I'm fighting the evil mega-corps and secret villains of this world, but hooking up the MC with his harem is the real challenge! 4 (Overpowered Isekai CYOA / Gakuen Toshi Asterisk)

"Whew, great. Guess I can cross 'getting forced into a fight with punks from another school' off my list of real life clichés to experience. Though…"

Staring at the unconscious and defeated group of punks from Le Wolfe that Claudia and I dispatched with ease, I couldn't help but feel that this entire setup was way too contrived.

"... considering that this counts as an after school scuffle on Asterisk, as commonplace as this should be, I'm guessing that this sorry excuse for an 'attack' serves a third-party's purpose. Claudia, what do you think?"

I asked my partner as I engaged in the time old tradition of 'looting' my opponents for their stuff. Unfortunately, this wasn't Skyrim, so I couldn't just take everything they had on them including their clothes, only suspicious items.

The ammunition of my black goo gun very rarely inflicts damage on my opponents, so any fragile items are unlikely to be damaged. Let's just hope that these losers were dumb enough to leave behind some evidence.

"Well, I am inclined to agree with your assessment." Claudia said calmly as she deactivated her Orga Lux and watched as I ruffled through their pockets, "This common trick of Le Wolfe's students would never really work on anyone with sufficient power. Judging from their words, this was a premeditated ambush, however, these ruffians were not aware that they would be facing formidable opponents such as ourselves until the battle began…"

"So these idiots were used by a third-party to target us specifically at a low cost. I can't imagine anyone wanting to pick a fight with Seidoukan's 2nd Rank student for a non-insignificant amount of money. Hmm, oh wow, this is just insulting. Here."

I tossed Claudia a crumpled note, an astoundingly cliched piece of evidence, that showed a disgustingly low price being offered for their services on this 'job'.

This is a trick that the lower rung of the Le Wolfe Academy would use to attack someone in the streets. They surround the target after starting a fake brawl with each other, go through the proper procedure for duels, then simply pretend that the target got mixed up by chance as they fought.

Cannon Fodder like these will do almost anything for a little cash. They would still be punished by the academy for this, but more often than not, the administration was 'forgiving' where duels were involved.

"Oh my, this price really is unflattering. Do you happen to have an idea on what they might be after, Lucas?" Claudia asked with an almost indulgent tone, she most likely knew the answer or at least had a very good idea on why this had taken place, and was only asking to hear my thoughts or judge my deductive reasoning based on my current knowledge of Asterisk.

Guess I'm getting a pop quiz outside of school grounds…

"They were testing our capabilities, or more specifically, my own. Your abilities may as well be public knowledge as far as others are concerned, whilst I'm still an unknown."

It's not like I've fought enough in public enough times for others to determine how much of my victory can be considered a fluke or not.

"This was one of the easiest and low risk ways to gauge my capabilities. The question of 'who' is the more important question. It could be a competitor from another school, or some lower ranked student planning to take me on, or say… someone opposed to either one of us entering the Phoenix."

"It would be a much simpler matter if it were anywhere between the first two."

"Alas, life is rarely so simple for the two of us."

Claudia laughed softly, almost hiding the slight flinch in response to my words. I don't know what she saw in the future that made her so certain of such a fact, but I promised myself that I would do all I can to put an end to such a misconception.

"I feel the same way. I will do some fact checking with my sources but the third possibility is the most likely. I can certainly see someone I know attempting such a thing."

That sounded like it would take awhile, considering just how many people she knows of given her mega-corp connections.

Though her disappointed tone suggested that it was by someone she either trusted or had a high opinion of. A friend or… family member, perhaps?

If her wish would make her an enemy of the IEF her family was working in then I could definitely see her parents attempting to put an end to our partnership by targeting me in order to spare her from the full violence the corporation can bring to bear.

And if that fails… it's likely they will try to kill us both or Claudia specifically. Considering that the higher level executives of the mega-corps have to go through more brainwashing programs, it is more likely for Claudia's mother to order the death of her own daughter rather than her father, who has a lower position.

"Lucas, are you alright?"

"I'm sorry. I was monologing in my head for a bit."

"You realize you do that quite often. It's a dangerous habit to let your guard down like that."

"Sorry, I just can't help but think about… distressing matters. Especially with all these plots being weaved in the shadows like a good old political conspiracy story."

I suppose I can't help but let my guard down in this world. It isn't particularly dangerous to me, unlike Terra Omega, where there are a dozen or so beings that I will be hard-pressed to battle and emerge victorious from.

