Chapter 4

Standardized Schooling is just as mind-numbing as I remember. Things are slightly better for us young kids since we'll get away with a lot, but it is still just as crap as I remember it being.

Luckily as a 'genius' with actual skills (thank you younger self for doing mental exercises early on and then continuing them) I was able to speed through about 5 years of schooling and am currently working on Specialized studies at the tender age of 6.

In my case that meant working mostly in the gym. There is a surprising amount of autonomy just thrown at children here. I suspect some of that is because of my mom, who still has no name I know of aside from mom. I saw one of the teachers see her hugging me at the entrance of the school, he had a look of terror flash across his face and then he tripped and broke his arm trying to stop his fall. I honestly didn't know that civilians were that weak in this world but it is all the more reason to train and become a hunter.

On that note, focused training has been going on for three months now. With a malleable child's body, people who said Giggity just now should shoot themselves, and some serious yoga, I've been able to get my body to get almost peak human flexibility even if I haven't seen any strength changes yet.

And apparently it's not the school that has just been leaving me on my own. They don't really know what to do with me because the focused hunter schools have age requirements and the public school I'm going to has a budget they can't really split up just to buy me an instructor. For me that basically means free time for the next four years.

Which, of course, I have already planned out to the day. All my time at school is going to be split up in a strict schedule. I've managed to force awake at 6 A.M. often enough that my body does that on its own. I usually have breakfast with mom, dad has mellowed out but still wears his cross, and then go to school. I check in with the front desk to make sure they know I'm there and then head to the gym for a round of stretching, yoga included, and some cardio. I rest after I get tired and hardly ever train to exhaustion. There's usually time left before lunch so I hit the showers and head to the library. Lunch and then exercise until I'm more tired than in the morning but less than exhaustion. Finally, I finish with a shower and a final stretch with meditation. If I feel like it the rest of the evening is study time, playing with mom, or doing something with the computer. I haven't been able to find any games, I think that's because mom did something with her computer to make me spend less time there and more with her, but I don't really mind.

I've fully accepted my new family, overly affectionate mother and dad who kinda thinks I'm the demon. I don't really know what that says about me but I'm content to have breaks with them every once in a while. It's nice to have people who care about you show it.