"The food in the cafeteria is far worse than Mei's. Mei's food is still the best."
On the way back, Kiana couldn't help but say.
"According to Bronya's observation, Kiana ate the most just now."
"That, that, that's because, cleaning is very tiring!"
Kiana hurriedly explained: "Mei, you have to believe me, I still think your food is the best."
"Alright, alright, I believe Kiana."
Mei said, amused, as she comforted Kiana.
"Eh, is Mei a good cook? Then we'll have good food later."
The group returned to the dorm entrance after lunch.
"Alright, since we've eaten, we need to clean thoroughly this afternoon."
Although it was her own room, Himeko felt a headache just thinking about cleaning. The trash in this dorm wasn't accumulated in a day or two; who knew how many years it had been accumulating.
So, cleaning would naturally…
"Eh eh eh eh eh!!!"
As soon as Himeko opened the door, she let out a surprised sound.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
Kiana, Mei, and Bronya all poked their small heads out from behind Himeko and saw a spotless room.
"Who cleaned the room?"
"I don't know. We only left for a while, and it's already so clean. It shouldn't be something one person can do."
"According to Bronya's analysis, to completely clean up in the hour we spent eating would require at least ten professional individuals."
Takatsuki looked at the four surprised people without speaking, only sighing in his heart…
The Shadowkhan is so useful.
The Ninja Troop is the most human-like of the Shadowkhan, and they are very agile. They can also transform into shadows to enter corners that humans can't, so they are very suitable for cleaning!
When he obtained the Fire Demon, Takatsuki tried to use the dark energy within it to absorb the power from the Shadowkhan Mask, and it was successful.
However, it had to be used while maintaining the Fire Demon form.
The advantage was that he would not be affected by the negative effects of the mask, nor would he need to use his own shadow to generate the Shadowkhan. In fact, Takatsuki also wanted to try if he could use the power of the Fire Demon to control Honkai Energy, but he failed.
"Ah! So dazzling! It's actually reflecting light!"
The few people who entered the room checked various places. As expected of Kiana, the first thing she chose to check was the refrigerator, and she found that the refrigerator was sparkling clean.
"There's not a speck of dust in the cracks of the cabinet either."
Mei extended her finger and lightly wiped it in a crack, but nothing stuck to it.
"It's the same here for Bronya. Even under the table legs, it's been cleaned. It's impossible for non-professionals to clean it so perfectly."
Project Bunny 19C gently placed the table in her hand back in its original place.
"I checked, and no valuables are missing."
Himeko came out of the bedroom with a can of beer in her hand, leaning against the door and saying: "Forget it, I don't care. Anyway, it seems like a good thing right now."
"Yeah, yeah, otherwise, if the few of us cleaned, who knows how long it would take."
"If I had known we didn't need to clean, I would have taken you to get textbooks and uniforms right after eating."
Himeko chugged down the beer: "It's still not too late to go now, let's go!"
"Then you all go, I still have some things to deal with."
Getting textbooks and uniforms was meaningless to Takatsuki, because he was not a student but a teacher. Teachers at St. Freya Academy did not have a uniform.
"Ah, right, you're not a student. I almost forgot."
After the others left, Takatsuki entered the bedroom and closed his eyes, observing the system panel within his consciousness.
Although the possibility of being monitored was very low, Takatsuki did not want to risk being discovered.
Let's do a hundred-pull…
He had plenty of crystals now. If Takatsuki didn't care about the mission evaluation and just completed the mission, he could get enough crystals for two hundred-pulls.
Takatsuki was now used to saving one hundred-pull for Kiana when needed, trying to get something that could cope with the current situation.
And now that he had plenty, he might as well do one pull himself and see.
He didn't choose the character pool, but the item pool.
After tapping ten times consecutively above the ten-pull and seeing the golden light appear only at the very end, Takatsuki felt a bit helpless.
"So, is it my terrible luck or a problem with this system?"
