studiobondurri CHAPTER 373 ESPIONAGE
CHAPTER 373 ESPIONAGE
CHAPTER 373 ESPIONAGEI scanned the crowd. The afternoon was packed with people streaming to and from the large skyscrapers around me. I used my Observation Haki to help find potential candidates. It was getting easier to sort through all the emotions of so many people. More natural to understand what ailed them as well.
One girl just started her period and was complaining about cramps, another girl 100 feet away was scared she was pregnant since she was late. One dude was worried about his boyfriend who didn’t say he loved him before he left work earlier in the day. One guy was thinking about his mistress. One girl was wondering why she couldn’t get anyone to look at her. Another guy was worried about a presentation. Another, another, so on, so forth.
I felt like Mel Gibson in What a Woman Wants, but I could read men and women’s minds. It wasn’t always so cut and dry of course. Mostly just emotions, but still I could distinguish many of them. Leading me to eventually deciphering the story of everyone as Rayleigh was able to do.
As I sat there I considered my other powers. I was getting a lot better at Nen. Expelling it out of my body and coating myself in condensed Nen so I could use Armament Haki at the same time. I was positive that the other me still hadn’t figured out that just using the powers wasn’t exactly making him stronger. He relied on chakra too much.
My Timeflow was a power I was trying to incorporate more. Speeding myself up was a cool way to get a little extra done. After I removed the lag weakness I could use it every minute, and the time between uses was becoming shorter.
My Spark was probably my favorite skill. I had practiced with it a lot when I got it at the hospital in Hero World. But I hadn’t needed to heal anyone yet. Talking to women’s bodies was it’s main use since I hadn’t been in too many fights.
Fusion was still a power I didn’t think I had found all the tricks with. I could fuse similar materials together easily. Fuse dissimilar materials as well with a burst of the power, but I could only fuse and unfuse myself to dissimilar materials. I could also morph items a little, like deform a rock. Molding it like clay.
The power was more than just fusing, and though I had been stuck to train with it for 6 months. I still hadn’t figured all the idiosyncrasies out. It was more like sculpting. Making things into what I imagined. I wanted to dig into it more, but for now completing quests was the important aspect. I studied my status screen as I waited.
Name
Weston Walker
Current Quest:
Power cause
World 1:
Marvel
World 1 Quest:
Power cause
World 2:
Invincible
World 2 Quest:
Passive Skills:
Memory Meld
Dead Man Walking
Handicap
Dismiss
Gemini
World Lasting Physique
Active
Summon:
N/A
Pet:
Matatabi - Level 6
Summon
1 Challenger Slot
Forms:
Viltrumite Physiology
2%
Usable Abilities:
Status Screen
Other
3 Challenger Slots
World Escape
Berserker Mode
Nen
Spark*
Bond
Fusion
Timeflow
Bonuses
Major Psychic Resistance
3 Challenger Slots
Body Mod Resistance
Adaptability
Minor Radiation Resistance
Items
Gantz Armor
Stored (29)
1 Challenger Slots
Item Choice
Bonus Copy
(2)
Currency:
USD
$15,995
My current quest was to find what caused my Fusion power. My Viltrumite physiology hadn’t raised yet, but I hoped that the quest or something else would start to raise it. Despite being able to fly I hadn’t found any other cool powers of the form. I still hadn’t decided on what to use the Item Choice on. The last time I had one I used it on a mobile home from DBZ, I would need to make the Item Choice worth it. I still hadn’t figured out who I wanted to use my Bonus Copies on either. I had thought Wolverine, but I wanted to wait. The world was still rather easy. There were plenty of heroes out there, I just had to find them.
I stopped looking at my screen as I noticed someone. Looking behind me he was my height, had my same unruly black hair, and was pretty handsome. He looked just like me. And he happened to be leaving the very place I was looking to enter.
Jumping down from the lion statue I landed on the sidewalk and made my way over to him. Moving through the crowd I picked his pocket easily enough. Finding an Oscorp photo ID on him I remembered I didn’t have chakra or Genjutsu.
“Fuck,” I said, turning around to follow him. “How am I supposed to knock this bitch out?”
My look-alike continued on toward wherever his car was parked or the subway could pick him up. Oblivious to the danger he was in. He was leaving work, but I couldn’t risk him deciding to come back, or check for his badge. I tried to think for a bit but then just decided to hit him with the ol’ razzle dazzle. Charging my fist with my Spark I hit it into him. He yelled out, his body becoming rigid and he fell to the ground.
No one really reacted. Most people grabbing their wallets to make sure this wasn’t a ploy to distract them for pickpockets to get their valuables.
“Fucking New York,” I mumbled digging into my pocket. I pulled out the cell phone I bought the day before and called for an ambulance.
Leaving the scene of the crime I moved toward Oscorp quickly. Grabbing a few wallets of the bystanders that had callously ignored the man collapsing on the ground I made a few grand. One especially rich guy had been in the crowd.
I got to the front of Oscorp. Watching other people it was a simple badge-in system. My eyes on cameras I discreetly looked away from them as I passed through the weak security. Getting to the elevator I extended my Haki outward. Feeling each floor as the elevator took me up and up.
The first few floors were rows of cubicles, then the next few floors, then more after that. I did sense someone banging who I assumed was their secretary in a supply closet, but they very easily could have been roleplaying.
My Observation gave me a 360 degree view of everywhere. I was able to
Studying those in the hall all at once there was an opportunity I just had to find it. As it called to me I stepped out. Someone turning their head I dashed to behind them. 2 people walking out the door I used my Timeflow and dragged Peter along. Dodging this or that view I was 20 paces away and started walking normally. At the elevator I hit the lobby button.
Seconds ticking away I studied everything around us. But I noticed more than a few guards far below on the lobby floor. Getting off on one of the cubicle floors I walked smoothly to a side window. Shooting some Nen at it the window busted and I jumped out. Carrying Peter with me we landed on the ground, no one the wiser as I joined the crowd and tried to figure out where the hell Queens was.