"Well then, there's no point just talking about it. Seeing as you've gone through the trouble of proving your battle prowess, why don't we start planning our training regimen and how we should fight together?"

"That's a good idea. When are you free?"

I can't just use random tricks in every fight now can I? We won't be able to coordinate together as battle partners if I just keep on using random weapons and gadgets without her being in the loop.

I'll probably start using the low-level Exosuit for our private training along with a few select weapons… as for other weapons I bring along to our official matches, they can vary based on the opponents we will be facing.

On Claudia's end, I suppose I should teach her some martial arts. With my powers I should be able to get her up to Expert level within a month or less, if she's talented. Just watching the way she fought against those goons showed that there was no particular form to her fighting style.

Rather, she seemed to be employing a wholly unique mode of fighting that deviated from the established styles she may have previously learned. It was still effective given the decent number of attacks she can make with both twin swords, but her skill level was nowhere near what I could have done even if I lowered myself to her level of superhuman capabilities.

"Let's see, according to my schedule, I should be available every…" Claudia looked at the unconscious goons on the ground, "We should discuss this later. I will send you the details of when we should meet up again, alright?"

"Sure."

So long as it didn't fill up my weekends then I would be fine with that.

I usually spend my time in Terra Omega on the weekends then head back to this world to sleep when required. It would be troublesome if I ended up making the world think that one of their most powerful vigilante's had disappeared or died off upon prolonged absence on my part.

At some point the city guard finally arrived and Claudia began to deal with them. She shooed me away since by the looks of it, it was going to take a long time and she would rather smooth things over with her own authority without me getting caught up in all this.

"And…? What have you been doing all this time, Orianne?"

"Enjoying quarantine~"

The blonde haired, blue-eyed girl with a body made of data answered me in a carefree tone.

Why did I expect any other answer from an A.I. formed from both sets of memories?

"I'm well aware that you enjoy staying within the walls of your virtual home… a little too much, if I might add, but I'm asking for something more substantial than that."

Of course, the being that started out as my A.I. copy would find quarantine an enjoyable experience, so long as all their needs were taken care off and they had access to the internet.

Nowadays I wouldn't be satisfied with that kind of life, but that's only because I had easy access to power that can change the world.

It's a bit ironic that I wouldn't be the kind of person to work for power but the moment I get my hands on it I immediately start turning into a workaholic… actually, I was a bit of a workaholic at times so it's not an entirely new trait of mine. But the point still stands.

"Watching videos, playing video games, writing bad fanfiction-"

T-this bitch…

"I meant substantial achievements. I know you would have done all those at the very least. Either tell me about something new you tried or give me details."

It's like talking to myself. Only this being is a combination of 'myself' before I got Isekai'ed and my 'Lucas' self before the deaths of my parents.

I couldn't risk using memories associated with me having overpowered cheats lest I bred resentment and jealousy in the A.I. being.

After all, what kind of being would like the idea of being created solely to assist a person that on so many accounts, is the exact same person due to sharing the same memories as their creator? I have seen this kind of plot played out in a couple of fiction stories before so I made some other countermeasures to make sure they developed differently… Even so, it doesn't hurt to be on the safe side.

Then again, if I wanted it to be really safe, I would have skipped the whole copied memories part and made an A.I. from scratch. But in my great wisdom I decided to make a life-like A.I. that could understand human emotions and my goals especially, so that they wouldn't follow commands to the letter and not the spirit of the commands.

… Somehow that led to my A.I. choosing a female body with traits very close to my ideal taste before proceeding to emulate some of my fantasies. And promptly overdid it to the point where it looked grotesque instead and I had to punish her for the gross misuse of my computing power for indulgences that made me recoil out of disgust.

"Haaa… so impatient. I finished the Olympus part of FGO, there, happy?"

"Spoil me please. I ain't got the time to play through it."

I ended up getting sucked into a tale of how Wodime isn't just a badass magus but actually a cute dork and best bro among other insane new feats.

Mashu is the MVP, changed her class to Gunner mid-way into the story and has the Black Barrel? Animation update when?!

The bitchy Tamamo is a beast, as expected.

Demeter is a MILF, news at 11. Don't care about Aphrodite. Zeus is fucking OP.

Musashi is deader than dead… nooooooo!

I need to find a way to enter the FGO world so that I can increase the gross amount of happiness there. Well, after mastering my power even further, and getting more conceptual defences, of course.

"Lucas, boss, I need you to start making more money on Terra Omega so that I can spend millions on the game to fund a new FGO anime."