Speaking of bad luck, Takatsuki thought of Kiana, that European Emperor, and it seemed he also remembered someone mentioning that Fu Hua had very bad luck. Were they on the same level?
He habitually opened the S-rank card first.
Dragon Talisman (S)
Effect: Can unleash powerful energy blasts, and when combined with the Fire Demon's power, its power can be doubled.
Description: One of the Twelve Talismans.
A simple and unadorned description, but the effect was very powerful, and it was also one of the SS-rank synthesis items. Although Takatsuki's current cost couldn't equip SS-rank cards, being one level short, he was still far from collecting them all.
The nine purple items were: Contract Document, Laplace's Paper, Azoth Dagger, Black Key, Dragon Tooth of Dragon Tooth Soldiers, Lancelot's Helmet, Teleportation Potion x10, Detonating Tag x10, and Fuma Shuriken.
For easy identification, Takatsuki arranged them by their respective origins and found that this gacha pull involved a new work or world. At first, when he saw the Contract Document, he didn't realize where it came from, but when he saw Laplace's Paper, he knew.
Contract Document (A)
Effect: A necessary item for holding a Gift Game. After recording the host, game rules, victory conditions, penalty items, failure conditions, and participation requirements, a Gift Game can be generated. There is no limit to the number of times a Gift Game can be held, but its content cannot be changed.
Description: Those who violate the rules will be punished by the rules.
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Laplace's Paper (A)
Effect: A super high-tier card known as a Gift Card. It is a part of omniscience and can connect with the soul to contain one's abilities and reveal their true form. One card can only contain one ability.
Description: Because it is only a part of omniscience, it cannot analyze Gifts of too high a rank.
Takatsuki felt that only three of the items he pulled this time were useful. Besides these two, there was Lancelot's Helmet from Type-Moon. Although Takatsuki felt that the original helmet shouldn't have had this ability.
Lancelot's Helmet (A)
Effect: When worn, it can conceal one's appearance and prevent others from discerning one's true identity.
Description: A helmet that gained a bit of power due to the influence of Lancelot's Noble Phantasm, but it can only serve to prevent others from discerning one's identity.
Putting away the other items, Takatsuki took out Laplace's Paper. Neither the helmet nor the Contract Document were useful to Takatsuki right now. After all, a Gift Game wasn't something you could just hold on a whim. He'd consider it later if the need arose.
Although Takatsuki wanted to use this item to appraise his system, he thought about it and gave up. If it couldn't appraise it, wouldn't it be a waste?
In the Little Garden, Gift Cards weren't too precious, but Takatsuki only had this one.
After some thought, Takatsuki chose to put his only special ability, Stand, into it for appraisal.
[Stand: Heaven's Stairway]
[A special energy creature with a humanoid form connected to its user, possessing extremely high growth potential.]
[Can grow by devouring pure mental power.]
[Currently possesses abilities: White Snake, Killer Queen]
It was the same as he knew, but Heaven's Stairway actually devoured mental power? Disc was the materialization of mental power, right? But where could he get mental power other than Disc? Feather of the Deliverer?
Before Takatsuki could finish thinking, he saw another line of text appear on the Gift Card, seemingly answering his doubt.
[Can devour Stigmata… zzz… form… zzz…
The last line of text hadn't fully displayed before the Gift Card was suddenly covered in cracks and stopped displaying.
Takatsuki saw the last displayed words.
"Stigmata?"
Takatsuki fell into thought, looking at the last information and cracks on the Gift Card.
There were Stigmata in this world, but those Stigmata were on people. Takatsuki couldn't just strip them off, could he?
Although there were Artificial Stigmata, Takatsuki didn't think those mass-produced items would contain so-called mental power. Perhaps that's why Artificial Stigmata had side effects.
No…
He still had a way to create Stigmata…
Perhaps the Gift Card collapsed because it involved the system?
If that was the case, it was a good thing he hadn't used Laplace's Paper to appraise his system.
Otherwise, it would have been a complete waste, showing nothing, and perhaps not just cracking but completely shattering.