Naobito's Training

-Vulcan POV-

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After a long walk, I finally arrive at a familiar cabin in a small desolate forest. Naobito brought me here last time for a couple of years to train me.

Instead of bringing me to school, he would bring me to a gym.

Instead of eating a balanced meal, I would drink protein shakes and eat only healthy food. Anything considered unhealthy by him would be thrown in my face with a punch following it. I was so desperate to call a child protection service that when I decided to steal a phone, I forgot the number, deciding to call the police instead.

At that time, the police showed up, and left just as quickly without questioning me! Not only that, but the old man increased my training by two hours more a day! That meant I would lose two more hours of sleep since the whole day is spent learning on my own and training my body.

Those times were horrific, but I found someone to lean on after a few years. Now, at this time, I have myself. Although his training was torturous, it helped me learn more about the world and be stronger than someone twice my age.

Opening the door, I hear the old man say, "So how much can you lift kid?"

Damn it

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(One week later)

The old man has already begun the training. It was as painful as I remember...

I would be forced to train my body six hours a day, and if I wasn't in enough pain, he would make me lift something even heavier or run even further. The old fart always knew when I was faking it, making sure to beat me up whenever I tried out my acting skills to save myself...

Today the old man was acting slightly different, and I knew why. Looking at me while I am doing push-ups, he says to me, "Brat from now on you are going to be alone most of the time. I will check in once a week on a random day whenever I visit. If I notice you not working harder than before I left, I will start training your bones to develop a resistance against fractures! Hear me!?"

"Yes, Shujin-sama!" I was sweating after the last one, even though I can't repair my body using Spirit Energy. It makes me nervous thinking that he would do such things. I yell in affirmation to him, "I will work myself so Shujin-sama does not have to worry about developing my bone! Please do not burden yourself with such a boring task, as I will make sure to train harder so that such menial things can be avoided!"

The old man would be leaving for himself, in the last life I learned he had another family. Knowing that he had someone else to take care of made me feel happy, but he never told me their family names.

I do know that the real reason Naobito adopted me in the first place in secret was that he was having family problems with his real family. The day before I left him to live on my own, he said that I was always just a way to fill a hole in his heart, but he did come to enjoy my company.

At the very least, I came to respect him too.

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(Five weeks later)

"DAMN THAT PIECE OF SHIT! FUCK HIM! I HOPE HE DIES FROM OLD AGE! FUCK!!!"

Flopping onto the ground, I take deep breaths, trying to rest a little bit after doing over 900 push-ups in a row. After a few deep breaths, I start to regain my composure.

Alright, I'll try once more...

By raising and lowering the body using my arms, I get ready for my push-up exercise.

Lowering my body, I yell to the world, "947!... 948!... 949!... 9- SHIT! It hurts too much..."

My body is completely burning, sweat poring from my eyelids... The pain is a clear warning that my body should stop...

"Damn that old fart!" I am frustrated more at the old fart than the fact that my training regime is too difficult.

After saying he would come once a week, I expected him to at least bring food!

He never appeared in front of me, since leaving, but I can tell that once I stop working out, he will somehow appear and beat me half to death! The old man has me live in a place completely deserted from the outside world, so I have no idea where I am. Not to mention there is no electricity in this small cabin!

Knowing this, I have been eating fruits and inner bark since no animals live in such a shitty place. It was a good idea to bring my Cursed Tools with me to this place, otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to eat that!

It was never this hard in my last life, he would sometimes bring food once a week! There is also the fact that I have thrown up at least twice a week since resorting to eating inner bark.

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I've had enough, next time I see that piece of shit, I am first gonna beat his ass, then tell him to teach me about Spirit Energy! I am sick and tired of eating berries and bark while training harder than an Olympian.

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*Grrrrrr*

A deep bellowing beast sound appeared to bellow me...

Looking down, all I see is a wooden floor, then I remember, "Oh, I haven't had anything for lunch! Yay! I still need to ration the berries, so it's bark day!" I get up and take a few steps outside, seeing a cloudy sky hovering above the giant trees, I say to no one in particular, "It might rain today."

Holding my knife, I walk up to a nearby tree that already has a few pieces of its outer layer missing. Squeezing the kitchen knife, I slash down like I am cutting a cake...

*Crr* *Crr*

Picking up a piece that fell onto the ground, I head back to the wooden cabin.

By setting a fire below a pot, I can cook the bark to make it softer, and by adding tap water to the pot, it would almost taste like sugarcane in a way.

The inner bark can be peeled or scraped off for food. Sometimes pulling into even thinner layers reveals a sweeter center. I just hope the old man shows up in a few days before I go crazy...