"Orianne… instead of going it a roundabout way it's better to just provide the funds to a studio and chair the anime committee. Do I look like I have the time for that?"

"Possibly."

"..."

"... Just copy me onto some extra bodies and I'll manage it."

"That might actually work. AH SHIT! You distracted me!"

I had to wait for Claudia's call so I couldn't 'sleep' early today, I had planned to just set up Orianne back into the main servers and make a copy of them into my other laboratory based on Lucas's world.

Unfortunately, I just played myself.

"You have done that yourself."

There was a huge grin on Orianne's face as she found the opportunity to use that line.

"I walked right into that one. Right, time to get to work then."

Not wasting any more time I ended my lewd A.I.'s confinement and set her back up on both worlds. The two versions of Orianne can be synced up together if I connect them with an open portal for a while, so there isn't a problem with making copies of the same A.I. if I keep it at a low number.

"Okay, back to waiting."

I did some basic studying in my dorm room while I left Orianne to monitor the IEF's and discover more important information.

At some point, Orianne contacted me through my secure device to give me an urgent update.

"Hey, by the way, a war is totally going to break out between Not-Israel and Not-Egypt in this world in a couple of hours."

"Wait, what the fuck?"

"You would have gotten the news earlier if someone didn't quarantine the A.I. whose job is to monitor communications and other movements for a month."

Such misfortune.

Damn it, is Claudia going to call me or not?

That night, when it was almost lights-out for the dormitories, I finally received a call from my device.

"I apologize for calling so late. I had to attend several meetings after speaking with the city guard."

There were no holographic air-windows. She had made a voice-only call.

Was she naked on the other side or something? I'm curious.

"It's fine for me. But isn't it a little late for you? Do you want to wait for tomorrow instead?"

Which would let me get suited up so that I can stop a war instigated by the PMC's of two different IEF's that would end up bleeding both the corporations and countries' forces now rather than later.

"No, tonight's fine. It's a little bit late but not very so. As such... I was hoping that I could ask you to come here."

"... You're talking about your room, aren't you?"

"Yes. I'm on the top floor on the southeast side. I'll leave the window open, so just come in that way." Claudia said as if me sneaking into the girl's dorms would be completely normal.

"Are you supposed to punish this sort of rule-breaking?"

Instead of encouraging it. The student council president breaking the rules could only set a problematic example.

"Don't worry. I am the rules. Therefore, there is no problem."

"Spoken like a true autocrat. Fine then, I'm on the way."

"I'll be waiting."

Well, here I go. Best not to waste anymore time.

It took me a few minutes to sneak away to the dormitory at a human pace. Compared with normal schools, just like the boys' dorms, the girls' dormitory at Seidoukan Academy placed its emphasis less on preventing intruders (hence the light security) than on driving them away by force.

Ordinary security measures were insufficient to ward off Genestella. On the other hand, security that was too tight would pose an inconvenience to the students who lived there. The girls' dormitory solved this dilemma by improving the communication system for the dormitory watch.

Students in the dormitory could raise the alarm with a single word or a push of a button. When alerted, the dormitory watch took an average of two minutes to arrive on the scene and mete out swift and merciless 'justice' on the intruder without any questions asked nor any excuses heard.

On a completely unrelated note, the system was highly customizable and intuitive to use.

An extremely cautious student could set the alarm to sound if anyone other than herself entered her room while someone less cautious could only make it sound if the window was broken or something like that.

Mine was set so that anyone that set foot in my room would sound the alarm. This was to give my robot replacement more time to respond to any intrusions.

Duplicating my "Spider-Man Gloves" and Web-Shooters onto my hands, I shot out my web and allowed the device to pull me several floors up. I continued the climb with my hands, whilst there were scarce footholds that I could use to make it up to the top floor, I cheated with my gloves that allowed me to stick to walls like Spider-Man.

"Come to think of it, this really does make me look like a degenerate like Scumzuma."

I made it to her room quickly and knocked lightly on the window, finding it unlocked, just as Claudia had said.

A 'flaw' with this security setup was that students could invite in anyone if they so wished. I'm pretty sure that this was entirely intended and no one really cared about 'appropriate conduct' for students their age. It was quite clear that the dormitory watch was not in the business of involving itself in students' private affairs.

I wonder how many boys had been invited to spend the night by the girls? Come to think of it, I should check out the statistics for student relationships here.

"Claudia? I'm coming in," I called out and found no response. "Okie dokie, I'll take no response as consent then."

That sounded way worse than what it's supposed to sound like.

I blame my impatience over the impending war on the other side of the glove for it.

