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Sho Fukamachi, was a normal teen, with normal dreams. He wanted to confess to his crush, get a job and start a family. Having kids, he was normal and he didn’t see any problem with that, too bad the idea of normal would get thrown out the window due to his destiny. It got thrown out twice.

[you’ve slept in your bed, Hp, Mp & Lp are fully restored]

“Huh!?” Sho blinked at the message, he rubbed his eyes thinking he was half asleep. But no it was still there, so wary he touched the screen, it was solid for a split second before disappearing. Sho rubbed his eyes again before climbing out of his bed, as he got dressed he notices something in his full-length mirror. For a moment he waved his hand over his head, feeling it like mist between his fingers.

[Sho Fukamachi Lv:6]

“What’s going on?” he whispered lowering his hand. Either way, he finished getting dressed and headed downstairs. His dad had already felt for work but had left Sho his breakfast. 

“Itadakimasu,” he ate by himself before washing the dishes and walking out of the house towards Narisawa high school. On the way, he ran into his best friend Tetsuro Segawa, and his little sister, also Sho’s crush, Mizuki Segawa. “Hey Sho!” he turned around greeting them back. ‘Mizui looks great this morning.’ his face heated up a bit and he found himself unable to look her in the eye as they continued towards school.

Tetsuro spent the entire walk talking about this idea he had for the sci-fi club, Sho listened closely making sure it wasn’t anything too harsh as Tetsuro could have some rather dangerous ideas. At that time he suggested the club travel for a week to investigate some strange rumors. They turned out to be wild animals.

‘They have they as well!” Sho blinked seeing the things above their heads.

[Tetsuro Segawa Lv: 8]

[Mizuki Segawa Lv: 6]

Now he was really curious about it, so he thought about asking Tetsuro for his help. But decided against it as he would get very excited and who knows where that leads. So he kept quiet for now and instead, they arrived at school and split for their classes, where Sho met up with his other two friends. who tended to tease him about his crush.

He saw names and levels for each person he saw in his, which made him wonder about this power he now had. It wasn’t until halfway through his first class, English, that something else happened. He had just finished the handed-out worksheet when a new message appeared.

[due to repeated action a special skill has been created]

[english Lv: 23]

the language dominates in many Western countries.

It took him a moment to realize his jaw had dropped and to pick it up, ’ Okay I have a skill. Are there more, like on a [skill menu].’ summoned by his thoughts the skill menu appeared.

[skills]

Gamer mind Lv: max

Gamer body Lv: max

English Lv:23

Well, two of those were new so he warily pressed on the bring up more information.

[Gamer mind (active/passive) Lv: max]

Your mind is capable of pushing aside emotions to allow for calm and logical thinking.

Negates certain negative mental effects

He repeated it for the other skill.

[gamer body (passive) Lv: max]

Your body is that of a game charter of a +18 game

Sleep restores hp, mp, lp, and heals stats effects.

Hp represents damage taken 

“I don’t like how that was specified,” he closed the screens as the teacher called for the collecting of the spreadsheets. He got more skills with his classes, and it was definitely interesting to see his ability represented in numbers. So after school, while he was helping around the sci-fi club, they watched a documentary about aliens and ufo sightings.

“What else is there to this power.” he wondered if he could find something useful on the internet. But he pushed that idea aside, they were no way he could actually find anything, instead, he returned home and changed out of his school uniform before turning on the tv. “What should I do about this power?” it didn’t seem like it was going to interfere with his life. So he could go on as usual, “But what is it and where did it come from.?”

“Should I ask Tetsuro?” Sho sighed leaning back on the couch. “Why couldn’t this have come with a [help menu]?” Sho was not amused by what happened next.

[Help menu]

Stats

Skills

Mission

Reputation

….

Sho grumbled before starting with the stats summary. It explained the stats menu, more in-depth on the data that it showed to him and what it meant, his ears burned when it explained lust points to him. But still, he moved on to the part about how he could increase his stats through hard work or free points.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: the gamer

Level: 6

Exp: 20%

Hp:100/100

Mp: 50/50

Lp: 30/30

Str: 12

Sta: 12

Dex: 13

Int: 14

Wis: 12

Cha: 10

Luk: 10

Free points:0

“Well I guess I can’t change anything,” he really would like to increase his grades by increasing his intelligence. Or maybe by increasing how wisdom, that would apply to math right? Since he already knew about skills, he skipped that part and instead moved toward the mission menu. which applied a nice bit of information for the future, when he got a mission. They could be anything according to the explanation.

“Reputation menu huh?” immediately his thought went to his crush and checking his reputation with her. But he linearly blushed and shook his head, “That private isn’t is.” but he still had to check out the reputation menu.

[reputation]

Groups

People 

Groups were large neutral and grayed out probably because they didn't know of his existence, which he was fine with. He turned towards the people's tabs, where the top. were his dad, Tetsuro and Mizuki.

Fumio Fukamachi 970/1,000 exalted

Tetsuro Segawa 700/1,000 well-liked

Mizuki Segawa 600/1,000 well-liked

“Tetsuro likes me more,” which was bittersweet. It was nice to know his best friend thought so highly of him. But his crush wasn’t even at that level, so instead, he closed that menu and closed the help menu for the moment. He’s covered the basics,” what should I do with this power? Change my future?” he jokingly asked himself.

[new mission!]

Prepare for the future 

The future is unknown, that is why it is best to start preparing for it.

Objectives

Locate the dungeon 10 miles east of your house.

Locate the dungeon 8 miles southwest of your house

Increase all your stats by 10 points

Failure 

Fail to complete objectives in two months

Rewards

1,000 Exp, 1,000 yen, daily quest unlocked

Failure rewards

A grim and painful future, 100 exp, 100 yen

Accept

yes/no

“I don’t want that kind of future,” he didn’t at all. He couldn’t confess to Mizuki. He wanted a good future, “I guess that means I should do this quest.”

******

He decided to wait four days until the weekend to go looking for the dungeons, instead, he decided to work on his stats. Knowing they could be raised with hard work. Made it pretty simple to figure that to increase his physical stats, he had to work out. Of course, this leads to his doing push-ups and curl-ups in his room. Now he had a decent grade in gym class, but he’s never felt more out of shape than he did at the moment he was panting on his floor after two sets of push-ups.

But on the bright side, he was able to improve both stats by 2 points with a lot of sweat, he really felt like he was out of shape and a little ashamed of it. Which kind of made him want to work harder. The weekend came and after making an excuse to his friends and father. Sho headed southeast, 8 miles were a  long way to go, and it only gave a vague idea of what he was supposed to be looking for.

[dungeon located]

But he did find it and he couldn’t help but double-take at the sudden change in environment. “Oh so this is a dungeon,” Sho swallowed looking around the shallow forest he found himself in. 

what he knew about dungeons was what the help menu taught him, there were two kinds of dungeons. They were decided by their monsters, whether they tried to kill him, or they tried to fuck him. The former would mean death if he lost, the latter meant he would likely end up drained and too weak to escape afterward. He didn’t know more than that, “time to find out which this is.” he wasn’t even sure which one he would prefer.

Walking around he quickly encountered his first monster, and it wasn’t the most threatening thing. It looked like Jell-O rolling around on the ground.

[slime Lv:8]

“Oh that doesn't look too bad,” he was quickly proven wrong. The slime noticed him and roll closer, Sho took a step back knowing what it might do. He didn’t expect it jumps so fast, or for such a soft-looking body to him hit like a rock.

[-20Hp]

The tackle knocked him to the ground, and the pain was clearing up quickly which allowed him to notice the slime was attempting to slide down the front of his pants. “Ah!” shrieking he moved rapidly grabbing the slime and throwing it off him. His face stayed red as he scrambled to his feet.

He didn't get further than that before the slime lunged at him again. He almost tripped on his feet moving out of the way, he dodged a little better the next time. The third time it lunges at him Sho steeled his nerves and caught the Silme, it wiggled a lot trying to slither down his pants. But Sho held tight to it and wondered what should he do.

The monster of this kind of dungeon, could either bring their health to zero or sexually satisfy them. While a part of him was interested in the second he was a bit unprepared and too shy to try it. So he decided to bring its health to zero.

Looking over the squiggling form he decided that it wouldn’t do to punch it,’ maybe tearing it?” so that was what he did grabbing hold of the slime he pulled as hard as he could until the gelatinous body gave tearing out into chunks. It causes a message to pop up.

[for an educated guess your wisdom has risen +1]

[a special action has created a special skill [tear Lv:1]

“So that’s what creating a skill is like?” Sho thought as the slime tried to climb up his arms. He quickly used [tear] on it again taking out another chunk. It took two more before the monster was slain leaving behind a stack of 500 yen and a bottle of something. He looked over the bottle trying to figure out what was in it.

[+100 Exp]

[due to a special action a special skill has been acquired [obseve Lv:1]

“Okay, can this do?” Sho quickly brought up the skill menu and brought up the information for the skill. Which turned out to be an information-gathering skill, it could only show him basic information about living beings for the moment. But items were fine as long as they weren’t too powerful. “[oberve!]” he immediately tried the skill out on the bottle.

[slime lube]

Lube made from the remains of a slime's body

“Uh!” his face felt a bit warm after reading that but he still put it and the yen away into his inventory. Before moving on, he conceited through the forest running into 7 more slimes in an hour. All of them tried to get into his pants but he was able to prevent them from doing so. Of course, after an hour the challenge of the dungeon increased.

As now the slimes came in pairs, which proved to be a challenge as [tear] required both hands.” AH!” Sho shouted before reaching back and grabbing the slime he could feel slowly making its way into the back of his pants. Pulling it out he found himself in a situation where both slimes had covered his hands, thus preventing him from using [tear] on them.

“Come off!” he repeatedly tried to shack the slimes off but they refused to budge. Sho was growing frustrated and a little panicked, what was he supposed to do if he could get rid of them? ‘I can’t go home like this!’ nor could he fight any more monsters like this. As he tried to use a tree to scrape the slimes off he heard the sound of grass being crushed. Sho turned around and flinched seeing another group of slimes arriving. He started panicking more, [gamer’s mind keeping it from it getting worse as he tried to think.

‘I should just run!” he stopped trying to remove the slime and turned to leave the forest. But the same moment he acted on this decision the slimes made the move, throwing their weight to the ground. They were able to trip up Sho and leave him scrambled on the ground. ’get up! He quickly pushed off the shock and started scrambling to his feet.

But he didn’t get much further than that when a slime rammed his back, knocking him to the floor. [-20Hp] Since they weighed next to nothing it was pretty simple to try and stand back up. He should have seen the second slime coming. [-20Hp] Down forty health points, he still found it in him to put up a fight as the slimes slither under his clothes.

But the slimes covering his hands proved to be a big hindrance so that he could slow the others down. “Ugh!” he shivered as the slime squeezed under his boxer briefs, making an even louder noise when the slime slid between his ass cheeks and pressed against his ass hole. He had to stop himself from reaching to grab it knowing the thor slimes would join in. his ass was resistant for several moments before slime was able to squeeze itself inside him.

“AH!” the intrusion sent a jolt up his spine, Sho was so distracted by this slime he didn’t notice the other slimes and rolled around to the front and under his shirt, he did notice however when the slime’s cool body spread over his nipples and belly button. “Mm,” he bit back a groan as the slime started moving swirling over those spots and sending continuous sparks across his skin.

As the slime slide deeper into him, his dick started to twitch thanks to the slime's actions. His ears were on fire,’ why am I reacting to this!’ he was confused and slowly growing more aroused, he tried to figure something out. He needed to free his hands, now! Since they could be used, he decided it was time for something desperate and used his teeth to tear at the slime.

[a special action has created a special skill [bite Lv:1]

The slime felt and tasted like bland slimy jello, so spitting out he used [bite] again until his right hand was free. Before using [tear] he would have freed his thor hands, but the slime inside him pressed against something that made him gasp. His cock strained against his pants as the slime continued to press against the spot focusing on it. His legs trembled before the strangely good sensation as he tore the slime on his left hand. It drops falling to the ground.

But Sho didn’t pay them any mind, immediately pulling down his pants and boxer briefs, his finger was able to grab hold of the slime between his cheeks. “Ugh!” his cock twitched drops of pre-forming as he dragged the slime out of himself. Gasping when it popped free and his ass clenched around nothing.

Panting Sho threw away the climb before grabbing the one that was clinging to his chest, he used [tear] several times to kill it more than the other slime.

[+100 Exp]

[tear leveled up 4>5]

[congratulations you’ve leveled up 6>7]

Sho looked over the screens as his adrenaline faded, but not his erection. His thin 5 inches was rock hard, and the head was pressed against his stomach pre leaking out from his foreskin. This sat above his average size high-hanging balls, He didn’t have much hair in the area but enough that his classmates wouldn’t tease him while they were changing for gym. Waiting a few more moments it didn’t show any sign of wilting. After a quick look around to make there weren't any monsters around Sho pulled his clothes down a little more before shifting to his knees. He gently rubbed his shaft heart starting to beat faster.

‘I should try out the slime lube,’ he thought as pre started to form at the tip of his cock. Using his friend he pulled one of the bottles he received for ending a slime, he also received [slime condoms]. Pulling out the cork he poured a dollop of lube on his hand before recorking the bottle. “Ugh,” he shivered as he rubbed the lube over his member. 

His breath was heavy, the lube made his hand feel better surrounding his dick. His foreskin was starting to come down exposing more of his wet and pink head. Running his thumb over the head made his legs quack. A gentle tug was finally able to pull his foreskin down, when he next ran his thumb over his fully exposed and swollen head his breath hitched.

He didn’t last much longer as his foreskin was pulled back and he came, shooting his load over the grass. His release racked his body and left him panting, he was able to catch his breath surprisingly quickly before he looked up spotting a notification.

[-10Lp]

[A special action has created a special skill]

[Masturbation Lv:11]

The art of self-gratification is old and something used by many genders and ages from horny teens to lonely adults.

+11% speed increase toward orgasm

11% chance of entering [bliss] stats

11+ dex pleasure

He waved it away, slightly embarrassed by the skill before cleaning himself up, he pulled his pants up rapidly after that. He made sure there weren’t any monsters coming, and he put away the [slimes condoms] and cash the slimes dropped. “I think I should look for the other dungeon,” he might have reached his limit for monsters trying to get in his pants, he also experienced the dungeon a good amount and wanted to see the other before the day was over. 

It was almost an hour before he stumbled into the other dungeon, it was a completely different atmosphere. The last dungeon didn’t feel like he was in danger, but here he could feel it. His hair stood on end and his bones chilled. Swallowing he stepped forward and deeper into the dungeon. 

Ten minutes, that’s all it took before he spotted the first monster. The slimes looked harmless for the most part, this didn’t. Not in the slightest.

[mutant lizard Lv:10]

The lizard was the size of a golden retriever, its scales were a dark color and sharp looking. Its claws and teeth were just as sharp. ‘Dangerous! absolutely Dangerous!’ he was glad he didn’t have to fight it. He wanted the [muant lizard] to chew on something else as he quickly stepped back. Planning to quickly leave, but his luck was against him at that moment. He stumbled on a rock, it wasn’t a lot of noise but enough to alert the monster.

“AH!” Sho broke into a run as the monster raced after him, it was fast way faster than he was expecting. He only cleared a few meters before its razor teeth suck into his leg. “AH!” [-50Hp] he fell to the ground screaming again as the lizard spun. His leg snapped loudly and a scream tore itself from his throat ringing out the ruined area as he lost another 30 Hp.

‘I’m going to die, I have to kill it! Or it will kill me!’  screaming he forced himself to move his broken leg-burning in pain. He reached back and tried to prie the monster's jaw open. But that did nothing, instead, its teeth only sunk deeper forcing him to cry out again. “AH!” he screamed before looking at the monster. [gamer’s mind] giving him enough clarity to think.

‘I can’t pierce its scales!” but there were places it lacked any form of scales. The eyes of the [mutant lizard] were soft and wet. He pushed his finger deep until the eyes burst and blood ran down his fingers. Only then was his leg released! “Ah!” he pulled back far enough of the monster’s frailing wasn’t any danger to him.

Panting he felt the pain in his leg to ignorable feeling, he also noticed the notification. He ignored the ones about his health points.

[your leg has been broken, stats effect [broken leg] afflicted. movement speed and agility lowered by 50%. 4 months of healing before effects reversed]

[you’ve destroyed [mutant lizard] eyes stats effect [blind] alffilcted]

“Shit!” he couldn’t help but curse seeing how long it would take for his leg to heal. That unless something else happened, grumbling he looked towards the monster that had stopped panicky sniffing the air. Knowing it would find him soon Sho looked around and tried to think how could he win.

‘There!’ Sho dragged himself across the ground ignoring the pain in his leg and he brought him to a large rock. The [mutat lizard] was coming his way but he was ready for it, as ready as he would ever be. Bracing his injured leg against the ground he made sure to secure his hold on the rock, when the lizard came close he lifted it off the ground high as he could before slamming it down onto the monster’s head. 

Its scales cracked from the weight of the blow, blood leaking from the wound, it stunned the monster but it was still alive. So Sho broke the rock down again, then again. He kept moving fueled by nothing more than depression to stay alive.

[you’ve slain [mutant lizard Lv:10]

[you’ve gained 1,000 Exp]

[you’ve leveled up]

Sho blinked as the message appeared stopping his arms, and letting the rock drop to the side. “I won!” the adrenaline started to fade, he almost collapsed in relief as the body decayed leaving behind several items and a stack of cash.

He put the cash away first before using [observe] to reveal what they were. [low grad Health potions], [mutant lizard teeth]. He was more interested in the potions, as according to descriptions they could cure a few stats effect injuries like [bleed] will they work on my bones. Uncorking one of the bottles he took the plunge pouring the contents down his throat.

‘Strawberry,’ the flavor was a nice touch before he felt the effects of the potions, it pumped right into his veins and then towards his legs. He could feel the born straighten out reconnecting. According to his stats, it was only half-healed, “I guess I should just take another then!” the potion was as sweet as the first. But it didn’t completely heal his leg, “I think I can walk like this!” it would be a few hours until the bone was completely healed. Until then Sho would be limbing, but he could work with that.

*****

“Ugh,” Sho groaned waking up to the notification sound, cracking his eyes open he sat on the edge of his bed. He could vividly remember yesterday, ‘I was weak.’ the realization curled uncomfortably in his stomach, “I want to get stronger!” he didn’t want to get hurt like that again. The thought of fighting didn’t occur to him, but he repeated the pain of his leg breaking. How desperate was to stay alive, how afraid and helpless he was.

So he climbed out of bed and started doing some pushups before breakfast, during school he tried to pay more attention. Schoolwork was good for his mental stats, he put extra effort into his homework before doing more pushups and then breaking out his textbooks to read a bit ahead. He did this every day and when the weekend came around he was able to see some real results using his stats.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: the gamer

Level: 8

Exp: 20%

Hp:300/300

Mp: 150/150

Lp: 30/30

Str: 16

Sta: 16

Dex: 13

Int: 16

Wis: 15

Cha: 10

Luk: 10

Free points:10

“He was very happy with the progress he made, though he was aware the work needed to increase them was rising. “But I can still do it,” he was saving the free points just in case. Right now he was considering if he should head for a dungeon. He might be able to handle the lizard better, as for the slimes he spent the week mentally preparing to sexually satisfy them. He wasn’t sure how that was going to go through.

It was early in the morning when he made his choice, but before he could head out his father stopped him. “If your going out would you mind doing the groceries?”

[new quest]

Grocery shopping

Objective

On your way home, go to the store and get everything on the lists your father gave you.

Reward

+500 yen, 500 Exp, +500 reputation with Fumio Fukamachi

Accept

yes/no

Sho pressed the accept,” Sure I’ll make sure to do it!” his father smiled before handing him the list and the money for groceries. Sho headed out after that, he decided that a sex dungeon would do less damage to him so he headed there first. 

Arriving at the edge of the dungeon he nervously swallowed before stepping inside.”

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“AH!” Sho shouted leaping to the right, sharp teeth tearing through the space that he stood before. He quickly moved closer striking punching at scales, they were hard and hurt his fist. But he kept going at it. But carrying a rock to break the scales wasn’t completely reasonable to him, so his idea was to figure out another way. Right now he was trying to muscle his way through the problem. 

“This isn’t working at all!” then he needed another idea! Retreating for now he climbed up a ruined wall. It wasn’t the safest place to sit but the [mutant lizard] couldn’t reach him. Sho quickly caught his breath before he focussed on the lizard. ‘Should I just use the rock?’ Sighing he looked around for a usable rock.

“What's that?!” he spotted something partly hidden under some debris he would have never noticed it if he hadn’t gotten higher up. ‘Wouldn't to check it out,’ he looked down at the mutant lizard trying to snap at him. Bracing himself at the top of the wall he pushed off jumping over the lizard. He stumbled on the landing but managed to stay on his feet and avoid the monster enough to pick up a good-sized rock.

Snapping around he brought the rock down on the lizard's skull, the cracking of its scales and bone was audible to his ears and he saw a good amount of blood flowing. The blow was more than enough to knock it out and another to kill it.

[you’ve slain [mutant lizard Lv:10]

[You’ve gained 1,000 Exp]

He quickly pocked the cash and items before heading over to the item he spotted before. 

“A chest?” he was surprised by it. What the wonders of his new powers he guessed, sighing he opened the chest. Sitting inside was a book and gloves, using [observe] on them to reveal the items to be. [martial arts gloves] and [skill book: KI strick], “sweet!” Sho stated before opening his gear menu.

Gear

Head:

face:

Neck:

Back:

Upper body:[white t-shirt] [grey and magenta shirt]

Arms:

Wrist:

Hands:

Fingers:

Lowerbody: [grey boxerbriefs] [grey pants]

Groin:

Ass:

Legs:

Ankles:

Feet: [white socks] [white sneakers] 

Through this inventory, he added the new gloves to his hands, and he flexed his hands to get a feel for the new gloves. They felt surprisingly comfortable he looked closer at the information.

[martial arts gloves]

Average gloves for those who practice martial arts competitively or as a hobby.

Str+10 attack

30/30 durability 

Sho smiled this would definitely be of great use to him, hopefully, he would be able to fight against the [mutant lizards] he smiled before turning towards the book. Easly decided to learn the skill by getting the information for the skill.

[Ki strick Lv:1 0/100:Exp]

Using your inner KI enhances the force behind your first.

+5% damage 

50Mp

Sho nodded satisfied with the power of the skill. Leveling it up would take some time, but he felt like he was already stronger. Getting up he headed deeper until he ran into the deeper dungeon. Not two minutes later he encountered another [mutated lizard] as it jumped out from behind from rubble. Sho let out a manly scream at that surprise before frailing out with a punch that moved its head.

“Yes!” It didn’t look like it did any damage but he would take it as progress. “[Ki strike!]” The second punch came with more force and warm energy flowing through Sho. It struck with a force that did visible damage to the lizard. It hissed at him before snapping at his legs in quick succession. Sho was lucky to dodge the first two attempts, but the third caught his right leg.

[-50Hp]

Tears formed in his eyes from the pain, he was just able to bring down one of his fists on its skull. He threw another punch. It halted the lizard's attempts to spin, he quickly threw two more breaking through its scales and causing blood to flow. Unable to use [ki strike ] he keeps punching even as his shoulders ache until the fangs fade from his leg.

[you’ve slain [mutant lizard Lv:10]

[You’ve gained 1,000 Exp]

Panting Sho rested his leg letting the pain fade away. He still uncorked a healing potion, before counting through the dungeon.’I didn't think about it before but I can only use [ki strike] once until my mana refills.’ He opened his stats. He could either increase his strength or his mental stats.

Sho scratches his head in thought,’ If I increase my strength the boost of [ki strike] has a bigger effect, but if I increase my wisdom. The energy recovers faster while increasing my intelligence I can use the skill more before resting…I don’t have to just pick one though.’

[for careful thinking, +1 wisdom]

“Good,” he looked at the screen again before making his choices.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 8

Exp: 20%

Hp: 252/300

Mp: 44/250

Lp: 30/30

Str: 20

Sta: 16

Dex: 13

Int: 18

Wis: 17

Cha: 10

Luk: 10

Free points:0

He could feel the change was over him Sho looked down at his gloved fists for a moment, I should learn how to fight.’ he didn’t know why he hadn’t thought about it before, but if he was going to wield his fist he should learn to do so properly. Still, Sho focused on the current matter and continued through the dungeon. He took on more [mutant lizards] with his fist. He stopped for a few hours when he received a notification that he had reached level 9.

“Ah!” he panted he was tired and dirty, once he came close to losing his arms. But he achieved his goal for today, “Time to head to the other dungeon!” his ears turned red at the thought of it. But it was still best that he got used to it, ‘who knows if a mission for a sex dungeon will appear. Or something like it,’ he was both nervous and excited by the thought.

He was able to quickly jog to the other dungeon, the forest was much better than the ruins of the other dungeon. It didn’t take long for him to run into a slime, that immediately tried to attack him. He dodged it and tried to pin it in response, its body didn’t make that easy. But he was able to hold it, ‘I can do this!’ Sho thought before he nervously pulled his cock through his fly.

It took a few jerks from his hand to get it hard, he drew a breath in before he pushed the uncovered head of his cock into the slime. Shivering as the cool and soft body enveloped him down to the base, “Ugh.” A small groan left Sho’s lips as he pulled back to the tip before pushing back in him.

It took him abit to find an awkward rhythm to plunge his cock into the slime, his breath became heavy as faint sweat started to form. Sho bit his lip as he came, his cum slipping into the body of the slime. Which quivered in its own pleasure before it faded away leaving its drops.

[-10Lp]

[slime level 8] satisfied]

[700 exp acquired]

Picketing up the stack of paper yen after tucking away his member, Sho put away all but one of the times. “[observe]”

[fertilized Slime eggs X3]

Eggs of a slime that have taken the seed of another creature, while most wouldn’t think much of the eggs of such weak creatures. Don't underestimate their value.

Crafting ingredient

Hatching requirements not met

“Oh!” lost on what to do with the eggs he placed them into his inventory for the moment. Taking a deep breath he turned towards the forest. “I came here to prepare myself,” his resolve wasn’t wavering about this. Satisfying a slime once had boosted his confidence on the matter. But he was still a bit nervous as he stepped deeper into the forest.

Sho ran into two more [slimes] dealing with them like he did the first, it was on the fourth and fifth that something happened. While he was balls deep in a [slime] groaning with his eyes closed, hips moving when a second [slime] dropped from a branch above him. Its landing shocked him more than it hurt.

[-5Hp]

Of course, the [slime] took his stunned moment to move, slithering down the back of his loosened pants. Right into his boxer briefs to push itself inside his ass. Sho yelped as it forced itself inside, stretching the ring of muscle. He shivered, feeling the [slime] agist his inner walls, It pushed more of itself until it reached Sho’s prostate sending pleasure up his spine. 

Sho pushed down the desire to rip the [slime] out, instead, he pushed his hips to move. Faltering when the [slime] pressed against his prostate, he couldn’t stop his ass from squeezing around the [slime]. It made him come faster than usual, shooting his jizz into the front [slime] satisfying it. Not that it had any effect on the slimes in the back, which kept moving against his inner walls and prostate.

Sho held out against the smile, as it kept stimulating from behind, “AH!” he could feel the familiar heat behind to build in the pit of his stomach. ‘Am I going to cum from this?!” Sho was shocked, mentally unprepared. But after a panicked moment forced himself to calm down and ride it out.

“Mm!” Sho was surprised at how intense the orgasm was. As the first rope of cum left his cock, stars danced across his vision. His breath was rattled as his cock & balls twitched, cum dripping from his head.

[-20Lp]

[slime level 8] satisfied]

The slime faded away leaving its drops in Sho’s underwear. Sho struggled to catch his breath for a moment before he pulled the condom, and money from his boxer briefs. Placing them in his inventory,’ I’ve exhausted my Lp,’ oozing his clothes Sho grabbed the drops from the other [slime] before heading towards the exit of the dungeon. ‘I guess it’s time to go shopping?’ he brushed his clothes off the best he could before he left the dungeon. The brunette walked the entire way to the shopping center. 

“Okay, what did Dad want me to get?” Sho pulled the list out of his inventory and started going down the isles picking out the requested items. It was a simple curiosity that he used [observe] on a head of lettuce.

[iceberg lettuce]

An annual plant of the daisy family

+10 Hp

Cooking ingredient

Sho blinked for a moment processing this, ‘ how far is this power affecting the world around me?’ he thought about it as he went around the store thinking about it. ‘Does that mean I can buy skill books,’ he knew how-to books were a thing. The question was if there was something that he could use, when he left the grocery store he stored his purchases in his inventory before heading to a nearby bookstore. ‘What is the limit to what I can buy?’

He was excited as he stepped into the store but his expectations weren’t high, he made his way around the store. Where he learned something interesting, a book only counts as a skill book if it specifically explains how to do something. ‘Can I get a skill from theory alone?’ Sho thought looking over a book, holding the theory of biology. It wasn’t a skill book, but with the ability to increase his mental capabilities, he could probably understand it. 

In the end, he decided to buy three books, so he would have some money left to buy other things. He brought the biology book, a basic karate guild book, and a book on drawing. Just because he thought it would be fun. Purchasing the three books for several hundred yen, “Where should go next?” a look at his clothes told him where he should go.

They were ruffed up a bit, and dirty as well. ‘Let's buy some new clothing,’ a few more yen were spent at a used clothing store. He used [observe] on what was there, at clothing items had taken hits to their durability. But that was good as he wasn’t planning to have them last a long time. He put the purchase into his inventory after stepping into an alley. “I think that's enough for the day.” It looked like a good time to head home as well.

“Your ki pool is small, but I can work with it!” Sho froze, and slowly turned to face an old but still beautiful woman. “Hello, I believe I can be of great help to you! And you to me!”

[Zoey Krauss Lv:???]

Sho had a bad feeling.

*****

The elderly woman, who did introduce herself, told Sho to follow her. He didn’t that was a good idea, ‘I’m not sure if I have her choice.’ so he reluctantly followed the elder down the alley and into the dark. For a moment he felt a spell of dizziness before he found himself in a store. It was old, with shelves with items and books he didn’t recognize, Zoey sat behind the counter.

“Nice place you have here,” Sho mumbled shyly. “Thank you, Now I’m guessing you’ve only recently awoken to your powers right?” Sho nervously nodded,” Then you don’t know that there is a group hunting people with abnormal abilities.”

“Huh,” a chill raced down his spine. He was going to be hunted!

“Yeah,” the woman sighed numerous faces flashed through her mind, but she pushed them aside. “They're dangerous and quite brutal as well,” she commented and started ruffling behind the counter looking for something. Sho asked how much,” Worldwide at this point, I believe they have plans to conquer the planet and I’m pretty sure they have the forces to do so If they find you they’ll take out your entire family.” Now Sho's heart turned to stone, his father could be in danger because of him.

Zoey could see how the knowledge was affecting the teen, how it scared it, and how it caused a fire to burn. She smiled as she pulled out a small bracelet and set it on the desk drawing the boy’s attention,” You’ve got a fire in you, this bracelet will be able to hide your ki until you’re strong enough to take care of yourself.”

“I can have this?” When Zoey nodded Sho expressed great thanks by bowing to her, and he slipped on the bracelet. He sort of felt it work, like a wall of something going over him. “You said I could help you?” the woman blinked but smiled softly, “Well my shop doesn’t get many customers. The number of ability users is few and far between.”

“Can I take a look around?” Sho asked, Zoey nodded and Sho thanked her again before looking around. He used [observe] on everything that caught his eye,’ Is the skill level not high enough?’ he wondered as he once again got question marks on an item. He wasn’t sure he could afford some of them nor what he know what some of them were used for.

“Don’t know what to look for?” Zoey asked when he returned to the counter empty-handed, Sho shyly nodding and scratching the back of his head. “For an extra price, I can use my fortune telling to find something.” For a moment Sho was in disbelief but he remembered his own power.

“How much?”

“In yen, 2,000,000!” the brunette male choked briefly, that was a lot of money. He could afford it though, still a little painful to hand over then. Zoey smiled before closing her eyes and opening her mind to the infinite stream of time. “That's quite the future you have before you,” she could see he would be needing a lot of help. But right now What would help him?

When the vision came to an end she snapped her fingers causing 3 books to appear on her counter. The first was mind magic, the second was spirit summoning, and the final book was on life magic. Now Sho could tell all of these were at least interesting and probably had many uses, the problem was the price of them. Spirit summoning was the cheapest and it was 20,000 yen.

“Would you like me to hold them for you?” Sho blushed before nodding and after a bit more conversation where he learned how to find this place once more. Sho went home, when he reached his street he pulled the groceries from his inventory and came home.

“Thank you sho!” Sho's father said as they put up the purchases together.

Mission complete

Grocery shopping

Objective

On your way home, go to the store and get everything on the lists your father gave you.

Reward

+500 yen, 500 Exp, +500 reputation with Fumio Fukamachi

Sho waved away the screen before joining his dad in front of the tv, they watched a game show together before his father went to prepare the bath. Stretching out Sho went up to his room, “status!”

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 9

Exp: 20%

Hp: 96/300

Mp: 44/250

Lp: 30/30

Str: 20

Sta: 16

Dex: 13

Int: 18

Wis: 17

Cha: 10

Luk: 10

Free points:5

‘Still got ways before I complete the other mission,’ Sho thought while unloading his inventory. Setting his purchases on his bed, he put away the clothes before he grabbed the book he brought. Causing two screens to pop up.

Learn [basic karate]

Yes/no

“Learn [drawing]

Yes/no

Sho checked yes on both options causing the book to disintegrate and flood his mind with information. It was overwhelming and took him a few minutes to sort through before looking at the screens that popped up for his new skills.

[Basic karate Lv:1 0/100 exp]

A form of martial arts many use for self-defense in combat sports, but still possesses the ability to be very dangerous in the right hands.

1% STR increase during combat

[drawing Lv:1 0/100 exp]

A form of art that uses two-dimension surfaces 

1% passive dex increase

Sho closed the screens and started going through the kata he just learned, moving slowly as he went through them until it was time for dinner, a bath followed after. he practiced a bit more before he went to bed.

*******

[You’ve slept in your bed, HP, Mp & Lp are fully restored]

Sho groaned sitting up in his bed, it was Sunday morning. His dad’s day off from work was partly spent with him before he went to spend time with Testuro or student council duties. There wasn’t a council meeting this Sunday, so he might spend time with his friends. Usually, this didn’t seem like a problem to him, ‘but there is now the threat of people coming after them.’ but he didn’t want to lose them emotionally as well as physically. If it made any sense. So Sho got dressed and headed downstairs to have breakfast with his father. 

After breakfast, they prepared their meals for the week since they were both moderately busy people they didn’t have time to cook a full meal each day. So they premade most of them on Sunday, a great way to spend time. It also brought out Sho’s cooking skills.

[Due to repeated actions a special skill has been created]

[cooking Lv: 26 54% exp]

They talked while they cooked, and Dad complained about more than a few coworkers. Though one of his female coworkers had gotten a boyfriend things seemed to be going well between them. They watched a bit of TV before Sho headed over to see if Tetsuro was available.

The older and wider teen was on his computer looking over information for his sci-fi club. He pitched some of his ideas to Sho, who previously he thought some of the rumors that Tetsuro said were outrageous. ‘But home many of them could be true?’ but he tried to let his new knowledge show. Tetsuro got really excited about these things and he didn’t want him to hurt himself.

The day passed peacefully for him, showed called it a good day though he didn’t gain any stats besides training in his room bringing his [basic karate] to level 2, and practicing [ki strick] earning a bit of experience. “Tomorrow's a school day,” Sho thought in the tub. “I won’t have time to go to the dungeon.” Well, not during the day at least, maybe he could go at night.” I’ll be too tired for school if I stay out all night,” but a few more hours couldn’t hurt right?

“Mm,” Sho groaned as he realized if he wanted to do this he had to sneak out. Climbing out of the made a simple plan, his father went to sleep at 10-11 and woke up at 8 to 9 for work. If he left and came back during that time frame he would be fine. Probably, changing into his pajamas Sho told his dad he was turning in early tonight.

“Have a good night,” Sho felt a little bad lying but locked himself in his room and changed into some of the clothes he brought. To ignore his nervousness, Sho practiced his karate more. Until the alarm on his phone went off and he silently checked the house.

“Dad is asleep!” his heart pounded in his chest as he snuck down the hall and out the front door. There were a few lights on in their neighborhood, but Sho didn’t think he would draw any attention as he raced towards the dungeon with the [mutant lizards].

Running the entire way had him panting at the entrance, but he was able to catch his breath before slipping on his [martial arts gloves]. then he stepped into the dungeon and went on the hunt when he held back on using [ki strike] as he could only use it once before having to wait. But he was able to put his karate to use, it was harder to apply during combat against lizards than practicing in his rooms.

But he felt he was gaining more experience during combat, it was clear as the skill level quickly rose to level 4 after three battles with lizards. He drank more than a few [low-grade Health potions] as he wasn’t getting through one battle unscathed. But he pulled out in the end, sometimes unleashing a [ki strick].

After taking a short break leaning against a tree Sho ventured deeper into the dungeon, he encountered more [mutant lizards] before he found something interesting a hole in the ground. Big enough for him to fit down, “Is something coming!” he stepped back and watched as a [mutat lizard] climbed out immediately attacking him. Jumping back from its teeth Sho quickly went on the attack. Striking with a kick to its jaw, not much damage made it past the scales but certainly pissed the monster off. Sidestepping another bite, Sho brought down his foot on his skull. The lizard immediately spun around to catch the other between its jaws. 

[-50Hp]

“Mm!” Sho grits his teeth as the pain flares through his leg. But he pushed through striking down with two rapid punches to the monster's skull. Rattling it enough that I got the chance to pull his leg free. He counted attacking with punches and kickass whittling down at the monster's health until he could finish it off with ki boosted fist to the skull.

[you’ve slain [mutant lizard Lv:10]

[You’ve gained 1,000 Exp]

[ki strick has leveled up]

Panting Sho grabbed the 800 yen the monster dropped along with the other items before turning toward the hole. There are probably lots of monsters down there, using his phone he checked the time. It was almost one in the morning, Sho decided that he should head back. “I’ll come looking later.” For now, he turned around and raced home, he wiped himself down and changed back into his pajamas before he collapsed into his bed.

[You’ve slept in your bed, HP, Mp & Lp are fully restored]

‘I thought I would be more tired,’ but no Sho felt fine. The effects of [gamers body] at their finest, ‘well the experiment proved good.’ Sho smiled before getting ready for school dressing in the uniform and heading towards school, meeting up with the Segawa siblings. He helped out with the student council before class started. He was paying attention to what the teachers were saying, but at the same time, he was making use of his [drawing] skill adding doodles to his notes.

‘Drawing harder than it looks,’ Sho thought flexing his hand. He spent all day [drawing], trying to make use of the knowledge he had. ‘Well, I reached level three so there are many spaces to improve.

After helping with the student council by his crush's side, which made his heart flutter, Sho headed home to get his homework out of the way before he did something else. Despite knowing what time his father would be home, Sho didn't head to a dungeon instead he cracked open the biology book he had brought.

“This is a lot of complex work,” he definitely wasn’t understanding everything he read. But he pushed on and it paid off when he finally closed the book he was rewarded with a headache and a point of intelligence.’ So this means learning more complex things is good for my intelligence stat.’ he made a note to be on the lookout for more complex books in the future.

Joining his dad for dinner was good and helped with the headache. He rested in his bath for a while, and he snuck out that night as well. Bringing his stamina up by a point on the way back, he didn’t go down the hole as he knew it was dangerous and wanted to be more prepared. It was a good thing reaching level 10 after slashing 4 more [mutant lizards].

[You’ve slept in your bed, HP, Mp & Lp are fully restored]

“Ah!” Sho yawned as he climbed out of bed, stretching out he noticed his morning wood. He adjusted it before heading into the bathroom to brush his teeth and deal with his morning wood. As he had found out during his first week as the gamer, his morning wood didn’t go down easily. It would last till his first period, he was stubborn that day. one of the most embarrassing periods of his life. Know he knew he had to deal with his morning wood.

[-10Lp]

Pulling up his boxer briefs Sho washed his hands before brushing his hair and left to his room to get into his school uniform. “Good morning!” his father yawned as he stretched out before working on his tie. They had breakfast together and left the house with Sho taking the trash out. He was looking over his stats, they were good and he had ten free points. 

‘I haven't figured out how to increase my special stats,’ his luck and charisma have changed in the past two weeks. At this point, he might just use the free points to increase them. Since he wasn't completely sure of their efforts he split the point between the stats.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 10

Exp: 03%

Hp: 350/350

Mp: 300/300

Lp: 30/30

Str: 20

Sta: 17

Dex: 13

Int: 19

Wis: 17

Cha: 15

Luk: 15

Free points:0

‘I wonder what effect these will have?’ Sho thought seeing Mizuki step out of her home her brother right behind her. He waved at the siblings as they came out of the house, of course at that moment a breeze blew by. It was strong enough to lift Mizuki’s skirt, giving Sho a peek at her panties and making his jaw drop ears burning red. ‘Pink!’ he quickly looked away as Mizuki pushed down her skirt equally embarrassed. 

“You saw didn’t you!” It wasn’t a question and Sho could only apologize, ‘Was that the effect of my luck?!’ Mizuki immediately started speed walking towards school, Tesuro sighed coming to Sho's side and patting the younger male on the back. “I’m sure she’ll calm down before the days are over with,’ Sho nodded but still looked like a kicked puppy.

Neither of them said anything as they walked towards school, during class Sho found himself doodling out Mizuki. To be honest, he couldn’t remember the last time she was mad at him, right now it sucked badly to him. His sad doodle brought his [drawing] skill to level 5. He was getting good now, ‘Well that's not many notes.’ he remembered a good portion of what the teacher said and quickly scribbled it down into his notes.

‘I should talk to her!’ Sho thought as he helped out at the student council organizing their budget. Which he got the [budgeting] skill for. ‘ I can really get a skill or anything, hopefully, I can make peace with Mizuki!’

Chapter Text

Okay, he didn't make peace with her; she assured him she wasn't mad. He didn't do it on purpose; he felt a little guilty as it was his fault, but she was much too embarrassed to look at him at the moment. Which made him feel sort of better, but Mizuki still wasn't talking to him.

He distracted himself with homework and practiced karate in his room, then watched TV with his dad when he came home. Of course, he decided to sneak out that night. He raced all the way to the dungeon, and few people saw him running that way. He stepped into the dungeon and immediately headed for the hole he found the last time. He was really curious about what was on the other side, "here we go!"

For several minutes, he encountered nothing as he stumbled down the steep path of the cave, 'it's warm.' the cave grew progressively hot and humid as he traveled deeper in the cave. He was pulling at the collar of his shirt when he heard something approaching. "Oh shit!" it was a mutant lizard, but this was bigger. The first was closer to the size of a dog. These were approaching the size of a wolf. “[observe]”

[mutant lizard LV:15]
Nest Guard
Hp: 160/160
Mp: 150/150
Lp: 30/30
Str: 20
Sta: 17
Dex: 13
Int: 19
Wis: 17
Cha: 15
Luk: 15

"It has a title!" Also, its level was higher than his own. Still, Sho prepared himself, clenching his fist. The monster locked eyes with him, and for a moment, nothing happened. Then it burst with surprising speed, covering the distance between them in an instant. Bounding off the ground to snap its jaws around his neck. Sho was able to lean out of the way but didn't change the chill down his spine. 

"AH!" immediately struck out when he straightened his back, but his hit didn't seem to do anything. So he struck again, and then the guard attacking managed to dig its teeth into his leg. [-60Hp] show grabbed its jaws, preventing it from spinning as the others did. AH!" forced the jaws open, feeling it from his shoulder to his fingers.

When his leg was free, he used it to push the jaw open wider until the monster was squirming to escape him. Sho took a deep breath "[tear!]" the skill activated, boosting his power enough that he tore the jaw muscles of the monster. A horrid noise left its throat, and part of Sho felt back for this action. But the rest knew at this point he had to finish it.

So, even though the creature tried to retreat, its main method of killing is gone. But Sho stopped it and then killed it with a [ki strick] to break its scales before breaking its skull in. 

[You've slain [mutant lizard LV:15]
[4,000 exp]

The body quickly decayed, leaving behind a stack of yen, what might have been a pelt, and a book. [observe] was unleashed on all items," 

[1,600 yen]
[small mutant lizard pelt]
[craft recipe: leather pants (mutant lizard)]

"That's a new one," Sho thought, seeing the last item. He put them all away for the moment and headed deeper into the cave. He didn't make it two minutes before encountering another best guard. Unlike the last one, he wasn't able to take out its mouth, so the fight lasted longer.

He managed to come out on top, taking bits to his legs; the lizard didn't leave a craft book. Instead, another small pelt, "which will probably be for the pants." he wondered what they would look like or if he should make them. He continued down the hole. It has long since been getting dark. "I wish I brought a flashlight!" he was definitely adding it to his shopping list.

The next take came unseen; only his ear alerted him of the fact. He just barely avoided a broken leg, though it caused enough damage to his pants and caused him to be notified once the battle ended.

[blue jeans'] durability has reached zero, and equipment effects are nullified until durability is restored. Any further damage will lead to item destruction!]

"Item destruction?" Did that mean his pants would be destroyed? Since he had no interest in losing his pants, Sho decided to turn around for the night; his luck might have been increased, but it wasn't enough to avoid a fight on the way out, or maybe it was the reason the fight happened?

If so, Sho was blaming his luck on the fact that the lizard managed to feint him, faking a bite so he could whip around, slamming its tail around, and catching on the right knee.[-20Hp] That hit was enough to cause [item destruction], which looked & sounded like his pants kind of exploding, leaving the teen in his boxer briefs.

"AH!" Shouted, stumbling back, caught off guard, and quickly becoming embarrassed. [gamer's mind] was the only thing keeping him from covering himself while there was a monster before him. He quickly finished off the lizard using 1,2 [ki strikes]. He scooped up the drops and made a full-force break for the exit.

He didn't stop even as he ran out of the dungeon. Kept going full throttle through the streets. 'If someone catches me, I could get arrested," thought he might die of shame before that happened. He knew soon running on the open roads was a bad idea, so he took back roads and alleles. It might have turned him around a few times, but he didn't run into anyone the entire way to his neighborhood. At that point, it required a bit more stealth to reach his house undetected.

[congratulations, your stamina has risen by two.]

Sho honestly felt like his lungs were going to kill him; it took a few moments before it didn't feel like that anymore, and at that point, he was able to notice a different problem. He was rock hard! "Huh?"

******

The next morning, Sho was getting dressed when he thought back to his erection, complementing what it meant. 'Did the risk of getting caught in my underwear excite me?' he knew it wasn't the adrenaline from running the entire way home. Partly because thinking back to that risk had his groin stirring. Sho didn't know how he was supposed to feel about this revelation, was it a one-time thing, or was it something that he liked.

'Just put it out of my mind and go to school!" he forced himself to stop thinking about it and instead finished buttoning up his school uniform and heading outside. Of course, his Wednesday didn't go that easily. For one thing, Mizuki still wasn't talking to him. For another, Sho's mind kept going back to his possible perversion. He found himself daydreaming, wondering what would have happened if someone had caught him. 

He could see them calling him a pervert, and for a reason he couldn't understand, he found himself hard under his desk. 'Shit! Why!' he really wanted to curl up and hide. But kept his face straight, taking notes for his math class. They didn't have gym today, but instead home ed classes. During said class, he practiced sewing, 'maybe I should learn more about this.' [item destrciton] left scraps that could be put back together with the right skills.

He believed that sewing was one of them. 'In the last few days, I've slain a good amount of lizards and earned a good amount of money. If he kept up at this rate, he should be able to buy the spirit-summing book before Monday came around again. He liked that idea, 'it's kind of impressive how fast I can earn money. He thought he would only have this kind of cash when he got a job or something, 'Should I still get a job?' a part of him realized that people would have questions if he didn't get a job.

'What job makes as much money as I do?" he shook the idea away and turned back to the stitches he was supposed to be working on. After school, he did his homework before he went out for a run. He wanted to increase his stamina a bit more, and running worked great. He ran hard and fast, bringing himself to a part that he knew was a long while from his house. The park just so happened to be held up by some delinquents at the moment. 

Not that Sho noticed them until one came up to demanding money," I'm sorry, I don't have anything on me right now." he tried to walk away and disengage the situation. It didn't go that way as the other delinquents joined their friend and tried to get some money out of him. When he kept denying that he had any money, they tried to use their fist.

'Slow,' Sho thought, dodging between the sloppy attacks. Maybe it was his level 9 [basic karate], but he felt like they were a threat at all. They were untrained, catching a fist he twisted behind fax blond's back. Causing him to cry out in pain as the other stopped, staring at him in surprise. "I don't have any money; you shouldn't try and rob people in the first place!"

"Ah, you fucker let me go!" the blond delinquent held his shoulder, having given up his attempts to break free as Sho only twisted the arm further. "Alright, alit, we'll leave you alone!" Sho relaxed and was about to let the teen go when a screen appeared before him.

[manobu Kido has surrendered ]
[100 exp acquired]

'Oh, so I can get experience from people as well.' Sho thought as he released the teen, who backed away, rubbing his shoulder. He glared at Sho the entire time he and his friend back out of the park. "I'm not gonna forget his asshole!" Sho hoped that didn't become a problem, but he continued with his run. Kept going at full speed until he got two messages.

[your stamina has increased by 1]
[due to repeated actions, a special skill has been created.]
[Sprint Lv:1 0/100 exp]
Run, boy, run at full throttle

Movement speed increased by 10%
30Mp second

Sho continued to run, grinding his newest skills until it was time to return home. Until he went out to the dungeon.

********

"19,000 20,000!" Sho smiled after counting out the exact number of bills he needed for his skill book; he had just spent half the Saturday taking on monster lizards. And now he finally had what he needed; it cost many hours, another pair of pants being destroyed. But he was able to collect the needed money. He was also able to bring his skills up to a nice level.

[basci karate Lv:12 43%Exp]
It is a form of martial arts with many uses for self-defense in combat sports, but it still possesses the ability to be very dangerous in the right hands.
10% STR increase during combat
-2% STA used during combat

[ki strick Lv:10 73%Exp]
Using your inner KI enhances the force behind your first.
+10% damage 
45Mp

The current state of his skill pleased him as he headed towards the hidden shop. Zoey explained to him the only way to reach her shop was to find a wall cloaked in darkness and then repeat a small poem. Sho made sure to write it down and practice it several times before coming.

When the final stanza left his lips,  the door into the shop formed.

Welcome, young Sho!" Zoey greeted him from behind her counter, looking up from a magazine," I didn't think I would be seeing you this soon." but she was happy to see him all the same, "what can I help you with?" Sho pulled out the rolled bills, setting them before Zoey, "I'm here to buy the spirit summoning book."

"Right away!" she took the money and snapped her fingers, causing the book to float out and into Sho's hands. "Thank you!" Sho smiled, proud of the work he had done so far.

"You welcome!" privately, Zoey wondered what kind of power this boy possessed that allowed him to make such progress. 'This boy might do great things, hope I get to see it!' she watched the boy leave her shop and complemented what she should do for those great things.

Sho decided he wasn't going to destroy the book; not only was it an expensive book. But he also wanted to remember this and keep the book, so what if he was being sentimental. It took him until Sunday night to read the entire book; it described two ceremonies. The first was if he knew about a specific spirit and wanted to call on it; the second was creating a beacon to draw a spirit's attention towards himself.

The second had many risks to it because not all spirits were nice, but since he didn't know much about any kind of spirit, it was really his only choice. Thankfully, a part of the book explained how to keep the spirit in the circle. "Thank god for my drawing skill," it made it much easier to put together the summoning circle on his bedroom floor. He went slowly to make sure everything went right. The sun had already set when the circle was ready.

Sho placed his hands on the edge of the circle, pushing his energy into the circle and causing it to glow in the low light, "spirits from another plane, hear my plea!" his ears burned as he started the chant," I request that you lend me thy power and knowledge! So answer me and show thyself before me!" for a moment nothing happened he thought he might have done something wrong.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created.]
[spirit summoning lv:1 90/100 exp]

[a high-level spirit has noticed you!]

Sho barely got a moment to read the messages before his room was filled with pressure, and a dark tear appeared in the middle of his circle. Then, the spirit stepped through. Sho watched, jaw-dropped as the spirit stepped out. It had a male appearance, inhumanly handsome, standing at almost 7 feet with solid muscles. The spirit couldn't be called dressed as they only wore a fundoshi that was clearly straining to hold their massive girth. But what really brought out how inhuman they were was the black horns and the blacktail that ended in a space. The bat-like wings behind them.

"It's been a while since I've visited the human world, even longer since I've been summoned, boy." Sho didn't know what he brought into his room. But he was glad he already had his gloves ready for combat, "oh, don't worry, I'm not much of a fighter. I am an incubus, a type of spirit referred to as a sex demon! Since I'm here, how about a deal?!"

Sho nervously swallowed, forcing his eyes to stay on the incubus' face; it was hard. Everything about its body drew his eyes," What can you offer me, and what can I offer you?!" rule number one when bargaining with spirits is never to say you'll give anything. They might take your soul, the book stated, along with a few other rules. "I am very old. I've gained bits of knowledge here and there about many things. So I can teach you all kinds of things."

The demon smirked; Sho shivered like a predator was staring down at him," I am a sex demon. I would like to feed on your sex energy if that's okay!" Sho felt his lack of knowledge right now, but it didn't sound too bad right now. He hoped he didn't regret this choice," that sounds good. My sex energy in exchange for knowledge that you possess!" the demon smiled brightly, showing off his sharp canines.

"then it's a deal, right?"

"Yes, it's a deal!" Sho took the hand that was offered to him; he felt a wave of heat travel down his arm to the pit of his stomach, "You may call me Zalgad. Call me when you're ready to trade." then the demon stepped back through the crack. "I hope you call me soon." then the crack closed, and Sho was alone in his room. He let out a breath before cleaning up the circle. He couldn't explain it if his father found it.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created.]
[dealmaking Lv:1 0/100:Exp]
Deals are a part of life, mundane and supernatural. Making them is difficult, even more when you want it to come out in your favor. Or guarantee that the deal holds out.

Chance of success cha+5

[due to a special situation, a special stats has been acquired [incubus mark]

[incubus mark]
A deal with an incubus has left its mark on you

+50%Lp regeneration
+25% exp to sex/ seduction type skills
Access to [incbus] type skills

"Alright, time for bed," climbing under his covers, Sho decided he would deal with this in the morning when he was more ready.

He wasn't more ready as he closed the message that greeted him each morning, but he still worked to comprehend what the [incubus] mark meant to his life. Right now, it means he was hard, and his member ached with need. Lowering his underwear, he noticed something,' it's an actual mark!' sitting above his cock was a stylized black heart.

"Shit!" what if someone says this? He couldn't dream of how his father would react. It looked like a tattoo. There was no real excuse he could have for this; Sho groaned but swore to figure something out after dealing with his erection. He pulled out a thing of [slime lube], poring some out, he spread it over his fingers, one he pushed under his foreskin and rubbed around his swollen head.

His tease caused Pre to leak. He mixed it with the lube spreading it out as he pumped his hand over the bottom half of his cock. Pushing his thumb up to the head, pressing it against his slit. He repeated this until his balls pulled up, his cum shooting up against his hand. He held it, feeling its warmth, until he grabbed a tissue to wipe it up.

[-10Lp]
[Lp transferred to zalgad]

Sho pulled up his underwear as he read the messages, 'So that's how that's going to work. But that leaves the question of how many lust points I need to give him for knowledge.' he figured that he would find out when he called for the demon. For now, he got dressed and joined his father for breakfast.

It was maybe 3 hours before his LP was full, before the deal with Zalgad. A single point regenerated at around 30 minutes, and now it has decreased by 50%. 'Well, I guess this means I can recover faster in bed,' though who was supposed to keep up that kind of stamina. His shoulders dropped slightly, 'would Mizuki be able to handle it.' what if she wouldn't date him because of that.

He shook the thought out and focused on cutting the vegetables before him. Later at night, he decided not to visit the lizard dungeon. Instead, I'm going for the slime dungeon. 'I wonder if there are stronger monsters like the lizard dungeon?' his feet carried him deeply, plunging his dick into two [slimes] on the way and using [tear] on the rest of them.

"That answers that question!" standing before him was a slime that reached his waist in height. He didn't think it noticed him right now, which gave him a chance to decide how he wanted to deal with this monster. 

[big slime Lv: 13]

"I think I'll try and satisfy it first," he considered its size again before undoing his pants. Just because he now carried spare clothing didn't mean he wanted to get them dirty in the first place. So he removed his [black pants] & [blue boxer briefs], storing them in his inventory. His half-hard cock bounced as he stepped closer to the [big slime], which noticed his approach.

He got within a few feet of it when it did something unexpected and sprouted a slimy tentacle that flew out rapping around his wait." AH!" Sho cried out as the slime pulled itself right onto him. Sho stumbled but was able to remain on his feet as the slime completely wrapped around his waist. It didn't even waste a moment before rubbing his cock; a shiver raced up his spine as his dick rose to its full glory. "Ugh!" a groan left his lips as the slime exposed the head of his cock, running up against the glans and slit.

It was an incredible amount of stimulation, but of course, a tentacle for the slime pressed itself into his ass. It wasn't a big stretch; the tentacle was only the size of a finger while the slime stretched itself up to his stomach and onto his chest, to his nipples that got rubbed by the slime, making his legs shake from the pleasure.

A pleasure kept coming as he felt the orgasm building in the pit of his stomach; the slime was still spreading its body down his legs. His cock twitched as the slime pressed agist a certain spot on his inner walls. Cum floated in the shivering body of the slime, "AH!" Sho gauze as something gushing into his ass like the slime was cumming.

Sho panted, thinking that was the end of it, but instead, the tentacle grew in the width of another finger. Stretched further, his ass squeezed around, and his insides quivered as the slime rubbed against it all. His knees buckled a little as the slime continued to rub all over his sensitive cock, "fuc-ah," he groaned, feeling pre-dripped from the head. 

The tentacle grew wider by another finger size as he felt his second orgasm approaching; he could feel it churning in his balls as the slime moved along them. His vision was swimming from the numerous sources of relentless pleasure. His throat was hoarse as he moaned orgasm again. This time, his legs did give out on him. Hitting the ground, he felt the slime tremble again.

[-30Lp]
[Lp transfer to zalgad] 
[you've satisfied a [big slime Lv:13]
[1,200 Exp acquired]

"That a new one!" Sho caught his breath before looking at the drops of the big slime. Money, [slime lube] X2, and newly revealed by [obsrves] [slime lotion]

[slime lotion]
Mixing the body of slime and herbs, the lotion is made. Your skin will be soft and healthy and smell faintly of rosemary.

[softenting] and [hydrating] effects last 12 hours
Cures select skin type ailments
3/3 uses

Sho wondered what if he should use it,' I mean, I don't think it would be bad.' he put away the drops before getting dressed; he was found by another [big slime] fighting this one. It was surprising how long the slime lasted; its health was high, and Sho had to keep moving to avoid the tentacle it swung out and tried to trap him with. 'I wonder what other kinds of monsters there are in these dungeons,' he would find out.

Later, after returning home, he was wiping the sweat off the sweat. 'That was the second time my ass has been played with,' he liked it too. Though he'd never heard anything about it, he didn't think using the computer would be a good idea. But who could he ask?

"How about the sex demon!?" He decided his questions could wait until after school. Calling his name brought the demon to Sho's room, where the teen had already changed out of his school uniform. "Well, you've been sending a lot of energy my way; I was wondering when you would call me. So what do you want to know?"

Sho's ears were hot as he asked his question; the demon just smiled. "How about I give you knowledge about sex in exchange for all the energy you've given to me at this point?" Sho shook his head," Only half I have more to ask you!" he thought of something during class."

"Or you could summon me another time." his voice was like silk, but Sho remained firm." All right then, what else would you like to know?"

[dealmaking has leveled up]

"Tell me about other kinds of spirits?" the demon scratched his chin, tail thrashing behind him." plan to do some summoning later."

"Not right now."

"Very well," the demon moved with the speed and precision of a predator, capturing Sho's lips. "Mm!" he was so caught up by his first kiss being stolen that he didn't stop the tongue from invading his mouth. It was hot, and Sho could feel himself growing weak from the skilled movements. His body grew hot; he couldn't decide what he should focus on, on the tongue or the information that was starting to flow into his mind. 

It was very clear images; it wasn't just information. It was Zalgad's experience, his experience with anal play. Mundane and magic methods it was informative and hot. Sho was leaking pre into his boxer briefs; he couldn't hold back a moan at the images and sensations. Zalgad kept the second part by showing him images of all the spirits he slept with.

Well, all that the energy Sho gave him was worth it, but when that was used up, the demon pulled all. Leaving the human panting and flushed. "Call me again soon," then the demon disappeared. 

"Ugh," Sho groaned, adjusting his erection. He lost his first kiss but gained the information he wanted. Sighing, Sho locked his room door, 'okay. Let's see if it's real!' he decided to test the knowledge he was given. He pulled out lube from his inventory but didn't open it. There was something else he wanted to try first. Closing his eyes, he focused on the unfamiliar energy that was his mana. Directing it to his finger, which he placed near the entrance of his ass.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created.]
[sex magic: cleanse LV: 1 0/100 Exp]
A sex magic spell is used to clean someone out before partaking in penetrative sex.

30Mp per use

It had taken him a few times to get the mana right, but it worked, and he cast the spell, closed the screen, and pushed on. He opened the lube, pouring it on his finger, which he coated. Laying back, Sho spread his legs. [gamer's mind] kept him calm as he circled his entrance with his lubed finger. He kept going until he relaxed enough to press a finger inside. He tensed right back up but was still able to push the finger two knuckles deep. He kept it there, adjusting to the strange sensation. Unlike with the slimes, it was happening too quickly, and he could feel every part of it.

Calming down more, he started moving the finger, coating his walls in lube as he slowly started to feel less weird and better. His dick was slowly growing hard and began to leak pre, "mm," Sho groaned as he pressed another finger in. slowly rocking them to get used to the stretch; moving them around, he felt his soft inner walls trying to find.

"AH!" he saw stars as he pressed against his prostate, 'It like touched the back of my cock!' which throbbed pre-cum pooling on his stomach as he rubbed at that spot. Panting, Sho added a third finger scissoring his ass as he pumped his fingers; his cock was throbbing and demanding attention as he played with his ass.

His breath hitched as he grabbed hold of his leaking dick, pumping it hard as he felt his balls churning. A final jab at his prostate brought him over the edge, and his back arched off the ground. Stars danced across his vision as he came, spraying cum over his stomach. He dropped back to the ground, trying to catch his breath as he pulled his finger out.

[-20Lp]
[Lp transfer to zalgad] 

[Due to a special action, a special skill has been created.]
[fingering Lv:1]

Sho quickly closed the skill description, ears burning before he rushed to clean himself up and get to bed.

******

[stats]
Sho Fukamachi
Age: 17
Title: The Gamer
Level: 13
Exp: 53%
Hp: 500/500
Mp: 300/300
Lp: 30/30
Str: 20
Sta: 20
Dex: 13
Int: 19
Wis: 17
Cha: 15
Luk: 15

Free points:15

Specials stats:[incubus mark] +50%Lp regeneration, +25% exp to sex/ education type skills
Access to [incubus] type skills.

'I need to finish up that mission,' the first month was almost over. He's made no progress with his dexterity and very level with his other stats. 'Should I work on my sewing? He knew that skill was affected by his dexterity. 'Couldn't hurt!' he thought, arriving at the sci club. He promised to help Tetsuro today. It was cleaning up some leftover new letters and helping prepare for the next batch.

But afterward, Sho used his equipment screen to change out of his school uniform before he raced off to the shopping district. There, he brought a flashlight along with some sewing supplies, complex books, and, after a time of thought, a book on the go. 'There strategy in wisdom.' 'it would probably help more if he played go, but he wasn't sure where to do that.

'Probably someplace I can do that,' he should go take a look around. With his purchases in his inventory, Sho continued to run around the city, working on his stamina. He wanted to get it done as soon as he could and work on their things. His running brought him pretty far from his home. To a second park, he was sure, at least 17 miles. 'Can believe I jogged the entire way to for a single additional point.' how far was he supposed to go for the next point. He stopped for water before.

"I've been looking for you fucker!" they blinked before realizing that voice was addressing him. Turning around, he spotted the blond thug from the other day. He looked pissed, and he figured that he should leave before a fight started. When the delinquent chased after him, he started speeding up.

[-5hp]

Sho stumbled as something collided with the back of his head. Two moments later, the fax blonde jumped at him, just who was able to turn out of the way. He rubbed the spot on his head that had been struck and glared at the delinquent. Who glared right back," Last time you won, but I won't go down too easily!" Sho didn't want to fight him; he didn't like fighting at all. He fought the dungeon monsters because he knew his future was looking grim without strength.

"I don't want to fight you," the blonde grits his teeth. "I don't care if you don't want to fight! A man doesn't accept defeat lying down!" he then swung at Sho, who leaned out of the way, blocking the flowing punch. "Is there another way we can settle this?" his words made the other teen pause. [deal making] was active. 

"I'm sure there is a less violent method where we can resolve this!" the fax blond held his gaze steady," what are you suggesting then?" Sho paused and tried to think of a method that the thug might accept, "What do you think are the things that make a man?" it seemed important to him, so he could work with that.

"are might and our dick," the second thing caught Sho off guard, but he could work with it. A part of him knew this was a chance for something," well, in terms of might I think I have you beat. Or at very least I can nullify the difference, but the other, I'm not sure." he wasn't, he didn't know where other guys stood in terms of dicks. It's not like" the delinquent wasn't happy to have his might dismissed like this, but he was more interested in the chance to show this brunette punk how it's done.

"Your own! I'll show you how much of a man I am!"

"then you'll leave me alone!" Sho really wanted, but he felt nervous when the blonde huffed. "if you manage to beat me, I'll do more than leave you alone! I'll do whatever you want!" he was very sure of his victory. "And when I win, you'll be kissing my ass!" 

[new mission]
A man's challenge

A man has challenged you to a man's challenge. Win for your pride.

Objective
Defeat [manobu Kido] in his challenge 

Bonus objective 
convinced [manobu Kido] to have sex with you

Failure 
200 exp,

Reward
2,000 Exp,2,000 yen, [manobu Kido] won't challenge you again (probably)

Bonus reward
2,000 Exp, 2,000yen, skill book

Accept
Yes/no

'The stakes don't seem that high,' so he accepted the mission and followed Kido into the park's bathroom. Thankfully, it was empty, taking a stall. The blonde explained the challenge. 

Chapter Text

"We're going to see who has the better dick by comparing them and their performance!" Sho had mixed feelings about this; on the one hand, it wasn't as bad as he thought. On the other, he's never shown anyone his dick, and he has never seen someone else's. He was nervous without a doubt but still followed Kido's example, pulling down his shirt and his boxer briefs, revealing his flaccid member. "Not bad," the delinquent praised.

"Thanks," Sho wasn't sure if he should be really thanking him. They were slingers except for a few groans as they brought themselves to hardness. Which was followed by the awkwardness of pressing the members to compare them. Sho suppressed a shiver, feeling Kido's member against his own. 'Is this what another dick feels like?'

"I'm both longer and thicker than you," the blonde smiled triumphantly while trying to push down his blush. His pride was a little hurt by this loss. 'But he'll leave me alone when this is over' to see the performance of their dicks. The teens were going cum, see who shot further, and more.

'I can't believe I'm doing this,' Sho thought, pumping his cock right neck to Kido. He could see the blonde pumping his member out of the corner of his eye. Eyes squeezed close in pleasure and determination, he knew he shouldn't look so much, but he couldn't help it. It reminded Sho of the images that Zalgad, a part of him that wanted to try some of it.

"Mm," Sho grits his teeth as he comes [-10Lp]. Kido followed a moment, a long groan leaving his lips as his cum flew out. Silently, Sho grumbled as he found he was lost in the distance department, though he shot more seed than Kido. Who was smugly celebrating his win!

"Well, it's my loss then!"

"Yeah, right it is! Now you know not to mess with me!" the blonde scratched his chin," What should I take my victory?" Sho's eye drifted down to the delinquent deflecting cock, which he made no attempt to put away even though Sho already did. "Oh," Kido caught him looking," interested in the tool of your defeat!"

Riding the high of his win, he offered to let Sho touch it. Which surprised the brunette, but he accepted. 'It's hot,' the heat caught him off guard the most. The cock felt similar to his own, still different in most ways, like how warm it felt in his hand. Kido tried his best to keep a straight face, but he had to admit it felt nice to have another guy touching his dick. 

"You look like you're having so much fun; too bad guys can't fuck each other."

"That's not true," Sho immediately felt ashamed that the words slipped out; he prayed for a moment that Kido didn't hear or ignore him. "Really, have you done it before?" Sho bit back a groan but stated he knew how it worked. "Well, since I won, why don't you show me how it's done?" 

'Well, this is a good chance to complete the bonus objective,' though he was feeling like things were rolling out of control. But he still saw an opening and was going to use it, so he faked pulling out a vial of [slime lube] from his pocket along with a [slime condom]. Which he handed to Kido before pulling down his pants and underwear. 

Coating his fingers, he started opening himself up; Kido asked if that was dirty." I've cleaned myself out." Sho responded. The blonde laughed," expecting to get fuck some time soon?" Sho just felt his ears burn as he pushed the finger inside. "Can you turn around? I wanna see this." Sho felt his ears burn more but did as requested, letting Kido watch as he slowly stretched his ass until three fingers fit inside.

Though it wasn't something he ever considered before, Kido found himself rock hard as he watched Sho scissor his ass open. It looked very tight and a lovely shade of pink. "I'm ready," the Sho panted, feeling his member throb in want. He grazed his prostate a few times while stretching himself. Kido quickly slipped the condom on and covered it in a thin layer of lube before coming closer to Sho.

He pressed the head against the stretched entrance, and there was a moment of resistance before he started sliding in. The teens tried to hold back their voices at the joining," Man, you're tight." Kido groaned as he sunk halfway. Sho only groaned as he tried to keep himself standing. He expected it to feel a lot, but this more. It was wider and deeper than his fingers; he felt his breath escape him when Kido was completely inside him. 'It feels like he's in my stomach,' Sho forced himself to breathe and relax. While Kido marveled at the death grip around his cock, it was so hot and wet. It felt great, and he knew it would be even better when he started moving.

He got the signal that he could move when Sho started slowly rocking his hips. Slowly Kido pulled back till the tip sat in before snapping his hips forward into the tight heat, his balls smacking against Sho's ass as a moan ripped out of his throat. He tried to control himself, but he found it hard with the brutal pace that Kido was building up.

His brutal pace continued to ram into his prostate, making the brunette cry out and moan. Pre dripping from his cock with each thrust. He was trembling; he was moaning. He could feel Kido doing the same. They were both feeling the heat building up in the pit of their stomachs.

Kido's brutal's thrust agist his prostate made Sho groan and throw his head back as his cock, twitched and shot against the stall door. He trembled, his entire body tensing as he squeezed Kido. The blond groaned, thrusting harder until his balls tightened, and he filled the condom.

[-10Lp]

[you've satisfied [manobu Kido]

[+3,000 experience]

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created.]

[bottoming/ anal proficiency (passive) Lv:1 0/100:Exp]

[+450 reputation with zalgad]

Sho blinked at the screens; he could feel Kido panting against his back before he pulled back, pulling out of Sho. who shivered when he was suddenly empty, his ass still stretched from the fuck. He didn't focus on it, instead pulling up his pants while Kido tied off the condom. "That was a new experience," Kido said, buttoning his own pants." do you have a phone?" Sho blinked at the question but nodded, though it didn't get much use. He had a simple phone.

Pulling it out, he traded numbers with Kido in case he wanted to hook up with him again. Sho blushed at the implications but kept it in mind before he ran home. 

A man's challenge

A man has challenged you to a man's challenge; win for your pride.

Objective

Defeat [manobu Kido] in his challenge 

Bonus objective 

convinced [manobu Kido] to have sex with you

Reward

2,000 Exp,2,000 yen, [manobu Kido] won't challenge you again (probably)

Bonus reward

2,000 Exp, 2,000yen, skill book

****

Sho had a dilemma; okay, he had several. He didn't like fighting, but he knew the logic of having to fight, as he knew he needed strength for his future. He needed to get stronger if his power and Zoey were anything to go by. But he just found out he didn't need to fight. Satisfying people helped him get stronger; he could satisfy several people without raising his fist. 

'But should I?' he had an understanding that male-on-male relations weren't a smiled-upon thing. Neither was sleeping around as much as he probably had to. 'As long as no one finds out, it's not really a problem.' but at the same time, if people did find out who knew what they would say and do. His thoughts made him anxious, and he started drawing to calm himself down.

'How would I even hide it? How would I find people who would be willing." Kido was kind of dumb luck. Sho couldn't stop thinking about it. He wasn't gay; he still liked girls. Mizuki especially. But guys were on the menu, and in this day and age, this was a problem.

'I just have to hide it! No one I care about can ever find out.' he didn't feel like this was the best solution, but it was all he could come up with. Then he returned to the previous question: should he continue fighting or move toward satisfying people and dungeon monsters.

His emotions pushed aside by his skill, he took a logical thought process, 'I can only do it 6 times a day max. I think?" he wasn't completely sure about the rules. But either way, he could slay many more monsters to that. 'So I guess to finish that mission, I have to stick to combat; I don't desire a bad future." though he wondered what future did he want.

He distracted himself until dinner with a complex book about computers, raising his intelligence by one point. He continued studying the book until he went out to the dungeon. Where he headed for the slimes. Satisfying the big slimes quickly drained his LP in exchange for a good deal of exp. He was able to do it in enough time that he was okay using [sprint] to the lizard dungeon to go against some of the smaller lizards before using [sprint] to get home.

'I should invest in stronger deodorant,' he smells stronger from all the activity in the last few hours. Whipping himself down, he climbed into bed.

The next day, around lunch, he remembered the skill book he got from the Mission. 'Right,' he found an isolated place by the stairs before he pulled out the book.

[observe: sex skill book]

Reading the book's description, Sho decided he could leave it for the moment. He returned to class after finishing his food. After school, he did his homework and studied a book about computers. "Should deal with the book," he brought it out and absorbed it.

[observe: sex Lv:1 0/100 exp]

A sub-skill for [observe] that finds sex-related information target

-sexually

15Mp 

Sho immediately knew how useful this skill was going to be and that he needed to bring it up. Sho continued his homework before moving on to curl-ups until his dad got home. Which resolved in him happily spending time with him.

******

"Ugh!" Sho groaned, spilling his seed into a [big slime]; he hid his face while the slime trembled as it reached its own limit and disappeared, leaving behind its drops. None of them were unusual; Sho put them with the rest before buttoning up his pants and closing the screens that came up. "That was the last of my lust points, so I guess I could head to the other dungeon." he checked the time and knew he had much more time.

"Maybe I should dive deeper into the dungeon," not to fight but just to see what was there. So determined, he activated [sprint], tearing across the forest floor. More than a few [big slimes] swung their tentacles at him. But Sho was able to evade them as he raced between the trees. 'Is that?'

Sho slowed to a stop to make sure he wasn't mistaken, but he was correct. Mostly hidden by a bush was a treasure chest. Jogging over and catching his breath, Sho parted the bush and opened the chest. “[observe].”

[desire red briefs]

Tight briefs the color of passion

+5 Cha

+ 15 defense 

20/20 durability 

[lust presence skill book]

A skill book for the skill [lust presence]

Requirements

Cha 28

"I guess I'll store the book for now." He then shifted to his gear menu and switched out his underwear. The [green boxer briefs] didn't offer half the defense of the [desire red briefs], and though he hasn't worn briefs in years, they felt weird to wear. 

