Chapter 23: Sakura Cake And Sakura Shake.
Instantly a Tremendous pressure fell upon Hiko figure, as if a thousand building were stacked on her body, trying it's hardest to make her fall to the ground. This pressure could have killed anyone below grade B or even grade A! But to Hiko?
It was like a ant crawling on her skin, she did not feel the pressure in the slightest bit, except for her clothes...you could probably imagine it falling and being vaporise by the immense pressure.
Hiko is now naked. (/// Wasn't she already naked?)
'This is the fourth time my clothes has been vaporised since I arrived in this world...' Hiko internally complained, she wasn't even embarrassed on being naked anymore.
One was from her hell flame, two from the evolution from B to S, three from the battle against Azura, which fortunately reverse her clothes back to normal thanks to the Reversing Talisman—only for the clothes to be vaporised from this pressure.
All of them included her clothes being burned to ashes or vaporise to nothing. Hiko shook her head, if only she had a invincible clothes that wouldn't get destroyed.
With how many time her clothes had been vaporised, she was starting to wonder, how did those anime Protagonist were able to keep their clothes intact. In fact she even wanted to meet those Protagonist in person and ask their opinion on how to keep her clothes safe.
And the one who caused this intense pressure was none other then Vinny herself, currently standing in front of her.
"Hiko." Vinny spoke, her voice gentle with a warm smile on her face.
But something was off about it, as if it was a forced smile. If it wasn't for Hiko Intelligence stats being at a high level, it would have fooled her.
Then, the pressure increased to a absurd amount, just enough for it to injured a grade S creature, unfortunately or fortunately, Hiko didn't feel it at all, in fact it felt like she's being tickled.
Vinny seem to be frowning, her eyebrows furrowed and her eyes twitched ever so slightly. Immediately the pressure increased again, this time Hiko felt like she's being pushed to the ground slightly, fortunately it did not make her kneel instead she felt relaxing as if she was on a hot spring.
Also did I mention the increased in temperature? Yes the temperature had increased at some point, the ground melted and the air evaporated gradually. The pressure and heat were so intense that even a grade S creature wouldn't survive without severe injuries.
'The temperature is quite nice~ I think I should take a bath in the hot spring later' Hiko casually thought in her mind, the pressure and temperature didn't damage her in the slightest.
While It didn't damage her, it sure did bypassed her Thermal Fluctuation Nullification skill even if some of the heat were reduced by it.
Vinny eyes twitched even more, seemingly growing more annoyed and frustrated at Hiko's childish and relaxed face as if she hadn't done anything wrong. Vinny sighed calming herself down.
"Hiko. Mind telling me, on why you killed her?" Vinny gently asked.
Hiko childishly smile, "I just wanted to have some fun! But she ruined it! And started hitting me!" Hiko childishly answered, pointing at the half body of Azura. Blaming her for ruining everything
Vinny raised one of her eyebrow at her answer.
"She was soo annoying! She said some stuff about demon king or something? What does that mean?" Hiko childishly added, her expression filled with childish confusion as if she doesn't know what the word demon king was.
"..." Vinny stayed quiet, seemingly contemplating something in her mind.
"..." Hiko didn't interrupt, instead she waited patiently.
'Low Intelligence is quite troublesome, that wasn't what I wanted to say at all!' Hiko internally spoke in annoyance.
She intended to say that she didn't started it, and then blame it to the demon king subordinate that has a 'similar' name, but her explanation had completely changed to the childish and kid friendly version, fortunately Vinny didn't question it and seem to be thinking about it.
10 second passed.
30 second passed.
And finally 1 minute had passed in complete silence, Vinny was still contemplating, and Hiko....she had somehow set up a long table, and chair, coupled with a few snack, delicacies, and sweats on the long table.
She was now wearing a red dress with white line, and a red bow were placed on her chest. Her yellow hair were tied in a twin tailed style by a red ribbon.
