I accompanied my brother back to the mansion to see some men in suits talking to our family.
"What's going on?" Asks my brother.
They seem shocked to see me and my brother and my father says "We will give you our response tomorrow. Please give us some time to think."
The men nod and left.
My father asked us what happened. I describe what happened and my sister starts to glare at my brother.
My brother, however, showed signs of regret and apologized.
Afterwards, he took a shower and changed before my father tells us what was going on.
"Those men came to our family and asked for 50% of our current assets." Says my father
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"For?" I ask.
"To fund the strongest martial artist in Japan. California wants to go into war with us Japanese..."
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"Are we that weak in their eyes?"
Everyone nods, surprised at the fact that I don't know.
"Japanese are known in this world to have the weakest cultivation frame and meridians. We barely have any genius and the strongest Japanese ever cultivated in the entire history is only in the Nirvana stage!" Says my father.
Hm...
"Still...what gives them a reason to invade us now?"
"One of their strongest genius declared to go into war with us. That genius challenged us to choose a cultivator from our country to a 1v1 fight with him. If our cultivator lost, California will attack Japan and take over us... For nobles like us, it might be the end of everything..."
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California?... Genius...
"Say..." I speak, breaking the silence. "Is that so-called 'genius' blonde with red eyes and goes by the nickname of "Devilman"?"
"Yes...why?"
It is him?!?!
Heh...
I smirk.
"So that sadistic bastard finally shows himself huh..." I mumble.
"Oh yeah! I heard that Devilman is looking for someone called Karma. I wish that unlucky guy will just show up and confront him..." Says my mother.
Yeah yeah... You bet I will.
That bastard always aims to break and torture strong players; A straight-up sadistic brat. (Reference to the guy at the start of Chapter 34)
"For now, they decided to assign Yumiko. She is a once in a century genius who is in the Dragon stage at such a young age. She's also the heir to ancient martial techniques and arts. Still, I can't help but worry..."
This atmosphere is tense...
"When is the battle going to take place?" My brother asks.
"Roughly the next day after tomorrow. At around noon."
I smirk. That's long enough.
After that, I left for home.
With the money I got from my father, I manage to buy a decent apartment and live there for now.
The next day, I find this girl called "Yumiko".
I went to the internet and searched for her. Turns out, she is a celebrity.
She is the same age as me but our status is like heaven and earth.
She is famous for being a powerful cold goddess.
Just like her nickname, she utilizes martial techniques that involve ice.
Her unbreakable poker face with her cold and silent demeanour also won her fans of both genders.
Being able to have a cultivation base of the dragon realm is supposedly a very impressive feat for a Japanese noble like her.
Adding on to that is her white long, silky hair blue eyes and beautiful curves; she completed every single requirement to be a goddess.
I also manage to find her family's mansion location.
Despite being exposed to the entire internet, nobody dared to rob or invade. There are rumours that Yumiko lives in a cold underground cave and that the mansion is just an excuse.
Well, that sounds very ridiculous.
But still, I went to the mansion at night.
Even though I look like I was just walking past, the security cameras and guards are already eyeing my every move.
Luckily for me, the one they are eyeing is my clone and my real body is hidden in the trees and branches.
I control my clone such that it starts attacking the guards.
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A huge commotion occurred and my clone started to fight everything that comes its way using the heaven slaying sword.
While they are focused on my clone, I sneaked in using my main body.
And damn...this looks more like a fucking enhanced military fortress than a mansion!!!!
*BOOOOOOM!!*
Before I know it, my clone already won the fight against don't know how many guards and Yumiko shows up herself.
Her eyes widen when she sees my clone and the sword my clone is holding.
Woah, I broke her "unbreakable" poker face in a second.
"That sword that you have, hand it over." Says Yumiko.
"And if I don't?" Replies my clone.
"You will face death!"
She emits an intense aura but my clone emits an even scarier aura and Yumiko starts to tremble.
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"W-Who are you!"
"Don't worry. I'm just here to talk about Devilman." I say, appearing behind Yumiko with my main body.
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"What?!" Yumiko exclaims as she jumps back.
