The next day after my weekly scheduled steam, I announce to the world, Luciel and Eagle Jump, next game an RPG like game. A Pokemon game.
I present some of the artwork made by the Graphic Team of the starter and Pikachu the mascot of the franchise, and like predicted my viewers fell in love with these little monsters.
I even show them a gameplay screenshot of a prototype of the game I developed and which I gave to the development team to base their work on, to illustrate some of the features the game will have.
Then cloture the announce I play the PV of the game.
The video starts with the MC waking up from his bed looking at the day rising on the horizon.
The scene changes to the MC and two girls who look like Honoka and Chika in a laboratory in front of an old scientist and front of him are three creatures, each child chooses their creature, the MC chooses the orange lizard with a flame on its tail and then gets some kind of red device and some kind of ball from the scientist.
The scene changes to show the three children travelling with their creature by their side, through forests, mountains, exploring cities and many other different environments.
Footage shows a fierce battle between the MC's lizard and a lightning-throwing Yellow Mouse which ends with the latter being captured with one of the balle the scientist had given before joining the MC's team.
Other footage shows fights taking place in arenas between two opponents and their creatures supervised by a referee. You can see the MC fighting different opponents in different arenas and earning badges.
Then comes the image of a kind of mafia in black with an R on their clothes that gets in the way of the MC and his friends with their creatures.
Then comes the image of a giant stadium filled with spectators in the centre of the stage is a fighting arena on one side is the MC with a towering orange dragon that appears to be an adult version of his orange lizard received at the beginning of his journey and in front of him appears to be standing some sort of champion with his equally towering creature.
The MC smiles and then raises his arm showing a bracelet with a multi-coloured stone with a DNA symbol in it, the latter presses it and something happens causing the orange dragon to change form to a black dragon.
Then the video ends with as following:
Eagle Jump / Luciel Entertainement present :
POKEMON: FIERY RED - POKEMON: REFRESHING BLUE - POKEMON: FLOWERING GREEN
CAN YOU CATCH THEM ALL?
Launch Early Summer
When the video ends my chat went completely crazy, it must be said that the whole video was made using a virtual reality room based on the Danger Room of the X-men to make it more realistic.
At the end of my stream I kept getting calls and messages from all my contacts wanting me to reserve a copy of the game for them, even Yagoo wants Hololive to have copies to stream on release day.
Zero: Gee...
// 1 hour later //
// Tokyo, Rooftop //
I do parkour from roof to roof equipped with my spider man web-shooters and custom spidey suit. I use electromagnetism on my feet and hands to run and walk on walls.
Spider-Zero: Woohoo
I jump from the top of a building and throw my web to a pole on the building opposite to which it attaches.
Like Spider-Man I'm swinging from building to building when I see a thief steal the bag of a schoolgirl
???: Eh, Keke bag, get back here thief
In a beat, I dive directly and land a few meters in front of the thief
Spider-Zero: You know dude it's not cool to steal high school girls, now turn yourself in gently.
The thief then took a knife from his pocket
Thief: Who do you think you are a hero, get out of my road or I'm going to make you regret
Spider-Zero: Oh a knife my only weakness
I say will I go on my knee cowardly before the thief who looks really like a dumbass
Thief: Now give me all your valuable
He approached me when he was at a good distance a shoot a web on is face
Thief: What I can't see
I directly chained with a low round kick before hanging him by the feet on a pole with my weebs. I make sure to discard his knife and trap his upper body in weebs. It surprises every onlooker who witnesses all the scenes.
Then I take the bag he steals and gives it back to his owner
Spider-Zero: Here young lady you're bag
I say giving the bag
Keke: Thank you, Keke would have been in real trouble without her bag
Spider-Zero: You're lucky I was there then, be careful next time
Keke: Wait, Keke want to know the name of her saviour.
Spider-Zero: Spider-Zero, it's my name
Keke: I'm Keke Tang
Spider-Zero: Well see you, Keke Tang.
I jump high and shoot a web and swing in the city, that night news of a new superhero in Tokyo spread quickly.
After I swing for a moment all of a sudden a gate opens right in front of me, without worrying about it I run into it.
// ??? //
I get out of the portal to land on top of a building
Spider Zero: Ok where did I fall? Ummm... let's consult the Gaia Library
I take out a book from my inventory that has a cover with nothing written on it.
