Utarou laid on the field, stabbed in the chest by a large pike as he was trampled by the cavalry of a small kingdom charged towards the nearby castle.
“Skill activated: Perfect Immortality.” A soft mechanical voice echoed through Utarou’s head as the final horse crushed his skull.
As the brigade of horses continued forth, Utarou rose up from death once again.
“Yep, immortality was the perfect cheat skill.” Utarou thought smugly as the spear ejected itself from his chest, his wounds quickly restoring themselves in a healing light.
Just under an hour ago, Utarou had died, a tragic accident involving too many drinks, a yakitori grill and stuffing his pants with rubbing alcohol soaked toilet paper while break dancing.
It was a wild night to say the least but it had resulted in the 30 year old salaryman’s untimely demise.
Fortunately, Utarou had been given a second chance.
Utarou stuck his hand out, opening up a slick magical menu.
Well, it was quite a simple magical menu.
Utarou had been asked a simple question by that strange mechanical voice while he occupied the void between life and death.
“What would you like in your new life?”
Now Utarou, he wasn’t a fool, he already had an answer prepared.
Looking at his magical menu his wish was granted.
He had one skill, his XP points had been blanked out and the rest of the skill tree had been erased.
“Perfect Immortality!” Utarou shouted, raising his hands into the air triumphantly as an arrow flew through the sky, lodging itself directly into his skull.
“Skill activated: Perfect Immortality.” The soft mechanical voice chimed in as Utarou healed from the wound.
“I should probably leave.” Utarou said as he looked towards the castle where the arrow had come from.
It was a large stone fortification surrounded by what Utarou could only assume to be medieval European knights. Looking towards the castle he saw a robed figure gathering energy, launching bolts of lightning down at the knights. Some were able to dodge but many of them were stunned.
“Alright, fantasy, check.” Utarou grinned.
So far, everything was going exactly how Utarou had dreamed it would. Of course Utarou had hoped to live a slightly longer life in Japan, but that didn’t matter.
He was so close to his goal.
His dream from when was but a small child.
Utarou could finally pursue it in this new world.
He could finally create his own harem of Monster Girls.
Utarou hadn’t picked his cheat skill of immortality for no reason, he knew that Wolf Girls would be protective, and quite possibly wouldn’t let him add Cat Girls to his harem, and how would the Harpy and Mermaids get along?!
Utarou would need to live several lifetimes in order to properly and fully enjoy every monster girl.
Additionally he could imagine it would be quite deadly to get with Sirens, Dryads and Succubi, so he would have to be able to heal!
His plan was perfect.
Now all he had to do was find some monster girls.
Utarou couldn’t help but laugh triumphantly, his dream had come true.
Another arrow was shot into his head as he cackled.
“I should get going.” Utarou sighed as he pulled the arrow out of his head and slunk off, finally noticing that he was also nude.
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“Woah mister, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before!” The peasant man, Timothy, gawked as he looked at Utarou’s strange skills menu.
“Heh, like I said I’m from another world and God gave me a cheat skill.” Utarou explained, puffing his chest out as his poorly fitting clothes hung off his body.
Timothy was a peasant from Starton, a small farming village, and had offered some spare clothes and food to the very lost and hungry Utarou.
Perfect immortality didn’t mean Utarou wouldn’t get hungry as it turned out.
“I guess you’re one of those Blessed Beings then! My skills menu is pretty boring.” Timothy sighed, placing his palm out to reveal a similar looking menu as to Utarou, but with a functioning XP bar and several skill trees branching out from a central core skill.
“Minor food poison resistance?” Utarou asked, looking at the aggressively underwhelming skill that everything branched out from. Timothy had invested several levels into various minor resistances to disease and upper body strength, Utarou couldn’t see anything particularly interesting that could be unlocked either.
Notably, every single skill had at least 1 branch unlockable from it, some with up to 5 different branches ready to be unlocked.
“Ah yeah, that’s my legacy skill.”
“Legacy skill?”
“Well us normal folks, we get 1 skill when we’re born from our parents. That’s our starting skill.” Timothy explained. Utarou nodded.
“My my, I wonder what a monster girl's legacy skill would be.” Utarou pondered.
“Monster Girl?” Timothy asked, cocking his head. Utarou felt his heart drop as he quickly turned to Timothy, grabbing him by the shoulders.
“M-Monster girls… Cat girls? Werewolves? Harpies? Succubi? Mermaids?! GIRLS WITH STRANGE EARS?!” Utarou shouted, shaking Timothy more viciously as he saw waves of cluelessness pass with each question he asked.
“Oh! Do you mean Elves?” Timothy asked. Utarou fell to the ground.
“Timothy… Are you telling me… you don’t know what a monster girl is?” Utarou asked as he laid on the grass.
“Uh, no?”
Utarou hadn’t anticipated this possibility.
Utarou had reincarnated into a world without Monster Girls.
Looking into the sky, Utarou took a deep breath.
“WHAT THE HELL KIND OF FANTASY WORLD DOESN’T HAVE MONSTER GIRLS?!?” Utarou screamed, scaring several birds away and causing a nearby dog to freak out barking.