The sun was setting, people where taking walks in the park, couples could be seen holding hands while chatting and some kids where playing and running around.
It seemed like a normal everyday evening,
but not for the young man who just entered the park with a complete set of samurai armour really sharp looking and really shiny katana half outside the sheath
"is he cosplayer?" a girl whispered to his male partner.
"yo wtf!! that shit looks legit" a boy yelled in surprise
This boy with the unusual outfit was Bruce Mayne. The armour covered most parts of his body including his face which was covered by a mask so one could not tell how he looks like, but he was quite tall standing at a height of 6'4, quite tall for a 19 years old Asian dude.
....
Bruce had been training sword fighting since he was 13. His father, Tomus, was a professional fencer who was quite well known. Bruce became interested in his fathers profession and wanted to be a fencer but his father used to be quite busy in attending fencing competitions in far away places. On the other hand his mother, Marla, was just an ordinary housewife who was always with Bruce and encouraged him to keep asking his father to teach him fencing.
Finally his father agreed to keep his schedule free and teach him fencing and introduce the basics of fencing to Bruce when he turns 12, which was next year. He was overjoyed he could finally show off his cool fencing skills to the cute girl he always plays with at his school
Next year came his birthday was just a day away and he had heard his parents talking about buying him a sword to practice. He could not wait anymore so he slept early that night to wake up early. His parents had already decorated the living room.
'Happy birthday' was written on the walls with letter shaped balloons. His parents had sneaked out early in the morning at about 7:00 am to get the cake they ordered and some party hats and stuff as they had invited all of their beloved son's classmates.
About an hour passed, all of his classmates had come to celebrate his birthday including his class teacher who was keeping the kids checked so they won't completely mess the house up in the absence of Bruce's parents.
Another hour passed, Tomus and Marla still didn't return. One more hour passed it was already 10:00 am and the kids were getting more and more uncontrollable, running around and playing, leaving the house in a mess so the class teacher, Kattie, called Tomus to tell him to hurry up but neither Tomus nor Marla where picking up their phone. It was already noon and she was told to drop the kids back at their homes at noon. Tomus and Marla hadn't come back still and it was already time. Some parents where calling her phone telling her to drop their kids back home
as it was already time for lunch.
Kattie walked up to Bruce who was sitting near the piles of shoes and slippers waiting for his parents by the door.
"Hey birthday boy what are doing there near those smelly shoes" kattie said while pinching her nose and making a funny face to cheer him up "go there and sit with your friends, if you continue to sit there you will start to smell like dirty smelly-smelly feet and you don't want that, right Bruce?"
"No, I will wait for daddy and mommy here and I will give them a good scolding for being late as soon as they come" Bruce said while pouting with his chubby cheeks. Kattie had always loved cute children that's why she was working as a teacher on an elementary school and right now she couldn't believe how cute Bruce was. With a smile on her face she whispered in Bruce's ear "You know Lily told me that she was getting bored and she wants to go home, maybe you could urge her to stay". Hearing that Bruce stood up straight like an electric post and walked towards Lily the most awkward way a bipedal being can walk.
1:00 pm and it was time to drop the kids home. Kattie gathered all the kid in a line to with their hands folded to let them walk out the door in an orderly fashion. Bruce was sitting on the sofa with a party hat on, still waiting for his parents, kattie felt sad for Bruce,
"Don't worry Bruce they will be back soon" kattie said trying to console him "they must have been stuck in traffic and don't worry even they get lost I will search both heaven and earth and bring them back"
Bruce just nodded while watching television
His favorite show was about to start.
Kattie told Bruce to stay home and she will come back at evening.
Kattie dropped all the kids home and went home herself to fresh up before going to check on Bruce and see if Marla and Tomus are back.
Her home was close to school so she walked there after leaving the bus at the school. She walked about 100 meters until she saw a little worn out building and walked towards it. Her room was at the second floor of the building, she took the the stairs and then entered the room on the left side.
