was different.

When the figure reached the mannequin, he twisted his body and swung his leg up, kicking the mannequin's head and making it tumble.

Although far from perfection and strength, Jamina almost dropped the silver plate on her hand but she certainly dropped her jaw.

There's too much improvement if compared to the figure's first attempt!josei