Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ragnarok online I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make and the characters that I will create. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.

Signed: Benji Himura

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Chapter seventeen: Complications

A little more than one week had passed since the War of Emperium; Benji saw that once again his guild fell in a routine. Atsuko left her old guild for good and moved to the Silver Moon castle, Makie was working on the new firearms with Melissa and Aline, Haruka continued her magic research, Alexis, Isis, Erika, Layla, Ami and Jannine take turns in taking care of Maria and Raki when leaving for the dungeons. Still Benji didn't have any more news from Mana and Shina after that only time.

For a change Benji wasn't on his office as he usually did when wanting to think, instead he is in the north watch tower, the one where he first had sex with Layla. He is sitting on the window frame looking at the valley and thinking on what to do, in the past week he were focused in the guild and then on the new guns, but he had two more castles to worry about.

A pair of slender arms snakes around his chest wrapping tightly in a hug. "And why you are sitting here all by yourself?" Atsuko's familiar deep throaty purr of voice tickled his ears, Benji often found hard to believe that such sexy voice belonged to a monk; she could make any conversation sound like an invitation to sin. "Just thinking a little." Benji answered reaching back and caressing his lover.

"About what?" Atsuko asked giving a light kiss on Benji's neck as a reply to his gentle stroking of her hair. "Me." Benji answered. "Lately I haven't done much more than checking things, collecting the items that the castles give and other kinds of desk work. How we are supposed to hold the two castles that we conquered when we barely have enough people to defend this one?"

Atsuko exhaled light, letting her breath wash on his shoulder. "Why we don't trans?" Atsuko asked kissing his cheek lightly. "We both go out together as we used to and seek that Valkyrie? We agreed that we would transcend together."

"But that means exposing the guild to attacks of transcendent guilds." Benji answered. "Sure I want to transcend but if we do that we will have to fight a whole new level of enemies in the WoE."

"Which my beloved are much less in number than you think." Atsuko replied softly. "Most of people who transcend do not care about WoE, there is only ten guilds with more than thirty transcendent members, five of them already have castles, four of the remaining ones are for fun guilds, they focus in MVP killing, exploring, traveling and fighting monsters."

"And that last one?" Benji asked turning around in the embrace and facing Atsuko. "No one really knows their intentions." Atsuko answered honestly. "In some WoE they fight, in others they don't, I guess that they are a for fun guild that now and then want to fight in the WoE, they randomly attacks castles."

Atsuko lightly kisses Benji. "Besides sugar over ninety percent of the guild members are above level 90." Atsuko added purring sweetly. "Just from the ones that share your bed including you there would be five trans. There are also your favorites as Erika describes the ones that you brought in making it a total of eight, you want me to continue the list?"

Benji sighed as Atsuko smiled victorious; she sits straddling his lap and kisses him. "Come on it will be fun." Atsuko whispered. "I also got a hint that the Valkyrie is in Comodo. It is worth checking out." "Fine." Benji exclaimed noisily smacking his hands on Atsuko's shapely behind, it made a loud noise but no pain at all. "Get that tight butt from my lap and get walking let's go to Comodo and see if we can find that Valkyrie."

Atsuko chuckled and stands up lightly swaying her hips and raising her arms in a slow dance. "Come on Benji what about some fun before that?" Atsuko purred swaying sexily and slow as a serpent. "Get moving woman!" Benji exclaimed in mock annoyance once again smacking her butt cheeks with his right hand.

Atsuko squealed cutely covering her derriere with her hands pretending that it hurt. "Get that shapely ass moving or I will throw you on my shoulder and carry you down." Benji ordered with a smile, while the tone was playful he fully intended to fulfill his threat. "That is new." Atsuko commented casually. "I want try it out."

Benji shrugged and leans forward wrapping his left arm around Atsuko's legs, placing his left shoulder on her stomach and then lifting her up in a swift and smooth move, Atsuko yelped surprised and lightly hits on his back, Benji's grip on her legs was gentle but strong, she wouldn't slip from his grip.

"Feels a bit uncomfortable on my stomach but isn't all that bad." Atsuko commented as Benji walks down the stairs. "So where are we stopping?" "My room." Benji answered. "I need to get my equipment after all." "As far as I care you have all the equipment that I want with you all the time." Atsuko chimed. "It is attached to you."

