Beginning of Volume 3
Chapter 313: I Would Know, I Have Seen Your End
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Neji's job in this world of Naruto had ended, and he simply claimed this world as his own. Of course, many were against it but Neji didn't fret over such pesky details. Any of the displeased parties were free to challenge him or—when he would be gone—his representative, Tsunade, the 'Pope' of his religion and 'Empress' of this world.
Essentially, he was ready to leave this place behind; but as much as Neji wished to continue his journey to find the other four girls, unfortunately, his sponsor, Lady Luck, was occupied with something else entirely. That forced Neji to wait in this world for another week.
During this bothersome wait of his, the first thing that greeted him was not an attack from any of the world leaders, but rather it was a cute complaint from Kurai—his familiar cat who allegedly had been on a journey of her own.
Kurai claimed she had made some friends and enemies, though none of the latter remained in this world at this point. Her little complaint was about the princess of the Fire Nation, the daughter of the daimyo, Princess Azula, who told her to betray him and become her pet—the same capital offense Jashin was guilty of.
Neji was amused by her complaint more than the fact that an 'Azula' existed in this world. Seriously, he couldn't remember the last time such a thing happened since this proud kitty always took care of her own things—typically by burning their life force away, but that's not the point.
For that same Kurai to complain to him and demand justice, Neji couldn't have taken this matter lightly. He acted like any responsible father would and went to complain to the opposite party's father—the Fire Daimyo.
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"Ah…ahaha—" The old Fire Daimyo paled when Neji appeared in front of him, whilst he was in a meeting with the other Daimyo and with the remaining Kages gathered in the same room. "This– ah–"
It was as clear as water to everyone else watching the scenario that this guy wasn't sure how to address Neji, or how to deal with this situation at all, which all made Kurai smile smugly.
To the Fire Daimyo, this Neji was a strong force who held the power to project his image across the entire world—by doing just that he had claimed to be the God of this world, that he owned the entire planet.
Akira Hideyoshi, the Daimyo, had lost his strongest protector, Konoha Village, and without them he was sure calling the guards on Neji would never work. So disrespecting him wasn't a choice. At the same time, Akira couldn't just refer to this brat quarter his age as 'Kami-sama!' while all the other Daimyos and the Kages were right there—he wasn't ready to bow down to this Neji in case the others didn't bow down as well, that'd be seen as a betrayal and the Fire Country would be labeled as losers.
Suddenly, a light bulb went off in the Daimyo's head.
'No… no… wait, instead of thinking that way… I am already doomed, one way or another, now that Konoha is gone. What if I were to submit to this new God first? Before the others do, I can be his first servant. We have been worshiping gods for ages anyway, it wouldn't change anything that much within the country…. Also, even if a rebellion happens in the near future, I and my country should have a better chance at survival by being under this guy than on the side of the other countries who would just rather push us around since we lack the manpower.'
Things fell more into place as he realized what Neji had said while entering the room.
'A punishment for my daughter… Hehe, isn't this perfect? Sorry, Azula… heh, but then again, should I really apologize for selling her to a God? That's the best thing a father can do.' The Daimyo decided that this should be the most profitable political marriage in the history of the Fire Country.
Except…. He missed the part where a God couldn't find his daughter appeasing enough to marry her, he would just use her and then some more.
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The Kages and the other Daimyos in the monitors were silent as they simply observed the shameless Fire Daimyo sell his own daughter, apologizing for her prude words to Kurai, as he sucked up to Neji beyond belief.
The others were speechless, as was Neji—though he was just as much amused as well. It felt weird, but not really bad being treated this way, though he did see this getting boring real soon. Thankfully, he wasn't stuck in this world and in the other worlds, he could always continue his daily normal life.
"What? No? Why will I marry her?" Neji was stunned when the Daimyo offered his daughter's hand for marriage. "I already promised a date to my dear Mei, the Mizukage in the corner, I am not going to betray her. Instead, you are, uh, sacrificing her virgin life for the safety of you and your men—that's right."
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While the other Kages, namely Raikage and Tsuchikage, gave Mei an angry look, Mei herself looked stunned—realizing Neji may not have been joking, otherwise he would have forgotten this by now.
Meanwhile, the Daimyo looked awkward. 'Perhaps it wasn't a good idea?'
"Anyway," Neji shrugged his shoulder, as a shadow clone popped up beside him as it teleported from its spot, appearing not long after, with a confused Princess in his arms who had food in her mouth. "I got your daughter, so I will be going. By the way, this is consensual—you agreed, I read your negative thoughts. I will return her later, see you later."
"W-wait! This is not—"
Neji had already teleported from his spot, with Kurai on his shoulders and a kidnapped princess in his arms.
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Neji didn't get a chance to touch the kidnapped girl, not even a hair.
In the next five days, it was Rumi who kept him occupied—not only on his bed but basically everywhere else, including the western continent with steam-mech everywhere.
There was one instance when cameras detected their steamy behavior, and a grand-scale attack happened on them—as it was the people of West's goal to kill this self-proclaimed God that he was.
It was fairly easy to destroy all of them with zero effort, and that was enough to stun everyone on that side of the world—though there was indeed a try of a nuclear attack on the Eastern Continent, as the westerners hoped Neji would be somewhere out there and die by the attack.
That made both Neji and Rumi enraged, more than what should have since it made them remember what happened in their home world.
Neji had to do nothing, as Rumi alone destroyed the capital city of the strongest country in the western continent, the people who had planned this attack to begin with.
