Chapter 381: 381: A New World | [Book Four]

Chapter 381: 381: A New World | [Book Four]

Chapter 381: A New World | [Volume Four]

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Humans in their base, are boring creatures. By base, she meant the humans back in the Prime Omniverse. In the Cube, however, humans were quite interesting. Living in worlds dreamed up by the Prime Humans as they do, they have higher ceilings and greater ambitions.

That didn't mean humans were her favorite of existence – no – the Mistress had no favorite. Death kills all indiscriminately without biases, after all.

However, across the passage of time, she had taken likings to a few humans who were a cut above the rest. How she judged that was based on how they avoided death. It was always interesting to see them do it.

Neji Hado fell into that category, even if he cheated his way through with his Patron, Lady Luck. Mistress Death has been observing him from time to time, never following him in real time, but just checking on his battles here and there. She had in fact tried to contact him a few times too, like recently when he was fighting Ereshkigal a few days ago when she reached out a title – [Loved by Death] – to him. But he rejected it.

Yet now here he was, coming to her so that he can continue his mission. Mistress Death by no means felt arrogant by all this, it was merely... bad luck, that Lady Luck got herself into her situation, and she was offered the responsibilities.

– Knock~

Death was sitting on the surface of a desolate moon. The empty space was all around her because this place didn't have an atmosphere. She sat on a throne, fully made of skulls and bones, while a grave of bones was splattered all around the terrain.

There was no door in this place. Yet, the sound of knocking spread in the air. Death smiled softly.

"You may come in."

The fabrics of space and time split like an eye, revealing the figure of Famine Fatale, one of her most accomplished agents, followed by none other than Neji Hado himself.

Famine was dressed in barely any clothes, as usual, wearing a white bra-top, and a pajama that was cut in her hips.

Neji Hado was dressed in the same outfit he wore before. A golden armor ran down his waist, while his torso was revealed for everyone to see; blue marks of divinity were dancing around and glowing occasionally.

The split closed, and Famine kneeled, lowering her head and greeting her, while the oblivious human looked around the terrain and absorbed the scenery.

Famine frowned, sweating, as she nudged her elbow on his knee, causing him to turn around and blink. He quickly went on his knees as well, but Death just laughed and gestured for them to stand up.

"You didn't bring your kitten? I was looking forward to touching her."

Given the shift in his expression, as she gave him a weird look, she assumed she must have sounded a bit weird by human standards. Whatever, she could care less.

Neji and Famine stood up, and Death rested her chin on her right hand when her elbow rested on the armrest of her throne.

"I hope you have solved everything in that world. It's time I fulfill Lady Luck's request to take on her responsibility as your Patron. Not that you'd be representing me, I will just be safely sending you to your three remaining destinations. You will also not be taking over anybody's existence, too bothersome for me. You will just be sent there with a pretty much waste-like background."

As in, an NPC background, basically a nobody.

"You can do whatever else you want afterward. I will be observing you, so at least don't finish your job in a day. It's kind of boring that way. At least spend a week, yes? I will send Famine after you're done, and the next world will be available to you right away."

Neji listened to her in silence. Half a minute later, he gave her a short nod.

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Lady Luck was a valuable asset. Neji loved her a lot obviously, as he still did, so he didn't see her just as a patron, an asset. However, he had to admit she was very reliable, she helped him a lot.

Even when home arrested and with her power sealed, she provided more use than this woman. Well, it was stupid of him to assume she would help him as much as Luck... His Luck was more than just a sponsor, this woman wasn't.

Mistress Death was just looking out for him, not looking after him. She was making sure he didn't become what her enemy once was. She was doing so so that if she noticed him turning to that path even a bit, she could take action right away.

More than a sponsor, Mistress Death was like a government spy.

At last, Neji just gave her a short nod, accepting her words. Not that he had any choice. This was his only path.

"All right. Anything you want to ask?"

"Yes."

The woman raised an eyebrow when he replied fast. He opened his mouth and slowly asked a question.

"Contessa Fate... why didn't she stop this nonsense? Why didn't she stop Lady Luck from getting thrown into prison?"

Mistress Death smiled mockingly. She appeared darkly amused. She scoffed as she shook her head.

"Ahh, right. You mortals know these worlds by those names. Yes, that is correct. Those three are the ones."

"Good."

Neji released a breath. He was nearly scared something went wrong. He was about to choose right away, but then he decided to ask her something.

"By the way,"

"Yes?"

"Can you tell me which girl is in which world? Lady Luck couldn't due to her sealing. But you know, you're so strong, perhaps..."

"Nope, it's not fun that way. Figure it out yourself. Now choose."

Neji frowned. His impression of her had increased a bit, seeing her love her sister so much, but it went down the gutter again. Along with the other things she was doing in this job, she also was just trying to rid her boredom.

"I choose... High School DxD."

Still, Neji's destination was clear this time around. This time, he was sure that Kimi was in that place. There was no spec of doubt left.

Finally, he would meet his love, and he knew they would think of something better than what he could think of alone.

"All right,"

Mistress Death smiled. She stood up and raised her hand, ready to snap.

"Go wreak havoc or whatever. Just make it fun."

Snap. Her fingers danced, and the floor beneath him vanished. Neji fell into the dark abyss.

....

Neji fell for nearly a minute in the darkness, but he didn't panic. Instead, it was strangely comfortable. The void was lovely and embracing. He felt similar when he was traveling with Famine just a while ago, even though she said it was dangerous he found it lovely.

After a minute, the darkness changed. It's as if he passed through a dark cloud and suddenly he was in the sky, still falling down.

He noticed his outfit had changed, and was relieved to see his armor stored in his inventory. He wore a pair of formal pants and a white shirt, as he fell from the sky to the city below.

A human city. A modern city. From the text on the billboards and buildings, as it was nighttime and everything was lit up, this was Japan.

Finally, a world with modern Japan.

Neji shifted in the air, turning around and using his telekinesis to control his body. He could have brought out his wings but that would have destroyed the shirt. So he simply controlled his body, paused his fall and stopped in the air.

"Huh."

He was on top of a park, and looking down, he found an incident happening as per cliché. A girl... a nun was getting harassed under the blanket of this dark night.

"So it begins."

With a puff of breath, Neji dropped to the ground and approached the scene.

Neji remembered something. A small request that Lady Luck had made back in the day. That he must pretend to be God's Reincarnation when he goes to DxD.

So, it must be fate that he was meeting a nun out in the open as his first scenario in this world.

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Master4thWall Note: And it started. The DxD Arc is here!

I know many would just skip Fate and jump to this, but for those readers, I highly suggest you read from Chapter 359 of Fate Arc, or at least skim through it. It's filled with more The Cursed Gamer plot than Fate, such as the wife of the Primordial. So it doesn't need you to know Fate + is highly required if you want to keep up with the happenings of the main storyline.

Other than that, happy reading! A lot awaits this time around, and happily - no Nerf either.