Jake was completely drenched in sweat, but he was brimming with energy.
He was pondering whether he should continue training or go to school since there were only a few classes left when...
[Absolute Choice]
[Do nothing and carry on with your life as usual]
[Keep training: +0.01 life force]
[Head home, but after three streets, take a left: Unexpected encounter]
Jake scratched his head in frustration, knowing full well that if he stayed to train, he could become a bit stronger.
But there was something he could never fight... His own curiosity.
Jake chose the third option and felt excited to discover what the unexpected encounter was. He ran the three streets and turned left, but he saw nothing.
It was just a simple alley in the city.
"No, please no!"
The sudden screams startled him a bit, and he hid.
From the second floor of one of the houses in the alley, a loud noise was heard, followed by a man falling from there.
"Arrrgh!"
The man fell backward and began writhing in pain, clutching his back with a distorted expression. The man appeared to be around 40 years old, obese but with some attractiveness that his obesity overshadowed.
"Nooo!"
Jake heard the screams of a woman when 4 men came out of the house dragging two women by their hair. One middle-aged woman and a young girl, both blondes.
The obese man stopped lamenting and got up as best as he could.
"Please don't hurt them. Do whatever you want to me, but please leave them alone!" pleaded the man tearfully.
"Do you think that will be enough to pay us?" asked one of the very thin and awkward thugs. "You haven't paid for our protection in two months."
"I'll get the money, I swear! But please don't harm them!!"
"It's too late," replied the skinny man with a chuckle.
The skinny man lowered his pants.
Jake's and the obese man's hearts sank with a sense of foreboding as one of the men grabbed the obese man and the other two forcibly spread the legs of the two women while the thin man approached.
"No!!" cried the obese man desperately as he tried to break free from the grip of the man holding him, but it was all in vain. "Please!! I beg you, don't hurt them!"
Tears streamed down the obese man's face, but the thin man only laughed cheerfully.
"Don't worry," the skinny one tore off the panties of both women. "I'm just going to sample the goods a bit."
The man approached the girl and began caressing the legs of the girl who was fighting with all her might.
"What a cute and tender girl! You must be about, what? 14, 15 years old?" The man stroked with palpable emotion. "I'm sure you haven't had your first time yet. You're very lucky, because I'll be your first man."
The girl screamed in horror when she saw the man's erect penis slowly approaching her. Her father cried and begged while she watched in desperation and her mother was no better being a sea of tears.
When the man was about to penetrate her... Time stopped.
Jake was just inches away from landing a kick on the ugly and arrogant face of the skinny man.
[Absolute choice]
[Do nothing and carry on with your life as usual]
[Don't intervene, it has nothing to do with you and it's too much trouble: The man beats to death after witnessing the violent rape of his wife and daughter, the women are used as sex slaves in an underground bar]
[Save the family: +100 gratitude from the family, +70 love from the girl, ?????]
Jake's face was already distorted with anger. He didn't need the absolute choice to spring into action, so when it appeared, he didn't hesitate for a second to choose the last option and time resumed.
Jake's kick landed with full force, sending the man flying against the alley wall.
It all happened so fast that nobody could make sense of what had occurred, but Jake didn't stay still. He grabbed the man holding the girl by the neck and lifted him up.
The man let go of the girl and tried to break free from Jake's chokehold. But Jake slammed him against the wall, causing him to lose consciousness.
"You bastard! Do you know who we are?! We're going to kill you." The skinny guy got up from the ground with a bleeding nose.
Jake jumped on him and started punching.
One punch!
Blood gushed from the man's mouth, and a look of horror began to appear on his face.
Jake's eyes were red, and he used his genjutsu on the man. What he saw fueled his rage to new heights.
Rapes, dismemberments, beheadings, murders, extortions.
The list of the man's crimes was unbelievable, and the little sanity and self-control left in Jake vanished down the drain.
One punch, two punches, three punches, four punches.
The man screamed in terror and begged for mercy when he saw Jake's distorted and crazy expression. But Jake's punches only grew in strength and power.
The sound of Jake's fists hitting the man's face echoed throughout the alley. In front of the shocked onlookers, Jake kept hitting the man, even when his body stopped moving and twitching.
Jake only stopped punching when his fists felt the hard concrete.
Jake had smashed the man's head like a watermelon. With blood, brains, and marrow oozing on the ground.
"You have no idea what you've just gotten yourself into!" The guy holding the obese man looked at Jake with a furrowed brow.
He pulled out a gun and aimed it at Jake.
But Jake looked him in the eyes, and his actions halted.
"I know!" Jake walked towards the man and stared him in the eyes. "I know what kind of scum you are. That's precisely why I killed him."
Jake grabbed the man's head and twisted it unnaturally forcefully.
His torso faced forward, but his face looked at his back with an expression of disbelief.
The last of the four men had let go of the middle-aged woman a long time ago and tried to run away.
But Jake looked him in the eyes, and he froze with a blank expression.
Jake also awakened the man he had knocked unconscious, put him in a genjutsu, and let them go.
Both men took their friends and carried them away as if nothing had happened.
But Jake knew.
The men were under a genjutsu in which he ordered them to dispose of their friends and then commit suicide.
He had killed them all!