At first there was no change, indeed there wasn't. Suddenly though the moment he turned his attention to studying after saying his skill he would feel a change. He would find as though he had tunnel vision on the task at hand. Everything else would seem to fade away except for studying. He would find himself able to do better at the task at hand, in this case it was studying. Ryutaro would find himself able to study easier, but everything else around him would be lost from his attention as his focus was somehow directed towards the one task he was working at. 

[center]Task: Studying (INT Roll): 99 (Fumble)[/center]

Perhaps Ryutaro wasn't used to this new power yet. After all, the sudden enhancing of one's abilities and focus would startle anyone. Despite how hard Ryutaro would work at studying for some reason he would find he couldn't get anything done. In fact, the harder Ryutaro studied it would just give him a big headache, and after an hour the ability would end. Suddenly a window appeared in front of him, bright blue like all of the others. This one read: 

[hider=Alert]
Headache Status Contracted

MP Recovery Rate reduced to 0. All mental skills are detrimentally affected. [/hider]

If Ryutaro also checked his Status Window he would discover that his MP was also now at 0, meaning that the Attention Focuser Skill used up MP. He would also see the Status Affects part at the bottom of it. This was usually blank, but now showed a small little picture of a head that had hands held to both sides of it tightly, as if the picture was symbolizing his current Status affect. If he looked at the Skill though in the Skill Window, he would also discover that the Attention Focuser ability, when used outside of battle, lasted for an hour and used half of his MP, but somehow all of his MP was drained. It was probably due to the large amount of mental duress he put on himself due to the negative reaction to this new Skill, which wouldn't be surprising since it was his first time using it. 

Ryutaro could either wait it out, sleep it out, or hope to find something like an Item that could cure this Status Affect.