"Sign in."
The moment Jaden opened his eyes, his hand reached out and shut off the alarm clock.
Sign in first.
Everything else could wait.
He lay there quietly, letting his breathing settle, waiting for the system's response. At the same time, he could clearly feel it-the Jack Hanma template had integrated to roughly sixty percent.
The sensation was stable.
Solid.
[Sign-in Reward: Ability Flaw Compensation Pill (One)]
[Ability Flaw Compensation Pill: Compensates for the shortcomings of a flawed ability.]
[(Example: If the host is a Devil Fruit user, using the pill to optimize the Devil Fruit's ability will allow the Devil Fruit to become immune to seawater and Sea Prism Stone.)]
"...That's ridiculous."
Jaden stared at the description.
"Making Devil Fruits immune to seawater and Sea Prism Stone is absurdly strong."
Then his eye twitched.
"Which brings us to the problem."
"I have the pill."
"But where exactly am I supposed to get a Devil Fruit?"
The corner of his eye jumped again.
After a brief pause, Jaden tried something else. He focused and checked whether the pill could be used on himself.
The system responded immediately.
Within the pill's evaluation range-
Perfect compatibility: None required.
In other words, there was nothing to compensate.
The Hanma bloodline had already been enhanced to its limit.
The Jack Hanma template showed no room for further improvement.
That strange "Royal Family Blood" he possessed was also listed as unenhanceable. And due to some linked effect, even Conqueror's Haki displayed the same result.
Unavailable.
Unenhanceable.
As for techniques like Soru and Mach Punch-
They were completely outside the pill's scope.
The system's logic was clear. Aside from special items explicitly mentioned in its notes-like Devil Fruits-the pill's primary function was to address bloodlines or innate talents that resembled special abilities.
Which meant...
"So the pill's real purpose might just be to tell me that the system has a storage slot for rewards it doesn't feel like handing out yet."
Jaden let out a quiet sigh.
He didn't dwell on it.
Sign-in rewards were like that. Sometimes you got something amazing back-to-back. Sometimes you got something that was useless for now.
This pill wasn't truly useless either.
"It's not that the pill is trash."
"It's that I don't qualify yet."
"When I eventually draw a Devil Fruit, I'll just use this to remove its weaknesses."
He paused.
Then shook his head.
"No, that's still thinking too small."
"If I ever draw the Kryptonian bloodline, I'll just optimize away the Kryptonite weakness."
That thought made the pill instantly valuable.
So valuable that even Superman would probably cry from jealousy.
Unfortunately-
He wasn't Superman.
With that settled, Jaden got out of bed, dressed, tidied himself up, and went downstairs to eat breakfast at Megumi Tadokoro's family inn.
After that, he headed toward the Yukinoshita family's real estate company.
He didn't go in.
Not during the day.
Instead, he waited.
From day to night.
Only when darkness fully settled did he look up and see that the lights in the top-floor office were still on.
That was when Jaden moved.
He slipped directly into the building.
The Yukinoshita family's real headquarters wasn't here. It was in Chiba.
They were a local powerhouse there.
But because they had recently accepted a demolition task commissioned by Toyo Electric, the manager of Yukinoshita Real Estate had been staying in this branch office for an extended period.
From the outside, it was obvious.
-The man knew this job was dangerous.
Bodyguards had been hired.
All of this information had come from Erina's investigation earlier that day.
So Jaden didn't waste time.
He entered in the middle of the night, quietly neutralized every bodyguard in the building, and then walked straight into the office where Yukinoshita Yoshinobu was sitting alone.
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu froze.
"Who are you...?" he asked reflexively. "If you don't leave immediately, I'm calling the police."
As a regional assembly member, the nominal head of the Yukinoshita family, and the person currently in charge of the company, Yoshinobu was stunned.
But he recovered quickly.
Seeing that, Jaden smiled slowly.
"Don't be so nervous."
"This is a society ruled by law now. Not the old era where 'you have a spear, I have a spear.'"
"I'm just here to talk business."
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu frowned.
It wasn't disdain.
As someone who had married into the Yukinoshita family, he didn't have the habit of looking down on others.
