Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

"Hmm...you're using this method to avoid my sight."

Even after learning that Himari was watching him this way, Danrito didn't seem to mind. He felt that none of these students had bad intentions. After this period of experience, Danrito seemed to be gradually getting used to life in this city of students.

"Watch it if you want, just don't broadcast it 24 hours a day." Tan Lidou looked at Xiaotao and Xiaolu who had just bought some sausages and came back excitedly. He handed one of them to him and took a bite. "Do you usually use cameras to collect information?"

"That's basically it," Himari admitted quickly. "My 'Paranoia Investigation Department' is in a secret location that can't be detected. Even the network we access has been transferred several times. Mr. Danrito, you should have personally experienced what it's like to invade my location once, right?"

"That time you bombarded me with a cannon?" Tan Lidou's face turned grim. "That's fine now, but next time I catch you, I'll bombard you with a towed howitzer!"

"Hey~ Try to be polite to that genius beauty~" Himari teased, "After all, I've helped you a lot, like now?"

"Now?"

"Let this genius girl be your map guide~" Himari created a vivid miniature Himari on Danrito's phone and opened the map app downloaded on her phone. "Genius Map will guide you~ Just accept it with gratitude. It's not often that a beautiful girl like me can be your guide."

Using herself as a navigation arrow, Himari pointed to their destination on the map in the most intuitive way, and also drew a route to Abydos. However...

"Isn't your route the shortest?" Danrito looked at the road on his phone that passed through a busy commercial district. It was obviously a long detour, but if you really calculated it, it only added about ten minutes to the journey - you could obviously turn right and cross the river bridge, but Himari pointed out a way to go left, cross a busy downtown area, and then take another bridge.

"Hmm~ I didn't say it was the shortest route, did I?"

Himari chuckled, "It's rare to be out with these lovely students. It would be unsociable to just go straight to our destination."

Momo held up her phone, sharing her recent experiences with Yuzu Alice in the chat group. Xiaolu took a bite of sausage and glanced up at Danrito, seemingly wondering who he was talking to. He glanced at the excited faces of Momo and Xiaolu, who were standing beside him, and after a moment, he looked away.

"Just assume that what you said makes sense."

163. Encounter, Encounter Again

"It's so painful—I can't walk anymore..."

Xiao Tao stuck out her tongue, her face full of fatigue. Xiao Lu wiped the sweat from her forehead and turned to Dan Lidou, "Mr. Dan Lidou, don't you need to rest?"

"Actually..." Tan Lidou was about to say that he was a Collapse Body and didn't need to rest, but when he looked at Xiao Tao and Xiao Lu in front of him, and thought about how they had been walking for almost two hours, almost as hard as a march, he softened his tone and said, "The commercial district is just ahead, right? Let's walk there and rest for a while."

"Long live..."

Xiao Tao weakly raised her arms. It wasn't her fault; she barely got any exercise, except for playing games. She relied on delivery, sometimes went to the cafeteria for meals, sometimes got takeout, and bought games from the game store within the school district, just three blocks away. Now, with the convenience of the 'Creator MK1,' she spent her days stuffing it with her half-baked ideas.

Being able to make your own games is awesome! If someone was willing to prepare all the ingredients for you and you didn't have to clean up or do the dishes, you'd definitely enjoy cooking, right?

That's about it. Aside from Alice constantly clamoring for adventures and running around the school, the other three members of the game development team generally lacked exercise. But then again, Alice and Key were both androids and a shattering entity, so exercise would be like squatting in a mech. What good would that do?

"Here, extra milk tea at no extra cost."

"suck---"

The first thing that came up was the milk tea that the students loved. After taking the iced milk tea and sitting under the parasol, Xiao Tao and Xiao Lu took a big sip of the milk tea in their hands, with a look of relief on their faces: "Ah! I'm alive again!"

"As expected of sisters, their expressions are exactly the same." Tan Lidou looked at the two sisters sighing at the same time and smiled: "You two, have you never walked such a long distance before?"

"If you mean walking this far, then there really isn't one." Xiaolu shook her head, and Xiaotao beside her also regained some energy: "But if it's a relative distance, there definitely is one!"

"When?" Dan Lidou asked with interest.

"Of course, it's when the Jelly Game Center launches its points-earning promotion!" Xiao Tao beamed with joy as she spoke of this. "During the entire promotional day, you have to walk around all seven floors of Buildings ABC in the huge mall to participate in the promotions. You have to collect all the points to redeem the final prize!"

"Ah, I remember now." Xiaolu seemed to have remembered something and smiled, covering her mouth. "My sister suddenly burst out with physical strength that she doesn't usually have in order to win the cat pillow and game set. She dragged me and Yuzu around the entire mall."

