The Anime Trope System: Stone vs. Viper, #6 a LitRPG (ATS) Read online

  The moment he took two steps into the expensive room, his shirt was pulled off, pants down. And he rocked her. Her breasts, average sized, bobbed almost in sync with her song. Her flushed face made his erection feel as if it would never stop growing. Sometimes when he charged faster, her pitch rose an entire octave. She squeezed, tight, and ordered Clyde to ride harder. He obliged gleefully.

  When the climax struck, Kitome helped onto him tightly, her song pouring from her tongue. They had sex at two more times before calling it a night.

  Kitome’s face remained flushed, even in the cab. She laid her head on Clyde’s shoulders.

  [Kitome’s heart is now wavering. Give her some time to admit to herself how she feels about you. Congratulations on being the first see her for her and not the attitude. ]

  [Quest completed! Reward: 1 million EXP and 100 free points!]

  [Congratulations, you’ve reached level 76. Stats increased.]

  **

  On Earth…

  “I’m truly sorry,” Clyde’s mother said, eyes filled with tears, hugging a young woman. “You came all this way to see him. Ten years since you last have... I’m so sorry. I miss him so much.”

  Arisa hugged the woman back. It wasn’t until minutes after she left the house when the gravity of the situation struck her like a train. Her old friend, who she knew since childhood, vanished without a trace. The hurt…so much pain, not just for herself, but his poor family. Months had passed, and she had to go and stir the hornet’s nest.

  Arisa kicked herself inside. Just happened to him? Tears fell from her eyes. She came all this way only to find out her favorite old friend was dead. Gone. They’d never catch up…

  She’d never confirm something within herself.

  After taking a cab to her hotel room—she couldn’t accept the room offer from Clyde’s family—she showered and dropped right into bed.

  Maybe she should launch her own investigation. Asking a few people around his neighborhood about common things such as his hangout spots, friends he spent time with, and troublesome issues back then. She had a couple of weeks before her college’s break was over. Whoever took her friend away from her would pay.

  She turned on the TV. An anime played…

  “Another stupid harem,” she said softly. There wasn’t a single man alive that could handle so many girls. And what female would want to share, anyway. It just wasn’t human nature to share. Then again, she couldn’t compare humans to demons, witches, and so-called monster girls.

  She closed her eyes, determination flowing through her blood like a high-speed water jet. Ugh. She flew all the way to the states, from abroad, for nothing. Her poor friend…He didn’t deserve his fate.

  A bright light that she thought was from the TV caused her eyes to snap back open. A whisper…

  “You came here because you were running from your terrible old life. Very well, girl, you shall be given a new life, a new name, and a true purpose. Now, you shall be called…”

  **

  Unknown town in Messalay, Satovia…

  Tessa let down her unnaturally forest-green hair and sighed. She couldn’t believe she had that dream again the prior night. Seeing earth and its physics, and shapes and colors, felt so strange. Yet, she ran away from that old life to here. And like every deal with the devil, the entire ordeal crashed down on her. Her immense power over the wind, her strengths and gifts granted paled in comparison to that man. The Viper.

  Why couldn’t the stone-viper games rage on far away? And who’s the Stone? Why was the goddess she spoke with so obsessed with him? Or at least it seemed that way.

  A beautiful dark elf—typical of anime women—peeked into Tessa’s room, a warm smile on her face.

  “Are you well, Tessa? Do you need anything?”

  Tessa could hardly believe that these nice women treated men like sex slaves. So…they weren’t nice, she supposed. Just sexists to the extreme. Why did her new goddess send her to this place? She’d been here for days—and while it was cozy, something about the nation felt off. Sure, Tessa had pointy ears in this state, resembling an elf, but she wasn’t one. She actually had no idea about her new self—the stupid silent goddess wouldn’t answer her. She sighed.

  “No, that’s okay Emma,” she said, “but thank you.”

  “It’s a pleasure, new sister,” Emma said, then bowed. “If you need anything, please do not hesitate to ask.” She bowed again. “May the Supreme’s warmth lead your way to happiness.”

