Jump 349: Majikoi

Jump #349: Majikoi
Or Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai. A name that does not unfold
>Five of Swords (Defeat), reversed: Refusing to achieve success through personal degradation.
>Age: 19
>Location: Kawakami City
>Identity: Exchange Student
>Drawbacks: (+300) Kooku Kukis
So... I have to deal with the Kuki family. This is going to be.... something. I'm not entirely certain what, but definitely something.
>The Real Fake (700)
Actually, I'm curious what I get with this if I'm NOT one of the Bushido Babes. Am I just reincarnated? Can I choose King Arthur in Fate? For now, I shall choose Sun Tsu. (what the fuck do you mean he never actually existed)
>Laying A Trap (Free, Drop-In)
Pretty sure I already have the hang of THIS one...
>You Wanna War Me? (600, Drop-In)
Not going to be having fights where there could be legal repercussions, after all.
>Hyper Armor (300, Drop-In)
So if it isn't enough to actually do serious injury, it's not going to do ANY injury. No whittling down my HP bar, it's got to be a decent chunk. You know what? I can get behind this all the way.
>S-Rank (Free, Class S)
In other words, not only can I do this, but I make it look good.
>You Learn Throughout Your Entire Life (Free, Class S)
So... basically, just pretend I belong and people won't notice I don't actually belong. I guess that works?
>Justice Will Save This Pure World (200, Class S)
Changing my art style to indicate that Shit Just Got Real sounds like a reasonable ability and I will happily embrace that.
>Top Dog (0, Class S)
I have perks that let me call bullshit on things that are bullshit. Now I have a perk that will actually prevent other types of bullshit from happening. Oh, this will be useful, not only here, but down the line. No pulling some new magic out of your ass, no superpower no one saw until now, no eleventh hour hail mary play to save the world and mind control every human being within range instead of insects.

Is it bad that I kind of don't want to write this one up in detail either?

I mean, it's basically ten years of constantly being challenged to a fight for the reason of the week, or a duel with one of the Kuki retainers, or a clone, and so on.

At what point is enough enough, with these people? Answer: pretty much never, because they don't really consider defeat to be binding, despite me calling them out on their bullshit, pointing out that altering the terms of the match during the match means THEY JUST THREW THE FIGHT, BECAUSE CHALLENGES AND MATCHES DON'T WORK THAT WAY, and so on.

Eventually I threw in the towel and just challenged Monshiro and Hume to a poker game because at that point there was no other meaningful way to settle things. That, right there, was probably the most entertaining 'fight' that I'd dealt with over the course of the entire goddamn jump, and I'm not entirely certain how but by the end of the night Mon and I were playing Go Fish.

It was kind of adorable and it's frankly about the only part of the whole thing worth mentioning, because literally EVERYONE but her kept pulling bullshit at every opportunity instead of working for things honestly. Which I kept shutting down, because Top Dog. It really highlighted how much bullshit there was, and it irritated the fuck out of me.