IPPO got home He saw his family boat Pulling in and everyone looked excited with the time they had, ippo raced upstairs and put away his belongings and went out to help Moore the boat, and unload the days catch for all the fishermen. As He Unloaded the Boat he chatted with Everyone And smiled as they related theStories of their catches For the day, Ippo After unloading the boat Related his day to his mom and was happy to see her smiling. ippo went and washed up to enjoy dinner with his mom wich was delicious as always.
ippo went into his room after informing his mom he would be busy with homework and then would be going to bed. but instead ippo kept thinking about how to earn money for a gym membership and couldnt think of anything besides borrowing money, but who would do that for him. he didn't known anyone from the gym before he joined and he knew coach kamogawa wouldn't let him join the boxing gym since he had no way to prove he was talented, since takamura was the one to convince coach to give him a shot and have him face miyata as proof.
ippo sat on his desk chair contemplating what he would do and how to accomplish it, since he couldn't ask his mom since he knew money was really tight and didn't want to worry her unnecessarily. ippo kept thinking but couldn't think of anything, he decided to go for a walk instead hoping to clear his mind.
" mom I'm going for a walk" called iipo
"why ippo its getting late and a school night." his mom called back
"I know mom I promise I won't be long but I can't think and concentrate on my work, so ill just walk to the corner store and back please mom?" ippo asked
"oh alright ippo but becareful and hurry back please?" his mom relented
"thanks mom love you" ippo yelled as he left and stated walking down the street to hopefully clear his mind. ippo kept walking thinking how he could make enough for a gym since he knew from before when he was at komogawa gym it cost ¥6000.00 a month which was usually deducted from his fight money.
as ippo was strolling along he happened to see a neighborhood notice board, it had the usual things like notices for the neighborhood from the city officials for different things, different ads for newspaper delivery, fast food, etc. there were also some ads for gyms he saw posted up, as he looked these over he happened to see a ad for a gym advertising a amature boxing tournament. ippo couldnt bele
I've it, he grabbed the ad and saw that it was open to all amatures and that the entry fee was only ¥500 and the prize money would be a all or nothing pool of ¥10,000 with spots only open for 20 entrants. ippo couldn't believe this was happening, just then he heard a noise like a bike bell
Ding!
Quest Alert
enter the tournament and win it all!!!
Reward:
500exp
¥10,000
random piece of gear (uncommon)
random item-???
Failure:
nothing
worry your mother!
ippo was very excited and looked over the contact info and when the tournament would be, luckily it seemed it would be this weekend and all he would need to do is show up at the gym it was being held at, and it was a 2day event with the high number of participants.
ippo raced home and called out a greeting to his mom who was surprised and called hello back while looking bewildered as to why her son was so excited.
ippo grabbed his savings bank and emptied it, he looked through and it seemed he had just enough for the entry fee and the train fair since it looked like it was in the next town over, only about 30-45min away. he would just have to figure a way to explain the bruising he's sure to get from doing this, ippo kept thinking and he finally decided to just tell his mom he saw a tryout for some sports and wanted to try it out and see what he liked.
so Ippo went and talked with his mom, at first she was concerned with why he was so interested in doing this but eventually relented when she saw his facial expression, it was the same one she would see when he was decided about something and wouldn't give up no matter what. she saw that face when ippo had decided to help out on the boat when he was young and didn't give in no matter what she said to him which led to her relenting and ippo starting to helpout way back when. ippos mom looked at ippo and silently sighed and the. gave a short laugh confusing ippo as to whether she would let him do this.
" OK ippo I won't object, just please for me be careful?" his mom begged, ippo agreed and hugged her tightly she just laughed again and wished him goodnight as she went to bed.
ippo sighed in relief and went to his room he was happy at getting his moms permission, even though he was 17 and could legally do it with out her say so, he would rather not give her unneeded stress and cause her to collapse early like she did before. speaking of ippo made sure to write down and pin to his wall on a piece of paper in big writing donot let mom overwork herself. he also wrote on a calander when the training camp was that that happened so he could have two good reminders and not let his mom onto what he knew. ippo knew that would be a whole other headache he didn't want to think about.
ippo finally decided to hit the sack and get some sleep it was still 3days till the weekend and he still had school, which meant after the tournament he would only have 2 days to get enrolled at a gym.
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[ippo spent the last few days before the tournament preparing himself(read not freaking the @#$% out)]
ippo knew he had plenty of experience boxing and he competed in a tournament before, but that was as a pro and with plenty of support by coach kammogawa and yagi to take care of everything from taking care of all the pre-fight registration and paperwork to what kind of training he would do to prepare for an upcoming fight.
ippo now had to take care of everything, he knew he couldnt ask his mom cause she would no doubt worry more seeing him so frazzled, no ippo had to do it all on his own.
the first thing ippo had done was to take out a spare blank note book for school and star to write down a schedule of how he would prepare and what he needed to accomplish when he went to the tournament. so ippo wrote down the first think wich was make sure he was caught up on school things since he knew his mother would be strict about anything that interfered with it, so he noted to turn in any homework early. the next thing g was he did was to plan how to get in better shape without going to a gym, he thought doing some road work might help and maybe going back to the pool and doing squats in the pool should toughen his muscles and help with his breathing. he also wrote down what trains he would have to take there and back since a hotel/motel would be expensive, he also would need to account for maintaining his weight and maybe take some simple food and energy replenishment drinks.
