10.The Anime Trope System: Stone vs. Viper, #10 a LitRPG (ATS) Read online

  “I’ll watch at least one episode with you,” Clyde said.

  [Your relationship with Noona has increased to friend, closer level 6. Very interested.]

  Huh? Clyde noticed something. For just a brief moment, Noona’s eyes almost seemed lusty. He’d seen enough of Chika’s expressions to tell. That had to be a fluke. The pure girl didn’t seem to have sex education or else she would’ve detected the young man’s massive boner. Then again, she could be pretending to not notice, just to be nice.

  [Noona has 5% succubus blood within her demoness heritage…]

  Pfft, five percent. Meaningless in Clyde’s opinion. He dismissed the useless prompt and followed Noona to her room. She dismissed the servants around for the night.

  “Take the rest of the night off,” she said. “Clyde and I are going to watch some anime. No disturbances.”

  They nodded and left. Noona selected this world’s Netflix equivalent on her Smart TV, then put on what seemed to be a romance, comedy, and action anime. She boldly sat very close to Clyde.

  The young man found it hard to concentrate. He tried to focus on the show, but the heavy ecchi and adult theme just didn’t work in his favor. He breathed a sigh of relief when the first episode was over.

  “So what’d you think?” Noona said.

  “Not bad, but it’s too early to tell,” Clyde answered. “That’s one hell of a cliffhanger for a first episode.”

  Noona shrugged.

  “Can’t argue with that. We could always watch another.” She glanced at the digital clock of her phone. “Well, I suppose you’d want to get going.”

  As she moved to get up, the woman tripped on something, giving her an anime-fall right onto Clyde’s boner.

  And for the first time, Noona gave Clyde a Toru-style blank stare. That look spiraled the young man into laughter. Seconds later, the blonde joined in the laughter.

  “Well, I’d better—”

  Noona’s kiss tasted of cherries.

  “Sorry… I just wanted to try it—I don’t know what came over me. You be safe.”

  She stood and turned, blushing heavily. “I’ve watched too many of these rom-coms. A good night sleep should clear things up.”

  Clyde stood and considered pushing, but thought better of it. Melody served as a prime example of when to take things nice and slow. It seemed like hope for Noona was not lost at all. The solution was simple and right in his face.

  Just date her like a normal girl. Take away her loneliness. Take away…her loneliness.

  He pulled Noona into a hug.

  “It’s okay,” Clyde told her in a soothing voice. She looked at him with glistening, longing eyes. And closed them, for another kiss. He gave it to her.

  The kissing became passionate and soon he laid her on the bed to intensify the moment. Noona craved it strongly, matching his energy, maybe even exceeding him. His erection was so maxed out that it almost hurt.

  He slowly pulled the demoness’s dress off, then sucked her large breasts. Her moan threatened to make him burst. When he shoved two fingers inside of her, the wetness told the young man everything he needed to know.

  Entering Noona felt incredible and tight. She winced at first, a virgin’s response, but as he gently moved, the woman began to enjoy herself. She whispered and hissed at him to move faster.

  Noona came twice, before Clyde’s release. He barely managed to pull out in time. At least he hoped he did…The situation with Harumi put the man a little on the edge.

  “That was my first time,” Noona said as they rested. “I’ve never really thought about pervy things…but it was fun. Do you….mind if we do it again sometime?”

  “Anytime,” Clyde said.

  “I guess this is what the other girls of Team Stone get to feel,” Noona said. He shrugged. “It’s okay, poly-relationships aren’t something strange in Satovia. And nothing new to your kind.”

  Noona snuggled into Clyde.

  “The real competition is being the best.”

  [Noona has joined your party!]

  “See you tomorrow,” Clyde said to Noona, minutes later as they stepped outside. She had walked with him to the main lobby.

  “Bye,” Noona said cheerfully. “I promise I won’t let the team down.”

  “I know you won’t,” Clyde said. He had a sneaking suspicion that Noona had no idea just how powerful she was. She could stand toe to toe with Tear for one.

