Was I stupid?
In my previous life I was an educated man, went to college, graduated, and found a good respectable job. I wasn’t a gifted student to be sure, but at the very least I was smart, or at least I thought so until now.
It went without saying but the system was a very common trope in fanfiction stories, and if you are not in the know then a quick expnation is in order.
You wake up in a fantasy world with a game-like system that buffs you to hell and back with crazy amounts of stats and OP skills, you bed all the hotties of the world and you live happily ever after; roll credits.
In essence it was a plot device to drive the main character to curbstomp the powerscaling of a world.
If you ever wake up in a new world the first thing you should do is call out for a status screen, either verbally or in your mind, everyone knows that. And when I first arrived in this world that was the first thing I did… or did I?
I mean, it’s just a common sense thing to do that I surely must have tried it out at least once. Though despite my self-assurance, I could not recall doing so. Perhaps it was such an obvious thing that I just somehow assumed that I tried it without actually doing so.
It was embarrassing but at least this small plunder would be known only to be.
Setting my stupidity aside, the system I was working with was not exactly what I thought about when I thought about gamer fics.
That wasn’t strange by itself, after all, as the gamer fics started to become popur there were plenty of authors that spiced up the genre by adding twists to the system, like making systems for vilins, for building harems, or anything in between.
The system I had been saddled with appeared to be one such system, though it was a bit strange in the sense that it didn’t really have some of the basic information that is expected from a system like my own stats.
Status:Name: ArthurLevel: 3Level XP: 0/125Skill Point: 3Devil Fruit: Fallen Angel
Active Skills: N/A
Passive Skills:
Angelic Beauty (Devil Fruit) - Grants user a body endowed with angelic-like beauty, though the perversion of your Fallen status remains.
Fallen Heart (Devil Fruit) - Lust is the sin that twists and warps your holy flesh, your presence enraptures and corrupts the hearts of those tempted by your form. Applies Fallen Mark when Affinity reaches 10%.
Fallen Mark (T1) - An invisible mark that signals an individual as a subject. Subjects receive a boost of 0-1% to all stats once per week after intercourse where domination score exceeds 50%.
Facsimile Transference (T1) - Grants a 1% chance to copy a random skill (T1) of any subject after intercourse where domination score exceeds 50%. Upon successful copying of a subject’s skills a one year cooldown will be enforced on said subject before another skill can be copied from them.
Admittedly it wasn’t too much information, though I was surprised that I didn’t really find any stats for myself here. Not even HP or something simple like that, and it wasn’t like this system didn’t deal with such things since it explicitly said that ‘subjects’ would receive a bonus to their stats.
I would file a compint for the administration but the button for that was missing…
Either way the gamepy loop was fairly easy to understand. It probably went something like this: find a suitable target with a good skill, the passive skill Fallen Heart would apply Fallen Mark on them after a while which then allowed me to boost that person’s strength while trying to copy their skills through sex.
It was actually a really generous system as far as I could tell. I basically power up the people I sleep with while powering up myself, though I wasn’t a huge fan of the limitations of Facsimile Transference.
There was also the fact that this system told me what my devil fruit was, that fact alone made the system worthwhile.
The Fallen Angel devil fruit? I guess that made it simir to Sengoku’s fruit, though I was missing quite a few things, which actually led me to the next part of the system; the shop.
Shop:
Not Yet Learned Devil Fruit Skills:
Flight (Devil Fruit) - Grants user dark feathered angelic wings capable of sustained flight and speeds that are befitting of God’s messengers. [Cost: 1 Skill Point]
Holy Light (Devil Fruit) - Grants user the ability to wield holy light that both purifies curses and malignant presences while dealing damage that scales to the amount of evil found within targets. [Cost: 3 Skill Points]
Divine Healing (Devil Fruit) - Allows user to heal themselves and others from injuries and illnesses through the use of Holy Light. [Cost: 5 Skill Points]
Awakening - Awakens user’s Devil Fruit. [Cost; 100 Skill Points]
System Skills:
Level 3 Skills:
Summon (T1) - Allows user to summon any subject with at least 50% affinity to your location instantly. Can be used once per day. [Cost: 2 Skill Points]
Summoned Empowerment (T1) - Any subject summoned will receive the Summoned Empowerment buff that grants a 25% to all stats for 10 minutes. [Cost: 2 Skill Points]
Then finally there was the skill upgrade tab that sold upgrades to skills, though those were a bit expensive. Still the upgrades weren’t bad at all, for instance, upgrading Facsimile Transference to T3 would boost the chance to copy a skill to 5%, copy the tier of the skill, and reduce the cooldown to three months.
