Around 10 minutes later, Reno and Trista reached an entrance with double doors and a lady and guy flexing muscles in a picture above it.
“We’ve arrived!” As soon as the both of them reached the academy gym, Trista was all smiles.
“Get changed and then meet me in the shared gym room, I’ll get you all set!”
Reno was panting hard so he only responded to Trista with a thumbs-up before she rushed inside the gym to get changed.
After a minute or two, Reno went inside and did the same. Reno wore the same outfit that he wore when sparring with Grania and Cassia.
When he finished changing, he walked down the hall and entered a room with a picture of a guy and a girl above it.
As soon as Reno came inside, he saw Trista wearing a fully white training outfit, comprised of shorts and a tank top with a sports bra underneath it. She also had a headband that had the words gym monitor on it.
Seeing the outfit combination, Reno thought that Grania would freak out about it if she was here.
He had invited her but she said she had stuff to do, knowing that she was partially lying, he asked her more but she didn’t budge, Reno just left the matter alone.
Trista grabbed Reno’s hand and then started walking from the main area where all the weights were to an open field where there was a track and much more space.
It wasn’t just the two of them in the open field area, there were 100s of other students with their trainers and such.
When Reno and Trista arrived, however, everyone in the open field stopped momentarily and then went back to what they were doing. Having a new topic to gossip about.
Reno was too far away from the other people that were gossiping however or he would’ve had an idea of what he had gotten himself into.
“Isn’t that Trista Ace!? She must have found a new sucker to traumatize with her crazy training methods”
“The Ace family as a whole are nutjobs, who would want to go through so much pain just to get a stronger body, just get better at manipulating energy”
“I agree, I’m not trying to die for any amount of minor stat boost, energy is all I need”
“Haha, just leave the pathetic impoverished scrubs, this is just the fate of those without any backing, let em struggle and do everything to reach our level, they’ll still be below us in the end anyway”
Trista however, had good hearing and senses overall, so she heard the snobby students and got annoyed.
She jumped and in some seconds reached where the group was, 50 meters was nothing to her.
“If you bunch of pussies are all the shit you’re hyping yourselves to be then fight me, I’ll just knock the dumbass outta all of you”
Reno was astonished. “What kind of jumping strength is that!? I don’t know if she used energy or not but either way, it’s still really impressive”
Reno’s body was considered superhuman by normal people even if he didn’t use any energy from his vital core when he still had one but in his opinion, what he just saw a while ago was what he considered superhuman.
Hearing Trista’s remarks, most of the group went silent. Only the boy who had made the last comment still went on.
“Haha, you must think that just because you’re from the Ace family I’ll yield, too bad my d-“
Trista punched the guy across a distance of around 100 meters and some become he rolled a bit more from where she initially punched him.
“One faggot down, more to go. Who wants the next trip”
Hearing this, the other students and a guy who had on the teacher's uniform started backing away.
The teacher bit his lip. ‘This dumbass, the ace family is a bunch of muscle-headed freaks, the current head is called one of the weaker ones throughout their history but he’s still above S rank.’
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‘I only accepted the offer to train this spoiled brat, getting caught in the crosshair of two big families isn’t gonna benefit me’
The teacher then went to quickly get the person and left the open field area.
After this, no one else dared to gossip about anything.
Reno was slightly confused but got the gist of what happened.
“Some powerful family stuff I guess, better to keep out of it, I wouldn’t want my own family to get involved. In terms of manpower, I’m all that we have”
Trista then quickly ran back to where Reno was and stretched her hair a bit.
“Where were we again… Ah, I remember, your training”
Trista then sat down on the ground and took a stopwatch out of her pocket along with three bottles with different colored liquids inside of them.
“For your first session, I’ll cover the costs of all these potions, but going forward, it’ll cost you around 10,000 enns for every session going forward. I’ll cut you a deal though, if you last for around 10 sessions, I’ll cut it down to 5,000 eens, how does that sound?
Reno was figuratively, literally, and whatever other ely dumbfounded.
“10,000 eens is crazy!? I could get 1,000 healing potions with that, I could become a healing god at that price, why is it so high”
Eens was the currency that was standardized in any human society, other than the underdeveloped ones. Around 98% of human settlements used this currency.
When Reno talked about his family being millionaires, he meant this is eens.
Around 1 - 5, eens could feed a normal family with a dad, mom, and kid for around a week. The cost for all of Reno’s four years of the academy came up to approximately 200,000 eens which would considered a lot.
What Trista was requesting of Reno was around the same as 1/20th of his school tuition for a single training session.
Reno could, fortunately, afford to pay this ridiculous price as his parents insisted that he take a million at the least when he left, especially due to his over-caring mother.