She looks to the position my clone was originally at but notices that my clone disappeared.
"When did he teleport behind her..." Mumbles a man in a suit nearby.
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"A-Anyway, come inside."
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I follow her into the fortress and the interior looks nothing like the exterior. It looks like an actual mansion from within...what the heck...
I follow her to the guest room and her servants served us tea.
"Take a seat!" Yumiko says with a smile.
If I remember correctly, the reason for her poker face is just because she is bored. Nothing more, nothing less. Thus, resulting in her cold and distant personality.
The only thing that arouses an emotion within her is either, eating sushi or meeting someone stronger.
She has a strong respect for people stronger. the stronger the person, the stronger the respect.
And because of that, she rarely makes any friends.
"So what does this senior want to talk about?" She asks.
Senior? Oh, because of what I did just now?
"Oh uh, no. We are the same age and my cultivation is lower than yours." I say.
I was suppressing my Qi flow so nobody could figure out what cultivation stage I'm at so I finally release and Yumiko covers her mouth while widening her eyes.
"You...ARE A GENIUS!!" She exclaims. "Wow!! I didn't know there's a genius my age which is better!!"
Huh?
"No no no, my cultivation is lower-"
"But your technique, aura, and power are a lot greater. Cultivation forms the foundation of martial arts but the strength of someone comes from factors like their technique, speed, weakness, and others." Says Yumiko.
The smiling and excited Yumiko I see right now is completely different from her outside...my image of her is completely ruined.
"With that aside, I want to give you this."
I hand Yumiko a talisman.
"A talisman? It's overflowing with Qi."
I nod. "It's a 4th-grade defensive talisman. That Devilman guy utilizes air and flight. I wouldn't be surprised to see his opponent flying around. He also utilizes another element which is fire, a weakness to your ice and has the same cultivation base as you. But he is not impossible to beat. I'm giving you this talisman that can withstand at least 10 hits from him... And if I miscalculate and he becomes stronger, 5hits."
As Yumiko stares at the talisman, she asks "Why don't you fight him yourself?"
"Uh... I don't want to expose my power to the world yet."
"Oh!!! You are one of those hidden masters!! And when the world is in danger, you step up and save everyone!! How cool!!" Exclaims Yumiko.
"Y-You read too much manga."
"But manga is amazing!! Do you read them as well?"
"I guess I do. But I play games more though."
"Eh? games! I play them too!"
Holy shit! This girl just suddenly became Kelli but gentler version!!
My image of Yumiko is not only destroyed but burned.
I spend the rest of the night chatting with Yumiko.
I found out that the main reason she doesn't make many friends are because she can't make friends with people who are weaker than her. She used to but all her weak friends will always be bullied and will be the source of Envy.
"Yes! I made one more friend!!" Exclaims Yumiko when I was about to leave since it's late.
Her comrades and servants gave me a warm smile and guided me out.
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I went to the location the battle is known to take place the next day.
Damn...it's really crowded.
No, three "really" is not even enough to describe it. The crowd gathered is almost like every Japanese person that lived in Japan.
I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE END OF THIS SEA OF HUMANS!
I am one of the few to be able to climb the building and spectate from up here.
I look at the rest and they look at me. They are giving me a weird look because they aren't able to figure out my cultivation base so they assume I'm someone weak but is able to climb the building as well.
Whatever, I will ignore those glares.
Yumiko is seen floating In the sky above, waiting for Devilman. She is back to her cold personality with her poker face.
After about 3 minutes or so, Devilman suddenly appears out of nowhere.
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"Sorry, my lady! Did you wait?" He says.
Yumiko did not answer and continued to stare at him.
"Hehe...not much of a talker huh..."
No, you are wrong. She is very talkative.
"Well, whatever...HERE I GO THEN!"
The battle started and for the first minute, Yumiko looks like she has the upper hand but everything changed when Devilman started using both elements.
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He launches a fire tornado towards Yumiko and leaves her no choice but to block. She manages to dissipate it with a blizzard of ice.
Devilman smirks and immediately appear behind her.
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She materializes several icicles and shoots them at Devilman at incredible speed. Devilman ignored her attacks and immediately charged at her. Her icicles break immediately upon hitting him.
