『Felix Karl Grimm』
"Woaah!!! This stuff is way better than what they serve in the cafeteria, thank you for the meal!"
"Seaweed!!!"
"Oh yeah, this Poached Salmon is incredible! Grimm-kun, you can consider this Panda a friend for life!"
Yuji and Panda dug into their meals like the animals they were. After getting Adept Cooking, I had decided to cook for everyone the morning after taking note of all of their preferences. I took my job very seriously too, and I had to say, Adept Cooking was absolutely incredible, even more so when paired with my Dexterity. I was better than most Chefs and the food I cooked was better than most of what I could buy at food shops.
"Tsk, don't give him a big head, it's decent. Decent!"
"Zennin-senpai, you're on your 4th burger though."
"S-Shut up! I need a lot of calories because of my Heavenly Restriction, that's all!"
Even though she tried to act like a tsundere, Maki's obsession with gobbling my meat was undeniable. Since I assumed that the burgers would be a popular pick, I had made over 30 patties and thank Patron I did because these people ate like it was their last meal before death row.
"You would make such a great househusband Feli-kun, you should just stay at Jujutsu Tech forever."
Gojo ate his food with relative grace to the hounds that were unleashed upon the meal I had spent 2 hours cooking, but he was addicted to the Felix's Favorable Feast™ like any other. I had made his own desserts even as thanks for helping me at every turn.
"Yeah, he definitely is. Don't get any ideas, Zennin-senpai, I wouldn't want you to be crushed against me."
"What the hell are you talking about!?"
Maki's face reddened at Nobara's nonchalant words as she ate her French toast. She protested way too hard at her words while Panda crossed his arms and shared his own words of stupidity- wisdom, wisdom.
"I mean, he is handsome, powerful, mindful and a great cook. But it seems like Nobara-chan has already staked her claim, so you shouldn't get any ideas Maki-chan. You definitely shouldn't use your womanly charms to charm him and then adopt me when you both get a house together so that I can keep eating this Poached Salmon every morning. You DEFINITELY should not. Definitely."
"Shut up Panda!"
Amongst all this chaos, I simply stuck to eating my own food while ignoring the hubbub. It was heavenly, Medium Rare Perfectly basted with butter and garnish, ramen on the side, some rice, a quadruple patty burger, a medium handmade pizza, and a whole punch of potato fries.
Indeed I was in heaven. I could only thank my Kure physique for not having to worry about gaining weight from this feat thanks to its incredible metabolism.
"Oh can I get a slice-"
My hand shot out and grabbed Yuji's wrist while the Satsui no Hado rolled off my body in waves without me even thinking about it.
"Do. Not."
"O-ok, sorry."
The surge of killing intent immediately receded as Yuji returned to his seat. You do not reach for a man's pizza before saying your intentions. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY touches my food.
I coughed into my fist. That was rather embarrassing.
"There is an XXL large meaty pizza in the kitchen, go grab it if you want some."
Yuji immediately went from crying puppy to happy golden retriever as he skipped over to the kitchen. Nobara crossed her arms and turned her nose up.
"See? Total husband material. He even knows how to handle kids."
"...I guess."
Maki grumbled in return but I shook my head. They may as well have been speaking an alien language. Instead, I turned my eyes to the notification that just appeared in front of me.
Feat Achieved! Satisfy everyone currently in Jujutsu High with your cooking
+1x Advantage Bronze Familiar Gacha Ticket
My eyes widened slightly before I subtly tore the bronze ticket under the table. Other tickets were fine, but I did not want others to question my familiars as they could be rather unorthodox.
Rolling Bronze Familiar Gacha with advantage...
[Brown Bear]
|Common Familiar|
A regular big old brown bear companion, as a familiar they are a bear who has excellent genetics and near human intellect, they are strong enough to shrug off most small firearms and crush a human being like an apple. By default they are female.
or
[Crow of Judgement]
|Trash Familiar|
A very judgmental and scrutinizing crow. Though it is usually judgmental, it is an excellent judge of character and morality. But otherwise it is a regular crow.
So, a regular ass Brown Bear or a very judgmental crow.
Eh, might as well go with the crow, at the very least, when it is not judging me for my poor life choices, it can deliver mail or something. At least the crow flies while the Brown Bear was less useful than 1(one) Black Knight.
But hey, a familiar was a familiar, no matter if it was rated as trash by the system itself.
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『Felix Karl Grimm - Days Later』
Eventually, I settled into a daily routine in Jujutsu High. Which was mostly studying and training my skills. I started out by training with Maki and Panda but quickly discovered that I had a bit too much trouble controlling my strength to do so.
As Gojo and I discovered, Satsui no Hado was practically Cursed Energy but on crack. Which came with its own set of advantages and disadvantages.
On the plus side, I got way more mileage out of one unit of Satsui than a sorcerer got out of one unit of Cursed Energy. It was like comparing Lightning to Fire. It was plainly superior in almost every way.
On the minus side, it was incredibly difficult to control. Unlike Cursed Energy, Satsui literally comes from Killing Intent, and amplifies said emotions passively and when using it actively, and even when I did not use it, it tried to get me to use it. I was nowhere even close to getting it under control either. Hell, even Ryu took literal years to get his own temptation under control, I was nowhere on his level.
