An hour later the two were laughing greatly. With the time that had passed Shiro had eventually grown to trust Adam. As the two calmed down, Shiro asked,
"Do you have any family?", he asked.
Shiro thought about it for a bit before replying, "I don't have any memories of my past. But for the time that I've been here, I can definitely say that I have found people that I can consider family."
"Like who?", Adam inquired.
Shiro thought carefully before responding, "Doctor Kyobi is like my older brother who tries to support me whenever he can. Weatherman is the annoying teacher but I can tell he honestly just wants the best for me. And Eiko... Uhhh."
Shiros face suddenly changed as began to blush slightly. Adam then shouted, "You have a crush on her?"
His face then turned peach red as he said urgently, "How about you then?? Do you have any family?"
Adams' demeanour suddenly changed. However, he answered the question anyway, "I haven't seen my parents in so long, that I can't remember what they look like. But I do know that I have a younger sister that I care about. We got separated a long time ago ya see, so I'm on a journey to find her."
"A sister huh.", Shiro muttered under his breath.
Suddenly Adam stood up and quickly jumped to the top of the waterfall in one great leap. He then said, "I gotta go, see you same time tomorrow?"
Before Shiro could respond, he disappeared into the deep forest.
Shiro was slightly shocked at the fact that he was able to jump so high. "Is he athletic?" He thought. But eventually, he reached the conclusion that he must have been a psychic like himself.
Then a creepy cold hand, grabbed him by the shoulder freezing him in place. A voice then spoke, "What do you think you're doing out here, Shiro?"
Shiro nervously turned around while rubbing his hands. He said, "I just took a little break Weatherman-sensei. Please don't kill me?"
He dragged Shiro out of the forest before forcing him to keep training.
4:37 pm June 25th, 2018
Shiro was waiting around the waterfall for his new friend to return. Before he came, however, he spent that time punching one of the thick tree trunks nearby. With just one punch from outer enhancement, he was able to crack it, but he was still disappointed with the result. He tried to use inner enhancement this time, but his fist simply exploded.
A voice then called out to him, "The way you move your psychic power is very inefficient isn't it?"
Adam jumped down from the top of the waterfall while saying, "That guy who has been teaching hasn't noticed it. You're imagining your psychic power flowing like a river right? And you can shape it into whatever form you desire. Imagination is a good way of controlling that power, however, it's prone to interruptions. To be able to control psychic power precisely you need to go on an even smaller scale"
"What do you mean by that?", Shiro asked him.
Adam thought about it for a while before raising his fist. Shiro could sense it, a great amount of psychic power was forming in his right arm and then shrinking yet compressing. He had successfully performed inner enhancement. With that same hand, he punched the air close to the waterfall causing it to split and divide temporarily.
Shiro seeing this opened his mouth in shock. He thought, "What power... Can I really achieve this?"
However, he didn't let that bother him. He took a fighting stance while pointing his right fist towards the tree. This time he felt his psychic power flow out of his fist. As he closed his eyes he could feel his power to an even greater degree. He then said,
"I need to move to an even smaller scale right? Then I'll just imagine controlling each and every individual drop!"
It was little at first. Tiny little droplets of energy trickled towards his clenched fist from his body, but as time passed the amount grew and grew until a golden power began to emanate from it.
Upon opening his eyes, Shiro immediately struck the tree with his fist, punching a hole the size of a small car in the tree, and breaking it in half.
He then shouted into the sky, "I DID IT. IM GONNA GO BEAT WEATHERMAN UP RIGHT NOW."
Adam quickly stopped him while saying, "That was rubbish. That took you almost 20 minutes to do. A normal psychic with 5 years of training could do that in a minute."
Shiro sighed while breathing heavily. "If that's the case then I'll just do it over and over again until I do it faster."
Adam shouted, "Not like that. You followed my advice but you went too small. It's about finding the middle ground. You need to find the smallest possible size that you can manage while doing it in the fastest time possible. Unless you can do that, you will be killed by the enemy before you can even fight back."
