Chapter 339: Lemon-Chugging Time
Getting the Senzu seeds turned out not to be especially hard — though of course, they didn't just take the man's stuff for free.
The chat group believed in fair trade, after all — they swapped a several-dozen-ton fish from the One Piece world with Korin for a hundred seeds.
The fish itself had naturally been arranged through Whitebeard, delivered over via a straight-up red envelope drop.
The moment Korin laid eyes on that fish, his eyes practically bugged out of his head, and without another word he treated Ryū like an honored guest.
Say what you will, but even a cat who'd lived eight hundred years couldn't shake certain instincts bred into its bones.
The Senzu seeds weren't anything especially precious to Korin at this point, either — the Saiyan Saga hadn't even kicked off yet.
No telling how far off the Saiyan arc still was, but for now Senzu were plentiful enough — a hundred beans amounted to barely a third of one jar.
Ryū had Yukari take the hundred beans with her — Gensokyo's magic-saturated environment was excellent, and should suit growing Senzu beautifully.
More to the point, Yukari had plenty of free time on her hands — tending a hundred Senzu plants wouldn't be any trouble at all, and if it came to it, she could always hand the job off to Blue or Orange.
If Senzu could genuinely be mass-produced, the payoff would be enormous — hidden value easily worth a hundred thousand Points, maybe even a million!
It was, essentially, a risk-free experiment — the cost barely registered, just one several-dozen-ton fish.
Fish that size were practically a dime a dozen in the One Piece world.
Whether the Senzu would actually take root and thrive, there was only one way to find out — no point overthinking it for now.
The seven Dragon Balls, meanwhile, were being kept safe with Yukari — tucked away in the gap, nobody was stealing those, so letting her hold onto them was fine.
Once the Balls finished "recharging," this same day next year, they'd be ready for another wish. Lovely.
As of today, the Dragon Ball world's Shenron had fully and officially been reduced to the chat group's own tool dragon — unpaid labor, no less. Truly pitiful.
Back from the Dragon Ball world and home in Konoha, Ryū glanced down at his tattered clothes and sighed, resigned. "Why'd King Piccolo have to go all-out with the big moves like that — wrecked my clothes. Guess I'll need to buy a few more outfits in the next few days."
Had King Piccolo heard that line, he'd have risen from the grave out of sheer rage.
Because all Ryū had to show for it was a few holes in his clothes, while King Piccolo had paid with his life — his very soul snuffed out entirely, not even qualified for an afterlife, let alone reincarnation.
He let his awareness slip into the chat group and clicked into the quest tab — sure enough, this quest showed as complete.
[Group Quest: Kill the two rule-breaking transmigrators within the allotted time!
Quest complete. Click the link on the right → [Link] to claim your 5,000-Point reward!]
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[Group Quest 2: Kill or seal King Piccolo, released by the transmigrators!
Quest complete. Click the link on the right → [Link] to claim your 30,000-Point reward!]
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Without a moment's hesitation, Ryū clicked to claim both rewards. His Point balance jumped by 35,000 all at once.
He'd started with 10,000 Points, but the trip to Gensokyo had cost him 1,000, and renewing his Premium VIP for the month had taken another 500.
The last few days' sign-in Points hadn't amounted to much either — whatever he'd earned there had all gone straight into Armament Haki proficiency.
Which put his balance at 8,500 Points before the quest rewards — add the 35,000 from this quest, and that came to 43,500 total.
That was plenty to bump his strength up another notch. His close-combat game was already plenty strong — what needed reinforcing now was his ranged offense.
So out of that 43,500, Ryū set aside 20,000 — 10,000 went into boosting his Kamehameha proficiency, and the other 10,000 into his Thunderclap Fist.
He left the remaining 20,000-plus untouched — better safe than sorry with Points saved up. Blow through everything the moment you get it, and you'd be caught short the second some emergency came up.
Ryū could feel the improvement in his Kamehameha and Thunderclap Fist clearly.
Drawing on a bit of ki, he let a small ki blast hover above his palm, glowing a deep sapphire blue.
"Getting more practiced at condensing these things. It's denser now too, and the energy output's stepped up a bit."
Letting the blue ki blast dissipate, Ryū went straight to change into a fresh set of clothes.
Then he turned his attention back to the chat group's feed.
Master Roshi: "Mr. Admin's really handed this old man a puzzle here. Currently busy wrestling a diaper onto little Piccolo Jr. — what a headache!"
Master Roshi: "And next up I'll need to buy formula, baby supplies, talcum powder, the works — just thinking about it is exhausting. This old man's already past three hundred years old, and now I'm a stay-at-home dad on top of it!"
Edward Newgate: "Gurararara, what's wrong with being a father? Though the two of you sure don't match in the complexion department."
Master Roshi: "Plenty's wrong with it! I don't even have a wife, don't even have a girlfriend, and suddenly I'm a stay-at-home dad? Who could handle that?!"
My True Form Is Cola: "It's fine, Roshi-ojii-sama — just power through four or five years. After that he'll basically be weaned and off diapers."
Master Roshi: "Four or five years... I need a minute to process this. This is way too much for one old man..."
RawrSoFierce: "Piccolo Jr.'s got decent potential, actually — down the line in canon he even ends up saving Earth. Raise him like a future savior! Though by the later arcs he mostly ends up standing around in the background, power-wise."
Crazy Diamond: "SHOCKING! Master Roshi suddenly a stay-at-home dad — is this a moral collapse, or a twisting of human nature?"
Master Roshi: "Sigh... only the 35,000 Points I freeloaded off this quest can soothe this poor old man's fragile heart right now."
Crazy Diamond: "...Didn't see that flex coming from Roshi-ojii-sama. Thirty-thousand-plus Points, AAAAH! So salty right now! Chugging lemons like there's no tomorrow!"
I'm Rolling In It: "What does 'chugging lemons' mean?"
Kaguya-sama: "Mr. Stark, looks like you've fallen behind on youth culture."
I'm Rolling In It: "???"
I'm Rolling In It: "Is that some brand-new slang term or something?"
Kaguya-sama: "'Lemon' was a meme from way back already. What's trending now is mashing F to enter the tank."
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