Richter Dres was DUMB.
Seriously. Even the fact that he managed to complete the elementary school was nothing short of a miracle.
Thankfully for him, he was the only child of a wealthy family of Stuttgart, in Germany, who took care of him.
Until he reached the adulthood and wanted to start living on his own. His parents arranged to find him a job as a warehouseman. And he wasn't too bad at it.
Until the fateful day where he mishandled a crate full of books, and a very huge encyclopedia fell on his head.
Miraculously, he only got a slight concussion, and could quickly come back to work.
But he no longer was the same.
He started beating effortlessly the other workers in their poker nights.
He started solving sudokus, crosswords and brainteasers with a depressing ease.
He took back his abandoned studies. In two years, he completed the middle and high school he lacked.
In three more years, he completed all the courses Stuttgart's technical university, one of the TU9 (the nine elite technical universities of Germany), teached.
In eight more years, he absorbed everything the eight other members of the TU9 (Aachen, Berlin, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Dresden, Hannover, Karlsruhe and Munich) could offer.
Today, this shark works for his own count and tries developing new revolutionary technologies like anti-gravity and hard light.
But a part of him keeps wondering the same question over and over...
How the hell did getting an encyclopedia on my head turn me into a super-genius?!

Art by  Dynosaur
Color by  VeeGrowmon
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