What use is muscle if you don't know how to use it.

Yin Peng and Shadow were woken up by a loud alarm.

'Oh, shit' was the only thought that went through both of their minds. Sure enough, the human-dog showed himself, with a disgusting smile on his face.

"Ok kid, good news. You've impressed the system, so we won't torture the girl today. However, if your performance isn't good, then tomorrow we'll go for a more intense torture."

Shadow sighed in relief, while Yin Peng paled. 'What exactly is a good performance,' he thought. 'Do I have to do what I did yesterday?'

The dog continued. "Another good thing is you're only doing fifty sets of sit-ups, so it won't be as bad. Also good, you only get 1 minute per set. Not good for you, but definitely good for me, haha."

Yin Peng really paled this time. Halfway through yesterday he was taking almost all of the two-minute timer, and sit-ups are hard for him, how was he supposed to do them in half the time? He sadly wasn't given much time to ponder.

"Ok, you smell like shit, get your ass in the shower before I stab it."

A bathroom appeared out of nowhere, providing a place for Yin Peng to clean himself. Yin Peng stepped into the door, closed and undressed before stepping into the shoer box and turning the water on.

The hour passed quickly and Yin Peng started his sit-ups. Today he got to twenty sets before gasping for air, and even managed to complete all sets on time, surprising even himself. He even did it fast enough that Shadow looked at him weirdly thinking,' Does he like me?'

At the end of practice, Sargeant Ruff looked at Yin Peng for a bit, before sighing. "You've completed the fifty sets early, so at least you'll both have a chance at this."

This made both Yin Peng and Shadow confused "I thought all he had to do was the fifty sit-ups," questioned Shadow.

"Stupid girl, what use is muscle if you don't know how to use it? Today is speed training, and you'll be joining him in this."

Poles suddenly sprang up from the ground in a sixteen by sixteen formation, five feet off the ground. Sargeant Ruff then proceeded to tell them the rules. "Ok, you each will start at one corner of the poles, the only goal is to keep moving. You will jump from pole to pole, climbing back onto your starting pole if you fall. If you do end up falling, I'll laugh my ears off, and you'll get electrocuted. If you take too long to jump to a new pole, you get electrocuted. The amount of time you have to jump will shorten as time passes. If you two jump on the same pole, triple the electric shock, so don't do that. The time is set for five hours, so get your asses on those poles if you want some time to rest tonight."

Yin Peng and Shadow looked at each other, and then jumped on separate poles, getting ready to start.

"Okay, time starts now!"

A dinging noise was heard, and Shadow immediately tried to jump to another pole. Unfortunately, or fortunately for Sargeant Ruff, she misjudged the distance, and promptly fell.

"Fuck!" That's all Yin Peng heard as he jumped to his pole. He made his first one, but missed his second.

And so this went on for the five-hour limit, both Yin Peng and Shadow each falling a couple of times, or just waiting too long. Finally, it ended, and the poles went back into the ground.

Sargeant Ruff grinned. "Ok, that's all for today, tomorrow we'll have even more fun, so do make sure to get some rest, you're going to need it."

The two 'cadets' groaned. This caused the man-dog to laugh as he faded from sight, heading back to his abode to watch them from a distance, not that they knew that.

Suddenly it was just the two of them. Shadow realized this, and her already red face turned into a cherry.

Yin Peng, afflicted with main character syndrome, was too dense to realize anything wrong. "So I guess we'd better lay down for a bit," he said.

"Mm."

They laid down, but Shadow was too cold, and somewhat scared of tomorrow. "Can I cuddle next to you?" She blushed.

This confused our poor protagonist. "Why?"

"I'm cold."

"Oh, okay."

The two huddled next to each other in the darkness.

"Yin Peng?" Shadow suddenly said.

"Yes?" Yin Peng answered.

"Am I going to be tortured tomorrow?"

This caused Yin Peng to be taken aback, he was not expecting this question.

"I'm sure it will be fine, I put all of my efforts into today's sit-ups, so I'm sure you'll go free."As a gentleman, albeit a dense one, he comforted her as best as he could.

"Yin Peng?" Shadow's voice sounded a little warmer.

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

"For what?" Yin Peng was confused. What did he do for that?

For some reason, Shadow felt enraged by this. For what? For what he said? Her face turned beetroot levels of red, and she started shaking in anger.

Yin Peng, poor Yin Peng, thought she was still cold. He decided to be nice to the poor girl, who he didn't even know that well, and hugged her tighter. This doofus didn't even realize his mistake.

When she felt Yin Peng hug her more, her face turned into a purple onion. 'He dares to tease me like this? He dares to play me like a fiddle?' She was more than past her blowing point. 'Oh, I see how it is. Do you want to play like that? Well, let's see who wins this.' This poor innocent lady thought weirdly, and decided to snuggle into his embrace, in order to 'see who will win'.

And so, as Ruff watched on, the past two day's struggle was forgotten, and a young girl slept peacefully in 'her' man's embrace.