Their commission was suspicious.

"Yukari Yakumo, don't be upset. I know you want to go to other worlds. After all, your strength is almost at its peak in your world, and your special abilities may evolve because of other worlds."

“I know you often try to slip things to the guests in an attempt to gather intelligence or something. But you have to understand, I’m not letting you travel between worlds for your own good.”

“The rules are different between worlds. Sometimes what is commonplace to the inhabitants of the current world may be poison to you. I almost died on my first time traveling between worlds, so I have a deep understanding of this.”

If it weren't for Chen Luo's divine eye, he probably would have returned immediately upon arriving in the world of Honkai Impact 3, since ordinary people really couldn't withstand the corrosive effects of Honkai energy.

Those Herrschers can't frequently enter Chen Luo's world either; while it's not fatal, it's quite uncomfortable for them.

"You've been at the bar for so long, you should understand my logic. The fact that I didn't let you go when you made a request already proves a lot."

No one would spit out food that's been put in their mouth unless it's extremely unpalatable.

For someone like Yukari Yakumo, who has a strong desire to travel between worlds, if Chen Luo had asked, she would definitely have issued a very rewarding request that would have been easy to complete. But Chen Luo didn't say anything.

On one hand, she was worried about the rejection reaction that Yakumo Yukari might experience if she went to another world, and on the other hand, she was also worried about the other world.

Although Chen Luo didn't consider himself a good person, he was even more certain that Yakumo Yukari wasn't a good person either. Who knows what she would do in another world?

“If there really is a world that would allow you to go there in the future, after investigating it, I might really let you go, but not now, there isn’t such a world right now,” Chen Luo said.

Hearing Chen Luo say all this, a glint flashed in Yakumo Yukari's eyes.

"I can grant you both of these requests, but on the condition that when you help others in Gensokyo fulfill their wishes, you absolutely cannot threaten the overall safety of Gensokyo," Yukari Yakumo said after a moment of contemplation.

Overall, these two incidents caused almost no harm to Yukari Yakumo's own interests.

Since Chen Luo said he would allow me to go to other worlds in the future, there's no need for me to go through all sorts of painstaking tests.

The fact that you can't take things out of the bar, in particular, made Yukari Yakumo feel very upset, which also meant that even if there were transactions, they couldn't be carried out.

"Don't rush, there's a third requirement," Silence said.

"I'm telling you, don't go too far..."

"Alright, don't get so worked up. I won't ask for anything unreasonable. My third request is that you pay for the contract this time," Chen Luo said.

"...Isn't this going too far?"

"Sign it or not, it's up to you." Chen Luo patted the contract.

The rules of the Book of Contracts state that signing a contract comes at a price, though Chen Luo hasn't seen any particularly heavy prices yet.

But if Chen Luo keeps bearing the consequences, he can't take it anymore.

"Tsk, fine, fine, how are you going to pay for this?" Yukari Yakumo asked, pouting unhappily.

"My thing is amazing. As long as you pay a certain amount of valuable items, you can sign a contract. If either party fails to abide by the contract, they will be punished. It has a very high level of enforcement power."

"Oh?" Upon hearing Chen Luo's words, Yakumo Yukari glanced at the Book of Contracts a few more times.

Yukari Yakumo thinks the Book of Contracts is a good thing.

"Are you selling this contract book?"

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"Not for sale! What are you thinking?" Chen Luo refused decisively.

"Wait a minute, you two are discussing this so enthusiastically, aren't you going to ask for my opinion?" Kaguya Houraisan, who had been sitting quietly to the side for half a day, pointed to herself.

“I haven’t even said I want to sign a contract yet,” Kaguya Houraisan said.

“Emmm…” After hearing Kaguya Houraisan’s words, Yukari Yakumo fell into deep thought.

Although Kaguya Houraisan was brought by Yukari Yakumo, Yukari Yakumo wasn't necessarily confident that she could get Kaguya to accept the contract. After all, Houraisan was an ancient being who had lived for countless years, and her cunning was not much less than Yukari Yakumo's.

"Miss Houraisan Kaguya, I wonder if you're interested in isekai (another world) games?"

