The Anime Trope System: Stone vs. Viper, #11 a LitRPG [Alice Edition] (ATS)

by Alvin Atwater

  Clyde buried his face into nice and warm breasts, taking a deep whiff. He held the pink-haired young woman, relishing in her touch, embracing her kindness, and his happiness to be around her.

  The passion started with a kiss. He pulled off her shirt, caressing soft breasts. Harumi responded with a soft moan. That only increased his hunger for the woman.

  He teased the first nipple with a lick then sucked. His fingers followed the flow, slipping inside the woman, riling up the wetness. As if something triggered within, the young man gently entered, enjoying Harumi’s breathing and moaning.

  They had sex had least three times before someone banged on their door. Clyde snuggled into Harumi.

  “What?” he said to the disturber. “Can’t you see I’m in a happy place.”

  Harumi giggled as he smothered his face into her chest. He had no idea that the kitsune wished this moment with him could last forever.

  “Get up Clyde. We’ll be back on the road in about half an hour,” Alice said. “Unlock your door. And what do you mean happy place?”

  Harumi sighed.

  “I’ll get it.”

  Before Clyde could offer to do it himself, in attempt to score some gentleman points, Harumi was already on her way toward the door, butt fucking naked.

  “Wait,” Clyde said. “I sense a disturbance.”

  Harumi froze to stare at him blankly.

  “A little bundle of joy,” he said softly. “I’ll get the shower started.”

  “You gave her the ring,” Harumi said as he was halfway to the bathroom. “You can’t hide yourself.” She opened the door, grinning evilly.

  “Pervy cheater husbandoooo oniii,” Natalia sang cheerfully as she barged into the room. Clyde just barely got into the bathroom in time.

  “Why are you naked, Harumi?” Alice said.

  “Oh, just love time,” Harumi replied simply. “Nothing for you to be uppity about.”

  Clyde sighed. If his harem was newly formed, then the conversation would be ten times more awkward.

  The words, “no big deal” never came out of the women’s mouths when the subject matter involved the young man. Damn, they were too good for him.

  The door opened as he stepped into the fancy hotel shower.

  “Natalia, I swear—”

  Harumi entered, her tail and ears still out for washing. Clyde’s erection maxed out again.

  “Don’t take all day,” Alice shouted into the bathroom.

  “Hurry, hurry pervy nii. You need breakfast,” Natalia called.

  Despite the urging, Harumi pressed her ass against the young man’s wood.

  “One for the road?” she said.

  “Don’t mind if I do,” Clyde replied, kissing her.

  He gave her a rear-ending that Alice more than likely heard over the roar of the shower.

  “I wish we had time for another round,” Harumi said after catching her breath post-climax.

  Horny Harumi is the best , Clyde thought.

  After the rest of the morning activities—one which included the young man almost dropping his toothbrush onto the floor—the party boarded the bus.

  Clyde took in Amina’s attire. Casual clothes.

  “You don’t have to stare at me,” she said, blushing. She sat on the couch in front of him.

  “I’m just taken aback,” Clyde said.

  “The succubus really is a kind person,” Amina said. “She even set me up with personal items like a toothbrush.”

  Harumi on his left, Alice his right, and Natalia in her lap, Clyde’s company for the remainder of the way to Alon was set.

  [Ki increased by Harumi!]

  Clyde texted his lich, his intention being to check on things back in Lot City. Despite the time being in the middle of the night on that side of the world, Asu still replied. The maidens were deemed non-threatening, innocent and even adorable. She sensed no ill-intent from them. What a relief.

  The first thing that strolled through Clyde’s thoughts when Ming told him about the Stone Maidens was: red flag. Possibly bitchy women who wanted to use him for power or some other cliché. Leaving Asu behind to examine their souls was just perfect.

  Another buzz from his phone revealed picture messages that he quickly minimized.

  Clyde: what the hell, I’ve got many many prying eyes.

  Asu: *blushing emoji* *laughing emoji* *angel emoji*

  Clyde shoved his phone into his pocket and laid back. Harumi pulled his head onto her lap…The young man smirked at the trope. The lap pillow. Or maybe it wasn’t just a trope. He still appreciated it nonetheless.

