I groggily wake up from the weird dream about a system. The first thing I notice is the white hospital ceiling. Looks like I am in a hospital bed. Fuji-nee is sleeping on a chair beside the bed. First time I realized Fuji-nee is a beautiful woman...
As I look closely, I realize I can feel my Spirit Origin Data. That means The System is not a hallucination caused by Fuji-nee's sisterly love. But my Saint Graph is a bigger concern than any midlife crisis I am currently facing.
[Spirit Origin:
Name: Shirou Emiya
Title: The Gamer
Level: 1 [4/10 exp]
Class: Foreigner {Upgrade Available at lvl100}
Alignment: Neutral ・ Evil {Due to Seven Deadly Sins}
HP: 11000/11000 [regen 1500 per min]
MP: 1500
SP: 2000/2000 [regen 300 per min]
ATK 300
Points: 10
Params:
STR: F
END: A
VIT: A
AGI: F-
MP: EX
LUK: E-
NP: ??]
Looks like absorbing the rewards has updated my parameters and given me some new skills.. huh?
Skills:
[Gamers Mind]
->Seven deadly sins doesn't trigger gamer mind {only new effects are shown}
[Gamers Body]
->Protects Player From Worlds' Rejection.
[Sword of Void]
->Increased learning speed of sword-related subjects
->Increased learning speed for Imaginary Element and Void-related subjects.
[Type ORT](can upgrade by completing quest)
->Enuma Elish Nullification. (Complete this quest to unlock)
->Can survive in Space/Void
->Never run out of mana.
->Mana output is directly equal to Mana Pool size
{Please level up to use a high amount of mana; otherwise, your soul might collapse}
[One Radiant Thing](passive)
->Your presence is like a burning star. {Corresponds to player level}
->Immune to Mystic Eye of Death Perception. (Complete this quest to unlock)
->Possesses a powerful "Adapt/Decode/Disable" skill that can nullify all buffs and permanently shut down abilities in user-owned territory. (active) {Please complete the special quest to unlock this effect}
[Imaginary Number Magecraft]
->???{Can not use at current Level}
[Seven Deadly Sins]
->You feel Emotions vividly (passive)
->Cardinal Sins affects your emotions and may affect your decision-making. (active)
[Perpetual Puberty](passive)
->Until you complete the world quest, your body will be in constant puberty.
Looks like I found why Tiger looks beautiful. As if sensing my gaze, the tiger woke up and pounced at me. Despite having high Endurance and pain tolerance, she manages to make me feel pain. And... She starts wailing, "I am sorry, Shirou. I hit you so hard. The Doctor said You might never wake up again. I was so scared."
"It's okay, I am fine now," I reassure her as I hug her back. The wholesome moment is ruined by the activation of Sin of Lust along with puberty. Her soft body and womanly fragrance invade my senses, causing my sword to become battle-ready. With willpower I didn't know I had, I separated from her. At least she is too busy crying to note the state of my sword. Otherwise, social death would become reality. Gamers Mind isn't working, so I use Gamers Body to control my body. Tiga checks on me some more and calls for the doctor.
According to the doctor, it's a miracle I am not in a coma. He is not wrong; it's a miracle.
"Hey System, are you online?"
["Yes, host, I didn't want to ruin your touchy reunion."]
["Here is the notification you missed!]
[Ding! trial quest complete!]
[Distributing rewards:
exp+5, inventory space 4->10, points+10]
["Do you want to check the new quests?"]
"Quest"
Quest:
Main Quest:
->Find another magus (0/1)
Rewards: exp +100, 2 Common gacha tickets.
Side Quest:
->Unlock Immunity to Mystic Eye Of Death Perception
->Unlock Enuma Elish Nullification
->Upgrade Type ORT
"Thanks. But explain why I have to go through puberty again?"
["Host the demerits were proportional to the rewards."]
"Wasn't there supposed to be only one demerit? Where did the other one come from?"
["To adapt the rewards better, your puberty is once again activated"]
"Whatever, System does these side quest has no level requirements?"
["No host, you can do these quests any time. But I suggest you do them from a safe place. Not in this hospital."]
"I was just checking requirements. I will try them once I get home." I leave the hospital with Fuji-nee. She takes me home on her scooter. It seems that there were some problems that her grandfather, Raiga, is managing. It looks like only a day and a night have passed during my conversation with the system in the void.
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After reaching Emiya mansion, we find Sakura is already there, busy in the kitchen making dinner.
"I am home," I say to her.
"Welcome home," she replies.
"Let me help you," I tell Sakura while washing up. "Please rest, senpai, I will finish soon."
While I changed my clothes, Sakura had already started preparing the table, and Fuji-nee was busy drooling at the food. I start eating and notice how the food tastes even better, one could even say it's sinful. Is food always tasted this good?
"System is the effect of the Gamer's Body?"
["No host Seven Deadly Sins has amplified your emotions so you are feeling something you can't previously feel."]
So, the food tastes better because I am emotional?
I can't help but remember, after I walked through the Great Fuyuki fire that consumed countless lives, I lost my life, my family, my memories. It stopped my ability to feel emotions. I have been trying to emulate by watching other people.
