Chapter 320: I Should Have Known You'd Be Here! (1)
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Omni-Neji-1 who was left on Uruk to do his kingly-duty finally got a break.
From Gil's memories, he knew breaks weren't a thing in his recent life, but thanks to Neji using shadow-clones to do his jobs, clones who he didn't control himself, it didn't take him long to finish things.
The peasants, merchants, and even Siduri were surprised at the King's display of this new power; while the others just took it at face value soon, Siduri kept getting suspicious at his display of powers he had never had before. So when she finally got time, free too for once, she looked at him with a frown.
"Are you really my King?" asked Siduri, putting her stone tablet down as she looked at him with narrowed eyes. That made Neji's expression turn into a deep contemplative look.
"Actually, yes, I am still me." Neji said finally.
In the Naruto World, Reality was rewritten by Lady Luck to replace Neji Hyuga's existence and history with his. However, in this world, though reality was indeed changed, Gil's past and history wasn't rewritten to match the current Neji's personality.
In a way, that meant reality wasn't properly changed and so this King wasn't the King from yesterday. However, concurrently, Gilgamesh's history and past matched a lot with how Neji was in his 1st life; a lot of the things that Gil did was what he would have done in Gil's shoes.
Neji gave it a thought and soon realized the point as to why Gil's history wasn't influenced by his personality.
Because Gilgamesh was a reflection of himself, in more than one way. Memories were becoming more detailed the more time Neji spent here, so it's not as if he lacked the proper memories either, and those memories seemed to match with his 1st life's personality a lot. So, after a deep thought, Neji would say he was more of a Gilgamesh than he was a Hyuga.
This King may not be the King from yesterday, but he was still the same King in the end.
"…Assume it this way, Siduri. King Gilgamesh used the Holy Grail to summon a divine spirit inside him, a Divine Spirit so similar to him that it may be considered himself. Then, they both merged to form what you see in front of you." Neji explained, spreading his arms as Siduri came flying on his grasp due to telekinesis. "To form a lot… better King? Am I a better King?"
"…I don't know yet." Siduri sighed, looking barely convinced. She told herself that, as it was magical stuff, it may be he was telling the truth. "Anyway, please let me go. I have other work to do."
"No? I am done with today's work; you should be too." Neji twisted her body and made her sit on his right leg. "Hasn't it been a while since you entertained me? I think you have time to do that today."
"…." Siduri blushed a little under her see-through niqab. "I have other things to do."
"Alright." Neji held back a sigh and released her, watching her lower her head once and run away.
She hadn't truly accepted his words, it seemed. Sadly, it meant Neji didn't have anyone to share the feeling of blowing off some steam.
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The Gamer System wasn't sealed anymore.
Neji unlocked all of its seals over the years that he spent in the My Hero Academia world. Doing so brought many perks one by one, of course, but when the final sealing was undone, it unlocked more than one miscellaneous thing along with the [Class] perk.
One of those many miscellaneous things was the simple perk that The Gamer System could translate all languages to Neji's preference, that being English at this moment. So it didn't bother Neji in the slightest to understand these Hebrew-speaking people.
Along with it, on a side note, the System was also registering the language by interpreting the people around Neji. So that he could understand and speak the language itself without translation.
[Language: Hebrew – 34%]
[Language: Sumerian – 99%]
That's the progress Neji made in five minutes of spying on Sisty doing her preaching job, while the Sumerian one was done by Omni-Neji-1.
Neji ate an apple, realizing something. 'I am just a hacker at this point.' Shaking his head, he walked away after tossing a gold coin at the little shopkeeper girl.
In whatever case, Sisty was doing a good job. There was a lot of food in Neji's inventory, as dungeon monsters always dropped some sort of edible for some reason. Neji never used them or threw them away, so all those were waiting on his inventory, and this seemed like a time to use them.
'Why did I buy an apple if I had food in my inventory you ask?'
["Yes? That's exactly what I was thinking."] Lady Luck sounded surprised. ["How did you know?"]
'I will tell you someday. For the second. As for the first, well, you'll figure it out yourself soon.'
["…."]
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Neji moved closer to the border of the inner city, keeping his ears open to learn about anything important, while also throwing an apple or bread at anyone he found pitiful.
He was doing this because he felt bad for them, but at the same time, there was one selfish reason behind his kind actions. Their gratefulness fed his divinity, and as they thanked God for the next few seconds, those prayers came to him too.
Though at the moment, Neji's Divinity was also affected by the Grail, it didn't make him stop farming Faith Points. It's not as if his lower Faith Points made him weaker. No, he would still be a God if he had 0 FP. However, those Faith Points could be used as 'fuels' to overcharge his Divinities to work better. So FP was needed.
Neji had five divinities before the 4th Great Ninja War, but now he had seven. The newest two were a lot stronger, and one of them would be especially great when subduing Quetzalcoatl.
For now, though, he needed to focus on the two men he found chatting in front of him.