  Upon arrival to his house, Clyde showered.

  [Challenge completed! Get Noona to join your party! You have greatly exceeded the expectations of this challenge. That or gotten lucky, desu. Reward: Mystic Wrath evolution!]

  [Mystic Wrath has evolved to Wiseman’s Calm.]

  This brought forth changes to some of his Mystic Wrath skills.

  -Mystic Omnipresent Aide : invoke the power of nature to assist you. Does nature damage. Chance for a 150% attack increase, anywhere. Wiseman’s calm increases this by another 50%.

  -Wiseman’s Calm : Enter Wiseman mode. This form lasts for a short time and drains magic points, but all physical and magic attacks increase greatly. You will be able to cast Destructive Mystic Lightning. Chance to fully heal when entering this mode: 3%. Sometimes allies around you will randomly heal.

  - Destructive Mystic Lightning - can only cast during Wiseman mode. Does spiritual, electrical, holy, nature, fire, and destruction damage. Chance to cause spiritual blight at 44%. Chance to blind. Chance to paralyze. Chance to stop an opponent’s time for 4 seconds at 1%.

  Due to the time-stopping capabilities, this skill usefulness is god tier equivalent.

  Clyde hopped into bed, relaxed. Tomorrow was the day where they’d be leaving Lot City. He’d launch the investigation of the dragon threat for Liru and then start his adventure quest. It would be a multi-day car trip. Eh…van trip. Tear nor anyone else had been to the destination, so Jumping was out of the question. There was the option of the train. Hmm… Thank goodness this world didn’t require passports. Just identification, which Tear took care of for the young man.

  He glanced at his bedmates. Alice, Tear, Melody, Chika, and Harumi. All of his fiancées. Good thing he ordered a Super-bed for the new place, which of course came out of the Ashfall money. As for the hotels, everyone would have their own room. It probably wouldn’t stop the chaos, but hey, a start was a start.

  Clyde kissed Alice. She woke up, kissed him back, then fell asleep in his arms. Damn did he love her.

  He’d have a talk before going through with giving the half-demoness a baby. Alice fought by his side, complimenting his attacks with perfection. She was also potentially the strongest member on the team.

  The feeling of her opening a partial-goddess transformation still tingled his insides. That power was coated heavily with the angel element, but also a little purity, like a poison-tipped dart. He planned to have her join his Stone Mode training. Alice was the key to a finishing move he developed in his head.

  Impregnating her meant eventually taking his most powerful fighter off the board. Sure, he had others to fill in the gap, but Alice was unique. Fuck, he needed her.

  Episode 52 (Part 1): The Original Terrors of Mankind…

  Saturday. Week 3. Month 2. Year 1. Season: Late Autumn.

  [Satovian Universal Calendar: Nova, 46389]

  [School: Winter Break. Day 1 of 30.]

  [While birthdays aren’t celebrated in Satovia, the system will now notify you of upcoming birthdays for your fiancée and wives only, as well as very high relationship female Team Stone members. A 3-day countdown will initiate when the time draws near. You may choose to disable this; however, in the event that you introduce birthday celebration to your friends and loved ones, you will be rewarded. After introducing the concept, you may focus on fiancées/wives only. Also, you may celebrate or gift them during anytime of that month. ]

  [You and Alice share the same birthday in Justice. First day of the year.]

  [Natalia’s birthday is coming up next month, in Domino.]
r />   [Stone mode: still recharging. You must rely on your learned strength for now…]

  Clyde’s phone rang, pulling him out of his prompt-reviewing sleep. The alarm may have disabled itself for the winter break, but the daily prompts would serve as the replacement. Sure, he could always set them to auto-delay, but he couldn’t afford to miss any updates.

  Someone was on top of him…

  He warped his phone from the inventory and answered the call.

  “Good afternoon or is it morning there?” Tessa said from the other line.

