Chapter 30: Alice
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Pondering as I headed to Semilia's flat, I opened the status again to think about where to summon who from summoning.
Name: Edmond Kent
Race: Human
Power Level: 8+
Available summons: 0
Number of summoned: 1
Number Absorbed: 10
Stock characters: Alice Nakiri, Stolic Hassan, Domino, Stormtrooper 534, Neo, Takanashi Sayumi, Akihiko Kayaba, Kosei Arima, Chihiro Fujisaki, Mukuro Ikusaba.
There are a lot of characters, but I need to decide who I'm going to put in my squad, who I'm going to send to work for my own good, and who I'm just going to call home.
Well under the last option is suitable only Alice Nakiri, as the rest of them I generally do not need here. Actually, I have a couple of ideas, not too right. I need to find out from Semilia how she feels about harems, and at the same time and Alice herself to ask such a question, but later.
Not that I want one so badly, but a harem. It can be said that every animeshnik once dreamed of having a harem of waifu, just with age everyone realises that in real life and with real girls such a theme is not really pulling.
But in another world, having powerful abilities, having a harem is already more realistic. Even from a practical point of view, well, and also it will be somehow more logical. And you'd also have to have women who aren't easy. Like the kind of waifu whose stories you've already learnt and you know the ones as if you've known them all your life.
Okay, well, that'll have to do for now. I'll definitely definitely try to do something like this as stealthily as possible, but still.
At this point, I need to decide exactly which of these characters I'm going to accept into my squad. I think Stolic Hassan, Domino, Mukuro Ikusaba, Stormtrooper and Neo will definitely be in my squad. But there are questions about the others.
There's no point in calling Kayaba and Kosei to my squad, they will serve better in good old capitalism. Kayaba is a computer genius who created VR, so you can definitely settle down well here. Especially if you take into account that the entertainment market here is not developed at all, and he will be able to write even much simpler games, not inventing them from scratch, but recreating games from his past life from memory.
Kosei is also a brilliant pianist, and will definitely be able to make a lot of money from his talent. Especially if he helps Kayaba do the music part in his games. And on the many symphonies and compositions he knows about that don't exist in this world, he'll be able to raise his reputation quite nicely. It might smell a bit like plagiarism, of course, but who cares? I certainly don't...
Chihiro Fujisaki would be better placed with Kayaba, because she's obviously more useful there. She's more of a software creator than a hacker, after all. I'm still thinking about Takanashi Sayumi.
Her abilities are very useful as a healer, and she can help in repairing various damages after super fights. But she's a total zero in terms of combat, and she'll definitely need a protector. That's a problem, and her abilities will be of interest to my superiors.
Plus, I'd have to check out exactly what she's capable of. And what's the maximum rollback range? If it can only roll back for a couple of minutes, it's not much use. If it can roll back for a couple of hours or even a day, that's extremely useful. But if it can do it for a few years, that's dangerous, extremely dangerous. Plus, if she's bouncing people back with their memories intact, there could be trouble. When I study her abilities, I'll need to hide them.
I'm afraid her abilities will attract the attention of too many good and not-so-good people if they're revealed. So we'll keep them hidden, and if anything, she'll be healing, not rolling back time in documentation. But I will call her to my squad. She'll be useful there....
By the time I had finished thinking, I had already reached Semilia's room, and I looked at her. She only arched an eyebrow questioningly as she looked at me.
- I have reported back to the General, but that is not the important thing. The important thing is that I'm ready to summon a few more people with my power," I said, sitting down next to her and putting my arm around her. I'm a superhero and I've been through the war, but this is actually my first relationship with a girl. Not counting what I got from the original Ed's memories. And so I don't really know much about how to act around girls. Man, I should have at least checked out a couple of youtube guides on the subject.....
- Wow, who did you decide to draft? Let me guess," said the girl, putting her finger to her lips and thinking, "It's a girl, right? I can tell by the look in her eyes that it is. It's okay, I'm not totally jealous. just before you decide to fuck her, call me.
Um, was that a joke, right? Or is she serious? Or is she being meta-ironic? How the fuck am I supposed to take this? What's going on? Help me!
- Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..." the girl burst out laughing, glaring at me, "You should see your face, you'd be laughing just the same. But that's okay, I'm not backing down from my words, so remember them.
I was just making plans to talk Semilia into a harem, and she says that. But it's best not to talk about it yet, in case it's some kind of fucking joke. And anyway she's not going to build me a harem by herself, and I'm in no hurry, so I don't care.
- Um, okay, but can we talk about business? - I asked in a slightly embarrassed tone. There's this harem builder. He made a lot of plans to build himself a huge harem and seduce girls, convincing them to be one of many. And when it came to a banal conversation about it with a girl, he began to embarrass himself like a snotty schoolboy. It's better to wait with this idea for now, and besides, maybe I won't be able to fall in love with any other girl....