This book is called the Tome of the Beginning, the first book of mankind, it allows its holder to access the world's library, the Gaia Library, containing all the information of a world as long as it is planet earth.
Zero: Gaia Library open
My mind is transported inside of a white space
Zero: Empty? Status
Gaya Library: Empty - No information about the current world
Zero: So I'm in a new world, interesting.
Zero: System Call: Connection to the world core.
Gaia's Library: Command Received, Administrator ID recognize, Codename: Supreme Zero, Command Accept, Downloading information from the world core
Thousands and thousands of books begin to appear in the white space and organize themselves on bookshelves like a library.
Zero: Keyword: World History
The books start to move one after the other to leave a single book in front of me with the cover written World History. I take the book and open it and read what is written inside. I find myself in the real world looking at the book in my hands.
Zero: Uh, so what is it about... Mana... Spacequake... Spirit... Oh damn, I wish I had never entered that portal.
I close my book
Zero: I find myself in the Date A Live world, I wonder where I am in the timeline? from the topography around I can tell I'm in Tengu city, well let's do some recon.
I activate the stealth mode of my suit, cast a web and swing between the buildings.
As I jump from building to building I see a building that is taller than the others in town.
Zero: Deus Ex Machina Industries or DEM Industries
A smirk appears on my lips and a desire for chaos arouse inside me
Zero: Let's see what the so-called mages of this world have in store, but I need a partner to help me. Let do this.
I deactivate my stealth mode and my suit transforms into a thousand nanomachines and stores themselves in a pouch on my belt, to find myself in my Catastrophe form without the cap, I take out two cards from my pocket. a power card and a summoning card
Power Card - Rank A
Description: gives the holder a power of their choice, the power must be of the same rank as the card used.
Zero: System Call: New Form slots creation.
[ New Form slot create ]
[ New Form name? ]
Zero: The name will be 'White King'.
[ Form 'White King' save ]
Zero: Form Change 'White King'
[ 'White King' Form charged ]
Zero: Activation of the power card: Come to me, Demon King: Lucifugus.
A black crystal appear before me
[ Qlipha Crystal: Lucifugus ]
The crystal goes inside me, my right eye turns red and my left eye turns blue with a clock. A white astronomical clock with wings appears behind me. A sword and musket appear in each hand. My Dreadlord outfit has become a white general outfit.
Zero: So that's the Inverse Power of the angel Zafkiel that Tokisaki Kurumi left behind. What a waste, I wonder what her reaction will be when she sees the surprise I'm preparing for her.
I take the summoning card
Zero: Come to me Sawa Yamauchi, the White Queen.
A magic circle appears in front of it and out of that circle is The White Queen or White Kurumi because it looks like an all-white version of Kurumi, but her real name is Sawa Yamauchi Kurumi's childhood friend.
White Queen: Where am I?
Zero: Welcome to the real world White Queen or should I say Sawa Yamauchi-san.
White Queen: Who are you? Why do I feel the same power as mine in you?
Zero: You can call me White King but my real name is Zero Akatsuki and I'm the one who summoned you from the Neighboring World.
Queen points her sword at me with a displeased look on her face.
White Queen: Why did you take me out of the neighbouring world because of you I can't achieve my goal.
Zero: That's where you are wrong, Queen, why would you want to destroy the neighbouring world that had nothing to do with you and Kurumi's suffering, when I can give you the chance to destroy and hurt the man responsible for the chain of events that caused you and Kurumi to suffer and steal your future.
Queen: Your proposal sounds interesting but there are things you're not telling me, tell me everything you know or I'll kill you right now.
Hearing what Queen has just told me I can't help but smile and then get a giggle.
Queen: What are you laughing at?
Zero: Lucifugus
My Demon King appears behind me, causing me to release a large amount of Spirit Energy enough to trigger a Space Quake since it is the first time I use it, which of course will get the attention of Ratatosk and the DEM but for now, I don't care.
Zero: Sartan
Executing a quick draw with my sword I disarm Queen pistol catching her by surprise add with it the aggressiveness of my action using her power, then I point my sword on her throat with a serious look.
