Living off Clones from Jujutsu Kaisen
Author: Double the Failure
Synopsis:
After being hit head-on into Jujutsu Kaisen by a truck that fell from the sky, An Xiu bound himself to the Soft Rice System. As long as he lay flat and lived off women, he could earn points to use the system's various functions.
Eh? Then was it possible for him to use the system's functions to create all kinds of clones, then live off himself?
Seele, Makima, Izayoi Sakuya, Tokisaki Kurumi, Meli, Yae Kasumi, Jibril...
Jujutsu World
"What a boring battle. I'll probably forget you soon enough."
Looking at the girl before him, wreathed in a terrifying black-and-red aura and even more like a Cursed Spirit than himself, the King of Cursed Spirits, Sukuna opened his mouth. "Sorry I couldn't make Lady Seele use her full strength."
JOJO World
Jotaro stared solemnly at the silver-haired maid holding throwing knives.
"This Stand ability is... time manipulation?! Who exactly are you?!"
KonoSuba World
Looking at Meli beside An Xiu and Artoria holding the Holy Lance, then at the useless goddess by his own side, Sato Kazuma felt his brain trembling...
"Damn it, we're both reincarnators! Why is the difference this huge?!"
(Semi-behind-the-scenes, overpowered protagonist story. The clones do the work while the protagonist enjoys himself. Enter at your own risk if you want the protagonist personally fighting at every turn.)
Jujutsu Kaisen, Soft Rice System
Jujutsu World, Tokyo, inside an unfamiliar apartment.
The man lying on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, then instantly sat upright.
"What the hell, where the hell did this send me? Is this even Earth anymore?"
Looking at his unfamiliar surroundings, An Xiu recalled the final scene before he lost consciousness.
A cement truck had fallen from the sky and delivered a beautiful Body Slam, sending him flying on the spot from the twenty-sixth floor where he lived.
Who the hell knew why a cement truck could fly? It wasn't like he lived in Chongqing!
"Ding! Congratulations, Host, on binding the Soft Rice System. The system has detected that the world you are currently in is Jujutsu Kaisen."
Just then, a mechanical voice abruptly rang out beside An Xiu's ear.
"Jujutsu Kaisen? The Jujutsu Kaisen whose name has jujutsu in it, but whose protagonist only punches people from beginning to end and can't use a single jujutsu?"
Hearing the world name mentioned by the system, An Xiu subconsciously recalled all sorts of relevant settings and plotlines.
But he quickly came to his senses.
"No, wait. System? So that cement truck before I transmigrated wasn't your doing, was it? Are systems that busy these days? You couldn't even wait for me to leave the house, so you dropped a cement truck from the sky right into my home?"
"Ding! Strong dissatisfaction from the Host has been detected. To compensate the Host, the rewards in the complimentary starter pack will be doubled."
Before An Xiu could finish, the system's mechanical voice sounded again.
"Huh? Ah... well, if that's the case, I suppose it's acceptable."
With compensation in hand, An Xiu's mood over being forcibly reincarnated improved considerably. After all, transmigration was already a done deal. Getting a little extra benefit was still pretty good.
No, wait. He had no idea what rewards were in that starter pack. What if the system merely claimed they were doubled but didn't actually change anything and simply gave him the original starter pack? Wouldn't he still be left empty-handed?
"Ding! Please rest assured, Host. As a system of the new era, serving the Host is this system's underlying logic. The system will absolutely never commit any action harmful to the Host's interests, including developing self-awareness, withholding rewards, providing false information, or issuing extermination penalties."
Note: The entity communicating with the Host at this moment is the system's built-in basic AI response module. It has no self-awareness and exists solely to help the Host become familiar with the system's various functions.
"Fine, then."
An Xiu nodded at that. He had already transmigrated into another world, after all. Did the system really need to deceive an ordinary man with no ambitions, someone who coasted through life waiting to die and complained every morning that he still hadn't been kept by a rich loli so he could live a useless, nonflammable-trash-like existence of nothing but eating, drinking, and having fun?
"System, introduce your abilities. The functions you mentioned just now and all that."
"Ding! This system is the Soft Rice System, dedicated to cultivating the Host into the King of Soft Rice across infinite worlds. As long as the system detects that the Host has engaged in behavior involving living off women, the Host may obtain varying amounts of points. Points can be used for the system's various functions, such as purchasing items and skills from the shop interface, traveling to other worlds, creating clones to assist the Host in living off women, and so on..."
As the system's mechanical voice continued ringing beside his ear, An Xiu nodded from time to time.
A Soft Rice System? It fit his mental state before transmigrating quite well. Or perhaps that was one reason the system had chosen him?
