Air Basketball? Kirin Arm?

To maintain her innocent little-flower image, Kushida kindly tried to dissuade him:

"Classmate, stop playing around. Getting sick on the first day of school is miserable. You don't want to miss the freshman ceremony either, right?"

She had assumed the boy would know when to quit...

But instead—

Uchiha looked utterly baffled. "What am I playing at? I'm not some little kid."

The spectators were instantly dumbfounded!!!

"What? You're not a little kid?"

"From that tone, he's definitely a demon child!!"

"Come on, bro, don't you realize how childish you are?"

Yet he did not care about anyone's opinion at all. Instead, he spoke with grave seriousness:

"Getting rained on isn't playing."

"The negative oxygen ions and microorganisms in rainwater help regulate the balance of skin flora and preserve healthy skin."

"This natural therapy does not merely provide physiological and psychological pleasure. It can stimulate nerve endings in the skin, promote immune activity, and improve the body's resistance."

The onlookers were even more confused. What the hell was he babbling about?

Uchiha seemed to have seen through everything as he calmly said:

"Miss, are you doing all this to get my attention?"

"I get it. You're playing with me!!!"

"And I only play with people my own age, so we can play with each other... Tsk, it's just... you know?"

Kushida: "???"

The entire place erupted!

Everyone's brains had been blown away by TNT!

An overwhelming wave of bravado swept over them!!!

Boundless bravado, a mighty dragon in the wild, bravado soaring to the heavens!!!

At last, someone recovered their senses.

"Top-tier filthy flirting. Does the young lady feel anything?"

"A high-end hunter often appears in the form of prey!"

"I once learned similar pickup techniques. After putting them into practice, I successfully got invited by the police for tea!"

"God-tier bravado. Assessment complete—one hundred percent pure!"

[Bravado +5!]

[Bravado +5!]

[Bravado +0.3 provided by Flying Fish Head Boy!]

Uchiha was puzzled. What the hell was this Flying Fish Head thing?

Everyone stared at the boy in astonishment, looking at him like he was some hidden master.

Some had even labeled him a bizarre freak.

"..."

After a long silence, Kushida finally stopped the toe-curling motion that could have dug out a three-bedroom apartment.

Her breasts trembled violently as she took a deep breath.

But the boy's irritatingly crisp, bubbly voice drifted over like maggots clinging to bone:

"Don't stand too close. I'm covered in rose thorns."

"I really don't want to breathe in the carbon dioxide you just exhaled."

"..."

The orange-haired girl had made up her mind.

For the rest of her life, she would absolutely, definitely, never speak to this boy again!

Every sentence she exchanged with him added another layer to her mental exhaustion!!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Another wave of Bravado Points surged wildly...

Eighty-one, eighty-six, ninety-nine point three...

Then, the very next moment!

[Congratulations, Host. Bravado Points have exceeded 100!]

[Beginner Gift Pack is being distributed ing!]

Uchiha's pupils shook violently!

It was here!

[Would you like to spend 100 Bravado Points to claim the Beginner Gift Pack?]

"Cut the crap and open it already!"

[Ding. Bravado Points deducted.]

[Ding. Congratulations, Host. Superpower unlocked: Rain Curtain Isolation!]

A superpower? Rain Curtain Isolation?

Uchiha swallowed.

Does that mean I won't need an umbrella whenever it rains?

Before he could fully process the news, the system sounded again.

[Beginner mission issued: Make 666 air basketball shots within 15 minutes, and accumulate 1,000 Bravado Points.]

[Current Bravado Points: 21]

[Beginner reward unlocked: Kirin Arm! Comes with One Punch Man's force-generation technique!]

Uchiha's smile froze, and his entire heart sank to the bottom:

"...Are you screwing with me?"

Damn it!

What kind of bullshit bravado behavior was this?

Who the hell made air basketball shots over and over when they had nothing better to do?

"..."

Uchiha cursed furiously in his heart, and his curses were filthy!

So all those other show-offs racked their brains and went through countless twists and turns, yet they still could not compare to the system casually throwing out one bout of bravado?

[Ding. Please complete the mission as soon as possible. The fifteen-minute countdown has begun!]

Uchiha flew into a rage. "What kind of joke is this? How could I possibly—"

[The reward is the strongest Kirin Arm in the human world. It can rival a strike delivered at 120% of the world protagonist's full strength. If used with One Punch Man's force-generation technique, it may even break through the limits of human genes~]

His tone shifted smoothly:

"Perhaps I was born to love challenges. What tough guy wouldn't want high damage on his left punch and even higher damage on his right?"

Fine, it was just shooting some baskets, wasn't it?

Ahem, merely a bit of mime performance!

The boy's thoughts raced wildly, his mind storming like a locust swarm passing through—

Six hundred and sixty-six air shots, at one second each, would take eleven minutes and six seconds...

But if I use both hands, how will you deal with that?

Without realizing it, Uchiha had already begun planning the right moment to start.

But the problem was, how could he complete the mission discreetly and reasonably?

Beep beep—

Just then, a green city bus arrived.

Since things had come to this, he might as well get on first.

The instant he stepped onto the bus, he activated his superpower: Rain Curtain Isolation.

The next moment—

Every droplet of water on his skin and clothes was instantly stripped away. It was as though his whole body had been covered in a thin raincoat membrane. Even his shoes and underwear became dry and fresh.

It was like a magic trick!

No, it was magic!!

Products made by the system were truly premium goods!

The system bro had unleashed divine power!!

Because Uchiha had just behaved like a lunatic, the passengers naturally chose to keep their distance.

As a result, the masked boy easily secured a spot even on the crowded bus.

And no one dared approach within two seats of him.

Only a burly blond young man plopped down in a priority seat and casually tossed his backpack onto the seat beside him.

Then—

As if no one else existed, he pulled out a mirror and combed his hair.

Uchiha tilted his head slightly. Damn, one person taking up two seats—could this guy also be a master of bravado?

He glanced at the mirror from the corner of his eye and discovered that the bags under his eyes were actually worse than Wu Liuqi's?!

This frail body of the original owner needed to be reforged as soon as possible, and the first step was obtaining the Kirin Arm!

He lowered his head and looked at his watch...

Damn, time passed so fast!

Three minutes had vanished in an instant?!

Who stole the time? Give it back already!

Just as the boy was sitting on pins and needles, the female office worker across from him suddenly confronted the blond man:

"You're sitting in a priority seat. Can't you see that the elderly lady has trouble walking?"

Her aggressive voice rang through the quiet bus, instantly drawing everyone's attention.

Koenji Rokusuke grinned. Not only did he refuse to give up his seat, he leisurely crossed one leg over the other.

"Lady, that is truly a Crzay question."

The female office worker looked indignant.

"What? Don't you understand basic common sense? Priority seats should be given to the elderly."

Koenji crossed his arms.

"I fail to understand. Does the law state that priority seating must be yielded to others?"

"Even someone as strong as I am expends more stamina standing than sitting. I have no intention of doing pointless things that bring me no benefit."

"Do not bring up age. In my view, these so-called elders are merely carbon-based life forms that have existed a little longer. Just like you now—arrogant and utterly full of yourself."

The female office worker instantly flew into a rage.

"You little brat, what did you say?!"

"Do as an adult tells you, you bastard!"