Chapter 2: Improvement
I wake up after some time. I don't know how long I've been unconscious but it had to have been a few hours at least. I am famished. I feel like dying at this point but the fat boar is lying right next to me. I try to move but everything hurts so much. It seems like the moment my fighting spirit reaches zero, I am especially weak. But it doesn't matter now, I need food or I'll die.
"Argh", I let out low growls of pain as I stand up. At this point, I am an empty shell that needs fuel but is forced to still function.
"Suck it up Bad. Surpass your limits!", I motivate myself and then grab one of the legs of the boar. It's huge and that makes this even harder than it already is. I clench my jaw hard and begin to slowly pull the boar away from here. We are deep in the woods and I need to get back to my place.
I want to grill this meat and enjoy it to the fullest. And that's impossible to do if there are dangers around. You never know what might happen and I don't have Kenbunshoku Haki yet. I put all of my nonexistent strength into my legs and arms and pulled this boar away.
It takes hours until I am FINALLY back home and can rest a moment. But that rest still has to wait a bit more as I need to skin the boar and then roast it afterwards. So I get to work. I take an old rusty knife I found in the abandoned village and begin to skin the boar. This proves to be harder than it looks as the knife is old and rusty. But I still go on.
Nothing stops me from finishing my food today. I either eat, or I die, that's all there's to it.
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After another two hours of working, I finally have meat on multiple sticks that are being roasted. I can smell the fragrance of the meat and my mouth begins to water. I almost can't stop myself from just grabbing the meat and eating it raw. I feel like an animal when I take the sticks away from the fire and just take a very big bite out of it. I don't care about the temperature of the meat or that it's not seasoned. It's food and that's all that counts right now.
I won't stop until I have eaten the entire boar in one sitting. My stomach hurts now but that's life, you have to suffer for what's important. I just lie on my back and enjoy my full stomach. There is nothing quite like eating a full meal after hard work. I nearly died there ... but I got one heck of a thrill out of it. The feeling of motivation that overcame me and the unwillingness to lose that fight were thrilling.
What a few weeks these were. I finally beat my first arch-nemesis in this world. I look at the night sky and begin to count the stars until I slowly drift to sleep.
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The next day, I wake up and begin to check out my body. There are no wounds left. Nothing hurts anymore and I feel very fresh and ... more powerful. It seems like I grew more powerful during the fight and managed to break multiple limiters. That's what we like to see. The grind never stops. I stretch a bit and then leave for the woods. I could use a good breakfast. For some reason, I am hungry again. Hard to imagine after the amount of meat I ate last night.
I should really get myself a good bat to fight with. It just feels right to have one. After getting food, I'll see what I can find in the ruins of Oykot Kingdom. There is bound to be something and if there isn't, I'll just make my own.
I track down another boar. It's not as big as the other one, but a close second. I can feel its strength this time. I estimate that I should be able to win quite easily compared to yesterday. Better make sure whether that's true.
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I jump down from the tree I was hiding and stand right in front of the boar. Normally boars aren't this aggressive but these ones sure are something. The boar hears me and turns around. He huffs and puffs and then charges at me. I also ran towards it but then jumped in the right moment. I pull back my right arm and then punch with all my strength. I try to do the most damage while I still have the advantage.
My fist impacts with the boar's head and I can hear an audible *Crack*
I lose my balance and fall to the ground due to the momentum I had when I jumped. I stand back up as quickly as I can and see the boar stagger from side to side as if he were drunk or something. The boar gives a last *Queeck* and then falls to the side ... dead.
I am dumbfounded by this and my brain stops working for a second. I walk over to the boar and listen for his breath. Nothing ... he's dead. Just like that. I can't believe it. I know I got stronger but, this is a crazy development. I guess that fight yesterday really pulled one out of me.
I shrug and then grab the boar's legs and pull it along. I am really surprised about this. Who would have thought I would grow to this extent? But it doesn't matter. What matters is that I did get stronger and now also have food.
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- Two months later -
Two months have passed. I have been exploring the ruins during this time and I found what had once been a blacksmith. It was run down and there were only a few things left inside. Pirates must have already looted the place long before I came here. I haven't found a bat in there sadly. But I found the tools to work with metal. Without thinking too long I began to collect wood to heat up the smithy and then used the metals that I found inside to create a bat.
