(Author's Note: I hope you all enjoy the chapter! Also, I will be using his previous name till he renames himself)
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Raj Pov
It has been a few days since my hunt, I managed to rent a small apartment with the money that guy had, the Landlord did question me at first seeing my small body frame but when I told him that I was actually an adult but had a small body like a child which is due to the courtesy of my quirk and finding that I talked like a mature and adult he agreed on giving me a rented room.
Thankfully he didn't ask for some verification and didn't suspect me due to my cuteness, I guess Rimuru's beautiful looks are somewhat helpful and I looked quite harmless with my looks, after finding a place to live I decided to ask Great Sage some more questions, I mean I was quite curious about a few things.
Firstly, how did I survive the reincarnation, or rather how do I still have my memories, it might sound stupid like how you can call it reincarnation if you don't have your past life's memories. But the thing is that in Tensura it was stated that Rimuru had a strong soul which helped him survive a reincarnation and he was the first one to achieve that.
The Great Sage's answer was quite simple, my soul while not too strong as he is still stronger than average which helped me survive my passing through dimensions in the first place, and in the journey, it got stronger again from the Time-Space tribulation making my soul strong as Semi-Divine Soul. There was also the fact that my soul didn't have to cross the powerful Cardinal World's Barrier but just Mha's weak world barrier.
I was glad to hear that since the strength of my soul determines how many Skills I can have in the first place, secondly I asked her was that am I was like a parallel version of Rimuru, I mean I have all his powers so in essence, we are very similar and I got a piece of shocking news from her that I am the Rimuru or to be more precise I replaced him.
His entire existence is replaced by me, Rimuru no longer exists due to my wish of replacing him, Voice of the World has erased him from the Tensura world and barely managed to do that, thankfully Voice of the World managed to do that or Ciel would have definitely erased me knowing her personality which would have been the bad news to me.
This also means if I manage to go to Cardinal World there would be no Rimuru, it will be only me and I am free to follow the plot like his actions or can simply not care, so I can use my knowledge to get Op and become a Supreme Deity or even surpass it. Though before I start to do something big I would have to get a Time-Space-related skill or learn Time-Space Magic to leave this world.
From Great Sage's calculation latter would be easier though time and Magicule consuming considering a skill powerful enough to cross the world will be difficult to acquire in this weaker world. Next, I have stolen a Brand new smartphone and some PC components, I mean even if I have money I can't buy them without some identification which seemed a bit strict in this world.
So I thought rather than buying them second-hand or from some illegal means why don't I just simply steal them? and I did just that, now I have done all the basic settings in my smartphone and assembled the PC though not before analyzing all of them. Once I have analyzed enough of this technology I would be easily able to create a super-computer on the premise I have the required parts for it.
Now, that I have got a Wifi connection it is time to get crazy," Great Sage analyzes and learns info from the web on all topics related to History, Geography, languages, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Computer", I said.
[Affirmative, Though doing such a thing might create some suspicious traces], she replied, I pondered for a bit and said," Then use Skill: Coder to enhance the Software and Privacy first". She started doing that and connected to the Pc using Skill Coder and started doing her job.
[Esitmated time to enhance OS efficiency by 35 times and Firewall and Privacy by 100 times in 12 hours], she replied, I frowned hearing that but soon understood, she just has basic Advanced Computer Language Knowledge from Skill Coder and her analysis of the Operating System, it is natural that it would take this much time.
I guess I can just wait,*Sigh* waiting is so tiring.
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Two days later,
Two days passed and Great Sage successfully enhanced the security of OS and then began searching for Information in Web, I ordered her to learn new PC Languages to enhance her efficiency and she did just that, and after 20 hours of learning all the languages, she could find and enhancing the OS further the Skill Coder evolved into Extra Skill: Virtual Programmer.
It won't be wrong to say with this skill I have become one of the best hackers in the world, currently, I have hacked into the Japanese Government's Quirk Database, and soon I found a name that I was searching for.
Name: Izuku Midoriya
Citizen Code:8927384978
Quirk: N/A
Date of Birth:15/07/2130
Location: Musutafu, Japan.
Current Age:12
Detail:...
A smile came on my face as I saw his current Age, I have already checked the Age required to enter UA which is 15 same as the show, so if everything falls right then the current time period is three years before the main plot begins with it being two years two months before he meets All-Might.
