Chapter 8

"Well that went about as well as I expected" Said Rob, he was wearing only a small shorts and eating from a bowl of popcorn while laying down in the air as if it was a sofa.

Getting up Arthur released a groan "Fuck you" scratching at his aching eyes and trying to get over the blooming headache "You did that on porpuse!"

"What, sending you in with the T-virus?" he asked and loudly ate more popcorn "I told you you'd have to pay for surviving the licker, you should thank me, I gave you an advantage instead of making you a cripple or something"

"How the hell is the T-virus an advantage?"

"What, being unable to feel overwhelming pain, an increase in strength, speed and reflexes, the ability to heal and survive wounds isn't an advantage?" he mocked with a smile "granted you'd have eventually succumbed to the virus but, until then, you were stronger than any average human"

"I could have survived!" he screamed in anger "I could have fought more carefully and we could have taken on and killed the boss, I could have lived if you weren't such an asshole!"

"Nope, you had less than 4% chance of survival without the virus, your pain tolerance without the infection isn't the best you know" then he lazily threw a popcorn at Arthur "come on, want to go again, I'm sure I can find some new certain death situation to shove you into"

"Fuck you, if you already knows the result why reincarnate me?"

"Haaaa, it's kind like watching a bad romantic comedy, after the first minutes of the movie you already know the entire plot but you still want to see it happening to the end" then he threw some more popcorn at Arthur, they inevitably hit him in the forehead no matter how he tried to block "And sometimes I can get a pleasant surprise, something you haven't been very good at until now"

"Fine, how do I get rid of this virus"

"Well you can chose to cleanse and get rid of the T-virus completely, it's technically a disadvantage so you even get +5 to your points I can also let you can take the adjustment and change the virus to your liking, it can cost anywhere from 5 to 50 points depending on the changes you make"

"Fine!" he forced himself to say and Rob stopped throwing popcorn on his head making the whole bucket disappear instead "fine, show me the list"

Rob took out a long list of choices before writing some more with an orange pen, then he threw the entire thing at him and laid back on his invisible sofa to wait.

Reset + 5 - you lose one power you have obtained

Divine meddling + 15 - you let Rob interfere in your life once

Tank + 10 - enemies always go after you first

5 ~ 50 - modification - can modify a previous perk you have gained

10 - equipment - can keep the equipment on your body at the time of your death

50 - instant win button - can call on your divine patron to interfere against a single enemy.

Ignoring Rob as he made faces and sighed or snorted Arthur started making his choices, he ended up spending almost 10 minutes just messing with the T-virus. He also wanted to keep the Gantz equipment; it was just too good.

Messing with the T-virus he quickly found out he could correct everything wrong with the virus but, when he did so the price went through the roof going as far as 48 points when he made it as good as he could think.

Shaking his head he started making it a little less OP, almost no increase in strength since he already had the suit, a slightly lesser amount of regeneration, no mutation or adaptations, and most of its advantages appearing over a far longer time as the virus spread inside his body.

When he was finished it still cost as much as 25 points, on a hunch he made it so the virus was no longer contagious and the cost dropped by another 10 points, he guessed Rob didn't want him creating a master race for cheap by infecting everyone around him.

He decided to change the gear from Gantz too, by getting rid of the gun and only a little decrease in effect he was able to fuse the suit to his body right under his skin providing constant protection without the risk of having it stolen from him.

Adjustment - T-virus is no longer contagious or have any adverse effect on the user's body (15)

Equipment - (10)

Adjustment - Gantz suit is absorbed by the body becoming a weaker subdermal enhancement (10)

Genius - (25)

In debt (10)

stormtrooper (5)

crippled (one eye) (10)

Divine Meddling (15)

Poor (5)

Family trouble (5)

Quest! (10)

"You sure about that" asked Rob while still laying in the air "That's an awful lot of disadvantages you're taking there… and losing only one eye hmmm, I'll allow it"

"Yes I'm sure" he didn't choose anything too likely to get him killed immediately unless Rob decided to waste his chance and try to kill him immediately.

It should give him at least a little time to get used to his improvements or find someone to give him some serious training.

"Hmm, you know, since you're so interested in surviving, perhaps I shouldn't send you into a dangerous world… What do you know about yaoi hentai?"

"What, wait don't you dare!"

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"Mokkun I'm not going to wear this" Arthur said, though he supposed he should just accept his new name, he had been Pico for over a decade now it was about time.

"Yes Pico, wear it for me" the beautiful young man said and sent shivers down Arthurs back.

"No, fuck off" he said and tried to step away from the creepy guy.

It wasn't supposed to be like this damn it, where were all the zombies when he needed them!

"you're not getting out of here without wearing this Pico"

"Mokkun so help me, I'm gonna kick you in the balls!" then the man pounced and, before he knew he was wearing female lingerie and standing half nacked in a room with the pedophile

Shivering from fear Arthur searched around the room for a weapon while the damn adult man was actually salivating at his body, he then clapped his hands together and smiled before saying the most terrifying thing Arthur had ever heard in his life "Itadakimasu!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Arthur woke up with a jolt, his heart beating like mad against his chest.

Patting his body down it was only when he noticed he was wearing normal clothes that he finally relaxed… damn it, he wouldn't put it past Rob to send him into that hellworld as the main character.

A spike of pain pierced his head making Arthur stumble aside as he felt his right eye starting to ache and a lot of information being sent directly into his mind.

"Well I forgot to tell you about the setting" came Rob's mocking voice inside his head as he laid against the wall of a shop "It would be no fun if you died without even knowing why so… here we go"

Rob's voice disappeared and thousands of images and feelings flooded him causing him to stumble on a passerby and then hit the wall of a nearby store before falling on his ass, one hand cradling his wounded eye.

