*Kenichi's POV*
When I woke up I was quite surprised to see Kirara standing on a mountain of corpses of different types of dangerous beasts, although she was somewhat injured it was nothing serious.
From what I understood from Kirara I was unconscious for a whole day, apparently that was the time it took Battle Healing to heal all my wounds which is somewhat understandable, with such serious wounds it would not have been strange to have to stay in bed for several months.
Also thanks to this fight my level and my stats went up again.
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Stats
Level: 7
Strength: 100 + 10
Agility: 98 + 10
Stamina: 100 + 10
Defense: 95 + 10
Intelligence: 50 + 10
Magic: 80 + 10
Luck: 15 / 9999999 (One day of EX luck per week)
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And I was also able to awaken the Demon Face, when I do that all my stats increase by 20 points.
After that, I saved the Galala Crocodile's corpse in the system storage and re-read the last notification I received from the system, apparently I now had in my possession an exact replica of the Baron Archipelago, with curiosity I began to explore it riding on Kirara's back while flying, on the way we were attacked by several dangerous beasts, but with my skills back I easily dealt with them, plus all the beasts that attacked us were capture level 1 and 2.
I continued exploring and I have to admit that the Baron Archipelago was huge and full of various types of dangerous beasts, I could even see other Capture Level 5 Galala Crocodiles, they were a bit smaller than the Level 8, in addition to an innumerable amount of ingredients.
I was able to identify most of the beasts and ingredients I saw in the anime, and several others I was seeing for the first time:
-Marbled Pig (Unknown Capture Level)
-Pincer Fish (Capture Level 1)
-Five-Tailed Giant Eagle (Capture Level 2)
-Striped Salmon (Capture Level below 1)
-Red Haired Pig (Capture Level 1)
-Friday Monkey (Capture Level 2)
-Baron Tiger (Capture Level 3)
-Snake Frog (Capture Level 1)
-Baron Shark (Capture Level 1+)
-Baron Leech (Capture Level below 1)
-Swamp Snake (Capture Level 5)
-Galala Crocodile (Capture Level 5)
While they weren't that high of a capture level, most of them were edible, which was perfect for making various Toriko's world food.
I was exploring for hours, but when I tried to go further out of the island I came across a kind of invisible wall, it seems that that was the limit that could be reached beyond that there was only the ocean.
I have already been in the Baron Archipelago for two days and outside only 2 hours have passed, that means that just like the Dragon Ball time room, time here passes much faster than outside, if a year is equivalent to 365 days and here a day is equivalent to an hour outside, that means that a year here is equivalent to 15 days outside, it is not something as exaggerated as Dragon Ball, but it is still very incredible.
This is the perfect place to train, not only is the gravity more intense there are also an innumerable amount of dangerous beasts that I can fight, and the terrain is much larger, I can do all the training that I could not do in the training room because they were too destructive.
I kept looking until I found a fairly quiet area that had some kind of plants that kept dangerous beasts from coming closer, I approached it and lay down on the grass with Kirara.
Seeing how I'm able to defeat a level 8 dangerous beast I think I'm ready to ingest the gourmet cells, plus this island is full of a wide variety of foods that I can eat, after thinking a little more, I chose the option of ingesting the gourmet cells through injection, when I did so a somewhat futuristic looking syringe appeared in my hand and inside it I could see a bright red liquid.
Since I didn't know how long this was going to take or how much it was going to hurt I preferred to do it in this dimension, fortunately, it's the weekend, so I can be here for several weeks without worrying.
Kenichi: "Kirara... I think I'll be unconscious for a while, although this place seems safe, could you protect me in case some dangerous beast tries to attack me while I adapt to the gourmet cells"
Kirara: "Grgrgrgrgrgr..."
After playing a few minutes with Kirara, I mentally prepared myself and injected myself with the syringe, the cells began to slowly enter my body, when the syringe was completely empty I could feel how each fiber of my muscles began to heat up and I could also feel how my muscles contracted and expanded, it was a pain several times more intense than when I acquired the Hanma blood, I was like that for several hours until I could not resist any longer and fell unconscious.
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I don't know how long I've been unconscious but for a long time my consciousness has been in this dark space, honestly I'm tired of just looking at this emptiness, I tried to count the seconds like Ishigami Senku, but after reaching a million I got tired, I definitely don't have that guy's patience.
