32 Little Realization (1/2)
Editor: Crembo
-Morning, My House-
-Me POV-.
She points her gun at me.
*Bang*
*Klink*
I deflect the bullet using my katana.
*Bang* *Bang*
*Klink* *Klink*
I deflected it again.
”You should give up, miss. All you're doing right now is just wasting our time and delaying the inevitable.” I smile evilly.
”Kuh,” she grit her teeth while keeping her gun pointed at me.
”You've seen how your friend fares against me. If all of you together can't do anything against me, what could you do alone?” I asked, pointing at her friends.
Currently her friends are sitting on the ground, pretty far away from our position. They are also wearing only their underwear, and are looking angry at me.
”You can do it, Four! Kick his ass!” ”Kill that pervert, Four!” ”Yeah! Yeah!”
They all said that while covering their body with their arms.
”Everyone…” the maid in front of me starts tearing up.
I just look at her with a jaded expression.
[Lv.21 Combat Maid]
”I think we've wasted enough time talking. Let's end this.”
She refocuses her attention on me.
I start dashing towards her position.
She fires her gun, but I'm already prepared to deflect the oncoming bullet.
We are now in close range with each other.
She points the gun at my head - but I cut it before she can fire.
She throws her gun away and starts reaching for her knife.
With Thought Acceleration and Ultimate Brain, I correctly calculate where to slash with my katana.
I cut part of her uniform.
We are engaging in CQC.
I cut part of her uniform.
She throws everything she has at me, from a knee strike to a head butt, while also use her knife, but of course I block and dodge all of them.
I cut part of her uniform.
”Just a few more and you're finished. Any last words, miss?” I cockily taunt.
Her attacks turn increasingly reckless and rushed, which grants me the opportunity to finish what I started and -
- I cut the last part of her uniform.
Right now, it may look like I haven't done anything to her clothes, but in reality they're almost destroyed, and all I need to do is...
I grab the chest part of the uniform, and give it a sharp tug.
It comes off.
The front of her uniform comes off entirely, and finally, I see my prize!
”Striped. is it? Not bad, that's cute actually.”
She stops moving.
It takes a second for her to notice what I meant by that, and when she does:
”KYAAAAAAAAA!”
She screams as she covers her underwear, falling flat on her butt.
”””Four!””” Her friends call her name.
The girl in front of me starts glaring with teary eyes.
”Thank you for the fight. And the view.”
I put my katana back in its sheath.
[Simulation Complete]
Everything starts to disappear.
They all disappeared as if they are data, block by block, chip by chip.
The ballroom, the floor, everything, even the girls.
In the end, I'm the only one that's standing in the room.
I look around me.
White, everything is white, just like Construct in Matrix.
”Fufu-fuahahah-hahahaha-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.”
I laugh, I laugh real hard.
And then I facepalm.
”…What the fuck am I doing…”
My eyes start to go warm.
”…So embarrassing…”
I drop the katana and start facepalming with both hands.
”Give up? Delaying the inevitable? Is this puberty? This must be puberty.”
I'm dying from shame.
After I mull about how pathetic and insignificant my life is, I leave the room and start making a lunchbox.
Due to a low budget, I could only buy the Basic Combat Feature for the Simulation Room. The opponents I can face can only range from Lv.0 to Lv.30, with basic combat scenarios, weaponry and abilities - for example, ordinary firearms and basic magic/abilities that are easy to understand.
The room also has a unique gimmick I never thought it could do: it can give my opponents a personality. Weakened animals will try to run, cowardly people will beg, battle maniacs will smile when they face me, and just like what happened just now, girls will scream at me when I do those things to them...
Meh, openly letting some of my desires out once in a while is not really that bad. Even though I'm still gonna feel shame in the end, I still think it's gonna be good for me in the future.
Also, I may be going through puberty right now, but I still have my memories of my old world. I still hate anything related to drama and angst, and I still remember how I killed my emotions when I browsed LiveLeak in the internet... If you can do what I did, you're pretty much prepared and jaded for any gore in your life.
Going back to the topic, the Simulation Room now is a place where I can test my abilities and experiment with new Spell Cards! Yup, Spell Cards. I've started picking them back up and I've already created some new ones - gotta prepare some stuff for PCB.
As for the challenge, it finished days ago.
[Challenge Quest - Complete]
[Surviving Life with Fragrance of Hunger]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP + Random Reward]
I got an ability from that random reward.
[Legendary Butler]
[User will have all the skills to become the perfect butler that will satisfy all his master's need.]
[Detecting weaker version of the ability]
[Absorbing old abilities]
[Legendary Butler absorbing Cooking Master, Iron Stomach, Piano Master, Stage Star, Body Enhancement Lv Max and Lighting Reflexes]
Reading what happened left me flabbergasted.
So many abilities getting absorbed because they were the weaker versions of Legendary Butler.
'Does that mean I hit another jackpot?' I start feeling happy, but then I stop because I have another thought: 'Wait, this ability is still within the realm of logic, so it's not really that amazing of an ability in Gensokyo.'
In the end, I realized that ability was just middle tier at best - useful in a daily life scenario, but barely useful in a fighting scenario.
When you meet someone who can appear out of nowhere, ”Legendary Butler” really is not that great.
I can still cook delicious things though, so there's nothing to be sad about.
Also, I forgot to mention, this thing appeared while I was in the middle of annoying Medicine.
[Achievement Alert]
[Impress the Little Sweet Poison]
[Reward: 20.000 AP & 20.000 IP]
'Impress in a negative way, I'm probably the first Human she saw that she couldn't poison, as well as the first Human that annoyed her greatly. She'' probably remember me because of those things.'
I check my points.
Soon… Very soon I'll be able to upgrade this thing, and then I'll probably get more awesome effects from the thing, the thing is probably gonna be awesome, I think…
... Might've overused ”thing”.
”Okay, it's been a while since I've met Akyuu. I think now's a good time to visit her.”
I leave my House and start walking towards the Human Village.
As I walk along the forest trail, I start thinking about a few things to pass the time.
First, I should do the Challenge Quest once a month. If the duration of a quest is 1 month, then after it's over I'll have to wait another month to start it again.
Second, sooner or later Flandre or Remilia would order Sakuya to drag me to their Mansion. I think I should visit them in a couple of days.
Third, what should I plant in my garden? Right now it's winter, so planting a flower is out of question… Maybe a bush?
Fourth, about that 'precognitive' dream. Since it's a dream and a vision of the future, things have probably already changed because I know what would have happened in that future and I'm trying my hardest to avoid the worst of it.
These were important keywords from that dream:
1. I grab ”it” before it turned into medicine of immortality
2. Marisa ignored ”its” safety and I paid the price for it instead of her.
3. Flandre accidently made me her familiar.
4. Alice denied my situation(?).
5. Yukari and me being buddy-buddy with each other.
I organize them by how outrageous each piece of information is.
In Akyuu's case, it seems like the hint to fixing her health problem is by researching immortality.
In Marisa's case, I can just tie her up when she's affected by the drug, but I won't promise nothing will happen at that point. It's the future, after all. Anything might happen.