Chapter 002: Registration.
Akira
Sato slept deeply on the day that had happened his fight against
Hikoru, the last day of class of the school Hyumann. The following
day, the alarm of his room rang at half past seven in the morning.
Sato agreed and quickly turned off the alarm.
- That´s it! -
Sato said. - It's today! I need to call Kim to go to make the
registration for Club Martial of Tokyo!
Sato got up from bed,
went to the phone and quickly dialed the number of the house of Kim.
- Kim? - Sato said.
- Hey, Sato ... are you better? - Kim
asked, on the other side of the line.
- Yes … My face is not
hurting anymore ... - Sato said. - But Kim ...
- What? - Kim
asked.
- I decided to go to make my registration in the Martial
Club of Tokyo ... Will you want to do it too? - Sato said.
- Heh.
.. yes ... I will ... - Said Kim.
- Okay ... - Sato said. - You
know that the registrations begin at noon, right? You can go here
about eleven o'clock, if it is possible ...
- All right ...
combined. - Said Kim. - Thanks ...
They hung up the phone.
Sato
has been done, and when the clock marked half past ten in the
morning, he was having lunch in the kitchen.
- Sato ... - Said
his mother. - You did not decide to make the registration for the
Martial Club of Tokyo just because the fight that happened yesterday,
did you?
- No. .. - Sato said, half doubtful. - Well .. in fact
I was in doubt and struggle with that fight yesterday ... let's just
say that this doubt has over.
- I understand ... - Said the
mother. - Wow, I just hope the training is not too hard ...
-
Certainly will, Mom ... - Sato said, just eat. - But be calm ... I do
not know if I will get to be approved ... tests tend to be very
difficult.
Sato finished his lunch and looked at the clock, which
marked eleven o'clock. After a few minutes, Kim rang the bell of the
house of Sato.
- Must be the Kim ... 'm going, mother ... - Sato
said.
- Go with God, son ... - Said the mother.
Sato left the
house and closed the door.
- What´s up, Kim? - Sato said.
-
All right, Sato ...? - Said Kim. - And then? Let´s go?
- Sure
... - Sato said.
The two boys started to walk, going to the
Martial Club of Tokyo.
- Kim, do you know what kind of tests they
will give us there? - Sato said.
- Heh! I do not know, Sato ... -
Kim replied. - I only hope they are not as stringent as those of
recent years ... already heard many things ...
- What kind of
thing? - Sato said.
- Every kind ... - Said Kim. - There are
tests of intelligence, strength, endurance, survival ... I do not
remember a specific test, except one in which some instructors beat
the candidates and who lasted more, would be approved.
- Wow! -
Sato said.
- And if this type of test is just to get over there,
imagine how the training should be after you're inside ... - Said
Kim.
- Yes, really ... - Sato said. - But I will not go back now!
- Not me! - Said Kim.
Sato and Kim continued walking and,
when the clock marked eleven and forty, they entered the street where
is located the Martial Club of Tokyo. The street was taken by a long
queue of almost two hundred meters, which was leading to the entrance
of the martial club, where the registration would be made.
-
Damn! I do not believe it! - Said Kim. - Look at that line!
- Yes
... we ought to wait for that, right? - Sato said.
So the two
boys are positioned at the end of the queue and, in seconds, they
were no longer the most recent. It was growing every second. The
queue, in turn, was not made just by young people but also by several
adults. So the clock was noon.
- Attention, everyone! - Said a
voice that spoke in microphone.
Sato and Kim tried to get the tip
of their feet to try to see who was talking. A tall man, bald and
dark, positioned at the entrance of the club, holding a microphone.
- Quiet, please. - Said the man with microphone. - We will begin
registrations soon, but I'd like to say a few things that are of
fundamental importance ...
- What will be, huh? - Kim whispered
to Sato.
- I do not know. - Sato said, without removing his eyes
of the man who spoke.
- First ... - Began the man with
microphone. - I warn you that there are ten levels of fighters in the
world. However, the tests you will make will be only for the first
five levels. A person can only achieve a higher level than the fifth
after being within the school, no matter how much power the person
has and it will require a more complex education to achieve the level
six in front and this education will only be given here inside this
school. And I must say that ... to enter, not only in Martial Club of
Tokyo, but in any other martial club, you must have a supernatural
power, no matter what level it is.
- Supernatural power? - Sato
and Kim said, looking not understand anything.
- Well .. - Said
the man. - There are only twenty places for these five levels. For
level 1, there are seven vacancies. At level 2, five vacancies, level
3, four vacancies, level 4 and level 5, one vacancy, the total number
of twenty vacancies. However, it will not be you who will choose the
levels to which you will, but we will do it. Through the tests, we
see the level of the supernatural power of each and then, according
to the level of power, the person will be assigned to one of the five
levels. If a person does not have any supernatural power, this person
will not be approved! However, this does not mean that everyone who
has supernatural power will be approved, only the twenty bests will
win the right to come to the Martial Club of Tokyo. All of you should
come here tomorrow, at the same time, then everything will be said on
the first test to which you are called to do.
The whole street
was silent, except for the voice of the man who spoke to the
microphone.
- Damn! Supernatural power? - Said Kim. - I think it
was a bad idea we've been here, you know?