On the 5th day since this world was claimed, Neji decided to create a symbol of his presence, that wouldn't be chained to the location of the eastern continent so that such attacks don't happen anymore—and even if it does, they all would be targeting this 'symbol' but they all would be meaningless.
Moreover, Neji had collected all the nuclear weapons this world had to offer and stored them in his Inventory, and had forbidden the creation of such things unless they wanted to face the wrath of a God—which he was sure many will ignore and keep doing this foolishness, of creating Nuclear Weaponries, but the threat would keep them on the edge for a while nonetheless.
The process for the creation of Neji's 'symbol' was more simple than anyone would have expected, as Neji simply cut his Heaven in two—separating the area for the dead souls and the area of his divine castle. After which, he made the sky island where the castle was located on top of, visible to everyone in this mortal world.
To the normal people on the ground, it looked like a huge floating island with the peaks of a castle visible from the ground, as it floated from one place to another to travel the entire world
To the norm, this heavenly piece of land that floated across the sky would be a symbol of who this world belonged to—thanks to the white hologram of a dragon's head floating above the castle—and to the foolish people, this would be the thing they would target for their attack, only to get sadly annihilated by the angels serving the island.
There were plans to add many other things to this island project of his, such as allowing the mortals to enter here so that they could meet with the Empress and complete mortal matters, along with how the people will be converted to Neji's religion and all that. All the boring stuff really, things that Neji couldn't bother with, so he would leave those to Tsunade after leaving the world.
Before long, a week passed and Neji got the chance to split himself with Minor Omnipresence to finish some other, important stuff. Understandably, Rumi wanted his full attention in the last five days, she didn't buy his omnipresent bullshit and wanted him all for herself, so he hadn't done this before. But now that he had the chance, he first visited the Tower Dungeon of this world, to once again make sure he could teleport there anytime he wished, no matter what world he was in, while his other split selves took their time to mess with Princess Azula and also finish other miscellaneous things.
By the time he was just done, he heard the familiar voice of Lady Luck in his head.
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["Hey, Neji~ Guess who's back! Yoho, congratulate me, my home arrest has increased by 250 more years!] Lady Luck's cheerful, and somewhat awkward voice rang in Neji's head just as he finished taking a shower and was walking out of the bath with a towel wrapped around his waist. ["Nice view, hehe, totally makes up for everything that happened in the past few hours— oh wait, has it already been a week here??"]
"Ah, yes, it has…"
["Oops. Sorry, time synchronization got messed up since I was in the domain of the Court and not my room."]
"You know you don't have to apologize, I should be the one to do that—but I won't because I already promised I will get you out of that arrest before that initial 500 year ends, therefore to me personally it doesn't change anything even if the years are increased," Neji said seriously, it was the least he could do for her. "Anyway, when can I leave?"
["...Hm? Oh, right away. Change your attire, and don't have to bring any other person, like Rumi and Kurai, with you. I don't have enough juice left on me to teleport all three of you. Just teleport back here later, after you end up in the new world, and bring them with you."] Lady Luck finished explaining, just as Neji equipped a set of casual clothes from his inventory. ["Alright, here it go–"]
Lady Luck's last words didn't enter Neji's ears, as red fiery mana erupted from around him and devoured his entire form. It was the teleportation process, somewhat different than last time as he had expected to ride the same elevator, but Neji wasn't really surprised.
Neji prepared himself, taking a soft breath in, to meet Luck once again. In this world, he had joked a lot with her about what he would do to her once he met her and all that, so he was somewhat awkward to meet her now that she just got punished for her sake. Sure, he told her 'it changes nothing' but that wasn't entirely true as he could actually die on this journey and therefore she would be stuck in her home meaninglessly.
The red mana slowly and gently thinned out of existence and a different room greeted Neji's vision.
"Huh?"
Neji blinked when he realized the room was different from where he saw Lady Luck last time, and this couldn't just be another room in her mansion either, since this was an… office room.
A gentle music was playing on the phonograph kept in one corner of the room, as the confused Neji looked around to find whatever bought him here. A short moment later, Neji's gaze fell on a person, his eyes widening at the scene, as a woman was standing by a window, her hand softly pulling down on the window blinds as she looked behind it while smiling softly.
[Contessa Fate – Abstract Entity – Tier Indecipherable]
The phonograph in the background changed to a new tune, playing the music of `A Man After Midnight` as Neji's eyes locked onto the text hovering above her head.
"Mhm. You are here, the Gamer." The red-haired woman spoke suddenly, gently retracting her hand from the window as she turned to look at Neji. "Welcome to the Fortress of Fate, and I sincerely apologize for calling you here on a sudden notice."
Neji kept looking at her cautiously, confused at why such a scenario was happening at all, while the entity representing the concept of Fate itself walked closer to him.
"Sadly, you see, I had no choice since—beyond another, surely less important reason—you seemed to have been bothering my little sister for a while now." Entity Fate stopped in front of Neji, her arms crossed and her head tilted to the side as she smiled gently at his face. "So I was wondering how I should stop that, as I do not wish for her punishment to increase any further."
"Hah… Is that so?" Neji, exactly as tall as her, matched her amused eyes with his serious ones and asked, "What do you suggest I do, then?"
"Suggest?" Fate chuckled. "No, I am advising you on this matter; that you stop your contact with her, that you leave her alone so that you don't bring her down with you when you fall into the abyss at the end of this foolish journey of yours—and before you say anything, yes, I would know, as I have seen where your fate leads."
Rather than answering, inside this room where uncomfortable air flowed while calming-gentle music contradicted it, Neji just stared at the personification of Fate with an unreadable expression painted on his face.
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