Canon Fodder Novel CHAPTER 297 SAVE POINT

CHAPTER 297 SAVE POINT

“Okay, from what I can tell this stupid ass thing takes your lifeforce,” I said kicking the Gantz ball.

“Lifeforce?” Kishimoto asked, worriedly. She was sitting against the far wall, holding her legs to her chest. “That sounds bad.”

“It is for that guy,” I said pointing to the Gantz clone that appeared to be slowly dying. He was breathing in ragged breaths, laying in front of the balcony glass window. Absorbing daylight for probably the first ti in years. “And probably you 3.” Pointing at Reina, Kishimoto, and Sei they didn’t appear to like the news.

“But not you?” Sei asked. Chewing on a candy bar she had liberated from one of the many dead bodies my shadow clones were disposing of. She appeared a little bored.

“I have a skill called Nen. Basically it is my lifeforce. As long as I channel Nen into these knobs the Gantz orb works off that. Nen is an acceptable amount of lifeforce to use. I can’t use so much that it would hurt . And it would replenish in a day. Gantz here was making bodies to refill his stock and teleporting a bunch of people here each night. Using too much at once like that will hurt you, but a little at a ti isn’t an issue,” I said.

I had been playing with it and already made so fun toys. The interface for the Gantz orb was fairly simple. Pick and click, channel so Nen into the handles, and it would 3-D print whatever you wanted.

“So what are we going to do with it?” Reina asked.

“Take over the world,” I said, thinking.

“How’s that?”

“I could make an army of my clones,” I said. “They should have all my powers.” Except probably my status screen. My shadow clones didn’t have access so I doubted that these clones would. “Then again I doubt we want a thousand

running around. We would have the sa libido. And you 3 are mine.” I didn’t want to deal with the drama that happened in the Gantz manga, where there were 2 of the sa guy and they fought over the wrong girl.

“Make a clone of ,” Sei said standing up.

“Really?” I asked. “Do I get so identical twin action?”

She blushed. “Maybe not. That might be weird.”

“What? It’s basically masturbation,” I said. Rembering my last ti doing it with Nami, I shivered. Pushing the thought out of my mind. “I’d love an army of all 3 of you. My own Gantz Harem.”

“God you’re insatiable,” Reina laughed. Getting up she moved to the orb. “Who can you bring back to life with this one orb?”

“Got a point there, it has a mory,” I said, thinking. “Hey Gantz? Can we link our life mories to all the Gantz balls?” The man didn’t respond. “Nevermind. If you die, I promise to bury you in a adow.” Moving back inside the ball I played around with the nus until I found what I wanted.

“Interesting,” I said, clicking the button that read ‘scan delay’. Moving over to the Gantz clone I grabbed his arm and pulled him to in front of the orb.

I set him in front of the orb and moved out of the way. A red light shooting from the orb scanned the clone's body. Once it was done I moved back into the orb. Moving screens I clicked Resurrect and held onto the handles while I channeled Nen into them.

Starting at his feet the very pale Gantz clone began to be printed. Naked as the day he was born he stumbled as the printing finished.

“Where am I?” He asked.

“I made a copy of you,” I said, bending down in front of him. “You’re still right there. I assu you’re back to full health now?”

“Wh-why did you do that?” The clone asked, fear in his eyes as he looked from

to his dying body.

“Because you’ve been trapped all your life in here. You deserve to go out in the sun and live,” I said. Slowly he began to relax and I noticed so hope in his eyes. “...And I need answers.”

“O-of course,” he said, standing back up as he flexed his body, feeling his reinvigorated strength.

“How can I link the life mories of us to all of the Gantz orbs in the world?” I asked.

“This button here,” He said pointing to a small blue one. “Push it and it will update every Gantz orb. A long ti ago there was a Master Gantz orb that used to update our weapons and armor. But it hasn’t updated in a few years. I’m not sure why it stopped. Just push the button, do what you want, and the mories should go to all orbs.”

“Aweso,” I said. Filing the information about the Master Gantz Orb away for later. A quest didn’t pop-up so I doubted it was important yet. “Any other cool buttons I should push?”

“Don’t push the red one. It self-destructs the orb,” he said.

“I assud.” It was big and red and said Destruct on it.

“This unlocks the doors, this one sets the temperature inside, this…” he explained all the little buttons and knobs I had been scared to touch.

When he was done I brought the girls up to speed. “Alright, I am going to teach all of you how to use this thing. This could potentially save our lives soday. Gantz is pretty much a save point. As you just saw I scanned his body, and the Gantz clone here had all the mories of his original body,” I said. The healthy one was sitting by the sick one. Consoling him as he died.

“So we won’t be hurt if we bring each other back to life?” Kishimoto asked.

