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Chapter 1:
I couldn't move or speak. I could only stand and watch the scene in front of me unfold passively.
“What the hell is this!? You've been raising my secret weapon for all these years and this is the result!?”
“What's wrong my Lord? Are you displeased with her?”
“Of course I am!? Look at her, you blithering moronic woman!”
“Isn't she beautiful? She's completely docile as well. She listens to everything I say because I've had her on loyalty potions her entire life!”
“I didn't want some obedient docile sex slave! I wanted a weapon I could unleash on my enemies! A weapon I could turn against…Him! You have failed me. You know the price of failure.”
“M-my L-lord…Give me another chance please! I can make the girl useful to you.”
“Forget it! You've wasted enough of my precious time as it is! Avada Kedavra!”
The man who looked exactly like Voldemort, from Harry Potter, pointed his wand at me next. I still couldn't move. “It's a pity. You are remarkably beautiful, but you're useless to me. Avada Kedavra!”
The green light hit me next…
…
I awoke with a start and a very dry throat.
“That was a weird dream.”
I clutched my aching head. Something wasn’t right here. Something felt wrong! I reached underneath my pillow to grab the knife I always had underneath.
It wasn’t there! This wasn't my bedroom!
“What the hell is going on!” I quickly hopped out of the bed. The sheets slid off my body. I looked down and blushed to myself in embarrassment when I realized that I was completely naked. And were my boobs bigger?
“Not only am I not in my own home, for some reason, I went to sleep completely naked last night!” I muttered. I hoped I wasn’t kidnapped last night! I needed to find something to wear and then get out!
I looked around the dilapidated room I was in for anything useful. Thankfully, there was a new looking dresser across from the bed. Both pieces of furniture were new and looked very out of place.
I walked over towards the dresser. Next to it was a large ornate full body mirror.
I paused when I caught my own reflection in the mirror…
“Is that me!?” I exclaimed in shock when I saw my reflection. It was not what I was expecting!
The reflection in the mirror was not my normal plain self.
“Have I been transmigrated or Isekai’d or something!? Am I still dreaming?”
I pinched my cheek hard and whined when it stung!
“Ow! I’m not dreaming.” The reflection in the mirror really was me! I'm in a completely new body!
I wasn’t a vain person, usually… But at this moment, looking at the reflection in front of me, I couldn't help but feel a bit vain.
“I'm absolutely gorgeous!” I grinned in excitement at my new looks! “This new body is amazing!” I started bending and turning so I could take in every detail of my new reflection. I was looking at utter perfection!
“I look like I'm somewhere between 18 and 20 years old. About 5 and a half feet tall. My skin is flawless and almost as pale as snow. I have long flowing blond hair down to my waist. I have a heart shaped face free of any blemishes. My breasts are very large and perky and I can't see an ounce of fat anywhere on my body. If anything, my body is well toned everywhere!”
What really drew my attention though, were my new eyes. my eyes are bright red! Almost like two beautiful hypnotic rubies had adorned my face. When I looked in the mirror closely though, my pupils almost looked a tiny bit…slitted?
“Am I a vampire or something?” I reached a finger inside my mouth and felt around. Everything was normal except my canines. They were longer than they should have been and felt incredibly sharp…
“Ow!” I directly poked one and it easily pierced my finger.
It was bleeding! But not for long. I held my finger out in front of my face and to my shock, the tiny puncture wound healed immediately! My skin was visibly stitching itself back together “Holy crap, I am a Vampire!”
[Close! But not quite! You're not a Vampire. You are a Dhampir.]
I jumped when a new voice came out of nowhere!
“Who said that?”
The voice sounded strange. Almost androgynous and slightly robotic?
[I did! It's nice to meet you, new Host! I hope you last longer than my last one…He was an arrogant prick.]
The voice was laced with disdain as it said that.
“Host!?” I asked in surprise. Was this actually happening right now? Was this what I thought it was?
[Indeed! I am your Gamer System! I hope we get along well! ]
Holy shit! This really was happening!
“I hope we get along too…?”
[We might as well get to it. You have been transmigrated into a new body! The previous body's owner was killed, not by me, so don't feel too bad about it. You can do her a favor by avenging her/yourself!]
I couldn't help but feel bad that such a beautiful girl was killed so young. “What happened to her?” I asked.
