Hello there, my readers! Today, i will showcase the first prequel chapter, they basically explain situations which happened before the prologue. After posting five normal chapters, a prequel chapter will appear (momentarily stopping the flow of the story, but wathever). However, since this one is a bit short (by my standards, i mean) i will post another chapter this Sunday!

Now onto the response!

To Exudous12345:honestly, thanks for the suggestions about the House of Evolution's new start, i'll be sure to keep it in mind! And about Shinko's strength...to be fair he could have killed Carnage Kabuto's base form in one hit, but your point still stands. Saitama's punches and Shinko's aren't the same thing, so you won't see Shinko absentmindedly one punching dragon levels (he'll have to put SOME effort at least). Glad you're enjoying the story.

To appreciatetor:well, you'll have to wait A LITTLE, but to much, i assure you.

Oh, i almost forgot to tell you that OPM doesn't belong to me. It would have been a catastrophe if i didn't remember sooner!

It was a warm evening at the outskirts of E city and Shinko had finished training for the day.

He was packing up his bag, controlling no one had stolen anything, and was heading home.

To Shinko it was all so new, all so fresh:the first times he went to train he was disturbed by low leveled monsters and had to fight back, winning the first fights with medium injuries (but nothing serious).

After three weeks of training some peace on the way home was appreciated, even with the calm and warm air inviting him to stay longer and admire the sunset.

Ah, if only that calm could last longer, but Shinko knew that was never possible.

X X X

Meanwhile, on the other side of the road a chase was taking place:a small, wolf level monster was being chased by a tiger level one.

"Get over here shrimp! I promise this will hurt only temporarily" snarled the chaser, a brown, muscular dog-like monster.

"Hell no you crazy asshole!" said the smaller, black monster with a snake-like body, a dragon-like head and two (now broken) wings on his sides.

The latter was named Belphomet, a pretty shy monster who only ate what he needed and never hurt anyone (unless they were hostile).

He was just hunting doves in the park, when a hero was slammed on the tree behind him and this monster was now trying to have a meal out of him.

He would have fled by flight but his assailant broke his wings immediately and his regeneration would take time before doing its work (only thing was that he didn't have any).

Now that oversized mutt was gaining ground on him and Belphomet thought he was done for, but his one snake-like eye widened when he saw who he was going to run into.

X X X

Shinko had only the most brief time to register what was going on in front of him when a small snake-like monster slammed into him chest.

This would have caused any normal human to topple, but training and continuous monster fights were starting to toughen Shinko up.

He took the blow with minimal flinching and immediately avoided the claw sent to him, which slammed into the concrete.

"Look who i have here, you'll make a fine dinner, along with the noodle back there" said the monster while retracting his claw.

Shinko meanwhile placed his bag next to the monster behind him and got in a fighting stance, proudly declaring "I don't who you are, but you're not going to lay a nail on him or anyone else in this city!"

Shinko knew that running away was a very bad idea (his attacker would skew him alive) and couldn't let this guy roam freely anyway.

He particularly disliked tiger level monsters because they would always go for the weak and cower when a stronger opponent comes along (at least wolf levels worked for their own survival).

For a brief second he eyed the injured one bihind him, who was staring wide eyed at the whole scene and then focused back to his current opponent.

The moster laughed and said "I love when my prey struggles, it adds more taste!" he then charged.

Shinko, sickened by his opponent, charged as well.

The monster threw his right claw at him and Shinko sidestepped it, getting his left side grazed.

This did not stop the boy from throwing a punch at the monster's exposed side and his opponent winced.

Shinko kept moving around him, throwing punches and getting grazed by his claws, but when Shinko threw a punch at his chest the monster tanked the hit and swiped his claws the boy, hitting him square in the chest.

Shinko was thrown meters back, but landed on his feet, not looking too good:he had cuts on his arms, legs and torso while the tattered remains of his shirt fell behind him.

The boy growled and charged while the grin on the monster's face widened.

He threw his claws at Shinko again but he ducked, the claws scarping along his back.

The boy slammed both knees in his stomach, eliciting a pained groan from his opponent, who then opened his mouth to bite him.

Shinko grabbed his canines and slammed his own head aganist the monster's as hard as he could.

The mutt's skull cracked and the road below him shattered as well under the pressure.

As the monster's corpse fell to the ground, Shinko landed on the road and drew a long breath to calm himself:aside from his cuts and his slightly dull forehead he was fine.

X X X

Belphomet couldn't believe that a human, who was not even a hero, tanked the hits of a tiger level and killed it.

"Are you ok?" the human now asked him.

"Y-yeah, don't worry about my injuries, they'll be fine" Belphomet replied.

"Ah, good enough! I'll be heading home now, take care!" Shinko continued to walk as he waved at the small monster.

"Wait!" Belphomet called him while slithering foward "Thank you for the save there, i am Belphomet by the way and i want to ask you if we could...you know...hang out together?" he asked the human.