Until finally, after a while, a giant of about 5mt in height appeared in front of me. He was incredibly muscular, had a deep red skin color, his hair was black and quite long, his ears were elongated and pointed like an elf's and his eyes were completely black except for a small white pupil.
Until now he was quite similar to Toriko's Appetite Demon, but there was something that set them apart quite a bit and that was that this one had a face quite similar to mine.
Around him were all the foods I've been eating lately, even including the rainbow fruit, he kept eating while ignoring me.
The demon despite his wild and intimidating appearance was quite polite, he ate with a lot of respect and treated the ingredients with a lot of care and appreciation, only when he ate all the food did he finally look at me.
???: "It took you a short time to adapt... Anyone who injects themselves with Gourmet Cells usually takes several weeks or even months to fully adapt, but it only took you three days... Well, it's not that strange either, since that Demonic blood called Hanma runs through your veins you were always quite fit"
I tried to speak but the voice wouldn't come out of my mouth.
???: "Don't bother... With your current level you still can't talk to me... The food you've eaten so far was pretty good, although it wasn't that tasty, the feelings it conveyed were quite satisfying... But unfortunately... This isn't enough..."
???: "At the rate you're going, perhaps in the future you'll be able to face off as an equal with that dwarf alien I saw in your memories... But to free yourself from the plans of the will of the world, you need much more than just this food... There are also these outer Gods who gave you that system... Obtaining true freedom to do whatever you want is much harder than you think... A good first step is to prepare that man's full menu... Since I know the peaceful environment you live in, for the moment I won't demand that you consume so much food, but eventually in order to become strong enough you'll have to."
???: "I wish you luck..."
When he finished speaking I slowly began to regain consciousness, although I was still somewhat dazed.
Kirara: "Kyuu... Kyuu... Kyuu..."
Kenichi: "Hahahaha... That tickles Kirara..."
After caressing Kirara a bit, I got up from the ground... I felt great, I could feel the power overflowing from every part of my body, it was a completely different feeling than when I received the Hanma's blood.
With curiosity, I walked to a river that was somewhat close and looked at my reflection. My face didn't change, but my hair did, it was now incredibly long, and it grew again. If I was 172cm tall before, I'm now about 180cm tall, and I'm much more buff than before.
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Stats
Level: 10
Strength: 150
Agility: 148
Stamina: 150
Defense: 145
Intelligence: 70
Magic: 100
Luck: 30 / 9999999 (One day of EX luck per week)
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My level and general stats also increased quite a bit, I spent several hours testing my body's current capabilities, and I have to admit that I was quite surprised, now I only needed normal hits to effortlessly destroy giant rocks, when I tried jumping I rose to incredible heights and landed without any damage, I tried taking out the Galala Crocodile and lifted it easily despite the fact that it weighed 13 tons.
I wanted to continue experimenting, but I couldn't take it anymore, my body and my gourmet cells were screaming for me to eat, so I cut a fairly large piece of Galala Crocodile meat and went back to my house to cook it.
It was the most delicious meat I've ever eaten in my life, I stewed it, roasted it in a pot, fried it in a pan, cooked it in every way, its flavor was incredible, the meat was covered with a sweet and delicious layer of fat, it was even twinkling like stars in the dark, I could feel how each bite made me stronger and filled me with energy, it was a similar feeling to when I ate ice to replenish my Devil Slayer magic.
I could even notice how my stats gained some points, I had planned to save it and eat it little by little but before I realized it both Kirara and I had already eaten more than half of the crocodile, I could even see how my stomach bulged in an exaggerated way like Toriko's or Luffy's would, but within a few seconds all that fat turned into muscles.
It was already nighttime, but I wasn't even a bit sleepy, in the end I ended up going back to the Baron Archipelago and I was training and fighting for six whole days, my gourmet cells were going to evolve depending on the type of food I ate, but I preferred to adopt a style similar to Toriko's, transforming my limbs into different types of weapons, and all of them turned out to be quite destructive, plus with the new capabilities of my body, physical abilities like One Piece's Rokushiki were quite simple.
I especially liked the Geppo that allowed me to jump in the air and the Soru that was a high-speed movement quite similar to short-distance teleportation, both were my favorite movement techniques.