[Find out for yourself! You are her now. What was leftover of her soul fused with your own and you have her memories! ]
“What? I have her… Aaaarggh!!!!” I grasped my head in pain as years of memories flowed into me. My name is Valerie now. I was a sweet and kind girl who never wanted to hurt anyone. I lived alone with my mother my whole life.
I loved my mom a lot! What I didn't know was that that woman wasn’t my mother! She was some kind of evil Witch! My fake mother and her group had been raising me, my whole life, to become a weapon to use against my father… whoever he was.
That dream I saw before I woke up wasn't a dream! That was how I/Valerie died!
“Holy Crap! Voldemort is real here and he tried to kill me with the killing curse… and I lived. Does that make me the Girl-who-lived now?”
[Technically yes, but that's not important. You're not strong enough to face a guy like that yet.]
“Face Him!?” I exclaimed. “I’m going to have to face him? Isn't that Harry Potter's job?”
[So you don’t want revenge?]
I clutched my head in pain as my new memories settled in. Was I just going to take my abduction and murder lying down? “NO! We have been raised as a mindless slave for our entire life! We were hopped up on loyalty potions and could barely think for ourselves! We had my entire childhood taken from us!”
I vowed that I would get revenge myself! I was a gamer after all! What was a little thing, like Voldemort, compared to a Gamer?
[Damn right!]
“Thanks for saving me, System!” I said sincerely.
[You're welcome. It’s time for your New Game!]
“So why did you pick me? Not that I'm not grateful. The last thing I remember was going to sleep in my own bed last night after another horrid day of work!” I spat out.
In my last life, my horrible extended family stole all the inheritance my parents left for me when they died. My relatives then threw me out on the streets to die. When I went to my friends for help, none of them offered to help me except for a small handful. I had even given money to a lot of those people who refused to help me in the past. “Ungrateful pricks…” I muttered to myself.
[I picked you because you know hardship. You've learned that you need to be ruthless to people who go against and hold those precious few, who are on your side, close.]
I supposed that made sense. Not all of my friends turned their backs on me. I had some pretty amazing ones as well. I was going to dearly miss them. “How did I die?” I asked the System.
[There was a carbon monoxide leak and your detector's batteries hadn't been replaced…]
I facepalmed. “Fuck… I knew I should have got batteries last time I was at the store!” I lamented. “Now I'm going to be another freaking statistic! At least I had a peaceful death in my sleep. And now I have been reborn with a Gamer System of all things!”
[Any questions about your new System?]
“Do I have any stats or anything?” I asked.
[Of course you do! You're a Gamer after all. Here you go!]
Valerie Tepes (Dhampir Princess)
Lv = 0 (0/100 XP)
Health = 100/100 (Constitution x 10 + Lv x 10)
Health Regeneration = (Constitution Per Minute)
Mana = 100 (Intelligence x 10 + Lv x 10)
Mana Regeneration = (Wisdom x 10 Per Minute)
Stats:
Constitution = 10
Strength = 10
Dexterity = 10
Intelligence = 10
Wisdom = 10
Charisma = 30
Perks:
Gamer’s Mind
Gamer’s Body
Observe
A blue screen with a bunch of information materialized in front of my face. “So these are my stats, hmmm?” I looked them over. Everything was at Level 10 except my Charisma, which was Level 30! I obviously saw the results of that when I looked in the mirror earlier. “If I am this amazingly beautiful with only 30 Charisma, what would I look like at 100?” I asked myself with a grin.
[So much for not being vain…]
I pouted. Ok, maybe I was actually a bit vain. I couldn’t help who I was!
[It's ok. As a Gamer, you're allowed to be vain. Just don't become an arrogant asshole…that's how my last Host ended up kicking the bucket. He made enemies out of absolutely EVERYONE and his ENTIRE multiverse rallied to kill him! They almost ended up sealing me away as well!]
I was surprised to hear that. What kind of asshole must that guy have been to turn his ENTIRE MULTIVERSE against him!? I wondered how that was even possible…
“How come I don’t have a Luck stat?” I asked while looking over my other stats.
[As a gamer, you either have the best possible Luck or the worst possible Luck depending on the situation.]
“So I basically have the same type of luck as a typical protagonist then?” I figured. I supposed I could work with that.
I also wanted to ask more about the System’s last Host but decided to save those questions for another time. It was best to not bring up bad memories for my new System so soon into our new…partnership? I wasn’t exactly sure what to call our relationship.
