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Why am I a little scared in Chapter 483?

The town of Suizhi was not as lively as it had been the day before; it was rather quiet and deserted in the early morning.

Because it wasn't fully light yet, there were no tourists on the streets, and almost no residents either. Only some people who were preparing to open their shops were already moving goods or making preparations for their products early in the morning, which illuminated some of the shops on the street and dispelled much of the darkness.

Wearing sportswear, Aize ran here. Although his speed was not fast, it was definitely not slow either.

"How are you planning to run away, Master?"

Cong Yu floated behind Aize like a ghost, following him closely. Seeing Aize running at a considerable speed, she immediately asked a question.

"Hmm... let's run a few laps around the entire Suizhi first."

Aize breathed evenly, maintaining a good pace, and his movements were so fluid that it was a pleasure to watch even from the sidelines.

"The final stop will be the Budokan."

Although Aize hadn't returned to Suizhi Town for several years, it was a place he had lived in since childhood and had trained there before, so he wouldn't wander around aimlessly.

"Martial Arts Hall?" Cong Yu was taken aback at first, then realized and said, "You mean Ushio Academy, right?"

Pelican College, as the name suggests, is a school.

It was originally a martial arts dojo, used by the residents of Suizhi as a kendo dojo. However, as Suizhi became a tourist destination and times changed, kendo gradually fell out of favor in Suizhi, and the place was neglected.

Later, the town decided to convert the martial arts hall into a school, and that's how Pelican Academy came into being.

However, Aize still prefers to call it the Budokan (Martial Arts Hall) because when he was a child, Kurama Genjuro trained Aize and Rentaro there, and Aize also practiced kendo there, so he is quite familiar with the place.

“My grandfather used to make us get up at this time and go outside to do some morning exercise, with the martial arts hall as the destination, where we would learn how to swing bamboo swords.”

As Aize ran, he recounted past events to Cong Yu.

"According to my grandfather, this kind of morning run is considered a warm-up before kendo training, which made Rentaro complain a lot."

After all, what kind of warm-up is it to run a few laps around the entire town of Suizhi?
Let alone children, even adults would be exhausted after running this distance, but Kurama Genjuro said that this level was just a warm-up. How could no one complain?

Aize complained about it a lot when he was a child, but after getting used to it, he actually started to treat this level of morning run as a warm-up.

"As expected of Genjuro, his standards are indeed strict." Cong Yu said with some admiration, "Master is also remarkable, actually persevering under such strict requirements."

“Because I’m quite interested in kendo,” Aize smiled and said, “No, I should say I’m interested in all the ways of using weapons and tools, right?”

Azer, who was exceptionally gifted in this area, spent a lot of time experimenting as a child, trying to find out the limits of his unconventional talent.

So, Aize has tried everything, from swordsmanship and spear fighting to gunfighting, which only appears in novels. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been interested in kitchen knives and even thought about slaughtering pigs and cows in a slaughterhouse.

His life was very ordinary, as if he had just transmigrated to another ordinary world. He did not become smarter or his grades skyrocketed. He also did not have the talent to do business and make money. After transmigrating, he became a billionaire. Even his martial arts skills were mediocre. He did not become a martial arts master or a master of Chinese martial arts.

However, when it comes to skills that require the use of weapons and various tools, Aize is almost like he has a cheat code. Even if he knows nothing beforehand, he can quickly grasp the essentials after getting started. Even when his mind is blank, his body can swing the weapon as if it were instinct, and his combat power is exaggerated beyond belief.

The reason why Aize's kendo skills are the best is because he was taught by Kurama Genjuro, which made his kendo skills improve rapidly. In other aspects, he is mostly self-taught. Although his skills are just as impressive as others, they are still slightly inferior to those who have been taught by kendo masters since childhood.

With such a miraculous thing happening to him, Aize was naturally extremely curious. He was interested in all kinds of weapons and tools, and whenever he had the chance, he would either teach himself or find a way to get others to teach him, which is how he became the way he is today.

However, to perfectly utilize these skills, having the corresponding talent and aptitude is not enough; one also needs a physically robust physique.

Just like kendo, if you're not physically fit, you can still play, but you'll get tired after a few moves, so how can you enjoy it?
To learn and use any sport, skill, or technique well, one must have sufficient physical strength to perform well; otherwise, even if one masters it, the effect will certainly be greatly reduced.

So, although he was very tired, wanted to complain, and even thought about stopping and giving up more than once, whenever Aize touched a real sword, a real gun, a real axe, or even a wooden knife or a tree branch, he felt an urge to show off his skills and couldn't help but swing them. So Aize gritted his teeth and persevered.

And so, this persistence lasted for more than ten years.

Aize, who has insisted on jogging and exercising every morning for the past ten years, may not be able to say that his physical fitness is comparable to that of a superman, but his physical education grades at school have always been overwhelmingly high, and even teachers and some professional coaches are no match for him.

He has also attracted the attention of some sports colleges and universities. When he was in high school, he was recruited by some sports colleges. Now he is only a junior in high school, not even a senior, and many sports colleges have already claimed that they want to admit him in advance. It seems that even the national team has taken notice of him.

Currently, the world record for the men's 100-meter sprint is 9.58 seconds, while Eze's best record to date is 9.89 seconds.

How could a high school sophomore with such physical fitness, achieved through daily exercise, not attract attention?
All I can say is that Aize has put in a lot of effort for his own interests.

If that weren't the case, he might still be the same as in his previous life, remaining a low-level laborer until he entered society.

“We had no idea that there was such a hardworking child as Master in Suizhi Village.” Congyu said with emotion, “My impression of Master when he was a child was that he just followed Roka around all day.”

