episode_0028

One day, after the first year of middle school, I was enjoying winter vacation.

I picked up the container of calcium supplements on the desk. Looking at the ingredient label, it looks like it contains calcium mixed with magnesium and vitamin D. It’s a calcium supplement with a lot of different things mixed in.

I don’t know what Do Yoo-geon is giving me as a Christmas present. What was the intention? Are you trying to make fun of me? Umm. The last time I measured, there was a height difference of about 16cm, but as time goes by, it feels like the height difference is increasing rather than decreasing, so it may have been given simply to make me taller.

I appreciate it, but I don’t want to eat it because excessive intake of nutrients is a problem that we need to be aware of. Since I don’t go out much, I take vitamin D occasionally, but I feel like I really need to take calcium.

Although I don’t particularly pay attention to calcium when I eat, the calcium I consume through meals will cover my daily intake. I once saw my mom reading a nutrition book, so I guess she took that into consideration when cooking. That’s right… … ?

My mom has a bit of a sassy side, so I don’t think she’ll cook with much attention to calcium. is not it? Since nutritional intake depends on menu selection rather than one meal, do you think they paid attention to that aspect? Then you probably aren’t lacking in calcium, so why aren’t you growing taller?

When I shook the nutritional supplement container, it made a rattling sound. It’s been almost a month since I received the gift, so it would be better to eat it out of sincerity. If I leave it without eating, I feel sorry for no reason.

I made a cup of cappuccino and brought it over. I waited for it to cool down and put a pill of nutritional supplement in my mouth. It may be an over-consumption of nutrients, but if side effects occur, your doctor will take appropriate action before they become serious side effects. It’s a thoughtless idea, but I don’t know. Nothing bad will happen as long as I take just one packet of nutritional supplements.

I drank coffee with nutritional supplements. It wasn’t hot, but I could feel the coffee flowing down my esophagus, too hot to call it warm. My insides became warm and a warm feeling spread throughout my body.

I like coffee because it has this feeling. It may be a common advantage of hot liquids rather than a unique advantage of coffee, but anyway, it is nice to immediately feel the difference before and after drinking coffee. It feels good because it’s warm.

A cough came out along with a stuck sensation in my throat. what. Did you take the medicine? I swallowed my saliva and checked to see that the medicine had been swallowed and only an unpleasant sensation remained. I couldn’t swallow the medicine properly.

Obviously, in my past life, I swallowed easily and when I was really in a hurry, I swallowed without water, but why is this happening in this life? what is the problem. Is it a technique problem? Or is it just because the airway is narrow?

Well, since he’s a minor, he might have some physical aspects. After all, I am a middle school student. That’s right. I can’t swallow some medicine. What do you think?

Umm.

I just felt strange, so I picked up my smartphone. I sent Do Yoo-geon an emoticon of a penguin stepping on a polar bear four times in a row.

Not long after, I received a KakaoTalk message asking what it meant. I just sent it without thinking, but when you ask, I don’t have an answer. I sent it for no reason. I just replied that I had sent it without any meaning and passed it on.

I finished my coffee and cleaned it up. Why on earth am I not growing taller? It’s not that he hasn’t grown at all, but isn’t it too slow to be the growth rate of a middle school student?

I guess it’s because I don’t exercise. Still, I logged in and walked around to hunt, so it’s not like I didn’t do it. I didn’t walk or run, I just flew.

The secret to Do Yoo-geon’s height growth is not natural growth, but rather the fact that he goes hunting and does exercise separately, so maybe that’s why he grew so quickly.

Is it really exercise? Should you give it a try? I’m not particularly concerned about height, but exercise itself is good for your health, so it’s not something you can’t do. Height growth is just an additional effect.

In my previous life, I just decided to do something but didn’t actually do it, so it would be good to develop a habit from a young age. When you start exercising as you get older, you end up feeling disorganized because you don’t have the stamina to withstand the initial feeling of exhaustion. That’s right. Better do it now.

It’s not that difficult, so let’s try it now. I stood in an appropriate place in the room. First of all, there is no particular exercise that comes to mind, so let’s start with push-ups.

I bent down and lowered my arms to the floor, but suddenly a feeling of embarrassment came over me and I stood up again. Something… … , I’m embarrassed. For some reason, I feel like I would be very embarrassed if my mom, dad, or anyone else saw me like this. There’s no shame in exercising, but it’s strange.

Umm.

Should I lock the door? Locking it is convenient, but I think it would be embarrassing to lock it. Exercising isn’t a sin, it’s not necessarily a sin. Moreover, since there is a possibility of misunderstanding, it is excessive to lock the door.

