The sun is high up. I was walking in the street while absorbing every bits of information I could obtain. The neighborhood currently I'm walking into is pretty quiet. It's refreshing compared to my past world's neighborhood where everything is just loud.
The thought of remembering my old world really puts a smile on my face. Like the moment I suprised my fri-
"Ouc-"
"Ah-"
My daydreaming was interrupted by a collision. I was suprised that I am day dreaming in the middle of the road. But there's a better surprise that got me off guard.
"Hey, are you alr-" I was speaking on a slightly worried tone until I noticed who I collided with. My face showed a surprised reaction. Although I can control my emotions well, surprises are one of the things you can't predict.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was also spacing out when I was walking." The man said with nervousness, obviously show he was also suprised by the event.
'Who would have thought I would already meet the main character himself on my first day of reincarnation.' I thought as I helped the brown-haired young man to stand up.
He is wearing some casual clothes. A T-shirt with an anime girl imprinted. Your casual pants that you can buy on boutique stores. He also holds a plastic with cds in it. Since I know who this man is, I have an idea what kind of cds are there.
Presenting, Issei Hyoudou. The current Red Dragon Emperor and the incarnation of lust himself. The latter really makes me want to laugh but I controlled it. He ain't really bad looking if you look from the outside perspective. I can say he's also handsome. Not in the level of Kiba Yuuto though.
Anyways, one thing I noticed is that I didn't fall over when we collided. Probably because of my body. Issei here have a hard fall but that couldn't injure any man at all.
"Hey, man. Are you alright? You are staring in the air like you've seen a ghost." Issei said to me with confusion and worry. Once again, I wasn't focusing on the matter on hand. I should stop the monologues in my mind now.
"Oh, uh, I'm sorry. I spaced out a little there. I'm indeed alright, how about you?" I asked him.
"It hurts but it won't be leaving any mark." He said while removing the dusts from his pants.
"Oh well, that's good to know. Though I have a question." I asked.
"What is it?" Issei asked curiously.
"So, where are we? This is my first day here and I'm lost." I asked with a bit of embarrassment.
Issei just stared at me blankly before doing a facepalm.
Indeed, I am actually lost. My sense of direction really sucks even in my old world. I guess this is going to be a long day.
-TIME SKIP-
Issei ended up touring me to the whole town itself. Of course, we introduced ourselves first before we toured every ends of the Kuoh Town. The tour was pretty nice and I can see how really nice Issei is, with some moments that he is ogling every beautiful girls that comes into his sight and him kept cursing "Handsome bastard" at some point of times. I took this chance to be a bastard into Issei and boy, it's really fun.
He was suprised when he knew about me going to enter then Kuoh Academy, I said to him that I'm going to transfer there since I'm going to live in Kuoh Town for a long time, possibly permanently. Although we bickered at some points, I dare to say that I have managed to make a friend in the first day I got reincarnated. How did I make friends with him? Well there's one point that I slipped about me liking anime. And we have a long talk about it. He also informed me about the Kuoh Academy will start its classes once again in two months. I remembered that I was going to be assigned in the Year 2 by that small piece of letter with credit card that I forgot to carry.
Anyways, it doesn't change the fact that he still calls me "handsome bastard" and I also started calling him as "pervert bastard" to balance things out. Another thing is that we are actually just neighbors, which is pretty surprising for both of us. He was surprised once again when he knew I am the only one living in such a large house.
I'm once again back to my home, and there's a realization that struck me.
This house I'm living in will be a drag to manage and clean. Well, there goes my free time.
-TIMESKIP-
I, once again, about 9pm, outside in the house. I forgot to use my credit card to exchange my money into the country's currency. Long story short, I manage to do it quickly. I have a solid budget that I could use. I still don't have any plan what kind of part time job I'll be getting in the future though. I'm going to focus on familiarizing myself in the Kuoh Town. I just have a great dinner, a bath, and go to sleep to end the day. It was a pretty tiring day. I guess this is my first day being reincarnated.
Although, I've heard sstrange sounds along the way, I didn't get the curiosity get the best on myself because I might gettingsmyself into something dangerous and its not like I have trained already.