And to add onto that, it did not want to do what stable Cursed Energy did. No matter what I did, I could not form my Hado into a Simple Domain, or any basic barrier technique. It simply was not tame enough for that, even when I executed it properly, it was like a wild dog pulling at its leash.
So, since I couldn't control my Hado properly, we did not focus on that. Instead, we focused on what I could do with my Hado in its current state. Which was a lot indeed.
Putting aside basic enhancement, which my Hado excelled at. I figured out how to do what every child has tried to do at least once in their lifetime.
The Hadoken.
Honestly, that alone made up for every single shortcoming Satsui no Hado had.
Alongside my spiritual and martial training, I was training physically like hell. And let me tell you, those Kure and Rodriguez genes combined with Satsui no Hado were putting in unfathomable amounts of work. My frame was filling and condensing at rapid rates, my strength started increasing at incredible pace, I was still not the absolute freak that Yuji was, but I could definitely train my base stats to reach and surpass his.
"Huh huhu hu hu~"
"You seem to be in a good mood."
Nobara commented from the side as I hummed to myself while getting a drink from the vending machine. Fushiguro and Yuji were still in the field, training while seniors were off doing something somewhere. I had gone to get a drink and Nobara followed like she always did. My mood was currently good due to figuring out the Hadoken, even though I was still wired up from using the Satsui no Hado so much.
Unfortunately, with our new training schedules, we did not have much time to date. But she made sure to make it up by sticking to me whenever she saw me. She seemed to be drawn to me as if I had my own gravitational field. Maki-senpai on the other hand was vastly uncomfortable with me, probably due to the teasing of Panda and the territorial nature of Nobara Kugisaki.
"Why shouldn't I be? Soon, I'll land a real hit on Gojo-sensei, I can feel it. And when I do, I'll get a damn good ticket out of it. Do you think it'll be Platinum or Gold?"
But our important discussion was interrupted by an unwanted third party stepping into view of the passage with one of the only 3 vending machines in Jujutsu High. It was a pretty woman with black hair styled into a bob and an appearance eerily similar to Maki and a much more appreciable outfit that looked more like a qipao than a traditional uniform.
Next to her was a man I recognized well, he was a mountain of a man, muscular with black hair in a knot and a large scar on his face. Even from a simple tilt of his head, my Kure instincts screamed danger from him.
"And who might you two be?"
Nobara curiously asked while the man stared me down. The girl answered with a slight mocking tone to her voice.
"Ara? You can't recognize a superior model to what you already have? But it's only natural, I'm so far above that failure that you probably couldn't see the resemble. I'm Mai Zennin, 2nd Year at Kyoto Technical High. We tagged along with the principal to see what the new years here looked like, but obviously, there isn't much to look at." she winked at me. "You can call me Mai."
My eyelid twitched at her annoying tone of voice but then the big man himself spoke.
"I'm just here to see what the substitutes for Okkotsu look like."
Though his eye never once landed on Nobara. But as if finding the whole situation funny, the woman, Mai, laughed.
"Well, clearly they aren't anything to worry about. After all," her eyes stared at me and she chuckled lightly. "They are the two that almost died on their first mission. A girl who did not even make it to the end, and the boy who almost died and had to beg his sensei for help after that monster boy almost went berserk-"
"Oi."
I stared at her.
I could feel my blood boiling. She managed to insult everyone I cared about in this world in one sentence while making light of my life and death struggle as if it were the weather in one monologue. I was not feeling very amused.
My word stopped her for a second, so I rolled my shoulders.
"Stop speaking. Or I will not be able to hold myself back."
Practitioners of the Satsui no Hado were not known for patience.
But she took my warning very lightly.
"Was I wrong? Or did I just strike a nerve? Oh, I guess I was wrong about one thing, that boy does not do you justice. It must have been hard for you, to have to work with a monster in the facade of a human. After all, you already nearly died to him once. Maybe next time you won't be so lucky, I can't understand why you'd ever want to-"
"Sigh. I warned you. If you wanted a fight, you could have just said so."
I cut off her words and closed my eyes.
Killing Intent so dense that it took a physical form surged around my body and I dashed forward, my feet shattering the concrete below me as I stepped towards her. With a single step, I covered several meters and punched at her, aiming for her shoulder in order to not inflict a lethal wound.
BAM!
"Hooh, isn't that nice?"
The sound of a shotgun meeting flesh sounded as my punch was blocked last second by an arm. The gorilla had stepped in and took my fist at the last second, I could see how his arm was straining from the force of my punch. I drew my fist back from his grasp and glared at him while the girl stood shocked.
"That's right, we came for a fight. And it seems like I found one!"
He grabbed his shirt and tore it apart with a single motion, revealing his chiseled body while I nodded while still feeling the rage boiling under my skin.
"It seems like you did."
A/N: Adept Cooking + Dexterity is a great combo, and the Great Chef Felix is in the house, he is no Foodgasm level just yet, but having a handsome guy who can cook the absolute shit out of most things is definitely a plus and a half. And training with Satsui no Hado is going swell as you can see, as swell as the Evil-Ass-Hado can go at least.
Oh boy, the time for the meeting between the two forces has finally arrived. Felix and Todo, this can go so many different ways, and Felix is prepared for none of them as he has mostly forgotten the finer details of JJK. What did you guys think about this chapter? I'd love to know.