Even with the original Reno’s bad habit of spending self, he only spent 100,000 of these eens.
Trista laughed. “Good one but good stuff ain’t cheap, either you trust me or you just leave as lots of others have done before but I’ll tell you straight up, If I ever meet you again after you walk out whether it is right now or during the training, I’ll either call you a bitch, whiny asshole or a pussy.”
“I don’t like those who expect to get stronger for cheap or expect strength to be gained easily, Those who don’t even want to try are worthless bitches in my book. Those who complain that it’s too hard and then leave are whiny assholes and lastly, those who just ghost and leave are pussies. Hopefully, you won’t be one of those”
Hearing this Reno gulped. ‘I don’t even care about the labeling, I care more about the eens, The amount she’s requesting is a ludicrous amount but she said the first session is free, so let’s see how it goes’
Reno made up his mind. “Don’t worry, I’ll pay if this training is as good as you’re making it out to be, let’s get started. I’ll do anything to become even a bit less weak than I am right now”
While saying this, Reno’s gaze was resolute and firm. Trista saw his gaze and smiled.
“Hopefully you’re not lying. Let’s see if you end up being a bitch, whiny asshole, or a pussy or you are as strength hungry as you’re making yourself out to be”
Trista then threw a bottle full of gray liquid to Reno. “Drink this and do 10 laps around the entire track”
Reno looked at the track of around 500 meters and wondered if this training was lighter than he thought.
“The gray potion is a special concoction my dad gave me before I trained as a kid! It’s not a secret or anything though, people just don’t buy it most of the time”
“It’ll continuously break down your muscle fibers, strengthening only the vital ones while closing off your vital core channels so you can’t use energy. If I had to describe it, feel as if you’re sick with a life-threatening disease while carrying weights with no one to help you out”
“If you survive the 10 laps then I’ll give you this energy potion and health potion so you’re muscle fibers can heal up before we start to pump some weights at the gym with some more special concoction in your system.
“Now get to running! I don’t have all day to play around with weaklings!”
Reno was second-guessing his life choices. ‘I have the memories of two lives but I don’t think I’ve met anyone as crazy as this lady’
Reno hesitated but still gulped down the potion in the end.
As soon as he did, he felt his body screaming out in pain and agony. Just the initial outburst of pain alone had him drop to his knees with his face already turning pale. After spending some time on the ground to process the pain, he started running.
Most people in the open field training room had looks of pity for Reno, they figured he must have thought he was special and made a deal with the devil. A training devil in particular.
After around 100 meters of running, Reno’s mind was in shambles and breaking down. Due to this, he dropped down to his knee again. The pain was getting to him. His entire body felt like it was being burned alive. If someone told him he was in hell, he wouldn’t refute them.
He felt as if he was a step away from dying but something was holding him back from stepping into his death.
Reno’s entire body was just telling him to sit down and stop, it was screaming that it couldn’t go on.
Reno slapped his face numerous times until it got swollen. He then started hitting his knees as if telling them he wasn’t done yet.
After some more seconds, Reno began running again.
Seeing the entire thing, Trista's face was stern and pissed on the outside but she was a bit impressed with Reno
‘Is this guy just stubborn or is he dumb, either would be fine honestly. I’m glad he’s not out of the game yet at the least’
Before he knew it, Reno did one lap, then two then three.
Time passed pretty quickly for Trista and the others but for Reno, it felt like his time was playing with him, like it was laughing at him for getting himself in this situation.
Reno stopped at times but for no longer than some seconds before starting again. His body was sweating profusely to the point that it looked like Reno had come out of a body of water.
When Reno did the last lap Trista stopped her stopwatch and clapped her hands.
“Impressive, you are much more stubborn than I thought. You’ve managed to escape whiny bitch status so far at least”
While Trista was saying this, Reno was about to begin again, with his body wobbling.
Trista quickly came and stopped Reno by knocking him off his feet and letting him fall head-first into the ground.
From that one move, Reno fell unconscious.
Trista smiled. “This guy…, I just know, He’ll be an interesting guy to watch grow, haha!”
She then took up Reno, carried him to where she was sitting, and then forced the potions down his throat.
Reno after some more minutes opened his eyes and saw the situation.
“I survived!?”
Trista smirked. “You haven’t died yet, that’s all. Keep in mind that this will be a daily thing. Today will just be the worst, that’s all”
She then dropped Reno onto the ground. “Enough wasting time, let’s get to pumping some weights, dreaming boy!”
Reno got up. “We’ll do this more than once!? Also, Dreaming Boy? What kind of nickname is that?”
Trista didn’t respond and just kept walking back to the gym’s hall so Reno just got up and followed her.