Zero: Don't underestimate me, Queen, I may look harmless and relaxed but I am not to be taken lightly.
Queen: ... You seem very sure of yourself
Zero: Oh, I am, I've battle monsters and godlike entities tougher than you.
Queen: You flex a little too much but seriously, what are you not telling me?
Zero: To answer your question, what I'm not telling you is that I'm a being from a much more dangerous dimension than this one, and it turns out that I know the future events of this world and would like to change some of them, while I'm in this world I need a partner in crime, that's why I summoned you, Sawa-san, be by my side.
Queen: If you think I'm going to accept...
Zero: I happen to have a place to live here and a lot of other necessities and entertainment...
Queen: I understand I just have to follow you, right?
Zero: It's good to see you're reasonable, I think we should get out of here, I drew too much attention to us by releasing so much Spirit Energy earlier.
Queen: Why run away when we can finish off these bugs, The two of us are invincible.
Zero: Don't be impatient, one thing at a time.
I cut the space in front of us with my sword creating a portal
Zero: Ladies first
Queen: Fufu~ at least you are a gentleman
Zero: Thank you
Queen enters the portal I look in one direction and wave my hand then enter the portal. A few seconds after we leave a unit of girls in flying suits arrive at the place we were.
???: Sir no trace of the targets, we just missed them, the only thing we know is that they have white hair and they are both wearing white military uniforms.
???: Too bad, widen the search area, I want to know who they are and where they came from, Ellen.
Ellen: Got it, Isaac.
The woman named Ellen leaves the scene without noticing that mechanical nano-spiders have lodged themselves in her suit.
// ??? //
???: I think everyone's arrived.
???: What's happened Kotori, it sounded important in your voice
???: It is Shin-chan, we detected a large Spirit Energy spike in the city centre not far from the DEM building.
Shido: A Spirit Energy spike? It means another spirit has appeared Reine-san
Reine: Presumably. We conclude that 1 or 2 spirits may have to appear
Kotori: Do we have a visual of the source?
???: We have some images but not good enough for further research, commander
Kotori: Display them.
A video starts showing a white-haired boy in a white general's uniform with some sort of astrological clock with wing, disarming a white-haired girl in a female general's uniform pointing a pistol at him, very quickly drawing the sword from its scabbard and then pointing the blade at her
Kotori: Did I see wrong or...
Reine: I never expected the day I would see a Male Spirit.
???: He seems strong too.
The video continues with the boy lowering his weapon and chatting with the girl rather they are bickering, then the boy uses his sword to cut the air creating a tear in space, the girl passes through the tear than before entering the boy seems to look towards our direction, The latter smiles and waves before entering the tear which closes behind him
Shidou: Just now did he greet us?
Kotori: It seems that this male spirit is aware that we were watching him, his departure and his gesture just now were calculated to the second.
Reine: It's going to be hard to seal his powers and those of the girl next to him, they seem to look alike.
Shido: Uh Reine, I may be wrong but you want me to seal the powers of this guy, the girl I can understand but he's a guy, I didn't sign up for this.
Kotori: There has to be a beginning to everything
Shidou: Never
// Timeskip //
// Date A Live World, Tengu City, Akatsuki Manor, Command Room //
I'm sitting in front of several computer screens in a room filled with several futuristic devices straight out of a science fiction movie.
I'm typing on a virtual keyboard with great speed because I'm hacking the central server of the Japanese branch of the DEM.
[Screen 1]
Hacking is in progress, please wait
[ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////------------------------------------------ ]
[ Screen 2 ]
Transfer DEM server -> Personal server
Spirit research [ 99%]
Nia Honjou (Sister) [75%]
Realize system [70%]
Spirit Formula [40%]
[Screen 3]
Raizen Academy School Transfer File:
Zero Akatsuki
Sawa Yamauchi Akatsuki
Transfer Complete
[Screen 4]
Personal Files :
Itsuka Shido
Mukuro Hoshimiya
Nia Honjo
Tokisaki Kurumi
Itsuka Kotori
Tobichi Origami
Reine Murasame
Yatogami Tohka
Ellen Matter
Issac Westcott
Mana Takamiya
Artemisia Bell Ashcroft
The door to the room opens and a brown double braid hair girl enters the room with a dish in her hands.