"How was your day sis" a voice came from from the living room along with some voices from the tv
"uhh, these kids are way too troublesome than I thought" kattie walked in and saw a short girl with pigtails watching news on the television, while laying down sideways with head balanced on her hand (laughing Buddha pose)
and sipping tea.
Kattie took her towel which had been drying in the balcony and headed to the bathroom
"if you are hungry there are some leftovers in the fridge, I am not in the mood to cook so suffice your hunger with that" Kimmy said while not even looking back.
"Sis, be careful when you go out, these days the local gangs in our area have been acting up a lot and many innocents have been dying on their crossfires" kimmy told her while watching news displaying the aftermaths of a local crossfire that happened at morning that day.
Kattie was head about to enter the bathroom when she suddenly glanced at what was being displayed and dressed up as fast as possibly and ran out of the door. Kimmy stood up straight surprised. she was confused as hell
"waaah why did she run away like that suddenly? "
"ghost? earthquake? pokemon? "
she was so confused that she too ran away with kattie
As kattie neared Bruce's house, she could see a police car outside and some people gathering near the gate of the house.
She pushed her way in through the crowd and
went inside.
There she saw a police officer checking the house and a female officer trying to console
Bruce who was still sitting on the sofa unmoving with the tv remote on his right hand and a toy sword on his left hand. It was obvious that he knew his parents, no kid not even adults can handle this type of news without breaking down but to this kid, Bruce, he didn't breakdown, he didn't even shed a single tear. He was just sitting there just like a
statue. He saw his parents lifeless body on display while watching television, his poor little mind couldn't handle it.
(Present)
°°°°(Bruce's pov)
I've been waiting for this day for years. I have trained enough. Today is the day that bastard leader of the gang dies by my sword, although I wanted to kill him with my fathers 'sabre' but I found out later that modern 'sabre' are not very useful at harming people, killing with it would be almost impossible as I haven't learnt any techniques or even the basics.
My mind broke that day. I was way to traumatized it took me an year of locking myself up and distracting my mind watching anime and reading mangas, which helped me get my mind straight. I got addicted to anime and was influenced be samurai based anime and mangas and decided take revenge full on samurai mode, I admit I have become cringe because of this but the confidence I gained is overwhelming.
When I turned 13 I started practicing, but I had no one to teach me so I taught myself. I was too dumb to understand any techniques online, I bought a lot of Sword Art books but all of them were fake maybe I was way too dumb
Then I thought why need techniques you can just be the fastest, steadiest, most accurate man with the quickest of reaction. I will move like lightning, stay still like a mountain , aim like Arjuna and and react as fast as a star nosed mole then I will be invincible.
I have trained 7 years and now I believe I am ready. I may not be invincible maybe I will never be and those thoughts I had when I was a kid maybe a bit exaggerated , but today it's do Or die. I have used up my savings to buy this samurai armour and this Katana. Even if I die I will look kinda cool and my picture in the
newspaper next day will look cool af.
fuck!?! Why the hell am I thinking of the aftermaths of my death when I am still alive
maybe my mind has not stabilized still.
Anyways I have been following the movement of the gang leaders for 2 years. One of the gang leaders died in a crossfire 5 months ago. He was lucky enough not to be killed by my hands haha or else I would have skinned his already bald head and use it as a spectacle cloth.
According to what I know today the leader of the gang is here waiting in the park for his mistress. He doesn't take more than 2 gang members when meeting with his mistress, that means only two 2 obstacles. If I get them out of the way it will be easy. They must be ath the Southwest section of the park, I should hurry up and go there without arousing suspicion
....
Bruce tried his best to go there without attracting attention but his armour stood out too much, so he went ninja mode and started going in and out from bush to bush like an idiot, which he is.
