Author's Note: I don't own BNHA or any other elements from other fandoms. Waited another day to publish this so I could think of how to explain her Quirk worked. Even prepared a whole page of the stats and skills that she herself sees so you readers could understand what it is. I know how 'The Gamer' works in other fics and works, but for certain reasons the way she uses it is different.

Chapter 10: Strategy Exp

An entire month binge reading the Gamer, finding and refreshing her memory of Sword Art Online, and reading all the books on gaming in Mellow Books and Keiyu felt no closer to figuring out how her ability worked. For one thing she could only see her own level, not others, just their names and titles. Another is the fact that inventory apparently was not a thing with her ability, at least not yet. Points to increase stats did not exist either, she had to do it manually, which would lead to her level increasing. Leveling in the beginning should be easy in games before getting harder later on, but for some reason that was not the case. Everything had to be done manually and she had to increase a whole bunch of stuff for it to work. Just looking at the list of the stats she felt her entire being scream, wasn't there a limit or anything?! Not only did it include the standard attributes and stats from games, some of them had a breakdown of words almost sounding the same thing but not and there was also the list of skills she's been learning with a number next to them indicating the amount of hours she's spent on it.

Her highest stats were in intelligence but it wasn't much considering her body still has yet to catch up to her adult mind. Balance and Stamina were the highest in her physical stats, with endurance rather close to it. She thanked her daily exercises for that, even if her other physical stats were not as high as she wanted them to be, of course she was only six years old at the moment. Carrying capacity was something she couldn't work on yet either due to her small size, so nothing could be done about that either.

Leadership and Strategy were her lowest stats in the mental aspect, and leadership was not likely to increase at the moment. So she should focus on strategy, but what was a good way to do it?

"Find a way to increase strategy," a ding was sounded and she felt relieved, glad that her ability was useful in figuring out how to help her increase levels, even if she had to word it in a quest like way.

"Quest Alert! Learn strategy through theory and gameplay! Win against opponents in a decisive victory to level up!"

Well, it shouldn't be that hard, right?

Of course, Green Might and Violet Cat had their say,

Green Might: Why do you want to play strategy games all of a sudden?

VioletCat: It's not a bad idea, but it is kind of sudden, can't we stick with the online game we are currently doing?

DakoxLeon: I wanted to work on my strategy and most of these games need an opponent. I could always ask Mikan-san I guess

GreenMight: No! That's fine, strategy is a great thing to work on! Plus it would be fun to figure out what kind of strategy games we are all good at.

VioletCat: If you both say so.

DakoxLeon: Okay! I pulled up a list of games we can try in order, here are the links for the first one.

They started out with shogi and after going through the tutorial, she faced off against VC while GM was still looking at the rules.

It took ten minutes for her to beat VC, even if it was both of them stumbling around trying to figure out moves. Then she went against GM,

He beat her within five moves.

They moved on after that,

DakoxLeon: OK! Since apparently only one of us has any ability in Shogi, let's move on to Chess.

VioletCat: Can we skip that please?

Keiyu pursed her lips as she stared at VC's reply, well if he didn't want to.

DakoxLeon: Okay, is Risk okay?

VioletCat: Yeah, sorry.

Green Might: It's okay! We're having fun.

Risk had both Keiyu and VC cursing out GM who managed to take over the entire world within ten minutes.

DakoxLeon: Let's ignore Green Might's world domination plans and move on to Chinese Checkers.

Violet Cat was averse to that as well and both of them ignored GM's protests that he did not have world domination plans in favor of Monopoly.

The game took a whole two hours and Keiyu felt her eye twitching as all of her money was stolen.

DakoxLeon: Your playing a dangerous game Violet Cat, give me back my property and money!

VioletCat: That wouldn't be within game rules, sorry.

The stream of insults she sent him via chat lasted a whole minute as she dealt with the fact she was losing all of these games to six year olds.

Her pride was not taking the hits all that well.

Green Might: Come on guys, it's just a game, but Violet Cat? I want that katsudon restaurant back.

VioletCat: Don't be a sore loser Leon, not my fault you suck at these games and Green, I'll consider it if you give me the cat cafe.

DakoxLeon: I will send you a virus that'll wipe your entire cat video collection if you keep this up!

VioletCat: Hah! Just try it.

Izuku felt torn between panic and exasperation as his chat friends started sniping at one another, maybe this strategy game wasn't a good idea.

A chime caught his attention and he saw another challenger on the shogi website who wanted to play against him.

Clicking yes, he kept one eye on that game, waiting for their first move, while keeping an eye on the Monopoly game and chat war between VC and DL.

Why did those he call friends know such dirty words, (ignoring the fact that Kacchan technically didn't count as a friend these days.)

They ended up doing Stratego when DL sent some disturbing images to VC's email that made him curse her out in the chat in Italian, he should really start learning a third language, he was already fluent in English after all.

