When I woke up, pain immediately assaulted my entire body, as I suddenly felt it shake and change. I couldn't discern how long it lasted, but when it finally ended, I knew my body was very different.
The Hanma Bloodline…
It's a bloodline I know very well, it comes from Grappler Baki, a manga series written and illustrated by Keisuke Itagaki. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shounen Champion from 1991 to 1999.
The story is about Baki, a boy who was trained from a young age by his father, Hanma Yuujirou, the main antagonist of the Baki franchise, and is also the strongest character in the series. Yuujirou works as a mercenary and is a highly paid assassin by various governments and organizations around the world. It is unknown how much people or organizations pay him to do his mercenary work, but judging by his expensive tastes, they must pay him a large amount of millions. Often called "The Strongest Creature on Earth" or "The Ogre," he is feared and respected by all who meet him.
His sole goal is to make Baki stronger. His motives for this are a mix of parental projection from Yuujirou and the potential to create a stronger opponent for himself for his own entertainment. To achieve this, he subjected the young Baki to savage training that traumatized him and filled him with hatred and resentment. Hatred that increased even more when Yuujirou killed Akezawa Emi, Baki's mother, in cold blood.
Once he has overcome his training, Baki embarks on a journey around the world that takes him to face great fighters of all styles and with skills that are even out of this world, in underground combats in which nothing is at stake but honor. Guided by his thirst for revenge, Baki crosses paths with the most fearsome enemies on a bloody path.
That's the main plot of Grappler Baki... And the blood that's currently running through my veins is just the one that Baki and his father Yuujirou had.
Achievement System
*Warning: Assimilation of the Hanma Bloodline can be very painful, the host is advised to prepare for a possible complete body transformation*
Kenichi: (DAMN IT...!! I TOLD YOU TO WARN ME AHEAD OF TIME!!)
Kenichi: "Agh... ghh... Guh... Ahh..."
I couldn't help but grunt in pain as the Hanma blood ran through my veins, it felt like a raging tempest surging inside my body. This sensation brought me a long-forgotten warmth, it felt almost nostalgic like the time I lived with my parents before they died, I felt as happy as I did in those moments.
Inside my body, it felt like a turbulent roller coaster. My muscles weren't just expanding; they were transforming into a new form of strength, taking on contours that defied the limits of imagination.
Kenichi: "AAAAAAAAHHHH…!!!"
My cells worked feverishly, adjusting and intertwining to form a lattice of pure power. It seemed like a wild, electrifying dance, with every fiber of my existence undergoing a profound transformation under the influence of the Hanma Bloodline.
Every cell in my body seemed to pulse with untamed electrical energy. It was as if a primal power was taking over, sending shivers down my spine and simultaneously making me rejoice… And then the transformation began.
My body refused to hold back, and I could feel it stretching and expanding. A remarkable metamorphosis was occurring along my back. For a brief moment, without me realizing it, the muscles in my back underwent a strange, irregular transformation, almost resembling the face of a Demon.
It was a haunting and captivating sight, it was as if an ancient and powerful force was being etched into my flesh, all without me fully understanding it. My muscles swelled and expanded beyond imagination, creating a colossal form. I looked like a living giant, radiating raw, unbridled power.
But the transformation didn't end there. My muscles continued to grow, but at the same time they also began to compact, evolving into a more efficient form.
After an indefinite amount of time, the pain began to subside slightly and I could feel a new strength coursing through my body, a strength that shouldn't be underestimated. I wasn't sure how long this transformation lasted, but I now feel completely different than I did a while ago.
I slowly started to get up from the ground and looked at my hand which was obviously bigger and more muscular than before.
Kenichi: "So… Genetically speaking… I am now a Hanma… Or more specifically, my body is that of a Hanma…"
I could feel that even my voice changed slightly, the only way I could describe it was that it sounded more manly, and I can also feel that I am now taller, not in an exaggerated way, but I was definitely taller than before.
So, this is how it feels to be a Hanma, I can feel the power coming out of every part of my body, I feel so free and at the same time so euphoric, I wonder if this is how Baki and Yuujirou feel.
Now I understand how Yuujirou was able to bring back an entire country on his faithful lapdog, I feel so powerful.
Besides my voice and my height, I could also notice that my arm was full of muscles, which luckily for me didn't look like Yuujiro's, although I like that manga and also the anime, I have to admit that the muscles of the characters are very unreal, the most muscular ones like Yuujirou and Oliva Biscuit practically had muscles on top of muscles, honestly they looked a little deformed for my taste.
I remembered an image of Hanma Yuujirou's muscles, and although he looks great, that type of body is very unreal, it's the type of body that you could only see in an anime.
