Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 8
Apollo and Cias were woken up by a loud bell at about 6:30 AM ,"WAKEY WAKEY, TIME FOR TRAINING" Hiroto shouted, enhancing his voice with Art: Enhance Soundwaves (A technique to strengthen, amplify and speed up soundwaves). The startled duo jumped out of bed in shock and ran towards where the voice was coming from ,"Good, glad you guys made it" Apollo whined ,"Are we having breakfast?" ,"No, we're going to do some morning training and then go have some breakfast," Hiroto replied. (You've got to be kidding me) Cias thought, making a smug face which was caught by Hiroto in an instant ,"If you didn't want to train, why did you come?" this simple rhetorical question immediately getting Cias back into attention.
,"I want you guys to run to the bottom of this hill and then run right back up" ,"Are you sure? That's a looooong ways down" ,"This will help you on your journey to ultimate strength" and to that Cias and Apollo started their trek down the mountain. Apollo stated with utmost confidence ,"Aw, this is easy man" ,"Don't say that now, you're dooming us to karma" ,"Oh don't be a drama queen" this being a statement Apollo would soon regret. The two of them finally reached the bottom and started going back up but it was much harder than it seemed. The gravity of their bodies weighing down on them, they started to wheeze for breath, focusing more on the run than having a "fun'' little sprint. Step by step the movement was making them more and more tired.
Dreaming of the top, both of them began to speed up, they were both gaining more and more motivation by seeing how hard the other was going and their muscles even with Art: Recovery were giving out, that emotion of motivation was being transferred into ki. This newfound strength allowed them to finish up this run and reaching the top they flopped onto the brick layed ground, not caring about the stiff clay ,"Time for breakfast" Hiroto walking up told them before they both groaned, got up and walked with their master to the dining hall.
Inhaling the food before them like a couple of vacuum cleaners, they were re-energized and ready for the rest of the day (What they didn't know is that there was also a recovery spell being put onto the food to make them ready for training again put on by Hiroto). Hiroto explained their training ,"I want you guys to do 100 pushups, 100 squats, and 100 sit-ups, but I want perfect form and I will give you bracelets to count your moves for you (Of course I learned that training technique from a mysterious bald man, it just works so well)" Hiroto said then thought, the kids shortly complaining and getting a knife hand to the head to get their minds right once more. The training started and the both of them started off strong with reps of 10 for each set but were slowly going down, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and then finally they were going 1 rep each before taking a break. This amount of work bringing them to almost complete exhaustion that they've never felt before. ,"C'mon, this is the easiest training session I have for you, if you can't do this then we're gonna have a long training time together, not that you should be frustrated or anything, maybe I should discipline your fathers to train you harder".
The bracelet ticking off for Apollo and Cias, Cias able to finish first because of the difference in overall time trained, Apollo's ticker going down and down, 3, 2, 1 and 0. Gassed out once more they ate dinner and to finish off their training for the day they started to stretch, Apollo screamed ,"AGHHHH" ,"C'mon you can go further" ,"No I can't". Continuing to complain about the stretches didn't do anything but the stretches themselves made the recovery a lot easier. Commencing the day, their exhausted bodies started to recover and become exponentially stronger. Their potential further increased as another day of training ticked, and so another week passed by. What awaited them next, they couldn't even believe.