"Hey, Negi let me and Seras train you!" Ricardo said. "Because Seras and I want to see Rakan lose to someone other than Nagi, and also consider this as one of the atonements for the sins we both committed in the past. Though I know that training you, won't be enough to make up for all the wrongs we've done to your father."
"Train me?" Negi said who was shocked by Ricardo's decision to the point that his eyes widened. "Not that I doubt your skills, but are you two able to train me as well as Master Evangeline or Shirou-Nii?"
"Seras is the best teacher in Mundus Magicus in magic theory! And I am the best hand-to-hand martial arts expert in Megalomesembria, you should be grateful and honored to be trained by two people who have high qualifications in training one to be strong!" Ricardo spoke confidently, and Seras looked just as confident as Ricardo. And that made the Evangeline clone who felt that she was the only teacher worthy for Negi get angry.
"Fuuh weaklings like you two can only talk big, you also never win against friends!" Evangeline's clone said sarcastically.
"What!? Eva, you're just an imitation you know, why do you have to be so cynical about us!" Ricardo shouted.
"I'm just telling the truth," Said the increasingly cynical Evangeline clone to Ricardo and Seras. "You two are only Level A fighters who didn't even make it to the one hundred strongest people in Mundus Magicus, it's alreadt good for you to be one of the thousand strongest people in Mundus Magicus!"
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"Evangeline's clone casually insulted two VIPs from the two powerful countries in Mundus Magicus," Chisame said who didn't look surprised to see the behavior of Evangeline's clone. "Not surprising because of her power level."
"Well, let's just pretend that the three of them are joking," Shirou said, chuckling at the bickering between Ricardo and the Evangeline clone. "Because from what Ricardo just said it look like he have a close relationship with Evangeline-san."
"Arrrgh Eva, you are as annoying as the real you even though you only just a clone!" Ricardo said through gritted teeth. "Sigh, never mind! You a brat there! You're Negi's partner in the battle arena right? You better be prepared! Because I'll train you hard!"
"Eh, I don't have to, I don't need to be trained by..," Before Kotarou could finish his words. Ricardo interjected into his words and said;
"Leave the martial arts training to me. After all, I was once a teacher of hand-to-hand martial arts that was feared to the point where I was called the demon teacher!"
"I'm a teacher specializing in combat theory and magic, leave the business of clearing your thousand thunderbolts to me!" Seras said who felt confident that she could help Negi to complete his thousand thunderbolts.
"I'm not skilled in martial arts or combat magic, but I'm pretty strong, you know. Iwill help you two with everything I can," Theodora said.
"You two don't need to listen to the words of those three weaklings," Evangeline clone said who looked irritated with Ricardo, Seras and Theodora. "I alone am enough to be the teacher for the two of you!"
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"Stop provoking the three of them Evangeline-san," Shirou said covering Evangeline's clone lips with the palm of his right hand. "There's no need to waste time by challenging and provoking the three of them, just because you're annoyed that you're not the only one training Kotarou and Negi as well."
"Tcch, Emiya since I respect you as someone who is very strong, I will stop provoking the three of them" Evangeline clone said removing Shirou's right hand from her mouth. "But remember this, I will train those two boys a hundred times harder than I tortured them inside the forbidden scroll when they were trying to learn Magia Erebea."
Kotarou as well as Negi swallowed their saliva when they heard Evangeline's clone words. Both of them knew that once they had started their practice they would experience an extremely terrifying hell.
"Then let's start the practice immediately!"
Theodora took out a magic diorama from her dimensional bag and of course Negi was shocked by the diorama.
"Theodora-sama aren't that a magic diorama?" Asked Negi.
"The match you will have against my husband is only a few days away, so I brought this magic diorama so you and Kotarou can train for a few months," Theodora replied. "A few days of training won't be enough for the two of you to gain enough strength to at least match that of my husband."
"Ooh, I didn't expect that there is a magic diorama similar to Evangeline's magic diorama in this place," Chisame said.
"This is really good!" Kotarou said who seemed pleased with the existence of the magic diorama. "By using the diorama, we will have enough time to train, Negi!"
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'This is really good! I've been feeling hopeless all this time, because I know I can't win against Rakan-san with just enthusiasm! But the existence of Ricardo-san, Seras-san as well as the diorama that Theodora-Sama brought me gave me hope! I think I have a chance to win!' Negi that already knew that it had no chance of winning against Rakan now felt that it had little hope of winning because of the help from Ricardo, Seras and Theodora.
"Negi, I know that you are happy with the help from Seras-san, Theodora-Sama and Ricardo-san," Shirou said in a serious tone when he saw Negi's excited expression. "But you have to remember, that Rakan-san is a very strong and experienced fighter, so even if you get extra training time for a few months. You also have to stick to a well-thought-out plan if you want to beat Rakan or at least have a draw with him."
"I know Shirou-Nii, a few months of training won't be enough for me to be able to win against Rakan-san," Negi said with a serious face. "So Shirou-Nii doesn't need to worry, because Kotarou and I will definitely develop a well-thought-out plan so that we can both win against Rakan-san."
"Emiya said the truth, brat," Evangeline clone said. "Even if your training time and teacher increase, it's useless if you don't have a good strategy against that muscular daruma. Since the one who will be fighting him head on is you, I hope you can put up a good fight after your training is over."
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In the first week of training, Kotarou and also Negi received basic physical training that was very different from the physical training they had been doing so far. The military-style physical training method that Ricardo taught the two of them made Negi and Kotarou gain much more solid physical strength than before.
Apart from basic physical training, Ricardo also trained Kotarou and Negi's martial arts skills. According to Ricardo, Negi's martial arts abilities were too book-based and theoretical so that all of Negi's attacks were too easy to read, while Kotarou was the opposite of Negi, it's just that Kotarou's body movements when using his empty-handed moves were too stiff and not solid so he wasted a lotpower and movement.
To overcome the problems that Kotarou and Negi have, Ricardo orders Negi to freestyle hand-to-hand combat against Shirou, so that Negi can further develop his martial arts skills. Whereas Kotarou has to practice martial arts properly from the start again so he has more solid moves.
Negi's theory of magic is very solid and good so that Seras has no difficulty in helping Negi develop a thousand lightning bolts. Kotarou, who uses Ki more than magic, cannot get help from Seras, who doesn't know how to use Ki, so Shirou has to help Kotarou develop new moves.
In addition to magic theory, Ki and basic martial and physical training. Shirou whose strength is Level S does sparring against Negi and Kotarou so that Kotarou and Negi at least have enough experience to fight someone who is Level S.
Of course Shirou is not serious against Kotarou and Negi because if he is serious there will be a massacre for Negi and Kotarou..
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