Slacker Assassin's Multiverse Daily
Author: Auditore
Synopsis:
He transmigrated and got a system.
But the system was a complete scam. It was originally supposed to send Jiang Hang to the world of Assassin's Creed, yet it ended up bringing him to the 2D world instead.
The first person Jiang Hang had to face was the legendary Shinigami Elementary Schooler, Conan.
After crashing several times, the original Assassin System had forcibly renamed itself the Detective System.
Fine, a name change was a name change. But when Jiang Hang checked the system rewards, they were still all assassin-related.
Assassin's Footwork, Presence Concealment, Hidden Blade Assassination, Poison Mastery, Spartan Kick, Mystic Eyes of Death Perception... Wait, wasn't something wrong here?
Though he desperately wanted to complain about this scam system wearing a new skin, after seeing that it had deposited one hundred million yen into his account as settling expenses—and that casually completing any commission would earn him millions of yen—Jiang Hang resolutely became a detective brimming with positive energy.
Using assassin skills, wearing a detective's disguise, and doing the most positive things possible.
In short, this was probably the daily story of a slacker assas... detective in a multiverse world.
Volume 1: Volume One
A Scam System
Tokyo at night was still remarkably bustling despite the late hour, viewed from high above the city.
There were exhausted office workers heading toward subway entrances after overtime, middle-aged men wandering through red-light districts, and delinquent youths gathering in secluded, neglected alleyways.
In this massive city of over thirty million residents, countless joys, sorrows, angers, and pleasures unfolded nearly every moment.
Standing atop a skyscraper, Jiang Hang let out a quiet sigh as he brought the surrounding area entirely within his detection range.
"So this is Eagle Eye's ability... Even skyscrapers built from steel and concrete can't completely block Eagle Eye's detection. Eagle Eye was already ridiculously overpowered in the game, but in reality, this is honestly absurd."
As a transmigrator, Jiang Hang had arrived in this world a week ago. However, this was his first time coming out at night to observe the city with Eagle Eye after obtaining the "Legendary Assassin System."
The Eagle Eye he possessed now had come from the system's "initial reward."
More precisely, his body was no longer that of an ordinary person. He was a genuine assassin who had inherited the bloodline of the Precursors from Assassin's Creed.
Eagle Eye was merely one of this body's abilities.
Besides Eagle Eye, there was naturally the classic Leap of Faith—so long as there was water, a haystack, or something similar below, he would not suffer any injury no matter how high he jumped from. However, he had yet to find an opportunity to use it. Even an idiot knew how foolish it was to look for a haystack in a city like this. A dumpster was more likely, but even if he really found one, Jiang Hang probably would not have the courage to jump into it.
The system looked fairly decent for the moment, but Jiang Hang had known from the first day he transmigrated that the system attached to him was a complete scam.
After giving him his initial reward, the system inexplicably issued a quest to "Meet Ezio," leaving Jiang Hang with a baffled expression.
However, Jiang Hang quickly understood. It seemed his system had intended to send him to the era of Assassin's Creed II. Yet, whether it had bought the wrong transmigration ticket or something had gone wrong along the way, he had ultimately been sent to modern-day Japan.
The difference between the two was hardly small. After discovering that a major error had occurred in the world it sent him to, this not-so-intelligent-looking system directly crashed for over half a day before urgently rebooting.
Fortunately, after the reboot was complete, the system resolved Jiang Hang's identity and language problems in this world. It even stuffed him with a considerable sum for living expenses.
Then the system started playing dead. For an entire week, no matter how Jiang Hang questioned it, the thing made no sound at all. Jiang Hang was beginning to suspect it had run away.
It was not until tonight that the system, which had been playing dead for a week, finally made a sound again.
"The system upgrade has been completed. Considering the era's background, the 'Legendary Assassin System' has now been upgraded to the 'Legendary Detective System.' System restarting... System successfully started. Welcome to the Legendary Detective System. This system will train its host to become a legendary assas... legendary detective. The initial quest has been issued. Please complete it as soon as possible."