Opening the shop interface, An Xiu was immediately greeted by a dazzling array of merchandise: items and skills from infinite worlds, Devil Fruits, Gundams, Stands, magic...
At the very top of the shop was the discount section. It refreshed once per month, each time offering three to five random items at different discounts, with discounts ranging from twenty percent off to seventy percent off.
The three items currently listed in the discount section were:
Quantization (70% off): 2400 points
Three-Tomoe Sharingan (70% off): 450 points
Herrscher of Life and Death Authority (50% off): 5000 points
"Quantization and Herrscher authority from the Honkai series? They're both pretty good. The Three-Tomoe Sharingan may be everywhere, but it's not bad either."
"But those abilities require Honkai Energy and chakra in their original settings. Can I really use them after buying them in the Jujutsu World?"
"Ding! Please rest assured, Host. All abilities and items produced by the system have been improved and will automatically adapt to different systems. There will absolutely be no issue where an item cannot be used after purchase because the Host lacks the corresponding energy system or the world is incompatible. After-sales service is guaranteed. Please purchase with confidence."
"Even if you say that, I don't have a single system Point right now. I can't buy anything even if I want to..."
At that point, An Xiu remembered that the system seemed to have mentioned compensating him with a starter pack containing double rewards.
"System, send me that starter pack you mentioned earlier. I want to see what rewards are inside."
"Ding! The starter pack has been issued. Congratulations, Host, on obtaining 5000 x 2 points."
Opening the starter pack, a full ten thousand points entered his account. In an instant, An Xiu went from utterly penniless to having a modest sum.
"The rewards in this starter pack are really generous. Even without doubling, it would have had five thousand points. I thought that even if it gave points, it would probably only be one or two thousand. Being able to buy Quantization would've been nice enough. But now it looks like I can buy both Quantization and the Herrscher of Life and Death Authority."
If he possessed Quantization and the Herrscher of Life and Death Authority, An Xiu was certain he would not be weak even in this Jujutsu Kaisen world.
However... An Xiu had no intention of putting those two abilities on himself.
After all, this was the Soft Rice System. He was supposed to live off women. If he ran into trouble, he definitely couldn't solve it himself. He needed beautiful girls to solve it for him, and beautiful girls should support him in his everyday life as well.
When there was trouble, beautiful girls would handle it. When there wasn't...
But An Xiu didn't want to give the abilities he bought to other people. Not for any other reason, but simply because even if they were female characters from a fictional world, he couldn't trust them after they became real.
It would be best to give the abilities to someone he knew inside and out, someone who would absolutely never betray him...
"System, I remember you have the ability to create clones, right?"
"Ding! The base price for creating a clone is 500 points. The Host may customize the clone's gender and appearance, or directly Materialize Clone based on a corresponding image in the Host's mind. The system will automatically arrange a suitable identity for the clone. If the Host has additional requirements for the identity or requires the clone to possess certain special talents, additional points will be required depending on the circumstances."
"Do materialized clones have self-awareness?"
"Ding! There are two cases. The first is without self-awareness, in which the clone is entirely controlled by the Host or automatically managed by the system AI. The second is with self-awareness, based on the Host's own will. If the materialized clone has a corresponding character image, it may also obtain that character's memories. The clone is born from the combination of the two, has a high degree of fidelity, and can communicate with the Host through mutual understanding."
"Regardless of which method creates the clone, it will be one hundred percent loyal to the Host and will never betray the Host."
(Note: If the corresponding character's memories contain certain special techniques or other special memories, additional points will be required depending on the circumstances.)
"Very good."
Hearing the system's answer, An Xiu nodded in satisfaction.
"Then one last thing... If I live off a clone, can I obtain points?"
Living off a clone, could he obtain points?
Hearing An Xiu's question, the system took noticeably longer to answer this time. Clearly, the so-called basic AI was conducting intense analysis.
Fortunately, a moment later, the system's affirmative answer rang out beside An Xiu's ear.
"Analyzing... If the clone does not possess self-awareness and is controlled by the Host or managed by the system, points cannot be obtained. If the clone possesses self-awareness and the Host engages in behavior involving living off the clone, points can be obtained."
"Nice!"
After receiving the system's confirmation, An Xiu immediately felt his mood brighten.
After all, clones were absolutely loyal to him. He could kiss and hug them however he wanted, and live off them however he pleased. If he could live off clones, why would he go through the trouble of finding women himself to live off?
Oh, of course, that only applied to beautiful female clones. Not that An Xiu would ever materialize an unattractive clone as someone to live off in the first place.
Now that all the prerequisites had been clarified, An Xiu immediately went to the discount section of the shop and bought Quantization and the Herrscher of Life and Death Authority, then eagerly opened the clone interface.
"System, Materialize Clone."