- Supernatural power
... what kind of person would have this in himself? These guys may
be wrong ... - Sato said.
- Very good! - Said the man. -
Following the order of the queue, can begin to make your
registrations.
So, the first in line were making their
registrations. The queue was decreasing, and after nearly five
minutes, Sato, who was almost in the middle of the row, recognized a
boy who was coming from the entrance of the Martial Club of Tokyo,
with the paper of his registration in the hands.
- Hey, Kim! -
Sato said.
- What? - Kim asked.
- Is that who I'm thinking? -
Sato said, pointing to the boy.
- Ah! It can not be ... - Said
Kim.
- It's Hikoru! - Sato said.
Hikoru passed through both
the boys, but did not see them. Sato noticed that his face was full
of dressings.
- Wow! That bastard will also do the test! - Sato
said.
- I do not believe it! Is it possible that he has known
that you would do too, Sato? - Said Kim.
- No... at least he
would have come to me here in the queue ... he passed through us and
has not seen us! - Sato said. - But that does not matter! This guy
... that shit!
- Oh, do not be so angry like this, Sato ... -
Said Kim. - Look, the queue is moving again ...
The queue was
moving, and after half an hour, Sato put his name on the paper of
registration.
- Thank you. - Said the man who was receiving
candidates.
Sato nod. After that, Kim also put his name and the
two were going.
- Damn ... tomorrow at noon ... we will be
knowing what the first test will be. - Said Kim. – Are you lively,
Sato?
- I do not know ... I did not like knowing that Hikoru will
try to do the test too! - Sato said. - He may try some cheating ...
- Oh, do not worry! Do you think the guys here will be misled by
any single frame of a teenager? - Said Kim.
- No, it is not this,
Kim. It is not cheating with the objective that he pass, but with the
objective to do that I
do not be approved, did you understand?
- I got it ... - Said
Kim. - Yes ... knowing the his personality arrogant and vindictive
little ... he is well able to do that.
- Well .. but I can not do
anything except wait until tomorrow ... - Sato said. - Hey, I'm going
home. Want to come too?
- No, thanks. I will make a search at
home for knowing more about the tests in the Martial Club ... - Said
Kim. – I will pass at your home at the same hour of today, all
right?
- Okay! - Sato said. - See you tomorrow.
- See you
too. - Kim replied.
Sato returned home, went soon to your room
and sat on his bed.
"Damn! Damn! This Hikoru ... as I
thought, he will not leave me alone in holidays! Maybe Kim has a
reason ... perhaps Hikoru have signed up because he may have been
knowing that I would do it too ... but how could he know? Perhaps he
simply wanted to enter the Martial Club of Tokyo, like me ... ah, I
do not know! I will not be thinking this guy, no! "Thought Sato.
The boy stood up and called his computer.
"The Kim said
he would search about the tests, I´d better do it too ..." Sato
thought, sitting on the chair.
Then, he quickly entered the site
of the Martial Club of Tokyo and clicked on the "tests". Another
page is opened, showing the tests the previous year.
First Test:
Each candidate shall be without eating and without drinking for three
months. All those who wish to give up, should inform the instructor
of the test. The objective is to calculate how long their
supernatural power can supply a human need. "
- Oh, I do not
believe it! Going without eating for three months followed! - Sato
said. - Only if the person was in a coma or something ..., well,
let´s go to the second test.
Second Test: Each candidate must
raise the maximum weight you can with their two arms. The minimum
weight is two tons, if the candidate fails to raise the two tons,
will be deleted automatically. The objective is to calculate how much
the supernatural energy can increase the capacity human muscle. "
- Damn! Two tons! - Sato said. - Well, at least it was not any
kind of violence as the test that Kim told me.
Sato continued
pulling on your computer some more time and then, he began playing
video game, but without forgetting that Hikoru also would participate
of the tests. The night arrived and Sato quickly fell in sleep.
The
boy woke early the next morning. Took bath, and had lunch at eleven
o'clock and five minutes, Kim rang the bell of the house of Sato,
then the two boys were walking to the Martial Club of Tokyo.
-
Hey, Sato, are you prepared? - Said Kim.
- I do not know ... of
course none of us let's pass, man. - Sato said. - The tests are
simply over-human!
- Heh! I told ... I searched yesterday on a
site ... - Said Kim.
- Me too! Raise two tons! Nobody can do
that! - Sato said.
- Yes ... I think ... - Said Kim.
After a
while, Sato and Kim entered the street of the Martial Club, leaving
only ten minutes to noon. The street was taken by people, but this
time, they were scattered and not in line.
- Man, what mess! -
Said Kim.
Sato looked from side to side.
- Come on, Sato!
Stop looking for Hikoru! Forget him! - Said Kim.
- Yeah, I think
you are right ... - Sato said.
Then the same man from before,
took the microphone.
- Attention, silence, please! - Said the
man. - Organized, one by one, you should enter the Martial Club and
turn at the first door at your right, where there will be a large
room where everything about the first test will be explained,
provided the time and date, up to what it really is! Can go into ...
Then, one by one, the people was coming in Martial Club of Tokyo.
The heart of Sato, throbbed faster each second, concerned not only
with the test, but also with Hikoru.