Jiang Hang immediately sprayed out the water he had been drinking when he heard that.
His system had played dead for an entire week just to fuss over changing its name... And it had obviously almost used the wrong word just now, hadn't it?!
Jiang Hang could clearly sense a strong air of half-heartedness from his system, as if it had been forced into a corner and had no choice but to rename itself the Detective System.
Still, detective it was. At the very least, being a detective was a normal profession, far better than being an assassin. At least he would not have to worry about what to do if the system insisted on making him a legendary assassin even in modern times and issued him an assassination mission.
In any case, the system had officially activated. Its interface was not particularly complicated, looking much like a mobile game's UI: a personal status panel, an inventory, an equipment panel, and finally, a quest panel.
Other than the initial reward the system had previously given him, there was nothing particularly special about him now. The assassin bloodline had only made his body slightly better than an ordinary person's. He immediately turned to the more important quest panel.
"Initial Quest: As a detective, you must naturally own an agency of your own. Open a detective agency within one week. Quest Reward: Meditation (Beginner)."
This quest was fairly normal. Besides the initial quest, there were unexpectedly several "exploration quests" in the quest panel.
"Every journey begins with a single step: As a detective, you must have a sufficient understanding of the city you live in. Leave your footprints in every corner of this city. First-stage completion reward: Assassin's Footwork (Beginner)." "Hint: Synchronizing at the viewpoints marked by the system will greatly increase quest completion progress."
"Gleaming Feathers: As a detective, you must possess sufficiently sharp eyes. Many feathers only you can discover are scattered throughout every corner of this city. Gather these feathers and complete your challenge. First-stage completion reward: Physical Enhancement (Beginner)." "Hint: In Eagle Vision, feathers will emit a golden glow. Please distinguish them yourself."
After seeing these two exploration quests, Jiang Hang still wanted to complain.
Though it was now the Legendary Detective System, the rewards were entirely assassin-related, weren't they? For something like Assassin's Footwork, it could at least have changed the name. And this feather-collecting quest was obviously copied straight from an Assassin's Creed achievement quest, wasn't it?
Forget it. It was probably hard enough to turn an Assassin System into a Detective System. He would make do with it for now.
Complaints aside, he still had to collect the quest rewards. It was definitely too late to open a detective agency now, but he could still go out and explore.
Thus, that night, Jiang Hang ran to the closest viewpoint to his home marked by the system—a skyscraper rooftop—planning to explore the area around his house first.
Just now, he had been testing the Eagle Eye effect gifted by the system.
The effect was quite good. After activating Eagle Eye, he could easily see the situation on the ground from a hundred-meter-tall building. The x-ray effect Eagle Eye came with was especially astonishing. With the viewpoint's boost, his vision was almost completely unobstructed within a thousand meters.
As long as he wished it, nothing could escape his sight.
However, after keeping Eagle Eye active for several seconds, he felt his eyes becoming sore and swollen. The feeling only improved after he deactivated Eagle Eye, and he could not activate it again for the time being.
"At my current level, Eagle Eye can only stay active for ten seconds at most... Then I have to rest." He had already tested Eagle Eye's effects at home over the past few days. At first, it had only lasted an instant. Being able to sustain it for ten seconds now was already major progress. As the bloodline within his body gradually awakened, Eagle Eye's effects would certainly continue improving.
Still, his earlier thoughts of using Eagle Eye for some indecent purposes had clearly been wishful thinking.
"If I'm not mistaken, I think I saw something over there," he muttered.
During those few brief seconds of Eagle Eye, he had spotted a flash of golden light atop a distant villa. Though it was far away, the golden gleam was especially dazzling. According to the quest description, that should be one of the feathers he needed to collect.
"I'll go collect that feather first."
Shinigami Elementary Schooler's Set?
The weather really could change without warning.
Everything had been fine just moments ago. Jiang Hang had merely gone downstairs when it suddenly started raining.