- Come on, come on, talk..." she said, sprawling out on top of me and giving me a sly look in her eyes.
- 'Hmmm, I'll summon another girl first, but not just her. Basically, I'll summon a few people useful with either combat or just commercial and everyday skills. For example, I'm thinking of summoning a few people who will be on the level of various supers or top mercenaries in combat, so we won't have to try for the whole squad anymore," I started to speak excitedly, feeling my heart rise a little due to the warmth of the girl literally lying on top of me. And judging by her smile, she understood it perfectly well, but she wasn't going to change her position.
But no, I had to hold on. As old-fashioned as it sounds, I don't want to move to the next step in our relationship so quickly. I need to introduce the girl to my parents and family first, then live together for a while, and then we can and smoothly move on to sex. But it's still too early, yeah... And all of these are absolutely the real reasons, yep!
- I wonder who the first girl is. I don't suppose you're going to summon a whole bunch of rather shady individuals to our house, are you? Is she the one you want to summon here? And I know you knew about me before you summoned me, so there's something to do with your power, isn't there? - She asked me, bringing her face almost right up to mine.
- You're right, I was planning on summoning almost everyone else elsewhere. And as for her, well... She's a cook, and a fantastic one at that," I said enthusiastically, looking into her eyes, which were a few centimetres away from mine.
- So she's a cook, I think we could really use her," she said, kissing me at the end of her sentence. I was expecting something like that, so I answered her calmly.
The kiss lasted for a few minutes, and because the girl pressed herself even closer to me, it became a little tight. But nothing, I withstood these trials of life.
- Okay, now you can summon her. I'm ready," she said, standing up sharply.
I sat down on the edge of the couch, looking at her. To be honest, I'd already fucking forgotten about my past thoughts, and I was getting ready to have a lot of fun, as they say. But, shit, did she turn me on on purpose and then fuck me up? Didn't she? All right, I'll remember that....
Standing up from the couch and adjusting my clothes, I stood next to Semilia. After that, I ordered the system to summon Alice Nakiri from the vault.
The summoning to the character's world has been performed.
The character is inscribed in the universe.
A small flash of light and a beautiful girl appeared before our eyes. She had short silver hair with a long strand on her left side, fair skin and rather large breasts. From the features, she also has red eyes, as if glowing in the semi-darkness of the room.
- What, I'm... alive? What do you mean? - Staring into the void muttered the girl, who looked rather scared and confused. However, after blinking a bit, she looked round and looked at the two of us.
- Mmmm, master? - She asked questioningly, looking at me as if trying to figure out who I was.
- You could say that," I replied, thinking about what had happened to her before she got here. Judging by her reaction, she was either dead or on the verge of death, which is interesting. From Semilia's words, I remember her talking as if she was fine. She may have left out details, but still...
- Are you okay? - I asked her, looking round. She looked neat and tidy, and there was certainly nothing to suggest that she was on the verge of death.
- Yes?" she tilted her head questioningly, "Yes! I'm fine! - she said, smiling confidently and with a kind of joy.
- So, now you can tell me briefly what exactly happened to you, and whether you remember everything," I told her, suggesting that she sit down at the small kitchen table.
- Okay," she replied, sitting down at the table and beginning her story.
In a nutshell, her world had ended. She didn't really want to tell it, and the look on her face said as much. But she did let me know the main point. There was some kind of strange apocalypse in her world. People began to quickly become infected and die from a strange virus, and to die very quickly, within a few hours. The virus covered the whole world, and almost in a day wiped out 99% of all humanity, but the girl herself survived at that moment. But not for long...
She was in a bunker under her academy, but there was too little food and water, so eventually she still had to get out. And as she expected, just by going outside, that one was immediately infected and should have died a few hours later. However, instead she showed up here, quite alive and healthy. She was very happy and grateful to me for rescuing her from that situation.
But after her story, I had a few questions. And the main one was the desire to know if the system takes characters from such situations on purpose, and if it does not create these situations itself. Still, remembering the power levels of all the characters she can summon, I get scared.
What if the system is literally destroying worlds for the sake of summoning one character to my world. Okay though, I shouldn't go that far in my thinking. I need to summon more characters and then decide. And I don't think the system would benefit from destroying an entire world for the sake of just one person. It's too irrational, I guess...
By the way, interestingly enough, Alice got all the documents, just like Semilia. That is, she is listed as an official resident of this world, in general, in everything. Still, I'm amazed at the system and its capabilities. Influencing an entire world for such a small thing.....
Well, we got to know each other a little bit, but girls need a little rest after such an emotional race. Well I might as well go and draft a few more people while I still have time....
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