Chapter 1: Secret Quest (Reupload)

A/N: New account for technical difficulties, but same author and story. I made some edits/changes in the 8 chapters, but they're quite small so it's not a detrimental change.

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"See you tomorrow, Ichigo!" Mizuiro, a short black-haired kid with an innocent baby face that attracted many women, waved goodbye.

"See ya, Mizuiro" Ichigo, a tall orange-haired handsome boy, replied as he went into his house.

As Mizuiro was walking home by himself now, he failed to realise he was about to be sandwiched between a gang of delinquents.

As he turned the final corner to his house, a punch flew towards his face.

*BAM*

Not seeing the punch coming, Mizuiro took the full impact of the fist and fell to the floor with a bruised face.

'Goddamn it... again' He winced as he slowly got up and did a 180, ready to run but

"Nuh uh, pipsqueak" Another delinquent wagged his finger, before punching him in the face again.

Ignoring the bloody face he now had, Mizuiro looked around to see him being circled by a gang of about 15 students from a different high school.

'Shit... this is way too many compared to all the other times!' Mizuiro panicked with shaky legs as he observed the smiling bloodthirsty delinquents.

"Well well well, looks like we caught a minion of that Kurosaki bastard!" A tall, bald tatted up guy clicked his fingers as he walked in front of everybody and approached the kneeling Mizuiro.

He grabbed Mizuiro's hair and lowered his body to be face-to-face.

"It's a shame you had to be friends with that son of a bitch. You see this?" The leader, presumably, showed his bandaged fingers and bruised ribs and chest, "Your friend did this" He finished with a kick to Mizuiro's right rib.

"GAGH!" Mizuiro gagged at the loss of oxygen for a split second.

"No hard feelings, kid" The leader smirked as he snapped his fingers "Boys" 

The students ganged up on Mizuiro and sent a flurry of kicks and punches towards the whole of his body.

*BAM BAM BAM BAM*

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What felt like an eternity passed as Mizuiro's bloody body lay flat on the ground.

"Let's go, boys-" The guard of many students were down as they begun to walk away, not expecting Mizuiro to do what he was about to do.

Picking up a metal pipe (which he coincidentally found near him) Mizuiro, as silently as he physically could, approached the student closest to him that had his back turned to him and did his strongest swing he could, aimed right at his knee.

"AAHHH, FUCK! MY KNEE!" The delinquent screamed as he fell to the floor, holding his knee which bent where it shouldn't have.

"Looks like the brat didn't stay down when we gave him a chance" The leader smirked.

'Bastards... I would've most likely died of blood loss anyway! May as well go down feeling contempt with handling a few of you" Mizuiro thought as he gripped the metal pipe weakly.

"I'm going home, you boys deal with him" The leader walked away with his hands in his pockets, emphasising the word 'deal'.

The delinquent mobs nodded their heads as they put their hands in their pockets in search of something.

'Well shit, hahaha...' Mizuiro could only pitifully laugh at himself as he saw the students pull out brass knuckles.

'Damn, I guess I'm dying a rather cool way today' He joked, trying to shake away the fear he had.

"You've messed with the wrong people!" One of them shouted.

'You motherfuckers started this!' Mizuiro was ticked off.

"Eat this!" The students charged Mizuiro, who braced himself...

"Huh?" 

"What the..." Mizuiro let out in a whisper.

Time had stopped. The delinquents weren't moving, neither were the birds that were flying above them.

Only he could move.

"What's going on!?" 

Suddenly, a beep filled his ears, and a blue hologram appeared in his sight.

[You have met the requirements to complete the secret quest: Courage of the Weak Outcast]

"Secret Quest? Is this some sort of game or something?" He pondered.

[You now qualify as a player. Do you accept? Y/N]

Instinctively, Mizuiro raised his right index finger as he tapped [Y]

[Congratulations! You have now become a player!]

A yellow ray of light enveloped Mizuiro.

"What the... my wounds!" He was shocked as his wounds were healing.

A few seconds passed and his recovery was complete, making him feel rejuvenated.

"Hm?" Mizuiro hummed as he not only felt his body had fully recovered but...