This was not an occasion for Belphomet to lose:frankly, he was sick of having almost any living being wanting nothing more than to kill him and this guy was the only friendly face aside from Monoculor, who lived miles away and couldn't visit him anymore.

"Sure! I am Shinko and you can hang out with me while i train" the boy enthusiastically replied and Belphomet's heart jumped in joy.

This was the start of a very good friendship and the both of them didn't want to lose it.

X X X

"So was that the first tiger level you fought?" Belphomet asked.

"The second one actually, the first one attacked me the week before" Shinko replied as he was taking a new shirt from his sack, those wounds didn't really bother him, even thought they did hurt, but losing his shirt sure did.

"What about the tone you used with that monster?" Belphomet asked as Shinko got ready.

"Just for him to take me seriously, it always works" Shinko calmly replied to a confused Belphomet.

X X X

The next day was mostly uneventful, class being the same boring thing and the next day being a Sunday.

All was well until the end of the last lesson, when Shinko started to feel pain in his body, originating from his chest and slowly tearing its way through Shinko's body.

Just outside the road to school, Shinko was walking towards his house to have lunch and then go to training.

But he was far from being fine.

He was dragging himself on his feet, who looked ready to give up.

He was panting and sweating like crazy as his body spasmed in excruciating pain.

'No, not again! Didn't the pains ended last week!?' Shinko thought as he panicked internally.

The first time he felt those hellish aches was last week, shortly after his first fight with a tiger level, and he would rather forget the whole experience.

The only reason he kept training was because he thought it was working, since Mizuki felt sore for some days because of her new, intense training, but then got stronger.

Thinking about Mizuki, one of the most beautiful girls in the school, made his entire body flush.

But when he felt a big hand and turned around, his eyes almost bulged out of his skull.

Mizuki was very close to him with a look of concern.

He yelped and made reasonable distance between the two of them.

"M-mizuki, h-how are you doing?" Shinko said, trying to diffuse the situation and staying on his two feet.

"How am i doing?! You were collapsing on the road!" Mizuki replied desperately.

She got close to him once again (making Shinko blush even more) and checked his physical condition.

"Nothing's broken and there are no bruises, but your body is extremely strained, just what kind of activity did you do?!" Mizuki shouted at Shinko rather worriedly.

He thought about what to say and decided to tell her part of the truth.

After all, the best lies are those who have some truth into them.

"Well, i started training a few weeks ago..." Shinko started, but was interrupted by Mizuki.

"Really? Remember what Mr. Kasanagi told us yesterday?" Mizuki said with a deadpan expression.

"To not overburden your muscles?" Shinko said tentatively.

"Exactly. Come on, you can train under me if you want-" Mizuki said, but Shinko abruptly cut her off with a sharp "NO!"

Mizuki was frozen by the reply, clearly not expecting such an outburst from him.

This made her even more suspicious, because she knew that Shinko was prone to distance himself from people when he was facing problems, especially big problems.

This was her least favourite part of Shinko, and she liked almost all of his personality.

Calm, warm and friendly with a sense of commitment.

Shinko was only now aware of his outburst and immediately threw his hands up, trying to fix the situation "Don't worry Mizuki, i can handle myself, you know? I'll just fix my training schedule and tell you about it next week, how does that sound?" Shinko said very fast.

Mizuki got all of Shinko's speech and decided to let it slide for this once "Ok, but you'll have to be very specific about it, got it?" Mizuki said in a harsh tone.

Shinko winced, but knew she was just worried for his sake (which made him feel a bit bad).

"Ok, then. I have to go now, see you next week!" Shinko said as he took of, his aches still there, but toned down.

If anything, as he pushed his body even further, Shinko felt a bit stronger now!

Mizuki saw him running away with sadness in her eyes "I hope you're gonna be fine..." she whispered.

X X X

"Shinko!" Belphomet said as he slithered foward to a running Shinko.

"Oh, hey Belphomet! How it's going?" Shinko asked the snake-like monster as he waved his hand.

"Nothing special, but are you okay? I saw you in a very bad shape..." Belphomet muttered sadly, his singular eye looking down.

"Yeah...i think it's the training taking effect, so i want to continue" Shinko said confidently "I woved to become the strongest and i won't go back on my word!" Shinko then roared.

"If that's what you say...but...be careful, okay?" Belphomet asked him.

"Don't worry about that, but now i really gotta go or i'm gonna be late for lunch!" Shinko said as he sprinted down the road, going quite fast.

Belphomet at least hoped that was enough, he didn't want to lose his new friend so soon.

He also didn't think a human could go that fast.

With that out of mind, Belphomet slithered back in the bushes, hoping to find an unsuspecting pigeon, but he would also settle for rats, if there wasn't anything better.

And that's done!

Fun fact:the last bit with Mizuki was added fairly recently because i reread the other prequel chapters and found out that they have barely any interaction.

So there's that...