[Main Mission - Financial Route(2) completed]
[Calculating reward based on mission rating]
[Reward: Platinum Ticket]
"Platinum, huh? I guess that is fine"
"What?"
"Nothing. The first work from my studio just came out, make sure to buy it"
"That is great, let's go buy it!" Lala stood up and exclaimed excitedly, but Yuuji grabbed her arm and forced her to sit back down.
"Do not be ridiculous, we are just on lunch break"
"Right haha... I forgot" Lala apologized with an embarrassed smile.
"Though, with your family's level, your studio should not be just any company, right?" Risa asked. "Will it even make a difference if we buy it?"
"Not really" Yuuji admitted. In reality, even for a family at his level, entering something completely new did not always translate into success, but with Ruri in charge, Yuuji had no doubt about the sales success Doraemon would be.
"Wah, brutally honest!" Risa murmured dramatically.
"But even so, friends are supposed to support each other, right? What kind of friends would you be if you do not at least buy the first volume?" Yuuji joked with a smile, ignoring his friend's usual dramatics.
However, instead of a response, he only received a unanimously surprised look from everyone along with complete silence.
"What is with that reaction?" he complained.
"No, it is just... I did not expect Yuuji to actually consider us friends" Risa said, pretending to wipe away tears of emotion.
"And what did you think you were?" Yuuji asked, intrigued.
"A nuisance?"
"Your girlfriend's friends?"
"Annoying people who keep following you?"
Hearing their answers, it was Yuuji's turn to look at them in surprise.
"Seriously, how do you see me in your minds?" he sighed, somewhat irritated, but before they could answer he raised a hand and stopped them. "No, do not answer, I do not want to know.
Talk about something else instead... and among yourselves. Do not bother me"
After saying that, Yuuji, having already finished his lunch, simply leaned over the table for a while.
"Incredible, and he claims he considers us friends"
Before closing his eyes, he heard some complaints, he ignored them without caring.
...
"Hey, Mona, how were the sales?" Back home at night, Yuuji asked about the sales.
[Amazing! Miss Ruri has an incredible ability to be human!
Sales closed at 22:00 with 48,560 copies of the first volume sold.
This is comparable to very popular manga in the industry, and instead of decreasing, the sales speed increased as the day went on.
The other volumes, although they dropped a bit in popularity, were not far from the peak either, reaching around 40,000.
Miss Ruri's business tactics are incredible!]
"Is it that impressive?" Yuuji murmured, not entirely sure. Although he had studied the topic before and knew those numbers were high, Yuuji's mindset dictated that success was usually the norm, so he was not surprised.
The complete opposite of Mona, an artificial intelligence guided by information and general data.
"Well, with that settled, the company matter should be handled for a while"
'I will just keep drawing more and more volumes of Doraemon until Ruri gives me permission to start drawing something else' Yuuji thought.
After finishing that matter, Yuuji was about to go to sleep, but he received a message on the D-Dial that interrupted his plans.
At first he thought it would be from Ruri, but considering that Yuuji was already in multiple places at the company at once and had already talked to her in person, it seemed unnecessary for her to message him about it.
Correctly guessed, it was not from Ruri, it was a message from Zastin, which surprised Yuuji, reminding him that he was supposed to work for that guy.
[You are fired]
"..."
Or he worked.
"What a way to start a conversation. What is he talking about out of nowhere?"
[Well, since it is late I thought you would be about to sleep, so I wanted to be brief. In summary, you are no longer part of the Deviluke army]
"Are you joking? All of this just because I laughed at your nickname?"
[It is not because of that!] Zastin snapped, irritated by the memory, but quickly calmed down.
[Sorry, I got carried away, I do not like that embarrassing nickname either.
In short, you are no longer necessary for the Deviluke army. No, to be exact, you will be with Lala and protect her anyway without working for me, right? Then there is no need to pay you for that]
"...You never paid me"
[...right.]
