Crossover Anime: From DanMachi to Becoming a Garbage Scavenging Master

The afternoon light shone into the room and fell on the head of a white-haired young man.

The soldier stared down at the letter hidden beneath his scabbard, his blue eyes calm as still water. The messenger had vanished without a trace, as if he had never been there.

He opened the letter, which read: "I'll stake my name as the best in Japan! Tomorrow at noon, Ganryu Island—Nanami Maniwa, the Octopus, awaits you."

Such an old-fashioned style.

Qiong Baibing stared at those lines of text for a while, then smiled.

—He's an interesting opponent, though.

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Noon the next day.

The fallen swordsman, Saibai, stood in the center of Ganryu Island. His thin sword, Needle, was slung across his back, his eyes were lazy yet composed, and he was like a sword that had not yet been drawn, its sharpness fully concealed in its sheath.

He squinted slightly, waiting for the appointed moment to arrive, and also waiting for the challenger to arrive.

Soon after, a figure slowly walked towards them from a distance.

It was a woman. Her form-fitting ninja attire accentuated her lithe figure. She carried a katana on her back, and an octopus-patterned mask covered half her face, revealing only one eye. Her long, dark green hair fluttered gently in the sea breeze, and her features were so exquisite that they seemed to have been meticulously sculpted.

However, such beauty did not arouse the slightest interest from the fallen swordsman.

The white-clad soldiers made the first move.

He stomped his foot and used the "Explosive Shrinking" footwork, instantly closing in on the challenger. The next instant, his sword-drawing slash, "Ikkyuu no Mochi," had already drawn a sharp arc.

As the blade flashed, he uttered his favorite phrase with the composure of a victor:

"Please fall for me!"

However, the next moment, his eyes widened slightly, and what he had been struck was merely an afterimage.

The opponent was actually a master of the same level!

"Such elegant swordsmanship must have taken a lot of time and effort to master."

The woman's voice came faintly from behind the afterimage, her tone even carrying a hint of envy.

The distance had closed to the point of hand-to-hand combat.

The white-clad soldier made another move.

He used the "Speed ​​and Deflation Sword," a sword technique that uses visual illusion to make the blade appear to extend or retract at will. The blade flashed, sometimes long, sometimes short, its trajectory unpredictable.

However, the woman never drew her knife; she simply raised her hands.

Each time the blade approached, she deftly deflected it with incredibly precise movements, dismantling each attack one by one, like dismantling a mechanism.

The white-clad soldier finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"How dare you treat me with such disrespect!"

Just as the opponent used their hand to deflect the blade's trajectory again—

Suddenly, the soldier exerted force, and the hilt and scabbard reversed simultaneously, unleashing his signature move, "Reversed Dream Slash," at extremely close range.

However, the woman's expression remained unchanged, as if all of this was expected.

She suddenly stepped back, gently pulled herself apart, covered her face with her hand, widened her eyes, and said calmly:

"Your skills have long been exposed before my eyes!"

Qin Baibing felt his blood rush to his head instantly, and he said:

"In that case, please enjoy my special skill: the Thin Blade Opens the Eye!"

next moment.

A silver-white slash suddenly erupted, and the entire Yanliu Island seemed to be struck by the light of the heavens. A huge crack extended from the feet of the soldier and pierced through the entire island.

However, after he sheathed his sword—

He then realized that the woman had appeared behind him at some point.

Her sword was already drawn, with a faint red stain on the blade.

As the sea breeze blew, Ganryu Island suddenly became quiet.

Qian Baibing looked down and noticed a very thin line of blood on his clothes.

Ah, so that's my blood, he thought to himself.

The ninja calmly said:

"By the time I make my move, you will already be... a dead man."

The white soldier was silent for a moment, then smiled softly.

"I see……"

"Is the distance between us and truly being number one in Japan really that far?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the thin line of blood suddenly widened.

The next instant—blood erupted from his entire body.

The earth behind him also completely cracked, truly splitting the entire island in two.

The soldier's body slowly fell to the ground, while the woman had already sheathed her sword, as if nothing had happened.

The sea breeze started blowing again.

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Copy Ninja Nanami

Episode 1, End.

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"What an elegant battle, Nanami!"

