fresh start

Ippo slowly recovered consciousness and felt as if he his head was used as a punching bag by Takamura again after one of the the usual DICK measuring contests in the shower he does to insult AOKI and Kimura, but it ends up being turned around on him by them when they mention Ippo has the bigger Dick and Takamura forces him to be a sparring partner as retribution.

When he opened his eyes the first thing that Ippo saw was the box floating in front of him, so he knew right away the last night wasn't just a dream and then now he was back to just before he met Takamura, but he was happy because now he could do everything over again and fix all the mistakes he made the first time he could change things to how he wanted them to be.

As soon as he thought that Ippo saw a box pop up in front of him saying

"welcome to the gamer Ippo Makunouchi, I know that you're eager to begin and that you want to change many things, but I should let you know if you change things too much you just might lose the very thing you're seeking to change. Now don't go thinking I've put you here just a repeat everything all over again without being able to do anything, that is not it at all my dear Makunouchi. No… no… no. no. that is not it all you see while they did send you back here because as I said I was bored that does not mean I just wanted you to do the same old thing getting the same old results. You see Ippo while you want to change things I want to be entertained you see I don't do something for nothing Ippo, since I have used my abilities to send you back to redo all the things you want I want something in return for doing this favor for you. You see Ippo you can't get something for nothing in return, this is called equivalent exchange Ippo, I do something for you and in return you do something for me of equal value. now there's not really any way you could do something of equal value for me that equivalent to sending you back into your own past but luckily enough for you I can determine what is an equal exchange. Don't worry Ippo it will not be anything hard, all you need to do is to entertain me. Sincerely ROB"

Ippo stared out at the box as he contemplated what he would do now, he knew that he wants to get back into training as soon as possible so that he would be ready when he met Takamura again and he could pass the test no problem. He knew would be tough to start training again without any equipment so Ippo made plans to find a regular exercise Gym and star to go there after school and when he wasn't helping his mother on the boat. Ippo also knew that he would have to hide his strength at school, so he wouldn't attract attention from anybody and mess up the plan to meet Takamura again.

Ding

Quest Alert!

Find a gym that will let you get back into fighting shape before the week is out!

Reward:

gym membership

1 piece of random equipment(common)

500exp

Failure:

loose 1pt in each stat

you will be picked on and ridiculed by your fellow piers.

(WARRING THIS IS NOT A QUEST THAT CAN BE TURNED DOWN)

Ippo didn't know what to do for a second, he just stared at the screen and became worried as he saw the consequences of failing the quest. he started to freak out and worry about how he would join a gym when he had no income to speak of besides the little allowance for food at school from his mom.

So Ippo tried to find out how to move the quest window, he tried touching it but his hand went through so he tried looking elsewhere but the screen followed he tried saying different thing like go away or move or stop it, finally he said "Just please close already" and it closed, ippo gave a sigh as he finally found out how to make the window go away.

After this Ippo remembered that the being who gave this new chance to him mention that he would have an ability called the gamer, now Ippo barely knew anything about playing video games so he decided as soon as he was done helping his mother set off on the boat this morning he would go to school earlier than he usually did and he would go to the library and look up any books he could about video games so he could figure out what to do now with this ability he has been given.

Ding

Quest Alert!

help load the boat so your mom can leave to work.

reward

100exp

accept quest

yes/no?

Ippo said yes then rolled out of bed got dressed and went down the stairs hearing his mother in the kitchen he called out to her that he would put all the bait and gear on the boat, so he grabbed all the coolers/ fishing poles and walked out of the house and up to the boat smiling at all the fishermen who had chartered his family's boat to take them out fishing.

Ippo stopped for a second as he realized he could see little boxes flowing over everyone's head, all the ones he could see hanging over the fishermen heads said their name underneath, but he did not understand why he saw them.

Fuji yoshida

lv-15

"Working hard at it again today Ippo" Fuji called out.

Taka ishi

Lv-15

"Ippo how are you doing this morning" Taka said jovial

Chu Ohta

Lv-12.

"Ippo you are helping your mother today" Chu asked

Kazuki takuzou

Lv-10.

"Ippo are you going to show us all the good spots to catch those big fish" Kazuki called out merrily.

Ippo laughed and chatted with each of them as he stowed the coolers rods and reels on the deck of the boat, after he had put the gear away he noticed that there were little descriptions over each item saying what they were, as he looked around the boat he saw little boxes next to some of the items that were sitting out like the life jacket and first aid kit under the steering controls in the boat's cabin. he walked back up to the house and saw his mom smiling he also saw one of the little boxes above his mother's head as he waved and called out a good-bye to her.

