RINNNNG RINNNNG! “What time is it?” I say as I pull myself out of bed “8:30… 8:30 WHAAAAT” I yell at the top of my lungs. “Wait, who’s calling me? Mom?” I almost picked up the call, but then I remembered what Carl said. I block the number and start getting ready to train. I run outside, the courtyard air crisp. “SENSEI I’M READY TO TRAIN!” He waves at me. I finally reached him “Just on time Tiger!” We both start laughing. Ok time to get serious “Ren” “Yes Sensei?” “There has been a multi-Billion bounty placed on your head.” “Bu..But Why?” “You know how you have Neutral energy, since it’s so rare people are afraid that you will become the strongest and no one will be able to defeat you, so a person that is known as The Underworld Broker put that bounty on your head. Some school executives have even considered executing you.” “I-I don’t want to die.” “You’re not going to, I won’t let it happen as long as I’m alive. We’ve also got to train 3 times harder. Give it your all.” “What about you though sensei won’t they target you too?” “Yes, they will, they always were, after all I am the strongest, but Congratulations on making me the second most wanted Aurent.” “You’d do that for me?” “I mean after all you are my student, and I’m the only family you’ve got now.” “Now let’s start!” “YES SENSEI!” “Okay before we start you fundamentally got to understand how the 3 energies work and their quirks. Now let’s start with Negative energy, the quirks allow the user to heavily enhance their physical body strength and grants highly heightened senses after light training. Can perform body regeneration after undergoing hard training. Unlearned quirks can be used without training, but they will be super weak. Now for Positive energy the quirks grant incredible, fluid agility and Hyper-Perception (slowing down the user’s perception of time to dodge and react to incoming attacks instantly). Can perform body regeneration after undergoing hard training. Unlearned quirks can be used without training, but they will be super weak. Finally Neutral energy, the quirks are a perfect, rare biological mutation of both Positive and Negative energy. It allows the user to unlock all the quirks of both energies (Strength, Senses, Agility, and hyper-perception) after difficult training. Can perform body regeneration after undergoing difficult training. You can use these mixed quirks even without training, but they will be super weak.” “Sensei, that's a lot of information.” “I know but it's important so you should probably remember these because it can be really helpful in battle. So anyways this is the twist, those quirks are like side effects. The actual power is in the technique that you manifest like for example. A negative energy user could manifest the flame technique which would allow them to attack using flames every technique is unique to its user unless it’s a passed-down technique of course.” He looks at me and smiles. “Areeee youuuuu ready for physical training now!?” “Yes Sensei!” “Okay then, follow me into the school's speed training ground.” I follow him over to this big patch where there’s no grass, “Ren this place right here has special enchantments which slow each person down to less than 3% of their running speed. This makes students faster because it makes them push their bodies past their limits. For you, I’d say 10 miles is good, and-” “10 MILES! How's that possible?” “It might take you 3 or 4 hours.” “Anyways, what I was saying was I will tell you about my technique, to keep your mind off the pain for a bit.” “Alright Sensei I’ll start running laps.” I get on the field and suddenly I feel weight pushing down on me. I start running and I feel so slow like I’m barely moving an inch. “Okay Ren, now for my techniques. First of all I can teleport, yes you heard that right.” “So Sensei, why don’t you use it a lot?” “That’s a good question, and the answer is I do but only in situations where I need to or want to teleport. Next up is my always active invisible pure burn barrier.” “What?” “Yeah so you see, in a way, it burns any matter it touches without leaving any traces like just gone no burn marks just gone and for abilities that ideally can’t be classified as matter it basically makes it so they can’t touch me.” “How can I touch you then Sensei? Can you control the barrier to let things through?” “DING DING DING! Correct, now for my 3rd ability I can use invisible slashes that cut any form of matter.” “Those are some cool abilities, Sensei.” “Yeah There’s one more I call it Cube Steal.” “What?” I look at him confused. “Ok so, when I use this ability a physical white cube appears that opens and basically stores any technique that enters it, and then I can resummon this cube and use any ability that I have stolen, containing whatever, but the original user still has their technique.” “Woah, that’s some cool stuff sensei.” “Yeah, Yeah I know.” We spend the rest of the day training. I finish the 10 miles at 12:15. Then Sensei and I go and get some ramen. After that I spend 6 hours carrying, pushing, rolling, and other things with massive rocks. My training finally ends at 6:15. I lay there in the grass covered in sweat and even some blood because of the rocks. Then Sensei comes over to me, he isn’t smiling, he's serious “Hey, Ren there’s something I need to tell you.”
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