"I feel... stronger?"

[Time will begin to move in 10 seconds, be ready]

Processing what was said, Mizuiro took a moment to think.

'If this is like a game, there should be something like a STATUS' As he thought of the word, the blue hologram changed to show his stats.

[Name: Mizuiro Kojima

Level: 1

Job: None

Title: None

HP: 40 -> 100 

MP: 10

Strength: 4 -> 10

Vitality: 4 -> 10

Agility: 4 -> 10

Intelligence: 10

Sense: 4 -> 10

Available Stat Points: 0]

'So I was right... I am stronger than before' Mizuiro smirked in happiness as he looked at his stats.

[Time will now begin to move]

Mizuiro was caught off guard for a second, but he got back into the zone once he saw everything slowly move again.

Before time fully began to move, Mizuiro decided to get a cheap shot in on the person closest to him.

*BAM*

Time was back to normal, and the delinquents were caught off guard as they saw someone get knocked out in one punch by Mizuiro.

"What the..." One gasped as he saw the guy unconscious.

"No way..." Another gasped as he saw Mizuiro perfectly fine "Where did his injuries go?!"

"What? Scared?" Mizuiro taunted.

One guy sent a right hook to Mizuiro's head, which he dodged.

"Don't get cocky cos you knocked one guy out, there's still 12 of us!" The morale of the delinquents went back up as they all flanked Mizuiro with punches.

As he dodged the punches, Mizuiro would alternate between busting their kneecaps and then knocking them out with a punch to the face.

'They've completely disregarded their legs due to the brass knuckles... not complaining though'.

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[You have levelled up!]

Mizuiro stood above the unconscious students, breathing heavily.

'Well shit...' He blacked out due to exhaustion, falling unconscious near the students.

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"Ughh..." Mizuiro groaned as he slowly raised his body up from laying, "Where am I...?"

Mizuiro heard a door open and turned his head to see a familiar bearded man followed by a blonde haired little girl.

"Oh you're awake!" The man cheered, "Yuzu, go get Ichigo to tell him Mizuiro's awake" He, Ichigo's dad, told Yuzu, Ichigo's sister.

"Okay~!" She smiled as she walked out the room to go get Ichigo.

Ichigo's dad, Isshin Kurosaki, grabbed a chair and placed it next to the bed Mizuiro was currently laying in.

"What happened?" Mizuiro asked Isshin, who sat next to him.

"Well, I'm not sure either, Ichigo just went out because he said he forgot something he gave you, and then he came back shortly after carrying you on his back" Isshin replied.

"Oh, I see-"

"MIZUIRO!" A wild, worried Ichigo burst through the door and ran up to Mizuiro, "Are you alright?!"

"Yeah, I'm alright" He said with a smile.

"You sure? You were surrounded by a lot of people wearing brass knuckles, and you were covered in a lot of dry blood" Ichigo stated with a worried expression.

"Yeah, I'm fine, really. Just tired is all!" Mizuiro energetically replied as he flexed his non-existent arm muscles.

"That's good" Ichigo nodded with a smile, seeing his friend being fine.

"Thanks for taking me here" Mizuiro took his time getting off the recovery bed, "But I should get going"

"You sure? You can stay the night if need be" Isshin suggested.

"I'm sure, thanks for the offer though" Mizuiro began to leave the room until

*Gurgle*

"Aha... I guess I'm kinda hungry" He went slightly red at the embarrassment of his belly rumbling super loudly.

"Hahaha!" Isshin and Ichigo laughed, "How about you stay for dinner" Isshin patted Mizuiro as he walked out the room.

"So, wanna 1v1 on Smash Bros?" Ichigo asked

"Absolutely" Mizuiro replied competitively.

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Sitting at the dinner table by himself, Mizuiro began to inspect the system some more.

[You have Unread Messages]

'Open' He thought.

[Daily Quest: Preparations to become strong]

[New Skill!!!]

The New Skill notification was highlight in red, reallt emphasising that notification for some reason.

Opening that message, what Mizuiro saw next caught him by surprise

[New Skill - Spiritual Sense: The ability to touch, see and hear spiritual entities]

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