(A Few Days Later)
"C'mon c'mon! If my calculations were fucking correct, then I'd be a fucking God compared to humans!" I shouted while pouring a strange yellow liquid inside a bottle of green tea that contains weird liquids colored pink.
And the moment it landed inside the bottle of green tea, I saw it change to a weird colorless liquid with the same consistency as water.
"Holy shit, did it work?" I muttered while hastily grabbing a mouse I found living inside our house yesterday and dropping a bit of the liquid inside its mouth and saw it suddenly squirming on the table and out came a weird carapace covering its body along with a weird horn on its head.
With heavy breaths, I shakily grab a stone a few times bigger than the mice and put it in front of it and as I saw it lift it up with its mouth, a loud cackle came out of my mouth in response.
"I KNEW IT WOULD FUCKING WORK! OF COURSE IT WOULD WORK! I'M DOING GOD'S FUCKING WORK DOWN HERE IN MY GODDAMN BASEMENT!" I shouted while grabbing a hammer and smashing the mouse into bits and pieces while a malicious chuckle came out of my mouth.
"Whew, all of the stress I went through yesterday was worth it, now I have a secret weapon inside this little thingy here," I said while grabbing the strange liquid and putting it inside my pockets.
"Now that this project is over, I can finally start my other project, make my father rich through buying his company and making it rich and in turn making me rich and so I can buy a lab and not do some advance science bullshit in our basement and possibly create a super virus that can end all of humanity and make me hastily build a rocket to get the fuck out of here," I said while wiping away the sweat on my forehead with my newly bought labcoat because it makes me feel smarter even though I'm probably the smartest man in Earth because I just ascended to the ranks of Gods with the thing I made inside this goddamn basement.
Can a God do what I did with the equipment that I have?!
I don't even have beakers and glass tubes, all I have are fucking plastic bottles and instant ramen containers that possibly contain a liquid that can turn anybody into a superhuman freak of nature.
"Sundays, am I right? It's basically Monday, do I even need to attend school at this point? Though I perhaps do need that certificate for some other shit in the future so why not, it's basically attending elementary," I said while I take off all of my clothes and dump a pink liquid that is contained inside an instant ramen cup and see that my clothes become clean and put it on without a second thought.
Ugh, finally all clean, I knew spending an hour making an instant clean solution was worth it.
With my clothes now clean, I got out of the stairs and saw my parents were watching TV in the living room while Ren was either busy studying because he was born with a big brain or busy with his computer.
"Good afternoon mom, dad," I said while taking out my phone from my pocket and sitting down on the couch beside them.
"Good afternoon Rintarou" greeted my parents as I sent a certain email to a certain somebody which would jumpstart the money to flow towards me, though I'm already a millionaire and I just need some shapeshifting tech later on but that's boring, this is better.
"So dad, I'm not saying I did something but something might happen to the company you were working with and, and, you might get a little promotion and we could become rich, and if that does happen, can you grant me a little wish and buy me an apartment or something?" I said offhandedly which made my parents weirded out.
"If you say so Rintarou, but what did you do in the basement? We heard your screams again just like yesterday," said my father as I chuckled.
"It's nothing dad, I was just doing some science stuff you know? Here's a little invention I made, by the way, I call it instant clean" I said while taking out a plastic bottle below the couch I was sitting on that contained the same pink liquid which I then poured onto the couch they were sitting on and with wide eyes, they saw their couch, their clothes, even their body got rid of all the dirty stuff out of them.
"W- what?!" shouted my parents in shock at the marvelous scene they experienced.
"Yeah, made it in Friday, but I gotta go now, I still need to scavenge stuff in the streets so I can make an internet enhancer, the internet has been kinda slow lately," I said while standing up and leaving the house without a second thought.
Why do I need to hide my capabilities from my parents, I know I can trust them, besides, I can just use some… unethical means to… dispose of my… not friends.
I'm basically just gonna kill anyone who stands in my way is what I'm saying.
It sounds harsh but I'm probably gonna give myself cancer in a few weeks so death isn't something I fear.
(A Few Hours Later)
"OH FUCK! You're telling me someone dumped their phone?! That's a fucking steal!" I shouted while going through a pile of trash in a random alleyway.
I mean the phone isn't functional but the parts! The parts are valuable to me!
I can make so much with just one phone already like a bomb!
"Now, this haul should be enough for the rest of the night, ugh, I should make an anti-sleep pill or something and take away my brain's needs for sleep," I muttered with a yawn coming out of my mouth.
With a black plastic bag in my hand, I continued through the dark alleyway because I already walked through this alleyway for the past week a couple of times and I'm more than familiar with the ways I can go to.
But as I was walking through the dark alleyway, I saw a fiery red light in the distance and the distinct smell of blood wafting through the air.
"What? Is somebody going to burn a human body here?" I muttered with a raised eyebrow and continued to walk towards the red light because why not, it's not like I'm gonna die or some shit.