"By the end, my legs were practically numb. After all, after reaching each point, I had to participate in their little activities." Xiao Tao seemed to remember something, and her eyes became a little helpless again. "Honestly, I don't know what the person who designed that event was thinking - completing thirty activity points in one day, and by the end, my phone recorded tens of thousands of steps. Afterwards, I thought I had gone hiking that day!"

"Hahaha..." Danrito laughed. "So, the final prize is a cat pillow and a game set? What kind of set is it that makes you push yourself so hard?"

"After all, it's a limited-edition prize worth the money... and only the first 100 people can get it." Xiao Tao took another sip of her milk tea. "It's Kivotos' most advanced home game console, the PS6 (PLAY Sister 6), ten game discs of your choice, and four high-end branded cat pillows. When I got it, it was like two oversized cardboard boxes. Even after a tiring day, it felt like it was worth it."

"After all, we couldn't afford a PS6 with our game development department's activity funds back then." Xiaolu also agreed: "The game console that Mr. Danrito sees in the activity room now is the prize that my sister won back then."

"You can only unleash your full potential when it comes to gaming..." Danrito admired Momo's passion for gaming even more. "So, being able to create a cartridge the first time you used the creation machine wasn't just a miraculous coincidence, it was inevitable."

"Mr. Danrito, speaking of Abydos, have their problems been resolved?" Xiaolu asked curiously as she drank her milk tea and felt her body gradually recover. "After all, you said our destination this time was the desert..."

"The debt issue you mentioned last time hasn't been resolved yet. After all, the debt is still in the hands of the Caesars Group." Tan Lidou spread his hands. "But as I said, it's okay not to repay such high-interest loans. As for the other issues, they've been mostly resolved, so there's no need to worry."

The seriously ill child was cured, the child with a shattered halo was revived, the child who was almost reversing stopped, the child whose heart was almost broken no longer had to be broken, the companions who were forced to leave came back, Abydos also had some more infrastructure, some more defensive weapons, and a group of students who were turning over a new leaf. In any case, things were moving in a good direction.

"(bite bite bite) It seems like you've really done a lot, Danrito." Momo held the straw in her mouth and sucked the last of the coconut and agar-agar in the cup into her mouth. "It sounds like there are so few students in Abydos..."

"After all, when I first went there, I could only see two, one of whom was lying in bed." Tan Lidou put down his cup. "Even if many have been rescued now, plus the new recruits, there are only about forty or fifty people in total."

"Forty or fifty people, just one class?" Xiaolu opened his mouth, feeling an indescribable sadness. "Such a large school district, and now there are only a few dozen students... This is too..."

"Pathetic?" Danrito laughed. "Don't worry about that. As long as I support them, Abydos will not disappear."

Xianxun novel: the bar has been the ancestor of the nine worms

"Whether it's lost or buried, it will all come back at the right time." Tan Lidou looked towards the end of the commercial street. In the distance was a bridge that could be seen. After crossing the bridge, the remaining buildings of the Abydos school district were faintly visible.

"Huh? This is... the president?"

A familiar voice sounded from the side. Danrito turned his head and saw a student with black and white hair and a ferocious face looking at him in surprise.

"Kayoko, when did you come?"

Dan Lidou was quite surprised: "Why are you here?"

"Because this is a commercial street close to the DU area, I took advantage of the weekend to come and browse..." Kayoko's surprised expression returned to normal. Alu's Gehenna branch was thriving, so she didn't need to keep an eye on it all the time. Besides, they already had various robot employees and security devices in place. The initial busy days were over, and everyone at Convenience House 68 had returned to their usual routine.

And now, Kayoko heard that there was a good cat cafe here, so she came here to find a place to heal her body and mind, but she found that her president seemed to be dating two cat girls?

"But you, why are you here? And with two thousand-year-old students..." Kayoko seemed to have some inappropriate thoughts in her mind. Her face flushed unnaturally, but then she cut off her delusion: "President, what are you doing now?"

"I'm going to the Abydos school district. I'm tired and want to rest here."

Xianxun: The memory of the spirit of the mortar ③ Qibaba

Danrito showed the empty cup of milk tea in his hand: "As you can see, I've been sitting here for a while." "Going to Abydos..."

Honestly, a faint sense of guilt welled up in Kayoko's heart when she mentioned Abydos. Although they were a mercenary organization operating under the motto of "eternal evil" at the time, attacking Abydos, which had already run out of ammunition and food, still left Kayoko with a faint sense of—uncomfortable—feeling. It was only because Aru thought it was cool, Mutsuki's instigation, and Haruka, who was impossible to control, that she had carried out the operation.

Now, the result is naturally what it is now, with the convenience store completely wiped out and reduced to a mere worker. But after hearing that Abydos is doing well now, and also hearing that Danrito is going there, Kayoko thought for a moment and said:

"Can you take me with you?"

