Tokisaki Kurumi: "Shiroyasha, what kind of reward do you want? I'll prepare anything I have for you."
Seeing Kurumi's message, Souta suddenly interjected.
Souta: "I have a proposal regarding the reward."
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "Oh? Let's hear it. If I find it interesting, helping you out isn't a problem."
Souta: "We can provide you with a large number of 'one-time-use Gifts.'"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Wait, Souta, do we even have something like that?"
Souta: "Kurumi, did you forget about the 'Upload Item' function in the shop? Before, we had no points, so it was useless, but now it's different."
Souta: "Let me give you an example. If I upload '100 years of lifespan' to the shop and then buy it myself, the points come back to me, but I'll have a tangible '100-year lifespan' item in my hands. In other words, we can use the system to extract conceptual things we normally can't and make them into actual items."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "I totally forgot about that function. If that's the case, I can extract twelve bullets as a reward, each filled with extra time, which will definitely be useful."
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "The 'Upload Item' function—you're talking about the one mentioned in the group announcement?"
Souta: "That's right. Shiroyasha, how about this? I upload lifespan-based items, buy them back, and gift them to you. Even if you can't use them yourself, you can give them as blessings to others."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "As for me, I can provide one-time-use time manipulation tools—things like objects that accelerate a person's time for instant movement, objects that reverse time, and objects that stop time."
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "Lifespan items and time-manipulating tools, huh? Sounds pretty interesting."
Shiroyasha was already a bit tempted.
While these items weren't useful to her personally, she could resell them at the Thousand Eyes shop to boost her performance.
Additionally, as a Star Spirit, she occasionally held trials to spice up her life.
One-time-use Gift items like these could be given as rewards to those who passed her trials.
At that moment, Souta delivered the final blow.
Souta: "Shiroyasha, besides the one-time-use items, I can also provide you with a variety of sensual and erotic outfits—all kinds of uniforms from different worlds. Are you interested?"
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "Yes! Yes! Give me plenty! I'm definitely in!"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "..."
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Shiroyasha, so this is the kind of person you are?"
Souta: "This is an artistic hobby."
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "Oh? Kid, you're really speaking my language!"
Souta scratched his cheek—how did she see through his age so easily?
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "Since I chose this nickname, I might as well show you some generosity. I'll help you out this time—it'll be like taking a vacation. You should be grateful to me, kid."
With that, the deal was sealed, and Souta let out a sigh of relief.
Though he was confident that Shiroyasha would agree to help, everything was just speculation until now.
Now, he could finally put his mind at ease.
Preparing for the Journey
"I need to hurry and prepare the clothes."
Souta wasted no time. He grabbed his iPhone and began searching for various sensual uniform designs.
As Picasso once said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal, and genius artists directly copy-paste."
Using his Matter Creation ability, he started crafting the outfits based on the images.
Since he was simply transferring these designs to another world, he felt no guilt about it.
Once he finished making the clothes, Souta traveled to Kurumi's world.
He was there to retrieve the time-manipulation tools she had created.
Due to the special nature of the Little Garden world, manipulating time to travel to the past or future was likely impossible.
So, under Souta's suggestion, Kurumi mainly created tools that could accelerate, slow down, stop, or reverse the time of objects—avoiding anything related to past or future interference.
Since she had poured an immense amount of time into her bullets, her own time reserves were significantly depleted.
But this time, with the help of the shop function, Souta simply uploaded a dozen 100,000-year Lifespan Cards, bought them back, and gave them to Kurumi.
After using them, she fully recovered her time reserves.
The shop function really made things convenient.
No more situations where restoring her time required two whole months of waiting.
Tokisaki Kurumi: "By the way, Souta, I asked the system earlier. It told me that group members can attack each other, like how Kiss-Shot can drink your blood—that's considered harm. However, lethal attacks are prohibited, and the system will forcibly prevent them."
Souta: "Huh? There's such a restriction?"
Tokisaki Kurumi: "Yes." She nodded. "I don't know if Shiroyasha is trustworthy. Hopefully, nothing happens, but if she attacks you, remember—you can instantly return to reality using the system, and she won't be able to stop you."
Then, Kurumi stepped closer to Souta and adjusted his collar while gently fixing his slightly messy bangs—her actions incredibly intimate, like a devoted wife.
Tokisaki Kurumi: "I'll leave everything to you."
Souta chuckled lightly.
Souta: "Mm, wait for my good news."
After a short farewell, Souta returned to reality.
He sat on his couch for a moment, drank a glass of water, then picked up his phone and pinged Shiroyasha.
Souta: "@Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha. I'm ready. I plan to come over now, so send me an invite."
Souta: "Oh, by the way, the system will directly teleport me next to you. Is it convenient for you right now?"
Great Benevolent Deity Shiroyasha: "I'm in my room right now. Black Rabbit has already left—it's just me. It's convenient, so come over anytime."
Souta: "Alright. I'll be there soon."
After sending the message, he took a deep breath to mentally prepare himself.
Meeting a big shot like Shiroyasha—of course, he was nervous.
At that moment, his system phone suddenly vibrated.
He picked it up, expecting a group message, but instead, it was a private message from Kiss-Shot.
Souta wasn't too surprised—he had tested the private chat function before.
Kiss-Shot: "I was scrolling through the chat history earlier. You're going alone? Isn't that too dangerous? Can Shiroyasha be trusted?"
Souta: "Theoretically, she's trustworthy and shouldn't be a threat. But in practice... well, that's not guaranteed."
Kiss-Shot: "Then let me come with you. I can ensure your safety."
Reading that, Souta froze for a second—then his lips curled up slightly.
Like Kurumi, Kiss-Shot was worried about him.
That warmed his heart.
Souta: "Kiss-Shot, it's not that I doubt you, but... Shiroyasha could probably summon a single Star Beast and turn you into a punching bag."
Souta: "Don't worry, the system prohibits lethal attacks between members. If anything happens, I can instantly escape. She won't be able to stop me."
Kiss-Shot: "Hmm? There's such a restriction? In that case, I won't stop you. Go ahead."
Souta: "Regardless, thanks."
Kiss-Shot: "No need to be so formal with me."
Just as he finished chatting, his phone vibrated again.
This time, it was Altair.
Altair: "Souta, can you really trust Shiroyasha? Do you want me to go with you?"
Do I really look that weak to you guys...?
After explaining to Altair as well, his phone finally stopped buzzing.
Souta: "Alright then..."
Holding a massive pile of erotic, sensual outfits, he smirked at his phone.
Souta: "System, teleport me."