"Back" Yami murmured as she suddenly appeared in the same place where, two years earlier, she had attacked Yuuji with the intention of killing him after mistaking him for Yuuki Rito.
The scene in front of her felt strange and familiar at the same time. Even though only a few hours had passed on Earth before she left, somehow returning here after two years gave her a feeling similar to coming home, something she had never experienced since leaving her home planet.
"We're back!" Lala said excitedly as she recognized the surroundings.
"Yes, we're back" Yuuji replied, also happy to return, especially because it would still be a month before he had to go back again.
"Lala, where is Rito?" Yami asked, interrupting the excited princess.
"Huh? Rito? Why do you want him?"
"Rito is keeping you locked up against your will. I was hired to kill him," she explained as one of her twin tails transformed into the shape of a person while the other turned into a blade that decapitated him.
"E-eh?... Rito is not keeping me captive. Who told you that?" Lala asked in confusion.
"He is not?" Yami frowned, realizing she had probably been deceived.
"No, he is... was my fiancé by my own choice" Lala said, hesitating at the end.
"I see" Yami nodded and her eyes seemed to see through everything as killing intent leaked from her body. "Then... I have someone to kill."
After saying that her hair took the shape of wings, which she used to fly quickly into the distance.
"YAMIII!" Lala shouted before she disappeared from sight, making Yami stop.
"COME VISIT US AGAIN SOMEDAY! I'LL BE WAITING FOR YOU!"
Yami looked at her for a few seconds, then looked at Yuuji, and finally disappeared without answering.
"Huh? Why did she leave? Do you think she'll come back?" Lala asked while looking at Yuuji.
"She will come back" Yuuji nodded. "As for why she left..."
Yuuji quickly explained to Lala the reason Yami wanted to kill Rito, that she had been deceived, and that she had probably gone to get revenge on whoever manipulated her.
Something Lala never questioned how he knew.
"I see, so that's why she attacked us" Lala suddenly understood.
"That's right."
After a short chat, Yuuji said goodbye.
"It's late already, so I'm leaving. Tell me how the princess's story ended later."
"Of course I will. Bye bye." Lala also said goodbye and activated a device to teleport to her house immediately. "Yuuji, before I go..."
"What hap...?"
Muack.
Yuuji was interrupted by a kiss on the cheek from Lala before she disappeared without giving any explanation.
Yuuji stared at the place where she had disappeared before muttering to himself.
"Shit."
...
After returning to his house, Yuuji threw himself onto his bed, tired from the long day.
After resting for a moment, he immediately complained to the system.
"System, my rewards."
[Congratulations! You completed the Main Mission - Power Route (2).
Reward: Platinum Ticket]
"That is not what I mean" Yuuji said annoyed.
[...You noticed?]
"I would have to be an idiot not to notice" Yuuji mocked.
[You unlocked Side Mission - Romantic Route (1): Make any girl feel at least a slight liking for you. Rewards vary depending on the girl]
[You completed Side Mission - Romantic Route (1): Make any girl feel at least a slight liking for you.
Target: Lala.
Description: Princess of the Deviluke galaxy, second most beautiful girl in the galaxy, main heroine.
Reward: Platinum Ticket]
[You unlocked Side Mission - Romantic Route (2): Raise Lala Satalin Deviluke's level of liking toward you to genuine affection.]
[You completed Side Mission - Romantic Route (2): Raise Lala Satalin Deviluke's level of liking toward you to genuine affection.
Reward: Diamond Ticket]
[You unlocked Side Mission - Romantic Route (3): Raise Lala Satalin Deviluke's level of liking toward you to love.]
[You completed Side Mission - Romantic Route (3): Raise Lala Satalin Deviluke's level of liking toward you to love.
Reward: Legendary Ticket]
[You separated the main couple. You have achieved a great feat! Reward: Diamond Ticket]
"So how does this work? You can just lie to me and that's it?" Yuuji asked, even more annoyed.
[A system cannot lie to the host] the system responded immediately.
"Then?"
[I am not sure either. I received orders from above to hide that part. They probably just thought it would be more entertaining this way.]
"More entertaining, huh? I hope they had a lot of fun manipulating my life."
[I am sorry, host. The ones above promised they will not interfere anymore and swore that if it happens again you will be returned to your previous world and separated from the system. In addition, they gave you an item as an apology.
It is all I can do.]
"What a ridiculous load of bullshit, but of course, I cannot do anything against the almighty system" Yuuji said with the greatest sense of powerlessness he had ever felt in his life. "Just use the tickets."
[Host, you have other tickets from the active social route side mission. Do you want to use those as well?]
"Use them, use all of them. I do not care. Also show me the item they gave me as an apology while you're at it."
From the social side mission Yuuji obtained a total of fourteen tickets, these being from Haruna, Yui, Risa, Mio, Saruyama, Rito, Run, Ren, Mikan, and Yami. The last four gave him two tickets each, first for "slight interaction" and then when it increased to "acquaintances", while the rest only gave one each when it increased from "slight interaction" to "acquaintances".
