Multiversal: The Shop

Right, this isn’t a Chapter just an advertisement of my new fanfic.

Don’t worry I’ll be deleting this soon after the next Chapter arrives, here’s Chapter 1. Consider this a teaser of what’s to come.

I need exposure badly.

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A/N - I’ve been thinking about writing this kind of story for a while now, and I’ve featured it in some of my stories but it wasn’t really the main thing. So I’ll decide to make my own after reading works like Parallel World Manga Artist and other similar works mostly from the same author because others sucks cause mostly they add nationalism to it, if it’s just that then maybe I could accept it, but being racist to japan while essentially plagiarizing their works is frankly stupid as hell, not to mention changing the already good plot to please the locals, even going as far as changing the names and hometown of the characters.

It’s way too much, it never failed to trigger me.

Anyway, I know little about the inner workings of manga publishers in general but it’s enough, however feel free to correct me if I make a mistake.

Before I start, let me give you a summary about the story. Our protagonist suddenly received a system (cliché I know) which lets him browse through a collection of Japanese fictional works, such as animation, manga and novels.

However, he could only watch its respective previews, for example he could only watch episode 1 and its respective trailers. (Vol 1. for Manga/Novel)

Unless he buys that specific work with his system currency, only then he is allowed to access everything including those unofficial releases from the original creator.

Mind you, that the protagonist isn’t a transmigrator or a reincarnator, he has no memories of these stories.

Either way, you get what I’m trying to describe. Now I will start writing.

If this goes the way intended then this story would be less than 200 Chapters.

Which is well...probably less than 500k words or more but definitely not going to be 1M or something. I intend to finish this story. (By this year or January next year.)

This isn’t going to be harem, frankly I really don’t want this to have any romance but I don’t trust myself being able to do that, but harem is no go.

As the story focuses more on the fans’ reactions to the stories he’s going to plagiarized from Earth.

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"Damn, I’m going crazy with this cliffhanger- well not exactly one, but I have zero points to buy this series!" He complained at the system screen in front of him.

About a few days ago, Sato Sakurai received a system. It was an abrupt and unexpected event that he almost thought that went mad from studying for this semester.

But later on, he realized that this was no hallucination but rather a real thing, a system.

He was no stranger to this type of thing , after all this genre is rather popular nowadays in novels.

To think he received one himself, something he never thought he’d own.

After realizing this, he almost jumped in excitement after all, this could be it. A means to make his life and sister’s life better.

They were both orphans, both parents died from an accident. They weren’t rich to begin with and the inheritance they left was essentially only worth months of apartment rent.

Upon realizing this, after their parents’ funeral his sister decided to leave their current apartment and find another one that is cheaper, a single bedroom apartment because they wouldn’t last much with the money their parents left.

His sister also decided to quit university, and became a full-time mangaka to support them.

But her career wasn’t smooth sailing, for the past 4 years of her career, she already submitted dozens of one-shot mangas and only 4 of those got serialized and 3 of them got axed.

And currently it would become her 4th one, because the publishing company already issued her manga is going to be axed.

Her reputation as the Queen Of Axed is now solidified, there’s no changing it now.

Anyway, for the next few months money is definitely going to be tight. That’s why he was having great expectations toward this system that he obtained.

He was already imagining getting powers or maybe becoming insanely rich!

But the greater his expectations the greater the disappointment.

What he got was neither giving him power or money.

But rather just an entertainment system that lets him watch and read works from this so-called ’Earth’ and they aren’t even free to watch!

Upon knowing this, his heart was filled with disappointment wondering why the hell was this even attached to him?

If he hasn’t received this, he wouldn’t have much expectations for it or have one to begin with.

But here he was, getting excited over nothing.

It didn’t take him long to recover, just a single hour, after thinking it through his life was already hard as it is, he certainly wouldn’t bitch about it.

Doing that would only make his life harder, if there’s one thing that he’s particularly good at, it was being quick to adapt.

Since he’s already bound to it, he checked what exactly this system has.

And just like that a few days have passed, he basically watched most of the popular recommended works from the system, although only their trailers and episode/volume 1.

But he could confidently say that their quality is significantly higher than the works he watched in this world ACG community.

Some have basic concepts that he never thought to be used like that and actually are entertaining.

As a family member of a mangaka, he naturally is an otaku. He knows what’s good quality and not.

And each single one of the things he watched were top-tier, that’s why he was going insane because he couldn’t scratch the itch of his thirst completing all of those series!

He was complaining alright! Who wouldn’t do so in his situation?!

Then he looked at the 0 balance in his system, it was a glaring fact that he’s broke, not only in his own system but also in reality.

Sato figured out how to get points, through fan emotions. He just needed to create a story and he’d fans emotions.

