Chapter 1: "How to train your Yakuza"

[What would you like to know]

Looking at the grey-ish screen that appeared befofe him, Isaac responded confidently.

"Give me a general overwiew"

[This is a Yakuza series inspired system, let us begin first with your inventory, you have 60 slots in where you can store items by categories, 20 healing/food items, 20 for clothing and trinkets and 20 for weapons, here you can also see your equipement]

Looking trough the tabs on his inventory he saw that the slot for "Clothing" was empty

"Looks like it's the same as the game, i can equip clothes or armor in there but it won't show up on my body, huh"

[That's right, trinkets like charms or bracelets will indeed appear physically and weapons will need to get willed to bring them out]

[Next is the Substories Tab...]

"Wai-Wait!, substories?!, how do these work exactly here?"-. Isaac exclaims surprised.

[Substories are short tales of people of interest in this world, completing them yields rewards of Experience Points and a trinket, item, etcetera]

"It's safe to assume that these substories won't have hints and i need to figure them out myself right?"

[Affirmative]

"I see hehe, well please continue"

[Next there is the main body of the system, the skill points, there are 4 skill trees, Soul, Tech, Body and Legend, these contain powerful abilities for your styles, upgrades to both your health and attack power and heat gauge]

Grinning Isaac inspects the skill trees, they were just as he remembered but there was something that caught his eye.

"Huh i can buy skill points, it seems this is a mix of Yakuza 0 and Kiwami, nice!, thanks system, that's all i needed to know"-. Isaac said confidently.

[Thank you for your time, now initiating combat styles merging...]

Suddenly Isaac started getting visions on his mind, visions of a man in a grey suit fighting foes with a deadly variety of moves and power, when the visions stopped, Isaac was grinning ear to ear.

"That's Rad!"

Getting ready to sleep he wonders how to gain XP quickly, he knows that by doing side stuff, like fishing, hunting or even eating food he earns XP, he has three years so he must make a good training plan before canon starts. While looking at the map provided by the system he noticed that cocoyashi island was nearby, that is his chance.

"Three years huh, let's go!"

(Cue training montage)

[Brawler]

In a clearing inside the forest, Isaac switches onto Brawler style, felling quite nimble he starts doing some basic combos, punch the overhead slap, Punch, uppercut then backhand that sends enemies to the ground and then punch, uppercut, right kick and body shot.

His dad was generous enough to buy him some training equipment, weights, rope and a training dummy. Filling up his heat gauge by punching the dummy, he starts to glow in a blue flame, he chuckles at the feeling and continues training.

[Rush]

Some days pass and by helping his dad do delieveries around town he gains some XP, and what better style to do so than Rush, feeling extremely nimble and flexible, Isaac hones his parkour skills while navigating through the village delievering the packages.

Back in the clearing he practices his flurry of attacks in this style, ending on a powerful kick that sends the dummy to the ground he performs a stomping heat action, his foot gaining a black and red hue as he stomps.

Also training his weaving in this style, he continues.

[Beast]

Don't you love when enemies bring fists to a bike fight? well that's Beast style, Isaac, while feeling heavy and slow has to say that this style feels the most powerful. Working on a construction in the village helped him to hone this style, picking up blocks and bags of materials off the ground with ease, moving heavy objects and even carrying a wheelbarrow full of concrete like it was nothing. He also didn't neglect the combos this style had, some powerful wide haymakers, a good ol' lariat and shoulder tackles.

Isaac noted that his legend style it's blocked, a caption on the skill tree said that this style will be unlocked after gaining enough mastery and understanding of the others style and it seems about right, back at earth there was this theory that the Dragon style was a combination of the others but more refined, it seems he has something to be excited about!.

(End of training montage, three years later...)

He had done it, 3 years of continuous grinding, of understanding the styles given to him, of becoming stronger he sometimes felt like it was too much but with determination and guts he finally had become someone strong enough to set sail in this world, the shock and pride in his dad's face when he saw him at the finish line was the cherry on top on this odyssey but now, it's the start of another.

`System`-. Isaac tought while doing a last review of his supplies.

Thanks to the work and help in the jobs he did as well as doing many side activities he could, he gained quite a lot of XP points, and in turn, "Invested on himself" the skills he had acquired were:

[Soul]

-Black Tortoise Spirit: While in Brawler style, Successfully guarding against attacks will cause the Heat Gauge to rise. It will not fill the climax heat gauge.

-White Tiger Spirit: While in Brawler and Rush style, The Heat Gauge will rise when you taunt an enemy. It will not fill the climax heat gauge.

-Vermillion Phoenix Spirit: While in Brawler and Rush style, your Heat Gauge will slowly rise when you are wounded. It will not fill the climax heat gauge.

-Azure Dragon Spirit: In Brawler and Beast style, it bolster your defense while in Heat Mode.

-Climax Heat Gauge +1: Allows you Heat Actions that require more the Climax Heat Mode.

-Essence of Extreme Brawler: A finishing attack in Brawler style when an enemy is weakened.

-Essence of Extreme Beast: A finishing attack in Beast style when an enemy is weakened.

Essence of extreme Rush: A finishing attack in Rush style when an enemy is weakened.

-Heat Gauge +1: Increase the maximum amount of the Heat Gauge.

[Tech]

-Flying Kick: In brawler style, Throw your entire body behind a vicious kick.

-Evasive Weaving: In rush style, Weave away from the enemy during a rush combo.

-Max Crush: In beast style charge up your throws to deliever more damage.

-Change up {Finishing Blow}: Change your style instantly after a finishing blow.

-Weaving Quickstep: In rush style, Perform a quickstep after weaving away.

-Charge Combo: In beast style, deliever a brutal swinging attack that bounces enemies of the ground.

-Knockdown Grab: In beast style, pick up opponents of the ground easily.

-Running Uppercut: In rush style deliver a vicious uppercut while running, can be charged up to crush the enemy.

-Feint Punch: In Rush style, leave an after image to catch an enemy of guard with a straight punch to the body.

[Body]

-Boost Health x5: Increases maximum vitality.

-Boost Attack +1: Increases damage dealt

As it turns out, here you need a lot more XP to gain SP, sadly the village doesn't have a lot of things to do, even less substories, he hadn't found even one yet, but that doesn't discourage him, there will be a lot of fights and aventures to become stronger. Finishing up packing his supplies in a big backpack he set off to the port, ovbiously he had more supplies on his inventory but a little more wouldn't hurt anyone.

Arriving at the port he was surprised as there were a lot of people reunited, as someone that spent a lot of time helping and working around the village, he garnered quite a reputation. Passing and nodding to all the smiling faces, he stood next to his dad. He smiled and pulled him into a tight hug.

"Three years... it went by so quickly hehe, but now you are a man, a man strong enough to face the dangers of the world with a spirit as strong as the dragon on your back, i am proud son and i will be waiting to see you on the newspapers hahaha"-. His dad said while tearing up a bit.

"Thanks for everything dad, i'll miss you... don't worry i'm more than ready for this, you will be hearing from me soon enough!... Well... I'm off"-. Climbing on his small boat and looking back for the last time at his family, he departed.

Wiping some tears from his eyes and gaining an excited smile he shouted.

"ALL RIGHT, Cocoyashi island here we go!!"

The beginning of two lifetimes... commences.