That was 7 weeks ago. Now after two months of working, I have finally managed to create my first bat. It's nothing special but it's mine. I am proud of my work and am about to inaugurate it. I am hungry so there is no better time to do it.
I have found out that there are some powerful predators in the woods. The farther away you go from the kingdom, the more powerful the animals get. But there is a limit to how dangerous they get. It's not the Grand Line, so there aren't that monstrous animals. And they also don't know Haki, thankfully. But they're still monsters in their own right. I mean I am 3 years old and about to turn 4 in a few months. How do I fight these?
Hahahaha, easy. I just don't stop hitting until I win.
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Today I have a new goal in mind. It's a group of wolves that roam a certain area in the woods. They are currently close by and are hunting, which makes getting food difficult for me. That means that one of us has to go. It's either them or me. And it won't be me. I try to smell the area to find them. I listen and search for clues and prints.
After a while, I feel danger and prepare for a fight. I look around and from all around the woods I hear growling. The pack has me surrounded. This isn't as good as I'd hoped. I seem to have fallen prey to their hunting style. They're good. I'm impressed. But if they want a piece of me, then they better prepare to die as well.
After a moment, the first wolf attacks. I turn to the right and then swing my bat as if I was hitting a baseball. The bat hits the wolf on the left side of his head and I hear a crack and whimpering. But I don't have time to relax as the next one is already about to bite my ass.
In one fast motion, I turn around 180° and manage to hit the wolf just as he is about to bite me. This time I don't stop and instantly roll out of the way of the next attack. My brain can't keep up with the speed of the battle. I am going entirely by instinct right now.
Two more wolves attack this time. I block the one in the front with my bat but the one that comes from the back manages to swipe his claws at my back and wound me.
"Argh."
I bite hard right and try to shake the wolf in front of me. I have no luck but the wolf on my back attacks again. I turn around without letting go of my bat and use my fist to hammer-punch the wolf as hard as I can. I turn back and begin to deliver one punch after the other at the beast that is holding my bat right now.
I punch three times before the wolf finally lets go of my bat. He turned around again and then smashed my bat into the wolf from before and put him out of commission. Suddenly I feel pain in my leg and see a wolf biting my thigh.
"ARRGH"
Fucking dick. I raise my hand and am just about to smash my bat on the wolf's head when another one bites my left arm.
"AAAHHHH FUUUCK"
Now I'm in trouble. I let go of my bat and use all my strength to stab the eye of the wolf that bites my arm. He lets go of me immediately and I use that chance to hold his head and then twist it clockwise as hard as I can until I hear a crack. Then I punch the head of the wolf that bit my thigh.
He let go for a second to bite me again but that was his mistake. I am already pumped again. These fuckers have no chance. I'm gonna fucking kill them. My fighting spirit rises higher and higher. I grab my bat again and prepare for the rest of the fight.
"Come on motherfuckers ... let's dance."
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(3rd Person POV)
Half an hour later we can see about 30 dead wolves lying all across the floor of the woods and a small boy covered in blood with a metal bat in his hands. He seems to be radiating a dangerous aura but it is quickly getting lower and lower. He doesn't move and just stands there. Bad has been fighting these wolves and has pushed his limits and broken through again during the fight.
He had many bite wounds, scratch wounds, broken bones and concussions ... but he was alive and the wolves were dead. All 30 of them.
He has fought as hard as he could today and then broke his limits and then broke them again. But now he is hurt and needs rest and more importantly food. So he grabs the foot of two wolves and starts to make his way back to his home. It takes him another hour until he reaches his home.
He uses an upgraded knife to skin both wolves and then stores them for later because he can feel that he is very close to losing consciousness. He has found chests in the abandoned homes he has explored in the Oykot Kindom and has taken them to the house he has been working on.
It was a tree house. He still had a lot of work to do but for now, it was enough to be somewhat safe from predators. Bad stores the meat in the chests and then falls on the floor. His vision turns black and he loses consciousness ... again.
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