bhwS

by Cr0w0019

this is a fanfic of a bhwS book i read with a little bit of things edited to make it better

3. Chapter 3

The Last Year of High School

"I called you here to ask your opinion on something important."

"My opinion? For what?"

"In the games of this season of our team although we won, in the end, the team did not perform well, only you and Mark performed well in those games."

"I was thinking for a long time what the reason was, I thought it was because the players depended too much on you, but that's not true because a lot of teams do it and they do well."

"I also wondered if it was because they were not good players, but you know as much as I do that this is not true, so I figured out that the problem is in our style of play."

"When that team got together at Middle School I saw a lot of talented players who were great players, but they did not have time to train together and work on tactics, and you were very talented, so I chose this style of game that depended more on PG to make the plays."

"It worked very well and despite the team having problems in the final and in some games because their teammates were very immature."

"At high school this year even though the team had a lot of time together you and Harrison did not play for two years and that's why I chose the same kind of game from that time."

"But this time in addition to you, the whole team has difficulty making individual plays against stronger opponents and they fail to defend."

"So for next year, I thought of making plays that use the whole team in the attack and thus try to avoid that all the attacks depend on individual plays, so after working well the play we can have many more points and fewer errors in the games."

"In addition, there will be two players that I worked with them last year at Middle School who will be in that team next year, this year they were the highlights in the national championship that our school has won."

"So next year they can be good reserves for the team and so gain experience for years to come."

"I wanted to know what you think of it as captain and a top team player."

Jake thought this might be a good idea, he had thought of it when he was playing in the space of his imaginary training, but he felt he needed a lot of training and networking to make that kind of play work.

Even though he was losing control of the team's plays he knew it would be best for the team, it seemed that it would be much harder for Jake to triple-double from now on, after all, he could do more than 10 assists easily because almost all the plays passed by.

But with this system of attack rotation and passing it was difficult to do more than 10 assists and each period has only 8 minutes.

As for new players if coach Mike said they would be good players should be true, as they would be the first year would not have as they hold, so it seemed a good idea to let them gain experience.

So if some of the titular team players have a poor performance it would be replaced.

Coach Mike was a bit tense as he waited for Jake's response, he saw Jake frowning several times as he thought and thought Jake did not like the idea, usually, the coach does not need the player to get involved in those decisions.

But Jake was different, he was the MVP of the national championship and the president was very fond of him, especially after he made that incredible record, this change in the way of playing will greatly affect Jake's performance in the team, after all, he will not be the focus on the attack.

Jake did not think the coach was asking for his permission, so Jake the coach was only reporting a decision that was already made, but as he saw the coach hoping he would say something he interrupted his thoughts to respond.

"I think the coach is right with these changes, it will be better for my teammates and they will be better off making the points if they do not have to make individual plays every time."

"But I thought all the players on the team have to work harder on mid-range shooting for this style of play to work, I think all my teammates including David miss out on those moves that should be easier."

Jake thought he really was the best, after all, opposing teams would be prepared to face the Elite team and have a lot of advantage if they maintained the same predictable style of play, but the other players had to train a lot more.

Coach Mike agreed that the other players needed to train more to make these plays work, it would not be so difficult because the former coach, despite being a bit crazy, was a good professional and already did this type of training in the time that he trained the team.

So it seemed like everyone had to get together again to start training ahead of time, but Mike was sure everyone would be happy if they knew that this training was meant to correct training failures.

After that Jake left, Coach Mike thought Jake did not need that extra training in 4 months like the rest of the team, one month was enough for Jake to go play with everyone and get on with the team.

In addition, Coach Mike knew that Jake had training that he did in particular that made him so good, he knew that Jake was doing hourly races every day on the athletic fields, Coach Mike thought it was to increase stamina in the basketball and was happy to have such a dedicated team player.

The other day Jake went on trying to run the 50km, it was much harder and different than trying to run the 10km in less time, so Jake put a time of 50 minutes for every 10km, even so, he could not do that on the first day.

Jake stopped because the system warned that if he continued he would suffer an injury, so Jake immediately stopped and lay on the race track, Jake had run 46 km, was enough for a marathon, but with that time it was impossible for him to have any highlight.

Even though Jake did not intend to give up, he knew he could get it if he kept trying, after resting for many minutes the system said he could walk back home now, Jake immediately felt a lot of pain in his legs after he started walking.

It was a sharp pain and Jake started to even cold sweat, if the system had not warned he actually saw that he could have a serious injury to his legs, maybe it could even be a stretch in the muscle.

Jake felt he was being too rushed to rely too much on the system, as the system said he could do the 50 km with his resistance statistic he only trained for less than 2 months and already wanted to try.

Now Jake saw that even if it were possible not to say that it would be easy to do this, Jake came home and took another ice bath, the other day he did not train because he wanted to rest his body totally like it had not done a few months ago.

So after two days off Jake returned to the training ground again, this time he felt that his legs felt much lighter and stronger, after warming he went to the 40 km again, he easily managed in 160 minutes.

