Yuuji continued his journey throughout the entire solar system, mentally quite grateful to Gid, as he had expected the tasks to be quite difficult, but apparently Gid had planned them so that, with his abilities, they would be quite easy to complete.
Meanwhile, a spaceship comparable in size to all of Russia was traveling through Earth's atmosphere. Inside, not only was the entire royal family of Deviluke, accompanied of course by Zastin, observing the test, but Yuuji's family had also been invited and readily accepted, as well as Tearju, who happened to be visiting Yami alongside them and had come along as well.
As they watched the various tests Yuuji went through, everyone had experienced their own different emotional ups and downs.
Lala watched everything with amusement because she completely trusted Yuuji. The same went for Eicchi and Clara, who, although they were not sure of all their son's powers, trusted that he could handle most things put in front of him. Curiously, this made the most worried person of all the one who was supposedly the most powerful artificial combatant in the galaxy and a cold-blooded assassin, but also Yuuji's younger sister, Yami, who was not sure of the limits of her brother's abilities and therefore could not help but worry as she watched.
On Deviluke's side, meanwhile, the atmosphere was... strange. Sephie, Lala's mother, watched Yuuji with approval, not because of his abilities but because of who he was, something that was not particularly difficult to achieve as long as you genuinely loved Lala, were not a bad person in general, and, even without any abilities, were willing to fight for her. Momo and Nana, Lala's sisters, watched without getting too involved, simply enjoying the situation and analyzing their sister's fiancé, although having learned beforehand that Lala's fiancé was only a human, his performance had far exceeded their expectations. In fact, they had gone from their initial confusion upon hearing the tests their father had prepared to confusion.
"This... Isn't this too easy for him?" Nana asked in confusion. Considering how much her father insisted on the need for a fiancé for her older sister and everything he had to possess to earn his approval, she had expected him to give him difficult or even impossible tests. In fact, when she first heard about them, she thought they were, but now...
"Yes. They don't even count as tests" Momo agreed.
What neither of them knew was that, at that moment, the most confused person of all was Gid, while Zastin, standing beside him, was extremely nervous.
"Zastin" he finally said in a serious voice after watching Yuuji finish the second test in minutes. "Repeat the preliminary analysis of the first test you prepared with so much care, as you said"
"Y-yes, sir" Zastin stammered, knowing he could not escape the criticism. "Test number 1: Mercury - Ability Test.
It is known that Yuuji Rito possesses an earth manipulation ability with extremely high potential limits, but which requires concentration.
The Kingdom of Flabia is currently in a crisis that can be resolved by removing all the Luminos Fungi that are spreading throughout the interior of the planet's crust and then rapidly repairing the crust.
The problem is that these Luminos Fungi are part of the theology of the Kingdom of Flabia, and if he wants to destroy them, he will face strong resistance from all the inhabitants.
The objective of the test is to push his ability to its limits, forcing him to use an ability that requires concentration while the entire planet constantly attempts to stop and interrupt him."
"Good" Gid nodded. He had already heard that many times before and had even modified parts of the plan himself. "So, what is happening now?"
"Yuuji Rito used scientific research data conducted on Earth to convince King Sol of the Kingdom of Flabia of his actions, not only consequently convincing all of Flabia but also receiving help from King Sol and Princess Luna to complete the test, which made his task several times easier" Zastin explained. Before Gid could say anything, Zastin began explaining. "Your Majesty, long-distance teleportation abilities are extremely rare throughout the universe, and we have never found one capable of crossing the enormous distances between entire planets.
This is even why we popularized teleportation technology throughout the galaxy, to solve this problem and ensure that no overly clever opportunist could monopolize this technology for themselves. There was no way to predict that we would find the first one right now and in this way.
Apparently, Yuuji Rito's ability not only seems capable of teleporting between planets but even skipping some of them. Such a distance was impossible to predict among his abilities."
"Ha, fine, I'll let it slide for now" Gid laughed dismissively. "What about the next one?"
"Test number 2: Venus - Morality Test.
The objective of the test was to test Yuuji Rito's morality and see how far he is willing to sacrifice himself for the good of others, especially when he is indirectly responsible for something.
A ship belonging to the Nanite race suffered problems on Venus, and the objective of the test is for Yuuji Rito to help the people inside. However, Yuuji Rito has no way to repair the ship or heal the injured Nani himself, so searching for a solution could make him lose a lot of valuable time for his test. Furthermore, it is known that the destination and original reason for the trip was to go to a facility created by Yuuji Rito himself on planet Earth, making him indirectly responsible.
