1 1. Welcome to the tournament
In the midst of July in Shibuya I was sitting in my shabby one room apartment and just reading something on my phone while thinking how miserable my life was.
My Parents always hated me because I was a mistake even though I couldn't do anything about it. My Father was a warehouse worker and my mom worked in a Supermarket. Both were always working but still didn't have enough so money and blamed me for it.
On the day I turned 18 my father threw me out of the house and told me to never come back. I was still going to school at that time so I didn't know where to go so I had to drop out of school and look for a job. After I found someplace which was paying less than the minimum wage I had to live 1 month on the street cause I had no money, after I got my first wage I started to look for a place to live and found this shabby apartment, but I had no other place to go so I had to live there till now. Even after working for two years in that place I never got any raise so I never had any money other than for rent and food and sometimes I didn't even get paid because of the "economy" or something like that.
Back to now, I don't think I can take it any longer my life is shit, I have no family nor friends or anything that could help me through my depression, I am constantly tired because of overtime and too much to talk about. I was just waiting till night to end everything which was the reason why I was hanging on my phone and looking back on my life.
-In the night-
I was standing on top of the apartment complex and looked at the city, it looked so beautiful it was like the perfect time to end it. I slowly walked to the edge of the roof while looking at the clear night sky. And then my foot could no longer feel the ground anymore and I fell. As I fell, I could feel all the weight being lifted from my shoulders and the nothing it was just pitch black.
Was I dead or alive, what was this feeling, I somehow knew this feeling. I tried to lift myself up and opened my eyes and I was in my apartment. I grabbed my phone and looked at the time. It was 7 minutes before I went on the roof and then a screen popped up in front of me.
[Welcome to the Tournament]
What? I looked at the screen with a big Question mark on my face.
[As we could see you killed yourself so why not having fun before you die]
"That still didn't help me."
[Countdown to the start of the tournament: 3 days 21, hours, 37 minutes, 23 seconds]
"What tournament? Does this thing even understand me?"
[The Tournament is a second chance for all the young people who tried to kill themselves in the last two weeks. When the tournament begins you have to be one of the last 16 survivors to take part in the tournament of Shibuya. If you survive till that you will gain 2000000¥ if you lose you will go back to the time seconds before you die. You are also given the possibilitys to level yourself like in a game, you will get some skills based on your life, and after the first survival round you can level or gain more skills]
[Rules:
1. No teamwork
2. Don't tell anyone or you will get the penalty of going back in time
3. You have to wear the gray hoodie who we will provide you with.
More rules coming...]
"The fuck is this? I already quit my Job and now this, I don't know what's going on with me but I have to be in some kind of coma right."
I started to laugh hysterical
[Status window opening]
[Name: Takao miyama
Age: 20
Sex: male
Height: 1,80m
Strength: 11
Agility: 13
Stamina: 10
Vitality: 14
Endurance: 11
Intelligence: 9
Active skills: Electricity, Power of Gluttony
Passive skills: Reading]
Wait I'm 1,63m.
[Body change occurring. Warning painful!]
"Wha...AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS IT FEELS LIKE MY WHOLE BODY IS GOING TO RIP OFF
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!"
[Pain will be reduced. Body change completed.]
"Haaah... Haah... that caught me off guard"
I rushed to my mirror in my bathroom to see what was changed. I looked more handsome than before my face became a bit more sharper and my black hair looked smoother and, I really became 1.80m but what shocked me were my eyes, my once completely black eyes had some small light blue cracks in them. I still couldn't believe what was happening but to my luck I read some novels were the MCs had to go through the same so I started with the easiest one...
"Status window"
The window opened again
[Name: Takao miyama
Age: 20
Sex: male
Height: 1,80m
Strength: 11
Vitality: 14
Endurance: 11
Agility: 13
Stamina: 10
Intelligence: 9
Active skills: Electricity, Power of Gluttony
Passive skills: Reading]
I held on electricity and it gave me a small description and Rank of the Skill
[Electricity (F) : grants you the power to use electricity]
I held on on Power of gluttony.
[Power of gluttony (???): ???]
That's helpful... And now reading.
[reading (f): you can read a bit faster]
Wow... You really want to tell me that everything I got is completely useless? You gotta be kidding me! The description of the Tournament said that I couldn't level my skills right now so I need to make some preperations like get myself a weapon or something like that.
The next day I went to get myself a few Knifes and some bandages in case I get hurt. At the cash register the worker looked at me with a confused look.
"What are these for?"
That question came out of nowhere and my voice started to shake.
"These are for Cosplaying."
"Who are you going to cosplay"
My mind turned off for a second, I thought and thought as fast as I could and said with a shaky voice
"Some Charakter from a manga I read."
"Oooh I love manga, who is it?"
SHIT SHIT SHIT what am I supposed to do now I have no character in my mind to think of.
"I don't want to say it."
The cashier was a bit sad of my response and said
"Alright then, good luck"
I left the store as fast as I could and ran home.
At home I thought about how scary that was. I took a bath and sat down on my bed
"Status window"
[Name: Takao miyama
Age: 20
Sex: male
Height: 1,80m
Strength: 11
Agility: 13
Stamina: 10
Vitality: 14
Endurance: 11
Intelligence: 9
Active skills: Electricity, Power of Gluttony
Passive skills: Reading]
I looked at "Power of Gluttony" with a blank mind for about 20 minutes, then I took my phone and just Googled it and found out that it was one of the seven deadly sins it was described as eating too much and looking for better food. I still didn't understand in which way that was a skill and even an active skill how the fuck am I supposed to activate eating. I looked at electricity which was obviously magic but I didn't know how to use magic, in some manga and novels I read the usage of magic were often used in magic spells, but there was nothing in the description that said anything about a spell. In other mangas and novels you had to think about how you want to use magic and in my case it would have been electricity so I opened my hand and with disbelief I started to think about electricity.
The more I thought about it the more detailed it became in my head, the uncontrollable Form, the light blue color, the feeling of it in my ha...
"WHAT THE FUCK ITS ON MY HAND HOW, IT WORKED HOW THE FUCK DID IT WORK!!!"
The more I looked at it the weaker it became till it was gone. Do I really have to think about it so detailed everytime I want to use it?
I tried it again and again, and with every try it became more easier than before, till I just thought about the word electricity and it was there. Now I knew how to activate it but I still didn't know how to use it, like getting it on my feet to run faster or on my weapon to make electric damage. I took one of the Knifes I bought and tried to transfer the magic to the knife, the more I concentrated the more I lost hope that it would work.
Maybe the level of the skill was too low to transfer on objects. Next I tried to use it on my feet to run faster but my room was too small so I went outside into an empty alley. I started to think how the electricity would wrap around my feet, when I looked down I could see the electricity around my feet and I counted to three in my head to start running.
1...2...3 GO
I ran as fast as I could... And tripped cause of a small rock on the ground but I flew far away. After I confirmed that it works I trained it to use it faster and easier on my fourth test a message popped up
[WARNING! TOO MUCH MANA IS BEING USED! BODY COULD FAINT! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK]
Right my Intelligence Stat was only 9, if I were to use magic to attack, my body wouldn't be able to use it often. That was enough for today I can train more tommorow.
To be continued...
