Childhood friends

I know it’s sudden, but when did you meet your first love?

For me, it was when I was in the sixth grade. And it was the only time I ever fell in love.

It was a long time ago. In my previous life, I had been called many things, such as computer-like, cold-hearted, and emotionless, but I guess I was still mentally young at that time.

In the end, I couldn’t muster up the courage to confess my love to her, but even at 26, whenever I remembered it, I would think, “I still love that girl”. It’s really creepy.

Why did I suddenly talk about it?

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Pull-ups ……”

It is because Ichika Kobayashi, my first love, is talking to me.

I could have gone for a run at the usual green park, but today I am in the mood to do some strength training at a park with bars.

Since I started going to elementary school, I’ve become quite addicted to the bars.

Iron bars are good. You can do pull-ups, Dragon Flags (very hard sit-ups) using your legs as supports, and other fancy muscle training such as support rolls and big wheels.

Well, I’ve never done a big wheel, let alone a support roll.

But I didn’t expect that I would have a talk to Icchika-chan.

I hadn’t met her in my previous life until I was eleven, but she was my first love. I didn’t need to use any appraisal to figure it out.

It’s not that I’m a pedophile, but I think she is really cute, partly because of my memories.

“Are you having fun?”

“Yes, it’s fun.”

I stared at Icchika’s face as I continued to do pull-ups. It’s not a perverted thing, it’s just for appraisal.

Name: Kobayashi Ichika

HP: 15/15

Muscle Strength: 6

Magic Power: 1

Agility: 5 ▲

Level: 1

Occupation: None

Skills:

Flexibility Lv1 ⁘ Physical Strength Lv1 ⁘ Muscular Strength Lv1

Unique Skill:  Wisdom Eye

It’s rare to have a unique skill.

I’ve tried to appraise all my classmates and my parents, but none of them have unique skills.

The details are not visible to my level of appraisal yet.I guess there are some restrictions on how you can see other people’s unique skills?

But I think that Ichika-chan I know was certainly a girl who looked at people’s eyes a lot. And even though it’s really odd, sometimes I wondered if she was reading my mind.

That’s why the eyesight skill is just as you imagine it to be.

However, I don’t know if she had this skill in my previous life or not.

“That’s right! I can do a big wheel, just watch me!”

Ichika-chan was staring at me as I was silently doing pull-ups.

It’s not because of that, but because boys want to look good in front of the girls they like.

I’ve never done the “big wheel” before, but I’m sure it’s not impossible with my perfect status and skills.

“What’s the big wheel?”

“What’s the big wheel? The big wheel is, you like this.”

As I said that, I swung my legs wide and recoiled, bringing my body around to the top of the bar.

All you have to do is go back down in a circle. I think I did better than I thought I would! That was what I thought at that moment but then…

Slip.

Maybe it was because my hands were sweating, maybe it was because I was nervous, or maybe it was because I hadn’t trained my grip strength at all. As I spun, I let go of the bars. And with the momentum of the spin, the back of my head hit the ground hard.

“Aah!”

“So, this is what you call a big wheel… Are you alright? Oh, mom! Something happened to him. He hit the ground with a lot of force!”

“What? Oh my God! We need to call an ambulance!”

I heard Ichika-chan’s voice and a panicked adult woman’s voice.

And then I heard the high and loud sound of the siren. 

I’m screwed! Even as I thought this, I felt a lurching pain in my head.

The pain was as intense as what I felt when I had died in a previous life. 

Am I going to die?

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I thought I was going to be okay, but I wasn’t.

I was just hit on the head and fainted, but it didn’t seem to be life-threatening, and with the effect of my “Super Recovery” skill, the pain completely went away after I ate.

“Don’t make me worry so much!”

“Gosh, you’re such a troublesome kid. Good thing Kobayashi-san was there. You’ll go with your father and thank her next time.”

Mom cried and hugged me, while Dad looked a little reluctant. However, maybe because I hit my head, I didn’t get slapped like I usually do.

I always run, train my muscles to the limit, and silently manipulate my magic power. And then, out of nowhere, I hit the back of my head and was rushed to the hospital. Of course, they must have been worried.

I felt sorry for them, but I was quite happy to be able to go and thank Kobayashi-san, or in other words, Ichika-chan.

In my previous life, I just followed her with my eyes and ended up with nothing, but this time, I might be able to be friends with her since we are still kids in the first grade.

Even if I don’t think about the fact that she was my first love, Icchika-chan is the first person I’ve found with a unique skill. Intrigued by this and foreseeing the possible benefits, I also want to be friends with her.

What do I mean by that? And i it possible that we can be friends at this age? Then, does it mean that Ichika-chan and I are going to have a childhood friendship?

In my previous life, there was no one I could call a childhood friend, but I see people having one. In this second life of mine, I finally had a chance to meet someone and become childhood friends with that person.

Ichika and I as childhood friends,

I stared at the palms of my hands, aware that it was quite unpleasant for me to feel my nerves relax at such a thought.

Name: Yasushi Sashima　

HP: 23/49

Muscle Strength: 42

Magic Power: 42

Agility: 36 ▲

Level: 1

Occupation: None

Skills:

Appraisal Lv6 ⁘ Enhanced Agility Lv3 ⁘ Enhanced HP Lv5 ⁘ Enhanced Muscle Strength Lv4 ⁘ Super Recovery Lv6 ⁘ Arithmetic Lv9 ⁘ Mental Resistance Lv8 ⁘ Enhanced Magic Lv4 ⁘ Agriculture Lv4 ⁘ Physical Resistance Lv2

Unique Skill: Repeated Attempts

Are these the results of hitting my head? My Enhanced HP and Muscle Strength levels had increased by one level each. But my HP status points decreased to 23.

And I even gained Physical Resistance.

Is this really true? I said I wanted a new skill, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t expect to get it by making such an uncool mistake in front of my first love, you know?

I was also strangely annoyed at the one level of Mental Resistance that had been raised.