Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 434

Jae wheezed. She hugged the log training post in a daze as she lamented about what she was doing right now.

The training post was such a poor thing… It had to be abused by her every day… She felt bad for it.

How was her Katherine’s brother a kind person? He was obviously a demon.

The reports that she’d managed to gather were all lies.

Lies…

She would have gone to complain, if not for the fact that she barely had the strength of a newborn calf. Her legs couldn’t even keep her up right now, causing her to have to depend on her friend the log that had caused her to be in this very situation in the first place.

However, when she looked over at the other person who had collapsed weakly to the ground, she felt a vague and hazy sense of happiness.

After all, misery loves company…

And she was definitely still holding on better compared to that idiot there, who looked like he was about to pass out at any given moment. His breathing was laboured, and his gaze looked hazier than hers was.

At least she could still think properly. Brian looked like he wasn’t even in the realm of reality right now.

She still felt happy no matter how much her body felt like it was giving up on her right now.

She clutched the thought of being able to obtain the chance of chasing after Katherine to bolster her strength and continue her assault on the log.

She even but Brian out of her mind.

She cheered herself up. ‘You can do it, Jae! For a chance at true love, you can do anything!’

As she cheered herself inwardly, repeating it as a mantra. She felt the earlier depression of not being able to see Katherine (who was off on an adventure – seemingly to avoid them) fade a little.

Regis already (gleefully) told them that Katherine had went to adventure in the newly opened ruins, and that by the time she came back, if they still didn’t pass his requirements, then he would block them at every turn.

The thought of it made her burn brighter and more intensely. She had to do it. She had to hang on before Katherine came back.

She put more kick into it, gathering what little magic she had inside her.

Katheirne was an Awakening type, and she was too! She refused to be left behind.

If Katherine could become that strong, then she could too!

She thought about what else she could use to bolster herself. Since Katherine said that the Awakening Magitype wasn’t a dead path, that meant that there had to be something that she could do.

But just what was it…

Brian, on the other hand, was dying as he lay on the ground, spread eagle.

His eyes had stars, and the blue sky was so clear that it almost felt as if it were mocking him.

When had he ever endured such hardship in the past? As the only son of his parent’s house, he was always treated well and pampered.

Even when he went out to train, he never pushed himself this hard. To him, training was like a hobby and not something serious. When he went out on ‘adventures’, it was never far away, and he always went with a group of friends.

When had he ever pushed himself so hard that he felt like he was going to die? Every muscle in his body ached, and his head felt like it was stuffed full of cotton.

His eyes struggled to stay open, and he was completely dazed.

What was he doing right now?

Why was he aching so much?

Was it worth it?

But he thought about Katherine’s small smile. Her cold eyes that seemed to look down on people when she hid her softness underneath. He hauled himself up with much difficulty. His arms trembled.

He staggered a little before continuing to assault the post.

He didn’t understand why this was so hard. It was just that the repetition they had to cycle through made his body feel like it was filled with lead.

They apparently were not even supposed to use a post in later stages, which made his head swim.

Unlike Jae, his motions seemed very choppy, and though he was trying, it was obvious that he had reached his limit without being able to stop.

From a position that was hidden in the nearby area, Gareth whistled as he looked at them going at it.

They’d managed to last this long in Regis’ hellish training routine. He had to give them kudos for that. Compared with the rest of the cowards, they at least had the determination and the willpower to power through the training no matter how much they looked like they were dying.

Too bad that it didn’t look like Regis was going to give in at all.

Once they met the requirements, there would be another round of hellish training for them…

Based on his observations, Brian really didn’t seem like a bad guy, and Jae seemed to fixate and obsess over something – that thing being Katherine now.

He had no idea whether that was good or not, but Regis’ rose-coloured glasses where it came to his sister was concerned, they would never be good enough.

Gareth had a feeling that the sis-con would only stop once Katherine had become dead-set on someone that she was willing to go against him to be with them.

But seeing them half-dead, if filled with fighting spirit, he wanted to give them some advice at least.

He strode out from where he’d been silently observing them for a few days and drew their attention.

Jae stood by vigilantly. “Who are you?”

Brian also stopped, looking at Gareth with half-lidded eyes. He looked like he was about to pass out at any moment, but he kept his guard up, nonetheless.

Gareth held his hands up before tucking them back into their pockets. “Relax. I’m not here to hurt you. You should know me, right? You’ve seen me with Regis a few times. My name’s Gareth.”

This made the two of them pause and look at Gareth’s face more closely. This seemed… to be true.

But they had always been paying attention to Regis when he had been there. Gareth was actually quite handsome, but when he stood next to Regis, it was like all the attention had been concentrated on Regis – he was just there like air.

Gareth had dark brown hair and dark chocolate eyes. He actually looked a little similar to Jae, but none of them noticed it.

If Gareth knew what they were thinking, he would have acted like he was wounded with a hand over his heart and a dramatically hurt expression on his face.

But he was used to it since he was always in Regis’ shadow when the other man was around. He even preferred it that way – he’d seen those crazy fangirls. No thank you.

Gareth slung an arm over the two of them, standing in the middle, and he instantly regretted it. Because they were sweaty – disgustingly sweaty, and they had yet to take a bath.

“Anyway, if you wanna increase your chances, you better listen to what I have to say. Do you even know how many people Regis has chased away with his hellish training routine?” Gareth shook his head mockingly.

The two of them looked at him sharply. They definitely wanted to hear what he had to say.

Gareth quickly let go of them and chuckled. “Anyway, there’s no chance that Regis will take it easier on any of you, so you should give up on that hope.”

Just as their faces fell, Gareth leaned in conspiratorially. “The worst part of it is that this is Regis’ own training regime, so he doesn’t see anything wrong with it.”

Seeing that he had caught their attention, Gareth leaned in and whispered to their ears, not realizing that there was a gently smiling figure standing near enough that he could hear him…