  When the dark elf or Alethian left, Tessa let out a breath. She only recently found out that this Supreme person was actually something known as a Supreme Demon Lord. She wanted to know more, but had to live here. That goddess saved her life.

  Goddesses were real and one watched over her. Venus. The real goddess of love…in Satovia. This amazing world had everything, including the bizarre. She really hoped someone would stop the Viper before he ruined everything. Was he from Earth too? If so, why did he attack instead of offering assistance?

  She figured like the TV shows, the ‘players’ would be all for themselves. How stupid. The literal fate of two worlds, maybe even more on the line and everyone wanted to be assholes.

  Suddenly, she felt herself being engulfed in the most magnificent presence ever…

  “My new daughter, it is time for you to be the Wind again,” Venus said, her incredibly beautiful goddess voice filling the room. Tessa bathed in it. “Your primary home will remain here in Messalay and HE will eventually find his way to this place. For now, you will go on a journey to take possession of a world fragment. That should lure him here nicely.” She giggled. “Since there are no vehicles in Messalay, so you shall go by Spirit Beast. I trust you still know how to summon yours?”

  “Of course, my goddess,” Tessa said.

  “Fantastic. Good look, new daughter. I expect great things from you .”

  The presence vanished and Tessa sagged to the floor. A new journey, outside of the protection of her dark elf protectors. Well, Emma was sort of a friend, even if her values matched the monster girl philosophy. Sort of…

  Tessa nodded to herself as she started packing. A heroine again.

  Episode 35 (Part 2)

  Wednesday. Week 1. Month 2. Year 1. Season: Autumn.

  City: Niyoto, Satovia

  [Current quest: Investigate Niyoto. Step 4!]

  Day three!

  [Card bearers in the immediate area: 2. Ming, Unknown.]

  [Cook-off opponents in the immediate area: 5. Harumi, Advanced chef Yuki, Alice, Kitome, unknown. ]

  Yeah …his quest log took priority. He’d try not to get involved in any extra shit. Also…Kitome?

  Clyde could hear an argument between two sworn nemesis. One that he hoped was over and done with. Chika and Melody. No…that wasn’t quite an argument. They seemed to be just a few doors from his room.

  “I told you, it was my fault, and that’s final,” Melody said. “I’ll buy your lunch.”

  “No, no, no, I—”

  Clyde tuned them out when he heard someone groan next to him. Will this be a game of who he’d wake up with in the morning? He expected to see Alice, a known sleep-in, but found Kitome there instead. And Natalia. Well, so much for a morning of teasing the magical girl in order to gain a cute reaction. He considered snapping of a photo of her sleeping, but tossed away the idea. Pissing her off would take away this side of her.

  The loli, thankfully fully dressed for the day, hummed to herself while playing Nina’s handheld game. It resembled a PlayStation Vita . Wait…a fucking minute. The previous day, he remembered Kitome yelling at her. She couldn’t be…

  “Pervy nii-chan, what’s she doing in your bed?”

  Clyde rolled his eyes.

  “Kids say the darndest things,” he said. “Now don’t go pestering her. And how’d you get in here?”

  Natalia grinned.

  “Onii-chan, whatever could you be talking around?” She casually unwrapped a chocolate bar. A familiar brand
. “By the way, there are so many things—”

  The door burst open and Alice stormed in, pink aura blazing around her. He frowned, but for some reason, Kitome didn’t wake.

  He was surprised to see the look of absolute terror in Natalia eyes. Tears poured. OH, the candy. Clyde stifled a laugh.

  “Please,” she said, voice barely above a whisper. Alice dashed toward her. The loli dove toward Clyde.

  “Alice is bullying me, onii-chan!”

  She didn’t make it to the young man, stopped in midair by Alice’s use of the force.

  “I hope you enjoy hanging on the ceiling for most of our day off,” Alice said. She kissed Clyde before leaving. He wondered if she noticed that Kitome ducked under the covers at the last second. The loli’s crying and apologizes could still be heard even when they entered another hall.