Memories of hiring Speed of sound Sonic to protect him from various monsters as he ran away from Z-city, then escaping without paying him the promised 150 thousand while the hired mercenary laughed like a maniac and slaughtered insect monsters.

Memories of growing up and suffering at the hands of a sadistic sister, being forced

to serve her every need, being the victim of some of her twisted experiments and getting beaten when she had suffered a particular defeat against her friend.

And when someone had made fun of her appearance.

And when she found out she'd have to wear bracers.

And when she was just feeling like it, really she had hit him a lot.

Despite all her abuse, Psykos had been an extremely protective sister when anyone else even looked his way, too protective actually.

He may have ran away but he was sure she'd be looking for him with all her considerable power.

The sensation of having years of memories shoved into his mind was far from pleasant and left him feeling not quite himself and somewhat violated.

At least the memories didn't exactly overlap with his own, it was more like he had watched everything happening instead of living through it so he still knew which memory was his and which had been put into place by the disadvantages he took.

So he owed 150 thousand to an S class ninja wannabe and was the younger brother of Psykos, dragon class monster and villain mastermind… What about his quest?

[Ding! Please choose a quest

EASY MODE

<Genocide!>

You have helped create it, now it's time to terminate it. Exterminate the <Black Sperm> without letting even a single one escape your wrath

Time limit: 1 year

NORMAL MODE

<Poke the pint-sized tiger>

Call Tatsumaki a brat to her face 15 times and survive the experience! (Runt and little girl will also be accepted)

Time limit: 6 months

HARD MODE

<Be the man!>

Survive a single punch from Saitama

Time limit: 6 months]

"Well fuck" Arthur cursed while massaging his temples.

"Language!" an Old lady shouted while hitting him over the head with her cane and shielding a small child from his gaze.

"Sorry" scratching his newly acquired bump Arthur took a deep breath and waved the three blue windows away from his vision, they disappeared without a trace. "Alright now what?"

From the information Arthur gained he already knew where he was, One Punch Man was a very strange world to find himself in but, thinking about it, it was just the kind of hellish place Rob would find amusing.

At least there was no need to try and save the world, Saitama had that covered no matter what but, unfortunately, this was the kind of place where city and even country destroying disasters happened every month.

'Alright let's consider things one at a time', Sonic may have been used as a gag character in the webcomic but he was an S class villain that was, apparently, searching for him.

Well, Sonic probably wouldn't kill him if he was found, dead man pay no bills after all

His second problem was his new 'sister', Sonic was more of a mercenary but Psykos was a full on megalomaniac villainous scientist and Dragon class threat.

Worse, he didn't know how much room his supposed blood relation to the sadistic woman would earn him, was she a full psychopath incapable of feelings? Even if she really loved him he was sure he'd be harshly punished for running away.

If his new memories were anything to go by he didn't want to risk it.

Next, he spent only a few moments to consider it before choosing the easy mode. Surviving Saitama was simply impossible and he didn't think he could survive Tatsumaki's wrath 15 times.

Once or twice she may forgive him but, fifteen times in half a year would probably earn him a trip into orbit… or she'd just squash him like a bug.

So he had to kill Black Sperm… ugh. Arthur was sure Rob had made the quest just because he found the villain name amusing but it was a damn hard mission.

Despite his ridiculous name and concept Black… Sperm, he was just gonna think of the monster as BS from now on, its full name was just too embarrassing,

BS was one of the worst enemies to fight against. Not only was he one of the most powerful Dragon class monsters out there, he was also made up of millions of clones, could continue to multiply every time he was cut and would only die if all of his clones were destroyed.

Would it count as a Quest completion if he got Saitama to do it for him?

The egghead wasn't a complete idiot but he was so strong he had become almost entirely indifferent to the world around him.

He nodded, he didn't know if he could get the hero to actively help him but he'd probably protect him from Sonic and Psykos if he was around letting him relax a little.

Arthur was gonna call Operation hug Saitama's tights plan A, now he just had to find the guy, how hard could it be to find a bald dude in a ridiculous yellow jumpsuit?

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A week later he gave up. watching the news he had seen Saitama's hero rank rising from saving a city from a meteor but it was in Z city. No way was he going anywhere near the place with Psykos still around.

So he had decided to go directly for the source but he wasn't having much luck. Turns out it's very hard to find the house of a hero, even if it's a C class one.

Who knew the heroes association was that effective and took heroes' information so seriously.

Time to go for plan B then, find someone else's tights to hold on.

Arthur was a realist, he could see himself fighting giant statues with just the Gantz suit, but Dragon and S class enemies in OPM were just beyond him as he was right now.

Looking at the building in front of him Arthur used his hands to comb his hair into place.

The first step, find a job.

He had spent the last seven days trying to search for the damn hero and hadn't had time, or the documentation, to find a job before now.

Finding himself completely penniless he had tried to sleep on the streets at first but, after having to kill a giant tuna with human legs and a humanoid snail had forced him to use his increased strength to break into an abandoned apartment for some semblance of safety.

As expected, abandoned buildings did not come with water or electricity so he was feeling particularly unprepared for a job interview without a bath, at least he had found some clean clothes and an almost empty deodorant.

Taking a deep breath he walked forward and entered the building.

"Can I help you sir?" asked a black clad guard covered head to toe in riot gear

"This is the place for the National Superhero Registry exam right?"

"Yes sir" the guard said changing his tone "right this way"

Giving the man another nood Arthur sighed and proceeded to walk inside the huge stadium, time to become a superhero.