Ken quickly opened the shutter of a store and entered it while also closing it as fast as possible.
"Huff… Huff… Huff… this is rough."
He has been running and taking breaks during the whole time like this.
He is stronger than an average person, way stronger, but that doesn't make him invincible against constant poisoning.
Even his regeneration has started to consume his stamina after he ran out of mana. And not forgetting the monsters roaming around, it is hell.
He opens his attribute window to see his state.
[Name: Kennedy.]
[Age: 15.]
[Attributes: Regeneration (Rare), Avid reader (Rare), ADHD (Rare), Delusional (Common).]
[Personal skills: Regeneration (lvl 2), Body control (lvl 3), Reading (lvl 3), Reader's POV (Stage 1), Hyper thinking (Stage 1), Hyper imagination (Stage 1), Weapon proficiency (lvl 1), Poison resistance (lvl 2).]
[Stats: Strength (lvl 9), Constitution (lvl 13), Agility (lvl 8), Mana (lvl 5).]
[Coins possessed: 38,900.]
"Haha… fuck. Even simple running is more effective than all that painful training."
He pauses for a bit before looking at it again. "And… When did body control become level three?"
Just then he remembers how it actually leveled up during his experiments with his hormones, and it leveling up is what allowed him to actually control them.
He leans against the shutter as drowsiness starts to cover his eyes. But suddenly he hears some kind of noise. Almost like a group of people talking to each other.
As Ken slowly opens his eyes. He feels like everything is going blurry.
"Am… I am not getting rest or what? Ha… life back then wasn't as bad I guess…"
He forces his body to get up, using his sheathed sword like a walking stick as he takes off his wrist and ankle weights.
He puts off his bag while he also opens his jacket and takes off the weight vest. "Ha… now it feels a lot better."
He rubs his eyes as the blurriness fades away and he realizes he is some kind of garage.
'Fuck, can I even fight them in this condition? Even my mana ran out, which is only recovering… and I don't even have much stamina left!' He thinks as he panics.
He keeps on standing with the help of his sword nevertheless as a group of people come into the place he was in.
It was a group of five, as the one who seemed like the leader spoke up.
"Didn't I say that I heard a sound? Look, there's someone over there." He wasn't talking to Ken, but his group members. It didn't even seem like he gave a fuck about Ken.
As another guy spoke up. "It is fun and all, but he is really a kid, isn't he?"
Hearing him, the others also noticed that Ken was actually quite young, which can be understood easily from his height and his look.
As another person comes over and waves his hand in front of Ken, but to no avail, as Ken didn't respond at all.
"Hey! Guys! I think this kid is dead!"
"Heh, how could he be dead while standing with the support of a weapon… and a sword at that." Another person came up, glaring at the sword.
The person approaches his hand to grab onto the sword before Ken suddenly grabs onto his hand.
"Heh?" Before he could react, Ken grabs his arm with both of his hands before breaking it.
Even before the man could realize anything about what just happened, Ken grabs his head and starts to hit him with his own forehead before the person collapses from it.
[Attribute ADHD side effect: Hyperactivity.]
[Reader's POV: Stage 2 has been activated.]
[Hyper thinking stage 2, Hyper focus has been activated.]
Seeing Ken attacking him, the other guy close to him tries to attack Ken with a knife. But even before he could realize anything, a sword was already stuck in his head.
Ken had already unsheathed his sword and pointed at the person's head, and he ran into that without thinking, killing himself.
[You have acquired 250 coins.]
Seeing this, the others also run towards Ken and one even lands an uppercut on his jaw. And at the same time, Ken's sword also stabs through the person's throat.
[You have acquired 320 coins.]
As the other guy could come any closer, Ken's sword cuts through the person's throat and attacks the other guy– cutting the upper half of that guy's head.
[You have acquired 130 coins.]
Ken runs towards the guy who seemed like the leader and tries to stab him. But this time, it didn't work. He dodged it.
"Seeing you, I realized one thing, and that is that your attacks are too straightforward!" He says in a mocking tone before punching the floating ribs of Ken.
Ken gets pushed to the side as his breathing becomes a mess.
[You have run out of the remaining mana.]
[Reader's POV stage 2 has been deactivated.]
[Hyperfocus has been deactivated.]
[Attribute ADHD side effect: Hyperactivity worsens.]
'I-It's hard to breathe… I-I can't endure this… the pain is too much.'
Ken did not have any strength left in his body, but at the same time, an intense anger was surrounding him. It was hyperactivity at work.
Ken slowly got up with the help of the wall he got pushed to. The person in front of him was saying something, but he could not hear anything. He was feeling dizzy.
The only thing he could think of at that moment was that he couldn't win. But he remembers something. That, just like him, the person in front of him is also a guy.
"Hey, you. You are a guy, right?" Ken asks, his voice barely above a whisper.
Before the guy in front of him could realize what Ken meant. A kick came straight for his two precious balls as he fell on his back, grabbing his crotch.
Ken did not have any strength or will left in him. But he still forced his body to move. He was not the one moving his body through his own strength, but forcing it to move using body control.
He bent his knees and grabbed his sword from the ground. It was blurry, but he could see the person begging him to not kill him. But Ken doesn't hear him as he stabs the head with his sword.
[You have acquired 720 coins.]
Ken felt like he could finally rest, but suddenly a pang of pain surged throughout his body. Especially the side of his chest.
He looked to the side, spotting the person he knocked out beforehand. He had grabbed a knife and stabbed Ken.
"You… you should have gone for my head instead." Ken says that before banging his head against the person's head again. It had disoriented him again. But more importantly, it also disoriented the man.
Ken took out the knife from his chest as his wound slowly started to knit together using the last bit of his stamina.
He slowly slouched towards the person with the knife in his hand before stabbing him to death.
[You have acquired 1230 coins.]
He could not feel anything anymore. His head was ringing, his heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was gonna burst. His vision was blurry. He was having a hard time even breathing.
And most of all, he was sleepy. Ken slowly lied down on the person he just killed as his vision slowly faded.
To him. This was the first time he had really killed someone. As well as the first real fight he had gotten into in his entire life.