As I thought today is the day. I've spent a lot of time in this world so my memories from past animes I've watched is slowly starting to get blurry but I still had some memories about the events happening today.
at first I saw everyone in this world as nothing but fictional characters so I didn't really care much about them but the more time I spent in this world the more my view of the world changed.
All the fun moments I spent with Shu and the others at school made me realize that they all had their lives beyond what is shown in fiction, this world is real, that's the conclusion I've only now reached, after more than a month in this world.
My time with Kenichi and everyone in the dojo was what helped me come back to reality, I was always detached from everything in this world because I couldn't help but see it as all fictional, but now I'm sure that it's all very real.
My bound with Kenichi is without a doubt real, I shouldn't worry about following the fiction or not interfering too much in this world, this world is no longer the same as the one I knew, this is my reality now. And Kenichi is the one person who's the closest to family to me so I'll make sure to intervene personally.
Today was the day Miu and Kenichi were going to get ganged up by a few minor members of Ragnarok, I knew very well that this was coming soon so I made use of my knowledge and followed Miu and Kenichi for the past few days.
In front of me, Miu and Kenichi were encircled by 9 opponents, 8 of them had weapons and the other one was unarmed but he seemed to be the strongest, I even remembered seeing him in the anime so I knew he wasn't just some random guy.
Right after I saw this scene another side quest got triggered.
[Side quest:
Save Kenichi (difficulty E)
Description:
Save Kenichi by fighting alongside him to defeat his opponents.
Reward: 30 coins.
Bonus reward:
50 coins for defeating Taichi koga.
10 coins for defeating any other opponent]
I Wasn't planning to let anyone harm Kenichi in any way but I wasn't expecting to get a quest as well, that was a very good surprise since I was in need of coins right now. I've already used up all my coins to buy stats amplifier to make sure I can help Kenichi when the time comes.
I originally had 45 coins but I used up 20 coins on strength amplfiers as well as 15 coins on dexterity amplifiers and 10 coins on speed amplifiers.
[Strength: 8-> 12
Speed: 10-> 12
Dexterity: 11-> 14]
With that I was sure that I could take down many people without even relying on the techniques Ma Kensei taught me. The reason why I chose him is because he was what I would consider perfect for my previous situation.
All the techniques he taught me are used against opponents stronger than yourself, they're techniques used to shorten the gap between yourself and the opponent.
But now that I've become stronger and faster than the average adult I didn't even have to rely on those to deal with a few teenagers.
And even if I knew that some of those teenagers are way stronger than adults I wasn't too worried, my dexterity being so high will help me use my footwork more efficiently. That coupled with my footwork skill reaching lvl 25 was enough to make me advance confidently.
"9 against 1? Isn't that a bit cowardly?" I mocked koga who was in the middle of threatening Kenichi. The quest details made me remember who that man was, he was one of the members of kisara's team. I didn't remember much of his fighting style but I was confident in beating him.
"Amon...?" Both Miu and Kenichi were surprised to see me.
"You're kenichi's friend?" Koga was surprised to see that there was someone ready to defend Kenichi. He probably got the info that Kenichi was always alone at school.
"Kenichi I count on you to try to take down as many guys as you can. I will take care of that one weirdo, he seems like the most annoying one." I said with a small smile on my face. This would be my first time fighting alongside Kenichi ever since we started our training, I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited.
"Alright let's do that." He quickly adapted to the situation and stood in a battle stance in front of one of the armed guys, he was very clearly scared in front of a knife but he still tried his best to stay calm and follow his master's teachings.
Miu was also thinking of joining this fight but unknowingly to both myself and Kenichi, Sasaki was observing us from afar and he made sign for Miu to not get involved in this fight.
"Go capture Kenichi and his girlfriend, I'll be taking care of the intruder." He looked at me warily seeing that I wasn't the least bit worried at the sight of his armed subordinates.
After training with apachai for so long those kids wouldn't seem scary to me unless they were all armed with Bazookas. I faced death more times than I can count while facing him.
I looked around to make sure Kenichi would be safe but when I saw him fighting only one of the armed guys my mind was more at ease. During that time Miu took the attention of all the others while only focusing on dodging, she wasn't planning on interfering.
While I was busy observing Miu dodging an armed strike I got taken by surprise by a high kick being thrown straight to my face.
Luckily I managed to barely dodge it by instinctively ducking under it, that high kick was like Apachai's kick but more than 10 times slower. my instincts were already sharp enough to dodge those kind of strikes.
"Isn't it kind of disrespectful to attack someone so sneakily?" I said in a mocking tone.
"What do you mean? Since when do-"
I didn't let him finish his sentence and threw a punch to his stomach which he barely managed to block but I could see that his legs were still shaking from the impact.
"You're right. Since when do people care about that right?" my lips couldn't help but form a smile, It was so fun to finally be able to bully someone after being bullied by aphachai for so long.
He tried to hit me with another high kick but this time I simply side stepped to dodge it and hit his other leg with a muay thai low kick which made him fall to the ground. I was actually just trying to imitate what Apachai did with me.
Whenever I spared against Apachai he always used that kick whenever I made the mistake of throwing a high kick at the wrong moment, that kick didn't have any power in it, its sole purpose is to embarass the opponent by making him fall flat on the ground.
As soon as he stood up I rushed toward him and feigned another punch to the stomach which made him lower his guard to protect it but instead punched him right into his jaw. This time he fell straight to the ground, it seems like he was going to take a little nap.
I don't think he will stand up anytime soon, so I went ahead and did my best to help Kenichi. All the other guys were very weak but their weapons were a problem.
I wasn't taught how to deal with people who had weapons, same goes for Kenichi, but luckily for us those guys were extremely weak, it felt as if it was their first time ever touching a weapon.
In the end it took us a little while because we were being cautious we still managed to take care of all of them.
Kenichi took out 3 of them while I took care of the 5 others. I never realized it, but it seems like recently I've gotten way stronger. I felt like this much wasn't anywhere enough to tire me out.