So Jake thought he could try to slow down, so he could train heavier without taking the risk of an injury, so the other day he tried to do 10km in 35 minutes, he managed to feel more exhausted and his legs aching again.

But he was delighted to be able to run 40km in 140 minutes because that was much closer to the time of the marathon for the champions if he managed in a few months to make the 10km in 30 minutes he would have the time to try to win.

But Jake knew this was impossible because his body could not handle it, he needed another 1 year or increase his stamina in some points and even then it was not guaranteed, which is why Jake had the stamina bar to win.

After completing a week of training Jake knew that he could not improve in a few months, he did not feel any more pain in his legs but still felt exhausted.

After Jake went home he had dinner with Eva who also arrived late from the restaurant and went to the room to think, even though he knew it was not easy it seemed like he had underestimated the marathon, this was normal Jake took 6 years of intensive training to play basketball at the high school level.

This was only because he had the knowledge system of his past life, otherwise, he could be at Harrison's level just maybe, Jake only thought he would more easily get the marathon because he had the stamina bar and also had high physical stats after the train for years in basketball.

But now it seemed like it could take years for him to get it, yet he could not complain because he realized the difficulty of training that other athletes have to do for several years to accomplish this.

"Fate, did not you say that I could run up to 50 km with my resistance statistic? Why do I feel like I can not do this?"

[Actually, I'm more impressed than you, not with the fact that you can not run the 50 km, but rather that you got so far with your training and effort alone, even I was rooting for you.]

Jake did not understand, did not he have to train? How could he win without training? He knew that his body could not handle it and so he decided to train before, but now it seems that he had done something wrong and the worst was that he did not even know what it was.

"If they have something that you know I'm doing wrong, please let me know before Fate, you know how precious my time is now."

[No, you did not do anything wrong, actually you did everything as it should be I accused you of stealing to win the marathon with my help and the stamina bar, but I do not think of it that way anymore, you really like to run and wants to win the medal with his own effort as well.]

That was true, Jake really loved running and wanted to win the medal honestly, so he wanted to represent the United States and be proud to win a gold medal for him and the country.

But Jake knew that this was impossible normally and so he wanted to take advantage of his physical statistics and the stamina bar to fulfill his dream, and after a few more years maybe win without the stamina bar.

[I'll explain better how it looks like you've forgotten, what's the main reason you're a basketball star at your age beyond your talent and training?]

"Because of you, Fate, it was thanks to the system that I got it."

[I mean, in addition, you've always had the system in this life and not even that you're the best in all sports because you're good at basketball specifically?]

Jake paused to think a little, long ago, after he met the system 6 years ago but after thinking he finally remembered and understood what he was doing wrong.

"The job, I forgot to ask for my third job."

[That's right, without your basketball player job I could help you very little in this, but now you develop your skills and statistics well and are improving a lot, even if you do not get new statistics with your third job, how it's related sports will have skills that can help you.]

[I wanted to say before that with your third job you could do the 50 km with your current resistance statistic, but after those months of intensive training you almost got through on your own, now with the third job and training that way you can get win at the end of the year, with the stamina bar clear.]

"How long do you think I need to train to win on my own?"

[Two years at least, if you could train like this it would always be possible in a little over a year, but since you have a lot of things to do I think it would be difficult to do in less than two years.]

Jake was pleased to know he could get it in 2 years, even though he would be cheating a bit with the system, but Jake did not care about it, he remembered the system saying that everyone is born with advantages in life, no one is equal to life is not fair.

In fact Jake had always watched the Olympics in his past life, even though he could not move his legs at times he dreamed of earning a medal in athletics, Jake knew he could win a gold medal in basketball in the future for the American team.

But he always thought that the individual medal had a lot more value than a collective medal if he won in basketball people would remember the American basketball team but if he won by running alone if he would still represent the United States and still have his name remembered too.

Thinking about it Jake remembered that once he read in a book that men always struggle for power, money, women, and recognition, Jake thought that was true, after almost dying once being a stranger he wanted to put his name on history once.

"Fate, I want my third job to be Runner."

[Well done, here are your new stats.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 16 years]

[Job: Runner]

[Height: 1.87 m]

[Weight: 85 Kg]

[Force 31]

[Agility 31]

[Resistance 34]

[Intelligence 58]

[Luck 99]

Techniques

[Second Lung D]

[Iron Body C]

Jake was very happy to get his third job, in fact, he had thought of it, but even though second job skills were very useful and even fraudulent he thought he would not have any useful skills for athletics, but now he saw that he thought very little about it.

[You have only two techniques in this third job, but these two techniques would be very important to you, just as in basketball these two techniques are passive, so you will always be using them when running, but this time the system will be helping your develop and improve your body.]

[Second Lung is a technique that works as the name says, it will be like you have a second lung, you will have much more energy in the races and you will not tire as fast as now if you reach the maximum rank of this skill, you had a second lung.]

[All marathon runners have a similar technique, they learn over time how to control their breathing well and also how to keep pace to run longer than others is a kind of talent.]

