The Shut-In Princess Bought Off by a Game

"Oh dear, what's the purpose of this Black List system at the bar? It seems to be a system that can blacklist people and prevent them from ever entering the bar again. I don't think I've ever used it before, I wonder how effective it is..." Chen Luo suddenly said, feigning surprise.

"... You win, deal." Yakumo Yukari nodded with a dark face.

Chapter 437 The Otaku Princess Bought by Games

"Don't be so eager to close the deal. I haven't finished explaining my conditions yet. Don't think that not asking you to reveal any information is making things difficult for you. In fact, the bar itself has this function, but I feel that if we use this function, it may cause the bar's customers to be in a bad mood, which may lead to a decrease in sales. So, strictly speaking, this is not an excessive request."

"... Then what other requests do you have?"

"My second request is that you can't stop me from going to Gensokyo."

"What are you going to Gensokyo for?" Yakumo Yukari immediately became alert.

"What could I be doing? Of course I'm going to find a mission. What else could I be doing but going to see you?" Chen Luo rolled his eyes at Yakumo Yukari.

"Also, we need to gather information about your world. Just like Kaguya Houraisan was able to recognize Poporon, your world must also have some anime and other things that we don't have. If we encounter such guests in the future, we can start by looking at their interests and customize pleasant commissions for them."

For example, if Chen Luo didn't play Honkai Impact 3rd, he wouldn't be able to quickly help Theresa find her niece.

If Chen Luo hadn't played Honkai Impact 3rd, he wouldn't have known the relationship between the Previous Era and current civilizations, so the resurrection of Cecilia and Yae Rin would have been even more absurd.

Intelligence can be really important sometimes.

"Moona..."

"Yakumo Yukari, don't even think about using that information to exchange for the game in your world. You should know that since others haven't recognized you—because you're somewhat famous—it means that not every world has information on every other world. So you should understand that this level of control is in my hands." Chen Luo pointed to himself.

"Tsk." Yakumo Yukari curled her lip in displeasure.

Yakumo Yukari never expected Chen Luo to be so perceptive.

"Yakumo Yukari, 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 Vision, Chen Luo probably would have returned immediately upon arriving in the world of Honkai Impact 3rd, since ordinary people really couldn't withstand the Honkai energy.

Those Herrscher 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 Yakumo Yukari, 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, Chen Luo 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," Yakumo Yukari said after a moment of contemplation.

Overall, these two incidents caused almost no harm to Yakumo Yukari'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 Yakumo Yukari 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 Book of Contracts.

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?" Yakumo Yukari 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.

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

"Are you selling this Book of Contracts?"

[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, Yakumo Yukari fell into deep thought.

Although Kaguya Houraisan was brought by Yakumo Yukari 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 Yakumo Yukari's.

"Miss Kaguya Houraisan, I wonder if you're interested in Different World) games?"

Kaguya Houraisan's eyes lit up.

Kaguya Houraisan has no interest in intrigue or power struggles, nor in the shady deal between Yakumo Yukari 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 Different World sounds like a very valuable thing.

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

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

As for achieving a breakthrough by exploring Different World... do you think breakthroughs are easy?

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

Anyway, it seems that Yakumo Yukari and Chen Luo's relationship isn't that close, intimate. If she can go to Different 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!]

[Different World Game]: Please provide a reasonably high-quality Different World game that doesn't exist in this world.

Reward: 200 Primogem

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

Yakumo Yukari 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 Demon Blade Muramasa? 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 Crystal for the Demon Blade Muramasa.

"..."

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

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

"Wait, I'll write the contract," Yakumo Yukari 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 doesn't use her brain much normally; that doesn't mean she's brainless.

Yakumo Yukari 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 Yakumo Yukari 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 Black List 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, Yakumo Yukari casually mentioned this to Kaguya Houraisan.

"Sure." Kaguya Houraisan nodded.

"Then... sign a contract?" Yakumo Yukari pointed to the Book of Contracts 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 Black List 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.

"Yakumo Yukari, 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." Yakumo Yukari 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 Yakumo Yukari'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 Yakumo Yukari. 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?" Yakumo Yukari said.

"No."

Why?

"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," Yakumo Yukari continued.

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