Chapter 28: Three Uses for Points
Whitebeard hadn't taken Ryū's Points. He'd accepted the Gift Package, sent it straight back, and gone quiet.
Which Ryū genuinely hadn't anticipated.
He'd planned to buy the Six Powers with Points — and had even constructed an excuse he barely believed himself, just to protect his mystique. The other Group members had probably taken his stated reasoning at face value. As far as they were concerned, Admin-dono was a powerful and enigmatic figure who looked out for newcomers.
The reality was that Ryū had primarily been thinking about himself. Though taking care of the Group's ordinary members was, in fairness, genuinely something he ought to do. Even if he had traded Points for the Six Powers, he would have done exactly what Whitebeard just did — uploaded the training guide to Group Files for everyone.
From his perspective, the stronger his Group members became, the better. No downside. Only upside.
Half an hour passed before Ryū glanced at the wall clock and noticed.
At that moment, a notification appeared in the chat interface.
[ Member 'Edward Newgate' has uploaded a Group File: Six Powers — Complete Training Guide + Personal Notes and Refinements ]
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! Finally finished.
Edward Newgate: Writing that up was more exhausting than going a round with Kaido. I don't know how it compares to the official Marine version, but I'd expect it's fairly close.
Edward Newgate: I also added my own observations and broke down some of the trickier parts in more detail.
Edward Newgate: One of these days I'll ask one of my sons to write up a dual-blade swordsmanship guide as well — then upload that to Group Files too. Gurararara.
Whitebeard was not a man who hoarded things. He'd said free and open, so free and open it was.
Part of it was the bonds the Group had built. Part of it was that, in a different sense, this was also an investment.
Freely sharing the Six Powers training guide today — the returns on that, down the line, couldn't be measured in money. Couldn't be measured in Points either.
Ryū was beginning to understand how Whitebeard thought. In the Dimensional Chat Group, Points were important — but they weren't the most important thing. The most important thing was something invisible, untouchable: friendship. If the bonds were solid, that was worth more than any Points balance.
In a chat group that could reach across every dimension and every world — connections, relationships, the people you knew — those things genuinely mattered.
RawrSoFierce: Since Whitebeard has shared the Six Powers for free in Group Files, consider this a gift from him to all future slice-of-life newcomers. @Edward Newgate — thank you.
Kaguya-sama: File received! Thank you so much, Whitebeard-ojii-san! @Edward Newgate
Kaguya-sama: For those of us from ordinary worlds, there's nothing more valuable than this. Though — training physical techniques… I won't end up built like a bodybuilder, will I?
Edward Newgate: Gurararara! If you follow the guide correctly, that's very unlikely. The Marine Headquarters has plenty of women who've mastered the Six Powers, and most of them are quite slender.
RawrSoFierce: True — Momonga, Hina, for instance.
Kaguya-sama: Ah… *exhales* That's a relief.
Kaguya quietly let out a breath she'd been holding.
For her — the Group's sole member from an everyday world — the Six Powers were genuinely precious. Since joining the Dimensional Chat Group, she had watched the members carry out a Group Quest. And Group Quests, as she'd now seen firsthand, could absolutely involve combat. They could involve lives on the line, exactly like before.
Kaguya Shinomiya was not the naive, airheaded protagonist of a light romantic comedy. She was, by any measure, exceptionally intelligent. And she had grown up inside a zaibatsu — she understood threat assessment.
The quiet sense of danger she'd felt since joining the Group was very real. So when an opportunity appeared to acquire techniques that could bring her closer to the level of the other members, she was not going to pass it up.
That said — she was also a sixteen-year-old girl.
Under normal circumstances, no girl wanted to end up looking like she could bench-press a car.
Kaguya-sama: I just looked at the Six Powers — Complete Training Guide + Personal Notes and Refinements file, and it mentions that people with insufficient physical constitution need to build that up first before training.
Kaguya-sama: @Edward Newgate — Whitebeard-ojii-san, what level of constitution counts as the minimum threshold?
Edward Newgate: As a baseline… being able to lift roughly 2,400 kg of iron with both hands should be sufficient.
Kaguya-sama: 2,400 kg… that's two tons…
Crazy Diamond: My Stand could manage that, but a Stand probably can't train the Six Powers, can it?!
Crazy Diamond: That's such a high bar. Am I locked out of physical techniques entirely?
No one was indifferent to the prospect of getting stronger. Even Josuke, who had his Stand.
A Stand was powerful, but it was still a Stand. Josuke himself was just a fairly tough high school student. Beyond the Stand ability, he didn't have anything particularly exceptional going for him physically.
RawrSoFierce: Reaching that threshold isn't hard. Just save up your daily Sign-In Points and spend 2,000 on physical enhancement. Done.
RawrSoFierce: Points have a lot of applications. Physical enhancement is just one of them.
RawrSoFierce: The full range of uses is something I'm still learning myself — but the ones I've confirmed so far are: Dimensional Transfer, Physical Enhancement, and Ability Reinforcement. Three categories.
Crazy Diamond: I see… 2,000 Points though… that's a lot…
Kaguya-sama: 2,000 isn't too bad. Even if Sign-In only gives 20 Points a day, that's 100 days to 2,000. With decent luck, a month or two would do it.
RawrSoFierce: Exactly — unless your luck is truly terrible.
The Eternally Seventeen-Year-Old Maiden: …
A certain Gap Yōkai, lurking in silent observation, had the distinct feeling that Admin-dono's last remark was aimed specifically at her.
But was that just her reading into it? Was she being paranoid?
Yukari Yakumo sank into a state of conflicted contemplation.