"Hakari-kun? What's gotten into you? You have gotten real cuddly~ not that I mind." Toga commented as I buried my face into her hair and enveloped her in a full-body hug while rubbing my face against hers. Thoroughly making her both happy and confused. We were watching TV in the living room together after the exam had ended.
According to Toga, she would most likely pass easily since she destroyed at least a dozen robots and scored well on the written exam. And honestly, if she can't get in but the animal-talking bum and tail guy can I have no hope for UA.
In response to her confusion, I replied.
"I am getting my daily dose of Toganium to restore my luck. I feel like my quirk is about to give me a big opportunity so I need all of the luck I can get."
Toga stood still for a second before nodding and holding my hands slung around her neck affectionately.
"Alright! Then make sure to get all~ the luck you want~! Ganbare Hakari-kun!" She said, leaning back onto me and going back to watching her anime while I concentrated on draining all of her luck onto me because...
Current Tickets: 1x Diamond Ability Ticket, 1x Gold Ability Ticket, 1x Advantage Gold Ticket, 1x Silver Ability Ticket
I struggled to not pop a boner, this was more important, I could fuck Toga some more AFTER rolling my tickets.
There was also the Ticket to the ITOPOD but well... it was something.
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Ticket to the ITOPOD
|Type: Consumable|
When used sends you to the ITOPOD otherwise known as the Infinite Tower of Pissed Off Dudes. Every floor contains an enemy with an ability as strong as the corresponding floor. According to the floor you manage to finish your climb at, you will get an item of equal level.
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Yeah, best not to touch that until I become a powerhouse. The stronger I am the better the reward. So out of mind with you!
But speaking of becoming a powerhouse.
Well, let's start already with the weakest one, a silver ability ticket.
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Rolling Silver Ability Gacha Ticket...
A Rare Ability!
[Rare - Blink]
[Rare - Blink]
|Rarity: Rare| |Type: Mover|
Allows you to instantly teleport to anywhere you can see within a 10-meter distance. The location must be normally accessible to you.
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My grin widened, a very useful ability, quite basic which made it even better. This was one of the better mover abilities, especially compliments someone with an assassin moveset. Doesn't mesh the best with my current ability set but I cannot complain in the slightest.
Now then, onto the gold ability ticket. Come to papa!
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Rolling Golden Ability Gacha Ticket...
A Rare Ability!
[Rare - Exoskeleton]
|Rarity: Rare| |Type: Changer, Augmenter, Transformation|
Allows you to quickly form a tough armour-like exoskeleton around your body made mostly out of Chitin, keratin and Collagen. This armor consumes the minerals and vitamins in your body so repeated use is unadvised.
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This was a great ability, basically, no energy cost and none after the armour itself is formed. I already had a defensive option but Phase Shift is an energy hog. Now with this, I can turn on Offensive Form and still have some defence.
Now, time to roll the advantage gold ticket.
Give me something good!
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Rolling Advantage Golden Gacha Ticket...
[Uncommon Item - Sanctus]
"A legendary weapon of the Way of the White, granted to an Undead paladin long ago"
The blessings on this legendary shield have faded a long time ago, and now only a fraction remains, boosting the health and recovery of the wearer.
Or
[Epic Item - Character Card: Destiny's Child (5/5)]
Predict an 'opportunity' in the future. Can indicate a mission, an item, an action of a certain person… etc.
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I mean, that's a no-brainer. I want the health recovery of the Sanctus but healers already exist and honestly, the few use "character card" sounds absolutely broken. If I need to know something I can just pop it and know it thanks to the future prediction. Besides, it was an epic rarity for a reason.
Picking it I immediately got to rubbing Toga's lucky cheeks some more as she obediently let me. As expected of my lucky charm. Now, she needed to work extra overtime to give me something good with this.
'Roll it, please!'
'...'
"Are~? Is that something pressing up against me~? How naughty Hakari-kun~ ...Hakari-kun?"
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Rolling Diamond Ability Gacha Ticket...
An Epic Ability!
[Epic - Gene Refinement]
|Rarity: Epic| |Type: Trump, Changer|
Allows you to refine genetic makeup, increasing parts of it to improve its effectiveness. Essentially allowing you to upgrade biology and by proxy abilities. Cooldown: 8 Hours
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My brain stopped for a second as I read the notification in front of me 90 times in what felt like a single second.
Upgrade... abilities? Refine... genes?
In a world like this...?
That's... so fucking broken. I could even upgrade my own abilities probably. This is the kind of ability that countries would go to war over. Just a tap and suddenly bam, your strongest hero is suddenly stronger and their abilities are more powerful.
I love it!
In fact, I could feel my pants straining and the fabric keeping my pants together splitting apart at the seams from the sheer grith and power behind my pole desiring to split apart the very skies. The feeling of drawing that ability felt even better than sex.
Unable to hold on I grabbed Toga and lifted her up by the armpits like a cat while getting off of the couch myself.
"Eh? Hakari-kun? What's happening? Eh?" Toga looked confused as I carried her like a cat toward the bedroom.
"Hey Toga, let's get to bed." I said with an almost animalistic growl of lust in my voice which successfully turned on Toga's drive as she suddenly shook.
"Ooh~ Okay then! Lead the way Hakari-kun!" Toga excitedly said as I reached the bed and threw her in and climbed into the bed alongside her pinning her against the mattress while she looked at me with a sultry expression, locking her fingers behind my head.
"Ravish me~!"
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An hour later I was lying in bed with a sweaty and tired Toga pressed up against my body after five consecutive rounds of steamy kinky sex, seriously kinky, Toga was kind of a freak in bed, she liked biting and scratching but also getting choked too. But her stamina wasn't exactly enough to keep up with me and my Battle Continuation.
