"Sign in."
The first thing Mutou Judai did after opening his eyes was to turn off the alarm—first clicking on the sign-in, then waiting for the system to quiet down before he too quieted down, silently waiting for today's sign-in reward to be distributed while feeling Jack Hanma's template merge to 60%.
[Sign-in Reward: Ability Defect Remedy Pill (One)]
[Ability Defect Remedy Pill: Remedies the flaws of abilities with defects (Example: If the host is a Devil Fruit user, using the pill to optimize the Devil Fruit ability would make the Devil Fruit immune to seawater and Sea-Prism Stone)]
"Making Devil Fruits immune to seawater and Sea-Prism Stone, so powerful—but the question is, I have the pill, where should I go to get my Devil Fruit?"
Mutou Judai's eye twitched after seeing this item.
He tentatively tried to see if this pill could be used on himself, and when he clicked to see the effect of using this pill on himself, he discovered that in this pill's evaluation range—he was perfect!
Hanma Blood was already fully enhanced.
Jack Hanma's template was non-enhanceable.
His Royal Blood was also apparently non-enhanceable, and perhaps due to some connection, even Conqueror's Haki showed as non-enhanceable!
Skills like Soru and Sonic Punch weren't even within this pill's influence range!
Apart from special items like Devil Fruits mentioned in the system notes, this pill's greatest use was for bloodlines and some special talent-like abilities.
In that case...
"The pill's greatest effect might just be letting me know that the system has a dedicated system backpack for rewards I don't want to claim immediately..."
Mutou Judai sighed, but didn't lament too much.
After all, with sign-in rewards, when you're lucky, good things come consecutively, and when you're unlucky, some useless things come—this was quite normal.
Besides, this pill wasn't useless.
"What's trash isn't this pill, but me—when I someday draw a Devil Fruit, I'll use this pill to optimize away the Devil Fruit's flaws..."
No, thinking too small.
"If I draw Kryptonian bloodline, I'll optimize away the Kryptonite weakness!"
Thinking of it this way, this pill was incredibly useful!
Even Superman would cry with envy.
The only pity was that he wasn't Superman~
Thinking this, Mutou Judai got dressed, tidied up a bit, ate breakfast at Tadokoro Megumi's family inn, then headed toward the Yukinoshita family's real estate company.
He didn't directly enter the company during the day, but waited.
From day to night, then seeing that the lights in the top office were still on—Mutou Judai directly infiltrated this company.
The Yukinoshita family's real estate company headquarters wasn't here, but in Chiba.
The Yukinoshita family was also a local wealthy family in Chiba.
However, because they recently accepted Toyo Electric's commissioned demolition task, the Yukinoshita real estate company's manager had been staying at this branch office lately.
—Mm, it seemed he also knew this demolition wasn't a good thing and had hired some bodyguards to ensure his safety.
The above was intelligence Mutou Judai had asked Erina to investigate during the day.
So, regarding such family enterprises, his first action was to infiltrate the Yukinoshita real estate branch office in the middle of the night, knock out all their bodyguards, then while the nominal current family head Yukinoshita Heishin was completely confused, directly enter the office where only he was present.
"Who are you... if you continue, I'm calling the police."
As a regional councilman, nominal family head, and nominal corporate authority figure, although Yukinoshita Heishin was stunned when Mutou Judai entered, he quickly calmed down.
Seeing him like this, Mutou Judai slowly smiled.
"Don't be so nervous... after all, it's already a law-abiding society, not the era where you had one spear and I had one spear. So I came here just to discuss business."
Hearing Mutou Judai say this, Yukinoshita Heishin frowned.
It wasn't that he looked down on Mutou Judai.
As someone who married into the Yukinoshita family, this ordinary person wouldn't look down on others—but Mutou Judai's entry method made him somewhat unacceptable.
The first impression was very bad, and subsequent impressions became worse as well.
But Mutou Judai didn't care.
He just slowly walked to a position still some distance from Yukinoshita Heishin, then spoke.
