Consuming The Fruit

Even though a lot has happened right beside the military personnels In that training field, not 1 soul was aware, of the presence of Tatsuo and Hanzuro or the Masked man.

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Waking up Kanji Find himself in a completely white room, lying on a white bed.

"... so I managed to survive huh, but what exactly happened," Kenji said with a thoughtful expression " I certainly remember someone being appeared in front of me, right when the tentacle was supposed to hit me"

"Oh that was me" a calm voice sounded out scaring the hell out of Kenji

Looking around he finds his grandpa standing near the window of the room with his back facing him, his hands folded behind his back as he gazes towards the setting sun.

Crimson glow of the setting sun was slowly enveloping the whole room.

"Thank you" suddenly Kanji speak with complete seriousness.

"Ha ha ha, you smelly breath why suddenly being polite."

Tatsuo smile at Kanji as he turns around with his eyes flashing with the warm light, but suddenly his expression turned serious as he said: "So what's your decision?"

Kanji looked at his Gramps figure, which was a little obstructed due to the Crimson glow coming from the window.

" yes"

" what? I can't hear you can you speak louder"

"YES"

"YES, WHAT?"TATSUO shouted

"YES, I want to become stronger" Kenji shouted getting down from the bed as he faces his grandfather "Give me those things," stretching his hands toward his grandfather "I never want to feel that helplessness again, never again"

Looking at his grandson standing in front of him, finally getting a little motivated Tatsuo smiled a little.

Taking the golden crimson ability fruit out from his dimensional space, he Handed it to Kenji. "Consume it now I will keep a watch and act if something unexpected happens"

Nodding his head Kenji steeled his heart and gulp down the whole fruit in some bites.

Glup

After that Kenji sat down on the hard floor in anticipation of what was to come his heart pounding fiercely.

He knew his chances of success are little to none, but he still ate it, even though he knew the curses this fruit will bring will not be normal ones but he still ate it. Before today he always though of this world as a game never treating it like he was supposed to.

He knew that this world was dangerous, but consider it his foolishness or his naivety he never believes to be thrown into such an unexpected situation, he thought this was a military headquarters, what type of danger he Will face here?

And this thought helped to calm down his nerve and there is the fact that he can't channel his KI.

He simply thought it would be best to live his life in leisure under his gramps, even when he was given a chance yesterday to gain some power, his first reaction was WHY EVEN BOTHER

After all, he was living his life leisurely for the past month other than the daily training, his life wasn't any hard. Heck, he might not even be in those recruiters if it wasn't for his gramps constantly bending the rules.

Pure KI suddenly erupted in Kenji's body, and his body tremble a little. Following that his body crazily absorb this pure KI, it was just like a dry riverbed suddenly receiving water.

A booming noise reverberated in the whole room. And the frightening KI filled Kenji's whole body as goldish crimson flames started to appear all around Kenji's body.

Tens of bloodstain-like crimson lines wildly fanned throughout his body, originating from his chest. The lines spread across his whole body in an instant.

His chest, hands, legs, face, ears, and even pupils were now full of blood-colored channels that looked like demonic markings.

"Ughhhhhhh…"

At that instant, Kenji felt as if he was burned alive. Immense agony fiercely beamed from every single corner of his body and made him let out a painful whine.

His entire body started to shake tremendously, and his vision also became blurry, until it completely became a shade of crimson red.

He felt his whole body burning extremely slowly, he can feel every single cell in his body being burned. The indescribable pain continued. It was a pain that no real word could express, a pain that far surpassed a human's capability to endure. This pain continued and continued on....

Tatsuo smiled as he saw the red demonic marks all over his body; as he saw his eyes suddenly turn crimson; as he saw his whole body tremble; as he saw his face contorting in pain….

But Slowly, his smile chilled down and disappeared, and what replaced it was a face that expressed an ever-increasing shock.

Kenji's four limbs trembled, his whole body spasmed, and his facial features were burned into unrecognizable.

But there wasn't any bead of sweat on his body, and because of the extreme heat any sweat his body produces, was evaporated, and soon streams started to appear all around Kenji's body.

However, aside from that first moan, Kenji didn't utter a single sound of pain afterward!

As time ticked away, one minute…. three minutes…. five minutes... Tatsuo's expression eventually changed into complete astonishment. How could he, an ordinary man have such daunting willpower?!

Wrong! Was this really the willpower a human could possess?! That kind of pain, even if it he himself, would not even be able to bear it as leisurely as he is!

Half a quarter of an hour went by….

At this time, the demonic marks all over Kenji's body suddenly flash with red luminescence, and his contorted face finally started to slowly ease down.

At this time, the crimson-colored demonic marking stopped shimmering and instantaneously vanished altogether.

Along with it, Kenji finally opened his eyes. His eyes shone with utter excitement not because he managed to fully devour Hellfire fruit but due to some completely different reason.

His eyes soon focused on the upper left corner of his vision

[Ding Dectacted that the user has consumed an ability fruit]

[ Ding WARNING FRUITS ENERGY LEVEL IS BEYOND THE THRESHOLD USER CAN ENDURE]

[ Ding WARNING:- HOST LIFE IN DANGER Requesting permission to uses the one-time emergency function ]

[ Ding Detected that host is not in a stable position to make any decission]

[Ding Emergency function activated, all the souls in system inventory are consumed to kick start the emergency function including the one beta level dijinn soul]

[Ding Emergency function activated, which ensure that host will not die in the next half an hour]

"Finally my Golden finger heheheh" Kenji muttered before falling unconscious, with his body completly burned, his face unrecognizable.