Chapter 112: First day back

Chapter 112: Chapter 112: First day back

It was already the middle of the morning. The sun had been illuminating Sainan with its light and warmth for several hours already, and in a room more than a hundred meters above the ground, Lala finally woke up and stretched her arms while yawning, barely awake.

When she opened her eyes, she blinked in confusion for a moment, not recognizing the room around her, but she quickly remembered what had happened yesterday, and an amused smile formed on her face.

’Even Dad wouldn’t buy an entire hotel just because the previous one was destroyed. Terrans definitely like to be ostentatious’ she thought, suppressing a laugh so she wouldn’t be too loud. However, when she looked at the person still sleeping beside her, another thought formed in her mind.

"Or maybe they just wanted to give him a quiet place to rest" she murmured softly, barely above a whisper.

As she thought about this, she suddenly remembered something, and her expression immediately made a complete 180-degree turn as she shook the person beside her, wanting to wake him up quickly.

"Yuuji, Yuuji, wake up, it’s already the middle of the morning, we have to go study, Yuuji!"

"...Mnnmh, just five more minutes" Yuuji mumbled, still half asleep without opening his eyes, his voice groggy.

"YUUJI!"

"Ah, fine, I’m awake. There’s no need to shout" Yuuji finally said. No matter how much he wanted to keep sleeping, it would be impossible with Lala shouting right beside him. "What’s wrong?"

"We have to go to school, Yuuji. We’re already back on Earth" Lala repeated to him.

"Yeah, about that... we’re not going. I forgot to tell you, I’m sorry" Yuuji apologized sheepishly.

"Huh? Why not? You even made that whole scene last time about ’going back to normal’"

"Because we still have to deal with the problem in the other world. So it’s better if we take care of that first, then finally return to school and get our normal lives back, okay?"

"Nn, that’s a good idea" Lala nodded, only to make a small offended pout. "But you could have told me so I wouldn’t worry"

"I wanted to tell you, but you fell asleep before I did, so I could only ask Peke not to wake you up today"

"And whose fault is it that I was tired in the first place?" Lala complained.

"Completely yours. Who told you to start and then get tired before I did?

Anyway, let’s not talk about that. For now, Peke!"

As soon as it heard its name, Peke came out of its brooch form on the desk and flew onto Lala’s head, immediately returning to that form while also fully dressing Lala.

"Huh? What’s the need to wear clothes in bed?" Lala asked in confusion.

"Simple visual comfort" Yuuji replied as he put on a sweatshirt as well.

"Ooooh, Yuuji, you look great" Lala said, looking at his clothes.

"Tsk, this is a problem" Yuuji, for his part, couldn’t help but complain when he saw that his clothes were too small for him again, despite having changed his size only two months ago, barely before they left.

This was because he kept drinking Hera’s Milk every so often, which not only improved his physique but also his lineage, meaning his physique could improve far beyond what a normal human could achieve through exercise. And what he had been doing for the past two months wasn’t all that different from exercise. He performed physical training every day, often pushing himself far beyond what he could endure.

Because of this, his body had continued improving, and the clothes at home had become too small for him again. At least it wasn’t as exaggerated as the last time, when the clothes simply didn’t fit him at all. This time, the sweatshirt was just too tight, as if it were gym workout clothes after exercising all day, at least it was bearable.

"...You know? It’s a little uncomfortable when you stare at me this much"

"Really? Even though I like it when you look at me" Lala tilted her head in confusion before quickly changing the subject to something she had been curious about for some time. "By the way, Yuuji, how come the white drink you usually take keeps improving you? Isn’t its effect turning you into a demigod? It should have lost its effectiveness after the first time"

"That’s because what it does is transform half of my human lineage into God lineage. After the first time, I was 50% God, after the second, 75%, after the third, 87.5%, and so on.

I’m not sure why it works like this, but given that the rewards come from other worlds, perhaps this comes from a world where the gods have followers in the human world and those followers have ranks. So those with higher ranks are rewarded with this and become increasingly more powerful" Yuuji explained, theorizing a little.