-MONDAY, 4AM-
I woke up pretty early. Take a bath, brushed my teeth, amd cook some good food to feed myself. I started doing the 'spartan regimen' that the system have set for me. I once again take a look in my status screen:
Name: Lugh Rusherie
Mission/s: 1
Strength: E-
Endurance: E-
Agility: E-
Mana: ?
Luck: ?
Passive Skills:
Instincts C
Hawkeye B+
Abilities:
-
Active Skills:
-
Of course, I wasn't expecting any changes. I just want go see my mission once again:
Mission: The Way of the Sword
To be a great swordman needs to have a strong body. Train until you have solidified your foundation. Every exercises should be done everyday. Use the katana as your practice sword.
Horizontal Slash: 100
Vertical Slash: 100
Diagonal Slash (Left and Right, alternative): 100
Push up, Curls up : 50
Jogging : 10km
Note: If you didn't meet the requirements in a day. You'll be experiencing continuous electric shocks in your body for 6 hours.
Well, I'm going to start with physical exercises. I wear my training clothes which is a tracksuit.
-TIMESKIP-
It is true that my body is more sturdier compared to my old world's body. I honestly thought I could take on the spartan regimen easily. I guess I underestimated my training regimen. It's 6:30 am in the morning and my body is at dire state already. I have done the physical training but it was so exhausting that my body fell over in the grass after the last curl up. My pain really experience many kinds of pain. It's really annoying.
'This is going to be in every morning, huh?' I thought with a tired expression. I began meditating to refresh myself. It's honestly a bad idea to eat before doing the training, I made a take note to myself to always start the training before eating and bathing. After 15 minutes of meditating. I stand up and I tried to bear the pain so that I can continue my hell regimen.
It took me about 3 hours to be done with the slashes. With the fatigue I have from earlier physical exercises, I have to take breaks every 50 slashes before continuing once again. One thing I noticed is that my slashes are becoming more precise, stronger and accurate in every slash. It's pretty fun training anyway. The status menu once again opens:
Name: Lugh Rusherie
Mission/s: 1
Status: Fatigue
Strength: E- (-)
Endurance: E- (-)
Agility: E- (-)
Mana: ?
Luck: ?
Passive Skills:
Instincts C
Hawkeye B+
Abilities
Novice Swordmanship Lv. 3, Minor Pain Tolerance Lv.1
Active Skills:
-
Mission: The Way of the Sword
To be a great swordman needs to have a strong body. Train until you have solidified your foundation. Every exercises should be done everyday. Use the katana as your practice sword.
Duration:
Horizontal Slash: 100 *
Vertical Slash: 100 *
Diagonal Slash (Left and Right, alternative): 100 *
Push up, Curls up : 50 *
Jogging : 10km *
One of the things I noticed is the asterisk mark on every training session. In my deduction, it should be the sign that I already have done a session. It would be useful to know if you're done after all and you're not overexting your training in any way because it might do more harm than any good.
I also noticed there's also a status indicator already. The system is obviously adapting from myself. There's also a noticeable negative sign in my parameters. Probably because of the debuff of fatigue. The duration in the mission doesn't seem to show something as of now, probably still measuring the extent of how long should I do the training.
There are also two abilities that I gained already, swordmanship and pain tolerance. Pretty interesting, so everything I learned in this world could be displayed in system? I'm not too familiar with the system yet. I also noticed that I don't have any levels or such, only the abilities. Well, who knows. I might have the ability to access it in the future.
I'm planning on including meditation on my training. It puts me into focus and calms my nerves. It should be my way of refreshing everytime I suffer in the training.
Anyways it's pretty obvious that my training obviously paids off. I should spend my two months training so that I can ensure my survival in this world because the canon would also start in few months time. I might eventually encounter some problems, after all, Kuoh Town is the center of every supernatural events that will happen in the future.
-Timeskip-
One month have passed since I was reincarnated in this school. My second year classes will also start in a month too. There aren't much of happenings in the whole month except for my training and getting closer to Issei. Somehow, it's still surprising to me up until this date that Me and Issei managed to be more close, although we are not in the level of being best friends yet, we are certainly more than friends, no homo.
Another thing to say, my system is indeed, very shitty. Compared to the system from the novels I read, my system is more of an 'status checker' than a fully-pledge system where everything is possible. I'm honestly regretting the fact that I should have asked for a complete system instead of minor one to challenge myself. My liking to challenges really puts me into problems sometimes.
