As per Kotori’s request, Reine directly sent Wan Mie to the entrance of her single apartment building.
Although she had already left Fraxinus, Wan Mie couldn’t bring herself to feel any happiness.
After what had happened, Kotori and the others would undoubtedly increase their surveillance on her, and any notion of personal privacy was now a luxury she could no longer afford.
But there was nothing she could do about it.
After all, she still hadn’t fully mastered how to use the System on her phone and couldn’t conceal herself as stealthily as Kurumi did.
At least for now, she had to accept reality.
Back in her messy room, Wan Mie picked up her phone and opened the System to check the status.
Earlier, the System had sent her an additional task: to go on a date with Shidou Itsuka.
However, due to Ellen’s sudden appearance, the date had been completely disrupted, and Wan Mie wasn’t even sure if the task had been successfully completed.
The phone screen was still displaying the main interface, with the additional task related to Shidou Itsuka shown in a small box at the top left corner.
At that moment, a small checkmark appeared next to the task.
Wan Mie’s heart leapt with joy.
Could it be that the date was considered complete even though it had been interrupted?
Filled with excitement, she opened the task panel.
It showed that the task was already marked as completed and that she could claim the rewards at any time.
The rewards consisted of one hundred Coins and a Mysterious Reward.
One hundred Coins was not a small sum for Wan Mie right now, but she didn’t rush to convert them into cash; instead, she saved them.
She was curious about what kind of items in the Store were priced at thousands or even tens of thousands of Coins.
Just a skill called Extinction Gun, priced at fifty Coins, already had unimaginable power.
What about the more expensive items?
Wan Mie dared not imagine.
Judging by the strength of Extinction Gun, those pricier items could probably rival a Nuclear Bomb!
Still, at this moment, Wan Mie didn’t think too much about it.
After all, accumulating thousands or tens of thousands of Coins would take a long time based on the current task rewards.
What she was more concerned about was the so-called Mysterious Reward.
What exactly was this Mysterious Reward?
Filled with anticipation, Wan Mie clicked to claim it, and a treasure chest engraved with various mysterious characters appeared in the center of the screen.
This… was just like a gacha pull!
In her previous life, Wan Mie was a hardcore game otaku, well-versed in such gacha events.
However, this System was too simplistic—it didn’t even allow her to view the pool of possible items.
Of course, she had no choice but to accept it.
With a thrilled heart, Wan Mie tapped the treasure chest.
Accompanied by a short cutscene, the chest slowly opened, and a golden light burst out from the crack.
The gap widened, but the golden light never dimmed, resembling a golden galaxy shooting into the sky!
“W-what…”
Though Wan Mie didn’t know what the golden light symbolized, her past gacha experience told her that anything emitting such a glow couldn’t be trash.
It had to be at least an SR-level item, or maybe even higher!
Wan Mie’s excitement was greater than if she had just won the lottery.
As a notorious non-lucky player, she was constantly desperate to break her streak of bad luck.
Once, she even spent a month’s worth of breakfast money to roll a 648 pack, yet didn’t get a single decent item.
Now, with one pull that truly hit the mark, how could she not be excited?
The chest fully opened, and the golden light dispersed.
Inside the chest lay a single bullet quietly resting in the center.
Its appearance was that of a common 5.56mm rifle cartridge, except for some delicate engravings on the casing.
There was nothing else special about it.
Wan Mie stared blankly at the bullet, and after about a minute, she finally snapped back to reality and cursed loudly without concern for her image, “Damn it! If it’s just some tiny thing like this, why all the big show?!”
The golden light in the chest had raised her hopes to unprecedented heights, but reality dealt her a brutal slap.
This feeling was worse than jumping off an eighteen-story building.
But soon, Wan Mie calmed herself down.
The chest was already open; there was no use complaining now.
She kept reassuring herself, “Don’t be mad, don’t be mad. After all, I’m used to it. What if this bullet is an SSR item?”
Holding on to her last shred of hope, Wan Mie opened the detailed information on the bullet.
Teleportation Bullet — can transport any unit it hits to the designated teleportation location.
After reading the description, Wan Mie fully accepted reality.
This thing clearly didn’t look like a valuable item, though the ability to teleport any target to any location was somewhat useful.
Just as Wan Mie was about to store the bullet in the Warehouse to gather dust, she noticed a small line of text in parentheses at the bottom right of the description.
(P.s. Cannot teleport living beings)
“I—!”
Wan Mie almost blurted out a string of curse words.
This was such a scam!
She had hoped that this bullet could at least help her escape in emergencies or speed up travel, but now it seemed completely useless.
If she were to judge by typical game item tiers, this didn’t even qualify as an R-level item.
It was more like a basic item from a beginner’s quest, utterly useless.
Wan Mie sighed helplessly.
Who could blame her for being so unlucky?
The chest had even emitted golden light, yet she still drew such a trash item.
Wan Mie put the bullet into the System’s Warehouse, but this time, it was truly destined to gather dust.
She had expected something good from the Mysterious Reward and had built up her hopes, but in the end, this worthless item ruined her mood for the entire day.
Feeling bored, she turned on the TV, hoping to catch one of her usual variety shows.
She had to admit, Japanese variety shows were quite entertaining.
However, the program hadn’t started yet.
Instead, the screen was showing a game advertisement.
At first, Wan Mie didn’t pay much attention, but after a moment, she suddenly realized something.
“Isn’t this ?!”
Although the characters’ names were changed, the plot introduction was exactly the same as the game Wan Mie had been looking forward to in her previous life!
The most important thing was that the release date was tomorrow!
Wan Mie couldn’t sit still anymore.
She had waited so long for this game, but on the day of release, she had accidentally slipped on a banana peel and been sent to this world by that so-called Kami.
Now that she was seeing the game again, Wan Mie’s excitement was beyond words, and she even forgot the frustration of having just pulled a useless item.
This game—she absolutely had to get her hands on it!
***
Somewhere on the outskirts of Tengū City, a massive crater on the ground was a constant reminder of a recent fierce battle.
What puzzled everyone was that despite it being midsummer, the ground was covered in frost, and the surrounding undamaged trees were coated in silver, as if it were the dead of winter.
Lieutenant Kusakabe Ryouko stared at the desolate scene before her, her brows tightly furrowed as she let out a soft sigh, “Hermit got away again…”
Beside her, a white-haired girl with an expressionless face stood shoulder to shoulder with Ryouko, her deep, starry eyes flashing a sharp glint of ruthlessness.