63. Mission

Eleven days later on Friday.

Izumi was in his room, sitting in front of the laptop while writing a series of programs with a certain programming language. Unmistakably, what Izumi was doing was coding.

When he was a little preoccupied with running the program code, it was done to check whether the program code made was correct or not. His phone suddenly vibrated.

[Initialization of the sixth mission ★3

First: Join an adventure guild and create a party!

Second: Kill the demon general, Beldia!

Third: Prevent Kazuma's party from destroying the gate of the town.

Restriction: Ninjutsu cannot be used. Any magic from outside the world where the mission takes place cannot be used.

Participant: Four people. Including members who live in the world where the mission is taking place.

Rewards: 5000 Shop Coins and 1 Legendary Chest for each participant.

The mission will start in 24 hours and participants will be transported automatically.

Time will stop on all worlds of the group members when the mission starts, excluding the world where the mission takes place, and time will run back automatically after the mission is completed]

Kuroneko: Mission!!!

Kazuma: My world? What the hell is that preventing my party from destroying the gate?

Tabane-chan: Eh there's the restriction?

Kuroneko: @Kazuma you haven't read your story?

Kazuma: No, I don't have time for that.

Kakashi: I pass.

Rory: If Kakashi is not going, then I'm not going.

Warrod: This mission is not suitable for me.

Straw Hat: Eh mission? I'm going, I'm going!!! I want to go to another world!

Kuroneko: Where is Miyamura?

Tabane-chan: Dating with his girlfriend, maybe.

Kuroneko: He already has a girlfriend? Since when?

Tabane-chan: When he left me alone in the lab and he met a girl who called him. You know, he just left me! He left me alone! *Crying emoji*

Kuroneko: @Miyamura you bastard. What did you do to Tabane-chan? *Flip table emoji*

Izumi: Why are you even angry? Are you perhaps jealous?

Kuroneko: Not even!

Tabane-chan: Yes.

Izumi: That's surprising. But, I would take it as a joke.

Kazuma: Damn, he's got a girlfriend already!!

Izumi: Let's talk about that later! First of all, I plan to take this mission to control my Devil Fruit ability and gain combat experience. No problem right? Besides, Gramp Warrod and Kakashi definitely can't join the mission due to restrictions.

Kuroneko: Me, me! I want to go to the fantasy world!!! *Flexing emoji*

Izumi: How about you, Tabane-chan? Restrictions don't affect you at all.

Tabane-chan: Just give that chance to Luffy or Rori!

Izumi: Is that so? Rori doesn't want to go, so… Luffy, you will go with us!

Straw Hat: Woohoo, adventure in another world!!!

Kazuma: I'll say it first. I can't take care of all of you because my adventure party is already troublesome enough.

Kuroneko: Who needs you to take care of me?

Izumi: You are not good enough to take care of your party members. And you want to take care of Luffy which is more troublesome?

Kazuma: Hey, I didn't mean that!

Izumi: But from what you said earlier, if you don't take care of your party, you can take care of us. That means Luffy is included.

Kazuma was speechless.

Straw Hat: Hey, what do you mean by mentioning me?

Izumi: Kazuma wants to give you lots of meat, Luffy. I heard Kazuma's cooking is as good as Sanji's.

Kazuma: Oi!!

Straw Hat: Really?

Kazuma: Don't be fooled, Luffy! He's lying!

Straw Hat: …

Their conversation made Luffy even more confused because he didn't know who was lying and who wasn't. However, since Luffy had eaten Izumi's cooking, he was more convinced that Izumi's cooking was better.

After joking around a bit, Izumi decided that he would create an adventurer party along with Luffy and Kuroneko. As for Kazuma, he stayed with his current party filled with crazy girls.

Izumi: Oh right, Kazuma! Lend me some money to register in the adventure guild!

Kazuma: Sure. Make sure you pay your debts on time later!

Izumi: …

Kuroneko: Stingy Scummyzuma.

Kazuma: Hey, I'm just joking.

Izumi: Never mind. More importantly, Luffy.

Straw Hat: Yes??

Izumi: Since you eat a lot, make sure you bring a stock of meat in your storage space. You know how to use it, don't you?

Straw Hat: Oh, I always use it to store meat.

Seeing the chat from Luffy, Izumi wanted to laugh out loud. Izumi didn't think Luffy had done it before he explained how to use it. He must have put a lot of effort into reading the manual Izumi gave him. Or it could be his friend reading to him.

Izumi put his phone on the table while thinking about training not only his Devil Fruit ability but his physical prowess as well as his martial art.

He thought restricting some abilities was pretty good since he could perfect his other abilities, like Haki or something.

He opened the Dimensional Shop and purchased the Snow Sword martial art and Ice Pact internal skill which required 30k shop coins to spend.

After purchasing those two, information regarding the Snow Sword's martial art moves and how to meditate to increase the level of that martial art appeared in his head.

He immediately sat in meditation while following the instructions that had appeared in his head to channel spiritual energy to a certain meridian point in his body. By allowing the spiritual energy within his body to flow from certain meridians to other meridians, until it circles over and over again, his martial art and internal skill level will increase.

The level is divided from Echelon 1 to Echelon 9. Each cycle of energy flowing from the starting point of the meridian to the endpoint of the meridian will increase Echelon by 1 level. And can be upgraded to Echelon level 9.

Izumi meditated until morning without feeling time moving so fast. However, he was unable to break through the 2nd level of Echelon. It seemed he needed quite a bit of time to level up. It was also possible that he didn't have to meditate to level up, but he needed a real fight.

As for the Snow Sword martial art, all skills, moves, and states of rage had been imparted in his head, so all he needed to do was a real fight.

"Huft… I didn't think I wouldn't feel sleepy after meditating till morning."

Izumi didn't feel sleepy at all, instead, he felt his body feeling fresh and wanting to do activities in the morning.

— — — —

After morning activities from dawn to 9 am, Izumi returned home. Then he helped his mother at the cake shop.

On weekends or holidays, her mother's cake shop is full of customers, and sometimes her mother is in trouble because she only has one employee. That's why Izumi sometimes helps her mother.

Usually, Izumi only helped out at the cake shop for half a day, but since he had nothing to do, he intended to help out at the shop all day.

And just like that, Izumi worked until 6 pm. There was an hour left, so he went to the convenience store to buy something before leaving for the mission.

After an hour had passed, the time for the mission had started and he was instantly transferred to Kazuma's world when the countdown reached zero.