This time, the gains were just over twenty thousand.
Added to the fifty thousand already in the account.
A total of seventy thousand soul fragments.
As usual, he kept twenty thousand aside for emergencies. The remaining fifty thousand…
Ryosuke's eyes lit up.
'Time to spend.'
The Lucky Roulette has two uses, replacing idle Stands, and gambling on an extremely low chance of star-level upgrades.
"Right now, the Stands I almost never use are Youthful Years and Cheap Trick. As for items, there's the Stone Mask."
"Two five-stars and one four-star."
"Hmm…"
Sometimes people are like this, normally you think something is useless, but when you're really about to throw it into the roulette and spin it, the thought suddenly pops up, "Maybe it'll come in handy someday?"
After thinking for a while, Ryosuke made a decision, "Gacha is 10 fragments per pull. With 1,000 fragments, that's a hundred pulls, and it guarantees drops. Gacha is still more cost-effective."
"I'll do a round of pulls first. If there's no suitable Stand, then I'll gamble on the roulette."
"So…"
"Gacha!"
Ryosuke opened the system's gacha interface, sipped his red tea, and clicked the ten-pull button again and again, enjoying the wealthy yet monotonous gacha process.
"Doing ten pulls at a time is still a bit annoying. If only I could do a hundred pulls at once."
Ryosuke leaned back in his chair and ate a bear-shaped biscuit.
90… 100… 110…
Suddenly, the sky darkened.
Ryosuke sat up straight at once.
"Only 110 pulls and it's here already. Today's drop came a bit early."
Brilliant stars flew in from the far edge of the sky.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
'Five-star!'
The starlight gathered into a humanoid shape.
When the light faded, Ryosuke saw clearly, it wasn't a humanoid Stand.
What appeared was a piece of "clothing."
[Stand Name: Oasis]
[Five-star.]
[Owner: Secco]
[Ability: Close-range power type, full-body suit-type Stand. It can turn the ground into mud, allowing free movement to pursue enemies. It can also rebound off the ground to amplify speed and strength.]
[Current Level: Level 1]
[Note: "Hmph! That useless Cioccolata… you think I'd be sad after hearing about your defeat?"]
Ryosuke fell silent.
Secco and the owner of Youthful Years, Cioccolata, were an evil duo. The two took pleasure in torturing and killing others, and in the original story, they were both defeated, never able to commit evil again.
Unlike Youthful Years, which has many restrictions and can easily cause large-scale casualties if mishandled, Oasis, ugly as it is, is indeed a very practical Stand.
It's just that…
Ryosuke shook his head.
"After mastering Hamon Resonance and relying on the dragon pills I absorbed, I can manipulate the earth like the former White Snake Sage. Oasis is purely a lower-tier substitute."
Moreover, using it would also take up a Stand slot.
Ryosuke decisively put "Oasis" onto the list of things to be turned into little marbles for the Lucky Roulette later.
'Continue.'
10… 50… 100… 150… 200…
The sky darkened again.
Ryosuke stared at the falling stars.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
'Another five-star!'
Ryosuke let out a breath of relief.
If two hundred pulls only gave a four-star, even with how wealthy he was now, it would still hurt.
The starlight gathered, and in the end became…
A pool of spring water and an enormous tree growing beside it.
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[Stand Name: Sugar Mountain Spring]
[Five-star]
[Agent: Sugar Mountain]
[Ability: When an item is thrown into the spring, the Stand's ability activates. Sugar Mountain will take out two items and ask which one is the item you threw into the spring.]
[One is the original lost item.]
[The other is an item of the same type, but several times more valuable.]
[It's also possible that neither is the original, but their value will definitely be higher than the lost item.]
[If the owner lies, their tongue will be pulled out by the "tree," resulting in death.]
[If the owner answers honestly, they can obtain both the highest-grade item and the original lost item, but they must use up the highest-grade item before sunset that day.]
[If it is not fully used, the owner will gradually turn into a tree, and a fruit shaped like the owner's face will appear on the original tree.]