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164. "Field Mission" (5k)

Bringing one more person along wasn't a difficult task, but Kayoko's initiative was beyond Danrito's expectations.

"You're going to Abydos too? Sure, you can take one more person with you."

Danrito had no position or need to stop Kayoko. Since the child asked to come along, he let her come.

"But what are you going to Abydos for?"

Kayoko looked away a little awkwardly: "Just to relax... is that not okay?"

This is a lie~

Kayoko was a unique child, both in the convenience house and even in Gehenna. While the other students were thinking about how to cause more trouble, Kayoko was the only one who was swept up in the big things. But other than that, Kayoko usually just wanted to live a peaceful life—in Gehenna, especially those from the Pandemonium, surprisingly, they didn't catch the troublesome habits of the fun-loving people.

Kayoko wanted to go to Abydos simply to see for herself what the then-dilapidated school looked like now. After all, she was Gehenna's child, so it was only natural that she wouldn't be able to express such caring words before getting to know her well.

"Okay, let's relax." Danrito didn't reveal Kayoko's secret thoughts. She thought she was disguising herself well, but wouldn't it be easy for someone as shrewd as Danrito to see through a group of children? Perhaps only someone as clueless as Makoto wouldn't be able to see through their unhappiness.

"Since it's just a coincidence, Mr. President, I have some news about the Gehenna branch that I need to report to you..."

Sitting in the chair next to Danrito, Kayoko thought for a moment before finding something to start the conversation. She'd previously been the clerical manager at Convenience House 68, so she was naturally adept at handling such matters.

If she hadn't met Dan Rito today, Kayoko would have found a time to report to him about the recent marketing progress of the Gehenna Dream Game branch. Kayoko was very serious about her work.

Rather, Kayoko was reluctant to continue working at Pandemonium due to Makoto's erratic personality and his impulsive actions, as well as Makoto's confusing actions. In addition, Kayoko was very serious and responsible in all other aspects of her work.

"Mr. President, the branch's situation is as follows... income... purchase volume..."

"Hmm, that sounds like it's operating well. However, please note this part... and related matters are like this... If you encounter a situation that this method can't handle, then use..."

The black-and-white-haired girl, who had appeared out of nowhere, had begun a conversation with Danrito, their conversation seemingly spiraling into a direction that Momo and Lu couldn't keep up with. The Saiyu sisters, trying to understand what they were saying, could only make out they were discussing the Dream Games branch in the Gehenna school district. The content, from just listening, sounded like they were about to fall asleep in class.

"Sister, I feel like I don't understand what they're talking about anymore." Xiaolu felt like her eyes were about to turn into a pair of whirlpools. "Gang, was I taking an online class just now?"

"I clearly understand all the individual words, but when they're put together, they become completely incomprehensible..." Xiao Tao was also dizzy, covering her forehead and saying distressedly, "It's so pitiful! She's just a girl the same age as us, how can she discuss such a difficult topic? This is cheating!"

While Momo and Midori lamented their inability to interrupt the conversation between Danrito and Kayoko, the two were also communicating with remarkable efficiency. Intelligent people often speak more succinctly than others. No matter what Kayoko mentioned, he could react quickly and verbally address it—this was the data lifeform's almost incomparable memory ability.

As long as the memory is still in the mind, it can be used at any time, just like a file stored on a computer hard drive. Human memory is inevitably subject to wear and tear and forgetfulness, but this will never happen to the collapse of the body.

By the end, Danrito was still in the same situation as at the beginning, but Kayoko had already pulled out her notebook. She was writing down the things she hadn't had time to remember. This notebook was used to deal with Makoto, the unreliable guy who would act on his whim. If she didn't use a notebook to write things down, Makoto herself might forget what she had said.

"Huh~ That's it, is there anything else you want to say?"

Danrito's verbal approvals were incredibly efficient, so much so that Kayoko was completely convinced. Closing her notebook, Kayoko shook her head in satisfaction, saying, "No more, I've already covered everything I wanted to report."

Be it the expansion of the branch, the ratio of purchase volume, the subsequent sales plan, etc., in the face of Kayoko's questions, Danrito answered every question and made very high-level decisions. Kayoko's evaluation of her president has risen a lot.

"This report with you has confirmed to me that you, Mr. President, are indeed a very capable adult." Kayoko usually doesn't praise others, but today's compliment was from the heart.

"Hahaha~ Do you think my genius abilities are fake?" Tan Lidou couldn't help but laugh out loud. "If you want to be as powerful as me, you're still two hundred years too early!"

"Isn't two hundred years a bit too long?" Kayoko gave him a strange look, then remembered that she seemed to have taken up his personal time. "Have I kept you too long?"

