The multiverse was en route.
Gojo's universe, Lu's universe, and thousands of others were locked onto one point in space-time:
Earth.
This apartment.
Right now.
The dimensional gateways had been flooded.
The dimensional pathways surged with cosmic traffic.
And dimensional doors were shaking like someone forgot to oil the hinges of reality.
Lu and Subaki had exactly 5 hours to fix everything…
Or face literal extinction.
And the worst part?
The moment Lu tried to escape through any dimensional door, the gateways would lock onto it, accelerating their arrival.
No shortcuts.
No skipping town.
No safe zones.
Just 5 hours.
To fix everything.
Task 1: Return Gojo's Money… With Interest.
Time remaining: 5:00 hours
Easy, right?
Under normal conditions, Lu could've pulled it off in three minutes, sipping tea with one hand while doing 4D quantum accounting with the other.
But this wasn't normal.
This was panic mode.
Lu's hands were shaking.
He couldn't even remember his own system protocols.
He accidentally paid off someone else's debts, wired 100 million yen to a vending machine in Kyoto, and got flagged by his own AI for suspicious activity.
By the end of it?
Gojo's funds were restored—with interest.
But Lu lost 300 million yen from his personal account.
Gojo, sipping from his newly funded ramen stash:
"You deserve that."
Time left: 4:00 hours
Task 2: Comfort Gojo, Get Beat, Stabilize a Chaotic God
This was the emotional side quest Lu dreaded the most.
Gojo was a mess.
Half-curled on the floor.
Eyes twitching.
G.L.U.E. playing lo-fi roast music in the background.
It took 30 minutes just to get him to sit up and listen.
Another 30 minutes to survive the beating that followed.
Gojo didn't hold back.
He summoned his aura.
Threw divine slaps.
Dropped metaphysical knees.
Even used a ramen pot as a finishing move.
Then came the hard part:
stabilizing his chaotic aura.
Subaki helped.
Lu rewrote some aura scripts.
Gojo meditated (while crying).
They managed to suppress it—for now.
But by the end?
Gojo was glowing normally again.
And Lu looked like a sock puppet post-battle.
Time left: 2.5 hours
Task 3: Petition of the Gods of Earth
This should've been easy.
It was just paperwork.
But Earth's pantheon?
Was an absolute mess.
Some gods were:
Fading into obscurity and had to be located via forgotten prayers. Locked in pocket dimensions like hell, purgatory, or anime conventions. Sleeping in cursed temples that required a six-part ritual to enter. Offline because they didn't believe in cell phones.
Gojo ran through every realm—
kicked down sanctuaries, summoned elevator gods, and even bartered with a river spirit who only spoke in riddles.
By the time he got the final signature?
He looked like a god who just ran a bureaucratic boss rush.
Lu:
"How'd it go?"
Gojo, dead-eyed:
"Someone made me sign their petition to bring back Nokia."
Time left: 2:00 hours
Task 4: Unlock, Understand, and Master 1000+ Power Systems
Lu had spent so long on Earth, hiding, pretending to be normal, that he had completely ignored his own evolution.
When Gojo fixed the universe's chaotic power systems, the backlash didn't affect Lu.
Why?
Because every system had already accepted him.
He wasn't just a user anymore.
He was a living database of coexistence.
But he never took time to explore that.
Until now.
Lu sat cross-legged.
He entered his internal network.
Systems began to flicker—one by one.
Magic. Sci-fi. Martial arts. Ki. Spirit. Technomancy. Card-based battle mechanics. Power of friendship (he locked that one immediately). And even… forbidden anime logic.
There were too many.
And with only 2 hours…
He barely scratched the surface.
When the multiversal army arrived?
Lu had mastered maybe 20%.
Gojo:
"You're about to be obliterated."
Lu:
"I'll stall them with sarcasm."
Gojo:
"Good. Die doing what you love."
Final Countdown
They heard the crackle first.
Reality rippling.
A low hum vibrating through the floor.
The ceiling glowing with unstable coordinates.
Dimensional Gateways were stabilizing.
The first one opened.
Gojo stood up, fully powered, dead serious.
Subaki cracked her knuckles.
Lu tried to look confident—but was holding in a scream.
The void rippled.
From beyond it—
The multiverse arrived.