C2 - I Have To Be A Hero, Right?

(Because I added another anime to it. I decided to turn this book into a multiverse crossover and not just focus on Kaiju. Oh and I changed the title.)

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Block C, Yokohama.

Yuta's residence was actually not too far from the location of the Kaiju he had just killed.

It was in Okurayama Apartment, a unique 458 square meter housing block.

The housing block is called unique because it breaks up the communal volumetric scheme by creating free-flowing interior cavities that zigzag over the site and at each of the three building heights.

The community of people who live here is usually only people from middle or upper class families.

Yuta was just a high school student with powers that had recently surpassed those of ordinary people, but his parents were different. His mother was a lawyer of Russian origin, his red hair and blue eyes came from her. As for his father? He's Japanese, but he works as an exclusive chef of a five-star restaurant overseas.

Both of them worked in Russia, which is probably why they met and got married.

Instead of settling in Japan because their son was here, they rarely came home because they were busy with their respective jobs and rented an apartment for him.

Both of them loved Yuta of course. Otherwise, they wouldn't give him the 250,000 yen per month pocket money and often asked how he was doing.

For example, right now...

The bathroom door opened, Koko came in with her cell phone in her hand.

"Host, there's a call."

The girl looked at Yuta who was naked and bathing under the shower without any expression. There was not a single dirt in her golden eyes and no embarrassment for barging into the bathroom that her host was using.

She seemed to be an innocent little girl who even ignored the large snake dangling between Yuta's crotch.

"...." Yuta turned off the warm shower, picked up the towel hanging on the wall and wrapped it around his waist to cover his lower half.

He sighed and walked over to the silver-haired loli to take the cell phone in his hand. "I can't marry anymore."

"Host, you're acting like a girl. Don't worry, Koko is just a loli-shaped system. Technically, you don't have to feel disadvantaged." Koko said flatly and added. "You can still marry someone in the future."

"Stop answering me sensibly and hurry back to the living room to watch TV!"

Koko nodded, she complied with his wishes and quickly exited the bathroom.

Yuta felt he had a naughty little sister, but he quickly dismissed what he thought.

Koko was his system although he should consider making her his adopted sister so that in the future he could avoid some problems.

You know, the situation where usually people misunderstand you kidnapped a loli from somewhere and the police would arrest you. Koko could transform into a spiritual form that could not be seen by anyone other than her host, but that girl seemed unreliable.

Yuta was worried and pressed the call answer button on his cell phone. Instantly, the voice of a very anxious and fast-talking woman rang out.

"Yuta! What took you so long? Are you okay? I heard that Block B of Yokohama was just attacked by Kaiju! That city is dangerous, your father and I will have to move you to another city! No, that country is not safe, you should move to Russia! Mom will buy you a private house!"

"Ugh..."

"What?! Why are you moaning? Don't tell me you're hurt?! Hiks... My son, are you in the hospital?! I'm going to Japan soon! It's your father's fault, why does he want to make his son stay there!"

"Mom, calm down. I'm fine. Speak slowly, oh and don't cry... you're jumping to conclusions that will make the people around you panic."

Yuta smiled wryly, he who had awakened the memories of his previous life was still Yuta in this world. So the woman on the other side of the phone was really his mother and he naturally doted on her.

From the beginning, this was his second life after dying hit by a truck on his way to the supermarket in his previous life and reincarnating in this world.

It was as clichéd as the protagonists in the novels he had read, but that was what happened to him.

"O-Oh, so you're okay? That's good, mom is relieved to hear that. Still, how about moving you to-"

"Please don't move me to another place, I like it here, mom."

"Uuu... Why? Russia is a great place too! The frequency of Kaiju appearing is lower and there are many beautiful girls who are no less beautiful than your mom!"

"I just like living here and there are many beautiful girls."

Putting the cell phone to his ear, Yuta got out of the bathroom and walked to his room on the second floor to change his clothes.

He passed Koko who was eating ice cream on the sofa and watching the news on the TV about what happened in block B of Yokohama, the screen displayed the giant lizard he had killed and the Defense Force members including the heroine were also highlighted by the camera.

The people from the Defense Force didn't say anything and just walked through the crowd, but the citizens praised them thinking they were the ones who had defeated that Honju-level Kaiju.

Especially the beautiful woman with a slender figure and black hair tied in a ponytail. Besides being one of the heroines in the original work, she was the Captain of the third division in the Japan Defense Force. People praised her power and beauty so much that many youngsters dreamed of joining the Defense Force and fighting beside her.

