009 Gacha and Fiance?

Entering my room, I immediately do something I have been dying to do all week.

I give the command to the system "Open gacha."

In front of my eyes appears a holographic screen with two lines of text.

[Points 1000 = 1 spin

Activate Gacha]

I press the words that say Activate Gacha. The screen changes to a new screen with two boxes on top, each with a zero inside, and just below is a wheel split into 5 sections numbered one to five with a big start button in the middle.

I press the start button in the middle, and it spins for a full minute before slowing down and finally landing on one. After the wheel landed on one, the word start faded into the word Abilities. It stayed like that for about ten seconds before the whole wheel changed into 21 sections again, each one numbered one to 21 before spinning again for a minute before finally landing on number six.

I was standing there in my room. I could feel the sweat running down my back. I wanted this to be something good, something powerful that could help me get stronger, or something that would immediately make me powerful.

The word abilities finally start to fade and become Shadow Creation. Thinking it's an elemental ability, one that works well with stealth before the words change again, proving me wrong. This time to a text box explaining the ability.

[Shadow Creation

Origin: Shadow Hack

The ability to create exact copies of oneself that will have all the user's abilities and equipment.

The user will gain all muscle memory from Shadow's adventures.

In addition, users can occupy the Shadow's body.

Shadows can gain points for the user.

Note: this is not The Shadow Hack system user will not have any other features from the Shadow Hack system other than summoning Shadows.

1st shadow free

2nd shadow 1000 points

Every shadow after costs ten times the previous.]

Just below the explanation is the word Assimilate in its own box.

I stand there in a daze, not knowing to celebrate or rage at my luck.

I want to celebrate because it is a fantastic ability that will help me increase my battle power and technique. What has me on edge is that this is just another thing that I will have to dump my points into. Don't get me wrong. It's a powerful ability that I will benefit from greatly. Still, it's also another thing that I will have to hide.

I will have to get imaginative with my lies when some of the things I can do get out.

"Well, whatever. " I pressed the assimilate button.

Immediately I fall to the ground. Pain runs through me, feeling like electricity directly under my skin, slowly burning away at my very being. Leaving me a twitching mess on the floor, unable to make a sound in protest. Seconds pass, then minutes. The pain finally ends after what feels like hours, but what could not have been more than a few minutes. Taking a look at the clock confirms that a few minutes have passed.

I feel a new energy source in my body directly under my skin. I can't really explain the feeling; it's different from how my demonic energy feels. Slowly I pull on the power and a humanoid that seems to be modeled after me appears. Even with the shadow being modeled after me, the difference is glaringly evident as it is made of darkness with blue flames flickering off it's skin.

(AN. Like the shadow from the manga. But black with blue instead of just blue.)

"I will have to give you a name." The shadow just continues to stare at me without giving me a response. "Well, you are supposed to be a shadow, so I'll call you Umbra, which is Latin for shadow." Not very imaginative, I know, but I have never been good at naming things.

I think back to all the shadow's abilities in the original story. The only ones I can think of were that the shadow can operate and learn on its own after I mentally give the shadow commands. That I can possess the shadow for direct control and finally transfer anything it learned to me, including muscle memory.

I decided to try some of the abilities out, at least, the ones I can try now.

Mentally commanding the shadow to lift its arms, it does exactly as I instructed. The first test seems to be a success now for the second. I head to the bed to lie down. I'm going to try to directly enter its body and use it as my own. Lying in bed, I try to imagine myself trying to take control of Umbra's body and directly control him.

My point of view changes to see myself in bed with my eyes closed as if I was sleeping. I move around, trying to see if there is any difference in Umbras's body compared to mine. Still, it seems that the description of the ability was accurate. Umbra is an exact copy of myself, from my demonic energy to the strength my body can exert.

I returned to my body, and it felt no different from waking up. Dismissing Umbra, I make my way to the bathroom, deciding that I'll have a nice shower before I have to go for dinner with the family.

