Chapitre 5: A kid with superhuman strength
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"Damn, Sister Elena sure was keeping an eye on us... It was so hard getting away..."
Farid was currently hiding inside an alleyway looking from the distance at Elena, who was looking frantically for him.
'It kinda makes me feel bad... But my new strength can't wait!'
Without wasting more time, Farid looked at his own status window and started moving his finger to allocate all his status points in strength. However, as he was about to do it, suddenly his finger stopped, and he started glancing around him with an uneasy expression.
"Hmm... Maybe doing it here will be bad... There's still the possibility that someone will see me... Is there a bathroom anywhere near where I can hide for a few minutes...?"
Deciding to leave the alleyway, Farid started looking through the streets for any place where he could use a bathroom, and after a few minutes he managed to find a restaurant on a corner of the street that seemed to have a lot of people inside.
"There it is...!"
Not wasting more time, Farid rapidly ran inside the restaurant and disappeared from his previous spot, leaving only the bursting crowd of the street. However, just after he left, an enormous black shadow appeared from a nearby place and looked directly at Farid's departing back with a twisted smile on its face.
"To think that I would be so lucky to find a new product for the auction today so easily... Hah~ The speeches of the King sure are great, there is always some random kid that gets lost and makes everything a lot easier... Now I just need to wait for him to come out and I'll be done for the day..."
Covering its face with a hood, the shadow rapidly hid in the middle of the crowd and started looking at the restaurant with an impatient expression.
What the shadow didn't know, was that what was going to come out of the bathroom wasn't the same weak kid he had seen before... But a little monster with superhuman strength.
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|A few minutes later...|
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"Hahaha, I'm invincible!!"
-Knock!-
-Knock!-
-Knock!-
"Hey kid, what are you doing inside there?!"
"Whoops, nothing mister!"
Farid, who was now sitting on top of the toilet looking at his status, couldn't suppress his smile from creeping up as he glanced at his strength stat, which had reached the enormous number of 37!
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『User characteristics:』
▸Strength: [37]〈9/10〉[+]
▸Defense: [4]〈0/10〉[+]
▸Stamina: [5]〈0/10〉[+]
▸Internal Defense: [0]〈0/100〉[+]
▸Soul Power: [0]〈0/1000〉[+]
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Status points remaining: [0.9]
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It was sure to say that now he was at least ten times stronger than before... He could feel it, if he tried punching the wall, he was sure that he would probably destroy it. His dream of becoming the strongest was becoming true, and at an amazing speed at that!
Pumping up his fist with an excited expression his face, Farid smiled confidently as he looked at his status with bright eyes.
'Now all I need to do is to defeat the fake Rayhan in less than a second, and I will become stronger even Faster!!'
Tightening his fist, Farid smiled brightly once again before he opened the door of the bathroom and walked toward the receptionist of the restaurant.
"Thank you for letting me use the bathroom mister" Farid slightly bowed his head as he spoke to the man standing behind the counter, thinking that one day he would come and eat here if he ever gets money from capturing pirates, the owner was pretty gente, after all.
"No, problem kid... Though, do you always scream like that when you are in the bathroom?" The man simply nodded his head before he glanced at him with a raised eyebrow, curious about Farid's scream from earlier.
"N-no, I was just excited about something. Anyways, I have to go now or my caretaker will be worried" Scratching the back of his head, Farid rapidly bowed once more before he started walking hurriedly towards the exit.
However, as he was walking, suddenly the Devilish face of Elena reached his kind and started making him doubt whether to actually come back or not.
"I can just hope the punishment isn't that bad..."
Soon, Farid reached the same alleyway where he was hiding a few minutes ago, before he then started walking towards the end of the alleyway with an uneasy expression on his face.
"I came from here... Right?"
It was left to say, Farid was feeling a little bit confused about whether he was going in the correct direction, this was, after all, the first time he has been traveling through the city on his own. However, despite that, he didn't stop and continued walking toward the exit of the alleyway, he could ask someone later anyways.
However, as he was about to leave the alleyway, suddenly a big and robust hand touched his shoulder and stopped him from walking any further.
'What?'
Farid was unable to even turn around, as before he was even able to react, suddenly the hand dragged him back and threw him to the ground violently.
-Thud!-
"Ga-hak!-
In an instant, all the air was expulsed violently from Farid's lungs as he crashed against the ground, making him slightly drowsy for a few seconds, and unable to understand what was happening anymore.
"Damn, maybe I should have controlled myself, a valuable product is still a valuable product in the end. I can't just damage him like that..."