Yumiko bites her lips and attempts to kick Devilman. He smirks and blocks her leg, grabbing it.
"Not bad." He says, coughing out blood from that one impact. "But I got your leg now."
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"No!"
Devilman immediately takes out some sort of sword and stabs Yumiko.
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The system is interfering
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The system is interfering?!?
The talisman activated and attempts to block the attack but the sword broke through with ease and stabs through Yumiko even tho she tried to form a shield.
Devilman then kicks Yumiko to a building and she crashed through 3, before coming to a stop.
Tch!
As she was about to fall to the ground I jump to catch her and landed safely on the ground.
"I-I'm sorry..." She says, noticing it's me. "I don't know what happened...he just suddenly receive a huge boost in power..."
"I know," I reply.
"HAHAHAHAHA!! AMAZING!!! EVEN THE HEAVEN IS ON MY SIDE!! HAHAHAHAHA!! WHAT'S WITH THESE INSANELY STATS?! I CAN RULE THE WORLD WITH THIS!!" Shouts Devilman.
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Her servants came running over, some of them even started crying. I hand Yumiko to them and jump into the air myself.
"Oh? There's an idiot?" Says Devilman. "HAHAHA!! Get lost!!"
He flicks his hand towards me and a sharp wind cuts through.
"Remove limitation," I mumble.
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Remove limitation complete
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The wind hits my body but dissipates with ease.
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"Oh...looks like you are not an idiot. But actually someone decent. Hahaha!! Who even cares!! If Yumiko is the strongest in this country, you are trash-"
A ray of light interrupted Devilman.
It hits him but not a single scratch can be seen.
That's from Kelli...
I can see them from a distance on a building.
"Tch! Who dares to interrupt me-"
I immediately appear in front of Devilman and punches him.
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*BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!*
The impact of the punch was so big that clouds start to dissipate, glass in buildings around me starts to shatter. The sound ruptured some people's eardrums.
Devilman flies through the sky and crashes into the ground, creating an enormous trench.
"*cough* *cough* w-what the hell happened..."
I immediately appear in front of Devilman once again and slam his head down to the floor.
I lift his head and repeat the process about 5 times before throwing him up into the sky and kicking him down again.
The floor below us starts to crumble and break, making it look like an explosion just happened here.
"W-Wait! I surrender-"
I ignored his surrender and draw my katana.
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"Katana?"
I smirk and instantly cut off his arms and legs before cutting off his part down there.
From a normal person's perspective, it looked like I did it at the speed of light.
"ARGHHHHH!!!!!!"
His scream was heard everywhere. My smirk becomes wider before I take his bleeding body and slam him into the ground again.
"Phew..." I mumble. "This feels great, beating a scumbag up with my full power."
"B-Beating...a...scumbag?...Wait!! Y-You are Karma-"
Before Devilman finishes his sentence, I plunge my Sakura blade into his torso and slice up, making his remaining body turn into two and killing him.
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"A master..." Mumbles one of the Japanese.
"A HIDDEN MASTER APPEARED TO SAVE US!!" Shouts one of them.
Everyone started to cheer and roar.
"Wait!! Aren't that Kel, the trash before?!" Shouts another spectator.
"That's Kel?!!? OH MY GOD!! A TRASH BECOMES A LEGEND?!"
Because of my fame being "eternal trash", everyone instantly recognises me and was very shocked.
My name instantly becomes a legend in Japan. Everyone who once bullied and looked down upon me now regrets it very deeply. Weak people viewed me as a hero and are once again motivated to do better.
To summarize everything, thanks to the system, I became very accomplished.
I smirk. I know the system is watching me somewhere, angry.
Hahaha!!!
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!!
No matter how much you try to restrict me and eliminate me, nothing will work. I overpower you in every single way. You can try again.
YOU WILL NOT GET ME.
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User Karma...
A tough opponent...
Setting mode to absolute eradication.
You must die.
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Oh? You are going all out now? Nice, bring it on!
It's not a joke when the system goes all out. What happened next is the most disastrous catastrophe to ever happen to humanity...