Anyway, there's no use in crying on spilled milk. It doesn't change the fact that it's very helpful and efficient, albeit shittier than the normal system.
This is my status currently:
Name: Lugh Rusherie
Mission/s: 1
Status: None
Strength: E
Endurance: E+
Agility: E+
Mana: ?
Luck: ?
Passive Skills:
Instincts C
Hawkeye B+
Abilities
-Novice Swordsman Lv. 50, Minor Pain Tolerance Lv.16,
Calm Mind Lv. 10, Heightened Senses Lv. 5, Tough Body Constitution Lv.8
Active Skills/Techniques:
- Sword Drawing Technique (Basic) (Lv.6)
Mission: The Way of the Sword
To be a great swordman needs to have a strong body. Train until you have solidified your foundation. Every exercises should be done everyday. Use the katana as your practice sword.
Duration: ???
Horizontal Slash: 150*
Vertical Slash: 150*
Diagonal Slash (Left and Right, alternative): 150*
Drawing Sword Technique -One Slash- : 200*
Push up, Curls up : 100 *
Jogging: 10km *
As you can see, there are some changes in my stats. I discovered that my body adapts quickly in my training regimen. If my first day of training is torturous, the second week of my training is really easy. I even managed to take 2 hours just to finish every training sections. On the first day of the third week, I thought it was a good idea to raise my training intensity so that I can also get stronger easily. The system easily adapted and raised my training intensity which once again, hellish to my body. Although I knew my body could accumulate the training pretty quick, sometimes it's just mentally stressful. That's why the meditating part is really important for me.
One of the noticeable changes are my stat line. My strength didn't raise up quickly, of course I knew it would be hard. My agility and endurance only raised up this level because humans constantly walk and endure in some point of time normally. My love of walking down the streets and continuing the training even if I'm tired really have their own benefits. It didn't really raise up much, and I'm expecting on higher ranks that it would be much harder to raise the ranks.
My abilities also have leveled up and have new additions, The Novice Swordsman is easy to level up, just by the practicing the slashes and it would also level up. Apparently, thanks to my 'wished' innate talent. Although I have a feeling that my talent doesn't only apply on swords, my instincts say so when I accidentally stumbled upon a wooden spear on the dojo.
There's also the minor pain tolerance, the effect of this ability is pretty noticeable. Calm mind, basically letting my mind be always calm in every situation. Probably the after effect of meditation, it going to be really useful on situational problems. The heightened senses was a wonder when appeared for the first time. It is until I realized that maybe it's because of my continuous usage of hawkeye and always paying attention on surroundings. There's also that weird sounds that I always here at night whenever I am walking down to a ccertain neighborhood. The effects are already noticeable but not good enough to identify what are those 'weird sounds'. I never let my curiousity dwell in the possible danger. Tough body constitution is literally what it sounds like, a strong body and foundation. It's really good because it buffs my strength and foundation, the real reason why I'm able to raise my strength by a small margin.
There are a lot of changes, but the most welcome of them all is the sword drawing technique. There was a time I tried to emulate the sword drawing technique that I have seen in animes and movies. Quick update, I failed in the part where I'm supposed to resheath the katana back in after the unsheathing and slash part. I accidentaly cut my fingers because it hit my fingers instead of reentering the sheath. Good thing, the cut was shallow and it was not painful thanks to the tough body constitution and minor pain tolerance. When I opened my status menu, and clicked the mission section, it was surpring that it was added on my training program, but atleast there's already a style that I can use.
Sword drawing technique focuses on slashes that leaves fatal wound or even as far as to kill. It has moderate blow strength and the most important aspect of it is that the agility. Since it focuses to the concept of 'landing a blow to the opponent before he/she can react' and 'concise blows to break any defenses', one needs to have a considerate amount of strength and high speed so that they can utilize technique properly. My agility is pretty good enough, but my strength is barely enough, that's why I need to find a way to become stronger. It also bothers me the fact that a potentially killing move is my first technique, for the fact that it focuses on 'surprise' or 'sudden burst' which are not convinient when against someone who has a lot of experience, high-defense, or with someone that has an insane amount of close combat abilities. I'm still inexperienced of all sorts and I really needed something that I can use as my main attacking point. There's no denying the fact that it's a good trump card and technique to use against monsters or any sort of that.