Shiro clenched his teeth while saying, "You're even more strict than Weatherman..."
He moved to another tree this time focusing on his psychic power again. He tried to control it, but this time in a bigger amount, his arm exploded once more, causing blood to gush out.
Adam laughed at him as Shiro shouted, "GODDAMN IT!"
3:28 pm July 5th, 2018
Shiro stood before the training dummy once more, this time with 5 days' worth of experience under his belt. Weatherman stood watching from the sidelines.
He thought, "Inner enhancement grants the user explosive power, at the cost of destroying the body. Since Shiro can regenerate he is one of the only people that can use it effectively. If he is successful in this, then it may be possible for him to surpass the 4 Goliaths."
Shiro took a deep breath before taking his usual attacking stance. Instead of imagining each and every molecule of psychic energy then moving, he separated it into multiple drops that gathered wherever his heart desired. To maximise start-up speed, he focused on using only a small portion of his psychic power so that it could move faster.
He then shouted out as he punched the training dummy with all of his might, instantly annihilating it.
"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooo, DID YOU SEE THAT????? THAT MOVE DESERVES ITS OWN NAME!! BURSTING FIST OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN VOLCANIC ANGER OF GOD PUNCH FROM 7 HELLS ANNHILATION."
As he jumped up and down in joy, Weatherman killed the mood as he said, "That dummy was only as durable as a 5cm thick steel wall. If you punched an actual one you would probably make a decent-sized dent. A normal enhancer could easily punch a hole in one."
He then collapsed to the floor while crying, "Does that mean im going to die tomorrow? Well, that doesn't matter since you have to tell me where Eiko lives now."
As he said Eikos' name Weatherman flinched a little. Ignoring him he said, "What you lack now is combat experience. I can sit here and fight you for a bit but we lack time so any further training I do with you today will be meaningless. However, if you risked your life fighting tomorrow then you would get much much more stronger."
Shiro shouted over him, "Don't ignore my question you stupid, homeless sensei."
"If you're gonna talk like that brat, then I won't tell you where she lives until after tomorrow.", Weatherman replied.
"Oi, you're changing your promise. That's not fair??", he said in confusion.
Weatherman told him while still dismissing his questions, "We need to focus on our plan of action for tomorrow. If your head is destroyed, you will not be able to recover. That will be the end of your life."
"You think I don't know that already? I get exhausted after regenerating just 2-3 times in a row. Even if I do regenerate my head, I may not return as the same person.", Shiro said.
Weatherman sighed, "For tomorrow's battle, we are going to be acting as personal bodyguards for Katou and Yatou Kageyama. I will be protecting the father while you keep an eye on the son."
That's when Shiro noticed something off in what he had said.
"If these two people are so important, then how come none of your other squad members are here?"
Weatherman said playfully while tears fell from his eyes, "No one else respects me enough."
Adam sat at the top of the waterfall, overlooking the large expanse of the forest, even being able to see the sea which was a great distance away. As he looked at the inspiring view, a figure clouded in darkness approached him.
Adam shouted, "If you come any closer I'll kill you."
The figure stopped as it asked, "We are both in Eclipse so might I ask why you're being so aggressive?"
He responds, "I joined, so I could find and free my sister from those people. Unless my missions contribute to that, then I honestly couldn't care less."
"Takeda Pharmaceutical is the biggest rival to BioMarin Pharmaceutical which is our supporter. If we fail this task they will stop producing psyche for us. And in the worst-case scenario make it go public. If that happens then humanity could risk going extinct which is what the big boss does not want.", the figure said.
As he moved closer towards the still-warry Adam the man's identity was revealed to be Asclepius.
"I can't count on you being there tomorrow but at least keep an eye on us. That pesky Weatherman will certainly present, so things have a chance of going wrong."
Adam quietly nodded his head.