1st Person POV
Ok. Time to spin baby. With another tug, I spun the wheel, hoping for a good ability. When it stopped, my breath hitched.
'Gacha System'
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Ok. Now don't get me wrong. I knew what gacha was, I've played games with such functions in my past life but how did this work? If it worked like rewarding me with abilities from other animes, comics, etc, then this was simply way too overpowered. Did I care?
No, lol. This was more than a godsend.
All I could hope for was that it did work like that. I watched as the roulette wheel disintegrated with a sigh, time for my transmigration huh? A blinding light encompassed my vision for a mere moment before I found myself in a rather generic looking room.
Memories rush into my head to aid adjusting into this new life of mine. So, I wasn't someone who was from overseas but was rather born here in Japan? Sure, I grew up in America in my past life, but my father was Italian and my mother was Brazilian so there's that. My new name was Akumu Tsukishiro huh? Or was Tsukishiro Akumu because this was Japan and surnames come first? I honestly didn't care much about that. Anyways, this is my bedroom, in a rather average apartment, in where?
Kuoh.
Great, so I was dropped straight into the town where everything happens. Oh and no parents, they were doctors and died in a car crash like a year ago and left me with quite the hefty amount of money and this apartment, what a cliché, well it didn't matter much. I already had enough parental love to last me an eternity fivefold. I hadn't known my father in my past life since he died before I was born but my mother raised me with all the maternal love a mother could give to their baby boy. She was my best friend, the ying to my yang, my everything growing up...still is.
"Don't think about her." I whispered calmly, closing my eyes and reaching up to rub my forehead. A soft ding interrupts my thoughts and I open my eyes, sitting up on the admittedly comfortable bed. Staring at the holographic screen in front of me, I realized this was my Gacha screen.
'GACHA SYSTEM INITIALIZED'
Ok. This was good. Now all I needed to see was how this went.
'You have received four starter Gacha tickets.
Hey, thanks man.
Roll it!
Rolling!
Uncommon Ability!
[Music Selector]
Allows user to play any music from their world for their ears only.
"..." Ok? That was good. I didn't know when Highschool DxD took place year wise, but he wasn't complaining if his favorite recent artists didn't exist yet or if any of them even did.
It was a satifactory roll but nevertheless, I wanted something a bit more offensive please.
Rolling!
Epic Ability!
[Lightning Affinity]
Allows user to use lightning-based abilites.
Boom, that's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah, I can already think of many abilities in terms of lighting from various animes. Lightning was good, it was very good. Maybe I could pass off as a magician?
Does this give me mana or something? I don't know. If others can't sense it, I can just use the excuse that I'm simply suppressing my mana.
Roll again baby!
Rolling!
Uncommon Ability!
[Enhanced Vigor]
Vitality has been increased beyond human standards. Exhaustion, injuries, etc, are recovered faster. Life force has been increased!
Beautiful. I hum to myself, this wasn't exactly offensive oriented, but it was good in general. Hopefully this helped me not getting sick, colds and fevers might have felt like I was dying. Oh and I get to live longer so, hooray.
Alright last roll let's go!
Rolling!
Legendary Mergeable Character!
Batman (DC)
Allows User to merge with Batman, gaining his skills, intellect, wisdom, etc. (Merging Time: Five Days.)
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Ok. Now this was real shit. Batman? The legend himself. Now look, I know a lot don't like him simply because he doesn't kill. Hell, I'm one of them. But this was Batman, this guy was the pinnacle of humanity. I'm definitely merging with his character. But first things first.
I snap back to reality and take things in. I'm in an ecchi-like anime. Hoh. Apart from the waifus, I was neutral about DxD. Oh, and would you look at that, according to my memories, I'm a new transfer student at Kuoh Academy. Starting when? Tomorrow, quite late into the year at that. An exception made by...I don't even know.
But nevertheless, it was time to think things through. Paths I can go about DxD.
1. I play by the plot, perhaps even join Rias' peerage, be friends with the goon master himself and make use of his protagonist bullshit power for the easy way out.
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Hm...
2. Join a separate faction and obviously change how the timeline goes. I'm pretty sure The Fallen are here in Kuoh, there's also the Youkai in Kyoto, the Angels? The Hero faction?
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Instant no.
3. Simply hide. Hope the world fucks off and leaves me alone.
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Hell nah.
4. I get powerful enough to simply do whatever the hell I want. Plot? Fuck outta here. Factions? Suck it. Become someone that ignores demands and whatever other fuckery the others want. The ultimate middle finger.
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Yeah, it was so painfully obvious that this was between number one and four. I'm leaning towards number one. I know most people who read fanfictions would absolutely abhor joining a peerage since it was akin to being a servant/slave. But most don't really realize that it's pretty easy to get out of it if you reached a certain level, I think it was High-Class? It was also kind of because I wanted to be around them. Like, why not? Sure, apart from the sheer hotness they represented. Rias was a good person, I think. It was repeatedly said in a lot of fanfics that she treats her peerage as if they were family.
Boom, I could leave her peerage early especially because of the Gacha system, I become close to the main cast in case of the plot, and I could maybe get a waifu or two. I also couldn't escape either, couldn't hide in a world I knew fuck all about. At the very least here in Kuoh, I knew the big things that was bound to happen as long as I'm with the main cast.
Whatever let's see how this goes.
With a sigh, I got up off my bed and put on some sneaker, deciding to head out for some air. I was suddenly thrown into a new world after all, but if there was something I excelled in most, it was adapting. And that's on top of humans already being highly adaptable creatures.
I closed the door behind me as walked out, not before beginning the merge with Batman. The sky was nice, blue and cloudless and the breeze was cool. As I walked aimlessly, I got lost in my thoughts about the merging. If there was one thing, I hoped not to get was his refusal to kill. I didn't need that here, in a world full of monsters. Hopefully it was just his template.
Crossing the street, I blinked as I heard something that made my blood turn cold.
My ears picked up wheels screeching as if forcefully trying to stop. No way...
I didn't need to turn my head fully to see the truck out of the corner of my eye. It was literally right there. Instinct kicked in and I tried to use lighting to speed myself up, blitz away, but I was too slow. I had no training with my lightning affinity yet and my body simply couldn't react fast enough.
All I heard was the honking blaring in my ears before something hit me with all force of a truck (pun intended) and sent me flying. Through all the sheer disbelief, I couldn't even register anything and blacked out.
"And here I thought I had good luck. Twice? Truck-kun, you fucking hater-