It was a pretty productive six days, until it was time to go back, on the other side it was time for me to prepare breakfast and go to school, thanks to my muscle control it was quite easy to compress my muscles so they didn't look as bulging as Toriko's, I also cut my hair, it was already strange that I had gotten taller.
Fortunately it seems that this was my lucky day of the week, I was just walking and suddenly I got a lottery ticket with a prize of 50 million yen.
When I got to school, although my classmates were still somewhat surprised by my new height, this time they didn't comment much, they just accepted it as if it was something normal, and in that way the day went by normally, I spent time talking with Kato, I went out for a walk with Raku and Shuu, at lunch time we met the same group as always, although this time I also invited Sairenji and Rito.
Honestly, that idiot had me fed up enough, he ignored me all day and when I talked to Sairenji he looked at me with envy but didn't come over to talk to us, apparently even in the story of To Love-Ru he was like that, he just looked at her from afar, he started to interact normally with her only after he met Lala.
I tried to fix our friendship in different ways but they didn't work, so from this moment on I decided that I wasn't going to try anymore, if he didn't want us to continue being friends I had no reason to keep insisting, besides the only common topic of conversation we had before was about video games, the rest of the time it was just me advising him that he had to get more used to talking to women in order to be able to talk to Sairenji in a normal way.
In the end this guy behaved like a child, even in the story he was like that, he complained all the time that he didn't want the commitment with Lala but he never tried to reject her or to correct the misunderstanding she had, and when the time came to confess his feelings to Sairenji, he couldn't do it because he realized that he had feelings for Lala.
The story continued in To Love-Ru Darkness and he just spent his time interacting and having perverted accidents with all the other girls to the point that Sairenji and Lala almost seemed like secondary characters.
Even at the end of the story when they wanted to force him to have a Harem he shouted that it was impossible for him, he confessed to Sairenji that he was in love with her, but he also told him that they couldn't be a couple because he also liked Lala. Until the end he behaved like a sissy and didn't take responsibility for all the girls who fell in love with him, the only thing he did throughout the story was touch them in a perverted way.
In the end the story was cancelled, which wasn't something strange, To Love-Ru Darkness tried to be a more serious story, but in the end everything always ended up the same, Rito would slip and strip the girls or touch them in a perverted way. He didn't even do anything impressive enough to make the girls fall in love with him.
After that I didn't talk to him again, for the moment concentrating on my studies and my novel was more important, a few days ago I received a notification from a fairly popular publisher that was interested in turning SAO into a Light Novel, so I'm planning to make the leap as a novelist soon, and with my current strength there aren't many who can be my opponents, plus lately Stray Devil's stopped appearing, so for the moment I'm going to take it easy on the fights.
And so another day of school ended, I was walking calmly to the exit, but suddenly I saw Rito standing shaking in an exaggerated manner with his face as red as a tomato babbling pure nonsense, I have to admit that he was definitely a protagonist, he was making a fool of himself in front of everyone, but for some reason everyone ignored him.
A few seconds later Sairenji appeared, she was walking while reading a book, when Rito saw her he started to tremble even more, this was one of his famous confession scenes, but before even talking to her he hid in some bushes, while he just watched her from afar like a stalker.
Since Rito didn't dare to talk to her, in the end I did.
Kenichi: "How are you doing Sairenji?"
Haruna: "S-Saruyama-kun..."
When I spoke to her she almost jumped in fright, I couldn't help but laugh at her exaggerated reaction.
Kenichi: "Sorry to surprise you, are you reading a novel?"
Haruna: "Y-Yes, it's a romance novel called Koisuru Metronome, it's a pretty interesting story, have you read it yet Saruyama-kun?"
Kenichi: "No, unfortunately I've been concentrating on other things lately, so I haven't had time to read novels, what are they about?"
And so I walked with Sairenji as he told me the whole story of Koisuru Metronome, the novel that Kasumigaoka Utaha, one of the main heroines of Saekano, wrote. It was honestly a pretty good novel, but unfortunately it wasn't very well received.
Afterwards we talked about various things, Sairenji told me about Maron and I told him that I recently adopted a little kitten, I don't like the idea of keeping Kirara hidden forever, and when Lala appears, aliens and ghosts are going to be common things, so I don't think people will be too surprised to see a two-tailed cat.