"And monks were supposed to be faithful and dedicated to God." Benji teased. "Owning pure minds and bodies." "They are pure." Atsuko shot back. "Pure love and lust." "Why I am not surprised?" Benji chuckled.

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On his usual assassin outfit Benji walks around Comodo with Atsuko walking next to him. "So how that Valkyrie looks like anyway?" Benji asked to his lover. "Long blonde hair, one blue and one red eye and with some odd green headgear." Atsuko answered. "At least is that what the rumor says. She supposedly hides her true form but can be always recognized by those traits that never change. Some also say that the back of her top has four wings draw on it as signaling where here wings are."

Benji nodded understanding, but of course looking for someone like that would be hard especially since Comodo is always filled with people. "And what else you know about this Valkyrie, like how it changes and things like that?" Benji asked, Atsuko haven't really explained that to him.

"I was told that she gives a combat trial and depending of what she feels from you she will change you to a transcendent class." Atsuko answered. "You are worried?" "Not worried." Benji replied. "But more in the line of anxious, I didn't heard much about that, but again isn't like my knowledge of Rune is all that vast."

"Just trust on my word hun." Atsuko said with a smile while keeping her right arm laced around his left arm, softly pressing it against her breast and hugging it. "I heard those from reliable sources." "If you say so then I have no choice but to believe in you." Benji replied smiling back, he does trust on Atsuko.

The couple looks around the city in a mix of leisure and fast pace, they had finally cornered the Valkyrie, who had run when identified, Atsuko was about to start a fight when Benji held her. "We have to go." Benji said seriously. "But we found her!" Atsuko exclaimed surprised.

"Layla, Maria, Raki and the others are in danger." Benji said casting a warp portal. "They were in Payon when a Doppelganger appeared, now they are holding back against a doppel and a Moonlight Flower and a Cat o' Nine Tails, they can't hold much longer against three MVPs of that level just with Layla, Erika, Isis, Haruka, Ami and Alexis."

"You are better not run!" Atsuko shouted to the Valkyrie. "I will be waiting in Alberta." The Valkyrie said to them, she was curious about them who would willingly let go of her just after twenty minutes chasing her just to save their friends. "You are better be!" Atsuko said before entering on the portal.

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Entering on the dungeon weren't easy, because the MVPs many adventurers were killed and sent back to the entrance, out of fear most of the adventurers especially the lower level ones panicked and rushed out of the dungeon, once inside it was easy once reaching the second floor, the main gush were in the first and the outside of the cave.

Benji and Atsuko doesn't waste time facing the monsters, they just ignore them as they run inside the halls, it felt odd finding the dungeon so empty but they didn't stop to care about it.

In the fourth level they followed the sound of battle, buffing themselves Benji and Atsuko finds he MVPs beating on a large group of ice walls, Haruka was frantically casting them between them and the monsters with no time to cast any kind of offensive spell since the three monsters break the wall just a little slower than she can cast them.

"Hissatsu!" Benji shouted casting one of his techniques. "Break shot!" Benji punches a golf sized solid energy ball that impacts on the Doppelganger's back. Atsuko hits the Moonlight Flower and connects one strike after the other in a combo.

Alexis, Ami, Erika and Layla leave the protection of the ice barrier when the Cat o' Nine Tails breaks it. Benji sees the Doppelganger shifting its appearance, the clothes remained the same but the monster now looks like him. Benji doesn't really care and continues to strike the creature.

But Benji had to fight hard from his ground the monster was fast and strong, Benji could barely dodge and avoid eighty percent of the attacks, but the creature was taking ninety percent of his, but the creature still doesn't die. The girls are also struggling with their MVPs, Haruka and Isis supporting them the best that they can.

All that Benji needed was one instant, just a brief pause to activate his stopwatch function giving all the accumulate boost and bonuses that it has, but the Doppelganger keeps pressing on the attack. Maria trying to help throws her bunny at the monster, while hitting it doesn't stun it or push it back.

Benji dashes and pushes the girl away from a incoming attack as the monster changed its target, Benji barely felt the sword slicing off his right arm, blood gushes out as if had exploded as the monster strikes several more times cutting Benji's arm in small pieces, yet his watch and items return to the inventory.

