Let’s jump some buildings

"Luis! Look it's finally on, come here"

Me and daddy are watching an anime today, I hear the theme songs now.

"Daddy, I'm here!"

"Yes, look it hallways through the song."

"You teach me and I'll teach you"(both)

The alarm clock sounds. Ugh, god damn it, I kind of wanted to sing that one, (author's note: yeah, I don't know how much leeway I'm allowed with references) well let's just start today. Again I start my morning jog, and again I try with the fire, It looks like I can finally do it comfortably while running. Should I try something else then? What about that fatigue magic. I'll try going as fast as I could and relieving the fatigue as I run. Will that work though?

One way to find out I guess. I pick up the speed to about 3 minutes a kilometer. As soon as my feet start burning I try healing, I slowed down a bit during healing but not much, does this mean that I'm used to using elements as I'm running, or that I have greater control over my healing element? Well, it doesn't matter, I'll just keep in doing this until I get home. I get home and this time someone seems to be awake.

"Morning."(Luis)

"Good morning."(Tara)

"Why are you awake?" (Luis)

"I'm just more curious, about new things." She said with sparkling eyes. This can't be too good.

"Then you can wait until after school no?"

"Yes and no."

Mhhhh, is she planning something? Well, I want to take a shower first.

"Let me shower real quick then, and I'll hear you out."

"Ok"

I walk past her, get my clothes and enter the shower. Geez,

I wonder what she will talk about, ugh it's too early in the morning to do this. Well, whatever, I finish showering, change quickly, and walk out the kitchen, I take a seat directly across from her.

"Talk to me."(Luis)

"Well first things first, I'll be staying at school later so there won't be much practice time anymore."

Well, looks like practice is gonna get a bit more boring now.

"Ok, so?"

"You see I still want to test out your powers and stuff so I have a list of what I want you to do."

"Woah, hold up a second since when did you become my coach. "

"Since the beginning."

I think about it for a second.

"I guess you are right. So what do you think I should do." I say jokingly

"Well first, can you heal your own fatigue as it happens with healing magic?"

"Yes."

"...How you know if you can?"

"I just tested it out."

"...Okay then."

"I would like you to work on physical strength."

"But I already have physical strength."

"Yes but that's only for your lower body when you go running."

"Well if I get it on my upper body it will hinder my flexibility."

"...In that case, can you try to keep your muscle mass the same while still getting stronger?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well think about it, how did you feel when you were using fatigue erasing magic on yourself."

"Ummm, like my boy functions sped up a bit."

"Exactly, so then isn't that magic that manipulates the body rather than magic that recovers the body using mana?"

"I guess so."

"I found something after you used that healing magic, and that you get hungrier faster. So with that, we can assume that rather than using external mana it uses your own body's strength and amplifies it."

"I see, in that case, I can try gaining as much muscle as possible while still keeping myself flexible and after reaching that effective range I can continuously compress it in order to still be stronger than I am. That sounds plausible, but then why would I need to try and gain this muscle?"

"Simple, strengthening magic. As I saw, cloaking your whole body in magic can improve your physical capabilities."

"If that's the case why don't I practice straight away then?"

"Well you will, there would be a difference in amplification."

"..."

"For now let's just assign muscle mass a number. Let's say we have two people, one with muscle strength of 2 and another with a muscle mass of 3. Now let's say you both cloak yourselves in self-strengthening magic. Both persons have the same magic capacity, however, a person with muscle strength of 2 can multiply his physical abilities by 3 while person the person with 3 physical strength can only do so by 2. Both of them amplify but they both arrive at the same number. However, because they both have about the same magic capacity, then the person with muscle strength of 3 has more leeway during a fight, wouldn't you agree?"

"I see your point, alright anything else?"

"I'll be out for the whole of this week," An alarm is heard on the "So if you find anything extra you will do, just do so. It's not like either of us know what we're doing, heck the explanation I just gave you may be wrong.

"Well, it sounded sensible."

"What did?"(Trevor)

Well here comes the life of the party. Just not this one I guess.

"Her speech on dragons."(Luis)

"What do you mean dragons?"

"Well, it felt like one since it 'drag on" for a while."

I hear a small snicker on my side and a brother getting mad in front of me. I never thought it possible for someone other than a white person to turn red from anger, but I guess there's a first for everything...

"*clap*, Alright let's calm down, Luis do us a favor and make breakfast."

"Certainly."

I turn around and make the fastest thing that comes to mind. Some scrambled eggs and beans, cause why not.

"And Trevor, shower or you are gonna be late."

He looks at me and then at Tara and then entered the shower without saying a word. Learn a new motion will ya.

"You know Luis, maybe you should provoke him a bit less, don't you think?"

"Well, the faces he makes are always so interesting, especially cause he can't take a joke and never has any comebacks."

"Well I won't argue with that, but would it kill you to be nice?"

"Tara, why don't you think about it for a second. You are the closest person to me, how many times am I nice to you?"

"A lot actually, you think I don't catch sneaking around just so you can keep the asshole act."

"Nothing gets past you, does it?"

"Nope."

We hear the door open. And someone came out of the shower. Well, it looks like he's back.

"You done cooking."(Trevor)

"Aaaaa- * Tara looks at me* I'm almost done."

"Okay then?"

A small snicker from my side again. Looks like a non-sarcastic response threw him off a bit. I could use this if I mix both sarcastic and nice responses I could get some good facial expressions. I finish cooking and we eat our breakfast relatively quiet.