[Iron Body is similar to what you have in basketball, is a technique that prevents you from having an injury of any kind as you almost had to run another day, so your body will handle much more exercise than before and will get stronger fast.]

[I do not think normal marathon athletes have a technique like this, but with the result of training for many years they do not have muscle injuries just for running for long distances.]

[Just like I said with these two skills you can easily run 50 km without having any risk of having an injury and even without any training, but with the training you did you could get a lot more.]

After hearing the explanation of the system Jake really understood how these skills could be useful to him in any race in athletics, he could use all the capacity of the muscles in his body without fear of getting any injury.

When his speed increased much more he could even try to run a 100-meter race and use his top speed to win, after all, he would have no problem with his muscles.

So Jake went to bed happy because his biggest problem was solved and he could run without getting hurt and had no more to take those ice baths.

The other day he returned to the race course again, he decided to start with 10 km in 50 minutes and would try for the first time to do 50 km, after just over 4 hours he managed to do the 50 km, do 50 km in 250 minutes already made him very happy.

But he still felt very tired and with some pains in his legs, Jake knew that while he did not reach the maximum rank of the skill he would not really have an Iron Body and could still feel pain or suffer an injury.

But he did not need to worry too much about it anymore because he would not try to run more than 50 km anyway, so he did not have to be so worried about it, besides, he knew that the higher his stamina statistic was the better these skills.

As Jake did not want to overload his body, he spent the rest of the seven days running at that same intensity, after 7 days of racing he did not even feel very tired at this distance, so he started running 10km in 45 minutes.

After 50 km he was exhausted again and with some pains in his legs, this was normal after all he slowed his time in 25 minutes and made the 50 km in 225 minutes, it was already a much bigger load on his body, with that he felt that still could improve.

That made Jake very happy, it seemed that with the third job he saved months of training that would take him to reach that level, of course, it was far from enough for him to win a marathon, but he knew it was a matter of time.

After another week of training, he could already do the 50 km in 225 minutes without feeling too tired, but he could not continue training because he had to see if his mother needed anything in the restaurant.

Even so in just over 3 months with 2 months of training, he had achieved what many could take years to do and Jake still did not have his body fully developed which harmed him to run, if he was 19 he could do in time competition already.

So Jake understood why the system said he needed two more years, it was his training in those two years and also his final stage of growth before he became an adult, then he could really improve a lot.

This was already the month that the vacation had begun Jake always made perfect grades in class and so did not have to worry about studying for the exams after the final grades came out Jake and Joseph was ready for his final year in high school.

After the holidays Jake still vacationed his things normally, but all his classmates would have great changes in their schedules, even Joseph and Liza who had the best grades in their classes would have to stop meeting so much to have more time to study for the vestibular.

When Jake remembered that this time was coming he was scared for a while and then calmed down with the help of the system, after all, it was at the time of the tests to enter the universities that Jake ended up suffering his first accident that almost ended his life.

If he had gone back to the past without the system he would probably be locked up in these months of trial for fear of suffering this accident again, but the system ensured that this was impossible to happen again, it was easier for 3 meteors to fall on the ground at the same time for Jake to suffer this accident again.

So Jake grew calmer, he thought it was really impossible, he could stay home that day to ensure and with the luck, he has it was impossible for that to happen again.

Jake went back to his mother's restaurant to see how she was doing, or if she needed help, but when she got there she realized there was already a line waiting for the restaurant to open for breakfast.

Jake came early to make a surprise for his mother, after all, Eva left almost 5 am every day, after talking for a long time they ended up deciding to close the restaurant at 11 at night, so Eva ended up sleeping little every day, yet she was very happy.

And Jake waited until she came home to dinner every night, of course it was he who prepared dinner, even so, Eva sometimes warned before that she would have to eat in the restaurant and he would eat alone, Jake thought it was important that he could eat a meal together with your mother so you do not get too far apart.

Of course if it was necessary he could go to the restaurant to have dinner with Eva, but for now it was not necessary, the important thing for him was that Eva and Anna were happy, when Jake entered the restaurant he was almost stopped by Lola who did not expect no one came in at that hour.

But Lola realized it was Jake's son and who set up this restaurant and she sighed relieved that she had not stopped him, Lola had seen Jake a few times even though he had stayed in the restaurant to help for more than a week, that was because Jake would always leave to settle some matter or stay in the office all day.

When Lola heard from her father that Jake was a basketball player she immediately thought he was like the Mexican boys who spent all day playing on the community courts, these guys always played with her and some were even criminals.

So she was surprised when she saw that Jake did not look like anything to these guys despite being the same age, he looked more like one of those lawyers or businessmen she always saw in movies.

Lola got an even better impression of Jake when he learned that he was the best student in his school and that he who opened this restaurant to fulfill his mother's dream had heard this by talking to Anna who liked to talk about Jake more than that Eve was his mother.

"Hi Lola, how are you?"

"It's all right, Mr. Jake."

