Chapter 2: Chapter 2 : "Ikuta" '''Ikuta'''
"Ikuta" looked at the two systems and sneaked at them " Boo " " AH !? " they both saw Ikuta who was smiling at them " Host you scared me " " You can see us ? " " Yes I learned it from the book I got from you . "
While Ikuta interacted with the two systems he was traveling around enhancing his spiritual senses ''' I can't believe I am seeing all these monsters ''' terrifying monsters were everywhere and some look just like humans while others had appearances that could give them screen time on a horror movie .
''' But they can't see me right ? ''' Ikuta used a camera to look directly at the eyes of a monster but when he used a dog to look the spirits responded by looking right at him ''' So if it isn't a living being they can't tell . '''
Ikuta thought of one location that came to his mind as supernatural ''' The marketplace for antiques and business was always booming and most families of some victims will come here to ask for some help . '''
Ikuta controlled a nearby clone with rich and powerful background and entered the marketplace " Hey sir you look like you have trouble " a seller sitting beside the entrance pointed his finger at Ikuta while holding a can of coffee .
''' This thing is a real deal . ''' Ikuta look at the mirror in his sale a mirror full of good luck and once shattered it will turn into bad luck it is just like how Feng shui mirrors and mirrors were like in old tales " I'll buy this mirror " he picked up the mirror after handing him some cash and went inside another shop .
''' This place always has old things but were clean like new ''' " Welcome sir what would you like . " a human of the height of Ikuta stood there with a normal uniform ''' That kind of trick doesn't work on me ''' ' This place stinks '
" He can't see us " the human replied ''' I actually can ''' " Hello sir what's your business early in the morning ? " an actual employee came to greet him " Nothing much just the store attracting my attention . " his clone kept holding the mirror with him treating it like a lucky charm .
''' I can easily suppress my curse form as long as I don't leak any intentions of harming people so good luck can probably be the same . ''' he stared at the feng shui mirror that was glowing ''' But objects with luck will keep leaking out their lucks since it's like a passive ability . '''
He decided to sell it at a pawnshop letting Louis buy it on the way home ' Is their anything that can look good with a Fengshui mirror ? ' " Sir why don't you take a look at this lucky cat " ''' As expected they can hear my clone's thoughts '''
Ikuta looked at the lucky cat to see a gold aura ' Hmm a decoration like this would look nice , I suppose a little small business can keep me out of stress ' Ikuta bought the lucky cat and let a bird stand on watch and leaving commands to put the products on sale for Louis on sale .
''' Now to watch with my senses ''' Ikuta looked right at the employees and boss to find their true identities ''' Wow their um what are they supposed to be called ? ''' he watched their bright glow but they weren't as bright as Ikuta's luck .
" Hey , boss lady I sold some goods to a guy with lots of bad luck you think that's going to my virtue ? " A lady drank some tea frowning looking at the body Ikuta possessed " I don't think it will because that old man never had misfortune in the first place . "
She looks at the departing host seeing the dark aura leave his body " It seems like we have a damned in our hands . " she looks around trying to find Ikuta ''' So I'm bad luck ... I did cause a lot of incidents to kill them on purpose . '''
Every time he chooses to kill somebody he would make it an accident that was caused using his own tricks ''' Is it because I caused a lot of incidents that I have bad luck ? ''' Ikuta looked around with the bird as it flies .
''' What would happen if I made someone lucky then ''' Ikuta took over as a doctor at the hospital hearing that there was a patient who got mortally wounded by a bullet " Please doctor save her she's only so young and she has so many good friends . "
The doctor Ikuta took over was the top doctor . The doctor clenched his fist looking at the patient " I will Miss but you should hope for the best . "
A nurse came to him looking very worried " Sir she only has half a few minutes to live " the mother of the child broke and kneeled crying she knows very well that surgery would take at least an hour .
' The more desperate the lower the chances she can survive ... That means if I try now I might make this mother extremely lucky ' " Then we should do it now and at least try " Ikuta walked the staff to a room and started the surgery .
