alwaysunqualified

  Chapter 30 - A date with puberty.

  “Date starto!”

  When I was awoken for the third consecutive day, I was certain of the pattern emerging.

  ‘And there goes all my date points for the year,’ I thought, scanning my stats.

  'Sorry, I couldn't help myself,' a voice whispered in my mind, one I hadn't heard in a long while.

  With a hint of sarcasm, I thought, ‘Must have missed the part where I pnned to level up at the end of the year.’

  "Hey, don't bme System-chan. Sometimes the gacha gods call, and you must answer. Besides, you would've just kept procrastinating," another familiar voice chimed in, one I definitely did not miss.

  "Not you again!" I excimed, instantly realizing this was shaping up to be a horrible day.

  "Yep, it's me. I'm here to wrap up the childhood arc. Well, there's a bit more, but most of it happened in the past. This is your endpoint," she expined.

  As I gnced at the date target and location, filled with question marks, it wasn't hard to deduce who it was.

  [A nice bedroom date.]

  [Target: ???]

  "If you expect me to reach 100 Affection when she won't even show herself, you're dreaming," I said, convinced that I was just going to go back to bed. Spending another year with my family sounded perfectly fine to me.

  "All you have to do is buy the beginner item," the goddess stated, as if it should have been gringly obvious.

  I had actually forgotten about that; I do have enough points now. "You know, I could just not."

  "Yeah, but then you'll miss out on making those male friends you keep harping about. Though, if you prefer to stick to just girls, I'm all for it. It's not like you're suddenly going to dive into a steamy yaoi retionship with any of them," she said, a hint of drool at the corner of her mouth.

  For once, I understood her weird words without needing an expnation. ‘So my options are to py into her hands one way or another. Then again, she could be lying.’

  "Goddesses can't lie!" she excimed, puffing her cheeks out at me.

  I dismissed her seemingly cute act. "Says the only one I've met."

  "Hey, I've been nothing but honest. I even waited for permission before bringing you here," she insisted, her eyes enrging and blinking cutely at me. How it didn't come off as creepy is beyond me.

  "So you're saying if I had just kept saying no, you would have left me alone?" I asked, skeptical of her cim.

  "Yep, it's not like I didn't have other options. You were just the most suitable candidate," she replied, showing me a vision of an alternate future where I had gone to the hospital for a check-up after she left.

  'I want to smack myself so bad right now,' I thought, frustrated with myself.

  "Hey, don't beat yourself up over it; you can't change the past. Even your future self thinks you're an idiot. Here, I'll even throw in some helpful advice: trust your gut when it comes to your retionships. See? Helpful," she said, and for some reason, I felt there was something different about this advice, though I couldn't pinpoint why.

  "What does that even mean?" I asked, not seeing how her advice could be helpful at all.

  "You'll be pondering that for a long time, but if any other goddesses ask, you didn’t hear it from me," she said, whistling innocently, which only increased my confusion.

  I would much rather be doing anything else than dealing with her, so I decided to just purchase The Rickroll for one million. I can continue developing Love Land and leveling my items while I’m in the military. It's disappointing to miss out on the experience from our pnned outing, but with Seraphina around, my family will be fine without me.

  I also decided to burn the rest of my skills except for Treasure Hunter, as they would now be useless. I was curious to see what More Than Just A Little Luck would do when I was both on a date and out of date points.

  [A Date to Remember has changed the date location to An Enchanted Evening.]

  [More Than Just A Little Luck has activated.]

  Time resumed, and a familiar beat filled the room.

  "Never gonna give you up..." I wasn't sure what I had expected, but I found myself forced to sit and listen. "...gonna let you down."

  [+500 ??? Affection points.]

  As the message appeared, a girl materialized in front of me. She was petite, with her bck hair tied back in a ponytail, complementing her skin-tight bck outfit that shimmered in the dim light like tex.

  "Never gonna run around and desert you..." the song continued in the background, but her sharp voice cut through. "What did you do!"

  "So the ninja decides to show herself," I remarked, feeling a touch smug after the sleepless nights she had caused since I learned about her. She just kept staring, so I added, "I was just testing a new ability."

  Given that the nobles seemed to be as well-informed as Seraphina, I thought it prudent to throw in some misinformation. After all, as they say, no information is better than bad information.

  I expected something more to happen, but one moment she was staring at me, and the next, she had vanished, leaving me utterly perplexed.

  [Date end]

  As I sat in the quiet, I reflected on her reaction, which had been far more extreme than anyone else’s.

  "Of course, anyone would notice if you suddenly go from being indifferent to experiencing a flood of emotions just from seeing someone," the goddess expined.

  'Right, the stronger the emotional reaction, the higher the Affection gain,' I thought before replying.

  “That doesn't make me feel any better. I had forgotten just how messed up this system can be, forcing people to feel a connection with me. She must have experienced a crazy rush to go from zero to five hundred. Who knows how she feels about me now,” I said, realizing she was probably just following orders, so it's not like she had a choice.

  "Oh, don't be dramatic. That's not what was bothering her. It was the fact that you have a skill that could affect her and that she had no way of detecting it. She takes great pride in her abilities, especially being so young and having come so far," the goddess crified, which actually made me feel a bit better about the whole situation, though I could have done without being rickrolled.

  “She was so flustered she actually abandoned her post. Make sure to tell Alice-chan when her skill fails to work,” the goddess added, being unusually helpful today, to the point that it was unsettling.

