No, no, no, no! What was happening? Was Minerva, ok? What was that weird feeling from earlier? Was it all connected? And the person who just entered my head. Who was she?
While those questions ca to mind, the darkness started to feel suffocating. I couldn’t breathe and there was a crippling fear in . It felt like I was actually about to die. Suddenly, I could feel wind in my face. My body was in a ton of pain and it was getting cold. There was this uneasy feeling, like I was falling.
Slowly, I opened and my eyes, and there I noticed that clouds were passing by at high speeds.
‘Fufu… I’m falling. Why’s this so funny?’
‘Don’t know, don’t ask .’
Akira chid in.
I was literally plumting to my doom, yet the pain made feel like I shouldn’t care less. And the number of higher beings looking over from beyond death made feel like I really could do anything, and they would simply bring back to life. There was no point in trying my hardest.
‘Oh yeah. Before I forget. This is the last ti I ever interfere in that kind of situation. Next ti you die, you’re dead.’
The voice from earlier said, making my heart sink. Next to , the eye winked, then glitched out of existence.
‘Curse my luck… Kira?’
‘We’ve got nothing. We’re out of stamina and mana. It’s up to soone else to save us.’
‘Send a ssage to the shadows then?’
‘That’s a no go. They disappeared the mont our heart was stabbed through.’
‘Huh… so they depend on my life to remain here. At least I know they’d never betray now.’
‘What to do?’
I looked all around the battlefield lazily. I saw Zana looking around, confused. Probably shocked by the entire scenario.
‘Ah, that’s right. I ford a party with her. Let send a ssage. Zana.’
‘Hinotori?! Where are you?’
‘I’m kind of in the clouds right now.’
‘What?’
‘Just floating up here.’
‘Huh?’
‘Kind of winging it.’
‘Dude! Now is not the ti! Minerva is in trouble.’
‘Right! I’m falling from the sky, right above you. Can you make the mist save ?’
She looked up and saw . When she did, I could feel my descent slowing down. The mist grabbed like a cushion and gently dropped into Zana’s hands. The Tyrant looked at with tears in her eyes, no doubt grateful for my heroic endeavors.
“You… You… did… not… abandon… … too.”
She said the words in between sniffs, making realise she was teary about an entirely different matter. Her giant water ball for tears fell on my body, having a shocking effect.
[You have restored 50 Health points!]
‘Wait… her tears can heal?’
[You have restored 50 Health points!]
[You have restored 50 Health points!]
[You have restored 50 Health points!]
‘Um, Zana, could you get close to the necromancer’s body?’
I asked her, even under her tears. She looked confused at first, but took either way. When we got there, I saw the necromancer’s “body”. It actually had been damaged beyond recognition. My final attack had actually done it in before it could make any more moves. Lying next to it, was an orb. It glowed dimly and seed to be calling out to .
I assud that it was the cause of the entire ss. I summoned [Scorching Winter] and grabbed it with my mouth. I was still handless. Not like I had hands in my bird form.
‘I really hate you, [Scorching Winter], but please just do this for . Just this once.’
[[Scorching Winter] says just this once.]
[[Scorching Winter] has activated Effect #1]
The blade turned into a ss of molting magma that dropped on the orb.
[DING!]
[You have destroyed the [Soul Consuming Orb Replica]]
[You have received 1.5 million Experience Points]
[You have gone up several levels]
[Party mber Zana has received 1 million Experience Points]
[Party mber Zana has gone up several levels]
[Party mber Zana has achieved Racial Climax]
[Party mber Zana will undergo evolution soon]
My body poofed up right after I leveled up. My stamina was still low, but I could at least teleport to her. In Zana’s shadow, I used [Shadow Travel] to reappear in the West. When I got there, all I saw was burning trees, missing earth and a few corpses. I even identified Kuro’s corpse amongst the midst. Sa for Tsuna, Gorm and so other goblins, timber wolves and so weird panthers.
I tried to take so steps, but my body just fell to the ground.
[Stamina is low!]
[Stamina is low!]
[Stamina is low!]
The system kept screaming to . There was practically no energy left in my limbs anymore. My body felt too heavy. It was like I was carrying the entire world on my shoulders. My body simply collapsed under the weight, too tired to do anything.
***
“Uuogh!”
Sothing heavy fell on my body, jolting awake. What followed was an annoyingly cute high-pitched voice of a little girl.
“Onii-chan. Wake up.”
