Chapter 21: Level 21
His arms were still asleep.
But, it was really hard to complain about why they were asleep.
On his left was his girlfriend of eight months, Itsuka Kendo, curled into his side, a pair of orange cat ears on top of her head, her lips curled into a cute smile as she slept with her long thin cat tail curled around her waist. An all but shining sky blue kimono that shimmered like the sea was draped around her body, exposing her shoulders and the tops of her breasts to him.
To his right, at eye level, were Momo's large, full, and all around spectacular breasts, barely contained by a midnight black kimono with highlights of red. Her shoulders were exposed and one of her long slender legs had fallen over his waist and was touching Itsuka. On top of Momo's head sat a pair of black dog ears that twitched at every single sound and a wide smile was on her sleeping face.
And then her thick bushy black dog tail began to thwack the bedside beside her.
"Momo?" The tail stopped. "Are you awake?"
The tail started again.
"Yeah," Momo sat up, yawning, stretching, and moving around the kimono skin she had on was always just a single pull from coming undone, yet always managed to stay on unless removed. The skin itself was as much a blessing for him as it was for the girls. Momo placed one hand on her tail to try and stop it from wagging. "Having a tail is certainly an experience."
"More of an experience than having a boyfriend and a girlfriend? At the same time." Izuku asked moving to nudge onto Itsuka. Part of him wasn't sure if he prefered her cat girl kimono or her cat lingerie but either way Itsuka was down right sexy and adorable no matter what she wore. Also apparently he now had a thing for girls with slight animal features.
"No, it's just troublesome." Momo muttered letting of her tail and letting it wag. "It does that whenever I'm happy."
"Oh!" Nejire came in from the bathroom fully dressed for school with the toothbrush in her mouth and looking way to chipper in the morning. Did she just have one energy level which she was just always at? What would happen if he gave her coffee. "Something like that might get in the way if you try doggie style."
"Nejire!" Itsuka flailed her arms and legs scrambling up to glare at the blue haired girl. Itsuka as on her hands and knees her tail straight up and her face was flushed red. "Can you please not say something so perverted in the morning?"
Nejire smiled toothbrush still in her mouth. "Hey, Izuku, nice penis."
Izuku looked down and saw that his morning wood had worked its way out of his boxers.
[Clever Comeback system.
Thanks, I grew it myself.
Hey, Nejire, nice tits.
I bet it would feel great between your boobs]
Really? It was too early in the morning for something like this. Wait, what time was it anyways?
"Thanks, I grew it myself." Izuku said and moved to cover it.
"Heh," Nejire hummed and went about her morning ritual. "Oh, by the way, it's the first day of classes so we should probably hurry and get ready. You two only have fifteen minutes before freshmen hero training begins."
"Gack!" Itsuka stood and flung her hands about randomly, her barely-on Kimono somehow staying on as she freaked out. "Okay wait uhh, Disable Midnight Kimono skin!"
Itsuka changed into her usual casual clothes she had on yesterday, her hair was a mess and she didn't looked ready for her first day of college at all. "Fuck!" She reached over and grabbed onto Momo. "Come on! We actually need to get ready for once! Crap!"
"Wait!" Momo shouted, half pawing towards Izuku as Itsuka all but carried the woman. "Are they normally that big! I need to know!"
"Seriously," Nejire pointed her toothbrush at him. "Did you put any points into charisma for that thing?"
Izuku looked down and gulped. Was it that special? "Uhh, nope."
"Nice, it looks like it'd feel good." Nejire headed towards the bathroom humming to herself. "I'll be sure to seduce you later!"
Great, now he was going to be even more of a high strung nervous wreck than usual.
[You have been targeted by Nejire Hado's Gaze of seduction.
Your virginity is in grave danger.
How the fuck are you still a virgin?]
That's what he wanted to know.
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To say Izuku's course was unique was to say that he was actually taking classes. Sure, the college did call them classes, but not only was he the only student in them, he was also getting paid for two of them. Which was normally the opposite of how colleges worked. His first class was a four hour shift that covered the breakfast and lunch at the cafeteria. Where his class role was: To learn and absorb all that Lunch rush had to teach him.
The first lesson was learning to understand Lunch rush. It wasn't that the hero was mute or anything, he just didn't like to talk at all.
Had it not been for a buff that appeared Izuku might have been worried about the situation.
[Pro guidance, the hero Lunch rush is supervising you
Complete tasks to improve your cooking skill.
His guidance can help you gain more advanced ranks and recipes in the cooking skill.
Current progress 25/100 to next skill up
Current progress 50/375 to next rank up.]
It made sense that if he studied under a world renowned chef that he would pick up on the skills of the chef. He even had an accurate list of tasks to complete, that allowed him to work faster than ever before.
