26 Spirit Colosseum (1/2)

Ryusei woke up early in the morning and went for his morning run, he was running on the track on which he and Rongrong were running previous day. After running halfway, he was surprised at someone's presence on the fields.

Rongrong was the one who came on the fields with huge dark bags under her eyes. He could see that she didn't get much sleep last night and probably came here so early in the morning because she was wide awake and she wanted to improve herself.

Ryusei looked towards her and waved his hands as he said in a loud voice, ”Come here. We can train together.” It seemed that Rongrong was a bit hesitant as she didn't want to disturb his training.

When he reached near her, Rongrong said in a soft voice, ”I think that you should run by yourself because I would only be slowing you down and may even slow down your training.”

Ryusei heard her words and sighed a bit as he said, ”That is indeed true, you may slow down my training but it doesn't matter too much to me as I am only running right now to maintain my fitness not because I need to gain more strength.”

Rongrong then said, ”Alright then, but if you think that I am slowing you down, leave me right away, alright?”Ryusei smiled at her and said, ”Already started ordering me. Heh.” Rongrong had a small blush on her face as she thought of something else.

She then started running ahead to hide her blush, he also started running. After 2 hours, they ran about 20 laps of the ground, after running they sat down by a tree underneath some shade and Rongrong put her head on his shoulder as she started sleeping.

Ryusei felt a bit awkward and didn't know how to react to such a situation as he never been in situation like this before so he just let her sleep and waited for her to wake up.

After 2 hours, Rongrong finally woke up and was feeling a bit refreshed because she finally had some sleep. Ryusei smiled at her when she woke up and Rongrong moved her head from his shoulder as she was feeling embarrassed.

Ryusei stood up and stretched his body, his body was a bit stiff by being in the same posture for all this time as he knew that if he moved then she would most likely wake up and her sleep won't be complete.

He looked towards her and said to her in a calm and soft voice, ”Let's go and meet others. They should have woken up by now and started their training or going to that colosseum.”

Rongrong was confused when he said colosseum and asked him, ”What is that? Some kind of battle arena?” Ryusei nodded and said, ”Yes, it is a kind of battle arena where you can choose to fight in a one on one, two on two or a team battle.”

Rongrong nodded as she had read about these kinds of colosseum in her Clan library. As they reached the entrance of academy, they heard Principal explaining others about the Spirit Colosseum.

Both heard the Principal say, ”The Spirit Colosseum is the place where you battle opponents from all over the world. Going up in the ranks will get you fame and fortune. All of you go and apply, the fee will be 10 golds.”

He then handed them some sheets, as if they were forms for the Spirit Colosseum. He then started explaining about the ranking system, ”Winning the 1st match will get you an Iron Combat Badge. Every match you will, you will gain one point, you lose a point when you lose in the match. After every 100 points, the badge is upgraded.”