Quality time with mom 1

"As I said, not my problem"

'So apparently, I have a tsundere dad and a deredere mom, I can deal with this'

"Mom, is the breakfast ready?"

"No, we both have just woken up"

But my dad chimed in with a "If you want to eat so badly, drink something, at least it will fill your stomach with something, though if it's bad, go grab a banana"

"Thanks for the tip"

"Be sure to leave some space for porridge"

"Ok"

'Porridge huh, at least it's homemade and warm, plus I can always add something to make it taste better, I hoped that my parents weren't one who made cereal for breakfast since I forgot, but my hopes turned out to be true'

After 10 minutes of waiting, porridge was served, it didn't look bad and I tasted it, the taste was also good

"If you wish to, I have chocolate in the cupboard, you can grate a bit of it onto the porridge"

"Don't spoil him so much, if he gets used to plain taste, he will be able to save money by not being able to eat tasteless food"

'I wholeheartedly agree to this. In the military, when something bad happened to the rations, they would always give us this tasteless or sometimes shit-tasting food that, yes, was nutritious, but holy hell did it taste bad.'

'In times like these some of my teammates would go out to hunt, I went out as well, though not as often, because if you got caught, only hell was awaiting you. Thanks to this, my hunting, skinning and escaping skills got quite good'

"I agree"

"Mark, how can you agree to this, eating the same food over and over gets boring, no?"

"I see no problem with that."

*Sigh* "Peter, Mark is becoming like you too much"

"Hahaha, I'm glad he's able to see the gold in my words"

"Just eat already"

After eating I went to my room to study, my mom came as well, since she promised to study with me and after 30 minutes of studying…

*Guh* "How can you understand this so easily, you're a child."

"And you're a grown woman, how come you can't understand this?"

"This isn't something that is taught in school"

"Not my problem"

"Then explain the difference between strength training and muscle training"

"Then let's take a simple exercise as an example. Do you know what a squat is?"

"Yes"

"Then let's say you wish to train muscle, if you wish to gain muscle, you would do a hundred normal squats. If you wish to gain strength, you would do ten squats wearing 10kg. You still following?"

"Yes"

"If you wish to gain muscle mass, or just muscle for short, you do a lot of the same exercise. If you wish to gain muscle density or strength, you do a small amount of very difficult exercise"

"Then isn't strength training more dangerous?"

"Without proper preparation and knowledge, yes, but now that you know the difference between the two and how important breathing and a warm-up is, the danger lowered exponentially"

"Then should I be able to reach the level of a muscular man in strength while remaining slim?"

"No, the first thing is that men are physically stronger compared to women assuming both are training for the same amount of time with the same amount of knowledge"

"It is that way because a long time ago, women stayed back to take care of kids, make food, do house chores and so on, while men went out hunting. As men needed more strength to hunt, they got their wish.

Women, on the other hand, have better flexibility, and have easier time doing things that require finesse.

Due to our ancestors, men are also more interested in things, while women are in people. That's why most nurses, teachers, doctors and so on are women, while engineers, builders, architects, fighters and so on are men"

"That I get, but then what's the biggest thing between men and women's physiques?"

"Men have denser and more powerful muscles, but they lack the control and flexibility women make up with due the lack of strength they have."

"That book you bought was overcomplicating things so much, it's nice to have someone that can understand things that are overcomplicated."

"Yes, but if you must never compare yourself with anyone. Nobody is the same, even twins. Whom you should be comparing yourself with is the past you. If you see no big differences apart age and maybe looks, then you should be ashamed of yourself.

"It's not shameful to be weak, what is shameful is staying weak."

'My mom's reaction to this is quite tamer than I thought.'

"You're as much of a philosopher as your dad, I can never hope to understand how you can comprehend these things on your own."

"For me, they just come naturally"

"Easy for you to say, one time I was given a task of creating ten questions related to one specific thing – a rubber duck. I was able to complete this only thanks to Peter's help"

"Don't worry, I don't like overcomplicated things too."

"Aww, you're so cute, trying to cheer up your mom"

And she started ruffling my hair and pulled me into a hug.

"Unhand me at once or I won't be able to breath anymore and leave my hair alone, if you mess it up, it'll start bothering me once again."

"No, let me enjoy this hug, you don't let me hug you, so unless I sneakily hug you, you won't let me."

"It's not my fault your chest is huge"

"Sorry sweety, but I can do nothing about them"

'Thank God I am a child or else something would have risen and it's not the shield hero.'

"Then I give you until I count to thirty to hug me"

"Why the rush?"

"I'm lowering it to twenty."

*Sigh* "You can't even let your poor mother hug you for a bit"

"Hug me when I'm taller, four"

"But when you get taller, you might become too fast for mother to catch you."

"Then train, nine"

"I feel like you are speeding up the counting."

"No, it's only your imagination, thirteen."

"Then you are randomly increasing the number, that's the only other option"

"Can't you accept that I'm built different, nineteen"

"Where did you learn the phrase 'built different'?"

"Dad"

"He's sleeping on the couch for the next four days"

"Did you know that while men are the main cause of the more serious physical wounds in a relationship, but women are more aggressive, since they don't fear that men will attack them due to laws, twenty-seven"

"How come you came to that decision?"

"Actually, I woke up at 6.30, but I didn't want to wake you up, so I quietly turned on the computer and out of boredom, I looked over the laws of this country and relationship info and after all that, this is the conclusion that I came to."

…

"Umm, how should I be reacting to this?"