The chilling cold sends a chill down my spine. The chill that bites my skin can even freeze my muscle, letting my soul to slumber in eternal freeze.

No. I’m not being dramatic or anything. It is really cold. Very, very cold.

My eyes might be obstructed by the falling raging water but I still manage to locate my master among its similar-looking kin. 

Over there. Not far from where I’m sitting, I put my master along the flowery decoration on top of that stone my master sits. I made it specifically for it. So, I won’t mistake my master for another ordinary stone.

“Uh...Master?”

[What is it?]

“Are you sure this is the right way?”

[I’m pretty sure it is.]

So, for explanation purposes, my master instructs me to sit under this cold, raging waterfall in the middle of the night. 

Yes. The cold is truly sending chill straight down my very spine. However, just when will this training end?

But, this is one kind of training you always see when reading the training arc in some stories. Let me think. Aha! It is for improving my endurance, isn’t it? Something like to enhance my tenacity or something similar to that. 

Hehe, my master should just tell me straight about that. I wonder what kind of body muscle will form after I do this training. Will I look like the main character from that planet-blowing power-scaling series? Or that guy that can one-punch everything? Or also that bulky teenage character with weird expressions that trying to beat his father who is also the strongest man in the world?

[You look like being happy about something.]

“Hehe. Is it too obvious?” I smile sheepishly. 

[It is too obvious! Focus on your training, young boy! You need to absorb the coldness and ingrain it into your very muscle!]

“Yes, Master!”

I shut my mouth up and simply endures the cold water.

*******

Two weeks already pass by. So, do my training comes out well? I do it every single night but even now it seems like I still don’t get caught with cold or anything. Does the endurance training really work? Does my skinny body produce some abs? I don’t have a mirror or anything but I’m pretty sure I already look like some shounen protagonists, right? 

[My devout guardian, now come here. We will see the result of your training.]

Or so it says but I can’t lie I’m not excited or anything. I actually look forward to it.

[Now, listen to my instructions carefully.]

“Yes, Master!”

[Stand tightly.]

“Yes!”

[Clear your mind.]

“Yes!”

[Shut up your mouth.]

“.........”

[Go remember the coldness of water with your body.]

“.........”

[Now, become one with it. Forget about the warmth of the human body. Be immovable. As if all your body is made out of hardness.]

“........”

“.........”

“.......??”

Uhhhh. This is weird.

[Uh, Master…?]

Huh, my voice doesn’t seem to come out.

[Splendid. Now, you succeed in your training. I never fail my own expectations.]

[Master… Something feels weird….]

Since when the world seems to be bigger? Uh, I can’t move my body. Oh! I can’t feel my hands and feet either. I can’t–

Wait!

Something is weird. Now my master is on the same level of height as me.

No, no, no!

I am the one who become the same level of height as my master! It couldn’t be?!

[Uh…Master?]

I… need to say it.

[Did I just become a stone like you?]

[Well, yes.]

I can’t say anything. My mind only says one thing; ‘OHHH NOOOO!!!!!’