Kai woke up at 6 am the next morning. Then he went for a jog. School only starts at 8 am and his mother would serve breakfast at 10 minutes past 7. So he could run for an hour then take a shower and be ready for breakfast. So Kai did just that, he went for a jog then he showered and sat down for breakfast. Breakfast this morning was pancakes. His mom said she had altered the recipe and added a few of her supplements into the batter to make the perfect breakfast. Kai also drank one of his mom's special energy smoothies. Despite the number of medicines and supplements in the smoothie, it tasted great. Kai was currently drinking what his mom liked to call "power-punch."
After drinking the power-punch Kai left for school. He had a friend he met yesterday waiting for him at the gate. Together they went to school. After school, Kai came home, he had lunch then completed his homework. After that, he had trained for 3 hours. Then he tabulated his results and got his last pill from his mom. Afterwards, he went to bed. This cycle continued for a week. After the three hours after school training, Kai tabulated his results. He saw that even after a week of extra training his results were garbage. By now the supplements his peers were drinking were taking effect and they were getting stronger. On the other hand, Kai too was getting stronger but it was not the effect of the pills he was drinking but rather because of hard work. Kai worked harder than anyone when he trained at school and when he trained after school. Of his friends, nobody did after-school training. They found it hard just to bare the training the school provided.
A month later Kai realized that he was falling behind his peers and no matter how hard he trained. Or how much he pushed himself he was making no headway. He started at 10 out of 2000. Now he fell to number 1352. After two months Kai fell to 1500. His friends abandoned him too. They were all in the top 20 and they could no longer associate themselves with him. They were afraid his lack of talent would rub off on them.
Being abandoned by his friends made Kai feel he needed to train harder so he upped the intensity of his training. But it eventually got way too much for a 6-year-old body to handle. So he passed out during the second hour of his after-school training. Because he had passed out the Genome watch Kai was wearing sent out a distress signal to his parents at work. They immediately left their practices and came home to the lab where they found their sons unconscious body on the floor. Zack Adler ran to his son and then picked him up and tucked him into his bed.
"Our son is over-working himself. Look at these results. The number of hours he is putting into training. It's no wonder he passed out. I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner."
"Do you think he is training so hard because of that call from the school?" Brianna Adler said.
"Definitely, I noticed Kai's mood decline round about the time the school called me telling me that Kai had dropped from number 10 to 1352. How dare they tell me my son has no talent and I must send him to a normal passer school."
"It can't be helped, honey. By now all the children's supplements have kicked in where our sons have not. The supplements we are giving him are not aiding him in strength like the rest. Instead, ours only promotes a healthy strong body. The pills Kai is drinking are designing his body so that it can grow to be big and strong. So it's setting the foundation so to speak. The other children's pills are already doing strength building despite their bodies not being in peak condition. So it's obvious our child will not be able to compete with them. Once his foundation is complete we will switch from foundation building to strength building then our son will be number one."
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The Strongest Clan
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