Four years passed really quickly.

  I spent every day training with mom and dad. Every now and again, I would spend my afternoon studying some school subjects, but that was just to make sure I didn’t forget anything.

  Dad at one point told me that they had actually taught me everything they thought I should know before school a year into my tutoring.

  Outside of that, I made great progress in both dealing with other people and my training.

  After the first year, I was able to deal with all of the staff in the mansion again.

  But, we ran into a different issue when it came time to have my social debut, when I was 13.

  When mom and dad brought up the pns with me to go to the capital for it, I had what I know as a panic attack and they canceled the pns.

  They sent a note in pce saying that because of a chronic illness, I would not be going through my debut. And since I was not the next heir, it was not very important that I have a debut.

  But, now I had to face this fear of leaving the mansion.

  After the st day of training I had with dad, I walked out to the edge of the mansion grounds.

  I wasn’t tired after our practice anymore. I had grown used to the activities we were doing.

  He made me run well over 100 miles today, and expected each of them to be quite fast. Then we had the practice swings, now numbering around the thousands.

  Then stly we had the practice duel. Dad used no where close to the amount of power he truly had, but he was no longer pying with me.

  I had gained a number of skills for the sword. You gained a new skill every 5 levels, so I had a number of skills I could use now.

  Whenever I parried one of dad’s attacks, I now had a counter strike, which was me using the st move from my basic combo, the thrust after knocking back his sword.

  I also had an attack that served as an interrupt instead of just a parry. When dad came at me, I would strike upwards with my sword, which served as a distraction. I could then open up with a combo.

  And stly I had a leaping attack. After the st thrust, I could jump up and strike down on my target.

  These were, in order, counter strike, upper ssh, and ground strike.

  I was now training with the proficiency 30 skill, Bde rush. It served as a technique to close the distance. This required me to create distance between dad and myself to use, so it is a little harder to use.

  In the beginning, the duels between dad and I could take over an hour, and would only end when I was exhausted and about to colpse.

  But now, we had to pace a time limit on them. Dad said that working to exhaustion wouldn’t give great results any more.

  And when they ended, I would do a cool down exercise. A short run.

  And during that run I went to the edge of the mansion.

  It's been 2 years since I wasn’t able to leave for the capital for my debut.

  But, I looked out to the future, promising myself that I was going to do better.

  ∴

  During the 4 years, I also grew a lot. Before I started training I was still under 5’. Now, I am a comfortable 5’3”. Notably, this was extraordinarily short for a man, but that didn’t matter to me. This was the height I set my game charcert to and that was when I expected to stop growing.

  I had also stopped growing overall.

  It wasn’t that I didn’t look my age, but knowing this was where I would stop growing made me think that in the future, it was definitely possible that I would be called younger then I would be.

  Comparing my height to the others in my family was weird. Dad was over 6 feet tall, and both mom and Lilith were around 5 foot 8, meaning I was a lot shorter than them.

  ∴

  During the 4 years, I had not seen Lilith. She had sent letters a lot about what was going on at school.

  In the 4 years, she never fell off the top spot of her css. She had become a student council member in her second year, and in her st message, she was in the running for student council president, with no real competition.

  I was super excited to see her again when I started there, but it would be a while before I saw her.

  The time where the pcement test took pce was the same time that the finals were happening for students, which includes practicals, which happen elsewhere, not on the campus.

  This meant that even for the month that I was going to be in the capital, I wouldn't see her.

  ∴

  When the applications were sent in to the royal magic academy, mom and dad decided to also have Rose apply as well. This was to make sure that even if I didn’t get into S css, they could guarantee that she could stay with me, for at least part of the day.

  This was very nice of them. But it meant that a little before we went to the capital, she had to go to a test at the school. This was for people not of noble or high birth. She came back a few days ter saying she was accepted.

  This also gave me a chance to get used to being without her.

  In the 4 years she has been with me, I started to see Rose as more my friend than my maid. I got her to dress up with me and do other things as well, just like I used to do with Lilith.

  Rose had also grown and now stood around 5’5”, taller than me, but shorter than mom and Lilith. She also had become a very beautiful woman.

  I did often see her out of her maid uniform, but she looked very good in other clothes as well.

  ∴

  In terms of stats, I was still level 0, meaning I did not yet kill any monsters. That was the only way to level up, and when you killed the first one, you gained the first level.

  But that would require me to leave the mansion.

  So I stayed at level 0.

  But for my proficiency, I was really good.

  Because of my constant grinding, I got my proficiency multiplier to 6.2x.

  And in terms of actual levels, my sword was at 25, and all of the 6 magics were at 9. In terms of overall power, this was nothing. But in terms of the start of the game, I was really strong.

  Because of my interest in combat, I enrolled in the combat css under a magic swordsman. This was different from what Liltih enrolled in, being a pure sword user. She had some magic, but that was mostly for support.

  And Rose joined the assassins css for some reason.

  I had not yet pnned what kind of build I wanted, but I figured it was going to be speed based, since that felt right.

  ∴

  As I sat at the edge of the mansion's grounds, I realized I was ready. I needed to go back to pack tonight.

  Because tomorrow I was going to be going to the capital with mom and dad.