issue #11

"10...11...12" said Arthur as he lifted a bar that weighed 160 kilograms, it was kind of funny to see, how a kid was exercising with a bar that was his size, with plates as heavy or more than the same, the boy had a black eye, although much better than he should have, since if a doctor saw it, he would say that it was about 5 days until it disappeared, quite fast considering that a bruise can last weeks or months in disappear, and Arthur had only suffered that blow 6 days ago, the same with the bruise on his chest, but this one would take a week or two to disappear

6 days had passed since the altercation in the dining room, after that everything became more tense between the children, and Mrs. Cadius noticed it

---- Retrospective scene -----

One day after what happened in the dining room, all the children were in the classroom, standing in front of a woman, with their heads down, not daring to look at the teacher.

some children had bandages on their arms, others had ointment on their faces for wounds

Arthur had almost nothing, just a bandage on his entire torso, since that man's blow almost broke a rib, for the bruise on his face they did not put anything on him, since the doctor who saw him said that he was better than what was seen and the wound had to be much more serious

"I am very disappointed, children" Mrs. Cadius said to the children in front of her, at that comment all the children lowered their heads more, sorry for what they did

"Give thanks that they did not take away your study hours, if that had happened, I would feel very sad," said the woman

Seeing that none of the children said anything, she simply told them to sit down and continued with the class.

------ End Flashback -----

Arthur had finished raising the bar, when he saw Sofi he approached him with a bottle of water

"How you feel?" Sofi asked, giving her the bottle of water.

"Much better, my body and face don't hurt much, and every day I feel stronger and more resistant" Arthur said while he drank the water in one gulp, the more time passed, the more his powers developed and he accumulated more strength, speed and endurance

right now he was capable of charging and punching with over 160 kilograms of sheer strength, it was far more than the average man could do, and it had only been a little over 9 days since he woke up with his powers, now he could run at 19 km/h, a little faster than the average human, and he could hold his breath for 2 minutes, in addition to feeling that he had a lot of energy, but what grew the most were his senses, now he could hear someone's breathing at 3 meters, he could see everything much more clearly, like what a soda can was saying that was 8 meters from where he was, the same thing happened with his sense of smell, he was super developed, he could smell the food that was being prepared from where he was, the kitchen he was more than 15 meters away from his training room, but he could still perceive a very slight smell, it was very slight, but it was still there, but what astonished him the most were his new regenerative abilities and his skin that was becoming tougher with each day, the c The scientist who had done the first test 9 days ago had told him that his regeneration and skin were barely different from that of a normal human being, these results were so low that they could not even be considered at all, but what he had now It was different, I don't know I could compare it with the regeneration of Wolverine or Deadpool, not even with that of Captain America, but it was much better than that of a normal human, in addition to the fact that his skin was tougher and more invulnerable, the knives still hurt him. they cut and the blows left bruises, but it was a little harder to penetrate his skin, it would take more force than you think to affect him

"Let's eat, then we'll have MMA training" Sofi said taking him out of her train of thought

"Yes" said Arthur as he went to the dining room with Sofi

When they arrived at the dining room, you could see how each group is much more tense than before, no one spoke to someone who was not from their group, and all the children looked around continuously, waiting for someone to do something.

Arthur and Sofi grabbed the plates of food and went to their table to eat, Alexander was waiting for them there

"Well, are you ready for today?" Sofi said

"You mean the beating they're going to give us again?" said Alexander sarcastically

"Yeah, none of us could even touch him, and we're mutants and he's not" said Arthur with weariness in his voice.

6 days ago they had started training in MMA, and it had not gone well at all, the man seemed like the perfect fighter, although they had not fought him yet, the man had first been teaching them the basic postures, as always, keep the guard high, arms in front of the body, the dominant foot behind and how to turn your body so that the blows have all their power in the

"Okay… let's go" Alexander sighed as he got up from his seat.

Arthur and Sofi just nodded and stood up next to Alexander.

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"No, no, no, always remember to keep your guard up" said the man they were training while he corrected Sofi's posture.

they were in the room, sweating from all the exercise, the man was teaching them how to hit an enemy while still keeping their guard up

"Good" the man said to Arthur, the man was happy with this boy, he had a talent for martial arts, he had been able to do everything he had been taught after a few times and small corrections, he was the most talented of the 3 children, at least in martial arts, the older boy, Alexander, had shown better qualities, such as his natural ability to lead or his good control over heat energy, which, although it could not be on a large scale, if used well it could make a difference, but that ability came with a problem, he had to use some of his energy to activate his power, which made him only able to generate small bursts of this energy

"Very well children, the training is over, tomorrow we will start with the real combat practices" the man said to the children, seeing that they already had the basics to start doing small training among themselves

"Yes, sir" the 3 said at the same time, after that they went to dinner and to sleep

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Arthur dodged a blow that was aimed at his face and struck Alexander's exposed side with his own arm.

right now they were having a little training with each other while Sofi and the coach watched from the side, Sofi had already trained with Alexander a few minutes before, but the man saw that he had no talent for this, so he decided to change the training of the girl for combat with the use of firearms

"Don't trust that your blow will always connect because it's stronger or faster, always keep your guard up, in case something unforeseen happens" the man told Alexander, while I continued fighting with Arthur

Alexander moved, raised his leg and hit Arthur's right arm, who was on guard, when the blow came, Arthur felt his arm go numb, Alexander took advantage of this and hit him on the right side, since the arm was not protecting that side very well, Arthur stepped back a bit, recovering from the blow, and ran towards Alexander, Alexander stood still and raised his guard, waiting for the frontal attack, which came, Arthur extended and right arm to deliver a blow of front, but just as Alexander raised his left arm to take the blow, he saw Arthur's left fist go under his defense and hit him on the chin,

"Very good Arthur, you used a decoy to land the real hit, but in doing so, you left yourself completely exposed, if it had been someone with experience, he would have blocked both blows and knocked you out with one simple movement, you have to work on that." "The man said to Arthur, he did not want to give the boy too much confidence and his ego to grow, since later it would be difficult to teach him, it was better to criticize the one who had won using a bad strategy than the one who had lost by falling for that strategy, because in a real fight Arthur could have ended up dead

"Okay, that's all for today, tomorrow we'll continue training, girl, tomorrow I'll bring a fire arm, I want to see if you have talent, if not, you should worry, nobody wants a useless one" said the man to Sofi, who lowered head

when the man left, Arthur and Alexander approached Sofi

"Don't believe me Sofi, she just wants to scare you, we'll help you get better" Alexander told the girl that she had started to cry

"Yes, don't worry, everything will be fine" Arthur told him while he gave him a hug

Sofi agreed and they went to have dinner.