Benji presses his left hand on his bleeding shoulder, almost not hearing the shouts of the girls and the spell that Haruka cast forcing the monster back. Benji grabs his dagger and advances at the monster while shouting to the girls to not stop attacking the monsters.

The pain wasn't as strong as Benji expected, he knew that later it would hurt like hell, but in the moment he was pumped with hormones and the cut was neat and clean later the pain would catch up. Benji buries his dagger on the monster nailing it on the stone wall behind it; he pulls another dagger and does the same with the left arm of the monster.

Pulling another dagger Benji cuts off the Doppelganger's right arm in the exact same height as his was cut. "Isis heal me now." Benji shouted pressing the exposed flesh of the arm against his still bleeding shoulder, if the Doppelganger was everything that the legends said then his body would accept the arm.

Isis does so while very shocked with everything. Benji hisses in pain, the veins of the arm and his shoulder bulge and surface, blood falls from the cuts in large crimson drops, but Benji could only feel pain, lots of pain as painfully slowly muscle, bone, tendons, nerves, veins, arteries are weld together.

The pain was intense, bigger than anything that he felt before, Benji was unable to hold his screams of pain as nerve endings connect together, the monster's blood starts to mix with his, and Benji's life pulsing on the demonic flesh of the arm, it was a insane idea doing that, but Benji ate demon's flesh and drank demon's blood, he felt that infusing demonic flesh on his would work.

Alexis and Layla continue to focus their attacks on the Moonlight Flower aiding Atsuko, soon it is over and the monster is dead, Ami and Erika had finished the Cat o' Nine Tails. "Benji!" Layla exclaimed turning to him. "I am fine." Benji said in a pained voice. "But I have been better."

Benji is drinking a white potion while Isis continues to heal him, this time focusing on his right arm. "Just finish the one over there and let's get out of here." Benji said to them. "But your arm." Maria murmured. "I got a new one see?" Benji replied moving his new right hand. "Just like the other one."

"I don't really agree with the wisdom of that but I guess that there isn't anything for us to do now." Atsuko commented moving to the Doppelganger, she was going to make the creature seriously regret cutting Benji's arm. Layla moves to it too to aid Atsuko on the punishment.

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Back in the Silver Moon castle Erika is carefully looking at Benji's right shoulder, the junction of his shoulder and the former Doppelganger's right arm is visible by first a thin line of darkened skin dividing the lighter skin of the demonic arm and Benji's tanned skin.

"Well if I didn't saw I wouldn't say that isn't his arm." Erika said after feeling, poking examining and moving the arm. "It is almost like it was always there, the way that be moves it and use it is totally natural, there isn't any harmful effects."

"I guess that the amorphous nature of the Doppelganger reflects in how Benji's body accepted the arm." Makie commented, she heard everything and thought about it while Benji was examined. "Since the Doppelganger shifted to look like Benji the arm has the same characteristics than his."

"What were you thinking?" Atsuko angrily asked to his lover. "I wasn't really thinking." Benji answered. "Sounded like a good idea at the time." Atsuko sighed crossing her arms over her breasts. "Come on girls back me up here that idea was stupid."

"I believe that is better than him losing his right arm and be left crippled." Layla said to the blonde. "While I as well any of us wouldn't care about it, the loss of his arm would have cost much not only to him but to the entire guild. Besides it is his arm now." "I guess that I have to agree with that one." Alexis said to Atsuko. "We should be happy that even after this he is back in one piece."

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Makie pulled Benji to the side and took him to the only place where no one would look for him, on the Emperium room. "Look Benji while I know that you are working hard and everything I want to talk to you about few things with out your lovers around." Makie said seriously.

Benji nodded in silence. "So what is that you want to tell me?" Benji asked. "How much damage you took since you arrived here?" Makie asked seriously. "I am sure that you don't know how much but let me tell you this, in less that one year here in Rune you took more damage than I took in four years."

Benji remained in silence it was true after all. "I had no idea that you had that many scars on you." Makie continued. "But think a little Benji the amount of abuse that you are taking isn't normal, sure we are in a different world and everything but you took more enough damage on yourself that would kill an army in our world, don't even get me started on the whole arm thing. This isn't natural Benji, this can't be something good."