Then I searched for Katsuki Bakugou and found his info as well, after confirming his age and reading the info I searched for the info on other characters, and I got similar info to my memories which means I am not in AU or even if I am in an AU then there isn't much difference probably.
Now comes the important part," Great Sage create an Identity for me now", I said. She replied,[Okay Master] and then the PC screen changed to black with computer codes appearing on it at an extremely fast speed.
I decided to wait since it will take some time due to me telling her to keep my identity as real as possible which requires some conditions, so sitting on the chair relaxed I opened the packet of Chips that I had brought before and started eating them leisurely.
Soon an Image appeared before me, it had a photo of me with all the details of me that I wanted to have.
Name: Raj
Citizen Code: 717792376
Quirk: Wise One, Energy Manipulation.
Date of Birth: 1/02/2130
Location: Musutafu,Japan
Current Age: 12
Details:...
I smiled seeing the info, everything is as I wanted it to be except for one thing," Great Sage I don't want the name Raj", I said, I didn't want to live with my previous name, I have left my previous self and embraced new me, so a new beginning means I need a new name, that begs the question how do I get a name?," Hey, Great Sage any idea about this?", I asked her.
[Report! Naming is a very essential thing for monsters and if Master was to be named by a strong individual then Master will experience all-round growth, unfortunately in this world where Magicules don't exist, to compensate a piece of Soul, Vitality and other aspects will be absorbed from the naming party!
Which will kill most of the people, and getting named by weaker individuals won't provide any significant strength boost, only if Master were to be named by a person having Quirk with huge energy potential, like One for All and All for One then only Master would have a powerful boost], she explained me.
I sighed hearing that, although I can continue using my previous name Raj and it will be fine if others use it to call me, only if there isn't any intent in their voice behind naming me, If they have a single intent of doing that then their vitality will be sucked out with me getting a permanent name. After pondering for a bit I asked her," Great Sage it is possible for me to grant myself a name?".
[Affirmative, such a thing is possible, however doing so will result in Master getting no boost in power, similar to Equal naming as in the case of Veldora naming Rimuru in which he received minimal to almost no power boost], she replied.
I sighed since naming is a good way to enhance my power, but that is the only case of a Master-Subordinate naming, in equal naming the entity granted name receives minimal to no power boost, there is also a third way of naming, that is being named by masses, in this case, if a huge number of people call an unnamed monster by the same name, then he would not only get a power boost but also have no soul Bond to the people who named him/her.
A prime example of this is Guy Crimson, who after slaughtering an entire nation got Demon Lord Seed when humanity started calling him by the same name, he got named, and the energy he received was enough for him to evolve into True Demon Lord. Thus, to be honest, this is the method I want to be named, but getting a name that might be not liked by me and gonna stick with me for eternity is not something I am fond of.
After pondering over it a bit I decided to let it go, firstly I will need a strong belief from people who need to stick to the same name, and that can be only obtained if I became a Dangerous Villain making people scared enough to grant me a name similar to Guy Crimson or become the World's strongest Hero, which I don't want to.
In the end, I decided to name myself, and after thinking of a good name for myself I declared," My name from now onwards shall be Akash Alpheus", after which I felt something on my soul, I observed myself and as predicted no power boost, lame, whatever I didn't choose my name randomly, word 'Akash' means Space or Sky in Hindi and Alpheus means Successor in Greek.
So using these two different words from different languages, I granted myself this name, Akash referring to Infinite Space and its wonders, and Alpheus referring to me being the self-proclaimed successor of Rimuru which I am lol.
Now, my next plan is to let Great Sage learn all the info and meanwhile find a way to earn money and then establish a base for myself, after which get a stable Magicules supply and then hunt for quirks, I am pretty sure about becoming damn OP after evolving if I manage to hoard all the Op quirks.
Now comes the question, how do I earn money, and by the money I mean a lot of it, since getting a Nuclear generator will need a lot of money, then thinking for a bit I got a fantastic idea! The same idea that I used to read in fanfics, and that is to copy songs, manga, novels, and games from my old world and then create them in this world.
An evil smile came on my face as I thought about this, it seems otherworld piracy is the way to go, though there were two problems in this, first what if those things have already existed in this world considering this is the year 2132, or what if another possible reincarnatee gets to know about me? In the end, I decided to proceed with it anyway, after all, I need to earn money a lot of it, and cowering about small possibilities won't let me go anywhere.
If push comes to then I will just devour my enemies and then start a massacre to evolve into True Demon Lord, and thus I began forming my evil plans!
To be continued...