Now, how would you make someone, especially a lady, interested in you?
Good question.
I have no idea.
It's been twelve thousand six hundred seventy years since I last encountered and touched a woman.
I wouldn't even be able to spot the difference between a man and a woman if it weren't for the original Kenshin's memories.
"It's all because of that damned men-dominated world! They've brainwashed me into forgetting every quality of a woman!" Clenching my fists, I gritted my teeth and swore that once I'm back at my prime strength, I would kill everyone in that world.
"Now. From what I know. One of the main things you must have is looks." While speaking to myself, I checked myself in the mirror once again.
Although my body doesn't bear any lines of muscles yet, my face is certainly attractive.
However, what if I see myself as attractive but it turns out, I'm not and it's just my twisted view of male appearance that made me forget what a handsome man really looks like?
I paced around the room, trying to calm myself down.
[Mind +1]
Thanks? I guess?
Anyway, I can't just go to a woman and ask her if I look attractive, right? That would make, what was the word for it?
Cringe? Yeah, that one.
'Well, they used to say that looks don't matter right?' I gave myself a wry smile at that comment.
'Even if I'm not attractive, what I'm sure of is that women also like men with good attitude and personality.'
'I'm a good guy. I mean, I did save a world from being rampaged by Demons, right?' My lips quivered just by the thought of it.
Lastly, the body and the package.
Although I don't have muscles yet It would be easy to work with it. If I achieved it back then, then I can achieve it again.
Gulping my saliva, I trailed my hand towards my shorts and slowly opened it, taking a few seconds to take a good look at 'it' before sighing in relief.
'It doesn't look that bad.' I assured myself.
Ring~
My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sound of the doorbell.
I quickly rummaged through the original Kenshin's memories and quickly determined who might possibly visit me at this time.
'It should be the rental service manager. After all, today is my last day in this luxurious apartment that the idiot original Kenshin rented.' Shaking my head in disappointment once again, I walked over to the front door while wearing back my shirt before opening the door.
What greeted me was a slim-built middle-aged man with a black thin frame of glasses, staring at me with a confident smile on his face.
"It seems you had a good morning, Kuroki-san. Today is Fri-." Before the rent manager could finish his words, I already interrupted him.
"It's Friday and the time I should leave. I know, Mr…" My eyes trailed down towards the shiny name badge on his chest before continuing.
"…Hayasa. Thank you for your services. Please let me gather my things first." I politely answered him, making the manager bow his head towards me.
"Of course, there would be no problem. Please excuse me." With one last now, Hayasa the rental manager turned back to leave.
Closing the door, I sighed.
"How troublesome. Where am I supposed to live now? Not only do I have no money and am even in debt, but this guy also had the audacity to cut ties with his own family, thinking they would be a burden to his path to a lavish life." The more I start to scour through my memories, the more I want to simply smack the hell out of the original Kenshin.
That guy is simply the epitome of idiocy!
His father, mother, and little sister have been calling his phone non-stop during his moment of living a luxurious life, and not even once the original answered those calls.
'How am I going to apologize to them now? This guy could've used the lottery money to help his parents.' I paced around the room, thinking of ways for my 'family' to accept me back into the household again.
Either that or I use my repertoire of skills to get some quick cash.
I remember having a pickpocket skill maxed out somewhere around my skills.
Nevertheless, even if I prefer the latter, I should still do the former. Just because I'm no longer the original Kenshin, doesn't mean I'll abandon the family.
After all, I came to this world to rest and live a happy life. How can you call a life happy when you abandon a loving family?
Sure, I could simply blast through this modern world and conquer it considering it's just a normal world but where's the rest and live a happy life in that? Everything around me would just be fake.
And besides, I can't forget my original goal ever since I reincarnated.
Find myself my first girlfriend.
A girlfriend who would be with me because she loves me, not because she fears me or worse, trying to benefit from me.
I might not have experienced what having a girlfriend feels like but I'm not dumb enough to not see the rotten apples from the good ones.
After a moment of packing my things, I finally left the room and went to the lobby to return the room key.
"Thank you for staying with Hoshikage Luxury Hotel! Please come back again!"
'No, I won't.' I curtly replied to myself while leaving.
No way in hell I'm going back to this place. The place where someone (me) has already died!
Stepping outside the hotel, I raised my hand to prevent the sunlight from blinding my eyes. At the same time, I inhaled heavily, taking in the fresh air of this new world.
The streets were bustling and noisy, countless Japanese men and women were walking around the place, cars and trucks honking and riding down the road.
I missed this. Everything. It's been thousands of years since I last felt this feeling.
The feeling of being in a modern city with the vehicles and such.
'This is it! My new life!' I clenched my fist and raised it above my head, drawing several weird looks from the passerbys.
I don't mind. I'm immune to psychological distress or at least I was.
Gotta work on my stats and bring myself back to my peak.
"You're finally outside huh? Took you long enough, don't you think?" Suddenly, two men approached me one of them wearing a thick black jacket along with sunglasses while the other was wearing a simple white shirt with a few patches here and there.
Just by looking at the grins on their faces and body language, I can already tell they're not here for good reasons.
"And what's with you raising your arm? Were you thinking that you had successfully evaded us? Huh?" The man with a thick jacket and sunglasses went close to me before putting his entire arm over my shoulders, acting as if we were some kind of friends.
