Hey guys Kurama here with another chapter of DXD: Like A Shadow and I hope you will enjoy this as much as I will.
"Talk," someone says
"Dragon, Game Talk/thought/spells, Quest/Rewards! Someone says.
"Thoughts," Someone says
Disclaimer: I do not own this story if I did, I would be sleeping in a bed full of money.
Let's begin!
-Next day-
I wake up with an aggravated look on my face while staring at the clock.
I got out of bed myself and went to the kitchen, Yoruichi makes breakfast for herself and I leave the house and head out for school.
I was passing by an alley when I hear some screams.
"Please, can somebody help us!" A young woman screamed and it was a voice was very familiar with.
I was running towards said voice which was in an alleyway not far from the convenience store, I see a large man and his gang harassing two schoolgirls, the two girls who I recognize are Murayama and Katase from the kendo club.
They were always my favourite along with Koneko, anyone who beats the two perverts regularly deserves my respect.
It seems that he and his gang had overpowered them and tossed them onto the wall.
There were bruises all over her body and her clothes were in tatters. It didn't take much for me to know what was coming next.
"Nobody's coming for you and we're going to have fun little girls." The guy says while leering at them.
The man cackled and that was enough for me to act.
"You want to die motherfucker?" I say to him, flaring a bit of mana around the place.
I charged at the huge man and knock him down on the ground with a sucker punch.
As Katase and Murayama saw me saving them and couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Who is that?" Katase asks.
"Jin!?" Murayama asks as well.
They're probably shocked that I was attacking a thug.
"Hey, stay out of my way so that I can deal with these guys," I say to them with a cold look on my face as my bio-suit allows me to remove my jacket.
"Jin are you crazy? That guy overpowered us. There's no way you can beat him." Katase says, holding Murayama back, who looks scared as well.
It's like she's ignoring what just happened earlier.
"Don't worry, I'm stronger than I look and I will not let them rape you. It's the least I could do after what I did to you guys." I reply with a small smile.
They were stunned and blushing by my words but I noticed the guy was starting to stand up.
"What are you guys waiting for? Attack this fucker already!" The guy growls.
I retract my mana since I shouldn't use magic or weapons on the cannon fodder.
His goons charge at me, they all attempt to hit me simultaneously with different variations of punches and I respond in kind.
Ducking under their collective punches I perform a leg sweep removing them from the ground and I kick one midair into a wall where he bounces off and lies still.
Getting up from my initial attack the two other delinquents bombard me with sloppily executed punches that I ignore while advancing, reaching one of them I knock him out with a solid punch to the jaw that was heavily held back.
The last one runs away with his tail between his legs.
With the ring leader left by his lonesome.
"Cowards! Fine, I will deal with you myself!" The boss shouts angrily while I just stare at him menacingly.
He threw a strong punch at me, but I catch his punch with one hand that shocked him and the two girls behind me.
My strength is over 30 times higher than the average human, it's no way I will lose physical strength against him.
"No way!" He shouts in disbelief.
"Game over," I reply coldly, a freakish smile on my face.
I give him an uppercut in the jaw and finished him off with a powerful kick to his groin.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" He screams in pain.
He was sent flying backward and crashed into a wall behind him and was knocked unconscious.
30 Affection with Murayama for saving her (30/100)
30 Affection with Katase for saving her (30/100)
"It's safe now. You two better call the police about this." I say to them while putting my jacket back on.
"Right!" Murayama says, getting out of her funk.
A few minutes later, the police came and arrested them for sexual assault and tried to rape them.
Murayama and Katase were bandaged up and got new uniforms too.
"How about I walk you two to school, I'm already headed there anyway." I offer, and they converse in whispers debating whether to take my offer.
"We wouldn't mind walking with you but we don't need your protection." She says while blushing.
What a bunch of tsundere.
We all walk to school and partake in light conversation.
When we reach the school, we went our separate ways.
