OBTICEO

Chapter 17: T-SHIRT

"Nice punch!" Gio turned to look at the owner of the voice, it was Caligo who just arrived. The hours went by fast, its already 6 minutes past hour 8. I went beside Gio since he was blocking my line of sight.

"Your shirt is even better!" Caligo commented as soon as he noticed the writings on my shirt. It made me laugh.

"I know right!" I said, adding fuel to the fire. And by the look of it, it seems like my cellmate is buying it.

"Well, that cellmate who you said sucks is teaching you how to punch to help you pass your exam, how 'bout that?" I can sense that he is really pissed. Gio and his smart mouth. He actually got pissed because of the shirt. Well, I guess it was a success? I wore this to annoy him anyway. It's a win for me. Caligo and I laughed at his annoyance which made Gio even more annoyed.

"Are you done training or do I have to wait for you to finish?" Caligo changed the subject after laughing. Well, we agreed to train to increase our stamina at hour 8.

"We're done. You can train us now" Gio is now back at his usual annoying mode. "Okay Good!" Caligo clapped. I don't know why, he's just his usual weird self.

"What are we going to do for the stamina training?" I asked. Yesterday, we did jogging, we also jog this morning.

"Well, I made some thinking before I went to sleep" I didn't know he was capable of thinking. That was a surprise. "I figured that we have to improve your agility too. So today we will do exercises or routines that will help you improve your agility" Improve our agility? That’s a great idea. That way I can cope up with unexpected attacks from my teammates. He really does know how to think.

"The first exercise goes like this" he did the exercise. He slowly lowered his body like he was sitting on a chair but without an actual chair.

"All you have to do is slowly bend down your knees like you are sitting on a chair. Slowly okay! Your arms should be perpendicular to your body, like this. Then hold your position for a couple of seconds then slowly get into a straight stand-up position while also slowly raising your hands up. See? Pretty simple. Now you try doing it" he said pertaining to me and Gio. We both find the exercise weird but we still followed Caligo.

"We will do that for 5 minutes" We repeated the exercise for 5 minutes. We were not in sync and it made me laugh a bit. Some prisoners and Kavan Guards walk past us and saw us looking stupid in here, they were all laughing. I'm telling you they were laughing, some even laughed like there was no tomorrow. Do we really look that stupid or did we look much worse than just stupid?

Finally, after five minutes, we rested.

"Okay now let's do it again. But this time, instead of just raising our hands up, we would jump while our hands is high up. Again, slowly bend your knees as if you were to sit on a chair. A chair made of air, hands perpendicular to your body. Then hold your position for a few seconds. After that, slowly stand straight while moving your arms up then jump and repeat" after demonstrating, Gio and I, repeated what he did. It was really the same as what we did earlier but this time we have to jump at the end. We did it again for another 5 minutes. It was really tiring, my legs are already shaking. Probably shocked because we are doing much more activities today than yesterday. Don't fail me now legs. We have a long way to go.

"Now there is actually one more thing about this exercise but I'm afraid we will not be able to do it this time" One more thing? Why not?

"Why?" Gio and I asked in chorus.

"Well, we need weights for the third level. You would need to hold the weights while bending and standing. Just exactly what we did the first time, the one where we will not jump. But we have to hold the weights while doing the exercise. You can do it after lunch since you don't have any idea what to do at that time. You can go to the headquarters and get some weights" Well we can do it after returning the punching bag to the headquarters before we head to Caligo and Khael's cell to eat lunch.

"You do know that we will return the punching bag before lunch. Then we can do it after returning the punching bag" I voiced out my thoughts. We can just adjust our lunch.

"Well, it's up to you, really. But it is better to do it after lunch. I already told my cellmate that we will have lunch there. He will prepare food. You also need to rest for a bit. Don't wear yourself out" Well he is right. They are just helping us out, we should appreciate their efforts. We have plenty of time after lunch anyway.

"Fine" I sighed.

"What's next?"

"Okay, the next exercise helps with balance. Let's first do it on our right foot. Focus your weight on your ball and lift your heel up. While your left leg is completely off the ground then jump with your right leg. Let's do it for five minutes then switch to our left leg"

After 5 minutes of jumping with our right foot, we switched the weight to our left leg.

"Like I said, ball on the ground, heel off the ground, and your right leg up. And jump" we did it for another five minutes.

"Good job! Now our last exercise involves two persons. Now good thing there are two of you here" he laughed for I don't know what reason.

"So it's like playing a game. One gives the instruction while the other one follows the instruction. The instructor would point either up, down, left, or right. Now the other will do the action in every direction. If the other pointed up, you would have to jump as high as you can. If the fingers are pointing down, do one push-up and then go back up as fast as you can. Now if the fingers point to left or right, you just have to move your feet following the direction then touch the ground, and then finally go back to your original position" he explained it with a demonstration so we know how to actually do it.

Gio and I both played the game, I mean did the exercise for 10 minutes each. I instructed first, while Gio did the exercise and on the second round we did it vice versa with me doing the exercise and Gio giving directions.

After all that, we rested for a few minutes then returned the punching bag to the headquarters and head to Caligo's cell to eat lunch.