More training squared

After two games

"You forced mom to go all out, if you win continuously, you will get arrogant"

After a while

"WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD ALREADY, LET ME WIN AT LEAST ONCE"

"Mom, the soup is cold"

"This is your fault, you distracted me so I lost the track of time"

"You're the one who suggested to play card games, not me"

Suddenly I feel a hand on my shoulder

"It's nice to know that my son got my talent in cards"

"Honey, there is a saying that says that one can either be good in love or cards, there is no exception"

"Then I'm the exception, I can't say the same about you, Mark"

"I'm not good at cards, it's just that mom is very bad at them"

"Peter, please tell that I'm above average in cards, you even taught me about them and all that"

And I started third-wheeling after this.

"Mark didn't lie, saying you're bad is a praise for you"

"You're sleeping on the couch for the next week!"

"I heated up the soup, so don't worry about it going cold"

"I changed my mind"

"Though I'm amazed at Mark's ability to concentrate for so long, you've been playing for half an hour now and he was so focused that he didn't even notice me"

"He must have this inherited from me"

"Maria, who is the smith of the family, me"

"Darling, you can't sit still doing nothing for hours, where's the patience in that?"

"You can't either, you must talk to someone at least 6 hours a day, you energy bomb"

"You're totally sleeping on the couch this night"

"I'm not"

"Try me"

And the I pulled out my camera and tugged my dad's shirt

"Dad, I have to show this to you"

And I showed him the photo

"Mom promised that she would not punish anyone for whatever I said after she wrote this and said "Fuck" and she said that I will be going to kindergarten tomorrow instead of next week"

"You're at fault here Maria, this is the proof, though where did you pull this out?"

"My pocket"

"THERE IS NO WAY YOU HID SOMETHING THIS BIG IN YOUR NON-EXISTING POCKETS"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Mark, you got Maria so hard, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this just made my day for the next week"

"This is serious, a child shouldn't curse, especially when he is 4"

"Let him cuss all he wants; cussing is a good way to release frustration"

"But he's just 4"

"He's my son, I spoke my first curse when I was 3, so I was expecting him to curse as early as me, though I have bested him in this regard."

"Tch"

"Mark, this is not the time to be jealous of your dad, admit that I am better and we could go our own ways."

"I'm totally going to curse a buttload after this"

"How can you fit curses in two barrels"

"Through my imagination"

"Though they will probably will all be fucks, shits, and damns"

"It's not my problem that English is so poor in curses, do you know any other language that has more curses?"

"There is Lithuanian and Russian, though Lithuania is winning by a large margin in term of curses. They have a lot of words in their vocabulary, so their curses definitely go above 1 million, Russian curses are shorter, but most of them can't be applied to English easily"

"Dad, can you find someone to teach me both"

"I can teach you the curse part, but sure, I wanted to learn both for a while so we can learn together from DVD's and if you learn fast about forging, I might hire a private teacher for you"

"PETER, WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING TO MARK, DON'T ENCUORAGE HIM TO CURSE MORE"

"He's a boy and he will grow into a man, curses are a must to learn if he wishes to be The Man, though he will never surpass me"

"Dad, don't be so sure about that"

"Mark, listen to this well and engrave this into your memory for eternity; a wounded lion is still a lion"

"Understood"

"Now let's eat, you will need the energy, because we are going for a training session after this"

"For training?"

"Yes"

And we started eating.

The soup turned out to be good, the pasta turned out to be a good addition to the soup

'System, can I check my parents' talents and titles?'

[No, you can't because you don't have 'Appraise']

*Sigh*, 'how much does it cost?'

[As I told you before, you can't buy it]

"Mark, why are you sighing, does the soup taste bad?"

"The soup's taste is good, I'm mentally preparing for kindergarten, the fact that I'll be spending time amongst stupid brats doesn't exactly attract me"

"Don't go around calling the brainless straight to their faces, they might become your friends in the future"

"Feel free to thing about them anything you wish, but just make sure that nobody doesn't know about those thoughts of yours"

"Peter, what are you suggesting to him?"

"A compromise for his situation, he already feels like an adult in a kid's body, I'm sure he will understand what I said"

"Dad, I finished eating, can we go train now?"

"Ok, give me a sec and I'll be ready, wait for me in my library"

"Understood"

"And through when I'm teaching you, refer to me as master"

"Ok"

I quickly changed my clothes into something that game me room for movement, I have to thank that soul for getting plain and comfortable clothes only.

[The artificial soul has been erased due to its defect]

Ok

I, then, came to my dad's library and, since there is nothing to do, picked a random book and started reading it.

Its title was "How to learn more efficiently"

I have to say, it is a good book, it gave me a few perspectives on learning I haven't though about in the past. This might make the whole process of learning shorter.

"You like books, it is normal, curiosity is a powerful thing considering that you're still a kid"

'I didn't even feel my dad behind my back, my focus might kill me one time'

"You're startled by presence, guess your focus is quite amazing"

"Can we begin training, master?"

"Sure, though there will be three parts in this training: endurance, strength and agility, I will start teaching you about forging once you can dead-lift 100kg 10 times. Because you are a child, muscle training is kinda wasted on you, so strength training will be the way to go."

"Ok, now put on these 1kg weights on your body, since you need to build endurance and strength, not muscle, I will push you to your utmost limits, same for resting"

A/N: 1kg~2.204 pounds, now do the math yourself if you wish to.

"As my dad says, everybody works hard as me, but rarely anybody rests as hard as me. I have already hired the people to make your training as effective a possible, so you will spend till 2 in the evening and then we will start your 4 hour long training, and then another 2 hours for recovery, also, I can secretly wake you up at 5 am. 

We could have another 1 hour training session, do you agree to this? And keep in mind that we will not train once every four days and every month we will take a week long break, sometimes 2 if it is necessary, are you ready for all of this?"

"Yes, yes, now can we begin training?"

A/N: Happy new year!!!

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For those that are reading this later than the posting time, I posted this chapter at the 1st of January, 00:00 sharp