(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 118

Chapter 118: This is what I’ve got to work with?

Bree raised her hand.

"I’d like to be part of the first group to run it." She said, and the other two nodded.

"Well, we have an even number, so only two at a time for safety reasons." Kellen told them, and the three of them nodded. They nodded at his words, and the two Guides who joined from the afternoon class did a quick game of rock paper scissors before the one who won joined Bree at the starting line.

The course was set up as usual, but Kellen and Brent had marked out different sections with cones. They thought it was a reasonable distance between each set, and would help them understand their physical prowess and also trouble-shooting capabilities in tense situations.

Kellen and Brent grabbed their clipboards they’d made, along with the sheet that had all of the Guides names on it. Kellen pulled out his phone to keep time as well, making sure Brent had done the same thing. Then, they nodded to each other.

And so began the obstacle course challenge.

Most of them couldn’t make it to the second set of cones that marked the course. Bree surprised them and managed to get to the fourth set, but she almost severely injured herself by falling in the wrong direction, so they forced her to stop. There was another Guide who made it to the third set of cones, but overall, a fairly disappointing showing.

The Guides were beating themselves up, probably because Brent and Kellen had made it look so easy. Kellen wasn’t sure how to appease them, but decided to continue on with the lesson.

With Brent as the example, he made them all watch and observe as he had Brent slowly run through the course again, and Kellen explained what Brent was doing, and why he was doing it. Kellen made Brent stop after the sixth set of cones, since he was sure no one was going to get past that, at least in this class. Then, he made them run it again.

Everyone did get further, which they were clearly proud of themselves for, but Kellen had to keep his own disappointment inside. How had Guides who had wanted to be Field Guides have so low of fitness?

After they finished their second round of their run, Kellen and Brent split the group back up and ran them through some basic, but important exercises that they wanted the Guides to begin to do. If they were serious about becoming a Field Guide, they were going to need to start working out. Even twice a week would help them, and they had left a plan for working out in the Guide gym as well.

One of them asked if they would run into Kellen or Brent there, and if they did, could they ask them for advice. Kellen froze. He wasn’t sure how to tell them that he wasn’t ever going to see them at the lower level gym because he was at the A Class gym. This was because he had an obsessive, S Class Esper as a pair, and wanted to make sure Kellen was always safe, but Brent saved his ass. Brent told them that the two of them worked out in the A Class gym as a reflection of how much others respected their abilities and that if they tried hard enough, they could end up with the ability to work out there too.

With that, the first class ended only about half an hour over time, which meant that Kellen and Brent had to rush their own lunch, but that wasn’t a big deal.

Honestly, Kellen was pretty surprised by how everything was going so far. He thought that some of them would get discouraged and angry at the results of the obstacle course, but he was wrong.

In fact, it seemed that instead of making them feel bad about themselves, it had instead invigorated them. Even those who he had thought were going to be intimidated by them had the same, fierce look in their eyes. Brent and Kellen had done their best to provide a clear statement that things were only going to get more difficult as time went on, and instead of them flinching, they had come back ready to learn. It was inspiring that the first class was showing such a strong will.

But that was the first class.

The class after lunch was a different story.

If the first class was anything to go by, Brent and Kellen weren’t expecting much in the way of physical ability. The second class only had one person who got to the third set of cones. Even after they had gone slowly over everything again, and showed them what to do.

Their attitudes were also incredibly awful. Kellen had thought that the afternoon class would have had a conversation with at least Casper and the Espers doing the ’cleansing’, but given the way they looked at Kellen and Brent, and their way of speaking, Kellen could not believe that had happened. At least, not yet.

There wasn’t fear in their eyes when they looked at Kellen. Which made it obvious to Kellen that they hadn’t heard about what he had done yet. That, and lunch had really soothed the beast that had been inside of Kellen. That was still inside of him.

"I was just checking up on the Espers who had almost surged. We kept them on the floor above until now just in case something happened. They’re fine now. My team did a great job, but as the lead, I have to make sure." Her eyes looked over Kellen, glowing green for a second as she glanced over the two Guides, before going back to her normal blue shade. "I also saw the video that Casper sent to the group chat. Are you okay?" Her voice held genuine concern and Kellen blinked. They had a group chat? A group chat for what? And why wasn’t Kellen in it?