After sex, we would usually cuddle but this time I had something important I needed to test on her so I grabbed her attention by stroking her head a little.
"Hey, Toga-chan. About the power I was talking about, I have developed a new one I wanted to test on you. It's called 'Gene Refinement' in theory, it's supposed to make you stronger. Want to test it out with me?" Hearing my words Toga's eyes sparkled as she excitedly tose up.
"Woah! Really? That sounds so strong Hakari-kun! You are like, totally a cheat! Sure, let's do it!" Toga cheered as I smirked, not even a moment of hesitation, she knew I wouldn't do something if I knew it would hurt her.
"Alright, stand still for a moment and let me work my magic." Nodding Toga sat up and let me get to work.
"Alright Hakari-kun, I trust you." I trust you too my little luck charm, if I get my way I am making you broken.
I put my hand on her bare chest where her heart would be and activated my ability.
And then another prompt popped up in my sight.
___/Choose Refinement\___
[Increased Efficiency: The duration of transformation per ml of blood consumed is increased by 50%]
[Blood Bank: Can store up to 100ml of foreign blood inside of the body for up to 30 days]
[Blood Memory: Can discern basic information about the owner of the consumed blood]
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Woah, this shit is a literal skill tree.
That's so goddam cool.
As I explained to Toga what I could do with my upgrade her eyes also widened.
"Woah! What's totally like a skill tree from an RPG!" Ditto "Hmm, well, I think it's best to choose Blood Memory, I can already kinda store blood with vials and my transformations are already plenty long. The basic info would really help me blend in when I am using it for infiltration. Besides, it seems like the option with the most potential!" I nodded, feeling proud.
As expected of my little blood goblin, she has what it takes to be a filthy min maxer like me. Toga looked at my face weirdly for a second before I spoke to her.
"Alright then, locking it in." Then Toga's mouth an o shape as suddenly her genetic makeup started getting altered by my ability, it worked surprisingly fast once I locked in my choice considering it was refining the hypercomplex human gene without messing up anything and only providing a benefit with no downsides. What bullshit.
My bullshit.
After a minute the glow in my hands faded as Toga started looking even more sleepy than before, she gave me a dopey smile while looking at her hands in wonder.
"Woah~ That's so cool, I feel like a new girl~ thank you Hakari-kun but I-*yawn* -I think I'm gonna test the effects later 'kay? Goodnight." *Plop.*
Finishing her sentence Toga flopped onto the bed and snoozed almost immediately, makes sense that getting your genetic material altered by a foreign ability would feel tiring, for me too since it took more than 50% of my energy reserves to use it.
Well, I have 8 hours until I can test it on myself, and I can't really test any other abilities now so I guess I have some time for myself. This was rather unusual since Toga has been basically stuck by my side ever since we met.
'Maybe that will change once we start UA. I like her clinginess but hopefully, making some friends will help her issues a little, because I know for certain I cannot exactly help her.' I tucked her into bed before pulling out my pack of cigarettes from of the bedside drawer alongside my lighter before heading out onto the balcony, feeling the chill autumn air against my skin.
Lighting my smoke and taking a drag I let the acrid smoke fill my lungs, getting cigarettes as a minor was trivially easy when you can just swap money for cigs 50 meters away.
*Puff.*
I released the smoke in my lungs, feeling a slight sense of serenity wash over me. Old habits are hard to break. Working in the Yakuza had gotten me hooked on cigs and alcohol badly, I miss drinking cheap shit beer.
*Chuckle.*
I couldn't help but release a chuckle of disbelief.
'Just a month ago I was some punk making a living in the streets and now I'm an aspiring hero in a world of superpowers who can pull abilities and items from other worlds. How insane.' I took another puff of my cig, gazing out at the scenery of Musutafu's nightlife when my system pinged me again.
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Birthday Gift! +1 Silver Random Gacha Ticket
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Confused I raised an eyebrow at the notification. Was it my birthday today? I had no idea, I stopped caring after my parents died and just forgot about it altogether. It could be this version of me's birthday. Or it could just be the system fucking with me randomly, I wouldn't put it past it to do so.
'Just roll it.' Never look the gift ticket in the mouth lest the gacha take it away.
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Rolling Silver Random Gacha Ticket...
A common skill!
[Common - Teaching Master(Minor)]
Duplicate detected, fusing items together...
[Common - Teaching Master(Minor)] upgraded to [Uncommon - Teaching Master(Intermediate)]
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Well, isn't that nice? I didn't think I could roll the same thing twice, speaks volumes to how I managed to do so considering this Gacha probably has some ungodly amount of possible items.
Still, the new teaching expertise was more than welcome, funnily enough, I am pretty sure I am more qualified than most of the teachers at UA because I am pretty sure none of those busy pro heroes actually went to college for a teaching degree or whatever it's called.
Regardless, it still brought a smile to my lips.
The world works in mysterious ways.
A/N: Lady Luck and Hakari haven't just made up, they are actively fucking doggy style on the couch as we speak. For anyone wondering, no it was not rigged in the slightest, Gene Refinement was mostly made for other worlds while Bloodline was still important but still didn't determine your entire combat potential. But in a world like MHA, it's basically god.
Hakari's luck has made a complete 180 turn, the world better brace its britches because the Hakari train is about to hit the world hard. I think it's trying to make up for the time when it tried to continuously murder Hakari for an entire week straight.
Regardless, what did you guys think about this chapter? It was mostly a breather chapter before the real plot started to kick back in. I would love to know your thoughts so make sure to comment, comments help motivate me to write more and faster.