Sunday! Sunday is "training-day". As the name implies, it's the day I spend training to keep myself from becoming being fat, like I was a while ago. I wake up in my bed at 6:45. Yes! The earlier I wake up, the more time I get. Full of excitement, I run to my wardrobe and pull out some training clothes. It's so quiet right now. While I walk towards my bed to dress up I hurt my toe on my desk. I sit down on my bed and inhale and exhale heavily as a result of the pain. I quickly put on my clothes and stare at a drawer for a couple of seconds. I then grab a watch that was lying on top of the drawer. A treasured watch that I'd gotten years ago when I moved into this household. With swift movements, I navigate across the room and got out. Once again, I'm greeted by Mom's door. To the right of Mom's room is Elin's room. Both of their doors are closed, which means that they're still sleeping. Well, I expected no less from those two.

I run down the stairs, through the living room and kitchen and then I run down another couple of stairs. When I'm in the basement I run up to a pillow lying on the floor in the room left to the staircase. I pull up a yellow folder containing a final draft of a chapter for my manga. I've been drawing a manga for a monthly magazine for a while now. I started the manga at the beginning of this year, I've been keeping it a secret from my family. Mostly because I don't really see a reason to tell them. I always drop the chapter off on a Sunday, So I decided to do it today. The manga is usually at the top in the popularity polls. I also write a web-novel that's pretty popular. Of course, I do all this as a hobby. It's nice to get the extra money and it's pretty fun. I run outside really quick so that no one wakes up and sees me. Once outside, I look around the neighborhood to check what's going on. Like always Eleonora, a neighbor whose house is in front of ours, is up and gardening. If I recall correctly, she's a third-year at my high school. Wow, to think that she's 2 years older than me. She's looking at me with a strange look on her face, I just smile and start to run. I'm running towards the forest west of our house, it's unusually quiet today. The wind calmly blows at me as the sun is rising up in the horizon. At the corner of the street Akane, a classmate of mine, is standing and staring at me. Akane's heart beats faster and faster the closer I get. Slightly flustered Akane says

"Good morning Simon, how are you today?"

While running at a slightly slower pace I respond

"Ah, Good morning Akane. I'm doing pretty good."

I then raise my pace and run away. Akane stands in confusion.

Like usual, I'm not doing too good in the social department. The office where I drop off my chapter is on the other side of the woods.

On the other side of the forest, there is a road. On the other side of the road, there is a bunch of buildings, including the "manga office". Oh, yeah I have to put on my disguise. I put on a scarf and pull my hood up. The building is a pretty big one, it's 5 stories tall. The editorial room is on the 3rd floor. I struggle to open the entrance door, I usually push but it says clearly on the side that you're supposed to pull. As I walk in I feel the air conditioner blow in my face almost blowing the scarf off my head.

"Mr. Kentarou if you're here to leave this month's chapter in, Ms. Maria is waiting for you in the editorial staff room."

A red-haired girl in her early 20s said to me. She has blue eyes, soft lips, and shoulder-long hair. This girl's name is Ai, she acted as a receptionist at the office.

"Thanks" I replied with. I take a right to walk up the stairs. I run up the stairs as fast as I could. The editorial room is big but feels pretty cramped thanks to all the desks in the room. In the back of the room I notice a familiar smile, it's Maria. Maria has long black hair and is a very mistress-type of lady. She has a sadistic side and a sweet side. She has brown eyes and a seductive smile. She's also quite "well-developed" in her chest area. She waves her hand towards me and I do the same thing. I try to navigate the cramped room and finally make it to her desk.

"Good day Maria, I have this month's chapter here with me." I say to her. Her smile widens as I hand her the folder containing the final draft. She opens the folder up and reads through the chapter. After my legs get tired after 13 minutes of standing up, she finally finishes reading the chapter. Maria stares at the last page in awe. I get a bit worried that it might not be good so I say

"If you didn't like it, I still have time to redraw the cha---" I get interrupted by Maria

"How can you be that humble when you created something like this? This was extraordinary!"

I get a bit surprised. I didn't think it was that good.

"Really? I mean, I didn't think it was that good." I say.

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"No this was seriously good. Although your Japanese grammar isn't that good. So that's something I'm going to have to edit." Maria responds.

"Sorry about that." I said and chuckled a bit. After talking some more with Maria I leave the office to go work out in the forest.