Meanwhile , Ikuta was talking with the two systems , one was being a sycophant while the other was making sure its offers are something Ikuta is attracted to " Host there are a lot of monsters you can fight and help people with . "
A gold screen was shown to Ikuta as the prices were reduced to the lowest number possible " You can use good luck to buy a skill book that can let you use your good luck on others " Ikuta look at it but couldn't decide what to do .
" Hmm Maybe I should wait " Ikuta the real one looked at his body thinking of it ''' Wait for what ? ''' he looked at his body to see a hollowed space surrounded by a golden aura ''' Wait , is my body gaining sentience ... But when ? or did I just know after learning spiritual senses ? '''
His body looked up and waved innocently " I can finally see you Dad " Ikuta stared blankly at his body ''' How can he see I can't even see myself ? ''' Ikuta moved closer to his body " Hi dad " Ikuta waved at Ikuta .
''' The skill book mentioned that spiritual senses let one sees spiritual things like the soul , curses , blessings and etc. ... so how come he doesn't have any ? ''' in Ikuta's eyes his body or fake self doesn't have a soul but a hollowed space shrouded in golden light .
''' It's a good thing that the skill book was not enough to teach the reader to sense souls ... But that is if they are normal and only read the book instead of comprehending . ''' Ikuta sighs and looks at his son .
''' When is your birthday ? ''' Ikuta smiles hearing his dad talk to him for the first time " Um February 24 " Ikuta facepalmed his head ''' That was the same date I made my body . Is this because my body doesn't have a chip ? '''
The two systems started jumping to conclusions ' How can he see the dead already the skill book was only meant to see curses or blessings ? ' ' I can't believe that his father is dead and he is still so cheerful '
''' I think I'll go with the story of Ikuta being very perceptive that he could learn to see the dead from a skill book that doesn't teach so much ''' " Where were you ? " ''' Always with you , you just couldn't see me . '''
''' Wait if he can see me then how did he do it that book only teaches how to sense the low spiritual beings like curses and blessings ''' Ikuta looks at his kid to see nothing strange other than the hollowed space .
" So after reading that book I can see you ? " Ikuta came to a conclusion as the systems were the strange things that happened today ''' Yes ' but how did you do that though ? ... is it because I was reading the book with him ? ' ''' Ikuta looked at the system wondering about what they could offer to help him .
''' What do you want anyway ? ''' Ikuta looked at Ikuta in a daze " Uhm I don't know ? " ''' Don't you want friends ? ''' " But I love staying at home " ''' Why ? ''' " Because I can sleep at home and I have fun in here "
''' I should at least let him walk around if I had known my body had another consciousness ''' Ikuta looked at his body and then returned to it ''' I'll stay in here for now kid ''' " yay " although Ikuta's tone was weak he was still very happy .
The two systems were still jumping to conclusions so Ikuta thought he might spend some time with his kid even though he has been with him the whole time .
''' How about you go buy something from that black screen ? ''' Ikuta looked at the dark-themed system who was wearing rags .
" I wanna buy something " a black screen instantly appeared along with a notification .
[ You have no more witcher points ]
" Is there anything to buy then ? " the witcher system presented a drawn circle " But you can do some gacha draws " ''' Bad idea ''' ' I'm good at these games '
Ikuta pressed the button and a dark ball fell out off the screen and popped with a notification
[ You earned a million points ]
The witcher dropped its jaw seeing the enormous amount Ikuta just got " I got more ... do I get this every day? " " Nonono " it shook its head to avoid losing more ' Please host hunt some damned or I'll go broke '
The fortune system felt the gaze of Ikuta " Do you have a gacha too ? " ''' Give him one ''' Ikuta glared at the system who obliged and showed Ikuta a gacha and lost its entire bank ' I need to harvest some of his everlasting fortune '
The two systems made a promise to never give Ikuta a luck base game to obtain points " What should I buy ? " Ikuta sat on the couch and swiped on the panels to find what would interest both him and his dad but he was told to buy whatever he wants .
