Chapter - 3

*Pip* *Pip*

Is it an alarm clock? Please stop ringing, I want to sleep..

*Pip* *Pip* *Pip*

A little more, if you don't shut up, I'll throw you out the window.

*Pip* *Pip* *Pip* *Pip* *Pip* *Pip*

- "Raaaaa!"

I quickly jumped out of bed to grab the fucking alarm clock and threw it on the floor with all my strength.

* BAM*

- "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS NOISE IN MY HOUSE EARLY IN THE MORNING?!" - an angry female voice made my future flame go out like a match.

- "I'm sorry Mom, I just fell out of bed!" - I said in a sweet tone, but all over my back I now felt sweat in three streams. Oh, my God, that woman.

After removing all the garbage from the broken alarm clock, I went to the bed and quickly made it up. Taking my casual shorts and T-shirt, I went down to the first floor.

The delicious smell that I felt while going down was intoxicating.

In the kitchen, as usual, standing in front of the stove, my mother deftly wielded a knife in her hand, maintaining a perfect balance in her grip. My dad was sitting at the table watching the morning news on TV.

When breakfast was ready, the whole family started eating. Stuffing an omelet into my mouth, I couldn't help but enjoy this taste.

- "Katsu.. Saito.. I'm going on a business trip tonight." - mom said with a deft movement, grabbing a sliced cucumber and looked at us with her dangerous gaze: - "Since I won't be there, you will stay at home alone, so God forbid there will be a mess here.. You won't get off easy with me."

And she put a cucumber in her mouth.

My father and I immediately started nodding as a sign that we had heard her well. Even though we were sad that we were parting with mom, while Mom didn't see us, we nodded to each other thinking about one thing.

In the evening we helped my mother to collect all the necessary things. We hugged for a long time, because we didn't want to part. We were now standing together with Dad and looking at mom who was standing in the doorway with a bag in her hand. We had tears of sadness on our faces from the fact that we would not be able to eat mom's delicious food.

"I hope you're crying because I'm leaving and not because of my cooking?" She asked in a stern tone, to which she received quick nods.

- "Well.. Don't mess around without me.. I'm off!" said Mom and went out, closing the door behind her to get into a taxi that was waiting for her at home.

Left alone, we wiped our snot off our faces and got fired up. Because the moment has come when nothing can stop us from doing what we want!

"Are you ready to know the truth, my son?" my father asked in a righteous tone.

"Yes, my pious father! " I answered like a young monk.

After these words, we immediately ran to our rooms to collect everything necessary. When we were ready, we were already fully armed at the door to go to Dad's Taekwondo club, where we are actually going.

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- "A little more! Come on, come on, you only need to do 30 push-ups." - my father shouted at my back while I, by the sweat of my brow, tried to do at least 1 more push-ups so that the total was 15.

- "Father! I can't take it anymore, let's stop!" - I begged him, begged for mercy, but he did not accept my words just like a real coach!

Stop.. He's already a coach now..

Now he was teaching me physical exercises that needed to be done before the practice itself. As they say, if you do everything without warming up, you can injure yourself.

It was very hard. In my previous life, I never played sports because I couldn't. But now that I have felt the full weight of the athletes, I finally realized that it is not so easy to be the best in any sport.

Taekwondo is cool, of course, but the effort it takes is just crazy. My father has a black belt and he knows for sure that now is the best time for me to do stretching.

- "Even lower.. Well, well.. Don't be afraid.."

"Are you really my son?"

- "Why were you burning with spirit at home, and now you're acting like a girl?"

Old man! You'll break my legs with your own hands. Well, don't put so much pressure on me, even though I'm a child and I have to sit down on the splits calmly, but this is the first time I'm doing it! Be gentle with me.

*Inhale*

It's exhausting.

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Now I'm already lying on the mats in the shape of a star. My body hurt a lot, but now I really felt the weight of the workout. The realization that every time you get stronger and stronger, greatly excited my feelings.

Now I understand why Ken Ryuguji and the other guys are so strong. They trained a lot, learned from their own mistakes and became stronger with age. But when I think about a genius like Sano Manjiro, I get a little jealous.

Although why should I be jealous if I have a divine reaction that was given to me by that strange god. When I was still little, my dad took me to his club and during his workouts I saw all his movements as if in slow motion, but when I tried to move my arm, I felt like my body couldn't keep up with my eyes.

Since then, I realized that I somehow need to try to make my body as strong and resilient as possible.

"Are you still lying down?" my dad asked, sitting down next to me and handing me a bottle of water.

- "Thank you, Dad.." - I replied, feeling a little refreshed now after drinking a drink.

Sitting on the mat, my father looked at me with sparkling eyes and patting me on the back said: "You did a great job, Katsu.. "

"Can I become as strong as you?" I asked my father.

- "Of course you can! You're my son!" he replied, chuckling.

He was proud that his son also has a passion for sports. It was a blessing for him that at least someone shared his interests. He never thought that his son would look so much like him as a child. No, he will become even better than himself.

"Go take a shower and we'll be coming home... It's getting late," Dad said, pointing to the clock, which showed that it was almost midnight.

I replied and ran to the locker room to take a shower.

Seeing his son running away, he had a bright smile on his face.