For now, the only I can learn is the -one slash- variation of the sword drawing technique. Right now, the three steps of sword drawing technique, not foot work included are unsheathing, slash, and resheathing, I can do them in 1.5 seconds. It is hardly enough to surprise any lower devils and even humans with experience can still react easily. But hey, it's been two weeks ago since I only started training this technique so there are still a lot of time for improvements.
The footwork on sword drawing technique is easy enough, thanks to the novice swordsman ability, I already have subconciously doing the right footwork, albeit not perfect, still shows that I have a solid foundation.
Now, it's time to stop monolouging now. It's already 8am the morning and I just finished eating after taking a bathe. Since my daily dose of spartan training is already over, I can basically do what I want. One of the things that I'm thinking about is how I'm supposed to have magic. It would be really helpful to have magic because the fact that I would have also the ability to sense the disturbance easily. I'm not expecting the system to have any shop sections or something like that, according to my observation, the system adapts on my actions rather than what I think. It's not like me constantly buying everything would make me access the shop. It's really pain in my ass but I guess it's better for me to experience it by myself rather than trying to be too dependent on the cheat that the system provides to me which truth to be told, severely lacking compared to the system in the LNs on my old world.
Now that I think about it, since meditating allow a person so somehow access their subconsciousness, maybe I might be able to find some signs of magic in my body. While that I do meditate regularly, all of them is just to calm my raging nerves and to improve my focus. I never really thought of finding any magic on my body since I'm too invested on regaining energy.
Anyway, I started meditating and tried to find anything that could be a sign of magic. An hour later, while meditating, I was able to find some sign of magic. It was weirder than what I expected, its basically flowing in my body like a river circulationg around every ends of my muscle and bones. Although it was pretty thin, I can say that there's a good amount of magic I have judging from the feeling of power they gave. Meaning that I have a good aptitude in magic, which is a good news to me.
It's pretty nice to know that I have magic, another weird thing I noticed is that it doesn't really flow properly. I can tell how unnatural the way they flow, it basically spreads everywhere in my body. In an attempt to control it, I tried on navigating it around my body. Quick update, no luck, can't do it, it's very hard to manipulate the magic in my body. So, since I have realky nothing to do in the whole day. I just tried to have a little control in it.
-TOMORROW-
Current Stats:
Name: Lugh Rusherie
Mission/s: 1
Status: None
Strength: E
Endurance: E+
Agility: E+
Mana: E
Luck: ?
Passive Skills:
Instincts C
Hawkeye B+
Abilities
-Novice Swordsman Lv. 50, Minor Pain Tolerance Lv.16,
Calm Mind Lv. 10, Heightened Senses Lv. 5, Tough Body Constitution Lv.8
Active Skills/Techniques:
- Sword Drawing Technique (Basic) (Lv.6)
Mission: The Way of the Sword
To be a great swordman needs to have a strong body. Train until you have solidified your foundation. Every exercises should be done everyday. Use the katana as your practice sword.
Duration: ???
Horizontal Slash: 150
Vertical Slash: 150
Diagonal Slash (Left and Right, alternative): 150
Drawing Sword Technique -One Slash- : 200
Push up, Curls up : 100
Jogging: 10km
I did my usual routine, with a new addition of meditating to learn to control the magic flow in my body. I only manage to control it for three seconds yesterday, it's small progress but progress is progress. I have mmanaged to grasp the feeling of it that means I can easily familliarize myself with it. One thing I also noticed is that in three seconds of me having control on my magic flow. My body felt more sharper and my senses became more sharp. My muscle and bones also felt stronger by 20%, it could be possible that the mana in my body also helps to regulate the strength of my body. Think of it as reinforcement in nasuverse but mine is slightly weaker and more safe to utilize at the same time.
'There should be more progress right now if I trained at the same pace yesterday. Unfortunately, I need to restock for some foods. Else, I might starve myself later.' I thought lazily as I sit on my couch.
'I also invited Issei to play over, well, I guess I won't be progressing much right now. A man's gotta have a break sometimes so that he can enjoy life.' Another lazy thought once again came into my mind. Though, this time, it made me smile the thought of having someone to play with in this lonely house. I might like isolation at some times but there are just moments you wish that you have someone living with.
