Leonard awoke from his sleep with pain bombarding him, every muscle in his body was screaming and Leonard just stayed still for a couple minutes simply observing the pain with no other thoughts clouding his mind. After snapping himself out of his self induced daze Leonard tried moving his body but every movement amplified the pain tenfold. He struggled to move upright into a sitting position on his bed ignoring the torturous pain.
'I knew I would be sore after that extreme workout I put myself though yesterday but this is just ridiculous, I can't even bend my arms. It seems I have overestimated how much training this body could handle, though now that I think about it the amount of soreness I'm feeling is completely logical after all I'm just a 9 year old boy currently along with the fact I've never trained before in this body this amount of soreness is understandable, I don't even think I can walk to the library in the state my body is in.'
Leonard took a look around his room and saw that he was the first person to wake up among the orphans and looking through the small window they had in the ceiling he could see it was still dark outside with the sun just beginning to rise. 'I should do some gentle stretching until the others wake up, I actually forgot to stretch before working out yesterday or I probably wouldn't be feeling as sore as I am now but better late then never.'
Leonard began to do some very light stretches making sure not to go to hard lest he damages his muscles further. At first the stretches were very painful and his body was tight but as he got blood flowing through his muscles the soreness slightly eased and his body becoming less tight. 'There is actually various benefits with stretching, if you do it before training it will make you less sore post training and it can also help with recovery as well, not to mention it helps with flexibility as I noticed yesterday when I was training in martial arts that I couldn't properly preform some of the more complex moves due to my lack of flexibility but that flaw can be easily resolved with consistent stretching.'
Leonard continued stretching until the sun fully arose, and around that time the other orphans began to wake up as well. Noticing this Leonard finished up his stretching and began to move his body around slowly and although he was still very sore he could at least walk around now.
After getting out of his bed Leonard washed himself up and changed into his regular clothes and since he got up early he choose to go to the kitchen and and help make breakfast. Since Leonard usually always is the last one to wake up he never helps in the morning and since he didn't really have anything better to do since he couldn't train or even go to the library due to his extremely sore body he might as well help.
Walking down the barren hallways of the orphanage Leonard quickly spotted the kitchen and already found caregiver Lily cooking up breakfast, she was the only one the orphanage had as they couldn't afford anyone else but she did her job well. Noticing his presence caregiver Lily carried an incredulous expression.
"Leonard you're almost never one of the first to wake up, in fact the sight of you up so early made me doubt what I was seeing at first." Caregiver Lily said, her tone still carrying hints of disbelief.
Leonard laughed at the absurdity of it all, he wondered to himself, had he really been sleeping in so much that the sight of him up and about this early could garner such an exaggerated response from Caregiver Lily.
"I guess you could say I'm trying to change my ways." Leonard replied with a small smile on his face. "I actually come here to ask if you need any help with preparing the breakfast for everyone as I've got some extra time on my hands."
"Having some extra help would be delightful, I'm almost done with the cooking so would it be alright if you just set the plates and cutlery on the table?" Caregiver Lily answered, pleased to have some helping hands.
"That would be no problem at all, I'm already on it."
Leonard began to slowly take the plates and cutlery one by one slowly from the kitchen to the dining room, he still felt very sore but getting some light walking in wouldn't hurt. After Leonard had set the table for everyone he saw Caregiver lily walk in with a big pot and place it in the centre of the table, that would be where everyone would pour the soup in for themselves, after setting the big pot she also began to bring in a large amount of bread for everyone to eat with their soup. With a job well done Leonard was the first one to sit by the table and he patiently waited for the rest to arrive so he could eat.
Leonard did not have to wait long before everyone arrived since after preparing breakfast practically everyone was awake and getting ready. After everyone arrived they had all began to start eating. Leonard and jack talked a little however soon breakfast was finished and Leonard patted his stomach in satisfaction as he had ate considerably more then he usually would, probably because of all the strenuous exercise he had done the day before.
As everyone began to leave the table Leonard went back to his room, he chose to not go to the library as it was quite a long walk to the library and back and it was best to give his body as much rest as needed. Instead Leonard meditated on his bed and began to look back and revise all the information about martial arts he had gathered the day before and also reflect on all the mistakes he had committed whilst training the martial arts.
This continued for the whole day except some breaks he took to eat lunch and dinner as well as doing some light stretches and just walking around his room here and there. By the time Leonard finished his reflection and revision the sun had already set. Leonard began to wash up and get ready to sleep but unlike the day before he went to sleep around the same time as everyone else.
As Leonard closed his eyes he put himself in a sort of meditative state where little to no thoughts would go through his mind and very quickly he fell into a deep dreamless slumber.