First Origin Counter Guardian [Edited]
Late Afternoon
Tokyo International Airport
"...I cannot believe I will be able to become a member of the Transmigrator gang, like those fictional characters."
Among the crowd of people who are busy with their own things, there's a tall man who almost reaches 189 cm and pops out like a sore thumb.
"Let's see..."
He grabs the smartphone from his pants pocket, opens the map navigation, then types in a certain keyword before the app shows him how he can reach his destination.
"Right, I need to take the train to Chiba Prefecture, where I will stay for a while in this world."
He then walks into the train station and asks the staff a few questions about how he can get to his destination, what ticket he needs to buy, and other details.
It takes him a while to do things before he finally gets on the train and sits in his chair, based on the ticket that he bought.
He was lucky there's still an available seat on the Bullet Train that he just rode right now. He knows that it's already late afternoon, and it's not good to disturb the family that would accommodate him from now on.
"Who can believe that I, who only remember, wander around the soul realm? Suddenly meet those two and become the first Counter Guardian."
He cannot help but mutter as he lies back on the back of the chair seat, his red eyes behind the black-framed glass slowly closing as he prepares to enter his personal pocket dimension.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying on his bed. He then slowly stood up and walked out of the room, then out of the house that resembled a beach house, where the scenery of boundless blue sea and sky greeted him as he opened the main door.
He then walked out of the house and to the beach area before slowly sitting and admiring the blue sky and sea in front of him.
"The moment I adjusted my personal pocket dimension to have a beach house with this type of scenery was the best decision I have ever made in my entire life."
"Oh, that is kind of wrong to say. As I've now had a different identity."
He could not help but laugh in silliness as he laid his back on the soft golden sand and looked up at the boundless blue sky above.
<Personal Pocket dimension>
He is well-versed in it, having read a large number of light novels, web novels, and fanfiction written by fans about their favorite anime, manga, or novel.
Because of the name, it is natural for someone to assume that there is only a small space where he can modify it to his liking.
But it was a big mistake, as the dimension space inside it was so vast that the girl who gave it to him said it was boundless and had no limit.
She explained that he can do anything inside the pocket, such as, for example, build his own kingdom.
Still, he cannot build a kingdom in a single second when the dimension he has now is like a blank canvas with one tiny black dot in the center.
The dot represented a space where he had built a beach house surrounded by golden sand, with the rest being a vast, boundless blue sky and blue sea where he could stand above the water and see the deep sea beneath his leg because the water was so clear.
Still, it was boundless, where there's no end, no matter how far he tried to focus his sight on looking at it.
He can create a tiny dot on a blank canvas with the assistance of the other girl, who said it was a trial gift from her to him.
"Alaya and Gaia... What a shock to meet those two." He cannot help but sneer, because he, who is well-versed in the Nasuverse, cannot believe he has met those two identities described and presented to the world and fans as Counter Force.
Alaya, if explained in a simple way, is the collective unconsciousness of mankind and the drive for its survival as a whole. Gaia was the will of the world itself
He made a contract with them and became their first Counter Guardian.
Of course, with some sort of reward and blessing from those two, or else he would rather just wander around and never reincarnate into the Nasuverse, where the plot was so messed up and the power scale was stupid and disgusting.
The reward and blessing he got from those looked like this:
- Personal Pocket Dimension (Boundless Space) with the addition of a free beach house and training simulator.
- Market App to buy anything without exception.
- FGO status that has been modified and tweaked.
Like the common routine in a reincarnation or transmigration story, he himself is granted three rewards from those two.
That's what he thought before awake, sitting inside the plane, with a new whole body that has been created and modified by them to bear all kinds of power and abilities as their Origin Counter Guardian.
He never imagined that those two would be so generous as to make him doubt their kindness. As he was created, his body was 16 years old and resembled the main character from Persona 5 Royal, which was his favorite game, and he finished it with a lot of achievements that took him a long time to play.
It appeared to be a clone of him, with frizzy black hair and black-framed glasses on his face. There was still a difference, as he noticed he was a few centimeters taller and his pupil color looked like fresh blood.
Take note of that when he looks at himself in the reflection of the plane's windows. He felt a vibration in his pants pocket; when he took it out, it was a brand new smartphone with a new email from Alaya itself.
It's lucky that the two people who originally sat beside him seem to be late to board the plane, where he was alone in his row and his seat was far on the back of the plane.
•••
[ Email ]
Hey, it seems the transmigration process was a success the moment this was read by you.
The smartphone you have now is one that cannot be invaded by anything in our universe, and it will serve as our means of communication with you.
You don't need to charge the smartphone, as it's already imbued with unlimited energy.
Cough. Next, Gaia has already changed your background, making you the cousin or distant relative of one of our universe's heroines. Gaia stated that this girl was imprinted as your favorite heroine in your previous life.
So she is going to act as a cupid to bring you two closer. Sigh. She really loves to meddle in other businesses. Also, as previously agreed, you will be placed in a slice-of-life world with no supernatural influences.
Later, when me and Gaia detect malicious activity in another world in our universe, you've got to be prepared to be teleported and bring the perfect happy ending you can possibly think of.
As we know, our universe itself was messed up, so please bring salvation to those poor children.
We hope you are doing your best as Counter Guardian and bringing balance and peace to our universe.
Regards,
Alaya.
•••
As for the FGO status that has been granted to him, it looks like this:
Tier: E, D, D+, C, C+, B, B+, A, A+, S, SS, SSS, EX-, EX, and Boundless.
<Status >
Name: ???
Alias: ???
