Friends

Today is my birthday so my parents took me to a playground, they knew that I needed to socialize with other kids. Some human kids and Fish-Man kids tried talking to me but they were mostly boring as they were at the same age as me, the ones I wanted to talk to were older kids. There was a group of friends that was a mix between humans and Fish-Man. They were older than me, and they seemed nice so I talked to them. They found me interesting so now we are friends.

My training showed too much improvement so my parents started monitoring me more which in turn caused me to do less exercise and my strength didn't improve as it should, it was at times like these that I wished I didn't have parents, even though I love them. My training speed deteriorated fast, but I was still able to get something out of it, I could do 10 pushups without even sweating, 20 pushups but a little tired and the max I could do before I dropped to the ground was 25 which is impossible for a baby even a Fish-Man known for their surreal strength.

Besides that my jumping jacks improved a lot my breathing and I could even breathe on high altitudes, as well as maintaining the exercise for 1 minute and 20 seconds. If my training continues like this then maybe one day I could learn a breathing technique from demon slayer, but I would need to know how he trained to get to it which the only part that was shown in the anime was him running up and down a hill while dogging attacks.

Me and my new friends are now playing in the sand box, there are 5 in total, including me. There is one Fish-Man other than me, his name Kaiyõ he is older so his fish features are already showing. He is a lionfish, his coloring is white with some black stripes, there are some little claws to the side of both his arms, similar to batman's gauntlet, his eyes are green and hair is black.

To his left is a human named Tsuki. His hair is white, and his eyes are deep black it's like looking at an abyss. He is the only one I know a little about as I have met him before, he is such a hyperactive kid when I went to the market with my mother another day I found him there, he was bothering a shop owner so much I thought he would get kicked out of there.

To my right is a girl her hair is dark green the same color as her eyes. She was the first one to speak to me, her favorite thing to do is care for nature, it is my guess that her family are botanists and maybe natural pharmaceuticals that use plants for medicinal purposes. There was a very weird kid. He was a hybrid of Fish-Man and Humans, his hair was blue, his skin was greenish and his teeth were a lot sharper than a normal human's.

We played for hours there, it was super fun, man how I missed being a child, the feeling of having no algebra ooh that's a dream. "Good bye friends" I say to them while I get up, to leave they respond with goodbyes. I see my parents waiting for me at the exit of the playground. "How was your day sweety? Did you have fun?" my mom asked me with a sweet voice, "today my day was really good, I had a lot of fun!" I say to my parents as we are leaving. We picked up my brother during his way home, today was his first day on his job, he was a bartender in a small restaurant.

*Timeskip 30 minutes*

We were at the dinner table, the food was already ready. While I was playing on the sandbox with my new friends my mom went home and made food for later. Today something very good happened to all of us as the food was looking spectacular, it was her special meat with orange sauce.

"This meal is to congratulate my husband for getting a raise, my Ryu-Ryu for getting one year older and my other son, Enyo for getting a job!" she says excitedly, I had no clue about the raise, but knew about the job my brother got. On one hand the raise is going to help us escape poverty, but on the other hand they might hire a nanny if they have enough spare money, which in turn would make my training speed slower.

The meat is very succulent and delicious, as I am eating dad asks me, "son can you tell me why you are so strong? You are just a one year old but your muscles are very different, even if we are Fish-Man we shouldn't be this strong from birth" I freeze, trying to think of an excuse, "our bloodline, that is the reason why I am so strong" my dad then says, "yeah but your cognitive skills are also surprising, and I know for a fact that our clan does not boost the brain's power"

sweat drips from my head I try to think of an excuse and answer without thinking, "it's because I read various books" my dad thinks for a while but refutes me by saying, "you could think as a person with developed cognitive abilities before we gave you access to books" 'there is no escape, im f**ked. it was at this moment he knew, he f**ked up' I laugh a little at this joke despite the situation im in, my dad seeing this gets confused and starts to rethink the events.

'That's good I have confused his emotion sensing abilities, now all I need is mom to intervene' I was trying to remain calm this whole conversation because of his emotion sensing.

"Son seriously who taught you all these things and how were you able to read at that young age?" 'perfect, he asked the right question' a smug smile creeps on my face without me noticing as I say, "mom taught me how to read and speak" she gets surprised by me putting the blame on her but still helps me fake it, "yes honey I really did help him" she looks at me with the classic face of you owe me one. We all remained quietly eating until I finished, this time I didn't go to bed because my parents were teaching me manners.

Only when everyone finished I went to bed, it was so boring we didn't even talk, we just kept quietly eating. My dad didn't even tuck me in bed today because they were teaching me responsibility, this was very annoying because I was a baby that needed to sleep but because of my mental advancements my parents started teaching me all these boring stuff.

I take a little longer to sleep than most times as I was thinking of a way to avoid the questions that my dad asked during dinner. I slowly closed my eyes and went to sleep.