"I should head for the other dungeon," he raced out of the dungeon and then crossed the smiles to the other dungeon." it never occurred to me, but how big is this dungeon?" What was the strongest monster here? He could only head down the tunnel and fight a few [nest guards] before reaching a new point.

The path split into three paths, shining his flashlight down each path. He didn't see a difference between them, so he picked the leftmost path before continuing.

"Hot," Sho wiped some sweat from his bangs, and the temperature rapidly increased. He only figured it out when he saw a crack in the floor, which glowed fiery light. "Magma?' he gasped. Nervous, he continued on, wary of what stood before him.

[you've entered an extreme environment.]

[environment type: extreme heat grade one]

[hydration gauge: 78\100]

'Extreme environment?!' an entirely new system of his power has been revealed. "This is grade one heat!" he knows magma is near, but this is only called grade one. He wondered how high the grades went; he couldn't imagine how extreme the environment would get.

"I don't have any water," he was usually parched when he got home. He decided to turn around and come back better prepared, turning down the middle path this time. He quickly found this wasn't a smart choice; it was filled with [mutant lizards.]' There are so many!' Sho thought, punching a scaly nose, 'Are they guarding something?'

Outnumbered and pushed to his limits, keeping himself alive, Sho retreated and checked the rightmost path, munching on some food to restore his health. So far, nothing has gone wrong, but that's only put him on guard more than before.

It was a good thing, too, or he might have missed the rock he accidentally kicked, hitting an invisible wall. It exploded on contact, "huh!?" Sho was taken back and cautiously touched the wall. "AAAH!!"

[-30hp]

Knowing how dangerous it was now, Sho backed away from the wall." I think it's time I head home."

*****

The next morning, Sho woke up with an idea, and Zalad was quickly summoned. "Congrats on losing your anal virginity. It was such a delightful taste! As a thank you, I'll tell you this. Different sexual acts have a different taste to them; if they taste good enough, I might be willing to give you a bit more information."

"I'll keep that in mind," Sho stated before being up the reason he summoned the incubus. "Can you tell me about other kinds of spirits and how I would attract them?"

"Oh, that's simple. All the points since your last question?" Sho nodded, and the Demon smiled before beckoning the human closer. The teen blushed but leaned forward and allowed the Demon to kiss him. His lips were hot as information flowed into his mind; Sho tried to focus on it instead of the kiss that was slowly getting deeper.

"Satisfied," Zalgad asked, smirking as Sho adjusted himself in his pants. "Thank you!" Zalgad saluted him before disappearing. Sitting up, Sho began getting dressed for school; while he did so, he thought about what kind of spirit he wanted to attract. 'I'm not the most decisive person, am I?' there were so many possibilities. Meeting up with Tetsuro and Mizuki, he pushed it aside.

Later, during class,' I should focus on finishing the Mission. So he opened his stats to see how much further he had to go.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 16

Exp:89.3%

Hp: 550/550

Mp: 350/350

Lp: 30/30

Str: 21

Sta: 21

Dex: 15

Int: 20

Wis: 17

Cha: 15

Luk: 15

Free points:30

Specials stats:[incubus mark] +50%Lp regeneration, +25% exp to sex/ education type skills

Access to [incubus] type skills

'Dexterity needed the most work,' Sho realized, but he had almost finished for strength and stamina. Which he could do in the next few days, but instead, he focused on his dexterity. So, he had something to work on with his sewing, but for now, he pulled out a textbook and started studying.

Thanks to his increased intelligence, he could keep himself out of trouble with the teachers while reading the textbook. Making notes on his looseleaf paper. He still had it out during his council duties.

He kept up studying for more hours when he got home, working on some sewing for his dexterity. And after long hours of work, he raised both stats by one, but he wasn't put off. Just knew he needed to work harder.

*********

Hours of work turned to days, and dungeons at night should have left him feeling at least a little worn out. But thanks to his gamer powers, he was perfectly fine even though he wasn't interested in making a habit of this. Even if it did quickly raise his stats and level.

But all the work seemed to pay off when he got this notification.

[Mission complete]

Prepare for the future 

The future is unknown, so it is best to start preparing for it.

Objectives

Locate the dungeon 10 miles east of your house.

Locate the dungeon 8 miles southwest of your house

Increase all your stats by 10 points

Failure 

Fail to complete objectives in two months.

Rewards

1,000 Exp, 1,000 yen, daily quest unlocked

"What are you smiling about, Sho?" Tetsuro asked, drawing the gamer's attention back toward the chessboard between them. "Your win isn't determined yet," he moved one of his bishops, and Sho responded by taking that bishop. The game continued, and though it was close, Sho managed to take the win.

"It's amazing how much you've improved since we started playing," Sho laughed, hiding his nervous over the comment." it's thanks to your help that I've improved," Tetsuro's chess skills were impressive, and playing against him has done great for his wisdom and strategy." thanks!" Tetsuro smiled. They played a few more games before Sho headed home, just in time to greet his father at the entrance. After a short conversation, he headed into his room, "so what are daily quests?"

[daily quests are generally small quests that can be repeated daily. Though they aren't much for experience and money, they do increase your reputation with originations and people, which can unlock hidden benefits. For example, discounts in stores and special items not open to the public. They will even be able to help you in the future. Daily quests are found from people with exclamation marks over their heads.]

"Hmm," he guessed he could keep an eye out for this kind of quest. Sho continued his way towards the lizard dungeon. With preparations, he was prepared to take on the extreme environment. For one, he switched out his pants for [blue shorts] and then prepared a few water bottles. He didn't know if he would find water in the dungeon or if that water was drinkable.

Arriving in the dungeon, he went around the mutant lizard as best he could, though he did have a few fights before he arrived. 

[hydration gauge: 95\100]

"Wow," he forgot how the heat hit him in the face, but his steps only faltered for that moment before he continued into the dungeon. The heat didn't waver in the slightest as he walked, and he was thankful for the shorts as he quickly began to sweat. He could hear the pitch of his hydration bar falling every few minutes.

[flame resistant flame lizard Lv: 22]

The teen swallowed nervously as he activated [observe], getting more information on the red-tinge lizard that was four levels above him. 

[flame resistant flame lizard Lv: 22]

n/a

Hp: 400/400

Mp: 300/300

Lp: 200/200

Str:28

Sta: 30

Dex: 29

Int: 21

Wis: 23

Cha: 11

Luk: 14

Heat resistant scales: -25% fire damage, +25 heat resistance

Sho took a deep breath, and the dry air scratched his throat. He raised his fist as he locked eyes with the mutant creature. It didn't attack first; Sho did close the distance between them, ki gathering at his fist as he brought it down on the reptile. He felt how hard its scales were through his glove, and then they cracked under his ki.

'Shit!' he mentally cursed, jumping back as the lizard bit at him. His leg came too close to being lost, 'that wasn't enough to break through.' the scales cracked, but he would need more to damage the monster's insides. Steadying himself, he struck out again, getting two ki-enhanced strikes before being forced to pull back. As he fought, the heat was sapping his strength, a growing layer of sweat.

His [ki strike] worked breaking past the scales; he targeted the weak spot he created. Staining his gloves with blood as he managed to kill the monster, the notification appeared as he stepped back. He ignored the experience amount and level-up notification as the body decomposed, leaving behind the monster's drops. Sho panted, catching his breath and whipping away the sweat. 

He couldn't do drawn-out fights in this heat; he wouldn't last. He needs to end the fights quicker, "would another technique help?" he's become pretty familiar with the feeling of his KI, so maybe he could try manipulating it without his skill. Looking around, he placed the items in his inventory to look over in a moment and closed his eyes. 

He searched for the feeling of his ki, feeling it flowing through him though centered in his chest. He monitors the flow, watching how it acted when he readied a [ki strike]. Then, he tried to direct that same feeling. He sort of got it, but he didn't know what to do. 'Smashing the scales works, but I need something better; I need to cut through them.' getting an idea, he shifted his hands into blades. Manipulating his ki, he tried to form the energy to a kind of edge.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created [ki edge.]

The message causes him to pop his eyes open after several minutes of trying to maintain the energy blades.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created [ki manipulation]

[Ki edge has been created]

[Ki manipulation (passive) Lv:1 Exp:0%]

Channel and shape Ki, the latent flow energy of the body, with skill and efficiency.

-1% Mp for Ki-type skills

[Ki edge (active) Lv:1 Exp:0%]

Shaping the Ki energy into an edge to cut and stab your enemies is a basic technique to create or enhance weapons.

+5 blade damage

25 Mp activations cost

10 Mp per second to maintain

"Yes," Sho smiled at the screen. This was definitely what he was aiming for, exactly the [ki manipulation] that had a lot of potential for the future. With a smile, he headed deeper into the cave. He quickly ran into another [flame-resistant lizard] and put his new offense skill to work. 

It scratched the scales with a downhand slash; while it wasn't much, it definitely spooked the lizard and weakened the integrity of its natural defense. Which made a difference when he struck the wound with a [ki strik] kick, allowing him to win in the end. "Need to bring up its level, but the ki knife works!" he used it through the rest of his trip into the dungeon. Exploring until he ran out of water, which was pretty fast, seeing how fast his hydration dropped when he fought. On the bright side, he got plenty of cash, almost 25,000 yen. The [heat resistant leather] seeing like it would be useful, also the [heat resistant boots recipe] he got in a stroke of luck.

He found a chest nestled behind some stalagmites in another stroke of luck. It continued a CD,[waiting for by Yo Reiri].

[cd located!]

[if you're lucky, you'll find music CDs in a dungeon. You can upload them to your music menu. While music has little value other than entertainment, it will definitely add to some of the more dry moments of the gamer's life. Besides finding them, CDs can be acquired another way…]

It left it at that and asked if he wanted to upload the CD; seeing no cons, he chose to accept, and the CD disappeared. His music menu opened a moment later; the only option was his newest action. He decided that he wouldn't play it just yet,' Maybe when I head home?' so he continued fighting. The other two things the lizard dropped were their teeth and vails of their blood. Neither of which he had a use for.

Leaving the sweltering environment was great. Though his sweat-soaked clothes were clinging to him now, 'I've got to take a shower when I get home.' he wouldn't be satisfied with a wipe-down this time. On the walk home, he used his music menu to play [Waiting For by Yo Reiri]. He had to admit that it was a lovely song.

"What should I do now?" Sho wondered as he washed up, "he completed the Mission, but he was aware that something was still coming. He didn't know what or when, but there was also his life. Though he didn't know what he wanted to be in the future, he was sure that he didn't want it to revolve around being The gamer.

"I still want to ask out, Mizuki." he was sure of this.

********

The Demon Zalgad was old; he'd also been bored for a very long while. The demon realm grew dull after a while. Playing humans in their dreams was fun, but even that became dull without change. He considered going into the human realms for a few years. But before that could happen, he heard the summons of a human; though he was incredibly excited, he remained calm as he met the human named Sho.

His first thought was this boy had potential, not just because of whatever power he had been granted. No, zalgad just had a feeling. He knew this boy would be great fun to be around, so he made a deal with him. A relatively equal one, easy to fulfill as well. Binding himself to the interesting boy before any other spirit could get the chance.

"How shall I cultivate him?" this was what he wondered at the moment. He looked around his territory. Should he go to the library or where he kept the souls of some humans. Maybe the demons that worked under him, so many options, and who knew what reaction that would have from Sho.

"Oh man, this is going to be an interesting century!" his laughter rang out in the demon realm.

*******

"Good afternoon," Sho greeted as he entered Zoey's shop. The aging woman looked up from the novel she was reading." good afternoon, sho! Are you here to purchase another book?" he nodded, and she brought out the remaining suggestions. Sho, in turn, pulled out a thick roll of cash," what hard work you've done in the last few weeks," Zoey commented, counting out the cash for both magic books. "I hope these skills serve you well!" Sho smiled, feeling pride at his accomplishment. He spoke with her a bit more before leaving with his purchases.

He kept the books in his inventory, 'Ah, I spent all my savings on two books.' he wondered how his father would react to such a thing, but he could make up the money soon. He had to get home; his dad would be home soon. 

"Okay, let's see what this magic has to offer," he ignored the screen, asking if he wanted to learn the skill, and instead opened the books themselves. Above 20 points, his intelligence and wisdom were a significant boost in digesting the books, "okay, so mind magic is kind of like mind reading, telepathy, and brainwashing. Magic around affecting the mind, While life magic was magic about creating and manipulating life forms." he was definitely going to be getting a lot of usage out of both of these new skills if only the book for life magic wasn't so disturbing.

"If it wasn't for [gamer's mind], I think I would have lost my lunch," he closed the book and allowed himself to calm down beyond what the skill gave him. Then he considered what he would need such magic for. What did his future hold that he needed such magic? It scared him, but he steeled himself and absorbed book skill books.

[life magic Lv:1 (passive/active) Exp:0%]

Life is a powerful force, existing on every inch of the planet. Somehow, managing to struggle and survive, using magic, you can harness this incredible force to bring out its true potential. 

Spell list+

[Mind magic Lv:1 (passive/active)Exp:0%]

The mind has many abilities, but few can bring out its full potential. But with his magic, you can do more than the mind's potential. Discretion, destruction, and creation are possible.

Spell list+

"Well, to see if I can put this to use?" Sho huffed as the information settled; one thing he knew was he was going to have to look into more biology books. But for now, he used his new knowledge. One thing he wanted to try was the setup for the [mind magic], which was infusing mana with his own brain. It was not that risky of a process, but he wanted to be careful of it.

So, slowly closing his eyes and adjusting his position on top of his bed, he searched for a few moments before finding his mana pool. It rested above his ki pool, and he slowly reached a thread of mana up his chest and neck. He shivered as he felt it slip into his skull, where it started wrapping around the tissue of his brain.

It took a few moments and ¾ of his mana to fully coak his brain and the mind contained within. He was relieved that it went well, "oh." he noticed that it took almost an hour and a half. Explained why his legs were asleep. Sho stretched out, regaining some feeling in his legs. He looked over the message that his [mind magic] level had been raised 3 levels.

His dad arrived home soon after, so he didn't get to explore his new magic much before that. He didn't even adjust to the feeling of his mind being more pronounced, thanks to the mana now infused into it. He couldn't describe his mind, not in a definitive form. But he could sorta feel his [gamer's mind].

Sho greeted his father as usual and talked with the man about his day. Sharing little details about his other than school. When the conversation was paused so his father could change out of his work clothes, Sho wondered what was for dinner and what else he could figure out with mind magic. 'Let's focus on this for now, work on life magic tomorrow.'

He thought about what the book said; telepathy and telekinesis sounded cool while he wasn't interested in brainwashing. 'With both of them, I need my mind to reach out in a way?' with the focus he was able to forge a thread of mental mana. It was a small thing that reached out; from the front of his head, he moved it experimentally.

"Okay," slowly, so the tread didn't break, he wrapped it around the cup of tea that sat before him. But no matter the effort, he couldn't get the cup to move. He could feel the thread's contact with the cup. 'So threads, not the best,' before he could try something else. His father came back downstairs.

Sho had a quick internal debate before he directed the mental thread towards his father, trying to sense the older male's mind. He found it but didn't go beyond that. His father's mind was different from his own. More firm, like it, had its shape for longer than he has.

Fumio showed no reaction to the mental contact, which suited Sho fine. However, the action did give him an idea. Which he put on hold until later.

Chapter Text

Arriving at the slime dungeon, Sho nervously closed his eyes and crafted several threads, something he’s practiced for the last few hours. He spread out the threads until he formed a net barely reaching 2 feet around him. It was the limit of his ability currently, so he wasn’t too upset about it, even less when it registered as a skill.

[mind magic-mind detection Lv:1 (active) Exp:0%]

Using a net of mental mana, you've created an area where you can detect other minds.

20MP to cast net

Net last 10 minutes

Range 2 feet

“No upkeep price,” he didn’t complain. But he decided that if that wasn’t a problem, he could grind this skill pretty easily. So he headed into the dungeon, though the range of his new skill was small. But once something entered it, he knew instantly. He also took the chance to practice his [ki edge], which worked better on slime than on lizards.

‘Is it because their bodies are soft?’ he wondered as he cut down a [big slime]. He took a  moment to catch his breath and let his mana refile before deciding to climb a tree to see if he could get a better look at this forest. He was more than physically capable of climbing a tree, but he had never done it before, so it took a while to figure out where to put his hands.

[due to a special action and special skill has been created]

[tree climbed (passive) Lv:1]

“Wow! At the top of the tree, he was treated to a wonderful sight; the green was wide and looked like it went on forever. Sho just looked at it for a while. Taking in the sights before he got back to his goal. He spotted a clearing pretty far from his current location, but it definitely looked important. ‘If not, I’ll eat my shoes.’ climbing down from the tree, Sho started heading in such direction.

He encountered many [big slimes] along the way, their levels growing higher the closer he came to the clearing.

[big slime Lv: 19]

He admits seeing a slime that matched his own level made him wary. But he didn’t back down; instead. He stared the monster down as ki sharpened around his hand. The slime wiggled before it jumped at him, ducking under his Sho bent, slashing his hand through its body. Chunks came free as a tentacle formed, swinging at Sho’s head.

[-10Hp]

“Ah!” Sho winced as the tentacle caught his shoulder. Putting his off balance as another tentacle came out, he managed to cross his arms before this one stuck. He felt the force in his shoulder; he fell over but quickly rolled to his feet. The next tentacle that came his way was sliced in half before he closed in, slashing more tentacles before he got close enough to cut its main body.

But that wasn’t enough to put down the slime; the monster quickly formed new tentacles to wrap up his arm. Sho brought his arm back, making the tentacles tense as he prepared another [ki edge] to cut through them. That worked until tentacles wrapped around his other arm; Sho swore and tried to pull back. The slime, having none of this, sprang out more tentacles wrapping around his legs and middle and pulled him until he was half sunken into its body.

For a panic moment, Sho tried to break free but stopped. It wasn’t as if he was in any danger, but even as several tentacles slipped into his pants, Sho wasn’t happy about losing. Not that he dwelled on it as the slime slipped into his underwear, curling around his cock. “AH!” his breath hitched as it rubbed around the glans. 

His pants and underwear were pulled down so the slime could drag his member into the main body, where it was swallowed to the base. Sho shivered; the slime sucked on his cock, every inch of it stimulated. The human panted and groaned, digging his fingers into the gelatinous body. The coil of arousal grew hotter and tighter with each passing moment. 

“Ugh,” a tremble ripped through the teen as he came, the slime happily swallowing the spurt of cum. Sho barely had a moment to catch his breath before the slime slipped between his ass checks, plunging right into his ass; Sho’s surprised cry quickly turned into a moan as the slime penetrated his ass. Twisting until it hit his prostate, drawing a sound from sho. The pleasure from the front and back quickly pushed the still-sensitive teen over the edge. Shotting another load into the slime, followed by a third. That was enough for the slime; it trembled itself before its cum gushed into Sho's ass. He trembled from the cool liquid, ’at lest it’s faded with the monster.’ which had released Sho.

[-30Lp]

[lp transferred to zalagd]

[you saftied a big slime Lv: 19]

[9,000 Exp acquired]

[you've leveled up 19>20]

“Okay, that's okay.” he picked himself up, fixing his pants as the slime faded away, leaving the usual taking its cum with it. [sllime condom] [slime lube] and, to his surprise, [slime eggs] alongside the 9,000 yen. “I don’t know what to do with the eggs I already have,” but he still moved them into his inventory before opening his stats.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 20

Exp:1.3%

Hp: 192/650

Mp: 135/600

Lp: 0/30

Str: 23

Sta: 23

Dex: 23

Int: 25

Wis: 24

Cha: 20

Luk: 20

Free points:40

Specials stats:[incubus mark] +50%Lp regeneration, +25% exp to sex/ seduction type skills

Access to [incubus] type skills

Observing the changes to his stats, Sho couldn’t figure out what to do with the free points he had. ‘I can’t decide between my mental, physical, and special stats,’ On one hand, he used his fist pretty well. But he’s also brought several books for spells; he planned to make use of some summons soon. His special stats were still a kind of a mystery to him.

Sighing, Sho closed the screen and decided to continue towards the clearing.’ this time, let’s straight out avoid them. He just wanted to see what was in the clearing and then look elsewhere. Maybe he’d find some clue about the eggs.

Avoiding the slime proved to be hard at first, but they weren't very fast. So he had to use sprint in short bursts to get around them. He made many twists and turns, but all the same, he made it to the clearing.

“Holy shit!”

[King slime! LV:40]

Show nervously backed from the clearing, though he couldn’t have seen it from the tree tops. The king slime was big, big as a boulder, and around it were many slimes of all sizes. Sho knew a fight he couldn’t win. “Hold on?” spotting something on the side of the clearing, he moved around it until he spotted a group of slime eggs. They were sitting in shallow water. 

“Is that how it's done?” he spotted one of the eggs hatch, so he needed shallow water to make the eggs hatch, ‘I wonder how well they would work with his [life magic] either way Sho was leaving at this point.

*****

“I’ve got a few minutes before school; let’s make use of that information that zalgad gave me,” standing before the summoning circle. Sho fueled the circle with his mana before switching over to his ki and setting it before the circle so that a spirit could feel it.

It took a moment before he left a response, the number of them growing very quickly. Until it was more than a few hundred, he needed to focus on his want. Let the spirit respond to it. What he wanted was pretty simple: a good future. With the people he cared for, whatever trouble was coming his way, he wanted the ability to protect them.

Several spirits pulled back, admitting they were more of guardians, proctors. But they would be much help in giving him power. Even though this kind made up the largest number of spirits, they left a good number of spirits. From those spirits, they could give him power, but not all of them had the power to protect others. 

So they left as well, which may be twenty spirits. For a moment, Sho didn’t know how to choose. But one asked a question: how would he like to gain his power.’ I’d like to learn how to fight. More ways to use my ki and magic.’ the number of spirits dropped to about fifteen. Another spirit asked about his preferred fighting style.

‘So far, I’m just using karate and some ki manipulation,’ that narrowed it down again. Three spirits, Sho didn’t know how to decide between them. He didn’t have to figure it out as all three of them noticed something. ‘That presence, is it Gaia? And the mark of an incubus?’

‘Gaia?’ Sho didn’t know that name, but before he could ask. The spirits started talking among themselves. Sho didn’t know what words were passing between them, but in the end, the two of them retreated. Leaving Sho with a message when needed help in the future. Still, that left Sho with a single spirit whom he brought into his room.

“Hello,” Sho greeted the spirit materialized in his room. He tried to ignore the fact the male spirit only dressed with the waist up. White blood-stained GI pants, with dozens of scars covering his compact muscles. His face was warm, so Sho didn’t feel like he was in too much danger.” my name is Sho Fukamachi.”

“Nice to meet you; I’m… well, you can call me Stravos. Yeah, that’s a good name!” the 6-foot spirit took a seat on the ground. “So let's talk, boy. I can train you to have the strength to face the future. Whatever reason, Gaia has gifted you that power. In return, all I want is for you to acknowledge me as your first teacher no matter what happens in the future.” he said nothing else so that Sho could think about his offer.

[“Stavos” Lv:???]

‘Observe’

“Stavos”

Lv:???

title:???

Hp:????/????

mp: ????/???

Lp:????

Str: ???

Sta: ???

Dex:???

Int:????

Wis:????

Cha: ????

Luk: ???

Special stats:?????

‘Okay, that didn’t work,’ but it did tell him that Stavos was too strong for him to get any information... But he also seemed to know something about the gamer power. Or at least who it came from. Considering what he was asking, it didn’t seem like a high price; he would be able to have other teachers from the sound of it. Which didn’t sound like a bad idea. After a few moments, Sho couldn’t find a downside.

“Alright, I’ll acknowledge you as my first teacher.” they shook hands, and the deal was struck. “Good!” then he stepped out of the summoning circle, “do you have anywhere to be soon?” the question came with a glint in his eyes that made Sho nervous.

“I have school,” Sho answered. “That will work; tell me the name of the incubus that’s marked you.”

“His name is Zalgad. Can I ask why?”

“Okay, just making sure I’m not stepping on any toes,” Sho nodded as the warrior left to speak with the incubus. While Sho went to school, meeting the Segawa siblings on the way. As he talked to them, he activated his mental detection skills, which allowed him to get familiar with the minds of his friends. During that time, he listened to Tetsuro compiling the club's new letter, which was due soon.

While he was giving his friend his ear, Sho realized that he’d never seen their stats. ‘[observe]’ he used the skill on both of the Segawa

Tetsuro Segawa

Age: 18

Title: cryptid hunter

Level: 8

Exp:50.3%

Hp:120/120

Mp:230/230

Lp: 40/40

Str:11

Sta: 10

Dex: 12

Int: 31

Wis: 27

Cha: 17

Luk: 14

Free points:6

Specials stats:n/a

Mizuki Segawa

Age: 17

Title: Student Council Member

Level: 6

Exp: 87:4%

Hp: 110/110

Mp: 130/130

Lp: 40/40

Str: 10

Sta: 12

Dex: 19

Int:  17

Wis: 15

Cha: 25

Luk: 17

Free points:7

Specials stats:n/a

‘That's a lot to take in,” the brunette thought, looking over his friends' stats. He closed the screens as another idea came to him. He never did try out the subskill. ‘[obseve: sex]’ he felt a little bad for invading his friend privately, but he couldn’t help his curiosity. His crush on Mizuki might have been a factor.

Tetsuro Segawa

Sexuality: bisexual 

Mizuki Segawa

Sexually: bisexual

[obseve: sex level up]

‘Wow!’ that really took Sho by surprise, even more, when his mind took that information and ran, making images that made his face burn slightly. “Hey Sho, is something wrong? Your face is red?” Mizuki asked, and Sho quickly panicked, coming up with an excuse while not looking her in the eyes. Tetsuro, on the other hand, smirked, having a vague idea of what happened. 

They arrived at school and split up for their own things before class; Sho was now a bit more curious and started using his observation skills more. Gaining a lot of information about his school population gave him a better idea of the average. At the same time, I saw a few outliers here and there. After reaching level 4 with [observe: sex], he gained the ability to see someone’s size, among other things.

Taro Morikawa

Sexually: pansexual

Sex drive: high

Dick size/shape: curved, 3.4(flaccid), 6.8 (erect), foreskin

Balls size: above average

Taro caught his attention because he was the only one with a high sex drive. This is probably why he was flirting with so many girls. Taro was known as a rather charismatic flirt; he even hit on Mizuki. Though he didn’t seriously hit on anyone who didn’t show any interest. Which was responsible; Sho was happy about this as he left Mizuki alone.

Another thing that caught his interest was when he was looking over Taro’s information, his incubus mark warmed up for a brief moment. He didn’t know what that meant, but he would figure it out later. Right now, he paid attention to Mono, who was telling him about a show he saw yesterday.

When the class was changing for gym, he took a small peak at the other. His gaze lingered on Taro a moment longer than a rest. The incubus mark warmed again, ‘what am I doing?’ Sho asked himself. He also wanted to know what was going on with the mark, but the only answer to that would be to ask zalgad.

Pushing the matter of the mark out of his mind and paying more attention to his sweating classmates. Something was definitely stirring at the sight of their flushed faces. The mark heated up on and off during the whole class; it was doing something he was sure of. ‘I’ll talk to zalgad now,’ he quickly excused himself to the bathroom.

Since he already struck a contract with the incubus, he didn’t need to make a circle to summon him. But he wasn’t going to do that, as it was very dangerous. Instead, he used one of the bathroom mirrors as a medium to speak with the demon.

[summoning magic has leveled up]

“So it's time then,” the demon purred as he came into view. “I won't charge you for this information.” that only made Sho more nervous about what he was going to learn, but he still asked what was going on with the mark. “It's simple: you are sexually interested in this guy. As such, the incubus mark is reacting.”

“What's going to happen?”

‘Nothing if left alone, but you can upgrade it. Which can open all kinds of possibilities for you!” it couldn’t be called anything other than a demon’s smile on zalgad’s lips. “Possibilities that will surely help you in the future?” Sho tried to get more details on these possibilities, but Zalgad said, “It completely depends on what you’ll do.”

“How would I upgrade the mark?”

“Well, that depends on you; only by performing lewd acts can you upgrade the mark. But what kind is up to your heart and the mark,” that was at least partially true? If zalgad wished he could influence the acts, but for now, he wanted to see what Sho Fukamachi had in his heart.

Sighing, Sho leaned against the sink; he was scared of his future. [gamer’s mind] didn’t change that; it didn’t change the fact he wanted to live long and happy. He didn’t even fully know what he wanted to do with his life. ‘If the possibilities of the mark can help, I should take them, right?’ for a while, he was silent before looking up with a recount expression.

“I’ll do it,” zalgad’s smile grew stronger. The fun was getting closer, “I wish you the best of luck. and Stavos is ready to talk about your training.” after shifting the mark, zalgad disappeared. Sho sighed as he felt the mark change and several messages pop up. 

[stats update: [incubus mark] has been changed to [incubus mark: grade 1]

[you can now undertake lewd quests]

[lewd quest, similar to the daily quest, is generally a tiny quest that doesn’t earn much in experience or money. But there are other benefits; doing lewd quests can unlock special items and skills. Making special connections with people. They are also the best way to increase your LP, which brings out much more. Lewd quests: can he associate with a location or people. Warning: some lewd quests are a one-time-only thing.]

“Okay,” he didn’t think he could altar his LP, but apparently he could. He wasn’t sure how likely he was to do the quest, but the option was there. Sighing, Sho turned around his step, halting seeing the pink exclamation mark on the bathroom stalls. Curious, he got closer.

[lewed quest located!]

[bating in the bathroom]

Jerk off in the school bathroom without getting caught.

Rewards: 50 exp, +0.25Lp

Sho decided he would deal with that later and went back to class, just a few minutes before it was time to change back. The rest of the day went without trouble, but he did find another lewd quest around the locker rooms. He found a daily quest with a teacher, which was just helping with some lesson plans. The teacher had somehow lost across the school, which resulted in Sho searching for them.

He didn’t mind the work, as it increased his reputation with the teacher. He managed to walk home with Mizuki, which was definitely a good thing for him. He knew his dad wouldn’t be home yet, so he took the time to summon Stavos. Who greeted him happily,” Hello, Sho, I’ve finished up your training plan! Are you ready to start?” taking a deep breath, Sho nodded, not really sure what was to come his way.

With a snap of his fingers, the world around Sho changed. His room in the middle of a bustling city was changed into a wild dirt field under the clear, sunny sky. “Don’t look so surprised. This is what's known as a protective space. During a begone period, it was used to separate the supernatural and mundane worlds. You’ll find your own uses for it after I teach it to you.”

Sho fixed his mouth and turned towards his teacher,” I'll teach it to you once you’ve passed the first portion of my training.” which caused a mission to pop up, but Sho ignored it for the moment. Stavos started explaining a very grueling training. Work out to work all of his muscle groups, at least 30 of each. Long runs and stretches followed after that, but he got into practicing his fighting.

All of it sounded like it was going to take hours and leave the brunette teen sore, even with his [gamer body]. But the real kicker was the last thing, “... you’ll be doing this all in your underwear nacked when you're ready.” for a moment, Sho felt like he misheard.” what?! Why?!”

“It's the condition that zalgad put in, something about training our heart for the acts to come.” taking a minute to connect the dots, Sho blushed. ‘I hate this, but the demon’s probably right. I need to prepare my heart.’ taking a deep breath and refusing to look the spirit in the eye, Sho said he could do it. 

Stavos didn’t waste any time,” then strip and let your first training session begin!” Nodding, Sho started pulling off his clothing, not looking at his teacher but instead looking at his new mission.

[new mission]

[“Stavos” training #1]

To build a good foundation for future training, the spirit you know as Stavos has designed a training menu for you! Now you must survive it!

objective(s)

Complete this training menu daily for a week.

Do 30 push-ups

Do 30 barbell curls

Do 30 military press

Do 30 squats

Do 30 crutches

Do 30 lunges

…

Run 2 miles

Do 15 minutes of yoga

do 15 minutes of katas

Spare with Stavos

Reward(s)

Dungeon creation skill, +100 reputation with “Stavos,” 5,000 Exp

Failure

Repeat the quest

‘Shit,’ mentally swore even with the images before he reinforced how much of a daunting quest was before him. When he was down to his boxer briefs, Sho nervously looked to Stavos, who didn’t make a fuss and had Sho start on his workout. Correcting his form before he started moving.

When he started, a counter appeared, which only rose when he did an exercise to Stavos' standards. he messed up a few times, which meant he did more push-ups than he liked. He was sweating on every part of his body by the time he moved on to the second exercise. The ache in his grew as the grueling minutes went by, sweat soaking deeply into his underwear and running down his skin. 

He was grateful for the small water breaks he got; they stopped his lungs from exploding or him just fainting mid-exercise. But he knew it was working; the number of notifications he got for his strength and stamina was making that clear. When they moved on to yoga, that was where he really struggled; he could barely do the stretches. Or hold the pose he was instructed to. A lot of work was going to have to go into that. Thankfully, the running went better than that; he was still sweaty.

“Okay, catch your breath, then I’ll check out your katas,” Sho nodded, dropping to the ground. His heart and lungs aching for air. It took a few moments before he got his breathing under control, and then he spent the next few moments dealing with his thirst. With those needs taken care of, he felt himself relax a bit; that’s when he remembered he was half-nacked. 

‘Oh god,’ Sho groaned; he felt lingering embarrassment about the fact. But it wasn’t as bad as he thought; it probably helped that Stavos didn’t show a bit of interest in the fact. ‘I really am preparing my heart.’ Sho bemoaned the loss of something as Stavos noted that Sho was rested enough.

“Not bad, but still much room for improvement. He observed Sho's basic karate stances; they weren’t bad, and only a few adjustments were needed from Stavos. He repeated the adjusted stances, noticing the feel of the changes as he repeated them for fifteen minutes; after a short break, they moved on to the sparring.

[-50HP]

He didn’t even see the first hit, only releasing he’d been hit because his head had been knocked back and his face hurt. At that moment, it sunk in completely: the sparring was going to be the worst part of his training. Especially as he revised more blows, he didn't take them standing still. But unable to see them, his attempts to block the dodge counter were fruitless. The spare only lasted ten minutes, and he was sore in a whole new way. “Ow,” he groaned, mentally checking his to see if he had lost a fourth of his health. 

[due to special action, you’ve learned a special skill]

[physcial tolerance Lv:5 EXP:45.3%]

-5% physical damage

Reading the new skill, Sho only had the worst feeling about this. It was like it was going to get way too much use of this skill. Turning his focus back to his teacher, he found the man smiling at him,” Just because your opponent outclasses you doesn't mean that you can’t bring them down. That said, you did well for our first spare.” Sho slowly nodded, feeling the pain of his bruises starts to fade away. 

He rested for a while before he put his clothes back on, and from there, he was returned to his room.” see you tomorrow!” the spirit was gone, and Sho was too tired to even think about his homework; he just wanted a nap before his dad got home. Only for the front door to open that moment, a groan left his lips.

*******

Far away from the gamer’s home, a single man made a desperate move to return to his home. To his family, he took help from someone he didn’t know. Stole some objects and escaped out into the fields. From what he knew, the person who could help him was in a different city.

‘Just have to make it, then I can return to you.’ he looked at a picture of his wife and daughter. Taking a breath, he broke into a run and didn’t look back once at the smoke and fire he left behind.

*******

The week was much harder and not than Sho thought it would be; every training session drained him incredibly. But each day lessened the impact, but he still wasn’t in the mood to head to the dungeons in the slightest. Not that he had the time at night, but he still had school most days.

Due to [gamer’s body], his exhaustion didn’t present itself in the morning, so he managed to keep it under wraps. That didn’t mean it didn’t present problems like Sho figured out that going into the slime dungeon most nights has affected him. As such, he was very horny that week, didn’t help that he couldn’t get Taro out of his damn mind. His luck was working against him, as he got more than a few lucky peeks when the class was changing into their gym clothes.

One day while they were running laps at gym class, he got the chance to watch Taro’s ass. It went straight to the brunette's dick; thankful his luck helped him avoid anyone noticing this, but it didn’t go down. ‘Well, I guess I’m taking on the lewd mission,’ sighing, he excused himself from class. Sneaking into a bathroom, he found a pink exclamation mark. He accepted the lewd quest, which caused a light to fill the room, signaling the start of the quest. With red on his cheeks, Sho nervously entered the stall, locking the door behind him as he pulled down his gym shorts along with his boxer briefs, letting his stiff member free. For a moment, he didn’t do anything considering stopping the mission. 

But he decided to continue opening a thing of [slime lube] to lather his cock. Then he began stroking his length, rubbing his fingers over the foreskin and then under it to slowly work the skin down. So he could toy with his pink head, sending shivers down to his toes as his breath grew ragged. 

Immersed in jerking his cock, Sho almost didn’t notice when someone came into the bathroom. His heart stopped for a brief moment as he thought he’d been caught. But thankfully, it seemed they only came to use the bathroom themselves; Sho decided to wait until they left. Fist tight around his cock as it pulsed with the frantic beat of his heart. 

Soon, Sho was alone in the bathroom, and he quickly finished himself off. Blowing his load over the toilet before cleaning up as quickly as he could,’ I thought my heart was going to break free,’ Sho thought, unsure if it was from fear or from excitement. But either way, he came back the next day during a different class period. He took on the lewd quest each time, getting the same rewards.

[Lewd quest complete]

reward(s):50 exp, +0.25Lp

“Huh!” it was interesting to learn how to increase his Lp which affects how many he could satisfy. At the end of the week, he managed to increase his Lp by 1 point. Another thing that he managed to increase out of his training was his [mind magic-mind detection]. Since he had the skill, he had been active pretty much every waking moment. Bring the skill to level 12, which gave it good range and effective time. 

In terms of his magic, he hasn’t improved much. He learned to sense life with his [life magic], which crested the skill. [life magic: life senseing], but he didn’t even know where to start on modifying life. Which he wasn’t internally sure he wanted to use, largely unsure how he felt about the magic. It felt wrong to alter life at his whims while he knew he would need this magic. 

“Ah, what should I do?” the matter spun around his head as he finished up his council duties for the day; he bid his fellow council members farewell as he walked out of the school. Today, he was walking home. Tetsuro had already gone home while Mizuki was staying longer. He had asked if he should wait for her, but Mizuki assumed that she would be fine. So that left Sho walking home alone.

“I’ve got to make a choice about this magic…should I test it?” but on what could he possibly test this magic. ‘It's not like I have any available subjects,’ the brunette paused, remembering he did have some subjects. The slime eggs,’ these hatch in the water, right?” Sho picked up the pace and hoped this worked. Getting home, he quickly stepped out of his shoes before grabbing a plate and filling it with water. Pulling a single egg out of his inventory and placing it in the water. Using his [life magic], he felt the life force of the egg; it was reacting to the water. ‘It will hatch, but it’s going to take time.

“Enough time for the final training session for this week!”

Chapter Text

Sho left the plate of water in his room before summoning Stavos, “Ready for training?” Sho nodded, and the spirit brought them into the field-protected space. Where Sho quickly stripped down to the briefs he put on today. He’s gotten pretty used to training in his underwear, so besides a small blush, Sho didn’t react as he started his pushups.

His workout didn’t take nearly as long as it did the first day, as his technique has improved greatly. So, while he was still dripping sweat, he didn’t need as much rest before they started sparing. Something he still got his ass soundly kicked in, but now he put up a better fight than before. Getting closer to blocking the hits that came his way. So, he managed to counter, though his kick missed by a large mile.

“The end,” Stavos replied under the kick. A double palm strick hit Sho straight in the stomach, knocking the breath out of the teen. He fell to the ground, trying to get his lungs to work for an agonizing moment. Sho gasped down a lung full of air before coughing it back up.

Stavos stood by for the moment as Sho got back to his feet. He looked down at the ground, “Hey, wipe that look off your face!” Sho didn't do much more than, “Boy, you’ve improved. Make no mistake, it's a small improvement but not enough to match me!”

[mission complete]

[“Stavos” training #1]

To build a good foundation for future training, the spirit you know as Stavos has designed a training menu for you! Now you must survive it!

objective(s)

Complete this training menu daily for a week.

Do 30 pushups

Do 30 barbell curls

Do 30 military press

Do 30 squats

Do 30 crutches

Do 30 lunges

…

Run 2 miles

Do 15 minutes of yoga

do 15 minutes of katas

Spare with Stavos

Reward(s)

Dungeon creation skill, +100 reputation with “Stavos,” 5,000 exp

Sho nodded,” so what's next?”

Stravos scuffed, “Moving forward is a good mindset. But you should always take time to think about the past and present, or you might miss something important. Failing is always your greatest teacher!”

“Yes, sir,” Sho mumbled. Stavos still wasn't happy about the downcast look on the boy's face but continued on. “ well, begin your new training tomorrow, but now let's see how well you learn about protected spaces.” the martial artist spirit took a seat on the ground and encourage Sho to do the same.

He then started a lecture. Sho was surprised to learn that making protected spaces was surprisingly simple. Energy and will, Gaia took care of the rest. Though Stavos didn’t put it in such simple terms, he also mentioned how much potential the ability had for his training, which was the spirit’s main priority. “Okay, it’s time you try,” Stavos stated as his lecture came to an end, taking down the barrier he created and leaving them in Sho’s room. The half-dressed teen nodded, standing up and holding his hand to the sky to focus. Energy gathered in his hand, he thought of forming a barrier, isolating the space from the world.

[due to a special action, a special skill had been created]

[instant dungeon creation Lv:1 ExP:0/100]

Used to create an instant dungeon

Stronger dungeons available at higher levels

Currently available ID list:

Empty id-monsters: none

“Now break it!”

That was similar to what he’d already done, but the intention of leaving the protected space.

[intant dungeon escape Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

Used to escape instant dungeons

Stravos praised the teen and then brought up another protected space so they could move on to some sparring. His teacher was holding back, but it took everything Sho had to keep up with the attacks. Blocking or dodging was all he could manage, unable to see a single opening in the battle. 

Before he left the space, Sho learned that his training was going to focus more on combat techniques. They were still going to work out, but their priorities were shifting. Sho stepped out of the protected space a little after Stavos finished telling him that. Dropping into his bed sweaty and still barely dressed. As he caught his breath, he looked at the mission notifications.

[new mission]

[“Stavos” training #2]

To build a good foundation for future training, the spirit you know as Stavos has designed a training menu for you! Now you must survive it!

objectives(s)

Spend time with 5 friends/family

Spare with Stavos daily

Land 5 hits on Stavos

Bonus objective(s)

Increase a ki skill by 2 levels

Obtain a new ki skill

reward(s)

8,000 Exp, 8,000yen, +100 reputation with Stavos

Bonus reward(s)

9,000 Exp. 8,00yen +200 reputation with Stavos per objective complete

Pushing the message aside, Sho just spent a moment resting in his bed,’ it’ll be nice to spend time with them.’ he spoke with his dad and friend daily, so it wouldn’t be abnormal for him. Stretching out, Sho noticed that his [green boxer briefs] were tighter than normal; he was erect. Reaching down, he rubbed his length through the fabric, “This is getting out of control.”

He jerked off at school earlier, yet the adrenaline of training and he was horny again. Sighing, he considered if he could take care of it or let it fade, then a lewd quest appeared.” What?!” he thought, reading the message.

[lewd quest discovered]

[another dimension streaker]

Use an instant dungeon to go streaking

Reward

150 exp, +1.5LP

Sho didn’t even consider that an idea, but at the same time, it got his attention. Stravos had only talked about the use of the skill in terms of training and combat, but it could be used for those things. As Zalgad was probably trying to point out, looking at the time, Sho figured his father wouldn’t be home that soon.

‘I can’t believe I’m doing this!’ he summoned an empty instant dungeon and walked downstairs, putting on his shoes before stepping out of the house. He kept his underwear on as he stepped outside; he didn’t move further than the front door for a few moments. Working up he never he slowly walked onto the street and then further.

Sho’s heart was a drum for the first few minutes; he was scared that someone would somehow pop into the dungeon. But nothing came, and he managed to slowly calm down, parts of the nervousness fading into a thrill. Sho knew to complete the mission, he had to strip; his heart skipped a beat at the thought, and his cock twitched.

It took a bit for him to work up the never for that; when he did, Sho moved so his back wasn’t against the wall and used the gear menu to move his underwear into his inventory. “Oh god!” for a moment, he just stood there processing the fact that he was standing butt naked out in the open. It arousing and mildly terrifying.

To get his thoughts off his conflicting emotions, he started walking, his erect member swinging with each step. Pre-cum gathered at the tip as Sho grew horner; he really wanted to touch himself. The thought of jerking off in the open sent a thrill of excitement down his spine; he spent almost ten minutes naked before the lewd mission was considered complete,” oh, thank god!” he wasn’t sure how much longer he could hold it. 

[lewd quest complete]

[another dimension streaker]

Use an instant dungeon to go streaking

Reward

150 exp, +1.5LP

Shuffling his feet, Sho wrapped his hand around the base of his leaking cock, rubbing it before moving his hand to the head, peeling the foreskin back, revealing his pink head. Sho jerked off slowly in the middle of the street; he didn’t draw out his masturbation. Pumping the head until his balls tightened, he sprayed his seed over the road.

[-10LP]

[lp transferred to zalgad]

[Masturbation leveled up]

Panting, Sho felt his member soften in his hand; as his arousal faded, it was replaced by a flavor of embarrassment. Sho didn’t regret what he’s done, but he still used the gear menu to quickly dress in some causal clothes. “Let's go home!”

Arriving in his room, Sho brought down the dungeon and moved to grab his bookbag,” Okay, my homework, then a nap.” he was still really tired from his training, but he got through one assignment before a cracking sound started in his room. Which confused the brunette for a moment before he remembered the egg sitting in a dish. 

Turning around in his chair, Sho watched as one of the eggs split open and a slime smaller than a golf ball wiggled free. Sho thought it was an adorable little thing, but it didn’t seem too smart. Slowly, so he didn’t start the creature, Sho moved closer to the plate and lifted it out,” [observe].”

Newborn Slime 

Age: 0

Title: n/a

Level: 0

Exp:0%

Hp: 10/10

Mp: 5/5

Lp: 0/0

Str:0

Sta:0

Dex:0

Int:0

Wis:0

Cha: 4

Luk:3

“You absolutely defenseless,” Sho commented as the slime moved over his fingers. He wanted to keep it safe but was not entirely sure how. “Maybe I could use my life magic or gamer power?” as he thought about it, he remembered a bit of information from when he absorbed the life magic skill book. Something about creating imprints was probably what he wanted.

The problem was that he didn’t know exactly how it was done.’ I guess it’s time to work some magic.’ Closing his eyes, Sho channeled his mana and lifeforce into life magic. He felt his own life force, which was a lot more active than that of the slime than when it was an egg. He wasn’t sure what to do from his point of view, going over the information that he had about imprints.

‘A life magic imprint is described as a mark left on another creature,’ so that meant a part of life magic? Not really knowing what else to do,” Sho worked to separate a portion of his life magic. Then, passing it into the slime, the first part took a few attempts. The second part was harder as the slime put up resistance, but the newborn was much too weak to resist Sho’s magic.

[-50Hp]

[weak imprint implanted in [newbron slime]

[life magic has leveled up]

“Yes!” he wasn’t sure what he meant by [weak imprint], but he accomplished something anyway! Should he hatch the rest of the egg?” Sho didn’t know what else to do with the rest of them, so he grabbed a larger dish and filled it with some water before bringing it back to his room, where he set the remaining 8 eggs setting them in the water.

While they hatched, Sho worked on his homework while the firstborn slime wiggled around his desk. By the time he finished his homework, Sho realized how late it was and that his dad wasn’t home. ‘I probably shouldn’t level my phone in the inventory,’ pulling it out, he found a message from his dad telling him that he was going to be late due to a company drinking party. 

“I guess I’m by myself,” Sho sighed and pushed from his desk. Looking over his inventory, he realized that he had forgotten something,” reaching in, he pulled out the [lust presence skill book]. He followed by opening his stats. “I have enough points to work with.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 20

Exp:21.1%

Hp: 192/650

Mp: 135/600

Lp: 32.5/32.5

Str: 37

Sta: 38

Dex: 32

Int: 25

Wis: 24

Cha: 20

Luk: 20

Free points:40

Specials stats:[incubus mark: grade 1] +50%Lp regeneration, +25% exp to sex/ seduction type skills

Access to [incubus] type skills

“Yoga improved my dexterity more than I thought,’ training also gave him some exp. Sho put that information away while he dumped 8 points into his charisma stat and then absorbed the skill book.

[lustfull presence Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

(passive)

Your presence can ignite lust in others, boosting your chance of seduction

+5% boost to seduction

2-foot range

“Okay, that would definitely be useful,” Sho closed the screen and lifted up the newborn slime. He passed the time playing with it and grinding his new instant dungeon skills. He managed to bring both to level five before his dad got home.

The tipsy man needed a bit of help making it up to his room,” you're a good kid.” his father said, flopping into his bed.” Sho smiled as he set a bottle of water and aspirin by his father’s table. Before going to take his bath, the rest of the eggs hatched by the time he got out, and he took them one by one, leaving [weak imprints] on each. He gained another two levels of his life's magic before he went to bed.

[You’ve slept in your bed, and HP, MP, and LP are fully restored.]

Sho wiped away the familiar message, looking down at the cool things that gathered around his legs. Lifting his covers, he found the slimes had climbed into his bed at some point,” how cute.” he kind of didn’t want to wake them, but he did have school. ‘Actually, are they asleep? Or hungry?’ it started hitting show that he didn’t know how to care or communicate with them.

“Mind magic!” he realized after a few moments of thought. He could develop telepathy, which would definitely help him care for the slime and any other monster that he brought into his home, for the moment, because there was now what it was going to be that easy. He left some fruit and water for the slimes as he got ready for school. Eating breakfast with his slightly hung-over father.

As he walked to school, Sho tried to figure out how he would even start developing telepathy. Of course, this was while he was talking with Mizuki and Tetsuro; when they closed in at the school, he popped a question to them. “ um, do you have time to hang out after school?”

“Huh,” Mizuki stopped and then paused to think.” I have a bit of shopping to do, but after that I’m free. What about you, big brother?” Tetsuro paused to think about it,” Ah, I have to work on my clubs. But I’m sure you two can have fun without me?” when Mizuki's back was turned to him, Tetsuro gave Sho a smile and thumbs up.

The gamer’s face turned red, and he refused to acknowledge this as he finalized his plans with Mizuki. They would meet after school, and for now, they split ways for their own classes. There weren’t any council meetings today. So Sho was free to spend the time before class with his other friends; they talked about a new manga that was coming out. The moment he mentioned his plans to them, Takaya and Mono started teasing him.

“Shut up,” he blushed and looked away from them. Instead of focusing on the teacher as they entered the class, he took the notes he needed and did the work. With some doodles all over it, he wondered what the teachers thought of his growing art.

[drawing has leveled up, 7>8]

The school bell rang, signaling the end of the school day, and Sho quickly packed up his things; he ignored the teasing expression from his friends. He knew he was being a bit too eager to hang out with Mizuki, but he couldn’t help it. She made his heart flutter with her mere presence. He hung around the gate until she came, casting his net of mental mana. Studying the mind that entered his range, trying to see if he could feel something of their emotions and thoughts.

“Sho!” he jumped and looked towards Mizuki as she came over, “ are you ready to go?” Sho nodded, and they started walking towards the shopping center; they had a light conversation about their school work. Sho wasn’t having any problem thanks to increasing his stats above the average; that wasn’t a reason to study, which was just as tedious as before.

Mizuki’s shopping was clothes shopping, wanting something for the coming winter. Sho didn’t think she’s grown out of the clothes she had last year, but he decided not to comment. Instead of looking through the clothes aisle himself, ‘I could use some gear,” though he would like something with high durability or defense.

[observe leveled up 10>11]

He scanned dozens of clothing articles, but none of them were more impressive than his usual clothing, ‘maybe I’d be better off summoning a spirit?’ zalgad had given him information about spirits known for their crafting skills. But at the same time, they would want a real physical payment. Like money he didn’t have, he could probably learn to do it himself, but that would take time.

Wandering down the underwear aisle, Sho noticed that the skimpy underwear, like jockstraps, offered a bit more charisma. But they possessed less defense and durability. ‘ trade-off, I guess,’ he definitely should look into ways to upgrade his clothing or buy higher-level stuff. ‘But it’s not that important right now,’ his training was more important.

He joined Mizuki at the checkout, with her shopping done. The two high schoolers hung out around the shopping center, checking out a few stores but not really buying anything. Sho spotted several daily quests he was going to come back to later; they did stop in a bookstore where Mizuki checked if they had the next copy of a novel she’s recently gotten into. 

Unlike her brother, Mizuki preferred fantasy stories. Skimming one of the books in the series, Sho realized something,’ I could do that!’ in theory, he could do some magic in this book. It probably was not as easy, but it gave him an idea of how to make the new ki skill. Or magic skill! ‘Later, I came to spend time with Mizuki!’ he didn’t make a note to come back later, but the two of them continued window shopping and talking about life. What they’ve been doing and what they might do later. They were in their second year, begging to think about their futures. College work. It was stressful for them. They didn’t know what the future held, and that was worrying.

“Mizuki, um.” he scratched his cheek, which bloomed red,” no matter what the future has for us, no matter how bad or good. You can rely on me, you know that?” Mizuki blinked; the words were a little out of the blue, but they were definitely heartfelt. “ thanks, sho, “ she smiled, and Sho’s face got warmer,” but remember, I’m here for you as well. I’ll help you in any way that I can.”

The sentiment warmed his heart, but at the same time, he didn’t want to get her hurt. Honestly, he would keep her far and safe from whatever was about to happen to him. But at the same time, he remembered that since he’d gotten his gamer ability. He’s been preparing for something; should he prepare the people around him for that same thing. He didn’t know,” I’ll keep that promise in mind.” he offered his hand to shake, but that was all he could say at the moment.

They shook hands before they continued with their time together. It was fun, and they walked home together. Sho went right into his training when he got home, Starvos pulling out some kung fu and Muaythai on him. Switching between the styles only when Sho started to get a grip on them. 

“There are many styles in the world; over this week, I’m going to get you familiar with as many of them as I can,” the man said before getting him with a foot jab combo. Followed by a roundhouse kick, it knocked the wind out of Sho and took more than twenty hp from him. But besides that, not much else. 

The sparring match came to an end after an hour, “oh god.” Sho groaned when he left the dungeon, stepping into his room where the slimes gathered at his feet. He frowned when he saw them; they drank the water but didn’t touch the fruit. Which meant they ate something else, “I’ll figure it out.” loading his arms, Sho carried them downstairs and tried to see if they would eat anything in the fridge.

They didn’t, ‘I guess I could take them back into their native dungeon and see if they’ll eat.’ sighing, he decided to do it after his dad got home. ‘Until then, I guess I could do my homework,’ his increased intelligence made that get done pretty quickly, and Sho decided to grind his skill. An empty dungeon allows him to practice his offensive skills on a tree.

[ki strike leveled up]

[ki edge leveled up]

[ki manipulation leveled up]

“Yes!” Sho smiled, whipping the sweat from his forehead. He quickly checked inside to see if his father was home. Just in time to see the man walk in through the door, the sight triggered a panicked scramble back to his room. Which he came down from to join his dad.

This was followed by the two speaking as storms gathered over the city and the surrounding area. It was a dangerous time to be on the mountain roads. Dangerous enough that the police had to patrol the roads, keeping an eye out for crashes. One officer happened upon a car smashed against the railing; he hurriedly pulled over and rushed over to the car.

Reporting the crash so an ambulance would be en route, he checked over the passenger. Besides how ragged and tired the man was, look, the officer didn’t see any blood. But the man was unresponsive until the officer noticed the case in the passenger seat. He reacted a bit more when questioned about it; from the way the man was acting, the officer thought the man was on drugs and moved to confiscate the case.

That got a full reaction from the ragged man; he transformed into a massive monster. Knocking the officer into the cliffside before rushing off into the dense forest, ‘I have to make it home! I’m so close!’ he held the package close to himself as he raced between the trees.

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Sho blinked, confused about what woke him in the night, then he felt something cool slide agist his balls. His cock gave a twitch as Sho sat up, ripping off his covers, yanking his pants, and [blue boxerbrriefs] down to see a slime. “AH!” the tension left his body just as fast as it appeared, gently removing the creature from his pants and putting them back.

“Are they going to be like their parent?” Sho wasn’t sure how he felt about that. But he could deal with it, as long as satisfying them didn’t make them disappear. Whipping away the usual wake-up screen, Sho checked the time. It was a good three hours until he had to get ready for school. He decided to make use of that time; getting out of bed, Sho used his [gear] menu to change before climbing out the window and going for a run.

His run took him towards the shopping center, which had little activity this early in the morning. But what Sho came here for was a quick trip into the bookstore; he managed to obtain two books with magic and another with ki in it. They were both action books, so he believed he could get some inspiration or at least a nice read.

Sho walked back to his home, reading the books as he did so. There were plenty of ideas for him to try out. He had one that seemed like it would be really useful to him, climbing back into his house. Sho took a seat on the floor and focused on the flow of chi in his body. Slowly, he focused the flow of the warm energy into his ears, which gave him a better image of his own ear drums.

Thanks to the biology books he read, Sho had a good understanding of how ears worked. It also allowed him to know what part of his ear he should focus the energy on. But that didn’t achieve what he wanted, “what am I doing wrong?” 

Several more minutes passed in silence, slims slowly gathering around his still form before he noticed the problem. The ki was only coating his eardrum, “maybe.” slowly, he infused his ki with it, and the chance was sudden. “AH!” he jumped, clutching his ears at the sudden influx of noises from the house and beyond. 

She spent several moments trying to get the ringing out of his ears before trying again.” this time only a slither of ki,” the slither worked. His hearing was enhanced, and he could hear more than he’d ever in his life. ‘That’s dad’s snoring.’ it was oddly nice to hear that as he looked over to the messages.

[due to special action, a special skill has been created]

[ki enhance (active) Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

Use one’s ki to increase there physical capability

+1% increase in physical stats

+5 increase in senses

15mp per second

Objective complete 

[“Stavos” training #2]

Obtain a new ki skill.

9,000 Exp. 8,00yen +200 reputation with Stavos rewarded.

‘I’ll have to work on it,’ but it was what he wanted, and it definitely was going to come in handy. Sho smiled at the rewards, and the rise in his reputation with his teacher was great. Smiling, he turned toward the slime. Petting them before he explored the new skill, trying it out on his senses. The weirdest was touched; he could feel his clothes more than ever. He saw the dust in his room and smelled some things he didn’t know. 

“Ugh, is that my laundry?” he made a note to get some candles or something; withdrawing his ki, he pulled out his mana alongside some paper. He didn’t know if magic circles were an actual thing, but at least he would try it. 

‘ The first step is to put mana into the pencil,’ which proved to be easier than he thought. Yes, there was resistance from the material, particularly the lead. But that just took more mana.

[a special action has created a special skill]

magic infusing (active) Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

Infuse mana/magic into objects for varying effects

Pure mana: 5% to stats

Life magic:???

Mind magic:???

“I guess,’ he wasn’t sure how much potential this skill had, as he only knew life and mind magic. Something to look into, but right now, Sho is focused on the task of drawing out a circle. Mana clung to the marks he left, not spreading further than the simple circle.” okay!” that showed, but what did he do next.

After a few minutes, Sho wrote the kanji for light in the circle,’ “AH!” the paper exploded into a blinding light for about three seconds. The spots in his vision lasted a lot longer than that, “Okay, I can make magic circles.” but there was a lot of work for improvement; looking over the paper, he noticed that the writing was still on the paper. But the energy was gone from it. On the cruise, he played with more circles. Getting more flashbangs in the face.

“I’m doing something wrong,” usually, he would get some kind of skill or announcement. So he was doing something wrong,’ but he didn’t have the sleight clue. He didn’t know enough about magic, to begin with, ‘ maybe I can talk to Zalgad or head to Zoey’s store?’ either of those would get him a good deal of information. 

He decided to head to Zoey's store, mostly because he hadn’t seen her since he bought his last magic books. “As long as I’m quick, there shouldn’t be a problem; it also helped that he opened the door from inside his house.

“Hello, Miss Krauss!” the older lady looked up from her book,” hello, boy, it’s been a while.’ looking closer, she could tell he’s gotten much stronger,” how have you been? How much progress have you made with those books.” Sho walked over to the cash register. “ good, what do you mean progress?”

“Oh, mind and life magic are really complicated and powerful types of magic; if you manage to master even one of those types of magic, you’ll be one of the most powerful people on this earth.” For a moment, Sho almost laughed. “What's wrong? Are the books too hard? I have some easier spells book if you’d like to try something else.”

“Uh, no, my ability made understanding the magic pretty easy, but I’m stalled on what to do with them.” Zoey blinked, which sounded like a very powerful ability, something less combat-oriented than she expected. “Well, that's very interesting; what about the spirit summoning a type of magic that takes luck and conversation skills.

“I’ve managed to contract right now, but I’m holding off as I don’t completely know how to pay other spirits.” She knew that was a wise choice; he was much cooler-headed than he thought. “Well, you’ve certainly surprised me. What can I help you with.”

“One of the spirits I’ve made a contract with a.. spirit. He’s helping me with my marital arts and ki, but I also want to work on my magic,” he explains the flash boys he’s been making plus what he’s been able to do with his mind and life magic. Which was very impressive. For a moment, Zoey thought about how her shop could help him.

“Well, there are two things I think can be done to increase your understanding of magic in general and a few spell books for you two magic types!” she paused to give the teen a chance to think about it, and after a moment he pulled out his wallet to count his current bills. The number of yen he had wasn’t small, but neither were the price tags on her wares.

Sho decided to take the book about the basics of magic, which cost more than 21,000 yen. ‘I needed to go back into the dungeons,’ when he picked up the book, he was surprised not to get a notification. ‘So it’s like the biology and computer books,’ complete theory, which meant he had to spend time reading it. 

Sho spent a while talking to Zoey before he left her shop and returned to his own home. With an hour to get to school, he immediately started getting ready for school. Brushing his teeth and getting dressed. He went downstairs to have breakfast.

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 “Good morning, Dad!” greeted his father as he sat down to eat the breakfast the man prepared; he vaguely ignored the screen telling him the bonus he was getting from the food. Instead, enjoyed the quiet moment with his family as the news anchor spoke about a crash and something about a monster.  Sho would have paused a few weeks back at the later part. He might have pushed it off. But he knew the supernatural was real now.

‘Later,’ he told himself as he finished up and rinsed his dishes. He grabbed the garbage because his father asked him to take it out, giving him a quest. Putting on his shoes, he headed out of the house with his dad behind him. They split ways at the gate; Sho dropped off the trash before joining Mizuki and Tetsuro to walk to school.

On the way, a truck passed them; it looked like an ordinary truck. Sho picked up several minds, they felt different. When he brushed them he felt like there was another connection to the mind, the truck was already gone before he could take a closer look.

‘Why do I feel like that’s trouble?’ he was going to focus on school, for now, trying to spend time with his remaining friends. He did play with his [ki armament], trying out his enhanced senses in public. He himself had a mild headache as he adjusted to the increased stimulation. But he was getting used to it around gym class; he also earned two levels in his new skill.

At gym class, where once again, he got lucky and was able to watch taro without any notice, his enhanced senses playing a hand in that. The teen’s cock was pressing against the confines of his underwear; the thin gym shorts weren’t hiding much. It was also rubbing a lot, which was a problem thanks to his enhanced sense of touch. Pre-cum was leaking from his cock; he tried to ignore it for the first few minutes. But he felt the spot growing too big, and he knew how thin his shorts were.

He quickly excused himself to the bathroom, unaware that someone had come after him. He made a beeline for the usual, his mind wandering about the sexual use of his ki, something he hadn’t really thought about before. He didn’t think about the sexual part of his power often.

Slipping into the bathroom, Sho saw the message for the lewd quest appear,” huh?” only to pause as he noticed that the message had changed.

[bating in the bathroom V2]

Jerk off in the school bathroom with the stall door open.

Rewards: 75 exp, +0.5Lp

“It doesn't say anything about getting caught,” which wasn’t as scary and more arousing than it should be. Sho moved into the stall, leaving the door open before pulling down his shorts and underwear. As he slowly stroked the base of his cock. He considered how he should get off; he wanted to play with his ass.

‘I guess I could show [ki armament] affects me sexually,’ he already knew it made him more sensitive. But did it have any other effect? He was about to find out. Removing one leg from his shorts, Sho braced himself against the wall of the stall, taking a second to coat his fingers in slime lube. Sho reached around the back to rub his finger against his rosebud. “UGH!” the neverending were more sensitive than usual, taking him by surprise. 

Easing his finger inside took a few moments, but he couldn’t help the groan. He started rocking his finger, working his ass losses until he could add a second finger in. They rubbed his inner walls going straight to his leaking dick.

He lightly pumped the swollen member, the enhanced senses made it feel so much more than usual, and if he wasn’t careful, he would cum prematurely.

As his hand settled into a rhythm, his mind drifted,” Mizuki…taro…” he moaned the names as his finger rubbed against the bundle of nerves inside him. Pre-cum leaking from his cock, his senses were completely focused on his pleasure. Every nerve lit up as he breathed rashly, the names coming past his lips. His imagination ran images about them both.

“Nnuuggm!” his orgasm wracked his entire body. Cum flew up his stomach, landing in warm white stripes against his skin, eyes half open. He pulled his fingers out. Riding his high, his senses turned outward, and he heard the faint rustling of fabric.

Sho's head snapped in the direction of the noise, “ug, hi!” Taro Morikawa stood there with his erect cock out. Sho was frozen as he processed the implications of that. The other teen had possibly watched and heard what he had just done.

“Umm,” Sho swallowed, “you saw?” taro nodded, and Sho’s face burned brighter. ”did you hear?” there was a faint hope; it died violently when Taro nodded again.” oh God!” Sho wanted to disappear so badly.

“Don't worry, I’m not upset you think of me when beating your meat!” While that was nice to hear Sho was still very much embarrassed. He quickly decided that he should clean up and head back to gym class but taro had a different idea.

He closed in on Sho and gave his best smile,” in fact, I liked it,” he gestured to his rock-hard cock. This was inforced by a screen showing up that stated he’s gained 100 reputation with the other teen. 900 more, and he would leave neutral territory. “ but I wonder if you’ll take responsibility for it?”

Sho looked at taro who stood before the doorway of the stall, he was a susspoin at what he was going on about. If he was right than he was as excited as he was nervous,” of course i won’t hold it against you if you don’t want to.”

“If you want me to get you off, then I would be okay with that, but I think we need to get back to class.” that wasn’t an excuse. He genuinely thought they should get back to class.” you're right, and you don’t have to take responsibility right now.” taro took a step back, smiling all the same. Pulling up his shorts.

Sho nodded letting out a breath before he started cleaning himself up, he was awaree that taro was watching him. He tried to ignore him by looked at the notification for the three skills level up and the mission completeion.

[bating in the bathroom V2 complete]

Jerk off in the school bathroom with the stall door open.

Rewards: 75 exp, +0.5Lp

[fingering levleed up 6>7]

[sex magic: cleanse leveled up 3>4]

[Masturbation levled up 15>16]

Swiping away the screen, he moved to wash his hands before leaving the bathroom, with Taro right behind him. “Hey, can I have your phone number?” Sho paused at the thought before nodding; there really wasn’t a reason to say no. But that was something for them to do after gym class. 

After changing back into his school uniform, Sho traded numbers with Taro. Something that had his heart squirm; it was nice to have another person’s number. Only five people had his number, including his father. “See you around, sho!” he gave a dazzling smile that made Sho’s heart skip a bit.

[new mission]

Sho left his dazed state at the notification.

[taro Morikawa seduction]

You've gotten someone's attention now is the chance to worm your way into their heart and their pants!

Objective(s)

Raise your reputation with [Taro Morikawa] to be well-liked

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Bonus objective(s)

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reward(s) 12,000 experience, taro joins your [???], +1000 reputation with zalgad

Bonus reward(s)14,0000 exp, +500 reputation with zalgad

Sho bit his lip as he looked over the new mission, he wasn't against it as he wanted to get close to the other than already. So this was just kind of a bonus. Sighing he closed the screen and focus on class.

As he did he considered who he would hang out with this afternoon before he had his training. His only real choice at the moment was to ask, so he tried to focus on his classes. But they were boring even before he raise his intelligence.

"Let's see what that magic theory book has to say," he murmured, pulling the book from his book bag, opening it over his desk, and starting to read it. ‘Magic is the phenomenon that allows one to impose their power on the rules of the world…’ magic theory proved to be a lot more complex and interesting than Sho expected.

It gave him ideas on how to better wield his magic and showed him How impressive it was he knew the two spells he knew. First, he knew very little about shaping mana, which was incredibly important for all forms of magic. He knew less about elemental shaping, just as important.

The more complex the magic the more variables you had to account for so the spell didn't blow in your face, the examples the book gave him made him think about his spirit summon circle. Something he vaguely understood.

He knew the circle did three things, first assist him in calling out to spirits. Second, open a portal for those spirits to step through, third, erect a barrier if the spirits attempted to attack him.

Reading the book, gave him a bit more understanding like he made a mistake with the barrier. It only stopped what it had the energy to stop and he only gave it mana when he used it. He doubted it would stop something as strong as the spirits he's summoned.

‘I’m lucky, very lucky!’ Sho thought. In response, his power brought up a message about his luck increasing. Sighing, he closed the book and rubbed his head. He was getting a headache by how much he had to rethink his magic usage; it was definitely something he would put more thought into. By the time the last bell had rung, he managed to finish the book, getting two notifications.

[+2 intelligence & wisdom]

[you’ve ovation basic magic theory Lv: max]

[basic magic theory Lv: max]

The basic theory of magic is the guiding line that any beginner magic user must understand and follow.

-5% mana wasted

-5% casting time

Sho blinked at the second screen as he put away the book and grabbed his bag, heading out of the school. He meets Tetsuro and Mizuki at the shoe locker, Tetsuro moaning about his club newsletter. Something the club president wants done today,” you should have done it earlier,” Mizuki had a little empathy for her brother at the moment.” I promised a friend that I would help her with some shopping; she's getting something for her boyfriend.” Mizuki sighed as she finished pulling on her shoes. Tetsuro sighed before turning to Sho.” Hey, what about you?”

The brunette paused for a moment,” I’ve got nothing until later today.” up till his training, he really didn’t have any other real plans. Tetsuro smiled, and the two turned around and headed up to the sci-fi club room. There, they spent a few hours working on the new paper. Sho getting notifications about skills related to the task. He brushed most of them away.

“Thanks, Sho, that was a real-life savor!” Tetsuro stated as they finally left the school. They had already made it down the road, specify the road that boarded the forest of their small town. Looking at the trees that passed. Tetsuro glanced over to see Sho staring straight ahead, thinking to himself.

“Hey Sho, come with me for a moment!” Tetsuro said before walking into the trees Sho blinked but followed after him. They travel the forest land in silence for a few minutes until they came to the small lake, where Tetsuro took a seat on the edge of the water.

He looked at the clouds drifting around the sky. For a moment, the two of them took in the peace that surrounded them. Like everything in the world would be okay, like everything was okay. At that moment, Sho felt the subconscious weight of his bad future lift slightly.

“Something has been bothering you recently,” Sho jerked slightly. But he didn’t manage to deny it; he’s managed to not lie to anyone he cared about in the past few weeks, and he would rather keep it that way. “Look, I won’t force you to talk, but I’m willing to listen.”

Sho was quiet for a few minutes, both unaware of the chase in the forest behind them. The desperate man running from armed goons had a goal. He was getting closer, and so were his pursuers.

“I’ve been worried about my future,” it wasn’t a lie. Just not the full truth; he wasn’t sure if Tetsuro really bought it, but the slightly older teen didn’t comment. “The future, huh?” Tetsuro looked at the clouds rolling across the sky. “The future that is unsure, I can imagine worrying about what may or may not happen.”

“Well I do know this sho?” the brunette took at the teen loading in the grass.” your dad will definitely be at your side, and so will i. And mizuki, takaya and morio. Whatever your future has remember you have people who will help you.”

Sho took a deep breath, ignoring how his eyes stung. Tetsuro’s words rang true and deep; just the thought of sharing his burden weighed on his heart. He didn’t want to bring them trouble,’ but can I even keep them out of it?’ depending on how bad things went, he doubted he could keep them out.

So that left the question of when he told them. Did he tell them beforehand or when they got caught up in it? Which would be better? Which would make them safer and happier? Would they be mad? Scared? Sho didn’t know; there were so many things to consider. Sho took a deep breath, then turned to Tetsuro, who was watching the clouds again. Maybe he could start with one of his oldest friends.

“Tetsuro-” but before he could go any further, an explosion went off in the forest. Smoke rose above the tree tops, where the desperate man had been corned. Where he decided if he couldn’t make it home, he wouldn’t go back even if it cost him his life.

Seeing the smoke, [gamer’s mind] activated, and Sho gathered the mana to launch a mental net. But before he could finish, he heard something hit the ground. Looking, he saw some kind of disk landing on the ground, faint smoke wafting off it. Sho was quick to use [observe] on it, “What?”

[?????]

??????

‘Nothing!’ that could only mean his skill level wasn’t enough to scan whatever was lying before the teen. The thing Tetsuro was pocking with a stick, “What?! Tetsuro, it could explode!” or worse, he didn’t know what was possible.

“It doesn’t look like an explosive, I thought it might be a part of what blew up earlier. But this looks whole and unscathed.” he put down the stick he was using and got closer to the device things. Ignoring Sho’s attempt to get him to leave. 

Picking up the object with a little difficulty, Tetsuro observed the oddly heavy object. He wasn’t sure what it was. But it looked like the outer casing was metal, something solid. The metal in the center was a different type, shinier. What was around it through? He wasn’t sure. “MM!” 

“What's wrong?” Sho asked, readying his ki, mana, mind, and life magic for battle! “Nothing,” Tetsuro said, not sounding all that sure.” I just thought I saw something!” Then, as if the universe wanted to prove him right. Something wiggled; the thing that was in his hand was alive and moving. In a moment of panic, Tetsuro blindly throws the object.

By luck, it flew at Sho, who easily caught the object, feeling something give under his hand.” huh!” he looked at the object, “I think I just pressed something,” he could feel the air going still. Like something big was about to happen.

Then, the center metal started glowing. The light shining right into the teen’s eyes, he felt his life magic reacting. He could feel the phenomenal life force in it, and then the thing lept from his hands, the casing opening to let out a mass of squirming tentacles. 

“What!!” Sho immediately channeled his ki to his fist; he went for a swing, the tentacle only wrapped around his arm. Pulling the center of its body closer, the shining button-like metal placed itself on the teen’s forehead.

“AAHHHH!!” birds took to the ear from Sho’s scream! He could feel it invading his flesh, between his muscles and bones. Over his nerves and veins, Sho was terrified to get even worse. This thing wasn’t inflicting pain, nor was he actually getting hurt as it invaded his body. But that only made it worse in Sho's panicked state. 

From Tetsuro's point of view, he had watched, trembling as his friend had been devoured by the squirming fleshy mass. Bits of it fell to the ground as Sho’s scream stopped, only to start up worse as he clutched his head. The mass covering him starting to take a more defined form.

“AAAAHH! AAAAH!” the gamer screamed as he stumbled back, more and more details forming. It even changes into a more teal color, lenses formed at its eyes, and metal appears around the mouth and top of the head. The button-like metal on Sho’s forehead flashed once more before the teen tripped.

Tumbling right into the lake, the disturbed water quickly settled. “Sho?” Tetsuro whispered, trembling, his mind begging to process what he just witnessed in the last few moments. He moved closer to the lake; he should help him before he drowns. Then Sho would be okay, ‘no, he needs a doctor…what doctor can help with this?’ he didn’t know anything but to get Sho out of the water and then think of something.

