16 Run And Jump

"Good morning Lion." Alice greeted Adam as he walked out of his apartment, Adam quickly closed his door and turned around towards Alice who stands right beside him.

"Good morning Alice, let's go to the Playground right away I don't want Kaito to wait for us there," Adam said as he walked towards the elevator with Alice right beside him.

Alice and Adam walked inside a packed train and stands right in front of the train door that closed on its own as the train moved on its own, Alice looked towards Adam who was standing on her left who has both of his hands inside his jacket pockets "Where did you go to yesterday Lion?"

"I found a small building that has a large exclamation mark on top of it on the map so I went there last night, it was a small black building that has its main entrance blocked up," Adam answered while staring towards the window of the train that was pitch black.

"So you found the Owl's Nest on the map. Wow, that's a very rare thing to find right away." Alice said while looking towards Adam who looked towards her while nodding.

"So it's called the Owl's nest the elderly woman there didn't tell me the name of the place or her name, she explained to me what I can do there and gave me this," Adam explained as he reached into his right jeans pocket and took out a small yellow ticket that has a picture of a dragon in the middle of it.

"Owl gave you a ticket?! That is amazingly lucky of you and that means Owl has taken a liking towards you. People always said that if Owl took a liking to someone, that man or woman is as lucky as someone who won a lottery ten times in a row." Alice explained as the train stopped at the Playground train station.

"There's a lot of people training here," Adam said while he looked around the playground that was busy and noisy as he walked up a red metal staircase with Alice on his left side.

Adam quickly walked up the staircase and saw Kaito who was leaning against the wire black wall that was right beside the entrance of the Obstacle Area with a large dark green duffel bag beside his leg, Adam quickly waved towards Kaito who waved back towards him "Good Morning sir."

"Good Morning Adam, take this bag with you and come follow me inside," Kaito said while pointing toward the duffel bag beside him and walked inside the Obstacle Area.

"Yes sir." Adam ran towards the duffel bag and slowly picked it up as he felt a shock to his entire body, he took a deep breath and holds the duffel bag straps with both of his hands while Alice stands behind him.

Alice tapped Adam's back as he stopped in front of the obstacle area gate and turned around while letting go of the heavy duffel bag "Hey Lion I don't want to disturb your training with Kaito so I will be waiting for you downstairs near the information table, so when you're done just go to the information table I will be there."

Alice smiled towards Adam as she slowly walked backward and turned around towards the red staircase that was a couple of meters in front of her "Good luck on your training Lion!"

Adam smiled as he turned his head back towards the entrance and picked up the duffel bag that was in front of him.

"What is inside this bag? This thing is insanely heavy! Way heavier than the groceries that I used to bring!" Adam thought to himself as he slowly brought the bag inside the Obstacle Area, he stopped right beside Kaito and puts down the bag beside Kaito while catching his breath.

"Thank you for bringing that bag Lion. Now I want you to run as fast as you can towards that, I want to know what I have to work with." Kaito pointed towards a red flag that was one hundred meters away from them.

"Yes sir." Adam quickly ran towards the flag as fast as he can turn around as he reached the flag and ran back towards Kaito, he stopped right beside Kaito slowly bent his knees and puts both of his hand on top of it while trying his best to catch his breath.

"That was good. Your posture was amazing but you need to work on your breathing, breath properly Lion you're rushing your breathing which makes you really tired. Control it, watch me." Kaito explained and looked towards Adam while taking a deep breath and slowly releasing it.

"Now run again but focus on your breathing, take your time on breathing." Kaito looked towards Adam who took a deep breath while turning towards the red flag.

"Yes sir." Adam nodded as he ran towards the flag and tried his best to breathe just like Kaito showed him, he ran back towards Kaito and stopped right beside Kaito.

"I don't feel as tired as the first run." Adam looked towards Kaito who smiled while giving Adam a thumbs up. Kaito kneeled right beside his bag and goes through it while taking a couple of items out from it.

