The morning sun was beginning to burn hot against the rooftop of the skyscraper when a blackish-gold portal opened, spitting Naoki back to his dimensional anchor point. The watch on his wrist showed nine in the morning.
Instead of feeling relieved at having successfully escaped the police perimeter, Naoki stood there with a scowl on his face.
"Dammit... truly unlucky." He grumbled while kicking a pebble on the concrete floor of the rooftop. "This is the first time I try a Yakuza exclusive underground service, and I end up getting hit by a police raid in the middle of the most crucial session? My luck in this world is truly below average."
He let out a hollow snort, recalling the faces of those policemen.
"Aren't Japanese police supposed to be useless? Just look at Detective Conan; instead of letting the forensics team work professionally, they let private detectives or little kids mess around with the crime scene and solve the case. Why is it that when it's my turn, they suddenly become so competent? It really kills the mood."
After venting his frustration for a few moments over being interrupted in the middle of an intimate moment, Naoki took a long breath to calm himself. He walked to the edge of the building, gazing at the dense city skyline.
"Now what?"
"Except for Lin Fan, who is busy with his household affairs, I have absolutely no other acquaintances here. Sure, I know all the popular heroines in this world from behind the screen, but to them, I'm just a stranger who appeared out of nowhere."
"I feel like a traveler lost in a faraway land—the difference is, my land is in a different world."
The strong morning wind whipped against his face, playing with the strands of his white hair that contrasted against the blue sky.
His deep red eyes watched the human activity that looked like ants below—people heading to work, schoolchildren laughing, and the hustle and bustle of normal life. Amidst the crowd of millions, Naoki felt a hollow hole in his chest; he felt incredibly lonely.
"I miss Tenka... I want to be pampered in her lap right now." He whispered with a tone that softened for a second, before hardening again. "This is all that bastard Oga Tatsuki's fault. If only he hadn't obtained that damn cheat ability that can rearrange reality according to his ego's whims from that mysterious entity, I wouldn't have to be stranded here. I wouldn't have to seek solutions in another world just to stop his madness."
Naoki sat on the high concrete edge, his legs swinging over the lethal height. He spent several minutes just cursing Tatsuki with every swear word he knew until his throat felt dry and he grew tired of it himself.
"Haaah... it turns out that a boring, peaceful life is actually very precious. Only after losing it did I realize that an ordinary routine is the ultimate luxury. Humans truly are creatures who can only appreciate something after everything is gone."
*STOMACH GROWL...!*
The sound of his stomach growling suddenly broke the melancholic atmosphere he had just built. Naoki went silent for a moment, then let out a resigned sigh.
"There's no use in continuing to complain and treating myself poorly. Lamenting my fate won't fill my stomach." He stood up, brushing the dust off his trousers. "At worst, if in the final seconds before «Mara Papiyas» activates I still haven't found a way to defeat Tatsuki, I'll forcibly bring Tenka, Sahara, and the others to this world. At least here they will be safe from that bastard's reach."
Due to the extraordinarily intense physical activity with Mayu from last night until this morning, his stamina was truly drained. He needed food intake immediately.
BUZZ!
With a snap of his fingers, Naoki used his ability to teleport into a quiet, narrow alleyway, then walked out casually to blend in with the crowd on the street.
He found a convenience store. Without hesitation, Naoki grabbed the most expensive bento box available, several bottles of mineral water, and additional snacks. After paying using the remaining money from Lin Fan's safe, he sat in a corner of the store's dining area, beginning to devour his breakfast greedily, momentarily forgetting the problems haunting him.
After his stomach was full, it allowed Naoki to think more clearly. However, that clarity gave birth to a very dangerous idea. The crushing boredom in this "too normal" world pushed him to do something insane.
In his original world, Mato Seihei no Slave, even though he possessed strength capable of shaking the global order, Naoki never truly showed it openly.
There was no advantage for him to do so.
He was not interested in world domination, and most importantly, if he plunged the world into chaos, the good impression the women of the Anti-Demon Corps had of him would undoubtedly plummet to a negative point.
However, this Saekano world was different. Naoki didn't care a bit about what the people here thought. To him, they were just NPCs who held no meaning in his life.
While waiting for his clone to return with the results of the investigation, Naoki wanted to test the limits of his strength in an absurd scenario: one man against a developed nation.
Once the decision was made, he wasted no more time.
In the middle of a sidewalk crowded with pedestrians, Naoki stopped walking. He no longer hid his existence.
SHING!
Openly, he used «Pandemonium». The manifestation phenomenon of the terrifying black Qliphoth Tree suddenly appeared behind his back, radiating a pressure that made the surrounding air feel frozen.
The people around him stopped instantly. Their breath caught, and some began to pull out their phones to record the event they perceived as a magic act or a strange phenomenon. Naoki ignored them entirely.
"«Night Storm» + «Decimal Point»."
He combined two of his Peach Blessings simultaneously. Instantly, a blast of powerful wind exploded from his body, creating a shockwave that struck the people around him until they were thrown onto the asphalt.
Without caring about the commotion and screams of terror he had created, Naoki shot into the air. His body soared high, piercing the clouds within seconds.
The use of «Night Storm» allowed him to manipulate the wind completely, granting him the ability to fly at a maximum speed of Mach 3. However, after being reinforced with «Decimal Point»—a Peach Blessing that increases other Peach Blessings tenfold—Naoki was now flying at Mach 30.
At that altitude, his figure appeared only as a streak of light cleaving through the sky, producing a blazing plasma trail due to the extraordinarily extreme air friction. If it weren't for his absolute control over the wind to eliminate air resistance and other factors, any human body would have crumbled to dust at such a high speed.
The destination was already set in his head. A fictional country that, in his opinion, was the center of all sin and injustice in this world.
"Target found... Israel!"
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