CHAPTER 26 : First day of training.

After dropping Lovely to her home, Raj reached in front his home. At first Lovely was refusing him for this. But Raj convinced her saying ...As he thought about it, he reaches at that time when he and Lovely were talking. He remembers word by word what she said.

"No, you don't have to do this, I can go home by myself or by taking a taxi and you should go to your home. Look it's already 8:30 pm of the night". Lovely said to Raj when she learned that he was coming with her, to drop her safely to her home.

"No, not a chance". But Raj rejected her and said "I know your are a brave, But you don't know now where we are present now, it is not a safe place especially in the night".

Raj said something like this to lovely because both of them were standing on Fatehpur Bypass Road and at night incidents like snatching money, committing petty robbery, robbery in shops and stealing bikes always happens here.

And he also remembered that the headquarter of Scorpion gang was also present here and he doesn't want any type of harm happened to her. So he continued to speak : "You are guest of my city and thinks like snatching happens here, so I don't want any type of harm happens to you. That's why I am insisting about it".

"Okay, you can come with me".Lovely said after some thinking. She was little scared after hearing things about Petty robbery happens here and she was also fearing from something else. It was what Raj feeled from her facial expressions. After she heard they were now in Fatehpur Bypass Road.

So after dropping Lovely to her house. Raj came to his own home and as soon as he entred in his home, he is welcomed by a lot questions.

His father had already came back to home, and currently it was 9 o'clock at night and this was happening for the first time that Raj had come to home this late.

So the question to be asked was why did he come home so late? Earlier, if Raj was going to come home late then he would call and let them know, but today Raj was missing since morning and did not even call them to inform about it.

Forget about the fact that he did not called them and informed them about it. But, when they were calling him, he did not even answered one of their calls.

"So where have you been all this day". Raj's mothers asked him stopping him in the main gate of his apartment. "And do you know what time it is now?". She asked again.

" 9 o'clock of the night ". Raj replied to second question doughing the first question. It was time where his brother and sister will sleep because they have to go school tomorrow.

"So you know it's 9 o'clock at night, so now tell me where did you go during the day?". Raj's mother asked angrily.

Raj knows this is going to happen. Because it was his first time for being so late so, he had already made plans about what to say.

"I went to meet a doctor". Raj replied.

"Doctor, but why?" His mother asked and her facial expression changed.

"You know Mohit ? He, who is my friend". Raj asked to his mother after taking a look to his father.

"Who has a medical shop?". This time his father was the one who asked this.

"Yes, the one who has a medical shop". Raj said and looked at his father, then turning his attention back to mother he said: ''He has some good connections with some hospitals and, some doctors. So he asked me to meet a doctor who specializes in LASIK eye surgery for my eye surgery".

"Then, what happened?". His father asked.

"Before the opration there are some medical tests, so I was busy with that and it looks me almost 5 to 6 hours and after getting free from that, I heard about a fair was being held in the city. so I went to visit the fair". Raj said in reply telling half true and half lie.

After that he fully entred in the house and then he went to a room to hide his face and came to her sisters room.

Actually some months before this was his study room but his sister snatched it from him and now only his clothes and books remains here and it becomes there bedroom and studyroom.

"Brother, you went to the fair alone without telling anyone and enjoyed it, and didn't even came back with something". Raj's second sister whose name is Astha asked to him as he entered in the room.

Raj looked him she is wearing formal dress and she have black long hair upto her shoulders with some brownish red hairs in her end of the hair. She has a fair skin and she is 14 year old with height of 5 foot 1 inch

and her nickname is ' ladali ' which means 'most loved child of her family '.

" Yes, I went alone to visit the fair and enjoyed my time there. There were a lots of things was present to play with like Ferris wheels, horse riding haunted house and lastly a big fairy castle". Raj said to his sister, teasing him and showed her the picture of the fairy castle that he captured in Mobile.

"Wow! it's beautiful". his sister said while looking at the picture of the fairy castle in his mobile.."But whose phone is this?". She asked snatching his mobile from his hand.

" This...". While teasing his sister, Raj had almost forgotten that the mobile in which the he clicked the picture of castle was his new mobile.

"Whose phone is this?". His sister asked again while checking the phone. The phone looked brand new.

And she was going to open gallery.

Looking that she was going to open gallery Raj snatched his mobile from her hand and said " This is my friend's mobile and I think I brought it by mistake.

"Your friend's mobile but you said that you went to fair alone. So how did you take the picture of the castle in your friend's mobile". His second sister asked while smiling. Which is not looked like a smile but a devil smile.

" This....". Raj felt speechless after hearing this and now he knows that whoever said this is right that 'to hide one lie one has to tell a hundred more lies'.

"So you were lying. So tell me with whom did you go, a boy or a girl?". His sister asked when she found he was not replying.

"Of course with a boy'. Raj replied hurriedly and there his sister catched that he was lying.

"Brother, Do you think I am stupid?". His sister asked to him and Raj really wanted to say yes but he said nothing. So she replied herself "No, I am not, I am more smarter than you think".