Suddenly, a voice reached Farid's ears and made him look tremblingly at the source from the voice, trying to find out who had made him like this.
"...!"
Inmediattly, Farid's expression tensed up as he saw the appearance of his attacker.
The perpetrator was none other than a man with a thick beard and a very long tattoo of a snake on his arm.
For the first time in his life, Farid was feeling fear.
He was still a kid after all. Not only was the appearance of the man in front of him extremely unsettling, but his mind was still not accustomed to the idea of actually possessing superhuman strength.
However, despite his fear, Farid couldn't remain idle in front of such a threat. Rapidly, he gathered all the courage in his body and stood up instantly while ignoring the pain he was feeling at the moment, much to the surprise of the man who had expected him to fall unconscious just with that strike.
The other kids he had kidnapped before did, after all.
However, despite the surprised expression on the man's face, there was still some ridicule noticeable on his face, as he was thinking that Farid's struggle was completely useless against him, an incredibly strong adult.
'So what if you stood up? all I need to do is to take you down again! Though, it would be bad if this kid suddenly screams and alerts the people around...'
Without thinking it more, the man rapidly launched a punch toward Farid, hoping to take him down for good this time. However, much to his brief surprise once again, Farid didn't back off and instead tried clashing punches with him, which amused him to no end.
'We got a brave kid here... To think that he could try to face my fist head-on like tha-'
In the blink of an eye, the man's process of thinking was cut short, as a very sharp pain suddenly assaulted his fist and made him scream in agony.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!!! What the fuck... what the fuck?!!"
His hand, which used to be perfectly fine just a few seconds ago, had been turned into a complete mess. All his fingers were broken, and even his wrist was bent in a strange way, making him panic to no end.
Farid, who had closed his eyes briefly before clashing punches with the man because of the slight nervousness he had to clash punches with an adult, couldn't believe what had happened as he opened his eyes with a disbelieving face.
Soon, he started looking back and forth between the man's destroyed hand, and his own fist with wide open eyes, still unable to believe that he was the one that did such a thing. However, his disbelief lasted only a few seconds, before an arrogant grin started to spread across his face.
The man, who could only look at Farid like he was a monster, started backing away as soon as he saw his expression.
"N-no... Stay away... Stay awayyy!!!"
After that, several sounds of something being broken started echoing around the surroundings. However, no one minded it, and just continued on their way like always.
After all, every one of them thought the same thing.
'Who could start hammering at this hour when the King is about to give his speech? How disrespectful...'
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|Somewhere else near Farid...|
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"What do I do...? I have to help him!"
A street or so away from where Farid was currently beating down the man, a small girl with beautiful sky blue hair was currently looking in that direction with an anxious expression on her face.
This girl was none other than Princess Vivi, who had escaped from the castle in order to watch her father's speech from down below, as she wanted to experience how it felt to be down there like the people of her Kingdom. However, while she was strolling around the city, her eyes caught the sight of an enormous man trailing from behind a kid of a similar age to her.
She obviously knew already about the several crimes that happened inside the Kingdom, but knowing and actually seeing was something completely different.
Still, despite how shocking it was, her brave heart, and her sense of responsability as a princess couldn't allow her to simply stand still while a kid of a similar age to her suddenly gets kidnapped.
'I have to do something!'
Making her desition, Vivi stopped hiding and started walking towards the alleyway where everything was happening with a nervous expression on her face.
However, just as she was about to enter the alleyway, a familiar voice rang from behind her.
"Vivi-sama, so you were here!"
Soon, a man wearing white robes appeared from amidst the crowd and walked towards her.
"Pell!" Vivi instantly recognized the voice of who had called her, and rapidly turned around before she started running towards the royal guard, who could only watch confused seeing the distressed expression on her face while she approached him.
'Did something happen?'
While Pell wondered that, Vivi managed to arrive in front of him and started explaining everything she had seen about the man following the kid to him, making Pell frown after hearing such a thing.
Without wasting more time, Pell moved swifly towards the alleyway and tightened his fist in fury.
'Such an evil act... Moreover, to do it right in front of Vivi-sama... I will make sure to make this man know true pa... in?
However, as he entered the alleyway, the only thing that he saw was the badly beaten body of a man lying on the ground unconcious.
His nose had been broken pretty brutally, his teeth were all lying on the floor, and one of his wrists was bent in a strange way.
Vivi, who followed behind him, also arrived at the alleyway a few seconds later and saw the body of the man lying on the ground, making her open her mouth wide.
Both of them were thinking the same thing.
'What in the world happened here?'
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-End of the Chapter-
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