172: Crackling Danger (2)
Chapter 172: Crackling Danger (2)
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Neji didn't sleep much, only 2 hours.
Neji's body was required to sleep to stay alive, but the number of hours needed to sleep was lesser than a normal human because of his High Human status and now his «Healthy Body» quirk.
He woke up to the sound of chattering girls, rubbing his eyes as he sat up on the couch he was sleeping on.
"Ugh, my neck hurts." He suddenly said, rubbing his neck, as the girls looked back at him. "Not only did you guys not put me in the bed, but I also didn't even get a thigh pillow. Wow."
"Shut up. We're busy discussing stuff."
"Fuck off." Neji threw a teddy bear out of his inventory at Nejire, who simply dodged with her tongue out.
"Don't curse, bad manners." She said, showing him a middle finger.
"..."
"Anyway, Kimi, I am hungry."
"Coming~"
Kimi, who was sitting with the girls, jumped up and ran to the kitchen while the other three went back to discuss.
"..."
'Wow, I'm hurt.'
Wiping his tears, Neji stood up and headed to the washroom to clean up. Before he could enter the washroom though, Nejire called from behind again.
"Oi! Take your costume off! Tch, no manners."
'Says who.'
"Also, how did you get it back? Did you go to the UA again?" Nejire added the last words in slight panic before wincing back. "Ugh… nevermind, I don't wanna know."
She didn't want to know if her brother came back killing her friend for real or not.
Neji laughed at that. "Use your brain, my classroom was destroyed. All students' hero costumes are kept within the classroom, inside special briefcases. How would my costume survive the destruction there?" Neji said. "I didn't go there, so Mirio is probably alive unless UA was attacked by some super strong villain again. I got this set of my costume from a dimensional gate."
"Dimensional gate?"
It was Rumi who was confused this time, tilting her head and looking around.
"Yes, Dimensional Gate." Neji looked at Momo. "Yaomomo, explain to her, please. I will add the details after coming out."
"Kay."
Momo waved her hands.
"Hey, why did you ask Momo even though we were having the conversation?!"
"Because you're dumb."
"..."
"No, really. You should read some books. Shoo."
Neji finally went to the washroom, while Momo comforted the dejected Nejire while starting her explanation for Rumi.
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After having [Unequipped] his armour and eating his food, Neji sat down with Rumi to add some details to Momo's explanation.
"Hm, so a quirk that lets you create and access already existing Dimensions? In such dimensions, people and fantasy monsters live and sometimes you receive magical items from random spawning dimensions?"
Rumi asked, scratching her chin.
"Well, ugh, I don't like thinking. Whatever, if a quirk like Star and Stripe can exist, so can this. What's the quirk name anyway?"
Neji blinked. "Oh, uh, I of course don't have this registered. But Kimi once called this [Dungeon], so I also go with that."
Kimi, as a manga geek, recognised many things when she first went inside the Tower. She couldn't see the game-like interface that all the monsters had, but from their words and demonstration on how they gained more power (aka levels) once they kill another living being, she came to realise what type of world that was.
But since that world wasn't the only one Neji had access to, she gave a simple term for all these 'dimensions', coincidentally calling them [Dungeons]. That helped Neji, he could not slip up, so he went on with it.
"So these dungeons you speak of…" Rumi looked up at him, strangely meek. "You said you get magical items and such from there. Is that how… is that how Nejire and Momo have these powers? I am fairly certain Momo didn't have these powers in the Sports Festival, and from her quirk, this shouldn't be her awakening either."
That was true.
Looking at Nejire and Momo, at their status as "High-Tier-6", Neji had to agree.
Nejire's quirk wasn't only awakened, it was also "Evolved".
Awakening is the state when an ability reaches its "peak" possible phase.
Evolution, on the other hand, was behind that phase. When an ability exits its limit, it's "peak", and enters a whole new family tree of power.
After taking the Phoenix Evolution stone, other than her race change to [Quasi-Phoenix], Momo's quirk had awakened too.
[Creation - Level 10 (Max): Allows the user to create anything from her exposed skin by transforming the molecular structure of her fat cells. In order to create something, she needs to understand the molecular structure of what the material/object is made of.
–The fat consumption rate is many times lower than the previous levels.
–Users can also "absorb" matter into their own body in the form of fat, the absorption rate is also higher than at previous levels.
–Although the user can create 'anything', when creating a Living Organism, the organism might not obey her command if it has enough intelligence.]
This was Momo's quirk now, Level-10, awakened and all. Neji actually didn't know the level of Momo's quirk before, but now that Eyes of the Lord was level-3, he could peek into other people's quirks too.
Momo experienced a different type of race evolution than Kimi. She still retained their "Quirks", while Kimi simply became a Demi-Byakko [1] because of her previous feline characteristics. That's why Kimi was [Demi] and Momo was [Quasi]. Though the system said the "blood" can become purer as the person gets stronger.
Nejire on the other hand was still pure human, though her quirk did change.
[Surge (new) - Level 1: The evolution of the old "Surge".
–Still has the previous shockwave and vibration powers.
{↑Click to Expand↑}
–The user can shape and manipulate "Potential Energy", aka the energy of an object relating to its state of being or position.]
This was Nejire's power up. Unfortunately, the status page didn't say anything more about the Potential Energy stuff, so Nejire had to train myself to figure things out.
She also didn't rename her quirk, as she said she was "too attached to it".