I arrive in class and sit at my usual seat but since nothing is interesting going on, I decide to distract myself by taking a look at the [Gamer] interface.
[Quest]
[Perks]
[Titles]
[Skills]
[Shop]
[Options]
I select [Shop] because I don't remember having unlocked this feature and if I did, then I didn't use it so now's an as good time as any.
Another window appears in front of me.
[Weapons]
[Armour]
[Items]
[Accessories]
[Skills]
[Perks]
I press on [Skills] as I'm interested in seeing what I could get.
Skill Book: Lightning Magic
Description: This book allows you to learn Lightning Magic.
Cost: 1000$
Note: If you buy this, you will not be able to get [Electromancer as a Class anymore.]
Skill Book: Skill Connect
Description: This book allows you to learn Skill Connect.
Cost: 1500$
Skill Book: Swords Dance
Description: This book allows you to learn Swords Dance.
Cost: 1200$
They were a handful of these so-called [Skill books] but I ultimately went with those related to elements simply because I would like to expand my arsenal of attacks without levelling up too much.
It does get boring after a while and even with the aura of concealment, I'm gonna have to face the supernatural world whether I like it or not and if I am, then I'm gonna make sure that I win at all costs.
[Thunder Magic] (Active) LVL: 1/10 [0%]
Description: A basic element type of magic. It is strong against Water-type familiars.
Damage: INT (MP Used)/2.
Cost: Varies.
[Fire Magic] (Active) LVL: 1/100 [0%]
Description: A basic elemental type of magic. It is useful against Grass-type familiars.
Damage: INT (MP Used)/2.
Cost: Varies.
There are a couple of these [Notifications] related to the other basic elements but I shut them off as there's something I want to buy the remainder of my money.
That something is familiar, which will be incredibly useful in either a fight or to fly around with.
Plus, I could use the extra [Perks] and companions.
Taking a look at the list and some of them look pretty good like a Slime or a Thunder Lion but most of these are pretty thrash like the Fire Rat or Ice Tiger.
I'm gonna buy the Slime simply because it's far more interesting than the others and, I get my very own variant of Rimuru Tempest.
Like how cool is that!
"Excuse me sir but may I go to the bathroom?" I ask and he nods his head so I walk out very fast, excited to meet my new friend.
Name:?
Title: The Familiar of Jin Kageyami.
Race: Slime
Level: 1/25 [0%]
Rank- Regular
HP: 20 [1 per minute]
MP: 40 [2 per minute]
SP: 20 [1 per minute]
STR: 5
END: 5
DEX: 5
INT: 5
WIS: 5
CHA: 5
LUK: 5
Status Points: 0
Skill: Devour.
Affection: 40/100.
Obedience: 60/100.
Devour?
One Observe on Devour later.
Skill: Devour
Description: Allows the user to Devour any being that it or its master has defeated with a certain chance of gaining their skill.
The chance is increased if the opponent is alive and the user kills it by himself without any assistance.
This chance of gaining skills reduces significantly if the user is assisted by others.
Stats are not gained by users on devouring their opponents.
Holy Shit, I was right.
It is a fucking Rimuru.
A discount version of Rimuru maybe but still I have my own OP slime in making.
The Best Familiar Ever.
But first to name it. This is something I suck at a lot, so I am going to do the most sensible thing here and….copy.
"Your name will be Rumiel. That's a good name, right?" I ask the slime, who hugs me in happiness.
20 affection with Rumiel for naming it (60/100)
You have gained a Perk for reaching over 50 with Rumiel.
Perk Gained
[Familiar Bond]
Description: Your bond with your familiar is very close.
Can summon familiars anywhere despite any restrictions.
A telepathic Bond between the Master and the familiar is established.
This is perfect, but I will use this later 'cause I need to get back to class before the teacher gets suspicious about me leaving.
I walk to class and find someone standing next to the teacher, looking at all the students that are there until she spots me.