"You do not have to call me that, I'm going to be uncomfortable as I'm younger than you, call me Jake like everyone else, how's the restaurant?"

"It's going very well, we have plenty of reservations for lunch and dinner and breakfast always has a queue just like today."

Lola was very happy that Jake remembered her name even though they had only seen each other a few times, moreover, she was relieved Jake was not being too arrogant as some restaurant customer was.

"I'm glad the restaurant is doing very well, I think it's all thanks to your dad who makes delicious desserts."

"Thanks, but I think it's because Anna and her mother take good care of this restaurant as well as customers and employees."

"It's also because of you Lola, I heard from my mother that many clients like your sympathy and education in care, everyone is doing a great job, I'm going to speak to my mother now, bye."

Lola was very happy with the compliment, she would work harder and happier today because of it.

When Jake entered the kitchen after putting a burrow in his hair he saw that almost all dishes were ready, Anna was talking to Eva who was preparing several waffles that were the way Jake liked and always ate to remember his mother in his past life.

"Hi Jake how surprised, I did not know you had come today, come to eat something."

"I saw it to surprise you and my mom, I want some of those waffles later."

"I thought you'd want something that Julius did like everyone else coming in the restaurant right now, that line that's out there is because of his food."

"You do not know Anna, Jake's favorite food at breakfast is my waffles, he would not choose another food."

"My mom's right, I think it's a great idea for you to personally make these waffles, Mom."

"I told you, Anna, I had to make those waffles."

"It's okay to do it."

Jake had not understood, but it seems Anna wanted Eva to let other people make the waffles because they were too busy to make several plates, but Eva insisted that at least she wanted to do it herself.

After Jake ate he could see that really many people were coming to Full English Breakfast, it seemed like it was really a hit and the right thing to do, Anna even had a good vision in the restaurant business and was right about capturing the market.

But the greatest of luck was that all the hotels in the area recommended their restaurant, and all thanks to Julius, Jake recommended that his mother and Anna increase his salary for the next month and both agreed.

A little was Jake's luck that was helping Julius to work with them, but all this was because the service and food were very good, otherwise, people would not come back every day.

Jake went to the office afterward and analyzed and cleared all the restaurant bills, Anna did it correctly and did not spend much more than necessary and Jake also told how much money they could spend after many calculations.

So it seemed that from now on the restaurant could stand alone without him putting more money on his account, it showed the success of the restaurant, so he was thinking of handing all the restaurant bills to the accounting firm that his other company worked.

This was a company that did not charge very high fees and was recommended by Oliver and praised by Emily, so Jake trusted them to organize the restaurant counts when Jake talked about it with Eva and Anna they agreed.

Eva trusted everything Jake said and Anna had a private accountant in her last restaurant, but she knew it was better to trust a company of respect because sometimes the restaurant accountants stole all the money.

Jake asked Emily to talk to them and Emily negotiated with the company, the company accepted the job and even made a discount on the service fee because it was a Jake business that already had more business with them, Jake was happy about it.

After that Jake just needed to come to visit and no longer needed to clear the restaurant, Jake said goodbye to Lola at the exit and went home.

The other day Jake continued his running training, he ran the 50km again and did it in 45 minutes again, seeing that everything was fine the other day he started running 10km in 40 minutes.

So he finished the 50km with much difficulty doing 200 minutes, even being very tired he was happy to decrease the total time in another 25 minutes, but Jake realized that this was his limit again, he could lower in a few minutes but not could do the 50 km in 175 minutes.

If he could do that he would be a lot closer to winning a marathon, but he did not have to be too worried about it, the main purpose of this training was to do more than the 45 kilometers to make sure that his body stood at a distance.

Now he needed to keep trilling at that distance, and with that time, his body and his body statistics could increase further after a few more months, so for the rest of the training week, he continued doing the 50 km in 200 minutes.

After Jake did once more a week of training doing every day 50 km in 200 minutes, Jake did not get too tired of it, but he knew his energy could not handle training faster than that.

But Jake knew his muscles held out more than that, even if his muscles did not heal with a stamina bar, they still slowed down a lot and relied a lot on, so he could handle much heavier running.

After running for several days with the third job the system told Jake about a feature he did not know, this feature was like a video game screen that was transparent in its upper right corner of his vision, this could only be activated in the training or racing competitions for safety reasons.

This transparent screen showed Jake the speed he was running, the distance and the overall time of the race, and that would be a great help in training and races, but the system advised him to take the speed marker, so he would only be at a distance and time.

This was because the system said that looking at speed did not help anything and only made him anxious, after all, he just had to know the distance and the time to see if it was going well, Jake agreed with the system and took the speed off the screen.

With that, Jake could train with much calmer and he had the most exact time and did not have so much variation in the performance after another training Jake would return home, all his training in the next months would always be like this.

It was so that he would strengthen his muscles and increase his stamina, after all when they were a few weeks away from the race he would train using the stamina bar in the middle of the marathon to see if his body could withstand increased speed and pressure on the body.