Instead of an ordinary dorm room, it was more like a luxury hotel suite rather than anything else. The occupant was nowhere to be seen. I really hope that I didn't actually get trolled.

Hmm, I can hear sound from… that room.

I did the smart thing and knocked on the door.

I may not know the setting but I damn well knew the genre.

"Hello, Claudia, you there?"

The door opened with a 'clack' sound.

"Oh, you're already here. Forgive me, I was in the shower."

She was clad in no more than a single bath towel, loosely wrapped around her torso. Her breasts looked as though they might pop out at any moment.

I dared not look away from her eyes lest she catch me admiring her breasts and thighs like I do when she's in her school uniform.

I only do such ungentlemanly things when I can get away with it.

"I see. Guess I arrived a bit too early." I say without giving away any of my innermost thoughts.

"Oh, no, I think you're just on time. I'll get dressed. Please make yourself at home."

Or she timed her exit so that she could calmly pass me by as she walked across to the bedroom, deliberately giving me a good look at her from the back.

I knew she was interested in me, with what, the dates across town once every three days? I just didn't think she would take it up to the next level so quickly, especially before we really got to know each other… more than we already do and assume of each other, at least.

"Sorry to keep you waiting," she called out after a bit. "Would you come this way?"

I would definitely come that way. I happily followed her voice to her bedroom.

Claudia sat on the bed, now draped in only a bathrobe.

I like her idea of being 'dressed'.

Taking a closer look at her bed, I noticed the various plush toys I gifted her over our many dates, including Asta the Squirrel and several of my Kirby plushies.

The latter of which would not exist in this world, were it not for the fact I remade the Kirby games using this world's futuristic technologies and distributed it only cheaply, to the point where I made enough money to make my scientific pursuits look as if they were funded legitimately.

Looking over to her dressing table, I can also see some of my other gifts on it along with the photographs we took together in that super old-school photo booth placed in an ornate frame.

"You look relaxed. Guess a nice hot shower does the job just right."

"I'm always like this at home. Though…" She pouted cutely, "Aren't you the one too relaxed for a male that just entered a maiden's home?"

Her gaze lowered by a few centimeters.

"Especially when I am dressed so?"

"Forgive me for not getting horny right now but I have quite a bit on my mind lately."

She searched my face for a moment, only to give me a forlorn smile, "Why, Lucas, you're so cruel. I was hoping you'll show a little more interest in me."

Her teasing tone was not at all matching the brittleness of her smile.

"Sorry, I'll promise to do so at a… better time for me."

"I'll take that as an acceptance for future invitations to my room then."

"And I guess the next step is to get me to move in?"

"That does sound ideal doesn't it?"

"I'm not disagreeing but we should definitely get to know each other a bit more first."

"Well, that's what our joint training sessions are going to be for, correct?"

"Of course."

"I'll double-check my schedule now. Please, take a seat."

And so I did. The seat she had in her bedroom wasn't as comfortable as my 'Jedi Council Seats' installed in my meetings rooms, but it was good enough I suppose.

A screen in the air appeared after Claudia sent me a scheduler invite, it looks like she wants to book the Page One (Top 12 rank) only training facilities every Monday and Thursday mornings until the preliminaries begin.

"Are these times agreeable?"

"They are."

"As for how we are going to proceed…" Claudia gazed questioningly at me for a few moments, then let out a soft sigh, "While your current repertoire is a counter for students without special abilities…"

"I know. It won't be very helpful against Strega's, Dante's or any Orga Lux user with special functions. It won't work against those quick enough to avoid my attacks if they are aware of it and figured out countermeasures either."

She nodded, glad that I was on the same page.

"You have a plan?"

"I have an Exosuit, one that I can wear under my uniform so that the crest will be visible to comply with the rules, that will enhance my physical abilities enough to be comparable to weaker Genestella's."

"Oh my, that does address some of the concerns I have."

"I'll also bring a utility belt with various gadgets and disposable tools that I can use to constrain and potentially defeat my opponents. My uniform is also modified with secret pockets to carry more weapons and ammunition."

"I see. I eagerly await the chance to see what you can do when you're completely prepared. We should spar with each other tomorrow morning then, in the training room."

"I'm looking forward to it as well. I did say I would do my best to bring you victory, didn't I? I wouldn't dare to disappoint."

Claudia was silent for a bit, then smiled slightly, "Hehe, I asked for quite a lot, didn't I? I should repay you for agreeing to so many of my desires, shouldn't I?"