“Huh?” he heard the sound of footsteps; Tetsuro turned around, thinking he could get help for retrieving his friend. But when he turned, he saw several men dressed in blue body suits and white armor. Helmet with visors covering their faces and a gun in each hand, but what really caught his attention was the fucking monster.

“Oh,” one of the armed men noticed the quivering teen. “You’ve been spotted, Gregor!” the green-horned monster grunted, looking at the teen. It grunted,” No choice. We’ll have to exterminate him!” then the one called Gregor started walking closer. 

‘Exterminate? They’re going to kill me,’ a part of him knew that he should get up and run, but his legs wouldn’t work. They trembled and shook; he couldn't seem to get them under him. Couldn’t get traction in the grass as the sun started to set. Orange light settled over the forest; as the monster got closer, Tetsuro couldn’t help but think about what would happen when he was gone.

‘Mom, dad, Mizuki, sho,’ oh god, what was going to happen to sho. He was still in the lake, possibly drowning. But he didn’t have time to think about it when the monster raised its claw, its shadow covering the glasses-wearing boy’s face. “AAH!!” screamed as he covered his face, bracing himself for the pain.

“Huh?” Gregor paused in his murder when he noticed another person in the clearing. Though he wasn’t sure if he could call it a person. True it was more humanoid than he was. 174 cm tall, the teal being had armor-like skin. Two red lenses in its face stared right at Gregor.

“Who are you? a zoanoid?” they didn’t answer just began to advance at him. “Fine you don’t want to answer than prepared to be destroyed!” Gregor charged as the mysterious humanoid came to a stop and raised its hands.

“A contest of power!” one of the armor men almost laughed. “ against Gregor how foolish!” the two beings clashed, at first it appeared Gregor had the upper hand pushing the teal humanoid back. But that only lasted a moment before the tall humanoid planted his feet and started pushing Gregor back.

“I’m losing a contest of strength,” Gregor groaned, attempting to push back. “How can something so small have this strength?!” he wouldn’t get his answer as the smaller things started bending his arms down. The horned creature groaned in pain as its bones and muscles fought to resist.

“AAA!” but it was futile as the small creature snapped Gregor's arms right at the elbows, blood and bits of bone going flying. It then released Gregor's limbs, letting them hang limply as the monster groaned in pain and blood pooled on the ground.

Panting, Gregor leaned forward as if to fall over, but he suddenly thrust his head forward, horn directly aimed at the teal being's chest. The impact echoed out against the clearing. Gregor's companions smiled at the victory, believing the battle was over. 

Right up to this point, they heard him groaning. “What?” one of them shouted as they noticed that Gregor's attack had missed. The teal being’s hands wrapped around some of his horns, keeping the attack from reaching his chest.

Then, with the pivot of its arms, Gregor's neck was snapped, blood spurting from his mouth. It released his head, and Gregor fell to the ground, body twitching as he attempted to breathe through his snapped neck. The light was fading from his eyes as his killer turned to the rest of the clearing. Its gaze drilled into the minds of the armed men, who started back horrified.

“Gregor been overpowered,” several took steps back. “ begin a retreat. Protect the unit we’ve recovered!” with a clear order the men calmed down and began a retreat into the forest. The leader took up the rear making sure they weren’t followed. 

It seemed like things were good for a few moments before the being turned to Tetsuro, shocking him out of his paralyzed state. His limbs managed to work this time as he tried to coral away. “Tetsuro?” the mentioned teen paused at the voice; though it sounded like it came through a filter, he recognized it. 

“Sho?”  Tetsuro slowly turned his head. 

“Tetsuro, what happened?” Sho asked, turning to face; he realized he was inside something. Looking down at his hands, he didn’t see how own. ‘What is this? Where did this come from? Is this that thing?’ at that moment, he realized that he could feel things inside his body? Connected to his brain, his lungs and hurt, his bones and blood. 

“AAAAH!” he screamed, wanting out! In response, the armor-like thing released him, pulling off his skin and clothes. Sho and Tetsuro watched as the amour floated back before dropping into the lake. The water went dead calm once more, “Tetsuro, what just happened?”

It took a moment for Tetsuro to gather his wits and start explaining to Sho, who looked at where Gregor's body was rapidly decomposing, melting on the ground as it turned into light particles. Tetsuro was confused even more confused when the body left behind money, its horn, and a test tube.

“What?” Sho nervously scratched his head, knowing he definitely had to explain things to Tetsuro. ‘But first, let’s make sure we're safe,’ he brought up his mental net feeling a number of minds. His own and Tetsuro's, along with numerous animals, are hidden in the forest. 

Another mind stood out, a fading mind that felt near human but at the same time wasn’t, narrowing his eyes at the possible enemy. Sho flooded his ki paths before rushing into the forest, the ki enhanced his muscles letting him move with a new swiftness.

It didn’t take long to arrive before a corpse rotted fast; as he got closer, he stepped on something. Looking down, he saw it was a photograph of a couple and their daughter. As he picked it up, he heard a rattling breath, and he snapped his hand up. [ki edge] covering it.

“Gi-give it b-back!” he turned towards the rotting and smoking body. Who was apparently alive,” giv- give it bac- back!” they spot with all of their fading strength; Sho noticed the tears flowing from his eyes.

It tugged at his heartstrings and he slowly moved closer, “[oberve],” he whispered softly when the information appeared, Sho focused on a few parts of it.

[Hoshi matsubara]

Species: test type zoanoid #D59

Description: taken by a strange organization and experimented on, Hoshi discovered a path to become human again seeing his wife and daughter again. But luck was not in his way and he nears his end…

Sho could see Hoshi’s HP dropping into the red. He had to make a choice now, save the man or not. Sho's heart wanted to save him, and his mind wanted to as well. There was logic in saving him; he might be able to tell Sho about what happened. But,” how do I save him?”

He didn’t know any healing skill; the closet would probably be his [life magic]. Which did have healing applications that he didn’t know; this probably wasn’t the time to experiment on that. He didn’t want to accidentally kill him or mutate him worse. Thinking fast, he knew he needed help, so his thoughts turned to his [spirit summoning magic].

In this situation there wasn’t time to set up a summoning circle and made a deal, than he turned to the two spirits he had contracted with. Zalgad and stravos, are both powerful and knowledgeable. If they didn’t know how to heal the man, they might know someone who could.

“Let’s not summon the incubus first,” who knows what he would have to do in exchange. Instead, he quickly contacted his teacher,” ready for training?” the spirit answered his call.” I will be later, but right now, someone is dying in front of me, and I don’t have the ability to heal them. Can you help?”

For a moment, the martial artist was silent, “this seems like a good chance for you to meet them.” I know some very skilled in the magic arts.” give me a moment to contact them.” Sho nodded, turning to face the dying Hoshi, hoping the spirit would come in time. 

“Sho!” the brunette jumped, snapping around to find Tetsuro appearing through bushes. “Sho wh-” his question was cut off when his gaze landed on the dying man. Sho opened his mouth to say something when he was cut off by Stavros's info, making sure his friend had been contacted. Snapping back to the dying man, Sho immediately used his summoning magic to open a path to this dimension,

It took all but 320 mp since he hadn’t set up the proper ritual, but all the same, the spirit appeared; she was female. A very physically gifted female with bright pink back-length hair that ended with white tips. Her outfit was modest and hugged her figure; over her right shoulder was a small half cape.

[???? LV:????]

“So you're his little student,” her voice was tickled with amusement. Then she turned to the dying man, waving a hand over him. Sho barely realized she had used some magic. She frowned for a moment before she snapped her fingers. A green circle with more than a dozen symbols appeared under the man. The effects were made clear soon; he started breathing easier, and Sho could see his HP rising.

“I can heal him as a favor to Stavros, but whatever’s been done to him will continue to kill him. It would best to revert him, which is another matter.” she didn’t say it rush, taking a deep breath Sho took a breath thinking over what he could offer. But she spoke first,” letting me become your main magic teacher is more than enough.”

“What?” Sho blinked at what exactly was happening, but he shook it off.” I would be glad to have you as my teacher!” he gave her a small bow, to which she smiled before she snapped her fingers again, causing seven magic circles to appear. Rating much more power to the first, the power slowly sunk into the man form. “ the entire process will take at least twenty-four hours, but he’ll be fine when he wakes up. Possibly sore.”

Sho nodded and then held out his hand, shaking with the magic user. “When should I contact you for my lessons.” after your training with Stavros, let us all talk so we can work together on a schedule, including that demon.” with a smile, she faded back to her home dimension.

“Sho, who was that? What was that?” sighing, Sho fiddled with the wrist of his uniform, “I’ll explain, but first, let’s get out of here. I don’t want to be here if they come back.” Tetsuro didn’t argue with that but still watched mouth wide when Sho managed to put the large creature on his back and walk.

“You can carry that?” he could see the creatures building muscle. “Not easily,” Sho said, walking towards the lake. They made a quick stop so Tetsuro could drop the bags and Gregor's drops. As they descended the mountain, Tetsuro asked how they were going to walk through town. Which Sho hadn’t thought about, but quickly came up with a solution by opening a dungeon.

[dungeo creation has leveled up 2>3]

[zombie-type dungeon available]

He ignored them for a moment and instead continued through the empty streets until they arrived at his house. Stepping inside he dragged the zoanoid over to the couch, “okay that's done” Sho panting after removing the weight from his back.

“Good,” Tetsuro said as he set their bags on the table.” then you explain what just happened?” taking a deep breath, Sho wondered where he should begin. “a few weeks ago, I awakened as an ability user…” he didn’t explain much about his ability, shy about the sexual parts of it. But he did explain what an ability user was, how it helped him grow in strength, and warned him about a bad future.

‘Which might have something to with the people who attacked and that armor thing,’ he got a few notifications about that but ignored them for the moment. Instead, explaining about the ability user who ran a store and the books he bought from her. He made a deal with the martial artist. 

Which helped explain the chick he summoned earlier. In the end, he gave Tetsuro a moment to absorb it while he dipped into the real world to change out of his uniform. And to see if his dad was home yet, he also made sure to feed him slimes. “You're getting bigger, aren’t you,” he wondered how big they were really going to get.

Returning to the living room, Tetsuro still looked like there was a lot on his mind but he didn’t seem dazed by it. “ he isn’t going to wake up any time soon so how about you go home?”

“Uh yeah, that seems like a good idea.” sighing, Tetsuro told Sho to come and get him when the Zoanoid woke up. Sho promised he did, then lead the older teen out of the barrier. Then Sho turned to the screens that he had been ignoring.

[you’ve bonded to a strange organism, special status. [***** user]

[orgiansm is moved to storage space]

[****** user]

The symbiotic organism has bonded to you and altered you on a genetic and cellular level.

Effects

????,????,????

Sho blinked at the partly informative screen,” let's get to my training?” a least that made sense.

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 Like after each session, Sho was catching his breath as sweat dripped down his mostly nude form. Stavros had been silent this time, though he quirked a small smile when Sho unleashed his new ki skill. Batting aside his slightly faster strikes, with just as much ease as before.

Huffing and downing the last of a water bottle, Sho put his clothes back on before calling out to the female magic spirit and zalgad. The three spirits looked over each other, letting their power flare against each other,” ugh!” Sho felt like a mountain had dropped itself on his lung for that brief moment.

‘Holy shit,’ it reminds him just of the gap in their power. He couldn’t even tell which of them was stronger because of that gap; instead of focusing too much on that, he turned to his new magic teacher. “Um, miss, I didn’t catch your name earlier?” she blinked, smiling.

“That is a miss-step, isn't it? As in this case, you can refer to me as… Vakora!” she smiled brightly as she decided on a name.” now let’s discuss what you know of magic and how much training you need.” 

Sho explained by showing her the basic magic theory book he read along with his [spirit summoning], [mind magic], and [life magic]. Along with how his ability worked in regard to using books to learn, she looked really concerned when he was done. 

“Okay there are a lot of basics you have to learn, but I don’t think you're doing too badly considering.” as she said this she was rapidly going over the books she had access to and what would he have to read, which would be the best for him to read. One thing was sure: he had some work to do; while she had basic books, much more of it was incredibly dangerous.

“I’m going to zip into my library to grab some books for you to study on your own time. Then we’ll see just how much talent you have for magic!” after Sho nodded, the woman disappeared. Then he turned to zalgad and Stavos, “Hey, don’t look at us; you’ve still got that task I gave you, though I’m impressed how you figured out a method of ki enhancement.”

“I’m glad you’ve got a magic teacher. I’ll bet it will help you figure out lots of sex magic.” the incubus snickered as Sho blushed. The demon and spirit disappeared after that, leaving the brunette teen to his own thoughts. “Great, now what?” he could probably investigate that thing that attacked him.

But he didn’t want to. Instead, he thought about the guy out on his couch. Who was going to be out for a day at least and would probably freak out when he woke up. I need to stay home. Walking back into the house, Sho checked on him before slipping into the real world. 

His dad wasn’t home, so Sho knew he was in the clear; by two minutes, as it was around, then his dad came home. By then, Sho had half a plan, facking a small fever. Enough to stay home from school for a single day. ‘Throughout the evening, Sho acted a little sick, enough to get his father’s attention. 

That night, Sho, for the first time in a while, snuck out of the house. Making use of [ki boost] to race to the lizard dungeon. With his current skills, it didn’t take long for him to reach the tunnels after cutting and punching through some lizards. Having his senses enhanced allowed him to notice more details, like a small crevice in the walls. Right where the paths split.

Investigating it showed him wires that he suspected were connected to the barrier. Touching them after breaking the wall open a bit proved to be a bad idea, as they shocked him. “Well, that sucked.” he rubbed his zapped fingers studying the wires more. “They lead down the lava path.” that wasn’t going to be fun.

“I brought water, but I’m regretting not making use of my crafting recipes.” now he was definitely going to change that.” sighing, he checked his water amount as he walked into the [extreme eviement], also taking note of his hydration bar as he walked into the dungeon.

Since he wasn’t here for a fight, he attempted to avoid the lizards. But they were much more determined, so while he managed to avoid a few, he had to take out more. By the time he reached the point where the tunnel started to grow. He had reached level 21. 

[extremem heat has inflicted [burn]]

“Oh god!” he walked into the chamber, where sat a swimming pool worth of magma and some kind of machine in the center of it. “[observe],” he shot off the skill, not sure how much information he would get.

[magma generator]

By harvesting the natural force of mama, this machine generates over a thousand volts of power.

durability 350/500

“Looks like someone didn’t do maintenance. Looking at the machine, he found more wires and what might have been couplers. But more importantly, an access panel that wasn’t sitting in the magma, walking over to it. In the light of the magma, he studied the panel. He couldn’t read the language that it was in, nor could he guess what the buttons did, so he left it up to his luck. Pressing a button at random.

[Your luck had held out +1]

“Oh, thank god,” Sho sighed as the generator powered down. The near-constant humming it has given off went dark. “Well, let’s see what's on the other side of that invisible wall,” Sho took a quick swig of water before turning around. As he moved to leave the room, where the heat was burning his skin. As he made it to the exit, another screen appeared before him.

[due to special action, you’ve created a special skill [extreme heat resistance]

“Oh great,” Sho thought, trying not to whip the sweat from his eyes. Ignoring how it soaked his clothes. He made a quick retreat to the point, heading to where the tunnels converged. He had to escape the lizard he’d avoided the last time. Making it to the point within 20 minutes, after checking for, in fact, the wall was down, Sho cautiously moved forward.

In less than five minutes, the floor changed from stone to metal. Which was strange, but from the machine, it might have made sense. The metal tunnel was quiet and creepily so. But after a while, Sho came to a door. It looked like an automatic door with a keypad. But Sho had killed the power and had to force the door open, but he could only manage it far enough for him to squeeze through.

Sho had to force open a few more doors down a straight path before he came to a room. It looked like a massive lab, with computers all over the right ride. To the left was a lot of lab equipment Sho didn’t even begin to understand. But right across the room from him was about half an empty capsule. “This is really something out of sci-fi,” entering the room deeper, Sho noticed one of the capsules was open a crack, so he invested that one.

“Wereid, there is nothing here but frost. [obsevre]”

[cyro sleep pod]

With the use of some sci-fi-level tech, this helps sustain life that has been put on ice for long periods of time. From months to years, all while their occupants sleep.

“So there osmone here?” Sho looked around to see if he could see signs of them. Looking into the other pods, it showed a corpse. “Ugh!” he reeled back from the sight, feeling a little green. Turning around, stepping back, and offering Sho a silent prayer. Hopping, they found peace in whatever afterlife they had.

[+400 reputations with [????]]

Sho blinked at the message but decided that he probably could deal with that later. He was not going to think about the possibility of ghosts. Instead, he turned his attention to the water on the floor. A small trail that led down a hall Sho hadn’t noticed before.

Following the trail led to a pile of clothing in what looked to be a shower room. From that point, he wasn’t sure where to go. But thankful he didn’t have to go searching for the survivor, they came to him.” who are you?!” 

Sho blinked slowly, raising his hands when he realized they had some kind of pistol weapon in their hands. He didn’t answer them; instead, he took in their hastily dressed appearance. Sho figured he was male, skinny, and wiry. Freckles dusted his face, and big dark eyes behind his glasses. A mop of dark short hair on his head. 

All in all, Sho thought he was pretty cute, even though he was pointing a weapon at Sho. The gamer quickly used [obseve] on him and his weapon, then [obsevrve: sex] as an afterthought.

Herman reed

Age: 140 (20)

Title: Science Prodigy 

Level: 23

Exp: 0.3%

Hp: 300/300

Mp: 400/400

Lp: 30/30

Str: 12 (-6

Sta: 10 (-5]

Dex: 33 (-12)

Int: 65 (-32)

Wis: 46 (-23)

Cha: 18

Luk: 32

Free points: 40

Specials stats: [mild enhancment] + 200Hp, cold sleep sickness -½ to str, sta, dex, int, wis.

[tacion tranq pistol]

A pistol that uses particle physics to stun the nervous system

15 damage

Inflicts stun

Durbitly: 104/150

[Herman reed]

Sexually: homosexual/bi romantic

Sex drive: lower-end average

Dick size/shape: 4.3 flaccid 4.5 (erect)

Balls size: average

[observe level up]

[observe: sex level up]

‘I’ll look at the new information later,’ for the moment, he should probably do something about the guy pointing a gun at him.” hello, my name is sho,” the teen nervously offered. A name seemed to calm them again,” what's your name?”

“You don’t need it; what are you doing here? Are you here for the serum?” Sho shook his head,” No, I’m just here to train; I didn’t know there was a lab here.” the prodigy looked at him, considering if he was telling the truth. “I don’t believe you; people sent armies after the serum. Besides, how else could you have shut down the generator.”

“Dumb luck,” Sho plainly told them. But from their expression and how the gun stayed strained on him. He knew how it wasn’t being believed. ‘Okay, maybe I should use a bit of violence,’ he just needed to take the gun. Maybe pin the guy. He didn’t think it would be that hard; Herman hadn’t pulled up his pants properly. Sho could see his waistband and a bit of cotton. 

[lewed quest discovered]

[Wedgie domination]

Dominate Herman with the use of wedgies

Reward 200exp, +1 LP, Book of wedgies

Sho blinked at the quest before brushing it aside; he had to deal with the pistol first. “Dumb luck!” Herman said, coming out of his shock.” you expect me to believe you turned off a highly complicated machine with dumb luck!”

“Well, it's true; the same is true with the fact that I came here to train. I don’t know what you mean by the serum!”

“Bullshit, you pussy licking dickwad!” Herman trained the gun at Sho’s head, and that was when he knew he had to move. In one moment, he active [ki boost], kicking off to the side; his speed caught Herman off guard. Before he could turn his turn, Sho managed to tackle him.

Knocking the weaker male to the ground, he managed to grab the gun after it hit the ground. Throwing it to the side, he pinned Herman's arms above his head and leaned close to his face,” Will you listen to me? I’m not after this serum!” instead of listening to him, he started cursing, throwing insults at his family, friends, future children & love. 

It was kind of impressive, but at the same time, it quickly wore on Sho’s patience.’ guess I’m going with the lewd mission; he needed Herman to listen to him. So, after a moment to think about how to proceed, he flipped the squirming prodigy around. “What gonna kill me, you mother fucker!”

“Nope,” Sho stated as he reached for Herman’s waistband. As he grabbed a handful of elastic and cotton. Herman froze at the unfortunately familiar feeling,” don- AH!” the words were cut off. The white fabric of his underwear rose up his back, sliding between his cheeks. It was far from a comfortable feeling.

‘He’s wearing briefs,’ Sho thought to himself as the briefs rose high enough that the leg holes appeared above the pants line. He continued to pull on the underwear, even as Herman squirmed, wailed, and whined. “Stop, please!” he begged; Sho stopped pulling. He didn’t think this was a little mean, though a part of him was enjoying how Herman squirmed and wailed. 

“Are you going to calm down and listen?” Sho asked when Herman cursed at him. He returned to yanking on the underwear, driving it deeper. Herman wails once more before speaking loudly and rushing. ” AH! Alright! I’ll listen.” that was all Sho needed to hear to release the briefs. Along with their owner, Herman didn’t waste a second to scramble away. He gave Sho a withering glare as he pulled out the wedgie.

“Asshole,” he grumbled, face red, more so from humiliation. Though he didn’t like it, this wasn’t the first wedgie he got. Compared to them, this was honestly on the gentle side, “If you're not here for the serum, then please leave. I have work to do!” Herman stood up, fixing his clothes; Sho nodded, turning around to leave. Then he remembered what he had passed.

“Do you need help with the bodies?” Herman paused, remembering the rest of his team. People who were older than him, people who cared for him. He had no intention of leaving them in those pods, “I can take care of them myself!” Sho was silent; he didn’t feel right just leaving Herman like this. 

“Do you want to take care of them alone?” Sho could recall what his father was like when his mother died. He could recall how he acted when she died, and he could also remember how Tetsuro and Mizuki stayed by his side. How thankful he was for that simple action; at the very least, he could off.

For a moment, Herman didn’t say anything, “interfere, and I’ll shoot you!” it was quiet, but Sho knew it was a promise. He started walking down, and Sho followed at a short distance. While he did, he checked the messages.

[lewed quest complete]

[Wedgie domination]

Dominate Herman with the use of wedgies

Reward 200exp, +1 LP, Book of wedgies

[due to special action, a special skill has been created [wedgie giving]

[Wedgie giving LV:1 exp:10/100]

Rufhousing, bullying, or just being kinky. Wedgies can be a part of them, the art of yanking on someone’s underwear. Much more complicated than most believe.

+5% effect on domination attempts.

Inflicts [humiliated] for 5 minutes

He would have conditioned, but they entered the room with the pods, and he had to help Herman open them, moving the bodies to some transports, which were followed by gently placing them on carts. ‘These were a lot less heavy than I thought they would be,” they started moving the loaded carts down the halls. Herman did his best not to stare at them as they did. Sho checked out the effects of the[humilated] and the Book.

[humiliated]

The feeling of wanting humiliation that permeates your being, staining your face red and tying notes in your stomach.

-25% resistance to [domination] and similar skills

-25% effectiveness to [indiatmion] and similar skills

[Book of wedgies]

A book containing some knowledge about the concept of wedgies. Only bits of basic information and hints of more are to be found.

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Sho left the dungeon after helping bring the body to machines that burned them until only ashes remained, which were then compressed and heated into gems. They weren’t that big, but he had to admit they were pretty. Heman placed them all on a silver chain, which he tucked under his shirt. He saw silence for more than a dozen minutes, with Sho silently standing at his side.

After that, he shooed out Sho; he figured he really did want to be alone. So he left, spending some more time taking out lizards to collect leather. He was going to practice crafting; it would probably help him in the long run. ‘Maybe that's how I get better, gear.’ He knew his current clothes weren’t the most protective things. 

Making it home, Sho checked on his slimes before checking in for the night. The next day, he did his best to play the part of someone sick; his dad brought his act pretty easily. However, he wasn’t sure if it was because he spent some time raising his body temperature.

But his father let him stay in his pajamas and at home. He even informed Tetsuro and Mizuki, who visited him; Mizuki whipped up some porridge for him. Sho’s heart skipped a bit, “It must be nice to have Mizuki cook for you.” Tetsuro teased, and Sho didn’t offer a response to that. Even though his ear lightly turned pink.

When everyone had headed out sho, he summoned Vakora through the magic circle he had set up. Her arms were full of books, bible-thick books. But she didn’t look worried about dropping them; no, she was much more worried about the magic circle he had set up. “ oh, that won’t do at all!” 

Vakora pulled her staff from somewhere, smacking the end against the ground twice, making a number of runes add themselves to the circle. She stepped out of pretty simple, “I see just how much work I have before me.”

The two of them moved to the dining room kitchen, where she started. Since he knew a bit of theory about magic itself, she lectured the boy on the way magic was wielded. Spells and rituals were the two most common methods. Which fell into more categories for spells, such as the difference between using a circle and an incantation. Maybe it's an item or just pure imagination and thought. 

Rituals were different, requiring two or more elements to work and usually taking more time. Preparation led her to the thing about a magic user: “You had to be creative and prepared!” her lecture conditioned until lunchtime when he checked on the man. Who was still out cold, but Vakora said he was getting better.

After that, she had him break down the spells he knew. Which weren’t many, but it still took up a few pages in the notebook he was using. His [grimoire] she said, ‘I admit this is insight full. Definitely giving me ideas for my magic.’ he could probably try some rituals or speak to other spirits.

The rest of his afternoon was spent discussing the spells he pulled apart. 

“UGG!” they were pulled out of their discussion when the Hoshi Matsubara groaned, rolling over. He was relaxed for a moment before tensing. He didn’t move for a long moment. Vakora motioned for Sho to be still.

After working up the courage, the man opened his eyes, slowly taking in his environment until his gaze landed on Sho and Vakora. The witch only smiled at him; slowly, like dealing with a wild animal, she stood and moved closer. “It’s good to see that you're doing better!”

“Who are you? Are you with Chronos?”

“No, I’m an independent worker; my new protege asked for me to heal you.” she pointed to Sho, and Hoshi looked at sho.” thank you,” he mumbled, trying to stand, his legs quickly, giving out under him.” I wouldn’t try to stand yet; you're still recovering.”

“I need to leave, I need to get home. I don’t want you involved in this!”

“I think I already am,” Sho's statement caused the man to pause before he gave the teen a look of horror and pity. “If that’s so, then I suggest you start running hard and fast!”

Vakora snorted, “There is no reason to run!” she skilled coyly,” between and his other teachers, this Chronos won’t stand against him!” she wasn’t that sure, but her confidence was reassuring.

She looked over at Hoshi with a spell that caught the man's attention and amazement before giving him a good bill of health. But still suggested he rest, or he wouldn’t be making it too far. He nodded, though, looking loyally at the door. 

Seeing the man go quiet, Vakora returned to Sho’s lesson. Discussed the elements of spells and such. Despite attempting to rest, Hoshi couldn’t get his eyes to close. So he found himself listening to it. On the one hand, he couldn’t believe that it existed. But something like Chronos did, so maybe there were more secrets for the world.

Whatever it was, it sounded incredibly complicated.

*********

“What do you want from me?” Hoshi asked when Sho came back from upstairs, half using the bathroom and half checking on the slimes. Something Vakora was interested in; she mentioned that his life magic would definitely be used on the creatures once he understood it more. The teen paused as he heard the question and turned it over in his head for a moment.

“Nothing.”

“I don’t believe that,” Sho flickered at the distrust.” fine then, can you tell me about Chronos?” hoSho was silent for a few breaths. Then, with a dreaded sigh, he spoke,” I don’t know much about them; they kidnapped me a few weeks and months back. They were playing with my genetics, I think, but I think I failed or something went wrong. They said I couldn’t be used for X day and were going to get rid of me.” Hoshi took a shuttering breath, sounding on the edge of tears,” I had to get back to my family, so I ran. Doing what it took to get home.” 

Sho didn’t know what to say other than come closer and offer the man comfort. It helped, pulling him back from the edge of tears, “I’ve thought about it, and I’m not sure if I can return home. Chronos has eyes and ears. I might bring trouble to them.” 

“That’s something I can help you with?” Vakora spoke from where she was checking her nails.” but won’t do it for free.”

“I’ll pay wha-” Sho was quick to elbow him,” what?” Hoshi glared at him.” Be careful. The price could be more than you expect!” Sho warned. ”smart,” Vakora stated,” but I’m not asking for much; I just want your help in Sho’s studies?”

“How so?”

Theory of magic is good, especially for spells that can only be used on other people, but the practical expense is just as needed.” the man went silent for a moment,” Do not worry; I can make sure that there be no permanent damage!” her smile was kind of unnerving, but Hoshi stayed quiet complementing the question.

Sho left him to think; at the same time, he thought about what little he had learned today. He needed more information, a lot more information. ‘I don’t know anything about spying or gathering information… but I think I know a kind of spirit that does?’ well, the little information he got from the incubus, they were more of watchers. 

The incubus described them as voyeurs, so Sho figured he could work with them. Checking the time, an hour before school got out, he checked the state of his summoning circle before he activated it.

The doorway into the spirit realms opened, and Sho slipped his mana through, carrying the entire to deal with some shadow spirits. Now, the thing about spirits, from what he understood, was that they had a varying population depending on their types. Because they were born under certain conditions, their population numbers are limited.

So he was taken aback when he felt more than a billion shadow spirits respond to his intent; the number overwhelmed and overstimulated him. Pulling back briefly to catch his breath and think about what he could offer. ‘I don’t know enough about shadow spirits who know what they would want.’ he thought about how to rectify this, which was only to summon Zalgad.

“Shadow spirits for spying, huh,’ the incubus smirked, looking at sho. “Good choice; as for what they’ll trade for, that information is going to cost,” Sho was prepared for this.” but before we trade, I think it’s time we have a talk about kink and fetish!” Sho wasn’t prepared for this.

“What are you talking about?” Sho really hoped this wouldn’t be a two embarrassing topic. The demon smiled,” Things like bondage, exhibitionism.” he gave Sho a look at this,” or wedgies.” the look got stronger, and Sho tried to not look away.

“It can’t be that important.”

“Oh, it is,” the demon got eyes level with sho,” but in more ways than one. Knowing about the is important, as is planning to go around, knowing what gets your partner going, and all that. Kink is also a lifestyle; plus, there is the magic related to them.”

“What?” he was taken back for a moment. But thinking about it, he knew sex magic. Then there is what he learned about magic today. Certain actions could definitely be a part of magic rituals; hell Vakora told him about a ritual that he had to be naked for. As an example of how strange some could be, somehow this was the lower end of weird; he just had to be naked.

“Alright, stop smiling.” zalgad made no attempt whatsoever. Now, he could easily kiss the boy and transfer the information he had given the energy for. But he wanted to mess with Sho first. So he started verbally describing kink and fetishes, taking sadistic pleasure in how red the teen turned while trying to hide his clear interest. 

Once he fully amused himself and gave the boy basic details, he went into knowledge about the shadow spirits. He occasionally worked with a few; they really liked watching, and the demon knows some who liked being watched. But he couldn’t introduce them to sho yet. He didn’t think he was ready or capable of paying their usual rate yet. That would change in the future.

In the end, the information gave the teen two ideas. One he hopped was picked over the other. He could only hope for the best and projected both offers to the shadow spirits, a number looked in intreated. More so in the second option, ‘I don’t need that number to spy on Chronos.’ At least he opened it, as he reasoned with himself.

[deal making leveled up]

[spirit summoning level up]

The spirits agreed to search for this Chronos in exchange for mana. Something that could be used to grow more powerful. He has the three spirits that he summoned 1000 mana before they set off. They would get another 100 when they came back with the information. They were going to start at the lake and track from there. He didn’t know what they would find. And he wasn’t sure if he wanted to know.

Moving back into the real world, Sho tried to get his mind off the topic and worries. So, he decided to focus on his training. While his spar with Stavos wasn’t anything special, it gave him a chance to clear his head and work on his form.

[basic katarte levleed up]

After working up a sweat, Sho returned to his room in the real world. He followed the workout by jerking off because he needed to save up points in case he had questions for zalgad. For what he didn’t know, but he knew that he would in the future. It was also a great way to unwind after training once he cleaned up. He returned to his magic lessons.

It was mostly wrapping up what she thought of him that day. Before assigning her own work,” Here, this book should help you with the magic you have right now!” she manded him three books” the theory of mana shaping, the theory of the mind, and the theory of the body. Each Book would help him further utilize his magic. It would also give him the building blocks for the future, but that meant he wasn’t sure.

He went into the real world to start his reading, “Man, this is complicated.” the text was thick with many words. He could feel his brain stressing to understand the word. Thankfully, it was a distraction game in the form of his friend, Tetsuro. Who looked like he was having some heavy thoughts,” Sho, are you alright?”

“Fine, what about you?” Tetsuro’s lips became a thin line as he took a seat on the floor.” when I was going to school, the entire lake was covered by the police. Mentioning a bomb going off. Any cop I talked to didn’t know anything about the monster or the people that attacked us… then I did some thinking about that, and I realized the monster was some kind of bioweapon!”

“Bioweapon?” 

Tetsuro nodded,” a biologically created or altered being to be a weapon. That thing that attached itself to you might also be one.” at that moment, Sho reached back to his shoulder blades. Something Tetsuro noticed and asked about; in response, Sho took off his shirt and showed the small tumors on his back. He didn’t know what they were, [observs] showed him nothing but question marks, and his stats told him nothing was wrong. 

He guessed it had something to do with the things that attached themselves to him yesterday. But no matter what, he couldn’t find a problem. He asked his teachers, and both of them said it wasn’t a problem. No, it seemed like they were interested in whatever it was, but they didn’t say anything.

“Mmm, does it hurt?” Sho shook his head, and Tetsuro pulled back, allowing Sho to pull up his shirt. With that topic done for today, Tetsuro brought up the other power that Sho used yesterday,” yeah, that!” he checked before he started talking. Going into more detail. While also leaving out the bits.

Mostly the sex things.

“So you think you’ll need to fight this Chronos group.”

“Unless she warned me about a different trouble, yeah.” Tetsuro was quiet.” how dangerous do you think they are?”

“I have no idea.”

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After dinner with his dad, Sho decided to head to the slime dungeon mostly because he was stressed, and it looked like a good way to gain some exp and yen. He needed money to buy things from the magic shop. With his lesson today, he had a better idea of how expensive magic could be, especially if he lacked the skills to make resources himself.

Walking into the dungeon, Sho stretched before letting his ki flow through him, and then he took off at his top speed. Rushing through the trees of the forest, letting the environment blur by as he ran.

A few slimes reached out to him, but Sho dodged or ignored them until he reached the area of the [big slimes], where he immediately got jumped by two [big slimes]. One went for his face while the second wrapped around his legs. He managed to bring up his arms to guard his face, but the gelation body went right around them. Wrapping itself around his head, a tentacle started pushing at his lips while the ones around his legs started slithering up his pants. 

“MM!” the slime tried hard to enter Sho, but he was busily trying to pull it off. He was ready to pull out his [ki blade] when the other slime had made it under his underwear. Slithering right between his ass cheeks, pushing right into his hole. The intrusion surprised him for a moment, but that was enough for the first slip into his mouth, and in a split second, it parted. 

Sho tried to close his mouth; the slime was using a good portion of its body to keep his mouth while slithering a tentacle deep down his throat. He couldn’t help but mona around it as the second slime found and started rubbing against his prostate, his cock tenting and throbbing into his underwear. 

At that point, he stopped trying to remove the slimes, relaxing to enjoy the feeling of slime fucking his throat and ass. He managed to waddle closer to a tree to lean on as the slimes slid deeper into him, stretching his insides wider. By passing his second ring,” Mm!”  

Sho wrapped his fingers around his aching and dripping cock, stroking it as the slimes rocked inside him. Even while stocking slowly, he didn’t last long before he came, legs trembling, seed spraying against the tree. This didn’t stop the slimes, as they kept going until they reached their own climax. 

[-10Lp]

[you’ve satisfied two big slimes Lv:19]

[18,00exp gained]

The slimes turned to light and Sho had to act fast to prevent himself from swallowing something by accident. Leaving the loot to fall on the floor, “AH,” Sho could taste the slime in the back of his throat. It didn’t really taste like anything, felt like jello or pudding.

Collecting the loot in his inventory he started further through the forest, running into higher-level big slime, which of course meant they were bigger. The level 20 big slims were reaching his shoulder in size. Only thanks to the use of ki enhancement he wasn’t bothered when they put their weight on him. Mostly to get into his pants and mouth. If they managed to catch him and he didn’t break free of their hold.

One slime did manage to catch his legs. Sho had dug his hands into the dirt, grabbing a tree root, managing to keep the upper half of his body free. That didn’t stop the smile from taking his pants and underwear slithering into his ass, and wrapping them around his dick. For some reason, this slime had a sense of patience and took its time making him cum. 

He was trembling hard by the time he finally came for the first time, as the slime wasn’t satisfied that easily and kept pumping the teen’s cock as he protested and moaned: Face flushed with pleasure, that edge of hurting. Yet sometimes, that made it feel better as he came for a second time in a matter of minutes.

[-20Lp]

[You’ve satisfied a big slime LV:21]

[11,000 exp acquired]

[level up]

Sho blinked at the screens as his lower half calmed down. Standing up, he fixed his clothes and looked down, seeing a trio of slime eggs along with the location and yen. He mostly checked his stats to see where he stood in terms of LP. 

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 21

Exp:00.7%

Hp: 650/650

Mp: 450/600

Lp: 2.5/32.5

Str: 37

Sta: 38

Dex: 32

Int: 27

Wis: 26

Cha: 20

Luk: 20

Free points:40

Specials stats:[incubus mark: grade 1] +50%Lp regeneration, +25% exp to sex/ seduction type skills, Access to [incubus] type skills

[***** user]:????

“Alright, I guess I should head out, unless he wants to fight. Which really wasn’t an interest right now. He got the feeling he would be doing a lot of fighting thanks to chronos. So he heads home.

“There are more people here than usual?” Sho commented as he turned a corner to avoid some police. Most of them had normal titles and names, but a few had something different. ‘One just had a corrupt cop,’ which is concerning, but he wasn’t getting involved in this.

As he cut through a park, trying to avoid attention but only his way through he stumbled upon an interesting sight. An office worker drunk on the bench, Aki jurobei according the words above his head. Sho paused before him wonder if he should wake him, but jumped when Aki groaned.

“Oh, he’s dreaming.” Sho realized he probably should wake him up; it was cold out here. As he leaned closer to wake him up, Aki groaned again. But this time Sho eye caught the reason for the groaning.” he’s having that kind of dream.” the teen ignored the bulge in the mans suit pants and shook his houlder.

It took a few tries before the man rused, “ah!” he groaned trying to roll waway from the light,” hey wake up it’s too cold for you to sleep out here.” Aki groaned but seemed to register that as he sat up trying to pull himself to his feet. Sho helped him.” thankyou!” he mubbmled leaning a lot on sho.

‘He’s surprisingly light because this man was at least five inches taller than Sho and definitely had a few points on him. From what he was feeling through the suit, it was mostly muscle. He was also feeling the man’s bulge, but he chose to ignore it as he started walking.

 It was late; Sho was pretty sure no form of public transportation was running this late. ‘I’ll probably have to drop him off with a police officer. Hopefully, one without corrupt in his title.’ He sighed, and he started walking. Aki walked along, his bulge not softening in the slightest.

They had made it to the edge of the part before Aki realized his bulge. He jerked up,” Sorry. He tried walking for himself, but Aki tumbled, and Sho took his hand. Trying to help him, Sho held his arm. “It's not a problem.” he said, but Aki was still embarrassed by his predicament.” it won’t go down.” which left Sho confused for a moment.

[lust presence level up]

Mentally grumbling, Sho felt bad for the man, wondering what he could do to make it better; he didn’t know how to deactivate the skill. ‘I guess the other option is to get him off… what am I thinking?’ he felt his face heat up but at the same time. 

The worst part was that it didn’t come to him like a bad idea,” why isn’t it going down?” Aki whined as they turned a corner. Sho could hear a few people going about in the distance of the quiet night. But none of them were really close, rolling the word over in his mouth before speaking.

“I could help you get it down if you want?” Aki blinked, processing what the teen had said to him. “That’s nice to offer.” he slurred. Sho stopped by a light pole,” But I don’t want to make you do something bad.”

“I think you're too drunk to do that?” plus, Aki didn’t seem like a bad person. The fact he apologized as many times as he has was a point in his favor.’ besides, I offered, and it’d be better for the both of us if it went down. How do you feel about walking to a police officer with a boner.”

In, the last sentence Aki whined, which honestly sounded like something from a nightmare. So he moved into the shadow of the light pole, dropping onto a squat and he worked on Aki’s pants. Opening him up enough for him to access the fly in the man’s boxers.

‘Oh, this is definitely big,’ he looked a the 7in cock. A swollen head with a bead of pre cum, a veiny shaft that ended in a thick bush on top of low-hanging balls. Sho started rubbing the shelf, being gentle and wondering if he should bring out the slime lube. 

‘No, that’s probably too suspicious,’ he knew it didn’t feel too good dry. So, after a thought, he drew up some spit and used that as lube for his hand job. “Mm!” Aki groaned, leaning against the pole. As Sho stroked the length of his dick, adjusting his fingers until he found something that worked.

[due to repetition action, a special skill has been created [handjob Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

Sho waved the screen away with little more than thought as he rubbed his thumb over the head of the cock. Carsseeing the balls, trying all sorts of things, and hearing aki soft and rough moans in response. 

Sho worked the cock slowly, feeling it more and more as he brought the drunk man to his orgasm. As he felt the man come, Sho wrapped his lips around the head of the cock. Letting the man’s cum land in his mouth, it was thick and salty, but he didn’t mind as he swallowed. 

[due to repetition action A special skill has been created [oral sex Lv:1 Exp:0/100]

“You didn’t have to do that,” Aki said, coming down his orgasm high and putting his softening cock away. Sho told him he didn’t want to leave a mess before they continued to move. So, he managed to take him to a cop without a problem after that before heading home himself. The house was quiet, and he quickly went too bad. ‘Hopefully, tomorrow will be a quiet day.’

*********

The next morning, Sho headed out for school in time to see Tetsuro get in a car with two people. They kind of looked like cops, but Sho just felt like something was wrong. So he activated his [ki enhancement] before following.

He did his best to keep the car in sight, but that was still a struggle as he chased after them. Thankfully, he managed until they came to a stop around an abandoned factory. It was strange, but as they got there, Sho saw them lead Tetsuo into the building, which was even stranger.

“What’s happening?” Sho thought moments before enhanced ears picked up something: footsteps. There was a flare of panic as he heard the footsteps come from behind. He didn’t hear much else in the vicinity, so he quickly raced around the building. 

There was a broken window, so he quickly swung himself inside.

[dungeon located]

“Oh, I don’t have time for this!” he looked up and down the hall of the dungeon; while he didn’t see much, he could hear the faint sounds of large machinery doing their work. But Sho didn’t have time for this, so Tetsuro might be in danger. So he quickly left the way he came, luckily he did so as the people walked past him. It also gave them a chance to see their names and titles.

[obara jaro Lv:30]

Chronos investigator

[umeji yasuako Lv:30]

Chronos investigator

Crushing under his breath, Sho opened his [gear] menu and quickly changed out of his school uniform. He doubted this would be anything less than a fight. After he changes, he sneaks closer to the building, activating his [mind dection] spell.

‘That weird?’ of the mind he had in the range all of them except Tetsuro’s felt strange.’ focused on one as he came to awol, pressing himself against it as he looked through a window. ‘It feels like there a connection, to another mind.’ at the same time, they felt more open than the usual human mind.

[mind magic-mind detection Level up]

He ignored the notification and focused on the people intimidating Tetsuro.’ I’ll have to fight them,’ that wouldn’t be too hard. All of them were around level 30,’ probably like the monsters from yesterday.’ focusing on his hearing more; Sho was able to hear them ask about…

‘Guyver?’ they were asking about the thing that attached itself to Sho yesterday; Tetsuro was saying that it disappeared into the lake. They had looked into it and found no trance; now they were asking the only witness. 

They don’t know about sho, which was a precusores to a choice. He could either summon the guyver and use it to fight them. Or just use his other abilities to fight them, thinking about it he relized they really wanted this guyver thing and he’d bet they wound’t leave him be. ‘They might not leave him alone either way.’ 

He ws toling over this choice right as he saw one of the men change into some kind of monster, claws reaching for Tetsuro. Sho acted jumping into the building and rushing at the them,” What!” one of them said before Sho kicked him in the face. Sending him flying back, taking advantage of there surprise. To strike another in the stomach.

“GAH!” the blow force them to bend over and Sho stuck them on the head knocking them to the ground. That point they had recovered fromthe shock enough that the other two were moving towards them. Taking a breath he moved, one of the things that he was lecture on was taking in the form of his opponents. 

‘They both look to have thought skin and claws; the green one is bulker, so probably more pure muscle, while the red one had some kind of growths on their shoulder. The green one rushed at Sho aiming to imprale him on it horn. Jumping over the charge was simple, and Sho was able to kick it in the head as he went over it.

[-15Hp]

“AH!” unfocintly he under estimated the durbitly of it’s skull. Landing with as much grace as he had, even as he toes hurt.”SHo!” Tetsuro scream made him look up to see a growing light. From the other zoaniod, the tings on it’s houlders opened up and some kind of laser was forming.

As it fired, sho threw himself to the side, and the laser struck the ground with explosive force. “AH!” scored, feeling the heat on his back before he quickly scrambled to his feet, not a moment too soon as the green one had charged at him. 

Also the other two were recovering and transforming. Which put him in a worse citation. But he wasn’t down all option. Infact he actiavted [ki blade] when the next attack came, slahsing against there side left a cut that wasn’t as deep as he would have liked.

But it bleed and definitely made them pause for a moment. Earning them another cut closer to their faces. “AH!” they swung their thick hand at him, and Sho ducked under it.” move your fat ass!” the red one shouted as ready to fire again. 

They tried to move back, but Sho stuck close to them knowing they wouldn’t attack so early. “ you!” they countied to try to crush Sho but he kept mvoeing. Making small cuts around there body, innlficking [bleed] stats effects on them. 

‘At this rate it’s unknow who is going to win,’ he need to figure something out before he got Tetsuro killed.

using [observe] told him the lowest max hp was around 7,000. So that ment he needed to deal a lot of damge before any of them went done, ‘iether have to hit themsomewhere that’s going to do a lot of damage or come up with something.’ 

Dropping his stance he swung a fist right at the zoanoid’s jaw, the impact stunned them for only a moment but that was enough for his other hand to come and slash at it’s eyes.” AHHH!” 

[you’ve heavily damaged both eyes, [blind] inflicted]

“You mother- son of a -AH!” the blinded zoanoid cursed swing blindly as he tried to crush sho. The teen only moved around considering where else to attack, zalgad taught him to aim from weak points. Which the psiirt didn’t seem to have when they spared, Sho tried to find them every times.

On this zoanoid, he had a much better idea of where to find them; they had many more openings. Coating both hands in ki baldes and directing the boots towards his arms. He pushed them both into zoanoids back where he guess the creature’s lungs were. His entire weight behind them.

“AAHH!” it screamed as his hand pierced through the front of his body, gritting his teeth he spead his fingers. The zoanoid cried trying to reaching back, but it’s muchles prevented such flexibility. Breathing rough Sho spreading his arms out tearing through the side of the creature. 

“Oh god,” the red zoanoid gaged a bit. As the green one fell over, withering in pain as blood dripped from his form. Than Sho turned towards him, and he fliched.” what are you two waiting for!” he shouted at the two furry and clawed zoanoid. The two nervously looked at each other before charging.

They reached Sho who ducked under the the first claw swipe, stroking at there ribs with a [ki strike]. than side stepping the claws of the other one, wrapping his rm around it so he could slam his elbow on it with. The both creed out in pain before pushed through the pain to contuiined trying to make him bleed.

Sho sweated hard as he danced through the attacks striking at them were he could, with his fist or blade. So far’s he’s been luckly to avoid any really hits getting small cuts over his clothing and such, he knew it couldn’t continue like this.

“Hey!” the shouting caused them to stop and look up to see. Tetsuro is in the grasp of the red zoanoid. Suppose you care about this human. Stand down!” sho’s jaw tensed. He need to take this guy out, but rushing him would get Tetsuro hurt. ‘I need to use my magic!’

As he was forced to his knees by the other two zonoids, he tried to figure out how. He remembered their minds were more open than the normal human. Hell they were even transmsititng when he cast [mind dection] again this time he took a good long look at the mind.

‘Yeah, they're more open, but how can I attack them?’ thinking, he remembered how he developed his mind's detection spell. Weaving thread of mental energy and mana into a web. He took hold of the pure energy again, this time not into treads but into a weapon, a blade as sharp as he could make it. 

[due to special action, a special skill has been created [mind magic-mind blade]

Then he drove it into Red’s mind.

“AAAH!!” the effect was immediate. He reeled back, screaming, grabbing at his head. Sho barely paid attention to the screaming as he focused, forming two more blades for the other zoanoids, who screamed. They released him, and he rushed over to Tetsuro,” Tetsuro, are you okay?” 

“Ye-yeah,” he stuttered, unable to look away from the blood on Sho’s hands. It was kind of scary how calm he was right now, but for the moment, he took hold of Sho's hands and pulled himself to his feet. 

“You fucking brat!” I’ll eviscerate you!” the Vamore shouted, aiming at them. But Sho forged another [mind blade]; the stabbing pain in the Vamore’s head threw off his aim. Causing the twin lasers to blast through the ceiling as Sho pushed Tetsuro to start running; as soon as they made it out of the building, Sho pushed Tetsuro into an empty dungeon before pressing himself against the wall.

Not even a moment later did the two beastly zoanoids rush out. The first one passed as Sho jumped into the air, spinning to kick the second right in the face. Bone’s crunched from the force of the [ki strike], they cried out as they reeled back, the first one turned back just in time for them to be hit with a [mind blade].

‘That skill is definitely going to come in handy,’ he thought as he started hitting the first as hard and as fast as he could with his fist. When the second and first recovered and brought their claws over their heads to attack him, Sho slipped between his legs. Cutting at one of his knees,” AH!” the zoanoid cried as his legs gave out. Jumping to his feet, he kicked them in the back of the head,” knocking it down; the other tried to jump over their fallen comrade.

Behind him, Sho noticed the Vamore moving towards there, lassons glowing brightly. It took only a moment for the cold realization that he was going to shoot through the other zoanoids. So he immediately moved, doughed the beastly zoinoad’s swipe moving to the side. 

Something the Vamore noticed, as his lasers fired, he cried out, turning the beams to chase the teen. Tearing through the walls of the factory, melting the ground behind sho. Who only managed to keep the beam nipping at his heels before Vamore’s firepower came to an end. 

Coming to a sliding stop, he turned to face the zoanoids. One of the beasts was down a hole in his side. The other was doing slightly better, “Let’s deal with you first,” landing another mental knife, Sho rushed as Vamore as the zoanoid screamed. “god damn it!” 

The pained scream didn’t stop Sho from closing in the distance until he buried his fist in Vamore’s dispharm. “ACH!” the ki-enhanced blow knocked the wind out of him. Sho pulled back his hand, turning the ki from a strike to a blade. This time, his hand got buried up to his wrist before he brought it up, curing through the chest up to the bones. It was too hard for him to cut through, but that didn’t stop the blood from busting out and a few modified organs. 

[heavy bleed inflicted]

“Damn you,” Vamore crushed as he fell down, trying to pull his organ back inside; Sho waved away the screen. With ragged breaths, Sho turned around to face the final zonoid. “What the hell are you?!” 

Sho approached him, catching his breath as he walked closer.” what the hell are you!” the zoanoid charged. Knowing the teen had to go down or he would, he couldn’t run. At least if he lost here, he would die as a warrior.

Groaning, Sho took a stance, waiting for them to come, and when they did, he evaded the first to slam his fist into the jaw. The zoanoid swung at him, forced to block, losing health as his sneakers skidded against the ground. Coming to a stop immediately, he had to jump over another claw swipe.

As gravity took hold again he lanhced the [mind knife] he just crafted righit into the zoanoid’s mind before kicking him in the face. [ki strike] was enough to knock him back for him to land and put an edge on his energy to drive it into the zoanoid's open mouth right into their brain. He definitely felt sick, feeling the grey matter on his fingers. But, like when this began, [gamer’s mind] kept him calm.

[zoanoid Vamore Lv:30 defeated]

[Zoanoid Ramotith lv:30 X2 defeated]

[50,000 exp acquired]

[Levelup]

[Levelup]

Sighing he watched as the bodies decayed. Leaving behind loot, whihc he would definitely look into in a moment instead he pulled Tetsuro into the real world.” Sho are you alright?” he immediately started looking over his friends form, trying to ignore the blood that didn’t even look close to drying.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Sho tried to brush off the worry. Turning to the drops, in total, the zoanoid dropped a couple of 10 thousand yen. Then there were other items similar to the items that the ones from before dropped. ‘Which I don’t think I looked at.’ Sighing, he activated [observe]

[ramotith gene sample X2]

[ramotith claw x2]

[Vamore gene sample]

[damaged chronos comicaotr]

“Well, that's useful, he put the items away and stood up.” I think we should get out of here,” Sho said. Tetsuro nodded.” Let’s, but how do we do that without getting spotted?” Sho paused for a moment before remembering what they did the last time and opened another empty dungeon. The first stop was someplace for sho to wash the blood off him and change back into his school clothes.

The first period had already started, but it would definitely attract more attention to skip. So they went to school, got scolded by the teacher, and attended class. Sho vaulgy relized the quest valgad gave him and vowed to spend time with takaya and mono. He started by having lunch with them before hanging out with them after school. 

They ended up getting burgers together before visiting an arcade; it was nice. He’s been so busy since he became a gamer that he hasn’t relaxed with them in a while. Something they had apparently noticed, “Dude, you kind of bulked up. Not to mention the time you're super focused on something in class and not the lesson.”

Sho flushed, rubbing the back of his head; he wasn’t aware he’s been that obvious. But he didn’t deny it, mono and takaya didn’t push. Instead, they did their best to distract him while they were at the arcade. Which was kind of hard as he was doing very well, with his increased stats showing their effect.

As he left the arcade heading home, Sho was looking at his luck stat,

Luk:22

Apparently a lot of the games that left things up to fate were good for training his luck. That was something he was going to have to keep in mind. Arriving at home he threw the bloody clothes into the landery so he could get the blood in them, thankfully the inventory kept them from drying out. Which was good for him, as they were washing he went into his training with zalgad before studying his magic books while his muscles recovered.

“How are you?” he asked the man sleeping on his couch. ”Fine,” he said.” I spent the day thinking.” Sho nodded in understanding; he was going to ask about what, but then he heard the sound of something soft falling down the stairs. Followed by more of these sounds. Both Sho and Hoshi looked up to see the slimes tumbling to the first floor.

‘I left my room door open,’ Sho thought as the slimes gathered before the stars shook themselves off before they started moving about searching through the house. A few just gathered around Sho’s feet, trying to climb up his legs or wiggle between his toes. It tickled, but he shook them off before they got higher than his knees.

“I’m too tired for this,” Hoshi said, lying back down on the couch. Not even questioning what was happening. Sho nervously scratching his head, the man didn’t seem in a talking mood. So Sho left him alone, returning to the real word with his books. 

****

The next few days Sho was waiting for the next attack but none came. What did come was the shadow spirits. They were weird coming into his shadow in the middle fo the school day, the chance he got he grabbed Tetsuro and slipped into a instat dungeon where they listen to the spirits speak.

“Oh god,” not even halfway through the report, Tetsuro felt himself to be sick. The shadows had found a lot on the branch of Chronos located in Japan. Yeah brach as one managed to locke t the brach head and listen to a report on the guyver units. 

There had been their units, but as far as Chronos knew, only two were active. One was attached to Sho, and the second was attached to an inspector. That wasn’t good in the slightest, but Sho focused on what the shadows had to say about the Japan branch. apparently, it was covered by a pharmaceutical company. Which Sho was never buying from again. 

Genzo makshima was the head of all of japans’ branch. Instresly enough Sho knew him as the student council presidents adoptive father. Thinking about it, I realized that the third year never spoke happily of the man. 

More bad news was that Chronos did have a few fingers in surrounding organizations like the police and a few gangs, along with numerous passe across the country. 

It only gave the teens a bigger scoop of the trouble they found themselves in, just how outmatched they were. Sho was definitely panicking, but [gamer mind] kept him calm enough to realize two things. One, he needed some kind of plan, two, he either needed to get strong enough to challenge the world or build some kind of fucking army.

“I’m sorry, sho,” Tetsro gasped. Stepping back from his thought, Sho reilzed the older male was trembling. He was afraid, frankly Sho should probably look like him. But his ability kept him calm, but he wasn’t too upset about it. As it let him have the state of mind to comfurt his friend. 

Thankfully, it didn’t take long for him to calm down, and they finished up learning about some actions that belonged to the Japanese branch of Chronos. Which was more than a dozen locations, not helping either of their moods. 

But inthe end they completed there task so Sho gave them there mana and they faded back into the realm they came form. “Sho, what should we do now?” 

Standing up, “Fight as it is the only thing we can do.” 

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It was Sunday, and after spending the morning with his dad, Sho told the man he would spend time with Tetsuro. Who would cover for him, while in truth, Sho was heading to the dungeons. Partly for the money so he could purchase some things magical and mundane. The first place he headed was the slime dungeon; he wasn’t sure if he was ready for whatever was at the clearing. However, he did come closer while exploring more to the east. 

Luckily, he found a chest that contained two things. [journal of a slime researcher part one] and [jar of slime], the jar was a crafting material. While the journal was different, it was part of a book; skimming through it, he found it was thick with words and diagrams. It was interesting, partly because he read the parts of slime evolution and diet.

That part he focused on for the time being. While evolution sounded interesting, it wasn’t important in the short term, according to what was in the book. Slimes were omnivores. In this sense, they could eat everything, meat, plants, rocks, and even forms of energy. It just affected how they developed.

In truth, it seemed that slime at the minimal needed sun and water, anything else, changed their evolution line. He would have read further but could hear some slime closing in. Putting the journal part away, he moved further to the east, knowing he was just moving in a circle. But keep an eye out for more chest or slime types. 

‘I didn’t consider there were more than just getting bigger.’ Thankfully, there didn’t seem to be any of the latter in the forest. After setting east for twenty more minutes, he found a second chest.

[Luck +1]

[you’ve discovered all the chest and dungeon stats updated]

“[dungeon stats]?!” in response, a screen appeared before him. “Well, that's kind of helpful.”

[Dungeon stats]

Monster type: slime

Totale monster: ??

Monster defeated:54

Monster satisfied: 42

Treasure chest found 4/4

He would have liked to know how many monsters there were in the dungeon in all. But at the same time, he was wondering if he really fucked that many slimes. It was kind of embarrassing to see it laid out like that. 

A small part of the teen was kind of proud, but he ignored it as he started heading toward the dungeon's center. Running into more slimes, but they didn’t really slow him down. This time, he kept going until he was in sight of the clearing, which allowed him to get a better idea of the big, no [king slime Lv:20].

It was big, enough so that Sho could submerge his entire body. Which was an idea that he quickly pushed aside to use [observe]. 

Slime king

Lv:20

Title: Dungeon Boss

Level: 20

Exp:00.7%

Hp: 900/900

Mp: 200/200

Lp: 30/30

Str: 40

Sta: 42

Dex: 41

Int: 19

Wis:9

Cha:22

Luk: 10

Free points:0

Specials stats:n/a

Looking over the stats, Sho felt like he had a good chance. He thought that it might be best to try satisfying the creature first. ‘But I’d rather take it on when my LP is at its max.’ he calculated how long it would take; too much time for him to just sit around in the dungeon.

So, instead, he left the slime dungeon and opened an empty dungeon, then started running at full speed. It takes a long time for him to start working up a sweat and heading around the city. He mostly went to the docks to see more about the dungeon there. But didn’t enter it at the same time. He raced past the lizard dungeon location. His thought briefly went to the scientist. 

‘He probably doesn’t want to talk to me,’ but Sho felt bad about leaving things like that. Maybe he should try and apologize. A thought like that moved to his head as he raced out of the housing area towards a shopping area. The shops flashed by him until he came to a short stop to catch his breath and wipe away the two screens that told him about his increase in stamina,’ thank god I put some water in my inventory.’

Drinking several mouthfuls, Sho took a moment to catch his breath and wipe the sweat from his face. As he caught his breath, he looked around, ‘it’s like a perfect copy of the real world,’ which wasn’t a bad thing. However, if he could make use of it, it would be another matter.

After his heart started to calm down, he started walking. Sho opened his stats, looking at his free points; using them would probably be a good idea. Seeing as his biggest threat was Chronos. He would need more than brains and muscle to take them one, “let’s go with this then.” he started spreading out the points.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 23

Exp:00.7%

Hp: 750/750

Mp: 450/850

Lp: 2.5/32.5

Str: 37

Sta: 40

Dex: 32

Int: 32

Wis: 32

Cha: 25

Luk: 25

Free points:19

‘I’ll leave it like that for now. As Sho closed the screen, he started jogging, moving further, letting the shops pass him at a more sedated pace, not paying them much attention. “Is that a sex shop?” he knew such a thing existed but didn’t think he would see one like this. Curious, he came closer; obviously, the shop was closed at this time of night.

But through the tinted windows, he could see something of interest.’ I wish I could get a closer look, but it’s not like I can just break in…right?’ from what he understood, this wasn’t a real place, just a copy of the real world, which had no effect on the real world.

‘I can’t believe I’m conjuring this.’ but the more he thought about it, the more he understood this really wouldn’t hurt anyone; he still thought it was crazy, and he powered up his ki and kicked into the window. He offered a prayer and apology as he stepped into the building. 

Immediately, his face turned red at the posters and images hanging on the wall; Sho tried to ignore them as he explored the store. ‘There is an entire shelf dedicated to lube. Another to Fleshlight and porn magazines,’ it was kind of eye-opening.

Sho used [observe] a few times; some of the toys affected his [bottoming] or [oral] sex skills. Which was definitely something he would have to keep in mind for later, hopefully much later. Instead, after getting a good look, he almost missed some drugs that would refill his LP or keep it up. Some even temporarily increase.

But after a while, Sho left the store, leaving the dungeon briefly to make sure the real world had been unaffected before continuing on his run. This time, he only ran for a short while before heading to Zoey’s shop.

She was doing her nails when sho walked into the room. She took one look at Sho, “You’ve grown stronger, boy. I’m impressed.” sho smiled, ” What can I help you with?” walking up to the counter, Sho told her chronos. A name she recognized,” They’ve managed to hunt a good portion of the ability users. I’ve personally met their forces…. It's impressive that you’ve managed to win. But! They are stubborn, and they will come at you in time.” 

“I understand, so for now, I need the ability to defend myself. I was wondering if you had…?” Sho asked about a few things he found mentioned in his new theory books. He was interested in chalk and maybe a few forms of crystal or minerals for spells. 

“I’ve got a few of those things, but the question is how much you have to spend?” She partly kept that kind of stuff in storage and didn’t want to go down there more than she had to. Sho, in response, pulled out about 774,000 yen. “Well then,” standing up, she headed to storage. While she did, Sho checked his LP, seeing that it was almost ready. ‘Just a bit longer,’ he thought. In boredom, he found himself looking through his inventory and the loot that cluttered it. He had thought about crafting with it, but he didn’t have much in the way of crafting recipes, which still sat in his inventory. 

Yeah, that slipped his mind for too long; he tried to absorb both books as Zoey came back. Sho's purchases floated behind her, and the teen asked her about crafting recipes to see if she had any and what they would cost. But there was not anything he would even call cheap, so it was something to come back to later. As he walked out of the shop, he glared at the two screens that told him why he couldn’t absorb the crafting recipes.

[sewing] level 10 required to learn this skill]

[cobbling] Level 10 required to learn this skill]

‘Sewing, I need to bring up another level, but cobbling’ he was partly sure that was shoemaking. Man, this was more complicated than he thought,”

*********

“Alright, slime king, let’s see what you’ve got!” sho said sometime later after dropping his purchases off at home so he didn’t forget about them in his inventory. At the same time, he had thought of summoning a spirit that was willing to trade for a book on cobbling. He had about no idea what a bunch of small elves wanted with his old shoes. But he wasn’t complaining; a stop at a hobby store to collect more sewing supplies.

Now, he stood in the slime dungeon once again, walking toward it without pants or a shirt. His cock is half-hard behind his boxer-briefs. He walked closer, avoiding the few slimes that were possible asleep. Well, they weren’t reacting to his presence as he approached the [king slime]. 

It didn’t respond to his presence until he poked it with his foot, then quick as a whip, its tentacles, each as wide as his arm. Sho almost took a step back on instinct but instead let it grab hold of him. It was evidently exerting more strength than the other slime before it pulled sho into itself. 

Being completely submerged was new. But he couldn’t find himself disliking the feeling, especially as the slime started to slither under his underwear, pulled them down, and his t-shirt was pulled up. Leaving him butt naked as the slime started to caress every inch of his body. Front his toes to his ears, pushing against his rim, wrapping around his cock.

“AH!” sho cried out when the slime slipped past his rim and started filling him, Taking only a moment before it passed his second ring. Pushing against Sho's stomach, causing it to bulge. “Gah!” the teen gasped, eyes and mouth widening. Leading to the slime invading it and pushing down his throat. 

It was a lot to feel at once; Sho felt like his brain was going to melt. But his cock had never been this hard before, every inch of his body tingling, and the feeling only increased when the slime started fucking the gamer’s mouth and ass. Bouncing on his cock, leaving sho to quite helplessly moaning. He could move his arms and legs to a certain extent, even with slime wrapped around them.

But he lacked the traction to exert real strength. So he floated there as the slime played with his body; unsurprisingly, it only took a few minutes before Sho spilled his seed into the slime. It stood out against the light color of the slime, but sho didn’t even notice. The [slime king] didn’t slow its motions. 

In fact, the orgasm seemed to excite the slime, fucking sho with more ferociously until he felt his second orgasm coming. ‘Too fast,’ he wasn’t just thinking that because his cock was too sensitive. He needs to hold out longer than the slime, and he might not at this rate.

‘The journal!’ his eyes widened as a thought hit him. The research journal mentions that slimes had a kind of nervous system. More importantly, they had a part of their body that was more sensitive than the rest. It was also nearly invisible to the naked eye.

‘Too bad I can use more than my eyes,’ his mana surged out. One simple use of life magic was [life sensing]; more focused was sensing the body of a creature. Which sho only knew in theory. Nevertheless, he couldn’t think of anything else than with all the focus he could manage at the moment.

It was strange, in his mind's eye, as his mana expanded through the slime. Seeing the different parts of it, but Sho didn’t focus on that too much. Just seeing the slime's one weak point, it's core. Which was about the size of his head. And it was a few inches from his dick. ‘Well, this is the best chance I’ve got!’

Dismissing his magic, he activated [ki boost]so he could thrust his hips, even with the binding of the slime. It took a few moments before he built up enough momentum until the tip of his dick could brush against the slime’s core.

The entire thing tremoured in response, which only encouraged sho to move harder. Then faster once he found a pattern that rubbed his dick against the core repeatedly. The slime only encouraged this cation by pounding his ass harder. Trying to pull his dick closer to it’s core. Actions that only pushed him over the edge, his second load spraying over the core. Some of the white seed was swallowed by it. 

The entire slime was trembling, actions slowing down for the moment. Allowing sho a moment to catch his breath,’ It’s kind of strange how well I can breathe like this.’ it wasn’t the biggest thing to focus on. Not that he had more time to think before the slime started moving again, just as rough.

‘Does it seem a little frantic?’ the thought didn’t stop him from thrusting his hips. Rubbing his weeping dick against the core of the slime, the tremors that raced through the slime were starting to increase. Which only encouraged the human.

‘Just a bit longer,’ it hurt how sensitive his body was. The pain only seemed to fuel his arousal, a strange mix that had his hips jerking. He couldn’t last too long, not after two orgasms. He was going to blow, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. But the slime was trying to hold him still as he fucked his ass and throat. Jerked his cock, touched every inch of his skin. 

It was so much that most of his mind was a haze of pleasure. Obscene noises trying to escape his throat. The teen could feel a rather shrill noise forming in his throat; he tried to hold it back. ‘I’ve got to end this now!’ Sho pulled back his hips and changed the angle as he thrust them forward.

“AH!” the scream didn’t come from sho, not it came from the slime as the gamer as he pushed his cock through its core. ‘It has a voice!’ Sho didn’t know that; it hadn’t even said a peep up to this point. So that meant sho had either inflicted pain or pleasure.

Since the slime didn’t go on the attack, sho figured it was the latter and moved his hips, pushing his dick through the core several times, the slime’s grunts waking the slime around them. They all turned to watch the contest going on between the ability user and the [king slime].

‘Just a bit more!’ he could feel his balls start to rise; he was going to come. It could not be held off anymore, ’fuck!’ sho thought as he came for the third time. The seed dripped out of his cock, into the core of the slime, which trembled as watery slime shot itself down Sho’s throat and up his ass. 

[-30Lp]

[slime king Lv:20 satisfied]

[20,000 exp acquired]

‘Ther loosening,’ sho realized the restraints were going down as the entire slime seemed to go lax. At the same time, the creature started to turn into light. Soon, he found himself lying on the ground. Leftover slime covered every inch of him, and his dirty underwear lay on the ground next to him. A few look around him.

“Oh gods,” he was tired, but the soreness from his used body was already starting to fade. However, he didn’t find himself that upset about the soreness.” All right, what should I do about them” Sitting up, Sho could see the big slimes coming at him. He didn’t have any sexual desire at the moment. “So I guess that means I fight,” the teen sighed before standing up, legs wobbling a little.

Thankfully, the battle hadn’t taken too long. Sho easily put away the drops he got from the [big slimes], turning to the drops of the [king slime]...” I forgot my underwear.” sho felt himself blushing as he snatched them off the ground, wringing the slime out of them,” I can’t wear these, I’m glad I thought to put some spare clothes in my inventory.” he quickly pulled out some dry underwear. White boxer briefs before getting more dressed.

“Not let’s see what you are? [observe]”

[skill book: slime authority]

The ability to exert authority over slimes

[Journal of the Slime Researcher part 2]

[slime king core]

The solidified core of a slime king holds traces of the king’s power

Crafting & spell ingredient

Sho didn't know what he was going to do with the slime king core. But he did absorb the skill book; the slime in the house was exploring and growing bigger. ‘They might cause some trouble if I’m not careful.’ 

[slime authority (passive)LV:1 Exp:0/100]

Your voice now carries the authority that all slimes recognize but might not follow.’

-5% that slime might ignore or rebel against your orders

The skill looked pretty simple, ‘I bet it will get really strong in the future.” for the time being, Sho left the dungeon, and he tried the skill on a few slimes he passed on the way out. Five barely listened to him, but the ones that did give experience for the skill.

He returned home, and one of the first things he did was shower, rinsing the slime from his body before grabbing the sewing supplies,’ let's level out this so I can absorb those recipes.’

[sewing level up]

“Yes,” he quickly, absorbing the [leather pants (mutant lizard)],’ let’s see how far I can get with the cobbling,’ the spirits that had given him the skill had also given him the tools and materials for practice. So he worked on that until his dad came home, and it was time for him to go to bed.

*********

[mission complete]

[“Stavos” training #2]

To build a good foundation for future training, the spirit you know as Stavos has designed a training menu for you! Now you must survive it!

objectives(s)

Spend time with 5 friends/family (complete)

Spare with Stavos daily(complete)

Land 5 hits on Stavos (complete)

Bonus objective(s)

Increase a ki skill by 2 levels (complete)

Obtain a new ki skill (complete)

reward(s)

8,000 Exp, 8,000yen, +100 reputation with Stavos

Bonus reward(s)

9,000 Exp. 8,00yen +200 reputation with Stavos per objective complete

The complete mansion was a nice thing to see first thing in the morning. Also, a nice distraction from the person following him, [mind detection] had picked them up within seconds of sho feeling like someone was watching him. ‘I wish I had just been paranoid.’ Okay, the question was what he should do,’ I know they were zoanoid; their mind felt too different from normal humans. 

But that still meant he was in danger; he didn’t doubt they were here because of the zonoids that he killed. But they were just watching him, so maybe he could leave them alone for the moment. He didn’t know, and the more he felt them watch him, the more anxious he became.

He kept the [mind detection] active the entire day, and he sometimes caught them out of the corner of his eyes. But they didn’t make any kind of move, ‘I can’t just let them watch me forever,’ they already tried to kidnap Tetsuro. ‘Who knows if they’ll try again,’ he managed to pull Tetsuro into an empty dungeon and inform him of the observer.

“Shit!” the older and wider teen swore. He bit a fingernail,” I think it’s best to leave them alone for now?”

“What, why?”

“When they kidnapped me yesterday. They kept asking about the guyver, the thing that attached itself to you yesterday.” that was news to sho, but his friend had really been shaken up yesterday. ”if we can convince them we really don’t know anything about it they might really leave up alone.” sho really wasn’t sure if that would work, but he was willing to try it. 

*********

Around the time school let out, deep in the sky under one of its high rises, a man opened a case. From it sprung a creature that wrapped around him, his screams drawing out the room and panic as people attempted to help him. Unknown to them all, they had spectators. One with a camera, another that was with the shadows. 

*********

“Guyver,” sho spoke from within the dungeon. As he said the name, he could feel the marking on his back respond, pulsing in a way. He could guess why, but he also had a bad feeling about doing this in his room. “First, I should decide what I’m doing to figure out what to do with these slimes.”

Sho had made time to read the two parts of the slime researcher journal. Fun fact wasn’t the whole thing. ‘How many parts are there?’ he wondered, but still, he knew enough to know there was a lot he could do with the slimes. 

While the journals were a right mess of notes, they did have a lot, like [green slimes], which were an evolution of slime that could produce [string] and [sticky string]. Which the researcher thought could be harvested. Or [tree slimes] or [wood slimes], Sho wondered if those were actually different types. But they were capable of production, and then there were [slime titans] [gluttony slimes]. There wasn’t much, like barley notes, along with the name.

“Combat-wise, these might be the strongest slime I’ve encountered so far; it’s amazing that just things exist. I can’t wait to see more.”

‘So what should I do with you guys?’ sho asked himself as he petted one of the slimes; he wasn’t even sure why he hatched them other than curiosity. He knew he could do something about them, even if it just releasing them back into their normal dungeon. 

He wasn’t sure how he felt about the possibility of making them fight or just harvesting things from them. He knew on a level that humans had already done that; he knew countless animals were farmed by the race. But he didn’t know if he wanted to do it personally. ‘At least [gamer mind] could keep me from feeling too bad.’

Sighing, he rolled over, the slime squirming before settling down. Sho looked down at it,” If I do decide to use you, I’ll make sure to treat you right.” he couldn’t think of doing anything less.

After some time, Sho decided that the answer wasn’t in logic but in his heart. So he looked there, past the clear thoughts of [gamer mind] and into the raw emotions. They were a mess; one thing was that he was feeling empathy for these creatures. Right next to it was the terror of Chronos. 

A worldwide organization that he needed all the help he could get, a group that wanted something he wasn’t even sure if he could remove. People who went after one of his closest friends. Who might come after the rest of the people he cared about besides his own life. The reason he fought, ’the week completing Stavos mission told me that.’ 

Sitting up, he gently brought the slime to his level; Sho offered a silent prayer and apology for the creatures and all of its kind. ‘I will cause as little harm as I can, I promise you.’ unaware of his thoughts, the slime wiggled, exploring his hand.

Sho stood up and walked throughout the house. He found the slimes and led them outside; a few of them just ended up being carried outside. Setting them on the lawn, Sho let them explore for a few minutes; he could tell they were excited. 

There, he felt them for the time being because they needed sunlight to grow, even though the sun was setting. ‘I’ll need to put out some water later.’ but for the moment, he was going to take care of the thing he’s been ignoring.

