After completing the professional talent quest with my singing skills, I had a few months left until the chess tournament which while being a side quest in my status window will also determine the winner of the bet between Ass and myself.
If I lose it means I have to act obedient and call him by his name properly until I am at least 13 which I really don't want to do.
If I win he said I could be as crazy and unhinged as I would like. So that means I can act how I do at the moment but without getting nagged at to 'be behaved,' by Ass.
As my mom usually does in the morning after sending my triplet brothers off at the door for school she got her morning cup of coffee, put on the morning news and was stretching to prepare for yoga.
"Mom! Can I do yoga with you today?" I asked excitedly.
I had the chance to grab the ability Natural Flexibility after turning 5 and completing all the main-line quests but I opted to go for Injury Resistance instead. My main reasoning at the time was that with a super flexible mom, I'd either be naturally flexible already or I'd have all the training needed to become naturally flexible.
"Sure Luna, but if it becomes too hard you have to let me know right away. No forcing yourself through the pain." Mom said.
Well duh, as a child with growing muscles overdoing it now is not what I want to happen I just want to prepare myself for the future and get the routine down early.
"You've probably seen me do it enough to know what we are starting with side twisters. Make sure to swing your arms all the way around it should be close to hitting your other arm through the back if you were to leave it stationary." Mom explained.
crack pop
"Mom are you sure it's meant to pop that loudly when you do that?" I asked cautiously.
"It's just because I'm old, when you get to my age you'll have the same worries."
I refuse, I'm going to unlock some S-rank ability that prevents again and I'll be immortal and young forever.
"Mom, you don't have to lie make yourself feel better. I'll be young forever."
"Oh yeah... how about we move onto the splits then? All young people I know can do it quite easily." Mom said with a slight bit of venom in her tone.
"I don't think any of my brothers can do the splits though?"
"That's because they're boys they're not as flexible in the hips as us girls are. Follow along with me. Plant your feet out wide and keep going until you feel a slight burn in the inner part of your thigh." Mom explained as she went through the motions.
Just as I started with my legs out making a 90 degree angle between them and continuing to stretch.
crash
Mother Daughter Yoga
"A bit harder than it looks isn't it my dear apprentice?" Mom said as she effortlessly lowered herself down until she eventually reached a perfect splits.
"Mom help me, I want to do that too!" I exclaimed, I couldn't help it just looks so cool.
"You can't just do it one day, you have to train you way into doing it comfortably."
As mom was saying that she helped me up and got me back into the position I started with.
"You feel the burn yet Luna?" Mom asked.
"Nope, not yet."
She grabbed my right leg and moved it making the angle about 110 degrees between my legs.
"Now?" Mom asked.
"Uh, like barely."
"Try and hold it for 15 seconds."
Heh, only 15 seconds that's easy.
And only 5 seconds in, it felt the exact same.
And before I knew it 15 seconds had gone by.
"Heh, mom this is too easy."
"What do you mean? It's only been 2 seconds?" Mom said with a slight grin.
No she wouldn't... would she?
And like that an entire minute went by.
"M-mom I'm pretty sure it's been 15 seconds." I said with evident strain in my voice.
"Are you sure? I've only counted 5 seconds. I mean even if I counted it wrong it should be fine, after all you said it was too easy. Isn't that right"
"Well, y-yeah it is easy. B-but I think I should go onto something h-harder." I said without breaking a sweat.
"Geez Luna you're so stubborn, I just wanted to have some fun."
As mom was lamenting the morning new moved onto one of their sponsored segments.
"Do you want to have fun with the family these school holidays? Drumworld in the Sunshine Coast is waiting for you. With classic attractions and characters everybody loves, with something for everyone whether it be rollercoasters to shuffleboard!"
"Luna, do you want to go to somewhere like that?" Mom asked.
"No thanks, I can just get Ethan or dad to throw me up and down if I want a rollercoaster experience."
Not that I'd ever get Ass to do that. Ughh... recalling his sandpaper like hands picking me up as a baby is more than enough for me to recoil.
"Luna, you haven't been on an actual rollercoaster so how could you know what it feels like? Back when the triplets were your age we all went to Drumworld and they all had a blast. In fact it wasn't until 3 years later that they stopped asking me to go every school holidays."
"Wouldn't that be because they're children. They're not like me, a super-mega-genius, pretty-fit-girl extraordinaire."
"Is that what I sounded like as a kid?" Mom tried to mumble but I could hear it quite clearly.
"Mom even if you did sound like that as a kid you were close to manifesting it into reality. While you might suck at chess, you're okay enough to not be an idiot." I consoled mom.
"You know what Luna there's another exercise we could go through that I think you might enjoy."
For me a future super-mega-genius, pretty-fit-girl extraordinaire, there's no aspect of myself that can be lacking.
"While I might not be perfect yet mom, I will be in the near future show me this exercise." I said excited.
"Sure Luna, this one is called scorpion pose. It's quite simple, you balance yourself on your forearms lifting up the rest of your body into a handstand. After that bend your knees and then your toes until they are almost touching your head." Mom explained without a single pause in breath as she demonstrated.
"Uh... mom, I think that's a bit too advanced for me."
"Nonsense, for a super-mega-genius, pretty-fit-girl extraordinaire, this should be nothing." Mom said as if it were obvious.
"You know what mom you're right."
And like that I first got myself into a forearm type handstand. This part was quite easy. I mean other girls around my age can do. Not to mention that I'm a reincarnator with busted stats, if I weren't able to do this much I would have grabbed the Natural Flexibility ability.
"Luna straighten yourself up more, this isn't like a normal handstand there's more of your weight leaning backward so hunch your shoulders forward for now." Mom advised while I was perfecting my balance.
After a bit of trial and error I finally managed to find the perfect balancing point and from here came the hard part, getting my toes to my head.
Just as I started to lean my toes forward and subsequently fall over mom grabbed my legs readjusting them and advised "Luna, bend your knees first then the toes afterwards."
I tried out mom's advice bending my knees and found that quite easy, after that I just had to bring my toes to my head and as I did that rather than the feeling of hitting my own head with my feet I had the feeling of soft hands grabbing my ankles.
"Luna, do you have no fear? Look where your feet are."
Raising my head I could see my feet were about to hit the ground in front of me and that I was quite close to what they would call an Inverted Bridge Pose.
"Why would I have fear, if I fail I can just try again and again." I said confidently as my hair was about to get into my mouth due to being upside down.
"Alright let's try one more time then Luna." Mom lifted my feet back up to the handstand position.
Attempt two: "Did you even try and change anything?"
Attempt three: "No, no. You need to adjust your balance once you start going lower."
Attempt four: "Why are you shimmying sideways, adjust your shoulders and core."
Attempt five: "How about we just give up for today Luna?" "Never!"
Attempt nine: "I mean I guess this technically counts." "See mom, my superpower is never giving up!"
"Heh, you know Luna it only took 2 tries for this super-mega-genius, pretty-fit-girl extraordinaire to be able to do the scorpion pose." Mom boasted as if she weren't in some way lying to me right now.
"Yeah right! It must have taken you like 100 times, no 200 times to get it done right."
"Nuh-uh, only 2 attempts." Did I just get nuh-uh'd by my Mom?
"Were you like 15 when you first tried?"
"..."