Watching Himmel walk back his words at the speed of light, Anthony couldn't help the expression that crept onto his face — something between fond exasperation and quiet satisfaction.
There it is. That's more like it.
That's the Himmel I know.
All that talk about not wanting to be resurrected — it was never the truth. The real reason was far simpler: even if he came back to life, his human lifespan would still fall laughably short of an elf's. When the time finally ran out, the ending would be no different from before.
And so, just as he had done in life, Himmel had buried his own longing. He didn't want the person he loved to carry that grief again. That was all it was.
But what if — what if someone handed Himmel a lifespan that could stand alongside Frieren's, as an equal?
Based on everything Anthony knew about Himmel… this guy would be resurrected on Day One, and before the sun rose on Day Two, he would have already gone from confession to full wedding preparations in a single unbroken chain of events. Odds were good they'd be discussing the banquet menu before the third day was out.
If he didn't go to Frieren and bare his heart the very first moment he got the chance, Anthony would have serious questions about whether Himmel had been swapped out for an impostor.
[Warrior of Sinseoki-Frieren: Hold on, let me think for a moment… actually, never mind. No thinking required.]
[Warrior of Sinseoki-Frieren: Is everything you said — is it actually true?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: The resurrection provided by the chat group is a Perfect Resurrection. In theory, it restores you to the absolute best state you were in while alive.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: From that angle, it can't directly extend your lifespan… but once you're alive again, lifespan is the smallest problem on the list!]
And that was the beautiful thing about the chat group.
Lifespan determinism? That stomach-churning nonsense?
Get out of my sight.
Sure — in some worlds, the lifespan problem was practically a law of the universe. No matter how hard you schemed, there was no escaping it.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End was exactly that kind of world. But the thing was — they were already in the chat group. If the rules of one world couldn't solve the problem, what was stopping them from borrowing the tools of another?
Never mind longevity — if those two wanted to live until the end of time itself, Anthony could rattle off a dozen methods for achieving immortality without even trying. He could list them on his toes.
And even limiting it to what already existed within the group members' worlds, there was no shortage of options. Demon Slayer and JoJo both had their downsides, sure — but Tsukihime had plenty of viable candidates, and if all else failed, Arknights had options too.
As for the question of how to actually get those things — did anyone seriously think the fishing rod in Anthony's hands was just decorative?
Once he used [The Angler] to push his Affinity Bond high enough, reeling in any of that stuff would just be a matter of a few casts.
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Once you're resurrected, tracking down something to extend your lifespan won't be any great difficulty.]
[Warrior of Sinseoki-Frieren: For real, man?]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Of course. If anything, finding a lifespan extension is actually easier than the resurrection itself. Before we worry about the long term, the first priority is getting the resurrection sorted. And right now, everyone's resurrection is still a long way off — getting even one person back is already a serious undertaking.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: That said — after you're resurrected, helping the others will be an essential part of the deal…]
[Warrior of Sinseoki-Frieren: Whatever needs doing, just say the word. I'd walk through fire and climb a mountain of blades if that's what it takes. Count me in — no question about it!]
Watching Himmel get up to speed at his characteristically instant pace, Anthony was briefly struck speechless. Then he typed:
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: Alright then. I'll send over what I know about the situation on your end.]
[Lord of the White Holy Throne: After you've read through it, make sure to check the ability enhancement section and send over your resurrection conditions. Fair warning — if your conditions are unclear or particularly difficult to meet, your resurrection will inevitably end up lower on the priority list.]
[Warrior of Sinseoki-Frieren: Understood. Will do.]
Himmel raised no objections to that arrangement.
Then again, of course he wouldn't.
He genuinely wasn't in any rush. Frieren would always be there — she wasn't going to vanish into thin air. And Himmel could afford to wait a little longer. He had spent an entire lifetime waiting, after all. A bit more time on top of that was hardly going to break him.
The one who truly needed to be in a hurry was Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Every day he remained dead was another day Muzan had free rein to cause havoc. After reading through the Demon Slayer records, Yoriichi had to be feeling the pressure for real.
With that thought, Anthony shook his head and finally closed the chat group. It was time to take stock of everything he'd actually gained from this last mission.
Now that the new group members had been properly seen to, he finally had a moment to do this.
First and foremost — Jonathan's resurrection, and all the ripple effects it had set off in the JoJo world.
Jonathan coming back to life was an unambiguous win for the chat group as a whole. It meant they finally had an actual living person in the ranks — someone who could step up as a fighter when things got critical.
Beyond that, Jonathan's resurrection had naturally sent shockwaves through the JoJo world itself.
For one thing, Joseph now had to figure out how to face a grandfather who was not only fully aware of every embarrassing thing Joseph had ever done, but who also possessed the manners and dignity of a true gentleman. That alone was going to be a very interesting problem for Joseph to live with.
But setting comedy aside — the downstream situation on Jonathan's end was, if anything, genuinely complicated.
DIO was thoroughly dead. Because his lower half had been reclaimed by Jonathan, Kokushibo had yet to be born, and Jotaro's Star Platinum had never awakened its Time Stop. This entire altered timeline had directly impacted major plot threads across Parts Four, Five, and Six.
Right now, Jonathan was in the middle of coordinating with the rest of the Joestar family, working overtime to piece things back together. There would be no shortage of business ahead. At minimum, the scattered Arrows were going to need to be tracked down and secured.
That said — given Jonathan's current level of power, he should be able to hold things together for now. The World plus Ripple was simply too authoritative a combination.
Jonathan had also told Anthony before leaving: if things started going seriously sideways, he'd reach out through the chat group. So for the moment, Anthony let himself exhale.
Next — the changes to his [The Angler] ability.
[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure World Base Affinity Bond has been raised to Level 5.]
In a single leap, the JoJo world had shot up to become Anthony's highest-ranked Affinity Bond — his most tightly connected world by far.
This wasn't exactly surprising. He had, after all, completely upended the JoJo world's storyline in one go. The only thing that left him slightly wistful was this: even with such a high Affinity Bond, the actual yield from the JoJo world was… difficult to speak well of.
He'd done a rough survey of it. The JoJo world's outputs were strange. Because it was fundamentally a real-world-adjacent setting, most of what it produced was mundane modern-day material — things that converted to very few Points.
By way of compensation, the JoJo world contained certain 'high-value items' — things of exceptional rarity that were fiendishly difficult to reel in. Arrows, Stone Masks, Saint's Corpse Parts — that sort of thing.
The drop rates were low. Raising the Affinity Bond primarily boosted the odds of these rare items taking the bait.
Anthony figured it would take some real effort to land them. But there was no getting around it — right now, he very much wanted to reel in at least one Arrow.
Finally — and in Anthony's estimation, the most critical reward from this mission.
He looked at the 10,000 Points and the one random ability the completed mission had awarded him. He rubbed his chin.
A sudden windfall of this magnitude. So — what to spend it on?
Anthony made a show of thinking it over.
Then, with a light and cheerful tap, he opened the [Ability Enhancement] interface.
"Alright, chat group — let's see just how far your limits go!"
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