The boy and the woman who had him on the trial both walk to a large room filled with books, targets, and other items.

“Train yourself, we give those who participate in trials of combat a fair chance of winning, use these tools as you please.” The woman closes the door and the door disappears.

Bawl, not knowing what to do, decided to go towards the sticks at the wall near the window, he grabbed one and it transformed into a barbell, adding weights to the side.

“Cool.” He imagines more weights on the barbell and more appear, realizing that he can add as many weights as he wants, he puts it down for now and remembers the training he set for himself:

Push-ups [0/10,000]

Sit-ups [0/10,000]

Squats [0/10,000]

Push-ups [0/10,000]

Deadlifts [0/10,000]

Dumbbell Overhead Presses [0/10,000]

Seated Cable Row [0/10,000]

Chin-ups [0/10,000]

Reps [0/10,000]

Run [1,000 km]

Farmer’s Carry [0/1,000 km]

Swimming [0/1,000 km]

This is what the exercise was, but he didn’t really know what they were called, he simply did them ever since a random man showed him this workout and demonstrated it to him using the different kinds of things within the woods as well as giving him the clothes he now wears.

Now remembering the workout, he gets to it.

The scene switches to a man, who has long gold hair with black eyes, he wears a white sweater with a black shirt, baggy pants, and pink slippers.

“So, who’s the criminal?”

“A boy who calls himself Bawl, he attacked Branal when he was in the wrong and didn’t accept punishment for killing the man’s tamed monster.”

“Does he have a past history?”

“Well, that’s the problem, we have no record that he even exists, no ID, no birth certificate, nothing.”

He thinks to himself before responding, “Is he a part of the rebellions?”

“We don’t think so, he had no symbol and Branal said he was alone in the forest.”

“That’s weird, you think maybe someone birthed him in the woods, then abandoned him?”

“I mean, it’s possible.”

They both sit there in awkward silence for a while before the man breaks it.

“What kind of skills does he have?”

“Well we can find that out.” she grabs the remote and presses a button, causing a TV to manifest, she turns on the TV which reveals the very room that Bawl is in, the last stares at the screen in shock while the man looks in interest, they both watch as Bawl is working out, pumping iron extremely fast.

“D-does he have some sort of physical enhancement skill?” She presses another button which reveals a bar on the side of the screen that says [Mana Meter] but they are shocked to see that the meter is completely empty.

“Huh, why is the meter not going up, it should be measuring his mana levels?”

“Is it broken?”

“Now, of all times, I doubt that. Maybe he’s concealing his mana? Some criminals have done that before which was why we sometimes couldn't detect most of their mana, but it still increased because it’s impossible to truly conceal all of it.”

The man just stares at the screen, watching Bawl, “Maybe, we are looking at something revolutionary? You know how kids are these days, they continue to bring promise, Ms. Clothorne is a perfect example of that, a real prodigy, maybe something similar is happening.”

“It could be.” the woman says, putting down the papers.

“Well, If that’s all, I’ll go ahead and make the dungeon.”

“Right, yes, good luck, Royal Judge.”

“Yeah, like always.”

The perspective switches back to Bawl, who has finished his workout and is now stretching, goes into the pool nearby in order to clean himself off, he looks up at the sign on the pool but is unable to read that it says, [Cleaner Water], all the dirt and fleas from his body and hair start getting removed from his body and getting destroyed, Bawl just floats in the water, enjoying it.

He opens his eyes to see a woman standing. She has dark blue hair with light blue highlights, 2 straight-down twin tails, a large white bow on the back of her head, black eyes, and yellow pupils. She has a curvy female build, 4 arms, and red nails, she also has floral tattoos all over her body that go along a trail from her neck to her legs. She wears a tight bodycon black dress with white dots, shoes, and a yellow scarf that goes around her shoulders, and the scarf also goes around her back, being held up.

“Look at you.” The scarf extends and wraps around her arm, it then retrains Bawl and pulls him out of the water, butt naked, however, this woman seems to be unphased by this and just grabs a towel using her scarf.

It cuts to Bawl now having clothes on, a shirt and shorts, sitting on the woman's lap and the woman is cutting his hair, she holds him with her lower arms and cuts his hair with her upper section arms, his hair now spiking backward and curving upwards, retaining his two long strands in front of his ears that hang further down the rest of his hair but now having a band at the ends and his large ahoge that curves.

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“You’re lucky I came here, I couldn’t stand seeing someone this young being put through this.” The woman stops, thinking to herself for a moment before hitting herself on the head, “Wait, why am I talking like an old lady, you turned 18 3 months ago.”

“Why you help me?”

“Simple, I need to get some answers to something.”

The woman summons a green cooking furnace that is floating, and she has it shoot out a muffin onto her hand. “Eat it.”

“-No, only like chocolate wafer cookies.”

“Oh.” The woman creates a chocolate wafer cookie from the same furnace.

“Eat.” He takes the cookie and devours it; this causes him to shake a little before his eyes start glowing green.

The woman takes the boy off her lap, and she starts producing strings from her fingers, her nails start glowing pinkish-red and extending to claws, and she starts knitting all the strings that she creates together extremely fast. Using her four sets of hands, she creates a chair and sits Bawl down.

“Tell me your name.”

“Bawl.”

“I see, what kind of skills do you have?”

“I don’t know what that is.”

The woman thinks to herself about how Branal told her that he said things like Rock, Paper, and Scissors when attacking.