[Arash – Heroic Spirit – Tier 9]
[Bedivere – Tier 11]
'A servant and a human who has Excalibur sealed inside his right arm. Huh.' Neji blinked once. 'Are their weapons being counted on this, too? Otherwise, I don't understand how they are so strong.'
Well, Arash had a suicide move that could level a city or more, so sure, his Tier was justified. But Bedivere wasn't so strong. His strong moves came from the use of Excalibur.
[Yes, Master.] Sisty replied, even though she was busy on the other side. [The System tries to provide the most accurate danger level of an individual, so on other occasions, an enemy's weapon wasn't counted. However, in the universe of Fate, a weapon was most important, so I am counting that too as it is more accurate in this context. The Tier will change when they lose a hold of their weapon for a prolonged period of time.]
'Huh. That does sound more accurate.'
Neji then approached the two conversing dudes.
"…Yes, the Holy Selection happens every month. Today is actually this month's selection date, too. If you want to go inside, that's your only way, Lucius."
"I see… Thank you. I will be taking my leave then."
The two men, one Arash with short black hair and the other Bedivere who had his silver hair tied until his shoulders, exchanged words. As they finished, Bedivere tossed over some bronze coins and began to leave.
Neji brushed shoulders with him, for a moment both their eyes locking as they felt one another's magical energies. It was Bedivere who looked away first and walked away. Neji smiled and also continued walking, stopping right in front of Arash.
"Hi,"
"Hi to you, young Lord. I see you have been giving food and gold coins to a lot of people around here. May I be bold enough to guess I am one such lottery winner?" Arash greeted Neji enthusiastically, indicating that he was keeping an eye on Neji even while he was conversing with the man who had just left.
"Think whatever you like," Neji chuckled, throwing two gold coins at him that appeared from inside two small golden circles of his Gate. Arash's eyes trembled at seeing that, but he quickly hid it. "Anyhow, I am also here for information. Tell me everything you told that other guy."
"Heh," Arash pocketed the gold coins and smiled. "Let's start with the Holy City."
Arash began to explain, going in-depth this time as he had received a high payment.
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The Holy City appeared out of nowhere a few years ago, and since then, the King has been initiating a Holy Selection every month. People from all over Judah come here to Jerusalem and enter the selection, however, nobody who went inside has ever come out. Normally, that suggested something fishy was going on, but people liked to think the chosen ones just never wanted to come back to this ruined world.
"You are lucky, young Lord. Since today is this month's selection date. If you want to go inside, that's your chance." Arash finished.
"I see." Neji took out a pouch of gold from the Gate and dropped it on the table. "Now, for another important bit—Arash, the Archer. How long do you think this selection will continue? Two more months?"
"…This should be the second last selection." Arash pocketed the pouch. "Only one more selection, if I have to 'guess', will take place. After that, who knows~ I certainly don't."
"I see." Neji frowned in thought. "So only a month…"
"By the way. Correct me if I am wrong, but you are King Gilgamesh, right?" asked Arash all of a sudden, looking deep into his eyes.
"Oh, yes." Neji didn't hide it. "Though if you met me somewhere else and held a grudge, let me just make it clear that it was not the same me. I am somewhat nicer." Neji then began to leave, waving his hand behind. "Anyhow, goodbye. Perhaps we will meet another time, Arash the Mujtahid."
"Haha, nope, I never met another Gilgamesh. I am more interested to see who summoned you here though!" Arash said as Neji left, getting a chuckle out of him.
Now Neji knew what he wanted to know. He only had a month of time on his hand, and in that time he wouldn't have enough power to deal with Sixth Singularity. In that case, he was now going to participate in the Holy Selection to get a glimpse of the Lion King and her Tier so that he could prepare things in advance.
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'I think she should be around Kaguya-level? So Tier-15? Maybe more, but not beneath that.' Neji noted with a frown.
Neji had his Jogan activated, causing some people to back off in fear when they saw his scary black-blue eyes. At least it saved him time from asking people for directions. He made his way towards the gate of the Holy City that would soon be opened to allow people in for participation.
When nearby, Neji turned off his eyes. Just a moment later, he bumped into someone.
"A- ah, sorry-" said a woman wearing baggy clothes, a dark burka, realizing that she bumped into someone. However, she paused when she saw his face, but it wasn't because she found him handsome. Rather she paled in realizing that she had dirtied the clothes of a possibly rich person. "S-sir, I apologize, this was-"
"It's alright," Neji backed off a little to help her calm down. "I didn't mind. Don't get so heated."
The woman blinked and heaved a sigh. "Ah, thank you-"
"Mister, do you have food?" A new voice interrupted the woman's thanks, making Neji look down on the little boy that was clinging to the woman, his eyes greedily looking at Neji's attire, realizing that this guy was rich. "I am hungry…"
While the woman, possibly his mother, paled again, Neji reckoned he did have some food.
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