After ray confirmed the changes, his stat screen opened up while at the same time, the guy approached him
[Stats]
HP: 51/55
MP: 75/75
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Vitality: 5
Sense: 7
Strength: 5
Agility: 7
Intelligence: 15
<7 Stat points Available>
Without checking his stats, ray closed the status screen and focused on the fight he had gotten himself into.
The guy threw another straight right punch at ray. but ray easily avoided it again by moving to the side. Ray's movement was the same as the ones before, but only this time it was significantly faster. The fist which was barely grazing ray before, would no longer even touch him.
interested in the sudden message, ray simply thought [confirm]
the delinquent threw another punch, which ray easily avoided by moving his body, then a curved punch, which he avoided by stepping back, and then a kick where ray avoided by ducking.
Ray was rather surprised by this too, the delinquents movement felt slightly slower than before, and ray also felt slightly faster.
Ray who heard the message, was curious about what would happen when it reached 100%
"Why isn't he fighting back...?" Tina asked
"He probably feels responsible for what happened and he has no right to fight back" The teacher replied
Ray was conscious of the fact that because he abandoned them they died, he still felt partially responsible for their deaths.
"What's going on?"
"Shouldn't someone stop the fight?"
"What are the teachers doing?"
"Get him freshman!"
"That first year is dodging every attack being thrown at him!"
The other students who were watching this started to comment amongst each other about the fight.
The delinquent realising that he wouldn't be able to hit him, rushed at ray grabbing straight onto his uniforms collar in the process.
"Stop dodging you little Sh**!" He shouted as he pushed ray onto the wall
At the same time, ray received another system message
After that message, as the delinquent pulled back his arm and clenched his fist, Ray could see trajectories, and in that moment he knew that they were trajectories of where the fist would go
Ray planned on letting him get one more punch in before ending the fight, when all of the sudden
*clap*
The sound of a slap, resonated throughout the classroom
Next to ray who was pinned against the wall was Tina with her arm stretched out. While the delinquents focus was on Ray, Tina slapped him and boy was it loud.
The whole classroom had quieted down, even the teacher looked like he hadn't expected that
Then with a cold tone and look she said "Venting out your anger on the one who saved you. I'm surprised you got into this school with that mindset, how much did your parents waste bribing the teachers?"
The way she spoke, her cold attitude, and look was enough to send shivers down his spine. Even the teacher was surprised by her sudden change.
"W-What did you say?!"
In anger, he swung his fist at tina without holding anything back. Yet she didn't even flinch and right before it hit her, Ray grabbed it, stopping it in its tracks.
Ray instantly replied "Confirm"
His grip strength increased and he began to squeeze the delinquent's arm, harder and harder
With a similar cold tone, as he looked him straight in the eye, ray said "don't touch her."
From the calm cold look in his eyes, to the tone, the delinquent could tell that Ray wasn't joking.
Without saying anything else, he let go of ray's collar and ray let go of his hand. He dropped on to the floor while trembling
"What's wrong with these siblings..." he muttered
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[Stats]
HP: 25/25
MP: 25/25
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Vitality: 5
Sense: 6
Strength: 4
Agility: 4
Intelligence: 5
<0 Stat points Available>
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[Skills]
Ray was surprised when the screen suddenly popped up, but as he had expected, the guy was level 0 but had higher stats than ray's before he upgraded his. For ray this meant that there was a way that he could increase his stats without doing upgrading or levelling up, and this way was most likely by training.
Now the question that came to mind was, what sort of training boosts which stats? Why was his intelligence drastically high compared to other stats? Then ray remembered, he read a lot of books, mainly novels. He assumed that reading might have something to do with intelligence
Then came his strength, his strength was 4 and ray took 4 damage when he got a clean hit to the face, did that mean that any sort of hit would evoke 4 damage or only a really good hit? Because from an outsider's perspective, Ray was hit hard.
Another thing which stood out, was his vitality, His vitality was the same as Ray's yet ray's HP was higher. Ray didn't know why this happened but before he could figure it out, the delinquent got up.
"Me...? Scared...? Of these siblings? Haha..."
Ray was getting tired, why should he have to hold back on a guy for something that wasn't his fault? It was the apocalypse, feeling responsible for others would only hurt you, or get you killed.
Right when the delinquent was about to rush straight at them, someone stopped him. It was one of the second years who seemed to know him.
The guy was even taller than the delinquent, he seemed to be around 6 foot 5 at most. He had a good frame and was rather well built. With his spiky gray hair and blue eyes, he stared at john.
"That's enough." The guy said
"Let go, why are you helping them?" The delinquent asked
"Are you ordering me?" The guy asked
"N-No, of course not..." The delinquent muttered
The guy walked away from ray, out of the classroom and the delinquent followed behind
He glared at ray as if saying that his debt hadn't been settled, yet ray ignored it
After they left the classroom, ray received another message