"And you think that this is natural Makie?" Benji asked stretching his arms and moving to the side lightly gesturing their surroundings. "Finding ourselves in a different world without an explanation, feeling when someone else from Earth arrive when we are near? Or better than that our own belongings things that are common and cheap back home are items of nearly infinite power in this place?"

"I know that nothing of this is natural Benji but the kind of thing that you are doing is even worse." Makie replied. "I don't blame you for the relationship with Layla and the others, I saw that in the past and I can tell that you do love them all, I can ignore that kind of thing, but what you think that will happen if we return home?"

"You said yourself that you are here for four years." Benji said seriously. "Sure being cautious is great but let's be honest our chances of going back home are none to zero because we have no idea of how we got here, trust me Makie I thought hard on that too, how you think that Layla managed to have sex with me? I was feeling lonely thinking on my family and my home, you know I just decided to let go of those worries. I have plenty of them without adding making theories of what might happen when or if we go back to our world, I will live this life, I have four beautiful women who love me and I love them back, I have a solid reputation and reliable friends here."

"So you don't want to go back?" Makie asked seriously. "Initially I wanted." Benji answered. "Trust me Makie when I was dying under the sun of the Sograt desert all that I wanted other than water was go back home, then I met Mana and Shina, they helped me, they became my friends and supported me. With them I saw that being in this world isn't all that bad, sure WoE sucks big time, but there are good things. I have Tsugumi and Ruri; I love those two annoying and attention demanding girls. And there is the guild, our friends Makie, our family in this land."

"I like here too but I have family back on Earth!" Makie shouted. "I am here for four years seven months and twenty six days! I don't know what happened to my mother, my little brother or my sister! I had a fiancée who I love a lot but now I can barely recall his face! Sure I had fun here but I am sick of this Benji! I am sick of this dangerous and insane world! I miss my friends! I miss my family! Fuck I even miss my teachers who I hate!"

"And you think that I don't miss my family and my friends?" Benji asked to the archer. "It is hard but I found people who are here for me, people that I love and care about, not only Atsuko and my lovers, I care about you and everyone else in the guild, sure I won't recall the name of everyone in this guild, not even the job but I am only a man, you think that if we ever go home how it will hurt leaving everyone behind?"

Makie remained in silence; while still angry she knew that he also felt the same thing. "And how you do this?" She asked crying. "Why you love those girls knowing that maybe in this next minute you might return and leave them behind?" "I love them, what I decided was enjoy this happiness as you said it might end abruptly, I don't want regrets." Benji answered seriously. "That is my decision, I will live a full life here, I will fight hard, love even harder my lovers because as you said three of them will be here and the fourth will be halfway across the globe, that if we end back on Earth."

End of the chapter seventeen:

Author explanation corner:

Valkyrie and transcendency: In some servers, mostly private servers there are NPCs called job changers, they change a character's job and you don't need to do the job quest to change to the desired class.

You can change from any class as a novice and in the first job in any branch that you select as for example a swordsman can change to knight or crusader to later change to either lord knight or paladin.

Since transcendency is something involving rebirth I felt that would be fitting to have a Valkyrie being the changer to the transcend classes, after all Valkyries are the chooser of the slain in Nordic mythology.

The whole moving and chasing thing was just to make harder to transcend, like when you are new in a game or server and doesn't know where you can find the NPCs or shops.

Doppelganger's arm implantation: I won't explain the legend of doppelganger, it is a German legend, it goes that when you meet your doppelganger you die; or the doppelganger is seen in a place and you weren't there, do a goggle search for more details. Anyway in the Ragnarok anime the Doppelganger changed its appearance to look like the red headed swordsman, in the game it looks like a blonde swordsman, but it felt more fitting if it changes its appearance based on the person that it is attacking.

Now to the assimilation of the arm, based on the legend of doppelganger being double of a person and its amorphous nature (it shifts forms and doubles any person) it would make a good donor for transplants (at least in the theory).

With the aid of high level healing it should be possible to 'heal' the freshly severed arm to a also freshly severed shoulder, mind shattering pain is the result of the tissue fusing together. Side effects to be revealed.

Doppelganger in Payon: He was on vacation. Okay jokes apart the reason is simple dead branch, a careless adventurer broke a branch and couldn't deal with the powerful summon, or it could be on purpose too. The other MVPs live in Payon.