Kenichi: "…But what am I saying… Now that I think about it, I'm practically inside an anime… So I guess having a body like that here wouldn't look so weird…"
Maybe because of my growing muscles, my school shirt was completely torn.
Kenichi: "Hmm… That's a mirror, I'm a little curious, what kind of appearance will I have now…"
I approached slowly but with firm and sure steps, I'm sure I was projecting a somewhat arrogant atmosphere, until I could finally see my figure completely reflected in the mirror, and I have to admit that I was quite surprised.
Kenichi: "So this is my appearance now"
What was reflected in the mirror was the appearance of a young man with long dark hair and an incredibly toned body, although not in such an exaggerated way, at first glance it was a compact body, neither very thin nor very muscular, but if you looked closely you would realize that it was full of firm muscles, they were perfect, they were almost like those of the Greek statues.
Although it was not a huge body, any bodybuilder would envy and long to have a body with muscles as perfect as those.
Kenichi: "The good thing is that my change wasn't as exaggerated as I imagined, although it is true that I am taller now it is not that much, if before I was 1.66cm tall now I must be around 1.70cm tall or maybe a little more… Although it is still possible for me to grow more, I am still a teenager in full growth and if I remember correctly Hanma Yuujirou was 1.90cm tall"
And to think that the problem of having a poor physical condition would be solved so easily, now that I think about it… Do I really need to learn to fight? With how I am now I could easily beat anyone to death, and why should I do something as tedious as drawing or writing novels, if I want money I shouldn't just take it by force, after all there are only weaklings here, and with my strength I can even take any woman I want and do…
The moment I processed what I was thinking I unconsciously felt a chill.
Kenichi: "Ah…!"
I couldn't help but freeze with a surprised expression for a few seconds. I didn't even understand why I was thinking of doing such things.
Kenichi: "I… W-Why was I thinking of something like that? Was I… influenced by the Hanma blood…?"
It's the only possible answer I can think of, I just thought of robbing and slaughtering people, that's something that had never crossed my mind before, even before I broke free from the control the World had over me, I would never have thought of doing something as savage as that, I'm also completely sure that if there was a woman here I would have immediately thrown myself at her like Pickle and raped her without any hesitation.
Also I was thinking about not training and challenging everyone like this, how could I be so stupid, I'm not the Ogre, although it sounds cool, I have no reason to become the strongest creature on earth, besides although I know that with my new strength I should be able to defeat any of the aliens that appeared in To Love-Ru, Lala's father is another story, even if one day I become as strong as Yuujirou I doubt I could fight Lala's father if he decides to destroy the earth. With Yuujirou's maximum strength at most I can destroy large concrete walls or buildings at most, but to face someone like that I have to be at least as strong as Saitama from One Punch-man.
Although in the story they never showed Lala's father fighting, so he could easily destroy the Earth in his weakened state, also in this story different types of aliens appear, that means that this World is huge, it is possible that there are more subjects equal or even stronger than Lala's father.
How could I let myself be carried away by my instincts even if I become the strongest on Earth what sense does it make if there are individuals out there who can easily destroy planets like those in Dragon Ball, not to mention that it is possible that this world is more complicated than I think, after all a God granted me the system, also when I received the Plot Change Tickets it said that I could change the plot of any fiction in which I found myself, that means that it is possible that this world is a combination of several animes, which is not impossible, after all the plot of To Love-Ru revolved only around Sainan City like most animes.
So it's possible that even here on earth there are powerful characters from other anime, maybe even magic exists…
Kenichi: "No… I have to calm down… Now I'm being influenced by the knowledge of other realities… Until I see something with my own eyes I can't be sure of anything, maybe even this world only resembles the one in To Love-Ru… For now let's analyze the situation well"
Now I have the Hanma bloodline, in the manga only three people were shown having this powerful bloodline, one was Hanma Yuuichirou (Baki's grandfather), another was Hanma Yuujirou and lastly there was Hanma Baki, all three were super humans with incredibly powerful and at the same time very unreal feats.
To start off, there's Hanma Yuuichirou, the first known male of the Hanma lineage in the entire history of the series, and he is also Yuujirou's father and Baki's grandfather.
He is depicted as an imposing figure, characterized by his imposing muscular build and exceptionally broad shoulders, to the point that some observers within the narrative consider him inhuman. He usually sports an amused, even bored, smile on his chiseled face, and his dark hair is usually styled in a simple ponytail.
Among his exploits, he is recounted in the story to have single-handedly defeated the United States. He fought against the entire military might of the United States on a small island in the territory of Okinawa during World War II, in which he single-handedly defeated 2,000 American soldiers using a superhuman and very lethal technique.