Sawa: It's time for your dinner Zero.
She says as she places the plate on the side of my table
Zero: Thank you, Sawa I'm getting hungry, let me finish getting some files before DWS shuts down their entire system in 5 4 3 2 1
[Screen 1]
Server Shut Down
[ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////------------- ]
[Screen 2]
Transfer DEM server -> Personal server
Spirit research [ 100% ]
Nia Honjou (sister) [100%]
Nightmare [100%]
Mio Takamiya [70%]
Realize system [100%]
Spirit Formula [50%]
Sawa: Looks like you have some incompletes data.
Zero: That was on purpose, the attack today was only to tell them not to look for us or there will be retaliation but knowing Westcott he'll continue
I say while stretching my arms when Sawa starts to massage my shoulders
Sawa: You must be tired, Let me massage you
Zero: We look like a newly married couple like that
Sawa: That's...true...but I don't understand why you put that we are newlyweds in our personal information.
Zero: Because I couldn't wait for us to come of age so I could make Sawa-san my wife.
Sawa: Be serious for a moment Zero.
Zero: But I was serious when I said I wanted to make you my wife.
Sawa: Eh?
Zero: Don't you want to know what it's like to fall in love with someone?
Sawa: I would like to know what it feels like but for me now it is impossible
Zero: Sawa I know what it feels like to be betrayed by someone you love and to be consumed by anger and revenge, but it won't do you any good. I've been there, I almost lost everything I had but luckily I was able to recover thanks to the help of a person who taught me how to live and love again. That's why Sawa I want to help you forget your revenge and live a normal life.
Sawa: How do you intend to do that? You don't know anything about me.
Zero: That's true, I know almost nothing about you and that's why I want to learn everything from you, while you learn everything from me. So what do you say?
Queen: Okay we'll play along but know that we will never fall for someone like you.
Queen leaves the room without a word and closes the door behind her.
Yuya: A girl with a split personality, you love playing with fire kids.
Zero: Of all the spirits in the world, in my humble opinion she deserves to be saved as much as the others.
Yuto: Good luck with that then Mr Hero.
I take the plate on the table and start eating.
Zero: It's good, it's missing some things but the intention is there. Don't worry Sawa I will save you.
Without noticing that Sawa switch back and listen behind the door with tears in her eyes.
...
// Timeskip //
// Raizen High School //
Sawa and I are standing in front of the teacher's room of Raizen High School wearing the school uniform.
I knock on the door of the room
???: Yes~
The door is opened by Tamae Okamine
Tamae: What can I do for you?
Zero: Hello, we are transfer students and we were told to refer to our homeroom teacher Tamae Okamine.
Tamae: Yes, that's me. You must be Zero and Sawa Akatsuki. I was waiting for you two, wait a moment I will guide you to your classroom.
Tamae said as she return back inside the teacher room, then came back, then we walked to our classroom.
Tamae: I was surprised when I was told that two new students will arrive, even though the previous one only arrived tomorrow.
Sawa: Heh...
Zero (thought): Kurumi will come tomorrow then.
Arriving in front of the classroom Tamae tells us to wait until she calls us
Tamae: Everyone takes your seats, today we have two more transfer students joining our class.
???: Heh, seriously?!
???: Is it a boy or a girl
Tamae: You can come in
Zero: Yes.
I open the door and enter the room followed by Sawa, we go to the blackboard and we each take chalk and write our names on the board
Zero: Hi my name is Zero Akatsuki, 17 years old, I love music, video games, cooking, reading and spending time with Sawa. I hate it when people don't respect the food, or when I am provoked. I think that's it, I forgot to say that I'm a Demon King, nice to meet you all.
Everyone looks at me funny is the last sentence I said
Sawa: My name is Sawa Yamauchi Akatsuki, I'm 17 years old, I like cooking, sewing, reading and video games. I hate dishonest people and traitors. That's all.
Zero: Sawa. Please excuse Sawa, she has trust issues, I would like everyone to be patient with her
I say while stroking Sawa's head
Sawa: Don't treat me like a child
Zero: Understood your majesty.
Tamae: Since the introductions are done, do you have any questions for your new classmates?
Several hands go up.
Zero: Yes, you the girl with the neutral expression.
Origami: What is your relationship with each other?
