Chapter 77: A Very Complicated Core
The Little Wandering Planet announced that its feelings were very complicated. Granted, it didn't technically have a heart—so if it had to describe the sensation, maybe its core was very complicated?
Its body was simply too enormous. Practically every Group Quest was something it couldn't participate in.
Sure, its "combat power" was formidable—drop itself on a target and it could effortlessly annihilate billions.
But the biggest problem was that it would almost certainly crush its own teammates in the process.
This was probably what they called "friendly fire."
No—"friendly fire" was putting it mildly. This was straight-up executing your own allies.
It was precisely because of this unique limitation that unless a quest world operated on a cosmic scale—something like the Dragon Ball universe, for instance—the Wandering Planet might be able to transfer over without flattening too many people.
Whether that would actually work was anyone's guess. The whole thing was deeply mysterious.
Unless someday they could find a Devil Fruit that granted the ability to shrink.
And then have Wolffy research whether inanimate objects could "eat" a Devil Fruit.
Only then might the Little Wandering Planet finally be able to join a Group Quest.
For now, letting it transfer between dimensions was simply too risky.
One misstep and the entire chat group would be wiped out.
Not even ashes remaining.
Yukari Yakumo—the Gap youkai sage who could open spatial corridors—might be the only one who'd survive.
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The Little Wandering Planet: "*sniffle* Why must the heavens treat someone as adorable as me this way? Sure, my age might be a tiiiiiny bit older than all of yours, but in my heart I'm still a child!"
The Little Wandering Planet: "My psychological age is only two months old!"
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "Perhaps it's because… of love."
RawrSoFierce: "What… what does love have to do with anything?"
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "Any 'why' that defies all other explanation can be explained with 'because of love.' That's simply how the lore works."
Kaguya-sama: "I'm starting to think Yukari-nee-sama has fried her brain watching anime."
Crazy Diamond: "Watching anime is some kind of special move?"
Kaguya-sama: "During the last Group Quest, Yukari-nee-sama 'borrowed' a computer from my place and asked me to load it up with anime. Said she wanted something to kill time with."
Terrible Tornado: "…Huh. That's weirdly familiar. Our experiences are kind of similar."
RawrSoFierce: "Ahem, ahem…"
Ryū cut Tatsumaki off before she could blow his cover. After all, he'd asked her to download several shoujo romance anime for him. If that got out, the carefully cultivated image he'd built would be finished.
That was an exaggeration, admittedly—but the teasing would be merciless.
After two-plus months in the chat group, Ryū knew exactly how these people operated. Especially since he was the most senior member in the entire Dimensional Chat Group.
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RawrSoFierce: "So what this means is: the Group Event doesn't have a roster limit like Group Quests. Any member who's free can join."
RawrSoFierce: "And it's offering three Activity Worlds: "xxx Sutra", "One-Punch x Man", and "Night xxx"."
Kaguya-sama: "xxx Sutra? That sounds… a little odd. Sutra? As in scripture?"
Kaguya-sama: "Is this an anime? A novel? A movie? A TV show world?"
RawrSoFierce: "…Couldn't tell you. I have absolutely no idea. *manually projecting innocence*"
Crazy Diamond: "Night xxx—sounds like a haunted world! Though we shouldn't be superstitious about that stuff."
Crazy Diamond: "xxx Sutra is pretty weird too. Why is everything x'd out? And what kind of name is 'One-Punch x Man'?"
RawrSoFierce: "One-Punch x Man is One-Punch Man. That's Tatsumaki's world."
Kaguya-sama: "Eh… it's actually Tatsumaki-nee-sama's world?"
Ryū, naturally, had no intention of spelling out what "xxx Sutra" or "Night xxx" might actually be. Those two worlds… with that many x's censoring the titles, they were almost certainly not family-friendly.
Definitely the kind of content that would be harmful to the healthy development of minors.
And therefore must be strongly condemned and boycotted.
After all, the Dimensional Chat Group had underage members.
If he accidentally corrupted their worldview—
Led them astray down some morally bankrupt path—
That would be a capital offense.
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RawrSoFierce: "By the way, the notification says five days until Children's Day… but in my world, June 1st is still over thirty days away."
Kaguya-sama: "Oh, good point. Admin-dono's world is still thirty-some days from June 1st? Mine is only about two weeks away."
Edward Newgate: "June 1st? Today is June 3rd!"
Edward Newgate: "Gurararara! So we're going back in time for June 1st? Children's Day—what a peculiar holiday. Interesting."
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "It's already July 4th where this one is."
Crazy Diamond: "October 15th here, just passing through…"
Terrible Tornado: "…In my world, June 1st is exactly five days away."
RawrSoFierce: "Pfft—what are the odds?"
RawrSoFierce: "Then again, it makes sense when you think about it. There are hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dimensional worlds. With that many, having worlds share the same month and day would be extremely common. Nothing weird about it."
There was one thing Ryū didn't mention in the chat: he'd done some mental math and realized that the Earth from his previous life would be roughly two weeks from June 1st right now.
Which meant his original Earth and the One-Punch Man world had a significant date discrepancy.
As for whether the year was the same—he had no idea.
He vaguely remembered it being 2019 when he'd transmigrated.
Was the One-Punch Man world also in 2019? No way to tell.
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Kaguya-sama: "Is Admin-dono going to pick the Activity World now?!"
Kaguya-sama: "Actually, I'm rather curious about "xxx Sutra"."
RawrSoFierce: "…That world has been placed on the chat group's blacklist."
Kaguya-sama: "Huh? Why?"
RawrSoFierce: "It's a world that's… not suitable for minors. Probably."
Kaguya-sama: "〒(Δ)〒"
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "Ara ara~ A world not suitable for minors? This one had no idea little Kaguya was interested in that sort of thing."
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "Who knew little Kaguya was that kind of girl~"
Kaguya-sama: "W-wait—chotto matte! I didn't know it was inappropriate content!"
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "No need to explain~ This one, for example, has absolutely zero interest in such worlds. What THIS one is interested in is "Night xxx"."
RawrSoFierce: "Umm… that one is probably also not suitable for minors."
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: "…"
Kaguya-sama: "…Pfft. Yukari-nee-sama just got her own face slapped. So basically, the only normal option is Tatsumaki-nee-sama's world?"
RawrSoFierce: "Indeed. That's the one remotely normal world on the list."
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