Anxiu's Outlook; System Update Complete / The Transmigration Mechanism and Three New Worlds; The Shop's Discount Section Restocks

"It was only a trifling amount of money. Trust me, you would gain far more valuable things from this relationship in the future."

In the blink of an eye, two and a half days passed.

During that time, another major event shook the Jujutsu World. Makima, a high-ranking member of the Jujutsu World, a Tokyo-region sorcerer, and the head of the Director's Council—who had previously been a Grade 1 sorcerer—submitted an application to become a Special Grade sorcerer.

Following the unanimous approval of the Jujutsu World's higher-ups, along with endorsements from the two Special Grade sorcerers, Seele and Gojo Satoru, Makima was confirmed to possess Special Grade strength. With the Director's Council's approval, Makima officially became the Jujutsu World's sixth Special Grade sorcerer.

For a time, the Jujutsu World's lower- and middle-ranking sorcerers were shaken once again.

After all, excluding Geto Suguru, the Special Grade sorcerer who had defected from the Jujutsu World and become a curse user years ago, the Jujutsu World now possessed a full five Special Grade sorcerers: Gojo Satoru, Tsukumo Yuki, Okkotsu Yuta, Seele, and Makima.

Looking across recent years, this was undoubtedly the strongest period in the entire Jujutsu World's history. The Jujutsu World was visibly flourishing!

Near noon, Ginza, central Tokyo.

On this commercial street known as the most prosperous and expensive in all of Asia, a black luxury sedan pulled up by the roadside.

As the car door slowly opened, Makima stepped out. Rarely shedding her work attire, she had changed into a casual outfit.

A white women's blouse, black slacks, and a pair of black high heels with gold soles. She seemed less stern and serious than she did at work, yet still exuded the bearing of someone in power. Combined with her beautiful face, she drew frequent glances from passersby.

Behind Makima stood Miwa Kasumi and Nishimiya Momo, both dressed in matching suits as they followed her.

"Um, Lady Makima, is it really okay for us to come out like this during work hours?"

Miwa Kasumi asked Makima uneasily.

For this honest girl, who might never even have lied to anyone before, skipping work with her superior like this was seriously beyond her limits.

Although Lady Makima was now both a Special Grade sorcerer and the head of the Director's Council, and oversaw all sorcerer-related affairs in Tokyo, making her the unquestioned authority in the entire city—someone who could make the Jujutsu World tremble just by stomping her foot—Miwa Kasumi still felt that this was improper.

"I've already assigned all the work on the Director's Council's side. I no longer need to be involved in the remaining tasks, so naturally, I should make good use of the time I've saved."

Makima spoke with a smile.

"All right, let's go over there first. It seems the person we're waiting for hasn't arrived yet."

And so, the three women, each with their own distinct style, stood beside the street and waited for nearly ten minutes.

Finally, a voice came from afar.

"Sorry, I'm a little late. I didn't keep you waiting long, did I?"

An Xiu walked over and greeted the three of them.

Naturally, his gaze was mainly focused on Makima, who had changed into a completely different style of outfit.

An Xiu's Views, System Update Complete

Inside a large shopping mall, Miwa Kasumi and Nishimiya Momo each held a cup of milk tea as they followed far behind An Xiu and Makima.

Honestly, they had never expected that after becoming Makima's guards, their first time accompanying their superior outside would be on a date.

This counted as a date, right? Deliberately making time on a workday to go shopping with someone of the opposite sex—what else could it be if not a date?

Miwa Kasumi and Nishimiya Momo had some impression of An Xiu. He was the man who usually appeared alongside Lady Seele and seemed to live with her. They had heard that he possessed the strength of a Grade 1 sorcerer. Though he could not compare to a Special Grade like Lady Makima, he was still extremely formidable.

However, An Xiu often appeared as Seele's accessory, so he did not have much of a presence in the Jujutsu World. Their impression of him went no further than that. They only knew even this much because he had appeared at the Inter-school Exchange Event before, prompting the two girls to ask around specifically.

Before An Xiu arrived, they would never have imagined that he was the person Lady Makima had specifically come out to meet.

They had assumed that a woman like Lady Makima, who normally showed no warmth toward men around her, took her work so seriously and responsibly, and held such a high position, simply would not have an intimate relationship with any man.

Still, this was Lady Makima's private matter. As insignificant figures, they had neither reason nor qualification to interfere, so all they could do was silently offer their blessings.

Thinking that, Miwa Kasumi lightly took a sip of her milk tea, then revealed an intoxicated expression.

"Ah, milk tea is so delicious. I'd never had it before. It really is sweet—my friends didn't lie to me."

Although it was somewhat embarrassing to admit, due to her family's financial circumstances, Miwa Kasumi had long heard of milk tea, a drink widely discussed among women, but had never been able to try it. This was her first time drinking it.

"Kasumi, you're exaggerating."