Where did she get these item and clothes from?
It was from the System Shop obviously, beside the area within a 200 meters radius were quite smooth and flat, making it possible to place a long table without it spilling the delicacies.
"Mhmm! It's so good! Better then any cake I tasted!" Hiko joyfully spoke with a blessed expression.
On both of her hand were a slice of strawberry cake, while Vinny was in deep thought, Hiko didn't worry about it, after all she was now at her strongest state for 10 hours straight. In simple term, she's Invincible for 10 hours.
Beside she hadn't eaten anything yet, and the cursed Gluttony had come back thanks to that Reversing Talisman Azura had used on her.
Right now she was extremely hungry and her [Self-Sustaining] Skill doesn't work on the cursed Gluttony, so naturally she would be very hungry. So hungry she felt like she could eat a entire tree.
"Ahh~ So tasty And creamy! Mhmm!~ The outside cream and the inside cake is so good!" Hiko praised, her voice filled with the usual childishness.
Her cheek were full but she didn't stop munching on several more cake, without worries of her teeth aching nor her health getting worst. Her Vitality is at a high level so it be quite weird if she suddenly started throwing up.
Vinny come to her senses and witness the scene of Hiko devouring a bunch of cake.
"..." Vinny's face darkened with her eyes twitching, she was speechless.
Hiko was too preoccupied to notice, continuing to eat much to Vinny's displeasure. "This one! This one! It's my favourite from now on!" Hiko enthusiastically shouted.
On her right hand was a sakura cake with a cherry on top, the sweetness, and creamy texture is just perfect for her taste, added with the strawberry flavor and the cherry, considering strawberry was her favourite flavor. It was the most delicious cake she had ever tasted.
The way it melted in her mouth send shiver down her spine as if, heaven had blessed her entire being. As expected from the System Shop, she could buy anything with enough Loli Point.
"And this Sakura Shake Too! The sweetness and flavor are nearly the same!" Hiko praised again, completely lost in her own world of sweetness.
On her left hand was a glass of pink liquid with many sakura petals inside, on top was a strawberry flavour ice cream with red sprinkles.
Even though she didn't feel the cold temperature of the strawberry ice cream, she atleast enjoyed the taste and sweetness it brought on her tongue.
"Ahem..Hiko-Chan~ I think it's time for us to go back" Vinny sweetly spoke, having made up her mind to bring Hiko back. While sneakily looking at the dead corpse of Azura with pity in her eyes.
Vinny had thought about it long and hard, and in the end she decided to blame it on Azura for being careless and stupid. Careless for fighting alone, and stupid for not gathering more information.
'Master Azura, it seem that age had caught up, making you more stupid then usual' Vinny internally mocked, shaking her head in disappointment.
Hiko swallowed the cake in her mouth before speaking "Bu-but! I haven't finished eating!" Hiko childishly complained.
"Zero and Emily-chan are waiting for you," Vinny gently reminded, her armed crossed and her feet tapping on the ground.
"Really?! I forgot about them! I wanna play with Emily-san again!" Hiko childishly replied, her eyes sparkling with light.
Hiko wave her hand and all the food and object disappeared in thin air, except for her clothes, for obvious reason.
Vinny eyebrow raised in slight surprises, she didn't feel any Mana Fluctuation or disturbance in space, it just vanished as if Hiko had replaced it with air or made it invisible. She wanted to ask Hiko, where she learned that skill, but refrain from asking upon seeing Hiko childish expression, Hiko probably doesn't know it herself or that world system is probably the one responsible, Vinny thought.
Hiko childishly walked towards Vinny, with a childish smile on her face that seem too genuine. Making Vinny doubt if Hiko was actually acting all along. But that was impossible since Hiko is only a year old, so there's no way Hiko could possibly trick her.
