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The Reincarnation Space... Ryū genuinely wondered whether this thing was some kind of twin sibling to the Sacred Ground — or maybe just a secondary account under a different name.
Not that he particularly cared to find out. Understanding the details wouldn't change much, honestly — as long as he treated it the same as the Sacred Ground, as a reliable little "money tree" that occasionally wandered by with gifts, that was good enough.
Whether it was his old friend the Sacred Ground, this new acquaintance the Reincarnation Space, or any number of rebirthers and transmigrators out there —
As far as Ryū was concerned, all of them amounted to the same thing: walking Point dispensers. Who could blame him for feeling that way, given how reliably they kept showing up with free rewards attached?
A money tree you genuinely couldn't shoo away — now that was a nice problem to have.
Shaking his head, Ryū slipped his consciousness into the chat group, only to find the moderators had already beaten him to posting the quest.
Eternally Seventeen: A group quest just triggered, looks like it's one of Admin-sama's again. Yaraya~ra, Admin-sama's world really doesn't catch a break, does it.
Eternally Seventeen: Only a tiny bit better off than the One Piece world, honestly!
Eternally Seventeen: [Image] Here's the newly activated Tier 5 quest — only Tier 5 members can join this one.
Eternally Seventeen: @Everyone, any Tier 5 members, speak up — this quest's got a 20,000-Point reward on the line!
Kaguya-sama: A Tier 5 quest, huh... shame I'm Tier 2, can't join this one.
Crazy Diamond: Daily reminder to bow before our resident Tier 2 legend. I joined barely any later than Kaguya did, and somehow the gap between us ended up this massive.
Crazy Diamond: Probably just me being trash, honestly. sob
Wandering Little Planet: Popping in! A Tier 5 quest, huh... pretty sure Eriri's Tier 5, right?
Kamado Tanjirō: The freshly-joined Tier 6 newcomer is quietly shaking in his boots...
Eternally Seventeen: Little Tanjirō, you're not Tier 6 because your strength is actually Tier 6 — you're Tier 6 because that's the Dimensional Chat Group's lowest possible rank.
Kamado Tanjirō: "..."
Kaguya-sama: Pfft, that cuts deep. A genuinely sad story — Yukari-nee's tongue is as sharp as ever.
My True Form Is Cola: Eh? I think I'm actually Tier 5 now! Which means I can go after this quest! Two slots, time to rely on luck!
Street-Corner Illustrator: Wait, hold on! Weren't you Tier 4 before, Umaru? Why's your badge showing Tier 5 now?
RawrSoFierce: Simple enough — this lifelong salted fish let the rest of the Tier 4 crowd pull too far ahead, so the system had no choice but to bump her down a tier, to keep from dragging the average down.
RawrSoFierce: Umaru, have you genuinely never once trained on your own initiative?
My True Form Is Cola: Huh? Trained on my own initiative? Hmm... I think I went into the Arena once this month! Does that count?
RawrSoFierce: ...Once a month. No wonder you've fallen this far behind and gotten demoted.
My True Form Is Cola: Once a month is already pushing the limits of what a human body can handle! Any more than that and the field just gets overworked!
Eternally Seventeen: ???
Eternally Seventeen: I strongly suspect you're driving at several hundred miles an hour here, and I've got solid evidence to back that up! I'm also now suspecting you're trying to seduce Admin-sama!
Eternally Seventeen: So, is anyone actually competing for this quest or not?
RawrSoFierce: Umaru's taken "salted fish" to a whole new tier of its own.
Ryū, privately, had no leg to stand on here — he wasn't actually much more diligent than Umaru himself. His own meteoric rise owed everything to his massive Point reserves and his absurd luck.
Strip away those two advantages, and he figured he wouldn't be all that far ahead of her, honestly.
As the minutes ticked by, the group's bickering eventually died down, and after a bit of luck-testing back and forth, the quest's two slots were settled: Umaru and Eriri.
Well — really, those two were the only ones who'd actually gone for it. The rest of the Tier 5 crowd was presumably tied up with other things and couldn't make it this time.
Street-Corner Illustrator: Finally back on a group quest, it's been a while — I used to just mooch off them before.
My True Form Is Cola: Mooching +1, this'll be my actual first time!
Street-Corner Illustrator: ...Why does something so innocent sound completely different coming out of your mouth?
My True Form Is Cola: Ahem... that's entirely because your mind's too far in the gutter, you're the one reading into it.
My True Form Is Cola: @RawrSoFierce, Admin-sama, mind opening up the crossing permissions?
RawrSoFierce: Done, opened up — you two can head over whenever.
My True Form Is Cola: Admin-sama's a legend!!!
Street-Corner Illustrator: Admin-sama's a legend!!!
Terrible Tornado: ...You're hyping him up for that? You two are laying it on a little thick, honestly.
Kaguya-sama: Proven fact: hyping up Admin-sama never hurts, and it might even rub off some of his good luck on you.
RawrSoFierce: Wait, what? Hyping me up rubs off luck now? What kind of bizarre mechanic is that supposed to be?
Eternally Seventeen: "Hyping up," huh???
RawrSoFierce: Huh? Oh — suggestive vibes detected, wildly implying something here...
Eternally Seventeen: Get out of here!!
"..."
Before long, inside a two-story building in Konoha — a building that, until moments ago, had held only one person — two figures suddenly appeared, both looking thoroughly out of place in the Naruto world.
Eriri still had her hair done up in its usual twin blonde tails, dressed in her everyday clothes — at a glance, she could've passed for a (redacted brand) figurine come to life.
Umaru, meanwhile, wore a full JK-style school uniform, a backpack slung over her shoulder — apparently fresh out of class.
Eriri shot Umaru a puzzled look. "Isn't it the weekend today, Umaru-chan? What's with the school uniform?"
Umaru rolled her eyes. "Have you been staying up so late grinding manga pages your brain's gone soft? My world and your world don't run on the same clock, you know."
Eriri blinked, a flicker of embarrassment crossing her face, and laughed it off awkwardly, visibly sheepish.
Her gaze wandered the room before finally landing on a familiar figure. "Oh! Admin-sama!"