Chapter 15 The True Face Of Spencer’s School (7)

Breathing until he was calm, he took a step forward.

The ball had hit the wall behind him, come before him, went left, then right before hitting the ground and then bouncing off it to hit the ceiling in a diagonal direction

Tumunomi Escaver had ducked, side stepped as he stood up bent backwards until his hands met the ground, then stood back up as he twirled his upper body and jumped respectively in accurate response.

1 minute

2 minutes

3 minutes...

After 5 minutes, he noticed that the room got smaller. And when he kicked of the wall - from the bouncing ball that never seemed to sop ricocheting - he could tell that it was either glas that could bounce or plastic.

Either ways, between the workouts, Derek mock fights with him and Derek surprise ambushes, he was good.

However, after 10 minutes the room got bigger. So, when he had intended to kick off it and roll on getting up but he slammed into it. Luckily, the balls passed above his head and he could do a sideways roll on the floor before pushing himself back up.

In 20 minutes, the tennis balls began all loving horizontally and dodging was all to easy.

Derek could have done this while make posses at the 20 speeding balls.

30 and the balls began moving horizontal. He sidestepped accurately and timed each evasion well. And if he let his memories of what Derek had taken him through could his concentration, he would have lost.

But, not yet.

40 and there was a slight delay, as if each ball gave the other a 0.5 second gap.

50 and the gaps became a second between each one so that the balls made a wave pattern as they sought to hit him.

Jacob noticed a pattern to what Tumunomi Escaver was doing and a smile blossomed on his face as he shook his head.

60 minutes and Tumunomi Escaver and now the bouncing tennis balls moved horizontal and vertical like a met. But this time there was ample space between each one so that he could dive and jump through, which he did.

Forward dive! Back leap, Side twist, Duck and roll! Jump twist!

Mrs. Rose Marilyn was smiling to the extent of her lips could allow and when Finim Barboach wanted to tell her that Tumunomi Escaver was obvious already top tier, he flinched when he saw her expression.

That expression was when she had found raw graphite or when she ews angry or when she was planning on playing with things.

And graphite as in previous stone that was pressurised into becoming diamond.

Tumunomi Escaver might suffer after this, that alleviated his past aggrivances. But even hime could not hate the boy anymore.

The strong had a right to quirks. Not that the weak did not, they just had to be... louder.

Finim Barboach shivered and remembered some dark things about his boss.

He then snapped his head back to the ReflectionLawn later and continued to observe.

Now, diagonally fired tennis balls joined the fray. All the balls still managed to keep themselves equidistant from each other. So, Tumunomi Escaver just had to stay calm, like Derek had told him, when he was in a serious situation.

And Derek's surprises and extents to which he took his play fights sometimes scared Tumunomi Escaver.

Not that he would ever tell Derek that.

If... Or When... he met him again.

The next 10 minutes the balls would begin vertical, go diagonal then horizontal. The positions switched like infitie permutations and even Tumunoni Escaver was wondering why he was not hit.

Maybe he was moving on muscle memory now. He had read something about thay which he did not remember but he pushef it to the side.

And on the 1 hour and 21st minutes the tennis balls all broke into random motion.

He did caught though, and now lay on the floor as the tennis balls froze before returning to their pipes and the room dissipated, leaving the pipes behind.

Tumunomi Escaver stood up from the ground and opened his eyes to meet Mrs. Rose Marilyn. He saw her manic expression but his grin did not back down.

When he reached the PressureMill the staff, friends, winners, losers and spectators all paused before they allowed themselves to breath after a full minute of pin drop silence.

Tumunomi Escaver actually did some warmup exercises before he started but even an idiot could see that he had already passed his tests at this point. So they did not mind waiting for however long.

"Could he be cheating?"

Mrs. Rose Marilyn's smile dropped and she eyed Finim Barboach. "Potential, when groomed from a young age can become explosive later on. Like how there is a difference of one who starts from a young age and one who starts at a latter one."

"You think," Finim Barboach squeezed his face in thought. "You think that even though he cannot begin cultivating Ko-jin, the particles all around him is responding to his hard work."

"Yes, he did not start working out yesterday, you know."

Finim Barboach looked at her

"He started whe he was 6"