' How about all the books ' Ikuta bought the books while Ikuta was looking at the mirror ''' So this good luck thing does work ... the black gas is bad luck and the white gas is good luck ''' Ikuta looked at his kid happily stacking black and gold-colored books .
''' So the other system does sell skill books ''' Ikuta turned to the mirror and tried to move the black gas and the white gas ''' It is much easier using this than I thought ... is it because of my high spiritual senses ? ... If only one of them has a status screen like in a game '''
" Dad , can you read with me ? " Ikuta waved at him and he sighs and returned to the soulless living vessel ''' Okay I'll read with you ''' Ikuta opened some books to read with Ikuta who was very much reading with Ikuta .
''' So you bought how to summon monsters ? ''' " Yes because I saw some monsters and they are not scary since they just look scary and they want someone to care for them " Ikuta smiled and read along with his kid .
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" Thank you doctor , so much for saving my child " the mother of the child who Ikuta did surgery on was happy and thank the doctor he took over and as per the super life-like intelligence on the chip , the doctor accepted the thanks .
While the shop he had entered was having some problems " We need to do something that damned on that old man is appearing around our shop and it just recently disappeared " Ryela pulled the drawers in a certain manner and the displays behind her turned to display other things .
" Morst call the grandmaster we have an unseen deep damned on the world ... and they have yet to cause a big accident " Morst shut the doors and sealed every opening that allow visual access and opened the computer .
" Morst how is Ryela ? " " Grandmaster we just saw a terrible damned it was very dark and entered a man's body . They had full control of themselves , they suddenly disappeared when they left the body they were possessing and "
" Hey slow down child " the grandmaster calmed the child who kept panicking " Relax we have time ... can you prove it so I can tell the others " " Yes I can " Ryela touched the orb which the grandmaster recognized as a charm that recalls the memories of the user .
" What is this ? " the terrifying dark color and the small figure floating above the businessman showed the man with his dark aura .
" This is even more powerful than the Accursed " " What ? " Morst had heard tales of the Accursed ... a damned that can only be seen to those who can see through the deepest level of the abyss .
Just like the abyss once you stare at a damned it stares right at you letting you see even deeper down the abyss " But it's not just that the damned ... we can't even tell its thoughts , it was blocked by the host's thoughts "
The old man frowned " This means they can harm the host from within " " Just how deep must that being have to be ? " " You said that it suddenly disappeared right ? " " Yes " " Means it could reveal its presence ... What kind of disaster will it bring once it does surface from the abyss ? "
" Should we send this news to the favored and the Blessed One ? " " We should at least try to call them ... they are the ones who sent the Accursed back to the deep level of the abyss "
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Meanwhile , the damned they were talking about just finished the skill books with his kid " Whoa this looks cute " Ikuta was petting a blob of curses he surfaced from the abyss ''' So rather than a curse I should be called a powerful damned '''
" What if I changed this " Ikuta opened his hand and brought a favored " Aww this one looks just as small " while Ikuta was reading about summoning he was reading about other books and learned a variety of spells .
''' Good thing I'm your dad or someone might've caught you already ''' Ikuta looked at the mirror checking the vantablack figure with a hint of white area " Dad look " Ikuta showed him the damned and favored Ikuta .
''' Yeah they're cute ''' Ikuta tried to pat him since a child would want praise normally " Gotcha " Ikuta looked at his hands in amazement ''' How can he touch me ? ... I thought only I learned that skill book '''
" Heehee now you can't escape " Ikuta surfaced more damned and bought down favored to attack Ikuta pushing him down ''' What are you doing ? ''' " Playing " Ikuta phased through the floor letting the kid fall.
