The next day. Friday, the fifteenth of July.
Jono left for school as usual; at eight in the morning, learning activities would begin. Today's schedule of subjects in hiss class is the theory of martial arts and natural science subjects that will focus on earth science.
Just like yesterday, at twelve o'clock, formal teaching and learning activities were completed, which were followed by extracurricular club activities at one o'clock in the afternoon. Today, Jono must attend the armed martial arts extracurricular club because today is the mandatory schedule for the club to attend.
Just like the unarmed martial arts extracurricular club, today too was just an introduction. The benefits offered by these clubs are also the same, and what is more interesting for Jono is that if students can rank in the two extracurricular clubs, the benefits they get will also multiply according to their rank.
But it was rare for someone to rank in the top fifty in two different extracurricular clubs. Due to the fierce competition, most students who register for two extracurricular clubs will only focus on one later.
This extracurricular club room is bigger than the previous extracurricular club room but not too much different. He also tried practicing here using his training sword.
There are also objects that can be targeted, as well as the unarmed martial arts club that Jono visited yesterday. The difference is that here, most of the training aids are stronger and sturdy to withstand the weapons used by the students.
After feeling satisfied with his practice, Jono returned to his apartment. During the journey from the bus stop near his apartment to his apartment, he felt uneasy. He felt that along the way he was being watched by someone.
Arriving at the apartment, the discomfort vanished.
"What was that feeling earlier, like someone was always staring at me but I couldn't figure out who?" He muttered as he lay down on the bed, and he promptly fell asleep.
The next day, Jono did a routine exercise schedule, which he hadn't done in the last few days because he went to school. For today, he will practice from seven until ten in the morning. Which will then be continued from seven o'clock in the evening until ten o'clock in the evening.
High school only takes Monday through Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. But students are still allowed to come to school to use school facilities, such as the training facilities owned by each club.
Jono currently does not intend to practice at school; instead, he prefers to practice in an apartment, even though the facilities at the school are much more complete. This is because he feels that the training ground provided by the club must have a lot of people, and he doesn't like to practice while being watched by many people.
That's why, while attempting to train in the club's training room the past two days, he's only trained for a short time; he's just trying to get a feel for training using the tools he needs. But over time, he felt uncomfortable when he was watched when he was training in the club's training room.
A few days later, on Tuesday, July 19,
After teaching and learning activities, Jono went to the location of the unarmed martial arts club. Today is the day of mandatory activity for this club.
There were fifty-three new students who joined this club; the fifty-three students were divided into four groups. The first group consisted of students from class [A]; the second group consisted of students from class [B] and class [C]; the third group consisted of students from classes [D] and [E], and the fourth group consisted of students from class [F] and [G].
This was announced on the day of the club's introduction a few days ago; this is the club's technical training announced by Tuji. A professional trainer will guide each group.
The first group will be guided directly by Mr. Tuga; his three assistants will mentor the other three groups. Jono was included in the third group, and the coach of this group was the only woman among Mr. Tuga's assistants.
"Class [A] is guided directly by Mr. Tuga; class [A] students are indeed lucky," whispered a student in Jono's group.
"Yes, naturally gifted students always get special treatment," a student in Jono's group replied.
"One of the advantages of being in Class [A] is that," Jono whispered in his mind as he observed the group of Class [A] students gathered near Mr. Tuga.
Then his group approached their instructor as well. Between one group and another, there is a certain distance.
"But it's okay; our group instructor is quite voluptuous," whispered one of the male students. The other male students nodded their heads, admitting that their instructor looked quite voluptuous.
"Tch! You, boy!" A female student immediately felt disgusted by some of the surrounding boys, who looked at their instructor with that lewd look.
Jono's group consisted of nine male and five female students, eight from class [D] and six from class [E]. In his group, several students already knew each other—apart from being in the same class—and some had already met on the club's introduction day a few days ago.
Jono is not familiar with almost all the students in his group; he is not good at socializing even though they are students in the same class. That's why he didn't talk to anyone; he was just observing.
"Okay, let's talk," said the instructor. The woman looked at the group that she would be mentoring for a whole year.
"I am one of the assistant instructors under the main instructor, Mr. Tuga."
"You can address me as Ms. Hani or Mrs. Hani; it's up to you."
"Mr. Tuga instructed that the first-year students practice how to improve physical strength for the first two weeks, and then there will be additional training methods in other fields the following week."
"So for today, I will teach you some moves to improve your physical strength."
Ms. Hani then began to guide the exercises to improve the physical strength of the students in Jono's group. All the movements that Ms. Hani taught at first only looked simple, but when they were done, very quickly, it made the body exhausted and sluggish.
This exercise lasts for four hours, and every hour there will be a break of fifteen minutes. When the club activities finished, all the students immediately felt extremely sluggish and exhausted.
Jono, who thinks he always does intense exercise, is currently feeling the same sense of fatigue. He felt that this exercise was even harder than his independent training.
After school, he went straight to his apartment and immediately took a shower, after which he proceeded to rest on his sofa. Jono wanted to sleep, but now that it was almost night, he decided with a heavy heart that he would sleep later when it was night.
"If this continues, I won't have the energy to practice here anymore," he said with a deep breath. Jono was concerned that if training at the club was always as exhausting as it had been, he would not be able to train in his apartment.
"Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday there is mandatory training at the club; most likely today I will not practice at home," he muttered while looking at his school schedule.
"Only Monday, Saturday, and Sunday I will practice at the apartment," he said, nodding slowly, although he still felt tired.
Jono then looked for some videos about practicing with a dagger. He has a dagger, and he doesn't want to waste it. He continues to hone his dagger skills as much as he can.
Jono ordered food for his dinner while watching a video of dagger training. Then he tried some dagger movements as well as exercises to strengthen and flex the wrist so he could become more proficient with a dagger.
After trying a few movements to train his wrists, the food he ordered arrived. While eating, he practiced controlling his puppets.
Right now, the most he can do is control two puppets. Jono has not been able to fully control his three puppets at once; he will feel a headache only a few minutes after controlling the three puppets.
After eating and being satisfied with practicing controlling his puppets, Jono went straight to sleep.
"Unlucky!"
"The boy is very cowardly; he doesn't even dare to go out at night; he just asks for food to be delivered, you coward," said Anggin, who was standing directly across the street from Jono's apartment.
"We have to lure him so he can go out at night, Gin." Angger, who was beside him, also felt frustrated because of Jono.
"He's ordered food online several times; how about we disguise ourselves as a food delivery guy?" Anggin grew impatient while waiting for Jono to go out alone at night.
"It's useless; the food delivery guy can't get into the apartment building, let alone enter where he lives, and CCTV cameras are also everywhere," said Angger, shaking his head.
"We have to find a way," said Anggin, somewhat angrily.
Jono did not know that there were two people who were targeting him at this time; he was asleep on his bed.