I was eventually saved from the fire by a man broken down by the weight of his own ideal. When he saved me from the fire, he smiled as if he were the one who got saved. At that moment, I thought, Can I smile like that. His name is Kiritsugu Emiya. Later, he adopted me, and I took his last name.
A few years ago, he died on a moonlit night, happy after I decided to become a hero of justice, when he failed. Once again, he smiled, but this time it was his last smile, a smile of relief. After that, it was Tiga who helped me return from my loss.
Now, with my emotions working due to cardinal sins and amplified by puberty, I realized that I don't need to emulate others to be happy and smile like that. I will still keep my promise to Kiritsugu, but this time I will only help those who deserve help.
Watching Fuji-nee talk about troubles at school, Sakura's gentle expression, I realized that happiness is already here with me. No need to make them miserable by chasing an impossible ideal. Now I feel like a blind man who has seen color for the first time.
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After sending them off and doing dishes, I decided it's time to practice the skills I got. My workshop, which is just the shade to the side of the house, is such a marvel that it will make first-class magi rage at its sight. Some might even vomit blood. There are some mechanical and engineering tools here. No magecraft tomes or over-the-top instruments. Any first-class magus will avoid modern instruments, but my workshop is full of them.
First, I get a book about an introduction to bounded fields from my inventory. It's the first formal magecraft book I have, so I am quite excited to read this.
A bounded field can be considered a fixed boundary or barrier if simplified. It's a geographical form of magecraft whereby one knits a boundary line of magical energy around a space to separate its inside from the outside, cutting off and isolating that space from the outside world and then imposing an effect on the inside (or the boundary line itself). It is primarily used to protect one's body or property. A bounded field can be applied directly to the terrain, like the one applied to Emiya Manor. It can also be applied to a component that can cut the space off around it to create the bounded field.
After reading for some time, I decided not to mess with the bounded field today. Next, I started practicing the other spells I got. First, the spells I already know of Structure Analysis.
I take hold of my practice pipe, then activate self-hypnotism and call "Trace On". This time, there was no expected pain. The system has given me a magic Circuit, so I don't need to create one every time I want to cast a spell. Neon lines light up on the pipe in a circuit pattern, and I see the pipe's details in my mind. It's very easy this time, in fact, it's too easy. But my body heats up too quickly. I cast Refresh on myself.
"System, why is my body heating? Shouldn't possessing magic circuits solve that problem?"
["Host possessing magic circuits doesn't mean your body won't generate heat. Using A lot of mana can cause your body to overheat. Especially since your skill gives you basically an infinite amount, a little bit of carelessness at a low level can kill you. Also, your soul is still recovering from the assimilation. So try not to use a lot of mana at once before recovering. In order to protect you from the world's defense mechanism lot of your presence has been diminished by the system, so don't worry if something weird happens."]
"okay"
This time I use as little as possible amount of mana I can and still I get information without any problems, and this time no heating issue. Then I try reinforcement on the pipe. It works pretty well. There is still a gap in the structure, but it is still my best so far. And then I try tracing the pipe, and it works. Internal structure of the projection is pretty well, all things considered.
Since I have a skill that boosts swordsmanship, I decided to project a practice sword and repeat the process. And then I use Flash Air to send the sword at a distance. Projection-> Reinforcement-> Structure Analysis-> Flash Air. I keep repeating the process until I can do this intrusively.
Then I check my quests, there is no penalty for failing a quest, but the system is not trustworthy at all. I will buy a game and a gaming guide to learn more about how gaming works. There are also side quests I can do right now. So I check them.
Side Quest:
[Immunity To Mystic Eye Of Death Perception]
->You will be taken to a designated area where you need to survive for 60 seconds to unlock the skill. You will also get additional rewards for how long you can survive. You will get rewards regardless of quest success or failure. Skill will only unlock if you survive more than 60 seconds.
[Enuma Elish Nullification]
->You will be taken to an arena where you will fight shadow servants and monsters in waves. After finishing the quest skill will be unlocked.
{Servants are Spirits made into special familiars of the highest rank. They are typically Heroic Spirits under most systems; they can also sometimes be Divine Spirits, Phantoms, Wraiths, and living people, depending on various circumstances. Shadow Servants are weaker versions of Servants. They have a lower rank across all parameters and do not possess the original Noble Phantasm.}
These two quests have no level limit. Can I do it right now?
"System, what is my chance against a shadow servant?"
["Host, you will utterly lose. So please try again after gaining a few levels, probably before the world quest starts."]
The other quest is just surviving. I think it would be possible. Let's check it out first.
"System start quest Immune to mystic eye of death perception."
[Starting the quest...
Teleporting player to designated area...
Complete....]
I saw a kaleidoscope of color and immediately got teleported to a colosseum. It's very dark here only light source being blue flames at the edge of the colosseum. Pillars around it have been decorated with many human skulls. Overall, pretty scary aura. I can see a timer at the top of my vision and at the center a neon text saying "Start". While I can move around, it's quite hard to see with the neon light in front of me. I urge the system to start, and the quest timer starts. Then I see two glowing blue orbs, and I see my body without the head. I get this message from the system.
[You died in 0 seconds. Quest Failed.]
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[A/N: People die when they are killed. Let's see if it's true or not. Also, thanks for reading!]