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Chapter 9: The Ruthless Trainer
Author: HollarTish
last update2026-03-24 10:36:47
The memory didn’t come back all at once. It surfaced in pieces.

A flicker of steel. A shift in the wind. The quiet certainty in his opponent’s stance. By the time Theo reached the gym the next morning, the fragments had already rebuilt themselves into something whole.

And it was still just as suffocating.

The arena stretched wide in his mind, empty and endless, like it had been waiting for him to fail. Across from him, the swordsman had barely moved, the blade resting lazily on his shoulder.

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