Kazuma, Mio and Yuji dropped to the ground, the three kids were all worn out from their sparring match with Ranpo "Ahhhhh!", they all exhaled. Kazuma said while being worn out "Damn it! It's been a while since I felt this way, it's like I'm burning.", Mio added "If you think you're burning, what would you say about me?". Yuji pushed himself up "Whatever, my arms hurt. I think i need to go home.", Mio looked at him "You only got your back kicked, I had to take punches from sensei without being able to do anything ". Yuji looked at Mio "Doesn't that mean you were slow?", Mio got annoyed "HEY! WHO YOU CALLING SLOW?!", she yelled at Yuji who didn't seem to care what she was saying. Kazuma got up "There, there. Calm down Mio.", he said with a nervous smile, Mio turned to him and yelled "DONT TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!". Ranpo chuckled and clapped both his palms together "Alright that's enough. We've been sparring for forty minutes straight, guess we need a break.", Kazuma sat down on the ground with his legs crossed "Well, we haven't had any kind of combat training in a while now so... I kinda understand why my body feels like it's moving in ways it's not supposed too.". Yuji sat on the ground and explained "Well if you skip exercises, you probably won't be as effective as usual. Well luckily for me, I still kept up with my training even tho we weren't supposed to.", Mio seemed uninterested as she looked at Yuji "Doesn't that mean you're just pushing yourself?", Yuji's head turned the other way "Hm!", he scoffed. Ranpo then asked "So, what do you kids want to do now?", "Go home...", "Sleep..", "Eat something?", Kazuma, Mio and Yuji said. Ranpo just sighed "You all have gotten lazy.". Few minutes go by, Yuji was doing some push ups, Mio was doing leg exercises as she layed on the floor with weights on her legs, while Kazuma was just laying on the floor as the grass was grazed by the wind. Ranpo asked him "Why aren't you exercising, you're gonna get weaker if you don't do anything.", he said to his student laying down with a bored expression on his face. Kazuma responded lazily "I'm not in the mood for that.", Ranpo tells him "That's you just being lazy.". Kazuma sat up "Ahhhh!", he lazily groaned "Right now I'm tired. I don't feel motivated to do anything, I don't even wanna play as much. For a month now, I've just spent most of my time asleep. I don't even play video games as much.". Ranpo looked at the boy and blinked, he sighed "Ahhh! What a pain.", he proceeded to explain "I understand. You feel tired, your body probably still aches from your previous mission. And because of how beat up you were, you haven't been in top shape.". Kazuma still looked unmotivated "But still...." Ranpo continued to talk "You can't just stay in a place and do nothing. If you do, you'll grow lax and stiff. Comfort is nice, but can be a killer, you know?". Kazuma took a sigh "Whatever...", he stood up, dusted his clothes and walked off. Mio was a bit confused by Kazuma's action, Yuji looked at Kazuma with a blink as he watched his friend walk away. Mio stood up and asked Ranpo "Is Kazuma okay? He's been wierd lately.", Ranpo just sighed and explained to her "He's fine, Kazuma Is just not motivated. It's almost like depression.", Yuji got up and did a few stretches. As Kazuma was walking away, he couldn't help but to feel down. Meanwhile, in another training ground, Kito and Reggie were having an intense sparring match. Kito was running towards Reggie while creating daggers of ice and then launching them at his mentor. Reggie stood in a spot as he dodged, tilted and just flinged ice weapons away with his fingers. Kito came flying at him with a punch, Reggie stretched out his palm and blocked the blow. Suddenly, he and Kito started to go into hand to hand combat, Reggie was still standing on a spot while Kito punched and kicked. Reggie on the other hand just stood in a place as he countered the boy's moves. Kito thought to himself as he jumped in air "He hasn't even gotten away from the singular spot since.", he landed back on the ground, created two powerfull shurikens of yellow lightning the size of a head and threw them at Reggie. Reggie didn't seem unfazed at all, he stretched out his arm that turned into a robotic arm, absorbed the attacks and shot it back at Kito. Kito was stunned seeing his own attacks shot back at him, he slammed his palms together causing an earth wall to appear right infront of him to block the attack "Tch!", he clicked his tounge. He did a few hand signs, suddenly, a bolt of lightning and a burst of flames shot out of the earth wall and straight for Reggie. Reggie slightly raised his brow and took a few steps backwards in order to avoid the attacks, but without him realising it, Kito appeared behind him with a dagger of ice with cold wind surrounding it "Ice+wind manipulation....", he growled. As he was about to strike his attack on Reggie, he yelled out "ARCH CUTTER!". Reggie didn't seem too impressed by Kito's incoming slash, he tilted to the right to avoid the attack, only for him to remember that Kito's lightning and flame attacks were about to hit him. As soon as the lightning and fire bolts had hit him, an explosion of flames and yellow lightning occurred. Kito used his hands to block the dust and light of the explosion, as soon as it cleared, he looked again. Kito was stunned to see Reggie standing, hands in the pockets of his lab coat "That wasn't bad.", Reggie said "You're starting to be more proficient with your elemental based abilities. Not just that, but your combat skill's gotten better. I'm impressed.". Reggie walked towards Kito "Alright, sparring's over. Sit down, let's talk.". Kito thought to himself "For some reason, I feel he wants to scold me.".
END OF CHAPTER.