2 Chapter 1 (Part 2 of 3)
I decide to go over what the D.S.S is in its entirety, even though I have a pretty clear understanding.
It's been a few hours since I've woken up. I've since eaten dinner and come clean to my mother about the headaches only now going away.
Though she was somewhat upset I lied to her, she was just happy I was feeling better. She's apparently going to be watching me like a hawk from now on, but she basically did that before anyways.
She also wasn't really happy about me wanting to be a hero, but she said she'd allow me to take the U.A exam.
I'm pretty sure the only reason she's letting me take it is because she believes I'll fail, which kinda stings.
But oh well.
'Hey Dating Sim?'
[Yes?]
'You think you can give me an overview of what it is you do?'
[Of course, if you would please call out the word 'Status' within your head.]
'Status.' Sure enough a semi transparent blue screen with text appears with what appears to be a spreadsheet quantifying me.
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[Akira Oosuki]
[Title: None]
[Quirk: Instant Transmission (LV 1/10)]
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[Looks: 9]
[Charm: 8]
[Charisma: 9]
[Creativity: 9]
[Intelligence: 13]
[Stamina: 12]
[Sexual Ability: 1]
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[DS Points: 30]
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[Skills]
-[Observe (Tier MAX)]
-[Tae Kwon Do (Tier 2)]
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[I will explain the more vague or obscure features, you may ask questions about anything I don't clarify.]
[First the most important aspect of the D.S.S are the DS Points, they are the lifeline of the entire system, and they are what allow everything else to run smoothly.]
[You earn DS Points by participating or committing any romantic or sexual actions towards a member of the opposite sex.]
What if I'm into men? I mean, I'm not, but it's rude for them to assume.
[You can increase your basic stat points, through the use of DS Points. Just a word of warning though the exchange rate is not 1 to 1.]
[To increase a stat point by 1, you must take the current number of that stat and multiply it by 10, that's the amount you have to spend to increase the base stat by 1.]
[As an example to increase your looks from a 9 to a 10, that would be 90 DS Points, then from a 10 to an 11 it would be 100 DS Points.]
[11 to 12, is 110 DS, 12 to 13 is 120 DS Points, you get the idea.]
I did too, I figured it wasn't a 1 to 1 ratio when I saw I already acquired 30 of these points, presumably from the interactions I had with my mother. I don't know how to feel about my system classifying the interactions as romantic though.
Regardless the system would be a little too broken if some minor 'romantic' interactions could boost your stats so much, these stats are obviously not physical, at least most aren't, but it's still too overpowered.
[DS Points will also power the Shop feature, but that has yet to be unlocked. You must fulfill certain conditions to unlock the shop.]
'Given that you haven't explained those conditions, I assume I have to figure them out myself?' I ask.
[Correct.]
'Figures.'
[The mechanics behind Skills and improving your Quirk are very similar.]
[You must undergo an upgrade quest to improve them. The details vary from quest to quest.]
My system finally finishes explaining its basic features, I do ask it to go into a bit more detail at times and by the end of it I think I come out very well informed.
First things first, an upgrade quest.
Between the time I feel asleep, dinner and this expositional onslaught it's getting pretty late, I should probably sleep, but I'm too excited to.
I once more pull up my status, I press on the text with my Quirk, noticing and not for the first time that my system classifies it as 'Instant Transmission' and not 'Teleport'.
Trying not to get ahead of myself I temper my feelings as to not be disappointed if it doesn't turn out to be what I think it is.
[Would you like to undergo a Quirk upgrade?]
[Yes/No]
I click yes of course and I'm immediately issued said quest.
[Quest Alert!]
[Do you even teleport brah!?]
Fulfill requirements
-Teleport 100 times (Any distance.)
(0/100)
-Teleport further than 10 meters.
(0/10)
[Reward: Instant Transmission (LV 2/10)]
'Hoh?' I thought it would be harder honestly, though I guess it's just level 2.
The teleport 10 meters will be tough, my max is like 5 or 6. I don't have school tomorrow so there's no reason not to start now.
"Hup!" I try and teleport only after inches to the side, I check my quest and sure enough, 'any distance' is true.
-Teleport 100 times (Any distance.)
(1/100)
Only 99 more to go.
In the end I think I do rather impressively managing to teleport a record breaking 8 times before being forced to sleep from exhaustion.
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'You're not affected by inertia. You're not affected by inertia. You're not affected by inertia. You're not affected by inertia. '
I repeated that mantra trying not to get excited at the thought of free falling such a dangerous height with nothing to guarantee my safety. I'm currently standing on the roof of my 2 story house about to jump off.
It's been about 2 days since I took on the Quirk upgrade quest. Since then I've made a bit of progress on the teleport a hundred times portion of my quest, but none of the distance part.