Based on a gut feeling, Sho made sure to do this in the middle of the road. Where nothing important wouldn’t get destroyed. He tried to calm his racing heart, taking a few breaths, but it wasn’t helping. ‘Let’s just get this over with, now say it with confidence, ”GUYVER!”

[summoning guyver, defense barrier deployed]

The growths on his back light up, and less than a second later, a blast of energy was unleashed. Covering Sho in a protective sphere as it lifted him off the ground. Behind him, the guyver suit opened up, swallowing sho.

[guyver unit equipped]

A burst of steam was unleashed from the vents as sho adjusted to the feeling of the guyver suit. It was strange; Sho could feel it over his skin like it was his skin. He knew there was some kind of lens before his eyes, but he could see through them clearly.’ this is too strange,” singing as he flexed his body, feeling the power the guyver was granting him. [gear]

Gear

Full body: [guyver suit]

Head:

Face:

Neck:

Back:

Upper body:[white t-shirt]

Arms:

Wrist:

Hands:

Fingers:

Lowerbody: [blue boxerbriefs] [black shorts]

Groin:

Ass:

Legs:

Ankles:

Feet: [white socks] [white sneakers] 

[guyver suit]

A living organism that has been manipulated by [???] into a suit with great potential and power.

+100 str, stamina, dex

+ 300 defense

[symbiotic]

[?????] 

[?????]

Hidden weapons-????

“Wow,” the stats increase itself was incredible. Interestingly enough, this was on top of Sho's clothing,” Well, let’s see what this suit can do?” jumping from foot to foot, marveling at how light he felt, then Sho shot down the street. 

It took only minutes to see the power and strength the guyver gave him, enough that he accidentally crashed through a concrete wall. Maybe work on control a bit; he did crash through a wall by accident.

After about 30 minutes, he decided that he had had enough of the guyver. Instead, he returned home to work on his crafting. He made use of his stock-piled leather to make leather pants(mutant lizard) in a few sizes.

‘You know these don’t look half bad,’ the leather was a dark reddish brown. Looking himself over in his room mirrors, Sho had to admit they hugged well. Of course, there were a few mistakes in the cutting and sewing. ‘It’s my own fault, really, ’seeing the time out of the corner of his eye, he realized how late it was. 

Changing out of the leather pants, Sho left the dungeon to check if his father was home. He was, ’ Okay, I’ll have to think fast.’ but whatever excuse Sho was about to come up with stopped when he realized that his father brought a guest over. It wouldn’t be the first time, though usually, it was coworkers too drunk to go home. 

Except they were both sober, especially Aki, who was looking a bit pale with recognition.’ oh no!’ sho thought in a bit of panic. 

[lewd quest discovered]

Reading the mission description, the teen could only feel like someone was messing with him. 

*******

‘How dangerous,’ one shadow spoke,’ so many numbers.’

‘I agree, we’ve gathered enough for the payment. Let’s return and hand over what we know.’ a second shadow said as it moved out of the building. ‘Do you think we should offer our services to him? It’s clear the world is going to experience a big change.’

‘Yes, the world is going to change; it’ll affect us without a doubt.’ but they didn’t know if they should offer their help; there were benefits, but they were putting themselves in danger. ‘Is helping him worth the danger? He doesn’t have much strength?’

‘But he has much room to grow, and you sense the incubus mark on him.’

‘Yes, that part will be fun; who knows what perversion he will sink into. I want to see those.’ the other shadows agreed with him as they Headed out, moving from the shadows of buildings to people as they made their way back to Sho’s home.

*******

There, the brunette was trying to stay calm while he talked with Aki. Who apparently worked on a joint project between his company and his father's company. So the two of them were talking, and somehow, this led to Sho’s dad bringing the man to his house. 

Honestly, it wouldn’t be the first time Sho has met his dad’s coworkers like this. But it just happened to be this guy this time,’ I don’t know if this is bad or good luck.’ cause he was having a lot of mixed feelings right now, both because he sucked this guy's dick.

Remaining as calm as he could, he looked at the lewd quest; it wasn’t a hard one. But he didn’t particularly like the idea of getting caught by his dad. Which was the biggest risk of doing the mission.

[Blown one blown again]

Blow Aki Jurobei again without getting caught by your father.

Reward: 100 exp, 100 yen, +0.25Lp

Accept

yes/no

He turned back to the conversation, making small talk as he tried to figure out if he should take the mission. The risk of getting caught by his dad was high if he stuck to mundane methods. Not that he probably would, but a small part of him wanted to suck the guy's dick again. As he looked at aki he could rember the taste of his dick, how it felt in his mouth. 

‘It wouldn’t hurt to try,’ sho decided subtle pressing yes on the mission. ‘But how do I do this?’

Chapter Text

‘Not to self remember the power of luck,’ Sho thought as his father stepped out for a call. Immediately, with his heart hammering in his chest, Sho broke the topic of what happened that night. Aki immediately bowed and apologized, “I’m sorry for my action that night! Being drunk doesn’t excuse me!”

“I don’t blame you,” cause it was the fault of a skill of his. “The only thing I regret is that you were drunk.”

“What do you mean by that?” Aki asked as Sho looked to the side. It was kind of embarrassing, but he could only think of being honest now.” I wouldn’t mind if it happened again while you were sober.” For a moment, Aki moved his lips, trying to come up with something to say,” Huh?!” which sounded like a squicking cat,” “What? Why!?”

“Why not? I like it, and I know you did as well.” Aki did some more gapping. No Sho understood what he said was strange, but he liked what happened and wanted to do more. There was also the matter that he needed to get better at the sex part of his power, and if he had to choose, Aki seemed like a good choice. 

If it was a matter of seducing the man, then that seemed easier than fighting Chronos. Their conversion didn’t continue as Sho's father returned. Still, it was clear it was something Aki kept thinking about even as he headed out. 

‘I’ll have to figure out how to contact him later, but before that, Sho was going to relax and maybe read one of the magic books he was given. But as he settled down on his bed in his pajamas. A few presences made themself known, the shadow spirits. Sighing, he sat up, looking at their dark and undefined forms.

“You're done spying on Chronos.” it wasn’t a question. “Yes, we’ve learned many things about them. Would like to hear?” Sho nodded, but first, he grabbed a piece of paper. It felt like a good idea, ” Please begin.” The shadow spirits had found the closet branch of Chronos was a highrise building under the name of a pharmaceutical company. Which still ran like one, but at the same time, more than half the building was dedicated to Chronos. 

They gave him a vague building plan, but the most pressing information they gave him was. Another guyver unit had been activated. Attaching itself to some inspector. When the shadow spirits had left, some tests were being done.

‘Which means they’ll probably understand the guyver more than I do,’ Sho frowned and wondered what they would learn; he couldn’t do anything about that. “Thank you for gathering the information.” The spirits said it wasn’t any problem, that he paid enough for this information. Besides, they got a chance to look around the earth for a few centuries. “Alright,” Sho nodded before the contract. The spirits returned to their home realm, leaving Sho alone in his room. For a moment, he reviewed the notes before trying to relax. [gamer’s mind] made it easy to push the thoughts aside from reading the book, but they were still there steeming in the background.

He didn’t take his bath that night because he didn’t plan on going to sleep. No, he would finish the lizard dungeon if he could. ‘It’s also a good chance to see what the guyver can do, stepping out of his house. ”guyver!”

The living armor wrapped around him, only a moment to adjust to the feeling again before he took off down the street, moving at high speed. He arrived at the entrance to the lizard dungeon in under a few minutes and barely slowed once he got inside. 

The first dungeon monster didn’t even get a chance to defend itself before Sho’s fist crashed through its head. Which Shocked Sho, and he moved forward with a bit more confidence. Moving further and further into the dungeon, meeting little resistance. ‘This thing is so fucking strong.’ no wonder Cronos wanted it back.

He reached the point where the heat should have affected him, but in the guyver suit, he barely noticed. Further, he reached the point where he arrived near the lab. Stopping, he considered if he should talk to Herman. ‘I’m probably going to make a mess, so I should at least try.’ He sighed, and he moved closer to the barrier. He doubted Herman would lower it so they could talk, so he probably would have to cut the power again. 

Turning towards the hidden camera, “Herman, I want to talk. If you don’t lower the barrier. I‘ll get the power.” he knew Herman was watching; in fact, he probably knew Sho was on his way. ” Whatever you want to talk about, we can do from here!” the prodigy responded from some hidden speakers. ‘He’s still mad about the wedgie.’

“I’m probably going to make a mess of this space soon; I just came to warn you.” The speakers didn’t activate,” I’ll be fine; the lab is heavily shielded.” something Herman sounded very proud about,”...what are you wearing?”

“A kind of bio-armor.” 

“...could I take a look at it with my equipment?” Sho could hear the interest in his voice and, under the mask of the guyver, smiled a bit. Maybe this would be his chance to make an offer of peace. “Sure,” the barrier went down, and Sho moved slowly into the lab; immediately, Herman got to work taking scan samples and more.

Sho never knew how much work went into science. He tried to offer a hand, but Herman didn’t take it, only leaving Sho to watch in interest. It took an hour before Herman shared any of the results. “Incredible. Whatever this, it’s not only alive but holds incredible regenerative properties. I’d love to do even more tests.” When Sho said he could, Herman seemed suspicious but didn’t protest.

Herman took a new sample and put it under a powerful microscope to get some pictures of the cell structure. Picture Sho could see. He decided they weren’t like anything he’d seen on Earth; Herman increased the microscope's power to see the cells' DNA. “Well, now that complex,” he took a few notes. He wondered which part of this DNA led to the high regeneration.

‘So he has the technology to observe DNA,’ the teen remembered the loot he got for killing the Zoanoids that attacked him and Tetsuro. Well, it seems he found a use for them after all. Reaching into his inventory, he waited for Herman to stop taking his notes. Then he offered the test tubs to him.

“What do you want?” Herman asked, suspicious but curious about them. Sho immediately said they were a peace offering, which Herman only half believed. “I’m serious. I know you're still a bit mad about the wedgie. ”Herman huffed but took the test tubes.” And you don’t do it again?”

Sho immediately wanted to say yes, but the fact that he had done it in the first place. He said something, plus there was also the magic that Zalgad hinted at, which Sho would admit he was curious about. If he knew more, he could decide if it was worth it. The fact he didn’t answer the question immediately made Herman cautious, even taking a step back from Sho.

‘That’s fair; it's like I could expect him to offer up his ass like that…right?’ thinking about it, he’s made deals with several spirits, even a person. He was probably going to make more, so why Shouldn’t he try? ”Herman, would you be willing to make a deal?”

“About what?” he looked up from the test microscope. Face turning dark,“ about whether or not you give me another wedgie?!” Sho made a calming gesture.” But only in exchange.”

“For what?” Herman fingered his gun, though he wasn’t sure if they would work. “I have everything I need in here!”

“You plan on staying in here forever?” Sho Shot back.” And what about more samples for whatever project you're doing? I’m the only person who knows yours here. I have many things I can offer you. Even a place to go if you want to leave this lab?”

“The only reason I’ll leave this lab is when this place is no longer habitable...but I understand your point my resources are limited within the lab. But you know that includes my underwear, so if you ripped them, you’ll have to replace them.”

“Of course,” honestly, that seemed fair.

“Do you enjoy it that much? To be willing to pay that price?” Herman raised an eyebrow. Sho didn’t answer immediately; a small part of him did enjoy making Herman squirm and wail. Was it worth making this deal, he was unsure. But he could figure it out. Besides, he didn’t think that Herman would be against changing the deal if it wasn’t worth it to Sho. “I’ll let you know. Is it a deal?”

“Sure,” Herman didn’t like it, but he was sure he could deal with it. He’s dealt with worse people. 

[Dealmaking has leveled up]

[Lust mission discovered]

Seal it with a Yank.

Seal your deal by giving Herman a wedgie.

Rewards: 100exp, 100yen, book of wedige page (depends on the wedgie)

Before accepting the mission, Sho asked how Herman felt about sealing their deal with a wedgie. Brow creased, and Herman told him to do what he wanted. ‘Well, alright then,’ dismissing the armor, he accepted the mission. He saw Herman’s back muscle tense through his lab coat as Sho approached, but he made no move to turn around. 

Sho didn’t blame him, but that didn’t stop him from reaching around the lab coat, fingers dipping into his pants. Finger wrapping around the waistband of his underwear, Herman tensed as Sho started to pull it upward. He could feel the cotton sliding between his ass. “AH!” then Sho pulled not so gently repeatedly until Herman was forced to stand on his toes. Holding it there, Sho watched Herman force down his discomfort. 

Forcing his face to be calm, hands braced on the table. Even as Sho yanked on his briefs higher and higher, exploding the leg holes and stretching them out. Herman tried to suppress the whines as his balls came under more and more pressure. His ass burned, but he could take it. 

The wedgie went on for a few more minutes before Sho finally let go; Herman glared at him as he pulled the cotton from his ass. Sho stuck around to ensure he was okay before leaving the lab; after he passed through the barrier, he summoned the guyver again.

As the shield deployed around him, he looked over the screen.

[wedgie giving] has leveled up]

[mission complete]

Seal it with a Yank.

Seal your deal by giving Herman a wedgie.

Rewards: 100exp, 100yen, spell theory page.

Curious about the reward, he removed the book and flipped to the new page. ‘Oh, that's a useful spell,’ It was a spell that increased/restored durability to cloth clothing. The version in the book was especially attuned to underwear. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t use it towards other forms of clothing. ‘I’d have to change a few things first.’ He knew little about modifying spells.

But he did know about fighting the lizards that lived in his dungeon; they tended to go for the legs with their sharp teeth and claws. Which was less of a problem inside the guyver suit. He didn’t even feel it when a nest guard managed to get close enough. The boosted strength the guyver gave him was enough to break open their skull with minimal hits. ‘Hoenyl, this kind of unfair,’ he thought after kicking a mutant lizard into the ceiling.’ It died when it hit the floor again.

He wondered if it would be better to take off the suit, but at the same time, he was getting used to the power it held. So he moved further into the cave, the notion of a change in his surroundings. For the most part, the cave looked normal, but now it had claw marks on the ground and walls.

‘As if something dug its way out of here,’ The thought put him on guard, which was good, or he would have been surprised when the guyver suit sense motion. He barely jumped to avoid being hit by the truck-sized lizard. ‘Oh shit!’ He thought as he landed softly, turning to look at the creature he activated [observe].

Oversized mutant lizard

Lv:18

Title: nest guard

HP 600/600

mp:300/300

Str:42

Sta:32

Dex:26

Int:19

Wis:10

Cha:14

Luk:17

Ap: 0 

speacial stats: [large size] +10str, -10% movement speed. [think scales] +25% defense on scale-covered locations.

Looking at it, Sho figured this would probably be a hard fight. The suit let out a burst of steam before he moved, rushing at the lizard. It swung its paw at him. Flipping over the claws, he brought his foot down on its head. Scales cracked under the force, “Rah!” With a roar, it threw its head, and Sho, spinning mid-air, landed softly once again, just in time for the lizard to turn and swing its tail at him. 

“AH!” the appendage struck him. Though he managed to put his guard up, that didn’t stop the force from making him move. Feet skidding against the ground. Until his back hit the wall, ’ That Should have hurt,’ true. The arms on the armor were a bit scuffed, but nothing beyond that. Even that was quick healing.

Lost in his thought, he almost missed the teeth headed his way; using the wall, he jumped over the head of the lizard, landing on its back. The mutant lizard roared once more, bucking, trying to throw him off. ‘Let’s see how it takes magic!’ As he called on his mana, he ran into a problem; the guyver absorbed it. The same could be said for any ki he tried to use.

Swearing at the problem, he swore again when the lizard bucked, throwing its back against the wall. Landing Sho put some distance between him and the monster. ”Okay, what do I do?” he hadn’t expected the guyver to stop him from using his magic or ki. That took away a lot of his options if he didn’t take off the armor. 

But he came down here to test the amour; he already found a flaw in it. ‘Let's see what karate can do in this.’ he moved forward, sidestepping the lizard bit, and spun a kick into its face. It hissed as one of its fangs came out, but Sho didn’t stop.

Unleashing several strikes to its face, it tried to bite him again. Dashing along side of its body, he slammed both fists in a hammer blow into its legs. He felt something break. Not just scales but something under them. 

[Right frontal leg bokeh, oversized mutant lizard movement speed decreased by 25%]

‘There an idea,” the lizard tried to take a bit out of Sho. But it was too slow to stop him from attacking its right hind leg. Striking, he broke a second bone, decreasing the lizard’s movement speed by another 25%. That didn’t stop it from trying to attack him, even as Sho broke its other legs.

[All four limbs broken, the oversized mutant lizard has been rendered imobale]

Even as it whimpered in pain, the mutant stared Sho dead on. The only sound in the cave after that was Sho penetrating its skull and striking its brain. It fell still at that same moment.

[oversized mutant lizard defeated, 1,000 exp gained]

As he looked over the looked, he felt the ground start to shake as more oversized lizards crawled through the caves. ’I’m in for a busy night.’ Taking a deep breath, he threw the loot into the inventory and moved. 

Sevan oversized lizard and 3 dozen normal-sized ones later, Sho found himself looking at an interesting sight. A small magma flows, lighting up quartz crystals and the shells of white eggs; Sho wished he had a camera. For how the light danced, he was also more concerned about the massive monster laying in the middle of the eggs and quarts, one paw dipped in the magma flow.

[Lizard queen Lv:38]

[quartz eater]

Yeah, that didn’t seem like a simple fight. Still, he looked around the cavern. ‘Since I’m going to fight it, I Should get an idea of the environment. Hopefully not crushing any eggs, ‘oh a chest.’ It’d be best if he got it now; who knows if he would be able to reach it when the battle started.

Moving between the eggs and quartz as gently as possible, he made it to the chest without waking the queen. Popping the trunk open, he found two things. A stack of cash and a skill book, [scale skin] [obseve], gave him a bit more information about the skill he couldn’t use; it was a defensive skill. That covered the skin in scales; the scales could become as hard as steel with enough practice. 

The problem was that the skill was restricted to reptilian-type creatures or those with a reptile's special stats. Which Sho didn’t have, so he put the book away, ’maybe I can find another way to use it. Or someone who can.’ But for the moment, it was time to face the lizard queen. She was big too, house-sized big.

“Alright, I can do this?” Taking a running start, he jumped, landing softly on the queen’s back; immediately, she snapped awake with a roar that Shocked the cavern. ” Oh god!” the queen thrashed, trying to throw off the human. Who started pounding his fist on her scale-covered back. Which were harder than he expected. 

They were breaking, but she wasn’t going down as easily as the other lizard. ‘My fist, even in this suit, aren’t going to make this simple.’ he wished he could use his magic. The lizard queen slammed her back against the wall, forcing Sho to jump down from it, rushing across the ground. Avoiding the eggs. Until he got enough pace to active [observe].

Lizard Queen

Lv:38

Title: quartz Eater

Hp:889/900

Mp:500/500

Str:43 (63)

Sta:47

Dex:20

Int: 19

Wis: 20

Luk:24

cha:18

 Ap:0

Special stats: [crystal-like scales]+100 defense, the chance of dealing slash damage [extra large size]+20str, -20% movement speed [mother queen] + 35% to birthing and ruling skills

All but the last special stats had an effect in battle, but it didn’t make Sho feel better about this fight. ‘I’ve got to get past those scales,’ he needs more power to do so. Should he ditch the suit and use his magic. But as the idea passed his mind, another fact he overlooked came to him. ‘Sho, you fool! [stats]

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 24

Exp:13.7%

Hp: 750/750

Mp: 650/850

Lp: 32.5/32.5

Str: 37

Sta: 40

Dex: 32

Int: 32

Wis: 32

Cha: 25

Luk: 25

Free points:24

Sho looked over the screen, ‘Unless I take off the suit, I have to increase my stats, or…’ he remembered that the information from the guyver mentioned weapons. As this thought crossed his mind, the queen took a bite out of a cluster of quartz. “What?” he watched, dazed, as the lizard pulled her head back.

Then, with incredible strength, he whipped it forward; Sho couldn’t follow what happened with his eyes. But he felt it, it being something the size of a basketball hitting him in the stomach, “Gah!” it knocked the breath out of his lungs through a few eggs. 

[-105Hp]

Some quick math in his head told Sho that there had been 405 points of damage. ‘Okay, that probably would have killed me outside of the suit. It probably wouldn’t have been that dangerous if their levels had been more equal.

The lizard tilted her head back again, and Sho jumped to his feet, taking off running. When the queen whipped her head around, he jumped. The same moment his feet cleared the space, a head-sized chunk of quartz hit the ground. Knocking a cloud of dust as a 7-foot gouge in the ground opened up.

Several more gouges were dug in the ground by more chunks; Sho moved with all his dexterity to avoid them and, especially after seeing one chunk strike spikes of quarts, making pebbles. “Yeah, I’m not getting hit about that.” He moved his feet faster and started making his way towards the lizard, covering a good amount of distance before she managed to refill her mouth. 

As he raced closer, he didn’t notice the metal on the forehead of the guyver shine. Still, he did feel information feeding into his mind. An instinct is imprinted into his mind. Following the instinct, he raised his arms. The small blades grew at his elbows, glowing with a faint, shrill sound. 

A screen appeared in response, but Sho didn’t have time to read it as he moved forward, avoiding another Shot before he reached the legs of the queen. Acting on the instinct of the gear, he swung his arm. The blade aimed right at one of the legs, and as it came close, Sho readied to come to a stop, unsure if it would cut through.

To his surprise, he felt no resistance, the shrill noise growing loader in the brief moment the blade went through the legs. Blood gushing out a moment later, the action stunned both combatants. The queen roasted out in pain and surprise; she couldn’t recall how long it had been since she felt pain. Sho was just surprised, but that was quickly fixed by [gamer’s mind], and he moved. Slashing at the queen's other legs. 

Only two of them were completely severed,” This fight just got very simple,” he thought as the queen fell over. He almost fell back as he walked over to decapitate the queen. Of course, that feeling lasted until the queen let out a massive roar that Shook the cavern.

Which began trembling before several walls got knocked in. Numerous lizards burst into the room, and some of the eggs were even hatching. Most of them covering around their queen, the rest caring in fresh kills. 

[The queen has summoned her subjects; you have 15 minutes to slay them and stop her meal. Preventing her legs from growing back, and her health is restored by 25%]

“Shit!” Sho swore and rushed at the lizard; they roared and rushed to meet him. With a better idea of how the blades worked, he didn’t hesitate as he swung without hesitating. Slicing through the lizards. But for everyone he cut through, another took its place. He could see a timer counting down the seconds out of the corner of his eye. If he looked beyond the hoard, he could see the queen eating. Ripping apart a fresh carcass, her legs healing at a slow but viable pace. As he cut off the head of a lizard, he looked at the remaining number, not looking at the bleeding bodies on the floor. 

More minutes passed before only four mutants stood between him and the queen. They rushed forward, and Sho waited for them to reach him. The first jumped at his legs, teeth bared. He stepped back and swung his right blade upward, bisecting its head. Two of them went for his arms while the third jumped at his head. Claws at the ready.

Jumping over the two lizards, Sho swung his left arm. Cutting through the spine and stomach of the third lizard. Lanidnhe spun on his toes and stared at the final two before they could turn around to face him. Blood splattered over his suit.

[Reinforcements killed, lizard queen’s hp restored by 11% legs only 75% healed]

Despite the damage she was still suffering from, the queen took a bit of crystal and fired it at Sho. Dodging and rushing forward, the blades still shrill, he moved between the chunks of quartz being fired at him. The queen steadily backed up, trying to put room between them. But eventually, her back hit the wall. Sho continued to close the distance until he was close enough that she tried to eat him. 

He could see the ragged but sharp teeth approaching him, Bring both arms up and cut through the roof of her mouth. “HISS!” she reeled back as blood burst free, hissing in pain. The instinctual reaction revealed her neck.

Leaping into the air, he twirled and swung his blades at her throat. Cutting several lines that bled within moments. A gaggling noise left the queen’s mouth as she fell over; her head bounced off the ground, which Shocked under her weight. But he didn’t let it bother him. What was strange was how her gaze turned away from him. The opposite of hostility filling her eyes, it off-set Sho.

Following her gaze, he felt his jaw drop as he potted a massive egg hidden in a quartz alcove. Taking steps towards it caused the queen to rise even as the life left her eyes. A determination to protect the egg even as she started turning into motes of light.

[lizard queen and 20 mutant lizards defeated]

[ 24,963 exp gained]

[Level up]

[Level up]

Closing the screen, he rushed up the egg and used [observe] on it. It was a lizard queen egg; in about a month, it would hatch. ‘Should I smash it?’ he felt bad about killing unborn creatures, so he decided to leave it be. Returning to the loot that was dropped.

[quartz scales]

[quartz eater teeth]

[liazrd queen heart]

All three items were some kind of crating item. Big items two needed both hands to balance as he lifted them into his inventory. “Well, I guess I’m down here?” As he walked out of the dungeon, he complimented the power and faults of the guyver. It granted him incredible strength and speed. But it cost him his magic and ki.

As he stepped back into the city, he decided that it was a good trade-off, especially for the weapons his suit had, though he only knew one. But if there were all this effective, he wouldn’t complain. Stretching out, he started walking home through the dungeon, ’ I’ll have to get something to eat when I get home.’ But first, he stopped in the nearby public bathroom to relieve himself before going home and sleeping the hours before school.

*******

[lewd quest discovered]

Jerking in the bathroom v3

Sho looked at the screen, which he had ignored along with other daily missions for the past few days, more occupied by Chronos. Now Sho decided he could pay attention to it, even though he still saw some people watching him. ‘Alright, let’s see what this mission has in mind.’ 

Jerking in the bathroom V3

Invites someone to jerk in the bathroom with you

reward(s): 50exp, .75 Lp

Accept

yes/no

“Huh,” of course, this was escalating. His thoughts immediately went to Taro, who he could see on the field at the time. The question was how did he invite him into the bathroom and whether he succeeded. ‘The most straightforward and embarrassing path is to just ask him,’ It was also the least amount of trouble. He was working the nerves up to do so. His friend Takaya came running up next to him, “You daydreaming again. Mizuki?” he teased; Sho flushed, stating he wasn’t thinking of her.

“Mmm,” Sho glared at him, telling him to shut up. “ I didn’t say anything,” he raised his hands in surrender. Snicking when Sho lightly hit his Shoulder for the smirk on his face. “So what were you thinking about?”

“Nothing much.” Takya didn’t seem to believe that and didn’t press; instead, he complained about some of the teachers and his club. A mundane thing that Sho wholly understood was that some of the teachers were too much. They almost spent the rest of the class venting about the teachers and school when Sho remembered the quest he had accepted. So reluctantly, he split away from Takya, who joined up with Mono.

Talking to Taro before he could overthink about it made it a bit easier, but it still embarrassed Sho. “How bold,” Taro smiled, letting out a slight snicker before they snuck off. Into the bathroom, Sho considered opening a dungeon to ensure their privacy. But dungeons were silent, and that might set him off, so he had to bet things on his luck, and they entered a stall together. 

With little hesitation, Taro pulled down his gym Shorts and the boxershorts he wore under them. Prompting Sho to do with a touch more embarrassment, he could feel Taro’s eyes roaming his lower half. ” Didn’t bring any lube today?” Taro said, slowly stroking himself, and Sho shook his head. 

“There some in my schoolbag,” Sho moved to pull his Shorts up, but Taro stopped him. ” I don’t think we will be needing that today.” as he said, he removed the space between them until the bodies and cocks were pressing against each other. “Do you?” Taro asked, bucking his hips.

Sho gasped, quickly shaking his head. Moving his hips against the other teen’s, their motions were awkward and a little unsure at first, but they both found a rhythm to move, grinding their erections together. Heavy breath and groans filled the stall, the delicious friction drawing precum from the both of them. 

They frotted against for several minutes. Hip fast or slow to bring out more pleasure, going in rhythm until they can no longer take it. “I’m going to come!” Taro whispered harshly, who responded in kind, both of them rutting their hips faster until their balls pulled up. Sho was cumming first, and Taro followed a moment later. 

[-10Lp]

[Lp transferred to zalgad]

For a moment, neither said anything other than the panting of their breath, feeling their cum cool on their skin. “We have a few minutes to rest before we have to clean up for class. Wanna just stay like this?”

“Sure,” Sho said. Taro was surprisingly comfortable to lean against, even with the cooling cum dripping down his leg.

Chapter Text

After his conversation with Taro, Sho didn’t expect anything else to happen during school hours, and he was right. Nothing happened until after school. Especially after the student council meeting, it was more of a check-up on everyone's progress. It was a breeze; Sho stayed a bit longer to talk with Tetsuro. Continuing their conversation this morning about what Sho found about Chronos.

“I looked into them, Max Pharmaceutical. They’ve got a lot of money and connections. I can’t tell what Chronos is and what isn’t. But at the same time, a few years back, their operations grew after selling the company. Since then, they’ve had a lot of changes.” from the size of their headquarters, what they sold, and prices. 

The thing that Tetsuro thought was the most interesting was the group increase in genetics. Something valuable to people making bioweapons. Tetsuo would look deeper if he could, but he knew they were being watched and couldn’t be too careful.

It left the gamer with some thoughts that he tried to organize and devise a plan; he ended up standing by a window watching one of the school sports teams practicing. It took him some time to realize it was the soccer team. He wasn’t paying that much attention until he paused in thought as he realized how well he was seeing them.

‘Is it because of my stats?’ Now that he has thought about it, his hearing has also improved. With his improved sense, he looked at the athletes, especially their outfits. Jearser and matching Shorts. It was eye-catching, and part of him wanted to get closer. 

‘Wasn’t there a mission in the locker room? Though he’s gone back, he hasn’t gotten the mission again. Slipping into the bathroom, he opened a dungeon to move to the lockers without detection. Inside the dungeon, nothing happened. But once he left it.

[lewd mission discovered]
The smell of young athletes.

Objective: Sniff someone’s used underwear or socks
Bonus objective: Take home someone’s underwear or socks

Rewards 100exp, 100 yen, [???] skill shard (strong musk)
Bonus rewards 150exp, 150 yen [???]skill shard (strong musk)

“Yeah, that was the mission,” he looked over the screen, considering if he could go along with this theft. ’ Well, it doesn’t say I have to keep it so I could return it when I'm done.’ Which turned it from them to borrowing without permission. Sho wasn’t sure if he was okay with it. But it wasn’t like the mission was a one-chance thing. He could always come back, but as he thought about it, he decided not to do the mission today. 

Heading home, he worked on the books his magic teacher had let him, something he repeated for the following few days until he read and digested the information they gifted him. “Good, “Vakora chuckled. 

“Now that you have a minimal amount of theory, let’s get some practical experience. For this, she led them outside into the yard. Where the slimes were rolling about. “Now, today, we’re going to practice casting, largely people cast through two ways, activation or words. But because of your contract with an incubus, I believe you also learn sex magic casting. If you are willing, we can practice all three.”

“Uh, what does the sex magic casting imply”? Though he didn’t think about it, his magic teacher was hot. Her modest clothing and robes did nothing to hide her figure or the grace she moved with. If she was offering, Sho wasn’t sure if he would say no. 

Vaokara smiled and told him not to let his imagination get out of control, ‘I guess I didn’t explain this. There are two kinds of groups in the umbrella terms ex magic. Spells for sexual actions and sexual actions for casting spells following?”

Sho nodded, remembering what the incubus said about rituals. “Now, for things of a more defense, magic usually uses some form of bondage. Something discovered by that incredible mage Faust; incredibly horny, though. Anyway. We were going to start with verbal casting. Many people will say that a certain language is best for the use of magic. But most of them are the same except the language of magic itself.”

Sho perked up, but she didn’t go into the language of magic, ”Any language work, you can use another than your native. Most do it because of aesthetics, confusing others, or because it is the native language of the person who created the spell… for today, a simple shield will require none of these. I want you to channel your mana and say shield.”

Nodding, Sho focused on his mana and spoke, ” shield!” he felt a reaction, his mana lurching out and almost forming into something.” none enough power!” Vakora immediately Shouted, and Sho tried again, putting more mana into it. Something more clearly formed before it fell apart.

“The image in your head wasn’t strong enough, no matter how you cast strong thoughts and desires to influence the spells. Always remember the end goal of your spell!” He nodded once again and then focused; he wanted a shield to protect him and his people. ” Shield!” his mana flared, forming a thin circle shield in front of him.

[due to a special action has created a special skill [shield Lv:1]

“Good; now repeat that a few more times, and we will move on to action casting.” Sho did a few more times at the same time, looking over the skill screen. It wasn’t anything impressive, offering about 50 points in defense. Which would hopefully go up, or he would have to find more potent spells. 

Action casting took a few more tires for him to get through. It was the simple act of thrusting or waving his hand, but once he got it, he observed two exciting things. One, the shield would move with his hand, and it didn’t count as a new skill. He is just adding to his existing skills. Different mana cost, though.

He practiced switching between the methods and stalling. He was interested in the third method and was nervous about it. Very nervous. His teacher didn’t say anything, waiting for Sho to make the first move. After bringing his shield spell up to level 4, he was as ready as he was going to get.

“Let’s start.” she nodded before flickering her hand, conjuring a length of rope. “Now, do you want to stay dressed, or would you like to remove some clothing?”

“I would prefer to stay dressed,” and Vakora nodded,” the thing about these kinds of spells is that the emotions and feelings of all parties are essential. It affects the way the spell turns out but requires less of that. You want your conduit, the person you're using to cast the spell, to be comfortable. Consent is the most essential thing, you understand that, right?” the question had a dangerous tone under her voice.

“Of course!” she misled before instructing him to put his arms behind his back.” Oh, before I forget. For sex magic, you need a conduit if you're not planning to use the spell immediately, or it will fade away. Actually, that's a general rule for a lot of magic.”

“The most common way of storing a spell is a focus, “She held what looked like a glass or mineral bead. Sho didn’t get a good look at it before she was behind him, placing the bead in the blam of one of his hands before she started wrapping the ropes around his wrist. She did so slowly so he had the chance to adjust to what was happening. 

Trying the knot around the wrist, she moved the rope up his arms. Over his shoulders, down his chest, and sides. Sho's breath hitched as he felt the rope through his shirt and her fingers ghosting across his form. It was setting his blood on fire as it traveled south. Clenching his jaw, he tried to remain calm. The rope was tied into diamond patterns down his chest and stomach.

“Eh!” Sho jumped as the ropes were brought going between his legs, making his bulge more obvious before going between his cheeks to find hs at the knot around his wrist, preventing any movement of them. “How is that? Too tight?” 

Squirming, Sho tested his restricted movement. His face was burning, and he bit his lips before nodding. “Oh, buddy, I need a verbal answer.”

“It’s fine,” he tried to calm down so his pants weren’t so tight. Not like the rope, “That's good. How does the focus feel?” He turned his attention to the marble in his hand. He pushed and realized that it posed a slight buzz to it. “I’m aware it's probably not fully charged cause you're not enjoying it that much yet. Are you?”

She smirked at the question, and the teen flushed as she snickered,” Now if you stay like this long enough, it will charge on its own. But if we play a bit more, then it will charge faster. The choice is up to you.” Sho was silent. Part of him wanted to hurry this lesson up, for he was both embarrassed and aroused. At the same time, he didn’t mind if the rope stayed for a while. He was currently so hard he might bust at the slightest touch. Sho remained in bondage for about thirty minutes, his mind drifting off at points. Before he felt the marble starts to spark with energy. 

He hadn’t noticed it charging, but it was pretty obvious, ‘the energy sparking off feels good.” though it wasn’t a lot of power looking off. He deemed it enough and called over his teacher. She confirmed his thoughts. “The barest kind of full charge but good enough. But it's more than enough for any kind of spell you want to cast.” She handed the marble to him and then started a new lecture about more defense magic.

When she was done, she left this realm, and Sho didn’t hesitate to slip up to his room to beat one out of the memory of the bondage. Imagination conjures images of the many attractive people he finds himself around. Being tied up by them or tying them up. He wasn’t sure which idea he liked more. He knew he came hard, seeing white for a moment.

*********
‘Tuesday is as good as any other to get attacked,’ Sho abjectly thought as the cleary chronos. Not just because he’s been aware of them following him since the thing at the warehouses. He wondered if they were going to try anything. “Can I help you with something?” he did a surprisingly good job of keeping his tone neutral.

“Ah, yes. You know there are cameras in the helmets, right?” the man stated, and Sho tensed, aware he was in a pickle. ‘At least I don’t have to pretend to be harmless. In fact, he let out his energy. They must have felt it as they took a step back. “Ah came down; there’s no need to fight. In fact, we’re here with an offer.”

Disbelief filled Sho, but he let them continue, and they made an offer for a job. He used his power to help advance the world and many other things. It sounded like a sweet deal, except for two things. One didn’t trust a single word they were saying; second, a notification didn’t appear.

At one point, helping the teachers, he looked over the board in the front halls that held a list of clubs the school offered. While it wasn’t the most extended list, there were still plenty of options. When he looked over it and considered what would happen if he joined one, maybe new skills, he got a notification about joining a group.

Since he didn’t get one, there was something wrong. Maybe it was on his side, or the offer wasn’t genuine. ‘Can I turn them down?’ It might be paranoid, but he didn’t think it was safe for him to turn down the offer, “that’s an interesting offer. But I have to get to school right now!”

They made no move to stop him as he headed out, but that didn’t mean Sho’s guard dropped even as he arrived at school. It didn’t help he sensed more watchers than before. He knew he would have to be more careful today.

He tried to act normal as he took the daily quest to help the teachers, which brought him into the locker room as the basketball team changed. ‘I wonder what they taste like?’ Biting back a groan, he tried not to stare at anyone as he brought the paper to the teacher. The lust mission hovering in his sight. As the coach walked away to get the paperwork, Sho would have gone back to the teacher's room. He looked at the mission once more.

‘It’s going to keep appearing until I do something,’ Yeah, that was utterly the reason he was accepting the missions. Not horny curiosity, so when he was triple sure no one was looking, he snatched a jock strap from a Hatake Kensaku. A name he committed to memories so he could return it later. 

The sweaty jockstrap was sitting in his inventory when the teacher came back, and he left the gym without any attention. Beside the watcher of Chronos,’ I’ve got to figure something out. What if they attack?” Would they attack him at home or at school? He didn’t know, but it wouldn’t hurt to prepare for both.

‘Maybe I could use what I learned yesterday; Vakor was giving him a lecture on more complex defense magic this afternoon. So, he was probably going to have a few questions. But for now, he just had to stay on guard and stay aware of what they might do.

Since he had time before class, he slipped into one of the bathrooms and opened an empty dungeon, pulling out the stolen underwear. “I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Part of him felt like he was going to be doing a lot of weird things in the future.

Heart fluttering in his chest, he brought the pouch of the garment and took a curious sniff; next to the faint scent of cotton, he got the more pungent scent more enticing smell was the musk of Hatake’s ball sweat that had soaked into the cloth. Sho brought the cloth closer and took a deeper sniff, the musk wasn’t strong, but it sent a thrill down his spine and into his clubbing dick.

He spent a few more moments sniffing the underwear before pulling back before his cock could get fully hard. That was time for this, later definitely. But for now, he went to class.

“You know I’ve made no progress with the seduction mission.” It just occurred to him during the fourth period. He really hadn’t put much thought into the mission. ‘I wonder if he would be willing to be a conduit for my spell.’ his mind already running with filthy ideas. He couldn’t wait to explore the other kinds of sex casting.

Sho daydreams for a good while, making some rather vague and probably inappropriate doddles in his notebook. 

[lust Mission complete]
The smell of young athletes.

Objective: Sniff someone’s used underwear or socks
Bonus objective: Take home someone’s underwear or socks

Rewards 100exp, 100 yen, [strong musk] skill shard 
Bonus rewards 150exp, 150 yen [strong musk]skill shard 

All skill shards collected [strong musk]
[strong musk (passive) Lv:1 Exp:0/100]
A thick & strong natural scent penetrates the nose of those around you, sticking to your clothing, and can’t help but draw others in.

+5% charm at close range
+5% sedcatuiion on certain invieuals. 
-5% stealth and disguise

“Alright then,” he looked over the skill before closing the screen and continuing on to his house. He changed out of his school clothes first before opening a dungeon; while his skill wasn’t the highest, it was enough for him to open a simple dungeon for a warm-up before he called Stravos. The loot was a bonus before he trained with his martial arts teacher. 

‘Well, I can already see how this skill is working,’ he thought, trying to break out of the hold Stravos had him in. which was today’s focus, hold, and grapples. He was stuck trying to break out of them for the most part. Putting him very close to his teacher’s substantial and muscular body.

Following that, his magic teacher gave him a lecture on the history of sexual casting and then explained the six primary schools of it. Abjuration, what they practiced yesterday. The magic the blocks banish and protect. Evocation is the magic that tapes into and manipulates energy. Deviation, conjuration, corpimancy & transmutation.

She gave him simple examples of what each method required, and Sho made notes about what caught his own interest. She changed the topic for the latter half of the lesson; Vakora told him that he would need materials and ingredients for a lot of more complex or long-lasting magic. “You should have the most common things in stock beforehand, but there is nothing wrong with having them as needed. A good amount of things you can trade some spirits for or try and buy from one of this world’s magicians.”

“Could I make the material myself?” Sho asked about his crafting skill and how there seemed to be little limits to what he could gain.” That's not a bad idea. You’ve already got some slimes in your yard.” Vakora’s comment caused Sho to pause. He never considered if she knew about them, never even thought to ask.

He asked her now, “While there are base slimes, they do have many uses. Even more when you start to get them evolving.”

“Do you know how to get them to evolve,” she shrugged before answering, “I never took a big interest in creatures… but I have a few recipes or spells in my library. But,” she hesitated before smiling.” you don’t have the most basic equipment to use them, so I’ll give you a task; I’ll give you the recipes!”

[mission created]
Gather the tools

Objective: Gather one or more of [beginner alchemist set], [beginner potion set], [beginner enchanter set]
Bonus objective: Gather one or more of [basic weaver set], [basic tanner set], [basic smithing set]
 
Rewards: 6,000 exp, beginner skill books for each set gathered
Bonus rewards: 6,00 exp, beginner skill books for each set gathered

Accept quest
yes/no

Sho looked over the screen for a moment before turning back to Vakora,” I think I can collect what I need.”

“Good.” Then they returned to their lesson, after which Sho headed into the dungeon again. ‘This mission is going to be pricy. But I don’t see the problem with getting hold of them.’ Though he wasn’t sure if he could get everything from one place. Probably not in a Short time, either.

After gathering more than 300,000 yen, he heads towards Zoey’s store. “Hey,’ it’s been a while.” Sho waved in response,” Yeah, I’ve been busy.”

“I’m glad you seem to be having fun?” Sho paused; he wasn’t sure if he could consider it having fun, but the weeks have been interesting at least.” So what can I help you with?”

“I’m looking for some tools and equipment,” he then listened to the magical enlisted trio. Zoey thought for a moment, calling up a list of her inventory. “So I have the enhancer set, but it is far from cheap,” Sho nodded before asking the price. It wasn’t as high as he thought it would be. She handed over the money as she returned with a huge, heavy set of boxes. He slid into his inventory before he asked about the other items.

“I can get my hand on it, but you’ll have to special order it. Which means a down payment and then a wait.”

“Can you do both sets?” 

“Yes.” Sho would pay the fee before just talking to her and venting about Chronos. “You're not the first they made that offer two. I haven’t heard from anyone who accepted it. Even those who rejected it came under Chronos’ fire… one thing you can say about Chronos is they have a lot of resources to throw at their enemies.” 

“So I’m screwed either way!” Sho commented. Zoey sighed before snapping her fingers, making a teal pot levitating into the room.” I’m not saying that,” she poured them both a cup,” I’m saying Chronos is untrustworthy and be ready for whatever dirty trick they try to pull because I know they made unique plans to kill. Nor where they above playing dirty… have you told your family about Chronos?”

[Zoey’s personal tea blend +50% mana pool/recover. +10 int, wisdom for 2 hours]

Sho wasn’t sure what stunned him more at that moment, the effects of the tea or Zoey’s question, but only one he could ask a question about.” why would I tell my family?”

“Cause chronos will come after them and use them against you, it’s happened; I’ve… seen it.” the worlds were full of painful memories; Sho knew he had no business poking at them. So he nodded,” I have no idea how to tell my dad. I know he’ll worry; I’ll probably get grounded.” 

Zoay smiled, pushing away the memories,” It wouldn’t be an easy conversation. nothing we can change about that fact,” she took a sip of her own tea, Sho following her, “but we can do something else. Have the conversion when you think is best. Take it slow so he doesn’t freak out and…” the advice she gave him over tea made him feel a bit more confident about speaking to his father about this. 

Confidence didn’t help him when he asked if she had any focuses he could use for storing spells, more especially on sexually casted spells. She just gave him a smile before trading a trio of [cock ring focuses] for about 90,000 yen. 

‘I’ll be able to store some spells in these, what kind, he wasn’t sure.’ But he was thinking of something to protect his dad and friends. They were kind of all he had,’ I don’t want Chronos touching them. But how can I protect them,’ he was reasonably sure he could take on a frontal assault. But Zoey said Chornos would play dirty. 

Would they attack his house, attack his school. How could he protect that? Set up some barriers? ’ That's a starting point, I think?’ he would need focus for that, more than a few of them.’ his thought for planning to defend his home and school, his friends, and family. He knew it wouldn’t be simple, quick, or cheap.

******

Unfortunately, there wasn’t any time for him to properly prepare. The Chronos representatives appeared within two days, demanding his answer. The bigger problem was they approached Tetsuro and brought him along.

“So let’s hear your answer, boys? Coming to work for Chronos?” the man asked, looking at the tree lines where he could sense several minds. “I thought about it and decided I couldn’t begin to even trust you or Chronos!”

“Oh, how unfortunate. What about you, young Tetsuro?”

“Hoenlty, I thought about the kind of technology you would require to make the Zoanoids, but I’ve also heard how you force people to become them, and I can’t be a part of that.” the man tsked before making a gesture to several armed men and worm coming out, “well this is the end for you.”

He turned away as the gunmen opened fire, blasting at the two teens; he expected to hear cries of pain and bullets hitting flesh. Instead, he was greeted by the sounds of his own men.” Sire, look out!” Turning around, he got an eye full of the laces on Sho’s sneakers.

“AH!” he cried as his nose broke and he was knocked off his feet. As he landed on his toes, Sho summoned another set of mind kife spinning on his toes, sending them at the recovering enemies. Several cried out in pain, Sho moving quickly to strike more of them across the face and body before stepping back. 

Just in time to avoid some gunfire, whipping out his hand, he summoned [shield], which tanked a few bullets before he had to summon another as he rushed toward the Shooters. [ki edge] and [ki blow] allowed him to destroy their weapons before taking one of their lives.

A rush of blood burst out when he cut through the suit and into the cut. Their organs slipped onto the ground as they screamed; it disgusted Sho. Several [chronos henchmen] seemed to agree as they roared, transforming into combat zoanoid forms. “You're going to regret this, you fucking fag!”

Sho’s face contorted momentarily, “You're going to regret coming after me!” Sho charged ki flaring in response to emotions. He was briefly put on the back foot by the number and power of the zoanoids.

“AGH!” a zonoid cried as the gamer drove his fist into their eye, “Don’t more!” A vanmore cried, firing their bio lasers, only to miss Sho as he jumped over the blast. But not the one from the second or thyroid vanmore. The second, he managed to summon a shield. But the third struck him across the back and sent him flying across the clearing.

[-450Hp]

Ignoring the burning on his back, Sho reoriented himself. “AH!” he cried as he hit the ground on his shield, using his arms to shield his head. “Ugh!” Standing up, Sho sent out a few [mind knives] at the long-range zoanoid to bye himself a few moments. 

‘Should I summon the guyver,’ he was pretty sure it would turn the tide of the battle. But it would bring even more of Chronos down on his head. ‘Not yet, not when I can still take them with my two hands!’ 

Rolling his Shoulder, Sho looked over the ground and decided the Vanmors had to go, then he could work on picking off the rest of the close-range zoanoids. Rushing them, he briefly checked his HP, which he had more than half of from one Shot.

With that in mind, he managed to take out one vanmore, a [ki strike] to weaken their defense before he managed to drive his hand into their chest near their heart. ‘Huh!’ he paused as he vaguely felt something. 

He focused on it just enough to realize it was a life force, a dense contraction. Reaching for it, physically and with his magic, he realized. It was the zoanids’ heart. Where dozens of streams of life converged. ‘Blood vessels!’

‘What if I harm this?’ he thought. In a moment of inspiration, he added [life magic] to the [ki edge] around his hand. They didn’t fuse, but that didn’t stop the effect of how it damaged the life force itself.

As another Vanmores attacked and Sho retreated, he could see how the cut life flow had weakened the zoanoid. ‘I can attack their mind, body, and lifeforce itself!’ focusing his activated his [life sensing] not just on the general preseason of lifeforce but on his it moved through a being body. 

[life magic: life sensing has leveled up]
[life magic: life sensing has leveled up]
[life magic: life sensing has leveled up]

The skill leveled up three times as he focused on it between the attacks of the zoanoids until he could see the flow of life inside them, inside himself. A bit focused on the marks the guyver left on his back. He would look into that later, but he tried to focus on trying to create a blade with magic. 

But each time he tried to focus on it, the zoanoids would interrupt his focus. ‘I need time to think,’ Jumping back from them, he jumped into the dungeon he pushed Tetsuro into when the fight began. “Sho! He Shouted, the older teen rushing over, immediately taking in the damage Sho received fighting by himself. ‘I wish I could help; I want to help him.’ 

“Are you okay?”

“Mostly, I just needed a moment to focus on something.” He took a deep breath and focused, taking hold of mana and the life force within his body. Forming it into the shape of a blade, but it was life; the life force was rebelling against his attentions. He tried several times, different shapes for several minutes. But it just wouldn’t go. His life force…

‘I don’t want to fight?” A bit of life magic he read started that life force carried traits of who or what it came from,’ I don’t want to fight, hurt, and kill. But Chronos isn’t giving me the leisure to live my normal life. I want to survive, so I must fight?” his life force became more willing to cooperate with him. Slowly, he managed to give it an edge. But what is the shape of the blade?

This blade wouldn’t be like the [ki edge], which he only used to combat. Which carried a part of him with it and could be used for that. ‘It can’t just be for hurting, but for more.’ One blade form wouldn’t do for that. It would need multiple shapes for all kinds of cutting.

Like a piece of the puzzle slipping into place, he figured out a scalpel, kitchen knife, and dagger. Three forms he could begin with. In his mind, he shaped and held each one rotating until his ability registered his efforts. 

[Due to repeated actions, a special skill has been created [life magic: life blade LV:1]
[Life magic: life blade (active) Lv:1 Exp:0/100]
To harm or heal, one needs to be able to manipulate the life force inside a being; one of the basic methods is cutting it. For that, there is the life blade, a skill for you.

creates: 1 blade
blade forms: scalpel, kitchen knife, and dagger
mana costL250 

Reading over the skill and snacking on some food to restore his lost health and MP, the teen smiled at the possibilities. Sho returned to the real world, where the zoanoids still stood, their guard dropped until Sho returned.” Round two!”

Chapter Text

"What's happened?" the leader thought, sweat trickling down his back as he watched Sho defend himself from an attack and counter. Making a slashing motion with his hands. The leader understood this was some form of magic, but he didn't understand how one slash seemed to sap the strength of his soldiers.

'This fight needs to end now.' Looking at the situation, he could decide that the best decision would be to call the backup squad. Despite how much he didn't want to do that, sharing the glory. But at this rate, he was going to die, "Readying for his comment, he sent out the message, and he knew the second squad would be here in a few moments. "If we last that long?" he thought as the teen smashed a Vamor's throat, a waterfall of blood pooling on the ground.

'Something wrong?' Sho felt it deep in his blood, a shiver down his spine. This bad feeling was proved right as a bombardment of lasers blasted through the trees. She didn't even get a chance to block before the lasers struck him and the ground," Gah!"

[-475Hp]

He was in the air momentarily before he hit the ground, clothes burned, and skin scorched. There was a moment when his lungs didn't work, his ears were ringing, and his vision swam. Still, he heard more approaching,' I need to get up. I need to get back on my feet.' 

He made it to his knees, trying to think what the lasers meant for the fight when a big foot appeared in his sight. It reared back as Sho's eye widened in understanding. He quickly chocked out," [shield!]"

The mana barely condensed before the shield formed, softening the kick that struck Sho in the lunges. Taking his breath from him, it returned as he skidded across the ground, using the momentum to roll on his hands so he could stand.' Alright, how many are there now.' he quickly counted them as three large zoanoids rushed at him.

Only a few minutes into the reinforcements, he realized a problem. They had figured him out. They knew the range of his distance attacks, and while they weren't healing too well from his life blade or mind knives. He was on the back foot; he couldn't defend and evade forever.

[Due to a repeated action, a special skill had been created [evsaion LV:1]

The skill was a good bit of news right before Sho recovered some bad news. "I've run out of mana," his mouth moved as he threw himself to the side to avoid the claws of a Zoadnoid. Following the momentum, he kicked them in the face. Not that it didn't much without any Ki or mana behind it.

Swearing, Sho quickly backed off, a hand immediately going for his inventory. Only to rip it back as more lasers were fired. Ducking and moving, he ignored the notification that evasion had leveled up. 'Oh, it's a passive skill,' the thought drifted through the back of his mind as he considered something else. 

'Okay, I can summon the guyver or increase my stats. I hope that works.' Knowing he would receive more trouble for the guyver, he opened his stats first.

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 26

Exp:4.6%

Hp: 289/750

Mp: 0/850

Lp: 32.5/32.5

Str: 37

Sta: 40

Dex: 32

Int: 32

Wis: 32

Cha: 25

Luk: 25

Free points:34

Acting quickly, he threw all 34 points into his stats, 20 into strength, 10 into stamina, then the remaining four into luck.' cause I need more than this to help me win.' two of the close rang zoanoids tried to pincer him.

When Sho ducked, they ended up hitting each other.

"Watch it, mother fucker!" the other zoanoid would have responded with Sho jumping into the air, round-kicking him in the face.

[your stats have surpassed a threshold, a special skill has been created [warriors might Lv:1]

Sho didn't call up the details of the skill, and didn't get a chance as the other zoanoid slashed their claws at him. Sho only managed to block with his arm, which cracked, worrying on impact; before he hit the ground, Sho tried to devise a plan.

"The fuck was that?" the zoanoid Sho kicked and rubbed his face, where their green scales cracked. "Where the fuck did that force come from?"

"Oh, stop whining; the sooner we kill him, the sooner we can go home!" he charged at Sho; rolling under the claw, he quickly shifted his weight, kicking the back of their leg." ah!" the zoanoid shouted as said leg gave out. Before they knew it, Sho's fist struck them on the side of the face. Cracking their scales before the second zoanoid arrived.

"What kind of monster is this?" one of the Vanmores spoke, watching as slowly but surely Sho was dealing damage to the Gregoles. Their powerful armor failed in the blows of a teenager. "It doesn't matter," one of the leaders shouted." Prepare bombardment. We'll blow him to smithering, then it won't matter how much strength he had."

They didn't know why, but it seemed he had stopped using his magic. Whatever the reason, they weren't going to waste this opening. The Vamores prepared their lasers, the red glow drawing both the Gregoles and the gamer's attention. Knowing what was coming, Sho attempted to retreat. But it was quickly stopped by a Gregole grabbing him. 

Looking at the thick green hand wrapped around his wrist," You'll die if you don't let go!" the Gregole only laughed," My armors, not that weak. Even then, my life belongs to Chronos." looking into the eyes of the creature Sho realized he was serious about these words.

He didn't understand how someone could be so careless with their life. Sho knew he couldn't do that, bringing his other fist down on the hand, gripping him. Trying to break the hold, break the fingers. But it was slow going, and there wasn't enough time; out of the corner of his eye, he could see the laser fire on him.

"Shit!" he frantically hit on the limb and summoned the little mana he regained into a shield. Even using the charged focus, Vakaro helped him make it. Both formed a shield that only stood a few of the lasers. The rest broke through and headed straight for him. 

The grip was still strong, too strong to break even with his current strength. The lasers were growing closer. Closing his eyes, he understood. Chronos and its zoanoids were strong, too strong for him to hold anything back.

He was going to need all his power then more in the future. Resigned to this, he roared." GUYVER!" the growths on his back activated a force field blooming around him. Blasting against the Gregole, he screamed as his arm and face were blasted apart. The lasers bounced off the field. Striking the ground behind him, giving a backdrop to armor forming. 

[waiting for] has started playing]

"Oh no," the second leader commented as the armor wrapped around the teen; he had been briefly briefed about the guyver. But he never expected it to appear on this teen. He didn't know much about what the guyver could do, but he knew this was trouble. 

As the armor fully wrapped around him, the barrier dispersed, and the moment his feet touched the ground, Sho was off, rushing them [sonic blade] going active as he rushed at the other gregole. With a swing of his arm, they fell over. A cut from their stomach to shoulder.

As they bleed on the ground, he turned to the rest of them, vamores firing at him. But Sho could predict them better in the suit and had the speed to weave between them. Closing in and slashing through the Vamore's body. 

"Just a few more," Sho thought, leaping into the air and bringing down his arm to bisect a Zoaniod. The orbs on the sides of his helmet twitched, and he twisted his body, avoiding a claw. The zoanoid quickly backed up to avoid the high-frequency blade. Doing so just barely, a bleeding cut on his chest, stepping back for each step the guyver took forward.

More cuts across their body; he didn't think he was going to survive this. But he was giving the remains of his team a chance to regroup.

Looking behind the zoanoid before him, Sho realized that they were all in line. Not that Sho could really do anything about it, or so he thought. As the metal in the middle of his forehead shifted. Information is being loaded right into the teen's head. 

Bracing his feet in a wide stance, he dug his fingers between the breastplates of the armor. Pulling out the breastplates with a wet sound, revealing two partly clear orbs. Light quickly gathered in the orbs, "What is that?" In a few moments, those words took the twin orbs filled with energy.

Only one zoanoid got the feeling they should move. But it mattered not as the energy was released, a wide beam. 'Wow!' eyes wide behind the lens, Sho couldn't see the destruction the beam caused. But he could hear the scream of the zoanoids that didn't last long. Then, the sounds of trees and earth being unturned. 

Despite the trail of damage the beam left, it only lasted a few moments before it came to an end." Oh, that is dangerous." Sho decided, moving, slowly investigating the damage. There weren't even bones left of the zoanoids,' did they drop any loot? Or did the weapon destroy it? Cause if so, that would be another problem.

Gathering what loot was on the ground, he dismissed the armor before retrieving Tetsuro, who immediately checked over his friend. Whose clothing was damaged, and eyeing the destruction of the battle. "Are you okay?" the older male asked with a trembling in his voice. 

"I'm okay," Sho said, noticing how Tetsuros' hands trembled. Despite how scared he was on the inside, Sho put on a brave face. Something Tetsuro noticed the slight trembling in Sho's form but said nothing and started walking for the forest entrance. It would be best if they got out of here before anyone arrived.

Though they were both quiet during the walk, neither of their minds were.' Both of them were aware that they had so many things to do if they wanted to survive whatever Chronos did next. Sho distracted himself a bit by looking over the notifications.

[zoanoid defeated X25]

[300,000 exp gained]

[level up]

[level up]

[level up]

"Oh, we should probably apologize?" that drew Sho out of his thoughts. Following the chubby teen's line of sight, he saw the small stone shrine, which belonged to the protector of the forest. While Sho didn't fully believe in gods and spirits beforehand, he never saw a problem with bowing and praying to shrines. His mother believed in it much more, even teaching him all kinds of small things.

The thought of his mother was fleeting as he clapped his hands and bowed before the shine. As his mother taught him, he reached from his head and heart as he prayed, offering his apology for the destruction he caused.

This time, he felt something actually leave him, and something felt in return. Like someone ruffling his hair, it felt like for givness. BlinkingSho stood up and used [observe.]

[shrine of an unnamed forest kami]

The shrine of a relatively weak forest deity, their domain only stretching to the specific forms of nature. Power has dimmed over the years due to a lack of prayers and offerings.

Sho wasn't entirely sure what he was to make of them, but an idea came to him pretty simply. Reaching into his inventory, he pulled out a sandwich and laid it before the shrine. This time, as he prayed, he reached out the same way he had while summoning spirits.

This got a reaction; a force snatched up the sandwich. He and Tetsuro then saw the faint image of an old woman. She had a gentle smile on her face and looked like she was made from trees and stone, a wreath of flowers and feathers in his heart. Hair long and untamed, the color of leaves with deer horns rising through it, wild plants growing over the horns, and moss just growing like clothing.

Most concerning, Sho realized there was a cut on her side, 'It was the effect of his breast cannon.' immediately, he felt bad. He didn't mean to hurt her; he was about to speak. Ask how he could undo the damage. But she acted first. Eating the sandwich he left for her. 

As she ate, the cut closed the tiniest bit. Sho felt gratitude, but that small thing didn't feel right. "I think we're going to need a lot more food."

"Definitely." 

*********

Arriving home, Sho started cooking and preparing food for the shrine while Tetsuro sat down at the table looking at Sho's house guest, who was just staring out the window. The man didn't really do much, just going about a daze. Sho wasn't sure if the man was eating enough. 

He wasn't sure if he was like this because of what Chronos did or because he missed his family. Either way, Sho didn't know how to help him. The slimes were doing more, and the man mostly petted them absently like the one in his lap. 

"So I think I need to learn how to defend myself." Sho almost dropped too much salt into the food at the words. Turning around, he looked at Tetsuro, considering the words. Tetsuro was almost in as much danger as he was, and Sho knew he could protect Tetsuro always. As much as he would like to be able to perfectly protect his friends and family.

Chronos was able to talk with Tetsuro without him knowing. So it wasn't unthinkable to believe they could attack Tetsuro. Tetsuro needed to be able to protect himself; in that vein, so did the other people he cared about.

"I think you're right. Zoey, the shopkeeper, said that Chornos is likely to come after our families, and we might have to tell them." Tetsuro didn't say anything as Sho continued to cook. When he was done putting the food in his [inventory] for the moment, he sat at the table and tried to teach Tetsuro some magic and ki. Basic ki enhancement and the shield spell. 

[due to special action, you've created a special skill [teaching Lv:1]

"Huh," that was probably going to come in handy later. He turned away from the screen for the moment as a slime rubbed against his leg. Looking down, he picked it up and petted it; they've gotten bigger, almost to the size of the grown slimes. But he had no idea if any of them were close to evolving or anything. 'It's settling; their life force is settling.' he wondered what that meant for their possible evolution.

After teaching a bit more, they headed outside, and Tetsuro did his best to bring up his new spells, Sho throwing rocks to test his shield." ah!" Tetsuro yelped as the rock broke through his shield. That said something about how weak his spell was or how much force Sho unleashed.

'That's right, I didn't look at the skill information.'

[Warrior might (passive) Lv: max]

The true might of a warrior, hidden in the body, is brought forth when they fight.

+25% str during combat.

"Sho whipped away the screen before turning to throw another rock at Tetsuro. His shield was a little better this time, but there was still much work to be done. They continued this for a few hours, Tetsuro taking frequent rest to restore his energy while Sho did his own. Practicing his new life blade trick. Using it, he was able to separate a bit of life force from the grass and trees. 

The removed bits dispersed the moment he released his control of them. Sho didn't really have an idea what to do with the bits other than observing them and seeing how they reacted to each other.

They weren't rejecting each other, but he knew they were only existing in peace with each other. How to take it a step further, he didn't know. But he was probably going to figure it out. 'I have a feeling this is probably going to be something of great use, but where?" Sho sighed, standing up and heading inside into the real world. Sho had something he wanted to look up.

*********

"It's not a bad idea, especially if you're on their land?" Vakora commented as Sho packed up the supplies of the [basic enchanter set]. She had shown him what the parts did and the many parts it possessed. See, enchanting was complicated cause for the enchants to stick, you had to take account of the materials. 

You couldn't enchant cloth and wood the same way. Even different forms of cloth needed different tricks. Hell, you could enchant dies differently by adding different things to different materials.

After that, he asked her about gods and the shrines littered around Japan. If visiting the gods that might inhabit them would be a good idea. "Most gods, I think, would be willing to help, even the ones you would find morally opposed. Chronos has proved to be their enemies to them. But…”

Sho paused, looking up at her," Is there something wrong?"

"...okay look, the power of a god is complicated; there are rules that limit what they can and can't do, Nor are they all capable of helping in fights." Sho nodded," but they still have the potential to help. Like in the form of enchanting, A divine power behind an enchantment is very powerful. Plus, more often than naught, they have incredible amounts of knowledge." Sho nodded again, finishing storing the equipment.

Vakora had a few more words before Sho walked to school, inside a dungeon. Well, I fought through it towards school, gathering some money and bones and teeth. He was more interested in the soul stone they dropped than the teeth.

During school, he hung out with his two friends and did some work for the student council. Returned the barrow jock strap, slightly reluctant. He enjoyed jerking off to the scent it held. But he had to return it. 

During gym, [strong musk] leveled up, which he kind of forgot about. But it definitely drew the attention of his classmates. Most of them teased and jocked, but Sho, possibly due to enhanced stats, noticed a few weren't opposed to the smell. 

'I guess I'm not that weird for liking the jock strap then, or his school had more perverts than he thought.

After school, Sho was planning to check out the nearest shrines when," Sho, can we talk?" 

"Mizuki!" Sho jumped, turning to the girl. Who was glaring lightly at him," Is there something wrong?"

"Actually, I'm here to ask you that." Sho blinked, wondering what she could be talking about. "Sho, you've been acting nervous the past few days, like something has been bothering you. Tetsuros' acting the same." Sho nervously shuffled on his feet, trying to think of a way to answer. He had to do this carefully. He didn't know if he should tell Mizuki about Chronos, the guyver. 

But he couldn't flat-out lie; Mizuki was not dumb despite her crush on the distant and cold agito. She was aware that he wasn't interested in her or anyone despite how well he acted towards people; she noticed he didn't get close. Recently, he heard her mention that he seemed more pleased or prepared for something. 

"Um, I need to talk to your brother first." Sho decided on, 'cause that was true. They needed to have a serious conversation about this. Though neither of them wanted to bring this up." so you two are thinking about the same thing, huh. How important is it?"

"We'll have to tell our parents," Sho admitted, walking towards the gate. Mizuki followed him, tilting her head and thinking about an idea that came to her. A mischievous idea, increasing her pace, she got within whispering range of Sho. " don't tell me, have you and my brother started dating?"

Sho almost tripped on the air as his mind paused to process those words. He regained his balance without a thought, thanks to his training, before turning to glare at the snickering girl." please don't say that again?"

"Why do you think Tetsuro is ugly? Too fat." an edge appeared in her voice, and Sho grumbled. " he's too much of my brother." Mizuki nodded," he really is a great brother, isn't he…so do you think of me as a sister?" the question was innocent. She wasn't even looking at him. Until he harshly answered," abostly not!"

"What?!" she snapped around, huffing. Then what do you think of me?"

"I care about you a lot." the teen blushed heavily, refusing to look at her, picking up the space." that's a vague answer; what exactly do you think of me, Sho?!... Are you running?" instead of answering her and possibly confessing, Sho broke into a run down the street. Mizuki raced after him, only to be shocked at the speed that he was putting out. 

"Oh god," she came to a stop at the end of the street sho long having disappeared. Taking a moment to stop her heart from pounding, "When the hell did he get so fast!" grumbling, she turned around. Sho not only had to come home at some point, but She was going to have words with her brother.

After checking the school, she found her brother had already gone home, at home her mother was Back from her part-time job and told her brother was upstairs. She stomped up," Mizuki, don't stomp on the stairs!"

"Tetsuro!" she barged into her brother's room, which was a mess. All kinds of paper laid out over the room; he was probably on another one of his searches. So Mizuki ignored it for the most part. 

"What!" the chubby teen responded, getting his heart to calm down. Mizukui immediately explained her conversation with Sho. "One, I'm going to tease him about that later. Two, he's right; it's something we should probably talk with our parents about, as well as you and more people."

"Are you two sure you're not dating?" Mizuki didn't even flinch as her brother threw a pillow at her.

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"Alright, that's all the minor shrines," Sho finished writing down the list he made of the minor gods he met. More than half the shines had some kind of inhabit. But the rest were empty, an unsettling feeling compared to the light glow of power the other shines had. Sighing, he tucked away the paper. Sighing, he continued walking towards the biggest shrine in the area. 

He wasn't sure what he was expecting as he climbed the small staircase. Passing through the Torii gates and the world changing, was not it? 

Cool water lapped at his legs, soaking his clothes up to his knees. Looking up, he saw a person sitting in the water, hair blowing in the gentle breeze. A breeze that rustled the plants and trees around them. 

[kami of narisawa Lv:???]

"Hello, sho." the kami spoke, and Sho jumped before calming down; the kami didn't seem hostile, and he hadn't met a hostile one yet. Taking a deep breath, he walked forward. And bowed," hello."

"Sit; you came to talk, right?"

"Yes," Sho sat down in the water, ignoring how his underwear was quickly soaked. "I've seen your fights against Chronos. Two wins so far, good job." the kami sighed as the waves grew higher and the wind grew harsher. But they're not going to stop. Even with the limits of my power, I can tell they're preparing."

Sho nodded," I have a few ideas on how to fight back, but I don't know if I can." the kami chucked," Have a bit more faith in your power. For one man, you doing pretty well; what you need is allies to help cover your back. If possible, I'd like to be one of them."

Sho felt his chest lighten a bit; he didn't know what the kami could do, but he could take any help. "Thank you!" letting out a breath, he focused. Dealing with spirits told him now they were going to make a deal. "What kind of help can you offer?" 

The kami smiled," the land of Narisawa was originally a place of ocean and forest. The people farmed, hunted, and fished. They built a shrine; I was born there, watching over them as the years passed and the city changed. But my power over the land remains, the power to bless fisher hunters and farmers."

Sho nodded, frowning a bit." I know what you think; how can I help you fight? Simply, the blessing of a hunter causes those who hunt to always remember they are being hunted as well. My blessing can grant you the power that enhances your detection and stealth abilities. And I'll teach you a spell."

"What would you like in return?" Sho asked cause that sounded helpful. "Simple, an offering will do. If you can conceive others to do the same, I prefer anything you can fish or hunt yourself." Sho nodded before asking about the other blessing he could receive, which was simply a boost in his ability and success in fishing, hunting, and farming. Minor blessings.

"For the blessing of farming and hunting, I'll dedicate part of my harvest or hunt to you at least once a week or more as forward payment. Is that acceptable?" Sho stated after short negations. The kami smiled and nodded before reaching a hand forward; the two shock hands and Sho felt a pulse of power into him. It felt vastly different from his own. 

[you've received minor blessings from the kami of Narisawa]

[hunters blessing + 50% to loot, +25% effectiveness to hunting skills]

[farmer blessing +50 harvest yield, +25%effectivness to farm skills]

'Oh, it affected the loot; that was acutely unexpected. Beyond that nice surprise, he was very satisfied with the blessing he received, 'since my look is considered part of my hunt. Then,' reaching into his [Inventory], he pulled out the body parts he received from the zoanoids. Offering them to the god, who raised an eyebrow but accepted the horns and skin pieces. 

He was oddly pleased as Sho was pushed out of their realm, finding himself on the edge of the torii gate. Blinking, he moved," Okay, what was that?" he stretched his limbs, which felt heavy. His clothes were dry like he hadn't gone anywhere for a while.' Turning away, he started heading home, taking a detour to the stores to get some gardening supplies.

A part of potion-making was acquiring herbs for the potions, either by finding them or growing them. Sho was going to prepare that land within his dungeon for them. 

As he walked and made his purchases, he ran into a familiar face. "Hello," Aki jumped, pulling away from the window seal pots he was looking over. "Hello," the man returned the greeting. Though he couldn't seem to look Sho in the eye. 

Sho didn't focus on that; he was more interested in the clothing the man was wearing, which was different from the suit he'd seen him in. It looked good, but Sho wanted to see him out of it.' okay, that kind of hiring,' blushing at his thought. He considered how he was going to do that.

First, though, he asked what the man was doing here, trying to start some conversation. "Oh, I'm looking for bigger pots for my Flowers."

"Flowers?"

"Ugh, yeah, I've been growing flowers as a hobby since middle school. Not the manliest hobby," he rubbed the back of his ear, flushing a bit. "Sounds like a neat hobby. Could you help me with something?"

"Sure," the man said hesitatingly, eyeing Sho warily." not what you're thinking of." I'm thinking of starting a herb garden. Do you think you can help me?" the man was quick to say yes and started excitedly leading him around the store, telling him all kinds of tips. There were so many things that Sho pulled out a notebook to start recording. 

Soon, Sho had a bag of tools and supplies. 'This is heavy for a normal person, right?' The fact he had to ask said something. Despite the lack of strain, he couldn't wait to put it all in his inventory, "thank you."

"It's nothing, really," Aki said with a satisfied look. Like the cat who caught the canary. "No, really," Sho said," you've been a big help. I'd like to repay you." aki tried to speak, but Sho cut him off," Maybe with lunch or something else." 

"It's a very nice offer, but I don't want to hurt you." Sho smiled; it was a nice thought, but Aki was far from Dangoerus. Now, he either had to make the man forget about it or convince him otherwise. 

'If I make him forget, it is only a temporary thing. But if I want this to go long term, I need to convince him otherwise.' he didn't think his clumpy education would work for that, so," Do you really think you would hurt me?"

Aki paused and tried to find the words to say next; the biggest worry for him was their age gap. But he knew that would probably make the teen upset, and it was kind of patronizing. But it was the truth," you are so much younger than I am. A good relationship between equals. So…" Sho stopped himself from rolling his eyes.

He's made deals with several people and has teacher-student relationships. He was pretty sure the incubus was here for fun. "You don't need to be equals to be good, just... I don't know, but if you think they need to be equaled." Sho turned, placed his hand on aki shoulder, and pushed down.

The man's eyes widened as he tried to resist. But it was futile; soon, Sho pushed him to the ground.

Chapter Text

Aki looked at the teen, the surprisingly strong teen. 'Where did this strength come from?' Being forced on his knees by someone so much younger than him was a strange experience. Embarrassing, sure, but not completely bad," so it's clear I've underestimated you," Sho nodded, removing his hand and letting the man stand up. "I ask that you don't do it again, and sorry about pushing you down." Sho was kind of taken aback by how he reacted.

 It Hadn't occurred to him until now, but he had pride in his strength,' I'll have to keep that in better check. I should head home.' after saying goodbye to the older male, Sho headed home, "I doubt he's given up." aki rubbed his shoulder, thinking of the look in the boy's eyes. He was ashamed of his reaction, but he still seemed determined.

Though knowing the boy's strength meant he was less likely to hurt him, so." no, a terrible idea to have a thing with my coworker's son." even if his mouth was very, very good, the drunken memory came to mind, and he quickly pushed it.

******

"Mm," Taro groaned into Sho's shoulder; they had once again to jerk off in the bathroom; Sho's hand was around his dick, slowly stroking it as Taro did the same feeling sho trembled as he ran his thumb over the head the other running under his balls. 'i want more,' he thought to himself, as one of the Sho's hands to went up his shirt and talked on his nipples. He remembered the first time Sho touched him after Taro had admitted he liked being touched there.

It was so different from his finger; Sho's were a bit more calloused than his own. He pulled harder. Once or twice licking them, the noises he let out when the pink muscle ran over his nipples. It was grand, and he got the feeling that they would have continued if they had more time; Taro wanted more time, and he knew Sho wanted more as well. He had a frustrated look in his eyes when they had to stop because of the bell.

Probably not helped by Taro teasing him, liking wiggling his ass at Sho as they got dressed. Sho bit his lips at the sight, trying not to groan, remembering those cheeks in his hands not a few moments ago. "It's too bad we couldn't take our time," Taro expressed.