"Geez. I just got back and I'm already getting harrassed? Typical humans from the modern era." I muttered to myself with a sigh.
"Huh? Were you saying something?" He slowly lowered his sunglasses and stared directly into my eyes, trying to intimidate me.
'Heh, as if a glare would make a reaction out of me,' I snorted mentally.
"Oi. Not here." My sharp ears quickly picked up the other man's whisper to the guy who had his arms over my shoulders.
True to the man's words, looking around us, some curious Japanese citizens were whispering amongst themselves. Though only I can hear their whispers.
"Is that boy being threatened by the yakuza? Poor boy."
"Maybe we should call the police? That's right, let's call the police and get out of here!"
"That boy is dead. I bet 1,000 yen, he's in some kind of debt."
"Hah! Yeah right. I bet 2,000, that boy just messed with them in the past and they're coming for revenge, do you see that boy's face? He looks like your typical handsome main character in an anime. I bet you he's some kind of hidden assassin or something."
"Dude. Maybe you should tone down watching anime a little. It's been changing your personality."
I almost burst out laughing at the last conversation that the two friends in a distance just exchanged.
"Yeah. You're right." The man fixed his sunglasses and replied, though he still hadn't let go of my shoulders yet.
"Let's find a quiet place." They then dragged me somewhere else.
Although I could've just run and left them in the dust I don't wanna deal with loose ends. So I'll settle this original Kenshin's problem first and only then I can have a peaceful life.
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"This should be good enough." As I expected. The man brought us into an alley, a cramped and vacant one to be exact.
"So, where's our money? The boss is getting quite a bit impatient." The man pushed me towards the wall and asked.
"Who's your boss?" I cracked my neck sidewards while asking nicely. After all, I need information first if I want this man gone.
"It does not concern you, boy! Just give us the damn money!" The man with sunglasses snapped in anger before delivering a fist towards my stomach.
Bam!
However, much to the man's surprise, I blocked his punch with my palm and knee raised to support my hand.
I'm just as strong as an average person after all. So I can't take any chances of blocking it with a single hand.
Maybe once my stats are twice as they are now.
"What the? Did you just block my punch?" Looking at the guy, I can see he was flabbergasted that a fifteen-year-old boy managed to block his punch, an adult male's punch.
'Dammit. It kind stings.' I clicked my tongue as I felt the stinging pain in my palm.
Though thankfully, only my palm, not my stomach, that would reduce my fighting chances.
"Tsk! Don't get cocky! You just got lucky!" The man roared again and threw another punch but this time, it was heading towards my face.
Thank the gods my mind stats are 14. My reaction time is better than average. I muttered to myself as I dodged the man's fist with a tilt of my head before retaliating with a straight kick toward his right temple.
Fwoosh!
Even though this guy is stronger than me physically, I can cover the gap with techniques.
Bam!
As soon as my kick landed on the side of his face with the tip of my foot on his temple, the man was thrown to the wall on the side, my attack clearly concussed him.
"You! You kicked him!" The other guy shakily pointed his finger towards me with a surprised expression.
Unfortunately for him, I'm not someone who lets my opponent have a space to think.
So without a second thought, I caught his shaking finger and with one glare at his eyes, I snapped it towards the back of his palm.
Crack!
"Gaarrrrggh!"
The cat in a nearby trash can was startled by the blood-curdling scream and immediately jumped out before rushing away.
Back to the cramped alley, the man with now broken sunglasses finally recovered from his concussion and now he's standing behind me with a furious expression.
"You bastard! You'll pay for that!" Brandishing his pocket knife, the man rushed forward, intending to strike my behind while I had my back facing him.
'Why did you have to yell like that? You just exposed yourself.' I couldn't help but mentally slap myself in the forehead as I easily dodged him by stepping aside, letting his knife go past me.
With a simple movement, I disarmed him and I'm now pointing the knife towards him instead.
"Now. I want you to tell me exactly everything I need to know and I'll let you go, how about that?" With the sharp tip of the pocket knife pointed at his neck, the man gulped his saliva and sweated heavily as he nodded his head frantically, clearly fearing both the knife and also me.
"Good," I smirked and the man started spilling everything.
A few minutes passed and knowing everything I needed to know, I gave the knife back to him.
Just as the man was about to thank me for sparing him, I knocked him out and placed my hand on his head.
"[Memory Wipe]" I muttered the spell, watching as a glow of green escaped through the gaps of my finger on his forehead before dissipating.
I did the exact same thing to the other and now, the both of them have forgotten this encounter.
I patted my hands and positioned their unconscious bodies next to each other so they would look like they drank themselves to sleep before leaving the alley.
However, before I could do so, I suddenly heard a groaning voice from behind, deep beyond the dark alley.
"Nyiehehehe….Nyiehehehe…" Confused, I turned back around and what I saw made me raise an eyebrow.
There stood in the distance was a creature that I had never seen before, his large head and small body would make anyone shiver in fear.
Not only those characteristics but this creature is also red in color and has huge eyes, almost as large as a human head. The eyes themselves look like a toad's eyes.
The said creature is currently standing over the two thugs I just defeated while laughing menacingly.
'What the hell is this? I thought this was supposed to be a normal world?'
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