Miu POV
Finishing the bowl of ramen I was eating which for some reason gave the impression that I watched an entire 140+ episode anime, I stood and turned to Nobara who was already staring at the Hunter X Hunter jump document with a silly smile on her face. "Nobara! Come here, I want to try something now that we're in between worlds!"
I then realized I had, in fact, the knowledge of the anime that someone would probably have if they watched it while halfheartedly paying attention once.
I watched as Nobara lifted her head from the 58 pages of pure insanity that I barely understand at all with a, "What's up Miu?" as she approached.
Nodding to myself, I put my hand on top of her head and pushed my battle aura into her. Jump-chan explained that Nobara couldn't learn Sei ki or Dou Ki due to it being specific to our original world, but what about battle aura. She was evasive as hell when I asked about it.
So I can only assume-
Nobara's Battle aura erupted around her to defend against mine, small as it might be, and I retracted mine.
Battle aura was a fitness thing.
It didn't need to be painted by a martial arts style to start.
When mixed with style-Ki it became Battle Ki, when battle Ki was mixed with Sei and Dou Ki, it became- well, a better quality and amount of Battle Ki.
Nobara stood on one knee, gasping for breath. "What the fuck, Miu?! What was that for!?"
"Notice anything different?" I asked, as I saw Zack give a gap-mouthed expression of surprise in the corner of my eye.
"I feel- stronger." Nobara finally said, as she looked around the flickering red light around her.
"Good! Now, While the hot piece of meat over there fills out his documents," I point over to zack jokingly.
"I Resent that remark! You know you like me for my winning personality too! The money too! Can't forget my vast stolen wealth!" Zack responds with humor.
"Quiet honey! Grown women are talking!" Nobara calls out, a smirk on her lips.
"OI!" I overhear him exclaim.
"As I was saying, while our muscly enforcer of hotness fills out these papers, I'll explain Battle Aura, Style Ki, and how to mix them together. Then we'll talk about throwing cursed energy in there!"
"I'm still here, you know?" I overhear the half-hearted protest of Zack, but I respond in kind.
"GROWN WOMEN ARE TALKING! TAKE YOUR MEN FOLK BUSINESS ELSEWHERE!"
We burst out laughing as Zack shouted back, "DOWN WITH THE MATRIARCHY! ACCEPT EQUAL RIGHTS!"
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Zack POV
As we stopped the good natured ribbing, I really only noticed two things that weren't free that we absolutely couldn't live without.
The perk that gives us 10 years in any martial art that exists anywhere in the multiverse reduces to the strength of the hunter X hunter world for the duration of the jump for 100 CPfor each martial art to a maximum of two-.
That was cooking with butter- Especially with our ability to use style Ki.
Even then, what's to stop us from picking 6 different martial arts and then teaching each other the martial arts we didn't pick.
Then there was the Nen talent which if we picked the maximum that gave us 10 times the talent of the king ant for 800 CP-
Well, shit, we just reached the level of strength of a nuclear missile.
Hayato would be proud.
Anyway, picking that also gives us Jumper the Baptist and advanced techniques for free, which allows us to give anyone all types of energy we possess with no side-effects at a beginner level, and an instinctive understanding of all nen techniques like, Gyo, how to create a Hatsu, Shu, En, the whole goddamn set- respectively.
Then I go to the next page and note that I have 1000 NP to spend on Affinities for picking the 10x king ant talent.
Of course, I know, I'm already gonna be an enhancer, but I'm a simple asshole, so I buy all 400 in enhancement perks, the 400 NP in enhancer quality allows me to basically have 300% affinity for enhancement along with a bonus of 300% strength of enhancement.
I then see the ability to enhance aspects of myself when applying a portion of my nen to it.
Fucking conceptual nonsense like giving a portion of my nen to enhance my luck for the cost of my total nen amount while it's happening? For 100 NP?
Fucking sign me the motherfuck up.
Then there was the ability to apply that to items- and shrug.
If I wanted that I would just grab a conjurer bonus.
I turned the page.
I put 100% into both emission and transmutation to make them go from the 100% that my Enhancement made them, and now they are at 200% each.
That's right, I'm stealing Killua's lightning shit and making it better by shooting lighting that I will enhance with my OP enhancement and blast the shit out of people.
Heck yeah!
I now have 0 NP.
I go back a few pages to grab my two martial arts. I initially tried to choose the Hokuto shinken from fist of the north star as my first martial art, but for some reason the pen refuses to write it down. It even erases itself over and over.
I growl, and speak up. "Jump-chan?! Why can't I grab Hokuto Shinken from this?"
Jump-chan turns to me, gives me an incredulous 'are you stupid?' look, and then goes back to eating.
Miu comes over and pats me on the head. "There, There, I'll be the brains for both of us."
No one dains to answer my question.
Nobara then takes pity on me.
"It's a martial art based on instantly killing someone by poking them, you literally can't make it any weaker or it wouldn't be Hokuto Shinken. Therefore, no 'already dead' for you."
I frown, nod, and then enter the rock slicing, exploding heart release fist and water stream rock smashing fist.
Because who doesn't want both of those styles and the easy creation of the third once both are mastered.
It's basically 3 martial arts that are all OP with a little extra training.
Nobara POV.
I do the exact same thing Zack did by making myself a Nen monster. Like, Seriously, who doesn't want to be a badass like that?
Eh? I'm apparently a natural Emitter. I guess that fits me, but I want to be able to fight up-close too.
I'm already basically an Emitter/Conjurer with my cursed energy, so I I might as well also focus on Enhancer stuff.