"I'm pretty sure those 'dates', while started by you, were something that we both enjoyed and I would hardly count it as something that needs to be repaid." I waved in refusal, but by the time I finished my words she had stood up from the bed and was already circling around me like a shark.

Realizing that if I spent any more time here I would probably get suckered into staying the night instead of preventing the war I just heard about, I tried to stand up, only for Claudia to snuggle up against me to stop me from leaving.

"Since we're here, just you and me…" she whispered sweetly in my ear as she pushed me down against the sofa I was sitting in, until she was half-mounting me, "I would like to repay you for how happy you made me."

Under normal circumstances I would have taken her up on the offer, but having sensed the sadness she hides behind her smiles all the time, and how desperate she seems to be… something about that irks me, a lot.

I wrapped my arms around her and lifted her up.

"Wah!"

Then carried her all the way to her bed and dropped us both there. I was right on top of her, and for a moment, I was tempted to change tracks and fuck her right there, but I held on and focused on my goals.

"Lu-Lucas! Um, I didn't know you preferred to be rough, it will be my first time so-"

"Sorry again. But I… I don't feel right about going any further, at least, not with you feeling so desperate to the point where it makes me worry if you're in the right state of mind to do this right"

"That's… I'm not..." The protest in Claudia's mouth died out as she realized she couldn't deny that point, "... Why are you always like this?"

"I'm sorry… well, if it makes you feel any better, you did say that you shouldn't rush these things."

"That was on the matter of secrets, not… this. And no, it does not make me feel better. Hmph!"

She averted her eyes and closed them, turning away from me while crossing her arms in a childish manner. I wish I had a camera right now.

"Haa, here, let me give you some compensation then."

I flipped her around then started to massage her, to her great surprise. I wasn't just going to leave her without doing anything, not like a dense anime protagonist that would run away from being relentlessly teased or end up getting distracted by some other girl entering the room.

Thankfully, Sexual Prowess as a cheat skill and my master masseur skills I picked up here and there, allowed me to turn her into a moaning mess in a couple of minutes like a proper anime girl should.

Once I was done, I promptly left the place by the same way I came in.

"Well, that's that, I guess! See you!"

I immediately got suited up after reaching my dorm room and swapping myself for a robot.

By the time I teleported near my destination in my Ultraman-Bemular powered armor suit the war had just begun.

Ah, what a mess.

Usually I would just disable both armies' equipment before the war begins with my special EMP waves that goes right through their usual shielding, then pose for the cameras in a really dramatic fashion, but in this case the Genestella's elite mercenaries and soldiers were already going at it at the frontlines with a mix of Lux technologies and melee weapons.

It looks like I can't delay this the old fashion way and would have to make an actual debut to scare them off.

I teleported into the middle of the battlefield, right above all of them and began to gather an astronomical amount of mana into the sky.

"Sons of Adam!" I bellowed out across the battlefield with my mechanically amplified altered voice, "Your petty wars are unsightly to my eyes. This ends now."

To their credit, only 95% of them dropped everything and started running away when they saw the meteor-sized orb of mana covering the sky, that was growing larger by the second as I poured out more mana without stopping.

The rest of them started to attack me with various abilities, including various mana cancelling / ability disrupting abilities that washed off my much 'heavier' mana. I am more often than not immune to other magic based powers as the properties of being "Infinite" tends to have a conceptual weight of its own, and only beings with raw power greater than my current output would be able to bypass such defences as if they weren't there.

Thanks to an electronic command, all the mobilized weaponry were trained at me and fired at my location. To no avail, as the power of my mana aura simply disintegrated their attacks into nothing.

In just a few seconds of charging I unleashed beams of light by the hundreds of thousands, all of them blasting into the combatants in non-lethal areas and destroying every piece of weaponry on the battlefield.

"Save your strength. Do not waste your lives on your fellow men when the reckoning of sins is nigh! Do not forget this day, for I am the first and the last true enemy humanity shall contend with."

At that, I finished my dramatic reveal and teleported back to my lab.

"... WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST DO? AHHHHHH!"

I was rolling on the ground like a chuuni reflecting upon their dark deeds.

Stupid chosen flaw! I forgot that if I didn't have a pre-planned speech at the forefront of my mind then I will end up saying the first dramatic thing that comes to mind. Unfortunately, that involved ripping off quotes from the series of whence this armor was derived from.

"Hey boss. Just to let you know, there's another rumor going on in certain circles how the second coming of Jesus is here. You know, because of all the bread and fish you're giving out."

I teleported to Mount Everest and started rolling down from there.