"How interesting! Yuuji, you’re a walking Zeno’s paradox, a divine Zeno’s paradox" Lala exclaimed with interest. "No matter how many times you drink that or how many times your lineage is improved, you’ll never become 100% God, because only half of it is improved each time. You can become infinitely close to being a god, but never a real one. It seems the gods of that world made sure that humanity could never reach divinity, and they did it through mathematics. How clever.

Sounds like an interesting world. I’d like to visit it someday"

’Interesting and dangerous’ Yuuji thought sarcastically. Humanity loves desiring what is denied to them, and if that thing is divinity, even more so. And if they are even given a little bit of it, allowing them to taste its power while never letting them reach the entirety of that power? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. ’I can already imagine a bunch of lunatics with 99.9~% divine lineage fighting each other and doing crazy things all over the planet just to obtain that infinitesimal part they’re missing’

"Yuuji, what’s wrong?"

"Nothing, I just thought of a good story. I’ll tell Saki about it later" Yuuji dismissed it before turning toward Lala with a smile. "By the way, Lala, I have a surprise for you"

"A surprise? What is it?" Lala asked, immediately getting excited.

"You’ve known about the Chaos Gacha for more than two months, but you’ve never actually seen it, right? Today, not only will you see it, you’ll also use all the tickets" Yuuji declared. "Mona, show us!"

’And remember to change any strange expressions’

[Of course] Mona replied both aloud and directly into Yuuji’s mind before adding more information to the latter. [Master, I will transmit some parts directly into your mind. They will appear in parentheses on the panel, but Miss Lala won’t be able to see them]

"Ooooooh!" Lala watched excitedly as an enormous roulette wheel with thousands of names and colors appeared in front of her.

"Wait, shouldn’t the rewards be infinite? How is it even possible for them to fit on a roulette wheel?" Lala realized with a confused expression.

[See the bright white line, Miss Lala? Everything that passes through it clockwise from the right disappears, while going counterclockwise from the left causes a new reward to appear] Mona explained.

"Oh, but then the roulette doesn’t really matter, right? None of the rewards that are here will actually come out, so reading them is useless" Lala realized, somewhat disappointed, before getting excited again as she thought of an idea. "By the way, Mona, what would happen if I asked you to make a roulette with all the rewards?"

[I would immediately ask Master Yuuji to please cancel her request] Mona replied immediately.

"Tsk, you’re not that easy to trick" Lala clicked her tongue.

[Leaving logical paradoxes aside, Miss Lala, I will explain the current tickets.

Master Yuuji currently has a total of 52 tickets to use, of which 3 are Divine-level, 9 are Mythical, 5 are Legendary, and the other 35 are irregularly divided among the Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze ranks.

The three Divine tickets correspond to the following three feats:

- Reaching the end with Miss Lala. (Making the world’s female protagonist completely yours)

- Being publicly recognized as Princess Lala’s current and future partner, and the heir of Gid Lucione Deviluke.

- Successfully correcting the fate of a person trapped in a mistake of fate. (Freeing Yuuki Rito from his role as a protagonist with no control over his own destiny)

The nine feats that provided Mythical tickets are: Completing the nine trials imposed by Gid Lucione Deviluke; defeating the first general, Zastin; helping achieve a pseudo-defeat against the strongest person in the galaxy and its emperor; discovering a secret from the childhood of Her Highness Lala and her sisters and bringing an end to a cycle that had lasted for years; destroying AURA BOROS and helping the WARA star system; saving Earth from Alicia Shakes; preventing a nuclear crisis on a border between three countries that could have escalated into a war; permanently controlling Darkness; permanently controlling Nemesis and Mea.

And the rest mainly consists of small actions that occurred while accomplishing the feats mentioned earlier, with the exception of the five Legendary ones, which correspond to five other travel destinations that I could describe, but I feel like both of you are getting bored]

"Huh? Of course not, Mona, keep talki..."

"Ignore her, Mona" Yuuji interrupted. "Lala, start using the tickets already"

"Hehe, okay" Lala replied with a mischievous smile as she raised a hand toward the roulette and spun it. "Well then, let’s start with the fun part!"

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