Hearing Hestia's shriek behind him, Hajime wasn't surprised at all.
"I did warn you, didn't I? And just who was it that said gods don't scare easily?"
He chuckled.
"Anyone would be shocked seeing this kind of data!"
Even now, Hestia still couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"Did the Falna glitch? No, I double-checked, and it's working fine…"
"But how is this even possible? What did you do to earn this much excelia?! Don't tell me… you ran into a divine beast or something?!"
Her brain was struggling to keep up.
Though Hajime was her only familia member, Hestia knew how Falna worked—and this was beyond abnormal.
This was absurd!
"You could say that," Hajime said after thinking for a moment.
Technically it was a monster, not a divine beast, but close enough.
"By the way, you've been staring in shock for a while. Mind telling me the data already?"
Curious, Hajime asked.
"…Here. Take a look."
Still unable to comprehend what had happened, Hestia copied the data onto a parchment and handed it to him.
As soon as Hajime read it, he understood why she'd reacted that way.
The numbers were even crazier than he'd expected.
Name: Hajime
Level: LV1
Stats:
Strength: I0 → ???9999
Endurance: I0 → ???9999
Dexterity: I0 → ???9999
Agility: I0 → ???9999
Magic: I0 → ???9999
Development Abilities: —
Magic: Light Magic, Unknown Magic, Unknown Magic...
Skills: Transform: ??? Form
Under normal circumstances, stats are ranked from I to S, each corresponding to a range of values:
I: 0–99
H: 100–199
G: 200–299
...
S: 900–999 (the peak of mortal achievement)
The strongest adventurer in Orario—Ottar, a Level 7—was known for reaching that peak.
Even the canon protagonist Bell Cranel only managed to push his stats into SSS territory.
(SSS: 1200–1500?)
But Hajime had blown those limits out of the water.
Even at most, the corresponding stats shouldn't exceed 1500.
Yet even that much was enough for most Familias to guard tightly, never to be leaked.
In the original story, the protagonist Bell, with all his plot armor, managed to obtain top-tier stats eventually.
But in front of Hajime, his results were laughable.
On Hajime's status sheet, every stat showed as unmeasurable—marked as "???" level.
Not only that, the numerical values listed were all maxed out: 9999—nearly ten times the usual S-rank cap.
As for this unified 9999 display?
Hajime didn't believe that was the true upper limit of the experience earned from defeating Golza and Melba.
"Looks like an overflow bug in the display," Hajime muttered, stroking his chin like a programmer analyzing a glitch.
He had some coding experience—enough to guess what had happened.
When the gods designed the Falna system, they probably never imagined anyone could push their abilities this far.
So the maximum number of digits shown was four.
Now, with all stats capped at 9999, it didn't mean Golza and Melba had only given that much excelia—
It just meant the Falna display couldn't go any higher.
The system couldn't show anything beyond that point.
"…Didn't think those two monsters could break the Falna display limit," Hajime muttered, his mouth twitching.
It really was insane. No wonder these kaiju couldn't be defeated even by Tiga Ultraman's technologically advanced world.
Utterly terrifying.
Skipping past the now-obviously-overflowed stats, Hajime's eyes settled on a particular value.
"It makes sense for most attributes to max out, but durability too?"
Each stat category had to be raised individually.
To raise durability, you had to actually take damage in combat.
Strength, agility, dexterity, magic—those he used during his Tiga transformation, so it was natural they'd improve.
But durability? That required taking hits.
And during the fights with the monsters, Hajime had launched his big moves right away, killing them instantly.
He hadn't even exchanged blows.
Which meant—he shouldn't have gained any durability at all.
So why was that stat maxed out too?
"…Could it be?"
Thinking back carefully, Hajime came up with one possibility.
"When Daigo and I flew into the upper atmosphere, maybe the sonic boom shock counted as damage?"
When an object moves through the atmosphere at high speeds, it encounters air resistance.
Once it reaches supersonic speeds, the air compresses into a dense wall.
If you fly at that speed without protection, the impact can tear steel apart.
For an Ultraman, that kind of force is nothing.
But for a human, it's instantly lethal.
Hajime suspected the Falna registered that shock as an attack taken, hence the massive durability gain.
"Well, lucky me. Saves me the trouble of getting beat up just to raise one stat."
His slight perfectionism would never allow one stat to lag behind the others.
Especially not durability—it was critical to how long he could remain in Ultraman form.