" No fair " ''' Of course it's not fair I'm like a ghost ''' Ikuta hugged his dad and smiles " I thought you left me when they came to take care of me " ''' Right Louis and Claire were assigned to pretend to be your family '''
" I also know they are humans wearing chips on their back " Ikuta sighs and gives him a hug and pat on the back but because both were the same size and looks it looked like twins hugging each other ''' I'm sorry for not being a good dad ''' " It's the okay dad I always heard you " ''' At least he knew I was with him the whole time '''
''' Though how did he learn to do those ? ... How did he learn to use his spiritual senses ? ''' Ikuta stared intently at the witcher system thinking it did something to those books " Dad look what I can do " Ikuta opened his hands and formed a bright glow .
''' Hey this is fortune ''' he looked at his kid who was doing it without getting stressed " Here a lucky coin " they both turned to see the fortune system drool " No you can't take it " ''' This skill better not be harmful to Ikuta ... But it doesn't look like it will harm him '''
He looked at the coin to feel the dense amount of good fortune " Uhm host are you gonna use that ? " ''' So this guy feeds on a good fortune ? ''' " Really ? " Ikuta held the coin to the air or at least that is what it looked like to others .
''' At least that's what I think ''' " Uhm ? " Ikuta looked at the plain lucky coin ''' Give it and have fun ''' Ikuta didn't know what he meant so he threw the coin away and the fortune system ran to the coin and grab it and stuffed it in its mouth like chocolate that was inside a gold coin wrapper .
' Oh it tastes so good , what is this beautiful mix of blessings ' the system lick its lips the witcher looked at Ikuta with a very unfortunate face ' I have only had a little food today ... What am I gonna eat if he won't hunt curses and damned to give me the curses to eat ? '
Right now instead of having Ikuta as their host , he ended up being a pet owner since Ikuta just bought their entire stock of skill books and still had some free points they can't take away because of their status " What do you eat "
Ikuta whispered to his kid " Really ? ... I can make one too " Ikuta clenched his hands and opened them revealing a dark coin in his hands made from Ikuta's black gas he lent to his kid " Here you go " Ikuta gave the coin to the system who ate it with delight .
" Thank you " Ikuta looked happily at the two systems smiling " Dad can I keep them ? " ''' Since , they are going to be very obedient to Ikuta so might as well tell them ''' Ikuta revealed his cursed form to both now that he knows how to do it and pats Ikuta's head .
''' Yeah keep them but make sure to take care of them ... I'll take care of Louis and Claire since they're like robots ''' Ikuta smiles and goes to his pocket money he would get every time but would not have any use of ' That cursed creature / damned was his dad !!?? '
The two systems stared at Ikuta's dark figure as he disappeared from their senses but was still visible to his kid " Dad what are you doing ? "
Ikuta sat in the air thinking ''' Just ways to protect you ... You're my kid, of course, I have to make sure you are safe ''' Ikuta evaluated all the spells and skills he learned from the entire pile of books.
''' If my theory is correct Ikuta learns things as long as there are souls in his body that are actively absorbing the knowledge , using a skill he can learn ... But the scale is smaller ''' he started noting the skills he could be using .
First , he checked if he was still connected to Ikuta and started to actively use his skills and made a giant spiritual shield covering the whole house and started to construct a big house with a lot of components inside .
Ikuta could see what he was doing " Dad what are you doing ? " he looked around curious and fascinated by the work ''' Testing my abilities ''' " Wow "
" Dad look I can also do it " Ikuta showed him a block ''' That's adorable Ikuta ''' he gave the kid a pat ''' I'll be busy for a while so have fun reading ''' " Okay "
Ikuta heard a knock on the door " Dad my friends are here can I show them ? " Ikuta held the systems ''' Ikuta only you and those who have spiritual senses can see them and also don't tell your friends about them ... it will bring trouble '''
Ikuta thought of it and remembered the old history of magic " Okay dad " ''' You talk to me but you have to do it through the phone ... unless it's an emergency ''' Ikuta heard louder knocks on the door " Okay dad "
" Coming wait for a while " Ikuta ran to the door and opened it to reveal a beastkin with talons for feet , horns and fur , an elven girl and a tall dwarf " Ikuta I'm leaving them with you " Rost pushed the boy and girl to the door and left .
