During those few weeks I feel like I've already started getting used to this new life of mine, after receiving the reward from the last quest my cooking skill ranked up to level 20 and I had 60 coins saved up.
With no quests going on and no real goals I had to find some ways to keep myself busy, that made me think of back when I first came to this world, today was a Saturday so I didn't have school, I decided to simply go put on my sport clothes and went to do some exercises.
I knew training was useless for me when it came to physical improvements but there's no denying that training is also the best way to train your discipline and mentality.
Those are things the system cannot improve, they're the essence of who I am so I should never forget that.
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I started by a small 3km jogging around a few areas of the city that I didn't visit before, it was pretty fun, before going back home I decided to go to the onodera's shop to go say hi, I haven't been there in a while.
"Welcome!! Ohh that's you Amon? It's been a while." Nanako greeted me warmly again. That's one of the reasons I liked this place so much.
"Helloo miss Nanako, I'm sorry I've been busy with school so I couldn't come as often."
"Don't worry about it boy, Kosaki told me about you, she said you were pretty popular with girls and already made many friends right?" She smirked while thinking I'd get shy from her childish teasing.
"I'm not really sure about making friends yet, I do have a pretty cordial relationship with everyone tho."
After a bit more of chitchat I decided to go back home when suddenly I saw someone I never expected to meet right in front of my house.
It was a skinny brown haired guy who seemed to be shorter than me, even if he usually wouldn't have caught my attention his face was way more than familiar.
Kenichi Shirakawa, none other than the protagonist of the manga named after himself, he looked so short in real life, I do remember him being around 165cm but this time he also looked very skinny. Did he even start training?
Maybe I should go talk to him? In my past life Ive only watched the anime so I have no idea on what might happen if I get involved with him.
Right when I was in the middle of questioning whether I should approach him or not, I got the last push I needed.
[Side quest:
Greet the neighbors! (Difficulty F)
Description:
Make the neighbor family have a favorite opinion on you.
Reward:
2 F class chests]
"Helloo do you all live there?" I asked while trying to not make the situation too awkward
"Yes.what do you need boy?" Kenichi's father Mototsugu was the one to answer me while seemed rather annoyed at his family time being interrupted.
"Come on dear don't be so cold to such a young man, so what can we help you with?" Kenichi's mother was the next one to speak up, she indeed seemed very kind, that'll make things easier.
"Sorry to bother you miss, it's our first time meeting so I thought of introducing myself, I'm Amon Daisetsu, 15yrs old, and I moved to the house next to yours a few weeks ago, I was very busy so I didn't have time to come introduce myself." While the father didn't seem so joyous about my introduction, Saori seemed very moved by my polite introduction.
"Nice to meet you neighbor, I'm Sayori and this is my husband Mototsugu, don't mind his current grumpy mood" she said as she pointed towards the muscled man who seemed to be a bit taller than me.
"And this is my son Kenichi, he's your age so I hope you guys could get along well. And this little girl is my daughter" both of them looked at me curiously.
After a bit more talks I went back home, I even managed to get invited to dinner but I didn't wanna overdo it so I simply said I couldn't today and went back home.
Kenichi also seemed to be pretty happy to have made a friend around his age, his current self is way more shy than the one I remember.
Tomorrow is Saturday and we're planning on hanging out so I'll use that to get as many informations as I can.
But for now I have something to take care of.
[Congratulations on completing the side quest "Greet the neighbors"!]
[Would you like to receive your reward]
[Yes] [no]
I directly clicked on yes and didn't waste any time to open both of the chests.
[Congratulations on obtaining an endurance amplifier!]
[Congratulations on obtaining a speed amplifier!]
Both of the rewards were very satisfying, speed is currently what I'm lacking the most, and endurance is something I will never disregard, especially after the trauma of my first few days at 3 endurance.
"Open status"
[Status:
Name: Amon Daisetsu
Age: 15 yrs old
Title: none
Job: "student of Bonyari high school" (+2int/+1cha)
Stats:
Strength: 6
Speed: 6
Endurance: 9
Dexterity: 8
Intelligence: 16 (+2)
Charisma: 11 (+1)
Skills: Cooking (Rank F/ lvl 20)
Balance: 60 coins]
My current stats were very satisfying for my age, 10 being the average stat of a full grown adult, the average for a 15 year old should be around 7,so my 9 endurance was already above average for my age and so is my Dexterity.
Let alone my intelligence who was way beyond most people, that alone helped me sleep through all the classes without any problem.
As for my charisma that's what allowed me to befriend people way more easily and make them agree to my ways, even though I disregarded it at first as of right now this might be my most useful stat.
But now that I knew that Kenichi is in this world everything changes, thinking of the monsters who exist in the world of Kenichi made me think twice about how satisfied I should be with my current stats, I still had a very long way to go.
The system did talk about this universe in particular being a bit special since it was a mix of many different worlds I knew, but I didn't expect it to have people as monstrous as the ones from Kenichi.
That in itself changed my whole plans.