The woman had many sycophants, many men in the crowd had their eyes fixed on her beautiful ass as she walked in her tight Anti-Kaiju suit.

Yuta shook his head, he was not surprised by Defense Force taking credit for him and was actually grateful because if his mother knew what he had done after watching the news, she would have been very shocked and probably fainted seeing her son covered in blood and doing such a crazy thing as fighting Kaiju.

'Tsk! That was close. I only thought of this after successfully attracting the interest of the Defense Force. With my mother, wouldn't it be difficult to join that group? She definitely wouldn't want to let her beloved son fight with those monsters.'

'There's also my father... I have to think of a safe way to join the Defense Force without making my parents worry.'

Why did Yuta want to join the Defense Force so badly? It wasn't because of the third division captain's beauty, well maybe a little. But the other more important reason was to get exp! Just by killing a lot of Kaiju or doing other heroic acts that resembled a hero...

His golden finger, Koko who has another name called "Strongest Hero System" will help him to grow stronger!

You remember the hero notification Koko gave you earlier and make his body a little stronger. The character template is only a starter pack and he can get another character template after triggering the lucky wheel in the hero notification.

It depends on how great his heroic actions are of course and won't always appear.

So Yuta has to keep triggering those hero notifications as much as possible to increase his power further. And in this world so that one could kill Kaiju without worrying about legal issues or anything like that, and so that he could get information on when and where Kaiju appeared more quickly.

Yuta knew he could only do his job with greater efficiency if he joined the Defense Force.

"Yuta, did you hear me?" His mother's voice interrupted his thought process.

Yuta who had just finished dressing while listening to his mother's babbling gasped slightly. "What did you just say? I just finished bathing and getting dressed."

"Oh my~ I said does my handsome son already have a girlfriend?"

"...?"

Yuta had a question mark on top of his head, he was stunned for a moment.

He recalled the life Yuta lived before he awakened the memories in his previous life.

He had a few friends at his school and although there were quite a few pretty girls at his school, he who had only been a first year high school student for 2 months...

"I don't have it yet, mom. I'm still young and still want to have fun."

"Precisely because you're young! I'm asking you about a girlfriend, not your future wife. Isn't it normal for high school students to have girlfriends?"

Yuta rubbed his nose. 'Sorry my mind is a bit muddled after awakening the memories of my previous life.'

There was no way he would say this to his mother, right?

He would firmly keep his reincarnation a secret, this was his biggest secret that not even his parents needed to know.

After all, he was still the same Yuta and telling his parents about this would only make their family situation awkward.

Yuta did not want to be like the overly honest protagonist in the novels he had read in his previous life.

Although being honest and not keeping anything from your loved ones makes you look like a good person.

And Yuta who planned to be a hero would look good in the eyes of many people still wanted to keep some secrets to himself. At least for now. The others didn't know, but the first time Koko appeared and introduced what kind of system she was for an hour, Koko told him that without a very strong hero...

In a few years from now, even with the presence of the protagonist in the original work, this world would be destroyed.

Not because of the Kaiju in this world which can actually still be handled by the Defense Force in some countries and the protagonist's group, but because of the invasion of the many other Kaiju out there.

This planet is just one small planet hidden in a certain corner of the Kaiju Universe.

There would come a time when Kaiju from the depths of the universe with levels so powerful that the Defense Force and the protagonist could not handle would one day suddenly appear and bring death to everyone and destruction to this world.

Yuta had a sense of urgency about this, he certainly couldn't let that bad future happen and decided to become as strong as possible with the help of his system.

He had no other choice to become the strongest hero, right?

"That's normal but your son doesn't have a girlfriend right now. There's no need to rush-"

Before Yuta finished his words, his mother who was excited about this topic suddenly said something surprising.

"That's good! It just so happens that two days ago your mom and dad had made a deal with the family of a client who had once asked for mom's help as a lawyer. We had a good relationship after mom settled his case regarding his company which kept him from having to go to jail. Don't interrupt me yet."

"...." Yuta who wanted to open his mouth immediately closed his mouth again.

He had a strange feeling about where this conversation was going.

Maybe he should ask Koko to pretend to be a friend who suddenly visited his place and he should hang up because of that?

But Koko was a loli, she was a girl with a sweet voice...

When she heard Koko's voice, her mother would definitely misunderstand.

By then the situation will only get worse, sigh...

