'I'm not gong to eat them." He told his wolf in his mind, but then he was interrupted by a notification from the system.
[Five humans have challenged you, will you just stand there and let it happen?]
He was confused, "wha-?" He was interrupted by a loud crack and the fist of another man suddenly connected with his jaw.
-100 HP
[HP 100/200]
He stared at the notification as if he was seeing stars. In all of his life he had never been hit that hard before. He thought he heard his skull crack as his head made contact with the door and then he was outside; the door shattered, glass embedding into him as he hit the ground. One more hit like that and he would be out of HP.
Could a human take down whatever he was in two hits?
"Oh now come on Bob." The old lady said to the man that had punched Retsu, "He didn't say he wasn't going to pay yet, you should've waited a minute for me to talk to him."
Retsu rolled over in pain. His body seemed a lot more fragile than before. He groaned. Blood was trickling down his forehead where he had run into the door and he could feel a pain in his neck. Yep. He touched his scar from when his head had been cut off and it had reopened slightly.
He took a moment to scroll through the menu of skills borrowed from Rori.
[Skill: Rapid recovery- inactive]
[activate now?]
He selected yes. Why hadn't it stayed constantly active? As far as he knew the clock was ticking still. It didn't seem very fair.
[skill equipped. You now have 2 hours left to use this skill. Number of uses remaining 3.]
Not only was his time wasting, he also didn't have unlimited uses.
As soon as he had equipped the skill, he felt his wounds closing where the glass had hurt him. The throbbing in his head subsided.
Then suddenly Bob picked him up by his collar and pulled him close to his face. The system had said 5 guys. But who were the other guys? He noticed the other 3 off to the side, standing next to the waitress. What the heck?
"Now what's it gonna be punk?" The man sneered, bringing Retus's attention back to him, "are you gonna pay the nice old lady for your meal?"
Retsu spat blood on the ground. "I don't have any money." He said back. Then he did the only thing he could do to avoid being punched again. He activated his plague bite and bit the man on the forearm, tearing a chunk out of his arm with his sharp teeth.
The man screamed in pain and dropped Retsu, who easily remained standing. Then he backed away from Retsu as he grabbed his arm in shock.
HP +25 Retsu felt a little bit of power returning to him, but not much.
"That's it," the big man said," now he's gonna die."
He charged forward with the other three lackeys behind him and before he could punch Retsu, Retsu grabbed the man by the neck and tried to twist it, a martial arts move that he learned in juvy that would use Retsu's body weight to make him fall to the ground.
He swung around the man, but to his dismay, he underestimated how large he was because he didn't even budge. He grabbed Retsu by the back of his shirt and tore him off of him easily and then he threw him across the parking lot.
He equipped Rori's partial transformation and dug his werewolf claws into the asphalt, once again tearing the flesh off of his fingers and toes, but he hardly felt pain.
He might have been level 1 for combat, but his pain resistance was level 8.
He slid to a halt on all fours and then snarled like a feral animal and charged back at him, planning to use his necrotic claws to wound the guy.
[target locked: HP 4000] a bar showed over his head for Retsu to see how much strength his opponent had. He was crazy strong. The other men were strong too. Bob had 2000 HP and the other lackeys had 1000. This was going to be a tough fight.
As he reached him, he scratched him across the face, dealing 25 damage points to him. Slash slash slash slash! -25 -25 -25 -25. His slashes barely making a difference with this guy's enormous power bar.
"He's a monster!" One of the lackeys said as he pulled out a small knife, but the other held him back. This fight was between Bob, big guy, and Retsu.
"No," Bob said, getting to his feet after bandaging his arm, "he's mine."
But the big man didn't listen. He was offended that Retsu had scratched him.
"Stay down Bob." He said, "you're injured, you should sit down. Let me take him. He's a piece of cake."
Bob nodded. "Ok charlie." He said. He really didn't look too good. He was on the verge of puking and had lost a lot of blood. Retsu could see that his HP was steadily decreasing by 5 points per second. The waitress ran inside and came back out with a first aid kit. Only when she started bandaging the arm did his hp settle at 700.
"Necroclaw!" Retsu exclaimed, thinking that if his bite could do that much damage, then his claws would also be helpful to wear out big Charlie. But as he slashed at Charlie again and again. It didn't seem to be dealing much damage. Was that because his levels were too low? His claws didn't cut him that deep, sometimes he couldn't even cut through the fabric. -25 the notification said. But the man still had a full energy bar.
Necroclaw doesn't work in the sunlight idiot. His wolf said impatiently.
Retsu looked at the skill and he was right, it said inactive. "Shit." He mumbled under his breath. Big Charlie grabbed him suddenly by the arm and then kicked him with his foot.
-50hp
Retsu's HP was only 75 now. Shit shit shit. He thought as the man kicked him across the pavement.
-25
-25
-20….
[your hunger increases] a notification insisted in front of him, but the wind was knocked out of him and he was too busy trying to breathe to care. He was trying to get out of the man's reach, and his effort made him not kick him as hard as he wanted to, but Retsu was only just barely lessening his blows, not avoiding them completely.
[warning: HP is low.] no duh. His hp was down to 5/200. He couldn't take another hit.
He was about to find out what happened when he ran out of HP. Was he going to die again?
He closed his eyes, bracing for impact when suddenly red and blue lights began flashing all around him. He opened his eyes to see that 4 police cars had pulled up.
"Scram!" Big Charlie said suddenly to his lackeys but they were already running. They got into their car and big Charlie coaxed Bob into the back seat before sliding in after him.
"You got lucky punk." He said as he got in, next time you're dead."
Retsu watched him drive away as the police officers pulled him to his feet. He still hadn't gotten his breath back.
"You're coming with us." The officer said as he pushed Retsu into the back seat of his car and placed handcuffs on his wrists. He didn't have any energy to argue. With the decrease of his HP, he had also lost stamina.
You should've just eaten the woman. His wolf nagged.
"You have the right to remain silent." The police officer said and then he shut the door with a thud.