The demonic monkey king in dxd

Mother (5)

Takeo upon arriving proceeded to rush inside his house, he removed his sandals and rushed toward an Altair.

Upon arriving near the Altar, he took in a deep breath before getting on his knees, he looked at the picture of a woman.

He looked at the woman for a bit as tears started falling down his cheek.
He however ignored the fact that he seemed to be crying.

He looked at the picture of his mother before saying.
"Hello Mom, it's me again, Takeo, today was great, I woke up late but I still managed to get to school on time, I tried my best but I couldn't stop myself from falling asleep in class"

As those words left his mouth, his eyes never left the picture, for some reason, it felt as if he was speaking to a real person instead of a picture.

"Don't worry, you didnt raise no quitters, I will grow up big and strong just like you wanted"

As those words left his mouth, he seemed to be getting emotional.

He however managed to stop himself from crying before he started praying.
He was as respectful as one could be toward the dead.

After finishing taking care of this, which took him about an hour.
He then walked outside of his house where he started practicing his martial arts skills.

The only thing he could do was to clear his mind from thinking about his mom.
He poured his sweat and blood into each kick and each punch.

He made sure every single movement had 100% effort put into it.
His dream was to become the very best martial artist alive.

Unraveled by none, equal to the heavens, that was his goal.
He wanted to be so great that his name reached the heavens.

For some reason, he felt as if this was his purpose in life.
Ever since he was a kid he felt that way, ever since he first saw martial arts for the first time in his life he wanted to be the best at it.

And that is why he tailored his style so that he could be as free as possible when doing it.
In his opinion, a man could only be the best if he was free.

Being chained by thoughts was not something he wanted, he wanted that each one of his punches and kicks showed nothing but pure skill along with unparalleled freedom.

Freedom someone will not get if they let their own insecurity guide their life.

With each kick and each punch, Takeo pushed his body to the limit.
Using the might of his whole body on a kick, Takeo kicked a kick at full force and watched in amazement as his kick completely and utterly destroyed the tree alongside the 10 trees behind it.

"Oops..." he said as a sweat drop fell down the back of his head.
He might have overdone it just a bit.

Takeo walked toward the tree and picked off the broken part of the tree on his back before trying to put the tree back in its original position.

But no matter how much he forced it, the tree always fell down the second he stopped applying pressure into it.

"I got it"
Takeo rushed inside his house and came out with flex tape in his hand.

"The commercial says it can hold anything soo, it can definitely hold a tree"
The sheer innocence and stupidity of this boy were quite marvelous.

And his stupidity was further put on display after the flex tape was unable to fix the tree.

Eventually, Takeo decided to call it quits and just put a sign saying.

"The trees were like that when I got there..."

"Welp, this will prove I didn't do it"
Takeo had a proud look on his face as he looked at his handy work.

However something within him refused to give up and thus, he carefully took the seed of each tree and planted them.

He may have destroyed 10 trees but he planted at least 50 new trees, so he wasn't a tree destroyer right?
Everything was good, he didnt deserve to be scolded for this.

"I am sure Mom would be proud of this"
His chest was puffed out as those words left his mouth, just thinking about his mom made him sad.

In order to not think much about the sadness he was currently feeling due to missing his mother.
He decided to go back to training as only in training did he ever feel truly free.

Takeo kept training until the sun went down, however, he showed no sign of being exhausted, even though he was sweating his body seemed to be overflowing with life-force energy.

It was as if the nature around him was making him way stronger than before.

It was as if all of his stats were being doubled.
Over time, his stats seem to have tripled and then quadrupled.

The more in the zone he seemed the more his stats seem to be upgrading.

Quintuple, sextuple, septuple until eventually his stats were now 10 times their original value.

The second he reached this point, his stats seemed to stop growing.

However, just as soon as it appeared it vanished, as the power-up ended, Takeo was left drained and out of energy.