Kuro and Amasa had overslept due to the events or more accurately, the event that they had taken part in yesterday. The run had made them both realise that a human body is much weaker than a beast's body. Amasa woke up first, gazing at the buzzing clock next to him, he squinted at it, not believing the time that was on it, realising that they were going to be late if they did not start running soon, he jumped out of bed and ran to Kuro's room, which was once the living room. He pulled her blanket off and lifted her onto her feet without any warning, this woke her up and left her staggered for a moment, seeing his rush, she knew they were late and began rushing herself. They had bathed, dressed and packed a lunch box in a world record time before they had started sprinting off to the college. Amasa had a slice of bread hanging from his mouth as he ran, Kuro had a biscuit instead, they ran past cars and buses on the street and even started jumping from street light to street light. In yet another world record time, they got to their class, just two minutes early. However, it was not only them who had woken up late, the entire class had woken up late and had also arrived at the same time Kuro and Amasa arrived, they all looked at each other, knowing what happened, but quickly stood in attention, facing the front of the class.
The head master walked in and sat right as the bell for the class to start rang, he silenced it only a few seconds after it began, "Surprisingly, You lot are all here. Good. Today we will not be running, we will be training strength.", Amasa gulped, fearing what kind of strength training his teacher would put them through, he was not the only one with that thought, "For your strength training, we will be doing, as you may expect, something that I do daily." He then stood up and walked to the door, opening it, they say a gymnasium, packed with gym equipment it looked normal at least. "Go on." The students walked through the door, it was yet another teleportation formation, this time it had taken them to a gymnasium full of gym equipment. "And now, just do 10 reps of each." Iris looked at the plates used for each equipment and realised something just as Berthealam joyfully walked to a bench press, "Wait! Don't!", "Huh . . . Why?", "Look at the weight.", he looked at the weight plates and froze, his eyes widened and a drop of sweat slowly trailed his left cheek before falling. Amasa walked to the bench press and looked at the weight, only to realise that one plate was four twenty five kilogramme plates welded together, "The hell is this!" The head master smiled, "do as much as you can, but you must do at least two reps for each piece of equipment.", "Can we-", "Nope. No QI, just pure body strength." Amasa was left stunned.
Kuro went to the bench press and laid on it before grabbing the bar tightly, "I need a spot." Everyone looked at each other before Amasa went and stood behind the bar, "I'll try, but if you die, don't blame me.", "Pft. Like I'd die from this . . ." She gritted her teeth, pushing the bar up to get it off the stand, she then proceeded to do the ten reps of the bench press before struggling to lift it up, Amasa did not help her at all, instead he smiled mischievously, this made her angry, and with that anger, she pushed the bar up and onto the stand, "Congratulations. I don't think I can do that.", "Why did you not help me lift it up?", "Well. You did, didn't you?", " . . . I am so going to make you feel hell. You're next.", "Yeah. I figured." He switched places with Kuro, doing as she did, getting six reps in before struggling to lift it up, he kept going and his struggle worsen as he was about to lift the tenth rep of the bench press, he did get it up, but Kuro gently pushed it back down, he gave her a death stare before fighting to push the bar back up, eventually he got it and sat up, breathing hard. He stood, turned to her and then bowed to her, "Best spotting I've had.", "That makes no damn sense but alright. Onto the next thing . . .", "Wish we had something to help us with energy though.", the head master dropped five boxes full of a vitamin drink called 'Blood-cell Reboot' "here you go. Energy.", Berthealam ran over to one box and opened it to check if it was real, he took out each can, a total of twelve cans in one box. He packed them back slowly and then bowed to the master, "You have blessed us.", "I know." He said before walking out of the class, "Do not break yourselves now. Have fun!"
The class stood in silence, Berthealam kept checking each equipments minimum weight, but to his poor soul, none of them were normal, all the weights were just four twenty-five kilogram weights welded together, and the equipment was modified to accommodate this wild change, resulting in what Amasa calls, 'A new world per plate'. Everyone knew that adding more weight would literally be adding a full hundred kilograms, and in such a case, adding weight would make each equipment feel like they have not used it in their lives. Berthealam, seeing that he wouldn't survive of he started with weights first, headed over to the treadmills, but fell to his knees from what he saw, Rosa, seeing his pathetic state, walked to the treadmill, and she too fell to her knees as if the treadmill had just broken her. Iris saw the two on their knees and walked to the treadmill, before walking away and heading to the dead lift instead. Amasa and Kuro watched all of this and decided to see why they were all broken by the treadmill, they walked to it, and froze, it had a timer of a hundred and twenty minutes, was set to sprint at twenty miles per hour and had a note which read, 'if you fall, stop or quite, it restarts.'
Kuro and Amasa looked at each other, Amasa spoke first, "First to fall has to buy the groceries.", "And pay the full rent.", "Deal."
With that, the two got onto the treadmill and started running. Meanwhile, Iris, frustrated to see Kuro and Amasa getting along so well, furiously lifted the weight like it was not there repeatedly, doing twelve reps of dead lifts without even noticing, she moved on to the bicep curls and started doing those as well, blitzing through it like it made no difference to her, she had a smile on, her face showed no frustration, but the way she handled the weights spoke volumes of her frustration and jealousy. On the other hand, Berthealam and Rosa had gone on to do weighted pull-ups, having a conversation about the bizarre training.
The day went on, and with all of them having their own ways to get through the nightmare of a gym, they eventually finished the last reps of the day on the Olympic declining bench press. They all finished at about the same time, once they did, they all sat and let out a heavy breath, the strain and pain of all the exercise finally hit them, and it hit hard. Iris walked away however, and a few seconds later, she came back with a cam of Blood-cell Reboot, "Here. You can cool off with this.", He hesitantly took it, in his mind however, he screamed at himself for taking it, feeling that it was a trap to get him indebted to her in any way. She had a can for herself but did not bring any for the rest, Berthealam stood up and went over to the box, grabbing a few cans and came back, handing two each to everyone else, and one to Amasa and Iris, "For everyone, not just you two.", Amasa, nodded "I agree, but how could I say no to an offer from Iris?", Kuro chimed in, "By saying no thank you, dumbass. Besides we have something to discuss, both of us didn't fall, what now?", "Oh, well, guess nothing happens?", "Boring. You can think of something better.", "hmm . . . Maybe we try again?", "HELL NO!", "Then that's that.", "Yeah. It's done.", Rosa Spoke, mainly to Berthealam "You know, we may be in for a lot more troubles like this, it may be best we team up and come up with strategies.", Berthealam nodded with Amasa, but Kuro and Iris simply glared at Rosa. "Stop being female dogs for a bit.", Kuro was caught off guard from the remark, but smiled, liking Rosa now, Iris on the other hand only had her anger doubled, before anything could escalate, the head master appeared, "Hello! The schools here!"
A portal opened up which led to their school, they all walked through it, exhausted, they went their separate ways. The head master was not pleased with this out come, noting it down, he also noticed the looks Iris gave to Kuro and knew why the group was splitting slowly, She was the problem, but at the same time, she was the glue, without her, there would be a lack of balanced challenge between them, but due to her interest in Amasa and his current situation with Kuro, the balance of challenge in facing the wrong direction. He shook his head knowing that he had to come up with a strategy to deal with this problem. For now, he was pleased they were able to walk home this time.