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[System: The Server has shut down. The servers will restart at 7 p.m. current time is 7 a.m.]

1st day of the 6th Month of the Federation Calendar, Year 2612

'Ah… I forgot the server time was almost up.'

Grunting in his mind about how he had failed to inspect the skill book, Axel removed his VR headset and stretched in bed, before getting up, and changing into some work-out clothes, which was essentially the sports clothes his school had made him buy.

After doing some static stretching, for his arms, legs, back and chest, Axel began to do some exercise.

This was no simple exercise, but it was the military routine followed by the new recruits of the federation. He had been following this routine ever since his parents had returned. They forced him into following this strict routine to improve his body condition, which was slightly worse than what it was currently.

But he was unable to stick to the routine, especially the training, and he gave up halfway, when his parents died.

But this time, he would not make the same mistake, and so, he decided to start the exercise from today itself.

First came push-ups; 10… 20… 50! That was his limit. He could not do a single more, despite having KI within his body. In fact, if he did not have KI in his body, Axel doubted that he would even be able to do 10.

After taking a 5-minute break, he went to do crunches, followed by sit-ups. He also needed to do a 1 km jog, however, he did not have the time, since school was waiting for him.

The jog would have to wait until he returned. Instead, he did some colling down from all the exercise and stretched his muscles once more before going for a hot shower to loosen any tight muscles; not that he had too many.

Changing into his clothes, Axel quickly left his room and began to cook breakfast, barely finishing in time for Lily's appearance.

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After dropping Lily to school, Axel quickly made his way to his own school. Unlike before, he was not panting, and in fact, he reached somewhat early considering he had crossed a distance of over a kilometre.

'Huh, my 1km jog is done?' he thought to himself as he entered the school premises.

Walking up the stairs, he noticed a ball of fat rolling- ahem, running towards the gate.

"Dan" Axel nodded at the exhausted Dan.

Dan, who had sprinted the last 10 meters before the school gate fell onto the ground, gasping for air. After a moment or two, he asked Spark the time.

[7 : 40]

"Huh? Axel, is Spark malfunctioning?" Dan asked as he slowly lifted himself off the ground.

"No." Axel replied as he patiently waited for the fatty to get up.

"Then why are you here? Did you not go to drop Lily to school today?"

"I went"

"My god. The world is going to end. You reached school early for once! And here I was, running my a*s of thinking I was so late that I can to school before you. My god, don't scare me like that again, or I really will get a heart attack."

Axel simply nodded. He had a feeling that Dan was not lying about the heart-attack, based on the amount of sweat building up on his body.

"Dan, you and I should start exercising together. I will try and build muscle; you will try and lose weight."

Weight was a trigger point for Dan, and he was about to go at it with Axel, but he soon saw the serious and determined look on Axel's face. Calming himself, Dan sighed,

"Unfortunately, I can't. I have work"

Axel thought for a moment or two before shrugging.

"If you tell your father that you wish to begin working out, he will give you enough free time to go to a gym, as well as enough money to get a membership. Oh yeah, and if he agree, do tell him to get a membership to the same gym for me as well."

Although a gym membership was plenty expensive, if Dan's father was paying for it, it was basically nothing. In fact, his father could very well just buy up a few gyms as a long-term investment opportunity.

"Ho? What is this I hear? The stick and the dumpling plan to go to a gym?"