Yarimato sat down opposite the teacher and began to listen attentively.
Takahashi: Listen here, Yarimato, we humans have a power that is hidden within us, and that is why, on average, a person uses only 20 percent of their power.
But if you constantly push yourself, that figure will reach 80 percent.
Yarimato: What about the other 20 percent?
Takahashi: Sometimes, in situations where there is a choice between life and death, a person can give 100 percent of themselves, and then they can do something incredible, but usually after that, the body cannot withstand it and something breaks or tears.
So, your task is to withstand 100 percent of your strength.
Yarimato listened to his teacher and, throwing ropes over the log, decided to give it his all.
He started pulling, but nothing happened, and Takahashi was about to leave when suddenly the fallen tree began to move, and Yarimato, putting all his strength into it, took his first step, and then his second.
Takahashi was surprised by this, but Yarimato did not stop and tried to take a third step.
Suddenly, Takahashi noticed that his muscles were about to tear, so he cut the ropes, and Yarimato flew face-first into the tree in front of him with all his strength.
Yarimato: I almost did it!
Why did the rope break?
Takahashi: He approached Yarimato and said to him: You were able to move this tree, so you will continue as you get stronger.
Returning to the dojo, Yarimato was barely alive, but delicious food and a good night’s sleep restored his strength a little.
From the next day on, Takahashi-sensei made Yarimato eat right and only do physical training because he was still a child and constantly growing, and in order to become strong, he needed to gradually build muscle strength and improve his endurance.
From that day on, Yarimato continued to carry heavy buckets of water and sacks of rice, and once, when he dropped a sack of rice, Takahashi made Yarimato find all the fallen grains and wash each one.
But for Yarimato it was very difficult because everything was gray, and so it took him a very long time to find all the grains.
After another month, Takahashi made him carry four bags of rice and four buckets of water, and if it was hard for Yarimato, then when the teacher made him carry them up that huge staircase, Yarimato fell dozens of times on that long staircase.
He tried to take care of his robe constantly washing and mending it, because Takahashi said he would not give him new clothes if Yarimato tore this one.
The three maids took care of only Takahashi, and Yarimato took care of himself because Takahashi forbade them to help him so that Yarimato could learn everything on his own.
At first, Yarimato didn’t like it, but then he got used to it, albeit with great difficulty.
One day, Takahashi came up with another impossible task for Yarimato, and when he told him about it, Yarimato thought he would surely die.
Under the mountain on which the dojo stands, there is a river, and if you walk a little further along it, you can reach a waterfall, where Takahashi forced Yarimato to stand directly under the waterfall and try to stay on his feet, but Yarimato couldn’t last five seconds as the mass of water simply knocked him off his feet.
Takahashi also forced Yarimato to swim against the current and sit underwater for at least three minutes.
Yarimato could only last a minute at most, and when he tried to surface, Takahashi grabbed him by the head and prevented him from coming back up.
Takahashi: Three minutes are up.
Yarimato, barely alive, climbed out of the water and began to cough up water.
Yarimato: You can see that I can’t last more than a minute, so why are you drowning me like this?
You definitely want me to die, especially in such icy water.
Takahashi: Once, when a ship sank, rats also ended up in the sea, and they fought for their lives to the end.
Some died after an hour, others after two, and some after five hours, but only one managed to stay afloat for six hours until another ship arrived.
And then one day, it ended up on a ship again, which sank again, and this time even longer than last time, and this time the rat stayed afloat for a whole 18 hours before a ship came to rescue the survivors.
Yarimato: So, what does that mean?
Takahashi: This showed that the rat knew that if it tried its hardest, it would get what it wanted, and when it succeeded the first time, it hoped for the same result the second time and therefore held on three times longer than it could.
That’s why you have to try as hard as possible to surpass yourself in the future.
The training continued, and this time Takahashi began to make his training more difficult, as Yarimato was already doing well with his own weight, so the teacher gave Yarimato weights for all physical training.
These were huge metal plates that were hung on his arms, legs, and torso, adding an extra 80 pounds, which was the same as Yarimato’s weight at 10 years old. Read the latest chapters at novelping(.)com.
Takahashi forbade him to take them off, so the large, cold metal plates weighed heavily on Yarimato, and he felt as if he had gone back to square one, because with them, every push-up, squat, pull-up, and other physical exercises were unbearably difficult.
After another month, a lot of snow began to appear on the mountain, so Takahashi forced Yarimato to clear the snow, and if he saw even one snowflake, Yarimato would have to complete a full daily workout.
Yarimato: But that’s impossible!
How do you imagine that?
The teacher looked at him angrily and said, “Fine, I’ll prove to you that it’s possible, and if you find even one snowflake on the dojo grounds tomorrow, I’ll exempt you from training for exactly one month, but if you don’t find a single snowflake, you’ll have to clear the snow from the dojo grounds every day.”
Yarimato: Deal!
The next day, Yarimato woke up somewhere in the forest and had to spend the whole day finding his way back to the dojo.
Takahashi: You’re back?
I thought you’d die somewhere in the forest like a lost animal.
Yarimato: Takahashi-sensei, that’s not fair.
While I was sleeping, you just took me somewhere far away from the dojo, and that’s why it took me a whole day to find my way back!
Takahashi: That’s clearly not my problem.
Well, did you see even one snowflake on the dojo grounds?
Yarimato: No, because I’m was not here .
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Takahashi: Then you lost, and starting tomorrow, you will be clearing snow from the dojo grounds.
Yarimato was upset by this injustice, but there was nothing he could do about it, so every day he cleared snow from the entire dojo grounds.