human
Wilhelm:  "And I’m better than all of you, so how are any of you going to give him a taste of his own medicine? Damn shame! How about a little early-morning practice?”
gpt
Narrator:  Indeed, starting the next day, the squadron could be found at the training ground at dawn.
human
Narrator:  The talk of each day was the mock battles between Wilhelm and Bordeaux, which were so intense that someone could nearly have gotten killed.
gpt
Narrator:  As for Grimm, who joined the squadron at the same time as Wilhelm, he continued to get by as he had before, trying not to be notably incompetent.
human
Narrator:  He was soon attached to Pivot like a shadow.
gpt
Narrator:  People began avoiding Wilhelm even more studiously than they had before, sometimes eyeing him as if they thought he was crazy, but the boy wasn’t interested in any of that.
human
Narrator:  His previous unit had treated him like a hideous curiosity, and this one meddled with him far too much; Wilhelm found them both equally troublesome.
gpt
Narrator:  At heart, Wilhelm liked to do everything alone, including training.
human
Narrator:  As the mock battles with Bordeaux continued, he started to see how the man breathed, what his tells were, until nearly every victory went to Wilhelm.
gpt
Narrator:  The boy failed to see the point of training so hard against a single opponent.
human
Narrator:  If they met on the battlefield, they would fight only once; there would be no second chance.
gpt
Narrator:  If at any time during training a soft spot developed in his heart, it would become nearly impossible to focus his entire spirit on the task at hand.
human
Narrator:  More than once, he had felt the urge to cut down opponents who trained less than wholeheartedly.
gpt
Narrator:  It was so much easier to stay utterly focused on training by himself.
human
Wilhelm:  “I want…to go into battle.”
gpt
Narrator:  It wasn’t that he wanted to kill.
human
Narrator:  He didn’t seek to take life.
gpt
Narrator:  He just wanted to use his sword.
human
Narrator:  True swordsmanship could only be found in combat, in a contest where either person could lose their life at any moment.
gpt
Narrator:  Wilhelm spent weeks in the capital with this gloomy thought—until he was given a chance to go back to the place of that terrible defeat, and the Sword Devil crossed paths with a new enemy.