Still, before I even considered buying upgrades I needed to think about what I should spend my points on right now.
I didn’t want to spend any skill points on the devil fruit abilities for sure. Not because they weren’t useful, far from it, Holy Light sounded really fucking useful, but becuase the system denoted them as ‘not yet learned’ which meant, at least to me, that I could learn them without buying them since they were part of my fruit instead of the system itself.
This theory was reinforced by several factors.
For starters, you don’t gain mastery over your devil fruit once you eat it. You need to practice with it for a long time before you master your abilities, and I hadn’t practiced a single day despiste having my fruit for around a year now.
Luffy wasn’t even able to punch properly with his fruit for a while so it was normal to expect the same for me.
Secondly, I had already had the devil fruit passive skills unlocked. This made sense since unlike active skills, passives were just constantly on without user input. Luffy didn’t need to learn to make his body in rubber, it just was.
To me this confirmed that the system wasn’t locking skills behind skill points, rather it was giving me a choice to forgo training and just outright buy the skills if I wanted to skip the training montage.
Then there were the system skills.
Nothing was outright expined, but it was easy to infer that more skills would be avaible for purchase as I leveled up. The Summon and Summoned Empowerment skills were just the ones unlocked at level three. They seem to work well in tandem, but I would need to level up once more if I wanted to buy them both.
Then again that probably wasn’t the best choice at the moment.
The only subject I currently had was Perona, and just because I could summon her and buff her it didn’t mean that she would do whatever I said. If anything that would only make things harder for the Strawhats.
I could potentially try to fully flip Perona’s loyalty from Moria to me, but that also had several challenges.
Namely, the time limit. I wasn’t sure if and when the Strawhats were coming, but if they were following canon then they should be arriving sometime soon, at worst they were a week away which was not a lot of time. Perona was actually really loyal to Moria, a person she saw as a father figure.
Sure she tried to abandon him in the series, but that was because she was afraid of dealing with Oars and Usopp, and even then she didn’t think that Moria would lose. I mean she infiltrated and did a jailbreak in Hachinosu just to save the guy.
If the stars aligned I might be able to work something out but it wasn’t a viable pn at all.
The ideal course would be for me to train my fruit in order to unlock those missing skills, but there was a slight problem with that too. Again there was time, I doubted I could learn how to use my devil fruit effectively in such a short time, but that wasn’t the real issue. The problem was that there was no way this would go unnoticed by Perona or her zombies.
I just learned that Perona was watching me more closely than what I thought she was, even going as far as to set out bait for me with the newspaper.
Worse case scenario I would be locked up in the dungeons underneath the Mast Mansion when the Strawhat arrived.
It wasn’t perfect, but the correct course of action would be to bide my time and try to level up as much as possible until the Strawhats arrived. Hopefully I will be able to unlock better system skills and find some way to be useful.
Which brought me to leveling up.
I leveled up from having sex with Perona, though I guess I would only receive XP if the system decided I was dominant enough. This was a good way to level up that wouldn’t appear strange, I just needed Perona to py along which was a coin flip.
I hadn’t tested it, but I assumed I could also receive XP from killing things, that was a system staple.
The only problem was that the only things to kill around here were the zombies and the people who lost their shadows. I was going to kill innocent people if I could avoid it, even if I could somehow reach them. The zombies were also out of the question, Moria would notice immediately I assume.
So that meant that my battle pn was to have sex with Perona everyday until the Strawhats arrived? I guess I could endure such an endeavor for a day or two.
Speaking of which, still ying down in Perona’s bed, I look down to my chest to spot the sleeping form of the resident ghost princess. She’s got her mostly naked form pressed up against me, arms wrapped around me quite tightly.
A gnce and intent is all that is needed to bring up her information.
Name: PeronaRace: HumanLevel: 21Level XP: 320/1000HP: 250STR: 8DEX: 12CON: 10INT: 12SPD: 28
Corruption: 32%Love: 23%Lust: 84%Affinity: 56%
Skills:
Negative Hollow (T3) - Summon and control ghosts that can drain the will of any person they come into contact with. Control up to twelve Negative Hollows at the same time. Your ghosts are so powerful that even a near miss will lower the target’s will.
Mini Hollow (T3) - Summon and control miniature ghosts that can explode when you snap your fingers. Control up to ten Mini Hollows at the same time. You are able to create Special Hollows, rge tangible versions of your Mini Hollows that create much rger explosions. Your ghosts are so powerful that they are able to tear through steel.
Astral Projection (T3) - Allows the user's spirit to leave their body and act as a ghost. While in this form, you can fly and are intangible and immune to all harm. While in this form you are able to produce other ghosts. You are able to remain in this form for up to 24 hours.