Nishimiya Momo looked helpless, but she did not say much else. Instead, she too happily took a sip of her milk tea.

After all, Lady Makima had even brought them along on her date. What did that mean? It meant Lady Makima valued them. She did not see them as minor characters recruited on a whim, but truly treated them as her own people.

Even the milk tea in their hands had been bought by Lady Makima. Lady Makima treated them far too well. No wonder everyone in the Director's Council was so respectful toward her.

However, the two girls clearly did not know that while they were praising Makima in their hearts and whispering to each other, Makima, walking in front of them, was also whispering with An Xiu.

"What does Master think of the two children behind us?"

With a faint smile on her face, Makima asked An Xiu in a low voice.

"Don't make it sound like you're trafficking people. By the way, how did you find them?"

"They were characters who appeared in the original story, and they're both very cute girls, so I used a few methods to recruit them as guards."

"Does Master not like them?"

An Xiu shook his head.

"It's not that I dislike them. They were female characters I liked quite a lot when I watched anime in my previous life, so of course I like them. But not enough to the point that I absolutely have to get them."

Or rather, after gaining clones, An Xiu still liked all sorts of two-dimensional beauties he had liked in his previous life, but he no longer had that fanatical urge to call them his wives at every turn.

On the contrary, after becoming real people, those female anime characters seemed somewhat troublesome to An Xiu compared with his clones.

Setting aside their various complicated personality settings, just the clashes caused by characters with different characterizations interacting with each other were enough to make one's head hurt.

An Xiu was an extremely greedy devotee of universal love. If he truly transmigrated into a two-dimensional world and had the ability, he would definitely build a harem. After all, he was the kind of scumbag who wanted them all as long as he liked them.

But how many original characters could accept such an idea? Even if An Xiu were truly omnipotent, capable of both winning over the characters and making them reluctantly accept it, he would have to pursue new characters while placating the old ones, with the risk of everything blowing up if he made a single mistake. On top of that, there were all the problems caused by conflicts between different characters. Just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

In comparison, the clones manifested through the system could accept his ideas, would not create conflicts with one another, and most importantly, were connected to An Xiu's heart and mind. He did not need to think too much when getting along with them in daily life, unlike when dealing with outsiders, where he had to watch out for all sorts of issues.

Unless it was a no-strings-attached hookup, no matter how perfect a two-dimensional beauty was, she could not compare to a clone in An Xiu's eyes.

"To put it plainly, Master resists the characters he once liked because he likes them, cares about their feelings, believes he must take responsibility if a relationship develops, and is convinced that no one besides us clones could accept Master's ideas."

"From that perspective, at least Master isn't a scumbag."

Makima understood An Xiu's thoughts perfectly. After all, their clones not only possessed the original characters' memories, but also An Xiu's own memories.

It could be said that every clone manifested by An Xiu, whether Seele or Makima, understood him as well as he understood himself. His preferences, his kinks, even his reactions and thoughts in various situations—the clones all generally understood them.

The reason it was only generally was because people changed. These clones only possessed An Xiu's memories up until the moment they were created.

Therefore, Makima, who could easily see through to the essence of things, knew from the start that An Xiu did not dislike the "gifts" she had brought. He was merely worried that the gifts themselves could not accept it, and did not wish to hurt characters he had once loved in his previous life.

"Master need not worry about that. People's views are things that can be changed very easily. Being unable to accept something now does not mean they will be unable to accept it in the future."

"If Master wishes to hold to his principles, he can simply wait patiently until the day they are willing to accept Master of their own accord."

"Until then, just act as though these two cute children do not exist."

Hearing Makima's suggestion, An Xiu nodded.

Indeed, in the end, whether he accepted it or not depended entirely on him, the original body. He did not have such thoughts right now, so he would just act as though nothing had happened.

And so, An Xiu and Makima leisurely strolled through the large mall, occasionally buying things they liked.

Suddenly, a notification sounded beside An Xiu's ear.

"Ding! The system's 72-hour online update has ended. New functions have been activated. Please inspect them yourself, Host."

PS: There will be another chapter before six o'clock.

The Transmigration Mechanism and Three New Worlds, Shop Discount Section Refreshed

"The system update is complete?"

Upon hearing the notification beside his ear, An Xiu exchanged a glance with Makima and did not choose to inspect it immediately.

After all, there were too many people around. It would be better to wait until they got back before checking the new functions added after the system update.

And so, An Xiu and Makima continued wandering through the mall. Aside from shopping for herself, Makima also picked out several sets of men's clothes for An Xiu.

An Xiu's taste in this area was certainly no match for Makima's, so he simply accepted them. Then he watched Makima swipe her card amid the saleswoman's astonished gaze, successfully earning the envious, jealous, and resentful stares of a group of passing men.

After shopping, An Xiu and Makima had lunch outside together and visited several famous Tokyo attractions. Whenever they saw something they liked, they bought it directly, with Makima paying for every expense.