But Jaden's method of entry made him uncomfortable.
The first impression was terrible.
And the second was worse.
Jaden didn't care.
He stopped at a position that left a small distance between them and spoke calmly.
"You might find my arrival unsettling."
"But the first thing you need to understand is this."
"Being unsettled won't help you."
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu opened his mouth, about to respond-
And then froze.
The phone he had been holding was gone.
It was now in Jaden's hand.
His mind went blank.
Instinctively, he reached for the emergency call button.
Nothing happened.
Only then did he realize the button had already been destroyed.
At some point.
Without him noticing.
This-
He was an ordinary person.
He had no frame of reference for what a super-class martial artist could do.
So he couldn't comprehend what he was seeing.
Jaden looked at his expression and continued.
"Now you understand."
"Being unsettled is useless."
"So calm yourself."
"And listen to what I'm about to say."
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu took a long breath.
His means of resistance were gone.
He stopped thinking about shouting for help.
The other party had come directly to him over the Toyo Electric commission. That alone meant something. Perhaps this person was an opposing force to Toyo Electric.
A company like Toyo Electric was a giant.
To the Yukinoshita family, they were insignificant.
If gods fought and he was caught in the middle-
There was nothing he could do.
"...Tell me what you want."
Jaden's answer was simple.
"I want Yukinoshita Real Estate to delay the demolition task commissioned by Toyo Electric."
"At least fifteen days."
"That's all."
"...Huh?"
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu was stunned.
Not because it was difficult.
But because it was too easy.
Fifteen days.
Dragging things out for half a month was something he could do without effort.
Which immediately made him suspicious.
"...Mm-"
He tried to speak several times, but the words wouldn't come out.
His expression was obvious.
Is that really it?
Jaden felt irritation creep in.
"If you think this is too simple, I can always take you along to assassinate Toyo Electric's chairman."
"Hayami Katsumasa."
"Would that level of difficulty suit your status better?"
"No-no-no."
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu waved his hands frantically.
"Simple is good. Simple is very good."
Jaden snorted.
"The request is simple."
"So I'd be very uncomfortable if you failed."
"I might not come after you personally if that happens."
"But-"
His gaze sharpened.
"You have two daughters."
"Haruno."
"And Yukino."
"Isn't that right?"
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu inhaled sharply.
His pupils contracted.
His weakness had been seized cleanly.
He took a long breath.
"You can rest assured," he said slowly. "Fifteen days. I can definitely delay it."
Jaden smiled.
"Good."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
He turned slightly.
"And don't look so miserable."
"Fifteen days from now, the Kengan Annihilation Tournament will already be underway."
"Your Yukinoshita family is a member of the Kengan Association."
"You know what that means."
"In fifteen days..."
"You might actually be grateful that you didn't choose the wrong side today."
Yukinoshita Yoshinobu understood what he meant.
And yet-
Just as he had thought earlier-
If gods were fighting, and someone like him was caught in the middle, all he could do was smile bitterly.
So he nodded repeatedly.
"Yes."
"I understand."
...
Jaden had finished arranging everything on his end.
Back at Totsuki, night had already fallen.
But Erina was still in the kitchen.
"This taste..."
In front of her was a plate of seafood spaghetti.
She had made it herself.
She took a bite.
Then frowned slightly.
"Did I make such a big mistake?"
No.
She denied that thought almost immediately.
Something was wrong.
Her God's Tongue had detected a flaw.
But the flaw wasn't due to a mistake in technique.
It was-
Her current God's Tongue was magnifying the flaw far more than it used to.
Which meant-
Her God's Tongue had evolved.
Erina froze.
Then slowly smiled.
"I never thought the God's Tongue could evolve."
"This is wonderful."
"I can detect much greater flaws than before."
"And once I correct all of them..."
"My culinary skills will advance even further."
Her grip tightened slightly.
"And one day..."
"I'll break through Jaden's strange ability."
"I'll defeat him in a Shokugeki."
When that time came-
She would use the condition of victory to make him seriously study cooking.
She paused.
"...No."
Her face heated up.
"...Maybe not."
Hmph.
-After all, if she lost the Shokugeki...
She would be the one cooking for him.
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