[Title: A bouncy(?) Dantian]
"I'm sorry, child..."
"No, Master..."
Master and I were kneeling on the porch facing each other.
Master, who came to her senses, tried to prostrate herself in apology on the spot, so I urgently stopped her...
Current situation occurring, suffocating silence continuing.
Honestly, I was fine.
It's the first time someone praised me like this, and the first time someone was happy just by my existence.
How happy must she have been to do that?
"Even so... to do such a thing to a boy..."
To Master who was muttering in self-reproach, I said.
"Master, I was rather happy."
Master's head, which was only staring helplessly at her own fingers, shot up.
"You were happy?"
To Master looking at me with trembling eyes, I conveyed my heart.
"Yes, I think it's the first time I made someone happy."
Master looked at me with a sad yet complex expression.
"Child..."
Ah, feeling like the mood is actually getting worse.
I smiled brightly and answered.
"And between a master and disciple, this much can happen, right?"
"Uh...?"
"Master was moved by the disciple's achievement and just praised the disciple! Right?"
"R... Right?"
"I am really okay so you can hug me as much as you want next time too. Being hugged by a beauty like Master is welcome!"
"No!"
I feel my mind going blank at the suddenly unleashed Lion's Roar.
"M... Master?"
Thinking I said something I shouldn't have, I looked at Master, and the startled Master grabbed my shoulder.
"N-no, that's not it... I'm sorry child. Right... hugging a disciple is a natural thing."
"Th... Yes..."
"Still, you shouldn't go anywhere and call just anyone a beauty? Understand?"
No, I called a beauty a beauty, what is this... Does Master live without looking in a mirror?
Or is praising appearance considered quite rude in this world?
Still, isn't it good to hear praise... Maybe I think so particularly because I lived without hearing praise.
"Master, shouldn't I call a beauty a beauty? And not just anyone, Master is really pretty so..."
Master, whose face was getting redder, squeezed her eyes shut and covered my mouth.
"Mmph??"
"Ah! S-sorry... That's not what I meant. How should I explain this..."
"Mashher?"
"Disciple... You must become strong. You must become strong so no one can easily touch you. Now, let's finish the training we couldn't finish. Try sitting comfortably there."
????
No, I do want to become strong, but sometimes it was hard to understand the context of what Master said.
I wonder if this is the result of neglecting martial arts novels.
Would it have been a little easier to understand if I had read the martial arts novels the Director offered even once?
As I was lost in idle thoughts, Master tapped the floor with her tail.
"Hurry, uncross your legs and try sitting."
"Yep!"
Well... I'll get used to it as I learn various things.
Arin swallowed a sigh seeing the disciple with a puzzled expression in front of her eyes.
How could she explain to a boy, 'You shouldn't say that because you might get raped?'...
It's a cruel world for men.
Appearance can be power, but outstanding appearance possessed by the powerless can be a curse.
Arin imagined a future she hadn't discovered for the disciple.
If a handsome man with no connections goes around smiling innocently and seducing women...
Surely, surely he will suffer something terrible somewhere.
'I will definitely make you strong.'
Responsibility toward this lovely child, the overlapping image of her sibling, complex emotions burned Arin's will.
Arin went behind the disciple's back and placed her hand.
As the firm back muscles touched her hand, the coquettish shoulder blades flinching...
—Slap!
At the sound bursting from Arin's cheek, the disciple looked back.
"M-Master?!"
"Close your eyes."
"??? Yes..."
Arin cleared away the inner demons trying to open their eyes in her head, and explained calmly.
"From now on I will help you feel Ki directly. Natural Ki... I will guide the process of Ki outside the body gathering inside the body and becoming Internal Energy."
"Yes."
"Once we start, making sounds is prohibited. Do you understand?"
"…"
"Good. I will start."
At first, she flowed Ki just like when examining the body.
"This is what is called Ki. You will feel the energy flowing into your body."
—Nod
"You don't have to move. Remember this energy flowing in."
Arin flowed Ki for a while then took her hand off.
"Make your mind tranquil, so your body becomes sensitive and can feel the brushing Ki."
She decided to leave it at this for now.
It might take over a month just to feel Ki.
Since Arin, who was rumored to be a genius, took over 3 months to feel Ki, considering the disciple's comprehension, 1 month should be enough.
Look, I can already see natural Ki gently flowing into the body...
"??!?!?!?!?"
The flow of Ki visible to Arin's eyes was heading into the disciple's body.
'O... One day? Is this the legendary Grandmaster-level aptitude?'
