"Are you alright?" Miu started by checking up on Kenichi who was still laying flat on the ground.
"Yeah... I think so." Kenichi slowly stood up with his nose still bleeding.
I also went to check up on him and made sure he wasn't hurt anywhere else, this fight made me realize that if I myself didn't grow stronger I couldn't assure my safety by just hiding behind strong people.
I kept thinking about all the events that happened ever since I arrived in this new world, then I thought that it might be better to make things move faster than in the manga.
"Hey Miu where did you learn how to fight so well?" I asked her innocently, I was hoping for her to talk about the ryozanpaku dojo and for me and Kenichi to start training there.
"... Sorry I can't tell you about that." She thought for a bit then replied.
Her answer was very disheartening for sure but I still didn't give up. I knew that one way or another we'll get there.
"Then can you teach me and Kenichi a bit? We want to be able to defend ourselves." I tried to sound as sincere as I could. Even if I didn't get to join her dojo, if I had her training me personally I knew that I'd gain a lot from that.
"Hmm yes I could do that." She thought for a bit and finally agreed.
"You two should come meet me at the park next to here tomorrow after classes." she said with a smile.
After a bit more small talks we all went on our own way and headed home.
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After going back home and having dinner I sat myself down on the sofa and started thinking of all the things that happened today.
I finally found myself a way to get stronger, I couldn't be any happier, or so I thought before remembering a certain something I needed to do before sleeping, I still had the rewards from today's quest that I should collect.
[Congratulations on completing the main quest "prove your worth"!]
[Would you like to receive your reward?]
[Yes] [no]
I clicked on yes and got another new notification.
[Congratulations on upgrading the system to version 0.5]
[Congratulations skills will now be available in quests as well as in the shop!]
[Congratulations the shop and availability have been updated!]
[Congratulations for obtaining 10 F class chests!]
[Congratulations for taking down one more gangster!
Additional reward: 50 coins]
[Congratulations for obtaining 50 coins!]
The rewards of a main quest were for sure very different from normal rewards. Or maybe it's also because it was a D rank mission, but this time the reward was way better than any quest I've had in the past.
There were many things I was curious about after that system update but I started out by checking the shop to see what changed.
Out of everything in the shop what interested me the most were without any doubt the skills, but soon enough reality dawned on me.
[Shop:
E rank items:
Stealth skill: 1/1 available. Cost: 500 coins]
The cost was enough to turn down all my hopes, the F rank skills were luckily way less expensive and usually around 50 coins but they were obviously way less useful.
Even with the excessively expensive cost this skill was without a doubt the most interesting by far.
[Stealth (Rank E/ lvl 0)
Description:
F rank:
Allows the user to lessen his presence.
E rank:
allows the user to use camouflage and blend in better with the environment.
Exp required for level up: 10exp
Current exp: 0/10
Upgrade: unlocked at lvl 100
Cost: 500 coins]
The F rank description was already very attractive to me but unfortunately this skill was only available in the E rank section.
Even the best mission I got until now only gave me 50 coins as a bonus reward so I knew it wouldn't be easy to gather those 500 coins. but I also knew how useful E rank skills could be and how much potential they might have.
After thinking about it for a few more minutes I decided to simply push those thoughts away for now and focus on opening the 10 F class chests I received.
[Do you really wish to open all F class chests?]
[Yes] [no]
'Yes.'
[Congratulations on obtaining a small intelligence amplifier!]
[Congratulations on obtaining an energy replenisher!]
[Congratulations on obtaining 1000 yen!]
[Congratulations on obtaining an energy replenisher!]
[Congratulations on obtaining an energy replenisher!]
[Congratulations on obtaining 1000 yen!]
[Congratulations on obtaining 1000 yen!]
[Congratulations on obtaining a small speed amplifier!]
[Congratulations on obtaining an energy replenisher!]
[Congrats on obtaining the F rank skill "calligraphy"!]
Once again the rewards were very satisfying! It was my first time trying to open so many F class chests at once.
I directly took the stats amplifiers and then decided to take a look at my freshly obtained skill.
[Calligraphy (Rank F/ lvl 01):
Description:
F rank:
Allows the user to have a better handwriting. The mastery will depend on the level of the skill.
Exp required for level up: 10exp
Current exp: 0/10
Upgrade: unlocked at lvl 100]
"... "
It was without a doubt a useless skill. Most skills at F rank are very useless but this one topped them all. Even if I advanced it to the highest Rank possible I don't think it would be helpful, I would just become a god of calligraphy.
Though it was still a skill worth 50 coins so I couldn't help but get a little bit happy knowing that I finally got a new skill.
This new system upgrade showed me that from now on I will slowly turn in a super human myself, as long as I didn't die my progress would be limitless.
Just thinking about it made me excited, taking a look at my status window also reinforced that idea.
[Status:
Name: Amon Daisetsu
Age: 15 yrs old
Title: "homewrecker"
Job: "student of Bonyari high school" (+2int/+1cha)
Stats:
Strength: 6
Speed: 8
Endurance: 13
Dexterity: 9
Intelligence: 17 (+2)
Charisma: 12 (+1)
Skills: Cooking (Rank F/ lvl 27)/ Calligraphy (Rank F/ lvl 1)
Balance: 50 coins ]
Looking at this made me realize how far away I was from the person I was barely 3 weeks ago, such a progress in less than a month was already surreal to me but if I were to get even higher ranked quests I'm sure I could improve even faster.
Other than my strength all my stats were above average for my age and I knew that even if I still had a long way to go I could start being more confident from now on.
After thinking a bit more about my plans I simply went to sleep knowing that starting from tomorrow I had to go meet up with Miu and Kenichi for training, I'll be making sure to finally detach myself from my past weak self.