Kaguya Houraisan's eyes lit up.

Kaguya Houraisan has no interest in intrigue or power struggles, nor in the shady deal between Yukari Yakumo and Chen Luo.

Kaguya Houraisan was just thinking that when the two of them signed the contract, they shouldn't forget about her.

After all, exploring another world sounds like a very valuable thing.

But the problem is that for Kaguya Houraisan, the value of exploring other worlds lies in providing herself with new spiritual nourishment.

If it's another world, there must be all sorts of great works that don't exist in this world, right?

As for achieving a breakthrough by exploring other worlds... do you think breakthroughs are easy?

Besides, since she was also in the know, Kaguya Houraisan didn't believe that Yukari Yakumo could secretly travel between worlds without her knowledge.

Anyway, it seems that Yukari Yakumo and Chen Luo's relationship isn't that close, intimate. If she can go to another world, why can't I?

Is it because Yakumo Yukari keeps saying she's a 17-year-old old lady pretending to be young?

After comprehensive consideration...

"Give me the contract, I'll sign it!" Kaguya Houraisan said, rolling up her sleeves.

“But the game must be fun,” Kaguya Houraisan emphasized.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

【Another World Game】: Please provide a reasonably high-quality otherworld game that doesn't exist in this world.

Reward: 200 Primogems

Difficulty: Two stars

"Don't worry. But since there's no internet connection, I'll probably only be able to play single-player games. Luckily, I have quite a few single-player games here," Chen Luo said.

Since the discussions went relatively smoothly, signing the contract is now a done deal.

According to the contract, Yukari Yakumo is required to pay the price for this.

Yukari Yakumo produced an excellent weapon brimming with demonic power. After being verified by the Book of Contracts, it was confirmed that this item could indeed be used as payment.

"The Muramasa demon sword? This thing is quite famous. I'll take it." Chen Luo threw the demon sword, which was full of demonic power, into his backpack and took out a Honkai Crystal.

Since it's all about paying a price, what can't be paid for? Chen Luo is basically exchanging Honkai Crystals for the Muramasa Demon Sword.

"..."

Watching Chen Luo's outrageous actions, Yakumo Yukari remained silent.

Anyway, Yukari Yakumo doesn't use swords much, and she has plenty of swords like the Muramasa, so she doesn't care.

“Wait, I’ll write the contract,” Yukari Yakumo suddenly said.

"No, I don't believe you." ×2

Chen Luo and Kaguya Houraisan exchanged a glance.

"Who knows if a 17-year-old beauty like you, who's lived for so many years, knows anything about these weird contract signing methods? Everything written on paper counts as part of the contract. So, I can't entrust you with writing things," Chen Luo said.

“Then I…” Kaguya Houraisan raised her hand.

“You’re no good either. You’re a thousand-year-old fox spirit. What are you pretending to be, a little fox?” Yakumo Yukari retorted.

Kaguya Houraisan simply doesn't use her brain much normally; that doesn't mean she's brainless.

Yukari Yakumo herself doesn't really trust Kaguya Houraisan.

The old man is shrewd; isn't it easy for him to use some linguistic traps?

"Then I..." Chen Luo hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

“No,” both Kaguya Houraisan and Yukari Yakumo refused simultaneously.

LOL, if neither of us can do it, why do you think you can just because you're the owner of the Book of Contracts?

And you're the owner of this bar, who knows if you have any special privileges?

For example, I've never heard of that blacklist permission you just mentioned.

So, the people who had reached an agreement on signing the contract fell into a dispute over who should write it.

After Chen Luo got impatient and printed out the contract, the other two spent a long time carefully studying the various clauses in the contract and made many revisions before finally deciding to sign the seemingly problem-free contract.

It can only be said that the three people who are exceptionally good at preventing contractual issues are probably all people who overthink things (wrongly). After all, how would you know if the contract might have problems if you don't overthink things (wrongly)?

"Oh, right, Kaguya Houraisan remembers our agreement before we came here: you can't bring anyone else without my permission." After finally signing the contract, Yukari Yakumo casually mentioned this to Kaguya Houraisan.

