39 Becoming A Stand User

After returning to the Izumu Dormitory...

"Why did you do that!?" Brynhildr angrily said to Otto who accepted Edelweiss' offer, for him to join a criminal syndicate.

"Chill out, let me cook for a moment here... I have a plan to neutralize Edelweiss' noble art later on." Otto tried calming her down as he understood how she deeply cared for his well-being.

'I'm going to try and make use of my authority cheat. To make a new power system...'

The vibe around him turned menacing as he stood in front of Brynhildr's soon-to-be body, which was inside a test tube in his basement that Miya Asama, the landlady allowed him to use.

"Fine..." She let out a deep sigh, thinking about what she could recommend to do before Edelweiss completed her task for him.

"I'm going to make a special arrow..." Otto declared as he had been waiting for this bizarre moment.

'Since I still couldn't use Reverse curse technique to heal my heart if I don't adhere to the promise that Edelweiss and I made... Might as well make the most of it, because no way in hell I'm joining Rebellion and constantly hiding from the public's eyes.'

"What arrow?" Brynhildr expected it to be cheesy like a love arrow.

"Stando Powa—" A golden flash throughout the room as the golden cubes from Otto's authority gradually formed into a golden arrowhead.

"What are you doing now!?" Brynhildr was still cautious about what something new he was making.

"Making..."

The golden arrowhead possessed a unique beetle design that gave off a menacing aura after it had been just made.

Surprisingly the arrowhead didn't use that much of his authority as he only made a semi-replica to a meteor which was 300,000 light years away from this world according to the astronomers on the internet.

"That arrow is giving off a weird and foreign aura, completely different to the Curse Energy... Is this your real ability? Like making imagination into a reality?" Brynhildr curiously asked, seeing that he could make things that didn't exist in this world.

"In a way yeah."

'Hey, since I'm Otto Apocalypse, maybe it wasn't a coincidence that I also have the ability like the first God Key, Void Archives.'

"So what's your creation this time?"

"An arrow that possessed a virus, that has a 50/50 chance of killing me."

"What!?" Hearing his reply she once again nagged, to reconsider what he was going to do next.

"You're going to use that? Not to other people!?"

"Yup."

"Why?"

"So that it could awaken my dormant hidden powers..." Otto is going to gate-keep all of the powers he had made, except for Brynhildr having access to it.

"All of it would come into luck..." He stated that getting alive was also 50/50, the same goes for awakening a good stand that was useful in battles.

The only question that Otto has was that "Was he worthy to be a stand user?".

'Hmph, I am worthy. I look gay as fuck.' With that in mind, having no second thoughts. He lightly stabbed his hand.

"Ou-huh—?!?" Otto felt grossed, as the arrow drugged even deeper into his body,

"Was this part of the process?"

Brynhildr thought the arrow was some sort of parasite rather than a virus, as it made its way toward Otto's bicep, continuing to go even deeper into his body.

"AA-..." His body was spazzing out before falling.

"H-Hey..." With a concerned expression on her face, she went over towards him who was out cold, as the arrow shot out from his back.

A few hours pass

"Otto... Otto. Wake up." Brynhildr called out to him.

"Mmhhhn." Otto groaned before his eyes shot open.

"Huh— I was awake all the time." He lied as it felt good to sleep.

"Don't lie, when your face is covered in drool."

"Alright.." He sighed as he inspected his body for any changes.

'Where does my Jojo stand?' He tried summoning it.

"Sooo... Where's the mysterious power you got after stabbing yourself with the arrowhead?"

"I don't know..." He could only feel that his life force was stronger than before.

"..."

The two were silent before he tried various methods to summon it.

"Star Platinum."

"The Sun."

"Purple Haze."

"Death Thirteen."

"Killer Queen."

"Gold Experience."

"Dirty Deez Done Dirt Cheap."

"Za Warudo."

Otto refused to call out weaker stands as he only hoped to summon it.

"What the hell are you doing!?" Brynhildr complained at him who was calling out several stands and doing Jojo poses.

"Uhhhh— trying to summon it?" He figured that he needed to pose to summon it.

"Was the embarrassing poses even necessary?"

"Maybe?" He shrugged before continuing.

"Metallica... Weather Report... Whitesnake... C-Moon... Made in Heaven... Catch the Rainbow... Soft and Wet... Wonder of U... Fuck... What stand do I have!?"

He almost has called out every strong stand he could think of, as he refuses to possess an original stand...

"Is it just me, or are you just saying songs?"

"Don't mind that part..."

Otto sighs before focusing...

Just then for a moment... A strange book appears in front of him.

"Beelzebub?" The book had a strange cover such as and the title "END" overlapped with a white handprint.

