Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 9

Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 9

After a week of training, it became easy as pie, so Hiroto decided to change the training a little bit. ,"For next month forward you are going to clean the Dojo with these weights around your ankles and wrists" of course the weights didn't look that heavy as he waved them around with ease, but then he dropped them and they cracked the ground, these weighted bracelets were 50 lbs in normal gravity and 100 lbs in this gravity. This obviously left a  slack jawed look on both Cias and Apollo's faces as the duo saw this display and were told that they couldn't take them off until Hiroto said so.

They put on the weights and their hands and legs came crashing to the ground with these metal bracelets. ,"OK, then get moving, clean the floors with these mops and clean the walls with the scrubber thingy" Hiroto stated (sending out how he wanted it cleaned with Art: Information Translation), his eyes closed walking towards his room to take a nap. ,"Hey, HEY, GRANDPA PLEASE HELP US… ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME" Apollo got up wailing as he reinforced his body with Ki, but it was all in vain as his grandpa blocked out the soundwaves with a barrier. Continuing to walk away, not caring about the whining, he reinforced the thought that a nap would definitely be nice right about now as they cleaned the house for him.

Training was hard at first but much like anything else they did they got stronger and better. They began to divy up the work better, not get in each other's way and found cleaning stuff to be kinda fun. Organization was the goal for most things and their minds were developing to be more organized. Using this newfound knowledge they began to use less energy and really bring out the fullness of their skills by only using as much energy as they needed for something. They could be considered very well off beginners in most schools right now but in this one they were just newbies. Sometimes the mastery over something isn't the praise and awards that you gain (Like a new belt in a martial art), but the skills and experience over time. This lesson is integral to growth and even if you don't see growth on a surface level doesn't mean that nothing has changed. All you have to do is think to yourself "Am I better than my old self and what do I still need to improve". Self growth and analyzing your skillset on what you need to be better in life at is the path to success.

A week later, in the middle of scrubbing every speck of dirt and dust away one by one, exhaustion creeped in but because of their previous training and this new training, it overall didn't seem as bad as they'd thought it'd be. Apollo started talking ,"Yo Cias'' ,"Yeah Apollo?" Cias asked inquisitively ,"If you think we fought who do you think would win between the two of us?" Apollo asked ,"Oh me, 100%" Cias saying without hesitation  ,"You're annoying" ,"Ay, you're the one who should train harder" Cias said smugly while giggling to himself after ,"Get off my butt about it" Apollo replied making Cias's giggle turn into laughter.

Hiroto overhearing the conversation, Hiroto chuckled to himself and thought (Oh they have no idea) as he walked towards them ,"What are you guys talking about?" ,"AGHHH" Cias and Apollo yelped, not expecting him to show up right then. Hiroto explained ,"You guys are now going to do the training we did before in addition to the cleaning, of course, while keeping the weights on" yet another task being given out to strengthen them further, but instead of them complaining they began to appreciate the process of becoming stronger more and more as time went on.

The last week of this type of training passed, the both of them were looking more built, having a much denser aura and gained about 3 times the ki reserves that they had before. They felt insanely strong and really wanted to test this out, and oh boy, the next task would be grueling. Hiroto explained the next step in their journey with one insane sentence ,"It's time to get serious, you guys  going to fight for a whole week starting now, and there will be NO breaks"