The Cursed Gamer

Chapter 70: Stupid (1)

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70: Stupid (1)

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The first thing Izuku did after he regained his composure was to call his master, All for One. It wasn't to bring the man here to fight, no, Izuku knew that he was injured greatly and couldn't fight. It was instead to notify him about Kurogiri and Shigaraki.

Kurogiri was Shigaraki's guardian, his escape method. But now that he was knocked out, Shigaraki couldn't get away from here before the teachers could come. The man-child was also unconscious, causing Izuku more stress.

Izuku would have tried to kill Neji again if not for this. All for One, his master, cared for Shigaraki a lot. If Shigaraki was captured, All for One would move by himself to free him. In that case, with such bad health, All for One might even die in battle. Izuku didn't want that. That man had saved him when he was giving up everything, he won't be able to stay sane seeing him die.

So he immediately called All for One. The call connected, meaning the villain who was jamming the network had also died, it was relieving.

["Oh, Midoriya?"]

Smiling stiffly, Izuku explained everything. Izuku knew All for One had a teleportation quirk of his own, that was his main plan.

...Izuku Midoriya didn't know, he couldn't know, that all this was part of Neji's plan. The reason Neji woke him up was not only to distract him but also to make him notify All for One. He had to knock out Kurogiri to let Ida run for UA, but he couldn't let Shigaraki be captured here either. The reward and the future reward was just too tempting. So, he had to make All for One intervene somehow.

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"Neji!"

Nejire jumped at me and her chest pressed down on my face. I struggled for a breath before hugging her back.

"A-are you hurt?"

She gulped while hugging me tighter. Eh, my white suit is covered in blood, I can see why she is worried.

"A bit."

At my answer, Nejire's hug tightened, her chin resting on my head.

"...Everything's fine, I am here now, take a rest."

Her voice was gentle and she caressed my hair softly. Smiling, I gave up on the soft feeling of her chest and closed my eyes. I am kinda exhausted because my SP is low again. It'd heal in minutes, but before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.

The last thing I saw before losing myself was a black shining liquid popping up from Shigaraki's body and devouring him like a monster. And then, the box of text floating above his head, <Tomura Shigaraki - Tier 4> also vanished in thin air.

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The next time Neji woke up, he found himself in a fairly comfy bed in the nurse's office. Striding his cosmic blue irises around the room, he confirmed he was the only one awake in the room while around half a dozen more people were sleeping in the beds beside him.

He didn't bother to check who they were, because their names were already floating above their heads, and unfortunately, Momo wasn't there.

He didn't worry about Momo though, he had seen her fine before losing his consciousness. So he instead opened his system and clicked to check the notifications.

[You have completed the quest!]

[Quest:

While going out to do rescue training, you come across the eerie League of Villains who tries to kill you, your girlfriend, and your classmates.

Objective: Survive with your girlfriend.

Bonus Objective 1: Defeat the 2 Nomus.

Bonus Objective 2: Let Shigaraki flee without being obvious, thus giving him a chance to grow and ensure at least 10x more XP for your future self.

Reward: Tier Potion, Quirk XP Card, Health Potion 3x, 1 billion Xp!

Bonus Reward 1: Tier Potion, Respect from most students and teachers, Aizawa's favouritism, 1 billion Xp!

Bonus Reward 2: Tier Potion, Random Skill Ticket, 1 billion Xp!

Failure: Everyone, along with you, dies in the hands of the Nomus.]

[You have fulfilled the objective!]

[You have fulfilled all the bonus objectives!]

Neji brightened at this. So his plan had worked. He did see Shigaraki being sucked in by All for One's dirt-like teleportation ability, which he recalled from the anime.

Next, more messages popped up.

[Rewards would be distributed!]

[You have obtained Tier Potions 3x!]

[You have obtained a Quirk XP Card!]

[You have obtained Health Potion 3x!]

[You have obtained a Random skill ticket!]

[You have obtained Respect from students and Aizawa's favouritism!]

This made Neji smile and continue to read the text messages.

[You have achieved 3 billion XP!]

[You have levelled up!]

[You have reached level 100!]

[Your existence becomes more defined!]

[Enough XP for the first ascension has been acquired!]

[Your default race 'Human' changes to 'High-Human'!]

[Requirements have been met! The 3rd restriction would now be removed!]

[–You will level up twice as fast as before!]

[Requirements have been met! The 4th restriction would now be removed!]

[–You have unlocked the ability to merge skills!]

[Requirements have been met! The 5th restriction would now be removed!]

[–Just like skills, you can 'evolve' bloodline powers (in this case quirks) too, after they reach max level!]

[Requirements haven't been met! Can't remove the 6th restriction!]

[Special change: because of the ascension, both the dungeon rewards and difficulties would be heightened!]

[Congratulations, Master.]

The humane voice of the system rang in his head after the series of robotic messages. Its voice somehow felt more humane, more natural. Neji assumed it was because of the ascension or whatever.