I put my legs behind me, bent down at the waist, and placed both arms on the floor. The distance between the two arms was adjusted to about shoulder width. Oh, the blood is rushing to my head.

And they told me what to do with my posture. I don’t remember much about exercise books because I only read them in my past life. It should put tension on the lower back but not be too excessive.

As I thought about it for a while, even though I didn’t do anything, my arms started shaking and somewhere between my thighs and buttocks began to tighten. Ugh, I’ve never been corporal punishment before, so what trouble is this?

Regardless of whether it’s the correct posture or not, if I take any more time, I won’t be able to do push-ups even once. Instead of lowering your hips, you need to lower your chest to the ground. To do this, you must use the strength of both arms to support your upper body and slowly go towards the floor.

My two arms lost their strength and collapsed. oh. My forehead hit the floor. It hurts. I fell as if I had collapsed. I rubbed my forehead and it didn’t hurt, it just hurt. There were no wounds, but pain was pain, so I used healing magic. The pain is gone.

after. I can’t eat it. Because I don’t have enough strength, I can’t even do basic exercises.

Oh, now that I think about it, I tried doing push-ups without stretching. Is it fortunate that there were no injuries? It would be absurd if you got injured after trying just one push-up in your room.

When I turned one shoulder, I heard a popping sound and felt pain. I tried rotating my shoulder again to see if something was wrong, but it seemed like it was just a normal condition that happens if you don’t stretch.

Exercise is really difficult. It would be better to leave this difficult task to an expert and not let a layperson do it. Is there an expert who can exercise for you? Of course, the effect of exercise must be transmitted in this direction. Since everything in the world is a fantasy these days, there must be such an expert somewhere in the world. You can level up, but that’s about it.

However, I am almost level 20, so why is my strength like this?

“Schrödinger.”

After waiting for a while, I bruised and locked the door, and a white cat came out.

-Yes, master. Here you are.

“It has a level-up effect.”

When you level up, your physical abilities improve in an unscientific and non-magical way.

-yes.

“I’m level 19, but what’s wrong with my strength? Does the level-up effect not apply to me?”

―I can answer this, but you told me last time not to tell you about this.

Cats are inflexible.

“Then goodbye.”

-I’ll tell you. Anyway, it is being studied in various research institutes, so we will find out soon.

It’s flexible.

―The level-up effect is proportional to the explorer’s original physical ability. Since athletes receive more level-up effects than ordinary people, the gap between the two increases as their level increases. Since it is closer to a stat-proportional buff rather than a stat-up, the gap will narrow again when ordinary people start exercising.

The introduction is long.

―Conversely, the lower your physical ability, the less effective you are at leveling up. However, it does not continue to decrease little by little and get closer to 0. If your physical ability is lower than the standard, there is little effect of leveling up. It’s not that it’s not there at all, but there are parts like fuselage vision.

“Then what about me?”

-Do some exercise.

It’s a valid story, but hearing it from Schrödinger makes me dislike it.

* * *

When you log in, you don’t just hunt. He often does strange things. Mainly Do Yu-geon.

“I think I can cut a rock with a sword!”

“By using skills?”

I’m not sure about the power of the single sword strengthening skill, but maybe it’s possible. I used the skill often and my skill level went up.

“I think it will just work if I use the skill. So I’ll just cut the rock without using the skill!”

What are you talking about?

“Then let’s see if we can cut it with skill.”

So Do Yu-geon stood in front of a rock of appropriate size. The guy looked at the sword with a confident expression. It’s not an item, it’s just a weapon prepared in the preparation room.

“In the age of fantasy, wouldn’t a sword even be able to cut a rock?”

“You might not be able to cut it.”

I hid behind a tree and looked at Do Yu-geon. Do Yu-geon ignores the risk of whether the sword bounces off the rock or not, but this person is not that insensitive to safety.

“I always say this, but you don’t even know if you get hurt?”

“Okay, okay. Take a good look.”

Do Yu-geon raised his sword.

“Strengthen one sword!”

I shouted the skill name energetically, but there was no particular effect. The sword strengthening skill is something that cannot be detected in the subject of sword strengthening skills, so it cannot be seen written down.

If it were you, you would die of embarrassment if you shouted out the name of a skill that had no effect, but shouting it out with joy is amazing. Although I don’t want to be imitated.

The sword was struck. There was no loud noise, but the sound of cutting was heard, and the sword stopped in the middle of cutting the rock.

“As expected! It cuts easily.”

Do Yu-geon placed one foot on the rock as if trying to remove the sword stuck in the rock.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute.”

“why?”

“It’s dangerous. I’ll use my magic to remove it. Don’t use any effort.”