"The Curry is done," Izuku slammed the large bubbling cauldron of thick meaty sauce down onto the counter, its contents nearly sloshing over. His hands were already burning from the three meals he had helped prepare so far. All of the recipes that Lunch rush had given him were in the yellow to red difficulty, meaning he couldn't use his feat to get the job done quicker. But that did mean more experience.
He was also told not to use his magic spatula. He didn't quite understand why, but he didn't want to annoy his new teacher so quick.
Lunch rush looked up from his own cooking and clapped his hand briefly and gave Izuku a thumbs up. It was simple, but the praise was more than enough especially as Lunch Rush made happy noises when sampling the food.
[Curry of Moderate Recovery.
Category: Food, Consumable
Effects:
+10 hp
+200 stamina
Will wake you the fuck up.
+1 to a random stat for 1 hour.
Creator's skill level low, random effects may be added.
Created by Izuku Midoriya.]
"Uhh," Izuku looked around for his note board and moved through the kitchen to grab it. He scribbled down the effects as fast as he could without the lines blurring into random shapes that only kinda looked like words and letters. "It boosts stamina by a lot and will wake people up. There might be other effects."
Hopefully nothing too bad. And a +1 stat shouldn't matter to much.
Lunch rush gave him another thumbs up and pointed towards the small second of the front counter dedicated towards Izuku's food. All the food was technically paid for by U.A. for the students, but his section had a sign that read something like 'Student cooking, eat at own risk'. It was red and Izuku wasn't sure if he should be proud or concerned by that sign.
Izuku grabbed the pot once more and moved it into the neat looking hole right next to the rice he had prepared earlier. Would mixing his cooking be bad? Would it make a new food item? Hopefully not! Really he should test it, but there was so much to do. He grabbed one of the display cards and labeled the curry as "Recovery Curry, should restore energy."
"So, like, how does this work?" a blond, posh looking female student that could have been considered beautiful - at least when not compared to Itsuka, Momo, or Nejire - asked him one hand on her hip and a single nearly invisible eyebrow raised in pure sassiness. Great he was being judged by people now. "Like, how's it supposed to like, restore energy? Doesn't food normally do that."
"It's probably just a shitty sign to make us take his food. Clearly he's just some retard that wasn't good enough to get a scholarship, so he has to work his way through this shit hole." Another girl, this one with long maroon hair, tan skin and holding a flute with a face that literally screamed that she was a bitch sneered taking a plate of curry. "You're lucky I like curry, shitface."
Izuku blinked and watched as the two girls moved over to a table, completely forgetting about him. Apparently, there were bitches in college too. It really didn't sting as much as it used to considering how both of his official girlfriends and his unofficial girlfriend were about ten times hotter than those two.
Still, hopefully they enjoy his food!
"Now to make uhh, let's see what's next? Oh! Some soba!" Izuku hummed to himself and turned to start on his next dish.
"Like what the hell?" One of the girls shrieked. "My tits just grew!"
"What? No way your fuckin-Holy shit! So did mine!" That other girl swore. "It's that fuckin' curry!"
Of course his quirk would choose to give a charisma boost. At least it was only for an hour. Still, they did sell out of curry really quickly.
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Shoto Todoroki looked at the menu and frowned. There wasn't any soba. He wanted soba. Well he always wanted soba. Maybe if he asked they could make him soba? Huh? What was his roommate doing in the back of the kitchen? Oh, it looked like he was waving goodbye to Lunch Rush. That was strange. Did his roommate work here? That was unusual.
Oh wait, there was soba. In the student section. Did his roommate make it? He had a roommate that could make soba? That was a good thing. Maybe it was good. Shoto moved down the line and grabbed a good portion of soba and piled it onto his plate. His stomach growling for all the energy he had expended during training today. Maybe he could sleep during math or english.
Shoto sniffed the soba and smiled. It smelled good. A bit sour, but still good.
With his plate in front of him he sat down and began to eat. Everyone was talking about the curry for some reason.
The soba tasted wonderful. It was better than curry just by being soba, but this soba was better than most soba he tasted. It might even be better than Fuyumi's soba.
His red hair fell in front of his face. Huh? It wasn't long enough to do that. Taking another bite Shoto pushed his hair to the side and realized that he felt smaller? And different. And that there was something on his chest now. He blinked and stopped eating soba for a second to examine himself.
His hair was really long now, almost as long as his mother's was. And his clothes felt loose. And on his chest were breasts?
He blinked and moved his legs a bit. Ahh. He wasn't a he anymore. He took another bite of the soba and looked back towards the kitchen and at the red warning sign.
'Random effects are temporary and don't last more than two hours.'
That was good. At least he could still enjoy the soba for a bit.