"You made a wild guess, but you're not wrong," Neji said, nodding. "Since you belong to me and I trust you just like these three, so I am not gonna hide anything. There is a permanent [Dungeon] beside UA, inside there a planet of its own exists. Of course, only I can enter there. Anyway, in there the Four Direction Deities exist in too. I killed two of them, gaining two magical items named [White Tiger Evolution Stone] and [Phoenix Evolution Stone]. Kimi used the White Tiger and Momo used the Phoenix one."
"..." Rumi listened to his words attentively and nodded softly. "And Nejire?"
"Hers is a whole other case." Neji said, slipping his hand inside his inventory and taking out a Potion bottle filled with glowing blue liquid.
A Tier Potion.
He received [two] Tier Potions from the quest of letting Mirio live. These were normal potions, not dropped from main characters, so Neji doubted this will "evolve" quirks, but at least it could for sure awaken the user.
"Here."
As far as Neji knew, Rumi wasn't awakened.
"Try drinking this."
So, he offered her the bottle, which she hesitatingly, exchanging glances with the girls, accepted.
She seemed to be close with the girls already if she was thinking of their approval, but that's a given since the title [Harem Lord] meant the girls who have accepted to join the harem would get along with each other.
Rumi's eyes were honestly shining with expectancy as she poured the liquid down her throat. That expectancy turned into surprise when her hair started to float, glowing, as her body started to float in the air too.
Neji swiped his fingers, softly tossing the other three girls a bit far from Rumi while creating an «Air Wall» for himself. Immediately after, as Neji had seen three times before, white mist burst out of Rumi's body and spread to the room.
When the mist cleared, filled with the girls' coughs, came out a dark-skinned Rumi with jet black hair, ear, and tail.
She looked the same, her skin tone didn't change, but her hair had turned black in colour from white.
"Oh…"
"She looks cute."
"Yeah."
"..."
Rumi silently observed herself while the other three girls looked at her as he she were a zoo animal.
Neji pulled out a body-sized mirror in front of her as she stared at it, baffled.
"Ah… wow."
Neji used [Observe] on her.
[Name: Rumi Usagiyama
Age: 26
Tier: Mid-6
Likes: Neji, Battling, Battling with Neji, Sex with Neji, Domination, Rough, Deep Throat, When Neji treats her like a fuck toy-….(click to expand)
Dislikes: Team fights, Getting ignored, Getting ignored by Neji, When Neji doesn't go rough, When Neji gives her an impassive look-…(click to expand)
Status: Baffled, Gratified, Shocked, Very Pleasantly Surprised, Great Expectation for her new strength.
Quirk: Rabbit (click to expand)]
'...'
Neji liked his new add-ons to Observe, but… wasn't this a bit too much?
To not think about it, he looked at her quirk instead.
[Rabbit - Level 10 (max): This allows the user the attributes and abilities of a rabbit. This grants her incredible leg strength, allowing her to jump and kick with extreme force. She also has excellent hearing thanks to her rabbit-like ears and possesses animal instincts that alert her to nearby danger.
–These basic abilities are a few times stronger than before after the level up.
–Can achieve "Wild" form which boosts all her powers wildly.]
Wild Form.
'So that's the name of this form… black hair, black ears and black tail. She looks kinda gorgeous.' Neji observed her body, while everyone did the same.
"Your skin looks more refined hmm, hnn. Glistening and tender." He said.
"I am not tender," Rumi said, raising her head.
"You are not?" Neji asked, tilting his head innocently, thinking of her 'likes' and 'dislikes', as he gave her a knowing smile. "Well, some parts of you are. I believe that counts."
"..."
"Anyway," Neji helped Rumi get up. "You can probably turn your hair back to white whenever you wish, I am not an expert, ask Kimi. Not that I am saying you don't look gorgeous and smoking like this."
Kimi nodded from the side, along with Momo and Nejire.
"I will ask Kimi later. First I wanna test myself out." Rumi raised her hands in front of her in a fighting stance. "Fight me, Neji."
"How about later-"
"–Why?!"
"We have a guest."
"Huh?"
"Meow!"
A meow, not belonging to Kurai, entered the living room as everyone turned to the door, finding a yellow cat running at them at a great speed.
"Meow!"
Kurai, who was in another room on the second floor, jumped down hearing it, landing in front of the cat, making it pause in the spot, as she glared at it.
"Grr. Get out, these humans are mine!"
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While everyone's expressions went blank, the yellow cat seemed to grunt as something strange happened. The cat turned into a mud-like substance, moving and squirming as the girls looked alarmed, but Neji was calm.
The substance then took the form of a girl with yellow hair and eyes, her grin looking michelivious.
"Boss!"
The naked girl, uncaring of the gawking look from the cat and the four girls, jumped to hug Neji.
"Boss! You're alive??! I finally found-"
Before she could hug Neji, his hand chopped down on her neck, her body disappearing into his inventory immediately.
"There goes my second Pokémon."
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"Stop staring at me like that." Neji shrugged. "This is not the time to be speechless."
He wasn't lying.
He was serious.
This wasn't a time to lose themselves.
This was a time to be on top alert.
"Because–"
Neji turned to the gate, his Super Armour manifesting around his body as he [Equipped] it via the system's interface.
"–I sense a dragon nearby."
No, his echolocation told him about Two Dragons nearby.
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Author's Note: Is it finally the long-awaited revenge time?
[1] Byakko means White Tiger.
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