"Excuse me Jin, but The Student Council President wishes to speak with you, this way please," Momo says calmly as she takes my hand and leads me, I might as well see where this is going since they might try to track me down if I try to avoid them.
Before long I was taken to the student council room and sent inside as Momo blocks the door, whether it was to keep Rias out or me in.
"Welcome, Take a seat," Sona says, she has two seats and a small table set up off to the side, which a chess board set up on the table, I see no reason to refuse, so I sit opposite her.
"So, do you play chess?" She asks.
"I've played before, but it's been a while," I reply.
"Play with me if you win owned you a favour, but if I win you will work with me. Do we have a deal?" She says with a small grin on her face.
"Oh sure, why not?" I say, matching her excitement.
"Good, I pick white." She says I don't play chess that often but I am very smart, so it shouldn't be that hard.
This is going to be an easy match because I do have a substantial major advantage in INT and WIS over her.
I go first and I move my pawn two steps forward, which she mirrors with a different pawn piece, I move my bishop to capture her pawn.
This is going to take a while.
-Timeskip-
I move my queen to capture her bishop putting Sona in check.
"Checkmate. I win!" I shout in happiness as I dance around for a bit before a [Notification] pops up so I mentally open it.
Perk Added
[Chess Master]
Description: As a Chess Master, you can beat almost anyone at chess, regardless of the INT difference
Gain 5 INT and 5 WIS for every chess game won
She certainly cares about her loss though, after looking over the board for almost three minutes her face slowly turns red as she realizes that I just became her fiancé.
"I...I didn't expect that. You are intelligent, more than I expected." She says blushing bright red, I notice a brief grin appear on Tsubaki's face before she suppresses it.
"I apologize for underestimating you, I'm willing to owe you a favour to be called in whenever you desire."
"One favour to be used whenever I desire right?" I ask her.
"Yeah," Sona says, still blushing.
"Okay, I decided to save my favour."
"Okay, that will be all for today, you may leave." She says quickly still bright red, saying my goodbyes as I make my leave.
"So...you want me to call your parents or your sister about your future husband?" She says in a teasing tone.
"No! I don't want them to know about this and don't tell the other either!"
"Yes, ma'am!" She says with a cocky smirk on her face.
-Timeskip-
After school, I walked beside Aika, Murayama and Katase and right now, I'm waiting for them outside while they're buying snacks for themselves.
I turn around to see a black-haired girl who is blushing slightly.
"Umm, are you, Jin Kageyami, by any chance."
So the show's finally starting, huh?
"Yes that's me, what do you want?" I say to a mysterious girl who's Raynare.
First Impressions Activated: 10 Affection with Raynare
"Um, well, my name is Yumma Amano, and I have been watching you for a while and you seemed kind of cool, so... would you go out with me?!" Raynare says, quickly slipping into her high school girl persona.
I smirk darkly at her for a second before it goes away before she sees.
"Yes, I am single at the moment and I would like to keep it that way," I say to her in a harsh tone while using [Observe] on her to see her [Stats].
Name: Raynare
LVL: 15
HP: 9500/9500
MP: 7000/7000
STR: 101
END: 95
DEX: 123
INT: 115
WIS: 109
CHA: 71
LCK: 39
She is so much weaker than I thought she would be.
I don't know how Issei lost to this bitch.
Oh right, he's an idiot who only thinks about tits.
Oh, wait.
Denji is a guy that thinks like that too but to be fair, he never grew up with his mother so one could understand why he ended up the way he did.
"What?! What do you mean by 'I'd like to keep it that way'? Don't you want a girlfriend" She asks in shock and indignation.
"I do, it's just you're not my type," I reply easily.
"Aren't I pretty?!"
"You want me to be honest or lie? Because this conversation is about to take a turn for the worse."
"Are you always this rude?!"
"To people that I don't know, yes."
"For the love of-! Just go on a fricking date with me!"
She's that persistent to kill me, huh?
For once in my life, I'll indulge in the needs of my body and go on that date with her but she pulls anything beforehand and I'm sending it to the other side.