'Is this... A bootleg version of Bandit's secret?'

At first, he thought it was the Sephira Crystal (Rasiel) changing its form back to a book before he thought that it looked similar to Chrollo's nen and the Book of END from Fairy Tail.

"Is that it?" Brynhildr asked.

"I guess so." He opened the book finding all the pages empty...

"Do you know how it works?"

"Nope. No idea."

Otto understands that some of the stands usually adopt a humanoid form and in rare cases take the appearance of an object or tool, which was a representation of the user's will or desire.

'She can see it, even though she's not a stand user, or maybe it's because she's currently a cursed spirit that she could see it.'

He hoped that only the majority of the people could see stands, unlike Mahoraga who can only be vaguely seen by Blazers.

"Wouldn't it be better if you test it out?"

"But how?"

The book can't punch, nor does have any hints on what it could do, other than it has 'Bandit's Secret' and 'END' as a possible clue.

It was only a book that could be summoned at any time...

"Maybe... It works like Chrollo's."

He secretly hoped that was the case, As Chrollo Lucilfer's nen can steal the abilities of others and use them for his own. And of course, the original owner of the ability can no longer gain access to the stolen ability, as all of the ability's information is pasted/printed on a page of the book.

This method stands in stark contrast to mere duplication; it allows the theft of anything, provided both the user and the victim fulfill four specific conditions.

The first condition mandates that the user personally witnesses the ability to use.

Secondly, the user must inquire about the ability and receive a response—an easy feat in an anime world, where combatants frequently elucidate their powers mid-battle.

The third condition necessitates that the victim physically touches the handprint embedded on the book's cover—a challenge heightened by the user's race against time to satisfy the fourth condition.

This fourth condition imposes a strict time limit: all preceding conditions must be met within the span of a hour.

Otto wants to test it... Thinking deeply about a perfect test subject.

He came up with a brilliant plan. To try and steal sacred gear.

"Let's go on a sacred gear heist shall we?" He smirked as he was soon going to be a criminal soon after Edelweiss completed her promise.

"What now?" Brynhildr had a confused tone.

"Let's steal, Longinus gears." He proudly said, as he already knew few people who possessed Longinus'.

"Uh-huh... So who's going to be the next victim?" She wasn't against it since Otto was now a lot stronger than before.

"The Divine Dividing, Longinus Spear, Canis Lykaon, Sephiroth Graal, Telos Karma. Those are my candidates..."

He was conflicted about stealing Absolute Demise which was wielded by Lavia Reni. As he knew her, and as for the rest... He didn't care enough.

He was confident of stealing those Supreme Sacred Gears, because of one thing... And that was because of his Sacred Gear Canceller that he had Brynhildr absorbed from Rizevim Livan Lucifer.

As the name applies, it can render any sacred gears useless and that includes Longinus Gears...

"But the problem of finding them..."

"That isn't a problem... For the wielder of Divine Dividing, Canis Lykaon, and Telos Karma, I can just ask Reni for their location... She does have somewhat a connection to those three to some degree."

"And as for the Sephiroth Graal... The user is in Romania where the Vampires hang out, as it's in the possession of a Dhampir. I'm sure she's willing to give it to me, so she can ease her pain."

"You know... You're reverting to the younger self."

"True... Yeah, that's pretty true. But what can I do about it? I'm getting bored from playing the nice guy for too long you know." He sighed looking at the synthetic body in the tube.

"Soon, you'll get your very own body. So just be patient..."

"But you've done a lot for me... I haven't done anything for you so far, other than helping you use my Curse Technique." Brynhildr felt guilty after seeing Otto's decisions for her.

"Don't worry about it. That answer would be in the future once you've gotten your body." Showing a funny grin on his face.

"Bah! Pervert, you thinking of something lewd with me?" Though she complained, she didn't mind since it was him.

"Hahaha— maybe." Otto didn't shy away from looking at the erogenous spot of the body he had made for Brynhildr.

"By the way are you sure you're content with this body?" He asked as he didn't ask what he looked like in the past.

"If it's your ideal taste, then I don't mind since it's what you made for me."

'Since, you'll only look at me, your ideal wife.' She secretly giggled.

"Alright... The only left for the research is the transference of souls to a body, which I find hard to do as I have no clue about it."

Otto's request for information about Souls from Edelweiss wasn't just about satisfying curiosity—it was a pivotal step in his quest. The magic and other tidbits of knowledge were mere bonuses, additions to his primary objective.

"Still, I hope you can find a solution to her noble art." Knowing Otto, he doesn't like to be forced under someone, other than Yukime who was his Boss from work.

'He doesn't want to be involved in a shady group of people... Right?'

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-Chapter End-