I fixed the sword with one side of my magic power and used the other side’s magic power to gradually touch the gap where it was stuck and removed the sword. It hit me harder than I thought.

“ruler.”

“Good. Then, no skills this time!”

“Are you sure?”

“Then why don’t you do it?”

“What are you believing in and trying to do?”

“Because it’s fantasy!”

what.

“Hahahaha. Don’t make that face. I was just kidding. I got a feel for this while using the sword.”

“What persimmon? Eating persimmon?”

“After spending a lot of time with the presence detection skill turned on, I think I know something that isn’t magic, but I don’t know what it is.”

“……What is it.”

“I don’t know exactly. But I have a feeling that I can achieve the same effect as if I had used a skill even without using the single sword enhancement?”

So, you’re saying it’s baseless confidence? It’s amazing. There is no trust at all.

“Hahaha. I’ll show you, trust me.”

You laugh it off.

“Then, how about cutting down a tree first, rather than a rock? If you can do something similar to strengthening your sword, you should be able to cut down a tree.”

He pointed to a suitable tree. Even if the sword bounces off the tree, the direction it will fly in is constant. There is less risk of being thrown off than a rock.

“Is that so?”

“huh.”

So Do Yu-geon stood in front of the tree. The guy concentrated his mind and slashed his sword horizontally.

“hot!”

Why are you showing off your spirit? Is it a type of self-efficacy?

The sword that was swung dug into the tree and got stuck a little. It wasn’t because there was any special effect, it just got stuck because I swung the sword.

I looked at the extent of the doyugeon being stuck and then looked in this direction.

“It’s as expected. I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, so it won’t work. I’ll do it again.”

He nodded. After that, I nodded in the same situation eight times.

The tree was dug a little deeper than before, but since it was cut with a sword, it was not bent or broken at all. How about hitting with an ax instead of a sword?

“Ah! I think I get it.”

so.

“It’s really possible this time. Just focus and see.”

He nodded.

The tenth sword was swung horizontally and stuck in the tree. When I looked at it closely, the result was not much different from the first time.

Don’t want to damage the blade.

“Once more!”

He nodded.

The 47th sword was swung, but there was no result. That’s a natural result. I just did a lot of treatment for the hand. Treatment proficiency is increasing.

The 78th sword was swung and the lunch box was eaten. Today’s menu is bibimbap. Fried eggs are delicious.

“I can’t do this. I’m definitely going to have to do this. Since I’m at level 20 anyway, I have to catch slimes. It’s special training.”

I don’t know what a level 20 fire slime and cutting down trees have in common, but I nodded.

The 247th sword was swung, but there was no result. Isn’t it time to quit?

The tree seemed a little damaged, so I replaced it with another tree.

“I have a feeling. I think I just need to try a little more.”

I have no idea what the difference is, but I nodded.

And the 1362nd sword was swung. The results are no different from the first time.

“Why not? Why not?”

That’s because it was baseless confidence, I guess.

“I don’t even know if I ask. If you feel bad, swing more.”

The 2645th sword was swung. That’s it. Aren’t you tired? The level up effect is amazing.

“I’ll try a little more!”

He nodded.

Do Yoo-geon continues to work hard to update the dark history. I strengthened my sword with something baseless and unknown, and swung the sword for the 2780th time to cut down the tree with a single sword.

When I put it all together like this, I feel embarrassed to be around you.

“What time is it now?”

“2983rd.”

“I understand. It will be the 3000th.”

“Isn’t that a bit much?”

“Hahaha. I’ll try more.”

He nodded.

Do Yu-geon concentrated his mind and imagined strengthening his sword. That’s what I say.

I’m embarrassed to be around you.

The 2984th sword was swung. The tree was cut down and split horizontally.

what? Why was it cut?

The tree fell and there was a loud noise.

What?

When I looked at Do Yu-geon, he had a blank expression. uh. I don’t know why, but I guess it’s right to applaud first.

I applauded.

“That’s great. It’s as you said.”

Do Yu-geon tilted his head.

“Isn’t this it?”

“what?”

The guy cut down three nearby trees without saying a word. Three trees fell and there was a loud noise.

Then he approached me with an expression of uncertainty.

“This is not what I wanted.”

“What’s the difference?”

“What you were originally trying to do was strengthen the sword, right?”

“huh.”

“Now, this is not a strengthened sword, but just a simple use. So… I can now cut down trees without strengthening the sword.”

Umm. I don’t understand it because it goes beyond common sense. To compare it to a game… … .

“I was learning a buff skill to cut down a tree, but my swordsmanship skill increased so much that I was able to cut down a tree without the buff skill?”

“That’s accurate.”

The result is different from what I wanted.

Anyway, it was a fantasy result, so I congratulated him.