Chapter 227: The Activity Gift Package
Crazy Diamond: The activity ended and I'm back home — five days went so fast! But I got my Mid-Autumn gift package. Wonder what's inside.
Admiral Kizaru: Also received the Mid-Autumn gift package~
Terrible Tornado: Mid-Autumn activity gift package received +1.
Edward Newgate: Gurararara — this is the first time this old man has received one of these packages! The Children's Day activity last time excluded him due to age. This one has no such restriction.
Kaguya-sama: I've already opened mine…
Eternally Seventeen: Already?! Little Kaguya, what did you get?
Kaguya-sama: …Mm. Three items, like last time for the Wandering Earth.
Kaguya-sama: One is a Mid-Autumn commemorative badge, which doesn't seem especially useful. The other two are more interesting.
Kaguya-sama: 2,000 Points, and a pendant that increases mental strength by 5%.
Eternally Seventeen: A 5% mental strength increase! That's a godtier item!
Eternally Seventeen: I bow before this European-luck result. Envy has sent me into osmotic crisis.
Little Sakura of the Tohsaka: Um… I got 1,500 Points, a commemorative badge, and a magic scroll. It seems to be some kind of forbidden-technique scroll.
Crazy Diamond: Only 500 Points… there's a badge, but I got a new Stand! Full six-sided 6A stats — a total hexagonal warrior! Never seen anything like it before, it looks amazing!
Eternally Seventeen: Only 500 Points? Josuke your luck is weak~ Right then. Time for me to open mine! Today my fortune is ONE HUNDRED!
"…"
Back in Gensokyo, Yukari stood with her gift package and felt the specific small excitement of something genuinely new. She hadn't received one of these before. Every group activity to date had produced packages, and she'd watched others open them with observational interest.
Before opening hers, she ran a perimeter sense-check of the surrounding several kilometres for any lurking youkai.
Clear.
She added several magical buffs to herself.
She recited something under her breath. It took approximately two minutes.
Then she opened the package.
["Eternally Seventeen" has successfully opened the "Mid-Autumn Gathering" activity gift package!
Congratulations! You have received the following three items:
400 Chat Group Points Youkai Ration (Assorted Flavours) x10 Mid-Autumn Gathering Commemorative Badge x1
Thank you for participating in this Chat Group activity!]
"…wdnmd!!!!!"
She stared at the notification for a long moment.
400 Points. She processed this. 400 Points was 400 Points. Twenty Arena revivals. Not nothing. Fine. She accepted it.
The second item.
Youkai Ration (Assorted Flavours).
What, precisely, was she supposed to do with that? Was she meant to eat out of a bowl on the floor like some kind of cat? She was the Sage of Gensokyo. She had a full kitchen. She had subordinates who could cook. She had never in her life consumed anything that could be categorised as a ration.
She stared at the ten pouches that had appeared in front of her.
She opened the Chat Group feedback page.
She typed, in a voice of complete, unaffected calm:
[Present? Why this persecution? Is it because I'm also blonde? The Golden Retriever Who Lost at Love designation belongs to Eriri. Unacceptable!!]
She sent it.
She looked at the ten pouches of youkai ration and the commemorative badge for a sustained period.
The Sage of Gensokyo suspended all higher cognitive processes.
Eternally Seventeen: Admin. I have sustained serious psychological damage. The wounds are irreparable. I am developing thoughts about ending things.
Eternally Seventeen: Please send me 1,000 Points in a red packet so I can begin to heal. This will help me abandon these thoughts.
RawrSoFierce: …Your luck went bad again, didn't it. What did you get? Share with the group.
Eternally Seventeen:Cries I'm so unfortunate, and the Admin doesn't even comfort me… The adorable beautiful young Yukari is upset.
Eternally Seventeen: Admin. I want a hug~
RawrSoFierce: …What is this disgusting wheedling tone.
Kaguya-sama: Yukari-nee's sudden tone shift is proof of extreme psychological impact.
My True Form Is Cola: Terrifying… the luck really can't be this bad?
[Admin "RawrSoFierce" has sent a targeted red packet, claimable only by "Eternally Seventeen"!]
Eternally Seventeen: Oh? An actual red packet! Admin is incredible!
[The red packet has been claimed. "Eternally Seventeen" is the Lucky Champion!]
Eternally Seventeen: 1… 1 Point?! Unacceptable!!
RawrSoFierce: I knew this youkai sage hadn't actually broken.
Eternally Seventeen: [Image] — this is what I received.
Eternally Seventeen: Admin I'm so unfortunate aaaaaaa!
RawrSoFierce: !!!
"…"
He stared at the image.
400 Points. He'd expected her to have broken three digits.
Comparing: Kaguya at 2,000, Sakura at 1,500, Josuke at 500, Yukari at 400. The Points gap was bad enough. But the second reward — a Youkai Ration — was the one that made him genuinely pause.
What does that even mean. Is it like pet food? For youkai?
The commemorative badge he mentally set aside. Those had no functional application.
No wonder she broke out the baby-talk. That would break almost anyone.
Though she'd bounced back the moment he sent her 1 Point. Which meant the baby-talk phase had already been over before it started — she'd just wanted to see if she could get something out of it.
One second of quiet sympathy, then:
RawrSoFierce: Poor Yukari. Pat on the head. Chin up. Stand and deliver.
Little Sakura of the Tohsaka: Should I… should I give half my Points to Yukari-nee?
Eternally Seventeen: Ahem. That's really not necessary.
Admiral Kizaru: Frightening~
Kaguya-sama: Yukari-nee, don't cry. There'll be more group activities. It can't possibly be this bad every time. Probably.
Eternally Seventeen: Unfortunate, unfortunate, unfortunate…
Eternally Seventeen: The waters of Gensokyo are flowing with my tears.
Eternally Seventeen: I almost want to inscribe the character for "pitiful" all over my body. Why did I get this garbage. The ration does taste alright but this is still terrible!
RawrSoFierce: …You actually ate it.
Eternally Seventeen: It was going to be thrown away anyway. Of course I ate it.
Eternally Seventeen: Is there no one who will take in a poor youkai sage? My daily expenses are modest — at most dying five or six times in the Arena a day, maybe 100 Points to keep me comfortable!
RawrSoFierce: Would you be willing to warm the bed?
Eternally Seventeen: I refuse the companion services package!
RawrSoFierce: Then what's the point!
"…"
He sat with this exchange for a moment.
100 Points a day to maintain one Yukari. Daily sign-in plus premium membership income plus her own sign-in — it actually worked out to roughly that amount. The theoretical logistics were sound.
A Yukari who refused all three companion services, couldn't demonstrate any obvious domestic competency, and would need to be housed at patron expense like a very old, very opinionated honorary grandmother—
He dropped the thread. He had no idea why he'd been running the numbers.
Open activity gift package.
["RawrSoFierce" has successfully opened the "Mid-Autumn Gathering" activity gift package!
Congratulations! You have received the following three items:
3,000 Chat Group Points Any-Skill Ceiling Breakthrough Card x2 (see [LINK] for details) Mid-Autumn Gathering Commemorative Badge x1
Thank you for participating in this Chat Group activity!]
Ryū stared at the second item.
"Any-Skill Ceiling Breakthrough Card?"
He tapped the link.
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