Chapter 3: New Life
"Last night, another demon attack occurred in the Fueki district, this time in the northeast region of the neighborhood, but mysteriously it was defeated and has only one witness of the incident, who says that a young blond was the possible responsible for the elimination of the demon."
"Mysteriously, the Public Security claims that it did not send any agents to the area during the time of elimination and concludes by saying that it does not recognize the individual, thus implying that the responsible person is a clandestine hunter. Following that, the weather forecast..."
A heavy sigh was heard, the owner of the sigh was a young blond man, clenched teeth and black jacket with a tank top underneath, wearing jeans, all obtained at a shelter for demon attack victims.
It wasn't difficult to pretend to be one of those victims. He was practically naked, and also, he forged wounds on himself to make it more believable, besides practicing his best expression of despair.
Now he had free clothes. Honestly, he loved his genius sometimes.
But not everything was a piece of cake. His system had a new limitation, a limitation that, if he had known before, he wouldn't have spent everything like a madman.
He only had space for 8 abilities per month, being able to learn a new one every 3 and a half days. However, this was for created abilities, learned abilities did not have this limitation.
But you must be wondering: "Didn't you learn 9?". Yes, but it was a bonus gift.
(Well, I have clothes, now I need food. It's just a pity... that I'll have to eat the same bread as the poor, because Lord!?) - He looked to the sky waiting for an answer, but only tears, anime-style, silently streamed down his face.
(Apart from this sadness, I need a way to make money, without stealing, I can't fall that low either, I'm a screwed with standards! Will... Will I have to do manual labor!? Oh no, I take back what I said, I'll just steal)
Without thinking another word about it, he decides to screw ethics, the deal is an easy life.
"Hey, excuse me" - He could hear a female voice in the background.
"Eh?" - He asks confused, and turning around, he saw a woman, the same one he had saved from the vampire demon earlier.
"Um-excuse me, but... I couldn't thank you for saving me." - Said that woman, with a shy manner.
"There's no need, ma'am-" - But then, he thought of something.
"Oh, forget that. It's okay... You can thank me with money!" - He says with a huge smile on his face, being as shameless as possible.
"Oh... well, okay. If you want, you can even live at my house. I am eternally grateful to you, you saved my life... I couldn't take care of my little sister anymore if I died in that place" - She said, with a sad smile.
(What is this? Am I being rewarded for my good deeds!? Thank you Lord! I knew you wouldn't let me suffer, even that's why I was born rich in the other life!) - Denji thought, very happy.
"Thank you very much for the offer." - With this sentence, the woman became a little more relieved, waiting for the denial of the proposal. - "I accept!" - Apparently the idiot didn't understand that the invitation was out of politeness, but now he got a house! How nice?
(What's wrong with this guy!?) - She thinks in complete despair, she could hardly support herself, that's why she refused the offer of the money he asked for.
"Oh, what a lack of manners on my part. My name is Denji, what about you?"
"Ko-Kobeni Higashiyama..." - She says in a sad tone. Yes, a milf version of the annoying Devil Hunter.
(Forget it, I'm still screwed. WHY!?)
Timeskip: 1 Month.
A slipper was seen flying through a house, hitting the face of a blond boy.
"Why the hell was that?!" - He shouted angrily.
"To stop bothering me!" - A little girl with black hair, around 12 years old, shouted at the young man.
It's been a month since he lived here, with a woman who couldn't even support herself. In the end, he screwed up twice, but he didn't care. He had found a way to make money, illegal fights.
He participated in an underworld of battles and bets that paid very well. He was managing to support himself and help the family of the woman he saved. Honestly?
He felt like an idiot for not understanding that it was out of politeness, it would have been much easier to just steal around.
Kobeni's sister, Shizune, was a pain to deal with. Since he started making a lot of money, she kept bothering him to buy things for her, which annoyed him.
He didn't know how Kobeni put up with that brat alone every day, possibly, it had something to do with sisterly love.
An advancement during the month was not spending the creation of skills compulsively; he had only spent one to improve his memory, since information from his past life was extremely important and could not be lost in any way. Currently, he was going to test if the skills were limited to a maximum of 8 or could accumulate more than that.
Obviously, he already had a list of what he should acquire and made sure to understand everything he could about it, creating several theories along the way.
And something he understood during that month was that he definitely couldn't do everything alone, and this "enlightenment" happened during a double demon attack, both relatively weak, but still causing damage.
Another important thing was a discovery about the system; as he used his skills more and more, he noticed that they were getting better, not only because he knew how to use them better, but there was a raw increase in their efficiencies.
With that in mind, he tested several words until he managed to access skill mastery and see what changed, encountering several interesting things.
First, passive abilities like improved hearing, smell, and vision were always gaining the necessary "XP" to improve, but their levels were absurdly more difficult to achieve.
To put it more precisely, if it took 100 "XP" to improve an active ability, for a passive one it required 10,000, and with each level, the amount increased at least two times, unlike the active ones, which increased about fifty percent from the previous level.
Second, these improvements were definitely worth it, even though they took a long time to acquire because it meant gaining everything from new moves involving Airjitzu to resistance to attacks of some type or small improvements that accumulated over time.
Moving on to other aspects of life he lived during this time, a funny thing is that Shizune believed with all her heart that Denji was an evil demon in disguise.
The confusion started precisely on a day when the power went out for a moment and unintentionally the troublemaker pointed a flashlight near the boy's face, which as he had eyes with reflective lenses, they "glowed" in the dark.
Returning to the present, since we talked too much about what happened in the past this month. Denji watched as the sun set through the window. The view was horrible, full of roofs, but it was what it was. He had already put Shizune to sleep after a long day.
He heard the door open and closed his eyes, knowing who it was. Somewhat hurried steps began to echo through the place.
"Has she fallen asleep?" - Kobeni's voice questioned.
"Yes, I put her to bed. She's very rabid, but I managed." - He says with a small smile.
"Huhuhu... Hey! My sister is not a dog to have rabies!" - He replied in a low voice so as not to wake the youngest.
"Hey, don't even start, you laughed!"
"You can't prove anything..." - He says confidently with his eyes closed. - "I... wanted to thank you again. When you asked for that, I thought you were a real shameless... but you've helped so much that... I don't know what I would do without you."
"That's nothing... I don't even think I'm helping that much." - Denji says, tired. - "And besides, I'm not a saint, I'm more like a hollow saint."
"So you mean inside you're worthless? Uh, I think I need to tell the police that..."
"No! No! No! Just kidding, just kidding!" - He says desperately, with anime-style nervousness while waving his arms.
"Pfft...." - She holds back laughter as much as possible, practically turning into a red balloon, she definitely didn't expect the exaggerated reaction.
"Hey... are you fooling me, woman?" - He says softly, with a nervous tic in his left eye.
"Far from it" - Kobeni says, with a smile.
The conversation continued for a long period of time, with both of them losing all sense of time.
Denji really didn't know what to expect from the future. But if they dared to take that away from him... they would regret it.
To be continued...
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