Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 254 VACATION

There were now 3 green lights in the red room. Gantz, High School of the Dead, and Naruto. All 3 were the first 3 worlds I had entered when coming to the red room. Only 8 to go… It was going to take a long time to finish the room completely. 

“When should I venture out?” I asked myself as I stared at the entrance to the Junction. There were 3 more branches to explore. Comics, Books, and Manhwa. My past self hopefully had a plan when he chose these worlds, but I was still muddling through. 

“Dragon Ball Z,” I said, pointing at it. “Chi, is a must…or is it?” I asked myself, for probably the first time. “With it you can sense power…I can do that with Haki. It would work for people far away…but I can do that with Haki and Search. Especially if I meet my foes. What else?” 

“You can attack with it,” I said. Pulling chakra out of me I formed a white glowing ball. I forced it up. The ball slammed into the ceiling, but did no outward damage. “I can do that now.”

“Special techniques…. Special Beam Cannon, but Piccolo is probably still a dick,” I admitted. “Destructo Disc could be useful…back burner.” 

“You can fly…I can do that already,” I said with a frown. Slowly talking myself out of DBZ. I wanted to go there, but to be honest, there weren’t too many women. There was Bulma…and that was it. “I don’t want to steal her because then there would be no Trunks. And Trunks is pretty awesome.” 

“Fucking cons are starting to outweigh the pros,” I mumbled. “Let’s say I go there. Talk Yamcha into teaching me Chi, or if I’m lucky, Kame. Then what? I would have to get a quest to add it to my status screen. Then get a Challenger Ability Slot to use it outside of there. But I can do most things Chi can now…and I haven’t mastered my current ultimate punch yet.” I was stuck on what to do as a notification appeared. 

“What the hell,” I said as I brought my status screen up. 

“Finally another skill,” I said. Dual Processing was now in my skills with World Lasting Physique. “So can I think real fast?” I asked. I thought of my abilities, forcing them to my hand. It felt smoother as I called them all, but it was called Dual Processing for a reason. I forced my mind to do the same to my other fist. To my amazement it started to. 

“Woah,” I said. I had just received a major jump in intelligence. Before it had taken all I had to put multiple abilities into one fist. Now I barely tried it and was able to grasp the concept. “I guess 3 worlds is some kind of threshold.” I thought back to my first Challenge. I couldn’t remember his name, but he had cleared 3 worlds. He had also attacked me with both arms. Maybe this skill was what allowed him to do that. 

“Awesome,” I said as I clicked my 10 day vacation. 

“Damn,” I said, amazed. “How long has it been since I took a break?” Usually I had some off time now and then in the worlds. But when I came here, I typically jumped to the next world. Never idle in my search for power. 

“Over 5 years,” I said amazed. Probably closer to 6. “I haven’t taken 1 single break.” I looked to the entrance. The main worlds were those doors around me. But something had been bugging me since I spoke to Courtney. She said that we were able to pick the worlds in the hallway. 

“I supposedly can’t earn Challenger Slots. But why have them? What did I pick? Monster Pals for sure…and probably smut,” I said. “But what is the middle door…and what’s in the smut? Are there quests in those too?” My hand hovered over the screen. I clicked Y. The doors around me turned from red/green to gray. All except the main door leading out. It was blue. Stepping out there was the door on my left that held the Rejected worlds.

“You’re Monster Pals,” I said, pointing at the next door. “But what are you 2? What did I pick?” I stared at them a long time. Opening the middle door there were 11 doors all around me. That was it. They had red lights over the doors at least. 

“10 days…” I said. I was still hesitant to try to find Pokemon. The last guy said he spent too long there. Maybe if I got another vacation I would try to figure it out. Right now I was content to have Nibi as my Pokemon pal. I walked up to the middle door and opened it. 

The blackness all around me it slowly illuminated until it was revealed that I was on a sidewalk. Some people around me I noticed my reflection in a window next to me. Focusing on myself memories began to flow in. 

I was Weston Watanabe. 17 years old, my last family member, my grandfather, recently passed. A student dedicated to be a civil servant, I spent most of my time studying. Knowledge poured into me of subjects I had once known nothing about. My Dual Processing kicking in I felt myself become smarter as I processed more information from the memory meld. 

As the pain of the World Lasting Physique kicked in I had absorbed everything. Letting out a sigh I leaned on the wall for a moment as I gathered all the information. When the pain stopped I was met with a notification. 

“Realist Hero,” I mumbled. “I know that name.” I thought back trying to remember what it was from. Thinking of all the manga I had read, it didn’t come to me until the light appeared above my head. 

“Fucking Isekai hall,” I said. Then I felt myself being pulled up into a portal as it all turned black. 

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I woke up on a large slab. Designs etched into the ground I felt the presences around me. Their Spiritual Energy was clear as day. I jumped up, ready to fight if they wanted to start something. 

“Hold hero,” a man said from the shadows. My eyes adjusted to the dim light. Around me were 6 men in black robes. Behind them was who I guessed was some head priest and a king. The king wasn’t much to look at. A goatee and mustache he was older with graying brown hair. No muscle on him he was hardly a threat. The priest was a little overweight. A large pope hat on his head I studied them as people lit candles. 

“Oh mighty hero,” the priest said. His voice booming in the large room he tried to act almost mysterious as he spoke. I wasn’t too impressed. “We people of Elfreiden, have risked much in summoning you to our world. We beseech you, please help us in our times of need.” 

I looked around. Honestly I was tempted to do World Escape. But I had read this manga, and there were a lot of hotties. I just wasn’t sure if it was worth my time. Did I want to vacation here for 10 days? This place could be nice, but way too much work for my vacation. I needed something a little more…slice of life. 

“World Escape,” I said and it all turned black. 

Once I was in the room again I looked to the other 10 doors. “So if this one was Isekai, I’m guessing these are too.” I tried to think of all the awesome Isekai stories out there. A classic trope in Japanese manga and anime, a normal person was summoned to another world and expected to beat a demon king or something.

“Arifuerta,” I said. “That could be one of the worlds. Knights and Magic too…no that one had Gundams. I doubt it.” I tried to think what to do. There were possibilities there. They had their own magic systems, and fights. I would do well, but were the magic systems worth a Challenger slot? 

“There is a reason they didn’t become as big as One Piece or Naruto,” I said. Isekai stories were good, but I would have to learn the power system from scratch. Where Naruto and MHA I had known how to use my power right away. “Better hold off on these worlds until I finish more stories,” I said. Walking out I headed into the last door in the hall. Inside were 9 doors. I had my suspicions on what they were. 

“Time for a true vacation,” I mumbled. Changing it up a little I went to the door on my right. Stepping in I headed off to what I hoped was a sex fueled vacation where I didn’t have to fight or use my brain. A true vacation.