The morning following the meeting with TUR it was not the usual alarm that woke me up but the doorbell of my room.
Someone was persistently ringing the doorbell.
A shiver ran through my entire body.
'Is it Ri?'
I dressed and went to the door, I looked at who was outside thanks to a small screen next to the door that showed the situation outside my room on video.
What I saw, however, was not Ri, but Liza, with her usual angry face.
In fact, part of me was hoping it was Ri.
I opened the door.
"H-Hey"
Lise, without answering, entered my room and sat down on the bed.
"Why are you here?"
"I have to train you, right?"
"But ..." I looked at the time, it was 5 in the morning "Isn't it a bit early?"
"EH ?!"
"No, nothing ..."
I ordered breakfast and orange juice for Liza through the little fridge.
After breakfast, without wasting a minute of time, Liza ordered me to lie down on the floor.
"Well, first of all, I want to see how your circulation cores are doing… and I'll try to unlock them in case they are blocked"
"Mmh? What are?"
"The circulation cores are the basis of the control over one's mana, they are 7 and unfortunately, usually, an untrained person has them all, or almost, blocked ..."
She ordered me to close my eyes and try to perceive the energy flow inside me.
Liza places her hands on me, one on my chest and the other on my forehead.
At first, I didn't feel anything, but slowly a "new" heat began to circulate inside me.
It was as if Liza was wandering with her energy, with her mana, inside my body.
After an hour Liza removed her hands from my body and told me to open my eyes and sit down.
"How do you feel?"
I wasn't sure how to answer her, it was as if something in me was different, but I didn't know what.
"I don't know ..."
"Ahhh, how useless ... well but I must say that you have a bit of talent ..."
"Really?"
"Yes, two of your cores were already unlocked, and it only took me an hour to unlock three more."
"So, now I have five unlocked, right?"
"Well, if math isn't an opinion ..."
'How annoying …'
"And now?"
"Well, first of all, I will teach you a way to meditate, it's called "Call of the inner world" is a technique that allows you to view your mana circulation as if it were some kind of world, the more you will be able to control and modify this world to yours pleasure, and the more your mana skill will grow. "
"The skills you will need in this will be imagination and self-control."
It was already 7 in the morning and at 9 I wanted to visit Ri in her office, hoping she was there.
Liza ordered me to sit cross-legged and stood behind me with her hands resting on my back.
"Well, now I'll try to help you visualize your inner world, close your eyes, focus on my energy that binds to yours, and try to visualize a world, your inner world"
"But how can I understand if the world that I imagined is my inner world"
"In that world, you will have to perceive your mana in its entirety."
'I still don't understand ... oh well let's try'
I closed my eyes and concentrated on the energy that flowed inside me as Liza had told me.
Liza's energy was different than before, less "edgy" and more enveloping, it instantly bonded with mine.
'I have to say that she is really very good with mana '
Just thinking about it made me lose focus.
"Don't think about anything else" Liza told me.
I returned with the concentration to mana.
I had to try to feel all the mana inside me in its entirety, but it was really complicated.
Almost an hour passed, and I felt no progress, I tried for another while but nothing, then I opened my eyes.
"What are you doing?!"
I looked at my watch, it was 8:43.
"Now I have to do something else, can we continue another day?"
"Ahhh, oh well, tomorrow I'll come here at the same time, so change your alarm clock"
'Tomorrow too ?!'
I knew I couldn't complain, she was doing it for the sake of my growth.
"Ok ..."
"You don't seem thrilled to see me again"
She looked at me with a sharp look in which I also felt a little bloodlust.
"Oh, no, of course I'm thrilled! it's just that now I'm very tired…"
"… "
Her gaze did not soften even a minimum.
She left my room without saying goodbye.
" *Phew, well at least she didn't hit me this time."
After a while I left my room too, headed for Ri's office.
Arrived in front of the office, the front door opened by itself, inside there was Ri, with an indecipherable look.
"H-hello…"
Ri didn't answer my greeting.
"I'm sorry about yesterday…"
I couldn't even tell her what happened, for obvious reasons.
"What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Don't do something like that again, remember, even if I talk to you and let you talk in a friendly way, I'm still your manager and ... oh well, I can't do it..."
'Eh?'
"I wanted to talk to you about the fight the other day, and the consequences it had, you know, in addition to the monthly income that comes to us thanks to your PF, there is also another way in which gladiators do PFC, and that is with the sponsors… "
Ri was continuing her speech, but my focus was still on what had happened before.
'Did she want to scold me but couldn't?? Haha… I have to say I was really lucky with her… '