"...That's not my fault, it's just that my mom keeps telling me to go play with Sister Luhua all the time." Aize's lips twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but say, "By the way, Xiao Congyu, have you ever seen me when I was little?"

"Isn't that obvious?" Cong Yu raised her head and puffed out her chest, saying proudly, "I've watched everyone in Suizhi grow up, including Master."

"However, even we don't often wander around outside this early, so although we have an impression of you, Master, we didn't know that you've been such a hardworking person since you were a child."

"When I think about how my master used to get up so early every day when he was a child and has been training and practicing swordsmanship all this time, I feel like I've missed out on so many wonderful things."

Cong Yu seemed genuinely disappointed.

However, she quickly cheered up again.

"But that's alright, we will train with our master from now on and grow stronger together!"

No, we're not training to get stronger anymore; it's just become a habit...

Aize's current goal in exercising has shifted from improving physical fitness to preventing it from declining and becoming rusty.

He is, after all, just a human being, and no matter how much training he undergoes, he can never surpass the limits of humanity and become a superman.

Therefore, Aize didn't have high requirements for his physical fitness. He only wanted enough for himself to indulge in and mess around with, and he never thought about training himself to become anything extraordinary.

Perhaps that's why, despite exercising since childhood, his physique hasn't become exaggerated.

He is the lean type, looking thin in clothes but muscular when undressed, with a golden ratio of muscle definition. He doesn't look like a muscular man at all, except for his hands, which have a lot of calluses and don't look like the hands of a high school boy.

However, he does have eight-pack abs, which Cong Yu noticed when he changed clothes that morning.

At that moment, Cong Yu was screaming with her face flushed red, while unconsciously opening her hands that were covering her eyes, looking like she was about to drool, which left Aize speechless.

"Can you get up this early every day?" That's what Aize asked.

"Master, have you forgotten? We are not human! We don't need to sleep!"

Cong Yu's words left Aize speechless.

Recalling the scene when he opened his eyes in the morning and this cute girl appeared on his head and talked to him, Aize hadn't thought too much about it before. Now that he thinks about it, this girl may have been floating on his head all along, watching him sleep.

Why am I a little scared?
"...Master, are you thinking about something particularly rude again?"

"No, you are overthinking."

"Please look me in the eye when you speak."

"........."

"Ah! I moved it! I moved it again, feeling guilty!"

"Ouch! Don't bite my head!"

The two started bickering and teasing each other along the way, which made passersby look at Aize with strange eyes.

In their eyes, Aize was just putting on a one-man show and had no idea that he was just fooling around with Cong Yu.
Fortunately, no tourists witnessed this scene, otherwise some bad rumors would definitely have spread.

Don't forget, Suiori is also a cursed town, an ominous place in many people's eyes where dog spirits reside...

…………

Aize ran from the time when it was still dark until daylight had fully arrived before he finished.

The main reason was that he wasn't in a hurry and kept jogging slowly, which naturally took him a bit longer.

When we reached the final stop, Pelican Academy, it was still deserted and almost no one was there.

Because it's still the holidays and school is on break, there's not a single person here yet.

Aize took a stroll around the area to familiarize himself with the surroundings.

Chao Wu Anqing had already told him that after he transferred here, the academy he would attend would be this Pelican Academy.

Asahi Yoshino is currently studying here, as are the Kurama siblings. Roka Maten used to study here too, but she has now graduated. Instead of going to university, she runs her family's confectionery shop and has become a proud member of society.

Aize wandered around the school where he would be staying for a few hours before returning to Kenji Shrine.

When Aize returned, he happened to run into Asahi Ansei, who was sweeping the floor.

"Hey, Ai Jun, you're back!"

As Aize, dressed in sportswear, jogged over, he smiled and squinted at Wu Anqing, greeting her.

"Good morning, Mr. An Qing." Aize smiled in response and said, "You're already up?"

“Yes, I usually get up quite early, after all, I need to clean the shrine grounds and prepare for the shrine’s work.” Asagi Yasuharu said gently, “Yoshino is still sleeping, but she should wake up soon.”

"Breakfast will be ready in a little while. You can take a shower first."

"Oh, right, I'll introduce someone to you later. If you need to go out, Ai Jun, remember to let me know first."

Asahi Ansei gave Aize his caring instructions, as if he truly regarded Aize as his future son-in-law and the future successor of the shrine.

"Okay, I remember."

Aize nodded in agreement.

"Then we'll go for a walk for now and come back for breakfast."

Seeing this, Cong Yu immediately prepared to make a run for it.

My owner was about to take a shower, so I couldn't just keep following him, could I?
Although she was no longer human, she considered herself a girl with a sense of shame and simply couldn't openly follow her master into the bathroom.

So, Cong Yu slipped away very quickly.

Aize didn't mind. After greeting Chao Wuanqing, he went inside to take a shower.

As luck would have it, just as Aize was passing through the living room and preparing to enter the bathroom, the sliding door to the living room opened.

"Good morning~"

With a soft, lazy greeting, a girl in pajamas swayed in, looking like she hadn't woken up yet.

His completely unguarded appearance made Aize stop in his tracks.

"……Good morning."

After thinking for a moment, Aize replied to the other party as a sign of politeness.

"...Mr. Aize?"

But when Aize greeted her, Asagi Yoshino, who was still a little sleepy, suddenly woke up.

The two looked at each other in the living room, speechless.

"Snapped!"

A moment later, Yoshino Asagi suddenly slapped her face hard.

"it hurts……"

Tears welled up uncontrollably in the girl's eyes.

(End of this chapter)