DxD: I know…I'm not the real one,just a cheap copy. but...I'd win-Chapter 36: The Path of a Cheap Copy

"Thank you, that was really helpful."

After eating with him, Luna and Sanguinius took a carriage ride through the streets of Axel.

Particularly here, in the slums.

"...I don't really like this place," Luna mumbled quietly.

She had been jovial throughout their ride, but the sight of the dirty side of the city seemed to disgust her or make her uncomfortable.

'It's simply a consequence of civilization.'

For the development of a civilization, a functional system is needed.

Unfortunately, creating a perfect system is a pipe dream.

If everyone is happy, how would you know the definition of happiness?

This is why many atheists don't envision a paradise or perfect world that's functional.

'If I want to create my paradise someday, then I'll have to imitate the path used by the supernatural emission... so The Infinite Tsukuyomi.'

Once, he would never have directly considered creating a paradise without some hesitation.

Despite his Christian origins, Sanguinius now knew he had to change his perception of things.

The incident with Khorne was considered by him as a poor evaluation of the Chaos God.

So, an isolated incident created by his arrogance and his information biased by the Warhammer 40k fan about the latter.

After all, the god of blood wasn't as blind as the former primarch Angron.

Fortunately, Jaehwan opened his eyes.

Why didn't the chat group notice the chaos in its essence?

Yes, Khorne hadn't lied.

He gave him a warp mutation, which is controllable by his will alone with enough training. freewёbnoνel.com

Yet, the chat group didn't notify him about the risk of chaos touching his essence itself.

Is it really a coincidence?

All this to say that Sanguinius realized his negligence towards these beings who were once fictional.

He acted like a Nurgle fan, who believed in the eternal love of his "daddy" and immediately joined the Death Guard once reincarnated in Warhammer 40k.

Sanguinius was mixing fiction and new reality.

He was suffering from a terrible isekai protagonist syndrome, who ended up in a fantasy world and met an important secondary character.

Above all, he had not "completely" let go of his Christian moral principles at that time.

This prevented him from exploring certain morally evil magics and made him narrow-minded.

That's why he now decided on a temporary direction.

Until he finds his true path.

Thus, he didn't ask to visit the slums for pleasure, but to prepare his future expansion in this universe and especially the next one...

"Sorry... I must have ruined our jovial moment with my selfish request," he said, in an apologetic tone.

Luna quickly shook her head, to refute Sanguinius's statement.

"No no, far from it... I... I had fun and we should have visited the city in detail from the beginning."

Surely embarrassed at having put her pleasure before the purpose of their meeting, Luna's expression turned red with embarrassment.

'Yes, I stop playing good Ex-Christian or trying to imitate Sanguinius, and I must free myself from my old vision.'

At that moment, Sanguinius moved instinctively.

He caught the delicate chin of the woman in front of him, who was mumbling something about going back home.

And he pressed his lips on her cheek.

'Yes, I will be myself... a cheap copy of the real Sanguinius, but ...I'd win.'

"I'm glad you enjoyed it... Would you like to do this again another day?"

It was at this moment that Sanguinius realized that Luna had disconnected.

'K...iss... me... cheek... on... first date...'

...

"Are you feeling better?"

After his self-deprecating laugh, Kazuma surprisingly stayed by Sanguinius's side.

'I really worried her...'

He couldn't help it.

Unlike his original, he had limitations in his control over himself and his skills.

'I'm sure my original has already regained control and found a temporary direction... I must manage things here while waiting for our fusion.'

"Yes, I just saw... something unpleasant," he said honestly.

Even at this moment, he uses the suspicion skill on himself and his environment.

'kill... fight... blood... kill...'

Sanguinius took a glance at his arm while walking side by side with Kazuma.

He hadn't activated his warp mutation, nor used his will to counter it, nor even The Holy Power to repress the bloody ideas.

He wanted to better understand the extent of chaos within himself.

'I see, is this what Eris saw?'

Sanguinius wasn't listening to these voices until now and, naturally, he never saw this strange energy mixed with his being.

Despite this worrying aura emanating from him, Sanguinius can somewhat understand that he still has full control over himself.

The problem is something else.

Khorne effectively kept his word, but certain "things" are not necessary here.

Sanguinius can't understand the use or the other hidden purpose inside the Warp energy within him, but it's Chaos.

Nothing is good with it when one lacks knowledge.

The Warp is a higher dimension, he has no chance in his attempts to try to see the hidden truth of Khorne's intentions thanks to the Suspicion skill without the Understanding skill.