It's Sunday, in other words I go back to school tomorrow. That'll cut into my training time.
The reason I'm on this roof is because I think I found a way around the 10 meter distance teleport, a little loophole if you will.
The way my Quirk works, when I teleport somewhere I'm not affected by inertia, obviously, I don't just magically materialize somewhere. I physically move there at the speed of light, if I was affected by inertia I would go splat anytime I teleported, or at least my clothes and anything else I bring along with me would incinerate.
So my theory is, if I jump off somewhere super high, free fall and then at the last second teleport again, I can negate fall damage like a minecraft character.
I don't know if that'll count as 1 very long teleport or two short ones, regardless I learn something important about my power, not being able to take damage from falling is a very useful ability.
"1, 2," I unknowingly gain a dopey grin, "3!"
At the count of 3 I jump as high as I can, I look up and teleport using my maximum of about 6 meters I teleport vertically.
Adding the height of my house, plus the 6 meters I teleported above that, this should just barely put me at like 15 meters in the sky.
I laugh joyfully on my trip down, in fact I almost forget to teleport my mind going into the very same fight or flight mode I've honed it to for years.
I'm in the middle of thinking of a landing strategy that only involves a few broken bones at most when I remember the entire purpose of the jump.
Duh. At the very last moment I pop a few inches from the place I was going to land regardless, I clench my teeth waiting for the inevitable Shockwave to reverberate throughout my body.
But no, I'm literally just standing there casually as I had walked there. In other words, theory proven!
"Yes!" I pump my fist victoriously.
'I can totally go skydiving without a parachute!' Oh and it has other uses too I guess.
[Quest Alert!]
[Do you even teleport brah!?]
Fulfill requirements
-Teleport 100 times (Any distance.)
(24/100)
-Teleport further than 10 meters.
(0/10)
[Reward: Instant Transmission (LV 2/10)]
It didn't work, I wasn't too disappointed. I wasn't really expecting it to work. It was a cool experiment regardless, one I would've done eventually even if I didn't have this quest hanging over my head.
I go back inside to tell my mother I'm going out, but then I get struck by an epiphany.
'Wait, my Quirk is Instant Transmission, Goku uses I.T by placing two fingers on his forehead. He doesn't need to, it just helps him concentrate.'
'What if I…'
I hesitantly form my hand into the same 2 fingered sign Goku does, place it against my temple and concentrate.
I then teleport in one direction as far as I can and-
Shwp!
-Teleport further than 10 meters.
(10/10)(Complete!)
'Holy shit, it worked!' It seems to only register the first 10 meters, but I actually ended up teleporting way beyond that, I'm standing by a completely different house.
'Dammit, why didn't I think of that before?' This might just be placebo, but it felt like it drained less Stamina this way as well.
I'd have to do more tests before declaring this concretely however.
I'm getting to the point where I start getting exhausted so I stop regardless.
"Hey mom." I call out to her while she's on her computer, presumably working, to this day I have no idea what my mother does for a living.
I know my father sends her money or something, she might not even have a job.
"What is it sweetie?" My mother asks lovingly.
"I'm gonna go hang out with some friends, I'll probably come back late." I explain.
"Okay sweeti-, you have friends!?" My mother asks incredulously.
A second later she seems to realize her mistake as she attempts to backtrack, "Ah, no, I didn't mean it like that-,"
"Ouch, it's true though. I guess I should say I'm going to try and make friends, specifically at the mall. I'll be back later, kay?"
"Huh, uh, sure." My mother stumbles out.
I take that as my cue to leave.
"Ah! Do you need anything, I can give you some spending money?"
"Nah it's fine, I have some on me, bye!" I wave back before actually leaving this time.
I'm surprised she let me go so easily after my failing incident. To be fair, I did catch her pretty off guard. And to be even more fair I told her I would be surprising her a lot in the coming weeks and months. I warned her.
I'm going to the mall not to make friends, but to pick up chicks!
The thing about my System it's that it awards DS Points very easily, or at least it starts to. It makes sense with how expensive it is to boost your stats.
Just from all the interactions I've had with my mother I've already accumulated a bunch of DS Points.
[DS Points: 195]
Unfortunately the points have started slowing down recently. Theoretically you can get infinite points with just one woman.
I'm making this up, but let's say a kiss earns you 100 DS Points, that doesn't mean you only get Reward the first time. You'll get Points the next kiss as well, only less of them. This will keep happening until you are maybe only earning a point every 20 kisses or something absurd like that.
I've just about exhausted all the points I could from my mother. Doing things like hugging her, kissing her on the cheek no longer award me as frequently as they did before.
The only way I can get more would be if I took it a step further and genuinely started a romantic relationship with my mother, I'm sure having sex with her would give me a massive amount of points.
Which I'm obviously not going to do with my own mother… right?
