Chapter 92: Opening the Gift Pack
The Little Wandering Planet: So those are all three items.
The Little Wandering Planet: Honestly, it seems like only the Points are really useful.
The Little Wandering Planet: The free Dimensional Transfer coupon is technically worth 3,000 Points, sure, but there's a real chance you'd end up in some terrifyingly overpowered world. What if I land somewhere where people casually blow up planets…
The Little Wandering Planet: Trembling. Too scared to use it. Can't afford to mess with that.
Kaguya-sama: That scary? So the only actually usable reward is the 1,000 Points.
Kaguya-sama: Still, that's not bad at all. Envious~
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! It's still 1,000 Points, no matter how you slice it!
Edward Newgate: Looks like Little Planet's luck is pretty good.
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …I feel like that was directed at someone, Whitebeard.
Edward Newgate: No, it wasn't, I didn't mean—triple denial!
Whitebeard insisted he hadn't meant anything by it.
Even though Yukari-senpai's luck was, in fact…
Famously, legendarily terrible.
Whitebeard swore he had never in his entire life encountered someone this unlucky.
Bad luck once or twice? Sure, that was normal.
Bad luck eight or ten times? That could still be chalked up to coincidence.
But bad luck continuously for over two months straight—every single Daily Sign-In yielding single-digit Points, with a personal best of nine?
Never once breaking into double digits. Luck so abysmal it had reached the realm of the sublime.
That level of gacha poverty was genuinely a first.
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Edward Newgate: Come to think of it—is Little Planet the only one in the group who got a Children's Day Event Gift Pack?
Crazy Diamond: Should be, right? I mean, the 'under twelve' requirement… Little Planet's probably the only one who qualifies.
Green Grasslands Wolf King: That's true. Everyone else is well past that age.
Edward Newgate: Is that so? Gurararara—youth is a wonderful thing!
Crazy Diamond: But hey, if there's a Children's Day event, there should be stuff for International Women's Day, Labor Day, and other holidays too, right?
RawrSoFierce: No idea. Maybe, maybe not.
We, Ying Zheng: Even the Admin does not know?
RawrSoFierce: Not knowing is the normal state of affairs here!
RawrSoFierce: Good thing it was Little Planet who got the Gift Pack. If a certain Sage of Youkai had gotten one, it probably would've been wasted.
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: ???
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: Nonsense! How could this one possibly waste it?!
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: This one's luck is INVINCIBLE! HEAVEN-DEFYING!
Kaguya-sama: Almost believed that…
RawrSoFierce: Almost believed that…
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …Hmph! Fine! This one shall prove it right now! Watch—this one rolls a die, and the number will absolutely land on HIGH!
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: [Die: 2]
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …Shutting down. Goodbye.
RawrSoFierce: Pfft—
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Ryū found it genuinely difficult to understand how Yukari's luck could be this catastrophically bad.
Was she cohabiting with Hina Kagiyama or something? Rumor had it that in Gensōkyō, anyone who so much as encountered the curse goddess would see their luck instantly plunge into the negatives.
And Yukari was living with her despite that?
…Nerves of steel, that one.
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Pulling his consciousness out of the group chat for the moment, Ryū turned his attention to the item sitting in his own inventory—the Children's Day Event Gift Pack.
He—a man who was twenty-one in his previous life and seventeen in this one—had received a children's gift pack.
It was, without question, a supremely roastable situation.
"By all rights, my luck shouldn't be that bad," Ryū told himself. "At least better than Yukari's."
When it came to his own luck, Ryū was fairly confident.
Even if he didn't match the Wandering Planet's rolls, as long as he beat Yukari, that was good enough. As long as he wasn't dead last.
Without further deliberation, he opened the Event Gift Pack.
Three items, same as the Planet. Though the specific contents were different.
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"I got Points too? And this amount… it's three times what Little Planet pulled. That's basically worth one Blackbeard Teach bounty, isn't it?" Ryū paused. "…When did Blackbeard Teach become a unit of measurement?"
Ryū's Points haul was a hefty 3,000.
For the first time ever, earning Points had felt this effortless.
Just crack open a Gift Pack and walk away with 3,000 Points.
Of course, Ryū understood this was probably a one-time windfall. Even the Planet pulling 1,000 had been a stroke of good fortune.
As for Yukari, the Gap Youkai… she'd probably open hers and get, what, a few dozen Points?
Wait—why did he keep dragging Yukari out for public execution without even thinking about it?
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[Skill Proficiency Upgrade Card ×1]
Select any one skill you currently possess to upgrade its
proficiency by one tier.
Example: Long Fist (Beginner) → Long Fist (Mastery)
This card can upgrade the proficiency of any skill,
regardless of type.
NOTE: Skills already at Perfection tier cannot be upgraded
with this card.
[Children's Day Group Event Commemorative Badge]
A commemorative badge crafted by the chat group system.
A rather fine collectible.
Special function: None.
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Ryū's mouth twitched. "Just as I predicted—the commemorative badge is a guaranteed drop. One hundred percent inclusion rate."
Useless as the badge was, Ryū still tucked it away. He wasn't about to throw out a Children's Day commemorative, pointless or not.
What really had his attention were the 3,000 Points and the Skill Proficiency Upgrade Card—especially the latter, which had captured the lion's share of his focus.
The ability to upgrade the proficiency of any single skill by one tier? That was genuinely interesting.
The restriction, however, was clearly stated: if a skill was already at Perfection tier, the card wouldn't work.
This was a proficiency upgrade card, not some kind of skill-ceiling breakthrough card.
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"I'll use the Skill Proficiency Upgrade Card on Observation Haki," Ryū decided. "I've got all kinds of combat techniques in my head, but I'm still sorely lacking in real battle experience. Especially against shinobi—they're specialists at ambushes and sneak attacks."
"In a situation like this, upgrading Observation Haki is the optimal play," he concluded. "As for Armament Haki… I'll get to that later. Or actually—could I use the 3,000 Points to upgrade Armament Haki?"
In the end, Ryū scrapped that idea. Intermediate-tier Armament Haki required 5,000 Points to unlock—and he only had just over 3,000.
Better to save a bit. Three thousand-odd Points wasn't nearly enough for what he needed.
Then again, those 3,000-plus Points could be put toward upgrading his Devil Fruit ability.
After all, it had been quite some time since he'd invested anything into the Decompose-Decompose Fruit.
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