Summoning Rem

[Calculating...]

[The popularity of "Superman: Man of Steel" is continuing to decline. "Pirate King" is exploding in popularity and shows signs of becoming a phenomenon, while "Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World" has become a bible for niche readers...]

[Current reputation points: 7,700.]

[Lottery: A ten-pull currently costs 1,000 reputation points. Accumulate 100,000 reputation points to upgrade the lottery mechanism.]

"The lottery can be upgraded too?"

Li Chen was tempted, but saving up 100,000 points would take far too long.

For someone like him, unless he chopped off his hands... how could he resist doing ten-pulls?

Luckily, he didn't have to save up 100,000 points. Otherwise, Li Chen thought he'd never manage to upgrade it in his lifetime.

"Today's a good day. I'm not going to the company."

He was just that willful. If he didn't feel like going to work, he didn't go.

Of course, he didn't recommend that anyone else follow his example.

Li Chen made a point of bathing, burning incense, and paying respects to all the gods and Buddhas, just as devoutly as when he'd pulled for characters in Neverness to Everness back in the day.

Only then did he select a ten-pull with trembling hands.

Although the system's lottery didn't have a guaranteed reward for ten-pulls like a game, ten-pulls were fast!

Dying fast was still fast!

[Better luck next time!]

Nothing!

Li Chen cursed up a storm, but quickly pulled a Sichuan opera face change and broke into a grin.

[Congratulations to the host on obtaining Rem summon fragments ×3.]

[Congratulations to the host on obtaining Adjutant Faora summon fragment ×1.]

Four fragments in one ten-pull. The drop rate wasn't bad.

Li Chen felt his luck was good and did another ten-pull.

His reputation points instantly dropped by two thousand, but he got something.

[Congratulations to the host on obtaining 'Blessing of First Strike'.]

[Blessing of First Strike: The first attack is guaranteed to hit the enemy.]

"Awesome, it's even a conceptual skill!"

Li Chen was overjoyed.

What kind of overpowered skill was this? Even if Batman showed up, he'd be sure to get hit by it... right?

Ahem, the thing was, Batman was a freak too. Even Superman couldn't dodge Darkseid's Omega Beams, but Batman? One roll and he dodged them...

So that's what people meant by invincibility frames on a roll?

The ten-pull wasn't over yet, and Li Chen felt his luck was good.

[Better luck next time.]

[Better luck next time.]

[...]

After eight of those in a row, Li Chen was about to have a brain hemorrhage.

"Did some game company set these odds?"

Li Chen instantly remembered pulling in a legendary event in CrossFire in his previous life. One ten-pull after another had given him nothing but points, and a guaranteed legendary weapon had cost several thousand yuan.

Luckily, the last pull was some consolation.

[Congratulations to the host on obtaining basic Observation Haki.]

"Better than nothing."

Li Chen sighed. He already had the Kryptonian Bloodline, so even the best Observation Haki wouldn't be much use to him.

Ever heard of super hearing?

"Well, this luck isn't too bad. Let's keep going."

Li Chen had no intention of saving his reputation points. Spend them as soon as he got them and go straight for ten-pulls—that was the right way to do it.

And so, he went straight into one ten-pull after another.

[Better luck next time.]

[...]

[Congratulations to the host on obtaining Ram summon fragments...]

About half an hour later, Li Chen had only 700 reputation points left, having made seventy pulls in ten-pulls.

By then, he was both exhilarated and somewhat bored.

The lottery was so much fun, and just like that, he was out of points.

All right, Li Chen simply liked the thrill of the lottery, never knowing what the next pull would bring.

Although most of them were [Better luck next time], he had gotten some good things.

Like a pile of fragments.

Besides Ram and Rem's fragments, he'd also gotten fragments for Nami and Robin from Pirate King.

Most importantly, he'd managed to complete one set of summon fragments. His luck had gone through the roof at the end, and he'd gotten several in a row.

[Rem summon fragments ×10 collected. Rem can be summoned at any time.]

"Will there be any problems if I summon Rem?"

Li Chen asked the system, but there was no response.

The system didn't have a shred of intelligence, not even artificial stupidity, which actually put Li Chen at ease.

After all, there were too many great powers in this kind of world. What if someone was messing with him?

Since he had no answer, Li Chen could only do his best.

To prevent any accidents, he summoned her not inside the house, but in the garden outside the manor.

[Summon Rem?]

"Yes!"

Li Chen grew curious. What form would the summoning take?

Would she come down from the sky like a superhero?

After he confirmed, a pattern resembling some kind of church ritual appeared on the ground in front of him.

Then a brilliant light burst forth.

When the light faded, a blue-haired girl who didn't even reach Li Chen's shoulder stood prettily before him. Rem wore the maid outfit Li Chen knew so well, her blue bangs covering her right eye as she looked at him nervously with her uncovered eye.

"Y-you're my new master?"

Rem's voice was nervous.

Noticing her nervousness, Li Chen immediately gave her a gentle smile. "Yes, Rem. As much as I don't want to say this, I have to tell you that I'm a good person."

What kind of good person says they're a good person?

It seemed only bad people said that.

Rem made that comment to herself, but nodded. "All right, Master."

"Come on, let's go home."

Li Chen held out his hand to her. Rem hesitated for a moment, then took her master's hand and regained her composure and calm.

Now that she was here, she might as well make the best of it.

Her hand was a little cold, but Li Chen paid it no mind.

He hadn't noticed it in the manga, but now that he saw Rem, he realized how petite she was.

She was only 154 centimeters tall, but her strength was not to be underestimated. She was an Oni, so she could fight too.

Rem followed behind Li Chen with a calm look in her eyes, surveying her new home.

Hmm, the flowers and plants in the garden need trimming, and the house hasn't been properly cleaned either...

Rem couldn't quite stand it. "Master, I'll go clean up."

"Don't rush."

Li Chen hadn't expected her to be in such a hurry. Instead, he asked, "Can you tell me how you were summoned here?"

Li Chen was very curious about that. He didn't know whether Rem had been created out of thin air or had truly crossed over from another world.

Rem replied, "I was cleaning with my sister. She was putting clothes away, and I was mopping the floor. Then I felt dizzy, and when I opened my eyes, I was here."

"A voice in my head told me that you summoned me here, Master, and that I must follow your instructions."

After saying that, Rem fixed her eyes on Li Chen and asked, "Master, can you summon my sister here?"

Li Chen realized he'd forgotten that Rem was an out-and-out 'sistercon'.

She had a tragic past. Her family had all been killed by the Witch Cult, leaving only her sister Ram to depend on as they grew up. Now that her sister was gone, it was only natural for her to be upset.

"Don't worry. Even if you hadn't asked, I'd have brought her here."

Li Chen gave her his word.

Ram and Rem had to be together. He said so!

A rare hint of a smile appeared on Rem's face, and then she said coolly, "Thank you, Master."