(Unknown POV)
"Rias, this is where the rogue Devil was last located," said a girl with black hair and black eyes on top of a roof of a random building.
"Mmm, everyone spread out, the hellhound should be here around somewhere," said Rias as her peerage nodded and went their own separate ways to find the Devil they were contracted to hunt down after some random guy found this monster.
"Sigh, we could have killed it hours ago if it weren't for the lady seeing the Devil and letting it escape," muttered Kiba as he jumps from roof to roof looking around the dark alleys to find the Devil they have to kill.
Probably also instructed by another contractor to kill somebody, maybe a mage who needs some sacrifices?
Whatever it was, it's disturbing Kuoh and they need to kill it.
But as Kiba was jumping around from one place to another, he saw the fiery orange light in the distance which means the Devil was nearby.
"Everyone! I found him!" shouted Kiba as he saw the others flying towards him and they rapidly went towards the middle-class devil they have to kill.
And the moment they arrived there, they saw a guy with black hair wearing a white lab coat walking towards the flames of the devil in the distance.
"Shit, he's about to die," said Kiba in a hushed voice while looking at the innocent lab-coat-wearing man in the distance.
"I'm gonna save him," said Akeno as she was about to jump down from the roof they were on but then, they suddenly saw the devil making eye contact with the man.
"Welp, we can't always help everyone," said Akeno with a sigh.
"At least he can be used as bait," said Rias while they saw the Devil in the distance looking at the man with a malicious grin.
(Rintarou POV)
"Holy shit?! Is that a… Devil? Or a ghoul? I don't see any tails or horns," I said while putting my hands in my pockets and looking at the thing in front of me.
"Oh ho, another unlucky fool," said the Devil in front of me as a tail sprouted from his back, there it is, it is indeed a Devil.
"So God is real? Who would have thought the supernatural does exist? Though I'm beyond that at this point with me playing God in my basement. So! Devil! Do you want to live or die! It's your choice!" I'm still giving him a choice y'know, I'm not gonna kill an innocent Devil who just probably follows the cycle of their life, though it would be a great research subject for me to explore in my basement.
"Me? Choose? It should be you human, I'll be generous and give you 10 seconds to run away, tick tock! The time's ticking!" shouted the devil towards me as I was unimpressed with his threat.
"What is he doing? Did that fool become this dumb from fear?" said Akeno as they crouch down preparing to ambush the devil busy counting down from ten.
"You know what, I'll just enjoy bashing your head to a fucking pulp," I said while taking out a plastic bottle of green tea from my pocket as the devil looks at it with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.
"Oh I'm so scared, what are you gonna do? Kill me?" said the devil as a loud chuckle came out of his mouth.
"Yeah," I said while chugging down the liquid without a second thought.
"What is he doing?" said Rias with a raised eyebrow as they watched Rintarou drink the water from the bottle.
"Sigh, we should just kill the devil before he kills the man, we'd then just erase his memory and leave him alone in the alleyway," said Kiba as a sword appeared in his hand from nowhere.
But as they were about to jump down, they saw a weird black armor suddenly enveloping the man that resembles those of knights but more, bug-like in theme.
"Oh, you're gonna fucking die now pal! You're messing with a man who became GOD!" I shouted while ripping a steel bar beside us with a single fucking hand and lifting it up with ease as the devil looked at me with shocked eyes.
"Y- you didn't tell me you were a fucking Devil! What pillar are you under! I don't remember any of them able to summon a suit of armor!" shouted the devil as fiery red frames erupted all around his body.
"I'm not a devil! I'M GOD!" I shouted as my breath started to follow a certain pattern.
"Science Breathing Style! BIOLOGICAL OVERDRIVE!" I shouted as my dung beetle physiology got enhanced further with the breathing style I was using and with one swing, I threw the steel beam towards the devil which accurately hit his face, crushing it in one blow.
"Hah! That's the power of science devil! That's the power of a God!" I shouted as I pointed at his dead corpse with a middle finger.
"W- what?" said Rias and her peerage with agape mouths as they watched the man absorb his armor into his body and went towards the devil they had to kill.
"Fuck you, devil, you really think you can cross paths with me? You really think you can outshine the body of a dung beetle! A bug is fucking superior to you fool! A BUG! Now let me gather a blood sample and flesh sample and there we go," I said as I put them in separate containers to take back home and continued on my merry way without a second thought.
Because if a bug is more "magical" than a devil, then they probably suck balls compared to a Water Bear.
AN: This is 2075 words, you're welcome.
Oh golly, I do wonder if his newfound god complex is related to him suddenly losing it in past volumes.
The Sword of Damocles hangs above each and everyone one of you with its ever present threat of despair, so send me some power stones with your power of friendship and save the thousands perhaps even millions to come who will read this masterpiece immortalized in the tunnels of time.
(April 28, 2022 – 155th day of writing)