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I heard a strange sound.

“Isn’t it bad that you’re 11 years old?”

Positive Noona had never looked at me like that before, but when I saw her, she seemed more surprised than me, with her eyes wide open and her mouth wide open.

“Hey!!!”

The shouting of a positive older sister echoed throughout the gym. It was the loudest voice I’d ever heard.

“Just kidding~ Will the kid understand?”

Of course I understood everything.

“That kid is a genius, he understands everything!!!”

“Hey, wouldn’t it be weirder if an eight-year-old knew that?”

Is that so? Should I pretend not to understand this? While I was thinking hard about it, my sister’s friend asked me.

“Kid, do you know what I just said?”

“…..”

“Look. The kid knows everything!!”

“Really?”

“Ah.. No, I don’t know?”

“Oh my, I know you’re sorry. I was just joking to make you laugh. I didn’t think you’d understand. Sorry. Did I offend you?”

“No, it’s okay.”

“You really know?”

“…..”

“Is that how kids are these days? I couldn’t even think about that when I was eight? Is it because I’m a boy? How did you know?”

“…..”

In this situation, the regressor was in trouble. Even when I think about it, I feel like it’s something that an eight-year-old shouldn’t know, so I can’t say anything carelessly.

“Say hello. The kid is my friend Joo Aram. The little one is Seo Jae Hoon.”

“Hello.”

“Haha okay bye!”

“Is your sister still at the gym?”

“Why? Do you want me to go? I’m going to stay today?”

“No, I was just curious, so I asked.”

I asked because of the positive older sister’s private tutoring, but I guess I’ll have to pass on today’s tutoring.

“So how long has Jaehoon been boxing?”

“It hasn’t even been a month yet.”

“The kid still knows the basics of boxing.”

“Oh really? It hasn’t even been a month?”

“You’re teaching me so harshly, considering my age, saying, “What are you complaining about for ten years?” ”

“Huh?”

Positive older sister telling Aram older sister what I said on the first day.

“Hahahahahaha this is seriously hilarious. The aftertaste is awesome. Hahahaha.”

Although no one acknowledges my ten-year dissatisfaction with the gentleman’s treasure, my will is not broken.

“This is the first time I’ve seen an elementary school kid like that! Hahahaha.”

“Heh heh. I’m seeing this for the first time too. Don’t hate Jaehan for no reason. I don’t know when or how I’ll get revenge.”

“…..”

“Hahahaha. Ah, I’m crying. You’re not taking revenge on me for making me laugh, are you?”

“…..”

“Really? Are you really going to do it?”

“No, I won’t do it.”

“Hahaha, thank you. But it’s scary. Who would have thought that someone would hit the back of the head and sharpen a knife for years? Hahahaha.”

“…..”

“It’s time to start running now, kid.”

“Yes.”

“I’ll be watching! Ah, it’s been a while since I laughed so much.”

Today, I was running like usual. I was doing push-ups, sit-ups, and bodyweight squats.

“But why do you do squats with only your bodyweight?”

“They say that if a little kid puts weight on his growth plate, it can cause strain.”

“Puhahahaha. Oh, seriously, why is he like that. Hahahaha.”

“…..”

I was embarrassed because I couldn’t just mess with him because I happened to see him sparring earlier.

Still, I gained some courage.

“Growth plates are important. What if they stop at your height?”

“Why? Aren’t I the perfect height for a pretty girl?”

“Sister, do you like Snow White?”

“A little? Why?”

“Because I seem to have princess syndrome.”

“Oh, that’s right. He’s a bit self-absorbed.”

“Why? But I’ve been confessed to several times. I’m different from other single people.”

“I didn’t meet you because I was exercising!!”

“What’s wrong with being single? Just meet one person someday and get married!!”

Aram Noona’s one word was a double hit, including the one for the previous life’s prospective magician.

“Isn’t that what the guys you can’t date say?”

“Kid. Ignore what I say and I’m going to teach you how to kick today.”

“Yes.”

“Basically, depending on where you hit, there are low kicks, middle kicks, and high kicks. I think you know this. In the case of low kicks, depending on where you hit, there are outside kicks and inside kicks. Do you know? ”

“Yes. If you just kick the inside leg, it’s an inside kick, and if you kick the outside leg, it’s an outside kick, right? That’s what the name is, right? ”

“Heh heh. Right. Just learn how to kick. When you kick, think of it as kicking lightly with the strength of your waist and hips. ”

“Okay! Try kicking the mitt I caught. It’ll give less impact to your legs than a sandbag and won’t hurt your growth plate. ”

“Oh~ That’s good.”

“Puhahahaha I’m going crazy. My stomach hurts.”

Ignoring Aram Noona, who was laughing next to me, I practiced low kicks, middle kicks, and high kicks.

“You know you have to be careful when using high kicks, right?”

“Is it your head?”

“No, no, that’s secondary. You’re not going to compete. There are no rules. If you get greedy and kick wrong and fall, you’ll lose.”

“Oh really?”

“The most vulgar thing in a street fight is to just kick and run away. I don’t know about the fighters, but kids can’t walk after getting hit a few times.”

“But can I teach that to her?”

“It’s okay because he’s a genius.”

“Yes, it’s okay.”

“And in real life, try not to use middle kicks.”

“Why?”