"So will you tell me with whom you went to fair? Or do you want me to tell mom about this ?, Mom... His sister said in Loud voice. Astha as she about to say something to his mother Raj covered her mouth.

"What happened now?". His mother asked from other room.

Raj asked still holding his mouth : "What do you want ?". He knows this is only solution to keep his sister mouth shut.

"Aauwgh Aauwgh. What you want to say.

"Aauwgh Aauwgh". She said again. But because Raj covered her mouth she can't say anything.

"Oh! I am sorry, I didn't noticed it Raj said and uncovered his mouth.

"I know You are doing this intentionally". His sister asked.

"No I just forget to...". "What happened now? Now you are going to say something". His mother asked again from other room. This very bad habit first call someone then don't answer her call.

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Hearing thus his sister looked him and asked him "Should I tell about this to mom, that you went on date with a girl".

"Date what are saying it nothing like that we just went to fair together". Raj replied in worry tone sisters are really knows how to create trouble. If she tell about it to his mother. Even if she was lying mother would believe her not him and that truth he learned from his experience.

"What happened aren't you going to say something now?, It's like I have to come there". His mother asked again.

"Nothing happened mother, you don't have to come here. It just a rat was here". His sister said in reply to his mother. Then looked at him and said I saved you today but Now you have to do one thing for me"..

"What ?". Raj asked.

"Nothing much, it just that I also want to go to the fair". His second sister said taking out her demand. "What do you say?'. "Okay". Raj said with a sighed in relief and accepted her demand. It was not something big for a demand as he thought.

"I also want to go". But A another voice interrupted his thought and this voice was coming from the blanket, that was on the bed.

And, then Raj come to know that his first younger sister who is two year younger than him and two year older than her second sister was hearing there all conversation from the start pretending to be in a sleep.

And after knowing this Raj, he wanted to hit head strongly on the wall.

"What do you say?". His first younger sister asked.

"Now, what can I say?". Raj thought in his mind and agreed with them with a forced smile. "Okay".

And left the room in hurry fearing that if he stayed there a another problem will arrive.

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When Raj went to sleep after having dinner, his mother came and asked him: "Raj, Mohit who is your friend. How is he?".

After hearing what his mother asked. Raj said "How is he? Mother what do you exactly want ask".

His mother said after some hesitation: " Raj, no one helps anyone here for free. And if Mohit is helping you, so that means he might want something in return from you.

After hearing this, Raj understood that even though his mother was one who asking these questions, but in reality his father was the one who told his mother to ask all this from him. So he said : "Don't worry mom, it is nothing like you are thinking and today I have joined a gym so from tomorrow I will go to the gym in the morning.

"Gym, where did you get the money for this?. His mother asked after hearing that he have joined a gym.

"Mom, I have some money that I saved and I used that money yo hoon a gym . Raj replied. He knew that this question will come after he tell her mother about this.

After that his mother left from there leaving Raj alone there to sleep. But Raj was thinking something. What his mother said is right. No one will help somene nowadays without any motive. Maybe different have different motives like someone want to do something good. Or someone want to earn reputation or someone want something from it or maybe someone really wanted to help without any evil motives. But people like this are rare in nowadays world.

"So what is the motive behind mohit help". Raj started to thinking. Is he really wanted to help him or want something from him. Thinking about this Raj fallen into the sleep.

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21 July 2023,

The next day Raj got up at 6 in the morning or rather i say he was woken up by his mother.

After waking up in the morning. He went to freshen up and then took bath and had breakfast. And after that Raj took out his brand new black bike from his storage ring and went towards the gym.

Not after long-time Raj reached in front of gym and after parking his bike in parking lot. Raj entered inside the gym.

Like yesterday, even today some people were present in the Gym. who were doing their workouts.

Raj looked inside the gym carefully remembering every single bidy workout and body building instruments, Yesterday he didn't get the chance to see it because he was in hurry.

As he looking at the instruments and some peoples who were doing there workouts. A bodybuilder man comes near him and asked : "do you want to meet someone".

Raj looked him. He was the same person from yesterday. So he said "hello nice to meet you again, can you tell me where is trainer shoaib".

"Trainer shoaib?, He is in the basement, in the room number 4". The man from yesterday replied.

"Okay". Raj said this after hearing his reply and moved towards the basement stairs totally ignoring him.

After going down from the stairs, Raj moved towards the room number 4 as Raj reached in front of Room number 4 And was about to knock on the door, then a voice comes from the inside of the room saying " the door is open, you can come inside".

Raj was amazed after hearing this.. he didn't except that his senses id this strong and from the voice Raj knows that it is sohaib. Then Raj opened the door and entered inside the room. Looking around he found that shoaib was sitting alone in the room on a something. A rectangular shape big black box.

Sohaib was wearing the same uniform of yesterday, A half sleeve black t-shirt and black jeans.

"Maybe this is the dress code of this gym for gyms trainers". Tak thought in his mind.

