"Master Greaves noticed too. I heard him tell Kelvan that your progress was 'unprecedented.' He thinks you might have some kind of natural gift."
"What do you think?"
"I think gifts are rare, and this level of acceleration is beyond even most prodigies." Caius settled into a guard stance. "But it doesn't matter. Gift or not, you still need to put in the work, and you are putting in the work, so I'll keep teaching you the little I know."
They continued training, but Yamamoto could feel the shift. Caius was paying closer attention now, watching not just his performance but him—trying to understand what he was seeing.
That night, Yamamoto's One-Handed Swordsmanship mastery hit 99%.
One more good training session, and he'd cross into Adept rank.