He was called the "Oni" (The Devil) by American soldiers.
This alone suggests that those who possess Hanma blood are truly superhuman individuals, for a highly trained soldier or even a martial arts master it is already a great achievement to defeat 15 armed men alone, but Yuuichirou defeated 2000 soldiers fully equipped with firearms and did so without receiving a single wound.
Then there would be Hanma Yuujirou, the main antagonist of the series and Baki's father.
Yuujirou is an extremely well-built man, standing approximately 1.90 cm tall and weighing around 120 kg. His neck is exceptionally thick even compared to the rest of the fighters, and his legs are also proportionally long. Yuujirou has wavy red hair, thick black eyebrows, and red eyes (brown in the Baki 2018 and 2020 anime series). Although Yuujirou is not as tall and muscular as other characters, he has a more athletic build, massive shoulders, and large muscles in the chest area.
Unlike his father who was a laid-back man and would not fight to the death unless necessary, Yuujirou is a fierce and arrogant man. He is extremely violent, showing no mercy towards anyone as he sees mercy as a "weak" trait. Yuujirou is also emotionally manipulative, this can be seen in the relationship he has with his son and with Akezawa Emi.
He seemingly lives only to fight and cause destruction to as many as he can. His entire life and mindset is dedicated to nothing but fighting and growing stronger with each person he defeats, sometimes killing them. He tends to kill people if pushed or enraged enough and shows no care or remorse in doing so.
He will also kill for pleasure or satisfaction whenever he feels like it, facing no repercussions as even the United States, which is the country with the greatest military might, cannot stop him. He holds a deep resentment for the weak and does not even believe that they are worth killing. He is without a doubt the strongest creature on earth, and has a huge line of feats that are told almost like urban legends, such as when he participated in the Vietnam War and single-handedly massacred the entire United States Army, or as you see when he single-handedly killed a giant African Elephant that resembled those of prehistory and one of his most unreal feats was when he stopped an earthquake with a punch.
Kenichi: "Although if you ask me, I think that stopping the earthquake seemed more like something metaphysical than something based on strength. Later on, Yuujirou made a skyscraper shake just with his anger (which wasn't even a physical attack). My interpretation is that it's a situation of 'Even the earth itself has to recognize the strongest creature and respect its will. ' Yuujirou wanted to fight his son without interruptions, so he asserted his dominance and made the earthquake stop with just the force of his will… I think that's a lot more realistic than saying that he did it with his brute strength, after all, the greatest display of strength he's ever made was when he destroyed a martial arts arena with one of his punches."
To date Yuujirou hasn't made any other displays of strength apart from that time, although it's possible that he could be more destructive, after all he didn't have Demon Face activated, which is a fighting skill of the Hanma family, which I very possibly have now too, after all, when my body began to change I felt the power overflow from my back to the rest of my body.
Demon Face is a 'technique' in which the user flexes the muscles of the back with great force to form the face of a Demon. The user becomes many times stronger in all aspects after activating it, experiencing an increase in physical strength, speed, defense, endurance, etc.
The user can practically absorb any blow, when Yuujirou activated it he instantly stopped receiving damage, he simply stood in the same place receiving blows that apparently did nothing to him, as far as I saw in the Manga, (which is not finished yet) so far the full force that can be released with the Demon Face activated has not been shown, but what is known is that everyone who has the Hanma lineage has it (Except Jack Hanma who for some strange reason does not have it).
Also Demon Face is not so much a technique, you could say that it is more of a predetermined advantage like height or the ability to develop muscles, since it is a gift that depends more on genetics and lineage than on training.
However, it can be treated as a technique since it is only activated when the user decides to use it. The only logical way to explain it, is that this phenomenon is due to the unique body constitution that those with the Hanma bloodline are born with or as Kaioh Kaku said when he saw Yuujirou releasing the Demon Face
"Your body composition is not normal at all… Let's just say that… You were blessed with a body that was designed to fight…"
And the last user of the Hanma bloodline, is Hanma Baki the protagonist of the story and currently one of the strongest characters in the entire franchise, and like his father people consider him to be the strongest teenager on earth.
Baki is a boy who is approximately 1.67 cm tall. Baki's appearance changes drastically throughout the series as he ages. Baki's first initial appearance at the beginning of Grappler Baki when he is 17 years old is that of a somewhat childish behavior, with short hair and long hair on his back. Throughout the entire series, Baki is shown to have a severely ripped body due to the diligent and uncompromising training he undergoes, with the sole exception of his face. Another notable feature of Baki's appearance is his mole just above his upper lip on the side.