“No. I would stick to 2 people a day, and there should be no lasting effects. I have a lot more lifeforce so I can handle more. I will train you later on how to use your Nen, alright? So Kishimoto you first,” I said. I scanned her body and moved to the other girls. I watched as their picture icons were added to the list. Exiting out I accessed a new master list update I had made and all 3 were on it. “Perfect, you should all 3 be able to be resurrected from any Gantz orb.”

“And you?” Kishimoto asked, stepping up.

“, yes I would like to add

next, but I have to warn you of sothing,” I said. Exhaling slowly I tried to think on how to put this. “You all know I have skills normal people don’t have.” They nodded, a couple rolled their eyes. “If for whatever reason I drop dead, or simply disappear without warning. Wait a little bit and bring

back to life.”

“Drop dead?” Reina asked.

“Yes. Like I could be standing there and drop dead. Or disappear in a cloud of smoke,” I said. “I might do that to other people for fun, but you 3 I will always warn you if I am leaving. If things don’t go the way I want, it might happen. It is related to my skills. I can’t divulge more than that.”

After so more prodding questions that I dodged I stood in front of the orb. The red light scanning

slowly made it all go black. My vision slowly returned to . I was standing in front of a Gantz orb but was in a different place.

Looking around I noticed a few dozen people around . Large black Gantz orbs scattered in front of

I felt my heart begin to beat quickly. Noticing a scared face in front of , I registered it as Kishimoto. Sei then popped her head out of the Gantz orb in front of , and Reina moved closer.

“Wh-what happened?” I rasped as I slowly understood they brought

back to life.

“You just disappeared,” Kishimoto said, tears forming in her eyes. “You mumbled sothing, then poof you were gone.”

“How long ago?” I asked.

“20 minutes,” Reina whispered.

“Fuck!” I yelled. Feeling strength in

I tried to pull up my status screen but it didn’t appear. “World Escape,” I said, nothing happened. “World Escape. World Escape. World Escape.” I repeated over and over.

“What are you saying? I can’t hear you,” Kishimoto said, resting her hand on my shoulder.

“World Escape,” I whispered as tears ca to my eyes. mories of Boa Hancock flashed in my mind. Toru and Reina as well. Won and people that I would never et again as my World Escape failed to activate. They too would have been talking to

and I would have simply disappeared. No explanation as to why.

I tried to rember where I had left people last. Hancock, Nami, and Robin had my Chikyugi Link. They could have felt my disappearance. Toru, I thought I was at the Provisional License Exam. I would simply cease to be. I had no idea where any of the worlds were when I died. And they would simply have to move on without .

I felt the guilt of my actions then. In High School of the Dead I was riding off into the sunset with the girls. Berserk, girls were counting on , and I had most of our gold. One Punch Man my trio would have to live on without . Would they have to have episode after episode until they used their strength and killed soone?

“Weston,” Kishimoto whispered, resting her hand on . “It’s alright.”

“It’s not,” I said, truthfully. “I failed.”

“What did you fail?” She asked.

“My Ch-” My voice locked up. Slowly my heart began to beat faster. “Status Screen,” I whispered. It popped up, far more filled than I rembered. “W-World Escape,” I said and it all turned black.

—

I breathed a sigh of relief as the familiar red glow of the lights over the doors illuminated the room. Looking around there were 3 doors with green lights over them. But I still had no idea how long I had been dead. I had apparently cleared the Naruto World at so point, but the last thing I rembered was being scanned by the Gantz Orb.

“Congratulations, you cheated death, again,” a familiar voice said. I turned to see L standing by the entrance into the room.

“Moderator, right?” I asked. Breathing in and out slowly.

“First things first,” he said. With a snap of his fingers my body was racked with pain. My skin had pins and needles sticking in it and my mind had mories flood in.

I rembered it all, beating Naruto, my vacation, MHA, DBZ, One Punch Man, everything. Including my death. “That fucker!” I yelled. “Fucking killed . That no good son of a fucking cunt weaving-”

“Yes, yes, you died and that person that killed you will pay,” L said in a bored tone as he walked up to . “I must say, welco to the land of the living. You have died, what? 3 tis now? Once in your original world, once in Gantz, and now during a challenge. Weren’t you warned not to make it a habit?”

“Very funny,” I said recovering. “Fuck, why did that hurt more than normal?”

“You have a whole new body now,” L said. “No scars anymore. Gantz doesn’t see the point to print those. Your body isn’t used to the pain like your old one was.”

“Fuck, but I’m good to keep going?”

“Yep,” he said. “You aren’t the first person to cheat death from a Challenge like this. But be warned. They only work once. You die in a Challenge again, your mory will be stricken from the Gantz orbs. And I don’t an once for you. No one can use the Gantz orbs to be revived after dying in a Challenge again. Soone was already wished back with the Dragon Balls. About 3 people were brought back with different thods from Supernatural. All of those thods will be lost, and you have no way of knowing which will and will not work.”

