After an hour of being abused by his mother's lectures–on why he shouldn't return home so late– Akio quickly washed himself off all of his sweat and grime he accumulated during basketball.
Akio had also realised why they had been so worried. Akio had found out that he had been playing basketball 5 hours more than he should have. So, unbeknownst to Akio, he had returned home by midnight.
"How could I lose track of time so badly." Akio thought as he cleaned himself.
Him and Aomine had been playing basketball for 8 hours straight which somewhat stupefied him. The average child has a lot of energy, but not nearly as much as both of them.
Akio's physique was above average, evident in how he was capable of fighting multiple upperclassmen at once: without too much effort.
Though Akio's mother had been very angry, she was more relieved that he had returned safely. But, if such a thing were to ever happen again, Akio would probably be banned from going outside for a few weeks, maybe even a few months.
Akio put his thoughts aside for now as he finished his shower and entered his room. He changed into his sleepwear before jumping on his bed, still fatigued from his 8 hours of basketball which made him lightly chuckle at how ridiculous that sounded.
It only took a few minutes before he was fast asleep.
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The sun had once again emerged as a boy was sleeping peacefully. Streaks of sunlight gently pierced through his curtains, casting a warm glow upon his face.
Stirring in response to the sudden brightness, he mumbled to himself, gradually opening his eyes to reveal the captivating hue of ruby red, subtly glowing in the morning light.
After opening his eyes, Akio felt somewhat perplexed with what he saw in front of him.
"Huh, am I hallucinating?" Akio muttered, confused as to why there's a black panel with golden words in front of his face. It resembled some kind of RPG stats panel.
He simply ignored it, deciding that it was just a figment of his imagination as he was still half-asleep.
Yawning to himself, Akio made his way to the bathroom to do his average morning routine: splashing his face with cold water to fully wake himself.
Akio once again looked back up, only to see the RPG panel still there.
"The fuck?"
He splashed his face with water again, but nothing changed apart from his face becoming more soaked.
This time however, Akio took a closer look at the black screen, still perplexed at the strangeness of his situation.
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[World Hopping System] (?)
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[Profile: Komiya Akio]
STR: 8
DEX: 11
VIT: 9
MP: 5
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Unassigned Points: 0
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"Are these my stats?" Akio questioned, still in disbelief. He didn't know why he's suddenly seeing this thing in front of him.
Not sure what to make of this, Akio simply looked at the rest of the panel as it had more words written just below his stats.
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SKILLS:
>None
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[STORAGE(1)] [WORLD HOP] [LOTTERY]
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Akio spent 5 minutes observing it before he heard a loud knock on the door.
"Akio! Hurry up!" Rina's voice shouted from the other side.
Snapping out of his daze, Akio just gave her a short reply, "Just wait patiently!"
Akio could hear her complaints, but he simply just ignored her as he continued observing this abnormal thing in front of him.
Simply out of instincts, Akio extended his left hand to try and touch the black screen, however his hand passed right through as if it didn't exist.
"Am I really going crazy?" Akio muttered. He once again tried interacting with it: pressing all the options he could, but nothing happened.
He then noticed a question mark sign next to the title of the panel. This time however, before he could even press it, something finally changed.
"It seems you can't interact with this screen physically, but mentally?" Akio guessed.
All the text previously on the black panel had been replaced by new text that appeared on it.
[World Hopping System: Everything you need to know]
Akio could see that below the text, were options displayed for him.
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[What is the World Hopping System?]
[Lottery?]
[World Hop?]
[Storage?]
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Akio simply decided to just start from the top option and work his way down. This time however, Akio mentally selected an option which finally resulted in a change.
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[What is the World Hopping System?]
- The World Hopping System is a universal 'parasite' that searches for a host. It hopes to form a symbiotic relationship where both parties can mutually benefit.
- A universal parasite has its own fundamental laws, created to suit only one host. Once the host perishes, the parasite would also fade into oblivion and cease to exist.
- A lifeform–such as humans– has a unique soul essence. The World Hopping System needs to be integrated with said soul essence to survive. The World Hopping System had managed to find a suitable lifeform with a compatible soul essence, which is the current host.
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"That's, uh, interesting... A parasite that resembles an RPG stat screen had fused with my soul..." Akio muttered, contemplating about this supernatural thing in front of him.
Akio wasn't too shocked, as not only had he reincarnated, he had also travelled into a world of anime which should be 'fiction', which logically should be impossible. So, something like this happening, shouldn't be too out of the ordinary.
Akio then selected the next option.
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[Lottery?]
