Yale was shocked by Aiwai's words. He was planning to train archery until reaching the expert stage, but he decided to stop after hearing that. If Aiwai thought that stopping a bit was better for himself, he would believe it as she was his master in archery.
On the other hand, hearing that Wyba had gone to train improved his mood, he was happy that his cute yet lazy sister started to train seriously.
"Are you thinking in something? You told me to stop practicing archery, and I can't improve more in swordsmanship for now. Those two weapons are the ones I have more talent with, with others I am not that good."
Yale knew that Aiwai wouldn't ask him to change the training without having some recommendation for him
Yale had practiced with other weapons at the Nacesai Academy, but although the talent in those weapons could increase with his practice, he didn't feel too attached to them.
"I am thinking of something different. Other weapons can be useful to you, but their usefulness to you will be limited right now. At this moment, the best for you will be learning weaponless combat, in other words, Martial Arts."
Yale didn't know how to react, because he was even worse fighting with only his body than with other weapons.
"Sis, I already tried to battle with only my fists, but I am not well suited to that."
Aiwai chuckled, she found funny seeing Yale dispirited due to lacking talent into something.
"Well, that doesn't matter. Only a fool will go to a real battle relying only on the fists. After all, Martial Arts are about battling with the whole body and not only your fists. Moreover, we have a definite advantage when battling with pure Martial Arts, our wings!"
The reality was just as Aiwai said, true battles like the ones Yale had weaponless in the Nacesai Academy wouldn't happen. The only reason the academy was restricting the battle to only the fists was that everyone was too young and they didn't want them injuring themselves too much in the class due to lacking in control the power.
Moreover, in a real weaponless combat, having wings was a great advantage. While flying, the legs were free, and thus it was easy to use them to attack the opponents without needing to worry about the balance. Furthermore, the wings could also be used to hit the opponents.
Usually, the wings were soft and harmless, but if they were moved with enough strength, they could harm.
"I see, let's do it. However, with our difference in size, I can't spar against you even if you go easy in the sparring."
Yale thought that it would be better if he changed a more mature aspect for training Martial Arts, even if he didn't transform into his real height, at least the ordinary height corresponding to his real age would be alright. He felt that the length of the limbs was an important factor and that his current body would be in too much disadvantage.
"That isn't true. Even a smaller body can win against someone bigger with enough ability, being smaller isn't bad at all. Well, it is true that against me you won't be able to train well as that is more advanced. I will create an Ice Golem, and you will train against it. I will be controlling it, so the golem will be able to teach you correctly."
While saying those words, she created an ice golem of the same size of Yale. From Yale's words, Aiwai had understood that Yale lacked experience in Martial Arts and decided to start by seeing how Yale battled.
"Yale, battle with this Ice Golem, without using any weapon or skills."
Yale sighed, the only times he had real battles without weapons he was using skills, but he understood that relying on skills wouldn't let him learn correctly. After all, using skills without weapons and true weaponless combat was still different.
The battle against the golem started, and Yale wasn't doing it too bad thanks to his real battle experience. Even though he lacked true experience battling without weapons and skills, his battle sense was improved thanks to his real battle experience.
"You aren't bad at all. Your battle sense is very good, and that is the most important when learning Martial Arts. After all, you will be able to apply Martial Arts even using weapons. Your main problem is that you haven't any style when battling, but that is because you lacked a teacher and you ended battling thanks to just your instinct and experience."
Aiwai's words were the truth; Yale had only learned swordsmanship thanks to Swordmad; Yale had lacked a good teacher for anything else related to fighting before meeting Aiwai.
In Trade City, Yale was unable to find an archery teacher, but he wasn't interested in other weapons or in weaponless combat, so he just trained his Smith Mastery without even trying to find masters for training with weapons or without them.
However, there was no way paying someone to teach him in Trade City would be better than being taught by his sister who wanted to help him on her own.