“So what happened?” I asked. L looked at

confused as I sat on the floor. “What happened in the other worlds I’ve been to?”

“You simply disappeared. Ti went on without you. But now that you are back in the room, ti has stopped once more. I am sure you will have many fires to put out in these worlds.”

“I bet,” I said, shaking my head but letting out a long sigh of relief. I had done it. I had beaten death. I hadn’t sought to do it because I didn’t think it would work, but my one failsafe had paid off.

“Don’t celebrate quite yet,” L said in his bored tone. I looked up at him. “You still lost your challenge.”

“But I didn’t forfeit,” I said.

“True, but you lost. Because of that you will only have half of the penalty,” he said. Waving his hand a pop-up appeared.

Congratulations on Living through your Third Challenge

Loses:

1 Ability Slot - Random

Door Closure - Random Opened Door

Warning:

My Hero Academia World - Closed

Conqueror's Haki - Lost

“What?!” I asked looking to MHA World. The light above the door turned from red to gray as it turned off. “That’s not fair!”

“The world is still there, Weston,” L said. “Simply you cannot access it at this ti. There are ways to bring it back, and the world will stay frozen until you die or open it back up.”

I grumbled but brought up my Status Screen.

Na

Weston Watanabe

Current Quest:

World 1:

One Piece

World 1 Quest:

World 2:

My Hero Academia*

World 2 Quest:

World 3:

Berserk

World 3 Quest:

World 4:

One Punch Man

World 4 Quest:

Get to S-Class

World 5:

Dragon Ball Z

World 5 Quest:

Defeat Kakarot

Passive Skills:

mory ld

World Lasting Physique

Protagonist Path

Dual Processing

Pet:

Nibi - Level 3

Summon

1 Challenger Slot

Usable Abilities:

Status Screen

6 Challenger Slots

World Escape

Chakra

Chikyugi

World Store

Shop

Give and Take Quirk

Conqueror's Haki

Cross World Summoning

Chakra Sense

Berserker Mode

Search Quirk*

Nen*

Tremor Devil Fruit

Bonuses

Increased Intellect

7 Challenger Slots

Hardened Organs

Increased Vision

Drug Resistance

dium Psychic Resistance

Venom Resistance

Minor Identity Theft Resistance

Smooth Tongue

Minor ntal Resistance

Fertility Control

Body Mod Resistance

Items

Chikyugi Necklace

Stored

3 Challenger Slots

Seastone Jitte

Stored

Chakra Absorption Scroll

Stored

Arm and Leg Weights*

Stored (3)

Hero Costu

Reject Dial

Stored (2)

Gantz Armor

Stored (37)

Gantz Sword

Stored

Baria Reef Map

Condom

Stored (399)

Anti-Hero Costu

Stored

Chakra Paper

Stored (4996)

Full Heal

Stored

Capsule - House

Stored

Companion Link

Stored

Currency:

Berrie

6,084,112

1 Challenger Slot

Yen

1,184,121,449

Ryo

5,310,951

Gold

3,400

Zeni

299,845

Jenny

398,221,479

The My Hero Academia world was stricken out, as well as my Conqueror’s Haki, but I didn’t lose my Challenger Slot. If I could earn it back in One Piece World then I could recover from this. I was doing my best to look on the bright side of the whole situation.

“Now your winnings,” L said.

Congratulations:

You died during a Challenge yet you continue on.

Rewards:

Dead Man Walking

“What’s this?” I asked.

“The rarest of skills. This one is locked to you, and won’t need a Challenger Slot,” he said. “It’s true use won’t beco apparent until later, but for now you will be harder to kill.”

“Great,” I mumbled.

“It is great, Weston,” L said, drawing my eye by how serious he was. “It is very great. You have beaten death more than once. So many thousands of people ca here, and they are dead now. You are one of perhaps 20 that have been brought back from Challenges. Keep getting stronger. Keep being entertaining. You could win this. Learn from your mistake and continue on.”

Before I could ask him another question he disappeared. Letting out a long sigh I sat back down on the floor. Beaten by an old friend. I should have known better. This place is life or death. All of these people are fighting for lives they created beyond the doors. Not just . I had to be more ruthless with them. No more friendly Weston. I had to get serious.

Groaning, I got up and looked around. I had hoped to venture out after the challenge, but I had gotten too used to my Conqueror’s Haki. Earning it back was the only solution before I continued on. As I took a step toward One Piece a new pop-up appeared.

Challenge 4 will begin within 15 days

“Fuck,” I said. That was barely any ti at all. I sure as shit wasn’t close to wrapping up any more worlds with MHA gone. I looked to One Piece, I needed Conqueror’s Haki. It was ti to see how far I could get there in 15 days. Luckily things moved rather quickly in the world. With so perseverance maybe I could wrap up more quests and get so good rewards.