Hey! After this first week, we officially start the normal schedule: one chapter every two days, with extra chapters each week depending on the Power Stones.
I know that uploading chapters every day would attract more people and help the story grow, but honestly I don't have the capacity to maintain that pace. In fact, if I fall too far behind, there's even a chance that I might temporarily have to switch to one chapter every three days, although I'll try to avoid that happening.
There's also the possibility that once I finish writing the story, since the writing is several chapters ahead of the publication here or on Patreon, I might eventually be able to upload chapters daily.
However, considering that, as I said before, this will be a relatively short series (100–150 chapters), doing that would make the story last less than six months, so I'm not completely sure yet. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
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"How much time has passed?" Yuuji asked while sitting on the floor, watching the enormous barrier in front of him with boredom.
"About 8 hours... ah! There are no signs of life" Lala replied when she realized it.
"Good" Yuuji said with satisfaction. "It seems that 8 hours is how long the demons can endure before dying because of the lava."
"Ah, I thought they would last up to 10" Lala said with disappointment. "I lost the bet."
"You seem very calm after burning hundreds of demons alive" Yuuji said, somewhat surprised.
"Who do you think I am?" Lala said, pretending to feel offended. "I am the daughter of Gid Lucione Deviluke, since I was little I have seen worse things. I do not feel something like pity for the death of murderers and genocidal maniacs like them."
That makes sense, Yuuji thought while looking at Lala, who was pretending to be indignantly childish without any trace of remorse on her face.
"So... are we leaving?"
"Already? It was fun" Lala said with disappointment.
"Let's come back next month" Yuuji said while extending his hand.
"You promised!" she said excitedly before taking Yuuji's hand.
As soon as she grabbed it, Yuuji thought about returning and both of them disappeared from the place instantly.
Inside Yuuji's previously silent room, two people holding hands suddenly appeared.
"We're back, that's incredible" Lala said, surprised by Yuuji's abilities.
In the entire galaxy there is no technology capable of teleporting someone outside the known universe.
"Then I should go, Rito and Mikan must be worried" Lala said, feeling a little guilty for making them worry.
"Sure, I also have things to do" Yuuji replied. "Take care."
"Bye bye!"
She said goodbye and disappeared from the place instantly.
Yuuji watched her disappear before throwing himself onto his bed, tired.
"How troublesome, luckily Lala came with me" he sighed before closing his eyes and resting for a few minutes.
...
Ding ding ding.
As soon as Yuuji woke up, he stretched quickly and rang the small cut bell that always sits on his nightstand.
Before the sound could fade, the door opened and the family butler entered.
"Young master, do you need me?" he asked while bowing respectfully.
"Sebastian, are my parents here?"
"They are not here, they left this morning and have not returned yet" Sebastian replied.
So they did not notice that I left, good, Yuuji thought.
"What is for dinner? I'm hungry."
"Double hamburgers with a lot of cheese."
"That's not very sophisticated," Yuuji complained jokingly.
"But they are your favorites" Sebastian replied with a smile.
"That's true" Yuuji nodded. "I'll go after taking a bath."
"Understood, I will tell the servants to prepare everything" said the butler, then he made a slight bow and left the room.
...
Later, at the dining table that was several meters long even though there was only one person sitting there.
Yuuji calmly ate a hamburger while enjoying its taste when the system decided to interrupt him.
[By the way host, what about the main mission?]
'Are you crazy? It is already night, and I lost the whole day because of you in the first place.'
[Host, the night is long.]
'I will start tomorrow, Yuuji said lazily. By the way, I have some tickets besides the rewards from before, right? Use the tickets and show me everything together with the previous rewards.'
Yuuji earned quite a few tickets during the day.
He earned a gold ticket for going to another world, a silver ticket for killing a fallen angel, a gold ticket for killing dozens, a silver ticket for killing an angel, a gold ticket for killing dozens, a diamond ticket for killing a dragon, a diamond ticket for killing hundreds of demons, a gold ticket for completing the first main mission of the DXD world, and finally a platinum ticket for becoming close friends with Lala.
Yuuji looked at the last one with confusion.
'When did I become close friends with Lala?'
[When she cried.]
'Then... I guess that is good? Anyway, I know she is the main heroine but a platinum ticket? Seriously?'
[I do not decide the tickets so do not ask me.]
'Sometimes you are quite useless' Yuuji sighed.
Tired of arguing with the system, he used the tickets and read the description of his rewards.
[Slime Physique
Rare Ability
Allows you to transform yourself into a slime either fully or partially, allowing you to mostly negate physical damage and take advantage of your slimy physique.]
[Sandstream
Uncommon Ability
Launch powerful steams of sand from your body to hinder enemy vision and injure them, equivalent to sandblasting them.]
[Cockroach Physique
Elite Ability
Allows you to turn into a humanoid cockroach or a hybrid at will, granting you extreme resilience and increased physical abilities along with all of the traits a mundane cockroach would otherwise possess.]
[Divergent Avatars
Epic Ability
Allows you to split yourself into multiple bodies under your direct control and you can freely distribute your abilities and energy between bodies. To make an avatar you must at least give it 5 percent of your stats or more. If an Avatar dies, the portion of stats split into them will take 24 hours to return.]
