Chapter 686: Warned By A Friend
’It must hurt a lot!’ Arabella blinked repeatedly. She then turned to her husband.
{What’s the meaning of this? I thought he was not injured much?}
She formerly thought she would not see much of an injury since Ferdinand said it was just a bit. But this was clearly bad enough. After all, Benjamin always uses his hand for work, especially now that their parents are in Medeus.
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Her husband froze for a second before speaking.
"Those were from his sword when we sparred. We sparred for hours so it ended up hurting his hands that way," Ferdinand quickly clarified when he regained his composure.
"I... I see," Arabella accepted Ferdinand’s explanation and it made Benjamin pout.
’Right. Ferdinand had seen a lot of blood since he had been on the battlefield a lot. I can’t trust his measurement of hurt badly and not. What if one day he comes back from battle and tells me he just got grazed a bit when he was actually stabbed deeply?’
Just the thought horrified Arabella so she pushed it to the back of her mind and asked instead, "But why would you spar for hours?"
She knew Ferdinand wanted to spar with Benjamin to gauge what the latter could do so he could gift the latter an appropriate sword. But she did not expect it would have to take that long. With Ferdinand’s prowess, it would not have taken that long to gauge what kind of sword would be best for Benjamin.
Arabella did not understand much of Ferdinand’s explanation to her when they were in Riva, but he mentioned things like the weight and size of the sword that would be appropriate for Benjamin, how Benjamin holds and grips his sword, how he attacks or defends, how he balances his core, and so on.