Tororkun walked out towards the barracks, there was an old guard who was teaching the new recruits, after hearing they still had an empty spot Tororkun decided he was going to train with them. Once he arrived he found he old man training the recruits in the central courtyard "Tororkun your late, hurry and get in formation with the others." The old man said, sighing Tororkun took up position in the back of the formation. They where doing the normal tedious workouts, run in place jumping jacks, push up, etc. One of the others asked how this would help them at all "It won't help you, this is the warm up exercise." The old man casualy replied. After the unnecessarily long warm up the old man gave them a new task "Jog around the village." He said "Oh and if anyone falls behind then you all have to restart." He added. They made it around in a few hours, they kept slowing down if someone got tired so that no one technically fell behind, upon arrival the old Man looked over at them and frowned "Well your late." He said, about three of them pointed out that he hadn't set a time limit, he shrugged and said he would be lenient this time only. They got a five minute break before beginning their next drill, the old man had them wear a backpack full of sand as soon as he said "Now everyone drop and give me twenty." everyone their let out a groan "Be like that and it will be fifty." he said in a harsh tone. After they finished the torturous workout they were dismissed and told to show up again tomorrow on time. After a week Tororkun and the rest of the group could make it around the village on time and still together, if they didn't make it on time the old man had them do fifty of the arm killing push ups, on the beginning of the second week the old man had them fill the backpacks with gravel even though they had done fifty with the sand, doing twenty with the gravel felt worse. After finishing the push ups the old man informed them that tomorrow they would jog one and a half time around the village, it wasn't news Tororkun wanted to hear but after all this he knew he would be able to, after all they had got adjusted to jogging once around. Tororkun walked home that evening and fell back on his bed tired, he rolled sideways and looked over, he saw his kanabo hanging on its rack he sat up walked over and stared at it for a bit, usually it was was slightly cumbersome to wield but he had been training and withy that he grabbed it and lifted it up. It was lighter than before or well he was stronger anyways, smiling at his progress he hung the kanabo back on the rack before laying on his bed ready for the week to come. As the week passed Tororkun felt good about his progress by the end of the second week he could jog around the village without running out of breath, and he could do the twenty arm killing push ups without getting too winded. Tororkun felt good about how far he got but he knew he still needed to work harder
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WC:543
