Chapter 391: Reality Bends for the… Good? (2)
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This sudden development of power jump may be a blessing in disguise. While there may be Tier 60 enemies, therefore very hard to fight, that also meant if he managed to kill them — he would receive a great ton of levels.
Still, he couldn’t brush off a little worry.
The Creator Goddess was posing as a Tier 49, and even though Neji was certain that the Tier wasn’t correct, given her vast array of abilities, it was very true that he could not defeat her. So, if there truly was Tier 60 in this world now, it would be somewhat… problematic.
“God fucking dammit.”
[It’s unhealthy to damn yourself.]
“Shut up.”
[Mwah.]
Neji shot a look at Sisty, who was sitting in the class, smiling at him. The other students noticed their exchange of glances, and today someone couldn’t help but give in to their curiosity.
“Hey, Sensei,” it was Aika who stood up, asking a question. “Are you two related?”
Sisty and Neji looked too similar for them to not be curious. Neji glanced at Aisa, as Sisty giggled, curious about what he would say, though she already knew his answer in his mind.
“No, we met in the classroom.”
“Oh. Still, you two look so damn similar. I think you should do a DNA test.”
Aika said, about to sit down. Neji gave her a smile, a fake one.
“Perhaps student Aika could confirm by… tasting our DNA?”
“Ah.”
The students didn’t get his joke, they were too pure and young, but Aika understood what he meant. Her face went slightly red as she returned a smile. Sadly for her, Neji was done having fun, the little joke helped him relax a little, as he returned to teaching.
Sisty laughed at Aika, pissing her off a bit, as the class continued.
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Neji needed to grow strong. It was a little hard to do in this world unless he decided to go all out and started rampaging, which may be counterproductive if the strongest of this verse came to stop him.
Other than Great Red, Ophis, and Trihexa, who Neji was surely outclassed by, there was only one whom he truly was cautious about.
Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds.
After the death of GOD, Shiva was the strongest divinity alive. It will be more than just troublesome if he garnered his attention now.
Yesterday, he was just chilling. He would have stopped playing Teacher soon, but now he needed to be a bit more cautious. He was an outsider, and if he had to guess why this mess of power-up had happened, he would guess it had something to do with the World’s Will.
It’s always the World’s Will. What a stupid concept. Though maybe this time it was something more… something bigger, since this level of power jump was ludicrous.
On that note, Neji had a curiosity to be satiated; only that Mistress Death could answer him.
It was lunch break, and he was on the rooftop. The girls had called him to eat with them, but he had some contemplating to do.
“Mistress Death, will the Prime Gods find me here?”
He hadn’t worried about it before, as he was planning to end this world’s journey in just a week. But now it may be longer.
He had to wait for a bit for the answer, but it came nonetheless.
[Entity Death says, “Certainly, they will. It is not within my control anymore to keep your location hidden. You were around the Creator Goddess for too long, she knows your signature well enough to locate you easily. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t bother to replace another character with you because the main reason for that was so that the Gods couldn’t find you, but now they can.]
“….”
So she was basically saying that Celestine probably knew about his location right now.
[Entity Death adds, “No worries. She will not try to meddle on this directly, if not the meeting between her and Buddha would be useless. Ultimately, that’d cause a war, and both parties don’t want that.]
Neji refused to believe those bastards would just leave him alone, though. There had to be something. For all he knew, this world’s power spike was caused by them. After all, no other world had made all of its inhabitants two times stronger, only the Main Character grew strong. Where did this world find enough resources to make everyone doubly stronger?
“Mhm,”
There was something weird, too. Only he and Sisty noticed this jump in power. To all the others, they acted as if they always had been this powerful. That was a sign that reality had been meddled.
Neji sighed. He took off his glasses with one hand, and his other slicked his hair up, frowning as he looked ahead in weary. This was more than troublesome.
“Hey~”
Neji would have flinched if he didn’t notice the girl from the beginning. Aether Sense didn’t just work on angels, it worked on devils too. Plus, this girl was half a Fallen.
Turning to the side, he found Akeno giving him a smile. Her eyes sparkled as she saw him without the glasses, and his hair pulled.
Neji gently put the glasses back and put his hair down.
“Aww, why keep your hair like this? Let me tell you, that other look suits you much better, plus you should wear contacts. Why hide such a face with glasses?”
“Student Akeno, the rooftop is banned for the students,” Neji replied to her dryly.
“Mhm, is it?” She stepped closer, too close. “Oops, looks like I broke the rules. Would I get punished now?”
Neji had a slight urge to put her under a Genjutsu and force her to leave.
[Akeno Himejima – Fallen-A Devil – High Tier 16]