But grinding for points especially when he doesn’t have any reputation takes time.

Also, the points needed to watch those top-tiered works cost millions at least those at the lower end.

And those works above S-tier cost even more.

However, he doesn’t have much choice as it’s the only path he could take.

In the middle of his musing, he noticed something, it was a red dot at the bottom right of his system screen.

It was a notification bell that he failed to see, because frankly the system he got is basically just a PC.

And this notification is very small, he clicked it and saw that he received a digital lottery coupon that guarantees unlocking a random A-tier work.

Upon seeing this, his eyes lit up.

And thought to himself. ’Finally! I get to watch all seasons of a single series! No more 1 episode or volume per story!’

He doesn’t even care about what type of story he will get, as far as he is aware most of the A-tier he watched for the past few days are basically god-tier in quality in his world standard.

Sato immediately clicked one of the only two ’apps’ in his system, which is the lottery. The lowest points he has to spend to use the lottery is 10,000.

Which is something that he can’t afford before, heck even now he still can’t, however he has a lottery coupon in hand making him able to use the lottery one thing.

Then using the coupon, the lottery machine started spinning and then it stopped.

[ Congratulations! You have unlocked the A-tier manga series ’Onani Master Kurosawa’! ]

(A/N: English - Kurosawa The Master Of Masturbation.)

Sato smiles at this, and then froze immediately upon realizing something was wrong.

"Wait, what’s up with this title? It surely couldn’t be..." He has a bad feeling about this.

Sato clicked the manga and started reading Chapter one, and in the very first page what he saw blew his mind, his first thought was. ’The fuck?!’

The page is literally the protagonist masturbating in the girl’s bathroom!

Finally he couldn’t stop himself from saying. "What the actual fuck is this?! Is this supposed to be a manga? Not an 18+ doujinshi!"

He wasn’t even trying to lower his voice, because he truly was so shocked at this bold start!

"Whaaazat–?" His voice was loud enough to wake up his sleeping older, though she was between sleeping and awake.

Then he quickly made an excuse. "No, it’s nothing, I was just surprised by the image in my phone."

Half-understanding her brother, sleep claimed her once more as she was dead tired after finishing the last Chapter of her series that was about to be axed.

Seeing his sister sleeping again, he let out a sigh then shifted his attention back to the manga with a complicated look. "Is this really a manga or a porn in disguise..?"

He truly couldn’t decide, but regardless since it was rated as A-tier by the system, surely there’s something special about this work.

Then despite the shocking start, he went through Chapter 1 to 5 and to his surprise he actually liked it.

Although the subject revolved around masturbating, the story itself was entertaining.

He muttered to himself. "To think stories could be written like this..."

Then he continued reading, the plot was mainly about Kakeru Kurosawa ’imagining’ scenarios about girls from his class while masturbating in the girls toilet.

Until the breaking point, which started at Chapter 19, which for the next few Chapters he went crazy and finally at Chapter 23.

The confession Chapter which shocked him, because he never expected him to reveal himself the suspect, although it was pretty clear from the previous Chapters that he was increasingly becoming guilty.

However, Sato never saw this one coming. And so for the rest of the series it was Kurosawa’s path to redemption, and also Kitahara Aya’s Downfall.

But by the end of it, Sato was processing the story he just finished reading.

A while later, he finally spoke. "This is no doubt a masterpiece..."

He never thought a story about a guy masturbating at a girl’s toilet would have this kind of conclusion.

Then the extra pages...

"To think he ended up with her, instead of Aya."

But still, it was the kind of conclusion that he could accept after all, for all of the girl’s issues at the beginning. She was no doubt a good person inside.

And while he was thinking about it, suddenly it hit him.

"Wait, this work doesn’t exist in my world! Does that mean that I could plagiarize it?" Sato finally realized how the system works, that is why it is, simply because it wanted him to share the works of ’earths’ ACG, while also working for it.

He shares his works to the world and in exchange it would get points from the emotions of the people who read or watch the said works.

Sato now understood the implications of this, his system wasn’t just for watching or reading. It was something that could potentially make them rich If he played his card right.

And that moment he made a decision.

"I will be the guy behind the script!"

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A/N: Honestly, my first choice wasn’t Kurosawa The Master Of Masturbation, but rather Angel Legend.

Just a clarification, all countries of this world have the same name as our earth as this is basically a parallel world, the planet name is just different, call it Blue Planet, Azure Star or whatever. It’s completely irrelevant to the story.

No Dragon Country, Eagle Country or that Sakura Country which Chinese authors like to humiliate a lot, make it their province and somehow always the villain of the story, they aren’t very subtle with their nationalism(racism) at all.