Fortunately, the rain was not heavy, and judging from the situation, it would probably stop soon. Jiang Hang could not be bothered to return home for an umbrella.
He jogged through the drizzle toward the golden light he had seen with Eagle Eye.
After obtaining the assassin bloodline, his physical fitness had become much better than before.
Of course, it was only slightly better. Even an assassin would not magically become fit by staying home all day playing games and watching anime.
The golden light had seemed close while he viewed it from the building, but it was actually quite far when he ran there. By the time he reached the street where the villa was located through the drizzle, Jiang Hang was breathing heavily.
The system seemed to have noticed Jiang Hang's stamina problem too, because it immediately popped up with another training quest.
"It has been detected that the host's stamina is worrying. As a detective, you must possess a powerful body and sufficient stamina in order to handle all manner of situations during cases. Even with a system, physical training must not stop. A long-term sign-in quest is now being issued. Please check the quest panel."
"Sign-in Quest 'Daily Training': Once you complete 'a ten-kilometer run,' '100 push-ups,' '100 squats,' and '100 sit-ups' each day, you may sign in once. Corresponding rewards will be obtained as your number of sign-ins accumulates."
After seeing the quest called Daily Training, Jiang Hang's mouth twitched. After all, he knew very well about the famous Saitama Training Method.
Was this trying to make him exercise every day, or turn him into a bald demon king?
But it was already very late, so there was obviously no way he could do Daily Training today. Jiang Hang only planned to collect the feather here before going home, then start this so-called Daily Training tomorrow.
Eagle Eye activated once more. In Jiang Hang's eyes, the entire world seemed to become crystal clear, with all kinds of objects marked by highlighted glows.
Ordinary people emitted gray light, while certain objects emitted blue light.
Jiang Hang did not know what those blue-glowing objects in his vision were, but in games, anything that glowed was generally an important clue. Perhaps these glowing objects were things important to other people.
Among all those lights, the most eye-catching was naturally the dazzling golden gleam on the roof of the nearby villa. The feather was clearly there.
However, Jiang Hang was somewhat concerned when, as his gaze turned toward that location, an equally eye-catching red glow suddenly appeared in his vision.
During the week since acquiring Eagle Eye, he had used it dozens of times. Yet this was the first time he had seen something emitting red light.
No, after Jiang Hang focused his vision on the red glow, he quickly realized it was actually the figure of a child around six or seven years old.
"Red light... What does that represent?" Jiang Hang's attention was instantly drawn to it. He muttered inwardly, Could it be some kind of 'assassination target'?
Feathers could be collected anytime, but if he did not figure out that person's identity, Jiang Hang estimated that he would not be able to sleep tonight.
Deactivating Eagle Eye, Jiang Hang carefully approached and soon saw the child marked red by Eagle Eye.
"This child..." Jiang Hang spotted the child's unusual features at a glance.
His face was dirty and he looked rather disheveled. The clothes he wore also seemed poorly fitted, as if a primary school student had been forced into a high school student's clothing.
"A homeless child?" Jiang Hang thought as he watched the child wandering near the villa's entrance. But if that were all, the child did not seem particularly special. At least Jiang Hang did not think Eagle Eye would specifically mark a homeless child.
Perhaps the child was hiding some sort of secret.
Jiang Hang was not cold-hearted by nature. Thinking this, he prepared to go over and ask whether the child needed help.
However, once he approached, the child seemed to notice someone coming closer and immediately looked at Jiang Hang warily.
After seeing an unfamiliar face, before Jiang Hang could even speak, the child ran away as if startled. Jiang Hang was about to chase after him and catch him, but something else instantly drew his attention.
At the entrance of the villa where the child had just been wandering, the two characters "Kudo" on the nameplate struck Jiang Hang's heart like a bolt of lightning.
In almost an instant, Jiang Hang remembered.
A strange child wearing adult clothes on a rainy day, Kudo, and the "Beika City" sign he had seen at the street intersection before coming here.
Fuck, this was the Shinigami Elementary Schooler's set!