  “Morning Tessa,” Clyde said with just a trace of early-morning haze in his voice.

  “Did I wake you?” she said. “I can—”

  “No, the prompts woke me,” Clyde said with a chuckle. He noticed that most of the women were up, but not exactly staring at him. The person on top of him…turned out to be Neko, smirking. And purring. It didn’t take Alice long to remove her with the force—right onto the floor.

  “Nyaa, so mean,” she said.

  Alice snuggled back into Clyde. On his other side was Chika, still out.

  “So how are things on your end, Arisa—I mean Tessa,” Clyde asked. As Tessa answered and talked about her day, the young man’s fiancées delivered him morning kisses. Harumi was the first, minutes later followed by Tear. The others did so as they finally crawled out of bed to wash and brush up for the morning. It was time to take care of any last-minute packing.

  After Clyde ended the call with his childhood friend, he turned over. Maybe stealing fifteen minutes of sleep…

  “I don’t think so, Clyde,” Yuki said. “We’re leaving Lot City today, so I suggest finishing any last-minute obligations. Oh and Clare sent for you. I think she’s finished with your sword repair.”

  Clyde sat up, excited, and was met with soft lips.

  After the morning activities, the young man set off to Clare’s.

  **

  Some miles from Ring City, Terravon, of the Zextral Continent…

  Kimiko stretched, blank stare on her face, as she took the train to Ring City. Ugh, she hated crowded trains. Well, she hated human transportation in general, but her big anime-addicted sister, told her to no longer fly anywhere close to this place. The young woman still didn’t understand the meaning behind this order. They were dragons, terrors of the world…right? Why couldn’t they fly?

  Kimiko belonged to a family of three sisters. Being the youngest, traditionally, she was expected to follow orders of the elders until marrying off or deserting. No dragon these days deserted their family without one hell of a reason.

  Ever since the middle sister, Aimi, said she sensed real kitsune magic in the area, the eldest of the Rose-Dragon sisters, Chiya, had ordered the place off-limits. Kimiko felt like this order was a bit extreme for beings that didn’t exist anymore. Powerful fox entities that were apparently the ancient enemies of all dragons.

  The war stopped for centuries under a contract of peace until the Soulless Family, largest in the world, joined forces with someone claiming to be the disciple of the Thousand Year Dragon himself—the god of all dragons, and attacked, wiping them all out.

  Kimiko was just a kid at the time, but thinking about it, many things didn’t add up. Not that that mattered. She didn’t have anything to do with it nor cared. All dragons cared about was power and being superior. They competed with each other, humans, and other races of the supernatural community. Even gods were sometimes uneasy about them.

  Just then, Kimiko felt something… A hand grabbing her butt. Rage jolted through her. The orange-haired girl spun and delivered a KO to the fucking pervert. As her foot left his jewels, she shook her head.

  “Scum of society,” she said darkly. The man continued to whimper, but he wasn’t getting up. “Get security,” she said to a man beside her. Minutes later, the police took the man away along with the security footage.

  Time and time again, Kimiko was reminded why most dragons hated humans. But this didn’t apply to her, since she hated perverts in general. Who wouldn’t?

  Kimiko wondered…why didn’t the dragons just team up against humanity and wipe them out instead? Not that she wanted this to happen, she was just curious. Maybe the gods protected them?

  When the train stopped, she stepped out to Ring City. She immediately sensed what she now knew as the Kitsune’s presence. At one point, another one visited. Could there be more? Would the war resume? Kimiko wasn’t sure if Chiyo planned to do something about her or not. It wasn’t like the Rose Dragons got involved with meaningless disputes. But…Chiyo’s best friend belonged to the Soulless Family. She certainly told him. Kimiko would just have to find this kitsune herself and look. Although…another presence bothered her. One that also visited. It…felt like both the beginning and the end... Who was this person? And what did this mean? Did someone this powerful have ties to the kitsune?

  Kimiko needed to know… Either way, Chiyo would probably find out. Would she attack?