While Jake was training every day his school friends were studying, even his teammates who had to train on their vacations the new style of play took a few days to study anyway, even the school could not give a scholarship at the university if their grades were too high bad.

When Jake learned that his teammates were training in school for the new type of game he volunteered to train with them so the team could be more involved.

After all, even though Jake did not need to do that as a captain, he needed to set the example for his teammates on how to do it, his teammates, as well as Coach Mike, hoped to easily accept training.

After all, they knew it was because of them that the style of play had to be changed, Jake had no problem with these individual moves, on the contrary, Jake was much better at these 1-on-1 shots.

After a day of training on the court coach Mike called Jake to talk privately, Jake did not know what was agreed more easily, his teammates thought it was just Jake who would quietly go to the coach's office without any fear.

"I was very happy that you have set aside your vacation to train here with the team, I know that you have even trained after here on the athletic field every day, it was really the right decision to have you as team captain, you give a great example Jake."

"I'm also part of the team and it's normal for me to train with all of them."

"That's right, I called you here Jake because even though this school tries to stop them all with you it's impossible, we've got several calls from various scouts from various universities."

"As an MVP last year in the national championship you have been the number one choice of almost all coaches who need a PG or SG in the team, so soon you would probably receive several invitations from universities across the country."

Jake was happy to know that it was his mother's dream that he should enter college, and he had decided to go to college, after all, after entering the NBA he would have to concentrate entirely on basketball.

And even then maybe he could not play much in the early years if he came into the NBA now, after college he would be sure he would be a lot better in basketball, but Jake found it a bit odd that Coach Mike would get several college invitations.

As if he had realized Jake was confused, Coach Mike explained everything that was going on.

"Actually your case was really special, normally the scouts and coaches of college teams start talking to the players in the first or second year, and in the third and fourth years they make the offers."

"In his first year in high school, several scouts and coaches of college teams were already watching you, after all, you had been the champion and MVP teams in the national middle school championship."

"But they spoke to the Philips coach who spoke very badly of you and said that you would be out of the team all through high school so they all lost interest in you."

"So all these recruiters were eyeing other high school players in those first two years, it was only in the third year that you started playing that they remembered you."

"But these recruiters paid no attention to our team in the regional championship nor to the state championship in normal games."

"It was only in the national championship that they started paying attention to our team, but even watching you play so well they had no interest in you what coach Philips talked about you at the time."

"But they were very interested in Mark and then in other players of our team, with the passing of the games our team has always been winning and you have always been being the highlight of the team and eliminating several players they were watching."

"It was after our team won the national championship and you were the MVP with a triple-double that they realized that the information that the Philips coach passed was fake and you were a great player."

"But at that time all the coaches and scouts of the university teams also knew about you, so everyone talked to me and I gave you a good evaluation."

"The school wanted to hold so that the colleges that we have partnerships could talk to you before, but it did not give more time, but it's impossible for everyone to talk to you before and so everyone has already made proposals with full scholarships for you."

"Even more when they learned that you had the best grades in one of the schools with one of the best teachers in the country, so you only have to call the coaches from the universities you have the most interest and choose a good one."

Jake even found that his situation was very different from the other basketball players, after all, he had not been called by any recruiter before and now he was called by everyone, but it was good because he could choose the universities.

He wanted to pick the ones he remembered that they had the best teams they could beat that he saw in his past life, so he would be on a winning team so he could also choose a team that had a weaker PG and was strong overall.

But he would leave to think about it later, he said goodbye to the coach and returned to training, after training he went home, he wanted to tell his mother the good news, but she was in the restaurant and he was tired of the various training to wait for today.

So he decided he would tell when he chose a university, he could not talk to these trainers now either because he still had to run a marathon so his plan worked out right.

After a few months of training the Elite team was doing well with the new style of training, coach Mike thought it would be much harder for the team to change the playing style, but with Jake joining the training on vacation all It worked.

Now it was only a few days before the beginning of the last year of school, everyone was still very worried about the grades, after all, if they could have a good university or did not depend on grades.

Jake was the coolest with it all, he trained every day he could in the school training camp, after a few more months of training it was already very easy for him to do the 50 km in 200 minutes but he did not try to increase the training load.

It was because he could not get too tired of this as he still had training for the basketball team, even though they had improved a lot since last year and even had new plays and tactics beyond the new style of the game.

They still had to train a lot for the regional championship that would be in a month, this was because the two new players who were the middle school stars would join the team, they had to train to be good reserves for the team.

Jake asked to leave the training in these last days of vacations because he wanted to see how was the restaurant of Eva and see if it could help in something.

Eva had already grown accustomed to the restaurant routine and was less tired now, she was happy every day and was already starting to do her job better as a chef.

Anna was also very happy these last few months, she could not even believe how she managed to get away from the environment she loved so much a few years ago, fortunately, she had Jake who brought her back to this life.

She did not even remember that she said she would only help for a few months until Eva got used to the job and then left, Anna now wanted to work at this restaurant until the end of her life.

