I usually skipped school a lot and made up many excuses just cause I was too sore from training or because I didn't feel the need to go but today I decided to go but instead overslept and arrived a bit late.
"Huhh?" Suddenly when I was on the usually empty hall someone ran up behind me at a very fast speed so I instinctively threw him down using the Chinese martial arts that Ma Kensei taught me.
For the first time in my life I actually understood Miu's habits when someone run up behind her, that just shows how deep the Ryozanpaku's teaching were engraved on me.
"Kid, what the fuck are you trying to do!?" A heard a loud angry voice call out for me in the back.
I was dozing off this whole time while walking because yesterday I stayed up too much but I finally noticed it, this man that I threw to the ground wasn't alone. A full police squad along with their shields came to a stop after what happened.
"He simply surprised me, it's a habit?" I tried to reply calmly. I didn't feel like fighting today.
"What kind of habit is that? Guys, surround him and arrest him!" The one that seemed to be the squad leader shouted to his colleagues.
Right after his shout echoed through the hall, all the policemen surrounded me, which in turn triggered a new system quest.
[Side quest:
Defeat all the police squad! (difficulty D)
Description:
The police stopped you from going to class and is now trying to arrest you for throwing one of their men and stopping their intervention. Defeat them all and successfully go to class.
Currently: 1/9
Reward: 100 coins]
The situation grew increasingly annoying, not only did the policemen not listen to me but now I also had the system pushing me to fight them. The reward also wasn't smth I could easily throw away.
After thinking for a bit I ended up giving in and resolved myself to fight them, I just had to make sure I don't kill or gravely injure them.
I knew I'd for sure have a hard time defeating so many trained police men so I did what any normal person with a cheat system and many accumulated coins would do.
'Use 150 coins and buy 10 small strength, speed and dexterity amplifiers'
As soon as the items appeared in my inventory I immediately clicked on the button to use them, I usually preferred drinking them since I found out that using it directly from the inventory was very uncomfortable but soon enough I felt an extremely huge change in my body.
The change was so big that I immediately realized that at this point I was no longer a normal human.
[Strength: 13-> 23
speed: 12-> 22
Dexterity: 14-> 24]
"Stand still kid!" One of the police men saw me standing unmoving so he approached me with his shield, he was planning on pushing me to the ground but I could clearly see how slow he was compared to the current me.
I side stepped and dodged his shield blow then decided to use him as a way to test my strength and gave him a normal Muay Thai kick right into his shield. I didn't want to hurt him so I only aimed for his shield even though from the side I could see how open he was.
Surprisingly even with the shield he was unable to stand his ground and was pushed over a meter away.
I could barely hold back my excitement so I rushed on him to hit him with another roundhouse kick but I was stopped by the leader who attempted to give me a hit with his own shield.
Those are annoying. They're all very weak compared to me but there's no doubt that their teamwork is top tier and they're all nicely equipped.
Unfortunately I was already late for school so I couldn't allow myself to be any later so I wasn't going to waste any more time.
I grabbed his shield with my bare hands and threw him straight into the wall since he didn't want to let go from the shield.
All the other police men started backing down in fear but they all forgot that I had a quest to complete, I wasn't going to let any of them escape.
I rushed towards one of them and hit his ankle which took him down then grabbed the shield of one of his friends and pushed it away then hit him with a punch in the face.
I tried holding myself back when hitting their bare body. I had a feeling that with my current strength if I hit them with full force in the jaw I could probably kill them.
I kept testing out my new body on them and after 2 more minutes I finally got the system notification indicating that I successful took down all of them.
Though I couldn't get the reward right now since I still haven't completed the quest. I still needed to enter the classroom.
"Hello everyone!" I opened the classrooms doors as I usually do.
"...." Weirdly enough this time everyone looked at me but I couldn't hear a single sound. In the middle of the room there was Marika, the Daughter of the man who holds the highest rank in the police department, as well as her personal attendant and a few police men who faced tsugumi.
I remembered her from the anime, she was probably my favorite character from that manga but I still couldn't tell why she was looking at me so weirdly.
Suddenly realization dawned on me, I nearly forgot that I was actually way later than I thought I would be.
"My bad, I'm sorry for being late!" I said with an awkward smile. I didn't expect them to be so shocked just cause I was late though, people here are sometimes overreacting too much.