"Yeah," Sho said, trying to act like he didn't stare for the past few moments. "But I think that's what we get from meeting in a school bathroom during class."

"want to come over to my house then?" Taro spoke with the charm that had plenty of girls blushing and giggling, "huh?" Sho felt his ear turn red from his own reaction." ah yeah, that sounds like a good idea," he quickly tried to recover. Still, Taro's lips twitched in amusement before they started making plans for later. Not this afternoon. Taro had tutoring this afternoon.

'Ah, what was with that? I have been over to several people's houses,' of course, that was only three places of his few friends." sighing, Sho took his seat, his friends taking their desks. "Dude, really, what are you doing in the bathroom the entire time," Morio asked, and Sho had to spruce a flinch. He knew he hadn't been that subtle, but it was shocking to be pointed out like that. 

"Maybe he's meeting up with Morikawa," Takaya jocked until he saw the pink in Sho's ears." dude, seriously." immediately, Sho tried to change the topic. Still, his two friends were stubborn and kept going until Sho admitted they were hanging.

"I'll tell you guys after school," he said, trying to come up with something to tell them. The teacher walked into the room and sent his friend to their desk; it didn't stop them from looking at Sho during class as he sort of paid attention to class. While reading one of the books he recently received on magic.

It was the one on magic plants; magic plants were complicated. Plants themselves were complicated, but magic ones were at a different level. Some only grew in what his abitly would call an extreme environment. 'At least I know where to plant volcano lilies,' he thought. Looking over the pages for the plants, it mentioned that it was a crucial ingredient in several potions that required a certain firepower.

There were several fire-aligned herbs that only grew in direct sunlight or near sources of great heat. They were probably going to be a pain to grow. But Sho admitted he was interested in the potions.

As the school day came to an end, he thought about what lie he was going to tell his friends. He had an outline of sorts; only as he was packing up did he realize how much effort he was putting into it. And why, not just because he was embarrassed. But he was just getting used to lying to people, which was terrible as, at some point, he had to talk to his dad about Chronos.

“What about takaya and monno? Would Chronos go after them? After a horrifying moment of thought, he realized that they would. He had to tell them just as he had to speak with his father. 'Everyone who comes near me is in danger?' at first, he thought of cutting himself off, but maybe he was more greedy than he initially thought, or he was more of an extrovert than he believed his censored thought.

"I have to become strong enough that it won't matter how many people become close to me." This was something he could get behind. "So what have you been doing in the bathroom," Takaya asked as the trio walked off the school grounds," you have to keep it a secret." 

"Of course, it's not drugs, right?" Mono asked again in a more jocking tone, unpaid when Sho poked him. "no, it's something else," Sho then slowly and quickly explained that he and Taro were jerking off together.

The look of shock was interesting; halfway through the explanation, Sho realized he probably shouldn't be talking about this without Taro's permission," so, no more information until I talk to him." he stated as he started picking up the pace.

"Wait." Takaya tried to say, but Sho was only picking up the pace. When Sho turned the corner, he opened an empty dungeon and ran all the way to the dock so he could. Charging right into the dungeon. 

[beserk macine LV:25]

It was hard to describe what was before him; it was kind of analog to a thing of metal gear, and moving erratically as it approached him, its limb snapped with a crack that swung it at him. Another thing was that Sho couldn't feel much life force from it. Blocking with his forearm, he lashed out with an open palm strike on its body.

The blow caused it to step back, and the metal of its chest warped. 'Is it not that thick?' or was 50 points really that much, "either way, he blocked the next blow, twisting his limb to throw it down before he struck again. Stepping forward for each step, he forced the machine back until he broke through its chest plats and struck the internals.

It fell quickly after that; others fell the same way." they have a metal shell, but their insides are pretty simple. He was doing well, more than ten machines in thirty minutes, getting closer to the sounds of all the heavy machinery he kept hearing. Then, kicking down a metal door, he found them.

"Wow," it was a factory, which shouldn't have surprised him. What did was the scale of it and how out of control it was. "Oh, that might be a problem. The out-of-control machines were building [berserk machines], which were limbering towards him, centering himself as he rushed forward.

The automation didn't have much battle power. Their bodies were sturdy, and they could deliver strong blows; the ach in his arms from when he blocked was a testament to that. But there was no technique; Sho took this weakness and ran with it until he managed to level up.

"Alright, that's good progress, and I even got this!" he looked at the blueprint for a type of generator. It was small, but it was also magical, which was interesting. Sho read a book on engineering to increase his intelligence, but he still remembered a good portion of the book. But that wasn't compared to looking through a blueprint that was particle magical," Yeah, I think I can make use of this; have to get a skill to create it first." cause that was a pattern with his power." probably engineering or something."

Standing up, he put the bottle in his inventory before continuing down the path before him; he was following a cover belt in the factory, parts of broken machinery, and what looked like a bit of metal going somewhere. As he pushed open a door labeled recycle center, he got hit straight in the face by a cluster of metal shards and bits.

[-50hp]

It left cuts all over his face, knocking his head back; Sho retreated several steps back, and even as his vision swam for a moment, he managed to get a look at what attacked him. It looked like an actual walking scrap heap, bits of rusting metal falling as it walked towards him; its name was [living scrap].

'Again, with the small spark of life,' honestly, it was kind of inspiring that even metal could come alive like this. It was possible to bring things to life with his [life magic]. Still, it wasn't so simple as putting life into something." how do I punch this?" he thought his [martial art gloves] would be wreaked entirely if he was careless. Honestly, he was already wearing through them. 

As he looked over the creature coming towards him, he decided that magic was the best way to deal with it. A single slash of the life magic blade was enough to end the spark of life within it, ending the fight. Or so he thought.

Another living scrape launched out of the room into the metal bits and ends of the first before it could fall apart. The two creatures fused together into a bigger monster. "Well, this is a problem; it was quickie prove right. Even after he managed to defeat the more giant monster, more [living scrap] came out of the room. Creating an even larger monster with each one that he killed just led to larger and more monsters.

"Well, I can't see the door anymore," he snarked while completely on the defensive. Jumping around the ground and wall, avoiding the long tendril of the [living scrap cluster]. The ground had long since cracked and broken apart; Sho didn't pay attention to it as he tried to figure out how he was supposed to do this.

"Okay, so I can't defeat it if I can't stop more from coming out." back against the wall, he cast a shield to protect himself from the rush of metal. It felt endless, his mana continuously dropping as he poured more into keeping the shield up. 

Evenralt the stream of metal stopped," An open!" he could see the door again; not wasting a moment, he focused his energy into his feet and shot off, using every bit of his agility to avoid the attacks, jumping and weaving until he could jump over the creature of metal using the wall as a springboard and landing with his back against the open door. With that, he cast another shield round the door with a wave of a hand before lunching at the [living scrap].

It didn't even get a chance to pull half of itself back together before he swung a life blade twice near the center of its body.

[living scrap LV:25 X28]

Taking a moment to rest, Sho looked at the door where more living scrap was banging against it. Cracking growing in the shield. "I need a wide-range attack," Sho thought as the shield broke and the scrap launched at him; ducking under it, he flipped over the next attack. Kicking out at its face while seeing the number that was surging out, 'This would be much easier if I could prevent my hand from getting torn up.

"Aha!" an idea suddenly hit him. Landing on the ground, he closed his eyes before slamming his fists together, casting a shield. Still, instead of the simple round shield before him, he created two that wrapped around his fists like armor. With this protection, he managed to punch through the [living scrap] without hurting his hands.

This quickly changed the tide of the battle, especially when he did the same to his feet.' allowing him to safely kick the head off a living scrap that didn't kill it but allowed him to punch through its chest, ripping out the core part of it. He had learned about that a few opponents ago; it was the only part of them that gave off any life force. 

Evealty, he managed to close the door, dropping it deadbolt, "finally!" he cheered even as several things bashed against the door; he ignored it as he sat down to catch his breath, looking at all the loot scattered across the floor. 

It took time to gather them all up and then count the moment with around 1 million yen. That was a testament to how much fighting he had done over the last hour. "That's going come in use when I buy the other sets, but first, bathroom!" 

He considered leaving the dungeon like he usually did when he had to pee. Still, there wasn't any public bathroom near the dungeon. 'I'' 'll just hold it on the way home; according to his internal clock, he should get home homework, not to mention his dad would be home in the next few hours.

His bladder ached at him painfully as he jogged home, to distract himself from the feeling he looked at the loot he got.

[tsukumogami shard]

The shard of an object that had its 100 birthday, giving the item life before it died

crafting ingredient

[steel shard]

a shard of steel, what else were you expecting.  

[Machine wiring]

the wiring from a machine, what else were you expecting

[Machine socket]

the socket for a machine, what else were you expecting

"Well, this dungeon is going to be great for my engineer," he commented as he rushed into the dungeon that surrounded his home. Jumping over the slimes, which had grown in size, he noticed a few of them had changed a bit. 

But he didn't pay attention to that and headed inside and directly into the bathroom, where a few of them were hanging around. He paused at the sight of that before deciding he didn't care for the moment, instead pushing them off the toilet so he could relieve himself." what are you even doing here, he thought, pushing with his toe as he unzipped his pants. As he started emptying his bladder, the slime became more active, trying to climb into the toilet, and he had to top them not, trying to make a mess.

Troublesome.

Even more, when one started climbing under his pants to his sweat-stained legs, its cool body was nice, but he really wanted to know what it was doing. Another slime tried climbing up his legs, and he fished at the toilet, then he had to struggle with the slimes trying to climb into the toilet.

A bit of mind magic let him feel the fleeting thoughts they had, determined to eat. It was the feeling he got; he didn't understand why, but they were determined to get into the toilet. Even the ones on his legs were determined to eat what they were eating. He wasn't sure as they were running over his skin.

He decided to ignore them and wash his hands before going to do his homework and check on his house guest, who was fine for the most part. After his school work, he summoned his teachers, and stavos had him working on his flexibility before sparing.

"Alright, your martial skills are growing impressively." the spirit stated," I think you're ready to start some weapon practice," the man then reached behind his back and pulled out two bo staffs, throwing one to Sho.

Catching it, he looked down at the wooden staff before mirroring the stance of his teacher; the first lesson was mirror stavos as he moved, striking and blocking with the weapons, speeding up over the next hour until they were moving at near combat-like speed.

[due to repeated action, a special skill has been created [shaolin style bo stuff LV:1]

"Good practice those forms, and soon you'll be able to use them in combat," stavos said as his stuff snacked through Sho's guard to wack him in the arm. The spirit immediately pulled it back and spun swing down to the staff sturk his calf." but don't get too distracted by it; your body should be the first weapon you wield."

Sho nodded, lowering one end of his staff to block the attack at his bare torso. Combat training ended a while after that, and magic training started. Today was a practical lesson after Sho asked for help with long-range and wide-range attacks. 

"We'll do. Let's start with getting your mana to fly, which is pretty simple." Vakora was right. Less than five minutes after she explained it, Sho had a skill called [mana blast]. Which was just blasting a ball of mana, followed by [mana scatter shot], which blasted smaller balls of mana but had a wider range. 

The sex magic style was called Evocation, which needs impact, pain, and sensation play. She only went into theory on this with him," I'm not much for the sadism thing, but I'm sure the incubus is more than willing to help you there."

It would have been a great idea if Sho hadn't been concerned about how that would turn out, "or you can ask your house guest; we did promise him help in return for this kind of thing."

"Ah," that was true, but he hadn't thought of it. Hoshi seemed like the better option. He would have to ask the man. Hopefully, it wouldn't be too much for him. After that, she quizzes him about the herb book, something sho had only made it a third through. It was thicker than a dictionary and had very dense small text.

Even with his int and wisdom raised the way they were, it wasn't an easy task, "good. Good, and you've started preparing a place for the herb garden. You're doing very well."

"Yeah, I just wish I had more time, or more me," there was so much he had to do in preparation for whatever Chronos would throw at him." or, she pipped up," You could ask for help from your friends and family." Sho paused at that. "Or summon more spirits. Shouldering all this is a fool's action."

"You're right. I think I'll summon some spirit for the garden; my father isn't that great with plants." but Mizuki's mother was. When the time came, if she didn't make her children cut ties with him, he would ask for her help.

'I can't keep putting this off,' he thought after she left. Sho was in the garden to begin tilling the soil and bit. It wasn't soil good enough to garden in, so he would probably have to remove it in time. "Hey, Dad, I've gotten into some trouble with this secret organization; please don't ground me." he scuffed, then paused," am I really concerned about being grounded?" he almost laughed at how absurd it was. 

"Ah, it's you," he watched as a smile, one from the bathroom, lumbered out. He immediately noticed something strange. A change in the slime's color, he used [observe] to make sure it wasn't sick and instead found [evolving] "What? how?" 

Mentally, he went over what he could recall of this slime, which wasn't a lot. Most of the time, they looked identical. But he knew this slime was in the bathroom. Now, it was rolling over his fingers, eating the dirt and sweat that built up. 'It eating the sweat and dirt," probably, but that seemed to help it evolve. So he would need to create more, that was simple, he was a good amount of work he would do.

[cleaner slime Lv:5]

"I think I read about your kind," he pocked the lightly colored slime. It was kind of off-white. His first evolved smile made him feel proud. Pulling out the slime researcher journal, he looked through it until he found a mention of cleaner slimes. "Well, it might not have any combat uses, but I definitely could use them around them now." these creatures feed on dirt, grime, and sweat. crawling against the ground, they would clean it.

"So it is what they eat that causes them to evolve. I'll have to experiment with that." he would have to see where this went. "Of course, I don't know where to even start; the journal didn't say anything either."

********

Any plans sho head the next day were violently interrupted by Chronos; this time time, they didn't send a hoard of zoanoid at him. Instead, a pair of agents arrived and focused him towards the river under the bridge, where they transformed and said they were there for the guyver and didn't weren't interested in his supernatural power.

 First, Sho was insulated in a way he wasn't prepared for, 'I'm really taking pride in my strength,' he thought before unleashing a [mana scatter shot]. "HEY!" the one on the right roared, a strange reverb in their voice!"

Sho only replied with another before," GUYVER!" the shoulder burst to life around him, the suit phasing in and wrapping another the teen. The moment his foot touched the ground, he kicked forward, the blades at his elbows growing out and glowing as they began to vibrate.

The two zoanoids slit apart; Sho put his foot into the soft ground watching as the spread on either side of him. Then, opening up, their bodies spread open to reveal bio-machines. Sho jumped to avoid whatever attack they would shoot.

Silence, a void of noise, was much more disorienting than he thought. It was even called an extreme environment by the [gamer] ability. As he landed, Sho found himself stumbling, "Wha-ah!" he cried out as one of the shoulder-checked him, sending him flying towards the other. 

Twisting, he managed to bring his hands over his chest and face. Only to have misjudged the incoming strick that landed center in his chest, knocking him back; he rolled over the ground, flying to his feet while stumbling once again. 'Something is wrong?' 

The void of noise is affecting more than just his ears!

[stats effect [inner ear disharmounce]

Mentally swearing slowly rolled under a swipe, and he felt his stomach roll violently. He was getting worse; he had to do something noiseless void. Before it got him killed," Ugh!" another blow he managed to block. Only to get hit across by the other; his stomach continued to roll as he blocked the swing with the vibrating blades. But his aim was off. His balance was off all because of his inner ear.

'Push through it!' ducking down homespun into a low kick that knocked the zoanoid off his feet. He tried to slash its head off, only for the second to tackle him, his bulk crushing him for a moment.

Getting His hands under him, he started pushing up. lifting the zoanoid off the ground," Get off!" he threw his elbow back, slamming the blade into their body, unable to hear his own voice.

"AHH!" blood dripped down the blade before it was ripped out, Sho rolled away to flip to his feet. 'Okay, I'm dealing with it better,' he thought he was close to getting a resistance skill. Which would hopefully help with what he was feeling and allow him to fight better. 

After taking a few more hits, he got two new skills, [neasuea resistance] & [blalnace distribution resistance], which were very helpful in the soundless area that attacked his inner ear. Turning on his toes, he swung his blade at the chest of a zoanoid who avoided and tried to leave his range of sight. 

That was the worst part of this; without hearing or magic, Sho could only track them with his eyes. Leading to him getting more blindsided than he genuinely liked. He was mad and largely scared, but that only fueled his anger. He wanted this to be over with; he was late for school!

'Of course, that isn't my biggest concern, he thought, bending backward at a 90-degree angle to avoid a claw swipe. Letting the momentum carry & landing on his hands, he flipped into a kick, striking the zoanoid in the face before. Continued several more flips to put space between them.

"He's stronger than we expected!" the zoanoid he kicked and scarred the face rubbed their altered jaw, spitting out a few teeth with a mouthful of blood." then let's take this up!" the other said with his altered voice that allowed them to hear each other in this void. before something changed with their weapons, Sho charged to stop them. In the bio armor, he was fast but not faster than sound. 

[-25hp]

[-25hp]

[-25hp]

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It felt like a drill was digging into his head from both ears; unheeded the helm, Sho could feel himself starting to bleed from his ears, eyes turning bloodshot. He felt like he was screaming his through raw. But he couldn't hear anything, not even the notifications about his declining health. He knew something had to happen soon, but as he fell to the ground, he couldn't think due to the pain.

As the zoanoid approached confidant as the guyver withered on the ground, he could feel their steps through the ground. 'come on, sho fight!' he struggled to move through the pain. But he forced himself to do so until he was looking at the zoanoids.' I need to do something about this sound,' he rapidly tried to think of a way to defend himself against the sound. 

He needed a way to disrupt! To counter! As he began to consider ditching the suit and trying his hand at magic. The medal on his forehead shined as a new instinct entered his mind. Pointing his head at the zoanoids, one noticed the metal orbs at the mouth location. A slight building in vibration.

Right before they let out a sound like he'd never heard before, it shattered their void of sound, protecting the teen from their sonic assault continuing on them. It hit before they could move; one was gone before he could scream.

As he tore his eyes away from the spot his brother was at, he was greeted by the guyver on their feet." shi-!" the word didn't even finish before another sonic wave struck; surprisingly, it didn't hurt as he lost his arm. Maybe it happened too fast for him to feel it. But he didn't stop to care as he took off running, jumping into the river.

Again, the guyver tried to use the sonic blaster, but it missed.' I guess I never really aimed a weapon with my mouth,' Sho glared at the river.

[hyper zoanoid Myumleez defeated]

4,000 exp gained

Panting, he dismissed the armor, letting the air hit his skin again. He took a moment to enjoy that before standing up and heading towards the loot; immediately, he offered part of it to the god of the land.

[your offering has been accepted]

Half the money and boy parts disappeared, leaving the rest for Sho, who wasn't going to complain. Instead, he gathered up what was there. Racing to school after that, that day was mostly normal, his friends teasing him about Mizuku and TaroTaro." I thought I might regret telling you guys, but not because of this."

"What, you thought we would have a problem with you doing things with another guy?! What kind of people do you take us for?!"

"Frind, I am lucky to have." Sho admitted with a smile; the pure, honest answer caused his glass-wearing friend to stutter while the other shy beamed." correct," he shouted before snickering.

[+100 repaution with takaya and Morio]

Sho whipped away the screen before going back to lunch. They did the same, talking about this and that. Sho got lost in the moment, enjoying the normalcy of this moment; normally, he wanted to return to it even if things were never the same. 

Later, he ended up talking to Tetsruo, who immediately asked if Sho was okay," I'm fine." he said. Still, Tetsruo's face said he didn't believe that." you look worn out." Sho tried to remain strong for another moment before deflating; he didn't know what it was. But he tired, but not. His gamer ability meant mental or physical exhaustion didn't stay around long.

But it didn't stop this feeling like a balloon being blown too wide. With Tetsuo, he could let it out a bit," It's… it's just there is so much that needs to be done!"

"Okay! What can I help with?" 

"I don't know! There's the garden, telling our family and friends. Learning magic and martial arts, and Chronos keeps attacking. had to fight them off this mourning. I killed another person, and I barely felt anything!"

Sho panted, eyes wide, he hadn't been aware how the killing thing was bothering him until he said something. Yeah, they were trying to kill him, and it justified his reaction, but he was still killing them. How many bodies has he built up at this point?

"Alright, let's start by talking to my mom. I'm sure she can help with the garden." Tetsuro said, and despite the building emotion in his stomach at the thought, he nodded, and they headed out.

Chapter Text

In the years he's known Mrs. Segawa, Sho has always known her as this kind and caring person. Slow to anger and more when willing to share love, such action causes Sho to think of her along with his own mother when he thinks of a mom.

It wasn't like she seemed against it, being one of his emergency contacts and stepping in when his father was busy. He thought of her gentle smiles and hugs when he thought of her.

So his shock was palpable on the look of pure rage on her face. When the pair arrived at the Segawa residence, they found her reading on the couch, which was a book she threw under a pillow before they could see it. 

Then she asked what was wrong because they both were wearing some very serious faces," We need to tell you something."

"What got in trouble with the law?"

"Worse, Tetsuo said. She offered to make some tea after that and after a short moment. Sho started explaining how he awoke to his supernatural ability. Leaving out the sexual parts, which slide into the introduction of the guyver and Chronos, who were now hunting them. How both families and all their friends were at risk.

After everything was said, the boys were silent and waited for her reaction. It took a moment before her shock turned to a rage neither of them had seen before. She jumped to her feet, knocking the chair to the ground.

She quickly picked it up before she started pacing, his hand flying in emotion and mumbling something that Sho didn't really understand. Probably because none of it was Japanese. "okay, okay…fucking hell!" She swore a bit more creative language before she started resembling any kind of calm" "Okay, first, are you two okay? What am I saying? You're both definitely not okay!" 

Taking a deep breath, she tried to center herself to be the stable adult for the children, despite it being really fucking hard right now." how about some more tea?" the two nodded, unsure what they were supposed to do at this moment.

As she made the tea, she gathered her thoughts, which were so many. When it came back to serving the tea, she asked what they were doing. The Sho explained he was learning magic and martial arts to fight alongside the guyver. She nodded, perking up when she heard he was trying to make a garden for magical herbs. 

"Oh, I definitely have some leftover soil and tools; I can definitely set the things up and take care of the garden," she didn't know much about fighting, but she could do this.' maybe I should buy a gun?' then she remembered the country's gun laws. Then, the kind of monster sho was fighting. So would a gun be useful.' maybe a shotgun,' she thought as she walked over to the fridge." let's see what I have for dinner tonight." she distracted herself from the thought about the fighting, the fear for her own life the life of her family.

Cooking and gardening," So how far have you planned out the guardian?" she asked Sho, who looked up from his cup." Ugh, not very far." he admitted," he hadn't even fully decided what he wanted to plant.

"Well, I know just where to start!" with the energy of someone several times younger, she launched into action. Helping Sho write down a full plan for his garden; since the dungeon was all his, there wasn't too big a limit on what they could do. So they decided preparing a lot of space beforehand was a good idea.

"We can even plant vegetable and fruit gardens," she pointed out, thinking it would be a food source. "Yeah, that definitely sounds nice." fresh fruit was always good and simpler to think about than the herbs and plants Sho was going to use to help fight for his life.

Plus, the seeds would be much easier to acquire than the magical herbs; in fact, before dinner, they managed to put in an order for a lot of mundane plants. Sho showed off the capital he had from slaying monsters. In fact, he opened a dungeon to take on a few before dinner. They had made an estimate about how much this garden plan was going to cost, and he knew these were large numbers.

Tearing his way through some monster, it felt good to move his body." am I turning into a musclehead?" he thought, driving his elbow into the face one moment before spinning and kneeing another," let's put more work into my mental stats." 

In fact, he started working at the monet doing metal math as he fought." question he remembered from school work." no, no X should equal; where did I get X=2!" dropping under a strike, he grabbed the appendage and shoulder threw them into another." with x as 4 the rest of the question should go like.."

This method actually did well, helping him increase his wisdom. He made a note to get a more complex textbook for his intelligence.

After washing the sweat away, he headed back over to the Segawa house for dinner. His father had already arrived and was talking to the Segawa couple. Setting the table, everyone sat down and partake in the meal Mrs. Segawa managed to whip up. 

'They know something is up,' sho thought, taking a bit of his rice. The atmosphere was both light and tense. But Sho didn't want to break it just yet," they could make it to the desert first. If they stopped stealing glances at him.

Somehow, Shohe found the stretch to keep his mouth closer until they started dessert, some ice cream. Then, as they were going about it, Sho thought about how he was going to explain his.' just have to start small and fill in the details.'

"I've killed several people." Tetsuro choked on his spoon. "There are so many better ways to have started them." he said between coughs, rubbing his throat." for the record, they attacked us first." 

"I think," Mr. Segawa spoke with a tremor," that you should start from the beginning." so Sho did front the awakening of his ability, which warned of something, to the activation of the guyver. Tetsruo took over a bit there; explain how the guyver acted. 

They both explained things after that," there is someone living in our house." Sho's dad mumbled. "How is that the most normal thing I just heard?" He was sure there were many more important things to think about, but there was someone living in his house. Cause what the fuck! His son's life had been in danger on several occasions, and he had no idea. He could have lost him and not known how or why.

While Mr. Fukamachi had a minor panic attack. Mr.Segawa went over to the fridge, coming back with a bottle of chilled sake. He pours four cups. One for each adult while the final went to Sho. "hey! "knocked Mr. Fukamachi out of his stupor." he's too young to drink!"

"He's killed serval people. I think he can have some alcohol. Doubt a little could hurt him anyway." none of them had a very good argument against that. "It wouldn't really hurt for him to only have one cup; sake probably isn't the best thing for him to start with."

'Is this really happening,' sho thought, looking at the cup. Sho was with his dad, he was too young to drink, plus he understood sake was pretty strong.' but I can't deny that I'm curious about it.' looking at the cup for a moment longer, he deiced to finish his dessert first." oh screw can't be harder then decapitating undead."

"Wh-" Mizuki spoke for the first time, still stunned about everything she just heard. Something else clinking in the back of her mind, but she turned away from it to see Sho try the sake. Then immediately coughs at the burn of the alcohol." hah," Mr. Segawa laughs as Sho starts coughing and flushing. 

His second attempt went much better, sipping the drink. 'Rich, light, fruity. I think apple.' it wasn't bad. The burn in the back of his throat would take some getting used to. 

[you’ve drank sake, [intoxcation(minor)] has been inflcaited]

[intoxcation(minor)] 
The consumption of alcohol has induction debuffs to your body.

Minor debuff to motor functions
Minor p to mental functions

Blinking, he dismissed the screen; he wasn't too concerned about it and instead focused on what was happening at the table. They finish with the food and clean up the table before sitting down to talk more about the situation.

They went on for an hour before deciding to turn in for the night, mostly cause the adults had work in the morning. But they planned to meet as soon as they could the next day.

Sho heard his dad mention getting a futon for the guy who was apparently bunking in his house. He was now joining them for breakfast. Sho didn't argue with it until he remembered it was his turn to make breakfast. 

"Great," he grumbled as he stripped for his bath; it was only by doing that he realized that he was aroused. Shurging, he finished taking off his clothes and got into the bath, turning on the shower head to wash his hair and the rest of his body. He could feel the rotten blood of the undead he battled. 

As he scrubbed his skin, he felt a bit of blood flowing downward, causing his cock to swell until it was pointing towards the ceiling, pocking agist his stomach. "calm down, I'll deal with you in a minute… I'm talking to my own dick." 

Done scrubbing, Sho decided to deal with his arousal. Spreading his legs a bit further, he started stroking, starting at the base and slowly working his way up to the head. As his mastrubated sho‘s mind wandered. Thinking of the other thing he's done, the slimes he put his dick in, getting fucked by the delinquent. Jerking off with Taro. Sucking off aki, it was great fuel to his session. Reaching, he started fingering himself and eased himself open before reaching for his sweet spot, making his dick harder.

'I really need something bigger," he thought as he came, not truly satisfied but as though his erection had gone down. Rising off, he soaked in the bath, almost falling asleep. But he woke up and went to bed. Not bothering to pull anything on other than his underwear.

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"So, how's your first hangover?" Sho groaned in response. His father snickered. Which increased the pounding in his head. It really shouldn't have happened. But a gamer's body considered a [hangover] a stats effect, so it stuck around. He is not looking forward to school today. 

 Working through his headache, he finished breakfast and worked on the dishes, washing all three sets. Hoshi Matsubara had eaten breakfast with them. He was just expecting the father to have some problem with Hoshi staying in his house, but he really didn't. He completely understood why Sho had brought Hoshi home and why he was staying with them.

The conversation seemed to put new life in the man. Unknown to Sho, Matsubara was certain that staying here was a temporary thing, An act of pity. Few months for him to get back on his feet, but he was now leaning toward the fact it was just an act of kindness. He wanted to repay that kindness; he knew he had made a deal to help Sho with his magic. But the young man hadn't asked anything of him, so he was going to help out a bit more.

Heading upstairs, Sho was stopped by his father." ah, I called you're a school, so you don't need to put on your uniform."

"What?" Sho turned around," Exams are coming soon." 

"Whihc on top of everything else means you need to take a break," his father's voice was stern; Sho wanted to argue that was kind of necessary as he couldn't feel fatigued thanks to gamer mind and body. But he truly didn't feel like fighting him on it, not to mention taking a break sounds like a good idea.

Still couldn't sit around in his underwear all day. So, getting dressed in casual clothes, Sho spent some time cleaning up before trying out his drawing, which kept him a bit busier than he thought, trying to draw out the monsters he faced. 

"AH!" he jumped as, for the third time, a slime tried to swallow his feet; he nudged the creature away. "I have no idea what they are trying to do; I haven't planned out their food." he wanted to see if he could cause any more evolutions. He went to sketching a bit before considering what he could even feed the slimes." I can't just leave out plates of things and see what they got for." 

That ended up being what he did around noon; I have drawn enough for the moment. The sketches weren't works of art. But he could definitely see points of improvement. I wonder if this is going to work…" Oh!" some slimes were already investigating the food he laid out. 

Taking a seat against the wall, Sho pulled out a textbook and started reading. It was nice to read in the light of the sun, even with the slight chill in the air. Out of the corner of his eye, he watched the slime pick their food. None of them would probably evolve today, but it was a good start.

Between his reading and art, he kept himself busy for the day. Until the Segawa sibling returned home, Tetsuro was teaching Mizuki to enter the space." Hey Sho!" Mizuki looked around, seeing the slimes." Are they eating bones?"

"Yeah," doing his best to appear calm, fell apart when Mizuki sat next to him, wrapping his arms around him. Sho looked anywhere other than her, "I know I didn't say it last night, but I'm glad you're safe." 

He nodded, and the tension left his body a bit." Yeah," slowly, he moved his arms around her. Very cautious about her body against his own." even Mizuki pulled back enough to look Sho in the eyes," So what kind of training do you think I should do?"

"Huh?"

"Sho, I've read more manga than you. I refuse to be some damsel in distress character." Sho blinked, a bark of laughter leaving him. Before stopping and seriously thinking about a suggestion, "You could be a magical girl." Sho found himself saying," Like in elementary sch-!" Mizuki immediately pulled on his ear.

"Don't you dare bring that up," Mizuki threatened, whipping around to glare at his snickering brother," and if we're bring that up, then how about how much you wanted to be a-"

"Ah!" Sho cut out off by poking her in the ribs." actually, I think I've become that with the guyver and Chronos."

"Oh my god," Tetsruo couldn't hold it anymore and started laughing so hard he almost doubled over. Sho had really become a transforming action hero. Groaning, he fell back on the ground, dragging a snickering Mizuki with him. "AH!" her jaw went slack as Mizuki realized she could feel a good amount of muscle through Sho's shirt. She knew he had been training in karate. But feeling it like this was a completely different thing.

It took her a moment to realize she was kind of groping Sho, who let out a sharp intake of breath. Blinking rapidly when Mizuki looked up, Sho instantly looked away as Mizuki scrambled off him. "Wish I had a camera," Tetsuo commented. This story was getting written down, though; he was going to tease them about it for years.

"So, ugh. Mizuki cleared her thoughts," Magic training, you think that a good idea?" Sho nodded, voice not ready yet, "so where do you think I should start?" as soon as he was speaking, he went through with teaching the shield spell.

Then, help them gain experience with rocks lightly. Mizuki definitely had an interest in magic. Taking practice a step further and shaping the shield into different forms. Sho didn't think to do that. 

In fact, she showed a lot of ease in shaping mana, making flowers, rope, and a sword that didn't look solid enough to actually hurt someone. After that, her mana ran dry, and she felt between drowsy and nauseous. Sho didn't know how to restore or increase mana beyond his stats. 'Definitely something he would have to ask."

Later, before dinner, Matsubara asked if he could sho could talk." ah, sure?" Sho looked away from the spirit summoning circle. He was recharging the protections. He turned his full attention to the man." what can I help you with?"

"I know you've been trying to give me the time to rest, and I appreciate it. But I think it's time I start fulfilling my part of the bargain." Sho blinked before nodding," You mean you helping me with magic." Matsubara nodded. Sho took a long breath before explaining the only magic the man could currently help him with was sex magic. 

"Th-that is fine." the man answered," my wife isn't really that interested in sex. We only had enough to have our daughter." he smiled at the mention of her; he could almost see her smile in his mind." we even talked about me sleeping around, while I haven't really done it I don't think she'll be upset," he said this while playing with his fingers, Sho had to stop him when he realized the man was about to tear out one of his nails.

"Alright, if you are sure that it's not going to cause any trouble." Sho took a deep breath and thought, what could he do. He only knew magic that would help him defensively, which would help. 'People and places' places were definitely his home and school to start with. 

Sho ended up summoning Vakora to talk about defending these locations." well, it seems you've talked to him. I hope he can help you evocation magic." Sho blushed but stated he hadn't gotten into specifics with him. "Well, you've made progress; anyway, barrier magic, the first thing you have to think of is the anchor. What is going to be the center and source of the barrier."

"For example, the shield spell, I thought you, you're the anchor for that barrier. An anchor can be anything as long as you have the right skills. A magical circle of some kind, but those are more complex barriers. The most basic is a shield that you just fill with enough mana. It will last a while when you leave it alone."

She walked him through his first barrier, a dome that kept the slimes out of a five-foot circle. Then she walked him through, making an anchor for another. He practiced a few times before he turned to the task of casting a barrier over his house. 'There some paint we have in storage, I think,' that would make a good base for the spell circle. Then when that dries…'

It dried during dinner, Sho rubbing his sore wrist. Drawing out the circle had been hard, taking almost a half hour before he got it correctly, as it would affect the overall quality of the barrier. During dinner, he brought up the barrier, defending their home.

"So we need new locks, maybe something for the windows." he already knew this was probably going to dig into their savings. But money was not worth his life, especially not his son's. He also privately considered that maybe they wouldn't be able to stay in the house forever. If things went well, Sho could finish the school year; online and homeschooling were a thing.

The man started considering the possibility of buying a car," I don't have a driver's license," he realized. Something to fix, he didn't know what he could offer to better their situation, but learning to drive was a good place to start.

Sho dumped all of his mana into the painted circle four times before he got Hoshi kneeling on it, bound in his underwear. the man was squirming a bit under Sho's intense gaze." is the rope too tight?" Hoshi shook his head, not sure where his voice was. 

"That's good," Sho paced around the circle. Taking in the sight before entering it himself, running a hand across the man's shoulder," That's very good." his voice was pure as he continued to feel out the man's form. The growing bulge told Sho he was doing well," What should I do with you?" he reached the man's stomach, lowering his finger but not too low. Hoshi tried to move his hips in a way that would cause friction, but the younger male moved back.

Slowly, he guided the man to lay on his back before Sho straddled him; looking up, he could see the bulge in Sho's pants. Seeing his gaze, Sho teased him about it, causing the man to look away.

"Ah, no, you have to look at me." Sho gently turned Hoshi's head after tiling it up, giving the brunette access to the man's neck. Sho decided to practice his hickey-making; zalgad had provided plenty of images about it. 

He could feel Hoshi's throat vibrate with a suppressed moan as Sho clumsily nipped and sucked at his next. Slowly getting the hang of it," AH!" Hoshi moaned as Sho sucked on a vein leaving a small but dark hickey behind. 

The teen was very proud of the marks he was leaving on the man's skin. Reaching behind him, he caressed the tent between the man's legs, feeling him tremble. "How much longer should I play with you?" the answer being another ten minutes slowly working his way down, frustrating Hoshi as he continually struggled against his binding and Sho's physical might. 

"I think it's getting a good amount of power," he should stop playing with the man." so let's wrap this up, shall we?" Hoshi groaned in response," Sho reached through the flap of the underwear, pulling out the man's cock. Giving the hard and leaking member a few jerks." hey, how do you want to come?"

"I plan to award you well," Hoshi huffed, looking up," your hand is fine." Sho accepted that, popping open a bottle of slime lube and pouring it over the tip of the dick. The older male shivered at the coolness against his hot erections. Putting the bottle away, he used both hands to spread the lube, feeling the rod pulse and twitch under his gentle motions.

Dragging a fingernail under the head, he hears Hoshi mumble a please. "Alright," using one hand to play with the man's hair cover nuts, he used the other to focus entirely on the head. Hoshi groaned not long before he came, shooting his seed over his chest.

[you've satisfied hoshi matasubra]
400exp

Sho's felt his cock throb at the sight before him, the flushes skin, the cum dripping from his spent cock. Just how undone the man looked, it was entirely Sho's fault. 'Well, I am very into this.' After reading into his inventory, Sho pulled out the aftercare items he had prepared. First, he undied the wan and helped get his blood flowing before whipping him down, making sure he was hydrated and fed.

Moving the man to the couch, he wrapped him up with a blanket, making sure he was comfortable." you didn't have to do this?" Hoshi evenly mumbled. Sho told him that he did well. "Thanks, so how is the spell doing?"

"Very good. I just need to activate it, and then there's going to be a barrier over my house; it's a start. Not sure what I'm going to do at school," that is a very different problem, not just because he would get in trouble for painting something on the floor in school. 

Reaching out with a toe, he activated the barrier, feeling the shift in the air as it closed and expanded over his home. It wasn't viable unless you could feel the mana that made up the barrier. Having it added a sense of security, and Sho definitely felt safer, even if he was already thinking about how to boost its power.

For the moment, he took care of Hoshii before going to the bathroom to take care of himself. Ferously jerked off to the images burned into his brain.' I'm so thankful that I got that information from Zalgad.' it was the only way Sho was able to portray a certain calm and dominance. Being so incredibly strung out by his nerves, 'the only action he wasn't questioning was the certainly he'd stop if Hoshi gave the signal.

But it went well, and Sho felt more confident the next time. Which he knew would come.

The problem of school was solved by Mizuki, "What if we make sure of the art room? There are all kinds of projects just sitting there, so a new one wouldn't stand out." Sho blinked before smiling," Yeah, that will work fine." 

Taking two days, he put a magic circle on the back of a sketch he made of the three spirits he was learning from. There wasn't any color to it, but it easily went up in the art room. It was activated and slowly formed a barrier over the school. 

"Okay, that's good." Sho thought as he left school for the day. Taro walking next to him; today, he was going over to his house. Sho would admit he was a little nervous, but he focused on going with him. A mixture of excitement and nervousness twirling in his guts.

He knew Taro was also nervous, but it wasn't showing much on his charming face. A small smile was on his lips, as if Taro was just having a friend over, and neither of them had plans to do more than help each other with homework.

"Ah, you live further than I do?" Sho commented as they arrived at the Morikawa residence. It was a very nice house, at least Sho thought so. However, he was taken aback by the number of pictures of Taro lining the walls, along with a great number of rewards and achievements. 'I know he's doing well in class and sports.'

Taro's smile faltered for a moment as he saw Sho looking at the items hanging on the walls." ah, you can just ignore all that. My room is this way," he quickly leads the way, Sho following after him." ah sorry," apologizing Sho took a look around Taro's room. It was fashionable if you could describe it. It is cleaner than Sho's room has been in recent days.

He's had a lot more important things than keeping his room spick and span, nor was it a pig pen.

"You don't have to apologize; it is not a big thing. My parents just like showing off." he tried to brush it off, but Sho pointed out that he was upset. Sho wanted to apologize for either way. "Ngh, let's do our homework, then we can.." he trailed off, a light blush dawning on his cheeks as his nerves spiked. He quickly swallowed, putting on his usual charming smile. "So, do you have the reviews for the exams?" Taro slouched against his bed, thinking of all the evil numbers and letters. "Yeah, I got it," reaching into his bag and pulling out his packet, and Taro did the same with a few compilations.

Neither of them struggled too much, "I don't understand much about this. But somehow, I got good grades in it, so whatever." Sho agreed. He didn't understand math completely, but he did well even before he raised his mental stats, intelligence that helped with his memorization, and wisdom that helped apply equations.

They followed with the science for the day; Taro spent the first five minutes just staring at the pages. Before pulling out a reference book to start working," So you find science harder?" Sho asked. Taro nodded, then shrugged." there's more to memorize," he sighed but continued marching on.

"You're a hard worker," Sho commented. Marking down an answer on his own paper." not really." Taro replied, glaring at an answer he realized he got wrong. Erasing it, he wrote down the correct one." Well, it's clear this doesn't come easy to you, yet you've got rewards along a wall. If that's not hard work, then I don't know what is!"

[+100 reputation with taro Morikawa]
[Contualation your reputation has risen to well-liked]

[Mission update]
[taro Morikawa seduction]
You've gotten someone's attention, and now is the chance to worm your way into their heart and their pants!

Objective(s)
Raise your reputation with [Taro Morikawa] to well-liked
Have sex with taro 
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"ah, your words are so kind, are you finally falling for me?" he teased, sho ears turning a bit red as he put on his best unimpressed face. Taro enjoyed flirting and teasing, almost thriving off the reactions he got. Not that Sho disliked the teasing; he would not go into how much he liked it. "Ah, man, it's warm in here," Sho replied.

"I can turn down the heat if it's too much," he offered, then paused at the look on Sho's smile." thanks, but I have another idea." then slowly, he stripes out of his upper clothing, showing off the muscles he gained from his training. "Ah, this is much better." he stretched out, flexing a bit." he knew Taro liked the way he looked.

The other teen stared for a moment before making his response," Ah, what a great idea." within moments, he had also lost his upper clothing," yeah, that's so much better," he stretched out his back, exposing his stomach. He felt Sho's eye trail down it, looking back with a smile." see something nice?"

"Of course," Sho honestly stated, "we should get back to our school work." if things keep going like this, things would definitely escalate more. Taro took in a bit more how shy Sho was being, though he was kind of feeling the same. Despite their many adventures in the bathroom, they hadn't really gotten that undressed. Just enough to explore their cocks.

Sho admitted he was sneaking glances at the other teen's bare chest; it was so different than his own. More than even his nipples, 'I want to touch them.' he thought.

Chapter Text

'Should I tease him more, or should I get right into it?' Taro thought as he brought drinks up to his room. He and Sho had managed to finish their homework and science class reviews. So now they were free to do whatever they wanted, which was great and a little nerve-wracking. "Let's move to the bed," Sho said, taking charge.

They both climbed onto the bed, Taro lying down, and Sho climbed over him after a second of hesitation. He straddled Taro's lap, rubbing his hand against his sides. Feeling a slight tremor through Taro's body." nervous?" he asked. "A Little," Sho admitted, sliding his hands up until his thumbs over Taro's nipples." but I'm still willing." 

"So am I," Taro moved forward, reached up, and started fondling Sho's bulge, rubbing the member and balls through the fabric. It grew under his touch until the cock was staring against the fabric. Sho pushed himself back, his ass rubbed against Taro's erection." mm," Taro bit his lip as Sho ground his ass agist his dick; it was good, very good. 

"If you ke-ugh-keep that up, I'll come." Sho paused before grinding a bit more Taro, moaning in response. His face flushing with arousal." lifting himself, he pulled down Taro's underwear, letting his cock free. "Ep!" Sho jumped a little when he felt it smack against his ass; giving it a few jerks, he felt some precum at the tip. Whipping it away, he brought the finger to his mouth and licked it clean.

"That is not fair," Taro groaned, letting his head drop into his bed." that is way too hot," Sho shivered before sitting up so he could pull down his own underwear, freeing one leg before sitting back down, his bare ass rubbing against cock a few times. "I should get the condoms right." Sho nodded, and Taro reached for his dresser and pulled it out. 

While Sho reached the slime lube. "I want to prepare you," Taro spoke. A determined look in his eyes as he held the lube, "- alright." Sho swallowed before asking how Taro wanted him. With a relieved breath, he honestly thought Sho might turn him down. "Just turn around and spread your legs." 

"Alright," it only took him a moment to do so, heart thumping against his chest.  Bracing his arms against the bed and spreading his legs to give access to his twitching hole. He's already used [sex magic: cleasen], so that wasn't a concern.

Slowly, Taro groped Sho's rear, feeling the smooth and firm cheeks, before spreading them so he could get a better look at Sho's pink twitching rosebud. 'It looks so soft, and it smells faintly of sweat.' leaning closer, he took a small sniff of the musky hole. It was kind of intense, but it wasn't too bad; leaning even closer, he took another sniff. Sho shivered, feeling the action, "ugh." moaning in surprise as he felt something soft and wet flick against his hole.

After a moment, it happened again and again, and before Sho realized it was Taros' tongue.' he was licking my ass, and it felt terrific; his cock gave a twitch as Taro licked between his cheeks. Sho panted, biting his lip to keep down the embarrassing noises; it felt so good to be licked in such a place. 

"Ah!" gently, Taro paid more attention to the ring, running the tip of his tongue around it before slowly pushing his tongue inside. He felt Sho tiching and shivering as the tight muscle encased his tongue. 'It's' so tight. Am I really going to be able to fit?'

But he really wanted to try as it felt so warm and soft; he couldn't imagine how it would feel around his dick. Pulling his tongue out, he ran it over the ring of muscle again before pushing it back in, slowly slicking the entrance with his tongue. Until it felt wet and loose enough, he could try sticking a finger inside. 

"Mmm," the hot, wet sensation around his finger was incredible. Sho pushed himself to take more of the finger," Hng." he groaned as he did; Taro's fingers were softer than his own and reaching deeper. He slowly got the hole to relax by working the finger along with his tongue. Enough to a second finger, exploring Sho's velvety insides. 

It was only after he managed to add a third finger and spent a few moments working the digits that Sho thought he was ready. "Alright," sitting up a bit, Taro opened a condom and, after a few tries, managed to slide it down his cock. Then he coated it in lube as Sho turned around so they were facing each other.

It was a little embarrassing, but he wanted to see Taro's expression. On his knees, he positions himself above Taro's erection before slowly lowering himself. Using his hand, he made using the cock stay in place, a shutting breath. He felt the rubber-covered tip against his hole.

It slipped at first, but he quickly fixed that, breathing to force his body to relax. His stretched answer slowly opened to take the head of the cock. He and Taro gasped in sync as it popped inside. Sho continued to lower himself, taking inch by inch until he was sitting in Toro's lap.

"Fuck, taro grits his teeth," you're so tight and warm." Sho blushed at the praise," You're stretching me good." even though the condom, he could feel the form of the twitching cock inside him. "Should I move?" 

"No, give me a moment," if he moved, Taro was sure he would blow his load right here, and that would be embarrassing. Sho waited a few moments, getting his body to adjust to the thing inside him before he started rocking his hips, then rising up. Feeling Taro's cock drag against his insides before dropping back down.

Taro's toes curled, digging into the sheets of his bed as Sho started bouncing in his lap. Getting a feel for the rhythm Sho was using, Taro moved his own hips in time. The first time Sho moaned loudly in shock, Taro had managed to ram right against his prostate." oh, that felt good." Taro panted," Let's see, nngh! If I can do that again." thrusting his lips against Sho, the room was filled with the smack of flesh and moaning.

At some point, Sho started jerking his leaking and twitching member. Not too fast; he didn't want to come so soon. He wasn't sure why; maybe it was the atmosphere or the lack of danger. But this felt way different from his actions in a dungeon and in the bathroom with the punk. He could take his time, just enjoying enjoying the fleeing of a dick inside him. Rubbing against his inner walls and into his prostate, sparks of pleasure danced across his nerves, and his eyes rolled back. "Hng!"

"I don't th-ah! think I'm going to last m-much longer." Taro moaned, and Sho loooedkd own, a small smile appeared on his face. He loved the blissed-out and perverted expression Taro got when he felt good. Eyes half hidden, pupils wide! Gaze focused on the brunette! Face flushed and 0-shaped, panting! Occasionally, running his tongue over his lips. Completely different from the charming, slightly flirtatious teen he saw around school, it gave the brunette a certain sense of pride to know that he had brought him to this state. That he was about to come inside him.

Sho wanted him to come inside him!

"It's ok-okay you c-can cu-cum," Sho shifted so he could move his hips faster. Taro jerked under him, moving his own hips faster, motions becoming erratic as he came closer to his release. 

"I-i'm co-coming!" Taro shouted as he came. Hips stalls in a thrust dick fully seated into the gamer. Balls pulled up as he came, and seed shot into the rubber. Taro has never come so hard in his life, feeling it from his curling toes to the top of his head, Back arched, head rolled back.

"Nggh!" Sho groaned, feeling his orgasm grow close in response; in fact, it only took a few more pumps from his hand before he was cumming. Shooting ropes on hot seed over his hand and Taro's chest, his entire body convulsing. Taro gasped as he felt it squeeze down his dick, milking a bit more pleasure and cum from him.

[-10Lp]

[Lp transferred to zalgad]

For a moment, they remained tense before going lose. Sho collapsed over the other, vaguely aware that he had gotten his cum on himself." you good?" Taro asked. "Mm," Sho replied, a little tired. He was used to physical excretion along with [gamer's body], which meant he really only needed a moment to catch his breath and bask in the afterglow before moving. Pulling off Taro's flaccid member." how are you doing?" stretching a bit laid down next to him. There was no reason to rush. 

"Good, this turned out a lot better than I thought, I kept thinking it might go wrong or I would mess up." Sho huffed." I thought the same; I was nervous. I wanted this to go well." Taro smiled, turning so he could face Sho. He had a flirty smile on his face." Have my charms reached your heart?" he teased. Blushing, Sho rolled his eyes, "what charms?" Sho innocently replied back before sitting up and picking up his underwear.

"Hey!"

"The fact, you're observant? Or how about how kind and gentle you are? What charms are you talking about?" Sho listed off more traits he noticed about Taro while they went to school together; the two got dressed in their underwear and moved to the bathroom, mostly to whip the cum and sweat off their skin.

Throwing the sheet to be washed, they had a small snack, "So what now?" Taro asked, pouring some drinks," We've had sex, so where is our …relationship going after this?" Taro cautiously asked; Sho blinked. "We could go to the arcade?" Sho replied he hadn't been to the arcade in a while." we could infinite my other friends."

"Oh, so I'm a friend," despite him saying that Sho received a notification about the increase in reputation." yes, a friend, with benefits." Taro snickered, toying with his glass. "I do like the benefits. Not just the physical ones." Taro admitted." but honestly, I thought you might ask me out?"

Sho snorted into his drink, Taro launching to himself. The idea of dating…" wh-while that isn't a bad idea." Taro froze, brain not registering the words yet, "Huh?!" nervously tapping his heel against the floor, he continued speaking, "I don't think I'm in a position to start dating anyone," Sho admitted.

"But if the time comes and we're both still interested, I'd try dating you. I don't want you to wait; I don't know when that will be, and I'm making you wait and hope. Just no," he knew what it was like to hope and wait. Mizuki may never return his emotions, but in his heart, he hoped that she might." if you moved on and found someone who made you happy, I won't hold it against you. I don't want to stand in the way of your happiness."

[+500 reputation with taro Morikawa]

"Dude, what the fuck! What with these heartfelt words." messing his hair up, Taro pressed his face into the table with a groan. "I was not ready for that!" Sho almost opened his mouth to apologize," But you're right! I return the segment. I don't want you to wait either!"  he sat up straight with the most severe expression Sho had ever seen on him. "But if the chance comes, let go on a date. I think the moves are a nice place to start."

"The movies, what kind of movie would you see?" the two ended up talking about the kind of date they might go on, eventually putting the rest of their clothes on. After a second round in bed, the two of them talked more until Sho headed home.

[Mission update]

[taro Morikawa seduction]

You've gotten someone's attention, and now is the chance to worm your way into their heart and their pants!

Objective(s)

Raise your reputation with [Taro Morikawa] to well-liked

Have sex with Taro 

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Bonus objective(s)

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"It has been a while," Sho stepped into the underground lab." Herman looked up from the microscope. Then, he looked right back down, sighing. Sho held up the gene samples he collected." I brought more samples," that got his attention," and cake!" he held up the other thing, and wow, he didn't know Herman could move so fast.

The scientist quickly washed his hand and snatched the cake and the sample; the latter quickly went into the laboratory fridge before Sho followed behind toward the base kitchen, where Heerman started digging into the cake. Like he hadn't eaten really,' does he have food here?'

Immediately concerned, he said, "There are rations." he replied," But it doesn't matter; the cake is appreciated, but I must finish your work." he stated as if it was no problem. "Are those rations any good?" Herman didn't answer, and that concerned him more; he asked a few more questions, getting more of the situation Heerman was currently in.

Sho knew he probably should have asked sooner, gotten an idea of the guy he left alone. But Heerman seemed fine during Sho's short visits. Or maybe he did see signs and ignored them in favor of his own problems.

Well, Sho couldn't ignore them anymore, not with how rapidly the guy devoured the entire cake. While he did, Sho silently planned his next course of action; how could he help Heerman without upsetting him and probably getting shot again. 

'But he was so focused on the project, he refused to leave this lab…'

"Heerman, would you build another lab?" the scientist looked up," what are you talking about?" Sho shrugged, trying and slightly failing to seem casual." well, this lab is pretty hard to leave, isn't it? I mean, there are definitely better places."

"That's not a concern, I have work to finish." Herman stood up, trying to put an end to the conversation, "And when that work is done?" Herman paused before shrugging and walking toward the lab to examine the samples he was brought. Sho was walking a few steps behind him. "So nothing, just going to stay here and rot lik-" Sho stopped himself there." okay, that was too far. But you can't stay here by yourself."

"Why do you care? It's not going to affect our deal." Herman stopped and turned to face Sho, who sighed." it doesn't affect the deal, but it doesn't affect you. That is why I care?"

"You care about me!? You don't know me; we haven't exactly had heartfelt conversations!"

"Is there a limit to how one cares about another?" Heerman didn't have an answer to this, not one that would help him win this conversation. Glaring at Sho, "Fine, you care." he mockly said, but it doesn't change the fact I'm fine."

"Are you really? You keep saying you're fine, but I really find that hard to believe." Sho looked around," I mean, look at this place. You alone are surrounded by bloodthirsty lizards. This place is dead silent beyond the machines." The slimes made more noise than this.

"The lack of noise is not a problem," his brow twitched as he said this. He was either irritated or lying,' it's probably both.' his stomach was twisting a bit in nerves. But he pushed forward; he couldn't help him by backing down.

The two continued to argue; for a while, Sho thought the only progress he made was getting Heerman to admit that he was a little lonely. But only for him to try and downplay it four times in quick sessions afterward. 

He was kind of impressed by how quickly the scientist spoke.

"It doesn't matter how bad you think it is here! You can't make me leave!" Sho pauses to stop himself from saying he could probably forcibly drag him out of the dungeon. Even fighting off the lizards, likely by his underwear, his Sho sadism made an appearance. 'That is not what I should say or do.' The question was, how do you show the kindness and caring you are offering?

"Well ha-," Heerman was cut off by Sho stepping forward. The scientist flinched, expecting to be struck. But what he got was kind of more surprising, "H-hey! What are you do-doing!" he shivered, trying to thrash out of the hug, but Sho's arms were solid, yet soft and warm. Using no more force than to hold Heerman, who slowly lost the will to fight.

"This is not fair; you can't be this kind!"

"I can."

[+100 reputation with Herman reed]

******

[cobbling has leveled up]

[crafting has leveled ip]

"Finally, Sho smiled, grabbing another patch of leather. Setting aside the [leather shoes] he just crafted. They weren't the prettiest thing, but they would function. However, now, with his skill at level ten, he could finally make use of the crafting recipe. It was pretty simple to make them, though he was meticulous in making the first pair. “[observe]!”

[heat-resistant boots]

Boots made from the heat-resistant leather of mutant lizards, crafted by the amateur hands of the gamer.

Quilty: poor

+15 heat resistance

+10 defense

Enhment space:0/1

"Rude," quilty was a bit of a recent development in his [observe]. From what he understood, quality affected the stats offered. Poor was just poorly made, or lack of maintenance brought it down, like a rusted sword or an amateur object. Next was average, good, and great, and the highest was mythical.

He didn't pay attention to it too much except for the understanding that it affected stats and enchantment; the ability to see how many enchantments he could place was revealed at his brought his [enchanting] skill to level 5. At this point, his magic teacher said he probably wouldn't blow himself up; he was happy he had practiced his enchanting outside before then.

There was a scorch mark in the grass outside, next to where they were preparing the ground for the garden.

"I don't think I'll do an enhancement," he could succeed in making four enhancements. [low defense up] [low attack up], [low durability up], and [low charm up]. How well they worked was different; low enchantments had an effect up to the 10%-15% range. However, due to his poor skills, they were stuck in the single digits and not wholly reliable.

Stepping away from the shoes, he placed them into his inventory before he moved over the little fence to keep the slimes away. They were at the point you couldn't tell what they would eat in an attempt to grow and evolve."  a lot of them were showing slight changes in color, except one, which was getting larger.

That one made his luck go up.

He walked over to another close-off area, where he had a potion practice going. The thick metal and slightly enchanted pot were durable and capable of holding the most basic potions and the dangerous and possibly volatile concoctions he would make. Curently, it contained a potion that changed color depending on how it was heated; he was supposed to get a particular shade for a heat control exercise.

Except the fire was gone, and the pot was smoothly cold, 'grumbling under his breath, he relighted the fire with a burst of magic. Learning fire magic was necessary to make potions, something that took Sho by surprise. Then he realized some of the recipes, like some that need a fire hot enough to meal normal metal or fire so cold it burned.

Yeah, no mundane solutions, saving on fuel costs through. He wasn't the only one who had learned fire magic; Mrs. Segawa had learned it only because of the side comment on its uses in cooking. Turns out cooking could get weird when you added magic, plus it was needed for gardening magical herbs.

He slowly worked on the potion toward the correct color sequence until his father came into the protected space. Checking on his son and their guest. "Well, hello." he greeted the slimes as well. He was still adjusted to them; somehow, he felt like they were looking at him despite their lack of eyes.

"Oh Sho, the garden supplies arrived. They're sitting out front." the teen perked up, looking away from the practice," All right, I'll get to them in a moment." it took five minutes before he could step away from the potions and head into the real world and move the material to the garden. He wouldn't get beyond that today, mainly because he had to stop a slime that was eating the soil." hey, seriously," he gently taped it back, away were the bags it was trying to get into. Despite not having a face, he felt like it was pouting.

After putting up another small fence, he left the garden to be taken care of the next day. Inside, he helped his dad prepare dinner for the three of them, "while it baked in the oven, he considered his next course of action. He had recently redeemed his deal with zalgad and learned about some spirits he could deal with to gain materials or point him in the direction of them.

He learned about a few during an intense kiss, and the demon's tongue completely dominated him. 'Oh right, for taking another virginity, I have something for you." the incubus dived back into the kiss. 'These are skills!' passive skills, Sho realized as the information flowed. Zalagad's tongue pushed his tongue into submission; out of the corner of his eye, Sho could see a screen.

[due to a special action, you've created a special skill, [edging LV:1]

[due to a special action, you've created a special skill, [milking Lv:1]

"There are many uses for cum, potions, spells, skills. You should get better at collecting it, like the cum you took from your taro friends." Sho blushed; he did take the condoms they used, mostly cause he had a feeling they would have a use. 'I know, I asked him, but I didn't think I'd find out so quickly,' practicing the skills would come later.

Tonight, Sho was planning to try and make a deal with one of the spirits he got shown, but how he wasn't sure. He was planning on a spirit related to plants and nature so he could get his hands on seeds and seedlings. 

If not a spirit of earth and ores. So he could have metal and stone for his crafting and spells; there are honestly a lot of options, but he really wanted to start with the garden as he envisioned that taking more time investment.

Standing before the summoning circle, he made sure its protections were charged before reaching out. Many spirits turned to him at first but ignored him as he directed his attention towards where nature spirits resided. Specifically plant spirits.

He didn't get much feedback about the kind of places he reached out to. As the summoning spell wasn't designed for that, so it took him by surprise when he felt a forest. Thousands of trees, trillions of blades of grass and flower bushes, and more.

'No, that's not it,' he realized with shock. These weren't actually plants. They were spirits of plants, tree spirits, grass spirits, and so much more. All so close together they could be mistaken for a forest, slowly he reached out towards them. 

Most of them didn't pay any attention; he wasn't sure they even realized he was there. As if they simply considered him a part of the scenery, it was only when he reached out to trade for seeds that some of them started reacting. 

After serval minties.

"Oh boy," Sho realized this was going to take a while; it was only later he learned certain life forms, just fundamentally treated timed differently. To the spirits, they simply viewed 50 years as a short-term thing, so it took all night for him to get the seeds. It was a simple negation; the spirits just wanted some spirit fertilizer.

It took longer for Sho to get an understanding of what that was;" these spirits speak so slowly." Sho was testing his patience at the moment. "Thankfully, I can trade." he pulled out the spirit stone he received from the zombie dungeon. Apparently, that could be used as a bass of spiritual fertilizer.

'I'll have to remember that,' he piled more [lowgrade spirit stones] on the summoning circle. He had been using the zombies as some simple combat practice; their frail bodies didn't put up much of a fight. But practice was practice, and he squeezed in an hour each day.

Since leveling his dungeon creation up enough, he could use time-scaled dungeons, and it became even easier.

So he had a little more than ten thousand [low-grade spirits tones] to trade; when he had finished setting them out, a massive hand woven from ancient bark and branches reached out and pulled the stones out of the plane Sho lived in. 

Ten minutes later, several leaf bags were lifted onto the plane." thank you." after expressing his gratitude, he closed the moving bags into his inventory for the moment. So he could head to the bathroom, not only for his bath but to relieve his protesting bladder." ah, that took so much longer than I expected," but he definitely got what he aimed for.

Magical herbs and plants that would grow in Japan's climate. Because they were still plants, they wouldn't grow well in places that were too hot, cold, wet, or dry. He could prepare unique spaces for these herbs, but that would require knowledge, material, and skills he didn't currently have, so he started with what he could easily plant.

Getting out of the bath, Sho stretched out. His body was warm and relaxed from the soak, so he got dressed and lay on his bed. Before opening his [stats].

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 27

Exp:24.8%

Hp: 289/1,750

Mp: 0/850

Lp: 32.5/32.5

Str: 57

Sta: 50

Dex: 34

Int: 34

Wis: 35

Cha: 25

Luk: 29

Free points:5

"I should follow his advice and get some weights, his dexterity was the only physical stat that had increased. And that was because of the effort he's been putting into his crafting. His wisdom only increased because of the chess and Go games he played, along with studying for his intelligence. 

More intense stuff is going to be needed to increase them further, especially his strength and stamina. Grumbling, he closed it and tried to think where he would get the right necessary weights." Could I just magic it?" He closed his eyes, started thinking about it, and drifted off like that.

Later, when his father came to check in on him, the man had been running some numbers, huffing at the sight of his son, he quickly tucked the boy in before heading off to get ready for bed himself.

******

Yawning, Mizuki stretched as she and the boys walked to school, 'Maybe I shouldn't have spent the night all night practicing the shield and mana shot. But damn it, I got better.' she was going to be prepared for Chronos, and whatever else came out at them. frankly, she did not want to be the helpless little damsel who was basically a cheerleader.

It's not that there was wrong with cheering Sho on, but she wanted to contribute more tangible things. It was one less thing Sho had to worry about as Sho was fighting for his life and their families. She had known him for years; even if his ability gave him a kind of calm, she could read his body language. The nervousness and fear were constantly there. 

So self-defense it was, and it was a good thing as several Chronos goons appeared on their walk to school. They at first faked just being some police who wanted to talk to Sho, "AAH!" their masquerade fell when Sho launched a mind blade directly into their skulls. Mizuki and Tetsuro were taken by surprise just as much as they were.

While they were stunned, Sho made use of his gear menu to change out of his school uniform.

gear

Head:

face:

Neck:

Back:

Upper body:[white t-shirt] [grey and magenta shirt]

Arms:

Wrist:

Hands:[martial arts gloves]

Fingers:

Lowerbody: [red boxerbriefs] [black shorts]

Groin:

Ass:

Legs:

Ankles:

Feet: [white socks] [white sneakers] 

[ki boost] activated as Sho jumped into a spin kick, [ki strick] and [warrior might] activating as well. His sneaker impacted against the zoanoid's skull; the bone couldn't withstand the force. Blood sprayed into the air even before the zoanoid was sent flying, directly into the fence, where they heard the crack open once more standing the wall. 

Landing on his toes, Sho spun and faced the rest of them, [mind knives] [ki edge]. Sho barely gave them a chance to act before rushing them, the mental attacks flying forward. In the heads of the zoanoid before he reached the next.

He brought his arm down in a chopping motion; the zoanoid pushed through the pain in their head and pulled themself back. The edge of Sho's ki left a red and jagged line over the zoanoid's chest. "GAH!" 

Stepping back, he tried to transform; he could feel the other moving to transform as well.' they wouldn't much rather take this to the forest, but if this kind wanted to fight here, they'd fight. As their skin stretched and shifted, bones snapped and grew.

"AH!" one zoanoid got struck in the back. "Haha," Sho could only smile as he saw Mizuki form another mana shot. Taking the opening of surprise, he drove his knee into the face of the zoanoid before his foot into the cut, feeling the bone give. 

And sending his flying into the next zoanoid, both were struck by the next mana blast Mizuki let off. A look of panic and determination on her face. Tetsuo had a similar expression as he finished setting up a thick shield over him and his sister.

Just in time, a large green zoanoid turned around and charged directly at them. Head lowered horn directly at the brother's face.

Chapter Text

'I almost shit myself!' Tetsuo thought. Horn inches from his face. The barrier stopped it right there. Taking a deep breath, he stepped back as the horn jutted forward, and his sister groaned in strain. Thinking fast, Mizuki summoned her mana and blasted the zoanoid in the face. Causing it to reel backward as she shot him directly in the eyes.

"Ahh!" she screamed, continuing to shoot it, forcing it back until Sho arrived and kicked its face into the ground. Giving them a quick thumbs up, Sho took a brief moment to cast [mind blades] and focus some ki into his hands. Grabbing his other hand around his wrist.

The next zoanoid he attacked got mind knives before being struck with a strong closed plam that broke the bones under his skin. He could almost hear them breaking; following that move, he switched his hand and struck another palm into the spot. Hitting the organs under the bones. Blood spurting from the Zoanoid's mouth.

"Damn you!" a zoanoid shouted, swiping its claws at Sho." HA!" Mizuki shouted and fired another blast of mana into the zoanoid, allowing Sho the chance to dodge and kick the zoanoid in the face. It snapped to one side while Sho continued his rotation.

Grabbing the zoanoid behind the head, he jumped and pulled it face down into his knee. "GA-!" he didn't even get to cry out as the gamer followed with his other knee. As he reared his other back once more, he coated the muscles and bones in more ki before driving it in.

The blow was strong enough to break through the skull, causing significant damage to the brain, and the zoanoid dropped. Not dead from the faint life force he could feel, but Sho had a bigger problem, like the zoanoid pulling its face off the ground. "How the fuck are we losing!" he shouted as he saw two heavily injured teammates. 

When he turned to face the two supposedly harmless teenagers. The girl blasted him in the face again as the boy was chanting. 'When did he have time to learn that?' Sho thought as he rolled under a claw swipe; jumping, he summmoed the life blade to cut the life force of a zoanoid and used a ki-enhanced foot to knock the teeth out of another.

Spiinng to a stop, Sho backed up as Tetsuro finished his chant. "-put the weight of the world on their back!" the zoanoids groaned as they suddenly felt their bodies grow heavier as if the world was not on their backs.

"Good job, Tetsuro!" Sho shouted as he raced forward.' it's time to end this. Putting his back towards his friend." guyver!" the growths on his back shined before the forcefield boomed into existence and Guyver-suit pashing in after.

"Wow!" Mizuki watched, amazed, as the suit wrapped around Sho. The moment he touched the ground, he was on the move, [high-frequency blades] expanding; with a swing slash, he ended the life of each zoanoid. "Alright, sho!" Tetsuro cheered, moving to let down his barrier, only for Sho to hold up a hand and turn right. "Done watching!"

"Yes," they walked out of hiding, taking them all by surprise." school council president?!"

[Agito makishima LV:23]

"What are you doing here agito?" Sho asked, trying to not be hostile. But the older teen was just too calm, and Chornos likely had some connections to a pharmaceutic company like the one Agito's uncle owned. 

"I was on my way to school when I saw you fighting with those monsters." he gently said, "I'm glad you're all safe." he didn't partially sound happy, but taking things at face sight, Sho dismissed the armor. Even without it, he could take him. "We should get to school." Sho changed back to his school uniform. He waited until everyone was in front of him before he started walking, picking up the loot in the meantime.

'Am I being paranoid?' Sho thought, probably not. He did just get on the way to school. 'I really hope I'm not suspicious because Mizuki likes him.' that was just embarrassing.' 

The quartet arrived at school and had to spend some time making excuses for why they were late. It's not like they could tell them they got attacked or Sho killed serval men. Mizuki and Tetsuro helped.

"Oh!" Mizuki stopped the chopstick inches from her mouth, "is something wrong?" Tetsuro asked from where they were eating lunch in the student council office. "We helped Sho kill people." her voice was barely a whisper, but it sounded so distant, yet her heart was so loud.

"Oh,"  Tetsuro said. He was feeling a little sick himself, but his sister looked like she was about to blow chunks right here and now. "Yeah, that happened this mourning. But it's-" What did he say? It's fine cause it sure as hell wasn't. It was necessary, closer to the truth, but an unnerving truth. They had killed and would probably have to kill again. 

Unable to find the words, Tetsuro only offered silent comfort, taking some comfort for himself. That was how they had to head back to class, in stats of shock and horror. Serval people asked Tetsuro if he was feeling well with how pale his face was. But what did he tell them? He helped with a murder? The thought of having to kill more was flashing through his mind?

Tetsuro has always had an active mind, but he has never regretted it more than today. As the images of killing with his own hand kept playing through his mind. Images he couldn't stop, destruction and blood. The possibility is that they may not live to see the end. 

'And through it all, I'm going to have to kill again and again if I want my family to survive…maybe I can just leave it to Sho. His ability is keeping him calm and protecting his mind.' a hand on his shoulder knocked him out of his thoughts," Tetsuro, are you okay?"

"Ah, not really," he admitted. Looking at Sho's expression, brow cressed, shoulder hunched. 'What am I thinking! I can't put all that on his shoulders. It protects his mind, but it doesn't erase his emotions. I will not be so cruel to force him to bear the weight of all those deaths.' Standing up with a heart a bit more steady, he joined Sho as they left the school building. Mizuki wasn't looking much better than when they had lunch.

'I'll talk to her later,' Tetsuro decided; he still wasn't sure what the right words were, but he had a better idea of what he wanted to say.

*********

"Well, aren't you getting bigger," Sho looked at the [cleaner slime] that was currently eating the sweet off his leg. He had just finished his training with zalgad; he was doing his cool-down stretches when the slime arrived. 

He was letting it be, rising from his splits and lifting up his leg. Straightening it out as much as he could, he" almost." he groaned from the strain. Even though he couldn't fully stretch his leg out, it was much better than he could when he began training.

"Hey sho, Vakora says it's time for you too -ahh!" Mizuki shrieked when she caught sight of Sho, who was sweaty and in his boxer briefs. She scrambled for a moment as her eye drank the sight in and snapped around until her back was facing him. She tried to calm down her heart. 'Oh shit, oh shit!'

"Ugh," He groaned as his ears burned red. Sho quickly put on some shorts and a shirt before standing up. As he stood up, he tried to avoid looking at Mizuki cause this was already going to be awkward. But then he caught sight of her ears. Pink as his own. 'Did she like what she saw?' Sho wondered; the possibility had his heart skipping a beat. But he didn't try and get his hopes up.

Instead, he followed her to Vakora's lesson. She drilled them on mana control and lectured them about magic theory and potion-making. How even the air around you could alter potions or be an ingredient it'self!

"What we're supposed to bottle air?"

"Exactly!" Vakora replied happily. Mizuki was baffled before pushing it out of her mind. She'd learn to bottle air later. Right now, she was writing down the spell that would alter the air for potion-making. The first was how to cleanse it before the more complicated process of adding or changing. "Now, remember, since these spells are minor weather manipulation, they're on the more mana-intensive side."

"Understood, Mizuki looked over his notes," so what next?" Vakroa smiled," elemental magic!" that really caught their attention." now the purpose of this is simple, teach you more about conjuring and how to manipulate powers outside your pure mana. Something that is very important at high-level spells. In fact, Sho's life and mind magic are examples of elemental magic. Higher level than what most people start with. But elemtals all the same." 

She explained that each element had a different way of being summed or manipulated. Think of it as each having its own language. Using the wrong language risked you getting cursed out or getting hit. She then walked them through the elements of fire, water, earth, and air.

[earth magic (passive/active) LV:1 Exp:0/100]

Magic of the rubbing stones and the steady mountains. 

-5% mana cost of earth-type spells

+5% effectiveness of earth-type spells

[Fire Magic (passive/active) LV:1 Exp:0/100]

Magic of the glowing embers and incinerating flames. 

-5% mana cost of fire-type spells

+5% effectiveness of fire-type spells

[air magic (passive/active) LV:1 Exp:0/100]

Magic of the genntle breze and leathal gales

-5% mana cost of air-type spells

+5% effectiveness of air-type spells

[Water magic (passive/active) LV:1 Exp:0/100]

Magic of the drizzling rain and the rushing current.

-5% mana cost of water-type spells

+5% effectiveness of water-type spells

Sho looked over the screens before swiping them away. Vakora had them practice the skills for the rest of the lesson before she sent the siblings off. Leaving just her and Sho, something that confused him for a moment before she started talking about evocation. The sex magic kind, "ah. Where do we start?"

"We start with you taking off your shirt," Sho did so quickly. Ignoring how his heart was pounding in his chest. If he paid too much attention to it, he'd start freaking out more than he already was. Vakora waved a hand, conjuring a simple riding crop,  "Remember your safeword." then she struck.

"AH!" It wasn't hard enough to cause any notable damage, but it was enough for him to lurch forward. An angry tingling line on his back, Vakro waited a few moments before striking. One by one, adding red stinging lings to his back, 'shit! who could be into this.' Sho thought as his body trembled, breath heavy.

'Shit, I'm into this!' he realized, feeling his cock twitch; he wasn't hard yet." AH!" but the next strike had him yelping in a way that had him blushing. "Seems this is your thing," Vakora said in a teasing way before handing him a spell focus. Sho clenched it in his hand, rolling it over his palm as he tried to organize his thoughts. 'Am I naturally into this, or is this an effect of my abili-' he yelped once more as Vakora hit him again on the lower back this time. She let out a gasping noise. Shivering as she dragged it up his spine to it rested at the crock of his shoulder.

"Evactions sex magic is about tapping into and manipulating energy; it is cast through impact, sensation, and pain play.  While predominantly an offense school, it has many uses. For example, that garden you're making. She turned his head with the riding crop so he could face it. "You could very well conjure a spell to boost the energy they use to grow. Or just burn the entire thing down. Which will it be?"

