[– Saiki Kurogane –]
[Race]: Human
[Job]: The Gamer
[Title]: Apprentice Rabbit Hunter
[Gender]: Male
[Level]: 20
[Age]: 18
[HP]: 6,182/6,182
[MP]: 3,025/3,025
[Strength]: 103 → 265
[Vitality]: 103 → 260
[Dexterity]: 98 → 259
[Intelligence]: 101 → 234 (+10)
[Wisdom]: 93 → 231 (+20)
[Luck]: 73 → 221
[Attribute Points]: 22
After I managed to get the Sacred Dragon physique, I stayed up all night.
Part of the night, I spent testing this physique. Another part, I spent absorbing the light orbs, mainly the red ones.
575 red orbs to be exact.
What remained are the more intense light orbs, a total of 2 thousand of them.
Of the purple orbs, I only used 9.
It was what was necessary until the wind crystal orb stopped taking effect, thus raising the skill "Wind Manipulation" to level 5.
The increase in my attributes was gigantic, mainly my MP and HP.
With the current amount of MP I have, I can even transform into a dragon, although it would only last 1 minute before I completely ran out of MP.
I even thought I could manage to maintain it for longer, after all, in theory I should, since when I transform, there is an X value of increase in my attributes depending on the transformation. However, when testing the hybrid transformation, I saw that I was very wrong. The moment I did that, I gained a new MP bar. This bar had double the value I had in MP, but it could not be used to maintain the transformation.
But of course. There is no way something so good exists in this world.
Otherwise, if I transformed into the Sacred Dragon, I would have 5 times more the value I had of initial MP, thus, I could maintain my transformation for several minutes, but it was like a bucket of cold water dumped on me when I saw the second MP bar.
Although I didn't get to use the Sacred Dragon transformation, I don't think it's different from the hybrid transformation.
Yawn
'I still haven't slept, but... I won't skip school.'
Going to the kitchen, I started preparing my breakfast.
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[Third Person Point of View]
Rias couldn't get a boy out of her head.
Not that she is in love. She was simply curious about him. Or at least that's how it was upon discovering that Ikias, a friend she made on the internet, was actually her classmate. Her curiosity increased when he one day returned to school, going from being a fat boy to becoming a very thin boy in comparison to before.
Unlike the rest, she knew that something "special" had happened to him. At first, she even thought it was related to some type of Sacred Gear, but discarded that possibility after investigating him in the last few days.
But, it was undeniable that he was changing more and more. Becoming not only more mysterious, but his value itself was increasing.
Rias had a special gift. She could see someone's value. This gift was something exclusive to the Gremory Clan and she inherited it.
"How!?"
When she saw Saiki enter the classroom this time, she was unable to accept it and couldn't remain calm, losing her composure.
Noticing the looks directed at her, especially Saiki's, she pretended to cough, saying naturally, "Sorry," and sat back down.
"Rias?" Akeno, sitting beside her, looked at her with a question mark in her eyes.
"I'll tell you later." Rias simply said without explaining anything.
Rias's mind was in turmoil.
She blinked and even rubbed her eyes several times, but Saiki's value remained at an absurd level.
It was as if his value had been 500 before, but now it hadn't just doubled; it had multiplied several times over. It had even become incalculable.
If she used a numerical measuring device, she bet it would have broken by now.
'How is it possible for something this ridiculous to exist? Did I not sleep well?'
Rias even thought that someone might have revived him as a Devil, perhaps that would explain the absurd increase in his value, but that wasn't the case. She couldn't sense any demonic power coming from him.
She looked in Sona's direction. When she saw that she was also looking at Saiki, she didn't like that at all.
Again, it wasn't because she was in love with Saiki, although she viewed him favorably. It was simply because she had already planned to invite him to become a member of her Peerage.
If Sona got involved, things would become complicated.
Although she didn't feel inferior to Sona, she preferred not to have any competition when the prize was something she had spotted first.
'I need to act quickly.' Rias clenched her hands under the desk.
If she had noticed something, she knew Sona might also be capable of noticing it.
...
After arriving in the classroom, Saiki went to his seat and sat down.
'Why am I attracting the attention of these two?'
He could feel their gazes even without turning around to look.
But they had no malicious intentions; otherwise, the skill would have warned him.
'Just as I thought. Am I emitting some kind of aura or scent?'
He knew he needed to do something about it.
But it was easier said than done.
He had even tried to create a skill, but without success. He had even used perfume, but apparently, that hadn't helped.
'Yare-yare. They're not going to try to recruit me, are they?' Get faster updates on g.com.
Although he wasn't prejudiced against Devils, considering what he had seen through Will's memories, that didn't mean he wanted to become someone's servant, no matter how beautifully it was presented.
As for the chance to live longer, didn't he already have that?
Perhaps because he was "The Gamer," he might even live longer than them.
'If they really try to recruit me, should I simply refuse? Wouldn't that offend them?'
He didn't want to create any enemies.
Although, by all indications, this scenario wasn't going to become reality, what proved that real life was the same as what he had seen in the anime through Will's memories?
'Should I move to another city?'
Another reason he didn't want to become someone's servant was the difficulty of keeping his talent hidden. Especially the orbs.
If they discovered the orbs, perhaps not them, but their clans, especially Rias's, might end up wanting to exploit his power.
Why did he think this way? If even Rias's father didn't care about what she wanted, despite her hating her engagement, he didn't believe that if he discovered the orbs, or even his talent as "The Gamer," he would remain indifferent without trying anything.
'I might be overthinking this, but while I'm still weak, I won't let anyone discover the orbs.' With this thought in mind, he relaxed.
As long as they didn't try to recruit him, Saiki wouldn't act hastily.
In the end, he might be overthinking things, and they were simply surprised by his physical transformation, although Rias's reaction when she saw him enter the classroom suggested otherwise...
Anyway.
Tomorrow was already Friday, and it was a holiday.
Although three days wasn't much time, he would try to use those three days to create a skill that could conceal his power.
At least, any future growth he might experience.
'It would be nice to get a Sacred Gear to use as camouflage.'
He thought of Issei, but shook his head afterward.
He wasn't going to kill he just for the chance of getting it as a drop.
Although he was a huge pervert, he was still a person.
Issei was different from the Stray Devil he had killed before.
And they had no enmity that justified his actions.
A dangerous thought: 'Should I follow him when the Fallen Angel appears and, when she almost kills him, finish the job?'
[Thanks to your wise idea, your (Wisdom) attribute has increased by +1.]
His heart raced when he didn't completely dismiss this idea—and, in fact, didn't even consider it a bad idea. Even the "System" made it seem like a good plan.
'Is this an indirect way of saying there's a chance I could get the Boosted Gear as a drop?'
A shiver ran down Saiki's spine.
Until a minute ago, he had been thinking about how not to become someone's servant, and now here he was contemplating the possibility of killing a teenager, perverted as he might be, simply because there was a chance of obtaining something that could help him hide his true power.
'I can't think this way. There must be another way.'
Saiki began planning different ways to awaken a concealment ability, until the teacher entered the classroom.