Chapter 99: That's a Pretty Big Problem, Actually!
Several days had passed—maybe seven or eight, maybe more than ten. Hard to say exactly. What Ryū did know was that Guy, who'd been lying in the hospital chatting with Kakashi, had now fully recovered and been discharged.
This time around, though, Guy hadn't come looking for another sparring match.
Not because of psychological trauma or anything like that.
With Guy's personality, you could kick him into next week and he still wouldn't develop a psychological complex. At least, that was Ryū's assessment.
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The actual reason Guy hadn't come back for more was simple: he'd received a mission.
As for how Ryū knew this—
He'd spotted Guy that morning, suited up in full shinobi gear, looking like he was about to deploy.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what that meant.
What other reason would a Chūnin with a few screws loose have for gearing up that seriously first thing in the morning? Guy hadn't even yelled "THAT'S THE POWER OF YOUTH!" on his way out.
So Ryū only needed to guess a little to piece it together. Guy had taken on a mission and was in too much of a hurry for his usual routine.
Which was fine, honestly. At least it meant some peace and quiet.
If that bowl-cut showed up at the crack of dawn every morning yelling up at his window, Ryū would have been sorely tempted to punt him through a wall. The kind of impact where you'd have to scrape him off the masonry.
* * *
"The Points from Daily Sign-Ins over the past several days have actually hit 1,300 already," Ryū mused. "That's over ten days' worth, and I've been pulling at least 80 almost every day. This luck… did I actually drain all of Yukari's luck?"
Even knowing his luck was good, Ryū couldn't help but be impressed.
In the current Dimensional Chat Group, nobody had better Sign-In luck than him.
He knew this because yesterday, during a casual group chat session, everyone had shared their Point balances.
Ryū's had been the highest by a wide margin.
The only other person even close was Kaguya with 500.
Five hundred Points over more than two weeks. At that rate, maybe 1,000 in a month.
She was the second-luckiest member, after Ryū himself.
Everyone else ranged from 400 down to 200. Some had only 100.
And a certain Sage of Youkai—who'd given every last one of her remaining Points to Sakura—
After over ten consecutive days of signing in—
Had a grand total of 48 Points.
Unimaginably tragic.
Looking at his own absurdly blessed luck, Ryū had to wonder if Yukari's millennia of accumulated fortune had genuinely been siphoned into him.
* * *
Shifting his consciousness into the Dimensional Chat Group, Ryū tapped Sign-In. He'd gotten up early this morning but hadn't done it yet.
"Only 60 today? Luck seems a bit off."
Ryū sighed in disappointment, screenshot the result, and posted it.
RawrSoFierce: [Image] Luck's a bit off today. Didn't even break 70. Heartbroken.
RawrSoFierce: I was hoping to save up 2,000 Points within a month.
RawrSoFierce: Looks like that was wishful thinking…
Crazy Diamond: Dude! Your luck is already insane, okay?! Look at mine! [Image] Today's sign-in: a grand total of 23 Points…
The Little Wandering Planet: Only 19 Points here. Kneeling. Shedding tears of poverty.
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! Only 10 less than Admin-dono.
Kaguya-sama: 5 more than Old Man Whitebeard~ Tee hee~
Little Sakura of the Tōsaka Household: I got 20 Points today… that's not a lot, right?
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …Little Sakura, drop the zero from your number and you'll have my score.
RawrSoFierce: Pfft… I mean, it's not surprising at this point, but only 2 Points? That's catastrophic. I'm tempted to write the character for 'tragic' on your thigh.
Terrible Tornado: Why not write a dozen tally marks instead?
RawrSoFierce: That suggestion… full marks!
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: Tch! Admin-dono has clearly been consuming too much unhealthy content! And Little Tatsumaki—this tsundere legal loli—has been corrupted too? Has she fallen victim to Admin-dono's villainy, just like Little Kaguya?
RawrSoFierce: You make it sound like I'm running some kind of harem in this group.
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: Aren't you?!
Crazy Diamond: Aren't you?! (dog emoji for self-preservation)
The Little Wandering Planet: Aren't you?! (dog emoji for self-preservation)
Edward Newgate: Aren't you?! (dog emoji for self-preservation)
We, Ying Zheng: Hmm… maintaining a harem. We see nothing objectionable about this.
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …That's a pretty big problem, actually!
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Yukari had been about to argue the point with Ying Zheng—but then it hit her that Ying Zheng was an ancient emperor. Two thousand years ago, maintaining a harem had been completely standard practice.
Three wives and four concubines. Openly keeping mistresses while the wife helped raise them. Emperors with three thousand beauties in the inner palace.
All of it pointed to the same conclusion:
To Ying Zheng, First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, harems were just… normal.
Nothing particularly wrong with that perspective, given his context.
Thinking it through, Yukari abandoned the debate. Arguing with a pre-modern monarch about gender norms was never going to produce a resolution.
But she was still absolutely going to prevent the Admin from laying his villainous claws on the group's female members.
Yes… that was exactly right!
* * *
Just as Yukari was lost in thought, a notification chime sounded in her head. A sound she knew intimately.
The Admin himself had just @'d everyone.
RawrSoFierce: Oh, right! I just remembered something important.
RawrSoFierce: @Everyone — If you're online, say something.
Kaguya-sama: Present…
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: Present…
Little Sakura of the Tōsaka Household: Here…
The Little Wandering Planet: +10086
* * *
RawrSoFierce: Everyone here? Good. So—including me, our membership has now passed double digits. We're at 10.
RawrSoFierce: Which means it's time to appoint a Moderator.
RawrSoFierce: Moderator privileges include: muting/unmuting, kicking members… and other authority. Though the permission level obviously won't exceed the Admin's.
RawrSoFierce: Anyone interested can put their name forward~
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: MODERATOR!!!
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: As the acknowledged Big Sister of the group's female members, this one offers to deliver Little Kaguya, Little Tatsumaki, and Little Sakura straight into Admin-dono's harem—so won't Admin-dono kindly grant this one the Moderator position?
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