I opened my eyes and noticed Mitsuki on . Her impish grin showed her perfectly arranged white teeth, and her nose and cheeks were red as Christmas lights. I knocked her head and she started to rub it with a tear forming.
“Ow!”
She cried out.
“I’m not in the mood for your gas, system master.”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“Don’t play dumb with , I’ve got you figured out.”
She was tearing up over in her pajamas. Her cries kept getting louder as I scanned where I was. It was my room from back on Earth. With my bed to the side, the desk with my set up pc, closet at the far end, ssed up floor, shelves filled with manga and light novels, as well as Eroge Visual Novels I had managed to hide in there. The doujins went sowhere else obviously. Outside the window, I could see snow dropping gently. The sun was high in the sky and the neighbors were shouting and playing loud music – most likely having a winter party.
The system master really outdid herself this ti. I knocked her on the head again just so she would shut.
“Waaaa! Mom! Nii-chan is punching !”
“Stop that!”
I sat up, accidentally throwing her off and onto the floor. She fell on a pile of CDs in what looked to be quite painful. I could hear sothing crack, and when I looked down, it was a Visual Master X. The VR device Manyuda lent to . Even worse, it was lent to Manyuda by soone else in the class.
‘Damn it! Just when I started making friends with Manyuda too! Wait… hasn’t this already happened before?’
“Now he’s throwing on the floor and kicking .”
Mitsuki scread.
“Mi-Mitsuki! Keep it down!”
“Waaaa!”
“I-I’ll buy you candies or ice cream, so keep quiet!”
I patted her head so she’d calm down.
“That’s a deal then. Mom’s gone to buy groceries and dad got called in to do so work. I’ll be in the kitchen preparing lunch. I’ll be expecting my candy by 2. Akane will be here by 1, so you can go out and buy them with her. Chop, chop, ti is money, nii-chan. Teehee.”
An almost instantaneous switch in moods!
She showed the peace sign then ran out the room, sticking her tongue at . For so reason, this put my heart to rest.
“Honestly, you just started middle school. Grow up.”
I looked at my hands. The left one had a scar in it. I rember it being stabbed through in my second year at middle school with a cutter by so crazy girl who said she didn’t like my face. She said it was my fault for existing and that I probably should just kill myself. She was probably right. I really should have just killed myself earlier on. Would have saved the ti and energy since I was going to get killed anyway.
‘Ok system master, you can cut the simulation now. Get back to Larm.’
I got no response.
“Co on! Enough fun and gas, System Master!”
Still, no response even after I yelled. I aid back on the bed and looked at the ceiling. It was blank with a creaky fan there.
‘The system master is still not responding… she’d only call if she had sothing to tell . Wait… was anything that even happened real? The fights, blood and pain… were they real? Or did I die and get sent back to my actual world?’
I reached out for my phone which was on the floor. Upon checking, I discovered that it was the 31st of December. The year before I went to highschool. The year before I t Ken.
‘Huh? I’m in the past? The day before new year’s!?’
I jumped off my bed. I rembered this day very well. This was the day Akane changed for good. Starting tomorrow she would start dying her hair red and acting like an emo degenerate. Even worse, she would be the biggest bully I’d ever face.
“Akira!”
Akane’s voice ca through the door.
‘Akane?! But it’s not even one!’
I looked at my phone. The ti was 1:05 pm. I really slept through half of the day. My bad sleeping habits! She walked in through the door in a yellow blouse and grey baggy pants that simply didn’t match. Her black hair was tied into a ponytail and her face still looked angelic and cute. She was waved at , but I was too scared to wave back. She tilted her head in confusion then imdiately drew in closer.
“Are you ok?”
I nodded my head.
“Y-Yeah. Just give so ti to dress up.”
“Sure. I’ll use your PC to play one of your gas.”
“Um… just open the folder nad “The Good”.”
“Sure.”
‘Wait… I didn’t tell anyone to clear my hard disk in my previous life. Oh, dear Lord. If it’s dad, I’m sure he’d discard of it as the bro code demands, but mom, or Mitsuki…’
“Akira. There’s two of them.”
“Huh? No, no. It may have been a while, but I rember there being a folder entirely just for show. The other folders should be hidd-“
‘My fourteen-year-old self was more retarded than a harem protagonist.”
“NOOO!”
CLICK!
“What’s this? Doki Doki Curse Warrior.”
“Akane stop!”
I tried to jump at her, but my own blanket tripped on the floor, sending crashing into the Visual Master X. My jaw started to hurt, but not as much as my heart did when I heard the moaning.
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