Jake was also very happy that everything was going well with his mother, but he was a little sad because it was getting harder to meet his mother at home in the last few months, at first whenever he was not tired he waited until Eva Come back for dinner and talk.

But after a few weeks, he realized that Eva always arrived tired at home and still had to stay at least 30 minutes to have dinner and talk and have dinner with Jake before taking a shower and sleeping.

So thinking of his mother, Jake suggested that Eve dine in the restaurant and even set up a bathroom there so she and the staff could bathe there and get the home ready for bed.

Eva denied the idea of the bathroom, but accepted that it was better to have dinner in the restaurant, so they were hardly in the house anymore, Jake would sometimes go to the restaurant, but it was difficult for him to go often.

And Jake still had not bought a car for him and Eva always used the car, so Jake had to go to the restaurant by a car when he wanted to go.

Jake was thinking about buying a car for him, but he wanted to save money to invest in more stock in a few months, but it seemed that having a car was important to him if Jake wanted to go somewhere in the future.

When Jake arrived at the restaurant Lola was the one who received it again, she was very happy to see Jake again, after all, he could not come often in the restaurant and even when he came sometimes Lola was busy working and could not talk to him.

"Hi Lola, how are you?"

"Very well thank you, we've had a lot of work these past few months, have you come to see your mother?"

"Yes, I also came to see you and the others were just starting my classes last year and with so many things I have to do I will not be able to come here many times."

"That's a shame."

"What is a shame?"

"It's a shame you will not be able to come here to help after all you've been helping in the restaurant several times."

"Oh, do not worry, if you guys have any problems you can call me, I'll talk to my mom now bye."

After Jake left Lola sighed with relief and was all ashamed when she heard that Jake could not come anymore because of the school she was very sad that she ended up talking out loud, after all, Jake could think that she likes him if Lola spoke the truth.

Lola really liked Jake very much, he was different from the boys of the same age, he was handsome and took care of his mother very well, Lola did not think that a girl did not like him, but she knew that his family were only employees in this restaurant and Jake owned the restaurant.

As they lived in different worlds she thought they could not be together, moreover, Eva was older than Jake and if he knew she liked him, she feared Jake thought it was out of interest.

Eva and Jake took good care of her and her father, and they even praised her father's salary, and she did not want the relationship to be strange.

Jake, who did not know any of that, went to the restaurant kitchen, but although it was almost time to open he did not see his mother or Anna, so he went to ask Julius where they were.

"Hi, Julius, how are you?"

"I'm fine Jake, I'm very happy working in this restaurant and seeing that people like my food, I'm very grateful to all of you for giving me and my daughter an opportunity."

"It's us who thank you, it's thanks to your desserts that this restaurant has been a success, do you know where my mother and Anna are?"

"They went to the market, as they finished everything they had to do for breakfast they went to the market earlier to pick some lunch ingredients, but they come back before the restaurant opens for breakfast."

So after Jake waited for a while they came from the market the work of a restaurant chef was not at all easy, when they saw that Jake had come they came quickly towards him, and Eva and then Anna gave him a hug.

Eva could not spend so much time with Jake and felt a little bad about it, but Jake knew all this before opening this restaurant for her, and after a while, he would go to university and they could not see much of anyway.

For Anna it was different, she saw Jake now more than before because he came to see Eva several times, so she was just happy.

"What happened to Jake that you came in early today?"

"I think I'm going to come every day for a few days, after all, I'm going to start classes last year and I will not be able to come so many times."

"It's true your classes will start in a few days, I'm sorry son for forgetting that, but I agreed with Anna that on the days that you have a game I do not come in the morning to make the food for you."

"You do not need a mother, I'm glad to see you so motivated working here, I'm already big and I can do these things myself."

"Not the least of this I have to do, and I'm going to watch your games in the final after you go to university I will not be able to go more, so I have to enjoy it now."

So Jake laughed and accepted, he knew that his mother wanted to be present at these important times with him, and he was very happy about it, it was a pity that Anna could no longer go to any of his games.

"Do you need me to help with anything?"

"No, you can just keep looking, after we've started making reservations since last month, there's no such mess anymore, and the staff has grown accustomed to running the restaurant and they do not make any more mistakes."

Last month Anna decided she could not stand so many people lining up in front of the restaurant, at first she liked it because it meant the restaurant's success, but then she even started to get customer complaints.

At first, because this was not a classy restaurant and the prices were not high they decided to make a restaurant that had no reservation and that people could just come and eat but they did not expect the restaurant's success.

After a while, they even queued for dinner and lunch so they decided to make a reservation to see if it worked and it worked out very well.

The difficult thing was to solve the problem of breakfast, in the end, Anna decided that they would give some reservations to the hotels that helped them quite at the beginning, the hotels were very happy with this and even paid in advance for the reserved places.

So it was the hotels who decided who could go in for breakfast, and they put it in the hotel's reservation packet as if it were their service when there were places, the hotel staff would reward them for the best work.

So with all the places always reserved and with the accounting firm that Jake hired to organize the restaurant bills they had only to worry about preparing the restaurant's dishes.