Perona’s power was actually busted since it removed a person’s will completely and as haki was directly tied to will, there really was no way to counter this move outside of dodging it. With the exception of Usopp of course. Along with Sugar’s and Hancock’s fruit, Perona’s devil fruit abilities were absolute one-shot hax.
I really wanted to copy her Negative Hollow skill.
1% chance wasn’t high at all, but everything starts with the first step.
[X]
Perona had been pnning yesterday’s reward for Arthur for weeks now, and while she had been ready for several days already, she wasn’t able to commit. It was her pride, she knew that much, though knowing that didn’t help her at all.
When she first id eyes on the strangely cute boy months ago she felt the instant need to have him. This need was small but undeniable, so after Moria took his shadow and was ready to send him to drift in the Florian Triangle, she jumped at the chance to make him her servant.
Moria was used to agreeing to her whims and this request was no different. The whole thing went off rather easy, though she was upset at how Absalom looked at her prize, thankfully his interest faded once he found out the boy wasn’t a woman.
In those first days she just wanted to dress the boy up in cute clothes, maybe have him serve her hot chocote and look cute in her room. Then she had him brush her hair, a task that was usually left to her more dexterous zombies, and this was when her fixation on the boy started to spiral.
It was the physical contact, his delicate fingers running through her scalp, chaste touching through and through, but it was so much more for her. He didn’t do anything special from what she could tell, but his touch felt incredibly good. Each touch drove her to want just a bit more next time, to feel even better.
Teasing him was also incredibly gratifying, her efforts were always rewarded with a cute moan and a delicious expression. The boy was simply too cute and sensitive.
It was months and months of these escations that ended with her riding on his surprisingly rge dick. She found it comical how mismatched his sweet face was with the club he had in between his legs.
Despite the fact that she was 23 years old, she had been a virgin until that day, and despite having no experience she pretended to be experienced to prevent herself from conceding anything to the boy.
The thought that she might have to admit to him that he had taken something precious from her was too much to bear. It would make her vulnerable and that just wasn’t cute.
It worked for a while too, the charade she put up in front of him, but with each interaction and with each act of affection between them she couldn’t stop her desire for the roles to switch from growing.
So she decided to have her cake and eat it too.
Giving up control for a day as a reward would allow herself to indulge in her debased desires while maintaining a shield that said, “This is only happening because I granted you this special privilege as a one-time thing.”
It was quite the genius pn, she thought, though there was a single problem with it.
She still needed to give up control.
Despite everything, she still wanted to back out and wanted any excuse to not go through with it.
That’s when she came up with the newspaper trap.
She knew that Arthur wanted to leave, the desperate desire to know about the outside world was palpable when he begged to read the newspaper. It grated on her mind greatly to the point where she would instantly seek to punish him.
She hated having to hurt him with her ghosts, but it hurt even more when she thought about him leaving. Wanting to be apart from her… What was so good about the outside world? Here, in Thriller Bark he was protected by an army of zombies and her own abilities so what would he need outside?
He had the better sense than to directly ask to be allowed to leave, she herself didn’t know how she would react to that but it wouldn’t be pretty.
So the newspaper was the perfect pn to get him to mess up, she thought.
She wasn’t quite sure when she started to observe him, but before she knew it, she had taken up the hobby of watching him when he was away from her. Arthur quickly realized she was using her ghosts to observe him so she used that to her advantage by luring him into a false sense of security.
By allowing him to openly see some ghosts once in a while, she fooled him into thinking that when he didn’t see ghosts that he wasn’t being watched but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Making sure that her ghosts were extremely well hidden, she spent more time watching him than doing anything else. On the rare days that she managed to wake up before he came to her room with her breakfast, she loved to spend her waking moments watching him prepare her food for her.
She saw him as the perfect little husband, and he would definitely fall for the bait she set up.
But he didn’t. He looked at the newspaper, temptation clear on his face, but he restrained himself. Was it for the reward that she promised him? Did he suspect that he was being watched?
The thought that his desire for her could be greater than his desire for the outside world sent her over the moon with joy, and it gave her the courage to finally submit to him and quench her growing lust.
She had been unbelievably nervous the minutes before he came back to the room, thoughts about calling it off ran through her head, but when he came in and saw her, his face stunned as he looked at her, it all sort of clicked.
It was easy, embarrassing, and definitely humiliating, but it was all that she had been expecting and more.
Recalling the exact events from st night made her face grow hot, she still recalled presenting herself to him on all fours, she could still feel where his hand had smacked her ass, and the liquid that was running down between her legs even now.
Just then she realized the warm pillow she had been holding was Arthur, his small body fit perfectly in her arms, like he belonged there.
