8 It's a beautiful day outside.

I woke up.

looking outside of the window I can see that it's a beautiful day outside. The sun is already up, there are no signs of rain, and besides the news of yesterday, I am pretty pumped up to explore how Ki works.

I went to the bathroom to take a bath. Letting the water fall on my muscled body I start thinking a little bit. Maybe I can try meditation to find my ki? I of course won't mess with it before having an idea of how it works. I am literally messing with my life force, so any kind of mistake can be very fatal, so better do it right than half-assed. Thankfully I have all the other parts well taken care of.

The other parts I am referring to are the parts that compose a person, on the Manga The Breaker they say that a person is composed of 4 parts:

Mind: The mind is the ability to think. The use of the brain to send orders to the whole body. This part I have somehow covered already, I spent a lot of time studying and reading, and also improving my mind at every opportunity.

Breath: Breath or Ki is the life force in all creation. I just discovered it's existence, so I am pretty clueless about it right now, but going to Nine Dragons High will she some answers.

Body: Body is the materials that make up the body. For example, muscle and bones. this one is also very well taken care of, I trained my body a lot during all this time so I don't see myself lacking in this part, of course with Ki in the equation things will change immensely, so I bet I will need to bring my body to new heights.

Spirit: is the will of a person and desire to achieve something. This is the more abstract of them all, even if I have inherited the spirit of the sage that is manifested in my eyes [Sharingan], I don't see myself with some kind of insurmountable will like some kind fo shonen protagonist.

These are the four aspects tied to body composition, As these aspects are tied with one another a martial artist normally would try to balance them for maximum results.

And I think I am in the bath for too long. Exiting the bath and drying myself with a towel I went to my wardrobe to pick up some clothes. Putting in some casual and easy to move clothes, and my sunglasses I pick a notebook.

I will write everything I can remember from The Breaker, from the smallest detail to the most important events, thankfully speedwriting is a thing, and I literally copied it from the best. And while doing something like this may seem incredibly stupid as any Murim worth their salt could invade my home and steal it, I am not going to keep said notebook arround.

You see, by myself, I don't have Photographic memory, I need the [Sharingan] for that. So I discovered something incredibly obvious and smart at the same time, I can write things and look at them with my [Sharingan], and boom they are engraved in my mind, thanks to the [Sharingan] features. So I will just write everything I can remember look at it with my [Sharingan] and destroy the notebook after it.

And that's exactly what I did. After engraving it in my mind with the [Sharingan] I proceed to scratch every word with my pen to make it illegible first, after that, I tore and burn the pages I used. You can never be too sure after all.

I went down the stair, and the house is strangely quiet. Maybe mother went to buy some groceries? After that, I took the torn pages of the notebook outside put them on a pile, and burned them to ashes. I had to burn them twice to get a satisfactory result, but looking at the pile of unrecognizable ashes I nod in satisfaction.

Well, I am slightly hungry right now, let's see if I can find some food. But when I entered the kitchen I felt despair. My mother was on the floor, unconscious.

I immediately despaired, the first dad and now my mother. My mind immediately went to the worst-case scenarios, despair started gripping my conscious, and I could feel the depression that was there just waiting for a moment like this to start to try to get another grip on myself.

My [Sharingan] activated on instinct and, but the Red Orbs aren't their normal and static self, they are slowly spinning, and the more turmoil I felt with my emotions the faster they spin. But thanks to my [Sharingan] activating I was able to notice something, something extremely relieving that saved me temporarily from falling onto the abyss yet again.

My mother was breathing. Thank god.

I immediately called the ambulance. Wich took some uncomfortable amount of time to get here. But thankfully we were able to reach the hospital rather safely. My mother was immediately brought to the emergency and I stayed waiting for her in the lobby.

My mind couldn't help and try to find what happen, fo all I know my mother was healthy, the only sign that something was wrong was the cough yesterday, but she only coughed one time and she looked normal after. What happened?

A medic interrupted my thoughts getting me out of my emotional turmoil.

"Are you Yang Jin?"(Medic).

"Yeah, I am."(Jin).

"I would like to say that your mother, is stable right now."(Medic).

"Thank God."(Jin).

"But... She will need to stay in the hospital until further notice, she is still in a coma and she needs our machines to stay... well alive."(Medic).

"What happened?"(Jin).

"We sincerely don't know. It looks like some kind of new disease."(Medic).

"A new disease... You can't be serious."(Jin).

"I am afraid I am... Now I have to go back to the observation of Ms. Yang if you please would excuse me."(Medic).

My world is cracking and falling. An unknown disease. What the hell... My [Sharingan] covered by my sunglasses was spinning seem to be feeding itself on my tragedy, on my emotions. It went faster and faster feeding itself on my despair, on my negativity... Tears were threatening to fall from my face, and some flashbacks of the best moments with my mother start flooding my mind. How much she helped me overcome my depression, who she took the world by herself being an only parent and having to take care of me, how she always looked strong no matter which angle I looked, but everyone fo these scenes was overlapped by her unconscious figure on the kitchen floor, I was despairing, the world seems to be bleak my taste buds were getting worse. But when I was close to entering the abyss that is depression I remembered one thing. Ki.

I discovered yesterday some magical life force that I know absolutely nothing about. But I've seen the protagonist recuperating from fatal wounds in weeks easily, so if there is a place where I can find a cure for mother unknown disease it's in the Murim.

The world seems to be a little bit brighter as the new ray of hope shine upon me. with my medical knowledge boosted by the miracle that is Ki. I will find a cure for my mother. This time I won't let depression grip me and make me useless garbage, this time I will take fate into my own hands and I will find a cure, and if I can't find a cure. I will make one.

Sadly I must've spent too much time with just my thoughts because the hospital visit time was ending for today, and they all but kicked me out of there.

Exiting the building I take a deep breath, there is hope, there is a way. Sadly my emotions are still in turmoil and my [Sahringan] continues to spin menacing. Let's buy a water bottle, a little bit of water is sure to calm my nerves a little bit.

Picking some money I went to the vending machine to buy a water bottle. While I was selecting the water bottle I didn't see someone behind me.

*Pain*

Suddenly there was pain, it felt like someone stabbed me with hot magma and ice at the same time. I reacted instinctively sending a swing punch with my left arms toward where the assailant head should be. But what surprised me was the blatantly shining yellow energy that covered my hand, something that I was only able to see thanks to my [Sharingan] that was blazingly active.

*Pak*

My punch connected with the assailant's head with way more strength than it should be possible, his body started falling and his head hit an elevated step on the sidewalk. A responding

*crack*

Echoed through the empty street, and I panicked. I didn't throw up, no my emotions were already in turmoil thanks to what happened to my mother, but I know that I instantly killed this guy, with how much detail my [Sharingan] can capture per second I knew he was dead even before hitting the step with his head.

I started panicking and did the only thing I could think of, I run. I run, run and run in despair of this nightmarish day, news of an unknown disease and my mother fainting, the fact that I just killed a man, I couldn't think rationally, I just run.

What I didn't notice while I was running away was that the world in the eyes of my [Sharingan] slowed down even further, and the previously spinnign two tomoe, now were three.

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