An Experiment

They kept me in the hospital for over a month.

The weird powers that I had didn't appear again after I overheard the conversation between Master Bang and Charanko. Strangely convenient if you ask me.

Currently, I am returning to the dojo in order to train. I wasn't going to let Garou off just like that, but I wasn't strong enough to fight his strangely high level of adaptability.

Yet.

That's why I would train my martial arts to their limits under Master Bang, and maybe try to figure out how to use my powers whenever I want. That will give me a leg-up in any future situations like this one.

I am just glad he didn't kill anyone for whatever reason. Or at least from what I saw he never killed anyone.

It didn't take long before I arrived at the dojo, I was rushing there the whole time in order to start my training again. Even though I had weakened from being in the hospital for a month, I was still quite fast.

I flew up the staircase with long strides, I had been up and down this staircase many times and was more than used to it at this point. I am pretty sure the dojo was placed up on the mountain so that we could train our stamina with little input from Master Bang.

After I had thought of that a few months ago, I started to train my endurance, believing it was necessary for this martial art.

Anyway, I opened the door to the dojo and noticed Master Bang drinking tea, alone in the middle of the dojo, having a faint sense of melancholy as he sipped his tea, lost in his own thoughts.

I noticed it, but it was probably nothing, right? It's not like I can read emotions that well. I would even say I am ignorant to other people's feelings sometimes, not that I'm proud of that really.

"Master Bang, I have returned! Where is everyone else?" Even though I had heard the conversation between him and Charanko earlier, I don't believe that everyone wouldn't come back because of one incident.

"Most have already handed in a resignation form, while some others didn't even return." He seemed slightly surprised at my return, but spoke smoothly and calmly, but I could recognize an undertone of sadness somehow.

I don't know how I could tell his sadness, and maybe some regret there too, but I wanted to cheer him up, or at least distract him.

"Master Bang, I want to become stronger. For the sake of this dojo I want to go out and beat Garou." I declared.

It wasn't actually as much for the dojo's reputation as much as it was for my own personal revenge, and a little bit of a goal I set for myself.

Bang's ears perked up slightly at my request before he sighed deeply. The sigh didn't feel like one of resignation but one symbolizing the phrase, "what am I going to do with you?"

"Well then. It seems that I'll need to teach you something new."

My eyes lit up at the premise. Did he mean new basic moves that I could use to one-up those who didn't know? Or did he finally want to teach me advanced techniques!?

"Let's start with adjusting your breathing with some breathing techniques." He started.

I was extremely confused, how would breathing differently make me any better at fighting?

"Oh ho, don't underestimate how much breathing does for the body. If performed the correct way you can enhance most of your physical power"

I didn't quite believe him at first, but it sounded super cool!

I practiced with him until you could see the air being sucked into my lungs just like he could. My body didn't feel any different yet though, so he continued to teach me how it worked.

It took the rest of the day for me to figure it out, who knew it was so difficult to breathe well?

I thanked Master Bang and tested out my new strength as I headed home to the apartment I had settled myself in. Tonight, I was going to try to use my ability. I am not too sure how it worked other than my body being asleep and my mind being awake somehow.

It was like trying to figure out how to split myself in two, with my body and mind separating themselves.

Which ended up reminding me about psychic powers and how one of them was said to have been astral projection. Where you kind of, let your spirit leave your body.

So I researched that and came up with nothing substantial. Sure, there was information on 'how to do astral projection' but all of it was extremely suspicious sounding, or on a website with more ads than MeTube.

I gave up on it for the night. I didn't want to risk trying something that would make me look stupid even if I was alone. I have a weird anxiety where someone is constantly monitoring me, like one would watch a movie or read a book.

I fell asleep fairly quickly. As I actually HAD tried a few of those things that I read, but it was more on the safe side, like making yourself super tired with the usual stuff like self-hypnosis, warm milk and so on.

The next morning, I woke up with no luck, my mind woke up after my body somehow, as my body felt awake already, while my mind felt groggy. So all that I did last night is backwards, or at least that's what it felt like.

Maybe that's why it only awakened in battle? I would have to figure out more, but for now I wanted to go back to the dojo and learn more of Master Bang's water stream rock smashing fist.

Such a mouthful of a name.

With my body energized I bounded out of bed and got ready extremely quickly, only taking a few minutes in the shower.

I wanted to do as much as possible today, maybe even go out and fight a monster.

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A/N: I was promised a kiss if I posted, where is it?