"Fine, you got yourself a deal," I say to her, immediately regretting all of my life choices in that single moment because the moment I uttered those words, her face lighted up like never before and she even started to dance 'cause of how happy she was.
"Alright! Let's meet up at six in the afternoon on Sunday if that's okay with you?" She says calmly then I nod my head, accepting her offer.
"Sure, whatever," I say to her with a dismissive tone in my voice.
My gods, not only is she weak but she's also annoying.
Seriously, how did Issei suffer so much under her?!
She then throws a smile at me, but from where I'm standing, it looks forced.
So she's likely thinking of ways to try and kill me but I'm way too powerful to be killed off like a side character.
She leaves my line of sight while kissing the air, but I just flip her off since she completely ruined my mood for the remainder of the day.
I don't know what I am going to do to her on the date, but I'll decide once the time comes.
The girls come out with their food and we separate from each other as we all head in different directions back home.
I arrive and greet both Yoruichi and Rumiel who are fighting/playing in their non-human forms.
I was just sitting on the couch watching tv, enjoying the small moment of peace life has offered me.
Sometimes, it feels good to be me.
-POV change-
"Akeno, who is that boy that's been hanging out with Koneko these last couple of days?" Rias asks her Queen, who steps into the room with a concerned look on her face.
"His name is Jin Kageyami and he's a new student who just transferred here only yesterday. Why do you ask?" Akeno asks her best friend.
"I sense some strong magic power coming from him." She replies, sipping her tea with a calm expression on her face.
"Do you believe that he has the power of a Sacred Gear?" The Nephilim asks while sipping on a bit of her tea.
"I think so since he's stronger than the average person. Maybe I can ask him to join my peerage." The heiress says while smirking, a plan already formed in the corners of her mind.
"But, what if he doesn't want to become a devil?"
"Then I'll leave him alone!"
"I don't think you're telling me the truth."
"I am telling the truth! I'll leave him if doesn't accept my offer."
"Ufufufu~!"
"Maou damn it Akeno! Quit teasing me!"
-Timeskip-
Over the past three days, I took Gasper and Yoruichi to the [Dungeons] so that we could train together.
I managed to get [Umbramancer] to level 90, getting myself some new abilities like I'm now able to steal other people's shadows like Gekko Moria from One Piece.
I can also summon shadows like Sung Jin-Woo from Solo Leveling, which I find amazing as he's one of my top three favourite characters of all time.
[Steal Shadow] (Active)
Description: Steals a shadow of the defeated enemy and raises it as a Shadow Servant with one-tenth of the strength of the defeated enemy.
Cost: 10000 MP per Shadow stolen.
Note: Cannot Steal shadows from the enemies not defeated by the user
[Shadow Magic] (Master) (Passive)
Description: Gain instinctual knowledge about shadow magic.
Shadow and Darkness Magic-related spells are 80% stronger.
Skill Upgraded
[Shadow Stealth] (Passive/Active)
Description: Increases the chances of being unnoticed by 80%. The skill is cancelled when the user moves out of a shadow or attacks a target.
Description: Increases the chances of being unnoticed by an additional 160%. The skill is cancelled when the user moves out of a shadow or attacks a target.
Cost 50 MP/min.
Skill Upgraded
[Magic Weapon Creation] (Active)
Description: Allows the user to create magic weapons using shadows and darkness.
MP cost varies. Deal [INT x Level of Skill/1000 MP Magical Damage.
I also got a [Quest] while Gasper was killing a couple of Orcs with Yoruichi watching him on and helping him if he got overwhelmed by too many numbers.
Quest Received
[Sisterly Bonds]
Shirone and Kuroka have been separated by a stroke of misfortune. This has been eaten at both of them. Restore the bonds between the sisters. After all, a pair of sisters are better than a single one.
Objective: Resolve the problems between Shirone and Kuroka and restore their bonds as sisters.