“Sure.” Kaguya Houraisan nodded.

"Then... sign a contract?" Yakumo Yukari pointed to the contract book that Chen Luo hadn't put away yet.

"No." Kaguya Houraisan shook her head immediately.

"...I knew you wouldn't keep your promise, but it's not good to just pretend like this, is it? And be careful, or I'll have Chen Luo blacklist you." Yakumo Yukari said, pointing at Chen Luo.

"Please don't drag me into your problems, okay? I'm innocent. This is an internal conflict between people from the same world as you." Chen Luo immediately raised his hand, indicating that he wouldn't interfere.

“You…” Yakumo Yukari glared at Chen Luo.

"Yukari Yakumo, be honest, you don't want me to get involved in the problems between your worlds, do you? I'm just a bar owner, how can I control these things?" Chen Luo said innocently.

"Speak, Kaguya Houraisan, what do you want to do? Don't forget that although we don't have such a contract, breaking the agreement would be bad for both of us." Yukari Yakumo turned to look at Kaguya Houraisan.

“I need to at least be able to tell Eirin. To be honest, I originally intended to break the contract, but I didn’t expect this bar to be so small,” Kaguya Houraisan said, looking around the bar.

Kaguya Houraisan originally thought that Yukari Yakumo's suggestion to take her to a good place, a place that would be quite large, like some kind of secret realm, meant that if she secretly told someone about it, it wouldn't be a big problem as long as she didn't run into anything.

But bars are places you see all the time, there's no way to hide them.

"If you think it's too small, go to another bar," Chen Luo said with a dark face.

Your bar is small, your whole family is small.

To be fair, Chen Luo's bar isn't very big, but it's definitely not small either.

However, Chen Luo's bar is a rather proper bar, without a dance floor or anything like that; otherwise, the area of ​​Chen Luo's bar would probably be larger.

Since she had to live in Gensokyo and couldn't go to other worlds, Kaguya Houraisan was ultimately unwilling to break ties with Yukari Yakumo. So, after agreeing that she could only tell Eirin Yagokoro at most and that Eirin Yagokoro shouldn't tell anyone else, the two of them considered it a compromise.

"Chen Luo, may I borrow your Book of Contracts?" Yukari Yakumo said.

"No loan."

"What?"

"Signing contracts with the two of you is just too exhausting," Chen Luo said with a look of disdain.

For the first time, Chen Luo realized that contracts could be such an inconvenient thing.

"Just borrow it for a bit, I'll pay for it," Yukari Yakumo continued.

With something as convenient as a contract, you can guarantee that the other party won't renege on their promise.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"No... but it's not impossible."

Upon seeing the reward of 100 raw stones, Chen Luo immediately changed his mind.

"Are you going to say 'unless' next?"

“Unless you double the price of the contract, since I also need to pay notarization fees. And considering the damage to the Book of Contracts, you're not losing out,” Chen Luo said.

Chen Luo didn't want to refuse, but since Yakumo Yukari had already said it, Chen Luo felt embarrassed.

As for the damage to the contract book?

The Book of Contracts is intact, and there is no limit to the number of contracts that can be included in it.

Moreover, Chen Luo always had a feeling that the more contracts the Book of Contracts contained, the more powerful the Book of Contracts became.

Although it hasn't come true yet.

"can."

"Huh? I gave you the thing, so why don't you put it away?" Yakumo Yukari looked at Chen Luo with some confusion, noticing that he hadn't taken out any Honkai Crystals to fill the Book of Contracts.

"Uh, the Honkai Crystal we put in when we signed the contract last time wasn't used up, so we can use it again this time," Chen Luo said, his gaze somewhat unfocused.

"..."

Forget it, let's just consider it settling the old debts for drinks and meals.

Yukari Yakumo wasn't angry. After all, the two weapons she had just been given weren't anything particularly valuable to her. The most important thing now was to sign the contract.

Moreover, Yukari Yakumo felt it was quite worthwhile, since it was a contract with extremely strong enforcement power, so spending a little more money wouldn't be a big problem.

Furthermore, perhaps in the future, we can ask Chen Luo to act as a notary for things like contracts a few more times.