Chapter 70 - Little Spidey’s Path to School Hegemony (2/2)
Peter Parker's mind became haunted by this thought, and during the 'family dinner', he finally managed to summon his courage and say very abruptly: ”Boss, I can keep your secret hidden, but you must teach me your Chinese Kung Fu! Otherwise, I will… I will….”
”Are you jealous?” Facing Peter's unspeakable threat, Saint just felt amused. This kid quickly had the courage to ask for such a thing, and called his style Kung Fu…. Facing this, he quickly went back to him old pretext and said: ”Peter, your personality is too jumpy, and you're too deep into your beliefs in modern science. You would never be able to grasp the concept of Ki, let alone learn my style of 'martial arts'. I'm not making a pretext here; I'm just laying down the hard cold facts…”
Hearing those words, Peter's head sunk into his arms in disappointment. Seeing that he believed him, Saint breathed a sigh of relief and added: ”But if you really want to learn martial arts, I can teach you striking and fighting skills and make you a good fighter. While that won't make you exactly a superhuman, it would be more than enough for you to beat two or three of your fellow students, even when you're still a beginner.”
”I'm not trying to beat my classmates…” Peter hurriedly answered, and then pointed to Lorna saying: ”What do you mean by fighting skills? Like the stuff Lorna is learning from Ms. Colleen?”
”You can say that.” Saint nodded: ”But it's still different. Colleen's style revolves around balancing one's flexibility and rigidity to grant them better passive defensive capabilities. I can teach you a more aggressive style, one that's more based on attacking.”
”How long will it take for me to be able to beat two or three stu…” Peter accidentally leaked out the true thoughts in his mind, and then embarrassedly changed his tone saying: ”How much will it take me to learn Kung Fu?”
”It will depend on your learning ability, and on the time and effort you would put into this.” Saint first gave a vague answer, and then looked up to Peter and said: ”If you work hard enough, in a month or two, you'll be getting a good glimpse of the way before you.”
”Boss, if a beginner would beat two or three people, then if I become a ”master”, would I be able to take down ten people?”
”It depends on who you'll be fighting; if you are just classmates, you should be fine.”
”That would make things more complicated. It would depend on the range of the blades they carry, and on whether or not they have any guns on them.”
”… Classmates it is then… Boss, how long will it take me to be a Kung Fu master?”
”Eight to ten years.”
”…”
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Two weeks passed calmly. During these fourteen days, Saint had his ordinary life. Well, ”ordinary” didn't exactly sound right when describing his life ever since he crossed over to this world…
In short, Saint trained every morning, afternoon and after dinner. He also worked diligently. Every night after dinner, he would go to Colleen's Dojo. There, he trained, all while teaching Peter basic skills. At this time, Lorna would also follow for the fun of it, and practice under Colleen's guidance.
Occasionally, she would talk to Peter about martial arts and give him some pointers. After all, even without her mutant powers, she could easily crush him in a fight.
Little Spidey's path to becoming the school's tough guy was still at its beginning, and was to certainly have its ups and downs…