Although, this game ended with both VC and DL calling him Overlord when he beat both of them and he huffed, just because he was good at these kinds of games doesn't make him an overlord, that doesn't sound all that heroic either.

Then they came to Mahjong.

Hitoshi tried not to feel some pleasure at DL's rather violent reaction to being beat out in Mahjong and took her accusation of him being good at all money making games in good humor. Though the part about him being a gambler in training should be addressed.

VioletCat: Just because I'm good at Mahjong doesn't mean I gamble, incidentally Mom takes me to the Mahjong hall every Saturday and I've never seen her lose.

DakoxLeon: So you admit it!

He chuckled, feeling a bit bad that they didn't play Chess because she might have beaten him in that. If only because he did not want to be good at that kind of game.

Chessmaster was not something he wanted to be identified with after being accused of such by his classmates.

DakoxLeon: Fine, the next game is Go, which I will beat you all at!

Sighing, Hitoshi clicked the link and twitched as his eyes caught sight of the clock, they'd been at it for five hours?!

VioletCat: Why don't we take a break before our parents drag us out of our rooms and force us outside? We can start this again next week when we all have calmed down.

The chat was silent for a few minutes before DL responded, no doubt a bit peeved.

DakoxLeon: Fine, it'll give me more time to choose more games and learn Go enough to slaughter the both of you! Plus this'll give Green Might enough time to finish his twentieth Shogi match.

Green Might: W-wait, how did you?

VioletCat: We still have the Shogi website pulled up and your name rose up several ranks, did you really think we wouldn't notice?

Getting off the chat, Hitoshi went into the living room where his mom was muttering to herself while looking through someone's bank account.

"Hey Mom," similar purple eyes met his as she straightened her back and looked at the clock, a frown appearing on her features.

"Huh, looks like both of us got caught up, what were you doing?" considering he usually brought her out of auditing mode after three hours? Hitoshi understood why she asked.

"Playing strategy games, the girl in our group is really mad about not winning against either of us, though Green Might won more than I did," she snorted and saved her progress before sitting up.

"Well, some of us have strengths in certain games and weaknesses in others, want to order pizza? Don't feel up to cooking," he shrugged and held out the phone, the number already pulled up.

"Already pulled up," she took it from him and ordered a small cheese, threatening the delivery driver into coming within the timeframe or the entire order will be free.

Times like this made him agree with DL's assessment of their education being weird.

One week later

Okay, she had a plan, and she did not plan on losing this time either, losing to five, almost six year olds was getting out of hand.

Checking the shogi website, she snorted at the fact GM was now ranked in the top 500 on the website when before he had started out in the thousands.

'How many games has he been playing this past week?' shaking her head, she pulled up the go website and created her sign in, making a note to get a physical set if this turned out okay.

The only strategy points she gained was when she won against VC in Shogi and how long she lasted in the games, but that was it. This time however, she had a good grasp of the game rules and had done her research the past week.

When they did get on, she directed them to the website before getting started.

Thankfully the practice and studying had paid off and she was able to beat both VC and GM, though tried not to think about whether they lost to her on purpose.

VioletCat: Great, you finally won, are we done with strategy games now?

DakoxLeon: I guess, but we'll be going back to those other games in the future, for now, we're changing Green Might's name to a more appropriate one

Green Might: Wait- what?!

DakoxLeon and VioletCat have changed Green Might's name to MightyOverlord!

MightyOverlord: Wha- why-come on guys! This isn't funny.

DakoxLeon: Too bad! Deal with it!

With Go as her main strategy game, Keiyu decided to visit that Go parlor she came across in town to see if she could get some practice in.

Only to be blocked at the door.

"Sorry, must be 18 and male to enter," the door was slammed in her face and she stood staring at it for a while before taking a deep breath and going into Mikan's store.

He was looking at a manga magazine and twirling a red pen in his hand when he caught sight of her and stood up.
"How'd the strategy gaming go? Do you need anymore Go strategy books?" he paused as he saw her expression and tilted his head, "What happened?"

"I tried to go to the Go parlor across the street and they wouldn't let me in, said I don't have the right age or gender," his face darkened and he scoffed.

"Honestly, what is with this town? I'm guessing you don't want to stick with the online?" she shook her head with a sour expression.

"I was going to ask Papa for a Go game on his next visit back so that I could play, but I need opponents if I want to improve," he hummed before snapping his fingers and with a 'one moment' he walked over to a bookcase filled with sports books and pressed a section of it, the sound of a click and the wall moving surprised her.

'He has secret rooms too?' was that before or after he got this store? A large shelf was revealed with different board games on each one and he pulled one from the top.

"I'll set this up and if you wish I can be your opponent," she blinked as he set out the board and stepped forward.

"Yeah! That'll be great," better than not being able to play it, even if he does beat her a lot, surely that'll mean tons of experience right?