And Hiko didn't have that Transmigrator title, Hiko is like a newborn child with no mindset of right or wrong. Beside master Azura is the one at fault. Who told her to fight a demon king alone? In the past it took exactly four or five true hero just to defeat a demon king, master Azura is just courting death the moment she try to kill Hiko. Even if Hiko is inexperienced, she is still a demon king. Vinny thought, deciding to take a wait and see approach.
Hiko stood beside Vinny, eagerly waiting for her to teleport them back. Vinny on the other hand dismissed her doubt and casted her Teleportation magic.
The ground lit up in a blue light, and several magic circle manifested beneath their feets, glowing brightly and emitting a warm feeling. Before enveloping them completely in a warm blue light.
The light dimmed gradually, revealing a empty spot with a few white feathers on the ground. As if waiting for someone to pick it up, and enjoy the effect the feathers give them.
The sun slowly set and the moon took it's place, lighting up a small portion of the earth.
Somewhere underground in a man-made cave, three figure were seen lying down with bruises and cuts on their body.
"Ahhh! It hurt! Aurora! Hurry up with it!" Saki shouted, hissing painfully as Aurora patched up her wounds.
"Sorry, this is the fastest I can go..." Aurora apologised, with a helpless look on her face.
"..." Tara stayed quiet, her gazes lingering on where Hiko and Vinny was previously spotted.
She saw three feathers on the ground, curious she decided to sneakily walked towards where Hiko had been and took the three white feathers without the her companion knowing, before heading back into the man-made caves.
It's a wonder on how these three NPC had survived, fates or destiny is the question but not the answer.
What fates shell these Three NPC have? With their new-found freedom, what destiny shell their journey be? And why did Hiko left three of her feathers there? What could Hiko possibly be planning with her absurdly high intelligence? Only time will tell.
....
In Hiko's Room, with Zero still eating like a madman.
A magic circles materialise on the bed, shining a bright blue light, covering the entire room and Out The Windows.
"So bright" Zero exclaim but her hand didn't stop, she continued eating the muffin on her hand.
The bright blue light faded and revealed Hiko and Vinny standing on the bed with their dirtied shoes on...
"Waah! My bed! Vinny-san! Why did you teleport us here! Now my beds ruin~" Hiko childishly complained, sobbing at her now dirtied bed and blanket.
Vinny scratched her head, her face showing a puzzled look.
"This never happened before...so why has it happen now?" Vinny muttered to herself, she felt clueless as to why her Teleportation had made them appeared here.
It was off by a few meters and she doesn't know why it had happened.
Vinny shook her head and dismissed the thought, it was just a small miscalculation on her parts anyways.
Unbeknownst to her the real reason was that Hiko is too strong and the invisible mana she subconsciously emitted had cause some disturbance on her magic spell, specifically the mana circulating inside the magic circles. Causing their destination to be slightly off from the original location.
"My Lord!" Zero shouted, she dashed towards Hiko and kneeled down in front of her, without caring about the snack she had stepped on.
Zero as Loyal as ever, did not even care of the dessert and sweets she had stepped on, her top priority were always serving Hiko. The one and only Lord and saviour that give Zero a seco–third chance in living again.
In fact even without the system guaranteed 100% Loyalty, Zero would still be willing to serve Hiko as long as she was save from her impending death.
"Zero? Why are you so...messy?" Hiko exclaim with a dumbfounded expression.
There was a Lollipop stuck on Zero's hair, with some crumbs and chips mixed in. Her face had some cream on it with chocolate in the mix.
"I been eating my lord, I apologise for the unsightly appearance" Zero answered with honesty, her tone unwavering and filled with loyalty.
It would have been endearing if not for her messy look. Hiko nodded, she got down from the bed and Vinny followed her action, going down as well.
"Mhm! Where's Emily-san? " Hiko asked curiously.
"In her room, 'sleeping' I suggest not waking her up, it be quite rude" Vinny answered gently.
Hiko hummed in understanding, "Zero-chan! Wanna bath together? It be so much fun!" Hiko childishly grinned, giggling as she said so.