"Here we go put this on your wrists and ankles after you put those on run up and down the staircase that I'm going to make remember to breathe properly while you're running okay." Kaito gave Adam four identical black small straps that have five kg written inside of them which Adam quickly puts on his wrists and ankles while Kaito took a black remote out form his right jeans pocket and tapped a couple of buttons as a long staircase emerged out from the concrete floor a couple of meters away from Adam.

"I'll tell you when you're done now go." Kaito pointed towards the staircase as Adam nodded and ran towards the staircase. He stopped right in front of the staircase and took a deep breath as he ran up the staircase.

Two hours passed by as Kaito walked inside the Obstacle Area while holding a giant white plastic bag with a lollipop in his mouth, he waved towards Adam who was at the top of the staircase down "That's it come here Lion, and take a little break."

Adam quickly ran down the staircase and ran towards Kaito who sat down on a long wooden bench that was near the entrance of the Obstacle Area, Adam who was drenched in sweat sat down beside Kaito and took off his bomber jacket which he put on his lap.

"Here you go wipe your sweat with this I bet you're very sweaty under your mask and drink this it'll help you," Kaito said as he gave Adam a black large towel and a bottle of sports water.

"I bought a couple more sports water if you want more just take it from the bag and take half an hour break the real training will begin after your break." Kaito smiled as he holds his bright red lollipop with his right hand while looking towards Adam who slowly drank the sports water.

"Thank you, sir," Adam said as he puts down the now empty sport water bottle to his side and grabbed the black towel that was sitting on top of his jacket, and wiped his face with it.

"I think my arms and legs would fall off on their own if he didn't stop me there." Adam thought to himself as he leaned back to the black wire wall behind him while staring towards his arms and legs.

Half an hour passed by as Kaito stands up and stretched his back with Adam beside him who was still leaning against the black wire wall, he took out his black remote from his right jeans pocket and pressed it a couple of times while he walked towards the long staircase.

The staircase that was a couple of meters in front of them slowly sunk inside the floor while a couple of dozens of concrete blocks came out from the floor and formed a small course.

"Come on let's go and do your real training." Kaito waved towards Adam who quickly gets up on his feet and followed Kaito who stopped right in front of a large flat concrete block that's hover on top of the ground.

"Now this will be simple Lion, watch what I do here on this small and simple parkour course and copy it after I'm done." Kaito smiled as he jumped towards the large flat concrete block, he quickly jumped towards a small flat concrete block and jumped towards another one.

After half a minute of jumping around the small parkour course, Kaito landed on top of a wide flat concrete block that was floating a couple of meters above the ground. Kaito turned around and looked towards Adam who was at the beginning of the course, he pointed towards Adam with his right hand and waved towards him "Your turn Lion, just copy what I did."

Adam nodded as he jumped toward the first block of the parkour course and looked towards the next concrete block, he slowly jumped from one concrete block to another and landed right beside Kaito slowly catches his breath after three minutes of jumping around the course.

"Great job for your first-day lion now I want you to get used to those weights and tell me when they don't get in your way anymore. You can go home now, rest, and you will do the same thing you did today tomorrow." Kaito explained as he pressed a red button on his remote and the concrete block that they were standing on slowly flew downwards.

"When you arrived here tomorrow morning I want you to run around the entire Obstacle Area for times and take a fifteen-minute break after you did that." Kaito looked towards Adam as who quickly nodded.

"After that break, you will run the stairs up and down for two hours just like today, after you did that you will take a half an hour break," Kaito explained as the concrete block that they were standing on land on top of the ground.

"And lastly you will do the parkour course like today but the parkour course will get longer and longer every day," Kaito added and looked towards Adam who nodded.

"Okay, that's all that I have to tell you, see you tomorrow." Kaito smiled at Adam who smiled back and ran towards the bench that was near the entrance.

"That was a very long day of training, time to rest." Adam walked inside his bedroom with a bright green towel on his head, he slowly walked toward his bed and collapse on top of it.