He was soon in a clearing, the ground was a little high in the middle, where a middle aged man with a huge beer belly was sitting in a wooden bench. Two huge man were standing beside him and in their pockets were glocks. These guns where Bruce's hatemost, he had fallen in love with swords like his father. If only these guns had not replaced swords he would been in paradise or he thinks so.
He waited in the bush for an opportunity, and soon one of the dudes went to take a piss. The dude walked about 3 meters away from Bruce's bush and unzipped his pants near a tree. This was the perfect chance to ambush, as soon as the dude started leaking, Bruce rushed towards without making any noticeable and sliced the dudes neck clean.
The gang leader's mistress went back home and he was ready to leave but when he saw that one of the dudes is getting too late he asked the other dude to go check. He was not really afraid as his gang was the only local gang left and the other gang dissolved after the death of their leader.
The dude sent to check went towards the tree the other dude was leaking on. Bruce had already removed the body but the blood was still wet and everywhere , but he didn't really care.
The other dude came closer as soon as he saw blood he became careful and slowly walked away from the bush carefully observing every side someone could ambush from. The dude knew the enemy wasn't using a gun as the blood was splashed in a wide area all over the ground yet there was no blood pool, which meant the body was also move away swiftly after the attack. The dude thought the attacker is surely melee and with a glock he was at an advantage as long as he is in an open area.
The dude was right at almost everything but he was not able to know that Bruce was fuckin insane plus suicidal at this moment.
Bruce knew he would be at a disadvantage if the enemy keeps moving away from the bushes and move towards the open area. So
he had no choice but to kill this dude right here right now before he gets away. After killing this dude, the leader who was getting impatient, would be an easy kill as after the dissolving of the rival gang he became really arrogant and moved with full of confidence without any weapon.
Bruce rushed out from the bush and leaped at the dude who got caught in surprise and was barely able to react and fired a shot. But, fortunately for Bruce, the bullet only grazed his right shoulder pad and while his sword sliced the dudes neck, perfect accuracy again.
Bruce was overjoyed, finally he could exact revenge and he could rest. He ran uphill towards the center of thr opening and soon as the gang leader saw a samurai running towards him with a blood laden sword and screaming " Eric you motherf*cking son of a cocksucker I will rain justice upon you today" he was both confused and scared out of his with.
"f*k, where are Steve and Austin" he thought while running as fast as he can but when he looked back the bloody samurai was approaching closer and closer. He wanted to run faster but that was as fast as his fat as could run.
Soon Bruce got close enough to Eric and when he was in range he slashed his sword
but the fat ass was unexpectedly nimble and managed to dodge it somewhat avoiding a fatal blow. Bruce soon got close enough in perfect position you slice Eric's head off.
He slashed his sword, Eric could feel death approaching swiftly but before his sword could catch momentum a loud bang sound was heard. "What was that?" Bruce turned back to see a man in guard uniform.
Alas!!? he had planned everything but he forgot the most important thing this was a fu*kin public park and there are people here and there. The guard also took a stroll every evening to check for any people doing drugs and stuff and so they won't disturb the public.
Eric ran away but Bruce was not concerned as he had applied poison strong enough to drop a bull in the sword in case he couldn't kill Eric directly.
°°°°
'Uhh my vision is fading, I can't feel my body' 'am I dying?'
'I guess my long awaited rest is here'
Only if I could see how I would look like in tomorrow's newspaper
Huh, who is that? Miss Kattie?
I am so sorry , I didn't think how you will feel about this.
Thank you for being there with me at my hardest
everything is getting dark...
AHHHHHHH!?! where the fck am I?
oh shit have I been isekaid?
Is this the world of magic?
---INTEGRATING MANUAL---
--COMPLETE--
Name - Bruce Mayne
Mp - 0 +5 = 5
str - 40+5 = 45
vit - 63+5 = 68
agi - 71 +5 =76
int - 86 +5 =91
Passive - as an transmigrator 5 point are added to each stat for a headstart.