Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 332 DODGE

The light in the room dimmed automatically after a set amount of time. I guessed it was set to the same time as night in South Korea. The room we were in was a good 200 feet across. A few of the Roman pillars away from the wall. Hancock and I slept behind one where no one could see us. 

After more than a couple of quickies they turned into full blown sex. We weren’t quiet by the end. Positive that most everyone knew what we had been up to. Hancock mainly became loud because I refused to throw out the Capsule House. Since I wasn’t sure all of these people would survive the next day, I really didn’t want to have to make sure stuff didn’t disappear. I wasn’t about to let strangers in my house and allow our few amenities to walk away. 

Hancock reluctantly agreed. After our fun she used me as a body pillow. I was up most of the night thinking on next steps. In the world and outside of it. I mostly had a plan as the timer clicked away. 

When the lights turned back on Hancock jerked awake and tried to initiate some fun. I tried to talk her out of it. The last time I could remember having sex with people around was in Mind Break World. This current me was far too reluctant to be so blatantly obvious about the sex. Hancock was insistent though so I sat with my back to a pillar as she jerked me off. We talked as she did. 

“What’s your life like in this world? Rich girl again?” I asked. 

“No, but I did have a boyfriend,” she teased. 

“Really? And you still followed me?” 

“Of course,” she said. Leaning over she spit on my dick head and sped up. “He did not like that I called and broke up with him.” 

I barked a laugh. “Here for a few minutes and you found time to break some boy’s heart?” 

“You are what’s most important,” she said proudly.

“I love you,” I said, my legs jerking up from her expert hand movements. “Not sure why you want to come with me, but I’m glad you’re here.”

“To help you empty your balls?” She asked, quirking up her eyebrow. 

“And other things,” I said. “I don’t feel as rushed. Before I was trying to get as much time with you as possible. Feels like we have all the time in the world.”

“I agree,” she said. “Should we start working on the other girl here?”

“If she lives,” I said with a sigh. 

“Ugh, I hate thinking that people I just met could die today,” she said.

“Yeah, they’re lucky it’s not Gantz…shit,” I said. I wasn’t sure how I didn’t realize it before.

“What?” 

“That’s the answer. Nothing, keep going my sexy wife,” I said, feeling better. Hancock nodded and sped up. Moving her face to mine we made out as she straddled my thighs. Her hands still jerking me off. I felt it build up. She could sense me getting closer. 

Biting her lip her big eyes started at me, almost pleading with me to cum. Without a word she dropped down and took my dick in her mouth. Taking the shots of cum, she showed me her filled mouth and swallowed with a moan. 

“You still taste so good,” she said. Never letting go of my dick. I couldn’t feel anyone watching us so I reached out toward her groin. 

“You are my sex goddess.” Releasing the zipper of her jeans she didn’t fight as I played with her. Rubbing along her drenched panties my chakra coated fingers had her gasping and moaning soon enough. Making her cum twice in quick succession she tried to yell louder as I muffled her voice. 

We would have to change clothes in our Capsule House, or else we would smell too much like sex. When she was good and satisfied we fixed our clothes and joined the others. They all had embarrassment and lust leaking off of them, so they knew for sure what we were doing. 

“I uh think today we should-” Lee said, but I cut the man off.

“No,” I said. “Listen, I know a little about this tutorial.” 

“What?” The old man asked. “Why didn’t you say anything?”

“Because I didn’t have a solution to help you all,” I said, making sure to look at each of them. “Now I do. What I know about this Tutorial World is limited but I do know that we will be have to challenge floors during set intervals. In total there are about 100 of these challenges, also called floors. Maybe more, maybe less. We idiots picked the hardest mode. And it is very hard. Hell worthy. Our weapons can break easily. The beginning tests are extremely strong as well. If you’re normal you won’t pass.”

“But you will?” The blonde kid asked. Angry about my attitude.  

“Hancock and I have been training for years,” I said. “We will pass this first test. I want to give you all the same sort of advantage.” I pulled out the Gantz suits from my status screen. “These will help you all out…” 

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The timer clicked down. I had showed the other Hell Difficulty Challengers how to use the Gantz suits. Without anything to lift or practice using the suits' strengthening powers, it was hard, but they listened. I even gave the protagonist one. Hancock and I opted not to wear them, but it would help the others at least. 

“We will be doing this by ourselves,” I reminded them. “You can only count on yourselves. Just make it back to the portal if you can’t get past the test.” They nodded and 6 black portals appeared. One in front of each of us. 

