Chapter 19 The teacher is a beast
"Ahhhh!!!" Zhong Mengfan almost jumped out of the bed.
He lifted up his pajamas and touched his abdomen where the sword had just pierced him, but there was no mark there.
"...dreaming," he said uncertainly.
"Yes, you just dreamed." I answered his question beside his bed.
"Wow!" Zhong Mengfan screamed again in fear.
My appearance almost deepened the fear in his heart at this moment.
His chest was heaving and he was breathing heavily with his mouth open, as if he was having some stress reaction because I had just pierced his body with a sword in his dream.
I whispered, "It was a dream."
After swallowing hard, Zhong Mengfan asked, "Doctor, why are you here? I just had a terrible nightmare. You killed me with one sword!!!"
I nodded. "I entered your dream and controlled it. You can think of it as you just had a nightmare because of me."
Zhong Mengfan protested loudly, like a cat with its fur standing on end. "This is more than just a nightmare! It's like participating in a one-player battle royale, and in the end, I'm destined to be eliminated."
Even if it was training, you should at least tell me what happens after entering the dream! I really thought I died the moment I closed my eyes!!!" He became more and more frantic as he spoke.
"Because I think it would be more effective if I didn't say it."
He held the quilt in a defensive position, creating a barrier between us and me. "...You're going too far!"
I ignored Zhong Mengfan's accusations and continued, "I'm teaching you the first basic skills you need to learn to become a professional hero. Judging from what happened in your dream just now, you're learning very well."
Zhong Mengfan, thinking he was being praised, carefully poked his head out and asked, "Really? But I don't feel like I just learned anything new. What kind of skill is that?"
I uttered two words softly: "Tough."
Zhong Mengfan: ...
"Then get used to the pain while being beaten, adapt to it, maintain a clear mind and judgment in the pain, and launch an effective counterattack against your opponent. This is the first lesson you have to learn."
Zhong Mengfan flung the pillow in his hand and said frantically, "What you said is truly ridiculous! Just thinking about that sword you just struck me, I already feel that the process of becoming a superhero and my future career will be filled with pain and despair!!! I'm not even eighteen yet, and my colorful life is going to turn into a dark gray! Oh, Kurushi!"
Although I know that the current behavior of the person in front of me is somewhat exaggerated, it is a fact that I stabbed him to death with a sword in a dream, and this situation will only become more frequent with future training.
As Zhong Mengfan himself stated, he was, after all, still an ordinary teenager, under eighteen, who had just awakened his powers. Using overly brutal training methods might be detrimental to the physical and mental development of this "fragile young man."
So I lowered my voice and spoke with the same manner and expression I used when addressing patients at work. "That last moment, you used your superpower to block my attack. It was quite effective. Think carefully about the state of your ability at that moment. Your superpower may not be as useless as we originally thought. It can be modified according to the needs of the user. A superpower that can change can be a very useful ability."
"Yes, is that so?" Zhong Mengfan blinked and looked at me uncertainly when he was suddenly praised by me sincerely.
When he saw my face again, he quickly pulled up the quilt and said, "Doctor, can you stay away from me for a while? Seeing your face at this time, I feel that I may continue to have terrible nightmares tonight." It seems that he has not fully recovered from the shadow of the nightmare.
"The fact that you can say these words to me with such confidence shows that you can adapt well. In fact, I thought that after you wake up, you might have a vomiting reaction due to the mental pressure you suffered in your first nightmare, so I prepared a garbage bag for you." I held up the black garbage bag in my hand.
"You are a devil..." Zhong Mengfan pulled up the quilt, slowly lay down and began to play the victim. "No, oh, I suddenly feel very weak now, my whole body is uncomfortable... I feel like I will faint at any time."
I put down the garbage bag and walked out of Zhong Mengfan's room. "Good night then, have a good sleep."
"I might not be able to sleep all night because of you, doctor!" Because I ignored him, Zhong Mengfan, who seemed to have a good mental state, complained loudly to me again as I was about to leave.
I closed the door for him and said, "Then I wish you a good sleep. My blessings are always effective."
Zhong Mengfan: ...
Because of the dream, the training progress was accelerated.
Zhong Mengfan also adapted to the dream state at an extremely fast speed, and then quickly emerged from the nightmare after waking up.
Although Zhong Mengfan would often complain after being defeated by me and waking up from his dreams, saying that he hadn't had a good dream in a long time because of me and had lost the right to dream freely, it was an indisputable fact that his strength was growing at a rapid rate.
When I walked out of the bedroom, I saw Zhong Mengfan standing in front of the mirror on the sink, shirtless, admiring the muscles that had slowly grown due to high-intensity training over the past few months.
He struck the pose often seen in bodybuilding competitions on TV, raising his elbows and clenching his fists, swaying his body from side to side. He then poked his left biceps with a finger, touched his abdominal muscles, and then grinned with a happy smile with dimples, obviously very satisfied with his current body.
I couldn't help but laugh. "If you need, I can install a full-length mirror in your room."
My voice scared Zhong Mengfan, who was conceited, and he screamed, "Doctor, are you walking without making any sound?"
I tilted my head. "Maybe you were just too focused on looking at yourself in the mirror, lost in self-admiration, so you couldn't hear the sounds around you."
"Doctor, you only need to say the word 'conceited'. There's no need to say such a long string of words just to insult me." He pouted unhappily.
I nodded. "Now that you're done showing off, we can have breakfast."
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