The next day at 9 am.

My second policy for life was set.

To live a solid life.

But living a steady life is a vague thing with no concrete goal or definition.

I have to decide what to strive for and what to aim for.

Well, I've already decided what I'm going to work on.

Study.

Interacting with people.

And exercise.

You may think you don't need to exercise unless you want to get a job in sports or hard work in the future.

Exercise is a necessary element for students.

Exercise on its own is less important than studying.

But that is the case on its own.

There are secondary effects other than the primary effect of being able to exercise.

There is the aspect of staying healthy, but the secondary effect I'm looking for is different.

What I've learned from my dull student life is this.

If you can exercise, you can be popular!

In elementary school, regardless of your looks, if you can exercise, you will be popular (*according to me).

And those who are popular usually have a lot of friends! (*according to me).

I don't know if this will be the case in junior high and high school, but in elementary school, especially in the lower grades, if you can exercise, you will be noticed by the class.

Let's start with making friends in the first grade, which is the foundation for interaction with others.

Exercise to become popular.

You can laugh at me if you think I have an ulterior motive.

This is also for my future. I don't care about appearances.

Besides, I'm not stupid enough to study in the first grade, and there was a TV program that said that whether or not you exercised as a child would determine your future athletic ability.

Considering the time frame, it's best to exercise now.

Once I decided that, I had to take action.

I rifled through the closet in my room and found a pair of children's training clothes that had been lying in the back.

As I had been an indoor person since childhood, I didn't have much use for these clothes, so they must have been neglected for a long time.

I changed out of my loungewear into my training clothes and put on my sneakers at the entrance.

Let's start with physical fitness.

No sport can be played without a foundation of physical strength. There is nothing more important than the foundation.

Knock on the ground with the toe of your shoe.

It's been three days since I got smaller, but I still can't get used to the fact that I'm smaller.

I'm six inches shorter than my previous height.

The height of my eyes, the reach of my limbs, everything is different from my previous body.

Even with the same human body, 22 years of age can make a big difference.

In the sense of getting him used to this body, running is also effective.

"Oh? Are you going somewhere, Sho?"

My mother asks after washing the breakfast dishes.

My dad is at work and my sister is at her karate class.

"It's really sudden. You've never done that before."

"Well, I haven't been getting enough exercise lately."

I'm 28 years old, and I'm saying things that I don't think a first grader would say.

It might be a pretty risqué remark, but since I learned yesterday that my mother is surprisingly slow, I'm sure she won't notice unless I say or do something crazy.

"Hmm, yes. Be careful with the car."

See?

Well, if you're a first grader and your moods are shifting easily, they won't think you're suspicious when you get a little serious.

From Mom's point of view, the change was limited to a change in her taste in clothes.

"Okay, I'm off then."

I took Mom's advice and ran out of the house.

The morning air was pleasant.

The air was pleasant in the morning, and greenery was growing everywhere, adding a touch of nature to the otherwise quiet residential area.

I remember there was a riverbed nearby.

If I remember correctly, there's almost no traffic there, and the air is supposed to be nice and thick with trees.

It's a great place to run.

So I decided to go for a little run along the river.

I came to the riverbed for a run.

It was about 500 meters to get here.

I felt a little uncomfortable with the way I was using my body, but I could run more easily than the 28-year-old me who was suffering from various lifestyle-related diseases.

I think I can run pretty well in this.

This is what I call a child's body. My physical strength is completely different from that older woman.

All right, I'll run 10km or 100km like this!

――At the 3km mark.

"... I, I, I'm going to die... I, I can't run anymore..."

I was down early.

Just because you're a child doesn't mean that you have unconditional physical strength.

Even a child's body will lose its strength if it's not exercised.

Just like me, who stays at home all the time.

The lack of basic physical strength was one of the reasons why I got exhausted early on, but another reason was that I got carried away and went too fast.

I'm going to work hard to adjust the distribution of my strength and raise the level of my fitness.

Unlike in games, there are no tricks or cheats, so I'll just have to work hard at building up my strength.

My goal, for the time being, is to build up my strength.