Kentarou Mizuya is the name I chose to use as my pen name. I don't really have an inspiration for the name, but I chose the "Mizuya" part because it kind of sounds like "Miss yah" in a Japanese accent. I kind of regret it now, but when I started high school this year I thought it was genius. To think that Maria really liked my manga, I guess all those years I spent drawing and writing paid off in the end. I had decided to use that strange ability I got yesterday to stop time and then I have as much time as I want. I stand in the middle of the forest trying to figure out how you activate it, that strange time-stopping ability. I sit down on a branch after a couple of hours of trying to activate the damn thing, at least I got a lot of exercise trying.

Why the hell isn't it working? It happened twice yesterday, so why isn't it working now? After struggling a bit more with activating it, I decide to just exercise like normal for today. I run around the forest for about 5 hours until I finally decide to go home. While running home, I felt a certain anger inside of me. The sky had turned dark, a big contrast to the welcoming sun I had seen this morning.

Big clouds started surrounding me and not too long after it started raining like crazy. I felt my wet shirt rubbing against my body, an annoying feeling if I might add. After a solid 5 minutes, I reach my street while breathing like I'd just run a marathon. Generally, I had pretty good physique so I could handle running for a hot minute. Sweating like crazy, I reached our front door. It was kind of a strange feeling, both sweating and being covered in the cold rain at the same time.

When I entered the house I got greeted by two staring eyes, namely Elin's eyes.

"What're you wearing!? What is wrong with you?" She yelled at my face.Thanks to it raining and it being a white shirt, you could see through my T-shirt that I was wearing. I looked down and noticed that. I sighed and responded

"Do you really have to fuss about everything? How much energy do you have?"

Mom came sprinting into the hallway and stopped a couple of meters in front of me.

"What wrong? Did something happen?" she then says.

"No, it's nothing. Elin is just freaking out about weird things, like my shirt being see-through thanks to the rain." I tiredly responded. After exercising the whole day I was pretty tired. Mom was staring at my stomach, pretty intensely. I scratch my head in confusion and say

"Mrs. Katrin?"

Sometimes Mom's "real" name just slips out of my mouth. Mom quickly shakes her head and responds

"It's nothing special. But when did you get such muscles? I remember when you first moved in with us, you were a chubby little boy." She says it almost drooling. I say

"It wasn't an overnight change, I worked hard for several years to reach this level. Like I have with everything else."

Katrin gets stunned after I say that. I shrug and say

"Well, I guess I'm done here now. I'll go take a bath now if you don't mind."

I sprint into the bathroom with excitement. Ever since I moved to Japan, this was one of my favorite things to do.

15 minutes into my bathing session I get a knock on the door.

"What is it?" I ask. Katrin's voice responds with

"If you want to, I could wash your back."

I think about it quickly and respond with

"No, it's fine. I can wash it myself."

I go back to washing myself when Katrin says

"I insist. It wouldn't trouble me to do it for you."

I think about it some more and then respond

"I mean, if you insist I'll take you up on that offer."

Katrin then enters the bathroom. She's wearing tight T-shirt and jeans that makes her impressive figure more visible. On top of the T-shirt and jeans, she's wearing an apron, probably because she was just making late dinner. She grabs a stool and sits down right behind me. She stares at my back for a couple of seconds before starting to wash it. She starts up a conversation with

"So how has Japan been treating you? I know you didn't really want to move here."

Water falls down to the floor creating a splash sound. I can feel her boobs sitting lightly on my back and her breathing down my neck. I say

"That was a long time ago I didn't want to move here, about 2 years ago maybe. Now, I kind of like Japan a bit more than Sweden. Although the Japanese language is really hard."

Katrin continues to scrub my back with a slight smile on her face. A bit of water splashes onto her long blonde hair, she looks at the stain with her green eyes and sigh a bit. She says

"I agree, it has been very hard for me to learn it. Elin's lucky though because she was taught by her father at a young age."

I nod a bit to show her that I understand. I then say

"Do you think you could move back a bit? It's a bit uncomfortable with your boobs touching my back and feeling your breath down my neck."

Katrin instantly gets embarrassed and moves back a bit, causing her boobs to bounce a little bit. She then asks

"How can you say that so casually?"

I turn around and smile at her. I respond to her question with a question

"Why wouldn't I be able to?"

Katrin gets flustered and tries to say something before getting interrupted by Elin. As usual, she yells at me for a bit until she leaves in anger. After that, the night progresses like it usually does. I go to bed at 2 am with a grin on my face.