Life in the army is about repeating the same day countless times, and the Seventh Legion is no exception. Other than the new training (torment) methods that the training captains received from Rin every day, every day was the same.
Wake up, train, eat, train, eat, train, eat, train, sleep. The next day, wake up at five in the morning and repeat the previous day. The only thing that wasn't boring was probably that today's subjects were always different from before, never repeating.
Because the daily diet included medicines that strengthened muscles and bones, as long as the soldiers' willpower didn't collapse, their bodies could complete all training requirements. So, those who have endured until now are true men!
Compared to the soldiers trained by their squad leaders, Zhi Feng, who was personally taught by Rin, constantly switched between living hell and paradise. Rin, who found the only person worth befriending in akame ga kill for the first time, poured all her love and care, like that for an old friend or family member, onto Zhi Feng, as if she wanted to pass on all her martial arts to her!
"Yo-ho~ Come on, my dear sister. After being personally trained and guided by me, you should be able to run faster, right?"
"Big Sister... If I have to speed up, at least remove the lead weights from my legs."
"Wouldn't that be a child's standard? Run, run faster! You've only covered less than a fifth of the entire Legion City wall. Hurry up and push yourself."
"This city wall is over a hundred kilometers long!"
Ever since Zhi Feng requested Rin to train her, and the outdoor scenes were witnessed by the soldiers, the number of complaints and grievances among the new recruits plummeted to rock bottom. The Legion Commander's vice-general was training ten times harder than them. What was there to complain about a general who was so strict with those around her?
This is always how it is for subordinates to superiors: no one cares too much about what you say, they only watch what you do. Although Rin didn't deliberately stage her training of Zhi Feng for the soldiers to see, such naturally occurring scenes truly reflected absolute authenticity.
However, Vice-General Zhi Feng's training... someone might die... At this moment, on the ten-meter-wide passage at the top of the fifty-meter-high city wall of the military camp, facing the setting sun, Zhi Feng was wearing a tight-fitting athletic suit, with a white headband on her head, inscribed with two large characters, both beautiful and forceful: "Jiā! Yóu!" (Go! Go!), written by Rin herself, representing her support and encouragement for Zhi Feng.
Then, there were the lead weights that Rin personally fastened to Zhi Feng's arms and calves, and an iron chain around her waist, the other end of which was an irregular giant rock three meters high. Zhi Feng's current task was to drag it around the military camp city wall once. Although the training ground was outside the city and not included in the military camp city, the total length was still a hundred kilometers! Even more outrageous was that Rin was sitting on the rock, holding a three-meter-long whip!
The glossy black leather whip cut a graceful arc in the air, landing with a crisp, resounding "crack" on the already tattered back of Zhi Feng's shirt. Shredded fabric flew, and a vivid red whip mark appeared on Zhi Feng's smooth, snow-white back, like a jade wall.
"Ah! You actually hit me! Big Sister, you're a demon!"
"Thank you for your evaluation. I even suspect I was a demon in my previous life. Hurry up! At this speed, you won't reach the finish line before dark. If you don't, I won't prepare dinner for you, you know."
"Hai!"
Rin, who possessed Infinite Martial Cultivation, could perfectly master and use any weapon, and a leather whip was no exception. Therefore, the force of Rin's whip strikes was incredibly precise, not off by a single hair, just at the extreme limit before breaking skin and drawing blood, allowing the maximum pain to be felt without causing injury.
Under such urging, Zhi Feng's speed indeed improved effectively, but when she reached the latter half of the run, after completing half the distance...
"Ow Big Sister, it hurts so much!"
"Hurts? I think you actually meant 'it feels great', didn't you!"
Rin always felt like something incredible had happened somewhere she didn't know about... It had to be said, in this era dominated by cold weapons and no magic, the quality of humans who danced with Danger Beasts and gained world sovereignty was truly unscientific.
Their physical potential was incredibly strong, and training regimens that seemed utterly impossible were completed by Zhi Feng before sunset.
"Bang!"
When they reached the finish line after circling the city wall, Rin directly tore off the iron chain around Zhi Feng's waist with both hands, then single-handedly lifted a huge rock and threw it outside the city, as if she were casually tossing a pebble.
After doing all this, Rin clapped her hands easily and said to Zhi Feng:
"Let's go."
"...Mm."
Returning to Rin's residence, because Zhi Feng's training consumption was too great and her body was overdrawn, she needed Rin's personal and meticulous care to truly achieve the effect of becoming stronger through exercise, without leaving any sequelae.
So, from that day on, Zhi Feng's residence moved from the dormitory next to Rin's to Rin's villa.
"Speaking of which, it's been a month since we officially started, hasn't it?"
Rin and Zhi Feng sat together in a bath infused with medicinal herbs, chatting about matters in the Legion while bathing.
"Yes, it's been 27 days since your official speech, Big Sister."
"Haha, in three more days, I, this Legion Commander, will have officially been in charge for a month.
It's been even more relaxing than in the academy."
"After all, as a General and the highest commander of the Legion, Big Sister's true duty is to achieve victory on the battlefield and defend the Empire.
Daily management and miscellaneous tasks can be left to us."
"Mm~ Yes.
How many soldiers are left in the Legion now?"
"Uh... this..."
As soon as this question was brought up, Zhi Feng couldn't help but feel awkward.
"Because of your training requirements... and your overly generous decisions to approve departures... currently, the Seventh Legion, not counting officers, only has 33,586 people left..."
Fifty thousand soldiers had not even gone to battle yet, but over ten thousand were already non-combat casualties.
Whenever someone applied to leave, Rin approved it with particular swiftness, stamping her seal without even looking.
"Those who don't want to work anymore are welcome to get lost anytime," this was Rin's attitude; she wouldn't keep a coward who couldn't persevere for a second longer.
Rin lay still in the bath, closing her eyes and thinking for a moment, then said:
"Zhi Feng, after you've rested well, go give orders to the entire army.
For the next three days, everyone will rest, with only light exercises allowed.
These three days must ensure that the soldiers fully recover, as I will conduct the first new recruit assessment after a full month of training."
"Yes!"
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