I reached Misaki Town subway station by afternoon, where Arc was waiting for me.
Since she was still learning social norms, I thought it would be better if we visited the church agent together. Firstly, I must inform the second owner of this town that we are here and that a potential conflict may arise later. Otherwise, Rin will skin me for not maintaining proper etiquette.
The current second owner is none other than Aoko Aozaki, the illustrious Miss Blue, someone I would rather not meet. But let's not add to the list of enemies I have inherited from my father.
We went to Aozaki Residence to meet her. After inheriting the fifth magic, she started roaming around the country. During that time, the mage association-related matters were left to her family.
Unfortunately for us, she was actually home when we went there.
A beautiful woman in her twenties with red hair is probably the description you will get for Touko Aozaki. Apparently, Miss Blue added me to her list of disliked people based on our shared hair color.
If I were to describe Aoko Aozaki, I would say she is quite beautiful.... physically.
She has pale skin, and the combination of long brown hair with bangs and blue eyes makes her look very approachable. Add to the fact that she is wearing very casual clothes at home, one might say she is the perfect neighbor material.
But if that person is a magus, they most likely try to avoid her as much as possible. She does have a nasty reputation for blowing up things that displease her.
She lets us enter her home and takes us to an office. Where she asks about our identity. A normal magus might ask about the identity first, then let them enter their house, but which normal being would pick up a fight with her?
"Is this the new puppet you have created, Touko? Did you fail to get a boyfriend and make one for yourself? Or did you send it here to mock me?" Her rapid questioning starts to get on my nerves.
"Hey, that's Shirou, not your sister," Arc speaks up in my defense.
"Calm down, Arc, she already knows that. She is just pissed that I have red hair," I hold her back.
Aoko has fought with Touko enough times to understand that I am not her otherwise; she would have attacked me at the first chance.
"Hello, I am Shirou Emiya. I would like to ask for the second owner's permission to temporarily stay here to hunt down a Dead Apostle," I let her know my reasoning clearly.
"Wait, you are that Shirou Emiya?" She excitedly asks.
"Yes?" I replied, not knowing where this conversation was going.
"So, you must be Arcueid Bunestud?" she looks toward Arc.
"Yes, I am," Arc nods.
"So, how is it like dating a Dead Apostle Ancestor? I heard you guys are waiting for your child," she excitedly asks.
"We aren't at that stage yet," Arc tells her.
"Where did you hear those rumors?" I flabbergastingly ask her.
Apparently, when Arc woke up, she went to Zelretch. Since I invited her to dinner but didn't give her any address, she asked him about it. But some other mage eavesdropped on their conversation and heard some partial things.
Now, most of the mages think the Magus Killer's Son has been railing her and gotten her pregnant. But according to Arc, she only told Zelretch about me being her friend and asking her to join us for dinner.
So, why did this rumor go out of proportion, one may ask.
The reason is simple. I am Kiritsugu's adopted son, even if they didn't know that. To them, someone like me even tolerating a Dead Apostle is unbelievable.
Certainly, it's one of the most interesting gossip they've had in a decade. So they added to the story, and now Arc and I are the proud owners of a football team and waiting for another.
At last, we managed to clear the misunderstanding with Aoko, although she looks somewhat unconvinced.
In the end, she decided to join us in the hunt as she is the second owner. She most likely joined us to blow things up.
At least her personality is quite good when she isn't busy plotting the murder of her sister.
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Currently, we are at the Indian Curry House Messiaen, with the church agent.
Her name is Ciel. She is a fair-skinned, average-height girl with blue hair in a pixie cut. She has E-cup breasts like Arc and Sakura. But the best part of her body would be her ass and hips; they look perfect for bearing children. I can surely say that the curry she eats directly goes to her bottom.
We began exchanging information. She is the seventh member of the Burial Agency of the Holy Church and a Dead Apostle who somehow managed to change her cravings for blood to curry. Which is absolutely baffling to me.
She is currently undercover, observing someone she believes to be Roa's incarnation. This gives us a direct lead. Since she is also a former incarnation of Roa, her judgment is likely to be accurate.
So, I tell her my theory that Roa is likely to appear on his current host after making sure he can incarnate in another. So the best way to deal with him would be to awaken him preemptively and then kill him.
She thinks it's plausible, while Aoko says my father had taught me well.
Then we started eating while Ciel had already finished more curry than all of us combined. I noticed that while the curry is good, they are making it mild for Japanese people.
"I know, but this is the best one I've found in this town so far," Ciel comments.
"In that case, I can make you some if you want," I decided to offer.
"You should take the offer. Shirou makes the best food. Even Grandpa Zelretch agrees," Arc adds her two cents.
"In that case, soon I will take up your offer," Ciel agrees with a nod.
This time, I don't forget to give her my address. I don't want the same incident to happen in church.
As we talk, I notice someone is watching us. It looks like no one else noticed that. But after getting killed so many times by First Hassasn, it's hard not to notice something.