" Okay Rost ... Come in " Ikuta invited his friends but Ezio had to clean his talons " I'm jealous you don't have to do this all the time " " Ehh only Ikuta doesn't have to care ... I have to make sure my ears don't droop or it will hurt my head "
Nisse showed a picture of her wearing a hood " I can't even wear one properly and had to get the ones with holes " " At least you can wear shoes I can't even bend my talons even if I wanted to"
" I think you both look good with your family traits " Ikuta smiled and his friends looked at each other " Yeah ... " " But Ikuta at least you don't have to worry " Nisse slaps Ezio's face " No you idiot didn't your parents teach you to never ask about Ikuta he lives with two college students who were paid to take care of him " Ikuta could hear Nisse's whisper thanks to spiritual senses .
" Oh I do have a dad he was just very busy and we talked today he was very nice " Ezio pushed Nisse's arm off and gets up " Oh that's nice my dad keeps making me exercise , he keeps saying it's to make me fit " " My dad made me learn table manners because I need to be like a lady . " Ikuta looked at his dad who was making things using his spiritual senses to see him .
" Yeah and my " Slap " Don't mention a mother " " Oh it's okay I'm fine just having a dad he's a really good dad " Nisse hugged Ikuta " You're a good friend " " Uhm thank you " " I don't know what is happening but I want a hug too " Ezio hugged the pair and Ikuta started hitting them " I need to breathe " " Oh sorry " they both stopped hugging him and put down their bags .
" Wanna play a game " Ikuta had interacted with some damned and favored so he remembered the summons and sent them away without the two noticing as they took out some things in their bags " Ikuta what are these ? " Ezio looked at the black and gold coins he made " They're good luck and bad luck coins "
Ikuta had forgotten the promise ''' It's fine I can take care of any problems coming in the future ''' " I made them but I don't know if it works " Ikuta had yet to test the effects of the coins and pushed away from the black ones and gave them two gold coins " Here keep them " the two friends looked at the coin and took it " Thanks Ikuta "
Luckily the two friends only thought of the coins as something Ikuta found on the road thanks to him being very lucky .
Ezio put the coin inside his bag and Nisse put hers in her pocket " So let's play " Nisse reached out to her bag and took out a board game " Slides and ladders " Ezio frowned looking at the luck-based game " But Ikuta always wins this game . I don't even know if he is cheating or not " " I'm not cheating I just throw the dice and it rolls on its own "
" Hmm " Ezio groans and took a little game piece " Then I go first " He rolled the dice and got a 4 " Oh lucky I reached a ladder to the next row " Nisse rolled the die and got a 6 " six lucky " Ikuta took the die and rolled a one " One " he moved his piece once .
''' They're having a lot of fun ''' Ikuta tested other skills after he had made a copy of the house using his curse and blessing ''' Though expanding and strengthening the bad and good luck was not too hard I think I might attract the attention of strong guys . '''
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" Is everyone here ? " " Yes " Ryela touched the orb showing the possessed and a Vantablack aura surrounding the clone Ikuta made " What is this ? " an elven elder looked at the dark aura that gave out the aura of bad fate .
" I believe this is the damned who collects the belief of bad luck ... I don't know this feeling but it feels like he will exist and retain his powers even if people no longer believed in bad luck " " Why do you think like that ? "
A bull tapped the table looking at the scene " I believe it's because the figure can control their powers or rather is the one that causes the bad fate to happen " Ryela nods at Trous and Rico frowns along with some other masters .
" Did we assess the damned their intentions ? " " We haven't yet the damned didn't do anything other than coming to the store looking at the " Ryela gave Morst a glance " What did the man buy ? " " I think the lucky cat "
" Yes what he said " " So far we have yet to find out about their intentions " Dritch who was the grandmaster that gathered the leaders of the community stood up " Before we dismiss this topic Previously Ryela showed this ... Ryela "
Ryela moved to the scene where the clone lost the dark aura " It seems the damned can surface at this apprentice's level of spiritual senses ... so you all must be careful and tell everyone ... it may one day appear and bring destruction "
''' Isn't that bull Ezio's uncle and that elf should be Nisse's grandpa ''' Ikuta watched the meeting using a bird ''' Well they don't plan to kill me just yet and I won't kill them ''' Ikuta started to walk around using his cursed form but no one could see him .
