Fury (Saiyan OC x Genshin Impact)

Part 49: I See Through You

"One...! Two...! Three...!"

"One...! Two...! Three...!"

"One...! Two...! Three...!"

Son Wu grunted out these words in a strained hiss on repeat as he performed a handstand pushup on his thumb, crossing his other arm behind his back. He sweated head to toe as the gravity chamber whirred, pummeling down on him at 100X Teyvat's gravity, the highest setting that he could "reasonably" exercise in. His mangled half of a tail bobbed up and down slowly in the air despite the force of gravity acting on it. If the other half were there, one would guess the tip of it would be flicking back and forth with a quiet rage.

Son Wu had completed roughly 2000 sets of 3 pushups on his right thumb, and would finish at 3000. Afterwards, he would switch to his left thumb. He would perform a similar amount of crunches, situps, pushups, squats, and other exercises until he had effectively eviscerated every muscle in his body. All for the effort of rebuilding it all stronger.

Click.

Wu's brow furrowed as Yae Miko stepped into the Gravity Chamber, entering the viewing chamber and gliding over to the window.

"Good afternoon, grumpy... It is the afternoon, if you didn't notice. Considering you've been here since you woke up this morning..." Yae Miko uttered. "I'll have it known that the maidens have prepared quite the feast for you in your room. Perhaps you could postpone the strain and have a moment of peace..." Yae Miko suggested.

"Leave it outside!" Wu snarled, his body already shuddering at having his concentration and breathing rhythm broken.

"...Excuse me?" Yae Miko asked, her nose wrinkling in response to Wu's tone. "You dare speak to me with that tone in my shrine?" She asked haughtily.

"I'm in my gravity chamber, in my room!" Wu hissed.

"A room which you were so graciously granted by me, and a gravity chamber you gained by begging to the Adepti..." Miko said.

"I'll have you know that this was a gift!" Wu said.

"You haven't eaten all day. Frankly, with your appetite, I'd have expected you to keel over by now..." Yae Miko sighed.

"It's called delayed gratification...! Besides, if I trained on a full belly, the gravity could cause my organs to rupture!" Wu said.

"Then stop training in such ridiculous conditions... What are you trying to do, train until total breakdown of your body?" She asked.

"YES!!!" Wu spat. "Just leave the food outside and leave me the hell alo-AAA-"

DWOOOSH!!!

Wu lifted his head to shout at Miko, only for his posture to crumple in an instant, causing his weight to slam down into the floor of the gravity chamber. Miko let out a tired sigh and pressed the emergency button on the terminal.

Vmmm...

Wu panted where he laid, before slowly, shakily sitting up.

He lifted his hand, wincing as his thumb was now bent at a sickening angle, dislocated beyond belief after having 100X his own weight put on it at a catastrophic angle.

"Ah, just look at what you've done... Come, I'll tend to it-"

CRUNCH!!!

"Are you kidding me...!?" Yae Miko let out a startled, astonished jeer of a laugh as Son Wu gripped his mangled thumb, pulling each bone back into place.