"You might have heard of the game company that released a virtual reality technology called FullDive. Because of the Kaiju that started appearing in this world and made people prefer to stay at home, that technology is very popular, especially among young people like you Yuta."

Yuta wanted to say no because he had no interest in games, even before he awakened the memories of his previous life. The future of this world was pitiful, he had no time to waste playing games!

Mom, your son is actually more interested in joining the Defense Force and becoming a hero for everyone. I don't know if you're willing to accept it?

Yuta wanted to say this, but he swallowed his words. He had to have enough power to convince his mother and father when the time came.

Right now he was still weak and could be injured by Kaiju stronger than him which would surely make people like his mother reject him joining the Defense Force firmly.

Although many young people like himself aspired to join the Defense Force.

His mother was strongly opposed to her son doing anything dangerous.

Yuta knew this.

"The name of the company was RECT Inc, which is now bankrupt because their technology endangered the humans who used it and was sued for bad publicity."

"The CEO of the company, Yuuki Shouzou asked your mom for help as a lawyer to save him from imprisonment. Your mom managed to do it."

"Wow mom, you're great. But I'm hungry and want to buy some food outside right away. There are also ingredients for dinner that I have to buy at the supermarket. So I should probably..."

"Wait a minute, don't hang up yet. You can order good food online with the pocket money mom sent you this month. Also, it won't take more than five minutes. This is good news for you who don't have a girlfriend."

"...."

His mother continued and Yuta could imagine the wide smile on the woman's face.

"That man is very grateful to mom and wants to establish good relations with our Hibiki family. In the previous meeting when I saw his very beautiful daughter, I accidentally showed a picture of my handsome son to their family."

"Mom... you did it on purpose, right?"

Yuta's lips twitched.

His mother pretended not to hear his words and continued to speak softly and excitedly.

"After several conversations about our son and daughter, we decided that you two should get engaged!"

"You were asking about a girlfriend why now a future wife? Engaged?!"

"Yuta, don't get too excited."

"I'm not excited! I'm surprised!"

"That girl is so beautiful, she's perfect for your fiancé and to be my future daughter-in-law. Oh yeah, her name is Yuuki Asuna, she's the same age as you and coincidentally, she goes to the same school as you. You've probably seen her and liked her, right?"

"I don't! My school is so big, some first year classes have separate buildings, I've never seen her and this is the first time I've heard her name... Mom, can I-"

Yuta wanted to refuse, it wasn't that he didn't like pretty girls and strangely the name of the fiancée his mother had found for him sounded familiar in his mind. Where had he heard of her?

Still, he was planning to join the Defense Force! It was fine if it was a girlfriend, but having a fiancé would probably make things more difficult in the future.

His mother quickly interrupted him.

"That's all for today, tomorrow you should look for Asuna-chan at your school and try to get on good terms with her. After all, you two are engaged and Asuna-chan must also know you're her fiancé. You two will get married in the future."

"Mom will contact you again later to find out the progress of your and Asuna-chan's relationship, Ciao~!"

*Bip Bip*

The call cut off, his mother quickly hung up before he answered. That woman wouldn't let her son reject a potential daughter-in-law she liked, right?

"...."

Yuta went down to the first floor and sat next to Koko who was now engrossed in the isekai anime that aired every afternoon.

There was an empty bowl of ice cream on the table and the girl was holding a bowl of vanilla-flavored ice cream that she must have just taken out of the fridge for the second time.

Seriously, who owns this house? This shameless girl ate her host's food without asking.

But leave that aside. There was something else Yuta wanted to ask the girl.

"Koko."

"Um, host? Koko's right, right? You'll still be able to get married in the future."

Koko said with her gaze fixed on the TV, she was expressionless as usual and seemed to know the conversation of her host and his mother on the second floor.

"Loli, you... Are you sure this is just the world of Kaiju no. 8? There are no other franchises involved in it?"

Koko finally turned her head to look at Yuta, she tilted her small head with flashing golden eyes.

"When did Koko say this is only the world of Kaiju no. 8? This world is vast, Koko only mentioned things about Kaiju and never even said Kaiju no. 8. Besides, that manga isn't finished yet."

"So... There's also SAO, I mean Sword Art Online in this world?"

"Koko doesn't know."

"What about the other franchises that might exist in this world? How many are there?

"Koko doesn't know."

"You're the system, how do you not know?"

Yuta felt that talking to Koko was very tiring.

Koko was silent for a moment.

Then she said, "Koko doesn't know. She's just a system tasked with making her host the strongest hero in the multiverse."

"...."