  “So did you come up with any idea on how to beat He who needs to die,” Alice asked.

  “A somewhat janky plan,” Clyde said. “I still need time to construct it. I also need to learn about Ki. What are the colors and all that jazz.”

  “I can teach you,” Noona said, her seat opposite of Clyde’s couch.

  “I…can too, if you want.”

  Clyde eyed Maki who was seated next to Yuki.

  “Do you know anything about Blood Ki?” Clyde asked.

  Maki nodded.

  “Mei…” She gulped, probably remembering the horrible thing she did to her friend while under Achilles’ control. “She taught me the Ki types and meanings associated with them.”

  Noona pouted.

  “It’s great to be ignored.”

  “I’m not ignoring you,” Clyde said, “I’m just increasing my number of teachers.”

  Naoko peeked over the couch.

  “I see that you’re eager to train, onii-chan. Natalia and I will take you to the instance.”

  Clyde frowned.

  “I just wanted some lecturing. If my jank plan’s going to work, I need to know why things are the way they are.”

  “Then your lecture will be in the instance, taught by Noona and Maki,” Naoko said.

  “I wish I had a costume—I mean the right attire ready,” Noona said. “I can still pull off a meannn teacher. Or maybe that sexy teacher.” She winked at Clyde.

  “Oh, quit being such a cow,” Alice said. “Take us to the instance already. Ako, you’re coming along too. You have samurai stuff to teach.”

  “Nya,” Ako said.

  “Nyyaa, how come you call her by name?” Neko said.

  “Oh can it, cat,” Alice said.

  “Yeah, cat,” Natalia said, sticking her tongue out at the catgirl. Neko returned the gesture.

  Episode 58 (Part 3)

  “Wait—”

  “No takebacks meanie girl,” Natalia said to Kitome as she initiated the warp to the spiritual instance.

  Clyde, Kitome, Harumi, and Alice found themselves sitting in an outdoor classroom setting with Ako, Naoko, Natalia, Maki, and Noona standing in front of a marker board. Amina rapidly glanced around, freaking the fuck out before realizing the others were present. Blushing heavily, she calmly took a seat in the audience while submerged in Toru-branded blank stares.

  “Why am I here?” she said in a defeated voice. Naoko walked over to her.

  “Onee-sama, you are a being of wisdom.” She bowed. “Please help us.”

  Amina pet the kuudere loli.

  “Entity, raise your head, you do not have to lower it for me. Please, resume your lesson. I shall add where it is needed.”

  Naoko nodded and took her place to the front of the marker board.

  “Maki, you start. Please teach them what you know about Ki. Noona, you follow up with whatever she misses.”

  “K—Ki is a special manifestation of spiritual energy,” Maki began, a little nervousness in her voice. Blushing, she continued with a tad more confidence. “The colors I know are Red, Blue, Black, and Green. Red represents passion and determination. Fire is commonly channeled through it, but I’ve seen Mei use electricity. She also levitated. Blue represents sorrow, coldness, and sometimes shyness. Ice and pure Ki are easier to channel through it. Truly skilled can connect to nature, summon huge waves of water or glaciers, communicate
with marine life. Green represents nature. Mei couldn’t use it, but friends of hers called on the wind, talked to animals, nourished plants. Black Ki represents chaos, wickedness, and instability. I really don’t understand much about it, except that it can corrupt anyone like some kind of taint.”

  Clyde’s eyes widened. Could black Ki and taint be one and the same? Maybe it's simply taint using Ki as a host. Questions for later.

  “That’s the gist of it,” Maki said. “And then we have blood—”

  “You left out some other Ki,” Noona interrupted. “Well, I guess not everyone would know about them.” She raised a finger. “White Ki for one is…kind of like holy, maybe purity. It’s really, really difficult to learn. Then there’s golden Ki. That one’s kind of lost, but I think my father said ancient dragons granted it to worthy followers a long, long time ago. Some say it was exclusive to the golden dragons. Then there’s—”

  “Noona,” Alice interrupted, her voice tired. “The blood Ki is quite important. Let her finish.”

