“Oh dear, I’m a little hungry now…” Li Yu glanced at the cake on Kagami Hiiro’s desk and feigned a pained expression.
“…” Kagami Hiiro took two deep breaths, then pulled out another slice of cake.
“I’m going to eat!”
“Thank you for the treat, it tasted quite good.” Li Yu slowly finished the cake.
“Now that you’re done eating, hurry up and tell me.”
“What? I never said I’d tell you as soon as I finished eating.”
“You…”
“Alright, alright, I’m not teasing you anymore. I discovered that patients who died from the game disease didn’t completely disappear. Instead, they were absorbed as Bugsters into different locations. I suspect this is related to the different games the patients were infected with. And as long as there’s corresponding data, theoretically, the patients can be revived – in Bugster form. Coincidentally, I’ve already fully mastered this technique. As long as I have the corresponding data, I can revive patients. Hey, hey, why are your eyes red? Don’t tell me you’re about to cry?”
“How could I be? Don’t be ridiculous!” Kagami Hiiro awkwardly turned his head away, and after a moment, said, “Thank you for telling me this…”
“Hey, it’s nothing. I’m a superior who cares about his subordinates, you know. If you have any troubles, just come to me.” Li Yu patted Kagami Hiiro’s shoulder, then got up and returned to his room, entering his workshop to try and research the rewards the system gave him last time. First, there was the Gamer Driver improvement data.
An hour later.
“As expected, I can push the progress myself.” He wiped away non-existent sweat, looking at the progress bar that hadn’t changed at all. “However, most of it is about appearance and design. The core data is too slow with my current abilities; it’s not cost-effective at all.”
Another half an hour later.
“Indeed, compared to the Gamer Driver, the weapon data is much easier.” Looking at the progress bar, which had already increased by 0.4%, Li Yu nodded in satisfaction. The first time pushing progress is the slowest, after all, it’s related to proficiency. Conservatively estimated, this weapon could be completed within five days.
After another long period of tedious research, Li Yu decided to go out for a walk.
Genm Corporation, Xia Jiao’s office.
“I really didn’t expect your speed to be this fast.” Dan Kuroto said with a smile, his arms crossed, leaning back in his chair.
“Hey, I’ve been prepared for this for a long time. How can I compare to Kuroto’s talent? After all, you’ve made many more Gashats than I have.” Li Yu sat opposite him, crossing his legs. “By the way, I told them your Rider name. No problem with that, right?”
“Of course not,” Dan Kuroto seemed quite pleased by Li Yu’s first half of the sentence. “In front of my divine talent, they will only become part of our… plan.”
I have a feeling you almost said something terrible just now, hey. Li Yu’s face darkened. This guy…
“What’s the next step of the plan?”
“Design a way for them to honestly collect Gashats. Once I’ve collected all the data, we’ll go and reclaim their Gashats.”
“OK, understood.”
---Divider---
“Ah, huh? You said the Bugster that escaped last time appeared?” Li Yu opened his eyes in a daze, seeing Poppy holding a pillow and hitting him at the desk.
“Seriously, Li-san, get up! Emu and Hiiro have already left a long time ago.”
“Getting up so early, it’s going to be the death of me.” Li Yu struggled to escape from the clutches of the quilt demon, slowly making his way to where the Bugster appeared. By the time he arrived, Brave was already about to pull out the sword in the game area.
“System, sign in!”
“Sign-in location: Where Brave obtained the Ice-Fire Sword. Reward: 15% Exclusive Weapon Data, Special Weapon Material x1.”
Not bad. He was already aiming for weapon-related rewards, so 15% Exclusive Weapon Data was already quite satisfying, not to mention the material reward that followed. It wasn’t convenient to enter the workshop to analyze the data now, so Li Yu had to open its description and make do with a quick look.
【Item Name: Special Weapon Material Effect: Can be integrated into games to create unexpected weapons Material Attributes: Ice-Fire】
Ice-Fire dual attributes, huh? Li Yu narrowed his eyes, immediately sifting through his mind for a target.
“Senior Li, why are you just watching!” Li Yu, who was sitting not far from the battlefield, was quickly noticed by Ex-Aid.
“Huh? Why am I just watching? Don’t talk nonsense, I wasn’t even watching, okay?” Li Yu shook his head like a rattle-drum. “Hurry up and clear the game. My old man’s body is already worn out, so I won’t steal the spotlight from you young people.”
“…” Ex-Aid briefly fell silent before rejoining the battle. He couldn’t help it, he really couldn’t…
“Gacha gacha gacha…” Li Yu squatted to the side, pulling out a watermelon from who knows where, making the same sound as the evil sorcerer. But… are you gnawing on the rind or something? How can eating a watermelon make that sound, hey!
Simultaneously with Li Yu’s demonic watermelon-eating sound, the battle between the two Riders continued—Ex-Aid was rescuing hostages and clearing small fry, leaving the task of dealing with Alhambra to Brave, who had just leveled up to Lv. 2. As a sword that could be used all the way to Lv. 100, the Ice-Fire Sword was now displaying its might, allowing Brave to completely overwhelm Alhambra.
With a violent explosion, Alhambra was defeated, and Mr. Rensuke’s body, far away in the CR, returned to normal. Li also stood up, patted his butt, and prepared to leave. But he stopped again, looked at a figure in the distance, and grinned.
“He found me? No way.” A white-haired man with dyed streaks put down his binoculars and frowned.
What? You ask how Li Yu found him? Come on, he already knew about this person from the plot. Besides, there’s a person a hundred meters away observing you with something; it looks strange no matter how you look at it, right? It’s just that Hojo Emu and Kagami Hiiro weren’t paying attention to their surroundings, otherwise, they would have noticed him even earlier than Li Yu after transforming.
“The unlicensed quack Hanaya Taiga has appeared, so the six-year-old Kiryia Kujo should be soon, right? Really, the future is promising~” Li Yu mused on his way back.
CR.
“Li-san, you’re back! The patient has recovered~”
“That’s really great. Emu and Hiiro did a splendid job.”
“Eh? Eh? Li-san, you didn’t go?”
“I was watching from the side~ Can’t steal the newcomers’ thunder, right?”
“That’s so mean, just say you want to slack off…”
“Hey! Look at what you’re saying. Do I look like the kind of person you’re describing?” Li Yu stared directly at Poppy. Just as Poppy felt embarrassed and was about to explain, Li Yu spoke again, “Unfortunately, I am.”
Just as Poppy’s understanding of Li Yu’s shamelessness was being refreshed, Hojo Emu and Kagami Hiiro arrived late. Poppy quickly ran to ask them.
“It was perfectly resolved, that’s wonderful.” Director Kagami Haima, standing by, also exclaimed.
“Yes, that way Emu can stay at CR.”
“I will stay here,” Hojo Emu looked back at Kagami Hiiro. “I will never hand patients over to a guy like this!”
“How dare you call my son ‘a guy like this’…”
“The relationship between colleagues needs to be polished, too.”
“That’s true.” Hearing Li Yu’s words, Kagami Haima immediately put on a smile and agreed.
“Alright, enough of that. Let’s eat the apple pie the patient sent!” Kagami Haima took out a box and suggested.
“Yay~” Poppy happily found a knife and fork.
“Wait,” Poppy was about to cut, but was stopped by Kagami Hiiro.
“Eh?” Poppy asked, confused.
“Scalpel.”
Poppy, confused, handed the fruit knife to Kagami Hiiro.
“There’s nothing I can’t cut!”
As several flashes of cold light passed, the apple pie was perfectly divided into five equal portions. Hmm, truly worthy of a genius surgeon~ Well done, a reward is in order!
