Chapter 407: The Event Gift Box
My True Form Is Cola: Admin-sama, that "smooch" line's making me seriously suspect you're trying to seduce me right now — full-on flirting, even!
My True Form Is Cola: Genuinely alarming... no wonder Admin-sama's still holding out hope for Ran and Chen too.
RawrSoFierce: ...???
RawrSoFierce: What does that have to do with my hopes for two dowry maids? And you're seriously overthinking this — a single "smooch," and that counts as seduction? As flirting?
My True Form Is Cola: It does, though! Especially coming from someone with Admin-sama's looks — that's basically a lethal combination.
RawrSoFierce: So what you're saying is... any good-looking guy can say literally anything and it counts as flirting?
My True Form Is Cola: Emmm, when you put it that way, yeah, pretty much.
My True Form Is Cola: Probably, maybe, likely, more or less — that's basically the gist of it!
RawrSoFierce: So you're a looks person, then. Confirmed.
My True Form Is Cola: Ahem, being a looks person is perfectly normal, isn't it? Say Admin-sama got set up on a blind date — the girl's got a wonderful heart, sure, but she's got a waistline the size of a barrel and a face like a gorilla. Would that spark anything for you?
My True Form Is Cola: No offense meant by that, obviously, purely hypothetical.
RawrSoFierce: ...
"..."
Ryū found himself, once again, genuinely at a loss for words. Eventually he just shook off the whole tangent and clicked open the file Umaru had sent him.
Inside was a whole collection of anime that had aired over the past few months in the Himouto! Umaru-chan world — and, browsing through it, Ryū found that roughly a fifth of the shows were ones he actually recognized.
Which meant the overlap between Himouto! Umaru-chan's anime culture and his own old Earth's ran somewhere around 20%, give or take.
Twenty shows in total, a genuine mixed bag — some looking like genuinely obscure niche titles, others clearly big hits.
Honestly, for a homebody salted fish like him, being a member of the Dimensional Chat Group had few perks quite as satisfying as this.
Once he burned through today's batch from Umaru, he'd track down Eriri next and get her season's lineup too. Then Tatsumaki, then Hinata, then Kaguya...
Meaning, functionally, he could spend every single day watching brand-new anime for the foreseeable future.
He set the shows aside for now — plenty of time to binge them all tonight.
Backing out of his private chat with Umaru, Ryū looked at the event gift box he'd claimed earlier and gave it a light tap, opening it up.
[Admin "RawrSoFierce" has opened the "New Year's Eve/Lunar New Year Grand Event" gift box, successfully obtaining the following items! Since this event combined two overlapping holidays, all rewards have been doubled — six prizes total, details below...]
[Prize 1: 2,500 Points. Click the link on the right → [link] to claim your 2,500 Points!]
[Prize 2: New Year's Eve/Lunar New Year Grand Event Commemorative Badge x1. Roughly half a palm in size, with an "indestructible" property. Can be worn as a chest guard, purely for sentimental value.]
[Prize 3: "Ki" Quality Enhancement Card x1. Boosts the quality of your Ki output — for example, a Ki blast originally the size of a billiard ball, powerful enough to level an entire province, would see its destructive output doubled after this quality boost!]
[Prize 4: 3,500 Points. Click the link on the right → [link] to claim your 3,500 Points!]
[Prize 5: Chat Group Newcomer Invitation Opportunity x1. You may select anyone from your own home world to join the Dimensional Chat Group, subject to approval from a moderator or the Admin!]
[Prize 6: 50 Free Arena Revivals. Grants 50 free revivals within the Arena's training mode. Once exhausted, standard Point charges resume.]
Looking over the full list, Ryū felt genuinely surprised. No Skill Breakthrough Card this time, sure, but the haul more than made up for it with a whole batch of fresh new items — and honestly, he suspected some of these might rival a Breakthrough Card in actual value.
The Points alone came to a solid 6,000, which he naturally claimed on the spot, folding it straight into his balance.
The commemorative badge, on the other hand, got his usual once-over-and-dismiss treatment — genuinely useless to him as things stood.
Unless, of course, he ever managed to collect a few hundred of them someday — then maybe he could leverage that "indestructible" property into a full suit of armor.
Hm... not a bad idea, actually. Worth jotting down somewhere — waste not, want not, after all.
Prize 3, the "Ki" Quality Enhancement Card, genuinely caught his attention. From the description, it sounded like it could push Ki's output to an entirely new tier — effectively doubling raw power.
Double his output... wouldn't that mean doubling his combat strength outright?
Well, not exactly — his overall strength wasn't going to simply double, since Ki was only one of several disciplines he'd trained. Unless every other ability got a matching boost too, his total combat power wouldn't scale up that cleanly just from this one enhancement.
Still, a genuinely significant jump was guaranteed regardless. He figured using this card would probably bump his overall strength up somewhere around 30–40%.
At his current level, a 30–40% boost on top would absolutely be enough to pin a certain youkai sage to the ground without much trouble — might even let him trade blows on even footing with a certain Bald Caped Baldy.
Prize 5, the Chat Group Newcomer Invitation Opportunity, caught him genuinely off guard — he'd never expected a reward quite like this to show up.
Meaning he could now single out any resident of the Naruto world and invite them straight into the Dimensional Chat Group, requiring only the Admin's or a moderator's approval?
And, well — he was the Admin.
Inviting someone and then approving his own invitation... nothing wrong with that whatsoever, technically speaking!
As for whether he'd actually use this opportunity, Ryū wasn't sure yet — he genuinely couldn't think of who exactly he'd want to bring in.
Orochimaru?
Minato?
Jiraiya?
Tsunade?
Anko?
Guy?
Kakashi?
Those were about the only people in the Naruto world he actually knew well enough. Everyone else he'd had, at most, a passing exchange with — a line or two of conversation, nothing more.
Oh, right — and Teuchi from Ichiraku, too. He and Teuchi went back a fair ways by now as well.
"Ah, whatever — I'll just save the invite for whenever inspiration strikes."
Ryū shook his head, resigned. Not having a wide enough circle of acquaintances had its own small downsides, apparently.
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