He smiled and released a soft breath. First of all the items… he would distribute the Tier Potions and Quirk Exp Card to his girls later on and also explain things to Momo also.

Secondly… He felt stronger, but that wasn't the biggest change. He felt more alive(?) as if life energy was rushing through his veins like blood.

'Good.' It was a good feeling, and he felt he could get addicted to it.

Thirdly, Quirk evolution. By reaching level 10, he had awakened his quirk. But awakening and evolution aren't the same thing. It's like in Fantasy Magic worlds, for example, a person can awaken Fire Magic, but later on evolve that Fire to Hell Fire or something along the line.

He didn't give this too much thought since he had something else to check. He then called for the Status window as it popped up in his retina.

[ —Status Page— ]

Name: Neji Hado

Age: 15

Class: The Gamer

Title: Harem Lord

Level: 100

Race: [High Human]

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HP: [2250/2250]

SP [2250/2250]

MP: [#/#]

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STR: 225

END: 225

DEX: 225

INT: 125

WIS: 125

CHA: 225

LUC: 225

HP REG: 900/minute

SP REG: 900/minute

Stat Points: 5]

Neji grinned in delight.

"High Human, huh?"

Previously at level 99, his END was 194, now it had jumped to exactly 225. But his STR was 199, yet it had become 225 too. So the race change didn't add a certain number to the stats and instead, just brought them to 225… why?

[It's because that's the base stat of a High Human, master. Only INT, WIS and LUCK aren't affected by it.]

Well well, so coincidentally had exactly 225 in luck? What a lucky case. Neji liked the symmetrical numbers of the page. It pleased him.

The problem was his CHA… it had jumped more than 50. This might cause some issues.

Even then, a small laugh left him. This was fun. High Human seems to have more to it than this too. He was about to click on the race to learn more about it, but just then he heard someone's voice.

While he was checking his stats, someone had walked inside the room.

"Ooh, you're up."

An old cracky voice caused him to sit up straight and turn at the small old woman sitting on a stool and working on some bandages on the table, she didn't turn to him.

"You're the first one to wake up after that green head. Congrats." She said, "You are lucky to have very light injuries, kid. All the other students were bathed in blood."

Her tone was gentle, and from how she mentioned all the other students being only bloody, Neji could only hope nobody died and were just injured. Though he didn't know why there weren't more people in the room, if what she was telling was right, everyone should be here.

"If you're worried about your other friends, they are in another room. Only the ones with the lightest injuries are here." She said, as if reading his worries.

Neji was surprised at how well Recovery Girl could read the situation. 'I guess that's what old age does to you, wise. '

"Was there any casualties amongst the students?"

He asked to both tend to his curiosity and also to prove that he wasn't dazed.

"Some were…" Recovery Girl's voice stopped briefly before she sighed in relief. "Close, but nobody died. I am not sure how it happened, but all of them had glass wounds. Maybe one of the villains' quirks. Some students had glasses penetrating their stomach, one almost had his heart penetrated, but in the end, they are now fine. This school is lucky to have me here, ehe."

'I can't deny that.' Neji sighed in relief.

He killed the villains… which now that he recalled, made him feel a bit nauseous. But if he had killed a student he would have truly felt sorry. Ruining the lives of normal people wasn't something he was fond of, at least not in this life.

Then the door suddenly jerked open.

"Neji!"

A girl with flowing periwinkle hair ran in and stopped upon seeing Neji sitting before jumping on his face like last time.

"You're up!"

The Recovery Girl laughed at this and hopped down from her stool. "Ah, younglings. Nejire-chan, take care of your brother. I will go check on the other kids."

She walked off slowly with a wave of her hand, leaving Neji to conclude that Nejire was close to her, enough to call her Nejire-chan in her informal clothes and also to know about their relationship.

The moment she left, Nejire forcefully turned his head to her, glaring.

"Neji!"

She looked angry. Neji blinked in confusion.

"Ah?"

"I was thinking you were the victim, but oh wow, you actually jumped into a fight by yourself!"

Neji deadpanned. Nejire was bound to learn the moment he saw her coming to the USJ, but he wasn't prepared to argue with her.

After a series of emotions clouded her face, she sighed in the end and clasped his cheeks.

"Otouto, as much as I want to scold you… you had goodwill behind it. You have saved people today, y'know."

Neji smiled at this. She was his sister but she was also a hero. She won't get that angry with him for risking his life for other people, though he truly only did it for Momo and himself.

Before Neji could answer, someone walked inside the room, long black hair covering his eyes and his face half bandaged.

"He might have saved 20 people." He talked in a serious tone. "...But more than 20 had died because of him, no matter how much goodwill he had behind it."

Aizawa, who had one of his arms plastered, stared at Neji intensely with only one of his eyes open.

"The principal wants to meet you, Neji Hado."

Neji and Nejire frowned, both for different reasons.

Neji was celebrating too early. He should be worried about the police right now.

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