So within a few months they had a successful restaurant and it worked very well, Jake was very pleased with that, every two years he would only have to use his skill of the second job Business Vision to know if the restaurant would be successful in the coming 3 years.

After staying one day in the restaurant Jake who had nothing to help saw that could end up messing up and so decided he would come and stay only a few hours at dinner time and then leave.

After all, he still had to train every day on the 50km track, he knew he was ready to run a marathon now after almost six months of training, but he still trained every day, even on rainy days he would run.

The coach of the athletic team at the school heard that there was a basketball player who would come running every day on the athletics track, so the coaches thought he could give some tips, he was very good at training the 100 and 200 tests m.

The coach knew that this was what Jake did because he did not bring any equipment, but he was shocked when one day he saw that Jake was running a marathon, not even the school trained any athlete for marathons and so he could not give any county.

Even though this coach was impressed that this 16-year-old could run so much every day, as he did not count how many laps Jake gave the coach did not know that was 50 km or he would be even more shocked.

Jake, who had nothing to do, remembered that he had to talk to Tiffany about the marathons, after all, it was she who had promised to help him sign up for a race, so Jake agreed to have lunch with her in Eva's restaurant.

After a few hours they met at the restaurant, Jake had a reservation at the restaurant at all times every day, if he did not wear it someday they would fit someone else.

Jake thought this was a good idea now that the restaurant worked with reservations, and never a table would end empty even if it did, this was the good side of having a restaurant with the cheapest dishes, there are always people available at all schedules.

"Hi Tiffany, sorry to call you like that at the last minute, we have not seen you in a few months."

"No problem, I hired a representative to help me with some things in the company, in a few years I'll put him as president to take care of things in the company, it's horrible to have lots of money and not have time to take advantage, I was not born to stay in an office. "

"But can not it cause trouble for you?"

"No problem, this representative is someone of confidence that I work for a few years, in addition, my father and I still have most of the shares in the company, so he has to ask me for any decision he makes and I will make some deals like patronage with you."

"If you think this is a good idea then it must be really, I called you here today because I want to participate in the Chicago marathon in October, I hope you can get a place for me."

"So finally it's going to be the first race, I'd recommend you start with a half marathon or a race with less visibility, the Chicago marathon is one of the main circuits, so the best runners in the world will be in it."

"You said you're going to compete to win, right? I do not think you have a chance in Chicago. "

"I also thought about running in a less crowded marathon first, but I want to see if I can be in the Olympics next year, so I have to start with a race known for that."

"If I can win in Chicago and then in New York, I think I'll have the recognition to be able to compete for a place in the Olympics without any scandal."

"Do you want to win in Chicago and New York? If you can do that, no one will doubt that you won the gold medal, but have you started training at least?"

"Yes, I started training as soon as I finished the national championship final, now I'm prepared."

Hearing this, Tiffany was impressed and agreed, if Jake had been training for 6 months he should know if he could win or not, at least to finish the test she was sure Jake could do.

If Tiffany knew that Jake could run 50 miles every day she would not doubt him anymore.

"So I'm going to sign you up for these two marathons, I hope you can really beat Jake, just so you do not mess up your basketball practice."

"You can rest easy, these training helps even more because they increase my resistance, now I can easily play a whole game without tiring too much."

Hearing that Tiffany had no more doubts, she knew that Jake should know what she was doing and would not be irresponsible, she wondered what it would be like if Jake could really win, she was sure Jake would be in the NBA in the future.

So would a professional player who was also a professional runner, Tiffany had not noticed, but she was also confident that Jake could win the marathon.

After that, the days passed quietly and classes finally started again, everyone was more focused on studies and even Jake stopped bringing his books to class.

He had already learned to speak Japanese and had studied many economics books in all those years, now even he was tired of studying so much, in a year he would go to university and no one could complain when he took these books to class.

After classes the first day he went to school, today would be the day the team would meet the two new players who came from Middle School, arriving there he saw that almost everyone had already arrived and after greeting his teammates he was waiting on the bleachers.

After a while coach, Mike came along with Liza and two other guys, these two were almost 1, 70 m, they were very tall for those who were 14, they should be the two players that coach Mike spoke of.

But Jake noticed that his teammates did not seem to know who these two players were, it seems that coach Mike seemed to be hiding this from the other players, after all, every year new players came from Middle School and did not have much opportunity to play.

"Well, everybody pays attention here, these two are the new team players who came from Middle School, this one is Lucas Garcia, he plays like SF now, but he learned to play also as a PF, he changed his position because it was too a few years ago."

"This other one is Nathan Roberts, he plays as SG and was our school's MVP at the Middle School National Championship last year, they will be playing on our team this year and they have gone into some games depending on our players' performance."

Jake was calm but David and Harrison were nervous about it, they were training a lot to help the team more and now substitutes came to play in their positions, Carter was much calmer because Lucas was too small to play in his place.

So they could finally train with everything for the regional championship that would be in a few weeks, Jake was also training in his imagination training, he plays in various positions and was improving his defense very much, after finishing the training one day the system came to give good news.