I smirked at the gaming potential of the item enhancement.
I buy everything on the enhancer page.
Think of the enhanced GPU that can play a fully modded and tricked out fallout 4 and Skyrim at the same time! With a 50$ computer! Or even a raspberry pi! Holy shit! I'm gonna enhance a raspberry pi to be a super-computer! All I have to do is dump all my Enhancer Nen into it once and Bam! Permanently OP computer for nothing at all!
Cheap gaming plan complete.
Wait- but Zack is rich!
I start fantasizing about super infinite LOD Skyrim with every Graphics mod combined by just dumping a bit of nen into the computer!
Wait- can I enhance network speed?!
I snap out of my nerdgasm with Zack tapping my shoulder in concern.
"Are you okay? Nobara?"
I gulp. "Peachy."
I grabbed Konoha Strong Fist Style and Renewal Taekwondo Style.
Miu POV
I stare at the piece of paper.
Manipulation 100%.
Motherfucker I am not a fucking manipulator.
It didn't change.
Manipulation 100%.
I grit my teeth and my rage grew.
It still didn't change.
Manipulation 100%.
I would fucking kill this piece of goddamn paper this motherfucker says I'm like that hisoka person? Or that Illumi bastard?! Fuck you!
All of a sudden, the gray page turned blue.
Huh?
Specialist?
My smile grew.
First thing I did was write in a vow- if I ever breathe air again all my potential for manipulation Nen will be dumped into Enhancement Nen.
After selecting my Enhancer stuff, as well as a bit of transmutation and conjuration stuff, I grab a martial art from an anime I watched when I was younger.
Reshuken Is not only OP as fuck, it also reminds me of good times.
I still wouldn't want to go to the YuYu hakusho world though.
I shrug and then grab turtle school style from Dragon ball Z, which then promptly erases itself.
I blush in embarrassment and then choose something a little less world destroying overpowered.
Unable to think of anything, I ask, "Hey Nobara, what martial art would you choose if you had a third slot?"
"Kyotouryuu, It's basically a kind of 'your body is a sword so cut everything' type of fighting style." she said, all while filling out her body mod.
Okay then, I got Reshuken and Kyotouryuu.
I grab spiked metal knee length boots as my signature weapon- which is free.
I discount a copy of the multiversal version of greed island that changes based on the universe your in that comes back to you when you call for it along with the console, and then spend my 200 point stipend on the half-priced thing.
I smirk and see that Zack discounted the organization and wrote "Tojo Clan" as his item. He also chose 'A motherfucking coffin that transforms into armor that emphasizes gauntlets and boots of a really good energy enhance-able material when you press a button on its side that attaches itself to you really fast.Like a fucking magical girl transformation except with a badass coffin I can carry on my back.' as his Signature weapon and outfit combined.
"Wait, you can do that?!" I exclaimed.
"It was a cool Idea, so I greenlit it." Jumpchain called over, somehow still eating a pizza and staring into space after 5 fucking hours of us filling these out.
I shrug, and change my entry.
'Dress that can change into any other clothing in appearance and has a combat form that I can choose the color of. It comes with Combat boots and gauntlet attachments with pink skulls as knuckle extensions and pink hearts that shoot at people when you kick attached to the boots.'
Jump-chan calls out. "I don't like the pink hearts, but the gauntlets are okay and you can have spiky metal boots too okay?"
I shrug. "Fine by me."
"Done." Nobara says with a smirk. "I now own a copy of Kukuru mountain and a homunculous staff of butlers that appears on every jump. Hail me, for I now own a fancy mountain with a couple mansions- without the assassins- but still cool as shit."
I looked over at Nobara who also did our signature weapon and outfit thing, 'The ultimate weapon and armor combo! A crowbar with an extension that makes the crow-bar-tonfa the ultimate extension! This Crowbar tonfa gauntlet, the most powerful weapon in the shadow who hunts the shadows arsenal, has come yet again, in the form of a slime-suit that can turn into any clothing as long as cursed energy or other types of energy are applied! Forsooth! It is even more powerful than the almighty +9 mithril pebble of pig slaying! For you see! None could ever hope to defeat the +100 Slime-suit-crowbar-tonfa-gauntlet-boot-set. It would shred the barbarian in his very den by striking back through time and making him never lift a weapon for fear of his sheer inadequacy!'
"Weaponized Slime suit approved Nobara, good use of memes." I heard jump-chan say.
"You forgot your drop-in freebies, so I just tossed them in there. Lots of survival knowledge andanimals love ya."
I turned to Zack who just spent 400 points on our hammer-space document to make it even bigger and the other 100 for this jump, the opening was now more flexible and able to stretch to be larger.
I spent my bodymod finishing out all my street fighter base-body additions and stared at my 100 points remaining. Skipping to add the no-sleep endurance option in the metahuman setting was a huge mistake for various reasons. I blushed. Coughed, and then turned my thoughts somewhere else.
Since I don't want to buy shrimp-colors-. Which is optional for a damn good reason, I just decided to save it for the next jump.
Looking around I see I was the last one to finish.
"Okay, Well, go have fun while I enjoy my life by being the biggest cosmic reality-TV host that is the only one that gets to watch her show! Bye!" Was the last thing I heard before we were- instead of sitting on a couch, standing in a crowd staring at a child wearing a green jacket, green pants, and carrying a fishing rod.
"I can't believe he actually caught it!" peanut gallery member one shouted.
"The king of the swamp! It's so big! I wonder what it tastes like cooked!" I heard another kid say.
Nobara grabbed me by the hand and pulled me towards Zack who was already walking towards the port docks.