Chapter 8: Eri

It was just a normal day. The same routine of doing my daily mission, going to school, hanging out with the girls, practicing my weapons and then going to sleep. This has been going on for the past 2 years. Yup, I am in the second year now.

Well, the going to school part is just half the truth since my Shadow Clone goes in place of me.

During these two years I have also started publishing Naruto from a well known publishing company. I get 13% royalty from any and all sales from the books to the merch and accessories. It has already been published uptill Volume 15 and will soon get an anime.

Needless to say, the people were loving it. Some had already started to cosplaying as the characters.

I also completed drawing AOT. Hehehehe~~ The world shall know pain- No not pain but depression. Even I got depressed while writing some of the pages like Sasha's Death. RIP Potato Girl. You will be missed and loved dearly.

Anyway, I will skip class today too. Who's gonna know anyway?

I slipped out after the break ended and went strolling around town. I thought about the new technique that I am trying to create with my Illusion Magic. I want to use it like the Sharingan that if anyone looks me in my eyes they get caught in an Illusion. It seems easy but it requires really precise control of magic and a super strong Illusion.

The magic control is easy enough but the Illusion part is giving me problems. The skill is too weak to cast super high level illusions. I can cast pretty strong illusions but not on the level of Tsukuyomi, the technique where the Sharingan user can control the time, mass, space and essentially everything in the Illusion or Kotoamatsukami, the technique where the user can cast a subtle yet strong Illusion that shows the target false memories without them even knowing and controlling them even without them knowing. I need to get a strong magic or illusion skill.

I opened my status and took a good look. I have gotten alot of useful abilities. During this time I also got 6 Gacha Tickets, alot less than expected but its better than nothing.

[Name:- Akira Kurokami

Age:- 14 Years

Race:- High-Human

Titles:- Sun God, Magicule Maniac

HP:- 850,000 (81,000/minute)

MP:- 1,100,000 (90,000/minute)

STR:- 8800

AGI:- 9200

DEF:- 7700

END:- 8500

VIT:- 8100

INT:- 9000

MAG:- 11,000

LUK:- 870

CHA:- 790

Stat Points:- 0]

My stats have become quite absurd but most of them still haven't broken through the 10,000 mark except MAG which gave me the new title.

[Skills:

Sun God, Apollo (S)

Prideful King, Lucifer (SS)

Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist (S)

Elemental Magic (A)

Illusion Magic (A)

Engraving Magic (A)

Telekinesis (A)

Stealth (A)

Drawing (S)

Cooking (S)

Quicksilver (S)

Weapons Master (S)

Magicule Manipulation (S)

Magic Sense (S)

Gluttonous King, Beelzebuth (SS)

Shadow Clones (S)

Hope King, Sariel (S)

Thought Acceleration (A)

Shadow Manipulation (A)

Short-Range Teleportation (A)

Danger Sense (B)

Resist Physical Attacks (A)

Resist Magic (A)

Intimidation (B) ]

Most of my new skills are pretty self-explanatory. My [Thought Acceleration] upgraded from B-Rank to A-Rank which caused its multiplier to go from one thousand to a million. When I use it the world basically stops for me so its a good thing that I can reduce the multiplier but the maximum remains 1,000,000. [Shadow Clone] also upgraded to S-Rank, the only thing that happened was that the durability of the clones increased along with it requiring alot less magic.

I thought of using the Gacha tickets now but put it off for later. While I was busy looking at my Status I walked a little off course, not that I had a destination anyway. I decided to just go with the flow and wander around here.

I spent the rest of my time here till the end of school and started to make my way back home.

I walked past a bridge on the way and suddenly sensed something. My eyes opened wide as I turned my head towards the bridge. If this is what I think this is then its not good.

My guess was proven correct when I saw a person standing at the edge of the bridge. In my books, suicide is never the answer. No matter how shitty your life is going one day you'll get it together. That's why I persevered in my past life. I didn't want to give up, I wanted to bring my life to the point where I will be truly happy.

I ran towards them and reached them in the blink of an eye. Luckily, no one was there to notice it. I put my hand on the shoulder of the person standing there and shouted, "What The Hell Are You Doing?!"

The person got startled and turned around to face me, I noticed that she was a girl, and said in a small voice, "W-What??". I looked at her and took a breath to calm down. I asked in a calm yet worried tone, "What were you just about to do?".

She looked at me dead in the eye with eyes that had lost all hope, "You know what I was about to do. I just want to end it all." She said in a small dead voice as she turned around.

"Don't do it." I said. "Whatever you're going through, I'll help you deal with it. This is not the way." I said trying to convince her.

"You don't know me or anything about me, so just mind your own business." She said in a cold irritated voice.

You know what? Fuck it. I just used Illusion Magic on her to get her off the edge and follow me. When she came to, she was she saw herself sitting next to me on a bench in a nearby park.

She looked confused as to how she got here but shook it off and glared towards me. "What did you do?" She said with anger evident in her voice. I just looked at her with a smirk, which irritated her more, and said "What? I didn't do anything. You just followed me after I told you to get down from the edge like a good girl"

After hearing my words she got angry and confused but she put her head down with her eyes shadowed. "Why?" She asked. I looked towards her a little confused. As if sensing my confusion she said, "Why did you try to stop me? I don't even know you."

I looked at her a little and spoke with a smile, "I didn't really have a reason but what you were about to do was a big no no in my books. I believe that everything has a second side, so if you are suffering now you could have the happiness you want sometime in life. Just endure it and keep moving forward untill you have reached your desired goal."

She looked towards me dumbfounded but before she could say anything I said "Plus you looked like you didn't want to do it. You were hesitating. If you really wanted to do it, you would have done it way before I got there. You were waiting for someone to stop you, so I did." I ended with a bright smile while looking towards her and holding her hand.

She looked at me as tears slowly came to her eyes and she started crying. I hugged her and let her cry into my shoulder as I patted her head and back. "Its okay, everything's gonna be okay. I'll be here for you every step of the way." I said while she cried.

She stopped crying slowy after a few minutes and slowly opened up to me. I asked her about her situation and she told me all about it. Her name is Eri Nakamura, same age as me with black short hair and brown eyes.

When Eri was was 6 years old, her father died after saving from an in incoming car. This lead to her being abused both physically and mentally for years by her mother, due to her blaming Eri for his death. In spite of her mother's harsh treatment, Eri never reported her to the authorities; believing that she would eventually stop it and love her once more. However, when Eri was 11 years old, her mother started dating another man, much to her shock, and had moved with them. He was abusive and would constantly make sexual advances towards Eri at any opportunity he could. Eri did everything she could to avoid his attention, including cutting her hair short and acting more masculine. Despite her efforts, however, he still expressed his attraction towards Eri, and would eventually molest her one day while her mother was away at work. Eri managed to scream loud enough that the neighbors heard it and called the police once they saw what was happening to her. After he was arrested, rather than apologizing to Eri for bringing that man into their lives, Eri's mother instead accused her of seducing him. Realizing that the hardships she endured over the years had been for nothing, Eri decided the only thing for her would be to end her life. She snuck out of her home the next morning and headed to a nearby bridge that was above a river

After hearing all this only one thought remained in my mind, 'Someone's gonna see hell'. But I controlled myself and hugged her again and this time she snuggled into my chest. We have somethings in common like having shitty parents so I'll definitely take care of her.

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Sorry for not uploading for so many days🙇‍♂️ The school's going nuts giving a shitton of assignments and even my exams are starting. So I'll upload a little slower than before.

See you in the next chapter 👋