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The weather was good too since morning today.
The weather was exceptionally good until around 3 in the afternoon
and from then it rained a lot.

This time in KL is always something like this.
First, I trained with Baru.

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Since it’s one of the rare times when I have a partner around
we also did the hell ball training.

The first hell ball training in a long time was,
akin to it’s name, like hell.
I can’t deal with the same number of times
that I could do previously at all.

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This means that the body’s internal pressure has gone down
and it has become unable to push back against an external pressure.

In other words, the spaces between the organs have become quite big,
and the body isn’t in a filled up state.
It’s also the reason why the appearance of the body seems tepid.

In fact, if this training is done properly,
you can get kicked
or punched a quite a number of times, and despite feeling the impact
the pain you feel will be little
or even almost none at all.
When I say something like this
the lame guys will say things like

『What are you trying to become?』

and it’s the worst when guys who say such weak things appear.
Recently, the number of fools who laugh while saying that has increased.

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To become stronger,
to build a body that can protect someone,
to build a body that can be used, those the primary duties that I believe men have.

It’s only those who are always drinking
who say things like that though.

I’m not saying that you can’t drink but
simply that, recently,
there are too many people who say that genders are only male and female.

Be it male or female,
I suppose the concept of wanting to fulfil the very least of your primary duty
is considered as the old way of thinking.

Well,
anyway back to what I was saying,
with this training,
you can, in other words, get a cool and useful body.

However
it’s really tough and painful to start doing this training.
Even though those who do fighting sports or martial arts
do things like this too but
even for a martial artist, they normally can’t get this far.

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After we were done with that
I got into a rather tired mood.
Well, I just have to persevere until I get used to it.

I took a shower and changed my clothes.
I then took my time getting ready in the lobby.
Today, my friend from Japan are visiting.

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Everytime he comes here he takes it easy at home but
he seems to like this house in particular
and anyway he doesn’t really do anything
besides zoning out at the poolside while smoking cigars all day.

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Before the sun sets, I headed towards the restaurant where I’ll be eating with everyone at.

Singing at the top of my lungs in the car while driving
is something I often did when I was young
and it’s a time when I can de-stress the most.

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Since I came to this country
I sing loudly like this just like I used to in the past.
Not bad.

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Just as the sun started setting,
I arrived at a Mongolian hot pot place that I like.
Actually, this shop can be found in Japan too.
Its Mongolian hot pot by a Taiwanese company 【Tian Siang Hui Wei (Ten Shan Fay Way in Japan)】.

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The price will be 3 to 4 times more in Japan so
it feels like quite a good deal when I’m eating here.
Maybe it’s because the quality of the vegetables is good too,
but whenever I see that whoever I bring here enjoying it, saying “it’s delicious, it’s delicious” as they eat,
I always feel anew
that this is a country with an unusually high CPI.

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And so
we slowly had our dinner from then.

Today we’re having a hot pot that’s for a lot of people.
Hot pot is more enjoyable with a lot of people around after all.

Everyone, have a wonderful night too.
Well then, let’s eat.

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Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team

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