After one hour, we would have opened the door to the next mission, and he could abandon the Nanites to their fate at any moment and continue, or keep searching for a way to help them without success.
However, Yuuji Rito used healing abilities that we had no record of to immediately heal the Nanite captain before once again using his spatial movement abilities across great distances to quickly take them to their destination."
"So, what you're saying is that we didn't know enough about Yuuji Rito when we made the trials?"
"N-no. It's more accurate to say that we still don't know enough" Zastin replied. "The database on Yuuji Rito's abilities is updated weekly, but they seem to keep increasing at an alarming rate."
"Lower the salary of whoever makes that database" Gid sighed in irritation.
'But I'm the one who makes it?' Zastin complained internally, although he did not dare say anything out loud. He could only nod helplessly.
"Lala, do you know how many more abilities he's hiding or where he gets them from?" Knowing Zastin would not be useful here, Gid decided to ask the person most likely to know about Yuuji's abilities directly.
"N-no?"
"...Lala" Gid repeated.
"Fine, I know."
"..."
"W-what?" Lala asked nervously when she saw her father staring at her silently.
"I expect you to tell me where he gets them from and how many he has" Gid said directly, although Lala already knew.
"U-um... this... I..."
"Mr. Gid, forcing a young girl to reveal her boyfriend's secrets like that seems a little cruel to me" Clara interrupted their conversation.
"This is a matter between our family, so I hope you don't get involved" Gid replied.
"But you're asking about our son, so it concerns us too" Eicchi said. "Besides, since our children are in a relationship, isn't Lala technically part of our family too?"
"That hasn't been decided yet" Gid snorted.
"Pffft" Instead of feeling afraid, Clara simply laughed as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world. "You really don't think any of those tests will stop my son, do you? Ah, look, he just completed another one of your tests."
Gid turned toward the screens, confirming which test Yuuji had finished, and decided to end the conversation there.
"Zastin, he's almost at the end. Get ready."
"Understood" Zastin nodded, disappearing from the place in the blink of an eye.
With Gid returning to his natural state of silence and judgment, the rest simply continued watching the spectacle, each with their own moods.
...
On Neptune, right beside the yellow portal that would take him out of there, Yuuji got off his space motorcycle, which hovered a few meters above the ground instead of using wheels.
He had borrowed it on Saturn, where the test was a race taking place across the planet's rings. It was not only filled with obstacles, but anything went, so it could be said that it was quite wild and deadly.
Yuuji reasoned that Gid probably wanted to test his limits there.
However, despite anything being allowed, this only applied against the other participants. Abilities to reach the finish line faster were not permitted, so Yuuji could not simply open a Gate to the finish line and end the race immediately.
Fortunately, everyone had extremely futuristic and technological vehicles. If they had been simple vehicles like those on Earth, Yuuji would have had no chance, at least not without being rather cruel. But since all their vehicles were basically technology with wheels, only without the wheels, it did not take Mona even half a second to take control of all of them.
Yuuji borrowed, with no intention of returning it, a motorcycle from the contestant beside him to reach the finish line faster, while everyone else had not even left the starting line, easily winning the race and completing the test.
Now, after completing the test on Neptune, the portal opened again, leaving Yuuji somewhat confused.
"Was that the last test? I expected something bigger for the finale" Yuuji muttered in disappointment.
The Neptune test had been so easy and boring that it was not even worth mentioning.
[Master, there is still one planet left]
"Huh? No, there are 8 planets."
[I remind you, Master, that we are currently in July 2006] Mona insisted.
"July 2006" Yuuji muttered, realizing it. 'Pluto was not reclassified as a dwarf planet until August of this very year'
"Then there is still one left.
Mona, try to find a way to figure out what the last test is."
Being the last one, Yuuji felt that this final test would very likely be quite difficult, so he decided to prepare in advance for once.
[Master, I can hack any technology in the universe within seconds, but finding what to hack and what contains relevant information will take time. How much time are you willing to spend?]
"How much time has passed?"
[9 hours have passed since the first test. There are still 15 hours before the trial ends completely.]
"Then you can search for 10 hours" Yuuji decided. "I'll rest in the meantime."
And as if he were not supposedly in a deadly test, Yuuji returned home to sleep while waiting for Mona's results.
At the same time, on the future dwarf planet, Zastin had no idea that he would have to wait there for hours before finally spotting a trace of Yuuji.
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