TF Chapter 25 Stronger
"My spirit has recovered to its previous peak." I spoke after many days of training. I was on my back, my chest heaving up and down as I inhaled the toxic atmosphere in large gulps. Even with an oxygen filled organ, there were some things that just couldn't go away. My body was killing me! The strain I had just put it through had taken a toll on it only inferior to when something had possessed me to slaughter Everett's group.
Bora was truly a slave driver. Due to the fact that we had had nothing to do during the previous days, she had put me through the ringer in training. I had asked her once when I finally had a 5 minute break why she couldn't allow me to rest longer, only for her to admit to the fact that she hated boredom.
From standing in a correct posture to the intricacies of evasion...she had given me a crash course in everything!
Though, there was something that she had said that had resonated with me deeply during our training sessions, and that was, 'A true predator has the capability to gauge the level of whatever its attacking, allowing itself to switch between being prey and taking flight or attacking viciously.'
With that statement, she hadn't just taught me the art of evasion, but even that of attacking. Honestly, if it wasn't for her rigorous and spartan approach to teaching, maybe I would have been immensely grateful!
The previous few days had been an eye opener for both me and Danny. She had literally shown us how someone could get strong without having gym equipment, making me wonder whether she had been trained in a secluded jungle somewhere. Though, I didn't dare ask that as I was scared that it might lead to a beating, which she had delivered almost daily with the excuse of training me in stances and martial arts. I could have sworn she was happy to finally let loose her skills on something, yet, with that stoic expression of hers, I had had no way of telling.
"Our training sessions won't stop just because we can finally attempt a proper extraction. You are still too green."
I groaned out a protest at that. It seems like it was going to be very hard to escape the woman's clutches!
We humans, with myself included of course! We get exhilarated when we manage to achieve something noteworthy in our perspective. That was how I was currently feeling at the moment. After a few days of training, even I felt that I could easily murder my past self. That wasn't to say that I had had my ego stroked, or attained a new level of arrogance, no! It was the absolute and irrefutable truth! I had a 100% chance of murdering the previous me if we ever had to face off!
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"I really have to applaud your will and courage, senior Nat." Danny spoke as he squatted down by my side with a massive grin painted across his face.
"Yeah...you do. Even I caught the twitch in your otherwise calm facade upon watching some of the exercises I had to do." After that sentence, I laughed at a conjured memory.
"Yeah! Yeah! Even I have to admit that I would rather not go through such things! Leapfrogging a thousand times within a set time limit was one of the tasks even I wouldn't attempt."
Now, that had been excruciatingly hard and burdensome to my leg muscles. I frowned at that memory because if I hadn't had an energy sac within me, I would have failed to recover for a few weeks! Bora was one hell of a teacher! She was someone you really wouldn't want to associate with after such a gruelling regimen, yet, because of the fact that I knew my weakness had almost led to my death, I had pushed through with sheer will alone. Undertaking such gruelling training was far better than being at the end of the life road, with a chasm brimming with death in front of you.
"His willpower far surpasses yours and mine by a very large margin. For me, it took days to complete some of the training tasks..."
"Really now! And you forced me to complete them in just a few hours?!" I sat up abruptly, with my voice rising an octave while my gaze bored into Bora, who decided to look away with a faint blush.
"Hehehehehe...I might be weak now, but when I become stronger, I will have my revenge!" I said with seriousness in my voice, but it only earned me giggles all round.
They thought I was joking, but do trust me on this! That woman was going to get what was coming to her one day, or else I wouldn't be Nathaniel Bosingwa!
"Let's get started on the new idea you gained from the vision. There is no time like the present!" Bora decided to change the topic, her expression manifesting some signs of eager anticipation and impatience.
"You are right about that. We have been lazing about for a long time." Danny agreed.
"I wonder why Celeste and the other tutors aren't back yet." I stood up and curiously probed. I knew that none of the other two knew any answers but with their intellect and scant forger-world knowledge, maybe they could provide me with a plausible speculation...?
"I don't know anything, and I can't think of anything that would warrant the need for droves of forgers. This has never happened before in all history." Danny, having figured out my intentions said with a shake of the head.
Well, it looks like we are going to have to wait a bit longer. Even though the hard training had dulled my fear and nervousness about what punishment or future I was going to be granted, it hadn't gone away. I really wished Celeste would just pop by and deliver a decision from the higher ups...she had called them a council I presume.
"I know what you are worried about, but it will be better if you don't dwell on it, or you might find your performance in the various activities declining. You could become psychotic too." Bora pointed out to me.