"Alright, I'll take a loss. You give me a hundred yen, and I'll perform one more time."
Kashi proposed her conditions, hoping to earn more pocket money from this opportunity.
Tanaka Masao shook his head and looked at Yukinoshita Yukino.
"Yukino should have seen enough, right? If you've seen enough, let's go back."
Kashi's ears twitched, and she instantly appeared beside Yukinoshita Yukino, grabbing her hand.
"Yukino, you definitely haven't seen enough yet, have you? You want to see it again, don't you?"
Yukinoshita Yukino looked down at Kashi, whose face was full of anticipation, and felt very hesitant.
To be honest, she didn't want Kashi to do a backflip, as such an act was somewhat dangerous.
But Kashi herself relied on street performances to earn pocket money, and if she didn't agree, Kashi wouldn't be able to earn any.
As for Yukinoshita Yukino directly giving Kashi money, she had considered it, and she wasn't short on that amount of money.
However, this involved issues of upbringing, and it was clearly inappropriate for her to give money so casually.
Yukinoshita Yukino struggled internally for a moment, but ultimately couldn't resist Kashi's cuteness and spoke up.
"If possible, I actually would like to see it one more time."
"That's great!"
Having received Yukinoshita Yukino's agreement, Kashi looked at Tanaka Masao.
"Alright, you saw it. Yukino still wants to see my performance."
"Please begin your performance."
"First, the performance fee."
"Here."
Kashi took the hundred-yen coin Tanaka Masao tossed over and put it in her pocket, but then she said,
"Not enough, I need more."
"What? You're actually raising the price on me!"
"Ha, what do you know? For my second performance, the difficulty is definitely higher than the first, so of course the fee needs to increase.
Give me another hundred, no, a hundred and fifty yen. For the second performance, I need two hundred and fifty yen."
"Two hundred and fifty yen? Why don't you just rob me for that much? That's enough for me to buy a bottle of soda.
No way, your ambition is too great. I don't agree. If you dare to ask for two hundred and fifty yen today, tomorrow you'll dare to ask for three hundred. If this continues, won't you end up ruling the world?"
Tanaka Masao would not allow Kashi's ambition to grow. Sure enough, demons are terrifying, and Kashi is an inherently evil little imp.
"I don't want you to perform anymore. Give me my money back."
"No refunds."
Kashi immediately hid behind Yukinoshita Yukino, pouting.
"Yukino, look at Tanaka, he's so scary, he's trying to steal my money."
Yukinoshita Yukino felt a bit helpless, but who could argue with cuteness being justice? So she still sided with Kashi.
Knowing that she was somewhat in the wrong, she uncharacteristically spoke to Tanaka Masao in a conciliatory tone.
"Kashi is right, performing is quite tiring. What do you think, maybe…"
"Oh, Yukino, you spoil this little imp too much."
Tanaka Masao looked at Kashi, who was hiding behind Yukinoshita Yukino and triumphantly making faces at him, then took out two more coins.
"Here, two hundred and fifty."
"That's great."
Hearing the call, Kashi scurried over happily.
After confirming the money was correct, she performed another perfect backflip, landing steadily.
"How was it?"
"Very impressive."
Yukinoshita Yukino offered encouragement and took Kashi's hand.
"Alright, let's go back quickly. Dinner will be ready soon."
"Okay."
Kashi held her massive sum of three hundred and fifty yen (approximately 20 yuan), feeling delighted.
"Tomorrow, should I buy croquettes or dorayaki? No, takoyaki is definitely tastier. I've decided, I'll buy yakisoba. It's a good portion, and I'll feel more satisfied after eating it.
It's true that I don't have enough money. If I had enough, I wouldn't have to agonize like this; I could just buy everything.
Masao looks quite rich; I can definitely target him."
Kashi had already tasted the joy of earning quick money and no longer wanted to return to a life of poverty.
To make her wallet fatter, she decided to approach Tanaka Masao for a transaction.
…
After dinner and dropping Yukinoshita Yukino home, Tanaka Masao washed up and returned to his room.
Today was a good day to celebrate. With the release of "i want to eat your pancreas" and the Little Yellow Knife manga series, Tanaka Masao had reaped a large amount of Degeneracy Points.
In just two days, it had provided him with over five million Degeneracy Points, more than what the previous doujinshi had accumulated in two weeks.
This made him sigh with emotion; the sales from legitimate channels were indeed powerful.
And with so many Degeneracy Points, it was natural to spend some.
Tanaka Masao sat cross-legged on his neatly made bed, closed his eyes, and with a devout and solemn expression, silently called out to the System in his mind.
His focus and seriousness at this moment surpassed even when he was looking at doujinshi.
He generously said to the System,
"System, purchase fifty random talents."
"Ding, fifty random talents have been credited. Host, please check."
Perhaps because he bought too many at once, the System didn't bother to report them one by one.
Tanaka Masao carefully examined his current gains.
"Skills: Cooking LV1, Music LV1, Writing LV1, Cat's Cradle LV1, Yo-yo LV1."
Looking at the five skills he had acquired this time, Cooking, Music, and Writing were all good and quite useful for him right now.
The Music skill could help him better conquer… ah, no, help the members of End Band and provide them with guidance.
The Writing skill would allow him to have deeper intellectual and spiritual exchanges with Kasumigaoka Utaha.
And the Cooking skill had even broader applicability. If the first two skills only worked for specific groups and were targeted, then Cooking could be used on anyone.
He could capture the hearts of young girls with unparalleled delicious food, making them long for him and never leave him.
However, what were those two remaining skills, Cat's Cradle and Yo-yo? They didn't seem very useful.
But having them is better than not, who knows, maybe someday he'll need to perform on stage and won't have any other talents, so he can perform these.
Because the useful skills accounted for more than half, Tanaka Masao did not dwell on these two seemingly less useful skills.
Tanaka Masao took a short break to digest the skills he had acquired.
Since they were all LV1 skills, the knowledge instilled in his mind was very simple, allowing Tanaka Masao to quickly master them completely.
After digesting the skills, he looked at the other items he had obtained.
Skill Experience Card x25
Talent Experience Card x15
Free Attribute Points x4
After reviewing these items, Tanaka Masao noticed there was more below.
"This… a talent actually appeared!"