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ippo kept to his schedule and got up early to do his road work before his mom got up for the day so he could still help on the boat,
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*huff**groan**puff*
ippo kept up the pace as he ran his road work, he knew he wasnt as good as before but he still tried to endure as he switch from a slow jog to a rapid dash, he had done this several times for the last 3 hours he had been out.
finally his body couldn't hold out and ippo fell down the hill by the river he was running by.
*moans*
(burgh.....blauhh...burppp....cough..cough)
ippo couldnt hold in bis breakfast as his body rejected his harsh treatment he just put it through without rest.
DING!
CONGRADULATIONS!....
by being an idiot and pushing your unprepared body harder than it could stand you have earned the condition..... fatigue, nausea, sickness, vertigo....(HAHAHAHAHA, NICE GOING MAKUNOUCHI KEEP IT UP)
ippo glared up at the notice as he hurled his lungs out, vision blurry and not able to stand he was forced to read the pop-up from his system and just knew that ROB was laughing his ass off at how he looked right now, but ippo didn't care he had known it was a possibility this could happen if he pushed so hard right out of the gate. but he didnt have time for subtlety he beeded to be in halfway decent shape when he entered the tournament or he knew with serctanty that he would not make it more than 2 rounds if that. he vividly remembers that VOLG was a amature featherwieght world champion and he did not want to run the risk of certain failure by coasting along thinking he would be fine with no training.
no that was AOKI's department, he never knew when to back off from Takamura and lay low its why he would always get beat so bad.
after ippo recovered some he slowly worked his way to the river and dunked his head in to get cooled off and take a quick drink, he knew the water wasn't 100% drinkable but it was fine enough in small quantities what with it being a moving body of water and all the fish that lived in it.
"gasp....cough couch..." ippo gasped and coughed out as he pulled his head out and sat back down on the riverbank, he looked up at the notice from his system still on display and was just about to tell it to close when he notice something odd, in a bottom corner he saw a series of numbers....1/2..... displayed. now call him an idiot but he thought that there might be more than the mocking message left by ROB here, so ippo took a guess and asked.
" next page..... go forward... number two...
scroll down?" ippo finally called out. as he said that last fraise the window showed new text for him;
DING
start points earned:
--for vigorous and possibly insane training gain STR+3
--for vigorous and possibly insane training gain VIT+6
--for vigorous and possibly insane training gain DEX+3
for being a forward thinker and planning ahead INT & WIS +2
ippo couldnt believe how much he gained for just doing road work, but then again he did quite possibly do something Takamura level stupid by pushing so hard. and he thought that as his whole body siesed up and he fell over in incredible pain, he was reminded in this increasingly painful moment of when he last felt like this was possibly in his fight against Wally. ippo lay on the ground
groaning and clenching the harass in his hands as the pain continued to course through his body, as this was going on though unknown to ippo this pain was resulting in his body reshaping itself to accommodate such a rapid increase in performance and enhancement, even his system could do little to help since this was ippos own fault and he would need to learn moderation.
DING
host ippo Makunouchi, currently going through body modification, 35% complete. please stay calm and endure the process will be over momentarily....
TIME TO COMPLETE MODIFICATION: 15:45
ippo almost screamed at the heavens, how in the world is 15minutes of this torture momentairy...
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ippo lay exhausted after the modification was done, he saw that the window showed 100% and he had also gained an unexpected bonus off the pain he went through.
DING
physical damage reduced...25%
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ippo slowly gathered himself and made his way home, hoping his mom wouldn't notice him limping, no such luck aparently his mom took one look and knew he had been hurt.
"ippo what in the world did you do? come here now and let me see whats wrong and no buts young man" Hiroko Makunouchi scolded him.
ippo knowing no other course would do quietly went and sat down by his mom as she slowly proded and poked at him finding just where he was hurt, wich turned out to be all his major mucle groupings so she kindly got some hot water towels and ice packs and set to work putting then on and the. softly attaching the ice packs with bandages so they could stay on then forced ippo to lay down as she informed him he would not move a muscle and would not be going to school while she was out driving the fishing boat. and would inform his school he would be taking the day off sick.
"but mom I...." ippo made to immediately protest
"IPPO" said his mom
and but one look and one use of his name is all it took for him to timidly lay down and accept his mom knew what to do and could make do for 1day without him. besides how did he think she would do when he left for the tournament, he wouldn't be here and she would be working alone. so ippo sighed and decided to try and sleep and maybe do some homework later.
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after that first day ippo had to promise his mom to take better care and be easier about what he would do, ippo agreed and thus was finally able to keep his schedule of light roadwork in the morning for only 1hr(moms orders) and helping with the boat before he went to school for the majority of the day and avoided Umezawa and his gang trying to fleece him of money he didn't have. the. finishing up his homework and a very light jog for half an hour before going back home and enjoying dinner with his mom and going to sleep. it went like that for 2 days before he made ready and caught the train to the next step in his goal of gaining back what he lost and hopefully gaining even more of what he missed the first time.