  “Serves her right,” Kitome said. “Do you think Alice saw me?” They made eye contact then laughed.

  The duo messed around for half an hour before conducting standard morning activities. Hell, he brushed his teeth and showered while inside of her. She somewhat competed with Chika in that aspect.

  Clyde almost called a morning meeting, but remembered he gave the party a day off. A good way to piss off a party is to make them work on their free time , he thought. Kitome was eventually pulled away by Harumi, Chika, and Yuki. Ruri chatted with Alice about old times while ignoring the anime that played on the lobby’s TV. Natalia whimpered on the ceiling, held there by the force. Maki and her cousin Ming were at a table in a far corner, talking. Ming shuffled her deck of cards repeatedly which seemed to give her hands something to do. He nodded in approval. They didn’t know the others that well, but chatting as cousins seemed to smooth away the loneliness. In two more months, Clyde would place Maki before the team and they would determine if she atoned enough to be cut a little slack. If enough votes run through, factoring in Yuki’s mentoring, therapy, and recovery program, along with the all-day work which included labor and volunteer events, lack of privileges, a behavior analysis, he could tell Yuki to proceed to trust training. He’d personally step in to make sure his relationship with her was as high as possible before they converted her to his spy.

  He knew a three-month full punishment in place of the five-year original pushed it, even for a first offense, but world-saving took priority. As much as he didn’t want to think of people as tools, he knew Maki would make a great one.

  It was a nice and mild day with few clouds in the sky. Clyde walked, feeling at peace a little—or at least he pushed his current problems into the procrastination box. Two streets later, he caught sight of Melody exiting a bookstore, smiling. The daughter of he who cannot be named and of she who dawns time, giddy over romance novels.

  He was about to walk toward her when someone tapped his leg. He turned to see a boy who looked about ten.

  “Mister, are you really him?” he said. “I saw you on TV and your super friends. Are you going to save the world?”

  Clyde smiled.

  “You say that. But.” He looked around then placed a finger on his lips. In a conspiratorial low voice, he said, “You must not tell anyone that I’m here. I’m looking for bad guys.”

  The kid saluted.

  “Sir yes sir! You can do it, Mr. Stone.” He bowed Japanese style and ran off to join his mother. She gave Clyde an apologetic style.

  It was nothing short of a miracle that the Viper hadn’t discovered him yet. Then again, he couldn’t be too much stronger than Clyde, right? They were both whisked to Satovia at the same time. Possible. He probably had access to the power too, plus Mortem described him as incredibly strong. He wondered if the Viper was more informed on the world.

  “You’re a sweet guy.”

  He turned to see Melody standing there, grasping her new book.

  “I don’t know about that,” Clyde said. Melody shot him a blank stare. He waved it off while internally examining his quest log.

  [Quest: Talk to Melody…. again.]

  For shits and giggles, he asked a silly question. System, does this count? He thought.

  [Step 1 of quest completed. Step 2: spend time with Melody. Reward: unknown. This quest is mandatory and cannot be refused.]

  He almost laughed, but wasn’t complaining. Who the hell would complain about spending time with a beautiful woman? Clyde let that be a rhetorical question because there were many factors that branched beneath that, starting with: is she a yandere?

  Clyde made his decision. He still had to date each female member of his party, which was an unreasonably long quest, but at least it wasn’t mandatory.

  “Melody, do you mind dropping all the plans you have today just to hang out with me?” Clyde said. “It’d be a date.”

  “As if I had plans,” she said under her breath.

  “What?” Clyde said.

  “N—nothing,” she said, flustered. “I’d love to hang out. Just put this book in your inventory so I don’t have to carry it out around.”

  He almost expected her to protest and demand to get changed, but that would’ve been pointless since she already wore casual clothing that looked expensive and popular to the masses. Well, not masses, but the rich.

  [You received The Goddess and Her Lover from Melody.]