Reporting on work wasn't Kayoko's original intention; she was just looking for something to talk about, and who knew this would just pop into her head? Danrito actually kept on talking about this boring topic. Raising her wrist again, Kayoko saw the hands on her watch had already gone two ticks, and she couldn't help but feel a little apologetic.

"It's okay, there's no rush." ​​Dan Lidou nodded. "But now's a good time to go. Xiao Tao and Xiao Lu look like they're about to fall asleep."

Xiao Tao and Xiao Lu were already starting to feel sleepy after being forced to listen to a long presentation. It felt like the math teacher suddenly launching into a difficult problem in class. The top students in the front row listened enthralled, nodding along, while I, sitting in the back, was left bewildered. And as the teacher's cadences rose and fell, my mind was overwhelmed by an irresistible drowsiness—that was probably what it felt like.

"Huh...? Ah, Danrito and Kayoko-san, are you guys done talking?"

Xiao Tao rubbed her eyes, which were suddenly feeling sleepy, and tried hard to refresh herself. She had just been sitting here for such a long time, and the fatigue from walking for a long time before had subsided. It was a good time to continue on the road!

"Hey hey~ It's time for a talented beautiful girl like me to make another appearance here."

Himari's voice came from Danrito's phone. He raised his phone and saw the miniature Himari still hanging on his phone screen, waving her hand to signal him.

"You haven't left yet?" Danrito looked at the uninvited little guest on his phone and reached out to poke it like he'd poke Arona. However, unlike the powerful function of the Shitei no Kaku, Danrito's phone only supported touch functions. Therefore, this little Hinami didn't have any additional functions.

"A gifted and beautiful girl, a pure and innocent flower of the highest order, has condescended to grace your phone. Mr. Danrito should be incredibly honored by this."

It was that familiar smell again, and the level of narcissism was almost the same as his as the other's. Now Danrito could be said to have met his match.

"If you have something to say, then tell it. If not, then continue on your way."

"Wait, wait~ Don't leave so quickly, listen to me."

Danrito, who had been chatting with Kayoko cheerfully, now coldly gave orders to Himari on the other end of the phone. At this point, Himari finally revealed the real reason why she had asked him to take a detour through the shopping street.

"Actually... I want a limited edition red velvet cake that's only available at the bakery on this street. My drone could have taken care of it, but as luck would have it, all my drones were out on duty today."

Himari's distressed voice came from the other end of the phone, and the mini Himari on the phone screen naturally made a corresponding expression.

"Amy doesn't want to help me. It's obviously just a matter of running errands and buying me a cake. And every time I see the two watermelons on Amy's chest, I can't help but feel resentful~"

As Himari said this, her eyes naturally turned downwards, resting on her chest. Himari could see her toes by looking down; this was her current level. And when she thought of Amy sometimes complaining about shoulder pain from carrying too heavy a burden, her eyes darkened.

"Really? This addition would clearly make my pure and innocent body perfect. Could it be that even the heavens are jealous of my perfect genius?"

"...Why did the topic naturally turn to breasts?"

Dan Lidou was puzzled, and after thinking about it, he gave up trying to understand the girl's thoughts.

"Cake, do you want more?"

"want!"

After answering Danrito's question, Hiruzen didn't forget the question she had asked earlier. After pondering it for a moment, Hiruzen understood it on her own.

"Compared to a flawless flower, one with a slightly imperfect petal will obviously be more eye-catching. So, I am that slightly imperfect, pitiful flower~ Oh~ roo roo~"

"Child, did you take the wrong medicine?"

Danrito looked at the miniature Himari on his phone. She was already pointing him in the direction of the nearest cake shop. But the sound of Himari mumbling to herself echoed through the phone, making Danrito wonder if the brighter the students, the more likely they were to have some serious illness.

"Minister, please don't say weird things while you're working."

Inside the Paranormal Investigation Department's activity room, a screen suddenly lit up. It was a call from Amy, who was on a field mission. "Not only the Director, but I also have monitoring access to the activity room. I heard everything you just said to yourself."

"Hmm~ If you hadn't brought it to me, Amy, why would I have bothered Mr. Danrito? And why would I have even started thinking about this problem? So, it's all Amy's fault for not buying the cake for me."

Himari's comments made Amy chuckle. Knowing her boss's personality well, she responded with a deadpan "haha." "My field work is completely different from that shopping street, almost a full school district away. I don't want to have to travel hundreds of extra kilometers just to satisfy your appetite."

Amy and Himari's usual bickering continued, but this time they'd cut off all communication, leaving only the miniature Himari on the phone, dedicated to giving Danri directions. Following the navigation system to the cake shop, Danri somehow recalled the fight over a limited-edition cake from Trinity's pastry department.