-Scene Change-

"Knock" "Knock"

"Come in."

"Young master, dinner is ready. Would you like for me to take you to the dining room?"

"Thank you, Sebastian, and yes, I would."

We appear before double doors big enough to fit an elephant and still have space. Sebastian walks forward, opens the door for me, and gestures to enter.

As I walk through the doors and I hear the chatter of my new family.

"Ahh, Rical, come sit. It's the first time in a year for our family to all be together." My mother calls me over to sit next to her on the right side of the table. My father is next to her at the head of the table. My brothers sat to my father's left, from oldest to youngest. That just left Ravel to my right with the happiest smile she has ever had on her face. Seeing her, I smiled too, her smile being so infectious.

And so dinner continued for an hour with everyone chatting and being social. We just talked about what happened in the last year with the family and underworld, everyone trying to catch me up, and Rizer just trying to brag about his peerage, which he is very proud of.

Contrary to popular belief, he hasn't slept with any of his peerages, not due to Rizer not wanting to but our mother not allowing him to. He is only allowed to lose his virginity to his future wife. My mother uses his virginity to motivate him to marry Rias. Honestly, I feel sorry for him and can understand him being an ass sometimes. I would also be grumpy if I had 14 sexy, not including our sister, women that constantly fool around with me, but I can't sleep with them. Constantly being blue-balled must not be fun. It is no wonder he was rushing the wedding along.

"Mother, the way things are going, Riser won't even marry Rias. Rias hates Riser far too much for her to accept marrying Riser. And Sirzechs Lucifer is the biggest siscon in the underworld. He will never let Rias marry Riser against her will." Riser needs to really stop talking in the third person. He is already in his late twenties, yet he talks like he has eighth-grade syndrome. It does not help that everyone in this family treats it like it's normal.

"Riser, my decision is final. And no amount of begging is going to change that. You can have fun with your peerage without taking that final step." My mother really won't budge.

"Riser, Zeoticus has assured me that Sirzechs will not get involved. Sirzechs getting directly involved and using his station to cancel the wedding would imply that he thinks his father can't run his own house. which will offend Zeoticus, who would not take it lying down." Says my father decided to try and end that conversation.

In my past life, watching anime, I always wanted Rias Gremory, and this could be my chance if I play it right.

"Father, there are other ways for Sirzehs to interfere with the marriage without directly challenging his father." bringing everyone's attention to me.

"Oh, how do you think he will be able to do that?"

"Off the top of my head, Let's see. Someone could challenge Riser to a duel or fight for her release from the contract at the rehearsal dinner. Of course, Riser could refuse, but all Sirzechs would have to say is that it would be nice to see a show. Riser would not be able to refuse a Satan. If Riser loses. Then the winner could ask Sirzecks for Rias to have the right to choose her own husband. And Sirzecks who promoted the duel can't refuse now, can he."

"And what do you suggest we do?" My father asks, seeing the possibility.

"Simple, speak to lord Gremory and change Rias's fiance to me."

"To you? How would that change anything?"

"Simple, we don't tell Rias and Sirzechs, and Riser continues to put pressure on Rias to get married. And just before the marriage goes through, we simply make me seem like a more desirable option to Rias. Let her try and change the contract for her and me. Let Rias think that it's her choice to choose me."

"And what's stopping Sirzechs from stopping your wedding too or Rias getting strong enough to defeat you in a rating game?"

"From what I know about Rias Gremory, she is extremely lazy and does not train at all. And if she thinks it's her decision, then she is more likely to go threw with the wedding."

"What do you think, Riser? It is your Fiance."

"Riser never liked Rias, and if it means Riser can have some real fun with his peerage, then Riser Accepts Ricals plan."

"Very well, Rical. I'll speak to Zeoticus in the morning and see if he is willing to go along with this as well."

AN:

This story is AU, so go with it if anything different from Canon.

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