Ishiki pushed the gates with his eyes closed and... the gates didn't open. They creaked once and then stopped.
'Huh?'
Ishiki looked up, with a bittersweet smile.
'Goddamn piece of metal.'
Then he pushed them once again with all the strength, the rusted hinges creaked with sound that echoed through each and every corner of the abandoned settlement.
Ishiki was pushing with all his might and that was making his head spin, and yet the gates just moved little to nowhere.
"Damn it!"
He pushed with a sudden surge of power once more and out of nowhere, the gates fell with a deafening crash of metal on stone. They were torn from their moorings.
CRACKKK!
He shuddered at the noise, then looked down at the rusted metal gates now laying at his feet like fallen sentinels. Has he gotten stronger?
'No way in hell, I am almost at half my original strength.'
The almost two weeks he had spent here had eaten away on muscle mass. If anything, he should be weaker now.