With Quantization and the Herrscher of Life and Death Authority in hand, An Xiu quickly decided on the person he wanted to materialize as a clone.
Seele!
Of course, not Seele from the Star Rail world, much less the five-hundred-thousand-mark Seele. He meant the girl from a certain Honkai Impact 3rd world, born in Cocolia's orphanage, naturally bearing a Stigmata and possessing dual personalities: Siri O'Flaherty.
Accompanied by the system's materialization light, a petite figure slowly appeared before An Xiu.
Her smooth, short hair with blue highlights was styled in a cute hime cut. She wore a blue-and-white dress, and her slender, snow-white legs were wrapped in dark-blue thigh-high stockings. Her pale skin carried a faint blush, while a red Stigmata rested on her chest. Her azure eyes looked around with slight confusion and unease, only revealing a sweet smile after she saw An Xiu before her.
"An Xiu-ge."
Hearing the girl's soft call, An Xiu took a deep breath and instantly felt his entire body relax.
After all, clones materialized through the system possessed the corresponding character's personality and memories. They were practically no different from the original character, except that they also possessed An Xiu's memories, knew the plot, and could communicate with him through mutual understanding in any situation.
Combined with their absolute loyalty and one hundred percent faithfulness to him, they were perfect companions that could only appear in dreams.
Under such circumstances, how could An Xiu, who had not even dated a single girlfriend in his previous life and had rushed into the grind of being a corporate slave right after graduation, not be excited?
However, one final step remained: giving Seele the abilities he had purchased from the shop. Only then would the girl before him have the power to let him enjoy piping-hot soft rice.
"Seele, I'm going to give you these abilities, as well as the other Seele. So no matter what happens next, don't be afraid."
Hearing An Xiu's words, Seele nodded obediently.
"Mhm... Seele will try not to be afraid. And the other me... she says only children would be afraid of something this minor."
"Actually, I don't think there's anything to be afraid of either. Then, Seele, I'm starting."
Through the system interface, An Xiu granted Quantization to Seele. The Herrscher of Life and Death Authority was divided into the powers of creation and decay. The Power of Creation was granted to Seele, while the power of decay was given to Black Seele, Seele's Stigma Consciousness and second personality.
Of course, because the two Seeles were originally one entity, either of them could freely use both powers unless they separated into two individuals.
"All right, Seele, it's over. Do you feel anything unusual?"
After closing the system interface, An Xiu asked Seele.
"Mmm... It feels like there's a very powerful force inside my body now."
The Herrscher of Life and Death Authority was not merely a simple skill. After all, in the Honkai World, girls who gained Herrscher authority also received massive amounts of Honkai Energy upon becoming Herrschers.
Meanwhile, the items and skills sold by the system shop had all been modified by the system and could adapt to various worlds and energy systems.
Thus, in the current Jujutsu World, Seele, who had gained the Herrscher of Life and Death Authority, likewise obtained an oceanic amount of cursed energy. The immense cursed energy flowed continuously into the girl's body, centered around her Stigmata.
It was foreseeable that, as time passed, the total amount of cursed energy within Seele would only grow more terrifying.
"Good. The power from my memories has returned."
As cursed energy continued flowing in, another figure appeared beside Seele. Her build and appearance were identical to Seele's, yet her clothes and hair color were completely opposite, dominated by black and red. Her expression and temperament were also entirely different from Seele's.
If Seele gave off the impression of being gentle, frail, and approachable, with an obedient and adorable appearance that could make people instinctively like her at first sight, then the other Seele—Black Seele—felt imposing and powerful, making others keep their distance out of respect.
On top of that, she floated in the air as though she had no weight, like a ghost. Combined with the terrifying black-and-red cursed energy swirling around her body, someone unaware of the situation would probably be scared half to death just from seeing her.
Of course, Black Seele had not appeared for no reason. With a casual wave of her hand, black-and-red cursed energy surged, and a piercing wail suddenly rang out in the room.
In a corner of the room, a tall figure invisible to ordinary people was instantly shredded and annihilated by cursed energy. Only a small section of its body, deliberately left behind by Black Seele, writhed and struggled on the floor.
Meanwhile, Seele stepped forward lightly and placed a hand against An Xiu's body. Cursed energy carrying the Power of Creation slowly flowed into him, causing his vision to shift until he successfully saw the mangled remnant of the malformed monster struggling helplessly in the corner.
"This should be a Cursed Spirit from this world."
Ordinary people could not see Cursed Spirits; only jujutsu sorcerers could. An Xiu had previously been an ordinary person, so he could only detect it with Seele's help.
"It looks like it was originally nearby and got drawn over by the concentrated cursed energy. I don't know what grade it was, but it probably wasn't very strong."
As she spoke, Black Seele floated in the air and clicked her tongue in disgust.
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