1236: Sword Slave

Sword Slave

Hello, I am Laura Hill but my relatives and friends call me Chubby. I love and am loved by my relatives and friends alike. So I have no choice but to tolerate their nickname for me. 2

I never had the chance to protest their nickname for me as it was given to me when I was born because as a newborn baby girl, I weighed a total of nine pounds which is about 4.5 kg. 

My grandma says that I was the chubbiest baby in the whole ward and to ever be born in our family. And since my parents could not agree on a name for me even four months after my birth, my relatives and their friends started to call me Chubby, it started as a term of endearment but it stuck. 

By stuck, I mean as a baby I would react to people when they called me Chubby that lasted until I grew enough to understand what chubby meant, that was when I was 8 years old. And considering the story behind that nickname for me, I became very conscious about my weight which lead to me becoming conscious of what I eat. Which grew to the point where I fainted during the school assembly feeling lightheaded as my body did not have enough nutrition to do the basic activities. 

Being called child services on them by the school, my busy parents finally became aware of what their 8-year-old daughter has been up to these days. Worried sick my parents turn to the only elderly in their life before approaching the professionals, my grandma. This was the wisest choice on my parent's part so far in my life. Because that day, my grandma would introduce me to the love of my life, Sword Dance. 

For me, my grandma is the world's best sword dancer, but she would disagree, she is so humble. That day watching her perform the basic dance for me for the first time, I was mesmerized, her steps and cuts were so beautiful, it was as if the wind was her partner and opponent at the same time. The sound of the wind howling as my grandma's sword cut through it could still be heard in my ears as if it all happened just a few seconds ago. 

My love for Sword Dance suppressed my fear of becoming overweight. And due to the new-found passion in my life unlike the other kids of my age, I would prefer a healthy diet for every meal so that I had the necessary energy to perfect my sword dance. 

I wasn't just passionate about sword dance I was good at it, so good that I won my first sword dance competition, Little Darling Sword Dancer, held in the Sun Blossom city when I was a few days shy of becoming 9 years old. Which became a stepping stone in my career as a sword dancer. 

At the young age of 10 years old, I decided to choreograph my very own sword dance but there was a problem, though I was a good sword dancer, I had very little experience with the sword to choreograph my very own sword dance. So I turned to the world's best sword dancer I knew for help, my grandma. Who then advised me to practice various sword arts as the doorway to gain experience with swords. 

Following my grandma's advice I start to practice sword arts from the basics. And I got the hang of it pretty quickly, I don't mean to brag but my sword teacher said that he had never seen someone of my age master the basic forms of the sword arts so quickly even considering my background as a sword dancer. 

With this, I finally gained grandma's attention among all my siblings and cousins who were already card apprentices. My grandma made me quit my sword classes and personally began to teach me sword art saying that waiting for me to become a card apprentice to teach me sword art would be a waste of my sword talent. Apparently, I am what they call a sword prodigy. 

Under my grandma's one-on-one guidance, it did not take me long to choreograph my sword dance. Soon years passed by and I was 16 years old, today I contracted my grimoire and had officially become a card apprentice. And finally figured out the reason why I was so good at sword arts and sword dance compared to others, it turns out I had a physique that awakened completely after I become a card apprentice. The physique was called Sword Slave. 

[Physique: Sword Slave

 Type: Innate 

 Effect: If the user devotes their life to swords they will be enlightened in the path of swords and be able to walk it without facing any obstacles.]

Learning of my physique, my grandma asked me to hide my physique from everyone including my parents and then she summoned a family meeting where she declared the family's entire resources would be directed to groom me and the remainder would be split among the other family members. Without receiving a proper explanation for my grandma's sudden revelation, many family members objected to my grandma's decision but it did not take long for grandma to suppress their voices. If my siblings and cousins were jealous when I got one on one lessons from our grandma, now they were dying of envy.

With abundant resources and guidance, I advanced my basic sword arts mastery to Sage-level Mastery in the same week I became a card apprentice shocking my grandma, this led to her concluding that she had placed the bet on the right horse 

By the time I had turned 17 years old, I had mastered many intermediary and advanced sword Arts and Sword dance to Sage-level mastery and also had learned everything my grandma and blossom district had to teach me with regards to the way of swords. The university entrance exams were closing in but recently I barely made any advancement in the way of swords. However this gap allowed me to summarize everything I had learned in way of swords so far, allowing me to give birth to an unranked sword dance, The Asura Sword Dance. This was the only sword dance I choreographed so far that I could be proud of. Believe me, my standards were pretty high. 

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