Chapter 425: The School of "I Just Know"
Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit: A... a fellow fox spirit? Is she from the nine-tailed fox clan too?
Eternally Seventeen: Hmm... more or less, yeah. Still a nine-tailed fox, and genuinely strong — about where I was myself, before joining the Dimensional Chat Group.
Eternally Seventeen: There's also an adorable cat living with me, and little Sakura too!
Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit: But wouldn't that be a lot of trouble for you, Yukari-senpai?
Eternally Seventeen: No trouble at all — I've got plenty of spare rooms sitting empty at home. Might as well put them to use!
Eternally Seventeen: Ran's cooking is genuinely delicious, too. Don't be cruel and turn down such a generous offer from your friendly neighborhood youkai sage!
Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit: Um... Yukari-senpai, could I have a little time to think it over?
Eternally Seventeen: Sure, take your time! LGTM either way.
Kaguya-sama: Not sure why, but I'm picking up a faint whiff of "human trafficker" energy here.
Kaguya-sama: Wait, wrong word — not "human" trafficker. "Youkai" trafficker, I guess.
Ying Zheng The Sovereign: Every member of the sage's household seems to be female, and Admin-sama visits Gensokyo awfully often. This sovereign thinks he may have just stumbled onto something significant.
Street-Corner Illustrator: Shocking! Yukari-senpai's secretly been expanding Admin-sama's harem behind the scenes?! What could she possibly be after?
Kaguya-sama: Qin Shi Huang-senpai, Eriri, you two are done for. Yukari-nee's absolutely going to silence you both.
Ying Zheng The Sovereign: ...My, what a loud wind today. What was I just saying?
Street-Corner Illustrator: Oh — right, just remembered, I've got somewhere to be. Gotta run!
My True Form Is Cola: Hold on! Yukari-senpai invited me to move to Gensokyo once too — does that mean she was trying to recruit me into Admin-sama's harem the whole time?! Genuinely unsettling to think about!
Master Roshi: Jealousy's tearing this old man apart. Why doesn't an old fool like me ever get that kind of luck, boo-hoo...
Crazy Diamond: Master Roshi, maybe lay off those low-quality films for a while — wouldn't want your health to suffer.
Master Roshi: What do you mean "low-quality"? That's art! Fine, tasteful art!
Crazy Diamond: Who even knows where Mr. Stark got ten thousand-plus of these "tasteful" films from, honestly.
My True Form Is Cola: Wait, how does Josuke know they're "tasteful," exactly?
Crazy Diamond: ...Ahahaha, just a guess! Purely a guess! That's all it was!
Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit: What are these "films," exactly?
Eternally Seventeen: Not the healthiest kind of viewing material, let's say — not really something for young ladies. Though if Ahri's curious, I could always watch along with you!
Kaguya-sama: Wait, Yukari-nee actually watches that stuff too?
Eternally Seventeen: A youkai sage of my standing has seen just about everything there is to see.
RawrSoFierce: Phew... finally cleaned house, not one enemy left standing. Quest complete.
RawrSoFierce: Wait... what exactly is this dangerously unhinged topic you're all discussing right now? Keep going like this and the whole group's getting flagged.
"..."
Having just claimed the quest reward and skimmed back through the chat, Ryū's mouth twitched involuntarily.
Why was it that every single time he wasn't around to keep an eye on things, this crowd immediately veered into topics this genuinely reckless?
Dancing right along the edge of getting the whole thing shut down — that's exactly what this was.
Because, worth remembering, the Dimensional Chat Group had actual minors among its members. Quite a few of them, in fact.
Kaguya Shinomiya, Eriri, Umaru, Chika, and Josuke were all seventeen. And younger still were Hinata, Maidang, and Sakura.
All of them minors, and all of them in this same chat. The last thing anyone needed was some careless conversation setting a bad example for the kids.
RawrSoFierce: Feels like if I hadn't shown up when I did, you all would've started posting inappropriate images next.
Street-Corner Illustrator: And if that actually happened, what would the consequences even be?
RawrSoFierce: I'd make sure you regretted bringing it up.
Street-Corner Illustrator: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ!!! Wha— what?! Genuinely shaking right now...
Kaguya-sama: What does "making someone regret it" even mean here???
My True Form Is Cola: Means Admin-sama would find some suitably embarrassing way to make an example out of Eriri.
Kaguya-sama: Terrifying!
Eternally Seventeen: Admin-sama, isn't that just a little concerning? Threatening the group like some kind of menace?
RawrSoFierce: ...I was just making a point, is all.
Eternally Seventeen: I've decided Admin-sama's officially a menace here. I don't care what you all think — what I think is what's true.
RawrSoFierce: Pfft... are you seriously the founder of some new school of thought here? "I just know it, so it's true"?
Eternally Seventeen: Everyone just listen to me — Admin-sama's dangerous, and whatever the rest of you think doesn't matter. Only what I say is correct.
Kaguya-sama: New meme unlocked. So, question — what exactly is this "I just know" school of thought?
RawrSoFierce: It's, uh... hm, hard to explain properly. Ask a certain youkai sage, she'd probably know.
My True Form Is Cola: Honestly, this group's got no shortage of drama regardless — anyway, who's up for another round of the idiom envelope game later?
Eternally Seventeen: Eh? What made you bring that up out of nowhere?
My True Form Is Cola: Oh, no reason, just felt like changing the subject before things got weirder.
Kaguya-sama: Fair, honestly, this thread's gotten a little unhinged.
Terrible Tornado: Popping in! Skimmed back through the chat — why's the topic gotten this strange? Is being single really such a bad thing?
Hero for Fun: Personally I think being single's great — living the easy life, just me, myself, and I.
The Ancient One: Single for several hundred years, passing through.
Roar of the Evil Dragon: Single for tens of thousands of years, passing thr— wait, no, I've got Kobayashi now, I don't count as single anymore!
RawrSoFierce: Wake up — Kobayashi never actually agreed to any of that.
Roar of the Evil Dragon: No problem, I'll just step up my efforts. I'll win her over eventually, guaranteed!
"..."
After idly chatting away for a bit longer, Ryū's consciousness slipped back out of the Dimensional Chat Group.
With the Marvel world's threat dealt with and the quest wrapped up, Ryū didn't linger there any longer — he headed straight back to Konoha instead.
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