“Then why do you say Rock, Paper, and Scissors when attacking?”

“Made them up, like calling them that, man showed me game, Rock, Paper Scissors.”

“So, they're not his skills. He just calls them that cause he likes to. I would have assumed that he can’t use magic so he would need to use technology, but they told me that he has no technology inside him.”

She looks towards Bawl whose eyes are now turned in opposite directions, “Wow.” She snaps her fingers, and this causes his eyes to return to normal, no longer in opposite directions and now their regular color.

“Well, my name is Belle Clothrone, nice to meet you.”

Bawl nods.

The same woman appears, and she is holding chains, “It’s time for your battle, come here.”

“Oh, Ms. Clothrone, what are you doing here?”

“I just wanted to confirm some things for myself, proceed with what you were doing.”

Belle walks out of the room and Bawl is restrained in chains again, Bawl is once again annoyed at this and breaks out easily, but the chains just restrain again, so he does it again, over and over again, but they always just restrain him again. The woman just stares shocked at what he’s doing, “Those chains are supposed to negate skills, how is he doing that?”

They both walk out of the room, Bawl having given up and crying, still having a nonchalant expression.

They enter a room where they see a giant gold gate that has a portal, surrounding them are guards.

“Time for your trial, please, enter the dungeon.” She releases the chains, and Bawl stretches a little before getting into a diving position and diving into the dungeon, he reappears on the other side, landing face-first onto the floor.

“Ow.”

He thinks to himself, he looks around and sees the area is a forest, except the grass is white, the trees are purple, and the leaves are orange. Bawl is visibly scared since this isn’t what nature is supposed to look like.

Just then, Bawl hears something in the bushes, he turns around to see a minotaur in technologically advanced armor and having a laser battle axe.

He doesn’t seem that impressed by this, the minotaur swings its axe vertically, and Bawl dodges but the impact cracks the ground and cuts some of the trees in the vicinity.

“Cool.” Bawl thinks to himself, the minotaur swings its axe again, this time horizontally, he ducks and all the trees within a 3-meter radius are cut.

“Hey, that’s not nice.”

Bawl dashes toward the minotaur and prepares a punch, “I speak for the trees, and they say, I want your knees.” This comes out very poor.

Bawl remembers a man saying this to another man who was chopping down trees when he was in the forest. He remembers the man punching the other guy in the knees and does just that, he punches the minotaur in the knees, which breaks them.

The minotaur catches itself using its weapon and tries to swing at Bawl but he just grabs the axe and swings it back at the minotaur, killing it.

Bawl gets ready to eat the body, but it disintegrates, this causes a tear to go down his face, “Cruel.”

Bawl hears multiple roars surrounding him and he looks around to see more minotaurus that look the exact same charging at him.

“Food.” he takes off his shirt, baggy pants, and sandals, keeping on his gray skin-tight t-shirt with short and foot sleeve copper joint compression socks which were underneath, he flexes his muscles which is noticeable from the veins and the muscles getting slightly bigger, a minotaur swings at him but this the axe breaks upon contact.

“Tightened muscles, stronger.”

[Random Ass Narrator No One Asked For] Bawl is referring to that fact by flexing his muscles, he can make himself more durable and make himself stronger.

The minotaur is surprised, and Bawl punches it in the stomach, making a hole. He starts effortlessly beating all the minotaur, killing some in one punch, using their own weapons against them, and drowning some for the love of the game.

He looks towards some other minotaur and digs into the ground, he then grabs 1 of the minotaur's legs and pulls it underground keeping its head up, he does the same with the other 2.

He gets out and stretches his legs, he then kicks one of the minotaur’s heads off, this causes the other ones to be scared and plead for mercy. Bawl kicks another one’s head off and starts using it as a soccer ball, kicking it around a little before kicking the head into the last one, destroying both heads in the process.

“Fun.”

Bawl looks around to see that there are no more minotaur around, having killed them all, his feet and hands are covered in blood but shakes off the blood.

The perspective switches to the outside world, people who are watching this trial, just staring in shock at what they just witnessed, some drop their food, and others vomit, “That’s nasty.” a man says.

The woman is also disgusted by what had happened, “Jeez, I have never seen something this gruesome.”

Belle also appears to be watching the live feed in the same room, “How could he do all this with no skills or technology, just what is he?”

Bawl, having finished shaking off the blood walks back towards his clothes but he can’t find his shirt, baggy pants, and sandals, he then sees a giant beam of light shoot into the air from the distance, and he decides to run towards it, he leaves a large trail of dusting due to his running.

He sees a door in the distance and decides to run even faster, he reaches the door and punches it open, breaking it completely, he lands on his feet and sees the same man that the woman met with, sitting in a white plastic chair across the room.

“That was rather quick, I normally wait for like 4 to 5 hours before the convicted reach here.”

Bawl starts walking towards him and sees his clothes there, he dashes instantly towards the man, he tries punching him but then a shield made of machinery blocks his past and reflects him back.

“Nice try, here’s the rule, hit me once and you’ll be free.”

Bawl doesn’t respond to him, just tries attacking again but golden hexagons appear on the floor and shoot out golden spears, Bawl backs up to dodge them.

“Nice dodge, let's see how long that lasts.”

The man still sitting down, summons multiple hexagonal portals behind him, all of which have golden spears coming out of them, “Show me your resolve.”