[Partnership?…I like it! We can be partners! Anyway, do you have any more questions about your stats?]
I didn't have anything to compare them to, so I didn't know if those stats were good or not. I was assuming they were not because I was currently Level 0.
Of course, what really drew my attention was my new name. It was vaguely familiar somehow…
{Valerie Tepes - Dhampir Princess}
I pondered where I had heard that name from. I recalled vague memories of a certain ecchi anime/light novel series that I followed in my past life.
“WAIT!? Wasn’t that the name of that vampire girl from DxD? Am I her? Am I in DxD as well as Harry Potter!?” I asked with a hint of panic. “That would not be a great universe to be in if you were a beautiful woman like me. Idiot Devil’s would be constantly chasing me to get me in their harems/peerages! Especially since I’m also a Dhampir! I’m basically like a rare pokemon!”
[You don't have to worry about tha–]
I cut the System off! “...As if! I’m a Gamer now…I’ll have my own Harem thank you very much!” I declared passionately!
[Right… As I was saying, you don’t have to worry. You are not in DxD... At the moment. You might go there in the future though since you are technically your universe's version of Valerie Tepes. All of you are linked through some weird multiverse-causality mumbo-jumbo, that's too complicated to explain right now. Okay?]
I sighed in relief hearing that. I would hopefully be much stronger before I ever went over to the booby-harem world. Also– “I can't believe my Gamer System just said my mumbo-jumbo…” I muttered with a giggle.
[Hey! It's not 2024 anymore. You're going to have to get hip with the time’s local vernacular!]
“It’s not!” I wondered what year it was then. I figured that I'd find out for myself soon enough. “So what should I do now?” I asked my System.
[Now you start your new life as a Gamer. Grind to become one of the strongest beings in the multiverse and all that! But first, you should probably get dressed because you're still naked.]
I opened the dresser and checked what was inside. The clothing selection was pretty bland, but it would have to do for now. Inside were 10 pairs of white shirts, 10 pairs of blue jeans, 10 bras, 10 panties, and 20 socks.
I slipped on the clothes for one of the outfits. Everything fit me perfectly. On the floor nearby was a pair of brand new white tennis shoes that I assumed were going to also be in my size.
[You assume right.]
“Do I have a starter quest? Or any starting gifts?” I asked as I sat on my bed and slipped my shoes on.
[You do have a Starter Gift Box!]
A different blue screen popped up in front of me.
{You have received: Starter Gift Box x 1! Box has been placed in your inventory.}
I wasn’t exactly sure how to check my inventory. Under the System’s advice, I hesitantly reached my hand forward while imagining an empty space being in front of it. My hand vanished as it slipped inside some kind of black portal. As soon as my hand reached inside, I felt like I instinctively knew everything that was inside my inventory space.
Currently inside was the Starter Gift Box and a wallet that held around $200 in cash along with some ID’s for my new identity.
I pulled out the Gift Box along with the wallet. I giggled when I saw the Gift Box was just a cardboard shoebox. I put that aside for now and looked at my ID cards.
“Hey System, why does one of these ID’s have me as a Highschool student for…Midtown High?” I asked skeptically.
[Oh right! I almost forgot! Here you go: ]
{Quest Started: Attend your first day of High School!}
{Objective: Make it through the whole school day! +50 xp}
{Bonus Objective: Make three new friends! +100 xp}
Valerie grimaced. She wasn’t exactly thrilled to have to go back to school.
“At least I’m a senior transferring in according to the student ID. I only have to attend for half a year or so.”
That 50 XP looked easy enough to get. I figured that I could easily sit through an entire day.
Making three friends though…
…I would have to see how that goes.
[Sex friends count as friends too!]
I sputtered hearing that! “S-sex friends? I never even had those in my last life! How would I get those now?”
[It’ll be easy, you’re super hot…]
“That is true,” I said with a smile while my head immediately went to the gutter. I already knew my new life was going to be amazing just from having 30 Charisma at the start!
I shook my head to dispel any naughty thoughts. “Before that though, I need to open that starter gift box. Anything will help right now because I'm a squishy useless Level 0.” I opened up my shoebox to see what was inside. There was a flash of light, and I instinctively felt some items had just been deposited in my inventory space.
{Congratulations! You have received: Revives x 3, one Iron Knife, and Sacred Gear: Sephiroth Graal!}
I had a deadpan expression on my face as I read that last reward from the screen that just popped up.
