Now, the ordinary ship heading for Neda, Tokishiki has two teenagers training with the god of strength, what are they training for? For the battle that would take place in years to come. Do they need to train? Yes. From a god? probably not.
After all, the god that trains these teens was the one who created the battle that would come upon the world, from an outsider's perspective this was blatant hypocrisy.
The teens knew this very much, but do they dare say a word? No..., do they dare object? No..., why would they, if they did, they could be good as dead.
Yes, the god is also quite impatient, It has no time for slow development, and when it trained the two teens, It was extremely annoyed at Tobi, who was human and didn't develop as fast as Crystal, who on the other hand was developing on god-level speed and made Koba, the god very proud.
Unfair isn't it, Tobi is just a mere human, he has no superhuman strength like Crystal, all he has are his brain and a lowkey bittersweet attitude that is very annoying but also alluring...
He doesn't have that strong build that most boys of his age have, the poor kid was a late bloomer, which made him self-conscious of his appearance when around boys his age, but around girls he couldn't care less, no girl dared to approach him at the village, why? take a guess... yep
Crystal never allowed girls to come near him, why? we don't know. All that is there to it is that no girl had a chance to bully or make fun of Tobi whenever Crystal was with him, therefore, no girl approached him, whether it is to be friends or play dates or a potential future partner no girl dared approach him.
The two trained day and night in the trance that Koba had drawn them into,
Today they were going to learn strength training, a very ancient form of strength training. They did anaerobic movements, that looked like this; taking a deep breath and holding it in for two minutes whilst doing push-ups, lunges... just basic movements that would make an average human strong in no time, but for these two Koba made it extra hard especially hard for Crystal, by redrawing some of her strength and forced her to train longer hours than Tobi.
In a whole summary, the training for the two teenagers was inhumanly unfair, but the one more affected by this was Tobi since he had no encounter with such difficulty, especially when it was imposed directly on his body.
But within a week of training, you could see a noticeable difference in Tobi... for Crystal, it was quite too much of a sight not to see... even Alfstrat would see the two hanging out together and notice the build they suddenly developed in just a week he would often wonder
' what in the world are these kids doing to make their bodies this muscular?!! '
Evening time had arrived and it was time for dinner for the two, they had a separate dining room for privacy which was advised by Lorenz, just to avoid their secret from getting out into the open.
'' woah! today's dinner is delicious! '' Tobi dug into the meat soup made by the kitchen crew with so much excitement and zeal it pissed Crystal off.
" Sis, try this~ " Tobi stretched out a piece of a drumstick on the fork at Crystal hoping she would open her mouth and have a taste of it but joked at him Crystal and smacked it out of his hand.
* smack! *
" SIS, WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!! "
" ... " Crystal turned her head away as if she did not hear what Tobi was saying to her.
' how sweet it is to be the older sibling~ ' Crystal thought to herself, although they are not blood-related they were raised by the same parents, lived together, ate together, played together, and had fun together since they were toddlers,3 and 2 years to be precise. Crystal sees Tobi as her little brother and Tobi sees Crystal as his elder sister which makes them closer than just a friendship, this closeness showed itself whenever Crystal fought to protect Tobi, she was always on a different level of strength. But that goes without saying Crystal was quite the bully and the archetype of that sister that would chop your head off if you didn't run errands.
" ARE YOU IGNORING ME?!! "
Tobi lashed out at Crystal and smashed his hands on the wooden spoon given to him for eating, he had every right to be mad at her, he was eating happily, he shared his delicious meal with his sibling but it was smacked out of his hands! Now, That! He had a good reason to be mad at her,
Crystal could not be less bothered by Tobi's angry face, why should she? He started it first, Crystal doesn't like food shoved in her face at all and in an indecent manner, and as a matter of fact Crystal would rather have herself in a very well-ordered place than a rowdy and crowded environment like the ship was.
"metcheeew"
Tobi hissed at her indifferent face and sat back down to eat, he looked at Crystal again to see if she was any bit remorseful but she wasn't. He rolled his eyes and eat his food in anger, not long after he had done so he looks down at his side of the table there it was, an inhuman shadow holding a pitcher fork slowly creeping on him
He looks up to see a Crystal smiling at him, a smile that simply meant "You better apologize right now if not... " Tobi gulped for his dear life and apologized right away as three drops trickled down from his forehead. " I'm sorry..."
Crystal gladly patted his head and went back to her side of the table, she stretched her two hands to lose her ponytail, it was giving her a headache, shaking her head from left to right vigorously to let down her wavy hair,
" ... sis, when are we going for training? "
" in a moment, hurry up, Koba is pestering me "
" oh sorry Mr god, let me finish my dinner first," Tobi says as if he was talking to Crystal's head, assuming Koba lives in Crystal's head.
* scratching *
Crystal was scratching her head so much because of how long it has been in a ponytail, now Tobi is disgusted and asked her if she could stop, Crystal looked at him with a side eye to caution him, and he looked away as if nothing had happened.
Tobi packs up the dishes and takes them to the kitchen, whilst Crystal leaves for the room and arranges the two beds, and cleans up the room for the post-workout training, she brings out their training clothes and gets changed into black shorts and white tank top, whilst Tobi had black shorts also with a grey t-shirt.
Tobi comes back to the room some 20 minutes later and changes into his training outfit and the two teens lay in their separate beds and turned off the lights.
Usually when the two go for training, they don't train from their consciousness, but their whole body was transmigrated into the galactic trance, where Koba stayed.
" We're ready, " Crystal tells Koba and they are immediately pulled into the galactic trance once again.
[ so what are we doing today? ] Crystal asks
' you're going to improve your flexibility today ' Koba claps its humanoid hands and smiles at the two.
[ Flexibility? what kind of training is that? ] Crystal did not have a clue of what Koba meant, but Tobi did explain to her what flexible exercises meant.
[ It's like the game we played on the beach as little children ]
[ which one is it? ]
[ the one where you and Jana would stretch one of the kids from their hands and legs and you would swing them back and forth until they scream for help ]
This was a game that the kids used to play to see who would be "taller" during their adolescence, the only kids that would play the game are the hotheads and tight cookies of the village as you can imagine, Tobi wanted nothing to do with the game and would often watch from the side-line.
[oh~ that game hehe no wonder you're so short~ ]
[ stop making fun of me!! ]