As Zheng Tianxing spoke, he sketched lines on the manuscript paper. The pen tip moved across the paper, quickly outlining the silhouette of a two-dimensional ninja—long hair, a mask, and ninja attire that clung to his body.

Nanami stood to the side, slightly turned to the side, watching him draw.

Not long after, she muttered to herself:

"As expected, Lord Tianxing is just like my father, a perverted long hair fetishist."

"They even made me wear a ninja bodysuit and say some weird lines, like Koss isn't tired or something, and that he's a weirdo."

Tianxing glanced at her. Her face, which had been as pale as a doll's, now had a touch of color, gradually regaining some of its vitality. So he casually said:

"It's all for art! Even I, a god, am just a pitiful person trying to make a living after descending to the mortal realm. Only characters with distinct personalities can win over readers and make novels sell well."

Tianxing continued to add shadows to the drawing.

"Such a classic character design is perfect for this project; it would be a shame not to use it."

"And you truly look beautiful in this style; you can be proud of it! This is a blessing from the gods!"

"Besides, you enjoyed the battle at noon, didn't you? Alphia and the others also witnessed the majesty of the Master of the Normal School from afar!"

Nanami did not respond, but simply raised the thin blade, Needle, letting it dangle in mid-air. The faint light shone through the slender blade, like a wisp of light that had condensed but not yet dissipated.

"You can roughly learn a sword technique just by watching it being used. The Thin Blade Needle is a sword that can only be swung along a predetermined trajectory. It's the worst combination for that samurai."

Tianxing casually asked, "How did his swordsmanship feel?"

Nanami thought for a moment, her tone remaining calm.

"Just barely passing. Swift and Slow Sword, Reversal Dream Slash, they're just basic techniques. Only that Thin Blade Opens the Eye move is somewhat interesting."

She paused briefly, then added, "Perhaps possessing the ability to learn from others is meant to weaken me... The more diverse my knowledge, the weaker I become."

She suddenly looked up at Tianxing.

"Does Lord Tianxing not use a sword in battle?"

Tianxing put down his pen and stretched.

"I'm not good at fighting; I only know some simple katana techniques. Those are techniques for slaying giant monsters, unlike the Kyoto-ryu style. They weren't created for fighting humans. And isn't my sword you?"

Nanami watched Tianxing quietly for a while, as if she was thinking seriously.

"So that's your enemy? Things are getting a little interesting." She pressed her hand to her chest and said, "Is this what it feels like for someone who wants to work hard?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly coughed softly. Her slender shoulders trembled slightly, clearly indicating that she had overexerted herself in the midday battle and her body was beginning to break down.

Tianxing handed over a bottle of "Hot Floating Milk"—a new recipe that Black Tower had recently added to the Universal Synthesizer.

Nanami took the cup and drank it in small sips.

After a short while, her complexion improved significantly, and she then carefully provided user feedback:

"This milk is much more effective than the hawthorn pills from last time."

Seeing Nanami holding up an empty baby bottle, Tenko suddenly remembered his "garbage scavenging" situation over the past month.

Three hundred pulls, and I only got a few rule fragments. With the drop rate constantly dropping, it seems I've practically scavenged all the junk around DanMachi. If this continues, my progress will definitely be slowed down.

We need to find a way to resolve this.

Not far away, the figure of the Black Tower emerged from the ring. She first glanced at the thin sword, Needle, in Nanami's hand and casually commented:

"A weapon that incorporates a trace of the 'cutting' rule? That's interesting."

Then, she turned to Tianxing and said, "The recipe for the Universal Synthesizer has been updated. This time, several recovery foods have been added—Hot Floating Milk that can heal fatal injuries in the dying, Lotus Root Cake that restores magic power, and Tapir Roll and Jade Bird Skewers that replenish life force."

She paused for a moment, then asked, "How was the hot milk pudding you just took?"

Tianxing smiled and said, "The user experience is good. However, the quality of the trash we've been picking up lately has noticeably declined. Is there any better way to address this?"

Black Tower shrugged.

"I've only designed the tools for you. You'll have to figure out how to use the abilities yourself."

She thought for a moment and then added, "Perhaps we could try using rule fragments as bait? After all, this broken world and the DanMachi world have both shown a clear desire for the rule fragments you obtained before."

Tianxing thought for a moment and nodded.

"Let's give it a try then. Keep a few as spares, and you can use the rest for your experiments."