Just then, Teruki, who was standing nearby, looked puzzled. "Tatsuma-san, can I ask something?"
"Ask."
"To be honest, I've secretly investigated your identity. You should be a devil, right?"
"Yes."
"Then when you accept requests, do you not charge a fee?"
Knowing what the other party wanted to ask, Tatsuma replied concisely, "Usually I do, but not for Shigeo."
When he accepted requests, the reward and such were just incidental. The real purpose was to farm traits.
As an esper monster from birth, Shigeo had the ability to deal with most enemies. In this situation, there were only two possibilities for Shigeo summoning him for help.
Either he encountered a very troublesome spirit, or he encountered a powerful human who was inconvenient to deal with.
Regardless of which it was, it was a great experience package for Tatsuma.
Furthermore, Shigeo was just a middle school student and didn't have any valuable items, so Tatsuma gave him the privilege of not charging a fee. Compared to some petty gains, farming traits was more important.
"Alright, let's stop chatting here. I need to rush back, so let's try to finish this request within an hour."
Teruki frowned slightly. "An hour? That might be a bit difficult. Actually, Shigeo and I haven't figured out where the enemy's base is yet."
Tatsuma turned his head to look at the door not far away. "It's okay, you just need to ask someone who knows about this kind of thing."
The moment his gaze fell, there was a bang.
A middle-aged man with black and white streaked hair kicked open the door and walked in with his hands in his pockets.
"Found it, which one of you is..."
Boom!
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Terada, you have obtained the green trait 'Empty Whip']
"See? We have the intel now."
Lifting Terada and checking his memories, Tatsuma looked at Teruki and Shigeo.
"I've found the location of the Claw branch. Do you want to come along?"
...
Claw, Seventh Division.
Unnoticed, Sho Suzuki walked into the conference room with his hands in his pockets.
As Scars of the Seventh Division, Ishiguro and others were holding a meeting to discuss their next plans.
After listening for a while, Sho shook his head slightly and sighed. "Not a single suitable one."
Although he came to the Seventh Division to study under the guise of further training, Sho's real goal was to find like-minded partners to defeat his chuunibyou father.
However, after a brief observation, he found that these people in the Seventh Division were practically identical to the members at the headquarters. Their strength was average, and their thinking was also problematic. Recruiting such people would only bring him trouble.
"Maybe I should lower my standards a bit?" An expression of hesitation appeared on Sho's face.
Partners with potential or strong power who are also like-minded. He had been searching for such individuals for a long time, and during this process, he had encountered some suitable targets.
But those capable people either didn't want to interfere in his family matters or found it too troublesome and directly refused.
To this day, Sho still hadn't found a partner who could help him deal with his chuunibyou father.
Boom!
Just then, an explosion suddenly rang out.
Sho snapped back to his senses, finding a large hole had been opened in the conference room ceiling.
A total of three figures, one large and two small, jumped down through the opening in succession.
"Who are you!"
The burly Megumu walked over immediately, surging Telekinesis appearing around him.
"Tatsuma-san, he's the one who captured Shigeo's brother this afternoon!"
Teruki saw Megumu and immediately reported.
"I know."
Tatsuma nodded slightly and raised his palm.
The next moment, a magic circle appeared, and a large amount of lightning shot out from him in all directions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Megumu Koyama, obtaining the green trait 'Telekinetic Spiral']
...
Amidst the deafening roar, a series of notification sounds rang out in his ears.
Tatsuma gained a total of eight green traits and two blue traits in one go.
However, just then, he noticed someone had blocked his recent attack.
"It seems not everyone is a nobody."
Looking at Sho, who had emerged from invisibility not far away, surrounded by massive Telekinesis, Tatsuma's figure flickered and appeared in front of him.
"Wait a minute, I..."
Sho reacted a beat late, opening his mouth to explain his identity. But before that, Tatsuma's fist landed first.
Bang!
Sho was sent flying backward, crashing into the wall and falling unconscious.
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Sho Suzuki, obtaining the purple trait 'Energy Accumulation']
[Energy Accumulation (Purple): Can store any type of energy within the body. The stronger the physical quality, the more energy can be stored.]
Oh? Unexpected gain.
Scanning the newly acquired purple trait, Tatsuma looked towards the door not far away.
"Intruders!"
"The sound of the explosion came from the direction of the conference room! Let's go!"
"Conference room? Isn't that where the executives are? It's useless for us to go."
"Idiot! Can't you use your brain? This is our chance to show off!"
"Hiss... that makes sense!"
A series of noisy sounds rang out.
Under Tatsuma's gaze, a large crowd of ordinary people in tight suits rushed in.
These people, like Megumu and the others just now, were also members of Claw. However, because they didn't have superpowers, these people were just the lowest-level ordinary members.
Seeing them approach, Tatsuma released a little of the aura he usually suppressed. The next second, an almost tangible aura spread out in all directions.
Affected by this terrifying aura, ordinary people who had only undergone simple training were simply unable to withstand it.
Like dominoes, the Claw members who were rushing towards the conference room in a large crowd the previous second began to lose consciousness and fall to the ground one after another.
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Yamada Muta, obtaining the white trait 'Outlaw']
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Akasaka Akari, obtaining the white trait 'I Am Strong']
[Congratulations on successfully defeating Tomioka Furata, obtaining the white trait 'Funny Artist']
...
Another series of notification sounds rang out, and the corners of Tatsuma's lips curved slightly upwards.
Perhaps it was because they had been screened, but the quality of these ordinary members of Claw was very high, with nearly half of them able to drop white traits.
After one wave of AoE sweeping, Tatsuma gained over two hundred more white traits, which translates to two blue traits. Adding the traits gained from clearing the Claw executives just now, this commission was not in vain.