[Additionally, items can only be "used up" through fair trade or exchange. Giving them away, discarding them, or using them to make a bet that is guaranteed to lose does not count.]
[Can be used once per day.]
[Material Scope: Ninja World.]
[Current Level: Level 1]
[Note 1: "Did you drop this golden axe, or this silver axe?"]
[Note 2: System items cannot be used.]
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An extremely complex ability description.
And also extremely powerful, a pure rules-type Stand with no combat power.
In the original story, this Stand was like a group of water ghosts. The treasures it offered were a huge trap. Once you failed to use or sell them in time, no matter where you fled, your soul would be captured and turned into one of the water ghosts, hanging on the tree.
Then the previous "water ghost," Sugar Mountain, would be released, and would pull another "ginseng fruit" from the tree to act as the agent, asking the golden axe, silver axe question.
If someone actually managed to use everything up, all the souls trapped in the tree would be released.
However, after it changed from a natural Stand into Ryosuke's personal Stand, this option was removed. Sugar Mountain became the eternal agent.
Ryosuke looked at the cute little girl sitting upright in the tree, waved to her, and took a big handful of snacks from the tea room's snack basket, handing them to her.
Sugar Mountain timidly said thank you, hugged the snacks, and went back into her tree hollow, crunching away like a little squirrel.
Sugar Mountain Spring was absolutely an outstanding Stand.
The things that Gyro and Johnny from Steel Ball Run couldn't spend, those were incredibly easy for Ryosuke to handle.
After unifying the ninja world, everything needed rebuilding. There were countless places that needed resources, money, materials, food. No matter how much there was, Ryosuke could digest it.
And even if the ninja world couldn't handle it, he still had the aerospace project team, a bottomless pit that burned money and resources.
Ryosuke invested 7,400 soul fragments, directly raising Sugar Mountain Spring to level five, increasing daily uses from once to three times, and expanding the material scope from just the ninja world to the ninja world and the JOJO world.
This meant Ryosuke had a chance to obtain modern technological products from it.
"It's good, but the corresponding side effects need to be handled carefully."
After unifying the world, restarting the universe, and defeating the Otsutsuki… to then get screwed over by his own Stand, what a ridiculous ending that would be.
After saying goodbye to Sugar Mountain and retracting Sugar Mountain Spring, Ryosuke continued pulling.
Another 380 pulls went in.
Perhaps his luck had run out. Ryosuke only got two four-star Stands.
Empress, four-star. The main body was red, and it looked like a burly, bald woman. Its ability was to parasitize a target, gradually grow into a humanoid form, and then beat the target with its fists.
'This thing…'
Ryosuke decisively put it into the gambling pile.
The other four-star was Baby Face. Its ability was invisibility, but to turn invisible, you had to take off all your clothes. Ink or flour splashed on the body would reveal it.
"If this Stand were given to Jiraiya, he'd probably be so happy he'd laugh in his sleep."
Two five-stars, two four-stars, plus maxing out Sugar Mountain Spring, for a total cost of 14,300.
"That's about enough."
Today's budget was fifty thousand. The remaining budget was 35,700.
It looked like a lot, but considering the cost of leveling from one to five and the price of spinning the roulette, it wouldn't last Ryosuke very long.
"Let's try it."
[T/N: Once you start gambling, you can't stop]
Ryosuke summoned the Lucky Roulette and chose to activate it. He heard the clatter of coins falling. One thousand soul fragments disappeared, and an option window popped up in front of him.
[Please select the Stand or item to bet.]
"Oasis."
The newly pulled Oasis immediately transformed into a small golden marble and fell into Ryosuke's palm.
He casually tossed it.
The marble clinked and clattered as it collided and spun within the roulette. Along with the mechanical clicking sounds of the spinning wheel and the dazzling flashes of light, Ryosuke, who hadn't been nervous even when facing three Otsutsuki, unexpectedly became tense.
The roulette slowed more and more, until it finally came to a complete stop.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Small fireworks went off one after another.
[Oasis, replaced with...]
[Star Level: Five-star.]
[Affiliation: Diamond Is Unbreakable]
[Stand Name…]
[The Hand]