Chapter 24: “Training”
Yamamoto woke up early in the morning, even the sun had not yet risen.
Hocha was still sleeping as it was still very early and they had stayed up late for the banquet, so he had to make himself breakfast, finishing breakfast he went to train in a more remote area of the village.
This area he found while they were looking for Ryu's home with the others. It was a wide flat field so he will be able to run in circles without a problem.
His first training will consist of running, by doing this he will be covering both endurance and speed, saving himself time so he can also train with his devil fruit in addition to Spirit Power.
He decided that his devil fruit is very powerful, so he can't waste it, so he will also train it. Besides that in this world without his Zanpaku-tō, Yamamoto's template relies on the mere mera to use fire abilities.
Yamamoto was wearing more comfortable clothes than he got from the Marine ship that Nelson led, as in his usual clothes it would be too uncomfortable to run.
Before he started running, he did some stretching his body was old, and although the physical limits in this world were very different from his world, he can't afford to get injured.
While stretching, he noticed a few days ago that Sea King's meat is beneficial. The day before he had trained his devil fruit until he ran out of energy, and today he was as good as new and had not slept as long. The other days he was in this world he didn't feel this difference in energy, *Once the Sea King meat is finished, I'll ask Saul to go hunt for another one* thought Yamamoto not wanting to miss out on a valuable supplement.
When he finished stretching, he took out a pocket watch and looked at the time. For this training it was very important to analyze the times, because in this way he could know his limit and if in the not-too-distant future, he would be able to exceed these limits, *Today will be a long and painful day* thought Yamamoto knowing the amount of training he would be doing today.
He had slept 6 hours approximately, taking out the time for meals that he can't skip, he easily has 16 hours to train and he will test how long his body can last training at a high level of demand. He remembered that Akainu and Kuzan the future would fight to the death for several days and that is a situation that requires much more effort than training, so it is possible to train this amount of hours.
Without wasting any more time, he started jogging at a moderate pace for 10 minutes, and once he was in rhythm, he accelerated his speed by several meters. Then he slowed down again, recovering his previous speed. After 1 minute, he repeated the process.
He repeated this process while going around the course. In this way, he trains endurance as well as speed. Not knowing how much time passed, Yamamoto stopped breathing heavily from exhaustion and with beads of sweat dripping onto the grass.
"Phew... phew..." breathed Yamamoto with difficulty as he sat down on the ground and took out his pocket watch, to see how much time had passed since he started.
When he saw how much time had passed he was pleasantly surprised, it had been 2 hours of non-stop running since he started. Moreover, he was not only jogging, but every time 1 minute passed, he was running at full speed.
Keeping up this pace in his previous world was difficult even for advanced runners, and with only 10-point endurance and speed, he can do it.
Yamamoto calculated that he will have run approximately 40km in these 2 hours, meaning that in 30 minutes he ran about 10km which in his world that time belongs to an advanced runner.
*Not bad at all* thought Yamamoto knowing that the difference in the strength of the two worlds was very different.
"Let's get something to eat" said Yamamoto in a low tone as he got up and headed to the village.
Running for so long without stopping made him burn a lot of calories, so he was very hungry, plus he couldn't afford to lose weight, so he had to eat large amounts of food every day.
Currently, his physique was not as muscular as that of Bleach's Yamamoto, so he wanted to get to have that great physique, so he had to give great importance to food as well.
Walking towards the village, the sun had already risen completely. Out of curiosity, Yamamoto looked at the status window to see if the speed and stamina stats were still the same they were both still at 10 points, *I must not be impatient* thought Yamamoto.
As he arrived at the town, he noticed standing at the door of the Library was Clover who was looking at the new library with a wide grin, "Why do you have that goofy grin on your face?" asked Yamamoto as he stood next to Clover.
"What!?" exclaimed Clover startled, as he didn't sense Yamamoto's presence, when he noticed it was his old friend he calmed down and replied, "It's just you old man don't scare me. It's good to have a new place to study, that's all it is."
"By the way... Why are you so sweaty?" added Clover noticing Yamamoto's appearance and turning away a little because of the smell of sweat.
"I was doing some exercise..." replied Yamamoto to which Clover looked at him somewhat oddly, as he saw it strange for his friend to do this kind of activity.
"If we don't want to die at the hands of an admiral, I have to get stronger" added Yamamoto noticing Clover's expression, after that, he went home to prepare lunch, although it was about 8 a.m.
He quickly started cooking the Sea King's meat with some more side dishes he got from Nelson's boat, *I have to find a cook...* thought Yamamoto while cooking. As for Hocha, she was already studying with the other archaeologists in the new library.
He was not an expert in the kitchen, and it took him too long to cook a dish, as for asking Hocha to cook for him, he ruled it out as he thought it would be awkward if, at 8 a.m., his grandfather asks him to cook him a steak. Besides she is working so he doesn't want to bother her.
While cooking, he took the opportunity to write down the time and other details in his notebook. He separated it as follows: Month 1 -> Week 1 -> Day 1.
Once he had all of Day 1 written down, he would try to beat it on Day 2 and so on.
As time went by, he noticed that the steak of a Sea King was really hard to cook so he came up with an idea, *If it's a way to train there's nothing wrong with it...* thought Yamamoto as he stretched one of his hands towards the steak.
From his hand, he started to create fire while controlling it to increase the cooking of the steak and make it cook faster. At first, he knew that the previous owner of this body used fruit for this kind of thing and felt embarrassed, now he was doing the same thing, but his motive was different, to get it to cook faster so he could train longer. In addition, he can train fire control, although he doubts it would improve his mastery of something so simple.
Thanks to his devil fruit, he was able to finish eating much faster and again went to the forest to perform the same training. Since he finished running about an hour had passed and he already felt his body in better condition, although his legs were fatigued.
"Well let's go again" said Yamamoto as he reached the place and started running in the same way as before.
After a while the same thing happened as before, he couldn't run anymore, only this time he was much more fatigued and fell straight to the grass, breathing heavily.
*Let's see... phew... how much time has passed* thought Yamamoto while he took out his watch and looked at the time, this time only 1 hour and a half had passed since he started running.
In the first circuit he ran for two hours, but this time he had accumulated fatigue so he lasted less time than before, also when he increased his speed he noticed that it was lower than before.
This did not discourage him as he knew he was going to pass, gathering strength he got up from the ground and started running again, *I must reach the failure, this way I will overcome my limits* thought Yamamoto while putting all his strength to continue running.
Incredibly I can sustain this, for 30 minutes reaching his previously achieved goal, *Not bad* thought Yamamoto as he collapsed on the ground.
In 5 hours that he has been awake, he ran for 4 hours pushing himself to the limit, which in his previous world would be something very difficult and would only be possible for professional athletes and runners, as the human body would not support such a training load at such a high level of demand and with so little rest.
In his former world, a professional male runner can complete 40km in times ranging from 2 hours and 15 minutes upwards, and this requires rigorous preparation and training. Yamamoto, on the other hand, could do it on the first day he started training, and he had already done it twice, only resting for 1 hour, *The limits of this world are far superior* thought Yamamoto.
After resting for about 30 minutes, he got up with some difficulty and headed to his next training. He will still focus on speed and endurance, but it will be in a different way. So he has to head somewhere else.
His next training place would be the beach, *It's noon and I'm only a third of the way through training* thought Yamamoto as he walked in the direction of the beach.
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