''' Wow you can collect the damned to extract their powers ''' he looked at the jars containing the damned who was in many forms " Ugh so much pressure " Ikuta saw Morst dropping to his bed ''' Oh the helper of that lady '''
Ikuta looked at another bedroom to see Ryela making charms ''' Oh right Ikuta could do the same since I also learned how to make some too ''' Ikuta looked around to see stacks of talismans and each had a label .
''' Seal , shield , bomb , flash ''' Ryela looked around feeling threatened " Who's there ? " ''' She doesn't know or why else would she look at her bed ? ''' Ikuta flew out and found a camera and used it to go back home .
" Ugh Ikuta is first again " Ezio complained throwing the dice and looking at the time " It's still so early what do we do ? " Ikuta looked at the TV and then at the shelves where he hid the skill book " Maybe we can watch TV "
Ikuta opened and found out he was back on the news channel " Oh right there was a rain this morning " " Breaking news a doctor made a miraculous surgery on a patient that suffered a mortally wounded disaster . "
" I want to be a doctor too and save people who have mesothelioma or cancer " Ezio looked at the screen and then at Nisse " But what is meso-whatever it is " " It's a type of cancer that grows outside your organs "
Ezio imagined it and was frightened " Ugh that's gross " he shivered imagining cancer while Ikuta was looking at a dark aura behind the doctor who was doing surgery " Oh dad " Nisse compared the faces of Ikuta and the doctor and wondered .
" Wait that doctor doesn't look like you " Ikuta panicked and couldn't find any ways to lie ''' He saved me ''' " My dad was saved by that doctor " Nisse looked at the doctor and understood " Oh he was a very smart doctor "
' Dad had a lot of people who has chips on his back the doctor and big brother and sister were just a few of them ' ''' You want me to tell you about them ? ''' Ikuta floated beside the curious kids .
" Dad " Ikuta covered his mouth and looked at his friends " Uhm " " Ikuta what are you doing ? " ''' Well he is a normal kid ''' the screen on the TV changed and a loading icon popped out " Ikuta your TV is loading ? "
''' It's okay I just won't show my face ''' " Hello Ikuta you called " Ezio was spooked thanks to his senses " What was that ? " " Oh I'm Ikuta's father you must be his friend " " Friends I also came with Ezio "
Ikuta looked at Nisse and wondered how his kid got friends ''' I should pay more attention to Ikuta I don't even know how many friends he's got ''' " Oh sorry this is an audio communication so I can only hear your voices "
" Oh it's okay dad " they all sat by the couch with Ezio and Nisse a little nervous since Ikuta suddenly told them about his dad " Is there anything you want to talk about Ikuta ? " " Uhm I just wanted to tell my friends about you "
" Okay , so you weren't calling ... But that's fine you can call me anytime " " Okay dad " the TV went back to the channel and the friends looked at Ikuta " Ikuta do you have other relatives ? " " No just me and my dad "
" At least you didn't have a cousin like mine " Ezio grumbled and pulled his talon feet up sitting cross-legged on the couch " What about you Nisse do you have cousins ? " " A few half-elves with beastkin , dwarf and human genes my mom and dad are just elves "
" My dad is just a human " " My dad was a bull and my mom has half-wolf and avian genes " " So those small horns above your eyes are from your dad ? "
Ezio took pride in his horns as they made him intimidating " But you have to cut it off every time it grows too long like nails " Ezio dropped his head with embarrassment " It hurts okay " " It's fine Ikuta can be very mean " " But I just thought they were like fingernails "
''' Maybe I'll talk to him when he is done '''
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