章 25: The Fight (2)

As Kenji walked up the stairs, he saw Ryu surrounded by men holding weapons, with Kenzo as their leader. This didn't soothe his rage; in fact, it magnified it. At this point, Kenzo didn't care what happened to himself as long as Ryu was safe.

Ryu looked back to see Kenji behind him, he felt a little safer, but didn't know how the hell either of them were going to survive this.

As Ryu was looking at Kenji, Kenji started running towards Kenzo screaming, the scream wasn't composed of any words, just pure rage.

Kenzo seemed utterly surprised to see Kenji there, and had a confused look on his face, clearly trying to reassess the situation, but this was all in vain as Kenji had already swung a metal pipe straight at the side of his head.

Everyone but Kenji collectively shuddered when they heard the disgusting sound that radiated through the top floor of the building. It was metal clashing against bone, what followed after was the sight of Kenzo crumpling to the floor, he was definitely unconscious. Blood trickled down Kenzo's face and as Kenzo's goons saw this they all ran straight towards Kenji.

As this was happening a notification appeared in front of Ryu's face, but he quickly dismissed it without reading it.

The first goon was probably around 6'1 and looked as if he weighed around 170 pounds.

'This guy will be a challenge' Kenzo thought to himself as he looked the approaching enemy up and down.

Kenzo pulled back both hands holding the metal pipe, and struck directly at the goon's hand, effectively disarming him, afterwards Kenji threw an uppercut to the bottom of his chin knocking the lights out of him.

Ryu wasn't going to sit idle and let Kenji do all of the work.

Ryu ran up to help Kenji, but Kenji shoved him back using his free hand, effectively throwing Ryu into the ground to protect him.

"Stay back, this is when I step in and you step out," said Kenji in a commanding tone.

Ryu obliged to Kenji's wishes not wanting to hinder his fighting in any way.

'If he gets in trouble, I don't care what happens to me I'm stepping in though' Ryu thought to himself as he watched Kenji deal with multiple goons back-to-back.

It was clear the goons didn't know how to fight well they were just there because they were big and could hold weapons.

After a very long-lasting few minutes, Kenji had cleared out all of the goons. Immediately after he was finished destroying Kenzo's entire entourage, Kenji rushed over to Ryu to make sure he was okay.

"You okay bro, they didn't hit you with those pipes, right?" said Kenji, worried he didn't make it upstairs in time to save him from being hurt.

"Yes, I'm fine, just got a couple punches from Kenzo but that's it," said Ryu.

"Alright, let's get the hell out of here," said Kenji.

With that both of the teen boys ran down the stairs of the building and ran away from it as fast as possible. Without knowing, Ryu led them both back to his apartment building.

"My mom shouldn't be home, let's just take a minute to calm down inside of my apartment, okay?" said Ryu to Kenji.

"Alright, sounds like a plan, I think we both need a little breather," said Kenji.

'I really hope law enforcement doesn't get involved' Kenji thought to himself, worried about the consequences of the fight they just won.

Quickly he dismissed the idea and followed Ryu up the stairs of his apartment building and into his apartment.

"So, this is where you live, it looks nice in here," said Kenji, trying to change their conversation to a more lighthearted topic.

"Yeah, you're lying, it looks like I live in a slum, but thanks," said Ryu, laughing at the end of his sentence.

"Don't be too hard on it, home is where you lay your hat, right," said Kenji.

"Yeah, I guess so, give me a moment I have to run to the bathroom," said Ryu.

'Let me check what the quest rewarded me with' thought Ryu.

[Your greed knows no bounds.]

'Screw you, system, is it really so bad to want to see my rewards.'

'Quests'

With that a window popped up in front of him displaying his active quests.

[Emergency Quest]

[Survive the fight against Kenzo (Complete)]

[Win the fight against Kenzo (Complete, Extra rewards will be added after claim)]

[Rewards: Stat Points, Random Specialization, Random Skill, 500 XP]

[Claim Rewards]

'Wow, I actually did it'

'Well mostly Kenji did it, but I was going to win that fight'

'Claim Rewards'

With that thought, multiple notifications appeared in front of his face.

