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Isao Tsumugi
Waking up in the arms of two incredibly beautiful girls is always pleasant. It's especially nice when they get along despite being polar opposites, and it's even more special when those girls are yours. It was with that pleasant sensation that I opened my eyes, which were twitching slightly from a desire to stay shut…
Yes, yes, the "Steel Man" ability should have made me incredibly resilient—I wouldn't even need sleep—but, firstly, sleep is the brain's way of rebooting the entire body, rebooting even the mind, shedding all mental clutter like intense emotions, mental fatigue, and the like. Even if I don't need it, I'm still going to sleep, because that way the probability of me turning into some kind of psychopath is much lower. And that is exactly what's needed, because if I slowly start becoming a psycho, everyone around me will suffer, and do I need that? That's why sleep is necessary, and sleeping while cuddling with your loved ones is especially vital.
So, I squeezed the girls on both sides of me in my arms and felt them starting to wake up too.
The first was Saeko, who rolled over and draped her graceful leg across my stomach. She opened her eyes, looked at me, and began tracing circles on my chest with her slender finger.
"How did you sleep, my dear?" She pouted her lips lovingly while asking, making me swoon at her beauty and quickly kiss her.
"When beauties like you are lying in bed next to me, my sleep is always excellent…"
"Ua-ah…!" After my words, Saya managed to wake up fully, sat up on the bed with a rather loud yawn in her opaque nightgown. "Could you not flirt first thing in the morning?" She looked at Saeko with slightly furrowed brows before shifting her gaze to me. "And you… Mr. 'I'll-go-to-a-dangerous-place-without-telling-my-girlfriend'! I still haven't forgiven you for that! You could have at least passed the message through someone else instead of sneaking off and only telling Kiriko-san!" She slapped my bicep, making me smile; she looked incredibly cute when she puffed out her cheeks. "Not to mention the fact that… WHAT THE HELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU USE PROTECTION WHEN YOU HAD SEX WITH SAEKO?!" She shouted in my face, making me wince slightly… fortunately, Mom, Rin, and K-imoto had left long ago—probably half an hour before I woke up. "Do you even know how difficult it will be to have a newborn baby in our current situation? It'll be incredibly hard, not to mention all the possible dangers!" She wasn't angry at me or Saeko, despite the harsh tone—she was simply… worried and anxious for the baby.
"Don't worry, Saya, everything will be fine." I smiled and grabbed her hand, pulling her toward me and hugging her warm body. "You're such a tsun-tsun, trying to act all angry when in reality you're always worried, my pearl… don't be afraid. All my children, including ours if you decide you want some, will be safe, because I won't let anyone or anything harm them." I smiled, feeling her relax in my arms as she hugged me back.
"Ugh… not now. Maybe in the future, but I don't want to be a mother this soon. It's huge physical and psychological stress for a woman… not to mention what happens after birth. Usually, women are lucky if they recover in a few months, and it can get complicated… I hope nothing like that happens to you, Saeko-san."
"Ha, don't worry, Saya. I'm sure our husband will awaken an ability in someone that can heal all injuries…"
"And we already have one! That girl from Takuzo's group, Takuichi…? No… ah, yes! Tanuichi! Yesterday I awakened powers for Takuzo's friends, and they got a pretty good set of abilities. Among them was this girl, Tanuichi, who can heal many wounds—she can even heal fatal ones, so don't worry." I continued lying there while they listened to me speak, and even after I finished, they stayed silent for a few minutes. I could see the gears turning in Saya's head as she thought about how to use her most effectively.
"Hmm, let that girl be near Shizuka and let her teach her… by the way, you said yesterday you made a deal with that guy, Tsurugi Ururu? Mom said we now have 10 people from his squad, including Shizuka's friend? Is there a medic among those ten? If so, let that medic also be with Shizuka, but no matter what, he or she must be lower than Shizuka in the hierarchy…" She nodded as she said this… and I pondered, as I hadn't even thought about the probability that there might be a medic there.
"You're so smart! Well done!" I started stroking her head, making her pout.
"Stop it…" But even if she pretended it was unpleasant, she still leaned into my hand, making me find her adorable.
"Hmm…" Saeko narrowed her eyes slightly. For a fleeting moment, she seemed incredibly tense, but the very next moment she visibly relaxed and simply smiled, resting her head on my hand.
We lay there for a while longer, just hugging and enjoying each other's company in silence, until Saya suddenly sat up in bed.