Fluttering her eyes open, she dragged her face up his chest to look at his exceedingly rare sleeping face but instead her eyes were met with his bright blue eyes staring right back at her.
For a second she was stupefied, yesterday’s moments of vulnerability pying back like a record in her mind, reminding her of how exposed she was to him.
She needed an escape.
She was about to scream at him for still being in the bed when he should be down in the kitchen making her food, or getting dressed in the outfit she picked out for him, but before she could say anything to get him out of her room and save herself the shame.
He slowly lowered his face to meet hers and while rubbing his small round nose against hers, gave her a small kiss on the lips, “Morning, princess,” he purred with a soft velvet inflection that caused all her concerns to melt away in an instant.
I’ll have to come up with another reward so he calls me by name instead.
Letting herself get taken at Arthur’s pace, she felt his soft hands reach down to touch the growing wetness in between her legs.
Giving him a soft moan into his ear as a response to his actions, he took it as permission to continue as he lifted himself from her side and once again towered over her.
He was hard again, she felt his hard rod poke her stomach and she unconsciously lifted her hips to give him an easier time entering her.
Letting herself fall into his hands again, she let the boy do as he pleased while she came up with punishments for his impudence.
Hopefully something we can both enjoy~
[X]
Perona copy skill roll: Failed!
Perona domination score: 82%
XP Awarded: +160 XP.
Level up!
Skill points avaible: 4.
See status?
“You brute!” Perona tried to shout but her voice was weak and tired despite having just woken up around thirty minutes ago, “Doing such disgusting things to me so early in the morning! Did the reward from yesterday get to your head already?”
She was trying to threaten me but it was hard to take her seriously when she was so disheveled and her voice was sore from screaming out my name, “Sorry, princess, you just looked so cute that I acted without thinking.”
Perona’s scowl didn’t drop, but she was unable to hide the smile that came to her face, she flipped herself over to y her face into my neck. Her soft lips hovered over my skin sending small tingles up my spine.
She started to pnt small kisses on my skin, pausing between each kiss to speak, “Don’t think a simple sorry is enough, I can’t have disobedient servants, I’ll have to punish-”
She was interrupted by her doors smming open by two little furballs that I admit were the cutest zombies in Thriller Bark, the Risky Brothers, “Princess! Someone took the tribute bait and Master Moria wants you to scout them-”
“DON’T YOU IDIOTS KNOW HOW TO KNOCK!!” Perona shouted while covering herself up with her sheets.
The two offending zombies froze in pce seeing the tender moment they had interrupted and how furious their master was, before they managed to utter out a single sylble of apology two pale-white smiling ghosts appeared and passed right through them.
The two squirrel zombies dropped to their knees in shame and despair.
“I shouldn’t have been born, Master Moria wasted a shadow on me…”
“In the next life, I want to be a roach to atone for the mistakes of this one…”
The poor creatures looked about one second away from suicide, but Perona didn’t care, she was already out of bed and taking off the lingerie that was still somehow on. Reaching her dresser she pulled out the outfit she had picked out for herself and started to dress up.
Seeing my seed leak out of her hole while she put on her panties was hot, but I knew better than to comment on it now. She was clearly in a bad mood now, it wasn’t just a front now.
I would have dressed up too but my clothes had already been taken away so I was once again left in my birthday suit. I also can’t escape the scene since Perona would get mad I left without her dismissal, so instead I choose to stand around awkwardly.
Finally getting dressed, she shifts in pce, clearly distressed that she has to go meet Moria with my panties dripping with cum, but she doesn’t say anything and bolts it to the door, eager to leave as soon as possible.
But before she makes it through her door, she turns back at me and points accusingly, “I’ll deal with you ter.”
Then she’s gone.
Phew!
Taking this as my cue to exit stage left, I skip to the door but pause as I peer over the small forms of the still-depressed Risky Brothers. It’s not them that catches my eyes though, but rather the rolled up newspaper they were carrying with them.
With Perona headed to Moria’s pce with her real body, she won’t be able to spy on me too easily and even if she does catch me she already said she was going to punish me so what the hell.
Taking the paper for myself, I stroll down the hallway to my room not really caring about my nakedness. Unfurling the paper I am greeted by bold rge letters from the front page: Enies Lobby Destroyed!
“Oh.”
Author's Note: This chapter felt like a transitional chapter that introduced the system of this fic and lead to the Thriller Bark arc starting properly. I also spent some time trying to come up with skills that would fit the MC, but outside of core skills it's a little difficult to come up with creative abilities. If you got any creative juice in your head I wouldn't mind some insight (No promises I'll actually use it in the story tho :D).