- One of the main functions in which the host can grow stronger from. As the World Hopping System is a creation only meant for one host, the features are easy to understand and also best suited for the host who is a human.
- Despite the 'Lottery' being labelled as something many would call 'luck based', the rewards provided by the lottery are never useless, just normal or better.
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"That sounds fun. I'm guessing this will be very useful when I go to different worlds." Akio thought, anticipating why the system is called 'World Hopping.' If his guess was correct, Akio would definitely be quite pleased. Afterall, going to different worlds might mean he can use magic and do superhuman feats: something the vast majority of humans would also find exciting.
Akio then selected the next one.
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[World Hop?]
- A function which allows the host to go to different worlds and universes. World Hopping will be how the host can gain a chance to use the [Lottery] and to gain points.
- With World Hop, there are different ways to travel to another world, presenting the host with various difficulties that give rewards corresponding to the selected difficulty.
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Akio read the words carefully, if what this system said was true, his new life would be the ideal one he has always wanted: a thrilling adventure to get stronger and to live his life to the fullest.
After briefly pondering over it, Akio selected the last option.
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[Storage?]
- A pocket dimension for the host to store inanimate objects in.
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After reading everything, Akio was left with a feeling of excitement. Akio doubts that what he is seeing was simply an illusion. Even if it were, it wouldn't really matter, he'd just continue with his life.
But now, granted with the ability to hop to different worlds, Akio definitely wouldn't just leave this opportunity.
However, right now, he really should hurry up and not keep Rina waiting any longer, he's been in here for more than 15 minutes and school was about to begin. Well, for him anyways: he had to walk for 50 minutes to get there.
After finishing up with everything he needed to do in the bathroom, Akio unlocked the door and opened it.
Akio could see Rina waiting just outside with an extremely irritated expression.
"Took you long enough!" Rina scowled in an exasperated tone.
Akio just gave a smug smile: annoying his younger sister was always pretty fun for him.
Rina seeing his expression became even angrier. "Damn you! You did it on purpose!"
Akio just chuckled, not even trying to give a valid reason on why he took so long in the bathroom. However, Akio wanted to check something first.
"Rina."
"What do you want." She shot a glare at him.
"Can you see something up here?" Akio asked, pointing at the panel. It's highly unlikely anyone but him could see it, but he still wanted to make sure.
"Huh, you going crazy or something?" She said, her expression a mix of annoyance and confusion as Akio was wasting her time.
Getting confirmation that she couldn't see it, Akio replied, "Nah, just making sure your eyesight is still fine. Wouldn't want you to miss the view of... well, Nothing."
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After that comment, Akio swiftly left else he really might get slapped.
After changing himself into his casual clothes for elementry school, Akio decided to check the RPG panel once again.
He wanted to test something to see if his system actually works. The easiest way to test this was to use his pocket dimension, [Storage].
"Hopefully this works." Akio muttered, before mentally trying to store a pencil in his storage. Despite being quite sure his system was real, Akio looked visibly delighted when his pencil just disappeared from his hand.
Akio released a breath of cold air, before checking his storage.
After selecting it, his panel turned into grid shapes identical to the inventories you see in some games.
Just as expected, there was something inside it. Two things in fact!
On the grid were his pencil and something else.
Curious, Akio pressed on it to see what it was.
Name: Gift Pack
Description: A present for the host, just to kick start your journey! Enjoy!
Use: After using it, you will obtain a special coin called the 'bundle' coin for the [Lottery]. You will have the opportunity to get all the abilities of a C grade character or some abilities from an incomplete B grade character from fiction. This is different to the regular coins as those would also include objects, weapons, armour and much more.
"Wow, this is actually real. Who could've guessed that I would get isekai'd into Japan where various characters from anime existed. And now, I'm going to to have the ability to travel to different worlds." Akio thought.
After re-reading the description of the gift pack, Akio contemplated a little before thinking, "Hmm, I see. Well, might as well use it now." Akio decided, before pressing the confirm button. After that, he selected [Lottery].
The lottery panel looked rather plain, but Akio didn't really care as he wanted to see if this thing works.
After selecting the coin and confirming to use it. The coin disappeared before some kind of virtual machine appeared in front of him. The machine had a gold and black aesthetic which matches with the look of the system.
The machine resembled some kind of slot machine that only had one reel spinning.
Instead of symbols you find in slot machines: it was instead replaced by portraits of various fictional characters.
However, it was spinning so fast that Akio couldn't even make out a single character.
After only 12 seconds, it began to slow down before landing on a portrait.
[Obtained: Incomplete, Ryoman Sukuna, B grade]
"Huh, would you look at that, my luck is pretty decent."