"You can obviously sense roh. How good are you at it?." 3 asked breaking the silence
"Yeah, I mean I don't know how to explain it but I can consistently sense my roh at all times." I replied.
"That's definitely better then you should be at, you should be able to manipulate roh right after being able to sense it. Then your sense for roh develops alongside how well you can use it." She seemed to contemplate this for a bit then continued. "You asked me for advice, alright lets see what I can think of. Sit down on the ground for me here."
"Alright." I said as I sat down on the ground in the middle of the room.
She raised a hand and then I felt my roh being pushed, just like in training hall B where I felt the waves of her roh radiating outwards.
"You can feel it right?" She asked.
"Yes, it feels like you are pushing my roh in a rhythmic pattern." I stated in answer of her question.
"That's good, now try to make your roh stern and not pushed back, feel it like the tensing of a muscle." She instructed.
To my surprise it worked almost flawlessly, I could barely feel her push against my roh.
3 noticed and seemed to see my issue. "Roh cannot be pushed, only pulled. You seem to have been trying to push the roh into place when instead again much like a muscle, you pull. The feeling is somewhat like drinking liquid from a straw."
I tried doing as she said an it worked.
'Wow, I should have asked her earlier.'
My roh was indeed being slowly pulled around my body wherever I wished, it was painfully slow, had a tiny amount of force, wasn't able to move, couldn't create any pressure, and wasn't precise but those things could all be improved with time. I was ecstatic about my progress.
"Wait how did you push the roh outside your body if you can only pull?" I asked just realising how that part didn't make sense.
3 looked at me slightly annoyed. "Hey I did what you asked, don't take up to much of my time. I can't spend so much of my time without getting anything myself."
While she sounded like she was greedy but that last sentence also meant she would be willing to continue helping me when I needed, as long as she got something out of it too and that honestly sounded like a really good deal.
"Alright how about this, whenever I am stuck you help me out and then you get to use one of my food tickets for whatever you want." I said, trying to actually strike a deal.
"Two tickets." She responded plainly.
"Sure, lets do that then." I said to which she proceeded to look a little flustered probably expecting me to not take that deal.
While leaving the room I turned back and smiled while saying. "Thank you."
Walking towards my room I went inside and just fell onto my bed.
'That went really damn well. Way too many good things are happening to me.'
I still found myself meditating using the knowledge 3 had given me despite how suspicious I was.
I put on the body enhancement training suit and begun to meditate, for a moment that is because I noticed the pain effect of the suit was completely absent.
'Alright so what do I do now? Do I have to go up to Axmon? That would be annoying, no no its probably...'
Looking through my phones apps I quickly noticed something new.
'Roh training suit controller, that's nice.'
When opening the app I noticed several buttons which looked blocked out but sure enough there was a scale set with ten settings on the slider, one for off then each next one being one setting up in sensitivity.
Turning it up to just one I continued trying control my roh in a way which lessened the pain and though I did feel slight fluctuations in the pain given I could never actually consistently stave off the constant pain.
Again and again I felt like I had it but it slipped through my metaphorical fingers even after well more then an hour had passed I hadn't done it right.
'Always more problems but at least I am making progress in using my roh.'
My usage in row had indeed grown tremendously, well of course it had since I had just started learning the thing but my results there was definitely pushing away the annoyance of failing at the enhancement which would have likely otherwise already made me give up on it within the first thirty minutes.
Though it had only helped me until now since I had just given up for the moment.
'Saying one step at a time isn't helping anymore, its only making it worse.'
I made a quiet grunt in anger.
'Whatever, I really need to take a shower anyways.'
After changing into those old clothes I quickly went over to training hall A where instead of going to the equipment or combat areas I went over to the showers. I was pleasantly surprised that each shower had its own cubical which was completely different to the outer rings, where every centimetre seemed to matter more then anything else.
Putting away these thoughts I walked inside I was surprised to see there was a water proof spot to put clothes into which also had a towel.
Tilting back and fourth slightly out of habit to see which side the water would fall I was again surprised to see that it was facing into the light direction, meaning the designers had put enough thought into this so that the water wouldn't immediately go onto the wall making showering very uncomfortable.
After enjoying my long shower and drying myself, I put the second pair of clothes Axmon had given and found the laundry box, or tube in this case.
The tube was locked, however there was an obvious place to scan your phone next to it so that is exactly what I did.
I was far more used to ones with a keypad next to it to which you would input your number and then it would open. There was no need for security in it since if you put someone else's number in you would just simply not have your washed clothes sent to you, so it would only be a problem for you.
My phone seemed to be accepted and the latch opened, to which I simply dropped my clothes inside.
While walking back to my room realisation stuck me as to what I was doing wrong in the training suit. It was somewhat stupid really, I simply assumed that the body enhancement blessing was a single state which you had to force roh into.
'Yeah the more I think about it the more obvious it is'
I probably could have just asked 3 but I assumed it was just my lack of skill which it might still be. My main problem though was just being too inflexible to imagine it being some sort of flow instead of some predefined state.
I thought of going into my room and practicing immediately but instead I decided to put it off. Walking over to 7's room I knocked on the door.
"One second." I heard from behind the door, then when the door opened I saw the familiar large frame of 7 which never failed to make me look frail.
"Hey." I said. "I was-"
"Man where have you been." He interrupted. "We all thought you didn't like us or something."
Looking inside I saw 49 and 13 were also inside but 9 was notably missing.
"I've been training man, I'm really worried about keeping up." I said somewhat sheepishly
He almost pulled me into the room while saying. "Keep up with us? Everyone I've talked to is trying to desperately to keep up with you and that girl, you are absolute monsters."
"Ehh? What?" I said incredulously.
49 was the one to speak this time. "After you were apparently finished training in your usage of roh, we all spent god knows how long trying to catch up. We pretty much just came back, all while you seem to have had a nice time relaxing."
Noticing my hair still slightly grey from the water still on it I immediately realised they had woefully misunderstood everything.
I tried coming up with a response. "I wasn't being lazy, I just took a shower after training in my room."
49 and 7 spoke at the same time, saying something along the lines of "You wanted to train more?"
13 meanwhile looked like he was in shock, or as close as it could get for someone so aloof.
13 actually decided to speak now. "You are going to make us all depressed if you do more, so please don't."
I could almost feel my soul crumple inside me
'How the fuck am I going to do this.'