The Beginning

Author's Note: We changed Alex to Jin now.

Jin slowly opened his eyes to find himself in a completely different place from before. It was night. "Where the heck am I?" he said, realizing that he was in a small, dirty alley.

His clothes were ragged, and his body was skinny. Suddenly, a memory flowed into his head. His situation was similar to his previous life as an orphan who got bullied for being from the slums and was skinny due to malnutrition.

Jin remembered that the supreme being had said he would have a difficult start. "Damn it, this is my start? I thought I would at least have a normal family," said Jin. He wondered how he would train his body if he was poor.

Feeling weak and hungry, Jin stood up and started walking towards the street.

As Jin walked around, he saw a person running while parkouring, chased by a group of thugs. "Stop, you punk! Give back our money!" the thugs shouted.

The person kept running, jumping, and hopping from place to place until Jin couldn't see him anymore.

"Damn, that's cool. I wish I could do that. Wait, I have my instant mastery," Jin said. He replicated the person's parkour moves and easily mastered them. "Yes, it worked. My instant mastery is worth it, but my body still couldn't keep up. I need to eat something," Jin said, looking around. He had no money and wondered how he would eat.

Jin then remembered the person from before who was stealing food without getting caught. As Jin had already mastered parkour, he thought about stealing some food so that his body would no longer suffer from malnutrition.

He started to walk around to find food to steal. After a while, he saw a store selling a package of food and drinks. He sneaked up to the store and, when he saw an opportunity, quickly took the package and started running.

When the store clerk saw a kid stealing the food package, he quickly yelled, "Thief! Stop!" Jin didn't listen and kept running.

The store clerk chased him, and when he almost caught Jin, Jin started running to an alley and began parkouring. After a while of parkouring, Jin finally lost the store clerk.

He then walked to the small alley he was in before and saw a boy sitting there.

"Who are you? This is my place," Jin said to the boy.

"Eli Jang. My name is Eli Jang," the boy replied.

"What the fuck? This boy is Eli Jang? I never thought I would meet him here," Jin thought. He then asked, "What is your name?"

"My name is Kim Sung Jin. You can call me Jin," Jin said. Eli Jang looked at Jin, smiling.

Jin sat beside Eli Jang and opened his food package. Eli Jang's stomach growled, and Jin laughed and shared his food with him. "Is it really okay? Mama said free food is bad," Eli Jang asked.

"Yeah, it's okay. I'm giving it to you," Jin said, looking at Eli Jang with pity. Eli Jang had been abused by his mother in the story before he ran away from home at the age of 10. "Well, I guess that kind of explains how I met him right now," Jin thought.

He and Eli Jang quickly ate their food. After finishing, Jin cleaned up the alley, and Eli Jang stood there watching him. When Jin finished, he asked Eli Jang to stay with him, which Eli Jang quickly nods.

Jin smiled and began setting up a bed made from cardboard that he found in the trash. Jin and Eli Jang fell asleep pretty quickly.

In the morning, Jin got up to see that Eli Jang was still asleep. Jin then woke up Eli Jang, who instantly got up, which surprised Jin. "Maybe because of the constant abuse, he developed this habit," thought Jin. He then told Eli Jang to get ready.

"Where are we going?" asked Eli Jang with an innocent face.

"We're going to search for breakfast," said Jin. Eli Jang and Jin started to walk to the street.

As they passed a lot of food stores, Eli Jang asked, "Why don't we eat there?"

Jin quickly said, "I don't have money. We can't buy things without money. We must search for food ourselves."

Eli Jang looked at Jin for a couple of seconds before taking a screwdriver from a nearby toolbox.

The handyman didn't realize Eli Jang was taking his screwdriver. Eli Jang then walked to a nearby car and opened it with the screwdriver. He took the money from the car and then walked to Jin and gave him the money.

"Damn, I forgot he was like this. Well, at least we have money now," Jin thought. He then told Eli Jang to steal more money, which Eli Jang quickly did with efficiency.

After that, they walked to a clothes store to buy clothes for themselves. The clothes store clerk was kind of suspicious of the two kids, but he didn't care because the kids paid for the clothes anyway.

After buying clothes, they went to a nearby store to buy some food. After they finished eating their breakfast, they returned to their alley.

With money in hand, Jin was thinking of renting a place. However, usually they asked for ID before renting the place, so Jin discarded that idea and saved the money for food instead.

Jin then started to train his body with simple push-ups, of which he could only do ten. Eli Jang saw Jin doing push-ups and asked, "Why are you doing that?"

"So that I can be strong," said Jin.

Eli Jang asked again, "Why do you want to be strong?"

"So that I can face anyone who wants to mess with me and live normally," said Jin with a resolute look in his eyes. Eli Jang stared at Jin for a couple of seconds before imitating Jin's training. Jin only smiled at Eli Jang's behavior.

"If in the story, he is already strong, with training, how much stronger will he be?" Jin thought with a smile on his face.