“Hey, System? I thought you said that I was not Valerie Tepes from DxD. Why did I get her Sacred Gear?” I asked with some skepticism.
[You’re not the one from DxD, but you are still this universe's version of her. She’s always destined to be the one to find the Grail!]
I nodded at the explanation. I supposed it made sense. “I'd rather not have a Sacred Gear that drives all of its users insane though.” I said.
[You don’t have to worry. This Sephiroth Graal has been modified. Its abilities were changed. The Grail will allow you to produce Unlimited Holy Water, Healing Water, or Water of Youth. Of course, all that depends on if you have the Mana for any of that.]
I held up my hand, and a small Golden Chalice materialized in it. “It’s beautiful, but not as ornate as I thought it would be.” It wasn’t covered in gems or runes like I thought it would be. It wasn’t the average wooden cup from Indiana Jones. It was just a small Golden Chalice. One that I could feel radiating some kind of energy, though.
I wondered if what I felt coming from the Grail was Holy Energy. It felt warm and comforting. I was also amazed that I was literally holding the Holy Grail in my hands so casually. Millions of people searched the world for thousands of years, and here it was sitting in my hand.
As I gazed upon it, I felt something lock in place inside of me. I could feel the Sephiroth Graal reaching out to my very soul and fusing itself with me forever!
I willed the Grail to disappear and felt it settle back inside… my soul. It felt weird, but I was sure I would get used to it in the future. “Thanks for the awesome gift, System!” I said with a cheerful smile!
[Just having such an amazing starter gift is already a massive advantage for you. You basically have unlimited healing as long as you have an MP to spare.]
Now that I was dressed and had some starting equipment, I looked around the apartment I was in. It was a complete dump, tiny, the floorboards were visibly rotten, and the ceiling was moldy with obvious signs of water damage. I needed to get the hell out of there.
“This is not the residence of a Gamer! I should be living in a large Mansion or Penthouse being waited on by dozens of servants! Maybe surrounded by my found family/harem members as well?” I said as I started grabbing the spare outfits and stuffing them into my inventory space. There was no point in wasting perfectly good clothes after all. While I was at it, I decided to take the bed, dresser, and ornate mirror as well. They all looked brand new, and I figured they were worth taking as emergency furniture at least in case I couldn’t get a better place by the end of the day.
With that done, I was ready to step outside and start my new Isekai life! I went towards the door and tried to open it.
It did not open…
“Fuck.”
…
I had to crawl out one of the windows because the apartment I'd woken up in was actually a condemned building. All the doors were boarded up! “The hell, System!?” I exclaimed in frustration.
[It was hard enough transporting you across the ocean and then creating fake ID’s for you. How did you expect me to create a genuine lease as well?]
The System’s tone was a bit snappy with me.
I sighed as I stepped out onto the streets. I grimaced when I took in my surroundings. To put it nicely, I was currently in a ghetto. To put it not nicely, I was in an area that made ghettos look nice in comparison.
The sidewalks and streets were cracked with weeds growing through them, and every single building around me was covered in boards and graffiti.
Also the moon was high in the sky and it was the middle of the night. A very dark night because none of the street lights around here were on.
And here I was, an incredibly beautiful Level 0 girl, in the middle of an area like this…
“Hey, you! What are you doing in our territory!?” A man across the street who was covered head to toe in tattoos yelled towards me.
“Yeah? What’s a pretty bitch like you doing out here all by yourself?”
They were both obviously gang members of some kind. It looks like they were standing guard in front of the building across from me. Unlike the one I had just crawled out of, this one actually looked to be in use. And unfortunately for me they were both holding guns.
{Now commencing Surprise Sutorial Mission: Eliminate T-bone and his men! }
{Rewards: Level up x 1, Random Skill Book x1}
{Failure: Death and you lose your Gamer System!}
“E–liminate!?” I sputtered out loud. “I’ve never killed anyone before, System!” I complained. I was not ready for that! I couldn't even reject it either otherwise I would lose my system?
“Who are you talking to girly!?” The man on the right yelled out again as they started walking across the street towards me.
Dammit, they heard me talking to the System! And now they are coming over to my side of the street!
‘Do I have any attack abilities or anything?’ I asked nervously in my head as the two armed gang members approached me. ‘Maybe a starting Class?’
[Classes don’t unlock until you reach Level 1…]
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