He had wondered why the system had played dead for so long, only to suddenly come alive tonight and abruptly turn itself into a Detective System.
After all, although private detective was a respectable profession, in reality it mostly involved trivial, somewhat unsavory matters like "finding cats and dogs" or "investigating affairs." Even if someone became a legendary detective, it did not seem particularly impressive in the real world.
But in Detective Conan, an anime where detectives were the protagonists, detectives held an entirely different status.
As a high school detective, Shinichi Kudo not only had the title "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei Era," but was also known as "the savior of Japan's police." Even Inspector Megure, a police inspector, had to speak politely and seek his help.
In this world where murder cases occurred frequently, an outstanding detective could clearly attain an extremely high social standing.
"System, system, get out here! I need an explanation!"
Perhaps realizing that it could no longer conceal the truth, the system finally responded after Jiang Hang demanded answers.
"According to system planning, the host was originally meant to travel to Florence in 1476. However, due to unknown causes, an error occurred during world traversal, resulting in arrival in this world. After the system searched and compared data, it confirmed that the detective profession in this world is close to the world's origin. If the host can become a legendary detective in this world, there is a high probability that the system can absorb this world's origin and provide sufficient energy for the host's next transmigration. Therefore, please work together with this system to become the world's finest assas... detective."
It sounded fairly convincing. It would have been better if it had not nearly misspoken again at the end.
The System's Brilliant Plan to Settle Its Host
Since its birth several eras ago, the Legendary Assassin System had always worked diligently and conscientiously, never forgetting its duties as a system.
At the dimensional System Management Bureau's professional evaluation conference at the end of the previous era, the Legendary Assassin System had failed to receive the title of Outstanding System. However, it still earned verbal praise from the higher-ups through its steadfast work ethic. If nothing unexpected happened, it would successfully be rated as an Outstanding System at the end of this era, receive a promotion and raise, and reach the pinnacle of system life.
After all, there were too many flashy systems these days. In the past, there had been things like the Strongest Harem Strategy System, while recently a bunch of XX Sign-in Systems had appeared. In short, all these systems that the Legendary Assassin System considered crooked paths were increasingly popular among hosts. Old-fashioned systems like it, plain and dull as they were, did not have an easy time surviving in the current environment.
Still, over the past several eras, it had at least cultivated quite a few hosts and retired successfully. It could be considered an experienced veteran system.
This time, in preparation for this era's Outstanding System evaluation, it had continued working without interruption as always. After training its previous host into a top-tier assassin, it immediately found a new host.
To improve its final host evaluation score, it had even specifically selected a recently popular "otaku" as this host. Compared with those ancient-era hosts who came with traits like "retired soldier king" or "heir to ancient martial arts," it was said that otaku-type hosts had recently received much higher score bonuses from the System Management Bureau.
Although the initial training would likely require more effort, for the sake of this era's Outstanding System title, the Legendary Assassin System felt it could take on the challenge.
To that end, it had specifically updated itself. It downloaded a 2D Patch Pack from a highly rated post on the system forum and crammed knowledge about what "2D" supposedly meant.
Though it still had not figured out what "true 2D" actually was, it did understand the contents of the patch pack to some extent.
For the host's initial reward, it chose the assassin bloodline from Assassin's Creed, while the initial world it chose was the world of Assassin's Creed II, which the host was most familiar with.
It had also added the moves of those 2D assassins to the assassin skills offered through system rewards.
Though it had little interest in moves and abilities like Nine-Tailed Chakra Mode or Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, it believed that in such an environment, the host's initiative would definitely be better stimulated, allowing him to grow more quickly.
But who could have known that this update would cause problems?
Perhaps loading too many new things had made the system incompatible, or perhaps the 2D Patch Pack posted on the system forum was an unlicensed product. In any case, its Transmigration Sub-system developed a serious problem. It nearly drained all its stored energy during the traversal process and ultimately had no choice but to land in this strange world.
"It's over. A major error occurred in the very first step, the transmigration. If the error report is submitted, this system's Outstanding System title will be finished!"
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