  “That actually does make me feel less like a brainwashing asshole,” I admitted, feeling a bit relieved.

  “What? It’s not even possible to brainwash people here. I wonder if getting hit in the head hard enough could cause a buffer overflow. Hmm, it might be worth a try,” she mused, reverting to her usual antics.

  ‘Wait, it’s not?’ I thought, recalling the entire ordeal with me being a dog. That seemed a lot like brainwashing to me.

  “Anyways, read your notices so I can wrap up this arc for you,” she said, ignoring my confusion.

  [Achievement Unlocked: Quicky - End a date in under one minute. Add 25% to your date timer.]

  Spoiler

  [colpse][Name: Shadow 404Level: 311Affection: 500Trait: ninjaGoddess: Goddess of Mind.Primary Blessing: Hacking tier 11Lesser Blessings: Shadow Jump tier 11, Protect tier 8, Detect tier 11, Taser tier 10, Storyteller tier 3]

  [Hacking: Discover how things work and how to manipute them.]

  [Shadow Jump: Leap between shadows.]

  [Protect: Shield a target from harm.]

  [Detect: Sense nearby presences and objects.]

  [Taser: Emit a controlled electrical discharge.]

  [Storyteller: Weave enchanting stories.]

  [Ninja: Masters of stealth, may even be lurking behind you right now.]

  ‘She is strong. I don't think I'll have much to worry about in the future with her and Shadow 13's cards as my trump cards,’ I thought after inspecting her card.

  "Would you stop throwing death fgs!" the goddess yelled, before clearing her throat and continuing, "Anyways."

  "And so ended his rather peaceful childhood. As he started to care about the people in this world, he was finally willing to use the amazing gifts given to him by the beautiful Goddess of Love. But soon he will learn that half-hearted efforts won't cut it, especially since he likes to throw around death fgs!" she announced, her voice rising towards the end.

  Pleased with her speech, her expression suddenly froze. "Wait a minute, there was no smut in this entire act. What kind of dogshit story is this!"

  She pulled out a book featuring a gothic-looking woman with pale skin and short hair in various shades of purple. Then, she put on a pair of old-fashioned gsses with a golden chain to keep them from falling off. Opening the book, she flipped through several pages until she finally smmed it shut.

  "And it doesn't even start until well into the next book. What is this, a Bck Lilith game? I'm going to write a compint letter to the company," she decred, pulling out a stack of paper and a pen.

  "So for now, see you in two years, tudalu." And just like that, she was gone.

  'Wait, isn't she the one making the story? Is she pnning to write a compint letter to herself... that actually does sound like something she would do,' I mused, before pushing the thought of her out of my mind.

  [System tiering up, please stand by.]

  As soon as time resumed, my mothers woke up and, for the first time, I was ushered out of the room to stay in the next room over. Soon after, a rge man arrived to present me with a contract. It was a military contract for five years that guaranteed citizenship, housing, and fair treatment. Once I signed it, the contract burst into fmes, and I was given only a brief moment to say goodbye to my family before being thrown into a carriage.

  I thought everyone was making a really big deal out of nothing, until...

  [Update complete. Welcome to tier 1. All notifications have been held for your convenience.]

  I couldn't finish reading the notice; the impact was overwhelming. Imagine the excitement of seeing a pair of boobs for the first time at twelve, then amplify that feeling by a thousand.

  The circles transformed into tiny breasts that I unknowingly attempted to taste. The outlines of the chairs formed alluring curves that would be perfect to insert my dick into.

  I tried to shake the intrusive thoughts away but quickly, my mind shifted to the girls I interacted with regurly. 'The gloomy librarian was always giving me that look, and her boobs are so big I bet I could pound them like a pussy. No, Izzy, she was always shaking her ass at me while arguing with Sakura. I could just pull down her pants and stick it in.'

  My thoughts spiraled into wild fantasies. "Wait, why even go through all the work? Lucy walks around nude. She knows what she's doing; there's no way she's not just asking for it. Or the princess, I could just pull her into Love Land and give her a good dicking as punishment for all the trouble."

  My thoughts eventually focused on a closer target. "Wait, no, Miki is always teasing me," I realized. "I could give her something to help keep her mouth occupied." I gnced back and saw that Miki was still within sight.

  I couldn’t stand it any longer. I needed to escape, but my body refused to move.

  “Don't bother, you’re just wasting the mana you could be using to train,” said the man sitting across from me.

  ‘Fuck this guy!’ I fumed internally, irritated at his interference. I attempted to attack the man next, but once again, I was immobilized. Frustrated, I went to the shop, but found nothing useful—only items for making contracts, none for breaking them.

  ‘This is taking too long. I’m drifting further away,’ I panicked, feeling a growing sense of desperation. I cycled through every card and ability I possessed, on the verge of expending my goddess points. Then, an image of Sakura smiling with a gaping wound fshed through my mind, stopping me cold as the cycles slowly turned into supple boobs, just waiting to be sucked.

  [Your divine spark has triggered.]

  The thought faded, and I no longer considered using my goddess points.

  Realizing my efforts were futile, I tried to curse the man out, but all I could do was sit there calmly. I wasn’t sure when we arrived, but soon I was dragged out and thrown into a field with other men, forced to run until I colpsed, hallucinating a tantalizing pussy in the dirt beside me. Before I could reach for it, I was yanked to my feet and ordered to continue.