"So, what do I have to do exactly?" I asked. "For now, We gotta start training to unleash your hidden potential. Practice makes a man perfect." Evia responded.
I have some sort of hidden potential which is yet to be unleashed, according to her. I wonder what kind of potential I have. Guess I'm not as hopeless as I thought. "Training? What sort of training exactly?" I once again questioned, "For now, I'll teach you hand-to-hand combat and various martial arts." Evia replied. Wait, hold on a second. What does she mean by "I'll teach you", does that mean she'll be my 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘪? "Wait- so that's you're my teacher?" I asked with an awkward tone, "Yes, any objection perhaps?"
"Uh… well no, I'm fine with it." This is gonna be awkward, I can already sense it. "Very well then, let's go." Evia outta nowhere. Grabbed my right shoulder using her right hand. A magic circle appeared within the ground where we were standing, it was radiating yellow light. Both of us teleported out of the castle; Both of us were present in a forest now. Though it's not the same forest, it was located within the kingdom itself, this kingdom is quite big if you ask me. "There we go." Evia pulled her hand off my shoulder and took some steps back. "Let's see where, to begin with… oh yeah! Let's start with basic hand-to-hand combat." Said Evia.
Hand-to-hand combat huh? I won't say I'm bad at it, I'm just average. In school, some random bullies wanna be used to picking fights with me. So, I unintentionally used to get engaged in a situation where hand-to-hand combat was essential, I got some experience on how it works. Though, I'm not professional. I'm more like a person who fights back in self-defence. Nothing really special to be honest.
"Alright bet," I responded to her. "Try attacking me," Evia spoke out.
Huh… What did she just say? Why the heck does she want me to attack her? I'm not someone who hits women, I'm a gentleman.
"Why? I can't just attack a woman without any reasoning.." I responded dryly, "It's part of your training, idiot. Just do it, I wanna test something." Evia replied.
Guess I have no choice huh? I'm not liking it. But, do I have a choice? Nope, I don't. So, I did as she says; tried to hit her using my bare fist while trying to hold back. But, guess what? Evia caught my fist very easily without even looking like she was trying, I was honestly surprised to see that she has inhuman strength. Her body is so curvy yet so strong, talk about a strong woman. "Woah! I didn't know you were that strong." I spoke out in a surprising state, "that's honestly nothing. But, I think before we start training, we would improve your physique. I'm not saying that you're weak. But, you won't be able to take on upcoming threats like this." Evia said.
If you ask me. I think she has a point, this world is magical after all, without a proper physique or perhaps metaphysical ability, I won't be able to survive here. I should rather thank her for wasting her precious time on teaching someone as bland as me. "Threat, like what kind?" I Questioned, "Monsters, beasts etc."
Well… this is tougher than I thought- guess I'm a very long way to come. "I see." I responded, "Alright, do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups right now." She let go of my first whilst declaring that.
…WHAT, she expected me to execute that!? How is that even humanly possible, man? Did I get myself stuck here?
"What!? That's not even humanly possible!" I said, "Are you doing it or not?" She stared at me menacingly, I could feel some sort of horror aura radiating from her, she was acting scary now. Sigh, I once again had no choice. So, I obeyed her. "Ye-Yes, I'm doing it, right now!" I immediately went to do push-ups. After barely doing like 11 pushups, I felt down. I was completely exhausted, I was gaining my breath back, "Aaaa- this is harder than I thought." I spoke out, "Man, you're hopeless!" Evia said in an annoyed manner, "Ouch-" I said. "But anyways, I won't nitpick since it's just the beginning. Try to attempt a 15-kilometre run, I think you can at least do that. We gotta slowly extract your inner potential."
She got a point again, we can work slowly. So, I can improve myself more. We don't have to rush it, we have plenty of time on our hands, which is four years. I slowly stood up before dusting myself off using my right hand, "Bet." I commented before I got ready to run, "Here we go!" Declaring that, I ran in a random direction at full speed, "Man, I'm tired but at least it's humanly possible." I ran for like eleven minutes. I knew that I had covered up the distance by now, so I immediately stopped. I was huffing, "Man, this is exhausting." I wiped the sweat which was dripping down from me using my left hand. "impressive." Evia spoke out as she was present beside me, "?!" How the hell did she appear beside me this quickly? I swear to God, She's some sort of superhuman. Though, I won't directly question her. Now, I'm convinced that there is nothing impossible in this world. I'm not even surprised anymore at this point.
This is just the inception.