The time came to noon.
Shinjuku Ward.
Next to the destroyed Chiyoda Ward.
Inside an ordinary house, Lu Yuan was contemplating his next move.
The remaining Emilia and the others quietly stayed to the side, their thoughts still immersed in last night's great battle.
The mere thought of such earth-shattering, irresistible scenes made their hearts race uncontrollably.
Especially the deaths of Alicetelia and Mamika left them with no desire to explore other anime characters.
Ding-dong.
The silence in the living room was broken when the doorbell suddenly rang.
Everyone woke up from their daze.
"Liu, please open the door and greet our guests," Lu Yuan said, looking down at Liu.
Liu nodded, got up, and walked towards the door.
......
"Excuse me. Hello, is this Mr. Lu Yuan's residence? We are here on behalf of the police and have some questions we would like to ask Mr. Lu Yuan. Please inform him, Miss Rion."
Outside the door, Kikuchi, in her professional uniform, bowed to Liu as a greeting, and then stated her request directly.
Standing beside her were Sōta Mizushino and two others.
Hidden in the shadows not far away were a large number of soldiers armed with modern weapons, and even twenty tanks were deployed.
They were clearly treating Lu Yuan as a dangerous anime character.
As for the nearby residents, they had all been forcibly evacuated an hour ago under the pretext of a liquefied gas pipeline leak.
Faced with the prospect of contact with Lu Yuan and the other anime characters, the Bureau believed that they couldn't be too careful.
"Come in."
Liu's expression didn't change at all at Kikuchi's visit, she simply opened the door and motioned for them to follow.
After crossing the foyer behind the door, the group arrived in the living room a few minutes later.
"I didn't expect the authorities to contact me. So? What do you want to say?"
Glancing at Sōta Mizushino and the others behind Kikuchi, Lu Yuan finally focused his gaze on Kikuchi, the career woman, and said indifferently.
From the beginning of his descent into this world, Lu Yuan had used a prop that could slightly alter perception to help him obtain a fake identity in this world, as well as publish his works.
It was a weaker version of the Devil's Passport.
This ability to alter perception wasn't strong, and could be corrected with effort.
Therefore, Lu Yuan wasn't surprised that Kikuchi, an official figure, was able to find him.
Rather, it was surprising that Kikuchi hadn't come to find Lu Yuan until now.
The upper echelons of this world were reacting far too slowly!
"We are here on behalf of the island nation to ask Mr. Lu Yuan when he descended upon our country. Also, are the recent anime character descent incidents directly related to you?"
Kikuchi said solemnly, sitting upright in her chair, while observing Lu Yuan's expression, trying to discover something from his next answer.
"Descended? What do you know?" Lu Yuan's expression changed.
Had his identity as a transmigrator been discovered? When did it happen?
He remembered that there shouldn't have been any surveillance in the alley where he transmigrated! Moreover, he had used black technology to perfect his identity in order to forge a native identity in this world.
!!?
"You should also be a descended anime character!"
Lu Yuan: "......"
Hey, hey, hey?
What!? He was a descended anime character? When did that happen? Why didn't he know?
Lu Yuan was dumbfounded by Kikuchi's words.
He thought the people of this world were smart enough to discover his identity as a transmigrator, but... is that all?
At the same time.
Lu Yuan's silence and the slight twitching of his face further confirmed Kikuchi's previous deduction.
Then she continued: "Mr. Lu Yuan can rest assured, I can clearly state on behalf of the island nation's officials that we have no malice towards you. If possible, we are even willing to cooperate with you at a certain cost."
"Oh? Cost? What cost can you pay?" After composing his facial expressions, Lu Yuan looked at Kikuchi with interest and said.
"As an anime character, I think Mr. Lu Yuan should be very in need of [popularity]. As long as Mr. Lu Yuan is willing to cooperate, our country is willing to provide you with the [popularity] you need for all our citizens. This is our greatest sincerity."
Since the deduction that Lu Yuan was an anime character had been confirmed, the follow-up plans and bargaining chips for communicating with Lu Yuan were naturally put on the table.
Based on the premise that Lu Yuan was an anime character.
Then his purpose in appearing in reality was nothing more than to use [popularity] to achieve some kind of goal.
This can be seen from the fact that Lu Yuan releases a new work every day.
From this, it was further deduced that.
Lu Yuan seemed to be very eager for [popularity].
And it seemed that he had the ability to directly obtain the popularity of his works through creation.
Otherwise, why would he release so many works?
Based on this argument, since there was a demand, then there was a possibility of cooperation between them and Lu Yuan!
But unfortunately, Kikuchi didn't know that all their inferences were based on the point that [Lu Yuan is a descended anime character].
But was Lu Yuan a descended anime character, a being created?
He wasn't at all!
Therefore, the cooperation that Kikuchi and even the upper echelons of the island nation were looking forward to was doomed from the very beginning.
"Very sincere, but I don't accept it."
Clap clap, applauding and cheering for Kikuchi's speech, Lu Yuan said the words that embarrassed Kikuchi in the next second.
"Your understanding of this world is still too shallow."
Under Kikuchi's astonished gaze, Lu Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, walked to the window, and slowly opened his mouth and said: "Popularity is never the more the better. For most anime worlds or anime characters, enough popularity is actually enough."
Popularity? In the end, this thing is enough to build a virtual world.
Any more than that is actually not very useful.
After all, the setting of the work is there, and the anime characters are of that kind of strength.
No amount of popularity can make anime characters become gods.
Not every anime character has Altair's ability to constantly absorb secondary creations and evolve infinitely.