  Melody grabbed Clyde’s arm. “I’ve never been on a date before.”Clyde gave her a skeptical look. “You’d understand if you were from my realm,” she said, a slight blush on her face. “Anyway, I don’t want to think about it—let’s go.”

  Her cheerfulness enveloped him. Her luck at “Seducing” the young man didn’t exist. The first attempt after the movie was to pull Clyde into an alley way for what he assumed would be a “surprise” moment of passion, just like in the film. Another couple was already there, riding so furiously, the young man disabled his mystic senses just to stop feeling the vibrations, which felt like punches, in the air. The sight proved to be too much for the demigoddess. She hurried off in a fast walk, nearly a run.

  It took Clyde just a tidbit of effort to catch and calm her down. When she tried to kiss him, the ground gave way beneath her. He caught her in time before she fell into the sink hole. The third time, a large crowd of people seemingly formed out of nowhere and engulfed the duo as some idol girl passed by, waving outside her car. She even winked and blew Clyde a kiss which broke the spirit of the redhead even farther.

  And that’s how she ended up locking herself in her room. He lured her out once for her book, but she refused any advances or comforting.

  Clyde sighed.

  [Quest failed. Talk to Melody step 2. Penalty: none, due to the circumstances being out of your hands.]

  [Your relationship with Melody has increased to Absolute Endearment, friend closer level 2. You do not receive any bonus increases due to failing step 2 of the quest.]

  Clyde stopped his eyes from widening and just shook his head. What utter horseshit. Well, he couldn’t expect everything to be one hundred percent easy mode all the time.

  [Quest: Wait for Melody to come to you . This quest is mandatory and cannot be refused. It also dependent on her, regardless of your actions.]

  Another failed attempt with Melody. The girl was the epitome of bad luck. Clyde wondered if he should just focus on the others and just leave the redhead be. Failing a quest invoked penalties. Her awful luck would just complicate things. A challenge.

  Thoughts for later. Maybe if the potential of everyone dying to a demon lord wasn’t a thing.

  He left the hotel to do more exploring and thinking. Clyde didn’t expect to catch Detective Tetra arguing with the crusader from afar. To make matters worse, he wasn’t alone. One of his friends suddenly slugged the detective to the ground.

  “NO SUPREME DEMON LORD WORSHIPPERS ALLOWED HERE!” he yelled at the top of his lungs. “The Great Ones leave it to us to keep scum like you off the street.”

  The third crusader bounded her in bright white ropes. They stuffed her into a nearby van and off they sped. Tetra’s scream
still echoed through the wind.

  And no one was on this street to witness any of it. Today was just not his day. Seriously, what the fuck just happened, he thought.

  Episode 35 (Part 3)

  To think the crusaders just kidnapped a detective right in front of him. Where could they be heading? Clyde’s anime trope senses rang. Asshole “holy” warriors doing shady things which could end up leading to a disaster. Or their humiliation. They were probably plotting for power within their ranks too. Something had to be done about them, eventually.

  The detective was pretty much as good as gone, maybe miles away. No quest bothered to show up, which meant this simply wasn’t Clyde’s problem. What could he do? Blindly search for the van? He didn’t have time to go on a quest to rescue some detective. He still texted his team the news.

  “Surely the man destined to save the world isn’t going to turn his back on an innocent,” someone said, from behind, undetected by Clyde’s mystic senses. No airflow, no mood, nothing. He spun and saw Ashard standing there with his arms folded, silent green aura oozing around him. Fairy Queen Titania’s son.

  “So you know,” Clyde said to the young man.

  “That doesn’t answer my question,” Ashard continued. “Will you run to save that woman?”

  Clyde said nothing at first then he chose his words carefully.

  “Let me ask you this,” he said. “What would I accomplish blindly chasing after a woman as troublesome as that? No scratch that—I could bullshit my way through the crusaders. The big question is where will look?”

  “So you will save that woman from her ill fate,” Ashard said. “We’ll see. I’ll take you there. And then you will be more than just talk. Or get slaughtered by crusaders.”

  “I don’t think so,” Clyde said.