“ 1.5.4 ... 1.5.5...1.5.6...1.5.7, ” an old man was counting. He was sitting on a young man's back, who was doing pushups. The man's eyes were broad open and face had became red pumped. As if within a few seconds, the whole body will burst off like a T.N.T! The veins were coming out from his head to toe. When he was trying to push his body down for the 158th dip, he couldn't control his arms and dropped his body on the ground.

   “ It's enough, master! Let me take some breath. "

—Kintaro said by taking big sighs.

   “ Just this, all you have ! When I was at your age, I could easily have completed 300 dips. Come on show me your muscles ! ”

—Master Urugway said

Kintaro denied by waving his hand. He layed down on the ground, covering his face by his right hand. He was opening and closing his mouth simultaneously with long, big sighs.

After a minute, Urugway said, “ Just two hours passed, a lot of time is left. Come on, let's continue. ”

Urugway and Kintaro ventured to a long patch of land, with bamboos fixed upright with long gaps.

“ Did you remember the last day's lesson ? ”

—Urugway asked.

Kintaro shook his head.

“ Good. Then cross this path by jumping from one bamboo to another. ”

—Urugway commanded.

Kintaro closed his eyes joined his hands for some seconds. Kintaro started leaping from one bamboo to another. Like this he leaped from some more bamboos, but got disbalanced and fell on the soil.

“ Restart from beginning! ” a loud call came from the other side.

Kintaro returned to his mean position and started leaping from beginning. Again ahead some bamboos, he fell down.

“ Focus! Kin. Focus! Think that as if you are on your way to the trophy cup of Syong Combat Championship. ”

—Urugway called out again.

Kintaro with all his determination, leaped toward his desire, slowly slowly he was getting closer to it. Soon, he reached the last bamboo. He jumped with all his might to reach the platform. But something was holding him back from reaching it.

He thought,

“ Do I can really reach it ? Am I strong enough ? Do I can ever see my mom's smile again ? ”

Kintaro fell down on the ground again. He was gazing at his tightened fists closely with big eyes.

He looked no more determined, as per Urugway.

**END OF FIRST EPISODE**

“ What happened? ”

—asked Uruguay in a soft voice while holding his shoulder.

“ I don't know, but do I'm really strong enough to win this competition? ”

—doubted Kintaro on himself.

“ If you also can't win, then you must think that you competed with many powerful warriors , hence you are proggresing. ”

—comforted Urugway with a soft voice.

“No... No.. No. ”

—Kintaro exclaimed.

“ I must win this competition. I want to see the delightful smile again on my mother's face, which I was used to know, past few years back. But i dont know how can i achieve it? ”

Kintaro's hands started shaking and fear was clear in his eyes.Urugway seemed to guess something.

“ I know, why you are scared. Forget everything about your past and just move on! You have to give something to your mom in return to her struggles to raise you as a wise man. She had never made you feel the absence of your father. ”

—Urugway consulted.

Kintaro returned home at evening after a long period of training. His shelter was very old and broken with old furnitures , dusty rooms with insects crawling around.

“ Mom! ”

—Kintaro called loudly and informed.

“ I am back! ”

Martha came out from her room with a blue towel. She wiped Kintaro's wet messy hairs and soaked up face.

“May I tell you something, Kin? ”

—Martha asked with hopelessness

Kintaro could guess something abnormal in his mother's question, estimating something forbidden.

“ Yes... Any issue , mom? ”

—Kintaro asked. He got suspicious by this sudden question.

“ Hmm... Why don't you leave martial arts? There's no fixed income and injuries are common. And this also hampering your studies. ”

—Martha asserted.

Kintaro couldn't make out that why his mother is asking such nonsense and started scratching his head.

“ Have you forgot, what had happened to your father that night? ”

—Martha asked.

Kintaro turned his head with a long sigh.

Martha's eyes got moistened .

“ Have you forgot everything ? Don't be so selfish! Because of martial arts, your father is not between us! And if something happens to you for this horrible profession, then with what I will stay! ”

—Martha exclaimed and burst out of tears and cry.

Tears trailed down from his cheeks, when Kintaro turned his head away from his mother. These comments of Martha made Kintaro remind of his past. He was grining his teeth.Kintaro could easily saw his father in that night, when he was killed. Kintaro was hiding under his mother's arms. That night, some mysterious men in black clothes came and killed Andrew with a big dagger. They devastated Andrew's whole body with repeated staps of dagger. All this sight, made little Kintaro scream from the core of his heart, but no sound came out fom his mouth neither it was heard by someone. Anyhow Martha saved Kintaro from those monsters, but Kintaro couldn't forget that night.

“ Me and my mom survived from those mysterious men but, what if they come back again?If those guys returns, I will surely destroy them from head to toe! They have to answer me for their deed at any cost! ”

—Kintaro thought with a dark shadow of terror spreading around him.

Then suddenly a sound came from the door, Dum -Dum-Dum. Someone was knocking and hitting Kintaro's house door very hardly.

“Who's... that? ”

—Kintaro asked with a trembled voice and fear.

End of the episode