Curiously I started wandering around the city, everything was incredibly quiet, if it wasn't for a group of Yakuza who were running around with Katanas while fleeing from some gangster looking guys who were shooting at them with their guns, people were so used to this kind of scenes that they just looked at them with flat faces while they took care of their own business.
Soon even the police got into the fray...
I decided like all the other people to just ignore them, as long as they didn't hurt other people I had no reason to get involved, besides this was more of a conflict between subordinates, because their leaders were actually friends and they got along pretty well.
When I got back to my house it was already quite late, so I decided to take a bath, Kirara was sleeping inside my soul, so I decided to let her rest, I undressed and looked at my body in the mirror, although Battle Healing was a cool ability, in the end it had its limitations, the cut that the Galala Crocodile left me was still somewhat visible, and for some reason when I stopped compressing my muscles the scar turned a deep red color, I have to admit that it looked pretty cool, it was like the scar that Luffy had after the war in which his brother died.
With nothing else to do I entered the bathtub, these were some pretty hectic days, plus I still couldn't get the Appetite Demon's words out of my head, it seems that he knew several things that I didn't, especially when he talked about the Outer Gods, I wonder who they are, in fact, it's even possible that they're the ones who had to do with this world being so strange, but for the moment there's not much point in thinking about it, at my current level I'm still quite far from being at the level of the strongest powers in DxD, plus there's also Lala's father.
While I was lost in my thoughts, suddenly the water in the tub started bubbling intensely, until some sparks appeared and without my danger sensor alerting me...
My tub exploded...
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I couldn't help but be stunned by what I had in front of me... They were cute and tender pink nipples, they looked as tasty as a cherry, I even felt tempted to bite it...
No...
I actually don't know what happened to me...
Before I realized it I already had it in my mouth and began to lick it and taste it.
Lala: "HYAAA...♥!"
I honestly don't know what happened to me, my mind went blank, I already had an idea of what was going on, but I didn't care, it was as if all the lust I had repressed from the close interactions I had with Aya-sensei, Yukana and Ranko had been released, without even my knowledge my left hand was touching the other nipple, while my right hand was massaging something soft.
Lala: "HAAA♥ HAAA♥ HAAA♥"
The girl who suddenly appeared in my bathtub didn't stop me, in fact she began to get closer to me as if asking me to keep touching her more intensely, of course I didn't hold back, now I was no longer licking her nipple, now I was sucking it.
Lala: "HAAAAA...♥!!!"
She seemed to like that even more, because she started hugging my head and clinging tightly to my body. I still couldn't see her face, but that beautiful pink hair made it all pretty obvious. Without any kind of control, I very delicately grabbed something like a tail with my left hand and began to massage the heart-shaped tip.
Lala: "HYAAAAAAAAAAAA...♥!!!"
That made her moan even more, but I had no intention of stopping. With my right hand I slowly began to move to her most erogenous zone and very carefully began to insert a finger while with the other two I lightly touched her clitoris.
Lala: "HYAAA♥! HAAAA♥! HAAAAAAAAA♥!!!"
Her moans only got louder and louder, I didn't have to do much, even before I put my fingers in she was already pretty wet, I couldn't resist anymore, I let go of her nipples and slowly brought her face closer to mine, her face was hundreds of times more beautiful than the one I saw in the anime and her beautiful emerald green eyes left me captivated, she just limited herself to looking at me somewhat confused with her cloudy eyes, but she never stopped hugging my head, she just limited herself to looking at me while she let out those cute moans.
By the time I realized it I was already kissing her while hugging her thin waist with my strong arms, at first it was a normal and tender kiss like a couple in love would have after their first date, but after several minutes it turned into a lascivious and passionate kiss, at first she seemed confused, but she enjoyed it so much that she began to respond with her tongue.
Our tongues were intertwined for several minutes until we finally separated in search of air, but we were still connected by a thin silver thread that connected our mouths, her eyes now seemed more lucid, but she still didn't let go, her beautiful eyes didn't take their eyes off my lips, without a word she joined her lips with mine again of her own free will...
I don't know how long we were together, it may have only been a few seconds, maybe just a few minutes, or it could have even been hours, but I had no intention of letting go and neither did she, I don't know how to explain it, but this didn't feel like it was just lust, it was something much deeper than that.
When we finally finished kissing, we just stared into each other's eyes and never stopped hugging each other.