"Yes my lord! Anything you say! My lord!" Zero didn't hesitate and agreed without much thought into it.
Hiko is her savior so why would she reject Hiko? In her view Hiko is like a goddess and the invisible mana Hiko emitted were enough reason for her to believe in that.
So unbeknownst to Hiko, her image were change to that of a powerful goddess that can control the Void itself. Zero's loyalty increased even further if that was possible.
'I feel like, I been misunderstood again' Hiko thought before dismissing it.
So what if she's been misunderstood? She will leave this world sooner or later anyways, and she definitely doesn't plan on taking anyone with her, no matter how close they are, shes isn't taking any chances with anyone.
Vinny smile warmly, "Go on you two, and Zero please don't do anything weird to Hiko" Vinny gently warned, her favoritism towards Hiko were off the shard.
Considering that Hiko had destroyed so many cities already, she didn't even punish Hiko and let her go back without scolding her once. And when Zero destroyed a single building in the past, and killed a few human. Vinny attacked and send Zero into a paralyse state and constantly being tormented by the injuries Vinny had caused.
It shows, that Vinny favour Hiko a lot, so much that she even mocked her own master for being stupid and careless.
If Azura could hear what's going on with her disciples head, she would definitely spank her ass and beat her up.
Hiko happily took Zero's hand and dragged her along towards the bathroom door, specially placed in her room much to Zero's surprise and astonishment at being held by her lord and saviour.
Zero being a alien Transmigrator, her understanding and worldviews are quite similar to that of a Stone Age Civilization meeting a high Civilization and thinking of them as God considering their high technology that seem otherworldly.
Although the words otherworldly is true since Hiko's Regeneration Potion is indeed otherworldly. Being able to heal a crippled and paralysed creature in a instant could even be considered a divine intervention.
Vinny watched as Hiko dragged Zero along, she doesn't know whether she should be happy that Hiko was still young and naive or worried that Hiko had manage to become a demon king at such a young age and killed the 7th true hero in just five minute.
'Was it the right decision? ' Vinny asked herself, unsure if she made the right choice.
Vinny was the hidden 8th true hero after all, her duty of safe guarding humanity and her feelings towards Hiko were clashing against each other. In the end she decided to wait and see.
If Hiko set out on the wrong path she would be the first to stop Hiko, but if Hiko set on the right path then she will definitely support her with everything she has in disposal. After all having such a powerful allies which she created herself is better then killing Hiko outright.
If Hiko were to hear her thoughts, she would definitely chuckle, she might only be powerful for 10 hours but that doesn't mean she was weak once the 10 hours duration is gone.
Her Title had given her such a powerful skill so it doesn't matter if skill [Pathetic Effort] Were gone. Even if all her skill and resistant disappeared one day, she is still strong with all the Race, Bloodline, and Title she gained.
The world system grade ranking, and the Ultimate Loli System power ranking were entirely different. The grade ranking show how strong your stats is and the power level ranking show how powerful your skill and stats is, it's completely different.
Like for example, once her limit breaker duration is finish, her stats would return back to grade B+ since Azura had reverse her body back to a month or so.
But! If Hiko were to open her Ultimate Loli system status panel at that time, it would show her grade at being S++, why? Because the Loli system did some math on how powerful her Title, Skill, Race, Talent and Stats are. And after that the Ultimate Loli system would show how powerful she is by using the world system grading rank from G To SSS+++
It just show how powerful the Ultimate Loli System is, especially now that it had upgraded to a more stronger version, with some function that were not shown on the world system. For example the Vitality stats, Stamina Point, Spiritual stats, attributes, talent, potential, and others, all these were not shown on the world system.
Meaning she has more control over her stats allocations and could become even more Overpowered in the future. Who knows what might be out there, the game world is so realistic maybe it isn't a game world at all.
To Be Continue....
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