Hiroko Makunouchi

Lv-18

"have a good day at school Ippo" his mother call to him

Quest Completed!

Help load the fishing boat before you high tail it to school knucklehead!

reward

100exp

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Ippo enter the grounds of his high school he looked around take in all his surroundings, it all look the same but, yet it was different to Ippo who had not been back to his school since he graduated. Ippo made his way to the library moving through the crowd trying not to bump into anybody and make it there as fast as he could before class started, Ippo arrived in the library and he went to the non-fiction area and looked up any material on video games. Ippo checked out several that seemed to have what he was looking for and could maybe explain what he needed to do next

For thinking through this logically you gain stat point Wis+1

Ippo stared at the strange box that popped up, he didn't know what Wis meant or what gaining a point in it did. So, he decided to ignore the box and closed it as he just continued to class.

when Ippo went into his class he sat down in his seat in the back of classroom watching everybody before the bell rang he couldn't believe how young everybody was but then again, he supposed that's what happens when you go back in time, Ippo paid attention to the teacher and as he listened to what was said he realize that he knew all this from the last time he was in school, so he took notes of what he remembered.

Once Ippo had done that he took up the material from the library that he had gotten, and he started to look through several of them to try and find out more about his gamer ability, as he sorted through it all he realize that most of them were just descriptions of what video games and regular games were and a few were stories based on the games they described most of which were rpg or mrpg, So Ippo decided to wait until lunch so that he would be able to look around in the lunchroom to find a classmate that would be able to maybe help him with figuring out how to go about playing a rpg video game.

"Damn I can't remember who was good at games and things in school before, I usually just kept out of the spot light since that kept me from being embarrassed that I didn't know as much as my class mates did and it usually kept me from being bullied by Umezawa…." Ippo paused in his thoughts about what to do at that shocking revelation

"HOLY &%$# I'm back to before I was friends with Umezawa and he was in that gang during school, I know he can draw manga, but I don't know that much more about him besides that when we were in school. Man, when I think about it I really wasn't that good of a friend since we never really talked much except about my boxing matches and his job as a mangaka." Ippo rubbed his head trying to deal with the disturbing thought that he never was a good friend with Umezawa despite the both getting past the awkwardness of their situation in school and Umezawa's awesome support in his toughest match against sendo in the all japan rookie king's final.

As Ippo was thinking about what to do with Umezawa, thinking how he could approach him when the lunch bell rang. Ippo snapped back to paying attention and noticed that the teacher had finished the lecture and there were notes on the board, after skimming the board at the front of the classroom Ippo knew he wouldn't have any trouble with the assignment the teacher had given out, so he made a few more notes then he packed up and went onto lunch.

For mostly paying attention in class you gain INT+1

Ippo grabbed his lunch and went to sit down in a place with no one else around him, as he was eating he quickly looked around checking out all the boxes he could see and try to make sense of what those new boxes that were popping up said. As Ippo focused on the boxes above his class mate's heads around the cafeteria he started to realize that he would have to get more info about them than just names since that wouldn't tell him if they knew anything about playing video games.

Ding

By observing your class mates, you have created a skill!

Observe Lv-1 (10%)

By Observing a target, one will get information about said object

Lv, HP, and info.

Ippo just stared at the box wondering how he did that, but figured it had to be when he was checking out the names hanging over his classmates, Ippo decided to try out this new skill and used observe on everyone he could, and he discovered he could see more information about people now than just names. He also found out what the numbers floating about everyone meant that is what their lv is or level: a measure of a character's power.

 So now he could find someone who plays video games and maybe get them to help him out.

Ippo observed one of his class mates sitting close to him to find out if he knew anything about video games:

Kayo yamatta

Lv-2

HP:100

kayo doesn't really know Ippo except as one of the quiet students, he does not have an opinion of Ippo one way or the other.

Ippo sighed as he looked at his class mates that were closest to him, all of them had similar information when he observed them it seemed he wouldn't find someone to help him as he scanned over 100 students. By the time The lunch bell rang all he was able to do was apparently lv up his new observe skill,

Observe Lv- 4 (50%)

By Observing a target, one will get information about said object, at higher lvs more can be learned about the target.

LV, HP, and info.

he sighed as he knew he wouldn't find anything in school today, he decided he would return the school books he borrowed and maybe he would stop by one of the shops in town and they might be able to point him in the right direction.

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Ippo wandered through town after school looking for a store that might have something related to video games, they might have something, but he was bummed out, none of the stores Ippo visited carried anything like that. As he was about to give up and go home Ippo happened to look into a video store and saw that they were now renting/selling video games, Ippo rushed in and looked around frantically worried they wouldn't have any left.