"That's it! We need to get out of bed and start working! The day won't wait for us to lounge around! You can't give laziness even a drop of power over you!" She got out of bed and, taking off her nightgown, stood before me and Saeko in just black teddy-bear panties and a regular bra. With a blush on her cheeks, she started getting dressed. "Come on, come on, Isao, Saeko, get up! We need to start the day faster if we want to reach the island today. It must be about ten, ten-fifteen in the morning! Before lunch, we'll give everyone breakfast, give them clothes from the stores, and then we can leave!" She was fully dressed by now, and with her hands on her hips, she looked at us still lying under the covers. In the end, both Saeko and I nodded and started getting up. The blanket was tossed aside, revealing me in nothing but boxers and Saeko in her lingerie… as it turned out, I wasn't the only one who didn't like sleeping in pajamas.
Saya just sighed seeing this, started rubbing her nose bridge, then nodded at some thought of hers and began speaking.
"Fine, you two get dressed, and I'll go find Mom and help her—she's probably incredibly busy right now…" Saying this, she just walked to the door and left.
[Acquire 100+ followers for your nascent religion]
[Silver Ticket 2x]
Wait a second, where did this shit come from? Hmm… maybe it's from Oegi. The guy probably didn't sleep all night and spent the whole time working for my benefit, which is… quite pleasant.
But the word "nascent"(!) made me slightly nervous. If I don't come up with Laws for my Religion in advance, then… it'll be a disaster, no joke. People might start making up all sorts of bullshit on their own, and do I need that? No, of course not.
So I need to talk to Oegi, tell him what's permissible and what isn't. Most likely, I'll just steal most of the laws from Christianity and other faiths: don't kill, don't covet, don't commit adultery, and so on.
While I was getting dressed, I decided to use those two tickets and pulled…
[Intermediate Shooting]
|Uncommon Skill|
You are a pretty decent shot; you can handle most firearms and projectiles with familiarity, but you aren't going to be nailing headshot after headshot.
[Havel's Greatshield]
|Uncommon Item|
Dark Souls - A shield of magical stone wielded by Havel the Rock. Wielding this shield grants enhanced durability, and the user can expend energy to cover their body in stone to further reinforce it.
Hmm… with a warm wave throughout my body, I now knew how to shoot firearms quite well. Most likely, I'll even shoot better than Kouta, though… I doubt I'll use firearms much, but lead balls or whatever bullets are made of? Those I'll use just fine.
And the second, the shield… hmm, I'll give this to Oegi. He already has the ability to create stone spikes from almost any surface, and with this shield, he'll be able to reinforce his body with stone as well.
Immediately after I got dressed, I felt a hug. Looking down, I saw Saeko hugging me tightly, inhaling my scent.
"I love you so much, my husband." She looked at me with a tender expression and eyes full of love, making my heart fill with the same love for her, and I expressed it by gently kissing her plump lips.
A simple, incredibly sweet, chaste kiss intended to show my love for my dear wife, who would be carrying our child under her heart in just a few weeks.
I was happy about it. I always wanted my own family, my own wife and children, but in my past life, for obvious reasons, I couldn't afford it. But now… now I will have a HUGE family, so much so that people will look at me in disbelief when I tell them how many wives and children I have…
Fuck, I'm basically becoming a Sultan, or a Pharaoh if it comes to that. Pharaohs considered themselves Gods… for which they paid the price according to Christianity, yeah… not a great comparison. Fine, fuck it. Right now, an incredible girl is standing in my arms, and instead of kissing her, I'm thinking about some men who had power? That was unforgivable!
So, I deepened our kiss, making Saeko's eyes widen slightly as she looked at me with greater passion.
"Ha…" But all good things can't last forever. Just like that, we couldn't stand here and kiss, because it would inevitably escalate into sex, which was undesirable right now. But on the island… on the island, I must manage to enjoy her body before her belly rounds out, because it'll be much harder to have sex with her then. "A-alright, let's stop here and get out of the room. We have work to do. Stay close to my mom, and if anything happens… I don't care how you handle it. If someone starts pestering you, you can use physical force—just don't kill them." She smiled with delight, and I could already see her in her imagination beating those poor wretches who might dare to bother her to within an inch of their lives. With the incredible number of people present here, that was possible, and that is exactly why I'm sending her to Mom. "Let K-imoto, Mom, and Rin stay within 5 meters of you. And yeah, take five of Takagi's people to help you." She nodded, and we both left the room. Using my sensory abilities, I found where Mom was and sent Saeko in that direction, then headed to the place where Yuriko and Kiriko were.
They were on the first floor, while most people were either on the second floor at the food court or in the restrooms. Judging by how the outlines of their bodies were moving in my senses, they were washing up and such.
As I was descending to the first floor, a huge number of people were walking past me. It felt like I was in a shopping mall on a regular day, except for how tense all these people were, how their eyes were darting around with anxiety—all of it reminded me that we were actually living in an Apocalypse world, a total one!