  “Sorry, sorry,” Noona said. “I was just excited to teach.”

  “It’s okay,” Maki said. She addressed Clyde and the others again. “I’ll go ahead and say this. Blood Ki is dangerous. It involves tapping into your own life force, the life force of others, or even draining from nature to perform its abilities. I’m not sure how to use it, but…like black Ki, I don’t recommend it.”

  “She is right,” Naoko said. “Why do you want to use something like that, onii-chan?”

  “It’s not that I want to use it, I—”

  “No going tsundere on us,” Natalia interrupted.

  Clyde materialized a pillow, nailing the loli dead center in the face. He warped the book of dark magic from his inventory and passed it to Naoko.

  “I can’t access the magic in this book without blood Ki,” he said.

  “What could possibly be locked within that book, nya,” Ako said.

  “I can teach you blood Ki,” Noona said, “but, I wouldn’t recommend it. It hurts.”

  Clyde didn’t miss the pained look in the demoness’s eyes.

  “I don’t intend to use it except to unlock the book.” He wasn’t fully lying, but sometimes emergencies called for drastic measures.

  Noona nodded.

  “This will not be so easy to learn. And it will take some time. For now, I will infuse some of my Ki into you. It’s going to prepare your blood, bind it to Ki. After a day, you’ll be ready for the next step.”

  “I sure hope the spell in this book is worth it,” Clyde said, then he flashed a playful grin. “Get on with it, Noona.”

  Noona smiled sadly.

  “You may feel discomfort.”

  “Are you sure about this?” Alice said. “Because if you hurt my Clyde—”

  “It’s okay, Alice,” Clyde said.

  “I’m with her on this one,” Harumi said. “After Maki’s explanation of blood Ki, maybe you should think carefully. Is one spell worth the risk?”

  “I say no,” Kitome said. “Blood Ki is stupid. You’ve got other incredible powers—why get so hung up on this?”

  “This is the first time a magic book was locked to me,” Clyde said. “I know it’s risky, but I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get stronger. Sol humiliated me, that kid, Dire, ran us over. Even the elder dragon. I simply didn’t belong there.”

  “But the situations were out of your control,” Harumi said, squeezing his hand. “You—”

  “We train here to address those issues, onii-chan,” Naoko interrupted. “Harumi onee-sama, please allow him to add this to his knowledge pool.” Her eyes glistened, a rarity for kuuderes.

  Harumi gave in to the cuteness, pulling the loli in for a hug.

  “Fine…but I don’t want him hurt.”

  Naoko nodded. The young man figured Fuyoko would be quite jealous at that moment if she were present.

  Noona looked uneasy, perhaps uncomfortable as she placed her delicate hand on Clyde’s forehead.

  “Here I go.”

  The feeling of…wasp stings coated the young man’s body until he felt like he couldn’t take it anymore. Fortunately, the pain subsided just as quickly as it came.

  [You have started learning Blood Ki . Warning, this rare Ki line is dangerous. Do not take it lightly.]

  [Ki infusion: 1% and increasing…]

  Noona nearly collapsed, but Clyde caught her.

  “Are you okay?” he asked.

  “It’s a little unsettling on the body, but I’ll be fine,” Noona replied.

  “While she rests, we’ll get to today’s training,” Natalia said. “Then Suicide-chan can finish up with her samurai stuff.”

  And just like that, Clyde and the others were drilled with mundane exercises, from strength straining to cardio.

  At one point, Natalia made him pull her while she was on a sled. He complained at first until the whips came, urging the young man to speed to the goal. The worst training exercise, dictated by Naoko, had him balancing upside down on a super-sharp spike with a single finger coated in sensitive magic. The lolis tickled him every now and then in an attempt to disrupt his concentration.

  He barely completed the exercise, sweat pouring from his body in waves.

  Ako’s training was no easier. At the end of it all, a beautiful prompt rewarded them for the efforts.

  [Stone mode recharge time decreased! Taint vanquished!]