"Well then, I'll be going ahead," I said as I stood up and left

"Take care"

I left the house and headed toward the train station. I think about what Tara said. This training regime could probably work. But now then something inconspicuous I could do at school huh. Well, I'm doing body strengthening which is very basic. So something else that's basic. Sensing!!! I could try sensing the people around me as I walk around the school that could work. I arrive at the training station and board the train. Well, first I'll try it on the train. I close my eyes and start thinking of my surroundings. I try to envision the people around me and spreading my consciousness as a bit. At least that's what they say to do in anime, might as well give it a try. I focus for a while. It's somewhat faint, but it works. I can sense about 10 centimeters away from my body anything further than that becomes somewhat vague. And the farther it is the more vague it becomes.

I guess I'll practice on extending and clarifying this image for now. And like that, I arrive at the station and get off. Well let's walk to school, wait could I possibly get to school with my eyes closed? One way to find out. I close my eyes and decide to start walking. I'm already used to the turns so I'll try to rely on this sensing to dodge people. This won't be exciting if I just walk through, so I started jogging. Alright, let's go! I started jogging across the street dodging the people almost last minute as I jog, this probably good reflex training. I bump into some people here and there.

I could use this at training if I think about it, well we'll see what happens throughout this couple of weeks. I run past some streets, finally passing the second to last street I get on my side. Shit that hurt, but I won't let this chance get away! I smack the hood of the car a couple times.

"Hey! I'm walking here!"

"Shut up and get out of the god-damned way!"

I always wanted to say that. Well, that kind of hurt too but I can just heal myself. Am I turning into an M because I realize a can heal myself? I always thought I was more of an S though. I'll worry about that. I head into the classroom and as usual, I go to the library. I'll try learning a bit of biology though. Can't hurt to know human anatomy in case I may need it later. The warning bell rings so I head to my classroom. The second bell rings which means my classes are starting. Well then, let's try my hand at listening and sensing the people around me.

It went really badly through the first few periods, however, it got slightly better in the last period of school. I noticed one thing though. I feel as if someone is looking at me through some of the periods. I'm not sure what they want and it's only a vague feeling, I don't even know where the person is looking from. The only thing I can tell is that I'm being watched. The hell did I do, I don't even interact with anyone. Well, I'll find out sooner or later who it is and try to fix any misunderstandings. School ends and I play my new favorite game as I head back.

I take the train, get home, change and go out for a run. Alright, this time I'll try my hand at strengthening magic. It looks like it worked, it was almost the same as when I tried using magic while running, so I guess what I was doing was helpful. I stop my strengthening and get back to trying to run while healing fatigue as I run. I'll try to increases my leg's muscle mass like this. But according to Tara, I will need some major food intake to keep this up. Well, whatever I'll leave tomorrow's problems to tomorrow's me. I finish my run and start pushups, sit ups, planks, pull bars as well as exercises for the back, as well as stretching to keep my muscles loose enough.

There aren't any bars in the roof of the building we are staying at so I do this at the park. I did just about anything I could think of doing and found on the internet. This training was done until I depleted the effects of magic depletion started showing. So it went from 3 to 10. Do I have an immense mana pool or is using magic inside your body less cost-effective. Well, it's not like I can achieve any grand scale spells to know.

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I continue this same routine for a week. My area of vision has gotten better as well as my reflexes. I'm also slowly pinpointing the presence that keeps seeing in my direction. I'll definitely find out this week or the next... Wait, find out and then what? Well, no use worrying. I also practiced some moderate magic strengthening. And because of the training regimen, I reached the stage of using already having to thin out my muscles, and I finally have abs!!

This is probably due to the effect of fatigue erasing magic. However Tara was right, it really makes you hungry. So then it definitely uses vitamins and proteins in order to rebuild my muscles huh. So I guess it's rather magic that speeds up the inner body processes rather than fatigue erasing magic. Tara came back the next Wednesday.

"Looks like you've put on some muscle the time I haven't seen you."

"I tried my best coach"

"Well then, why don't we have fun and test out your progress," she said with a small grin

Well, this can't be good.

I follow her up our building and all she did was point to the building next to ours and said the following.

"Jump."

"Excuse me."

"Jump to the next building."

Did this girl come back crazier after she was on break? What is she thinking."

"Are you crazy woman?! What will happen if I fall?!"

"Come on don't worry, what's the worse that could happen, besides its only 8.5 meters."

"8.5 meters!? Do you have any idea what the world record is for the long jump?"

She looks at me with a somewhat serious face. Wait, is it close?

"Well, I don't, but just give me a second to bring out google an-"(Luis)

"Ahhhh, no peaking!"

"Now you have me worried, give me that phone back," I say as I try to snatch it from her. But she dodges it and gets an idea.

<Wait, could I possibly try that thing I saw to stop him from trying to snatch it. He's not a shameless guy, so he definitely won't try to take it>(Tara)

"Well if you want to take it," she says extending her shirt "then why don't you try to take it." She says as she drops the phone down her chest.

Wait is she trying to-*thump*

Wait did the phone just fall through and hit the ground.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

She looks at me pouting

"Looks like you forgot to take one variable into account before you executed that plan didn't you?"

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!' she says embarrassed and angry at the same time, I really can't stop laughing. " Why don't you come here an pick up your phone then," she says still somewhat embarrassed but I sense a plan now

<As soon as he comes I will->(Tara)

"I- I have a building to jump, I'll get it another time. "

Well, I'm feeling less pressure now. Time to jump then. I stand back and decide to activate my body strengthening. I look back at Tara, She's still somewhat mad, but it looks like less than before, instead, it seems the anger has been replaced with curiosity-filled eyes instead. Alright then, I sprinted as fast as I could jump to the upper ledge and then with the same momentum I jumped to the next building. I'm in the air making an arc. I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it! I'm not gonna make it!!!! Fuck!!!!