Sho didn't think long on the question. "I want to help it grow." she smiled,  directing the crop towards the focus that was glowing slightly. "Let's get to work then," as Sho got his back whipped, he listened to Vakora lecture him about evocation. The more pain he could bear, the more force would be behind his spell. But to temper that pain, you need pleasure; the juxtaposition between both gave you power. Enough power. You could fuel multiple spells.

"Understood?" she asked, tapping the line down his inner thigh." yes," Sho's voice trembled with want. Trying to bite back a moan as the tool of his pain grazed against his tent. A viable wet stop forming in his shorts. "Do you want to continue? At his point, it would be getting you off because you've been such a good boy?" Sho shivered, wanting. It surprised him how much he wanted right now, his back throbbing in a pleasantly painful way.

He wanted more, and he wanted to come, so he nodded, and she patted his head. She told him to remove his shorts; Sho was surprised by how fast he moved to compile. His erection bouching with his movement. Sho had to slide the ring-shaped focus over his cock, groaning as he felt the already built-up energy. Like static dancing down his length. 

Vakora had him stand up, arms crossed behind his mid-back. He wondered why before he felt her cover the crop in a spell. He didn't have to think long before she swung. It wasn't particularly hard, but the sensation rang throughout his entire body. From his ass to his toss as he jumped. "Stay still," she commanded, and Sho nodded before she swung again. Another angry red line formed over his ass. 

Sho felt himself drifting a bit, the pain and pleasure clouding his mind. As more parts of his body suffer from the crack of the riding cock, his cock twitches and leaks wantonly. The focus glowed brighter and brighter as the minutes passed, Sho trembling with desire.

"Please~!" he begged, not sure what he wanted; Vakora used the riding crop to tap his nuts, and Sho jumped to his toes. "AH!" his legs shocked as he almost cum. "Please!" he begged again.

"Alright, what do you want?" Vakora asked, resting the tip against the head of his pulsing member. "Do you want to cum, or do you want me to stop." cum, I wanna cum." if he was thinking clearly, Sho would have been embarrassed about how desperate he was. But his was hurting so good, cock red and wanting.

"Alright, I think the focus is more than charged enough anyway," smiling, she snapped her fingers. Immediately, erotic feeling rushed through him, every nerve light on fire once as his orgasm ripped through him. His knees buckled as he fired his load, the focus flared with each rope of cum.

"Mm," uncrossing his arms, Sho sunk to the ground panting. He took a moment to catch his breath and try to fight off the strange, floaty, and fuzzy feeling. Gently and magically, Vakora removed the focus, cleaning it before helping the [gamer] to his feet.

He watched, amazed, as in a matter of seconds, she constructed a steaming hot spring that gave off a pleasant herbal scent. "Alright, just step in." the water did look nice and inviting. Slowly, the dazed teen stepped into the water; it was somehow the perfect texture, and when it landed on the welts. On it was heaven, even as it caused the welt to briefly flare. Sho tensed for a moment, then just relaxed.

"You should probably learn this from the incubus, but aftercare is a very important part of routine in this kind of thing. When you bring someone to a state like this, it is important to help bring them back. Essentially, if you're using them for casting, leaving them to suffer an emotional drop is just cruel. Sho made a note to ask for more from the demon later, but right now, Vakora has everything under control.

After soaking in the water until his welt soothed most. 'How do I have welt with [gamer's body]?' Sho through as he climbed out of the water. Where Vakora helped him rub some cream onto the welts, maybe there was something like the growth he got from the guyver. Or maybe it was because of Vakora's power.

Either way, Sho had a welt that followed him to the next day.

"Well, since we have the spell, let's unleash it into the garden. Vakro walked him over and helped set the focus on the soft soil." honestly, this is a good practice for your [life magic] as part of life is growth." 

Through his [life magic], Sho could feel the life force of the planted seeds; it was so small. Yet there was a slight resilience. He just had to encourage it. Focusing on the focus, Sho slowly released the stored energy Vakora coached him.

Feeding the mots of energy to the seeds, feeling their life force grow in response. Directing the grown so the lifeforce didn't burn them from the inside out. By the time he found the limit, he could help them grow currently, but there was still some energy in the focus. Little less than half, actually.

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created [life magic: lifeforce feeding LV:1]

[due to a special action, a special skill has been created [life magic: growth promotion Lv:1]

[life magic: life force feeding (active) LV:1 Exp:24/100]

Feeing life force through other energies, even your own life force.

-5% energy wasted

5% chance of causing change

[life magic: growth promotion (active) Lv:1 Exp:23/100

Using excess life force increases the speed of growth. 

Increase growth speed by:5%

Decrease energy requirement by:5%

Sho looked at the barley sporting plants, "At this point, you can store the focus on using it to help something else grow if you'd like." she was curious about what he would do? After a moment of thought, Sho hopped over to one of the slimes that hadn't started to evolve and gave it a bit of energy. He did this with a few more before using the last of the energy to feed his own life force. 

[+100hp]

"How impressive. Do you think they'll evolve from that?" Sho shrugged. "I don't really know, but I felt like they could use the boost." she smiled before telling him that today's lesson had come to an end. "Teaching you is really interesting."

*********

'What was that power they displayed?' Agito thought as he reluctantly had dinner with his uncle. 'All three of them seemed to have it, and it showed mild effectiveness against the zoanoids.' he'd never heard of such a thing; what was it? Where did it come from, and could he make use of it himself?

Agito would find the answer; he knew he would. No matter what!

********

"I can't believe she acutely bought a gun." Sho's father commented, looking at Tetsuros' mother, looking over her new weapon. "our kids got attacked on the way to school; what did you expect me to do?!" she shot back, playing with an empty clip for her new pistol. Mr. Fukamachi didn't have a real response. He was wondering if he should pull Sho out of school. 

"I'm more worried about the talent she showed with it." the older Fukamachi raised an eyebrow. "You already went to a shooting range." instead of speaking, she opened her sheets. "Oh!" more than 50% were marks on the humanoid. A few are hearts or headshots.

"Do you think it's going to work against the monster the people turn into?"

"It is if I shot them before they transform!"

This housewife was slowly becoming more dangerous.

*********

'I'm going to teach you a new technique!" Stravos stated, "huh?" Sho asked from where he was pinned on the ground. A knee between his shoulders and another on the small of his back. Sho was pushing against the ground to try and throw Starovs back. Not that it was really working; he tried to roll, but Stavros had his foot planted on the ground.

"It's a movement technique, and you've already got attacks and enhancement. Things like defense movement and self-healing remain, but I consider avoiding hits is more important." Sho nodded, squirmed, and tried to find an opening to break free. 

He was kind of squirming like a worm; Stravos continued his lecture about movement techniques. While most of them were focused on one's footwork, Stavros explained movement was about the entire body. 

"An example of this is [flash step], the instant move technique that I plan to teach you. It is a simple technique that uses a single step to move faster and further than normal. It is a simple teaching method with lots of variations and evolutions. It is very versatile." Sho twisted his head, attempting to bite his wavy free of this hold, only for Starvos, who barely flinched. 'It feels like I'm biting metal.' the skin wasn't even giving under his teeth.

Starvos continued his lecture walking. Sho thought about how he used ki and foot dexterity to use [flash step]. Sho already had a decent amount of ki manipulation. They were going to work on his foot dexterity, "how?" Sho asked as he was finally released.

Stavros smiled, and Sho was honestly a little worried.

"It's training," Sho immediately responded when his father walked in on him, using his feet to hold and read a grimoire. "Alright," the older male responds before pinching his brow, day by day. He was going to take this day by day." please don't cook like that." that was all he could say.

Sho nodded, working on and off with it for the day. The whole act slowly got easier with time; brushing his feet with his feet was less difficult than it had any right to be. "Mm, I think I should take the chance to head into one of the dungeons soon. Should I bring Tesuro and Mizuki?" they were really determined to become fighters. They were working hard with Vakroa, determined to not let Sho fight alone.

So he was thinking of training in a dungeon, 'which one. If I bring them to the slime dungeon…' he trailed off as images of Mizkui pinned my slimes as they slowly moved her clothing flashed in his mind. Flushing, Sho shook his head." let's not," he wanted to, but it didn't seem right now.

"So that leaves the lizards and the factory," Sho hadn't comply explored the factory one completely. Neither did the lizard one." I got caught up in the underground and stopped exploring the above-ground. 

"But I took out the underground boss monster, so I think I can take anything above ground." he breached the topic with them when they walked to school together."

*******

"Live combat training," Tetsuro hummed as they jogged to school. Sho was doing this thing with Ki, which made his strider much larger. "I don't think it's a bad idea, but what should we bring?" Sho blinked, stepping back to Tetsuros' side. "Medince?" Sho stated. He really hadn't brought many things with him into the dungeons. With [gamers body], he'd never been too worried about being injured. Sadly, what happened to his clothing was worse. 

They made a short list of things to bring, food, water, bandages, and a change of clothes. Cause the lizards had sharp teeth, and Sho knew they were going to get close and personal. They decided Sunday was the day, so they would have a full day inside the dungeon. 

Sho spent the day before doing a mix of preparations and getting lunch with Morio. Takaya played games with sho. It was nice to relax with his friend before a day of dungeons. The trio headed off first thing in the mourning. After breakfast and making sure they had everything they would need, "I hope we don't need all these bandages." Mizuki said handing the pack to Sho so he could slip it into his [inveroty].

"At least we're prepared," Sho said, flexing and relaxing his hands so he was doing something with them. For a few more moments, they relaxed before heading towards the dungeon at a slight jog; no one spoke for the majority of the time. Only Tetsuro asked about what Sho fought in the dungeon, even though he already heard it four times before this.

"So this is where we enter." Mizuki looked at the space. Honestly, it was majorly intimidating, but she didn't want to and couldn't turn away from this. So when Sho walked inside, she walked right inside." Oh," this wasn't as bad as she had expected.

Sho adjusted his [martical art gloves], walking forward as the first of the [mutant lizards]. Moving forward, Sho swiped at its head with a low kick. Spinning completely around, he brought the same foot down on its head. The [ki strike] breaking bone, the entire head smacking against the ground.

The lizard hissed and attempted to bite him. But the blow to the head dazed it baldy, and even then, Sho was faster. Sidestepping the teeth, knocking them out with another low kick. 'More lizards are coming?' he thought, watching as Mizuki and Tetsuro started shooting the lizard coming out. 

Finishing off his opponent, Sho watched his friends fight for a moment before rushing to join them. The first two dozen lizards stayed near the entrance. Fending off what came their way, "he's covering for us." Tetsuro bit his lip, frustrated. He knew Sho was stronger than him and his sister. But that didn't change how frustrating it was.

Even through another six lizards, Sho was keeping control of the entire fight. Not letting one lizard get close to them, "Oh, this party is horribly unbalanced." Sho recrewed the cap on his water bottle." party."

"Yeah, in games, their parties," he explained the concept to Sho, who realized that might be a possibility. 'So what to trigger it," after a few tries, he got it down. "...[creatre party?] okay, that's it.'

[Name party?]

"Oh, so I can give it a name!'

[name party [oh, so I can give it a name?]

yes/no

'Abostly not,' Sho took a moment to think of a simple name.

[name party [training daze?]

yes/no

'Invite Tetsuo and Mizku.' Immediately, the sibling jumped when the screen appeared before his face. Mizuki took a moment to catch her breath before looking at Sho, who gave her a thumbs up. So she pressed yes; while it wasn't an immediate thing, she could now see her own stats. 

She had two questions," are my stats good? and what is this LP thing?" Sho blinked, putting up a poker face that would have fooled someone if he wasn't blushing so hard." from my understanding, most people our age have stats between 10 and twenty unless they're partly bad at something. Over twenty is usually the result of specialization and training. Like the people on sports teams."

"You didn't answer my other question." Sho fumbled, trying to come up with the least embarrassing way to explain this. He ended up stuttering the answer, unable to look at Mizuki. She got it halfway, her face flushing as well. "O- oh, what the po-point of that?"

"Well, there sax magic casting, and some dungeons aren't as combat-focused as this." as he said this, another [mutant lizard] crawled out. 'They've forgotten I'm here.' Tetsuro thought, firing a bolt into the lizard's face. "I'll keep that in mind." she snapped to fire her own bolt.

"Oh, thank the gods, that went well." Sho let out a breath and cooled his face before rejoining the fight on his own. Being in a [party] together actually made a difference; not only was exp split between them. Sho getting the short end due to his higher level. But he didn't mind; he wasn't here to get stronger himself.

It took time, but he got them.

[teamates Tetsuro has leveled up]

[Teammate Mizuki has leveled up]

And that wasn't the last time they saw those scenes; with each level up and distribution of stats points, they slowly moved; at some point, Mizuki panicked, picked up a long and thin stick, and struck a lizard across the face with it. "Oh, I liked that." she continued to wield the stick on any lizard that came within reach. 

"You have to watch your feet," Sho said when they took a break to rest, drink some water, and restore their stamina and mp. Sho was taking the chance to try and help Mizuki with her new weapon. He didn't have any weapon training other than turning his body into a weapon. He did know about footwork, how to hold yourself, and how to put your weight behind a blow. How to put ki in your strigkes and weapons!

Mizuki was doing her best to learn from him,' I should just bring out Stravos.' sighing, he looked at her stance once more before moving forward." here like this." he moved her feet and straightened her back before taking her wrist and trying to find a good hold on the makeshift weapon. "I think that the best we can do today," Sho said, huffing in disappointment. He wishes he could do better. But he was pulled from his thought by a notification.

[teaching] has leveled up]

"Ugh, Sho, you can let go now." the brunette immediately snapped away from the screen to focus on Mizku, whose pink ears were peaking around her bob cut. "Gently, Sho released her and stepped back," Sorry. I got distracted." 

"It's fine," Mizuki said; it kind of surprised her how fine it was. 'I really trust him that much.' any other guy she might have pushed off, "Tetsuro, how are you doing on mana?" she asked, avoiding the awkward tension. "Almost back at a hundred percent." 

They rested for some time longer before continuing. Past the point, Sho found the hole; they were in new territory, and the dungeon made that clear pretty soon.

[mutant scale shooter lizard Lv:17]

"Scale sho-AH!" Tetsuro flinched when the lizard whipped around, sending a wave of scales at them, sharp from the way one of them dug into them. Thankfully, two of them were behind shields. Sho was quick to cover his face and bear through the attack.

[-50Hp]

Sho winched at the stinging and burning cuts over his body, feeling a small trickle before his party moved. Surpsgly Mizuki attacked first, filing off three bolts of mana. The lizard moved with surprising speed. Adoving them and swiping around twice, sending two more waves of scales. 

Tetsuro fired off his own bolts before the scales spread out too much. Opening holes in them, Sho jumped through. Closing in on the scale shooter.

Chapter Text

"How many scale shooters are there!" Mizuki shouted from behind a piece of rubble barely big enough to hide behind, and it was slowly being chipped away by what looked like between half a dozen and a full dozen mutant lizards. It was hard to count when they kept moving around.  Peaking over the rock, she took a shot. Successfully hitting one of the sides of the head, getting an angry hiss in response. She ducked back under the rock as the scales were flung her way; she could hear them strike the stone. Each slightly chipping it. 

Mumbling under her breath, he turned to see where her brother and Sho were taking cover. Her brother had managed to get behind a tree, and Sho was straight out carrying a downed tree and carrying it as he walked closer to the swarm.

Mizuki tried hard to not stare at him too much. The battle had managed to damage his clothing enough that one sleeve was more or less useless, exposing the flexing muscle. 'Keep it together, girl; now is not the time to thirst.' even then, she doubted he'd return her intreats. They were only childhood friends, or that is what she believed Sho thought of her.

Grumbling, she peeked over the rock again and fired another shot at the same time. Tetsuro and Sho moved as well, "guH!" with a grunt, Sho swung the entire tree, catching a scale shooter and sending it flying across the ground.

Planting his foot hard, Sho stopped himself from falling over. His back burned as he turned the other way, knocking away a scales shooter that turned to catch him. This time, he couldn't stop the momentum from blowing him over. Landing on his back, Sho released the tree. 

With the lack of weight, it was simple for him to get back on his feet, a few scales striking the ground he was moments before and more coming at him; Mizuki and Tetstuo assisted with some cover fire. "Ha," with an outward breath, he focused on his ki.

In one moment, he was serval feet away, foot into the air! Then, with a single movement, he split the skull of a scale shooter. Shacking the blood off his heel, he used [flash step] again. Moving across the ground, he created chaos and panic, which Tetsuro and Mizuki took advantage of.

They shot at any lizard that came too close to hitting Sho and looked away from them. Drawing attention towards themselves at the same time. Sho took advantage of the chaos they were creating themselves. Ending the lives of the gator-sized lizards until the hoard was gone.

"Oh man, that was harsh,' testuo whipped his brow after they brought down the last lizard. He straightened out and tried to get his breath back in order before sitting down to meditate and recover his energy. As he did, Mizuki walked over to where Sho was sorting through the loot. 

"Is your foot okay?" Sho blinked and paused in his rubbing of said foot." mostly, just sore from the [flash steps]. It's already fading." she nodded, looking down at the loot, "the pile of skulls and bones is kind of creepy." 

"I agree with you." still, he put the bones away; he could use them to make some fertilizer or feed them to the garden. The rest of the loot was quickly sorted away so it could be dealt with later. "How's your mana?"

"Pretty, low, but it'll recover with some meditation and food." Mizuki sat down to get started on the first, but she also wanted to continue talking with Sho. She did, the two of them talking as they rested in the clearing. They chatted about nothing serious, partly about the garden, talked about nonmagical things they were going to grow, and talked about what they could do with them.

Eventually, the group recovered and started walking again, running into more scale shooters. Then...

[mutant scale slasher lizard LV:21]

"Wow!"  Sho jumped back after the tree was cut in half. Leaving the lower half in his hands, sweating a bit, Sho focused on the creature before him. For the most part, it looked like the rest of the mutant lizard. Except each scale on its body was horribly sharp. And on its tail, its scale elongated into a short blade. 

Backstepping, Sho avoided getting cut as he studied the lizard. Its movements, its attack pattern. 'focuses on using its tail, but it also the rest of its scales and claws if I get too close.' 

It didn't seem too hard to get around. "Sho!" Mizuki shouted as she slammed both hands on the ground. He smiled at the lizard; the reptile paused right before the earth under it shifted into a rising pilli that launched it into the air. Focused his ki into his toes. Sho jumped after it, spreading the energy through the limb. He spun and kicked the lizard in its softer, underbelly scales.

While it wasn't enough to end its life, bones definitely broke as he was sent spiring into stone spike Tetsuro managed to raise." it screeched as it was speared though, wiggling and crying out as it bled to its death. "Ugh," all three of them aggged at the unpleasant sight." 

[due to a repeated action, a special skill had been created[ teamwork Lv:1]

[teamwork (passive) Lv:1 exp:0/100]

The act of working with another combines skills, expertise, and knowledge for 1 +1 to become more than two.

+5% combat ability with people you possess above [neutral] reputation

Chance of creating a [combo skill]

"I think I'll really like this skill," Sho smiled to himself as he turned and joined his teammates. They collected the loot, with included. The [slasher lizard slash scale] was the short sword length scale. 'Yeah, I could probably make use of this.' how he didn't know, but he could. For the moment, they continued training actively, working on their [teamwork] as well. 

Sho was interested in where it would lead as they faced off against different groups of mutant lizards. 'Is this evolution normal?' Sho thought as he kicked at the thick and solid scales of a shielder lizard. How did it evolve to possess a buckler shield-like growth around its neck? 'Well, it's not particularly fast, but it's solid.' 

'It will take a lot of effort for me to break through. At base strength with brute force .' sadly, for the lizard, Sho wasn't using brute force." got it! Tetsuro shouted and jump jumped as Mizuki blindsided the lizard, striking it in the face with a fireball. Before Tetsuo launched the [stone spike] into its face. The lizard's natural defense stopped the spike from piercing past bone. Until it was forced deeper by [the gamer's] kick right into its cranial cavity.

[mutant shielder lizards Lv:23] defeated]

678 exp acquired

"Well, they are called mutant lizards." how far did that mutant factor go? "do you think we've gone far enough or the day?" 

Apostle." Tetsuro immediately answered, dropping Dwon, waving his shirt, and trying to get some air against his skin. "Oh gods, I spend too much time in front of the computer." his gym grades weren't bad, but they weren't the best either." we've been at this for four hours."  even though he was mostly relying on magic, he was still running every which way if he didn't want to lose something to the lizard's fangs.

"Yeah, I agree with my bother." both of us have gained some levels." Sho looked up and smiled, seeing they both had increased by at least 5 levels." yeah, let's head back. Sho nodded and then tried to figure out which path would lead them out of the dungeon. They had made a lot of turns mid-battle.  'gah, I'm going to get lectured on spatial awareness.' sighing, he limbed nearby tree to get a better view.

"Well, that's not the entrance." it was a large building, the remains of one. But more complete than any of the ruins he saw around this place. There was also a large from walking around it.' that might be another boss monster.' 

Sho thought about it, and he knew he could probably take it on if he activated the guyver. But there was no reason to leave his friends here, so he looked around and found a path towards the entrance. Dropping down from the tree, he retrieved some water bottles from his [inventory] and passed them around. 

The walk towards the entrance wasn't without a little trouble, thanks to the lizards that roamed into their path, "Mizuki lookout." she paused, hearing the sound of wood creaking and falling." shit," acting fast, she cast [mana shield], but escalation and low mana prevented it from getting through enough to stop the pounds of wood.

Acting fast, Sho [flash stepped], but his inexperience of this skill caused him to trip over the uneven ground. Acting fast, Sho rolled with the motion, grabbing Mizuki just as her barrier broke and raised his arm. Reinforcing them with ki.

"Ugh!" it hurt, and he was pressed to the ground. But he stopped the tree,' Mizuki, are you alright?" he turned, realizing when his nose bumped against her, realizing how close they were. Sho turned a shade of red. Hyper ware how close they were to each other, how her body pressed against his own. One of her legs was between his own, his chest pressed hers. 

My heart is way too loud; calm down!' at this rate, she was going to hear it. "Man, that was close." Mizuki then paused as she looked directly into Sho's eyes. She realized how close they were, her heart racing for a completely different reason than it was a few moments ago. 

For a long few moments, neither of them moved, just staring and blushing. "Should I give you two some room or?" Tetsuro asked with a teasing smile and wished he had a camera. That spurred the two younger teens into a complete panic, both of them trying to move, but resulting in neither of them actually moving.

There was a lot of rubbing through, 'ah!' Sho thought before he was consumed with a panic that [gamer's mind] barely stopped from clouding his judgment. Even as his pants started growing abit tighter. "Mizuki, stop!" she paused at the tone in his voice. It took a moment for understanding to hit her, feeling the stiffness against her legs.

"Ah," she forced, her face heating up more, going shock still. "Sorry," she squeaked, moving her legs away. With some clarity-driven panic, she was able to get herself from under the tree, allowing Sho to get up and throw it to the side. 'Oh my god,' he wanted to dig a hole and bury himself. That would be so much better than the embarrassment.

'Oh my god,' Mizuki was awesome, an embarrassed ball of emotion. But at the same time, she was abit aroused. But she shocked it out and decided to come back to those thoughts later; for the moment, it was time to leave.

'This is better than TV,' Tetsuoo thought,t watching the younger two walk towards the exit. The air between them was charged and awkward. 'I wonder if this will lead to any progress.' Tetsuro thought.

********

[bonemeal fertilizer complete]

Pouring the steamed then ground bones into a jar, Sho smiled. "I'll sprinkle that onto the garden later," he turned from the counter. "Let's check on the slimes," walking away from the counter, he looked to where he had put a small pile of bones for them to eat. Only the pile wasn't there, and there was a single purple slime instead. 

[accid slime Lv:4]

"Oh, you've evolved."  Sho walks forward to them. Crouching down, he petted the slimes and used [observe].' 

Acid slime

Title: N/A

Level: 4

Exp:1.2%

Hp: 75/75

Mp:20/20

Lp: 0/0

Str: 6

Sta: 6

Dex: 3

Int: 3

Wis: 1

Cha: 4

Luk:7

Free points:0

Special stats: [accid body (low rank)]+15 effectiveness of low-rank acid, +15 resistance towards low-rank acid, +15%exp toward accid type skills

"Well, you've evolved." the slime wiggled in delight. Sho laughed, picking him up, and it tingled. Sho realized it was probably eating through him. 'Well, that's a bit dangerous, but what should I do then.' I can probably find a spell or skill to prevent that. 'I can probably get a resistance skill if I'm careful.' tucking the smiles under his arm, Sho grabbed the bone meal and walked out into the garden. 

After sprinkling out the bone meal, Sho opened a [zombie dungeon], and almost immediately, a half-rotting corpse rushed at him. "Almost forgot." filling his hand with ki, Sho tried inviting the slime to his partly. 

[invation failed]

"Damn!" Sho thought, sidestepping the clumsy lunge of the zombie. With his ki-filled hand, he chopped it on the back of the head and broke the vertebrae. Causing the head to fall to the slide. Sho gagged a little. The zombie was unbothered as it turned to face him. Head handing to the side.

"Let's get this over with." the next time the undead attacked him, Sho not only sidestepped it but also placed the acid slime on its body. 

Responding as the slime's weak acid started eating into the rotting fleas, the zombie tried to attack it. But Sho slowly and dutifully protected it. Watching as the slime slowly but surely ate through the undead's body. Even though it took more than trinity minutes. "Alright, how was that?" he wasn't getting much from the mind he could sense.

'I should work on that?' Sho remembered wanting an empathy skill but stopped after learning to sense another mind. Then he learned his mental attack skill, 'the theory book she gave me was helpful.'

Thinking to himself for a while as the slime ate its way through another zombie, Sho turned his attention inward. Through meditation, he felt out his own mind, the mana that mingled with it. He paused and tilted his head as he observed it, 'I think I could bear a bit more.' slowly, he fed more mana into his brain; it didn't feel like a significant change, but he pushed the matter aside and felt out his own mind.

Tuning his mind-sensing inward, he felt out his mind. Trying to understand it and its workings a bit more. He had the idea if he could read his own mind more, he could read others better. Trying to pick out the parts of him that proceed different things. 

It kind of worked; he picked up the abstract presence of his thoughts. But that was the thing; it was abstract, not solidly defined. It was similar to how he felt out of the mind of the slime when it came up to him. "Finished?" smiling, Sho looked around, detecting another single undead.

"Alright then." he headed for the next zombie. Quickly breaking its arms, he let the slime have at it before returning to his mediation, trying to get a feel for his emotions. There was elusive, hard to pin down.

'Maybe it's because I'm not really feeling anything at the moment.' at that thought, he focused on some memory, trying to bring up emotions. The joy of being with his friends, the fear of fighting zoanoids. The pride of progress, the sorrow of his mother.

Each memory caused a shift in his mind, and each one was different, just like the emotion. But they all came from the same location, 'which is how the brain works.' Sho thought to himself; as he focused on that part, more memories came, and he saw how his mind reacted.

'Let's see if the slime has something similar." standing up, he activated his mental detection spell. Walking over to where it was dissolving a zombie's legs. He placed his hand over it and reached out with threads of [mind magic].

After several moments of searching, he found it,' you're feeling something. It's not complex.' a single feeling, rather strong as well. For some time, he puzzled over the creature's emotions before he understood it.' satisfaction!' *ping*

[Due to a special action, you've created a special skill [mind magic: emotion detection Lv:1]

[mind magic: emotion detection (active) LV:1 exp:0/100]

Dectiong the emotions of yours and those around you through the arts of magic.

Range: 1 meter

Mana cost: 50 per cast, 20 per second to maintain

Sho looked over the screen for a long while before brushing it away and focusing on the slime. "I think that it is enough for the day." Picking him up, he noticed the burn was stronger as he walked. It was not enough that Sho lost HP without prolonged contact.

But he bore with the feeling, even as he started hearing the ping of his HP dropping." Just keep it up until you develop a resistance. He really hoped that it would come in soon cause this wasn't pleasant.

[Due to a repeated action, a special skill has been created [acid resistance Lv:1]

It wasn't until he arrived home that the screen appeared. "Oh, thank the gods." he wasn't sure how much more he could have put up with." setting the acid slime down. Sho walked around observing the slimes.

"I wonder if I could help them grow more. I know some of them are starting to evolve," but could he speed it up, like he did with herbs? Thinking about it, he focused on gathering his mana. [life magic: life force feeding] was unleashed upon a slime that had curled up at his feet; he felt its life force swell by at least half before he used [life magic: growth promotion].

Interestingly enough, the smile grew in size, "is that how I get a big slime?" Sho watched the larger slime for another moment, wondering what else he could do.' I've helped its body; what about it, mind?!' now that was an idea; picking up the larger smile, he settled it in his lap." can you hold on for a moment. There something I want  to try if you're willing?"

After a moment of squirming, not used to its larger weight, the slime settled out, so Sho started working gently. First, find the slime's mind before feeding some mana. Just drops to make sure it won't hurt the slime.

Slow going, but it still built up, feeding into the slime's mind. But not being absorbed by it, 'not quickly, at least. Sho could feel some of it being absorbed but not quickly or efficiently. 'Well, I guess I help then.' reaching in with tendrils, he helped the slime's mind absorb the energy. Helping it grow a bit.

Through [observe], he could see that its intelligence actually went up two points." well, I'll be damned." 

*******

"Familer and summoning contracts," Vakora responded as she watched them through a spell practice. "Different from the spirit summoning, this isn't reaching out to another plan. Making something familiar is marking them, usually with a beneficial deal."

" For example, your deal with zalgad would count. Change a single thing, and you could become his familiar, or he could become yours. You can draw on a family power directly, a few other things, or even straight out summon them. The latter will probably be the biggest use you'll get out of the slimes."

"So how do I do it?" Sho asked, turning over the orbs of mana he had been spinning around him. "Give this exercise another five minutes, then grab slimes." in the meantime, she lectured them on magic contracts & familiars. After dismissing the mana, Sho hopped over to his home and grabbed one of the unevolved slimes. 

Vakora started it off by praising Sho for how well he'd been taking care of it before showing him how to create a familiar contract spell. "There are different styles based upon cultures and locations where they were created. But they all more or less serve the same purpose." this made it possible to mix and max some aspects of the spells.

[familar contract complete]

[familiar management] screen unlocked]

The creation of the contract was something Sho could feel, a link between him and the slime. It wasn't blaring at his senses, but he could feel it. Feel the slime's presence on the other side. [familiar management] wasn't a complicated screen.

[familiar management]

[unnamed slime]

Lv:3

[Stats], [skills], [Equipment]

"I can give the slime equipment," he mumbled to himself before looking over the stats and skills. It had nothing,' well, I guess that's something to solve.' skills would definitely be helpful. But for the moment, he decided to look over its stats, which apparently he could affect, but the slime had no free points.

After Vakroa's lessons for the Sho, he went through his slimes, making them his familiars. Creating more connections between him and them. "Well, guess it's time to work on leveling you guys up; most of you haven't evolved, and even then, they aren't all combat evolutions. He shrugged before opening a zombie dungeon and letting them loose. Sho used his [slime ahotury] to get them to work together on taking on a single zombie.

At first, he was going to spend that time studying and maybe a bit of training.

[lust quest created]

[another dimension streacker]

Objective: Use an instant dungeon to streaking

Bonus objective: streak for five minutes in the real world.

Rewards:150 exp, 1.5 Lp

Bonus reward: 150, 1.5Lp, ??crafting recipe

Accept

yes/no

The gamer only looked at the screen for a moment before deciding to accept the mission, then after a moment, he started stripping down, taking his clothes and folding them. The actions serve no purpose and then help calm the teen down.

'Okay, sho, you can do this?' he ignored how much he was blushing as he walked over to where the slimes had defeated a zombie he remembered the last time he went streaking. This time, he was going into the real world. Excitement and nervousness swirled around in his stomach. His cock bounced with each step growing hard as his nervousness faded.

He had the slimes take on a total of seven zombies, instructing them the entire time and trying to teach them about combat. 'They seem to be getting it!' it filled him with a sense of pride to see the learning and even getting it. 

[slime authority has leveled up]

Sho smiled at the screen, gripping his half-erection for a moment before instructing the slimes to head home. After making sure they made it, he said," All right, time to head for the real world." But first, he found a spot where he wouldn't be out in the open.  Only after that did he realize a slime had followed him; it was currently wiggling around his feet.

"What are you doing out here?" Sho asked before squatting down. He gets a vague feeling of want and desire from the slime. "So you want something? Can you show me?" the smile wiggled before stretching itself up.

Until it touched the teen's dick; biting his lip, Sho held back a noise before standing back up. "Okay, okay, I get it." but he had some things to do for the moment." picking the slime, he placed him on his shoulder and told them to stay there before leaving his hiding spot.

Thankfully, it was late, and most people were at home, but there were still a few people on the street. With his stats and skills, it was possible to avoid them. [flash step] got a workout as he moved around. Avoiding the few people out this late, each encounter had his heat racing veins alight with the thrill & terror of almost getting caught.

His dick was twitching and leaking pre cum, something the slime was aspartyl very interested in. The five minutes passed, faster than he expected,' I guess I can head home.' he thought, resting in the shadow of a tree. he looked at the screen.

[Quest complete]

[another dimension streacker]

Objective: Use an instant dungeon to streaking

Bonus objective: streak for five minutes in the real world.

Rewards:150 exp, 1.5 Lp

Bonus reward: 150, 1.5Lp, [streacker underwear] crafting recipe

Curious, he peeked into the crafting recipe," Oh." these underwear were the definition of barely there. Lying very little to the imagination with the work streaker repeated on the waistband. 'I don't have cotton,' Sho thought before putting away the book and screen and moving.

A few streets down, Sho paused at a familiar presence. 'Takaya.' he wasn't aware his friend would be out this latte. But from the bag he was carrying, he guessed he was coming back from a purchase. He watched him go for a while, making sure his friend got home safe.

'A chorno agent,' Sho could sense the altered mind. He could sense it was altered now, the emotions and touch of it were so different. Glaring for a moment, Sho considered taking him out,' but they'll probably notice that something is off.' That would get his friend in trouble and draw more attention to him. 

'What should I do then?' Sho tapped his finger against the room he was crouching against. 'I can't leave him, or any of my friends, unprotected.' the question was how. A barrier around the house was a place to start. But Takaya needed something to protect himself,' should I tell him?' it wouldn't, but the first time, he thought about this.

[stealth has leveled up]

'No, not yet. Chronos is only watching for the moment.' so what could I do to protect him?' an enchanted item, a spell, maybe a personal barrier. But that would have to be done carefully so it wouldn't interfere with his life.

Stitching his sensing skills, he observed Takaya headed up to his bedroom; half paying attention, Sho tried to think how he could project his loved ones. Only to pause when he felt a certain sensation, it took a moment for him to understand it was an emotion and it was lust. Which confused him for way longer than it should have.

'Well, he's home alone,' Sho coughed, trying to disperse his nervousness. Then, trying to banish his curiosity,' peeking on one of my friends.' that was just too much. Before he could think too much about it, he decided to leave for the moment, even as his mind conjured up some images. 

Movingly quickly, Sho checked on Morio and Taro, finding against watching them but safe for the time being. 'Well, that's okay, for the moment.' he sighed as he came to a stop around his home but did not enter it yet.' guess I should deal with you then.' his erection had wilted when he discovered the agent, but it was steadily growing back.

'Okay, let's get this over with.' making sure to keep his deception skills active. Sho wrapped his hand around his member.  Softly stroking it for a moment, pausing, he squeezed the base, feeling the pulse within it before reaching into his [invetory]. 'Wouldn't do to leave a mess,' he pulled out one of the slime condoms.

After rolling it down his cock, he resumed masturbating, stocking the shelf with one hand and playing with his sack with the other. Rolling his nuts between his fingers, using his thumb to rub his glands and slit. The latter leaked bits of fluid into the condom. 

Sho squeezed the base when he felt his orgasm crawl up, cutting it off for the moment and waiting until it recced before stroking his cock gain. Twisting his thumb against the head, he rubbed the underside before switching around to the top and then back around.

Biting his lips, Sho did his best to keep himself quiet even as he played with his chest a little. After several minutes, the slime became impatient and tired of watching and dropped itself down so it could swallow the teen's genitals. "Ah," a short moan escaped him, but he quickly quieted himself down. 

'impatient little thing,' Grabbing the sides of the slime, he slowly rocked his hip.  Thrusting his cock into and out of the slime's translucent body. Watching the form stretch and squeeze around his member. "Mm," biting his lip, Sho moved his hips a bit faster. The silent street echoed the noise of his skin smacking against the slime's body. 

Sho froze mid-thrust; at the edge of his senses, he felt someone coming. 'Shit shit, just be quiet until they pass b-' the thought was cut off by the slime moving, to suck on his cock with its entire body. Biting his lips, Sho tensed and tried to keep his voice down while also pulling the slime off. But it was so wrapped around his gentiles so tight that he was only tugged on his junk.

A sensation that curled his toes, heels rising off the ground.' forget it,' he couldn't hold himself back anymore. Moving his hips rapidly and sloppy, he felt his orgasm build. The coil of heat in his gut was ready to snap at any moment. 

'There right over the side of the wall.' he could sense them, hear that breath, their steps. They were so close but unaware of the naughty things Sho was doing. The thought sent a jolt through him, enough to push him over the edge as his legs quivered. Cumming hard into the condom, Sho felt his voice grow out of control and immediately opened an empty dungeon.

"AH!"  Sho let his voice free as his cock spurted out the last of his orgasm. The slime is wiggling out, milking the teen through it, and even afterward. "Alright, alright." petting the slime, he got it to calm down enough that he could pull his dick free and pull off the condom.

'I really came a lot,' flushing, he turned the condom over to the slime, who greedily devoured it. 'These creatures have the weirdest eating habit he thought. He was reminded that they were also big eaters as the moment it was done with the condom. It latched itself to his softening member, rubbing against the sensitive glands.

"Seriously."

Chapter Text

"You know, for the newest chapter, it was a pretty bold choice for her to use the forbidden healing technique. I thought it was ass pull, but looking back, there are hints of it through the chapters." Mono nodded, and the three friends had lunch; Takaya took a moment to eat some of his bento, "either way, it added a new dimension to her character. I thought she was going to be a dull character. But now I've changed my mind." 

"Always keep your mind open," Sho replied, finishing his soup. Takaya rolled his eyes before explaining how this would probably affect the story and the girl's character.

"Dude, you are such an otaku," Mono teased. Sho snickered as Takaya stuck out his tongue. They held out for a moment before snickering together and continuing to talk, and until then, the bell rang; packing up their bentos, the group headed down the stairs.

'they're getting bolder,' Sho thought, focusing his energy on his eye and spotting the Chronos agent. Who was on the phone as well, 'they're starting to get on my nerves.' sighing, he tried to focus on his classes, not that his grades were suffering.

In fact, his grades were doing better, which was utterly the reason the teacher didn't stop him, as he budgeted for a shopping spree for magical supplies. There were also medical supplies and what he could trade spirits for, the never-ending supplies he needed. 

'At least Dad can go buy the mundane supplies,' he corrected a calculation before flipping to his notes for the class, quickly writing down what was on the board before flipping back to the numbers. 

He focused a bit more on science class, knowing he needed the knowledge for later. "Now, remember, students," the teacher said at the end of the day as everyone was packing up. "Final exams are coming up, so make sure you study." 

'Oh right,' Sho thought as he closed his bag. He needed to study for those, though he wasn't sure how much, thanks to his stats. But he wanted to do well on the test because grades like this would be necessary next school year and college after that. Cause he would win against Cronos, he had no other choice. He couldn't think about losing, or he would have already lost already.

"Hey!" Mono spoke up as they started walking out of class." want to study together?" at the same time, Takaya came over and asked him to join them. The study groups grew as Mizuki and Tetsruo joined them; this was usually the biggest the group got unless one of the Mizuki friends or the sci-fi club president joined them.

Then Taro and Agito joined them, "Dude, you are weak." Mono flatly pointed out as they all changed their shoes." shut up," Sho retorted, flushing and glaring over to where Mizuki and Agito were talking. He clenched to keep himself quiet as they all started walking, talking about the subject they needed or wanted to study.

"We should pick up some snacks before we arrive at Sho's house." Taro suggested," It would be a bit rude to raid his fridge." agito chucked," That is an excellent idea." the teens smiled at each other, but Sho could feel the sparks between them. "Where do you think we should go?" he asked Mizuki.

She led the way to the nearest corner store, and everyone used their pocket money to get some snacks for the evening. Before they went to Sho's house, they set up in the living room because Sho's room was not big enough for this. 

Settling around the living room, first tackling everyone's homework. Trading notes and double-checking each other. "Okay, that's the last part of the homework; what are we starting first?" Tetsuro asked as he cracked open a package of cookies." literature," Takaya offered, and so they dived into that, reviewing what they had learned over the year. 

"What is so important about symbolism in this story," Mizuki countered Morio's agreement that it was a beautiful love story." they knew each other less than a week or something, and several people have died." it got surprisingly heated about the play, splitting into groups of it was a romance, it was a tragedy, can we study, please?

Thankfully, they were able to move away from the argument and acutely study the rest of the lectures and abit of math before Mr.Fumikachi came home. He stopped at the sight of a bunch of teens at his kitchen table. Books spread all over it. 

'He's smiling,' he thought, looking at his son. At that moment, it hit him full force how much less his boy had been smiling. It made sense there was little for them to smile about recently, scrambling to prepare for chronos. 

He couldn't do much to alleviate his son's worries but could prolong this moment. "How is the studying?" Sho replied rather quickly, "Fine. I think we made good progress for the night?" everyone nodded in agreement." you don't have to stop now."

"But they have to head home for dinner," Sho was surprised when his father said they could stay for dinner and the night. "Let me call my dad," Taro pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and started making that call. Agito politely declined, to Mizuki's disappointment and Sho's relief. 'I really don't think I could handle them in the same house at night. It wasn't hard for Mono and Takya to get their parents' permission. It wouldn't be the first time they stayed over, and they simply headed out to get some clothes for the night. "Well, my dad says he'll come over with my clothes for the night and some money for dinner." Mr. Fumakachi made a note to thank the man as he went to see what kind of takeout they should order. 

He was not cooking tonight.

'I wonder what his dad is like?' Sho thought as the doorbell rang after Taro's dad called to inform them he had arrived; walking over, Sho opened the door. "Wow!" he was not expecting this built man who looked like he could bench Sho.' that shirt is way too tight.' the fabric was stretched over his chest.

[Mori Morikawa Lv:???]
????

Sho probably shouldn't have reacted by calling on his mana and ki; he wouldn't have felt an illusion barrier before he got chock slammed into the wall. "grabbing the hand, he acted ki enhancement, trying to break the grip. 'This is like steel,' starting to freak out a little, he lashed out, kicking the man in the side of the head. "AH!" it was like kicking a soil metal. The man didn't even blink.

"What do you want with my son?" he asked, unbothered by the kicks to the face he was receiving.
 "Nothing," Sho chocked out. [ki edge] seemed to do squat as well."  we're just friends." he shot the man in the face with fire." with benefits, I can smell you on him. Him on you." 

"Why are you sleeping with him?" he started squeezing tighter, "are you trying to hurt him?" Sho denied it, but the grip kept getting tighter, and Sho couldn't breathe. His attacks and spells grew more frantic, "I just thought he was attractive and got lucky." really, it was luck, good or bad, but he made the best of it.

"Luckily," he scuffed, squeezing even tighter. Sho's vision was starting to do dark, and with the last breath in his lunch, he cried out." [guyver!]" the man glared, feeling the shift as the girth glowed and the barrier expanded." ugh!" he tried to push through the floor cracked underneath his feet, raising his other hand he struck the growing barrier.

Immediately, the skin on his finger burned away, even pushing the barrier back a few inches before it flared with several more times the force. He made no sound as his arm was ripped off, and he was thrown back into the wall.

Sho took a deep breath as he felt the guyver attach itself to him. "That is not a thing of earth." the father grunted, standing up as his arm started to regrow. The moment Sho's feet touched the ground, he moved. Sho couldn't follow him with his eyes, but he knew he was moving toward him. Regrowing arm and stretching out for a punch. 

Moving quickly, Sho brought up both arms just in time to block the hit. He felt the wall crumble as he flew through it, leaving twin trenches in the ground. 'Oh, this thing can really take a beating,' Sho thought, activating the arm blades. At the same moment, Mori was on his ass. Punching, kicking, movements so fast that Sho barely could block the hits that pushed him back with each blow, 'if it wasn't for the defense and regeneration, I'd be armless.'

Taking a wild swing with the elbow blade, mori caught it. With his bare hands uncaring even as the blood began to pour out. Quirking a brow, he twisted the blade and Sho's arm. The sound of bone snapping was muffled by the teen's screams.

A horse sound that was quickly cut off by a backhand hit to the face. The guyver warned, so just enough, he managed to pull his head back. He avoided a complete hit, and his vision swam, but he didn't need to seed and launch both feet into Mori's chest.

He couched, rearing back his fist, a mass of energy gathered around it. Forming the snarling maw of some kind of beast," AHH!" the energy dispersed; Mori pulled back, clapping both hands over his ears, trying to drown out the sonic blast.

Hopping back dozens of feet, Sho didn't let up on the attack. In fact, he increased the power going into the mouthpiece. 'I should have practiced with this; find out how I disintegrated a man.' Gritting his teeth behind the mask, he ignored the pain as his bones were forced back into the proper position. Healing closed a moment later. 

His other wounds were done healing by that moment, looking at the painful man who was still stepping towards him." seriously, I don't want to hurt Taro; why can't you believe me!?"

Instead of answering, Mori started moving faster," getting his teeth and realizing this man wasn't going to listen to him. He focused hard on the man, trying to find some kind of opening. But Sho found none. Instead, he felt something flood into his mind. 

From the orb on the horn, a red laser was fired, luckily striking Mori in the eye. The powerful man still flinched, not wasting the chance. Sho rushed at him. Shutting off the sonic driver and instead activating the elbow blades, the one working eye zeroed in on him.

He jumped, and Sho cured before crouching down and leaping with all the power the guyver gave him. "Wow!" he went so high and so fast, "now!" swimming hard, he went with all the force he could, spinning around twice.

"Ugh!" mori grunted as he felt his arms and legs slashed open. Dark blood spilled from the wound, 'good, now he should at least stop an-!' pain bloomed in his shoulder as the force sent him rocking towards the ground, 'shit, he thought, seeing the ground rising toward him. He needs to adjust his position or head hit head first.

As he worked to throw his weight around, he knew he was going too fast; this landing was going to hurt. Then he wasn't. His momentum started to bleed off enough that he flipped around and managed to land feet first. The impact raised throughout his body, crossing his arm above his head. He absorbed the impact of mori'sMori's axe kick. 

The mask vented as Sho took in a deep breath, preparing to unleash the sonic blast, only for Mori to backflip away before it could hit him.' I need something stronger.' Sho realized as the battle continued, with every hit he landed. Every cut, punch, or sonic attack. Even when he found the frequency that made the man's ears bleed, they healed near damn instantly.

'Is he getting bigger,' Sho thought. Stepping into the man's guard, looking up at him, he fired off the laser again. More closed his eyes, deflecting the beam, which was just what the fuck! "Why don't you listin'!" 

"You wear something not of this world, yet smell like the will of this world!" bang, a hit that sent Sho into the next building. Flipping onto his hands, he disputed the momentum and flipped to the side, avoiding a second hit. "What an anomaly you are."  he stuck to the ground, stumbling over the shock wave.

But he didn't fall over; how, he wasn't sure, but he didn't have the chance to think about it as he unleashed another sonic blast. Stunning the man for a moment, Sho did his best to organize his thoughts, "So what? How does that make you think  I'm going to hurt him.?"

"People of this world will treat my kind like resources; if you follow the world, you will eliminate a threat." for a moment, Sho felt bad for him to look around the world, the universe, and see you nor your child as safe. Then the man gut-punched him, followed by a wall drag into the next building. Firing a laser into the hand until it burned black down to the wrist.

"You're right; the world did suggest something to me," if he was right about where his mission came from. "Seduce him." a fist stopped inches from his body," gusts blowing agist his armored face." Why?!"

"He's hot," Sho admitted, glad that his face couldn't be seen right now. It was bright scarlet. "Really," Mori raised an eyebrow," he's hot?" clearing his throat, Sho continued to speak," Yes, I'll admit. The first thing I notice is that he's hot. But I also got to know him. He's gentle. Quite kind and attentive, unfairly charming though."

Mori laughed, and the man who was trying to kill Sho laughed. "You wouldn't be the first to have a crush on my son," sputtering Sho tried to deny that he did not have a crush, but Mori was not listening," instead he looked at Sho, and Sho shivered.' it's like he could peer through the suit.'

"I don't know if I can trust you, but since you are crushing on him, I believe you're less likely to hurt him. But know I will be keeping an eye on you." growling deeply, he started walking back towards Sho's house. Shoulder slumping, Sho started after him, dismissing the guyver." I've already got a problem with Chronos. Ah!" he walked right into Mori's ripped back. "Chronos, the organization that hunted dozens and killed thousands." Mori whipped around every part of his body, quivering, every muscle tense as he leaned directly into Sho's face until the teen could feel his breath." from those who invaded this world eons ago?" 

"Yes? I don't know anything about invaders, who invaded?"

Leaning back, Mori forced himself to pace and work out the angry energy inside him. "It seems that we have more in common than I thought; why are they after you." Sho quickly explained the guyver and just the general fact he was an ability user." mori grumbled and growled, then he tensed for a brief moment. With with moment, he could see sonic booms that almost knocked Sho on his ass. He was calm." alright time to have a long conversation with my son."

Through the destroyed wall in his home, they returned to the Sho house, walking immediately into the living room/kitchen and returning to the real world. "Taro, is it's time to talk?"

"Dad?! Sho?! What the fuck? Taro's chair banged against the ground as he jumped up. Harin on the end as he stared at the two of them." where did you come from?"

"That is part of a very long conversation; it's time to learn about your heritage."

"Ugh," Morio raised a hand," can we hear about his?" Takaya shivered behind him. "Ah," Sho had not expected that." I'm going to make some tea," Mr. Fukamachi mumbled, turning towards the stove cause that was something he could do.

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"So I'm a chimera Taro said, staring into the cup like it would offer him answers." no," his father said," but also yes. We're chimera, but not in the way described in myths. For one thing, we can change how we look."

"Which you explained as how you look human despite being born in the form of a bat." Mori nodded, looking at his son, who wasn't looking up from the cup." why?" that was expected," why I'm telling you now? Why I didn't tell you before?"

"Yes," he looked up to stare his father straight in the eyes," to both!" matching the stare, he took a breath before talking," There was no plan when I told you. I just knew I had to tell you. So when I found you in a relaxation ship with someone gifted by the world who has already become an enemy of Chronos. I realized I might not get another chance to tell you." 

"Okay, okay. I understand that." for a moment, they were sitting in silence, "want a hug?" 

"Oh gods, yes," Taro took comfort in his father's arms. Sho was finishing up the explanation." so all this happened, you told Mizuki and not us." Mono said, dramatically turning away and wiping a tear from his eyes." I thought we were closer than that."

"Oh god lord," Mizuki mumbled in her. As Sho walked over to his friend, placing both hands on his shoulder," Mizuki was already in trouble. They knew her brother knew something; they'd come after her whether I told her or not. You had a much better chance of going under their radar. I wanted you safe." Mono nervously nodded; he had not expected Sho to get so serious about it.

Coaching to draw attention, Takaya spoke up." So now that we know what we should do?" Sho immediately said, putting protection on themselves and their homes. "Oh, you finally got it down?" Sho made a so-so gesture." I know how to put it on items." Sho explained he was going to find something for them to wear at all times.

"Well, it can't be jewelry; as members of the student council, we have an example to maintain." Sho nodded. "I was thinking about clothing, but that's going to take a lot of sewing." Mono raised his hand and offered to help; he could sew a bit. 

"That will be helpful, but the problem is making something strong enough to defend against gunfire and monsters." Tayaka blanched at the statement, but they still discussed protection even when Taro and his father came into the room. The older chimera was determined to protect his son.

******

"Here's your [beggines alchemist set]," taking the box and nearly falling over cause, god, the pots in this were way heavier than he expected. Pushing it into his [inverotry], he turned to her. "Thank you," he gave her a slight bow before turning and walking towards the door." have a nice day. Make sure you sleep."

"I'm fine," he yawned a moment later, and Sho blushed." I've been busy." he spent the past few days enchanting a bunch of clothing; his enchanting set was incredibly useful. At the same time, he set up barriers around his friend's house. Studying and gathering funds, he didn't even have time to make it to the wild dungeons.

Bright sight, his [dungeon creation] skill had risen in level, and he's got some new dungeon types," don't push yourself too hard." she suggested." you have allies, do you not?"

"They're helping," Sho said they really were. Sho knew they would not have been able to do it; there was so much to be done. Even more than that, with exams coming, at least it singled the end of the semester. So, at least, that was something that would go for a bit.

"I hope it's enough," so did Sho. With that, he walked out of the building and onto the street. Then he was just walking, enjoying the peace of the people walking around him. Just enjoying the walk back to his house.

Stepping into the house, he found no one on the real-world side of it, so he stepped into the illusion barrier side. His dad wasn't there, but Mizuki was there tending to the slimes. Feeling bits of bones to acid slimes, a number of which were growing.

Sho blushed upon seeing her, this time largely because recently he had to enchant her clothing. All of it included her undergarment. A blessing and curse increasing his mental stats strengthens his memory. He was not forgetting them anytime soon. 'I hope they don't show up in my dreams.' he wouldn't recover from that.

"Hey sho," Mizuki looked up from the slime she was feeding even as it rubbed itself against her leg. "Shopping goes well?" he nodded, commenting he had to find a place to set it up. "Mm, from what we've learned, alchemy is incredibly delicate; outside is a definite no."

"Yeah, I'd like to keep my eyebrows." Mizuki nodded in complete understanding, even if Sho had never done his eyebrows like her. Even if there were healing and cosmetic spells to restore the lost hair, she wouldn't risk it. "It would be a shame you have some nice eyebrows." 

"Haha," Sho picked at a fingernail," Yeah, right." Mizuki stepped closer and looked him dead in the eyes until Sho looked away." Seriously, you have nice eyebrows. It's almost unfair, I had to trim mine to get them like this, and you are almost better."

"Genetics, I guess." Mizuki shrugged. It was still unfair, "besides, even if you had to work for it, your eyebrows are still good-looking." of course, he blushed, doing his best to keep her eyes on her. Trying to transmute how serious he was, instead, he saw a bit of mischief spark in her eyes." hey Sho, how would you like to get your eyebrows done?"

"What?"

Sho was getting his eyebrows done, not just because the girl he loved asked. But because she brought logic, getting his eyebrows would probably have an effect on his charisma. So they should experiment; Sho honestly couldn't say it was impossible.

So now he lays down in Mizuki's lap as she does his eyebrows. Honestly, it was kind of dull. But it's not bad, like getting a haircut; the fact that Mizuki was doing it was a great bonus. So he just sat there as she worked. 

"I'm done," *ding* "Not a bad job, I say myself." 

[you've had your eyebrows done, your charm has been temporarily risen by 2 points]

"Hey, it worked." Sho's newly done eyebrow went closer to his hairline. "Sweet," Mizuki commented to her. "Well, I guess you should learn to do your eyebrows then." Sho hummed in response, shoulders slumping for a moment before he corrected them. Still, Mizuki caught it and asked what was wrong, "nothing!"  he assured too hard. She gave him a flat look.

Four minutes passed before, "I-I like that yo-you did it. But I don't want to bother you," he rushes out the second half. Staring intently at the ground. "But I can definitely learn," Sho covered, looking at the tool," so we start with this?" Mizuki nodded, looking at Sho. 

"Yeah, though I don't mind doing your eyebrows either." she grabbed the other tools that she used walking through Sho through their uses.  "As long as you don't mind doing mine." Sho blinked before his lips stretched, "Sure. Though I can't promise I won't mess up the first few times." 

They talked about it, and Mizuki brought up other things that could affect his charisma, like doing his nails or makeup. "I think makeup is a step too far." he couldn't imagine wearing makeup; guys didn't wear makeup. He probably won't even look good in it." mmmm," she pouted a bit but didn't push, instead focusing on Sho, who had less reluctance about getting his nails done. She had some clear nail polish/protector.

*******

"You should wear makeup," zalgad commented from where he was watching Sho train with Stravos. You know those scenes in kung fu movies where they trained up top bamboo. "Wo, wo!" flailing his arms, Sho forced his core muscles to keep his balance. Letting out his breath as he straightened up. "Really, but isn't that something girls wear."

"Yeah, in this era. But in the past and in certain locations, it's more of a guy thing; there are also theaters. Or if you just want to look pretty." Sho mumbled as he tried to stretch his cramping toes, but that proved too much for his precarious situation. "WAH!" 

He hit the cold water ass first, not for the first time in the recent hour. But it had been the longer he was able to stay up there. 'Well, that's one benefit of training in my underwear,' they were the only thing getting soaked, as he felt. Pushing his wet hair out of his face, he climbed up the bamboo and took his position again.

Stavos, who was very several feet away and unwavering in the last hour, spoke up, "If you wear makeup up, make sure it is something that doesn't interfere with a battle at the latest." zalgad cut in with," Or is useful in battle, such as war paints."

"Very increasing suggestions," Sho bent forward and worked to straighten his back as he stared down his martial arts teacher,  even as he started tipping to the sides. Today wasn't the time he wasn't the day he was going to get it down, but Stavos made use of the time to teach him enough so he could practice on his own. Along with the illusion of space to train in, 'I'll really have to practice it,' Sho thought, heading inside to change into dry underwear. 

He stepped into the illusion space around the Sqawga house where everyone else was learning from Vakora. Learning at different levels, when Sho joined the lesson, he was given a lesson in alchemy enchanting and sex-casted conjuration. Normale conjuration was also dabbled in there.

"Where am I supposed to get a chastity cage?" he mumbled to himself. This question made his head hurt so much less than the alchemy equation before him. It was like college-level chemistry, many more times complex than anything he's seen in school.

Oh, vVakora had walked him through how such an equation. He solved a few with her help, but this was the first he was to do on his own, and he was struggling. But when he double-checked his work, he found he had got the right answer, which filled him with a bit of conference about this, and he moved to the next practice formula. 

Between struggling, he thought about how he was going to deal with conjuration, 'I guess I can focus on the masturbation part of it for the method. 'Until I can buy or make a chastity cage.' after further down the problem, Sho had a thought,' or I could just conjure one.'  how hard would that be?

Finishing the sheets that he had been given, Sho joined the rest in practicing spells; within a short while, it devolved into a water fight when Taro actually hit Mono with a spell. Who quickly retailed, their battle spread through the rest of the group.

"We need to team up on sho!" Takayama shouted as the gamer pelted them with [aqua shot], [flash stepping] around their retaliation. "It's going to take more than that." 

"[Bind]!" Mizuki shouted, ropes of mana manifesting and rushing at Sho." squeaking, Sho was frailed as it pinned his arms to his side; at the same moment, Tetsuro and Taro prepared to blast him. Kicking back with a burst of KI, he got himself out of the way.

Landing on his back, he rolled until his feet were under him." Man, those material art lessons are paying off," Mr.Fukamachi said as Sho started kicking the shots coming toward him. His friend cacking that he was showing off. Sho only stuck out his tongue as he switched feet, kicking out at the balls of water being launched at him.

"At this point, you could take control of the water flooding the ground," Vakroa demonstrated. With a flick of a finger, the water shot up his leg; once it reached its need, it froze into thick ice. "Cold!" Sho exclaimed, wobbling as he tried to stay standing. "Against an agile opponent, taking away that advantage is a way to fight."

"Okay, you cheating!" Sho declared before they started pelting him with water. Stuck between shrieking and laughter, as he focused his energy into the ice. It built for a few moments before he let it loose, cracking the ice enough that he could brute force the rest of the way free.

After some time, most of them grew tired of the water fight, Sho still having energy as everyone dried off using a minor fire spell Vakora taught them. "Well, this is toasty; thank you once again for the lesson, vakora-sensi."

"It is of no trouble; one thing before I go, Sho. You remembered the bit about magic cast by several people at once?" he nodded," magic that can be called ritual or ceremony magic; this is due to the fact they are treated as such. While in truth, they are spells that need three or more people- oh!"

"Eaxtuly, you have enough people for some group casted spells. Today, I've finished testing everyone's magical aptitude. With this, I can confidently say that none of your friends lack the ability to help you." Sho nodded, smiling a bit." so next lesson, we'll be learning more?" she nodded," I've got a few ideas of what they can learn." then with a wave she disappeared. 

"Everyone is growing stronger," he could worry about them less. But he knew they wouldn't really be safe until Chronos was gone.' speaking of them, he hadn't heard from them in a while, which was probably when they were planning something.'  sighing, Sho headed up to his room in the illusion space, where he laid on on his bed.

"What, couldn't I make a mana construct a chastity cage?" his head shot up as he thought about it, scaring the slimes that had crawled into bed with him. "I'll do it later," he decided, laying it back down. Honestly, he wanted a nap, "ugh. I haven't done my homework yet."

Chapter Text

"Come with us quietly, and no one gets hu-!"

"Guyver!" Sho wanted to spend as little time on this as he could. He was in the middle of the [daily quest], helping this old couple. The moment the barrier dispersed the guyver tightly attached to him, Sho rushed them as they grew and swelled. Changing into their battle forms, "Raah!" one of them roared, swimming claws at him; Sho flipped over him. Activating his vibrating blades.

Landing on his toes, he immediately spun and slashed into the collar bones of the mutant. All the way to their spine before a second one grabbed him in the head. Sho's legs snapped back, missing, but forced them to let go of his head. 

Pulling the blade free, he whipped around. Grabbing the hands of the zoanoid that tried to wrap its hands around his neck. For a moment, they were equal in a battle of strength, then Sho pulled on the arms, and the body followed, colliding directly into a flying knee.

"Gah!" it had so give something breaking. Breaking worse when he drove his other knee into that spot. This time, pushing himself back as another tried to grab him, turning his head, he fired the forehead laser directly into his eyes.

The zoanoid screamed, his eyes burning, and one even popped, leaking down his face. Sho gagged, dry heaving for a moment before he was forced to defend himself again. This time, he was a bit more careful about shooting them in the eyes. 

[zoanoid has been [blinded]
[zoanoid has been [blinded]

With two of them blinded, Sho found more breathing room in the next few moments of battle. Bloody moments, he managed to cut down the disabled zoanoids. There was blood staining his armor and the ground under him, "are you going to surrender?" he asked the remaining two. 

"For Chronos!" the green one shocked before charging him. Sho didn't even know what he was supposed to say to that. Instead, he stood as the Gregor-type came at him; he threw a heavy punch, and Sho sidestepped it and swung his blade through the arm and chest. 

Warm fluid sprayed out, but Sho determined I didn't think about it. On how some covered the head of his helmet and eye lens, instead, he focused on the remaining zoanoid, who was trembling as he walked towards it. 

"Damn it!" they cured before rushing at him; it made him feel worse than usual as he killed them, for a moment after caving in the man's chest, as he stared down at the bodies. Seriously, considering if fighting was how he wanted to spend the rest of his life, 'No, I have to!' he didn't even know what he was supposed to do. Letting out a sigh, he watched the bodies turn into light.

At the same time, he felt movement, whipping around." shit!" the old couple Sho was helping out. 'This was really, really bad,' but at least all of the Chorno agents were dead." witness det-!" he didn't get to finish as Sho crushed his head under his sole. 'well, that could have gone better,' he thought for a moment.

At that moment, his guts curled and tightened horribly; this was really bad. Of the limited information he had on Chronos, he knew they didn't like to leave witnesses behind. Slowly, to not stare at them, he walked over to the old couple. "Be cautious. These things come after witnessing. If they find out you saw this. They will kill you and likely get away with it." his voice was as serious as he could make it. Vibrating through the suit's mouthpiece. After the graying man nodded, Sho grabbed the loot off the ground. Jumping into the rooftops and into the distance.

Right into an instant dungeon, where he dismissed the armor. Only then did he turn around and head back to the house, where he had to fake his surprise at the damage in the area." what happened? Are you okay?"

"Ugh, yeah," she answered, not looking at him but staring at the damaged road. Sho guided them into the house, setting down the heavy package they were too old to retrieve themselves. He sat in their house, luckily just as the police arrived. Even though he had to get to school, Sho stuck around to lie through his teeth to the police. Backing up the fact they had not seen anything. But still, even as he was injured, the weird looks the couple was giving him. Sho had this nagging paranoia; it was chewing its way through his chest as he walked to school.

It kept going; if it wasn't for [gamer's mind] & [gamer's body], he thought he was going to get physically sick. It got so bad he knew he had to do something, or he would keep worrying throughout the day until the other shoe dropped or something." may I be excused to the bathroom?" he raised his head during a pause in the teacher's lecture." she nodded him out with a second thought.

'This is probably reckless,' he thought, scribing down a summoning circle in the bathroom on a piece of paper. Thankfully, his [drawing] skill helped him get it right on such a limited amount of space.  He checked it over twice before activating it and summoning the shadow spirits.

"Can you do some guard duty?" he immediately asked. The lead spirit titled its head, "We're not fighters." Sho nodded," I don't want you to fight. Chrono might come after this old couple. I need them watched if Chrono tries something."

"And what will you do if they do?"

"I will help them," he simply replied. The spirits looked at him for a long moment. "We will help; show us the way?" since he really didn't have time to leave the school grounds. He leaned out a window and pointed out the house to the spirits. Who zipped across the ground and into the real world.' please let this be enough to save them.' 

For now, he has returned to class and is a bit more focused on the lessons. he met with his friend in the back of the school, a little out of the way, but the way they could guarantee their own privacy cause they were talking about something. "these exercises for magic are hard?" Morio mumbled, flexing his fingers, and the pebbles he changed trembled, almost falling apart. 

"It takes a long time to get a hold of," Miziki mumbled from where he had little orbs and mana floating. Flicking some of them at her brother, who was shooting just as many backs. Sho ignored the sibling bickering as he practiced his own. A ki flows throughout his entire body. At the same time, a flow of mana outside his body.

'I'm getting really good at multi-tasking like this,' channeling [mind magic]. The gamer brushed against the mind of his friends. Impressions he was getting familiar with that he didn't feel like it was fair to try and describe with something as simple as words. 

But it did have the effect of giving him a better of how the mind worked. Minds he could look at with reliability. 'It might help with my mind magic.' either way, he likes the feel of his friends' minds; they practiced throughout lunch and returned to class without much problem. "So, how are you doing?"

"Mm, fine in general, but why are you asking?" Taro responded, flashing a smile at a girl. "Well, you've recently learned about your dad." which was his fault," oh." taro mumbled that." that!"

"... honestly, it hasn't been that bad," he said, trying to sound positive. "I mean, it's still a shock, but it explains some things. My dad said I can stay human as much as I like." Sho nodded, trying to sound encouraging as they split to go to their own classes.

He spent the rest of the day trying not to think how he has undeniably fucked up serval lives. His own, his friends, even people he didn't even know all that well. Shacking his headache, he looked at the board, quickly jotting down the notes,' I can't give up at this point. Chronos wouldn't leave them alone.' 

He was reminded of this at the end of the school day a shadow spirit appeared. Taking hold of someone's shadow, shifting it into the form of the house. That turned into a blaze.

'I'll deal with that later,' Sho thought, reinforcing his legs to cushion the fall of him jumping out the second-story window. He landed in a roll that turned into a run, directly for the school wall; thief vaulting over it, he continued into a run. Making a dead beeline for the smoke, he could see rising over the town.

He passed places and people in a blur, Reaching the burning house in under a few minutes. Nor did he slow down. Jumping up to the top of the wall and jumping feet first into a window. The heat hit him as he hit the ground, smoke invading his nostrils. Pulling his shirt up, he remembered the elementary school lessons about what you were supposed to do in a house fire. 

Staying low, he started searching, letting his magic and ki spread out. As he left the room, he entered through and found them. 'There dying,' moving so fast he had to run and jump against the walls. He arrived before ing the couple who were lying on the ground, eyes open but unmoving.

"[observe]," he quickly identified a paralyzing poison in their bodies. A long with how low their hp was. Acting quickly, he got to their side, feeling out their life force.' Let's hope this works for people. 

Slowly, he feeds two threads of [life magic] into there, into their dwining life force. 'Okay, they're recovering but not fast,' it was just barely enough to push off the paralysis as the fire grew closer and hotter to them. 

'Okay, maybe I should increase the flow,' he thought. Just as he was about to do so, he felt a hand on his own. Looking down, he found himself meeting eyes with the elderly woman. She wheezed. "Get yourself out of here, boy." Sho shook his head," I'll heal you real quick, and we'll get out of here."  she only looked toward her husband," Kid. You don't have to do that." 

"You need to get out of here," the wife spoke up. The monster you told us about, the" she broke into a horrible cough. Sheo focused his magic into her chest, trying to soothe the pain or something." she forced the cough down and spoke. "They said they'd be watching?" Sho wondered what that meant.

Then something crashed through the window, bouncing off the floor.' grenade!' immediately, he summoned a [shield.] right before it went off.  Even through his shield, he felt the force of the explosives. 

Cracking, going through his shield," hahaha. I survived." How amazing," he turned his attention back to the couple who continued to heal. When more grenades flew into the house. "[Shield!] [shield!] [shield!]" he chanted on repeat as they went off, shaking the house. One of the walls even cracked items, falling from the walls and tables.

'Damn it, there really throwing everything at me!' Sho thought, glaring at the window when another set of grenades came into the window. The flashbang was even a surprise," AAHH!" Sho cried, light searing through his eyes and sound piercing through his ears. 

He barely heard the door getting kicked down, the marching of boots, and many armed and armored figures breaking into the room. They weren't even fully in the room when they started shooting at him. 

"Ach!" Sho shouted as a bullet sliced against his arm, bouncing off the edge of the shield he barely managed to put up. Feeling the impact of every bullet. Which was stopping or bouncing off his barrier. 'Oh shit, I can block bullets. This is isnae.' 

"Focus, sho," he needed to defeat them and then heal the couple. Which was going to be hard, especially as the armed men were moving around to encircle him. Sho moved his attention from reinforcing his shield for only a few seconds as he quickly used water magic to douse his clothing to offset the heat of the flames. Followed by air magic to clean the smoke from the air around him.

Taking a deep breath, he activated [flash step], jumping into the air and twisting midair. He hit the ceiling foot first, activating [flash step] again. The action took less than a moment before he was flying into the gunmen. "Ha!" A ki-enhanced round kick sent the armored man flying. 

Sho landed in a roll, hitting the wall feet first, knowing he had to keep moving. Kicking off the wall onto his hands, Sho for off a [mind blade]. It caused the gunman to wince before he could pull the trigger, barely having a moment before Sho struck him in the gut repeatedly before throbbing him by his vest and throwing him into the other. The wall cracked; with another burst of water magic, he doused his clothing as he rushed through the growing flames at the pair at the east wall. 

Sho summoned a shield in front of him, blocking their spray of bullets, changing right into the one on the right. Grabbing him by the belt, he swung the full-grown man into the one on the left, followed by hitting them both with a full power [ki strike]. He winced internally as the wall caved slightly. But he quickly pushed the thought aside instead of pushing air around, 'The smoke growing too thick.' 

Another burst of air magic gave him a bit of breathing room as he rushed over to the couple's side. Giving them another burst of life worse,' They can't stay here!' he was just about to pick them back up when more bullets were to strike his still-raised shield.

Hurrdly reinforcing it, blade of life and mind-blasting out. Pulling out cries of pain, but it wasn't enough to take them down.' oh come on!' getting his teeth, he continued throwing out the blades. Holding out his shield even as his mana pool started approaching half full.

Thankfully, there was a brief break when the bullet ran dry; Sho capsized on it immediately. With [flash step], he was a blur as he swept the leg from under two of them. This time, he snatched their guns from them as he [flashed stepped] at the other. Unfortunately, they were already pulling the tirgggers uncaring of the comrades. 

Shielding himself from the bullets, he used one of the guns like a club. Bashing one over the head, the other pulled a combat knife on him. Trying to stab his shoulder, Sho didn't even realize he had reacted until his hand was wrapped around the offended limb. Spinning around, he braced the arm over his shoulder, which the man was quickly thrown over.

As he hit the ground, Sho twisted the arm until he felt the bone strain, and he let go of the knife, which was swiftly snatched off the ground. "Serosily suddder," he doused himself again. The fire was growing stronger," We'll all burn at this rate."

[heat resistance has leveled up]

'Oh, he probably would burn up. Did heat resistance protect him from being burned.; he didn't want to find out. But maybe he should go into that more la-’BANG!' he heard the fire of the bullet and instantly raised a shield over him.

But then he realized where the gun had been pointed, who was bleeding out next to her husband. Sho wasn't sure what emotion fueled him as he moved, to of the getting in his way as the trigger was pulled against the wife following her husband next. He didn't hear the gun go off; he saw the opening appear, beginning to stain the carpet. 

"Oh," Sho muttered." no. Nonono. No!" he knew what the feeling was now!" AAHH!" rage! Sho grabbed the nearest attacker." guyver!" his back shinned. The barrier exploded from him. He looked the man dead in the eye as the barrier tore through his clothing and skin before shattering his skeleton to pieces. 

Unleashing his hand, he let the bits of bone fall as the armor closed around him. "Oh god," one of them mumbled as a hiss of air left the guyver. Its red lenses focused on each of them, "doesn't matter, the mission hasn't cha-!" he was cut off by a laser burning into his throat. Before rushing him, he hit hard. Enough, his neck snapped. Sho didn't even pause, activating his vibrating blade before slashing through the man's ribs. 

"Shi-" one tried to swear as he shot at Show, but the bullets literally bounced off the armor as Sho ran past him. Blade slicing through his neck. Turning on his toe, he took out the next guy and turned to the final one.' I surrender!"  he held his hands up. "they don't pay me enough for this!" 

Gritting his teeth, Sho looked at him for a very long moment as he stomped forward. Seriously, considering his surrender. "I can tell you many things about Chronos; just let me live!" he was on his knees and begging.

Sho stepped forward, intending to knock him out or break his neck. He wasn't sure, but it remained unneeded as that man tensed. Body twitching, Sho quickly took several steps back. "AH," the man's throat bulged and twitched violently. He could see it through the clothing." how disappointing." his voice changed in pitch and tone. "To surrender to a child!" the new voice started to settle, spitting out the word.

Under the mask, Sho's eyes widened as a possibility came to him. Acting fast, he started dismissing the suit, allowing him to activate [mind magic]. 'There another mind,' it was pushing out. 'No, it's crushing it.' it was like looking through dirty and foggy glass. He could make out the fuzzy details.

'Look closer, Sho! You've have to look closer.' he had a very bad feeling about what was about to happen. Forget interfering to save the man. Sho could barely tell how this was happening. An unfortunate side effect of what was happening was a mind so strong crushing another like a grape; he could make it out so clearly. 

How one mind interacted with another, where he was going wrong. His thread couldn't bear the amount of energy and knowledge that would transfer through the connection. The other mind was more like waves and cables.

Closing his eyes, Sho focused on those images, taking the threads he usually used and bringing them together into thick cables, rushing them into the mind, building a bit of power, and pushing off a wave. Towards the mind, sensing the mind differently.

Focusing, he pushed his power into the mind as gently as he could, trying to wrap around the weaker mind." ha, how cute!" 

[-400Hp]

"AAGGGHHH!" Sho screamed, feeling like a nail was being directly hammered into his skull, initially pulling back from them. Mental and physical. He almost didn't notice that he had stumbled back into the fire. "I'm starting to see why they're struggling so much with you." then the man's arms reached up and snapped his neck.

"AH, haha." panting, he pulled out of the fire. Trying to pat out the fire on his leg. 'What was that? Who was that?' groaning, he rubbed his head, trying to push back the migraine. He wasn't sure how long he stood there in the fire. His head screamed at him. Feeling a bit of wetness under his nose.