Although for "slight interaction" they all gave bronze tickets, for "acquaintances" it was different, Mikan, Yami, Yui, and Haruna gave him gold tickets for that while the rest were silver.
On the other hand, Rito gave him a diamond ticket for "acquaintances", showing his status as the protagonist.
Adding everything together, Yuuji ended up with 1 Legendary Ticket, 2 Diamond Tickets, 2 Platinum Tickets, 4 Gold Tickets, 5 Silver Tickets, and 4 Bronze Tickets.
After the system used all of them, the rewards were:
[Nichirin Ingots
Common Item
Demon Slayer - Ingots made of Scarlet Ore that have absorbed a lot of natural sunlight and changed in composition. Nichirin is a very durable metal that has anti demon properties and amplifies the power of Fire based abilities, and is capable of reaching extreme temperatures without deforming. You get 3 5kg ingots. Restock timer: 120 Hours]
[Novice Chemistry
Common Skill
You have the skills and knowledge of a Chemistry Major. You have a decent repertoire of knowledge regarding chemistry and compounds. You know how to make most regular chemicals and know not to drink bleach.]
[Lesser Hydrokinesis
Uncommon Ability
Allows you to create and control water around yourself telekinetically, it is not particularly powerful but it is still very versatile and precise.]
[Stimpack
Uncommon Item
Fallout - A potent medical tool from a post apocalypse world. A stim pack is a syringe pack filled with modified stem cells and healing agents that boost the human body's natural regenerative properties into overdrive. WARNING: Usage of the stimpack without enough nutrients or minerals in the body can cause more harm than good. Restock Timer: 24 hours]
[Watcher's Curse
Rare Ability
Allows you to apply the Watcher's Curse on a target. The target affected by this curse will have an ethereal watcher's eye floating over them and watching them. This eye will constantly transmit the target's location and what it sees to you. The Curse can also be used as an anchor to cast abilities and spells from.]
[Lightning Absorption
Rare Ability
Allows you to absorb electricity and lightning and store it inside of your body. You can convert absorbed lightning into energy to refill your reserves or channel it to increase your power or use it as an attack.]
[Hacking
Uncommon Skill
You are skilled at leveraging your skills to get into networks and get past digitized and cyber defenses.]
[Rough Knuckle
Common Ability
Allows you to slightly augment your fists with energy, allowing the average man to shatter bricks with their fists. The more energy you expend, the greater the augmentation, but it is not very efficient.]
[Building
Uncommon Ability
You are able to perform transmutation on a macro scale, while you cannot build complex constructs or small applications you could turn the ground into a proper building in less than an hour. This ability does not move particularly fast, so its combat applications are limited.]
[Widen
Rare Ability
Allows you to extend the area of effect of an ability without decreasing its power, like doubling or tripling the area of effect but making the ability consume more energy.]
[Airlock
Rare Ability
Allows you to increase the air resistance in an area to the point where it can feel like wading through mud and make things like flight near impossible, with training you can increase it to the point where even trying to move causes things to burst into flame from friction.]
[Outgun
Uncommon Ability
This ability allows the user to transmute any material they are touching into any gun they are aware of as well as bullets. The power of the gun scales to the power of the material used.]
[Atmospheric Pressure Manipulation
Elite Ability
Allows you to control atmospheric pressure with zones where you can increase and decrease the pressure.]
[Kamish's Wrath
Elite Item
Solo Leveling - A pair of daggers made from the dragon Kamish, they are nearly unbreakable and sharper than any manmade blade. In addition, these blades synchronize with the user's mana and adjust their strength accordingly. The user can also increase their weight at will.]
[Earthbending
Elite Skill
Avatar - You are an apprentice Earthbender, able to use your internal energy to interact with the earth around you, using movements to bend it to your will. The more experienced and trained you are the stronger your bending.]
[Storm Call
Epic Ability
Allows you to freely call thunder and lightning from the skies to strike the ground with little energy consumption. You can even charge it to smite the world with concentrated lightning.]
[Water Stream Crushing Rock
Epic Skill
One Punch Man - You are an apprentice in the legendary martial art created by the S Rank Hero Silverfang. This martial art focuses on defense and redirection of enemy attacks by flowing like water and striking like a raging river. With enough training you can completely counter an enemy's blow with double their power.]
[Perfect Unknowable
Legendary Ability
Overlord - You can temporarily erase all evidence of your existence. You will not show energy signatures and you cannot be smelled, seen, heard, or perceived by anything in any shape or form until you attack something.]
[Dice of Probability
Mythical Item
It can be used when activating a Mythical Ticket in the Chaos Gacha. Instead of receiving a random reward, the user can choose exactly which item to obtain as long as it does not exceed the Mythical rank.
This effect can only be used once, after which the dice lose their power.]
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