Arin couldn't control her excitement and explained.
"That's it! Disciple! With the feeling of letting it flow through the body, not forcibly pulling Ki."
Seeing the much smoother flow of Ki, Arin's eyes sparkled.
"Breathe! Breathe! Tongue on the roof of the mouth, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth!"
Seeing the disciple already trying to accumulate natural Ki, Arin started getting more and more excited.
"From now on, repeat what I say inwardly and breathe!
Step on the ground but do not rely on it, Borrow the wind but do not grasp it. Entrust the body to what just flows, Rise high like a cloud and come down to earth leaving a trace. The mind too must circulate like this..."
Arin continued reciting the mantra for the disciple's achievement.
Arin was incredibly excited that a body with such talent was being dyed with her family's martial arts.
Arin, who was imagining the disciple achieving greatness and traveling the world, was flustered seeing the disciple trembling finely.
"Child...?"
—Crackle
"????"
I never taught him about the lightning attribute of Ki, so why the sound of thunder...?
In an instant, the disciple's waist bounced side to side and returned.
—Crackle crackle!
"Child!!!!"
Arin, turning pale with fright, pressed down on the disciple's shoulders which were bouncing up and down.
"Ascension is not allowed, you rascal! At the end of that is only Qi Deviation!!"
Arin started examining the disciple's body condition.
Then, something that shouldn't be there... no, something that shouldn't move was moving.
"D... The Dantian is moving??! N... Nooo!!"
Arin fell into a panic and started groping the disciple's whole body.
"Eeek! How can the Dantian... the Dantian is roaming inside the body! Stay still!"
Arin ravaging the disciple's body wildly as if catching a bouncing ball.
Arin, who barely caught the Dantian with Ki, sighed and dragged it to where it should originally be.
"Phew.... N, no, the Dantian moves...?"
Arin pondering just what kind of constitution he has for things that shouldn't exist to pour out wildly like this.
What brought her to her senses was the disciple's pitiful voice.
"Master..."
Along with the pillar touching her from below...
"Uh...? Sniff sniff!"
—Throb!
Arin's sensitive senses arbitrarily measured the size of the pillar touching her lower body.
'It can get bigger than back then...?'
All sorts of lewd delusions broke Arin's brain.
"Ah..."
What returned her mind was a single word from the disciple who was covering his face with both hands, ears bright red.
"I'm sorry..."
A handsome man with his front completely open and my handprints left all over his body, emitting the smell of a male in heat, is actually apologizing.
Still, perhaps the training so far wasn't in vain, Arin barely held onto her reason with superhuman mental strength.
Dantian moving here and there or whatever, right now the most important thing is...
"I committed a sin deserving death!"
Just prostrating and begging for forgiveness is the only way.
A happening that occurred during meditation.
I bent my waist and tried my best to disperse the congested blood flow.
It wasn't easy because the sensation and scent that touched my whole body until just now were vivid... but somehow it worked out.
I fastened my open front and looked at Master.
Master prostrating flat on the floor.
How many times is it just today in this situation, really...
I cleared my throat and spoke.
"Master."
—Flinch!
"I said I'm okay? Rather, I am sorry."
Master raised her head slightly and looked at me.
"Sorry? For what..."
"In a situation where Master is giving teachings, as a disciple, I showed an unsightly appearance."
Master bowed back facing me, telling me not to be embarrassed.
Master was startled and stopped me.
"Child... What are you saying, hm? You didn't do anything wrong so you shouldn't do that."
"Since Master apologized when you didn't do anything wrong either, it is only right that I do so too."
"Oh my, get up quickly. Quickly."
Seeing Master dusting off my arms while helping me up, laughter flowed out.
If it weren't for Master... I would have been in a not-so-good state.
I spoke containing gratitude to my life savior.
"Master, you even saved my life, so don't apologize for trivial things. There is much to learn in the future, and this much is nothing."
"…"
"Master?"
"Slurp! Ah, r... right! Ahem!"
Master clutched her head, frowned, then laughed despondently.
"Ha... Thank you child... I'm glad I have a disciple with a beautiful heart."
"Don't mention it."
Master closing her eyes and letting a slight smile flow.
Perhaps calmed down, she asked me carefully.
"Is there anything wrong with your body?"
I rotated my arm once then nodded.
"Yes, I'm fine."
"Right... Then it's done... You must be hungry so let's eat."
"Yep!"
"We'll examine the Dantian in the evening for now... Have to make a plan again..."
"Master?"
"K... Kitchen is to the right."
Like that, daily life with Master began.