"Huh," reaching down, he rubbed it away to find red fluid." shit!" that one attack caused his nose to bleed. He stared at the blood, whipping away more until he started hearing the wood of the house start to creak. 'Shit!' acting fast, he grabbed the loot, the corpse of the couple. The body of the lat attacher. Everything but the couple he threw into his [inventory] before rushing out of the house. 

Kicking down the door, he breathed in the fresh air, the daylight blinding him for a moment. As he rushed out of the yard, directly onto the road where he set the bodies down. Before bursting out coughing.

At some point, someone handed him water, 'shit right, people saw me.' instead of dealing with the implications of that, Sho focused on the screens now moving in his vision. 

[You've defeated armed men LV:21X3]
Due to a special action, a special skill has been created[ mind magic: minor telepathy]
[You've received a psychic attack; gamer mind defense has blocked it.]

'Wait, if it got blocked, then what made my nose bleed.' thinking over the moment, he wondered if it was possible that his ability blocked the mental effects but not the physical effects. 

[due to deduction, your wisdom has risen,+1]

'Okay,] he looked at the last two screens.

[heat resistance has leveled up
[due to a special skill, a special action has been created [fire resistance LV:1]
[due to a special skill, a special action has been created [smoke resistance Lv:1]

'Oh, two new resistance skills,' he really needed a plan for those. Sighing, he moved to the side of the road as someone brought out blankets to cover the two bodies. Sho looked at the mound; he didn't know the couple that well. But when you lived in the same neighborhood as someone who interacted with them. 

He knew the husband was a blues fan; the wife preferred classical while she baked using the herbs she grew herself. Despite being in his late 60s, the husband was still active. Sho could remember playing with the man when he was a child; he could remember seeing him play with children even to this day. The wife handed out snacks to the neighbor cause she made too many trying out a new favorite recipe. Now they were gone, they would never laugh, they would never cook, taste, or eat. Never dance to the man's blue collection just because the mood hit him.

'Chronos will burn for this!' Sho decided while clenching his fist. Bone cracking under his grip. Teeth grinding together. He could hear the firefire arrive, hear the police. But he didn't respond to either, stewing on his rage. 'I've played defense too much. If Chronos wants a fight, then I will give them one!' his ki flaring violently, making the people closest to him subconsciously step back.

'The first step is finding where their station is,' he already had an idea of how he would do that. The mind of a zoanoid felt different from a normal human. If he went searching, he knew he could find enough of them. Maybe not their base. But he could tear through their numbers!"

[quest created]
War of Chronos Part 1

You've steeled your heart; this battle is more than about survival.  This is no longer about playing on the defensive. 

Objective: destroy the Chrono's headquarters in Narisawa and drive their forces out of town.

Bonus objectives:???,???, steal over 1 million yen in supplies, destroy over 1 million yen in supplies

Rewards:100,000 exp, 20,000,000yen, [at war] reputation with chronos]
Bonus rewards: 200,000 exp, 10,000,000 yen, war-type skill book, or crafting recipe. per objective

Accept:
yes/no

As he read through the screen before he could make his sound, he felt a chill. One that reached down to even his mana, acting quickly, he focused it into his eyes, acting like a cleanse to see what was not normally visible to the human eyes.' "Oh," he could see some kind of outlines hovering over the bodies. 

But more importantly, was this shadow. He couldn't make out any details other than its vague humanoid shape. But he could make out the screen above its head.

[shikigamia LV:???]
Guild to the afterlife

"Oh," was it wrong he felt like he was going to piss himself. The shikigami was literally feet from him; thinking fast, he stood up. Benindg over like he was tired, but in truth, it was a bow to the three unseeable beings before him. The souls of people he knew and the shikigami. 

He was just about to straighten up when he felt two touches on his shoulders that were almost not there. Looking up, he saw the two silhouettes, though he couldn't see them clearly. But they were smiling at him. He smiled back and nodded to the shinigami, who only beckoned the souls over. They walked down the road and disappeared. 

Leaving him to look at the screen again, 'Yeah, I think I can do this!" brushing so soot off his face, he managed to brush off the adults and head home. The first thing he did was take a shower to wash off the ash and grime. As he did, he prepared himself for an attack plan.

"The biggest problem is going to be the numbers," Sho knew they were heavily outnumbered, Even if he counted the slimes. Nor were his friends and family capable of fighting by themselves yet. "That leaves the option of summoning fighters."

The price of summoning them and making a deal with them would not be light, "but before I do that?" he got dressed and headed out of the house, heading up to the god shrine. "Oh god of the hunt, I place these offerings for you." he set out the delineated amount of loot and stepped back, bowing to the table before stepping out of the room.

Behind his back, one by one, the items disappeared and pulled into the god domain, "Okay, that matter is taken care of. Despite how late it was getting, Sho had a goal in mind; he wanted to send a message to Chronos.

**********

"Now in mourning, last night two tragedies took place, a fire that took the lives of an elderly couple. But also the vandalization of the local pharmaceutical factory. The images of broken clocks were spray-painted all over. The machinery was broken, and the door kicked in somehow." The screen changed to show the view of the door, a single footprint warping the entire thing." The police are investigating, but they warn everyone to be careful. Whatever caused this is extremely dangerous."

"Sho," Mr.Fukamachi said in a low tone, letting Sho know he was in a lot of trouble. He tried to fake ignoring him and continue on his morning stretches, "sho!" jumping, he turned around to face his father." wha-! Why?! Just why!?" sighing, Sho looked down, "I'm tired of playing defense with Chronos. They're going to keep attacking us, so I did some investigation work. I found some zoanoids and discovered where they worked in the factory. I searched the factory, then trashed it."

Pinching the bridge of his nose, he wondered how this was his life." did you get hurt?"  Sho shook his head; the factory had been unguarded, and no one had arrived even as he was spray painting. 

It was something that definitely worried him; he was completely expecting some kind of retaliation. Sho could only brace himself and give more mana to the barrier. At the same time, he went about his day, trying to keep his new [mind magic: telephay] active.

'It so much chatter,' the minds around him were constantly active. The feelings he got from them weren't always coherent thoughts; even the cohesive thoughts weren't always understandable. 'It's probably due to a lack of understanding,' rubbing his forehead, he shut off the skill and tried to push off the building headache.

Practicing the skill throughout the day; as the skill approached lever 10, he started being able to make more sense of the thoughts. How they shifted was affected by slight emotions he could feel. A lot of his class was filling, similar to him. Numb and bored, there were exceptions. Like those daydreams, the girl in the right corner was having a very vivid daydream.

'-I'm sorry. But I can't stay. I love you; this is as certain as the stars in the sky. I want to kiss you each more, and each night, I want to watch the wrinkles form on our faces. But if I stay with you, I will watch the blood pour from your wounds, and I can not live with myself being the cause of that. So I will leave and pray to every god I know that you find happiness greater than what I can give you. The girl cried, stumbling over her words, trying to sit up. Tell him she did not care, but no matter how her heart yearned, her body would not move. Even as he started walking away. Even as a tear fell-'

'Godamn it!' Sho cried, glaring at her back.' you better write this book with a happy ending!'

'Oh, I plan to.. who the fuck!?" she whipped around, falling out of her desk. As Sho determined, he looked at the teacher, pretending he hadn't been peeping at her thoughts. Ignoring her, scrambling back into the seat, blushing as the entire class's attention was on her. 

Thankfully, the teacher was quick to pull the students' attention back to her.

*********

"So you've gone on the offensive." the demon smirked." that's good, but why have you come to me?" Sho looked at the demon," I want to speak with a spirit. I would like you to stay and hopefully keep the spirit in check." 

"It's a kind of demon, isn't it." zalgad mumbled, stopping to think; this was certainly an unexpected turn of events. "What are you trying to accomplish?" Sho explained about the mental attack he had received that proceeded to simply crush another mind." so you want to speak to a mind demon and prepare for when you encounter them," train against them, Sho clarified." the incubus nodded." not a bad idea. But you don't have to perform a summoning to do this?"

"What?" the demon chucked, stepping closer, letting his aura spread out." kid, I'm an incubus, a creature which invaded dreams and mind." unleashing his arua, Sho chocked feeling the aura coming from the demon as he felt it reach into his head. 

[gamers' mind]

"Oh, that is a powerful defense, but also a simple." the demon commented, barring his many teeth, "like a thick metal wall. But even metal can be broken or slipped past." then he demonstrated just that."  a feeling of peace started to seep into his mind. 'Oh, oh shit!' he shook his head, trying to shake out the abnormal feeling.'

"Ready to learn?"

Chapter Text

[due to a repeated action, a special skill has been created, [mental shield Lv:1]
Mental shield (passive) Lv:1 exp:0/100]
The art of building up mental shields to protect yourself from outside intrusion. An art that can also be used to protect your mind from itself.

Increase protection from mental invasion by 5%
Increase protection from internal mental effects by 3%

" you got those done pretty quickly, while they are pretty basic. With time and practice, they'll be a great secondary defense for your mind." the demon smiled, and Sho nodded. Really, Sho was more interested in how he could feel the power of [gamer's mind] more clearly now. If he were to describe it, it would be a thick bubble around his mind. While his own shield was like a film wrapped around his mind. 

"I'm almost tempted to teach you more, but I know you humans need your sleep. Especially when going to war." chucking, he left the plane; he could not wait to see where things went from here." 

*********

With a snort, Sho woke up, blinking at the screen in front of his face." ugh," climbing out of bed, he breathed slowly, trying to calm his lower half, but it determinedly trying to break free of the [mana chastity cage]. His experiment to make a chastity cage from mana had worked.

Being made from mana, it was very lightweight. Making it usurpingly comfortable and ignorable right up until his blood flooded south. Then he cursed the damn thing; he never realized how often his dick swelled until it couldn't reach its full length.

Biting his lips, he tried to think cold thoughts as he got ready for school. Walking downstairs, he buttoned up his uniform jacket at the same time. Kletting his telepathy reach out to the slimes spread out across the house.

'Their minds, I should help them grow more.' he'd have to let them out onto some monsters in the afternoon. But right now, his father is preparing the breakfast. The man was going over some papers for his job. "You're getting a loan?"

The older male looked up from the paper," I'm thinking of buying a car. A truck or van?" Sho blinked; part of him wanted to ask why, but at the same time, he realized it was probably a good idea." so he nodded, offering to pay for at least part of it. He didn't know what a car cost, but he earned money at least once a day.

"No, don't worry about the car. I'll handle it. I want you to focus on making sure you'll be safe." Sho nodded but was not able to hide his concern as he went to school. His [mental detection] found several zoanoids. 

'I really hope they aren't trying anything.' he still visited the core of the school barrier, adding more power to it. "Okay, "that's one thing taken care of." but still, he was wary; throughout the day, he kept himself occupied. 

[drawing has leveled up]
[rune mastery has leveled up]

Placing the rune-scribbled notebook aside for a science textbook just as the teacher walked by his desk. Honestly, the contents of the book bored him more than before. Having already read ahead to the end in a partly successful effect to increase his mental stats. 'Oh, crouse, I could practice equations again.' those worked on his wisdom.

The other option was to buy more textbooks, maybe something about cars.' if his dad wouldn't let him help buy the car, he could learn about other things then. 'Yeah, that's not a bad idea.' if he remembered, currently, Morio's dad was a mechanic. What kind of Sho couldn't remember was what kind they didn't talk about their parents' jobs much.

'The last time was when I was doing a presentation back in elementary school.' Morio had so much hair then. He had such lovely and soft hair, which was partly why he cut it. People either teased him for it or kept trying to touch the hair.

Really, it was kind of a shame. Still, he asked later as they left school. Sho opening an instead dungeon (zombies and ghosts); the latter was a fucking pain. They couldn't be hit through normal means; you either had to use an energy attack or some form of light and heat.

But they were something beatable all the same; collecting the money, he made his way to the largest bookstore in town. He surpassed a large stack of engineering books; he had first started with just vehicle engineering. Expect vehicle engineering to be made up of other parts of engineering, so he had to pick up other books that had just been built up.

The cashier had looked at him funny," Someone knows what college they are going to." 

'I'll admit that's probably what it looks like.' putting the stats of books into his inventory, Sho started reading the first book on his way home. 'I guess this is an effect of my boosted mental stats.' cause he could understand a surprising amount about these words.

Slowly, he got an idea of how a combustion engine worked. He read a bit more during and after training, talking to Morio, who admitted his father was more of an electrical engineer. The man did know how to work on the electrical aspects of a car. That didn't mean he didn't know a few things about cars.

"If you're so worried, can't you just magic the car?" Sho paused from where he was brewing, "That's kind of hard. More electrical components get fickle around magic and vice versa." maybe he could figure something out. But for the moment, he turned back to the potion as it started bubbling too much.

He managed to salvage it, but the quality went down a bit. 

[Potion brewing has leveled up.]

Sighing, he capped the potion and moved over to the garden, where Mizuki was using water magic to water them. The plants were growing well; a slime was sitting among them, slightly tinted green. 'Definitely a plant-based evolution,' he thought, sighing. He opened his [inventory] and looked at the cash amount.

"Alright, I guess I should get that done.' he watched his crush work for a while before standing up and walking inside." I got some looks buying all this." his dad gestured to the stack and kegs of local wines, sake, beer, and mead, several thousand yen worth. 

"I hope it will be enough,' Sho worked fast, drawing out a summoning circle. This was different; he wasn't summoning a spirit. Finishing the last Norse rune, he stepped back, looking it over before making sure he hadn't done anything wrong. Lighting the candles and placing some of the drinks around the edge, he steps back,  clashing his hands together.

"Oh, great craftsmen of the north. I ask for your assistance. I ask for a beginner set for the art of weaving, blacksmithing, and tanning.in exchange, I offer you these goods." for a moment, he felt the magic flowing, taking his words.

For a long moment, nothing happened. Then, a short male with a thick and full beard appeared; he snatched one of the sake bottles and sniffed the contents. "Good quality," then, with a smile, he waved a hand, causing three boxes and books sitting on top of them to appear. I wonder if you'll make anything interesting with these."

The dwarf was soon gone, taking all the alcohol with him," well, that worked."  sighing. Sho started gathering the books; thankfully, they were skill books, so he was able to absorb them." I'm glad Mr. Saquwa set up some tables."

With the box moved to their post, the father and son unpacked, Sho familiarising himself with the items while also thinking. Tanning was the hardest; he would need to hunt down some animals. Preffurbly dungeon animals, weaving. He could just expand his garden for cotton or maybe even silkworms. 'well, that's an ambitious thought; I can just buy the thread.'

The blacksmithing at first looked like it would be a big problem; not only did he need metal, but also a working forge and fuel. Then he remembered the dungeon, which had scraps of all kinds of material. 'I guess I could do some recycling,' but first, a forge. Which is a whole other project but something he felt was reasonably doable.

But first, he had to get his hands on an alchemist set and fish this mission.' it couldn't be that hard,' he just needed a few more hundred yen. Something he could achieve in the next few hours. Clicking his tongue, he started gathering up some of the slimes. Before heading into the dungeon, one of the first zombies got an acid slime to the face. The second got a [ki strike] to the chest, breaking through its rib cage.

Taking its head with [ki edge], before the body could disperse, he threw it into another zombie and went about slicing that head off. Before punching through the skull of a different zombie, he continued going for head strikes on the zombies.

Even as the zombies shifted, type, 'I guess that effect of my raising dungeon creatine skill,' ducking under the claws of a [thug zombie Lv:18]. Upper cutting the zombie,  he leaped whipping around to rounding housing it into a wall. 

Taking a deep breath, he continued moving towards a [zombie hoard LV:23], striking and tearing through them.  He reached the center of them and, turning around, he counted them. “[earth magic!]

All around him, the ground shifted, specifically under the feet of the horde. [earth spikes!] Dozens of spikes shot up from the ground, piercing through the lower half of the hoard. Pinning them in place. "Come!" the slimes came through slowly but surely, devouring the zombies.

"Sho turned away from the mildly gruesome sight to count the money he had collected so far." almost there," focusing his ki into his ears, he searched for the next set of zombies. When he heard a strange noise. A lot of them were gathering. Climbing up to a rooftop, he watched as a large group of undead gathered.

"What?!" he watched, stunned, as they started fusing together into this gray wiggling mass. That sprouted an arm," Oh." this thought went back to the quartz eater. "That's not good!" slowly, this gray-skinned goliath stood up. Looking down at him, its eyes swirling with hate. “[observe!]”

Legion zombie
Lv:34
Hp:15200/15200
Mp:1200/1200
Str: 75
Sta: 69
Dex:23 
Int: 10
Wis: 9
Cha: 2
Luk: 7

"Well, looked at that," Sho grumbled, hopping back from the undead, glaring down the creature's strike, fist smashing through the building he had been standing on." landing on the next building over, he was determined not to get hit. 

"The next time he swung at him, Sho jumped forward, landing on the creature's arm and racing up the limb right to its head. Pushing a lot of ki into his [ki edge], he formed a pseudo sword and swung it through the neck of the [legon zombie].

He planned to, except his weapon got stuck half a foot into the zombie's neck. Grunting, he tried to push it further, but that only seemed to annoy the undead as he reached for it. Abandoning this plan, he jumped down the chest of the [legon zombie]. Driving his blade into the chest. Slowing his descent until he reached a reasonable height.

Hitting the ground with a roll, Sho looked at the creature. "Okay, maybe I need something better," probably bigger."  The Legon zombie swung its fist down, trying to crush him. Rolling to the right, he lashed the edge through the skin, only seeming to irritate the creature. 'It doesn't have enough mind to really feel anything," it felt like a bunch of small minds crudely taped together. 

The legend attacks were big and very dangerous, but also slow and readable." they have nothing on master Zaltos; it wasn't very aware either, so focused on him that it hadn't realized that the slimes had arrived and were eating through his leg.

Changing his tactics, he observed the lifeforce of the legion; it was patchwork but less so than the minds. 'No wonder its HP is so bloody high.' He sighed, and he noticed the zombie was starting to react to the slime that was eating through its leg.

They've made progress to its muscle, "Hey, don't take your eyes off me!" casting [shield] over the slimes, Sho rushed towards the other leg." boosting his [ki enhamcent] to its limit, filing [ki strike] as well.

"HA!" with a shout, he struck the ankle bone at full force, and it audibly snapped. The legon howled as its leg gave out on it. It bared its teeth at him, trying to reach out for him even as it started falling over. "Wow!" Sho rushed at full speed away from the impacted zone, throwing himself onto the other side of a fence.

He waited for the dust to settle before moving again. Not a moment too soon as the shadow of the legioned's hand reached for him, he managed to climb up on the fence even as the zombie swung its hand across the fence at him.

[accid slime has started division]

"wha-AAHH!" he cried out as he was suddenly hit by the legions, throwing him into the air. His world spun, sight blurred before he recovered, spinning. He managed to avoid landing on his head.

[-78hp]

Rolling his shoulder, he looked at his slimes to see them rapidly dividing." Huh?" Sho believes he read about this in the [slime researcher journal.] when slimes had gotten enough food, they would start rapidly dividing like cells. Making another of themselves.

While they were diving, they would eat just about everything they could get. Made them very destructive, which was good. They were tearing through the legion's legs. But once the number increased, the Legon's HP wasn't dropping that fast. "I definitely need something to finish it."

Acting fast, Sho put several blocks of distance between himself and the zombie," Let's let the slimes finish dividing first." while that was happening, he tried to think, "I need something more destructive than my usual techniques." Stravos tended to teach him a balance between control and power, refining technique.

Vakora had a lot of theories about magic; she built up the theory with practical basic spells and mana management practice. "In her words, good mages can take what they know for any situation. Guess it's time to apply that."  thinking for a moment, he pulled a full charge focus. Pure offensive energy. "Alright, let's do this," he started gathering mana, whatever he did was going to need a lot of power behind it. 

He ended up summoning enough mana to form a ball half his size, 'Okay, I've got a bomb. Can do better than that.' thinking for a moment, he compressed and focused the energy, changing it from a neutral energy.

Making the energy ever more unstable, adding rotation for speed and penetration, I don't want to hurt the slimes.' he realized now they were still eating, but this thing was really powerful. He didn't want to waste the mana. One of Stravo's lessons came to him, "Oh, that's a better idea." taking the unstable spell, he warped it around his fist.

"Yeah, this will work." with a full sprint, he took off right towards the [legion zombie]. Leaping onto a rooftop, he focused every bit of attention he could spare and ki into reinforcing his legs. The tiles cracked as he leaped toward the legion face." Hey!" it turned to him in time to see him real his arm back.

BANG!
[-5Hp]

The force of the blow surprised him; knocking did it knock the legion's head to the side, and it threw Sho back. His arms going a bit numb. "Okay, I can do this!" landing on a building, he reinforced his legs and jumped back at the legion. 

BANG!
[-5hp]

He launched himself back and forth, gaining greater control of how the recoil launched him. Watching the legion's head slowly turn into a bloody pulp. All its bones barely resembling a skull. Striking slowly down the neck to the chest and stomach until the unstable energy was gone.

"AAH!" Sho shouted feeling the burning numbing pain in his arms. 'I think I broke my bones,' 

[legon zombie LV: 34 defeated]
Level up
[Accid slimes has level up]

Sighing, he tried to relax his arms, but they really fucking hurt. Thankfully, his legs were the usual tired ache.

[hi recoil damage both arms, 1:59:07 till recovery]
[due to a special, you've created a special skill [???? Lv:1]
[would you like to name new skills?]
yes/no

"Well, that's just great," Sho said, sighing. Sho looked at the loot as the slimes started coming up to his legs. He turned to look at the loot the legion zombies left behind. Beyond the stacks of several 10,000 yen. There was a [large soul stone], [lowest grade recovery potions], and a skill book. “[engery drain?]” [observe] told him something interesting: this skill drains the life force from other beings.

'This would tie well to my life magic; he put all the items away, "Let go home, shall we." as he walked back towards the house, he made use of his access to the slime's stats screens to pour some of their points into their mental stats. Using the last bit to increase their stamina.

*******

"You… look good, taro." the teen glared at Sho, who held his hands up in surrender. "Ugh," he groaned, leaning face-first into the table. "Shapeshifting in pain, it is so complicated." also, it left him feeling shore. He's moving a limb that hasn't moved in a long while. His father assured him that the feeling would fade in time.  But right now, a large part of him just feels sore. "I hate training; it takes up so much time." Sho nodded in agreement from where he was holding the horse stance. Trying to ignore the flush going down his neck.

Both fist coated in unstable energy. The same he used for his new technique [unstable barrage], Stavors had been impressed by it before he smacked Sho over the head. He had created a technique that he couldn't use safely. Vakora had a similar opinion on the matter. 

"You'll need practice to minimize the recoil.

"You need to prepare your body to handle the recoil in case this doesn't take someone down." 

So Sho stood unhis boxerbriefs holding the unstable mana, at starvos intsratuion he would through a punch into a boulder Sho had lifted out the ground with earth magic. 'Is it weird, that despite him seeing me in less. I'm a little shy about Taro seeing me right now.' 

It probably had to do with how intently Taro was watching him, eyes lazily taking in Sho. "Again!" quickly, Sho struck the boulder, causing chunks to fly off as the unstable mana detonated. Winching, Sho could feel the shock racing up to his shoulder. Even into his ribs, he pulled back his arm and waited.

They went at it like this for a long while until Sho ran out of mana for the second time. His arms shook so badly that Taro had to be the one to wrap some bandages around Sho's arms. The herbal smell of the potion the bandages had been soaked in tickled his nose, and he sneezed.

"An hour and a half," Sho sighed, feeling the numbness and trembling reside some. But he folds his arms to keep them still for a while, "sound like time to watch a movie." Taro smiled, leading the way into the house." movie?" Sho asked, following, and they both stepped around the acid slimes that now took up the most space. "I have to make space for all of you." he was thinking of expanding the protected space and moving the slimes in the house to the right. Or maybe across the street.

"This is an impressive collection of movies?" Taro looks over the DVD and tapes. "There, my mothers," Sho stated as he came over to look them over. Taro immediately pulled his hand back; it wasn't hard to understand the woman was no longer with them.

"Sorry," Sho shook his head, assuring him that it was fine. "Dad says she the kind who'd rather have people use what she left behind than have it sit in memory." he finished through the options, 'You know, I don't think those memories were this clear before.' 

"Here," he pointed to one of the taps." I think this is a good one." Taro pulled out the tap." zarro? I've never seen this one."  Sho assured him it was a good movie, a little cheesy and over the top in places. But good nonetheless, a device to trust his friend, Taro put the movie in and quickly retrieved a bag of the chips from the kitchen. 

Sitting down, the movie started," It's in black and white?!" well, that caught him off guard; well, at least the movie had audio. During the movie, Taro slowly gets drawn in by the story. Zarro helped his community and fought against the corruption. Even managed to get the heart of the girl.

"So not bad, huh?" Taro nodded," i cans see why your mother likes, liked it." Sho smiled, stretching his finger. Moving the arms, "All right. The recoils damage is gone." Taro helped him remove the bandages." Should we watch another movie?" Sho stopped at the question; he was originally minted to get back to his training. But he guessed another movie couldn't hurt.

They ended up watching Gamera, the giant kaji turtle trying to protect people. At someone, they ended up leaning on each other. A step away from cuddling, Sho had realized it until after a dozen minutes. The teen blushed a bit but found he didn't mind. Taro was warm and firm to lean against. 

Sho watched the movie leaning into his friend's side, "You know it's been a while since the two of us have been alone like this." Sho hummed in agreement. "School, training, and a few other things going about. Chronos is definitely getting bolder with their attacks."  he stopped, feeling a hand slip up the back of his shirt. 

But it didn't do anything more than that, so Sho decided to leave it be. Focusing on the movie, unable to ignore the hand rubbing against his back. Until the credits started playing, "You've been kind of stressed lately," another hand slipped up his shirt, rubbing against his hip.

"Are you trying to seduce me or give me a massage?" Taro leaned closer, brushing his nose against the underside of Sho's jaw. "A bit of both, any request?" Sho groaned as the finger pressed against the underside of his ribs, his body temperature rising. Sho asked if both were too much.

"Not at all," they shifted around a bit until Sho was belly down on the couch, and Taro was doing his best to remove the fatigue and tension from his friend. Sho was melting into the cushions, occasionally making pleased sounds." how do you know how to do this so well?"

"My dad gave me mom massages. So I learned from him, came in use of over the years." Sho hummed as Taro's thumbs pressed between his shoulder blades. Rubbing circles until the tension faded before moving down the gamer's spine until Taro was just squeezing the ass cheeks.

Letting out a small eep, Taro gently slides his hands around the mounds. "Mm," cupping them from the bottom, he started massaging the legs. until he reached Sho's feet, he couldn't resist giving them a small tickle. Sho shrieked and almost threw Taro off his back. 

The shapeshifter in training giggled before returning to the massage, working way back up to Sho's butt. This time, slipping his hands up the legs of the boxer briefs, Sho pressed his face into the cushion. A shiver ran up his spine as thumbs slipped between his cheeks, pulling them apart.

"Mm!" Sho's head shot up at the familiar feeling of [sex magic: cleanse]. "Where did you learn that?" he asked as one of the thumbs started circling closer to his rim. Until his fingertip was pressing gently against the hole." should I continue?" Sho answered with a groan, lifting his hips to try and push the finger in." smiling, he pulled a hand out and dragged the waistband below Sho's cheek, exposing the mounds.

Grabbing Sho by the hips, Taro lifted them up as he leaned down, spreading the cheeks and exploding the hole again. "Wow!" the gamer was taken by surprise when he felt the sensation of Taro's tongue licking a strip up his ass.

'Taste like sweat and skin,' a bit salty but not unpleasant. So he licked again, focusing on the hole more and slowly getting it wetter. Running the tip around the rim, he decided to try pressing it inside. "Mm," he hummed, feeling less resistance than he was expecting.

"Ugh, ha! Ha!" Sho panted as Taro licked and sucked on his entrance. The hole grew pufffy and sensitive from the attention it was being given. Eventually, Taro had to come up for air, and he did so with a question on his lips." Sho, have you been playing with your hole a lot? it loose." 

Groaning in embarrassment, he tried to hide his face, a low whine escaping him as the tongue swirled around the rim before pushing deep. The warm muscle pocked and lapped at his velvet walls. 

As he continued eating Sho out, Taro reached down, sliding his finger down Sho's taint until he found the brunette balls. Foddling them for a minute, feeling the full and heavy sat, how it twitched from his actions. Reaching further, he found where Sho's member should be. 'This is mana,' it was solid like metal and, from what he could tell, encasing Sho's dick.

"It a chastly cage for a spell." Sho replied after a moment of Taro not moving." pulling back," Really… can I see it?"  taking a slow breath to try and calm his nervous heart, he flipped over, pushed his underwear down to his ankle, and spread his legs. Fully exposing the cage around his member, Taro stared for a long moment. 

"You're staring too much," Sho turned his head away, bringing up a hand to try and cover his blushing face. He could feel his cock throbbing under the mana, trying to swell but solidly confined. It was an annoying frustration that he woke up to. Kept happening every time he got the least bit aroused; he enjoyed it. Getting aroused by the denial. Which created a vicious cycle.

"Sorry, so this is why you've been playing with your ass more?" too embarrassed to speak, Sho nodded, "Can you come like that?" hearing the genuine curiosity relieved him a little; shaking his head, he felt Taro's thumb against his balls. 'So that's why they are so full like this!' 

"Do you want me to stop?" this couldn't be that comfortable. If anything, his actions would probably frustrate Sho even more. "No!" the brunette declared." that took the shapeshifter back." really?" 

"Yes," Sho stated, finally managing to look Taro in the face. "Even though you won't come?"

"I'll be even more frustrated if you stop mid-way through!" throwing off his boxer briefs, Sho wrapped his legs around the other teen, making it clear he wasn't letting him get away halfway through this. The strength felt through the legs scared Taro for a moment right before it was overcome by the arousal at how wanting Sho was right now.

Sho pulled out a container of [slime lube] and passed it to Taro; pushing up one of Sho's legs, he quickly poured some of the lube over the twitching hole before slowly working a finger in. Thanks to how loose it already was, it didn't take long before he was able to work a second finger in.

Thrusting them in and out, he poured down more lube, trying to match the thrusting of Sho's hips, getting the finger as deep as possible, spreading them, and pressing against Sho's sweet spot.  Hearing the wonton noises only made Taro's pants feel tighter and a bit wetter.' when was the last time I was this hard.'

Either way, he couldn't hold out much longer; using his free hand, he quickly shimmed out of his pants and briefs, freeing his cock. Pouring so lube over it, he quickly stroked his member, spreading the lube over it.  Looking up, he quickly asked Sho if he could put it in.

"Yeah," Sho grabbed the back of his knees and Showed off the flexibility gained from Stravos' extensive flexibility training to pull his feet over his head. Leaning forward, he rubbed his dock against Sho's waiting hole, feeling it twitch against him; Sho whinnied at the teasing, wiggling his hips to try and encourage him forward.

Not that he needed any encouragement as he pulled back, lining the tip up. Push in, he slowly thrust his hips inching and deepening into Sho." ah!" he'd almost forgotten how warm it was inside Sho. Bottoms out, he leaned forward until his face was inches from the other teen's. Staring at Sho's face. Lighty blushed, a slight fog of pleasure in his eyes. 

The brunette blinked before leaning closer; for a brief second, his gaze lingered on Taro's lips. But he immediately tore them away, banishing those thoughts. Depressed his forehead against Taro, the two held the position for a moment, just feeling each other.

Slowly, Taro began to move his hips, shallow thrust quickly building up his speed; it didn't take long before the teens were a melody of moans, grunts, and impacting flesh. After a minute, he found his pattern; lifting Sho's hips a bit higher, he also found his sweet spot again." Ugh!" he grunted, relentlessly pounding it.  Feeling Sho clench with each thrusting, the warm velvet wall squeezing down his leaking member. His precume spread out into the already wet cavern. 

'Fuck have my ass always been this sensitive,' Sho wondered, grinding his hips in rhythm with Taro. He could feel the member inside him so clearly, the head slamming against his prostate. Pleasure right to his dick, desperately trying to get hard. The mana chastity cage was holding tight as his dick throbbed inside it. Steadily leaking precum through his slit, the feeling of approaching orgasm thrust into his prostate.

But also feeling it out of reach even as Taro came, shooting his load into the gamer. Sho's body shook with aftershocks, his entire body trembling with pleasure. "Are you okay? you didn't come?"

"It fine, just this blasted cage." he glared down at it trying to calm his member. It was still throbbing and wanting." Taro nodded, asking if he wanted to take it off; Sho really considered it for a moment." not yet."

But by the gods, it was going to be soon!"

Chapter Text

[stats]

Sho Fukamachi

Age: 17

Title: The Gamer

Level: 31

Exp:53.3%

Hp: 1,943/1,943

Mp: 403/1,263

Lp: 39.5/35.5

Str: 52

Sta: 53

Dex: 39

Int: 41

Wis: 39

Cha: 25

Luk: 30

Free points:25

Sho looked at his stats, complementing them as he walked down the school halls. 'I've done good,' he was being happy with himself. Not letting his worry about Chronos' attempts to harm him overwhelm him; honestly, the zoanoids were helping. Becoming experience points for him, which is something he'd rather not think about about another living being.

He probably could have increased his level more if he had focused on it more. Instead, he had focused on his skills and setting up the stats, like the garden, which, as of yesterday, had started blooming. Thanks to Sho, occasionally donating energy towards the plants' growth.

Soon, they'd start harvesting and relying less on brought herbs. He was even getting better at alchemy and potion-making. Alchemy was harder; it required much more precision. A drop-off would ruin a concoction. Position making was more flexible. Honestly, he could just throw things into a pot and call them a potion.

He focused back on his skills, knowing he made the least progress in his strength and stamina. He knew that was in part of them being so high; the other cause was that he lacked the equipment or environment to test them.

That was less of a problem thanks to the [gravity multiplier enchant] he learned yesterday, which had been applied to his training clothes and what exercise gear he did have. So that was a boost to his physical training, but it also meant he should put some more time into his other training. 

[due to a repeated action, a special skill has been created [mind magic: empathic projection LV:1]

[mind magic: empathic projection] has leveled up]

[mind magic: empathic projection] has leveled up]

Sho let out a breath, fulling away from the emotion and cutting the connection to Mizuki. "You okay?" she rubbed he head a bit," yeah. Just a little weird." having Sho share his emotions with her was strange. It wasn't just an emotional level, but the physical sensations, the feeling of his clothing, the beating of his heart. 

"How are your shields holding?" decently from her opinion, but she knew they were new and needed a lot of work. Take a moment to stretch. They started again, Sho practicing attack and Mizuki doing her best to block and counter. 

They continued until the alarm went off, telling them it was time to get ready for school. 

**********

"Damn it, another squad down," Genzo slammed his hands into his desk; trying to calm down, he looked at the report. "At least this time he used the guyver on them," tapping his finger, he tried to. "This boy going into a real problem. At this point, we're wasting resources; we need to spend something stronger." but doing that would, he nervously looked at the screen of his desk computer.

The one containing the complaint of his direct superior for the number of deaths he's caused and the number of resources he's wasted. All in failed attempts to retrieve the guyver unit, he felt a chill at the politely worded threats.

"I've got to do something; I might lose my job or worse."

"Oh, it seems you' 're quite nervous," he clicked his tongue as the inspector walked in, the only one responsible for his predicament reporting the situation. Putting on his business face, he turned to face the inspector. "Hello inspector, have today's test already finished?"

"Yes, as boring as they are." the inspector sat down across from Genzo, but I think I can help you with your problem." 

"In what way?" he didn't like the slight growth in the blonde smile." well, simple, let my Guyver face off against the boys." 

"You're out of line!" his fist clenched under his desk, "probably. But it is clear that this Sho is too much for the common zoanoid. It will be some time before Hyperzoanoid can be developed or deployed in Japan, which would also attract some attention you probably wouldn't like at the moment."

Genzo clenched his jaw, staring at the inspector for a long, silent moment. "I'm noting down that this was your idea, and I agreed because we need more data on the boy and the Guyvers themselves." the inspector smiled. "I'll bring back results." 

"Take a squad with you." the inspector gave a thumbs up over his shoulder as he moved out." Genzo sighed, clasping his hands together; again, he looked at this computer and hoped that this wouldn't backfire on him. 

********

The school bell rang, and Sho stood up, grabbed his books, and quickly headed out of the classroom. He made it to the steps before he stopped, "great." zoanoid minds, several of them, in fact. But there was another mind, something different about it, more like the originally human minds but different in a way. Focusing on it, he tried to pin down what he was looking at.

Walking to a nearby window, he focused some ki into his eye. Enhancing his vision until he could clearly see the squad lurking across the street in a maintenance truck. It wasn't long before he found the abnormality.

[Oswald Lisker Lv:39]

Guyver II/inspector of Chronos

"Shit!" stepping back from the window, he tried to think. He doubted they would just let him pass by; tapping his finger against the wall, he walked towards the stairs, taking them to the roof. There he stood while the school emptied out for the most part. Clubs and staff still remained. 

He could sense their minds," [invite: Mizuki, Tetsuro, Taro, Takaya, and Morio]." The moment they accepted the party invite, he opened up the video window. "Chronos sent another squid. This time with one of the other Guyver users."

"Oh, that's bad," Tetsuro commented." do you need help?" Sho looked at their stats and numbers," I need time to focus on the other guyver unit, and he brought it back up. Do you think it's possible to at least stall?" 

"Yeah, I think we can do that."

"where are they?"  Sho cave their location as he used his gear menu to change his clothing.

gear

Head:

Face:

Neck:

Back:

Upper body:[white t-shirt] [grey and magenta shirt]

Arms:

Wrist:

Hands:[martial arts gloves(enchanted)]

Fingers:

Lowerbody: [black boxerbriefs] [black shorts]

Groin:

Ass:

Legs:

Ankles:

Feet: [black socks] [white sneakers] 

'I'm glad I managed the enchants I did.' Sho thought, taking the chance to stretch before standing up on top of the roof railing. Looking down at the inspector." [Lighting ball]." the basic spell conjured a ball of lightning that he directed towards the inspector.

"AH!" the inspector cried as the spell struck him dead in the chest. The current ran through his body as Sho jumped off the rooftop. "[Dungeon creation] Guyver !" whipping his head, he watched as the barrier deployed. 

"Biobooste!" his own barrier deployed. As the teal Guyver landed softly stood staring down at the asymiciral yellow Guyver. "Is there any way I could convince you to leave without a fight?" the only response was Oswald rushing at him. With a sigh, Sho raised his arms in a defensive stance. The moment the other Guyver reached him, he lashed out with a high kick.

Blocking it with his forearm, he directed the limb down while thrashing out with his other palm. Oswald blocked his and switched his arm to grab the teen's wrist, pulling him closer. Activaing his vrabrating sword.

Activating the sonic weapon, Sho blasted him at point blank, forcing Oswald back. "Complements to your teacher. You know a few things about the Guyver." he cashed again, both swords activated. "It's not enough," he swung at Sho's neck, who leaped back around the attempted to sever his flesh and armor, continuing moving back until he hit the school wall.

Acting fast, he springboarded against the wall to jump over the inspector. Shooting him in the back of the head laser before he hit the ground with a roll. He was on his knees before Oswald swung around; with arms up, he blocked the kick to his head. 

Finger digging into the lim, he lifted the man off the ground and threw him into the wall. It cracked, shattering when Sho's shoulder tackled him through it. Oswald's arm wrapped around his shoulder as they broke into a classroom, "HA!" 

"Wow, they're getting into it." mon commented as the Guyvers came out, clashing across the school grounds. "Yeah," Taro grumbled, looking over, waiting for Zoanoids. He turned to Mizuki and Tetsuro." are you two ready"

They nodded," By the rules of mana, we call upon the force of water. Manifest the mist that will drain the power from our foes." from their feet, a thick mist spread out, first filling the courtyard and then spreading even further. 

Filling the entirety of the dungeon. "What tricky is this?" Sho didn't answer and pushed off the ground into a spin kick. Oswald ducked, swinging up his blade, trying to take Sho's leg. He managed to pull it back only with a nick that healed in seconds. 

"Seems our regeneration at a match," Oswald commented, placing his hands on his hips. "But don't think for a moment it's going to save you." 

"He's really cocky," Sho mumbled to himself before clashing against him. He could hear his friend move on the zoanoids, rushing Oswald, escaping blows before Oswald struck him with the laser. "AHGH!" burning the lens of his mask. Reeling back, he raised his arms to protect his head. 

That didn't stop Oswald's fist from burying itself in his gut, followed by one to the chin. The blows continued to come even as Sho attempted to defend himself. Oswald was making it very clear he could fight; he's been training longer than Sho.

But Sho knew how to fight supernaturally. The moment Oswald tried to slash his neck, he branched himself for the pain. Letting the blade grow close to his neck while thrusting both fists forward. As the blade started cutting into his neck, he struck Oswald with a force that there the man back. Holding his cut, Sho took a moment to raise his hand to his neck, whimpering, making sure the small wound was closing.

'Oh gods, that was terrifying!' he thought as he rushed forward, a bit more ready for it. He creates openings, making complete use of the guyver high recreation. Something that clearly threw Oswald off Balance. 

[pain resistance has leveled up]

Sho ignored it as he grabbed Oswald's arm, knocking the man's feet from under him. Falling to the ground, he quickly placed the arm in a lock, wrapping a leg around the man's throat. "Surrender!" he seat pulled on the trapped limb. Oswald wrapped a hand around the legs around his neck." like hell, I'll surrender to some kid!" 

He increased the pressed feeling Oswald tried and resisted the movement his head was going in. "Chronos can not have that kind of power over you!" Sho asked, twisting the arm; it was a sharp movement from coming out of the socket.

"Hold, I work for Cronos willingly," Oswald pushed his feet into the ground, lifting his lower half into the air. Digging his heels into the ground." even before the Guyver, I was headed for a high position with plenty of money and power. One day, chronos will rule this world. I'll be on the winning side; if you were smart, you'd join them before they make an example of your father."

In the spike of rage that followed the man's words. Twisted hard, he snapped the man's shoulder out. Branching in knee under the elbow, he pushed it up with every bit of power he possessed. The bone snapped under the forced bending at a horrible angle.

"AAAHHH!" Oswald cried out, feeling it break. His eyes widened under his mask when the legs around his neck shifted, hands wrapping around his face." wai-!" he was cut off by a crack,  his neck twisted one 180. His entire form went tense for a long moment before going limb." well, shit." Sho's heart quickened even further.

With an explosion behind him, Sho quickly got up and raced over to assist his friends. "Oh!" it was a great relief and surprise to see that they had taken down a few of the zoanoids. "Let's finish this!"  with his blades at the ready, he aimed from one of the gregors. 

"Sho behind you!" Tetsuro caught his friend out of the corner of his eye. The orbs on the head of the armor twisted, zeroing in." wha-!" Sho barely twisted, preventing Oswald from slashing through his organs." AHHH! AAAHHH!" 

[spine served, mobility lost in lower half]

[regeration complete in 1:15]

But immediately losing all feeling in his lower half, he fell to the ground screaming until the pain started to dull. "Man, this regeneration is strong." he turned as best he could to look at Oswald." you snapped my neck!" 

"You threatened my family; you're working with chronons to take over the world. I will not allow it!"

*ping!*

Slowly, he felt sensation return to his legs. It was a horribly itched feeling as he threw himself onto his back and fired the head laser." Oswald jumped over it, flipping over his heel, and aimed for Sho. Who brought his arms up at the same time, activating the sonic mouthpiece.

“[aqua shot!]”

“[Stone shot!]”

“[Mana blast!]”

The three spells struck, knocking Oswald back. Most wasisting the chance Sho put full force into the mouthpiece. Waves of sound, an eerie piercing sound that cracked the windows. Throwing Owalds into the school fence. The stone cracked under the impact and continued to break down under the continued results.

Sho kept firing until his regeneration was complete. Climbing to his feet, he cut off the blast and charged at Oswald. Tackled him through the wall, "I won't go down that easily!"  

"Oh burning power of the flames, come to my aid and burn those who oppose me." with the chants, one of Vlamor was caught in a tower of fire. The mutant screamed, throwing himself to the ground and trying to put out the fire." at the same time, another's head was covered in a ball of water." the Zonaoid panicked, trying to get rid of it." Morio held on, getting the ball together. Eventually, the zoanoid could no longer hold his breath; even as he tried to keep his mouth shut, he swallowed water. His vision grew dark, and his muscles grew weak. 

Eventually, he could no longer keep his lungs dry, "I think that's the last one." Panting, Takaya had to swallow the urge to vomit. It was surprising how hard the act of killing someone came to you, but adrenaline was doing a great job of keeping him busy.

"Okay, okay. Where's the Sho?" he asked right before his friend came flying, flipping Guyver 1 and landing on his feet. Guyver 2 came flying right at him, grabbing the fist. He kicked up into the man's gut, throwing him to the side.

Before firing the forehead laser, Oswald bent around the beam, landing on a single hand he flipped around. Takaya watched as the two clashed, throwing punches and kicks, waving and blocking. With astonishing agility and movement," This looks like something out of an anime."

"Yeah, we should be doing something." he thought as they went back and forth, smacking and throwing each other across the field. "It's a good thing that we did this in a dungeon," he thought as Sho grabbed a chunk of the damaged school while and threw it at Oswald. 

The moment that the older was cutting through the contract. He punched him in the side before slamming his fist into the back of the knee. As Oswald fell, Sho's knee came up to meet his face. "Gah!" 

Wrapping his arms around the legs. Oswald twisted, uncaring that he banged his head against the ground. Twisting, he managed to pull Sho to the ground with him. Rolling across the ground, he tried to disorient Sho.

“[Earth bind!]” 

Tetsuro's voice cut in as the ground under Guyver 2 suddenly shifted into something like mud, "HA!" Sho slammed his fist into his neck before snapping the elbow of his right arm so he could slip his leg free.

"How dare you interfere!" he tried to climb out of the mud even as it wrapped around him, trying to drag him down. Oswald's mad attempts were unable to determine if he was doing any good, coming back to his friends. Sho watched him struggle." are you okay?"

"We're good," she ignored how lightheaded she was feeling; that might just be the adrenaline." He doesn't seem to be tired from the mist?" Sho blinked and looked over, finding that he was right. The man wasn't even slowing down," he's going to get out at this rate."

"It's the armor; we can't keep him down with that." 

"Let go of me," the entire armor lurched and shifted, "ARRHH!" the roar was straight alien; the entire armor shifted into something for a split second before the forehead metal glowed, flicking, and slowly, it shifted back.

"The fuck! Scream this!" ripping his arms out of the mud. Digging them into his chestplate." shit!" Sho reached for his own; he pulled them open a moment after Oswald did, the orb-like organs expanding and beginning to gather power.

"Have a taste of the mega smasher! With a roar, Oswald beams launched at them. Sho held his ground, knowing he was almost ready, 'so they're calling it the mega smasher.' It was a better name than anything he had. When the massive beam was a foot from him and his friend, his smasher was completely charged, firing without a moment of promoting.

The beams clashed," AAH!" Miziku slapped her hands over her ears at the sound. The roar of power and the rush of energy clashed with each other. It was so bright that she couldn't even try to look, turning her head away until it calmed down.

Closing here, yes, she focused on the mana, trying to sense the other guyver unit. "He's gone? how is he gone!" they were in a protected space; did this man know how to leave it. "well, that's great."  Sho sighed and watched the notification about the Zoanoids' defeat. Since he hadn't acutely fought any of them, he only got spillover experience. 

Collecting the loot, they decided to head off, going home and decompressing. Mrs. Segawa made hot drinks for the shell-shocked teens; Sho brought down some blankets for them, helping them wrap up. Preparing for what he knew was coming.

When Morio suddenly bent forward, "I'm glad we brought the trashcan." he thought as Morio hurled the contents of his stomach. 'I'm glad I chose ginger tea." Mrs.Segawa thought as she reached into the freezer for a pint of ice cream. Sho raised an eyebrow at the many pints of ice cream inside.

Morio wasn't the only one to throw up that night, but thankfully, a mix of tea, ice cream, and over-the-counter medication helped calm their stomachs and them down. Mostly the ice cream; she apparently had everyone's favorite flavor." is this why she got it?" Sho asked himself as he helped her prep dinner.

The food was something light but filling because they did not need more vomit. After that, I got the task of getting everyone home because, unforgivably, they had school tomorrow. Up to a certain point, they had to pretend that everything was fine, "it's not fine. It really isn't fine, but what else are we supposed to do?"

"Can I stay over?" Taro asked, "My dad isn't coming home tonight." the man had something that needed to be done tonight. What that was, Taro didn't know, but he knew he didn't want to be alone tonight, so he was going to stay with Sho if possible.

"Sure, do you want to go home and pick up some clothing?" Taro thought it over for a moment before shaking his head." Nah, I wouldn't mind doing the borrowing a lover's clothing." Sho blushed, "I think you'd look really nice." he teased back. Taro felt a faint tickle of heat up his spine. 

They headed over, quickly checking on Sho's house guest, who was reading and dozing with some slimes. The teen headed up to Sho's room, where they picked out some clothing for the night. Sho went with his usual sleepwear while giving Taro a pair of basketball shorts and boxer briefs. He went without a shirt purely to tease Sho. 

"Do you think we could fit in the bath together," Taro asked as he helped set out the futon Sho pulled out from the closet. It was actually new; with the whole Chronos situation, Mr.Fumakachi had started stocking in supplies, like enough bedding just in case. There were some sleeping bags and a tent.

"I think we could fit; it'll be tight." Taro didn't mind it being tight, being pressed close into Sho. "the brunette gave a slight glare." at this point, you're just trying to get into my pants." Taro held to finger close." just a little." rolled his eyes before shuffling closer." planting a kiss on Taor's cheek even if he was blushing to hell and back." I don't mind." 

If the other teen had a tail, it would be wagging; before he could fully retreat, he planted his one kiss on Sho's cheek. Sighing, he leaned forward onto Sho's shoulder. It was nice to just kneel here and feel the other. Espsicalyafter the battle,  'yeah. I can unwind like this.' pressing his nose into Sho's neck, he could feel the rising pulse of the guyver user.

Sho grabbed Taro's wrist, pulling him closer until their bodies were flushed together. Taro was half hard. Sho could feel it through the teen's pants." on the other hand, Taro could feel Sho's caged member." I'm amazed you're still wearing that." 

"Yeah, I'm amazed as well." Personally, he thought the skills [gamer's mind] and [gamer's body] helped. At least partly, for the moment, they slowly frotted against each other, feeling the other bodies and heat. Taro slowly slides his fingers under Sho's shirt. Up the teen's back, he shivered before down Taro's, running his hands over the fabric of the boxer briefs. Until he reached the leg and felt the skin under the cotton clothing. "Are you taking the cage off?" Sho shook his head. "No, I'm still intent on putting into a spe-AH!" he cried as Taro started sucking his neck, right on the vein. "ugh," shivered race down his spine.

"Should I help with that?" Sho nodded as Taro dragged his tongue up his chin. "Do you have some focus?" Sho nodded." Mange to trade some spirits for them." reaching, he pulled some marble-sized focuses. "I don't know how we're going to use these?" Sho stated that he would just hold them. 

"I think I have a better idea." with some leather Sho had left over in his [inverotry] plus a quickly [crafting], he tied the focus together in a line. "This could work," why he didn't think of it before was another question. With the focus prepared, Taro went back to putting his lips on Sho's neck, licking and kissing the veins. While he pushed his hands up Sho's shirt.

"Mm, ah!" grasping, Sho reached down, tugging Taro's pants low enough his blue came free. Squeezing it through the underwear, he heard him grunt, striking the member through the fabric. "Someone's impatient." Sho didn't deny it as he felt his ears heat up. It had been too long since he's come; he wanted to feel Taro's cock inside him.

Taking his hand away, he pushed back until the cock was flushed against wiggling his hips." ah, alright, I get it." you could say that he was eager as well; he wanted to feel the soft heat of Sho again. 

They quickly dicked their clothing until they were as naked as the day they were born. "[sex magic: cleanse] & [sex magic: lube]." he shivered twice as his insides were quickly cleaned up and coated with a viscous lube. "Got to learn that," he rolled his finger around the hole. Feeling how soft it was before his finger slipped in." You lose. Did you already play with yourself?" a moan was the only answer Taro got as he rocked the finger back and forth. Working it up to a second and third. "Oh, how much have you been playing with this?" he asked as the hole completely sucked the digits.

Twisted them, Sho mewed," I-I'd rather not say." he rocked his rips, trying to take the finger even deeper even though he knew it wouldn't really accomplish anything. Seeing no reason to continue, he pulled out the fingers, lining his cock up. Rubbing the tip against the hole.

Without any fanfare, Taro pushed hissing as his cock was swallowed by the tight heat. Enching closer until he was balls deep into Sho. Feeling him trembling, "You okay?" Sho nodded; it really didn't compare to his fingers. 'Playing with my prostate so much might have made it more sensitive.' with measured breaths, he regained his composure and slowly started rocking his hips. 

Taro grabbed his hips before he started moving his own hips. Slowly coming to a matching rhythm, 'I think it's a bit lower,' bitting his lips around moan, Taro tried to angle his hips. But it was hard; pausing, he backed up and pulled on Sho's hips before bottoming out again." AH!" Sho moaned as the head of the cock slammed into his prostate." that's bettter!"  with the new angle, he was able to make Sho moan.

"Ugh! AH!" his cock throbbed under the cage, desperately trying to get hard with each pound. But the mana creation held strong, and the focus in his hands slowly started to glow. Leaning forward, Taro ran his tongue up the back of Sho's neck; his dick twitched too hard." AH!"

"Doing okay?" Sho nodded, moving his hips back onto the dick. Sho quickly nodded, reaching down to tug on his balls. Rolling his heavy sack between his fingers. Playing with it for a few moments as Taro briefly sped up until Sho's legs were shaking. The gamer felt something strange, something new. His cock was starting to leak precum despite its current locked state. Running a finger through the opening of the cage. Rubbing against the precums leaking slit, choking on a moan, he continued to rub one what he could reach through the cage.

'Should I break it?' the cage had more or less served its purpose. But at the same time, all his attention was focused on his hole. As Taro slowed done, he could feel every inch of the teen's cock, more so than there the first time. Slowly, he started to speed up again, his motions stuttering." I don't think I can last much longer!"

"It's okay!" he wanted to feel Taro's cum inside him. He knew he wouldn't actually reach release wearing this thing. Taro briefly pulled out, his dick wet and twitching angrily; Taro brushed his hair back before mounting Sho.  His chest brushed against the other's back.

Snapping his hips back and forth, Taro reached out to pinch one of Sho's nipples." AH!" simply rolling it between his fingers, he felt Sho clench down on him. It quickly became too much for him," shit! shit! I'm com-AH!" with a deep moan, he pressed his face into the corner of Sho's neck, coming hard, painting the other insides white.

"Ugh!" Sho groaned, feeling the hot seed inside. Feeling something close to an orgasm race through him. His dick leaked hard, his hole clenching hard on Taro, trying to milk him for every drop he had. Even as it began to drip out of him.

Panting, Taro pulled out, catching the half-glowing focus out of the corner of his eye. Looking down, he saw Sho's hole clenching around nothing as white slowly dripped out of it. Down his taint and his balls, he asked Sho how he was doing.

It took a moment for the brunette to gather his words." just have to finish up for the focus, take off the cage, and then jerk off." nothing much; as he finished that, he reached for the locking spell on the cage. "[unlock]," with that, the spell came undone, and he was able to pull the cage off. Letting it fall apart into pure mana that mixed what was in the air.

His cock twitched as it quickly swelled to full length; as he ached for it, Taro asked if he could help. Sho half turned to face him," In what way?" Taro smiled," there is something I wish to try." he explained, and Sho couldn't deny his own interest in the idea. It might be influenced by how horny he was.

It took them a while for them to find a compatible position, Sho on his back, legs lifted up by Taro. Wrapping his finger around his still-leaking erection. Slowly stroking it as Taro leaned forward. Licking a strip over Sho's puffy and seed-coated hole. The mixture of lube, Sho, and his own cum was delicious. He quickly went back for more as Sho slowly rubbed his cock. 

He could already feel his orgasm approaching his heavy balls, trembling and turning. Twisting his fingers around the head, he gasped as Taro's tongue slipped into him. Digging out the cum it could find.

It didn't take long for Sho to be pushed over the edge." toes curling as he arched off the bed. Coming for the first time in more than a week, it felt like the hardest orgasm of his life. Shooting twice on his face while painting his chest with lines of white." mm," Sho relaxed into his bed. Feeling Taro pull out his tongue.  Standing up, he looked into Sho's blissed-out expression, "felt good to let it out?" the brunette nodded; looking at Taro, he noticed he was hard again.

"I can go again if you want," raising his leg, he brushed it against Taro's erection. Who bit his lips for a moment we've got all night." the second time, we were much closer and sensually feeling each other and the pleasure they brought to each other.

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"So, how does the sting of failure feel?" Oswald grits his teeth before turning to face the man." "there were serval unexpected compilations."  gonzo chuckled; well, I look forward to reading your report." Oswald clicked his tongue as the man leaked away. The blonde continued walking until he reached the labs. Where he immediately had serval tests admitted to his body and the guyver. Trying to figure out why it freaked out like it did. At the same time, he replied to the battle in his head, 'his style is largely based around karate, but there were other movements in there.; someone training him, there are definitely some self-taught habits. Experience from fighting the zoanoids.' worse, he made better use of the guyver regeneration for some rather risky moves.

Whether he liked it or not, Oswald wasn't blind to the fact he had underestimated the boy. Along with his friends, who had managed to take out the zoanoids. "Next time, they will not get off so easy."

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[standing against conquest]

Thanks to the loose libs of Inspector Oswald, you've been given a glimpse into the true extent of Chrono's plans. Do everything you can to hinder them!

Objective: destroy/or control at least 2 Chrono base

Deplete chrono Japan combat forces by 20% or more

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Bonus objective: destroy all of Chrono's japan's bases

Destroy all of Chrono's Japanese forces

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Reward: 1 million yen per completed objective

Bonus reward:1.5million per completed objectives

This quest is mandatory. 

Sho sighed, looking at the screen, trying to determine what he should do about this. He wanted to stop Chronos, but at the same time, he didn't like the idea of the quest forcing itself on him." sighing, he looked at the objectives, the ones he could read.

On the other hand, the rewards made it clear that Gaia was not fucking around. A million yen, Sho could do a lot with that." sighing, he looked at the screen. Thinking about even trying this. Worse, it felt like it was in the realm of possibility. He's already been taking on a number of zoanoids. Yesterday, he proved capable of holding out against another guyver. While his friend proved capable of taking on some zoanoids.

'If we work together, I think we could acutely take on Chronos.' we definitely would need more forces. His slimes were good, but more would definitely be welcome. 'Maybe something that combat-focused would be great.' maybe summoning would help. Huffing, he pressed his face into Trao, who was still sleeping. 'It's unfair he can still look so good while sleeping.' he could hear his heart beating, the breath flowing through his lungs, and the mana flowing through him. Flowing out into the air around him like Sho's own did.

Basking in it for a long moment, Sho stood up; it was time to get to work. After his morning stretches, he checked the protection on his summoning circle. Charging them before placing both hands on the circle.

"Spirits of the hunt, I call upon you! Creatures of battle and war, I call upon you! I ask if you'll go me in a battle against the forces that wish to conjure these lands." for a moment, the circle was silent ; then serval voices spoke." who dares to try and conquer this land !" they thundered, waking the entire house! "What?!" taro fell out of bed.

"Oh dear," suddenly zalgad was standing behind his student, "what an announcement you have made." he chuckled," but it must be heard." Sho nodded, nearly looking at the circle. He could feel millions of spirits now paying attention, the number rapidly climbing. "An agent of Chronos said they're going to conquer the world. Then Gaia gave me a mission to stop said action," zalgad nodded in understanding. He was quick to explain to the many watching spirits that he possessed a demigod-level ability.

That got a lot of them mumbling, one of them. With a deep accent but perfect Japanese spoke up. "What are the goals of this quest." looking up to zalgad , who nodded, he read off what he could see. "I see, for one small group. That really is a hard task. No wonder you tried to summon help."

Many of them spoke among themselves, wondering what help they should offer. Until one spoke up, "I have a suggestion. Let us watch your battles. Bare a grimoire of war; as you progress and earn it, we can donate spells to aid you." for a moment, they were silent. They started agreeing with the old general." yes, let's do that. In time, he will show if he is worthy to summon and/or work with us while we make our own operations. I'm not letting the old bastard concur this world after sleeping so much."

"Odian, you don't have the time to talk." the circle glowed as a book appeared before it was thick, sealed with rusted metal stained with blood splatters covering it. It smelled of iron, the words war and battle etched into the leather cover. It looked like it was done with a weapon.

"Do you agree to these terms?" a thick voice spoke. Sho looked at the book; he could feel the power coming from it. Thinking about the numbers, Chornos seemed to have in more than just Japan. "I will accept this power and this test."

"Then mote shall it be." reaching out, he picked up the book, feeling its power rushing through him. He placed the book into his [inventory] as the billions of spirits pulled back." so, is that the only plan you had?" Sho shook his head." I'm going to talk to Vakora before breakfast." maybe she would have something.

"An elemental," she said after a moment of thought. "Making a contract with an elemental would be a great boost to your arsenal. Their power over the elements would help with dealing with large numbers, even at the lowest tier," he asked how this was done, and she told him before breakfast that Sho found himself with a new skill.

[summon lowest elemental (active/passive) LV:1 exp:0/100]

Summons the most basic elemental. Long ago, man realized nature's power and have not skimped out on trying to wield its power. Eventually, they were able to communicate with the elementals and summon them at will.

The elemental attributes will change as the caster's INT, skill level, and element affinity grow. It will also allow them to summon stronger elementals.

Summonable: none

Mana cost:50Mp

"Now the question is, what affinity do you want to train? At the current level, you have the choice between the four basic elements. Fire, earth, water, and air." Sho thought about this as the house had breakfast; the entire table was thinking about it. 

He kept thinking about it as they headed to school. 'Tomarrows Sunday, so let's head into the lizard dungeon.' he hasn't gone there in a while other than talking to the scientist. The zombie dungeon was more than enough training and safe enough. But with the new mission, it was clear they needed more. 

'The quartz eater is probably back.' maybe he'd challenge that again. 

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After thinking about it throughout the school day, Sho came to a decision. "I'm going to start with the fire elemental." that made her pause. "Why?" Sho letting out before explaining. The guyver it was powerful; it was important. Currently, it was his greatest weapon; in time, his other power might outclass it. Even then, the boost it gave to his physical abilities was incredible. 

But it locked out his supernatural abilities. Fire elementals had the highest attack power of the base elements. The regeneration and already incredible defense were covered. But more attack options were necessary, especially when Chonro started pouring on the numbers.

"Not a bad thought process, alright, let's begin." there were several ways to train and gain an affinity; Sho trained a rather slow method of medicating before a fire. Drawing in the energy of the fire while trying to copy it inside himself.

The sun had long since set before.

[you've gained a [lowest fire affeinty]

"Finally," with a sigh, Sho laid out on the grass, hitting the fire with a quick water spell. Laying out, he stretched, trying to work out the kinks; his action was interrupted by slimes ramming into his leg. "what?" looking up, he was surprised to find two slimes slightly reddish. 

They were quite mad, and it took Sho a moment to understand why." oh, were you feeding on the fire?" from the marking, he got the impression that was what they were made about." sorry," Sho lit another fire and left the slimes to it. "Alright, this leaves that one action." the summoning of the fire elemental. 

The first step was putting a summoning circle on the ground, placing the right symbols for the fire element and a few protections." placing his hands down, he focused. Pouring his mana into the circle, it glowing in response." I, Sho Fukamachi, call upon the ancient contract of ages past to summon thee.  I hope that you heed my call. Come, fire elemental!"

A wave of heat washed over him, fire bursting and the circle curling until this small fire formed.  They were only a few inches tall. But this was an elemental, 'They were much smaller than I expected.' then he felt a presence in his mind, the telepathy that an elemental communicated with.

'I here, nice feeling you.' blinking, he looked at the elemental,' Why you call?' steading his breath , he continued. "I'll begin in accordance with the ancient rituals. My real name is Sho Fukamachi. You have heard my true name; could you please tell me yours?" the elemental titled their head before nodding, pushing images into his head.

Elementals didn't have names like humans. Many creatures did. Fire was something so small, like the embers in the sky, that grew into the forces that burned forests and worlds.' oh, this is a memory of fire.' it was warm inside and out. He's never felt so simple.

The image changed a third point of view of the ritual, but he didn't look like himself. He looked like fire in the shape of himself. 'It hurt! I feel like I'm coming apart.' It was like his existence was being burned from the inside out.

The elemental walked onto his hand, and the pain faded away. Replaced with a simple, joyous feeling, a simple, pure happiness. 'name, mine ifrit! Are you Sho Fukamachi?' opening his eyes, he spoke." yes, I Sho Fukamachi." they giggled.' I like you!' they twirled their arms, embers dancing with the motion,' Do you like me?'

"Yes, I think you're very nice." suddenly, the elemental was serious, 'We are one as the ancient contract decrees.'

"Out souls are one." 

'I am Ifrit,' the elemental's power flared.

"I am Sho Fukamachi," his mana flared.

Their energies slowly intertwine with each other, 'until the soul meets its end. '

"We will be one forever!" then, in a flash of light, the elemental was larger than the size of a child; they spread their arms, giggling. 'Call me often; I want to play and fight with you!' their energy was infectious , " I will, I promise. "  then the elemental was gone.

"Ugh!" Sho fell back on the ground, more drained than he expected to be. "Well, that was definitely interesting. 'I thought I might die, but it happened. I've contracted an elemental!" then he fell asleep. 

Mizuki came into the dungeon linked for Sho; she wanted to talk about the elements. "Sho!" she saw him on the ground, a few slimes around him. With all her recent training, she was able to cross the field in a matter of seconds.

Kneeling down, he quickly checked if he was breathing," he's asleep." sighing in relief, she took a moment to look at his peaceful face; it was a nice change from the slightly stressed look he'd been hiding. But it slipped through if you watched him; she was watching grow worried by the day. 

Sho was one of Mizkui's oldest friends; really, he was a step away from being family if calling him her brother didn't sound so weird. She watched him sleep for a moment, running her finger through his hair. ' he needs to comb more ." after thinking about it for a moment , she managed Sho so she could pick him up and carry him up to his bedroom.

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A creature of fire, almost ten stories tall, flying over the city. Raining down fire upon all those who endangered him, the last thing the creature saw. It was a large missile heading for him. In his last moment, he breathed in all the fuel he could. Going out the brightest he could. 

Blinking awake, Sho turned over and realized he was in his bed. "I passed out on the lawn." he blinked that over for a moment, seeing two screens. Both of them are about two slimes evolving into [fire slimes].

"I carried you," turning over, he found Mizuku doing some paper." ah!" Sho jumped, pulling his blanket to cover himself despite being fully dressed. She raised an eyebrow at the reaction, which only made him flush harder. Pushing the blanket down, he looked at her," Thank you."

"You welcome." scooting to the edge of the bed, Sho watched her work for a moment, 'She's really gotten stronger, hasn't she.' The fact she was able to carry him from the yard was also attractive, but Sho was trying not to think about that. Finishing a paper, she set it aside, so what did you do that caused you to faint?"

"Oh, I made a contract with an elemetal?" Mizuki turned to face him, really. I actually came to talk to you about what kind I should make a contract with . Sho titled his head, "Honestly. I just want to say earth so you can harness its defense ability." 

"You sound like my brother and parents." she huffed, turning away from him, and Sho nervously scratched his neck," sorry, I'm worried. I'd like everyone to increase their chance of surviving. But the answer probably isn't just increasing defense." 

Mizuki sighed," You're right. My mother is thinking of getting an earth elemental to help her with gardening."  Sho commented that he was smart. His elemental could probably help with his utility skills, "potions do require precise heat control. There are other crafting skills I'd like to learn." Mizuki nodded in understanding, "which only makes it harder . Cause now that is something I have to consider. Getting an afffeint isn't easy, and you have to be pretty strong to have more than one. "Sho nodded.

'I guess I should test this out,' raising a hand," [summon infirnit]" In a flash, the fire's spirit appeared with a cheer. 'Hello!' he smiled at the spirit, " hello. " they giggled, looking around the entire room, touching serval things moving around Mizuku. "Is it hotter in here suddenly?"

"Oh, I summoned the elemental," Sho explained. She nodded and pulled her papers a bit closer. Which was fair; they talked for a while, Sho helping her think about what kind of elemetal she would like. At the same time, he worked on his elemental summing skill. Which was mostly letting the elemental out. As long as it was summoned, he gained exp. 

In the end, Mizuki decided that she was going to get a water elemental. "I want to change. Water is the element of change." Sho asked what made her want to change." I think you're great the way you are." pushing down a blush." well, I want to do more; I want to be able to protect my family. The fight you had with the other guyver… was something." 

She could remember him screaming when his spin had been served; if it wasn't for the guyver, he'd never walk again; he might have just bled out. "Yeah, sorry," she assured Sho he didn't have to apologize. That fight wasn't the only reason she wanted to change. Increasing her stats with Sho's ability, especially her mental stats, changed how she viewed the world.

Viewed agito, he was still charming and handsome. But she noticed he didn't actually let someone close; he helped people, but it was the exact same number every day. He asked about things and people, and he was kind and charming. But she realized it was much more calculated than she originally thought. 

Then there was how she was acting about the zoanoid thing; it was impressive how calm and collected he was about it. Carefully asked questions to get a grip on the situation, if they were safe, and if they needed help. Though carefully hidden, most of his questions were about power and how they were fighting or preparing.

It unnerved her; a lot about him was unnerving her. Maybe her senses were fired because she was constantly on watch for Chronos trying something. They were following her; they were following her parents. 

She didn't say anything to Sho; he already had so much on his shoulders. "I should probably do it after my bath; you slept for about four hours." Sho nodded before deciding he was going to investigate these flame slimes.' Mizuki followed after him. 

Finding the slimes wasn't hard, and neither was getting them to show off. "Do you think they can learn fire magic?" Mizuki asked after watching the slime shoot off small puffs of fire. Sho stopped and thought about it for a moment. "They're not smart enough to do it," after a moment of thought," yet?"

Mizuki looked up in curiosity. Sho reached out, placing his hand on one of the slimes.' I've given them some mental energy before. Maybe I can help make them smarter now." he slowly reached out and fed extra energy to the slime. Feeling the metal energy guided to his mana.

Thanks to [mind magic: minor telepathy], he could sense his mind greater than ever before. After gilding as much energy as he felt was safe, he observed the action. The energy before swallowed like drops of water. The first slime looked like it would take a while, so he pulled back. "Increasing their intelligence is definitely going to take a while." 

"Maybe you should read to them; the mom says it helped me and Tetsuro. Though personally, I think she read him too many sci-fi books." Sho didn't laugh; he tried really hard not to. But by the heaven, he could just see it. "Does that mean she read you a lot of shojo manga." he deserved the glare, but he couldn't regret teasing her for the many manga she'd read over the years. 

They turned back to teaching the slimes, mizuku cut to Sho that he didn't have a lot of free time. Filling it up with so much training. She could take some time to read to the slimes or help them study. She'd see where it went; for the moment, she was going to go through with the elemental summoning. 

Sho watched the entire proceed, watching as the miniature spirit appeared and as Mizuki formed a contract with it. Of course, she passed out not a few moments later, and Sho carried her into the real world and then into her bed. He took the time to explain what had happened to her parents. 

After that, he returned to his own house with Ifrit hoving around him, "Let's take this out for a spine." with a hand gesture, they were inside a [beast (cat) dungeon], a dungeon that was populated by felines of varying sizes. Mostly, they were about house cat size, but also dangerous because their claws could tear holes in your clothing and draw more than a small amount of blood. 

The most dangerous aspect of them was their agility, speed, and stealth. If their claws were any bigger, they'd slit your throat without realizing it. The medium-sized cats traded some of their speed and agility for power. 

The big cats were completely different problems. But Sho could take them at the cost of a few hundred points of hp, with Ifrit's help and his material arts and magic. Sho made his way through the felines. Progressively gaining cuts, but he winning more than enough.

Ifrit burning swaths of the cat, 'I could do without the stench.' he never knew burnt cat hair could smell this bad; it was clogging up his nose so badly. Sensing another mind, he jumped over a stone finance and landed on the creature's back. As he did, the smell of a house fire came to him; with a command, he had Ifrit put the fire out as they continued. 

Rounding a corner, he encountered his first big cat, a tiger that immediately tried to tear him apart. "OH!" rolling onto his back, he felt the tiger pass over him, "Ifrit!" the spirit whipped around, throwing a wave of fire at the tiger only for it to rush around. Running up along awa before it jumped at him, "[flashstep]" he blurred in movement. Appearing on the ground under the tiger. Leg around in motion, hell slamming into the beast's ribs.

It howled as it hit the ground; Ifrit threw a fireball at the downed creature. While Sho prepared, the tiger pushed through the fire. Heavily singed as Sho moved, spinning; he let the tiger pass by before slimming his fist down on the back of its head. Hard!

[you've stunned the tiger]

" goodbye." wrapping his arms around its neck, he twisted hard and snapped its neck. Its body dissipated into loot, "crafting recipe." Reaching down, he touched the book, causing a screen to appear. 

[Would you like to learn [recipe: tiger armband?]

yes/no

Pressing yes, he picked up the next few pieces of loot , a tiger fang some of its pelt. "Not a complicated recipe," already had all of the ingredients with the pelt and fang. I can probably get it done before school tomorrow. For the moment, he continued a path through the dungeon. ;' I wonder what the boss monster of this dungeon is." it was half an hour later, and five more tigers, two lions, and a cheetah later, he found something stronger .

" RAAROH !" this absolute monstrosity truck size creature tore through a house, coming to a stop before him, two tails dancing behind it. "Oh dear!" he thought as it raised its paw before being it down with enough force to shack the ground. Sho stumbled for a moment, raising his arms to block the claw strike.

"AHH!" it sent him flying back, rolling midair. He managed to land on his feet, casting a shield to protect him from the second claw strike. "[Mana blast!]" he launched it directly into the feline's face before flash-stepping a few steps back.

[feline chimera Lv:34]

'This thing isn't the boss monster,' he realized, not because of its level but the feeling that came off it. The Legon zombies and the quartz eater had a very different feel to them. 'Still, he dodged a claw swipe only for the chimera to whip around and him his with his thick tail. Sending him tumbling down the street. 'Even if it's not, it'll kill me if I don't focus ." landing on his feet, Sho engaged in combat.  

He quickly realized he needed to pin this thing down; with its agility, he was struggling to get clean hits in. managing to chip away at its health, "Ah!" but it was doing the same to him. The one clear advantage was the fact they had the creature outnumbered. Ifrit coving his back and, after a time, slowly encircled the area in a tall ring of fire.

"You won't escape me," Sho [flash stepped]. He slid by the claws of the chimera, and with a jump, he drove his fist into the gut. Causing it to cough, grabbing handfuls of fur with both hands, he rocked backward before swinging forward and driving both feet into the chimera's gut. His ki-boosted blows, without a doubt, caused bruising. 

The feline suddenly whipped around, throwing Sho off. He landed in a roll before springing off his hands, firing off a few spells to keep the creature at bay. "Ifrit!" he called, a circle of fire forming under the lion. It quickly jumped into the air." [mana scattershot!] Swinging his hand, he laughed pellets of mana. Too high in the air, it wasn't able to doughe them." [aqau shot!]" 

A second scattershot clouded the chimera's vision, preventing it from seeing the fire gathering on the ground until it burst into a pillar of flame that engulfed it." Sho panted, knowing his mana was getting eaten through.

