Chibi Bruce

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[Name: Bruce Banner

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Classes: Mage

Subclass: Nen Fighter

Abilities: Shapeshifted Kiriko (E+), Super Regeneration (D), Eagle Eye (E), Photosynthesis (G), Chibi Transformation (D).

Skill: Ice Golems (E+), Ice Lance (F), Drawing (F)]

Bruce looked at his status screen.

The display has been trimmed, becoming shorter, showing only the essentials. He's been doing this for a few days and will probably do it more often in the future.

By the way, he is very proud of the achievements he has achieved over the past two weeks in the world of Frozen.

Super-regeneration was the result after he successfully mixed different types of regeneration abilities. The types of abilities combined include regeneration of lizards, salamanders, planarian worms, axolotls, and various other animals that have a similar effect.

The experiment was unsuccessful in the first turn, he achieved fusion success in the sixth turn experiment before his stock of abilities ran out.

As for the Eagle Eye, it was not an ability he got from an eagle, rather, it is an ability that results from the combination of several abilities related to supervision. The abilities he sacrificed to obtain them were night vision and distance vision.

The last ability he obtained it from the trees that thrived around the castle. This ability is considered low, perhaps because it is easy to obtain and tends to be weak.

Just a reminder, during the use of Hatsu, all animals captured will refuse to conduct trade transactions with him. Whatever attempts were made by him unsuccessfully to persuade them, could it be that it was some sort of survival instinct that they had?

He is not understanding and does not intend to understand it.

Bruce didn't want to deal with the confusion. He seized their abilities by force according to the order of capture, and after getting what he wanted, he immediately killed them all, one by one, like an executioner thirsting for slaughter.

Elsa, of course, didn't know anything about this. She didn't need to know, and Bruce didn't intend to tell her.

Everything is for the common good.

His focus then shifted to the new skills he had gained from the trade just now. Umaru, a naughty and spoiled girl, is too stingy, only selling two skills.

"Chibi Transformation!" he said quietly, and closed his eyes.

After activating the ability, he could feel it, his body was slowly being stretched unnaturally like a rubber ball. His mana was slightly drained in exchange for the use of that ability.

Don't panic, it was a rule set by him when making this Hatsu. All active abilities and skills that he gets from others must be paid for using his mana, or his Nen.

The principle is the same as skill in video games, more or less like that.

The advantage of this was that he didn't have to bother casting spells if he used magic-type skills, such as the ice golem skill he got from Elsa.

The cost required for passive skill is rather low if we compare it with the cost of active skill, maybe because of the effect that is not felt and abstract. The buff that Bruce gets from the skill is determined by the nonsense of the system, therefore, he is somewhat confused about how it works.

After a long time, he finally opened his eyelids and checked his body condition in a daze.

"Did it work? Nani!! Omaga~ " Bruce asked hesitantly and was surprised when he saw his body.

As soon as possible, he ran towards the living room, where he had placed a super-large glass in anticipation.

From the reflection of the glass, Bruce could see himself. A little boy is wearing a black shirt, the same as the clothes worn by him on this day. It turned out that not only his body had shrunk but also his clothes as well.

That was amazing!

"That's me?" Bruce approached the glass slowly.

His little legs stepped little by little, he was not used to the changes that happened to him suddenly.

When he arrived in front of the glass, Bruce took his appearance seriously.

He does stretches and some cool poses while spreading his hair. Before going to the mall for shopping, he first stopped at a barbershop, he went there to get a new haircut. His hair grows faster than normal humans, could this be one of the effects of Nen energy?

Or maybe because of something else?

To be honest, Bruce didn't know, and for now, he didn't intend to find out more. Anyway, it didn't have any bad effects on him.

He was so focused on brainstorming, not realizing when danger came approaching him from behind.

Suddenly…

A giant arm appeared suddenly, the arms moved and strangled him. The monster sank Bruce's head into a mound of warm and chewy flesh.

"Kyaaaa!! Kawai~ " Umaru hugged the midget creature tightly in her arms.

She rubbed her cheeks on the little boy's face, he was so cute and handsome at the same time. Umaru did this without asking permission or considering the welfare of the midget creature in her arms.

"Women! Let go of me, I'm out of air! Please, please..." Bruce, who has been hugged like a teddy bear, trying to fight back.

But, his struggle ended in vain. He failed to put up a fight because of such a huge difference in physical strength. His physical strength turned out to be suppressed in this form, this information made him miserable for a few seconds before he calmed down himself.

Understanding the current situation, Bruce cancels the transformation and returns to his adult form.

His eyes stared at the naughty girl with a deadly look.

