A system notification sounded— [Main Role Progress: 20%] This time, his progress had increased by a full eight percent!
Akira’s strength received another tremendous boost.
“As expected, increasing my Portrayal Progress isn’t as simple as merely killing someone…” Strictly speaking, Akira had not personally killed Zabuza Momochi.
He had forced Zabuza to take his own life!
This had also been an experiment on Akira’s part.
The substantial increase in his progress proved that killing was not a necessary condition for raising it.
Instead, the increase was most likely the result of Akira’s entire series of delightful actions!
No one in the world understood delight better than the king!
[Significant changes to the original storyline have been detected.
The future has become unknown, increasing the level of unpredictable risk.
The host has received one opportunity to draw a Supporting Role—] “Only an unknowable future is worth exploring~” Akira did not appear concerned in the slightest.
“Is it finally time for a new character to appear?” Role-playing Kid Gilgamesh was certainly enjoyable, but occasionally adding a different kind of character into the mix would not hurt, would it?
His vision entered the system interface.
Countless characters from anime and manga flashed before his eyes.
In the end, only five remained— [Edward Newgate] [A character from the world of One Piece.
Known as Whitebeard, he is one of the Emperors of the Sea who ushered in an age of piracy.
He possesses the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, the strongest Paramecia-type Devil Fruit!] [Uryū Ishida] [A character from the world of Bleach.
The designated successor of the Quincy empire, the Wandenreich.
He was granted the Schrift “A” and possesses exceptional strength and tremendous potential.] [Seven] [A character from the world of Scissor Seven.
The highest-ranked assassin in the Genbu Kingdom’s Assassin League and the wielder of the Thousand Demon Daggers.] [Tom] [A character from the world of Tom and Jerry.
Skilled in…
practically everything except catching mice!
He specializes in splitting trees with his crotch.] [Conan Edogawa] [A character from the world of Detective Conan who specializes in logical deduction.
A death-bringing elementary school student surrounded by a permanent Time Alter barrier.
Even after nine hundred episodes, he still has not finished first grade.] “…” Akira stared at the five selected characters with an exceedingly strange expression.
“Tom and Conan…
Are you sure they aren’t here purely for comedy?” “And what the hell are ‘splitting trees with his crotch’ and a ‘Time Alter barrier’ supposed to mean?” Akira decisively eliminated the two ridiculous characters.
That left only three candidates worth considering— The first was Whitebeard.
There was little need to explain this choice.
Whether it was his overall strength or his overwhelmingly domineering presence, Whitebeard perfectly suited Akira’s tastes.
Next was Uryū Ishida.
His Schrift “A,” The Antithesis, allowed him to completely reverse and exchange events that had already occurred between two designated points—for example, transferring injuries he had suffered to someone else.
It was somewhat like an argument between elementary school students.
“You’re an idiot!” “Right back at you!” “No, right back at you!” …
The ability was undeniably absurdly powerful!
However, Akira did not think it would be particularly useful to him.
After all, the possibility of anyone successfully injuring him was practically nonexistent!
The remaining candidate was Seven, an apparently popular character from a Chinese animated series.
The problem was that Akira had never watched it!
He knew absolutely nothing about the character’s abilities.
If he was not even familiar with the original character, how was he supposed to role-play him properly?
Therefore, after considering everything— Akira selected Whitebeard as his Supporting Role!
[The host has selected Edward Newgate as a Supporting Role.
Confirm selection?] “Confirm!” Akira answered decisively.
Whoosh— Of the five figures before him, all except Whitebeard disappeared.
Whitebeard’s enormous body then dissolved into countless clusters of energy and merged with Akira.
[Host’s Main Role: Gilgamesh] [Main Role Progress: 20%] [Host’s Supporting Role: Edward Newgate] [Supporting Role Progress: 1%] Akira withdrew from the system space and returned to reality.
He looked down at his hands before touching his cheeks.
His physical appearance still remained that of Kid Gilgamesh.
“Right.
I almost forgot that I don’t need to transform when portraying a Supporting Role…” That was for the best.
He had no desire to transform from a breathtakingly beautiful young boy into an old man more than seventy years of age.
Akira clenched his fist.
He could feel that his physical strength had increased slightly, though the improvement was not particularly noticeable.
It was probably because his Supporting Role Progress was only at one percent.
Still, that did not matter.
Akira could consider himself something of a Whitebeard fan.
He was extremely familiar with the character!
Role-playing him should not be too difficult.