He could see the feline HP was dropping the few moments it was trapped before it burst out. Fur heavily burned as it rushed at him, hate clear in its eyes." [mana shied] With the barrier, he withstood the chimera attack. "[mana shot]!" just so he could blast it right in the face." ha!" with it stunned, he jumped, whipping his foot right into its face. The moment he landed on the ground, he rushed forward, slamming both ki-coated palms into its rib cage. Sending it flying back, another [flash step], he struck it further back.

On the third, he slammed it into the ground from a strike on the head. Where it was again swallowed by a fire. He put some space between him and the chimera. Reading another [mana scatter shot], ki flowed into his feet for movement.

[feline chimera Lv:34] defeated]

[21,345exp]

"Oh," the fire cut off, revealing the badly burned body. Just as it began to turn into light. Sho approached it, curious about the loot. "[observe]," the two items were sitting nicely next to the pile of cash.

[chimera blood]

The blood of a feline chimera, traces of lion, tiger, and cheetah. Many uses for this in science and magic.

Crafting ingredient

[chimera claws]

Claw's weapons are made from the parts of a feline chimera, holding some of the beast's powers inside it.

+100 damage

+50 defense

Duribtily:100/100

"These gloves are nice, but," he looked down to his [martial arts glove]. He recently improved the enchantment he added to them. Of the base stats, the claws were better than his gloves. But he was very attached to the gloves; with a sigh, he put the gloves and blood into his inventory so he could continue through the dungeon. 

Running into two more chimeras, both of them dropping pelts in replacement of the claws. Which Sho thought he could sew something out of, or maybe he could find another crafting recipe. He didn't know what, but he continued to fight against the dungeon until he caused the boss to make an appearance.

[incomplete Nekomata: 36]

Kin eater

"Gross," Sho thought before the cat flared with ki. 'Sh-!' it flash-stepped, swinging claws at his face,' Sho brought up his right arm. "AH!" only to be taken by surprise when claws grew twice their length.' damn it!"  striking out with his other arm, the two-tailed cat danced around it, landing on the limb. Sho threw his head to the side as it raced up the limb and swiped at his face; the teened ended up with claw marks on his face as he spun around, catching the Nekomata with the back of his fist. Sending it flying towards the wall, it flipped around and landed on its feet before [flash step] at him. Ready for it, Sho coated his arms in ki. He swings his fist into the feline's claws. 

Their ki clashed against each other, ringing out. Knocking the libs back before Sho thre out his other fist. The cat swung its other paw, using the force to launch themself at the wall. The next few moments were like them, clashing against each other as the Nekomata bunched across the walls and ground. Their small size makes it hard for Sho to land a meaningful hit.

"[wind piercer!]" With a sudden and rapid thrust, Sho struck the Nekomata straight in the gut. Sending it sailing into the wall. It bounced up to the roof, avoiding Ifrit's flames. Upon the roof, it hisssed as it ki shifted. "Wow!" Sho suddenly found himself dodging a blast of ki strong enough to tear up the ground. 

Throwing mana and ki blast at the cat while the fire spirit flew up. Setting the rooftop alight a moment later. The Nekomata was left with no choice but to jump , Sho doing the same ; they traded blows midair for a movement before bent his leg as high as it would go. Ki covered it, forming an edge. “[Gulotine leg!]” 

The Nekomata spun so their claws met the edge first, but they couldn't stop the force from throwing them to the ground. Immediately being consumed by the spirit's flames. Only there ki shielding them from the heat.

Espcaing, the Nekomata raced immediately for Sho; he landed an d immediately had to avoid flying slashes of ki . "Wow!" increasing his defense with his ki, Sho pushed through the attack and rushed the feline, preparing another [gilotine leg]! The Nnekomata had to roll to avoid taking it to the head, "Rao!" 

But not avoid it continued ; under its crushed leg, the concrete cracked. Despite its femur being broken, that didn't stop the Nekomata from launching slashes at Sho, who was forced to retreat with a gash on his side. Pressing his hand against it, he quickly pulled out one of the sandwiches he kept in his inventory. 

Quickly downing it, he restored some of his hp before he and Nekomata clashed again, throwing hands against each other, slowly finding openings in each other's action. Healing themselves with the ability, in the end, things came down to an endurance match.

The moment the nekomata's stamina caused a slip-up , Sho took it and dealt the final blow. Cracking the beast's skull open, once it no longer had the ki to boost its defense, he had the ki to boost his attack.

[incomplete nekomata Lv:36] defeated]

23,000exp gained

Stretching his neck, Sho looked at the forming loot. 'Let's go,' get out of here.'  he quickly picked up the [incomplete Nekomata pelt], [incomplete

Nekomata blood] and a [incompelte Nekomata heart]. He took a different path back towards the direction of his home; along the way, he stumbled across a chest hitting  under a tree. He quickly cracked it open, 100,000 yen. A bag of catnip, then [crafting recipe: neko onesie]

"Wait, this can be made for adults."

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"Sho you know how to manipulate the life force of things, though life magic. They can manipulate the mind with mind magic, which leaves the body and the soul. I don't know enough about soul magic to teach, so I'm going to teach you about [body magic]."

The brunette nodded, "Now body magic is actually as complicated as the other two, maybe more so cause bodies require so many constantly moving parts. If a part fails, then so can the rest of the body." She raised a hand, and light warped to form a diagram of the internals of the human body. "So instead of trying to teach you advanced biology and then body magic. I'm going to teach you Avandace biology and things like blood magic and bone magic. Eact to work up to body magic," he needs." I have read some college books about biology, not deeply, and he only remembers parts because of how strong his memory is." She nodded before they got started with the magic and knwogle.

What ended up regarding the skills was sensing and slightly manipulating his own body parts. His blood, his bones, his nerves, his hormones, his muscles. His organs, skin, eyes, so many parts! 'Oh, I'm going to be sick.' Even with all his new skills at level one, he could feel every action inside him; it was both overwhelming and incredibly sickening.

"Well, that's half a day," he slowly took deep breaths and focused. Feelings of all the parts and how they interact with each other. Feeling the grand mess that was his body.' But at the same time, there was a harmony.' Every action and reaction with his body, every part is going to a tune that works together.

With the lecture on advanced biology, it all seemed to come together. Looking down at his hand, he stretched the muscle and bone, alternated the blood vessels and the skin. Then shifted it all back, letting the change shift to his other arm, up to his head, and then down to his toes.

[due to a special action, you've created a special skill[body magic LV:2]
[due to a repeated action, you've created a special skill, [body magic: shapeshifting LV:1]

Sho ignored the screen, focusing on his body, his mind, and the life force pulsing invisible within. How they were linked in, a possibility on the tip of his tongue, but just out of reach. His understanding of his own body and mind is too shallow. 'How do I know that?' Well, he could only try to understand them more.

He wasn't sure how long he spent there mediating and practicing his [shapeshifting]. He knew he ran out of mana twice and had to take a break to meditate and recover. Thankfully, the hyper awareness of his body fades to slightly more than normal levels. 'Great, that's probably the passive of all my new skills. 'Yeah, knowing one of the kidneys is stronger than the other is not pleasant,' he was going to need to fix that.'

Instead, he decided to stretch and focus on his new magics, mentally going over them. Then he bought out a sandwich to eat, as he ate one of the acid slimes came up. Digging for scraps. Sho petting it slightly." I wonder,' reaching out, he probed the body of the slime.

"Oh," he could feel the core, how it functioned like a brain and a heart. 'It was very different from my brain,' reaching out with his mental energy, he could feel it as well, "Oh, there was more energy than actual brain mass. 'I guess I should change that,' reaching through his connection with the slime, he asked.

It took some time to portray the concert to the slime, 'okay. I'll be gentle,' he promised as he started, slowly encouraging growth. Like he did with plants, cause in the end they were living things and they meant a lot. He paid close attention to the sensing receptors. In case he caused it any pain.

But it went so much better than he expected, increasing the ability of the mind. He wasn't sure how much, but his [bodymagic] & [brain magic] leveled up. He received a new skill, [brain growth promotion]. Which gave him a sound idea of what he had done. So he had no problem using the slime until he felt it was unsafe. Stopping the skill and instead checking on the slime. Its thoughts were a little more perceivable to him than before. Something closer to words that it didn't know. 'Guessi can only hope for the best.'

While hoping, they went into the lizard dungeon, taking on some [scale shooters] and [scale slahers]. With their numbers, they were safely able to take out a number of lizards. With all the materials, Sho did some crafting with the leather and scales the lizards dropped. Especially the [slash scale armguards.]

[Crafting has leveled up]

"These will hopefully come in use." Sho moved on to the next step of crafting only to realize he had run out of thread." Great," sighing, he stepped away from that and looked to the bonmeal Mrs. Segawa was preparing, helping her in making use of all the bone they had set aside for this.

"Oh," she huffed, whipping some sweat from her face," haven't worked up a sweat like this in a while." She continued to grind the bones, taking a good amount of physical effort even with the little spells she got from Vakora.

The women were getting along with each other; between the two of them, they ground down the materials pretty quickly and stored them away for when they needed them, using some of it for the garden before Sho used magic to encourage growth, specifically on the fruit tree saplings they managed to get a hold of.

He got a few inches out of an apple tree before he had to stop. For now, he just gave it some energy and pulled back. The tree wasn't more than waist high yet, even with his help and magic. It would be a long while before any of the trees were ready.

"Guess I should buy some more thread!" At his current top speed, it wasn't a long jog. He made sure to get some other supplies while he was at it, before returning home and getting back to work.

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"Remember, students' exams start next week. I hope you've studied. Do not cram over the weekend and make yourself sick."

"Oh shit," even after all the preparations he's done, hearing the test was next week was still erveracking. 'It's okay, I just have to take the test. It's not like anything really bad could go wrong,' except maybe Chronos attacking, he joked with himself as he looked over the exam notes he had. Then he paused. Shit, Chronos could attack!

Chewing on his lip for a moment, he put away his things and slipped his way to the art room. Thankfully, the clubroom wasn't full yet. Just a few settings up, so Sho was able to quickly check on the barrier. Its power hadn't decreased, but there were some improvements he could make.

'Yeah, wouldn't hurt,' but after a moment, he thought of something else he could do. Instead of acting on that, he focused on preparing to reinforce his barrier. The first part wasn't hard. Making support circles around the school, one for each element he could currently use. Then something for the personal protection of the people. It required a lot of mana. Thankfully, he had several other people willing to help him feed the smaller circles that he managed to link together in a way that simply "looked like power lines and stations, right?"

"That acutely kind of right?" he replied to Mono's statement, looking at what he's made he wondered." vaokra taught me how to create mana storage circles. Making them atomacinly accumulate mana is a bit beyond me at the moment," still he added placing as many as he could without dispalcting the entire formation.

"Well, that should hold," Mono commented as they stopped." Still looking like something I've seen in my parent engineering books." Sho had to agree with the surface-level knowledge he possessed about engineering. "Maybe that's something we should look into more. But at the moment, I think we should get to studying." Mono groaned but didn't argue as everyone met at the front of the school and decided to head out to the library. For access to all the books, spending more than a few hours checking over their notes and other things before moving to the next subject. The mystical arts. They focused on protection, focusing on personal protective charms. Binding them to normal items. For their own protection.

Sho had one other task to do tonight, the shadow spirits had managed to track down another facility of chronos where they manufacture a kind of chemical. He wasn't sure what it was, but they produced a lot of it, some kind of amino acid he believed. 'Oh, though, there are a lot of guards, don't you think?' he thought about just using the fire elemental to set it on fire.

But the number of guards had him rethinking, were the guards there because he's gone on the offensive, or because of how important this was to them? 'Only one way to find out,' making a lap around the building, he found his point of entry. A side door that no one was observing and lacked an outside camera that was propped open.

The moment he could sense no life or mind, he moved [flash step] to the door then. Gentle pushed it open, keeping an eye out for the camera and people. Even at this late hour, this factory was still running at full force. People milling around, none of them were zoanoids from what he could tell.

[stealth has leveled up]

Sticking to the shadows, Sho managed his way to the employee locker rooms. Slipping in, 'I should have found a map.' Looking around, he considered his next move; he couldn't really search without going into the open. Have to find the manager's office or the records room. Hopefully, they were in the same place or even close.

Sighing, he looked around the locker rooms and tried to find something to help him. He only found spare clothing. The spare suits gave him an idea. The spares under clothing gave his ability an idea.

[lwed quest discovered]
Making out like a thief

Objectives: steal 5 pairs of male underwear
Steal 5 pairs of female undergarments

Bonus objective: Leave your underwear semi-hidden in the factory.

Reward:500yen,100 exp,+0.5Lp, underwear bassed skill book shard
Bonus reward1,000yen, 150exp, +1Lp, underewar bassed crafting book shard

Accept
yes/no

Looking over the screen several times before making a choice to press yes. "Now, how do I get into the lockers?" he knew nothing about picking locks other than what he'd seen in movies. Remembering how some actors use their tools to listen to the locks. That he might be able to do, he's realized his hearing has been growing stronger with his physical stats. At the same time, ki enhancement could boost it further. Picking a random locker, he pressed his ear against the lock.

Rolling the dial back and forth, he could in fact hear the mechanism, so slowly listening until he heard *click!* "sweet," pulling back, he opened the locker. A weird sense of pride within him despite him knowing this was definitely illegal. *ping!* "Great bad behavior is being rewarded."

[due to a special action, you've created a special skill [locking picking Lv:1]

Searching through the locker, he found a pair of black boxers. He also found their wallet. He didn't steal their wallet, but he didn't copy down some ID information for later.' It might be to keep an eye on the employees.' At worst, I fight them; at best, I protect them. He went through the lockers collecting boxers, boxerbriefs, briefs, and a g-strap. "Huh!" That one took him by surprise before he left the male lockers; he changed into one of the spare uniforms. Pulling the hat lower over his face and leaving his boxer briefs unassuming in a corner.

He didn't have any spare underwear on him, nor did he want to wear what he just stole, so he ended up going commando as he snuck into the female lockers. It was weird that his dick was just flopping around as he broke in, shifting with each movement.

He did his best to ignore it as he broke into the lockers. Quickly collected identity information and panties. Pink, white, blue. Stripped ones, going into his inventory. He tried not to think about the women they belonged to.

"Okay, that's that quest done." Stepping out, he headed out. Searching around the factory. Doing his best to act like he wasn't out of place before he managed to find the manager's office,' he's in there,' he could hear him on the phone. Worse,' he's a zoanoid,' clicking his tongue, Sho observed the room for a few more moments before turning around.

Continuing to explore the factory, he found the records room. Going through that, he found production and shipping records." These might be more chornos locations." Stepping out of the room, he managed to avoid the workers. Slipping into the bathroom, he took a seat and considered his next action. 'I need to get into the manager's room, but how?'

'I need a distraction,' thinking over it for a moment, he repeated the gas pipe on the far side of the factory. "Infirnit!" he summoned the spirit and quickly sent him over. At the same time, he made a beeline for the manager's office.

Not a moment after he was within sight of the office did the pipe blow, shaking the entire building. "Wow!" That might have been bigger than he planned. Not a moment later, the manager's room door slammed open." What was that?" Sho jumped when he realized he was being spoken to. He didn't have the fake nervousness that came, "I-i do-don't know!" he stuttered out, the manager clicked his younger calling Sho useless before rushing off. Sho wanted to flip him off before sneaking into the office.

He quickly moved to the filing cabinet, ignoring the computer. It probably had a password; he knew shit about hacking. Quickly going through, he found nothing of interest at first. At the same time, Iftrit informed him of the attempts to put out the fire. Sho gave more of his mana to keep the fire burning, spreading.

"Okay, okay, here's something." more recent than most records." along with emails and phone numbers." though he quickly started copping down. Along with what had been moved around and the final records, he found a money trail he might be able to follow. Once he copied down everything he thought he might be able to use.

"Iftriti!" he called out as he started running for the exit. He just reached the door when he heard several massive explosions followed by several smaller ones. The fire spirit raced through the building until he was at his master's side." Did I do good?" he tilted his head. Sho smiled," Of course!"

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It was only through supernatural ability that Sho wasn't tired the next morning as he got ready for school. Having to leave early with Mizuki for student council work. He didn't mind except for the fact that he could feel Agito watching him.

Between the moment he finished the student council work and school started, he relieved himself in the bathroom. 'I should do something with the stolen underwear,' he couldn't just keep it in his inventory. Throwing them out didn't seem like a good option to him either. He considered possible actions before the bell rang, along with something else.

[lwed quest discovered]

"Of course," he ignored it because he had to get to class. One there, and the teachers are starting a review for the upcoming test. He made sure he was appearing to pay attention before he tapped on the quest. His face turned red as he read through it. 'I don't know if I should just accept things like this,' it was kind of par for the course, perverted. Tapping his pen against the desk, he really considered doing this.

'As long as no one finds out, it can't be that bad,' he accepted the mission before closing it and focusing on school. During the next break, he snuck away to the bathroom to start fulfilling the requirement.

It took a moment to find a pair that fit him, a pair of blue panties. Inside an empty dungeon, he was able to look at his reflection. Holding up his shirt to get a clear view of himself, his cock stretched out the soft fabric. Sighing,' I think other guys my age would probably have a problem wearing women's underwear'. Sho's only complaint was a minor hang-up; there were women's underwear, and the fact that they belonged to someone else.

'Is this because of [gamer's mind], he wondered as he pulled up his pants,' or was I always like this?' Sho hadn't given much thought about wearing women's clothing. But he could remember when he was younger and he lost a bet to Mizuki. She had thought it would be funny to have him wear one of her dresses.

'Thinking back, my only complaint at the time was I didn't like pink,' sighing as he returned to the desk. Take notes and complete the assignments and exercises that were handed out. At the end of the day, the group went into the lizard dungeon again, and Sho headed down into the library to speak with Herman.

'You need a bath," was the first thing he said to the scientist, who waved him off. "Sorry, that was rude, but when was the last time you bathed?" Herman shrugged, focusing on his experiment. Sho could follow it sort of. Herman was trying to balance out the acid and proteins. Which was kind of lost him, but it was complicated and something from biology. Sho stood there not interrupting until Herman pulled back with a fit of laughter.

"This is it! With this i should be able to balance out the chemical rection soildiny the biological changes an-HEY!" he shouted as hartuo lifted him up, "well that can certainty wait for a bath or something to eat." hernamn tried to fight, but even if he had a fulls nights sleep and a full stomach sho was just stronger. Not that it stopped Herman from trying to wiggle free.

It did little as Sho carried him into the lab's main bathroom, with large showers and tubs. He waited for a while to see if Herman would calm down on his own, but instead, he struggled harder. Sighing, Sho worked to set up a tub while Herman continued to struggle." Like a cat that doesn't want to bathe.

Once the tub was ready, he set Herman on his feet but didn't let go," Are you going to strip and bathe willingly, or am I going to do it for you?" Herman grumbled but stated he could bathe himself.

Didn't stop him from trying to make a break for it, which failed after two feet. Sho sighed as he held Herman in place. As he pulled off his shirt, "Why are you even fighting the fact that you need a bath?" Herman tried to twist around to the ground, but this only gave Sho the opportunity to put him in a gentle hold and peel his shirt off.

"You reek!" Sho stated," But of course Herman wouldn't care about that." You could contaminate your experiments!" That gave him pause, "your hands were shaking when I got there, you could make a mistake because you're so tired, wasting the effort and time you've already put into it."

"Tha- that's not true!" he sturred as Sho started unbuclking his pants." Yeah it's true, you know you start hulaction when you don't get enough sleep." herman couldn't argue with that and Sho quickly pointed out several more things lack of sleep, bathing and eating that could interfere with his exepemrents.

By the time he managed to lose all of his clothing. Herman had lost the will to fight." Alright, time to get in the tub," Herman didn't say anything as he was lifting into the tub. Set into the warm waters, walking off, Sho came back with a washcloth and a bottle of soap. He waited for a moment to see if Herman would take." If you want me to bathe you, just ask," he mumbled. Herman looked up, "Sure. Bath me."

Sho blinked then glared, something in his gaze caused Herman to quickly amend what he said," Can you bathe me please?" sho gaze softened." Yes." Dipping the cloth under the water, he rubbed it against the bar until it was coated in soap.

Slowly, he washed Herman, running the cloth over his arms and shoulders. The back of his ears. Back then, chest, before reaching below the water. It was a new experience, but not unpleasant washing someone. Intimate, but not in a sexual way. Herman slowly ground himself, relaxing against Sho, feeling days of dirt and grim before washing away.

Setting the washcloth on the edge of the tub, Sho grabbed some shampoo and started washing Herman's hair. With a simple manipulation of mana, he caused some of the bathwater to rise and rain down on the locks, before scrubbing them down to the scalp, and rinsing them again.

"There, that wasn't so bad, was it?" Herman only hummed, relaxing in the warm waters. Sho let him before for the moment, using the messaging system of his ability to check on the other."

["There are so many fucking lizards,"] Takaya shouted through the screen. Sho quickly asked if they needed help, ["not yet, but for some reason there are a lot of these fuckers!"] Mono cut in," Large lizard! Large lizard!"

["We're doing okay,"] Tetsuro tried to assure before screaming as he launched spells." Yeah, I'm gonna have to go help them soon," Sho sighed and grabbed a towel before lifting Herman out of the water, drying him off. He carried him to the bedroom and got him dressed before tucking him in.

"Okay, that part wasn't necessary." Squirming a bit, he settled down. What's next? A class of warm milk?" Sho tilted his head." Do you want one?" Herman side-eyed him for a moment before huffing, "That was a joke, but thank you."

"You're welcome." Sho turned off the lights as he stepped out of the room, quickly leaving the lab after doing some quick cleanup. Putting the sample and experiments in the fridge. He more or less ran up to the surface, then turned and ran towards his friends. He found them in a horde of lizards. Small ones, medium-sized ones, and even larger ones. But what concerns him is the thing watching from a distance.

Focusing some energy into his ki, his vision zoomed in on it. It was the size of the quartz eater. Its tail was longer and its jaw was longer, a shade darker. Its gleaming eyes roamed over the battlefield, then slowly it looked up, meeting Sho's gaze. He nervously swallowed but continued to meet its gaze.

[Lizard king Lv:40]
Shifting commander!

His attention was drawn to the battle when Mono cried out. He saw a slasher cutting into his friend's side. He didn't even think as he moved, rushing to his friend's side, kicking the lizards into he air. Sending it flying before casting a healing spell on Mono. The green glow quickly stopped the bleeding, and a second closed the wound. Though it looked tender and fresh, Mono could move.

Thanks!" monos mumbled as the lizard started attacking them. Sho raised a shield. Clocking flying scales and slashes. Mono blasted around it, forcing them back. Sho dropped, using the [flash step] to appear and disappear. Throughout the horde of mutant lizards, his fist and spells flashing, whipping around, he kicked a lizard into the ground before he whipped around, calling his hands, stopping the tail sword of another.

'[blaze!]' The scales swallowed in fire, their owner freaked, freeing Sho to take stock of the liars surrounding him. 'They're focusing on me,' he realized. For a moment, he considered activating the Guyver, but instead focused ki into his legs and jumped more than a dozen feet into the air. “[multi mana blast!]” Slingin' both his arms, he launched 2 dozen mana blasts down on the lizards. Doing it again, even as gravity pulled him back down.

Softening his landing by reinforcing his legs again, Sho looked at the lizards. Most of them hadn't surveyed the barrage. But the few that did were quickly finished off with scale-shattering [ki strikes].

Ignoring the bodies at his feet, he turned to look at the lizard king, who whipped around. Launching scales the size of tires at them!" Move!" [using flash step], Sho grabbed Mizuki and Takaya, as Tetsuro and Mono jumped away on their own, the scales hit like cannons. Shaking the earth, upturning dirt and bodies.

"AH!" Sho twisted, taking the impact of the ground, while Mizuki's already cast shield spelel took the shockwave. "Holy shit!" Mono cried! They were in danger, especially as the lizard began to fire more scales. "Infinit!" he called the fire spirit!" wall of fire!" he nodded before swinging his arm, a wave of fire rising high enough to prevent the king from seeing them.

Not that it stopped alunching scales at them, but they could no longer be seen. To the gamer's surprise, the earth began to shift as a little girl with brown hair and a yellow outfit popped up. Before Tetsuro did the same," You summoned an earth spirit?"

"Yeah, highest defsne, seemed useful." Sho nodded before they all climbed underground. The ground above them shook as saclesed continued to impact. Sho waited a moment before asking Ifrit to start making his way up to the king.

"Great, our first boss monster as a group," Mono mulbed, glaring at the general direction of the monster." Didn't Chronos count?" Tatakya asked. Mono tapped his chin before nodding." This one, we have better chances of beating."

Sho had to agree with that, the king was definitely smarter than anything but the queen. Sho nodded and they talked, trying to come up with a plan. Uptop infinity had reached the cliffside upon which the king stood. Watching the field slowly, waiting like the predator it was.

"It's waiting for us," Sho stated, starting to channel 500 points of mana to his summons. The spirit was quickly channeling that power into a massive fireball." Are you ready?" They nodded, hesitantly, then Tetsuo spoke to his summons, causing the cave to shift into a tunnel leading straight for the hills.

"Here you go!" the elemental chubkled, launching the fireball fireclty at the lizard. Created and launched in under 30 seconds, the massive beast could only jump down the cliffside. As the fireball exploded against the ground.

The king hid in the slop, hard bouncing away to flare ground. At the same time, the hole in the ground opened up," Udine!" Mizuki shouted, and moisture in the air quickly converged into a stream of water that quickly struck the lizard in the face. Forcing it to turn its head." [lighting!]" The energy cracked around her, had before it raced through the water." The king roared!" whipping its tail at them.

As they scrambled, Sho watched that tail. 'It's changed shape!' Its shape, individual scales that have fused together into a single blade with a serrated edge. As he saw it cleaved through a rock, Sho knew whatever for it took the tail was dangerous.' Then let's take it off,' between [flash step] and [stealth].

Along with his fires unleashing their own attacks, the lizard king didn't notice until Sho was slashing his hand against his tail." AHH!" The scales were solid, only cut a few centimeters deep. As he gained some distance, he saw the lizard king's gaze lock onto him. It tried to swig its tail at him. "Raising both hands, Sho caught the blade, letting it force him back. Tatsuro and Mono are blasting the lizard from the other side.

Pulling one hand back and forming it into a fist, Sho suddenly dropped flat against the ground, as the apandage passed over him. He threw it right into the scales, wincing as he felt the slaves hold steady. "Oh come on!" he grunted under his breath. He had over 50 points in strength. Almost 60, plus the warrior's passive skill.

Thus, the creature's defense was strong, probably equal to that of the quartz eater. Gritting his teeth, he moved. Rolled around the ground to prevent the tail from slamming down on him, Sho flipped to his feet. Right into the face of mouth pulled of fangs," WO!" catching the teeth with his hands, Sho launched a mind knife into its mouth. 'Oh, the breath!'

The king howled and reared back, Sho holding tight to its teeth. Sure, this works,' he thought before launching a mana blast down its gullet. Sheierks skilling into his ears, but he didn't stop. Launching off more mind knives and mana blast.

Tetsuro used his earth spirit to cause the sound under the king to shift into sand, dragging the lizard down. "Infirnt, would you be willing to drop down there through?" the spirit looked over his shoulder, down the king's throat, dark, wet, and just straight up foul-smelling. "No, thank you." Sho nodded before.' zalgad's lessons on targeting weakness came to him in the worst way.' Oh, am I going to regret this!' Sighing, he felt the lizard swish his head upward, trying to dislodge him.

Removing his feet, he swung with the motion. When the head reached its peak, he threw his weight forward, sending him flying down the throat. "[ki edge!]" Both hands casoted in the blade of ki hew grew them and drove them into the sides of the lizard king's throat. Blood spraying out. The warm fluid coated him, even as his visibility drooped low.

Eventually, he slowed to a stop, both hands still spread down. Panting, Sho held himself, feeling more and more blood spreading over him. 'Oh, this is going to stain horribly,' sighing, he looked at where he could feel the blood.

'Another bad idea!'

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"I can't believe he jumped down its fucking throat!"  Takaya couldn't hold back his outrage. He continued to launch spells into the howling beast's face. "Damn it, he could die!" Tetsruo shouted. That wasn't true. In response," Look," he pointed to where blood was dripping from the lizard's mouth, "he's attacking it from inside, where its scales can't protect it!"

Mizuku hoped that he was okay, as Udine helped her prepare a large attack, collected water in the air, and slowly formed it. 'Alright, ready,' as thought watching Mono and Takaya blasted the lizard into the kness. Not enough to break through the scales, enough to crack them. Enough to force the creature to buckle. 

At the same time, its howling stopped as it began to choke, but it still swung its tail. Only hindered briefly by the stone gnome, continued to rise at Tetsuro's command. Swinging its entire body around, it smashed through all of the pillars until its tail was headed right at them. "Shi-!" Takaya wouldn't have gotten the chance to finish.

The lizard choked harder, hacking and shaking its head. Like it was trying to shake something out of its throat. 'Is that blood?' It was red, leaking through teeth as the lizard began to thrash more and more. To Takaya's confusion, 'what is going on?' the answer came when the lizard slammed its body against the ground, slinging upward in a mountain that sent Sho flying out of its mouth. The teen was covered and surrounded by the lizard's blood.

"[blood magic]" the blood on his skin and clothing pulled away, swirling and grabbing all the blood suspended around him. Forming a ball behind him," [blood arrows.]" from the ball, arrow after arrow of crimson blood fire off. 

The Lizard King turned its face away from the barrage. Letting the many arrows strike its side, as it turned to try and eat Tetsuro. "Wow! [Earth pillar]!" The stone rose from he ground, snapping the creature's mouth closed just shy of the high schooler. 'That way, way too close,' he quickly ran, the lizard king starting to follow after him. "Oh lord!"

Sho ran out of blood to fire before he hit the ground, but once he did, he activated [flashstep]. 'Not happening!' arriving at the side of the lizard's head. Using the momentum and a ki boost into his legs and core, he struck the side of the kind's face. 

"Ah!" he could feel it through his boots, the hardness of the cales, but it was enough to draw the king's attention away from Tetsruo. Sho jumped, avoiding the snapping of its jaws, with enhanced bunche, he struck one of the teeth. Feeling it crack, 'or was that my fingers?' [flash step] backwards, he managed to avoid another angry bite. 

His fire spirit rushed forward, blasting the liard in the eyes while Mizuki trapped one of its legs in ice.' That's probably not going to hold,' she thought as Undine caught the other legs in a vortex of water. Mizuki quickly froze it before the lizard reached Sho, 'Okay, taking its throat worked. But they still needed to finish this, the ice was already cracking, he thought of using the [unstable burrage].' Not yet. The Guyver?' No, he couldn't rely on that too much.' The fire spirit came down next to him, looking at the lizard.' Sho breathed deeply, drawing in the mana in the air. Whatever he did, he used a lot of mana. 'Taking control of its blood proved harder than I thought.' 

Resting his hand on the ground, "Ifirit, will you lend me your power?" The spirit giggled." Of course." They watched the lizard break free. Sho launched himself forward, opening his gear, and equipped the [slasher armguards]. Jumping over its mouth, he landed on its nose. "Ifirit," he poured in ki through the arm guard, not only fortifying it. But sharpening the edge. Ifirits flamed, licking the weapon," HA!!!" he slashed through the king's right eye.

[critical!!]
[right eye blinded, lizard king's vision field decreased by -50%]

It roared, bucking, sending Sho flying. Twisting mid air. He launched a mana bolt at the other eye. Landing on the ground, he rushed forward, slipping under the massive lizard, and swung the burning blades into the gaps of its scales." Aim between the scales!" The rest of his team nodded, one by one striking between the scales. Dealing damage to the lizard, even breaking scales freely. The lizard whipped around, trying to catch one of them under its claws between its teeth. That's not to say that it didn't come close; it definitely would have caught one of them if they weren't watching each other's backs. Mostly Sho with his [flash step] skill, 'my legs are starting to hurt.' he hadn't realized he had pushed the flash step so far.

Coming to a stop, he looked at the lizard king, its remaining eye zeroing in on him. SHo calmed himself and took a stance, making a taunting beckoning motion. "Bring it on," the energy coating his fist became unstable. "Now I think it's time to end this," the king whipped around, tail tearing up the ground on its path toward Sho." SHO!"

"HA!" Standing his ground, he struck the tail before it could strike him. He grit his teeth as the recoil forced him back a step, digging his toes down, he rushed forward and swung. The scales cracked under the first blow, shattered into the fourth. 

Opening his fist into a blade, he swung at the vulnerable skin. Slicing into the tail. The king roared and tried to pull its tail back.  Whipping some blood from his syes, Sho acted quickly, running up the tail, as he did, smashed through the scales. A path clear up to the lizard king's head. It was trying to throw him off, screaming as blood and scales rained down. In a last ditch, it whipped its head, trying to throw him off.

Sho jumped with the force, twisting mid-air.' Focusing the last of the unstable energy into one fist. "HA!" he brought it down directly onto the lizard's head.  Between its eyes." The scales' flesh and bone are cracking under the force. The king let out a short roar before its face was slammed into the dirt. "Ah, wincing at the recoil, he landed on the ground. Stumbling as the pain traveled up his body.  Patning, he shackling stoo up, the lizard king tried to raise its head. But mizuki and tetsuro. Acted with their spirits. Bindings of ice and stone, holding down its head, while Mono, driving a stone spear into its other eye. 

It only went a few inches deep, but blood still poured from the wound. Walking closer, Sho knew they had to finish this. Climbing up the neck, he walked over to the wound he had left in its skull. "This should finish it," the last of his ki focused into the blade around his hand. steaching more than a foot and as tough as he could make. 

Tetsruo's binding crack just as Sho moved, pouring as much speed and strength into the attack. Through the crack in the king's skull and into his grey matter." The lizard king seized, before dropping still to the ground.

[lizard king defeated]

"Sighing, he stepped off the body, as it started turning into light. 'That's both the queen and king,' he turned and walked towards the loot. 

[king slasher scales]
The slashing scales of a mutant lizard king, durability, and sharpness like that of a steel blade.

Crafting ingrenat

[King shooter scale]
The shooting scales of a mutant lizard king, with sharpness and durability like steel. 

Crafting ingredient.

[lizard king's heart]
The heart of a mutant lizard king 

[skill book: lizard authority]
The ability to exert authority over lizards 

"Well, this is a good haul." Sho was quiet for a moment as he picked up the loot. 'I'm glad we prevented it from using the commander's title. Turning, Sho quickly climbed out of sight." What was that about?" Tetrsuo shrugged before going after him. They quickly found him in what could only be the lizard king's nest. A giant egg sitting in the middle." I'll be about 2 weeks before this hatches, and we can train against the lizard king again."

Tetsuro asked how he knew it was there. Sho said the queen had one as well." So what are you going to do with it?"  Sho tilted his head," Leave it here, what else could I do?" When Tetsuro pointed out that he could make it one of his familiars, he almost smacked his head. "Of course I could." Reaching out, he grabbed a piece of his mental energy and life force.  Both slowly feed through he shell, not only making an imprint but also helping the lizard grow before completing the familiar contract.

[lizard king egg] has been added to the [familiar] list.] 

Sho smiled," I guess I should head down to the lizard queen, oh! I can introduce you all to Herman." "Mizuki tilted her head," Who the fuck is Herman?!" 

Introducing Herman to his friends went like introducing a distrustful stray cat, except Herman didn't have claws; he had a stun pistol and dangerous chemicals. So he brought each of his friends in and introduced them, but Herman kept his distance. 

Sho ended up distracting him with the lizard king egg. He explained he had turned it into his familiar, and they were going for the queen's egg next." When they hatch, I'd like to observe them, the ability to shift and assumeulate quarts may shine some light on he situation." Sho nodded, and everyone rested up before heading down further until they reached the queen's cave." Oh, she's smaller than the first."

"This is smaller!" Mono's screams started, and the queen whipped around with her quarts covered tail. If they hadn't moved, it could have crushed them. The battle was hard and long, without using the Guyver. Sho knew he couldn't hope to tank even one quartz shot. It was mostly evasion that saved their lives. Chipping through the queen's defense until they reached flesh, drawing blood. Sho is literally pulling out blood to weaken the queen before launching it back onto vulnerable points. 

His newly acquired [lizard authority] didn't even begin to affect the queen beyond pissing her off. This turned her attention away from his friends. It almost got him crushed into paste several times. I'm gaining so much experience with [flash step] today,' he thought, sliding to a stop under the queen, using [blood drain] to pull blood from a leaking wound. The queen stumbled at another surge of weakness.

Sho shaped the blood into a thin needle, seeing it between the queen's scales before slowly forcing it to widen to the point his hands could fit. He struck his hands in, forcing the blood into a blade, infusing his ki into it. Sharpening the edge before he gutted the queens. A horrid smell filled the cavern, and the sound of the queen's organs was almost worse.

Mono retching behind him was an equally horrible noise. Sho felt like joining him as he looked at the creatures he had just gutted. Still trying to stand and fight, compressing the blood further, he walked up to the queen's head." Don't worry, I'll end this soon." Raising the blade up, he rotated the edge like a chainsaw, patting her head, and he severed her heart in one move. 

[You've defeated [lizard queen]
18,754exp
Level up

"Watching the body turn to light before jumping up to her quartz-covered nest, where he repeated the process of making it his familiar before lifting up the egg and carrying it. Handing it over to Tetsuro before taking the loot and leading the way back up to Herman's lab. While he was running some scans on the king's egg, he ran some scans on the queen's egg when Sho handed it over.

"Oh god, that fight wasn't easy." 

"I definitely almost died twice." 

"Sorry," Sho apploizzed, pulling out some drinks from his inventory." I didn't-" Takaya cut him off," dude, if we didn't want to come, we would have said no." Mono waved his hands, not to mention this is pretty cool. An underground lab, this is something straight out of a sci-fi manga or movie," he snickered. "Besides, this is great, aren't we up against bioengineered weapons?"  Sho blinked. The opposition was definitely based on science, so Herman's help would be vital to easing the fight. "He's busy with a personal project right now," but after that, he might be able to convince him to develop something to fight against the zoanoids. He already studied the makeup for some of them." Takaya mentioned a bath, to which the Sho responded with where the bath was. After asking and getting Herman's permission, Tetsuro, Mono, and Takaya headed off while Mizuki headed to powder her nose.

It took Sho a moment too long to understand what that meant, so he decided to hang with Herman, who was looking over the results of the test. "The mutants of the lizards have really progressed further than I originally thought. Being able to do this, the king and queen are much more complex creatures than they appear."

Sho hummed, looking at the results himself. "I think I need to read more biology and genetics books." he was so quickly lost by the information on screen, some of it he could understand, like the proteins and acids. But what it all meant, and especially in relation to each other, was lost on him. 

"I heard your conversation earlier, about me helping you in your fight against your enemy." Sho quickly told him he didn't have to; Sho already didn't have a choice in this battle. He's already dragged several people into it. He didn't want to drag more people into it. "Honestly, I've got nothing else going on when I finish the serum…and I am thankful for you visiting me." he was blushing furiously. Sho smiled," You're welcome. But you don't have to repay me by risking your life."

"My life is worth much," Sho's smile dropped quickly," but mostly I'd be helping with research and such. I don't think I'll be in that much damage."  Sho sighed, "I guess you're right. Just be careful, I don't want you hurt because of me." Herman agreed he didn't want to get hurt either. "So, about your payment, are you going to do the usual things?"

"Mm, I'd like to try something more if you're willing."  Herman tapped a few buttons, "I've just entered a good amount of data. And it needs to run through the algorithm before any next steps, so I can spare some time." 

He stopped in front of he console and walked towards the door," Hey, where are you two going?" They stopped at the sound of Mizuki's voice, as Sho started stuttering. "I'm paying Sho with sexual favors." 

"Oh," it was harder to tell whose face got redder faster, Sho or Mizuki." I'm going to use him as a conduit." Sho quickly explained, unable to look her in the face, but at the same time unable to truly look away from her. Mizuki looked back and forth between them. She didn't look grossed out, mostly stunned." Okay, I'll leave you to it."  

"Well, be off," Sho started leading Herman out. Who saw a chance to fuck with Sho? 'She isn't going to join us?' he asked in his most fake innocent voice. Sho glared at him. The intimidation factor was lowered by the way he was blushing. "Why would she join us?" he hissed. Herman shrugged. "Can't she help with it. You've not explained how this works all too much."

"Well, she could," Sho mumbled. "I can," Mizuki cut in, showing that she was still listening. "Sorry." 

"If fine, and yes. There isn't an actual limit to the number of people. But unless you have everyone on the same page, you can end up with a rather chaotic mess. And everyone has to consent to it. So you don't have to force yourself to help with this?" he told both of them. Herman shrugged, stating he didn't mind paying Sho back like this. "I'm kind of curious, so I could help. Only if you're willing to have me!" She nervously waved her hands around, unable to look at them.

"I don't mind," Herman started seeing just how flustered Sho was. "I don't mind either," the brunette spoke barely audible. Taking a deep breath." Well, if we're going to do this, we need to agree on our safewords. Then agree on what we're doing." That wasn't exactly hard, since Sho already had an idea, Mizuki and Herman agreed to follow his lead. Which wasn't nerve-wracking at all." 

Inside an empty room, he had Mizuki lock the door while he prepared his heart. 'This is going to be a different kind of nerve-wracking.' Turning, he looked at Herman and Mizuki, who were both nervously waiting. Straightening his back, he looked at her." Herman, take off your lab coat." The scientist removed it without any extra," stop!" Sho said before Herman could throw it to the ground. "Fold it," he said in a firm tone." Then place it on the ground."

Oh! Herman shifted a bit as he did so. 'That was definitely different,' he reached for his shirt, but Sho had him stop. "Take off your right shoe. Then you're left." Doing it slowly, he felt Sho's eyes never leave his form. As he set his shoes by his coat," Good, now your belt." Undoing the buckles, he pulled it free from the loop. 'Why are my hands shaking?' his heart was racing, and he was only taking off his clothing.

"Give it to me," Sho commanded in his firm, even tone. "Thank you," he said, taking the belt. They brushed hands, and Herman almost jumped back, but Sho didn't comment on it. Only continue with that firm and gentle tone, getting her man out of his pants, folding them, and setting them down on his pants. He got praised again, which made his heart leap a little. "Fold your arms behind your back, and spread your legs, don't lock them." 

When he finished moving, Sho stepped forward and tapped Herman's legs a little wider with his foot. "You doing good!" Sho assured brushing a hand up Herman's back. He leaned away for a sec before leaning into the touch. "I'm going to tie you up, is that okay?" Herman nodded, finding his voice stuck in his throat. "Can you say it for me?" 

"It's okay to tie me up." Sho wove his mana into a rope and got to work. He moved with grace and practiced movement, lopping the ropes around Herman's neck and back, tying a tight knot in the back before trailing the ropes around his wrist. The focus he was giving the action was doing things to Mizuki's heart. It was jumping like a rabbit while the attention and care he was giving to Herman had it melting.

'What is going to do to me?" she could help but wonder, trying not to fight. Done with Herman's arm, he dropped down to his ankles, connecting with a thick braid of rope, before standing, trailing a hand on Herman's side. "How's this?"

"Good," Herman found himself saying, it was tight but not chafing, secure but also at someone's mercy.  Alright, grabbing Herman's folded coat and pants, he brought them before him, "kneel," he commanded, pressing down on his shoulder, helping him down onto his knees. "There you go." 

'Alright, you can do this sho,' he adjusted his underpants before turning to Mizuki. She tensed when she saw him lock in on her, but still gave her best encouraging smile. As he stepped forward. "Let's start with your shoes, take off your left." She bent down and quickly undid the lace and stepped out of it." Now you're right."

"Set them down slowly and neatly, no reason to rush." Once they were set down," good girl." Oh, wow, that was doing something, Sho continued to command her to strip off most of her clothing, except her shirt and panties. Nice red, once it took all of Sho's composure not to just stare at them. She looked so pretty, and wow, it was doing things to have his crush like this. 

Even more when she let him tie her up, he knew what a sign of trust this was. Once she was tied up, he helped her kneel down before Herman, so they were looking each other in the eye. Sho took a step back and just took in the sight of them both, licking his lip. "Color?" they both answered green after a moment.

"Alright then," flexing his hands, he prepared himself for the next part. Kneeling down, he rubbed Mizuki's stomach, fingering the edge of her underwear. With a shaky breath, he reached lower, rubbing over her panties, rubbing her clint. Mizuki was shaking in nerves and excitement; she could feel Sho trembling as well.  Sliding his hand between her legs, he felt out the mound, slipping his fingers under the fabric, gently guiding his fingers between the fold." Mm!" Mizuki squirmed as the intrusion sho slowly rocked his fingers back and forth. [sex magic: lube] active, slowly wetting the hole even though he could feel her quivering and getting wetter around him.

Pulling his finger out, he played with one of their nipples for a moment. Planning a chaste kiss on her neck before turning to Herman's, who was already tenting his briefs from the show. Reaching down, he rubbed it, feeling the member twitch against his hand, rubbing his palms against the head. Herman did his best to keep quiet. 

Moving behind Herman, Sho kept his hand on the other's cock, slipping his fingers around one of Herman's nipples, pinching and rolling it between his fingers.  Briefing, reaching under the cotton to run his finger along the slit of the cock, feeling a bit of precum before moving on. Then he moved back to Mizuki. He switched between teasing them before. *SMACK!*" AGH!" Herman jumped as Sho suddenly spanked him on the ass. Followed by another, biting his lip, Herman managed to keep his voice inside. 

After five, he turned over to Mizkui. He hesitated for a moment, but Manghead did it. "Mm!" she yelped. She managed to brace herself for the next few hits before Sho fetched down the front of her painties against her fingers before going over to herman.

Sho repeated this, give pleasure then pain, the two sensations mixing into a dizzying haze for the two bound teen's until they were panting and flushed from the neck up." you doing so well," he planted a kiss on both of there cheeks." you both turning so pink. Do you want to continue?" he asked rubbing there rears." yes," mizuki was almost suprised by how egerly she answered but the heat in her lowerhalf was demanading more. Front and back.

"I'm good," Herman answered after a moment. "Mm," Sho responded, wiggling his toes, "what's wrong?" Herman tried to tell him it was nothing," Tell me what's wrong?" she asked in a firmer tone. "My leg fell asleep." Sho nodded before helping Herman stand and stretch his legs. Once he was, he brought Herman over to the bed before going over to get Mizuki and helping her stretch. 

'Okay, you can do this, Sho,' he reminded himself before reaching into his [inventory], pulling out a wooden ruler. It gave it a tap again with its own hand to try and measure its damage. It was clear it was going to sting very much, worse if he coated it in energy. 'Why would I do that?' he wondered to himself. Then she remembered Miuzki knew several defensive spells. 'Something to keep in mind, I guess.'

"These have to come down," he pulled down Herman's briefs. His member bouncing free, Sho gave the head of the shaft a brief kiss, hearing herman ghaps before sho turning and pulling down mizuki's underwear and her clint a kiss. Then he pulled some focuses out. Glass ones he' made himself.

[glassowkring (passive) Lv: 13]
The art of creating a variety of things using glass as a medium through a variety of techniques.

+17% glassworking speed
-17% chance of failure

[glassbeed spell focus]
Glass beads crafted by the gamer, turning into focuses. 

Spell limit low rank spell for 1 week
Duribtly:23/23

It was surprisingly easy to gather the marails for a glass, working with earth magic. Made it easy to practice Vakora, who taught him a spell that turned glass back into raw materials. 

Anyway, bind the beads into a line with threads of mana. One by one, he slipped the beads up Mizuki's pussy. Hearing her gasp and twitch with each one that slides inside." Hold tight,"  he runs his wet finger along the side. Sliding it down her thigh." You took them so well," Mizuki mewwed as Sho turned to Herman, who whipped his head away, acting like he hadn't been watching and was twitching in eagerness. 

Gently bending herman over the sho cast [sex magic:clease], before [sex magic: lube] caoting a finger in fresh lube. He slowly rubbed a circle around the rosebud until it relaxed enough that he could push a single finger. It sat at the first knuckle as he heard Herman tremble, whining and panting. Squeezing down on his finger, when he relaxed enough, Sho rocked the finger deeper until Herman was taking the entire thing. Sho rubbed his back and gave soft praise, spreading lube around the pink walls. 

Until it was loose enough that Sho could slip the five focus inside of it. "There in, he whispered into Herman's ears, who shivered, feeling the breath against his ear. Goosebumps across his skin, he couldn't help but shift a little, feeling the beads inside him. Shifting around, touching places. His cock dripped under him. Stroking it with a thumb, he readied the ruler. 

"AAAH!" Herman's eyes popped open, fire blooming across his rear. He pressed his face into the bed, trying to keep his voice down, as the second came down. Lurching forward, dick rubbing against the palm of Sho's. It stings like hell and high water, so why? So why was he getting harder in the Sho grip? The sting of the ruler leaking into the pleasure of his dick, the two warring against each other and mixing.

It still took him by surprise when," mmm!" he moaned, leaning into a hit. The noise took Sho by surprise, swallowing a great deal of his lust. He rubbed the now dark pink and heated flesh. "You're doing so good," a low whine rumbled from Herman. Giving him a bit of praise, Sho turned his attention to Mizuki, slipping his fingers inside her, rolling the beads before bringing down the ruler. 

"AH!" Mizuki bit back as Sho rubbed the ruler against the mark before bringing it down again. Mizuki jumped each time the ruler came down, moaning as Sho curved and rocked his fingers inside her. Tugging on the beads, teasing to pull them out of her. "Opps, he meyyered as one popped out, gently guiding it back inside before returning to tanning her hind until it was a delicious bright red. Reaching deeper, he felt all the focus, shivering at how warm and wet she was. How she clung to his digits! 

"Mm," he jumped, feeling a spark of energy from the focus. Rolling his fingers around, he felt out the charging focus. Switching back over to Hermna, he felt the focus that was charging inside him." You're both doing so well, the focus is charging. Are you okay to continue?"

Yeah," Mizuki breathlessly muttered, honestly, if Sho stopped, she might be pissed. This cocktail of pain and pleasure was mouthwatering. Herman muttered his answer, a little embarrassed. Still, as he heard the rustle of clothing, he looked up and watched as Sho finally took off his pants. Singing in relief as his cock came free. 

Giving it a brief stroke, he flipped the two flushed teens over. Giving the tip of Herman's dick a kiss, he licked a drop of pre-cum from the slit. "A! Mm," the scientist moaned, whining, needy. Sho gave him a smile before  trailing kisses down to his balls, giving the right one a suck before licking his way back up to the top." AAH!" Herman didn't get a chance to hold his voice in before Sho wrapped his lips around the tip. Licking the glans softly before slowly taking more of the member. Until it touched the back of his mouth, slowly bobbing his head, he listened to Herman moan and mew.

Mizuik squirmed, watching the Sho, the bound male arching his back, trying to push his member deeper into her friend's mouth. Toes curling and twitching, he slowly blew Herman onto completion, feeling his seed slash over his tongue. The hot and salty fluid, as Herman weakly moaned.

[You've safited Herman Reed]
145exp

"Do you think you can continue?" Sho watched as Herman twitched, probably feeling the focus sparking with power inside him. Still, he nodded,  wiggling as Sho undid the binding around heram's legs. "Come here," he lifted up Mizuki so she was lying right next to Herman, where he slipped his fingers inside her, wiggling and spreading them. Rolling the beads around, using his other hand, he slowly rocked his finger back into herman. Warming him up to a second and then a third, all while Herman weakly moaned but eagerly clung to his fingers. Pulling them out with a pop, he pulled out a [slime condom] from his [inventory], quickly rolling it down his member, lathering it with lube before rubbing the length along the entrance. Feeling the quivering rosebud through the condom while he continues to finger Mizuki. Leaning over her, he gave a kiss on her neck, moving down as far as he could in this position before going back up.

Mizuki was moving her hips as much as she could in the rope, trying to get the fingers deeper. The ropes were straining and biting into her. Sho turned to look at Herman in his half-lidded eyes." Ready to continue?" he nodded, and Sho slowly pushed his hips forward.

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Encountering a moment of resistance, he added more lube while steadily pressing forward. Slowly, the muscle gave way to let him slip inside. Slowly inched himself deeper, rocking slowly, until he was fully seated inside." Ugh." Letting out a sigh, he looked down to see Herman pressing his face into the bed. Trying to keep his voice down. "You don't have to keep quiet", he assured as he rubbed Herman's side.

After giving a moment, Sho asked if he could move, to which Herman nodded. He slowly started rocking his hips,  grinding against Herman. Feeling him tense and relax, it took him a few tries before he found the sweet spot. Herman groaning into the sheets, digging in his fingers, trying to stay quiet, 'If I keep making noise like this, then," AH!" Sho found the prostate," slowly he followed that same path, hitting it twice more fast before switching to slower, steadier pumps. Sho ran his hands up Herman's back, dragging his nails around his ribs until he reached the nipple. 'Ah, there hard,' Herman groaned into the sheets, tensing all over again as Sho slowly played with them.

Rubbing his fingers over them before giving the right a small pinch. Herman ed hinnwed,' fuck oes this feel so good. His ass and nipples, they've never felt like this before. His dick hung between his legs, hard and twitching, as he slowly started rocking his hips as much as he could. Trying to get Sho deeper and touching that spot that sent sparks up his spine.

Pulling out, he flipped Herman onto his back," I want to see your face," he simply explained. Herman's face blazed red as he refused to meet the gamer's eyes." It didn't help that he pushed right back. It went in so easily.' 

"AH, ugh!!!" This new position not only made it easier for Sho to reach his prostate, but Herman also found it harder to keep quiet. He tried to cross his arms over his and mouth, but they were bound while the person responsible was pounding away at his ass." damn it, AH!" moaning, he threw his head as Sho finally wrapped his fingers around his aching and wanting member.

Giving up on trying to maintain some kind of dignity. Fuck he wanted to come, he wanted to feel good. He moved his hips erratically, slamming against Sho's hips, trying to force the member, feeling it ram into his prostate, drips of precum pooling on his stomach. Panting louder, feeling the riding, he wasn't going to last much longer. Sho's own actions are growing more erratic. "AH!" he shouted as Sho suddenly pulled him closer, lifting his bed, allowing him to pound him deep and hard.

"AH AH i-AH I'M CUMAH!" Herman cried out. Sho's fingers twisted around the head of his cock. He came hard, arching off the mattress, load firing onto his stomach, Sho continuing to move his hands and hips, milking him through the release.

"Ugh!" throwing his head back, Sho came himself, spilling his seed into Herman's velvet walls. Panting lightly, he leaned closer and pressed his mouth into Herman's neck.  Peepepring, it was small kisses. Herman groaned, trying to turn away from the action, only to expose more of his neck.

[You've satisfied Hereman Reed]
[-10Lp]
energy transformedd]

 Sho took advantage of it, kissing the neck more before pulling back, and slowly pulled his member from the hole. Watching his seed drip out for a moment, Sho's cock jumped again.  He helped Herman into a more comfortable position before he turned to Mizuki," Do you want to continue?" 

Her eyes were dripping down to her wet cunt." You're joking, right?" If he tried to stop, she might lose it with the need she had right now. Throughout that entire display, she couldn't take her eyes off it. Worse, she couldn't do anything about the build-up of heat inside her cause her arms were bound.  It was a new form of totore, and she might be into it.

"Alright," trailing his finger up her thigh, he gazed at her slit. Swiping up some of the fluid she leaked, casting [clease] on his dick, he slid on a condom. Letting it rest against the slit, he looked her in the eye, the sound of his racing heart threatening to drown out everything, he didn't think it was possible to be this excited yet oh so terrified. Licking his lips, he slowly rocked his hips, sliding his member against the opening.

Mizuki whined, trying to rock her own hip to generate more friction, but Sho was holding her tight down. She could barely wiggle," Sho, please." damn, she couldn't take more of this gentle teasing. She wasn't sure if he was just nervous or being mean." Sorry," he apologized, pulling back and lining up his member.

Exhaling, he slowly let out a breath, pushing in slowly. The teens groaned as one, "Ah." Mizuki yelped as the head reached deeper into her. The stretched burned a bit, but she only wanted more until Sho was fully seated in her. Letting out a sigh, she looked up at Sho, who was watching her face. 

They still panting for a moment before she nodded, signaling he could move. He started slowly, cautiously, and experimentally. Not sure how to angle his motions and hips. Listening to Mizuki's reactions, he quickly followed them, putting more force and speed behind his motions. Confidence growing as he listened to her moan and groan, growing wetter around his dick.

His balls slapping against her as he rapidly thrusts into her, watching Mizkui's head turn, and wiggling. She squirmed,  even as Sho lifted his hips, gaining him easier access. Taking one hand off her hip, he slowly felt his way up her body until he reached her breast. Slowly, he cupped it, feeling the soft mound of flesh.  Giving it a small squeeze, he heard Mizkui gasp. Feeling his own heart jump. Snapping forward, he started kissing her neck, "Ah!"; Mizuki shivered each time she felt Sho's lips on her neck. His entire body pressing against fucking her with his full weight, he was reaching so deep and hard that it was making her head spin.

Slowing down, Sho evened out his breathing, taking in her flushed and aroused expression. He almost came right there at that moment. 'Keep it together!' he damn near shouted at himself as he slowed his hips to gather his composure before moving again, shaking the whole mattress.

From the side, Herman watched them going at it, the two of them being absorbed in each other's presence. Eyes locked on each other, it felt wrong to watch them like it was intruding on something intimate. Much more than the intercourse he had with [the gamer], but he couldn't turn away; he didn't think he wanted to. 

He groaned a little as his cock fought to harden again,  his used hole itching for more. But he didn't want to verbalize this embarrassing want,  so he bit his lips and watched as Sho dug his toes into the sheets for more leverage, slapping his hips into Mizuki's faster, going a bit more erratic. Panting into Mizuki, he wanted her; he couldn't last much longer like this. Grabbing, rubbing her right breast, he pinched the nipple, drawing another moan from her." I'm not going to last much longer either." Pulling Sho closer, she found herself moaning into his ear, pushing him to move even faster and faster.

"AH!" he came to a call, quivering as he came, stretching out the condom. Mizuki shivered as she felt it. Haruto continued to slowly rock his hips, pushing Mizuki over the edge. He felt her fluid hitting his hips as he panted, groaning. Slowly, he pulled out and pulled the condom off. 

[You've satisfied Mizuki Segawa]
150 exp gained
[-10lp]
lp tranfured]

"Are you okay?" he asked. She nodded, and he looked at Herman. Who also nodded," reaching over, he retrieved the focuses. Most of them were glowing, feeling the energy within them, he smiled before tucking them into his [inventory] before pulling out some water, wet wipes, pieces of candy, and snacks.. Unting them, he whipped them down, before feeding and watering them." You don't have to do this," Mizuki groaned, even as she ate a piece of chocolate. "I want to, and I should."  Slowly, he gave them both attention until they were ready to get dressed and stand on their feet.

"So what are you going to do with the focus?" tilting his head," well maybe i'll use them by themeslevs or use them in something else. Reaching into it, he pulled out and gave a third of focuses to herman and then a third to mizku." here these are yours," when herman tried to argue with him, he pointed out they helped him make it. They deserved a part of it.

"Thanks," Herman stated before walking off. Mizuki looked at the focus. thinking about how they were made, "So what ideas do you have?" Sho smiled as they talked as they went and joined the rest of their group. Sho found it abit hard to look at Tetsuro after doing his sister. But he could never regret getting that close to her. 'Nothing could bring down this mood.'

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"Alright, final exams begin now!" Sho looked at his paper. Turning over to the first few questions, despite how nervous he felt remembering that the exams were coming, he was surprisingly relaxed between his studying and his increased intelligence stats. Still, he took it slow and steady, not letting his confidence blind him.

He was glad he did; there were still a few questions that tripped him up.  He was so focused on the test he almost missed the slight presence of someone watching him, boosting his sight with his ki.' damn it, not today.' It was a chronos agent. They weren't doing anything yet, but he didn't trust things to stay that way, so he continued to watch as they set something up, taking measurements and other things. 

As the test came to an end, Sho felt a bit worried. Decided to look for himself. 'Are they trying to keep a better eye on me?'

His worries didn't lessen over the next few days as he continued to see people from Chronos on the school grounds, doing something. It was after the match exams that he found something truly worrying.' A bomb?! [observe]'

[remote c-4 explosive]
A bomb made to mimic the style of a terrorist organization, using several pounds of C4 and a remote detonator, could be used to complete several levels and rooms.

"shiT!" Biting his lips, he looked over the bomb. "I'm kind of glad I read those engineering books." It was enough for him to recognize a transmitter. With a flick of mana, he served the wires to it before opening up the bomb. 'Okay, that's the C-4, so one of these wires should be the trigger.' Looking at the wire, he didn't immediately know how to tell them apart. 

'Screw it," grabbing the bomb, he brought it into a dungeon. Channing ki, through his arm, threw it full force out the window before using a [mana bolt] to see it off. "AHH!" The force of the explosion shatters the windows." damn it!" 

Dushintg himself, another worry came to him, what else was Chronos preparing? Searching the school revealed another bomb in the bathroom, which he quickly dispatched. Checking again the next day to find other worrying things. At that point, he knew he had to warn everyone else as Chronos was definitely preparing.

"Then let's make out on prepartuons, Tetsuro suggested." We don't have to wait for them to react and respond." They all shared a look before discussing their plans. Chronos was clearly planning to cause some trouble during the school day. Hopefully, after the test, but if they didn't, they were going to be pissed. Secondly, they could only form a spread-out defense plan.

Waiting tensely over the next few days of exams, but the first bullets broke through a window. Tearing through mono's shoulder. Splattering blood on his shaven-headed friend, screaming at the top of his lungs. "A gun!" Sho shouted loud enough to be heard in the neighboring class, room. At the same moment, he activated the defensive spells. The next bullets only cracked the window. 'damn it, what kind of rifle are they using?' Draggin his friend closer to the wall, he quickly cut open his shirt and wrapped the wound.' Well, it looked like it went through.'

That wasn't a fine thing! 'They shot my friend!' The two flinched as they felt his murderous intent. Focusing his mental magic, he quickly found the sniper. [Mind blade] jabbing into the man's mind," he screamed through the next shot, way off course, before Sho moved.

He reached out and slashed at the man's life force. The rest of the class had already run out in a panic, which was spreading to the rest of the classes. Sho pulled open the window, glaring at the snipper, almost jumping out of it when he felt a far more familiar mind walk onto campus." Gritting his teeth, he realized there were others joining, zoanoids and humans.

"Damn it, they brought numbers." Closing the window, he blocked another bullet. "Do you two think you can handle the snipper?" Takaya nodded as Sho jumped from the window. "[guver!]" The barrier formed around him, and the light it put off was enough to draw the student's attention. When it faded, a teal creature stood.

"Evicate, there is danger here! Suddenly, it swung its arm, knocking a bullet from the air. Turning to the roof, it stopped, moving and running towards the school yard. Directly towards Oswald," So you've come towards me, very well. Bio-boost!" In a flash of light, the agent was wearing his own Guyver.

The two started it off with each other for a moment, then they burst into motion, activating their high-frequency blades." HHA!" Oswald swung first, throwing his upper head back. Sho slid under the attack, twisting hard, and he kicked the older male directly on the back.

Sending flying into the air, he spun out into a black flip. Landin gon the building wall and launched himself at Sho. Meeting him mid air, Sho swung at his face, Oswald blocked with his elbow and swung his blade at Sho's chest." Guh." The cut already started to heal as they hit the ground. For a moment, the two of them traded blows.

Before Sho found an opening in Oswald's guard, he swung into Oswald's right shoulder. The agent jumped back, firing his head laser nd forcing Sho to retreat as well. The two stared each other down before moving to clash again." It seems you've been practicing."

"What choice do I have? You were never going to leave me alone!"  Oswald responded by firing the laser again. Sho waved and flipped over them. Throwing himself through a classroom window, he took a moment to think, 'I can't beat him in a fight like this.' The Guyvers were more or less equal in power. The wearers made the difference; Oswald had much more practice in material arts.

When Oswald came through the window, Sho snapped out his legs, kicking a desk right into him. It shattered against the armor, in a moment, shaking him long enough as Sho brought his heel down on him. Oswald bounced off the ground once before setting his hand against it. 

He kicked at the younger male who snatched the metal of the desk. Using it to block the kick even as the metal warped, he drove his knee into the older's chest. Checking, he retreated, blocking the metal remains Sho threw at him. 

Sho's next attack was grabbed, followed by a throw over Oswald's shoulder and through a wall. Recovering, Sho grabbed a piece of rubble to block the laser piercing through the smoke.

Dropping the rubble, he shoulder tackled Oswald as he came through himself. Grabbing him, Sho swung him through the air, into the side of the hole. Widening it, he went full circle to the other side before letting go.

Landing before the chalkboard, he unleashed his sonic blast. The windows were completely shattered. "Ahh!" Crossing his arms, he tried to brace himself against the attack. Even though he felt the waves striking his molecules growing excited.

"Ugh! Focus!" he told himself, his own sonic weapon starting to vibrate before he unleashed an all-directional blast that neutralized Oswald's. 'Opposing frequencies, huh?' he thought, watching shake him right. They stared each other down before Sho launched himself across the room.

Their fight carried through the room next door, striking Oswald's knee, which caused him to stumble. Grabbing his head, Sho shoved it into the wall, dragging him several feet before Oswald punched him in the gut. Followed by an upper cut.

"Ugh! Ah! Na! Kof!" Oswald didn't relent for several blows. Grabbing his limb, Sho twists it, leg snapping up and out into Oswald's chest. Switching to the other limb, he kicked Oswald in the chest and sent him flying down the hall. Laning on his hands, the blond sprang back to his feet, just in time to block a flying kick, even though it pushed him back.

Grabbing the limb, he tried to throw the teen, but SHo shot him in the face with the forehead laser." "AH!" he let go on reflex as Sho manghed to land softy, he charged again. Reactivating his sonic blades, he tried to take Oswald's arms. Oswald defended with his own blade, swinging his other to try and take Sho's head."  He ducked, the younger slashed at the ground, forcing Oswald to jump." AH!" As he came down, he swung again at Sho's head.

Crossing his arms over his head, he caught the blade between his own. With a twist os his hips, he sent Oswald tumbling down the hall. Pursuing immediately, he forced Oswald back repeatedly with swings of his sonic blades that did more damage to the walls and ceiling than they did to the agile blond. At the end of the halls, Oswald broke into a run around the corner, putting distance between them and firing his head laser when Sho tried to pursue.

'Damn it,' he thought. 'You knew this wouldn't be easy, sho,' but he was already running into the biggest problem. With the regeneration of the armour, landing a decisive blow was hard. He took a moment to check on the stats of his teammates. 'Their mana has gone down, so they're definitely fighting. But they weren't taking too much damage.' They're safe,' but he had to find Oswald.

'Does this armour have any weakness?' Before he could even begin to worry, he could hear his teacher telling him everything had a flaw, or weakness.' So let's stop and try and think it over,' his own experience wearing the armor, his experience fighting the other guy wearing the armour. 

"The head piece." The last time they fought, it malfunctioned on Oswald's armour. 'Is that that flaw in this armour?' There was only one way to find out. 'Just need to find an opening. The orbs on his helmet shifted, and Sho moved in the nick of time to dodge the fist breaking through he wall. Landing in a roll, he ran down the hall and swung himself into one of the classrooms. 

 Planting his feet, he waited for the moment Oswald would come; he came. Through the wall," WOW!" jumping back, Sho protected his face as the laser ripped through the cloud. Landing, he kicked another dest, Oswald smashed it with a punch, continuing his charge.

Sho met him in the middle of the classroom, the air cleared as they clashed fists, trading punches and kicks. Dropping low, Sho tried to sweep his opponent's legs, but Oswald jumped, flipped into a drop kick. Grabbing the leg, he yanked him closer, driving an elbow directly into his face. At the moment, he was stunned. Sho reached for the metal on his head. 

His fingers just grazed it," AHHH!" Oswald thrashed. Breaking free of hold, "What are you doing?" Oswald cursed, covering his dented metal. "Taking you down!" Sho rushed at him, throwing many punches at his head. Oswald retreated.

Swapping around, he threw his own attack at Sho's head." Wow!" It came within inches of the metal. 'Well, I guess that is the goal of this battle,' spreading his stance, Sho stared down Oswald. He took his own stance.

For a moment, neither of them moved. The ceiling above them shattered, and both of them jumped back as the corpse of a zoanoid fell through. Another dropped through injured, right before an arrow spell pierced through the back of the head." 

Before it even hit the ground, Oswald charged. Sho met his fist with one of his own, grabbing the limbs. He pulled Oswald closer, and his knee snapped out in small motions. Catching it, the blond bent his leg.

Letting go, Sho, duck immediately snapping back up, slamming both palms into the man's stomach. In the bright moment he was in the air, Sho spun, kicking him into the wall. Firing the head laser, he activated his vibrating blades and rushed at him. 

Oswald tried to push away from the wall, but Sho quickly kicked him back. Arms arose, he attacked, 'shit, he's concerning me!' his attack was half focused on keeping Oswald against the wall. While trying to win, not all the blows were aimed at his head. The ones that were, they came spread out. Made them hard to predict and counter, Oswald knew he had to escape. But his back was against the wall. 'Damn it,' smashed both fists onto the concrete. It broke and shattered as he threw himself back through it into a storage room.

Letting out a puff of steam, he prepared for Sho to come through the hole. As the small cuts healed, he didn't come. He stood at the door waiting. Watching them flipping Oswald off. With that action, he opened his right chest plate, revealing his mechblaster organ. The infected lighting started to gather.

Oswald broke into a run, deploying his sonic blades. Sho jumped back, closing the chest plate the moment the other Guyver cleared the hole. Touching the bouncehd forward to meet him, swing his own blade. The blades meet with an ear-splitting cry.  Turning, he managed a series of kicks that forced Sho back, before they met again in a clash of blades. 

Just before one of these clashes, Sho retracted the blade, letting it pass by Oswald's weapon. A moment later, he reactivated it and managed to slice through the man's throat. Blood and fluid flying, choking on his own blood, Oswald grabbed at his throat, feeling it flow between his fingers, down his chest. 

"HA!"  striking Oswald in the gut, he threw a punch at the metal. Throwing his head away at the last second, Oswald dropped as he spun, mangling to slash through the gut of the armour." AHHHH!" almost disemboweling the teen, under his mask, he couldn't stop the burst of tears. Pushing through the pain, he quickly retracted. Feeling the wound healing, he focused, firing the forehead laser, and he whipped around, launching a desk at Oslwald.

In the moment it took the wound to heal, Oswald had opened his own chest plates, 'shit!' There wasn't enough time to try and counter with his own mega blasters! His open option was to dodge! But just as he thought about it, he realized something: the mega blaster had a massive range. It would tear through the city, and many people would die. 'But I'll die if I don't douge,' what would he do! How could he protect himself and others?!

The head metal glowed, the Guyver moving on its own. Hands dropping to the belt buckle, a ball of something forming. The moment the massive laser beam fired on him. He planted his feet and thrust the sphere forward. 

"WHAT!" Oswald watched as the beam was splintered, small bits flying off around Sho. Tearing through the building, mostly into the ground and into the sky. "AAHH!" Sho cried as his fingertips took the brunt of the laser. Burning away in the intense stream of power.

"How!" Oswald shouted, rushed at Sho, but just as he did, his head metal flickered violently! "AHH!" he screamed as the face of his Guyver warped, the face of something else appearing.

[????? LV:???]

Even in his shock, Sho knew an opening; his body moved before he could think it through. With a scream, Oswald somehow managed to change the armor back, just in time for Sho's armored fist to smash into his forehead. They both heard the head metal crack.

[critical hit!]

With the hit, the pieces of the medal popped free. Oswald screamed; it was the last sound he made before his armour melted. Devouring him whole, Sho watched a owslad name disappear, replaced by the question marks of the unknown creature. Hearing his bones snap and shift, smell the change of his flesh. If there wasn't so much fight running through him, he'd hurl at this exact moment.

"AHH!", realigning back, he knew he had to get rid of it. Thinking fast, he dropped out of the armour long enough to drag the creature into a protective space. "Guyver!" There, he opened both the chest plates, revealing both organs. "Mega smahser!" The beam of energy tore apart the creature, and it screamed even as it tried to struggle for its survival. 

But it didn't save it from being reduced to nothing, 

[oswald] defeated]
[????] defeated]

[Level up]
[Level up]

[You've completed a [feat]

There was loot on the ground. Sho put them into his [inventory], staring at the place where Oswald was devoured by his armor. "I'm sorry," a small prayer before he rushed out to help his friends. The remaining battle was bloody; they had taken out most of the other forces. A mix between zoanoids and human soldiers. Not that it made a difference against their magic and taro turning into this massive tiger with two tails. Taro's father appeared, slicing off the heads of anyone who tried to go after his son.

"We did it," they stood on the blood-stained ground. Panting, Mizuki looked over a hole in the wall. "There's a news crew," everyone turned and saw it for themselves. "We should get out of here!" But Mizuki had another idea," Wait!"

"We know Chronos has connections to the government and the news crew, right. Don't you remember what the history teacher said, controlling the news has allowed people to control the narrative and control how history is written." That got everyone to stop. "So we should try talking to them before the story can be written against us," she nodded. Who's going out there?" she only stated the one currently wearing a mask.  Only by one, they turned to look at Sho, who turned and hoped beyond reason that there was someone else.

"Me? But," he's never talked to a group bigger than school presentations. Being on the news, he couldn't do that. "Just imagine everyone in their underwear if it gets too much," groaning, Sho complained and protested. But had no real argument against it. Sighing, he." You're doing it next time!" With that, he scaled the building up from window to window and walked to the edge of the building before the crowd. Looking down, he considered how he was supposed to do this. 

It wasn't long before someone had noticed him, and people were looking and pointing at him. Groaning, he jumped, hit the ground, and jumped onto the fence. The concrete trembled under his feet, "Who are you!" one of the reporters asked, feeling the cameras sho freeze.' shit, what do I call myself!?'

"I…am a guyver. I weilader of a powerful biological armour." he could see he had their attention, he crossed his arms nervously and looked out to the horizon. "The attack today was from the forces of Chronos. As they attempted to kill some students who had caught sight of their activities. When I interfered, they sent greater forces that my friends and I had to fight off. But the threat is over." Unable to think of anything else, he jumped to the next roof and continued jumping away until he could no longer be seen.

[You've completed a hidden quest objective!]

"What?!" he dismissed the armour. Calling up the next screen.

[hidden quest revealed]
Revealed the hidden
The secret organization Chronos has spent too long taking control from the shadows. Bring them out into the forefront before their control is complete. Where they can be judged by the people of the world.

Objective: reveal Chonros' existence to the world.-complete
Reveal a chronos base to the world. 
Reveal a natation headquarters to the world.

Complete objective before xday

Reward: exp, per objective, yen per objective, [???] title all objectives, [???] craftin recipes all objectives

"I don't know any of the last two places could be," but he guessed he could only make do and try it. If people knew, maybe Choronos would forget about him. Or at least spend less energy trying to kill him.

"Doesn't seem like a bad idea either way," so he was going to try it. But for the moment, he was going home. His dad arrived home an hour later in a panic, immediately going to hug Sho." You're okay," he held onto his son tightly, who just melted into his side. "I'm okay," he replied." We're all okay." 

After a long few moments, they separated and talked, Sho making sure his father was okay. Who pointed out that Chronos was probably going to be pissed with the actions he took. He kind of figured, I need to prepare for that." But for the moment, I'm going to enjoy time with my family."

Later that afternoon, the three of them watched the news, but only one station ended up reporting about his presence. Sho knew many people had watched it; his [reputation] menu showed as such.

[You've convinced over 20 people of a second identity, a [repatuion menu] for that identity had been created]
[Your second identity [Guyver] has reached [neutral] with the nation of [Japan]
[You are [at war] with the organization [Chornos]

"Oh, they're really mad,"  but that left the question of what he did with his new national-level reputation. 

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