It was right at that moment, as I was going down from the second to the first floor, right by the escalator, that Oegi caught me. He had bags under his eyes, but still held that same fanatical look in his dark eyes.
"Isao-sama…" He nodded at me from a distance of a few meters, then approached quite close and whispered. "Isao-sama, please spare me five minutes of your time." His tone was… pleading, as if it seemed to him that he was asking for something terrible, as if even wasting my time was some kind of deadly sin, so I answered quickly.
"I don't mind, Oegi. What is your business with me?"
"Please, follow me, Isao-sama." He nodded and started walking toward some distant part of the shopping mall. He took a few steps and looked back at me standing there, until I sighed and followed him.
I was curious about what he was going to tell me or what he was going to ask, which is why I followed him without lagging behind. And… honestly? Walking in the direction he was headed, I realized there were no people there, except for two individuals whose Vital energy was quite average in both quantity and density—likely someone young, and judging by their body outlines, they were girls.
Eventually, we walked into some closed clothing store whose glass was covered with ads, making it impossible to see inside. When we went in, I saw the girls I'd sensed.
Hmm, those girls whose father I saved… they were now looking at me like possessed people, but… controlled possessed people, with that same quiet look in their eyes that said they would kill everyone, even themselves, for my sake, not to mention that they were now dressed in something akin to Miko [shrine maiden] clothes, with a rather short skirt.
"Master." Both of them bowed to me and looked at Oegi with anticipation, just as I looked at him with a question and expectation of his answer.
"I would like to introduce you to Yamashiro Hoshi and Fusou Hoshi…" He nodded, then suddenly fell to his knees, as did the girls standing before me. "They wish to serve you as your Miko, Master. In exchange for their service, they ask only that you accept their bodies and souls, and also bestow upon them the power that most of the Blessed ones possess." He said this with such devotion that it would have made me tear up. Switching my attention back to the kneeling girls, I smiled and approached them.
"Honestly, you are going too far in serving me. If you had simply sworn your loyalty, I would have given you powers anyway, but… now that you yourselves wish to be my Miko, and the very first ones at that, I will grant you the authority of Chief Miko, and you will belong to me completely!" They trembled slightly from excitement as I placed my hands on their heads and stroked them. "Your soul will be entirely mine, and your body will serve for my pleasure and leisure. You can say you will be my concubines… do you agree?" After all, they were quite sexy, and I noticed one thing… the density of a virgin girl's vital energy differs from that of someone who has already known carnal pleasures—not by much, but still… and both of these girls were virgins… making my desire flare up, but I quickly brought this lust under control.
"Y-yes!" "Yes."
The one called Yamashiro, the one with long hair, answered hastily, as if the chance would slip away if she didn't answer fast enough. And Fusou… Fusou answered clearly and precisely, knowing exactly what she wanted.
"Then…" I used their tickets and looked at the screens that popped up before me.
[Fusou Hoshi]
[Metal Manipulation]
|Elite Ability|
MHA - Allows you to control the shape and form of all metals you are in contact with.
[Blood Mana]
|Uncommon Trait|
You've got no energy? Well, you've got something else, don't you? You can treat your own vitality as a secondary mana bar at a 1 to 1 rate of exchange. Expended vitality cannot be cured by healing but only through rest.
[Yamashiro Hoshi]
[Suggestion]
|Rare Ability|
Allows you to send a mental suggestion to your target to subtly make them do what you want them to do by making them perceive it as their idea to manipulate them or condition them.
[Motivational Speaker]
|Rare Trait|
"Dattebayo!" You are an excellent motivational speaker; whatever corny stuff you speak will actually strike at their heart cords instead of sounding cringy to them. It is far easier to get through to someone even if they are stubborn.
The first one… Fusou, the younger one who answered clearly, received the ability to manipulate metal she touched… along with a trait allowing her to turn her blood into mana—but now, more likely into Vital energy, if that rise in her vital energy I felt was anything to go by.
She looked at her hands in shock, much like I looked at her in disbelief. So, fuck, what the hell? Gacha definitely has some kind of fucked-up humor; otherwise, I can't explain why my Chief Priestess—at least one of them—got an ability somewhat similar to my own?!
And the second one… hey, fuck! What the hell?! Not that I'm not happy, but this is definitely some kind of RNGesus trickery, because WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN "THE ABILITY TO PLANT SPECIFIC THOUGHTS IN PEOPLE'S HEADS" AND A TRAIT THAT MAKES YOU A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER?!
