Gatcha Life Chapter 8 (Patreon)

Legally speaking, Armsmaster 'could' stop me from calling the police to surrender myself and Taihou to a police officer. But I was a registered independent superhuman with the local government. Specifically not the PRT which's mandate was the control over Parahumans.

Parahumans VERY specifically, as everyone. Literally everyone knew that Parahumans were driven in various directions by the Shards that gave them their powers. And mages, martial artists, and other power type user's all had their own overarching organizations.

As with so many Entities watching this Prime earth which was the answer to Entropy so long as it remained anchored properly within reality. They never bothered to hide the fact that the Shards they shed would to varying levels mentally and emotionally change their host.

Hence it was public knowledge that was shared even in public school.

And I myself and Taihou were registered as Mages specifically, even though I myself didn't have any powerful magic.

While Armsmaster could detain me and prevent me from making the call in order to 'prevent me from calling in backup to resist arrest.' The fact that I all but shouted to the people recording in the distance that I was officially surrendering to the police would make alot of trouble for him.

At that point, it became a conflict between the PRT which was supposed to be policing Parahumans in particular, versus the local government.

Armsmaster himself paused at my words and for a long moment, he looked ready to do just that. Take my phone and force us into custody but then...

We all went stiff as a molten orange humanoid figure with large antlers atop it's non-gendered body appeared between the three of us.

[Query? Invader's dimensional link upon you?] The Entity mentally transmitted like a million ants crawling in my mind to form the mental message that made my head hurt.

I grimaced and, knowing I couldn't argue the point I nodded even as I felt Taihou's shadow pool roil in ready to lash out at a fucking dimensional god.

"A vampire clan wanted to use me as a dimensional anchor for their world. I refused." I simply and bluntly as I knew no 'explanation' would work for an entity.

Armsmaster himself paused and lowered his halbeard very clearly and took up as a non-confrontation position as he possibly could as he asked respectfully. "Could you please designate yourself?"

The Entity without looking away from me merely stated in a wide transmission for all to hear. [Personal Designation- Hunter]

Then IT continued towards me. [Query- Do you wish for me to kill you so those vampires will not cause issues?]

My face twitched at it's utterly blunt words, and with a swallow, I said equally bluntly. "No, I will get stronger on my own and deal with them. Their world extremly rich in magic and resources as well."

The entity merely stared at me for a long moment before it nodded, and it said for all to hear again. [Decision- Very well 'Human' Jake Bariss, go become stronger. H̵̺͛ư̶̗ṅ̴̳t̶̤̓ the shadows that which already hunt you.]

And then, with a flicker of light the Entity was fucking gone without another word as I just stood there with my phone held up to call the popo to save me from the autism beat cop in front of me.

The awkward silence went on for a good minute until, with a flourish of his halberd to collapse its energy blade, Armsmaster said with an undercurrent of frustration. "The Entity has shown his will... Just go, and don't cause more trouble with Parahumans." 

And I watched as, without another word, Armsmaster turned around and climbed onto his oversized dick compensator of a motorcycle and with a roar of its powerful engine. He was off and leaving us alone.

"Hmm, come along, darling. Taihou wants to get back to the car." Taihou said needily as she pulled my arm in between her massive milkers and likewise directed me to where my car was previously parked.

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The world was a cold dark place, with monsters running around, demon's living in the shadows, and horrors uncounting.

But even if the world was a cold dark place. Taihou's tits were still very much a very warm and soft place actually!

This 'realization' occured as Taihou dragged me into the back of my car so we could snuggled in the back seat of my impala for a good minute. 

"Hmm, so my darling. Taihou was thinking... We should try to get an actual apartment or something so we can set down roots using our cape identities." Taihou spoke softly as she brushed her hand through my hair as my face was planted deep into her cleavage.

I let out a sigh and said helplessly. "Yeah that is a good idea. Though I would prefer a place to actually own so we would have the right of ownership to defend ourselves. But that's something extremely expensive in city limits."

And there was good reason to live inside the cities even with criminal capes and other villians. Safety in numbers from monsters and other nonsense that wasn't found yet by an Entity or an patrol units.

No one in this world lived in solitary cabins in the middle of fucking nowhere. That was just... A literal death sentence as while the entities deal with like 99 percent of foreign world invading portals within an hour of them forming unless a powerful entity on the otherside could hide them.

Entites had a massive problem actually finding supernatural entities due their magical nonsense often being a conceptual counter to their extreme logic forms.

"We can stay at a hotel for a couple more days. And after we clear a couple more dungeons. We can use the bank statements from the commission rewards to apply for a loan to buy an actual house. Living in an apartment is more dangerous then living in an hotel." I said helplessly.

Taihou made a sad noise before she said with her squeezing her chest around my face harder. "Fine my darling. Taihou can be patient for you."

Though even as she said that... I was thinking about that Mantis Serum which had the genetic sample of Benares as it's core.

'Whelp time to live the ultimate gatcha draw. Do I trust the gatcha to give me a Serum that is at least twice as safe as the Mantis surgeries used in the Previous Era of Honkai Impact? Or is it even more dangerous?' 

As I think I read there was like a one in five chance of survival when it came to these Mantis operations. I had zero idea how this serum worked or if I even had to do surgery at all to begin with!

'Damn, if only I could get Amy/Panacea to watch me as I inject myself with it. At least then, I might be a bit safer.' I thought helplessly.

But getting closer to one of, if not the strongest Parahuman healer wasn't going to be easy. So... It was a gamble, and seeing as my cheat for this life was literally gambling to begin with. Well it seemed that it was time to go all in!