He nodded in approval. “Tired yet?”
“A little,” I lied.
He got up and walked over to me, then bent and lifted a larger kettlebell as if it weighed nothing. “This one is sixty pounds. Think you can lift it?”
I chewed on my lip. “I don’t know.”
He laid the weight on the floor again. “If you need more strength, you just need to ask your Mori to give you more.”
“More?” My body hummed with the strange power filling it. I didn’t know if I could handle more than that.
“If you’re not up to it, it’s okay.”
I knew what he was doing, and still I let myself be goaded. “No, I can do it,” I said to him as I told the demon what I needed. Within seconds, I felt more power flowing into my body. I bent and gripped the handle of the heavier weight and tried to lift it off the ground. It might as well