"And will Lala not get suspicious about that? You answered me a few days ago in front of her and now you fire me?"
[Oh, that is fine. That was not for the future but for the past. The goal is that if at some point she realizes you were following my orders when you first approached her, you can say it was because of that and not because you were my spy.
Firing you now will not affect anything]
"It seems you thought it through" Yuuji sighed. "Anything else then? Like my pay?"
[Of course, ensuring her highness's happiness is my job.
And no, nothing else. As for your pay, is it not enough that I am not killing you for looking at the princess like that?
Goodbye]
"...Goodbye"
'Damn boss. No, damn ex-boss' Yuuji made sure to insult Zastin in his mind, since he could not do it in real life, before putting the phone down.
But he decided not to think about it, or rather, he accepted it immediately, after all, working for Zastin did not really benefit him and he had not even wanted to do it from the beginning.
After that, he checked another system notification he received while talking to Zastin.
[You have been fired from the most powerful army in the galaxy]
[You have achieved a great feat. You have earned a Platinum Ticket]
"Does that also count as a feat?"
[Definitely. Getting fired is easy, but from the Deviluke army? You are the first Earthling to do it]
"Tsk, even a stupid system is mocking me now" Yuuji complained, noticing the system's sarcasm.
"By the way, after more than a month to complete the main mission, I only got a ticket of the same value as this one that I got easily, what is the point of your success missions?"
[The success system is also the one that gives out feat tickets]
"Of course not, do you think I have not read novels? Feats come with the chaos system, actually, would this system not be much better without you?"
[...]
[Using tickets]
"Ha, who is running from reality now?"
[Chaos Entity Release
Epic Ability
The Legendary Mechanic - allows you to release your physical form to turn into a Void Observer, a sentient grey cloud of energy that can slip into the void dimension at will, rendering you completely intangible while still allowing you to observe the real world, staying in the void dimension slightly drains your energy while inside. While in Chaos Observer form you are mostly immune to physical force. Any damage taken in Chaos Observer form is reflected in the real body.]
[Hera's Breastmilk
Elite Item
'Hey, it worked for Hercules'. A bottle filled to the brim with the Goddess Hera's freshly squeezed breastmilk, when someone consumes the entire bottle, the potential of their body will vastly increase, allowing even a regular human to train to reach superhuman levels of strength and durability. This does not, however, increase your talent or the speed at which you will reach that strength.
Restock Timer: 168h]
"Let us see, Chaos Entity Release does not really seem very useful, it is basically making me intangible, but the damage still goes to my body, and it turns out I need my body, so I really do not find it useful.
Honestly, for the name it has, its usefulness is somewhat disappointing."
Disappointed with that ability, Yuuji shifted his gaze to the other item with a complex expression.
"Although it is a bit strange, it is milk from a Goddess's breasts, right? Maybe I should even be grateful to be able to drink it. No, I definitely will not do that... But I definitely need to drink it"
When Yuuji asked the system at the beginning how he could obtain more mana, it replied that it would increase on its own as he obtained more abilities, and that was indeed the case, not only mana but the rest of Yuuji's stats increased with each new ability, from his strength, endurance, agility, and so on.
But that had started to slow down recently. According to the system, this was because his body had reached its limit and could no longer continue growing.
Basically, Yuuji was now at the limit of human capacity, if he wanted to become stronger he would have to do so through abilities or by obtaining some ability or item that would allow him to break the human limit.
"And this is one of those items" Yuuji murmured while looking at the bottle in his inventory.
It was not too big, maybe around 500 ml, and had the design of old milk bottles from the market.
The kind carried by a man dressed in white on a bicycle.
Yuuji took the bottle out of his inventory and looked at the contents for a second, it was a completely white liquid that seemed to contain no impurities, rather, it seemed like purity itself, it even seemed to have stars and galaxies inside.
"Alright, let us do this!" After a while, Yuuji stopped contemplating the hypnotic sight and made up his mind, he lifted the bottle and drank all the liquid in one go.