Baki is usually a carefree, laid-back, hard-training, and sometimes aggressive teenager throughout most of the series.
He strives to defeat his father, Hanma Yuujirou, who is indisputably considered the strongest man in the world. However, Baki's dream is not to replace Yuujirou as the strongest man alive, but only to become strong enough to defeat him. This goal stems from a natural desire to surpass his father and avenge his mother, Akezawa Emi, whom Yuujirou murdered.
Baki is the opposite of the Ogre, if Yuujirou is cruel, arrogant and ruthless, Baki is gentle, calm and respectful, although on some occasions he can be cruel and ruthless but only during fights, it is said that his personality is more similar to that of his grandfather Yuuichirou.
Also unlike his father Baki has proven to be one of the best martial artists in the entire series, he can practically learn any fighting style just by watching it and use it even better than the person he learned it from, Yuujirou can also do it, but he rarely does it, the reason he is considered the strongest creature on earth is because he depends solely on his own strength, he sees martial arts as something that is only for the weak.
Kenichi: "Although that is only valid for his world, because if characters like Goku or Vegetto heard it they would laugh in his face, they are already powerful but by using martial arts they can fight at the same level as the Gods, if they were in Baki's world they would defeat Yuujirou with just one finger"
But leaving all that aside, Baki is one of the few fighters in the series who has given Yuujiro a fight and like him he also possesses the Demon Face, However, because his nature directly contradicts Yuujirou's and he is a kinder and more honorable fighter, he refrains from using it. It is only known that he used it on three occasions, when he first developed it, when he fought against Bisquit Oliva and in his fight with Yuujirou, which was a no-holds-barred fight and simply consisted of the two exchanging blows with each other. Furthermore, not only Baki's back, but also his brain show the same demonic characteristic.
Baki was once given an X-ray and it showed that his brain had an abnormal constitution similar to that of his back, and up to now in the series the significance of this Demonic Brain is still unknown, but it must be something that only the Hanma possess.
Well, that's basically all I know about the Hanma bloodline.
In order to understand more, I'm going to have to train this body thoroughly, and training alone isn't going to be enough. In the Baki series, it was shown that for each new experience that Baki went through, his strength evolved, like that time when just by having sex with his girlfriend, he awakened a new strength that he didn't know he had.
Aside from training, I'm also going to have to experience real fights, and if they're life or death fights, all the better. I may be acting too confident, but that's the only way to get stronger quickly.
When I analyze the Hanma bloodline this way, it's understandable why I suddenly had violent thoughts. Even Baki, who was a good boy, had them several times in the series.
Kenichi: "It's not like I want to be the strongest man on Earth, but ever since I woke up with this newfound strength… I can feel it, I don't know if it's because of my new instincts or something else, but something deep inside me tells me that there's something really powerful out there… This feels like when Yuujirou could feel Baki's growth from thousands of kilometers away, even my Danger Sensor activated slightly, it's possible that I've even evolved a bit because I'm sure I'm detecting several malicious intentions around the house even though they're not directed at me"
And the weirdest thing of all is that instead of being scared or worried… I'm happy… I can feel happiness welling up from every part of me… I can feel like my body is desperately screaming for me to fight this presence I'm feeling.
When I look at my appearance in the mirror again I realized that I was smiling like a maniac.
Luckily for me it was a normal smile, I even looked kind of cool smiling like that.
Kenichi: "Ugh… But oh well, I would rather kill myself than put on those manic smiles that the Baki characters put on, mine looks more like the one a fighting addict would put on, but the ones of characters like Yuujirou looked more like the smiles of psychopaths… But even so I'm going to have to do something about these wild instincts… I don't mind the idea of fighting at all, in fact I'm looking forward to trying out this new strength by fighting someone"
But it's problematic that I'm so impulsive, what if one day I meet someone who can easily kill me... Also, unlike Rito, I'm not the protagonist, I'm not protected by the plot, my luck is way below average and I can't forget how I earned the discontent of the World.
I'm going to have to try really hard and not to mention that I might have to surpass Baki and Yuujirou's strength, this is becoming more and more worrying.
*Growl~* *Growl~*
Kenichi: "Uhh… Shit… With all this system stuff I completely forgot to eat… Plus I can feel my new body screaming for me to eat something… I'm going to see what I have in the kitchen, luckily tomorrow is the weekend, I'll be able to develop my new strength at ease without anyone bothering me…"
After deciding what to do I quickly headed to the kitchen to enjoy a good meal…
But…
To my bad luck…
Kenichi: "What the hell is this…"