118 One Week

“Ow, my whole body aches. It hurts everywhere.”

After yesterday’s spar.

When I woke up, my entire body was throbbing, and I couldn’t get up at all.

After fooling around trying to prove I could do something, I felt like an old man who had thrown out his back.

“A-aches?”

Kimyang, who was nursing me at my side, tilted her head and asked. She seemed not to know the word “aches.”

“I told you. Study your vocabulary. This won’t do. Starting now, let’s quiz you on ten words a day.”

“O-old fart.”

She doesn’t know “aches,” but she knows “old fart.”

“This is why social media is a problem. Do you really think it’s okay to use words like ‘old fart’ when you don’t even know ‘aches’?”...