"Good morning trainer". Raj said.

"Good morning". Shoaib replied and stand up from the black box.

"So Your name is Aashish Raj and you are s player". Shoaib asked.

"Yes". Raj replied that anf he was not even little bit surprised by that Shoaib knew about it. Actually he already expected that perhaps mohit might have already told him about it.

"Okay do let me introduce myself again" sohaib said. And extended his hand forward and said "Hello I am player Shoaib".

Raj also extended his hand towards him to do handshake and said "Hello, I am player Raj. Nice to meet you".

"So, you want learn how to fight because you are going to a dungeon". The trainer Sohaib asked to Raj.

"Yes". Raj replied.

"And you never fights with anyone in your whole life". He asked again.

"No". Raj again replied.

"Haah...". Shoaib exhaled a sigh from his mouth and said again: "it is going to complicated to teach you how to fight ? but as I alredy promised to mohit that I will teach you. So I will have to teach you how to fight".

And after that shoaib started to moved around the room while saying : "First I need you to teach basic information about players. When a person awakes as a player. He have a total four skills no matter what class he have".

"So Do you also have four skills". Shoaib asked Raj looking at the Raj.

"Yes I have". Raj lied. He have more than 4 skill, he have a total 7 skill. Mystical thunder art is not counted as a skill because it is in a form of a book. Maybe it called A skill book. Raj thought this in his mind.

Looking Raj lost in his thought sohaib said to Raj : " I am not asking what skill you get but I am informing you that, No matter what and how powerful a skill a player possesses, he cannot used it with its maximum power without practicing it again and again".

Then he stopped and looked at Raj who is trying to understand what he said and after sometime he said again "No matter what skill you have ? First you have to focus on it and after that a series of information will appear in your mind. And again you have to focus on it and practice it until the time you become good in using it".

Then he again paused for a moment and asked : "Do you understand". "Yes". Raj replied.

Hearing this shoaib continued to speak : "Some skills of low level are easily to understand and you can also use it without any difficulties or without any practice. But skills with high levels need some practice before using it".

Hearing this Raj thoughts in his mind that what he is not saying wrong and it makes some sense. Like he can use Object inspection skill and Area search skill without practicing it and they are easy to use. But he is not able to use his iron fist skill. He tried summon it early but he was not able to use it. Now he know the reason behind it. Why was he not able to use it ?. Because he need a some or certain practice and some understanding of the skill before using it.

"Okay now look here". Shoaib said after giving him sometime to think and understand what he said. Raj looked at him. Seeing that Raj is looking at him he came near to the big black box and opened it. Then he took out a punching bag from it and hanged it in the air with the help of a rope and ceiling.

Raj looked shoaib with confusion in his mind who is busy in hanging the sand punching bag.

"Look here carefully, I am going to demonstrate a skill of my". Shoaib said guessing what is he thinking?.

Raj looked at shoaib after hearing this. After hanging the sand punching bag, shoaib stands in front of it. Then he closed his eyes and changed his right hand into a fist ready to attack.

Raj can feel a powerful aura gathering inside his fist. Then Sohaib opened his eyes and talking step forward he hits the punching bag.

And after that "What Nothing happened?". This word comes out from Raj mouth after looking that nothing happened to the punching bag.

Shoaib then stepped backward retreating his fist from the punching bag. As he backed, the punching bag ripped from inside without moving a single bit from its position and all the sands that present inside it comes out from it.

"How did you do this ?". Raj asked in surprise.

"By practice and understanding the my skill carefully. I am able to do this and one day you will also able to this". Shoaib said then paused for a moment and after looking at him he said again in reply "If you practice enough".

"By practice and understanding the my skill carefully". Raj muttered in himself. Before he thought that the players skills are easy use like we used it in games. But it is different from his imagination.

It is like you know all rules of hockey but you can't learn how to play it without actually playing it.

Raj who was thinking about what is meaning behind shoaib words was interrupted by his voice. He heard shoaib said "Now come here let's have a fight".

"What? What do you mean let's have a fight?". Raj asked in confusion not fully understanding what he meant ?, and even if he understands, he does not wants to, who will going fight him after seeing what happened to puching bag with his single punch.

What are you doing there come here let's have a fight". Shoaib said again.

"But why?". Raj asked.

"This is part if training and this how I usually teach my students to fight". Shoaib replied to his question and starting prepare himself to fight.

"And this how I usually teach my students to fight". Hearing this sentance Raj thoughts in his mind if this how you teach your students fight, then i wanted to ask how are they dead or alive ?.

"Don't worry I will not use any of my skills and only defend". Shoaib said after looking that Raj is hesitating to fight.

"And if you don't fight how can I find what can you do?". He said again.

After hearing what he said Raj said, "Okay then I will fight". As he said, he takes a fighting position. Takes his left leg forward for support and positioned his right hand and left hand for punching and blocking.

Looking this Shoaib also takes same position and they were ready for fight.... But, Knock.. Knock... A sound of someone knocking on the door interrupted between their fight.