[Congratulations on passing the emergency quest, you have been given 3 Stat Points, Judokan Influenced BJJ, Critical Hit, and 500 XP]

[Congratulations on fulfilling the conditional reward, as a result you have been awarded 500 Shop Points, 1000XP, 3 Stat Points, and 2 levels of Judo Mastery.]

[Congratulations on levelling up to level 10, as a result all stats will increase by one point.]

'Holy crap, the system decided to bless me, I'll have to check the shop out later.'

'Let's check my stats, Status'

With that a status window opened in front of Ryu.

[Host: Ryu]

[Level 10: 700/1000 XP]

[Strength: 18]

[Intelligence: 12]

[Appearance: 15]

[Agility: 19]

[Unspent Stat Points: 6]

[Health Status: High End of Average, your stats overall are reaching towards the end of the spectrum of average, this means that some people may start to look at you as slightly attractive or slightly talented.]

[A normal human's attributes range from 10-15 in each category.]

[New Skills: Critical Hit – This skill allows for the host to put 200% of his normal power behind a hit. As a result, for 5 minutes the host will not be able to use this skill and during this cooldown the host will have a 10% debuff in all moves' power.]

[Skills: Regeneration, Hyper Focus, Hyper-Extension, Examine, Enraged, Critical Hit]

[Arts: Boxer Puncher Level 3, Muay Bouk Level 2, Kickboxing Mastery Level 1, Judo Mastery Level 3, Judokan Influenced BJJ Level 1]

[New Arts: Judokan Influenced BJJ – Someone who practices this art is both well versed in Judo and BJJ. Because of this you may use both BJJ and Judo simultaneously allowing you to gain to specialization bonuses at once, whenever you gain Judo specialization. Furthermore, this BJJ specialization grants you a 10% boost in all stats which will increase each level up to a total of 15%.]

'Well, that BJJ specialization isn't great, but it allows me to use another bonus on top of a 10% boost currently. That's pretty OP, also it's weird I seem to know a lot about BJJ now that I never knew before, the system must have injected me with the knowledge or something.'

Ryu was almost right, the system both gave him knowledge, and experience. This would allow him to practice BJJ as a master without practicing it a single day in his life, the system truly was powerful.

'Alright, time to spend my stat points, put 3 into strength, and 3 into intelligence.'

With that his unspent stat points went away, and he studied the new stats that the system displayed.

[Host: Ryu]

[Level 10: 700/1000 XP]

[Strength: 18 -> 21]

[Intelligence: 12 -> 15]

[Appearance: 15 -> 16]

[Agility: 19]

[Health Status: Above average, you are simply just better than the general population. Whether it be in strength, intelligence, appearance or agility, you have been blessed in all of these categories. People will now notice you slightly more than others in a crowd.]

[A normal human's attributes range from 10-15 in each category.]

[Skills: Regeneration, Hyper Focus, Hyper-Extension, Examine, Enraged, Critical Hit]

[Arts: Boxer Puncher Level 3, Muay Bouk Level 2, Kickboxing Mastery Level 1, Judo Mastery Level 3, Judokan Influenced BJJ Level 1]

If Ryu was looking at himself shirtless in a mirror, he would've noticed that over the course of the past few weeks he went from being skinny with no muscle definition, to having a fully formed 6 pack of abs, and a large amount of lean muscle definition in all other muscle groups. One could now confuse him for an athlete.

Ryu quickly read the new Health Status provided by the system.

'Heh, the system is kinda glazing me now.'

After the system processed that thought, a notification appeared in front of his face.

[Don't get too big of an ego, now.]

With that he was done studying his status window and flushed the toilet just so it wasn't suspicious to Kenji. He opened the bathroom door and walked back out into the front room where Kenji was seated.