"So that's where the second police squad ended up." This time it was honda, Marika's personal attendant, who spoke up and all the policemen turned towards me.
"Hey! hey! hey! Calm down guys. No need for get so aggressive over me being a bit late." I could see them pointing their guns towards me so I couldn't help but panick, it was my first time facing a gun and even if I've grown a lot stronger I still couldn't do anything against a gun.
"Stop talking bullshit! The traces of blood on your face and all over your shirt!! You're the one who disposed of the second squad right? Did you kill them?" Honda was getting increasingly aggressive.
Though now I understood the situation better, they were all shocked because of the blood? Does that mean nobody cares that I'm late? I feel like maybe spending so much time at the dojo screwed up my common sense. I almost forgot that my whole face and clothes got tainted with blood during my fight in the hallway.
"Well yeah I did beat them up but they started it." I replied nonchalantly. I wasn't planning on apologizing since I believe they're the ones who took it too far.
"Why did you do that? And how can a brat like you even do that?" They all pointed their weapons towards me and yelled even more aggressively while the whole class was in complete shock.
"I did it because they didn't listen to me and directly tried to arrest me even though I clearly apologized. Also I would've been late class." I didn't feel like explaining myself but I couldn't do anything in front of their weapons.
"You didn't answer my question! Who helped you in your schemes? What's your goal and how did you defeat them?" Honda seemed to believe that I was part of some sort of secret organization.
"I replied honestly... Though if you still keep on going you'll unfortunately find out." I didn't want them to trigger any quest and make me beat them up inside the class. But at this point I wouldn't mind doing so, if not for them having guns I would've already done it.
"Amon!!" raku yelled out towards me worriedly after seeing them point their weapons on me.
When Marika saw that she immediately asked them to stop. She didn't want to harm Raku's friend. Even if I currently looked more like some monster more than someone who would be her fiance's friend.
Funnily enough right after they stopped and everything calmed down I took at the notification I got, I expected it to be a quest but instead I received a new title.
[Congratulations for obtaining the F rank title "monster"]
[Title: monster (Rank F)
Description:
Obtain this title by making 10 people see you as an actual monster and fear you. Grants the user the F rank skill " killing intent"]
It was almost ironic, in the very same room where I received the title of angel, I've also received the title of monster.
As much as I hated the meaning behind that title I couldn't help but think that this new skill sounded pretty interesting.
[Killing intent (Rank F/ lvl 1)
Description:
F Rank:
Allows the user to make a small amount of killing intent slip through and scare off very weak willed people.
Exp required for level up: 10exp
Current exp: 0/10
Upgrade: unlocked at lvl 100]
It does have some cool potential, it could save me the trouble of dealing with weaklings and also help me persuade some people, though I believe my charisma stat is high enough for that.
Unfortunately my joy wasn't long lasting since soon after I got asked to go to the principal's office. I knew trouble was coming for me.
Shu volunteered to accompany me."Heyy Amon you're rarely at school recently." Shu tried to ease the mood.
"Yeah I know." I've skipped way too many classes because of my training in the dojo, but I don't think that I should be talking about it right now.
"Amon, you do realize what might happen right now?" He asked while trying to hide his own worries for me.
"Don't worry, I've thought this through." I knew very well that this might be my last day in this high school.
This school allowed me to get some pretty nice starting quests but I don't think I'll find anything interesting for my current self.
I actually even got some small quests such as coming to the class trip to the hot springs but the rewards were nothing more than a few coins or 1 or 2 F class chests so it wasn't worth it to me. I gained a lot more by just going to the dojo.
Among those many small F rank quest the best would only give me 10 coins. While it is true that I could live a happy and peaceful life alongside everyone here and that I indeed got attached to them and made some nice friends such as Shu and Onodera, but even then I knew the truth.
That's not what I truly wanted, that kind of life style didn't suit me, even if I enjoyed it a lot that's not where I was meant to be.
That life isn't what I've been pursuing. My true happiness was when I practiced for hours, and finally received the footwork skill. My happiness lies in improving myself which is something I wasn't able to do in my past life, so now that I got such a great opportunity I don't want to stop.
And now that I finally discovered the true purpose of the system, "saving humanity in many different worlds and universes", I knew that my peaceful life wouldn't last long.
'The longer time goes on the more obvious it is to me. Even if I would rather not admit it. My place isn't here.'