JumpJutsu Kaisen (An Aoi Todo Fanfic)

I think you guys should start leaving reviews. We're already near the start of the true plot...

Ah, and this new guy (OC) isn't me. I understand how easy it is to misinterpret (Since I used the word 'Author' for it.) You'll understand what I'm talking about, once you lot read the chapter.

Anyway, the poll was quite close. A total of 8 people voted. Let's start the chap without wasting much time, shall we?~

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(Todo's POV)

My mind blanked for a while due to the revelation, and when I came to, I saw a familiar scene that made my blood freeze.

The environment around me was becoming hazy and shifting in itself. Even my team was frozen...And when I looked around, everything itself was frozen.

Why...Why was that thing here again...

And then, everything came to a sudden halt as a glitchy screen materialized in front of me.

[We meet once again, Todo~....Or should I call you t̶̢̧̩̣̟̜͍͖̙̼̕͠๏̴̧̛̞̬̱̖̲̪͉̗̩̳͔̣̃̾̓̃͐̎̇͒̀๒̴̗̼̏เ̷̧͓͚͇͛̈́͒̕̚ͅ?]

I freeze, forgetting to even breathe as the words enter my mind, my eyes and then, my very soul.

I don't 'see', 'hear' or 'read' them,...No, I feel them.

All the repressed memories, everything I wanted to simply forget and let go, all of it came crashing down, engulfing my thoughts....

Fear. Fear of losing everything I've worked hard for in this world crushed my very soul.

Why? Because I knew I couldn't do anything against this....this....Thing.

Whatever it was, whoever it was, I was completely powerless against it. It had the ability to send me to another realm, to give me unimaginable powers, to be the very thing that started this whole fiasco.

In a crazed sense, it was my origin....and I knew instinctively....I knew that it'll be my end as well.

"Why....Why are you here?" I ask the thing, finally coming out of my daze. Drowning in fear wouldn't do anything, so I simply cut that part of myself off.

[My my. You've grown so much~ I feel like a proud father now~ Call me papa~]

I could practically feel the sarcasm in it's 'words'....I still don't understand how it was that I understood it. I could see the words on the 'screen', but I wasn't able to read them. They literally forced themselves into my mind, my very being. I felt them. I keep on repeating this, but it was just that surreal...

Using it's words, I guessed its gender to be male. But, I simply took that with a pinch of salt, because those words could just be its preferred figure of speech. I'd never know.

"L-Let's cut the bullshit." I breathed in deep, not understanding how I was even able to breathe when the time was seemingly stopped for everything except me. "Tell me, what do you want?"

I ask it. It most likely won't reveal it's identity. Either way, who 'it' was, didn't matter. What mattered was, what it wanted from me.

[Hmm....I wouldn't have come here if things went accordingly to how I envisioned. But, you seem to have grown far too quickly in such a short time. So, to make things interesting, I, the creator of this world, will give you a few 'little' challenges to make it more interesting~]

Creator? It could either be a god of some kind, or that guy....If it was 'that' guy, I was completely fucked. Perhaps the one who brought me here, and the one in front of me were completely different. The feeling from 'it' is similar, but it could still be a possibility....And as for him calling me his 'son', it could also be looked at from different perspectives. Besides, the one that sent me here was more of the emotionless mechanical kind. This one was clearly showing emotions and the like.

There are way too many variables and unknowns to collectively figure out everything. So, I should probably try to ask him things...In the best case scenario, I get info, and in the worst case, everything gets wiped out, just like 'before'.

"Are you...the Author of this world?....And were you the one who sent me here?" I ask, finally. Was I hypocritical when changing my thoughts as easy as breathing?...Perhaps. But who cares? These were MY thoughts after all.

I didn't particularly care about the challenges he may force upon me...Since I couldn't really do anything about it. He simply held all the control. It wasn't fair, and that was fine....I'll try my best to figure out a way, and if I failed, that would be the end. That's all there was to it. No need to panic...

[...That is for you to ponder, and for me to know~ It wouldn't be fun if I confirmed everything outright, now would it?~]

Yup, I figured it's response would be somewhat like that...Anyway, I won't uselessly try to find answers he doesn't want to share. I didn't know the extent of his influence on me or the world... So it's better to follow closely and observe first. No need to annoy or provoke an unknown entity just for the sake of it....

Besides, I didn't particularly have any ego to maintain so...meh.

"...Alright then, what's the first challenge you wanna force on me all about?" I ask him as my brain tries to figure out a few more things. Was he able to read my mind? Was he pretending? Was he even a 'he'?....So many unknowns, and that unknowingly excited me....Ah, I didn't realize how boring it was to know everything and be some kind of a damned overpowered protag.

This really gives me the feels now~ Hah~

A smile blooms on my face as I close my eyes...Let's see if the words go in my 'being', even when I don't look at those 'words'...

[It's good that you're excited~ I thought you'd become all depressed like the previous iteration Yuji~ Yare yare, that brat died before he could even witness my lil' Angie Maho~ I hope you survive till then....~]

...I gained various new questions and insights with just these few words alone...but the thing was, I still didn't know if it was telling the truth or simply making stuff up. If what it said was the truth, then there could be other 'iterations' of canon, presumable featuring other reincarnated people...Or perhaps it held an entirely different meaning. Who knows?

Besides that, I figured out that I didn't even need eyes to 'look' at those words...they still seemed to appear directly into my mind.

[Anyway, since I'm getting pumped up, I'll make this Challenge a bit more harder~

Challenge (N): Defeat the Tokyo high's teams in under 1 minute.

Extra Challenge (EC) (Since you made me so pumped up~): Don't use your Cursed Technique

Reward (N): Increase in the radius of your 'perfect' sensing range. (+100m)

Reward (N+EC): Increase in the radius of your 'perfect' sensing range. (+10km)

In case of complete Failure: Your Cursed Technique will be randomly switched to another one~]

....This would've been impossibly hard, if it were anyone else. And that reward...It looks so damningly delicious....

Other people would not think much of that extra sensing range, but for me, who has a cursed technique that literally works on the basis of a sensing range, it's quite useful.

After the reward, I would have a total of 11.5 km as the radius for my senses...It'll help me a whole lot in the cases of escaping from certain effects and other things...even considering the binding vow I had made before.

My current max was only 1.5 km. This was after years of developing and trying to enhance it. The reward was particularly worth it in my eyes.

But, the worrying part was that he could practically force me into such challenges anytime he felt like it...But it was exhilarating in it's own way.

Was I becoming a Battle Maniac?

Not particularly....I simply liked solving challenges...and challenges with high stakes were quickly becoming my favorite~

As for failure?....I didn't even consider it. Even the failure could be good or bad, depending on my luck, but having come so far with my cursed technique already, I don't think I'd ever want to change it....

Besides, have I ever truly lost?....Maybe against Yuki, but against anyone else, would I lose?

Nah, I'd win.

Always.

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Hope you people don't get too mad at me...Anyway, this was the chap, with the introduction of challenges. No stat screen, no nothing. Only rewards, and challenges.

I put up Glitch in the poll, but I didn't think you lot would choose it....Glitch has 4 votes, while the Plot twist option had 3.

And hey, it's not my fault that the system thing came back!! You people choze it yourselves...You should've known the glitch thingy would be the system...

I wanted to go with the 1st option since it'd make you mad, but this one is good too....makes my blood pump~

Anyway, today's question:

"How much do you guys like me as an author?"

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Sayonara~