“Goodluck, my love,” Hancock said.

“You too, dear. Don’t rely just on Haki. This is going to be hard,” I said. She nodded. 

“What?” Lee asked, but I stepped through the portal. 

Inside was a dark hall. Gray stone bricks making up both walls on either side of me, they were about 12 feet apart. Looking down the hall the way was illuminated with small orange glowing lanterns on the walls. The portal behind me showed a black expanse. I knew I could jump through, but I planned to make it through the first floor as soon as possible. 

My weak spear in hand I spun it between my fingers expertly. I had been practicing and it was easy to switch my mindset from slash to thrust, spin, and throw. Forcing my Observation Haki forward, I extended it out and felt something vague far ahead. Psyched up and ready to get this over with, I began to jog toward the dark end of the hall.

Armament Haki focused on my chest. I poured chakra to the rest of my body. I received a couple of dings from my status screen as I jogged ahead. I slowed and brought the Hard Tutorial screen up. A message on my Status I had apparently learned skills. 

Hardened Skin Level 1

Cool Headed Level 1

Strengthening Level 1

I focused and poured more chakra and Haki throughout my body. More dings sounded until the skills ended with the following levels. 

Hardened Skin Level 7

Cool Headed Level 4

Strengthening Level 6

Surprised they were so low it was still peculiar that the screen could judge their strength. It would be interesting to see if I could focus more and continue to raise them. Since most of what I did was guesswork, seeing levels would help me understand what I was doing right or wrong. 

Continuing on, I headed down the impossibly long hall. Suddenly a strong gust of wind was blown from ahead. Slowing, I focused my Observation Haki. The spiritual energy of a small object passing into my mind, my body acted on instinct. Twisting around, an arrow narrowly missed me. Far faster than the arrows in Second Life Ranker, I felt the wind from it’s passing. 

Without hesitating I ran forward, dodging another arrow I could see a crossbow ahead, but no one manning it. Automatically firing, the crossbow didn’t point at me, but just to the side. Shooting randomly. I sped up, using my Light Step to help move me along. 

An arrow passing awfully close, I spun my spear and hit it away. Getting a notification about a level up I cursed. Of course hitting the arrows would give me experience. Planting myself about 12 feet from the crossbow it started firing at me directly. Bringing all my strength out I swatted the arrows away with my hand or spear. 

After the 3rd blocked arrow, another level up happened. After the 6th another level. My movements became more fluid as stats poured in. Hitting the arrows away with ease I kept hitting them until I was Level 5. Almost too easy now I wasn’t using any chakra as my hands whipped around to knock the shafts away. When no more level ups appeared I dashed forward and broke the crossbow with a blast from my Tremor. 

Letting out a sigh I didn’t see any reason to turn back around to the portal. Continuing on I looked over my notifications. 

Hardened Skin Level 9

Cool Headed Level 8

Strengthening Level 8

Level Up - Sprint Level 2 

Level Up - Tornado Level 1

I got Sprint at level 2 and Tornado at Level 4. Thinking on the Tornado skill my spear began to spin quite quickly in my hand. My fingers moving on their own, the skill somehow took over my body to use the ability. 

I had forgotten that gods were a thing in the Tutorial is too Hard world. They watched these tutorials for fun, looking for avatars or something. Bestowing gifts and skills, I wondered if they would become useful later. 

Most of my stats had already doubled. I felt more confident as I began to jog forward. A crossbow bolt shooting out of the wall I dodged it, but the next I hit and gained more experience. I hadn’t noticed it before but some of the Spiritual Energy from the arrow connected with my spear’s Spiritual Energy, then leaked into me. I guessed that was the experience for level ups. Actually able to feel the experience rolling in, I continued on. 

Dodging arrows reluctantly, I hit more than a few. Practicing my Sprint, Light Steps, and Tornado skill as I did so. Coming to a large room more than a few crossbows were set up. Curious, I sent a huge wave of Tremors into them. The crossbows broke down. I got another skill and came to a room with a green glowing pool of water. 

Guessing that it was a healing room there was a large double door at the other end of the room. Considering Kame Mode I left it and took a drink from the pool. Prompting a notification about Health and Stamina being restored followed. Feeling stronger I hadn’t noticed but I the pool had helped. I felt reinvigorated. 

Walking to the far door I opened it without hesitation. Inside was a large room. Heat wafting out I ignored it as I studied the crossbow on the other side of the room. It was pointed right at me. The room glowed red, and I noticed lava flowing between cracks in the floor. 