To check what's going on, we pay the bill and head outside. I let them know we were being followed by some kind of familiar. But I am unsure of its nature, as it reminds me more of the worm.
We managed to chase it to an alleyway, where we found a tall and sturdy-looking man wearing a black trench coat.
Arc notes that he is Nrvnqsr Chaos.
I noticed the new quest that popped up,
[Ding~ New Quest Available]
Main Quest:
-> Kill Nrvnqsr Chaos. {rewards: 1M XP, 40k points, 1SSR ticket, Guide to Reality Marble Deployment}
The guide to reality marble deployment is very tempting, and I don't want to search for him across the world for this quest, so killing him now is the best option.
"Arcueid Brunestud, today I will devour you," Chaos declares.
I look at him. Really look at him for a moment.
"What is wrong with him?" I can't help but ask everyone.
"Looks like he finally lost it," Arc replies to my question.
"Can you explain more, please?" I don't want to start the battle completely unprepared.
Before anyone could explain, he attacked Arc along with us. Different types of creatures start to emerge from his body.
I immediately activate runes to enhance my eyesight, strengthen my body, and start fighting those creatures. Around me, Arc is fighting the majority of them while Ciel is fighting a few of them with her black key, but their physical form is quite resistant to her weapons. Aoko is just blasting them with magic bullets.
Looks like nobody is taking him that seriously.
"You are stronger than I expected. But it doesn't matter, I will devour you and become the ultimate lifeform," He declares to Arc.
He seems unaware that I have given Arc her hair back, so she is not that weak.
What troubles me most is the fact that he looked like a sane person until he looked at me for a moment, then he lost it.
I let go of the projected sword and bring out Phantom Flame Muramasa, and then ignite it.
It manages to kill the bear I was fighting, and the bear turns into black tar. It lies in a pool in the alley.
I take a moment to rest. I left Kyu at home in control of the house's barrier. Having her here analyzing this battle could have helped a lot.
So, I decided to do a stupid thing. I took a sample of the tar and analyzed it.
Thankfully, this isn't any alien object. I managed to get some details without losing consciousness here.
The tar turned out to be a part of something called 'Soil of Genesis'. It was created from the Sumerian goddess Tiamat's chaos tide, which was a byproduct of her skill Sea of Life. She used that skill to create monsters while Chaos Tide turned any normal organism into a monster.
He somehow found a sample from the Atlas Academy and incorporated it into his body. It turned his body into a mutated reality marble that holds the beings he has converted into monsters. Unlike my projection, where I use a copy of the data from my reality marble, his monsters are not copies; they are real things with their own thought process.
My anti-evil and anti-divinity skills do affect him. Normally, that would have caused him to attack me first. But the grail fragment I have in my inventory, which I have forgotten, has some kind of connection with the Soil of Genesis and caused mental instability.
Unless the soil is dealt with, it would be impossible to fully kill him. Arc should be able to kill him, but the quest wants me to do it.
I take a look at my inventory, where nine atomic arrows are. Maybe it is possible if I infuse Anti-Evil, Anti-Divinity, and Phantom Flame into them. Well, let's try it out.
I take another look around. Arc is fighting phantasmal beasts, Ciel has brought out her big guns, and Miss Blue looks ready to bomb the city. Well shit.
"Hey, Arc, can you make a separate layer of space here with your Marble Phantasm. One that can at least withstand anti-continental bombardment? I don't think this city can survive Miss Aoko's Attack," I shout at her, panicking.
Aoko pouts at me for stopping her from blowing up this city. Or whatever reason, she is cooking in her head.
"Yes, I can," she starts making the space and takes us there.
Aoko thanks me for giving her a space for her to bomb.
I take out three of my Atomic Arrows and start infusing the concept of Anti-Evil, Anti-Divine into them.
"What are these things?" Aoko asks, looking at the unusually shaped sword thing. Others also take notice of the sword-arrow-looking thing.
"This is an Anti-Continental weapon." If the continent is Australia and I deploy all nine of them, I add to my mind. They don't need to know that.
"Tour Plan!"
I look at Aoko. She has increased her mana output, and her magic circuit has started humming.
I have finished infusing the attributes into them. Then I started adding Phantom Flame to its outer shell.
"Arc, leave the area," I shout at her.
"Starmine," I hear Aoko shout.
A huge high-speed bullet hits Chaos' general area. It almost wipes off half a kilometer of area. The most dangerous part of her attack is that her ultra-short casting speed
It didn't even take her less than 3 seconds to output that kind of firepower.
Nrvnqsr Chaos has turned into a puddle of black mud. But he wasn't killed. He makes a new body and laughs.
I had already finished preparing my Arrows.
I got into focus and project one of my prototype Tungsten bows. It has a Tungsten string. I reinforce my bones and muscles to their limit.
Pick up the arrows and quickly shoot them at the sky, angling towards the mud.
"Everyone, take cover!" I shout while creating a Space Lock barrier around us. Also, making 56 Imaginary Space portals before us to make sure we won't get hit.