Race: Unknown
Occupation: Counter Guardian
—•—
Str : E
Agl : E
Luck : E
Endurance : E
Mana : E
—•—
Ability:
-
Passive:
-
—•—
Currency:
-
Inventory:
Personal Pocket Dimension
Smartphone
Currency:
Point : 100
Yen : 100,000+
•••
Kaito, who has been lying on the beach, looks again at his status that has been displayed on his smartphone.
"Start from scratch, huh?" He cannot help but smile bitterly, then he smiles faintly as he thinks it's not bad that he can upgrade his status with just one click and use a point into the next Tier.
Where the cost of buying anything and upgrading it to the highest Tier <Boundless > was like this:
- E: 1 point
- D: 5 points
- D+: 10 points
- C: 25 points
- C+: 50 points
- B: 100 points
- B+: 250 points
- A: 500 points
- A+: 1000 points
- S: 2000 points
- SS: 5000 points
- SSS: 10000 points
- EX-: 20000 points
- EX: 50000 points
- Boundless: 100000 points
He then looks at the APP <Training Simulator> where, when he accesses it, he can summon all kinds of monsters or enemies without exception. The class also follows the lowest tier, E, into the highest tier, Boundless.
He can make various scenarios and choose what tier the monster or enemy looks like, of course, with the note that it's needed to be outside his tiny island, where his beach house and it's surroundings are.
Where the training simulator begins. The island will be surrounded by a barrier that even the highest tier, <Boundless >, can't even scratch.
"It's not bad to have this kind of cheat to become strong; I need to grind like I do to level up my character whenever I play games in my previous life."
"... Let's grind points later, when I already reach my boarding house, as I can get into this dimension while my body falls asleep in reality."
He can sense that the time difference between reality and his <PPD > was 1:1. That's why he thought he was going to grind like crazy for hours while his body was falling asleep in reality.
"Wait, I can buy anything, right? What about the function of time that made this dimension of time slower than reality?"
When he searched for something on the <Market App>, he noticed that all prices started at 1 point.
Even...
Excalibur, the legendary sword of victory, was also priced at one point.
"Well, it's not weird, as it's described that it also had Tier on it."
He laughed as he realized he could use this plot hole to quickly overpower Excalibur, even though it was Tier E at the time.
He then looked at the function <Training Simulator>, where the points he got from each tier looked the same as the cost of each tier.
At the lowest tier, E, he can get 1 point for each slain monster, and he can get 50.000 points when he slain at the highest tier, boundless.
"...."
"Well yeah, let's grind like crazy later."
He then put his smartphone back into his inventory before relaxing his body while closing his eyes, enjoying the beach ambience sound before awakening to reality, where the train had already reached it's destination.
•••
Evening
It was already evening when he arrived in Chiba prefecture; he then took a taxi to his boarding house, which is quite far from the train station.
It is a relief that he had money given to him by Alaya, because taxis in Japan are extremely expensive, and the Japan in his new world appears to be similar to the Japan in his previous life.
It'll take around 30 minutes before he arrives at the gang of communities where his boarding house is.
When he looked at the taxi fare, which was over 5,000 yen, he nearly coughed up blood.
"I swear, I will learn about elemental space after this!"
He then exited the taxi after paying the fee and walked into the neighborhood community while looking at the destination map on his smartphone.
It'll take around 10 minutes before he finally arrives at the front gate of his boarding house. Without waiting, he pressed the bell button near the front gate.
"Wait for a moment!!!"
Hearing the sweet, monotone voice that he had really known well in his previous life made him dumbfounded, with a frown in his brows.
"Don't tell me, Gaia, the person you meant in the email was..."
*Click*
A sweet girl with short hair that reaches her shoulders emerged from the house, dressed casually.
"If I may ask, who are you? What is your business with our Kato household?" The girl cannot help but ask because it is unusual for someone to visit her house at this time, and she does not know the man who stood in front of her house; also, from the look of the man, he does not appear to be her parents' guest.
"..."
Our main character was taken aback when the woman he admires and considers to be his ideal woman appeared right in front of him.
"I-I..."
He curses himself for having suddenly become an idiot who cannot say anything.
"Megumi~ Who are the guest... Oh?"
While our MC was taken aback and unable to speak clearly, a mature woman appeared from the inside of the house, appearing to be her mother.
"Oh gosh... I forgot that today you would come! Sigh, what a blunder of me!"
The mature woman cannot help but cover her mouth while slightly feeling distress as she forgets something precious.
"Hmmm? Who is he, mom?" The girl cannot help but ask her mom while feeling curious about the relationship between her family and him.
Been asked by her daughter, she didn't make her answer straight as she quickly opened the gate from inside and hugged the man, shoved his head into her cleavage of huge bossom while her hands were tapping softly on his back.
She then released her hug before looking at the man from head to toe with a saddened expression.
"You've really grown well; really, I've never thought those kinds of accidents were going to happen to your parents." She cannot help but brush her tears from her corner eyes.
"Come'on, Megumi-chan, greet your distant relative, Akira!"
The mature woman walked to grab her daughter to get closer to him.
"Akira, this is my daughter, Kato!"
"Ah, nice to meet you." The girl bows slightly before showing her legendary poker face.
"..." Akira
He never thought that he, who inherited his main character name from the game persona 5, had been set to be a distant relative of and going to live with his favorite main heroine from Saenai Heroine.
Kato Megumi.
•••
[ Insert picture of main character (Akira Kurusu) ]
[ Insert picture of Kato Megumi ]
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Author note:
Hey, your Kouhai here~
This will be my new fanfic. I hope I'm not burned out from making this fanfic in the future.
Also, I'm open to any idea of a picture girl that can be Kato Megumi's mother. As far as I know, this story is going to expand in the future.
If you know what I mean,. *Smirk*