In this world superhumans roam, the art of martial arts is overwhelming the world and everyone wants a part of it. But just one kid, Kenta. He despises fighting, he even hates the idea of it.
Why would someone choose to hurt themselves? that's what he thought about it. People at his school were fascinated with martial arts, they loved to watch the national championships held. The school and its people are so in love with it that they even made a club for it.
But Kenta wants nothing to do with martial arts, even though it's all around he tries so hard to ignore it.
Even at home, it's there, his little sister is also in love with it. He always questions his sister but not even she can give him a good answer.
In this Martial world the strong rule with an iron fist, they can even control governments and hurt others without facing backlash, that's how accustomed this world is to martial arts.
At the peak of martial arts, one can lift mountains and destroy buildings, but only a small few have ever reached that point.
Kenta is one of the only people in his household to hate martial arts, even his parents love it.
"Hey, Kenta! do you want to watch this match with us?"
His family invited him to watch the match between the two fighters.
He stratched his head, 'Who would wanna watch two people hurt each other?'
"No thanks," he responded.
"Suit yourself then."
They turned back to watch the match.
But, the same thing they loved was the same thing that would get them killed.
One night, his parents were walking home when they saw a big group of people surrounding two men fighting, they both seemed to be martial artists but street thugs at the same time.
The two tried to get by easy but one of the martial artists chose to harass them instead.
"Hey, you old shits! come here."
Kenta's parents looked scared but refused.
"S-Sorry, we're just heading home."
"I don't remember asking you damn geezer!"
Kenta's father stepped up and defended his wife, "Could you just leave us alone, please?"
"Who's this fucking old head?"
The martial artist charged up a punch and sent him flying into the floor. His wife screamed and ran after him.
As he lay on the floor bleeding by a lot, the martial artist only laughed.
"Next time, listen to a martial artist you fucking bastard."
He looks down at Kenta's mother and smirks, "Hm? would should we do with her?"
He grabs her by the neck and slowly chokes her out, using his immense strength.
Her body goes limp and he drops her, the color of her skin fading as time passes.
Later on, Kenta and his sister would get a call about their parents.
They were broken, Kenta blamed himself because that night he told his parents to not worry and to go out and enjoy themselves.
His sadness soon turned to anger, he swore to make the bastard who did this pay. But he then realized how weak he was, he never trained a day in life because of his hate for martial arts.
"Thats right....in this world...only the strong rule..."
He didn't know where to start but he wanted a change and he didn't know how long it would take but he didn't care.
Suddenly a loud ding rang in his head.
[DING!]
[Host has met the demands of the system, binding system to host.]
As he sobbed and was filled with anger he was surprised by this sudden ding and now this.
[50%....60%...70%....80%...90%...100%]
[Binding Complete!]
[Welcome to the 'Martial Technique System'!]
"Is this real? or a fever dream of some sort? did I fall asleep?"
He couldn't believe his eyes, was what he was looking at real? he soon accepted it to be.
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[Name: Kenta
Martial Level: Novice (1)
Martial Arts: None
Martial Techniques: None
(SP: 0)
Stats:
Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Endurance: 1
Vitality: 2
[-Shop-]
[-Lottery-]
[-Quest-]
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As he stared at the panel his eyes lit up with happiness, with this he could do it. He could become strong and make sure nothing like that ever happened again, he was gonna become so strong that no one even dared to look at him or his sister the wrong way.
[Host's body is too weak for martial arts.]
[Creating a quest.....]
[.....]
[DING!]
[Host had gained +5 SP for getting his first quest.]
"I see..."
[Journey to becoming strong (1)
Meditation: (0/100 Hours)
Pushups: (0/100)
Situps: (0/100)
Run: (0/10 KM)
Plank: (0/10 Minutes)
Reward: 15 SP and a Martial art]
"....I've never worked out ever, how can I do this?"
He was about to give up but he remembered what he promised himself, to grow stronger.
"Alright...I can do this."
He got down on the floor and started his pushups. His form was horrible and he wasn't even doing them right, but the system was nice enough to let it pass.
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
After five pushups he was already tired, he had no clue how he was going to do 100 but he didn't want to give up yet, he chose to keep going until 10 and took a break.
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
[Host has done 1 pushup, Mastery had gone up by 0.1]
As he hit ten a loud ding sounded in his head.
[DING!]
[Host had reached 1 Mastery in pushups, They will be a bit easier now.]
He chose to finish his little break and got back to it, and just as the system said pushups felt easier. His form was fixed somehow and he was going a bit faster. But he felt tired by the time he hit 30 and chose to take yet another break.
He wasn't in a rush, but he knew he had to speed it up a bit.
..
.
"99.....and..100"
As he finished the last pushups his arms gave out and he fell on his face, he could barely lift them from the floor.
[Pushup Mastery: 9.7]
[DING!]
[Host has completed his 100 pushups, giving him a basic reward for doing so.]
A small box as big as his hand appeared out of thin air, it dropped in his hand and he instantly opened it.
[Loading reward....]
[.....]
[You have obtained....]
[Spoiled Milk.]
"Seriously?...."