Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 3 [Alice Secret]

- Part 4

Me and Yukimura entered the Drachma Gym, a small building located north to the dormitories. Since it was close by, it took us only ten minutes by walk to get there.

"The good thing about this place is no one barely visits it. Everyone prefers going to the Neutral Gym in the malls since it has more equipment, but this place has pretty much everything you need."

Yukimura guided me through the reception so I could set up a gym membership. These days, there are less front desk workers since everything could be done digitally.

I could register my account and sign in and out of the building on my phone, so having a person here to take records was unnecessary.

"Best of all, this place is free since it's technically on campus. You have to pay membership for the gym in the neutral zone, and I'm broke as hell, so I barely go there."

"How many points are you on right now?"

"I'm barely scraping 13,000. You?"

"149,840."

"Tch, lucky bastard."

Yukimura sighed and guided me into the actual facilities.

"Here we are. There's dumbbells over there, pull-up frame over there, treadmills over there, a stationary bike there, and some training mats there."

Yukimura gave a very brief but concise overview about everything that was inside this gym. As I looked around, I noticed that there were two other people currently working out in here. I recognised one of them.

It was Shinomiya Mai, from 2nd Year E Class. She was currently running on the treadmill. We met briefly at the pool, but didn't really talk to each other.

The other person was a man lifting weights with his hood up. I couldn't help but think he was sweating buckets underneath that hoodie. It had a cool design though, with red and white stripes going across the hood.

"You can bring your own equipment here if you want, like barbells, skipping ropes, yoga balls, that kind of stuff, but I think this place has pretty much anything you need for training. You can also do a couple of laps around the building to clock a 10km run."

"I see... what do you recommend I start out with first?"

"Depends on what you want to work out. If it's muscle training, then the dumbbells. If it's stamina training, then the treadmill. Alternatively, just do whatever you fancy. I hate skipping leg day, so I always do an hour on the bike every day at minimum."

"Ah. Thanks."

"No prob. The changing rooms are over there, so feel free to get into your sportswear and knock yourself out."

I nodded and started making my way over there.

"Before you go, are you gonna be good on your own, or do you want me to stay and help you?"

"Uh... I think I'll be fine by myself."

"Aight. If you need any help, just talk to Shinomiya, that girl over there. She's a regular at this place."

Shinomiya was an athletic type of person, huh? That explains a lot. I remember her being very good at swimming when we had the races. If I remember correctly, she came fourth overall.

"Great. Once again, thanks for the help."

"Any time. Can't wait to see hench Takanori in a couple of months!"

Yukimura laughed as he waved goodbye to me.

"I doubt I'm going to become that muscular..."

I entered the changing room. To my surprise, it was a communal changing room, rather than separate stalls. Even worse, this room wasn't separated by gender - it was mixed, just like at the pool.