Chapter 8: Ivanov's Extreme Gym
"Qin Bai! It's been a while my friend!" Aleksandr greeted in his thick vussian(1) accent, he used to live in country V but migrated here in Country XQ 20 years ago. He can actually speak the native language fluently but he secretly told me he chose to keep his accent to seem more intimidating.
"Hey Aleks! Yeah, I just haven't been feeling it you know?"
"Ever since you moved out, you haven't been coming lately. I believe less frustration?" Aleks asked.
"Basically." I answered.
Aleks looked behind me and saw Shen Jin. "You brought a friend? Not your sister I see."
I punched him on the shoulder. "Old man, stop perving on my sister."
Aleks raised his chin at me. "Watch your mouth."
I reached out for Shen Jin. "This is Shen Jin. He recently moved here and is now my friend, I guess. Shen Jin this is my trainer slash mentor ever since I was a kid, Ivanov Aleksandr." I introduced.
Shen Jin reached out his hand to Shaw with Aleks. "Nice to meet you."
Aleks nodded and shook Shen Jin's outreached hand. "Welcome to Ivanov's Extreme Gym."
"Is my stage ready?" I asked Aleks.
Aleks laughs merrily. "Your room is always ready. New clothes and equipment at same place for your friend."
"Let's go Shen Jin." I said as I dragged him to my own private fighting stage. It's actually a private room with a fighting ring in the middle equiped with bathrooms and lockers.
I threw him some fresh clothes. "Here change into this."
I entered one of the bathrooms's because I didn't want Shen Jin to see the tattoo on my back. So instead of just wearing shorts like I usually do I wore a sleeveless shirt. After I finished changing I went out of the showers to see Shen Jin just in the shorts I provided with his six pack exposed.
His strong body lined with muscles, not to buff and not to lanky either. His body is like sculpted by the Gods of Olympus, along with his gorgeous face. How can the world be so unfair? (A/N: While he himself say it's unfair, QB is pretty handsome as well.)
Watching him wrap his hand with cloth to protect his knuckles looks so hot. He then turned his eyes on me. "You ready?"
I grinned at him. "I'm going to beat your ass!"
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I slumped down breathing heavily. What the fuck. I've never had this much difficulty in an opponent for years now.
"I didn't think I would lose to you." I whined.
Shen Jin leaned on the wall, his body covered in sweat and his breath also uneven. "I also didn't think I would have such a hard time. But I still won."
I closed my eyes and just pretended to be dead. How humiliating, I totally thought I could beat him. I shouldn't be so over confident next time, if he was a real enemy underestimating him would have been very dangerous.
"I didn't know you would be able to fight with that skinny body of yours." Shen Jin chuckled.
"What skinny?" I lifted up shirt. "You see these abs?"
"Doesn't change the fact you're smaller than me whether height or mass." Shen Jin pointed out.
Stupid Shen Jin, I've been trying okay? But all I've got is some lean muscles, not those beefy ones. While Shen Jin is just the right ratio of lean and beefy, if he was gay he'd be a total top. What the hell am I thinking?
"Just shut up for a moment." I groaned. I should have just trained every day instead of slacking of at home.
(1) I just made this up, just imagine a Russian accent.
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