As with Jaehwan's world, he isn't qualified at the moment to confront this thing.

Yet, he didn't panic.

There are several reasons pushing him in this direction.

One is simply the absence of the Warp itself in this reality.

The isolated energy within him has no real way of being reinforced by Khorne, but things will be different if he goes into the Imperium.

Apart from the multiversal distance or more between him and the Blood Lord, there were two other factors behind his calm.

If there was something dangerous, he is almost certain that the system or Jaehwan would have mentioned it.

One is a person who saves people if it's not troublesome, and the other seems to possess a plan for him and the members of the chat group.

Apart from the Warp energy, he saw something else engraved in him.

'This immaterial cord on me and Kazuma, it's surely the link between the chat group members and the system itself,' he concluded mentally.

Unfortunately, he wasn't in the right place to analyze in peace.

"Unpleasant? Are you sure it's just unpleasant?"

As expected from a person possessing an above-average IQ and absurd luck, Kazuma instinctively sensed something.

This pushed him to dig deeper.

"Anyway, these aren't your 'problems'... if no... are you interested by chance in earning existence points?"

At the mention of points, Kazuma's face went from squinting with suspicion to rubbing his hands like a shady merchant.

'Haha, it's really nice to have a group leader who's always broke in points.'

Unconsciously, Sanguinius thanked fate for having Kazuma and not Aizen as leader.

"Can you buy items for me in the Warhammer 40k shop?"

"Yes, no problem. But why?"

Kazuma was confused for a moment before exclaiming with an "oh," after understanding Sanguinius's idea.

'He wants to avoid the purchase penalty regarding things from another shop!!'

"You seem to have understood." Sanguinius smiled, before explaining the deal to Kazuma in more detail.

In summary, Sanguinius will buy through Kazuma intermediary in the chat group shop.

In exchange for this task, he will benefit from 50% of the points that should logically be lost to the chat group.

Thus, he saves 50% of the points on the 100% penalty mentioned by the chat group.

"Alright!!! What do you want to buy?"

'Currently, the original is going to need an army...'

After all, he plans to go to Warhammer 40k after solving his Warp problem.

Khorne just can't get away with playing with him.

The system didn't warn him, yes, but Khorne clearly scammed him in some way.

Of course, there's no question of trying to kill this guy.

He is literally a concept linked to a higher reality, but Sanguinius knows how to punish the blood god and his avengers.

'If I can reach the third stage of an Awakened, then definitely killing demons should be easily feasible.'

Jaehwan has already done this against the guardian demon of The Tower of Nightmares.

It was a spiritual being, who didn't even have its body in the tower itself but in another dimension or simply a higher reality named The Great Lands.

Yet, it got killed by The Stabber.

Thus, the clone of Sanguinius glimpsed a bit of the future direction of his original.

'The original will surely recruit orphaned or poor children to create his first troops.'

Simple and effective.

"I want you to buy me genetic material, preferably from the person named the Emperor... *cough* I mean the Empress."

Kazuma grimaced with reluctance for a moment, it was as if he had remembered something important, but he ended up just shrugging.

'Random Soldier of Cadia won't be angry about a drop of the Empress's blood, right?'

Fortunately for Kazuma's life and peace in the chat group, he couldn't obtain said object.

"It's... too expensive. This thing is more expensive than a huge spaceship already in working condition," he said, frowning.

Sanguinius wasn't surprised; it's not today that he'll be able to study a human like that one.

So, he tried to buy a Primarch's genetic material instead.

However, a single suitable one from a non-traitor could reset him to zero in existence points and put him in debt to Kazuma.

Finally, he was able to obtain genetic material in good quantity from a certain Primarch renowned for his... cruelty.

"Okay, I got a vial of blood from a certain Konrad Curze. What's next?"

Despite his words, Kazuma seems dismayed by the amount of points remaining.

"Don't worry, I'll give you a good share of the money linked to the Winter Shogun."

After his words, the Japanese isekai protagonist became in good spirits again.

Unfortunately, almost nothing remained after the purchase of the Space Marines creation method.

The points ended up being exhausted, after Sanguinius's insistence to Kazuma about buying the two important works for him.

One of the works exploring in detail the complete training within the Convent Prioris or the Convent Sanctorum, and the other of the Space Marines.

"I will have to pay a great deal of attention regarding Konrad Curze's successors in my hands."

Fortunately, he can still use the Charm skill or Pheromones to encourage them to suppress the nature of their genetic father.

'It's better to have his genetic material than Angron's at the same price.'