"Good morning Lion are we going to the playground today?" Alice asked as she walked beside Adam who fixed the straps on his wrist while he stands right in front of his apartment.

"Yes I'm going to the playground again today and it will be the same as yesterday so you can stay here I don't want you to wait for me like yesterday, see ya, Alice." Adam waved towards Alice as he ran towards the elevator.

"Okay but if you need anything just call me with your watch and I'll come there immediately," Alice shouted while waving towards Adam who entered the elevator.

Adam walked up the metal staircase and entered the Obstacle Area as he saw the same staircase that he ran up yesterday in the middle of the Obstacle Area, Adam smiled as he took off his bomber jacket and threw it to the wooden bench beside the entrance "Time to do what Kaito told me yesterday, here we go!"

Kaito entered the Obstacle Area while holding a duffel bag on his left shoulder and waved towards Adam who was running up and down the staircase, Kaito sat down on a bench that was near the entrance of the Obstacle Area and puts down the duffel bag on his left as Adam ran towards him.

"Good Afternoon sir, I have done the laps and the staircase," Adam said as he sat down beside Kaito while slowly catches his breath, Kaito looked towards Adam and stared at his weights that weren't on his wrists.

"How're the weights are you getting used to it?" Kaito asked as he pointed towards Adam's wrist and looked towards Adam.

"Yes, sir I don't feel them anymore they feel like a part of my body," Adam answered while looking towards the weights on his wrists.

"That's good let's change the weights then, every time I change your weights I want you to add more laps and more hours on running up and down the staircase," Kaito explained as he opened the duffel bag on his right and gave Adam similar-looking straps that have ten kg written inside all of them.

For the next three days, the weights on Adam's wrist and ankle went up to twenty kg each and Kaito has added a vest that weighs eighty kg.

"Okay, that's it Lion come down here," Kaito shouted towards Adam who stands on top of a concrete block at the end of a parkour course, Adam jumped from one concrete block to another and ran towards Kaito.

"Now take off all of your weights and do that course again." Kaito pointed towards Adam's wrist and chest, Adam nodded as he took off the weights on his wrists and ankles.

Adam took off a black vest that he puts on top of his sweatshirt to the ground and stretched his body, Adam turned around towards the parkour course that was a couple of meters away from him and ran towards it.

He quickly ran through the parkour course with ease jumping from one concrete block to another and within two minutes Adam has reached the end of the now long parkour course that usually took him around six minutes to do.

"Come back here and let's change the course Lion." Kaito waved towards Adam who quickly ran back towards him as Adam arrived right beside him, Kaito pressed a couple of buttons on his black remote that was in his right hand as parts of the obstacle course changes and moved around on their own.

"Now do that course." Kaito slides the remote into his right pocket and looked towards Adam who nodded, Adam ran through the obstacle course and stopped at the end of it in two minutes and fifteen seconds.

"Congratulations Lion I'm sure you're ready for your first game. Don't come here tomorrow and rest for your game." Kaito explained while Adam puts on all of his weights.

"Here take this, this will help you when you're in a pinch." Kaito smiled as he gave Adam a brown bracelet that has a long blue gem in the middle of it that has a yellow lighting symbol in the middle of it.

"Thank you sir and can I ask you a favor sir? Can you show me your current top speed without your weights sir?" Adam asked as he puts on the bracelet in his right hand.

"Okay let me take all of my weights off," Kaito said as he took off similar straps on his wrists and ankles that he gave Adam and a black vest under his shirt.

"Don't blink it won't take long," Kaito said as he pulled his right leg backward and stared towards the obstacle course.

WHOOSH! Adam felt a strong wind blown on his left side as Kaito ran towards the obstacle course, Adam watched Kaito ran around the parkour course but all he saw was blurred images of Kaito around the course. Within a couple of seconds, Kaito has reached the end of the obstacle course.

"So this is the top of the top in the Kingdom." Adam thought to himself as he waved towards Kaito who stands at the end of the parkour course while waving towards Adam.