“Stupid ass Floor 1,” I said. “Impossible for noobs.” I stepped in and the double doors slammed shut behind me. I ducked down as an arrow was shot from the ceiling at me. Jumping forward the lava shot up from the cracks in the floor, breaking them more. Some sparks of lava hitting my skin I cursed as I dodged another arrow. 

Moving from rock to rock I jumped as lava was spit up and arrows were shot at me. The one straight ahead firing as well, I used my Tornado skill to block the arrows and broke the crossbow with a wide swing. When I did I received another notification. 

“Nice,” I said as the black portal appeared. Stepping into it I ignored my other notifications. 

Instead of coming out in the white lobby room, I was in a grassy field of another world. Light blue sky overhead there were snow capped mountains off in the distance. A short bunny girl stared at me as I walked toward her. She wore a red jacket, black panty hose, and a red skirt. With white hair, and tall white rabbit ears, she wasn’t the first I had seen so I wasn’t too surprised. 

“I did not expect to have to greet someone so soon,” she said with a head bow. “I am Kirikiri. Nice to meetya.”

“Thanks, you too. I’m uh Weston.” A part of me said to hit on her, but another part said to leave her be. Her Haki felt far too…simple. Since I planned to leave soon anyway, I could decide how to approach her later when I decided to stay longer. 

“W-www-Weston,” she said as if she was trying out the w sound. Her red eyes studying me she put on a big smile. “I am the Hell Difficulty’s Manager. You should expect to see me when you clear a floor. Congratulations. You may now use the Store and Auction windows as a clear reward. There are restrictions of course. They don’t want you using the windows during tests.”

I brought up the screen.  

I had been accumulating points when I got experience, but I hadn’t remembered what they were for. The Points didn’t transfer to my Main Status Screen so I didn’t think they were too important. 

“Want to buy something now?” The rabbit girl asked excitedly. 

“Nah,” I said, swiping the screen away. “I assume I can use them in waiting rooms?” The girl frowned but nodded. “Anything you can tell me that I should know?”

“Uh, well I usually try to do an introduction,” she said, a frown on her face. “But…you seem rather knowledgeable. And you surprisingly have a lot of god’s interest,” she said, appearing to look at some invisible screen. “More than anyone I’ve seen this early.”

“Yeah I’m um…lucky I guess,” I said with a nod. I looked her up and down. More than a little pretty I was tempted to hit on her again, but her Haki leaked innocence and that was all. She was very simple. A part of me guessed she was a construct made for the tutorial. Worried about Hancock I didn’t see any point to delay. “We good?”

“Uh yeah,” she said. “You uh, don’t have any other questions?” 

I shook my head. Fairly confident in myself. I wasn’t too worried about the floors just yet, but I knew I would have to be eventually. “Well I guess there is 1. Can I challenge Floors more quickly if I wanted?” 

I was fairly certain there was a 30 day period between challenges or something. I did not want that. I wanted to get in and out. If I could get strong enough I could perhaps breeze through the place. It was called the Tutorial is Too Hard, the canon should end when I finished the tutorial.

“Uh…there is a way,” she said. “But I wouldn’t recommend it.” 

“Why’s that?”

“You should recover while you can. Don’t push yourself,” she said. A black portal appeared in front of me.

“I’ll think on it,” I said and stepped through. Coming to another white room the pillars were closer than before. A white bed in the center of the room I guessed this was different than the waiting room I was in before.

Letting out a sigh I sat on the bed, worried for the others. I hoped they were able to make it okay. I wouldn’t know until they passed the stage. Thinking on what to do I moved through my skills until another bed and black portal appeared. 

Hancock stepped out of the portal, she appeared unscathed. “Good?” I asked.

“I see what you mean about it being a bitch,” she said. “But easy peasy.” She smiled wide walking up to me. “Just us?”

“Yep, for now,” I said. “Shall we head out?”

“We can leave this room?” She asked. 

“We can leave the world,” I corrected. 

“Oh right,” she said. “Yeah, I don’t think I’ll get a Pet Choice anytime soon. But…I’d hate to not use a bed.” Chuckling, it wasn’t long until we were breaking both beds in. Then a few pillars as well as we fucked all over the room. Then she demanded the house. We got our Inventory skill added to our Main Screens so she grabbed some more mangas and threw them in her Inventory. After another round of sex we laid around for a bit and relaxed. No portals appearing, we had the waiting room to ourselves until I said World Escape.