Rewards: Massively Increased Affection with Kuroka and Massively Increase Affection with Shirone/Koneko.
Failure: Massively Decreased Affection with Kuroka, Kuroka Lover Route permanently closed.
Accept: Y/N?
I press [Y, amazed by the rewards that I could get if I manage to pull this off.
I know that in the main timeline, Kuroka killed her previous master because he attempted to experiment on Koneko, who was a child at the time.
The devils that took care of the investigation have done it wrong if she was sane enough to appear in Koneko's life.
I'll bet that most of them are Nobles so the Maous filed it
I then rejoin them while we walk to a random Orc's house and I let Gasper take the stuff that was in there.
The rule for him to train was to never divulge the fact that I can create pocket dimensions Rias or any devil until the day he dies or I decide to reveal them myself.
I also plan on training Koneko because I want to see if there's a way for me to learn Senjutsu and I doubt Kuroka will at this time teach me willingly unless I somehow bribe her to do so.
So again, Koneko will be the way to go.
We arrive at the Orc chief's Hutt and I let Gasper step inside so he can show me what he has learned from Yoruichi when I couldn't help with his training.
I should probably help him deal with his traumas before it becomes either a weakness for the enemy to exploit or hinders his abilities even further, which is something I don't want to happen.
But that can wait as I walk towards the chest and kick it open, taking most of the [Loot] while leaving Gasper with a dagger, a cloak that would increase his stealth and two rings that would help him in battle.
One of them decreases the cost of mana when using a spell and the other one will increase the damage of the user's spells so that works out for him.
I use [ID: Create] to go back to reality and bid Gasper farewell as he heads back to Underworld, probably tired from his training today.
He did good but I doubt he can become any stronger than he can truly be.
If I can help him get past his trauma, then I know that I will have succeeded in becoming a good teacher for him, even if my methods were a bit dark, to begin with.
I take a glance at my [Inventory] and see that I have three [Gacha Tokens] so I take them all out since I want to use them now rather than later.
Besides, I can always re-stock on those in the [Dungeons] so it's a win-win situation for me.
Time for the first pull!
Skill Gained
[Senjutsu (DxD) (Novice)]
Description: Enables the user to manipulate nature's energy to nourish allies and attack enemies using various techniques.
SP cost varies.
Not bad.
Not bad at all but I think that I can get better.
Next pull!
Perk Gained
[Guardian Angel]
Description: Angels of all sorts are inevitably attracted to you.
Increased Affection, Reputation and Obedience with Angels of all kinds.
Very nice.
I can now befriend Micheal and the other angels rather easily than I would've originally.
And now, for the final pull.
Item Added
Light Container
Rank: Epic Sacred Gear
Description: This gem contains the Sacred Gear Blade Blacksmith, the opposite of Sword Birth.
Oh ho!
I know who I'm going to give this to.
I see Yoruichi and walk up to her with the Light Container in my left hand and a menacing grin on my face.
"Yoo, I was just looking for you," I tell her, still holding up my grin.
"Sure, what do you have for me? From your crazy grin, I can tell it's something powerful." She says, crossing her with an amused smile on her face.
"It is. This is Blade Bladesimth, a Holy sword-creating Sacred Gear. I figured that with your past as a Shinigami, you could use it to get maybe used to using a sword again." I tell her, with her smile turning into a frown due to my words.
Noticing it quickly, I perform a mid bow in front of her to try and remedy the situation.
"Wait! I'm sorry. I should've not said something like that. I just thought that you would be interested in using a sword again. It's not my place to do things that you wouldn't like so again, I'm sorry."I say to her.
"It's fine. You were looking out for me but I don't need it. Still, thanks for caring." Yoruichi says as she leaves the room, making me sigh in huge relief that an altercation hadn't happened yet.
I grab the [Light Container] and put it in my [Inventory, not seeing any practical reasons for me to have it.
I go on my couch and soon enough, I sleep dreamily.
END!
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