figure skating king

Young Victor: "I think jumping is much easier to practice than stepping. For jumping, you just need to jump up and turn around, but stepping always has this change and that change."

Young Yuuri: "It's so hard to jump, and it hurts to fall. It's better to slide, change blades or something more complicated dance steps, and it won't hurt too much."

Young Victor: "So what's the point of putting your soul into the dance?" (I was also scolded by Lilia today)

Young Yuuri: "So how does 1A dance..." (I was also scared to tears by Coach Tanaka today)

The weather in St. Petersburg is not always sunny. Rainy days are the norm in the country in the far north. Today Victor didn’t bring an umbrella before going out, so his clothes were soaked by the rain, and his dirty clothes had already been piled up in a washing machine and had to be washed .

The boy in his early teens read the manual for a long time, and finally got the washing machine running successfully. After that, he exhaled, muttering "It's so cold, so cold", and ran to the bathroom to take a hot shower.

Ah, at this time, I will think of the hot springs I read in the book. It would be nice if I jumped into the pool full of hot water after getting wet from the rain.

Thinking of this, Victor climbed into bed, wrapped in the quilt, and fell asleep shivering.

Fortunately, the children of the fighting nation who can wear swimsuits and play snowball fights in winter are in good health, and Victor did not get sick because of the rain.

Then he found that he had to face another problem - Nikiforov, who was in the fourth grade of elementary school, had to take an exam, but without the supervision of his parents, Victor, who did not inherit his father's talent in learning, had to repeat his math scores. Test.

It was also the first time Yakov met a child who could fail the primary school exam. He pressed his forehead with throbbing veins while knocking on Victor's head to teach him how to do the questions.

God knows why he taught elementary school math in addition to figure skating!God knows that among the athletes there are a bunch of people who can't do well in cultural subjects, and Yakov is worried. God knows that if this kid still asks him questions in middle school, he may not be able to answer them.

He snorted at the back of Victor's head: "What's the matter with your teacher saying you never hand in your homework!"

Victor smiled shyly, with the peculiar Pippi look on his face: "Forgot."

Yakov was even angrier.

Lilia put the dinner plate on the table and said indifferently, "Do your homework after dinner!"

Fortunately, Victor was still flexible, so he passed the make-up exam, and finally he didn’t have to repeat the grade. On the day the results came out, Yakov and Lilia breathed a sigh of relief. Bear son.

By the way, after the exam, Viktor didn’t go back to Moscow, but continued to jump on the ice rink. One day Yakov saw that he actually beat a female figure skater, Behrman, and almost scared him to death. .

Fortunately, the kid was not injured, so Yakov began to ponder whether to use this action as Victor's nirvana in the game, and officially add it to the kid's program.

"Hey, anyway, you have to be careful not to get injured. Injuries are the most painful. The uninjured top men's singles jumps with all their strength and is almost higher than the block. After being injured, jumping for three weeks is enough. Pay attention to your waist!" The coach sighed and felt that his hairline receded another millimeter.

Victor was simply the most insecure student he had ever met.

"Also, don't focus on jumping. You have to work harder when you slide out after jumping. The movements are not clean enough."

Yakov babbled about Victor's shortcomings, and Victor listened carefully. Many times he would feel that Yakov was more like his father than his biological father.

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When it rains, Mari will pick up her younger brother in the first grade with an umbrella, because she lent the umbrella to a tablemate who doesn't have an umbrella, so the two siblings have to hold Yuuri's small umbrella with a monkey pattern go home.

Born in 92, Yuuri is a monkey.

It's a pity that even though Mari tried hard to tilt the umbrella towards Yuuri, Yuuri was still overwhelmed by the cold.

In view of the fact that the child has always been sick and has been to the hospital quite a few times since he was a child, the doctors and nurses all know him, so the Katsuki family had to ask Yuuri for half a month's leave.

Considering that Yuuri is about to have his first final exam in his life, Mari starts to go to the hospital after school to give his younger brother extra lessons, teaching him addition and subtraction, hiragana, and katakana clumsily with a book.

Fortunately, Yuuri is a good boy who does not need to be supervised in his studies. Whether it is skating, dancing, practicing the piano or studying, he is honest and hardworking, diligently completing all the tasks assigned to him by his teacher.

In the end, Yuuri got a perfect score in the final exam. Although the questions in the first grade of primary school were so simple that adults would cry, and Yuuri had already previewed the books for the second and third grades with the guidance of his family, his learning progress was far ahead of his peers. People, but the Katsuki family is very excited.

Minako gave him a pair of dancing shoes as a reward, and Mari and his father drank together to celebrate, and Hiroko's mother put a bowl of fried pork cutlet rice in front of her son, smiling softly.

Yuuri was sandwiched between his sister and Minako, eating delicious tonkatsu rice, with a happy look on his round face.

As Minako said, Yuuri is a child who grew up bathed in love. He may be ignorant, introverted and shy at a young age, but he is definitely happy.

Yuuri's No.3 award made Coach Tanaka very pleased, and Yuuri himself worked hard, so Coach Tanaka began to treat him like his former disciple.

To put it simply, it has become more severe. During training, Yuuri is often scared to tears by the old coach's black face.

"I told you to tense up when you jump up! Don't close your eyes! What are you afraid of?"

Yuuri, who fell again, got up tearfully, whimpering like a small animal, wiping his tears and continuing to practice.

Yuko felt a little distressed when she was watching, and Xijun would occasionally say to him, "Why don't you take a break?", but Yuuri usually practiced for a long time, and he didn't want to go home until night.

Crying and refusing to give up, this is the normal state of Yuuri in practice.

Victor and Yuuri still don't know each other at all at this time. They grew up in different countries, have different happiness, and different distress.

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(Victor, who wanted to take a hot spring, finally married Yuuri, who had a hot spring at home)