7 Detention? x P.E. x Plans

What happened after we were suddenly stopped was... awkward. Ryusuke and I were both trying to take the blame, so Fiora ended up putting both of us in detention. Jean, who was smiling more than usual, quickly opened up to both Megan and me. At least enough to tell us more about herself, but nothing Magic or Supernatural related. Not that I found it weird, I wouldn't tell anyone either. As for Megan and me... well, we both were kind of in our own world, trying to pay attention to classes as we spoke through our phones. Jean noticed quickly, probably because of the casual glance and smirk I or Megan gave to each other.

Classes were coming to an end and the favourite, perhaps now most hated, class had arrived. P.E. with Koetsuji Akisame. How a Japanese man had come to end up in this city was something that I will ask for the rest of my life, but ever since I learned that Truck-sama modified this world to be a crossover I didn't bother myself with those things. Instead I decided that I would make the most use of his teachings and grind points for my Stats like crazy. And boy did I do so.

"I haven't seen you before, tall kid. What's your name?"

I thought for a split second on how to treat such an eminency in body training, but I realized that those thoughts were borderline idiotic. He was just a man, even with all of his capabilities and experience, a man is nothing but a man.

"Alan Bennet, I just came back to school after being in a coma, teach" was the simplest answer I came up with. I explained my situation and at the same time introduced myself. Efficient was what I went with when interacting with him. Wordplay was his forte, so I would be one with few words.

"I see, any problem with physical activity, Alan?" when I heard his question a part of me wanted to say that I did have a problem, but that wasn't what I had said I would do. Hence, I held myself back "If I had any, I wouldn't be here"

"Good, then you'll do as your classmates. Give me a thousand push-ups, now!"

While everyone complained, I didn't. I noticed that Jean wasn't complaining either, but as a member of The Knights of Favonius, why would she? Koetsuji was almost doing her a favour. I began doing the push-ups with relative ease. Even the technique I was using didn't seem to be wrong, as I had no corrections done. As such, I could go with a relatively good pace for the first fifty or so. By the time I had done a hundred, I could feel actual pain in my arms and the tightening of my abs was almost breathtaking, in the bad way. Still, I pushed through and kept going.

I could see people who had already stopped, but didn't stop complaining. I had already done two hundred and class was about to end. Then I saw a shadow in front of me, but I didn't stop doing push-ups.

"Why don't you stop?"

I knew who asked, so I tried my best to keep doing push-ups while I answered. My answer was what many would call bullshit-no-jutsu, but to me, it was important and it made sense.

"Life... is a constant struggle. One in which you have to fight against Fate, the world and perhaps yourself if you ever want to be someone. The only things that will never betray you are your effort and the amount of practice you put into things, so I decided to live by one rule. Once you begin, you can't stop until you are done."

Then there was silence. I could hear some people whispering, and them someone came to my side and began doing push-ups next to me. It was Jean. At my other side came someone who I hadn't paid much attention to before, but I also knew who he was. Yuichiro Hyakuya. It would seem that, even without the traumas from his life in the anime, he was the kind of person to always try and persevere. My words might've sparked something inside of him.

And so, the three of us kept doing push-ups. I heard a bit of rustling and a shadow I recognized appeared in front of me.

"I'm sorry I can't do more push-ups, I barely feel my arms" Megan said before she took a bottle of water and emptied it on my back and head. The cool feeling of the water helped me push through and, by the sound I heard afterwards, she also did the same for Jean and Yuichiro.

As much as we wanted to keep going, we were still regular human beings physically. Hence, our arms gave out at some point. Still, class was already long over. Only us three with Megan and Koetsuji remained at the gym when finally, Yuichiro tapped out first. He had done three-hundred and fifty-five push-ups. Jean followed, tapping out at six-hundred and thirty-eight. I was the last one, with seven-hundred push-ups exactly.

"Hey guys, I don't think I'll be able to move my arms for a while"

With my little joke, everyone laughed. I put a great deal of effort on turning myself so I'd be with my back to the floor, and an even greater deal of effort to put myself on the side of my body to stand up with a bit more ease. Koetsuji even praised me for the fact, as that was the right way to either stand up or get up from the bed.

"Don't worry; I'll call each of your homes so they can pick you up"

All I could mutter was a "thanks teach" before I drank an entire bottle of water in pretty much one gulp. After that he praised all three of us for going way beyond what our bodies allowed with nothing but pure will, and even praised Megan for staying around and helping us when she wasn't able to keep going anymore. After that, our respective families came to pick us up.

The sight of my mom coming to pick me up was quite an emotional thing to me. I had forgotten how it felt, after all it had been a long time since this last happened. After saying my goodbyes to everyone else, I left the school grounds. Today was going to be a busy day, as I would take the first steps into a world I never felt good enough for. Entertainment.

Still, I couldn't help but feel like I had forgotten about something 'Oh well, it couldn't be that important if I forgot about it, right?'

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Meanwhile, in Classroom 2-A

"Why hasn't any of those two showed up to detention?! I'll have a long talk with them!"

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