“You may not know it now because you’re young, but when you grow up a little, it’ll be really dangerous if you get hit by that. In some ways, a middle kick might be more dangerous than a high kick, right?”

“Better than High Kick?”

“That’s right. When you get hit in the head, it only takes a certain amount of impact and gets pushed back, but the body doesn’t get pushed back much because of its weight. If you get hit properly, it can damage your organs, and if you get hit above the waist and break the ribs and get stuck in the organs, it can kill a person quite easily, right?”

“Oh… Okay, I understand.”

Since I only studied in my past life and never learned how to exercise, the new knowledge that my positive older sister taught me was more fun than I thought.

I started it out of revenge, but I felt like I wanted to continue it until I became an adult.

“There are other kicks, but I’ll let you know once I get to a certain level of this first.”

“Okay, I got it.”

“I’m bored, but Jaehoon doesn’t spar?”

“Me? With whom?”

“Nana, are you positive?”

“Is that practice? I feel like I’m the only one getting hit?”

“You learn while getting hit.”

“Hehe, hehe, do you want to try it?”

After thinking about it, my head told me not to, but my heart told me that I wanted to try sparring at least once.

“Just a taste?”

“Do you have headgear and gloves for children?”

“I think it would be okay to use the woman’s one?

I put on the headgear and gloves that my positive sister gave me and went up to the ring to face my positive sister Aram.

“Don’t worry about me and swing it around as much as you want, okay?”

“Sister, have you ever worried about me at all?”

“Haha come on~”

I took a step forward to swing my fist at Aram’s sister’s face.

-pop

“Huh?”

“Okay, this is it!”

By the time the hand appeared in front of my eyes, it was already after I had been hit in the head.

“Are you sick? Come back in ”

I took another step forward.

-Boom boom

“Huh?”

“Okay, how about this basic one-two?”

“Sister, but the arm length doesn’t match?”

“Of course. There’s a height difference, so you have to dodge. I won’t attack this time, so swing.”

I approached Aram and swung my fists at her, but she dodged them all.

This didn’t seem like such a big deal since I had already done it to my older sister.

“Okay. Do you want to taste more?”

“No, it’s okay. I’ll do it later when I grow up.”

“You just got hit and you’re a gentleman, so you’re not going to get hit again for ten years, are you? Haha.”

“No. I expected it from the beginning. What.”

“I thought it was petty. It wasn’t?”

“…..”

I got down to the ring and checked the time. It seemed like it was almost time to finish, so I got ready to go.

“I’m going to go now. Thank you for today, sister. See you later, Aram sister.”

“Hey kid, be careful~”

“Hahaha it was fun. Jaehoon, see you later?”

That’s how today’s boxing ended.

On the way home.

But today, since I didn’t exercise too hard because Aram was there, I was able to maintain my Confucian boy mentality when I went home.

“It’s out~”

“Are you here? You came early today?”

“I came here without studying because I had a friend named Positive Sister.”

“But since Positive teaches you how to study, shouldn’t you buy him something?”

I told my mom the opposite because I couldn’t teach a 19-year-old to study, but she seemed concerned about that.

I always appreciate getting one-on-one kickboxing instruction, so I thought a small gift would be nice.

“Can’t you give me a small gift?”

“Um, what do you like?”

“Money is the best, but since it’s a gift, a book culture gift certificate to tell them to study hard?”

“Oh, your son is smart, isn’t he? Hehe.”

“Then, Mom will give you a gift certificate later, so give it to Yeojeong? Hehe.”

“Okay~”

***

“Son!!!”

My dad wakes me up after I wash up and take a nap, asking if I have just come home from work. He is rude even though I am sleeping well.

“Oh, you’re here? Why? I’m sleeping well.”

“I have to eat!”

If it’s rice, then I admit it. I got up right away, left the room with my dad, and headed to the dining table.

“You said your son made money with stocks?”

“Right?”

“How much did you earn?”

“A little over a million won?”

“No, no. What percentage is the rate of return?”

“Forty off?”

My dad stares at me blankly with his mouth open.

“Why is your son so good at stocks?”

“Is it because my mom turned on economic broadcasts since I was a baby?”

“I keep reading the newspaper too?”

“Pfft! Isn’t it more important who sees it than what you see?”

“…..”

“I take after my mom, so I only watch economic broadcasts?”

“Hehe. Whose son is he~”

Dad, realizing that he had no chance of winning, started eating quietly.

“If Dad just gave Mom the money he would lose instead of investing in stocks, wouldn’t Mom be happier?”

“Hehe. Whose son is he? He only says pretty things~”

“When Ye-eun grows up, she’ll be better at stock trading than her dad, right? Right? Ye-eun?”

“Yeah! I can do better!!”

“Huh. Whose children are they? They are really pretty. Aren’t they, honey? ”

“…..”

“Dad, is the food delicious?”

“…..”

“Mom said she lost money on dad’s stocks, but she made a delicious meal so he could eat well.”

“…..”

“Hehehe.”

I can see that Dad’s expression has reached its limit, so that’s it for today.

“Yeun-ah. Eat a lot. The food is delicious.”

“Yeah! I like mom’s cooking too!”

“Hehehe.”

After finishing his meal, Dad quietly got up and headed to his room.

Looking at his expression, it was a solemn expression as if he was looking forward to the future.

I think I’ll have to focus on mental training for the time being to prepare for my father’s attack.

Today was a complete victory for me.