  [Congratulations, you have reached levels 147 and 148. Stats increased!]

  “Fuck, that was so intense I went up two levels,” Clyde said.

  Abruptly, a sudden rocking ejected Clyde and the others from the spiritual instance. Sophia had pulled over.

  “It’s Matsuko,” she said. “She’s finally here.”

  Clyde made eye contact with Melody.

  “Let’s make this quick. We’re almost to Alon and don’t have time for any delays. If she can give us any clue about stopping He who fucks sheep from attacking us, that would be awesome.”

  Melody trailing him, Clyde stepped off the bus to meet the fallen angel. She was a busty woman with long silver hair, purple eyes, and large black angel wings. Despite being beautiful, she looked worn out, dark circles beneath her eyes, hair a little messy. Resignation rested deep within that gaze.

  Clyde’s expression hardened. Standing before him was someone who threatened Team Stone and paid for it.

  “What do you want, fallen angel,” he said, a god chant oozing involuntarily from his mouth like thunder. She flinched, tears building to the sides of her eyes.

  “I’ve come to give you a warning and tell you how to beat—”

  Abruptly, she collapsed. Undine rushed off the bus to cradle the woman in her arms. The reaperess’s eyes briefly flashed. Ruri followed.

  “She has a terrible fever. Tortured in Achille’s hell nonstop… She didn’t even choose to be this way. Go get Harumi.” She hugged her old friend. Ruri hurried back onto the bus to relay the message. “She wants to disappear.”

  “Do you know how she became a fallen angel?” Clyde asked, curious.

  “On a mission for her region deity, she unexpectedly encountered an area coated with taint, hiding the monster she was supposed to banish from this plane. Celestial simply abandoned her, supposedly having no cure for the taint. The first to enslave her was the Fallen God. I think there were others intrigued at finding some kind of use for fallen angels. At some point, she was sold off to…”

  “My father,” Melody said. “She started off as a palace servant, very distant from the others. Father saw the use of her power and forced her into his guard where she trained vigorously.”

  “Let’s take her inside,” Clyde said. Since Matsuko willingly volunteered important information, he’d take advantage of it. Undine said something quite shocking.

  “The monster she was supposed to banish was me.”

  **

  Stolen Castle…

  In adult form, Dire gazed into the mirror, admiring the red reaper’s
cloak given to her by Aunder. She giggled. He was willing to take on Fatalus just to cure her of the curse. How romantic! Fatalus was one of the most powerful dark goddesses around—Aunder would surely be the one to slay her.

  She didn’t remember much before that day…yet the hatred and sorrow continued to burn. Her father, the king, supposedly broke a promise to the dark goddess, known as the consultant at the time. That mysterious being possessed a witch and inflicted the curse onto Dire for her amusement. The intense magic emitted random bolts that struck many bystanders, even some as far as one hundred miles away. Yet…her father, who was more than likely cheating on her mother, placed all of the blame on Dire. The cursed girl, the fallen princess, the poison of the kingdom, the downfall of all.

  Many family members betrayed her, pushing out the narrative with hopes of claiming the throne for themselves. The young woman, turned into a child, also had the mind of one…And could only cry.

  Rocks were thrown at her, fists, bullets were fired… Eventually she gave up hope as a random village captured her. Aunder became her first ray of light and the girl found herself wanting to cling onto it, no matter what.

  The young woman sneezed, involuntarily shrinking back to her small form.

  “I guess I’ll go prepare dinner for him.”

  Dire cheerfully made her way through the empty halls until spotting Su Yang standing in front of Aunder’s door, longing to go inside.

  She sighed.

  -)Dire had accessed psychic energy …

  -)Dire galvanized Spirit Sight.(-

  “I think it’s time for you to go, Su Yang,” Dire said then chuckled. “He’s mine and you’re dead. Stay that way.”

  Her eyes flashed, causing the spiritual woman to collapse to her knees. Su Yang glared defiantly at the silver-haired girl.

  “If he…knew the truth…you’d,” Su Yang wheezed. Dire laughed, placing her foot on the spirit’s neck.