What the fuck?! What kind of bullshit is this?! Both of my Chief Priestesses got incredibly good powers?! I can't believe it. Everyone who received powers from me before got rather ill-fitting abilities, except for… Saeko, Mom, and K-imoto… and Yuriko and Kiriko… fuck, I get it now. I see what you're doing, Gacha. I see everything…
While all these shocked thoughts raced through my head, my face didn't even twitch. With a kind smile, I looked down into their eyes, full of gratitude and… Faith.
"I hope you're happy? My dear Miko…" I smiled at them, bowing my head slightly as they nodded.
[Acquire your first Miko]
[Silver Ticket 2x]
Please, give me a roll just as good as theirs…
[Retroactive Builders Contract]
|Rare Item|
A folded-up contract that promises full satisfaction. Just put the specifications of what you want built and where inside of the contract and put in enough money that would normally be required to fund the construction including labor costs etc. The moment you sign the contract off, it will burn to ashes; whatever you asked for will have been retroactively expertly built an unspecified amount of time ago alongside the money being removed from your possession. Restock Timer: 720 hours.
[Bondage of Enduring]
|Common Item|
A set of bondage ropes that, when worn in an appropriate position in place of one's clothes, increases the wearer's durability, stamina regeneration, and converts pain into pleasure.
Hmm… yes! I'm going to build a huge fucking temple on the island in my Name! And since I can create precious metals out of thin air, money won't be much of a problem… And the Bondage? I already knew who I'd use it on, and with that thought, I stroked the heads of my cute Miko once more.
"Alright, you may go. Let Yamashiro try to instill faith in people's minds in moderation, but don't overdo it—just nudge them in my direction, okay?" Yamashiro nodded, while Fusou looked at me with anticipation.
"As you wish, My Lord, I will try to do everything in the best way possible…" She slowly stood up, making me remove my hand from her head, which seemed to upset her slightly judging by her eyes. Then, I looked at cute Fusou.
"And you, Fusou-chan…" I held out my hands and started creating various ornaments out of titanium… Bracers she could wear under those long sleeves, and rings on a chain with a delicate bracelet for both hands… After creating them, I made them hover in front of Fusou. "Take them, Fusou-chan, this is my gift to you. Titanium is a rather light metal, but unfortunately, I can't vouch for the comfort of these ornaments."
"I… I…" The fanaticism and obsession in her eyes grew even more, which made me happy. "I am grateful to you, my Lord, for such a generous gift." She nodded, then stood up and went to her sister.
"Don't forget your task, Yamashiro-chan—try to instill sympathy for me in as many people as possible." She nodded and left the door with her sister, leaving me alone with Oegi, who was staring at the floor. "And you, Oegi… you've worked very well. Here, take this shield as a gift from me." I pulled Havel's Greatshield out of the Gacha spatial pocket and placed it in front of him.
The shield fell to the floor with a crash, leaving rather large cracks in it… making me slightly fear for Oegi's back if he tried to lift it… but I still decided to give him a chance.
"Try to lift it. If you can't, so be it—you'll have to train until you can." He stood up slowly and nodded, then walked over to me, or rather to the shield, and slowly ran his finger along the outer part, seemingly trying to feel something known only to him. Then he stood at the inner part and grabbed the handle… with a quiet sigh, he tried to lift it, but… no matter how much he puffed and strained, nothing worked, and I hummed.
"It's still too heavy for you. Give it here." I took it and, exerting a little strength, lifted it, after which the Shield evaporated into blue particles. On Oegi's face… there was shame and disappointment.
"I apologize for… for disappointing you, my Lord…" He didn't lift his gaze from the floor, and I sighed, while he lowered his head even further and slumped.
"Don't ask for forgiveness. Be Better, Oegi. I decided that this shield will be yours, which means this shield will be yours, but until you can lift it with ease, you won't get it."
"I will try, my Lord."
"I know. You've shown yourself incredibly well, Oegi, which is exactly why I'm giving this shield to you." A few droplets of his tears fell to the floor, but I pretended not to notice, then headed for the exit. "You are good, Oegi. Don't you dare think poorly of yourself."
After these words, I walked out and headed in the direction where I felt Yuriko and Kiriko, next to whom Soichiro, Ururu, and… Kiriko's husband were currently standing.
Heh… it's a pity I don't want to do anything with him right now. Oh… wait a second! I have my own telepath! I can use her powers on Sayori… that would be bad, yes… but since her man decided to go against me, she will get her due as well. After all, Husband and Wife are one, yeah, I know, they're husband and wife, but they're lovers… and that's enough for me, I feel pity for Takashi, of course, but I'm not gonna change my mind.
I will humiliate, punish and destroy this piece of shit, for even thinking about harming My Family.
How good it is that I am incredibly strong, and in my world, there isn't anyone who will be able to go against me.
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