[Congratulations Jake, all your skills have reached the S rank, so you can raise your level now, the important thing is to choose whether the next level will be the university or the NBA.]

"It will be a university."

[Okay so, so you can look at your stats whenever you want, I think it was a good idea for you to choose the college level because it's lower than the NBA level, so you can get even better.]

"I want to see my statistics now, Fate."

[Here it is]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 16 years]

[Job: Basketball Player]

[Title: College Player]

[Position: PG, SG]

[Height: 1.87 m]

[Weight: 85 Kg]

[Force 31]

[Agility 31]

[Resistance 34]

[Intelligence 58]

[Luck 99]

Skills Basketball

[Ball Handling B]

[Body Control C]

[Man to Man C]

[Dribble B]

[Layup B]

[Set Shot A]

[Block C]

[Pass A]

[Rebound C]

[2 Points S]

[3 Points S]

[Free Throw SS]

[Steal A]

[Dunk D]

Jake saw his current skills and was surprised, after all, though he was much better off when he entered the high school from Middle School was still not much better, he never expected that his best skills would be classified as rank C and B.

If so, he would have to admit that it would be very difficult to play in college, after all its abilities took almost a year to improve one level, which means that these skills would be much harder to improve.

If he had moved to the NBA level it would be even worse for him, after all, it was obvious that the NBA was stronger than the university, seeing that Jake was thinking several things the system saw that it was better to explain correctly.

[You must have been impressed that your skill ranks have dropped so much, but that's why I have to explain you better when someone leaves high school and goes to the NBA that player there unless it's a genius it takes two years or more to play at a normal level.]

[So S skill rank is the maximum that an average player can average on the high school in cases of genius players is different because they get an SS rank like you which means that they have exceeded the maximum level of skill possible.]

[At university it's almost the same, but right there the geniuses cannot easily get the SS rank of skill, nor can you get that in various skills as you did now, that means most players have rank C or B skills at the University.]

[Normal players can have up to D skill as is their dunk rank, but very much end the university and go to the NBA with skill rank B or A, few reach S rank, and the NBA is even harder to reach to the S rank of a skill, only the biggest stars at the top can do that.]

[So you can understand that your skill rank has started to be compared to the pros now if you want to have an SS rank in a dunk in the NBA have to bury like Michael Jordan if you can get that you've already reached the level of a star.]

So Jake understood why his skills were so low, if he got to the NBA even his shots from outside could not be rank S as more other skills, now he could just make the shot out quietly but in the NBA would always have a tall player to disrupt the pitch and the hit rate would drop a lot.

Even though he was happy because he could see his improvements again seeing the ranks of skill increasing, when he was with the skills the S rank now he could boast of playing well in the NBA, in addition, Jake remembered that his skills would increase when he he was 19 years old.

So the time passed quickly and soon came the day of the first regional championship game, this time the coach made a bold decision and decided to put Lucas and Nathan as holders as the games would be easier.

Jake was certain that David and Harrison were not happy about it, but how these players needed to get experience in case they needed to get into national championship games was a necessary thing.

Coach Mike could not do that in the state championship if it was not possible that they could not even reach the national championship, so now was their only chance.

Jake woke up early for the game and saw his mother preparing breakfast, as usual, she had even taken a few hours off in the morning just to be with Jake a few hours before the game.

Even if he did not say it, Jake was very happy that Eva did it for him, he ate it all happily and then went to the playground.

When he arrived everyone had already arrived and seemed eager for the game, Jake saw that the opposing team seemed discouraged as if they had already given up trying to win this game, this was normal considering that the Elite team was 4 times the championship champion regional and state levels.

And as the team was the same as last year with the addition of some players there was no way they were worse than last year, all five Elite team players were already talking to college teams.

Everyone was guaranteed and reassured that they could join these teams, only Jake did not start talking to anyone because he was choosing the right universities to talk to, but he was the most assured of them all as he had already received the scholarship invitations from those universities.

It was just agreeing and getting into a university, yet everyone was thrilled to be champions once again of the national championship, it would be Carter's third trophy and either in high school and Jake's second.

But no one was counting the first year they could not play, Jake went to coach Mike who was going through the rush again, it was necessary because it was a new style of play with players that they were not so familiar with the team.

After a few minutes Jake's first game in high school began, even though it was a regional championship game he was a bit tense, Mark went up and won the ball possession for the Elite team.

Jake passed the ball to Lucas who was already on the attacking block, Lucas received the ball and with freedom ran after the three-point line, the defense came to stop his advance and Lucas passed the ball to Carter who was freer in the internal area.

Carter picked up the ball and then easily did the layup to score the first two Elite Team points in the game, the opposing team was lost in that play because when the Elite team made the points Jake who was the one who was putting the plays was coming in line three points still.

So the opponents realized that the Elite team could have changed their style of play, otherwise it would be a problem for the other teams because they would have corrected the only flaw that the opposing teams could exploit.