"You might feel uneasy about my arrival method... but actually, the first point you should understand is that your unease is useless."
Hearing Mutou Judai say this, Yukinoshita Heishin instinctively wanted to say something.
But before he could speak, he was surprised to discover that the phone he had been holding somehow appeared in Mutou Judai's hands!
And when he instinctively reached for the emergency button, he found it had been destroyed without him noticing.
This...
He was just an ordinary person, completely unable to understand what a super first-class fighter could do, so he couldn't comprehend any of this!
Mutou Judai looked at his surprised expression and continued.
"Now you should know that being uneasy is useless, so can you prepare mentally and listen to what I have to say?"
Hearing Mutou Judai say this, Yukinoshita Heishin, with his resistance basically dismantled, gave up the idea of calling for help loudly and exhaled.
The person came looking for him and immediately mentioned Toyo Electric's commission, so the person might be from Toyo Electric's opposing forces... That level of enterprise was a behemoth to their Yukinoshita family. When gods fight, being affected was unavoidable...
"Tell me what you want..."
"What I want is very simple—have your Yukinoshita real estate company delay the demolition task commissioned by Toyo Electric, at least until half a month later. That simple~"
Hm?
Hearing Mutou Judai say this, Yukinoshita Heishin was stunned.
Not because Mutou Judai's request was difficult, but... too simple!
Delaying fifteen days... this was completely achievable just by slacking off.
This made him somewhat suspicious instead.
"Hmm—"
Yukinoshita Heishin wanted to ask questions several times, but the words reached his mouth without knowing how to say them.
But Mutou Judai could see that his face almost had "That's it!?" written all over it.
This made Mutou Judai somewhat displeased.
"If you think it's too simple, how about I drag you to assassinate Toyo Electric's chairman, Hayami Katsumasa? Do you think that difficulty suits your status?"
"No, no, no—simple is good, simple is good..."
Hmph.
"The matter is simple, so if you can't do it, I might be a bit uncomfortable—then I might not come trouble you, but I remember you have two daughters, Haruno and Yukino. Am I right?"
Hiss—
Yukinoshita Heishin's pupils contracted sharply.
His weakness was completely grasped by the opponent!
So at this moment, he exhaled.
"Please rest assured... fifteen days, I can definitely delay it!"
Hearing him say this, Mutou Judai smiled.
"Then I'll leave it to you—but don't look so glum. Don't forget, after fifteen days, the Kengan Annihilation Tournament will have already started for a while. Your Yukinoshita family is also a Kengan Association member, so you should know about the Kengan Annihilation Tournament... Fifteen days, maybe after fifteen days you'll be glad you didn't stand on the wrong side~"
This...
Yukinoshita Heishin indeed understood what Mutou Judai was saying, but... just like his previous thoughts, when gods fought on that side, what could a small character like him do besides smile apologetically when affected?
So after hearing Mutou Judai's words, he nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, I understand."
...
Mutou Judai had arranged everything properly on his side.
At Totsuki, even though it was already dark, Erina was still in the kitchen.
"This taste..."
In front of Erina was a plate of seafood pasta that she had made herself.
She took a bite, then slowly frowned.
"Did I make such a big mistake?"
No.
Erina quickly denied this.
Because she discovered something was wrong. Although she used God's Tongue to taste flaws, this flaw wasn't because her cooking skills had problems, but... her current God's Tongue had further amplified the dish's flaws beyond her original God's Tongue!
In other words.
—Her God's Tongue had evolved!
Thinking of this, Erina slowly smiled.
"I didn't expect God's Tongue could evolve. This is great! Now I can taste much more flaws than before. If I correct all of these, my cooking level will definitely improve further!"
"Then sooner or later I'll break through Judai's strange ability and defeat him once in Shokugeki!"
When that time comes, I'll use the condition of winning the Shokugeki to make him seriously learn cooking~
Mm...
Never mind.
Erina thought this with her face somewhat red.
Hmph~
—After all, I lost the Shokugeki and have to cook for him~
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