I trigger three of them at the same time. The explosion was deafening. The world turns white for a moment. I fear for the space's stability. Then all returns to calm.
There is nothing left in the space. Out of 56 portals, only 4 have survived, protecting us. There is Phantom Flame around us. Nrvnqsr Chaos has somehow survived, but he is hurt very badly and is getting burned by the flame.
I would say he is the best cockroach I have ever seen. And the mana consumption for burning him is no joke. I start casting Refresh on myself to cool down.
It takes at least 10 minutes of continuous burning to get the quest completion notice.
[Ding~ Quest Completed]
Main Quest:
-> Kill Nrvnqsr Chaos.
[rewards:
1M XP,
40k points,
1SSR ticket,
Guide to Reality Marble Deployment]
Then I close my connection to the fire.
"Holy shit!" I didn't know who said that.
"Arc, did you book a hotel?" I ask her.
"Yes, I did," she nods
"Miss Aoko, Miss Ciel, thank you for your help, but at my current state, I don't think I can talk to you any longer. Can you please provide your contact info so we can meet for our next meeting?" I ask them, and we exchange our contact info.
Then Arc releases the space, and we leave for our respective resting places.
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Arc has booked a single room at an ordinary hotel.
Phantom Flame is very effective, but it constantly drains magic to burn. Even with unlimited mana, the toll on the mind is no joke.
We take a shower together. I didn't have enough thought left to ask Arc to go first or after me.
Then we dry up, and I take the bed. While Arc joins me shortly.
"You did great today. He was after me; you didn't have to help. That was an amazing weapon, by the way," Arc praises me.
"Thank you too. If you didn't hold him back at the start, I wouldn't have enough time to use them," I thank her for her help.
"Is there anything you want as a reward?" she asks me. Did Kyu teach her that?
"If you really must, can I sleep on your lap?" Looks like sleep is really needed.
"Sure," she sits down and pats her thigh, "Here"
I rest my head there and then roll over so my face is on her thigh. We have yet to wear clothes. I take in her fragrance. It calms me down.
"System, receive the rewards," I thought, dozing off to sleep.
[Ding~ Receiving Rewards:
Accumulated XP->230k + 1M->1230k
Level:
43[1230k/850k]->
44[380k/900k]
Adding to Inventory:
40k points,
1SSR ticket,
Guide to Reality Marble Deployment.... complete]
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[Spirit Origin:
Name: Shirou Emiya
Title: The Gamer
Level: 44[380k/900k]
Class: Foreigner
Alignment: Neutral ・ Evil
HP: 52k [regen 5000 per min]
MP: 21k
SP: 8.8k [regen 4400 per min]
ATK: 6.3k
Points: 78,525
Familiar: Kyu Sugardust
Params:
STR: C+
END: A+
VIT: A+
AGI: C
MP: EX
LUK: D
NP: ??]
[Skills:
[Gamers Mind-EX]
[Gamers Body-EX]
[Sword of Void-EX]
[Type ORT-EX]
[One Radiant Thing-EX]
[Imaginary Number Magecraft-A++]
[Seven Deadly Sins-A++]
[Perpetual Puberty-A+++]
[Kama Sutra-EX]
[Observe-EX]
[Pain Tolerance-EX]
[Avalon-EX]
[Reality Marble:???-E~EX]
[Anti-Evil (passive)]
[Archery-A]
[Cooking-A+]
[Technician-C]
[Magecraft-B]
[Eye of Mind-C]
[Anti Divinity-E]
[Phantom Flame]
[Modern Rune]
[High-speed incantation-A]
[Territory Creation(A)]
[Healing Magecraft]
[Lucid Link]
Spells:
[Tracing]
[Reinforcement]
[Refresh]
[Flash Air]
[Clone Jutsu]
[Voidblast]
[Fireball]
[Eternal Blaze]
[The Goal Of Life Is Death]
]
[Quests]:
World Quest:
->9 months and 17 days left
Main Quest:
->Save Illyasviel von Einzbern (must heal her body). {rewards: 2M XP, Mana Output Increased By 100%, 100,000 points, 5SSR tickets}
->Help Rin Tohsaka Rebuild the Jeweled Sword Zelretch. {rewards: 1M XP, 50,000points, 3SSR tickets, Skill: Gatekeeper]
->Help Arcueid Defeat Michael Roa Valdamjong. {rewards: 500k XP, 30,000 points, Skill: Mindscape Weaver}]
Character Quest:
->Increase your physical fitness
->Increase your magical fitness
->Increase your knowledge of the world and beings living there {knowledge about powerful beings yields better results}
->Learn/Improve skills
->Learn more about people you already have a relationship with {friends and foes, both are counted}
Side Quests:
->Upgrade Skill: Type ORT
->Find what happened during the Fourth Holy Grail War. {reward: 25,000XP, ???}
-> Find Tohsaka Tokomi's killer. {rewards: 10,000XP, 1000 points}
->Unlock Excalibur Morgan True Name release.