Chapter 199: I Am Thor, God of Thunder!
Eternally Seventeen: I'm providing benefits for the group members! How is that recruiting? Sakura, Umaru, and Eriri are all my disciples now~ I, a Permissions Hound with actual followers! Ahahahaha!
Eternally Seventeen: Just thinking about it makes me a little giddy.
My True Form Is Cola: …Were we disciples? Why have we become "followers" now?
Eternally Seventeen: Don't get hung up on minor details.
Eternally Seventeen: Also — Umaru's aptitude for the Gensokyo system is extraordinarily high, she's already pushed into the Chat Group's mid-tier combat rank. Clearly my instruction has been exceptional!
RawrSoFierce: …That's entirely because of the Points. Umaru came in with over ten thousand — of course she got strong. That's just math.
Eternally Seventeen: Ahem! My contribution is also not insignificant.
RawrSoFierce: Same old youkai sage — completely shameless. You've truly elevated shamelessness to an art form.
Street-Corner Illustrator: The Admin and Yukari-senpai are going at it again lmaooo
"…"
Yukari had taken on three disciples: Umaru, Eriri, and Sakura.
Of the three, Eriri was objectively the weakest. She hadn't participated in any group quest, which meant she'd never had the opportunity to collect a windfall the way Umaru had. Every Point she had came from daily sign-ins. Sakura had joined earlier by several months, so even with sign-in income only, she'd accumulated more. Which meant among the three disciples, Eriri sat firmly at the bottom.
Actually, within the entire Chat Group, Eriri was at the bottom.
The golden retriever who lost at love, now also the weakest member. The irony was relentless. She was accumulating tally marks.
Kaguya-sama: @Edward Newgate — thank you so much for the lecture, Whitebeard-ojii-sama! I feel like I've genuinely made progress. Some problems I'd been stuck on have finally clicked.
Kaguya-sama: Oh — the Admin is out and about too?
Eternally Seventeen: Little Kaguya, did you stop caring about the Admin? You're only noticing him now when he's been right above you in the chat the whole time.
Kaguya-sama: I didn't — I mean—
Kaguya-sama: Pfft! Yukari-nee, that sentence was incredibly misleading!!
Crazy Diamond: I just noticed that Yukari-senpai has been constantly trying to pair the Admin with female members — and it's a different female member every time. There's definitely something going on here. I think Yukari-senpai might actually be the Admin's alternate account, specifically created to flirt with female members from the inside.
My True Form Is Cola: !!!
Street-Corner Illustrator: !!!
Terrible Tornado: !!!
Kaguya-sama: !!!
RawrSoFierce: Pfft — why are you all acting so shocked over nothing?
"…"
Ryū nearly spat out an imaginary mouthful of ancient blood.
Did he need an alternate account to talk to female members? The two-dimensional girls were undeniably appealing, he wasn't going to lie to himself about that, but most of them were minors. Or wildly out of the appropriate age range in the other direction.
The one member who was technically legal-aged was Tatsumaki, and she had the figure of a flat-screen monitor.
And honestly — given his own appearance, did he need schemes?
Not that he was planning anything. He wasn't.
Although, come to think of it — Kaguya's feelings toward him were probably not entirely uncomplicated. Getting somewhere with her would practically require zero effort at this point.
The problem was: how old was Kaguya? About sixteen, seventeen?
What am I thinking about.
Is this what puberty feels like.
I'm not even a year old.
He shook the thoughts away. The Chat Group was only just finding its rhythm. Everything else could wait.
My True Form Is Cola: Wait, I just thought of something important!
My True Form Is Cola: Is the Admin actually single right now?!
Eternally Seventeen: …emmm, hard to say for certain. But my read on people is very good and I'm confident about this: the Admin may not be entirely inexperienced, but he is absolutely unattached. No question.
Eternally Seventeen: How else could he spend a month in the Arena? When someone has a girlfriend, she's attached to him every single day to the point where he wants to lose his mind. The Admin clearly has unlimited free time. Certified single.
RawrSoFierce: Hold on — aren't you also single? How would you know what it's like?
RawrSoFierce: Are you speaking from extensive personal experience of being unattached?
Eternally Seventeen: What?! Me, single?! Laughable! My romantic experience is maxed out! I've had more relationships than I can count!
RawrSoFierce: I know you better than that.
Eternally Seventeen: Don't expose me…
I'm Rolling In It: Personally I think the Admin and Yukari-senpai are a pretty good match — actually forget it! Uncle Tony is going all in on Admin and Yukari! Betting everything!
I'm Rolling In It: Wait — this is the Dimensional Chat Group, not the kind of place where you define things as one-to-one. In that case, I'm betting on everything!
[Group member "I'm Rolling In It" has been muted by the moderator for 10 minutes.]
[Group member "I'm Rolling In It" has been muted by the moderator for 20 minutes.]
Two mute notifications in almost perfect unison.
Ryū blinked at the screen.
The ten-minute one was him. The twenty-minute one — that was Yukari.
Good thing Tony Stark didn't live in Gensokyo. An infuriated Yukari in the same physical space as the man would have been a structural problem.
Why would she be infuriated, though?
And why infuriated specifically?
Something about that felt like it warranted thought.
Ryū was three seconds into thinking about it when a notification pinged in the Chat Group and pulled him back to the present.
[Ding! "I Am Thor, God of Thunder!" has joined the Dimensional Chat Group!]
"…"
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