[Sage's Ring
Rare Item
Dark Souls , A ring given to Farron's Undead Legion by one of the preacher twins, known more commonly as the Crystal Sages. It makes it easier to learn and cast spells while wearing the ring, reducing the energy costs of spells.]
[King of All Trades
Epic Skill
You have Adept level expertise in all basic trades, Adept Blacksmithing, Medicine, Mechanics, Cooking, Interfacing, with competence comparable to an actual veteran of the trade and are greatly talented in those fields.]
[Master Taming
Epic Skill
You are a true master tamer. You can turn even the most ferocious bloodthirsty manic beast into a living room pet. You are also a master at training familiars to gain their obedience and loyalty. This can also apply to people to a lesser extent.]
[Expert Massage
Elite Skill
You are an expert masseuse on the level of a grandpa who spent his life refining his craft. You can give massages that melt away exhaustion, help revitalize the body, ones that give unmatched sexual pleasure, relieve tension, etc.]
[Hawk Glasses
Common Item
A pair of ordinary looking glasses that grant the wearer the farsight and visual acuity of a Bald Eagle.]
'Tell me I can choose not to have Cockroach Physique, just seeing the name in my status would disgust me'
[You can choose not to use the ability, but it will remain there.]
'Sometimes you are quite annoying you know? At least this time there are quite varied things. Some useless and others very useful.'
Yuuji paid special attention to two of the rewards.
The first was King of All Trades, something the system probably placed at such a low level because in a world with abilities common trades do not really matter.
But for Yuuji, who even though he lives in a world with aliens plans to live a normal life, this ability is incredible.
The second was Divergent Avatars.
'Are you sure this is not rigged?' he asked the system curiously.
[Of course not]
Yuuji's doubt came from the fact that some of his abilities have an extremely good synchronization.
To be exact, the abilities Gate and Divergent Avatars, together with the skills Master Management and King of All Trades.
With this, Yuuji can have his own base where he would simply spend all his time without ever leaving.
There he will create different avatars with Divergent Avatars that he will easily control all at once thanks to Master Management.
From the base they can all move quickly to their respective workplaces with Gate Creation and do anything thanks to King of All Trades.
He can even create one to go to school and stop having to do it himself.
Although in reality he is controlling all the avatars, so he is still doing it himself. In some way the feeling is different, and if something bores him he can simply let that avatar control itself.
It is basically like playing a video game.
After thinking about it, Yuuji became sure that the system is not forcing the rewards, because if it were it would never give him something like this that allows him to laze around all day.
"Young master, is something wrong?" Sebastian asked when he noticed that Yuuji had already finished eating but had been staring at the air for several minutes.
"It's nothing, I'm done so I'll go to sleep" Yuuji replied before standing up from the table and returning to his room.
Sebastian watched Yuuji run upstairs in a hurry and sighed.
"The young master is becoming lazier and lazier."
"It is fine, isn't it? As long as he does not become an arrogant young master we can do everything for him, it is our job" said Nara, the head of the kitchen while collecting the dirty dishes.
"You are right" Sebastian said and returned to his work.
...
The next day Yuuji woke up excited.
As he quickly went down the stairs the system asked him in confusion.
[Aren't you too excited? Before you delayed the matter and now you are in such a hurry.]
'First of all, I did not delay it enough for you to be angry, it was only a week. Besides, I did many things during the week.'
[Host, must I remind you that I am a system meant to lead you to success?
Even if you fight monsters all week, if it has nothing to do with my objective, for me it is the same as if you had done nothing.]
'You must be the most boring system that exists' Yuuji sighed.
'And second, you do not understand. Yesterday I had to do a lot of annoying things by myself, starting today an avatar controlled by me can do it. It is more like a job simulation video game than actually working.
Right now, even if you told me I have to conquer all the heroines I would treat it like a dating game instead of a real problem' Yuuji continued explaining.
[Only you see it that way, host.]
We arrived, I cannot keep talking, Yuuji said while ignoring the complaints of his system and looking forward with slight nervousness.
In front of him were two large elegant wooden doors with carved flower designs.
Before he could knock, a cold voice was heard from inside.
"Enter"
Yuuji entered the room and there he found his mother sitting at a desk wearing a formal uniform.
Compared to the rest of the house, the room was quite small, with no trace of the luxuries and unnecessary decorations present in the rest of the mansion.
Instead, the small room only had what was necessary to work with complete focus and without distractions.
On the completely smooth gray wooden desk, Clara had her hair tied in a high bun and was wearing glasses while quickly signing some papers and placing them on the pile to her right, only to immediately take another from the pile on her left and repeat the process.
Without lifting her head from the papers, she spoke.
"You know I am working right now, correct?" she said without any trace of her usual affectionate attitude toward Yuuji.
"Yes" Yuuji said, feeling somewhat nervous. His mother's work mode had always made him a little afraid.
"Then you understand that if you came to tell me something now it will only be considered from a professional standpoint, without any kind of advantage just because of your identity as my son, correct?"
"I understand" Yuuji nodded.
"Good."
Satisfied with his answer, Clara finished signing the current paper. Instead of taking another one, she stopped her hand, lifted her head, and looked directly into Yuuji's eyes.
"Then, speak."
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