'A girlfriend, huh?'
Getting inside the relationship never really came into my mind. My friend's experience from my old world wasn't the nicest one after all. Although I don't have the particular experience, I'm pretty aware of risks and problems that a relationship with a girl could have.
"Love really is a fickle thing, still, how it feels like to have a girlfriend?" I thought loudly as I heard the refrigerator's door close.
"Ho, are you interested about having a girlfriend?" Issei said with a grin. "You never had one?" He asked curiously. He approaches close to me as he plans on sitting the couch. He drinks a box of milk that he got from the refregirator.
"Nah, never have one. Too focused on watching animes and reading manga." I said as if the sky was always blue. Issei seem to be suprised about my reply.
Some people might wonder how Issei just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Well, that's because he's been coming to my home for some time already. I invited him out of the blue because I was really bored. Then, it became a routine already especially when new animes are released. I gave him a key in my house so that he can come along whenever he want. It's better if the house is noisy because that's what I'm used to.
He also likes to eat everything I cook. Although he won't admit it because he knew he would see my 'victory smirk' and let it get over my head.
Sometimes, he also sleeps in one of the bedrooms. We'll I mean no one's using them anyway so why not? I just restrict him from doing some unsavory things and do it in their house instead.
I also do came over to their house. His Mom and Dad are welcoming just like portrayed in the anime. Although, I sometimes heard them mumble 'The change is coming for Issei, dear!' whenever I talk to Issei and I just chuckle nervously whenever I hear it because there is no changing Issei. Knowing that I also like playing H-games with Issei. I feel guilty about it sometimes but a cultured man should always cultivate his seeds for happy life.
-NIGHTFALL-
It's already 6 o'clock of the night. Due to me and Issei playing all day, I forgot to buy groceries and now since dinner is coming close, I have to buy something to cook immediately.
"Hey Issei, I'm going to buy some groceries. Watch my home for a hour, I'll be back quickly." I said while preparing to leave. I wear a plain white t-shirt and a black jacket to top the t-shirt. I also have black jeans and rubber shoes.
"Oh, okay then, be back quickly because there are some strange news about teenagers suddenly disappearing around the town." Issei obviously shows his skepticism about the story, though the news surprised me because such stories couldn't be baseless. It's also noticeable that he is a little bit of worried for me although his face is focused on the game he's playing.
"Thanks, Issei. Although I would worry more about the girls you are trying to approach." I said with a smirk, irking Issei and getting a middle finger as a result.
Anyways, I get out immediately of the house and locked the gates. Issei has the key anyway so why not? I also have the katana I used for training because my instincts tells metit would be better to have a weapon. In case of the disappearing related into supernatural and if somehow I got involved between it.
I am already midway to the grocery store. I am running currently so that I can make it earlier back to the house. The surroundings are very quiet. It's possible that it could be because of the recent disappearance of teenagers. Everyine obviously playing it safe, fake or not.
Suddenly, there are weird sounds that I heard. I stopped running and stayed for a while, because it sounds familliar. It's the same sound that I've been hearing for the past month I have been reincarnated in this world. This specific neighborhood is also unnaturally quiet.
The weird thing is, that the sound is louder and I think it came from far behind me- OH SHIT
The andreline rushed through my head as the sudden realization came to me. My instincts kick in and I jump while turning back and drawing the katana I have in my hips. There's about 50m of distance between us. Then what I saw purely disgust me into the core.
What I have seen is like a hybrid between a human and a dog. Walking in its four limbs and have blade-like claws that has sharpness that looks like could cut the human bones like softened butter. It's also very hairy and there's its intimidating red-eyes that could freeze any normal humans. It bears its long fangs that aims for my kneck. And it's acid-like saliva that drops and melts the pavement of the road.
My calm mind suddenly activates as my mind clears from the disgust I have seen. I immediately prepares to unsheath the blade. As I hold the handle and sheath of the katana tighly while I am looking at the hum- no a beast that looks upon me as if it already found its dinner. The 'beast' slowly closing the distance between us as I prepare to strike anytime. There's one thing for sure.
From its demonic-like energy that it produces. I am certain to say that this is a stray devil that I am currently facing with my katana.