As he came upon the section with games there was literally hundreds on the shelves and he didn't have a clue which to choose, and a though hit him then when he tried to choose that he did not poses a game console to play them on as it said on the boxes you needed to play them.

Ippo sighed in despondency since he knew he couldn't ask his mom for money for a game system since they didn't really have money to blow on something he would use much after he figured out what he needed to know. One of the clerks had watched Ippo come in all excited and then become despondent when he looked over the selection of games.

"Can I help you with something young man?" The clerk asked Ippo

"Umm…I don't know". Ippo mumbled

as he tried to think of something to say but he was too embarrassed since he didn't know how to ask for what he wanted without sounding weird.

"Well what were you looking for the" clerk asked Ippo

"Uhm I was looking for something that could explain how to play video games.: Ippo mumbled again

"Hmm well I think what you're looking for is a strategy guide, there is several kinds and a few how to guides for other games that might help you too." The clerk informed Ippo

Quest Completed!

Find someone to teach you about video games so you can be good at your life which is now a video game!

Rewards-

50xp

[Level Up!]

Ippo was happy he found a clue to figuring out how to use his ability, but he didn't know if the clerk had the book and if he could afford them since he only had a few hundred yen left over from lunch since he had avoided Umezawa and his buddies and didn't have his lunch money taken again

As Ippo looked up to ask the clerk a question he noticed that everything went kind of grey in front of him and a huge box popped up:

"CONGRADULATIONS MAKUNOUCHI "

"I know I know it's kind of weird me popping out suddenly, but I figured you needed a little help what with how you've been bumbling along, so I decided that at your first official level up I would give you a little help and a newbies goody basket to help you along. Its been boring watching you bumble through the day Makunouchi so I decided to help this along and speed up a bit, I know you have some obligations you need to do to not bring any attention to you yet but try and go along a lil faster boyo. That said I can see you still haven't figured out how to do anything with the system yet so ill give you a lil tutorial. Times a wasting Makunouchi"

Dun Dun Dun, welcome to the tutorial for turning your life into my personal plaything…. I mean congrats on getting a do over at your life you pathetic excuse for a champion…HUH…. seems I'm not very good at this…. oh well not like you really have a choice anymore to deal with me or not, remember boyo equivalent exchange …I kept my part of our bargain and now you need to keep yours, and yes that means entertaining me kiddo. Sorry but that was the bargain you agreed to so your stuck, anyway here's your tutorial kid:

Step1: if your stuck kid just try to BS your way through…. LOL

Step2: next time you see screens popping up and you don't know what to do try asking for help it usually works kiddo

Step3: guess I must give you a bigger hint, try saying things like status/skills/

character bio/inventory.

Try and get going kid and remember you got to be entertaining kid

ippo just stared at the notice that popped up and couldn't believe how rude and eccentric this ROB was, first he congratulated him then he insulted him then he made derogatory marks and to top it all off he just gave ippo info he needed to start fixing everything and now he acts like its ippo fault he was just starting his first day back still. Ippo could feel a headache coming on as he looked at the message again, he just shook his head and decided to get on with everything since he didn't want another notice popping up like that he didn't think he could deal with it

ippo decided he would try the advice that he was given by ROB and he called out "STATS:

Name – Ippo Makunouchi

Health – 7, 500/7,500

CHI – LOCKED (requires deity's blessing)

The Gamer

Title -

Level – 1 EXP- 0/1000

Race – Japanese

STR – 25[-50 sealed until muscle fiber is earned back]

VIT – 25[-65 sealed until muscle fiber is earned back]

DEX – 15[ -45 sealed until muscle fiber is earned back]

INT – 20[-30 sealed until earned back]

WIS – 20[-15 sealed until earned back]

LUC – ?

Fame – 0

Stat point – 0

Perk point - 0

Money –1,000 ¥ (9.00 $)

Ippo has been given a second chance by a ROB to do things the way he wants to, but he has the caveat that he must entertain ROB for him to keep his new chance at life. He is a former all japan rookie king and ex feather weight champion.

Ippo looked over his stats and figured he would need a lot of work if he wanted to get ack into the ring fast enough and impress Takakura to take him to the gym again.

Okay so I need to get my body back into shape, I guess that means I have to start with the basics like road work and working in a gym, so I don't tear my body apart trying to learn what coach wants to teach me again" Ippo thought to himself as he closed the stat window.

Time seemed to unfreeze as ippo paid attention to the clerk and after listening to him again he let him know he would come back later to get what he wanted when he had more money. The clerk just nodded as ippo walked away exiting the video store he made his way home, so he could take care of his homework and be free to help clean the boat like usual after school.