"Ehhh! Why did you cancel it? This form has nothing funny-funny! Moe~" Umaru hung on Bruce's body while complaining.

"Umaru!…"

Bruce felt great resentment, he had never been treated like this in his life. The corners of his lips trembled when he heard her shameless complaints.

He punched the naughty girl in the head out of annoyance.

Who would have thought that the soft blow would make Umaru fall, even though she was hanging on him like a baby koala.

*Bump*

"I'm sorry." Umaru quickly apologized while prostrating.

"Never mind, and are you sure that's all you want to buy from me?" Bruce waved his hand, forgiving her bad deed just now.

He didn't even use 1% of his strength when punching the girl in her head, proving her outstanding acting skills. The attempt succeeded in making Bruce breathe a long sigh of amazement.

"It's not that I want to brag, but this Grimoire still has various other abilities," he continued.

As if to prove the truth of his statement, the floating Grimoire opened up and slowly flew in front of Umaru's face.

Then, page by page opens slowly so that she can read all the abilities listed there.

"A-wings? This is the ability of regeneration and this is photosynthesis! And many more? Eeee!!..." Umaru exclaimed loudly, she screamed whenever an ability she liked appeared.

Her eyes swirled like insect repellent. Umaru even drooled at the corner of her lips as she imagined an imagination inside her head.

Soon, she regained consciousness.

After coming to her senses from her reverie, she immediately wiped the saliva in the corner of her mouth.

Her eyes glanced at the Grimoire, then her gaze turned to the owner of the book. Her brain suddenly came up with a brilliant idea, and Umaru immediately carried out the plan without thinking.

"Jack-san, I'm just a poor high school student~"

"Why don't you donate this ability, this, this, and this to me? Please~" she said in a flirtatious tone and did not forget to show the kitten's pitiful eyes.

Many times, this method works when Umaru uses it to deceive her older brother.

"Huh? You have such great skills, why don't you just sell them to me? Brat!" Bruce understands the nature of the little girl, he will not be consumed by her deceit.

He only answered her with a flat face and did not feel the slightest pity for her.

A poor girl?

Her older brother is desperately working to earn money, and that money must have been spent by this bad girl to play Gacha in the MMORPG.

Realizing that her seduction didn't work, Umaru clicked her tongue in great annoyance and felt disappointed.

"Hmmp!! I need those skills for my school life, what about my game mastery?" Umaru did not give up gaining new abilities and continued negotiations.

She successfully gained elemental magic from the previous trade, and now she intends to get something else.

She lacks defensive abilities, in the game, a character must have all the necessary abilities to survive. Be it a powerful attack skill or an amazing defense skill.

"I don't need that shit! Ahh, try to think it again, maybe there are some skills that you have practiced in your spare time and forgot about them." Bruce patiently waited for him to think.

"My spare time? Uhh..." she seemed to be hypnotized by his words.

Inside her head, there were spinning scenes. There are pieces of memory where she cooked food until it burned, leading to being scolded all out by her older brother.

Next, there was a moment when she played a fighting game using her toes.

Then, a memory where she threw playing cards expertly came to mind.

"Yatta! Muahahahaha!"

"Finally!! I finally have something to sell you!"

The moment her brain reconnected to her body, she immediately got up and laughed very arrogantly.

Bruce was curious about what skills she wanted to sell him.

If it was something silly or useless, he wouldn't accept it. The price to buy the ability from him is inconsistent and changes according to his mood.

The price depends on him as the owner of Hatsu.

If Bruce wanted, he could even give the abilities he possessed for free to others. He didn't do that because he was a merchant, not a benevolent monk.

So far, understand?

"What is that?" he asked briefly.

"Throwing cards! Is a god-level skill!!" Umaru proudly presented her experience.

Bruce, who was initially a little hopeful, was immediately disappointed when he heard her answer. When he was about to refuse her request, Bob suddenly said something interesting things.

- Hmm, that seems pretty useful- Bruce thought seriously.

Bob just advised him to accept the skill, then he said the reason why he had to accept it.

Bruce was not disappointed after hearing his brief explanation.

- But, we do not have the tarot cards- he said to his alter ego, a little disappointed that he could not use his new skill as soon as possible.

[Don't worry, the skill will work on the same thin object, and guess what thin things we have a lot of today?]

In his mind, Bob spoke slowly, his tone was ecstatic, as if he had discovered something very amazing.

- Hehe, I know what is that- he replied with a chuckle, having a slight idea of what Bob meant.

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Footnotes:

1. What do you think about his abilities?

2. Shapeshifted Kiriko downgraded from D+ to E+, because I just discovered the weaknesses of Kiriko's abilities.