For Makima, who had now controlled the Jujutsu World's entire upper echelon, money was truly nothing more than a string of numbers. In the original story, even the Zenin clan, one of the three great families, had sayings like five hundred million for Playful Cloud and one billion for Fushiguro. The Zenin clan head could casually produce one billion in liquid funds without looking remotely strained. The funds Makima could mobilize after controlling the entire upper echelon of the Jujutsu World would only be greater.

In the evening, after seeing An Xiu back to his villa, Makima bid him farewell and returned to the Director's Office with Miwa Kasumi and Nishimiya Momo following behind her.

Having finally returned home, An Xiu opened the system interface and began examining the new functions added in this system update.

The moment he opened the system, the first thing that appeared before him was an update notice.

System Version 2.0 Update Announcement

1. The system points acquisition ratio has been adjusted. Points obtained through daily living-off-women actions have increased. A multiplier mechanism has also been added. When living-off-women actions occur with female characters who possess higher overall ratings, the points reward triggered will receive an additional increase based on that character's rating.

2. A world transmigration function has been added. Whenever the Host accumulates a certain number of points, the Host will gain an opportunity to unlock a new world. After unlocking a new world, the Host and the Host's clones may freely travel between different worlds.

3. A resurrection mechanism has been added. When a clone dies, the Host may resurrect that clone after twenty-four hours. When the Host dies, a surviving clone may resurrect the Host after twenty-four hours.

Looking at the update details in the notice, An Xiu stroked his chin.

First was the multiplier mechanism. The points gained from daily living-off-women actions had increased, while living off female characters with higher ratings would yield an additional increase in points.

"System, how is this rating calculated?"

"Ding. A female character's rating is calculated from multiple factors, including appearance, strength, power, wealth, and status. The more outstanding a female character is in the above aspects, the higher her rating will be."

"Then if a female character's rating is low at first, but she later gains greater strength, power, wealth, or status, will her rating increase?"

"Ding! Ratings change in real time based on the character's current circumstances."

"Understood."

After hearing the system's explanation, An Xiu nodded and continued reading the remaining update details.

There was nothing much to say about the resurrection mechanism. Perhaps the system had seen how much he was lying flat and deliberately given him insurance? It was rather considerate.

What An Xiu cared more about now was the transmigration function.

After exiting the update notice, An Xiu immediately saw that among the system's many function options, a new interface labeled "Worlds" had appeared.

Upon entering the new interface, a map page with an endless void as its background, somewhat resembling the maps in certain war-crime games An Xiu had played in his previous life, appeared before him.

At this moment, there was only one glowing green dot on the entire map, indicating An Xiu's current location. Beside it was the label: Jujutsu Kaisen World.

Aside from that, the entire page was pitch-black. Only in the upper-right corner was there an option to unlock a new world. It showed one available use, and beside it was a progress bar displaying 500,000 points. The current progress was zero.

"Continuing to accumulate another five hundred thousand points will grant me permission to unlock another new world?"

Looking at this simple interface, An Xiu immediately understood what it meant.

Was the one use for unlocking a new world a free gift after the update, or was it granted after he had previously accumulated one hundred thousand points?

If it was the former, then it meant each new world would only require the accumulation of five hundred thousand points to unlock. But if it was the latter, it meant the cumulative points required to unlock each subsequent new world would multiply.

"But there's no point thinking about that now. Five hundred thousand points will probably take me quite a while to save up anyway. For now, I'll unlock a new world once and see."

After clicking the unlock-new-world option in the upper-right corner, three new points of light immediately appeared on the system page, not far from the Jujutsu Kaisen world where An Xiu currently was.

Without a doubt, these three points of light represented three new worlds.

After clicking on them, information about the three worlds appeared before An Xiu.

The three new worlds were: Arknights, One-Punch Man, and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

"So it's these three worlds."

Looking at the three points of light representing new worlds before him, An Xiu fell into thought.

Compared to a world like Jujutsu Kaisen, whose overall combat power was not high and whose level was clear at a glance, the waters of these three worlds were undoubtedly far deeper.

Among them, the world of Arknights was a two-dimensional mobile game An Xiu had played in his previous life. It told the story of an organization called Rhodes Island saving a land called Terra, a massive cesspit of a world.

On the surface, its power level was not especially high. Though it was considerably stronger than the Jujutsu world An Xiu was currently in, it was not absurdly powerful. Of course, that was only on the surface.

In reality, there was a whole pile of world-ending crises in the background. Besides the Originium openly displayed before everyone, there were also the Reaper of Death, Demons, and Lumberjacks. Every one of them possessed exceptional abilities.

As for One-Punch Man, there was even less need to say anything. The final villain of every arc was basically planet-busting level, and there was also a God of unknown strength who certainly would not be weak. Fortunately, Saitama, the protagonist, was there, so there was no need to worry about an actual world-ending crisis occurring.