(Fafnir’s POV)

I sat at the long table together with my classmates, more specifically, beside Akame close to the end of the table, a bit away from the others. Just enough to no cause any suspicious. Akame was dressed in simple clothes, a pair of leather brown pants and a wool, white shirt. She’s also using boots made of soft leather.

(Fafnir): “Morning.”

(Akame): “Good morning, Fafnir-san. How are you doing?” she says, then, she notices my clothes “The clothes weren’t for your tastes?”

(Fafnir): “No, they didn’t fit. Anyway, did you sleep?”

(Akame): “Barely, gathering information isn’t easy after all. I’m using to skip some sleeping hours, so no problem there.”

(Fafnir): “What did you get?”

(Akame): “Not much, the guards don’t talk a lot between themselves. Not much information to get from them. I decided to make a map of the castle, it will take a while to complete. I’m looking for any secret passages, but no progress in that whatsoever.”

(Fafnir): “Alright. leave the information gathering to me. Focus in the making of the map. I also want you to search for anything related to the king, documents, connections, anything will be useful. I’ve got a bad feeling about him.”

(Akame): “Do you think that he might cause problems?”

(Fafnir): “he’s the problem, Akame. There’s something with an unpleasant smell here, and I doubt that it will do any good for us.”

(Akame): “Alright, I got it. So, what we should do now?”

(Fafnir): “Blend in. Train like heroes, talk like heroes, help like heroes. Give the image, and be ready to stab when something happens.”

(Akame): “Aye aye.”

She says. I chuckle, and we finish eating. Then, we are taken to the training grounds, which seems to have a space just for us. A bit away from us, a group of knights is training with wooden swords. In front of us, a big guy is standing, wearing only pants, shirtless, exposing his muscles full of scars.

Smiling wildly, he said in a loud voice for the students in front of them. The girls are on the side, and all the boys, including the teacher, are in front of him.

(Vergas): “Good day all of you, I’m your instructor in combat, Vergas. Today, I will look at your skill in combat. First you, Higaki-san, you said that you did some martial arts in your original world, right?”

(Higaki): “Yes, I was black belt in karate, halfway to my black belt in judo.”

(Vergas): “Well, I have no idea what that means, but it seems that you are a bit strong. Anyway, come here and stand in front of me, I will choose your opponent. Also, shirt off, it will hinder you in the fight if you’re not using armor over it.”

(3° person POV)

Higaki took off his shirt, causing some blushes from some girls. He’s quite fit, with some muscles. Seeing this, Higaki doesn’t smile, but gets a good sensation inside his chest. Then, Vergas said:

(Vergas): “You there, the big one. Come here, you will be Higaki’s opponent.”

He points to the tallest boy among the others, Fafnir. While Fafnir walk in their direction, Higaki glares at him. He’s one of the boys in Higaki’s list of hate, since he’s popular with the girls, ogling too much attention. Higaki once beat the shit out of one guy taller than himself, someone with Fafnir’s height will have problem facing such small opponent.

(Higaki): “This will be a piece of cake.”

He almost smiled with scorn. Stopping in front of Higaki, he stays there.

(Vergas): “You too, shirt off. It’s something that’s easy to grab boy, it will be a problem for you.”

Sighting, Fafnir answers.

(Fafnir): “Alright, just give me one second.”

Then, he begins to take off his shirt. He’s fit, with defined, lean muscles that are clearly full of strength, full of scars caused by slashes and some that seems made by bullets. Throwing his shirt on the ground, Fafnir sights. Most of the girls watching blush strongly, and Akame gives a small whistle.

Seeing that, Shinra blushes and looks away, with her heart beating strongly, to the point that she thought that her heart could burst out from her chest.

(Shinra): “I knew that he was strong. How did he get those scars?”

Seeing Fafnir, Akame smiled and whistled, earning her a glare from Fafnir. Crossing his arms, he looked at Vergas, waiting.

(Vergas): “Wow, there’s a seasoned warrior… alright, the first one to fall or get immobilized loses, and the winner goes to the next match. Begin!”

Higaki took pose and waited, trying to get Fafnir when he attacked. Fafnir un-crossed his arms and began to walk in his direction, stopping at two steps of distance. And there he stood, waiting. After a few seconds, Higaki lost his patience, and attacked, going in his direction.

Suddenly, a hand covered his face. Fafnir jumped OVER him, with a hand holding his face. Falling behind him, he gave a light kick in his knees in a swift movement, making Higaki fall on the ground, without understanding what happened.

(Vergas): “Higaki lost! Haha, first time that I have seen something like that!”

Higaki wet away, back to the boys, feeling angry for have lost, without being able to even react. Then, the next one that Vergas choose was Taichi. Stopping in front of Fafnir, he immediately advanced without losing time.

Throwing a punch, he was faster than he ever was. The status boost is incredible… but…

Stepping aside, Fafnir avoided the punch, grabbing the wrist of the arm of Taichi, at the same time he kicked the legs of Taichi and making him spin once in the air, falling on his butt, confused and a bit dizzy.

After that, it was a sequence of easy wins for Fafnir. Seeing that, Vergas thought:

(Vergas): “This turned out to be pointless… he’s too strong…”