  **

  Lot City…

  Clare’s Café…

  The shrine maiden glared at Clyde for a few seconds before letting out a sigh.

  “First, you rarely visit and now you’re leaving?” she said. “What the hell, Clyde.”

  Clyde gave her a sad smile.

  “You know what I have to do.”

  “I know…but still,” she said. “Even the magical girls are going to miss you. Sahara will probably demand that you reconsider. She respects you, you know. Maybe even likes you.”

  Clyde shrugged.

  “I leave the city’s protection in your hands. I just wish we could’ve met with all of the gifted, some of these sorcerers and magicians I’ve heard about.”

  “Most of them aren’t worth your time,” Clare said. “Some of them are scared of you, envious, cowards, scum or uneducated when it comes to their abilities.”

  Clare guided Clyde to a backroom and shut the door. “It took a while, but I not only fixed your sword, but gave it an upgrade. As thanks for those amazing arrows and saving so many lives.”

  She unlocked a cabinet and pulled out a sheathed sword.

  “I think even blacksmiths would cream themselves at this work of art. I took the liberty of getting rid of any annoying Ashfall symbols and replaced it with this.”

  The logo seemed to be made of gold. It was a sword plunged in a stone. Any King Arthur fan would go nuts with praise. “I took the liberty of renaming it for you. It’s now called Bloodlight.”

  “Edgy much?” Clyde said as he gratefully accepted the blade. It had an enhanced golden handle with a crystal-like glowing blade. A one-handed weapon.

  [Legendary Sword: Bloodlight +150 to attack. Solar element. Can fire raw magic from the weapon. Does magic damage. Lv. 5]

  [Clare upgrade: Be careful with swinging this magnificent weapon. It can slash a giant mountain in two with its ability: Flood Slash.]

  [Clare upgrade: Solar Reckoning. You can fire an enormous amount of solar magic, capable of vaporizing enemies. Does Intense solar damage. Chance to blind at 4% Chance to mute at 11% Chance to roast every cell in someone’s body at 1%]

  “Holy shit, Clare, what the hell? These upgrades,” Clyde said, laughing. “You are a menace. A beautiful, ingenious menace.”

  Now it was Clare’s turn to shrug.

  “Just a little something to remember me by,” she said, patting Clyde’s shoulder.

  Clyde wouldn’t even begin to look for the trope that has a fucking shrine maiden creating epic weapons of death like Bloodlight.

  “Thank you for this,” he said to her, then equipped it through his menu.

  “I still found your ability to see these things before I explain unnerving,” Clare said, “but it saves me the time. I truly wish you good luck with your quest. And please come back to us safely.”

  She hugged Clyde. He wrapped his arms around the maiden. She was among his first contacts upon arrival in Satovia.

  When he left the shop, the young man felt confident in
his equipment. Noona had texted, stating she was already with the others. Thanks to winter break being a thing, Toru, Yusuke, and Seth had no problems explaining to their parents about their upcoming absences. Undine had no intention of staying behind of course.

  Clyde saw that he had a little time and decided to visit Naomi. While he had to decline her invitation to lunch—she wanted to treat him—the young man told her that he and Team Stone would be gone for a month. However, if she needed anything, just call or text. A simple Jump would solve any problems. They hugged before he left.

  He called Hinako, meeting up with the professor at her house. She was pissed, not being invited to the trip.

  “Right now, we’re simply moving into a house in Ring City, Terravon,” Clyde said. “We’re investigating something.”

  “Then why not let me come,” Hinako said. “When it comes to investigating—”

  “I saw your name on that list to work some days and post scores,” Clyde said. “We may not be back within the month. I hadn’t signed up for the next semester yet.” Though he was sure the asshole Watchers would do it for him.

  Hinako sighed.

  “Just…” She buried her face into Clyde’s chest. “You should reconsider.”

  Clyde blinked, certain that she understood. His curiosity got the best of him.

  “Go on.”