Sawa: Zero and I are married.
Sawa's stait answer shocked everyone, even Tamae-sensei is in a state of extreme shock
Zero: Why do you say it like that, it sounds like you don't like or still don't accept the fact that we are married.
Sawa: Because you're not giving enough of yourself in this relationship that's why.
Zero: I don't give enough of myself, remind me who is the one who takes care of our finances and works hard to provide for us.
Sawa: I'm very grateful but that's all
Zero: We'll talk about it at home.
???: They more like an old couple that fights all the time than a newly married couple.
???: Is that what life as a young couple is like, I was imagining something else.
Zero: I think that answers your question.
Origami: Yes, thank you.
Tamae: Well I guess that's it for the questions, Zero-kun and Sawa-san you can sit in the seats behind Itsuka-kun. Itsuka-kun raise your hand.
Shido raises his hand, Sawa and I head to our seats and then take out our stuff to follow the class, plus I take out my music book and start composing my next sound. I write the lesson in my lesson book with my right hand and write on my music book with my left hand.
At the break, Sawa's seat is surrounded by the girls of the class who ask her questions and try to get to know her. As for me, I close my notebook and leave the classroom and head for the roof of the school.
// Raizen high school, roof //
Zero : Bn-no-nonor-no-nona-na-na-na-na
Nea-nea-nea-nea-neanea-ner-ner-na-ner-ner...
Zero: Fiuuu...
Shido: Wow you're really good Akatsuki-kun
Tohka: I did know that we could do this kind of sound with your mouth, it's incredible right Shidou?
Shidou: You're right Tohka.
I turn my head to see Shido Itsuka and Yatogami Tohka
Zero: Oh Itsuka-kun, Yatogami-san, sorry I didn't notice you I was so focused on my beat, did you need something?
Shidou: Yes, I'm sorry if my question may sound weird but what did you mean when you said you were a Demon King?
Zero: Oh that? Tell me Itsuka-kun, if you had to quantify your knowledge of spirits in general, how many per cent would you say you know about?
Shido is taken aback by my question and look at me strangely but decide to respond to me
Shidou: I would say 35 to 45%.
Zero: Oh really? Then tell me do you know what a Sephira crystal is?
Shidou: Sephira crystal? this is the first time I've heard of it.
Zero: If you don't know what a Sephira crystal is, then that means your knowledge of spirits is only superficial and you know very little about spirits themselves. But feeling like a generous soul I will enlighten you.
Shidou: You doing to tell think just like that?
Zero: Yeah so listen carefully because I'm not going to repeat myself, you should know that most spirits were normal human girls who have acquired a crystal called a crystal Sephira that transforms them into a spirit and gives them an angel.
Shidou: Spirit were human?
Zero: Let me finish, but they are exceptions some spirits are born as spirits from the mana of the world like Yatogami here.
Shidou: Tohka is...
Tohka: I'm born as a spirit?
Zero: Indeed you are a special existence because the only other recorded spirit-born is the first spirit, the Spirit of Origine, codename Deus the one responsible for the first Space Quack.
Tohka: I am that special.
Shidou: Spirit of Origin Deus, why does it look like I know about this but I can't remember
Zero: As I was saying the crystal sephira is the energy source of the spirits and their angels, but there is a but, if light exists then so does darkness. When a spirit feels extreme negative emotions it undergoes what is called an Inversion
Shidou: Inversion?
Zero: Oh, the Sephira crystal in them will absorb that negative energy and affect the spirit changing its form, making them sometimes go out of control or change their personalities making them dangerous to anyone. The crystal sephira then turns into crystal Qlipha and their angel changes form to become a Demon King, these spirits are called Inverse Spirit
Shidou: That means you're...
Zero: Indeed when I introduced myself as a demon king, I meant that I am human becoming an Inverted spirit by absorbing a Qlipha crystal. Let me represent myself to you Itsuka-kun, I am Zero Akatsuki, an Inverse Spirit, bearing the codename 'White King', I hope we can be friends.
The bell announcing the end of the break rang
Zero: I'll go back to class first, see you Shidou-kun, Tohka-chan, Members of Ratatosk
Shidou looks at me with a shocked look on his face
Shidou: Zero Akatsuki are a friend or an enemy?