Starting to Eat Clone Soft Rice from Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 49

"Even without the bond of a Familia, Sakura is my family from now on. We are a community of fate that no one can tear apart. If anyone dares to bully Sakura, even if it means returning to the heavens, I'll make them pay!"

At this, Sakura gently smiled and hugged Hestia back, filling the entire inn room with warmth and harmony.

"Alright, it's about time to bestow a Blessing on Siri. Also, Sakura, what does your Blessing Panel look like? Can you show it?"

After waiting a few minutes, seeing that Hestia showed no sign of letting go, An Xiu finally interrupted and asked Sakura.

"Blessing Panel?"

Hearing An Xiu's words, Sakura once again revealed the Blessing Panel on her back, then transcribed it onto prepared paper in a script everyone present could understand.

'Sakura Kinomoto'

lv.1

Strength:[I]0

Endurance:[I]0

Dexterity:[I]0

Agility:[I]0

Magic:[I]0

"Magic"

[Card Creation]

o Item Magic

o Creates cards with various magical powers

o Created cards are permanent and can be granted life

"Skill"

[Talent Beyond Worlds]

o Genius

o Greatly increases growth rate of all stats

o Greatly increases growth rate of Magic stat additionally

o Automatically gains Magic-related Development Abilities over time

That was the Blessing Panel Sakura displayed. The five basic ability stat categories needed no explanation. Each stat was ranked from highest to lowest across ten grades: S, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I. The higher the grade, the stronger the stat.

0–99 was [I], 100–199 was [H], 200–299 was , and so on, with the highest limit being 900–999 at [S].

No matter how strong a person was before receiving a Blessing, all stats on the panel started at zero—only recording improvements made after receiving the Blessing, not counting prior strength. The same applied at each level-up: the panel reset while retaining previous stats, without affecting actual power.

As for the magic and skill information, An Xiu figured it was just for show. After all, since Sakura had already analyzed the Blessing itself, the panel she revealed was naturally filled in by her own hand.

Hestia, however, was deeply impressed by the magic and skill on Sakura's panel.

Magic existed in the DanMachi world, but ordinary magic was worlds apart from the magic recorded on an Adventurer's Blessing Panel by a God's Blessing.

Common magic was merely a tool, while magic awakened through a God's Blessing could be called a miracle incarnate—some even possessing abilities that astonished the gods themselves.

And for Sakura, who could analyze a God's Blessing at a glance and whose talent made even gods tremble, Hestia believed the magic this child wielded was no simple thing.

As for the skill, there was no need to elaborate. Just reading the description made its power clear—a simple, brutal numerical beauty.

"Next, it's time to bestow a Blessing on Siri."

Without Hestia lifting a finger, Sakura personally inscribed the Familia Blessing for Siri. She didn't even need Hestia's divine blood as a catalyst; instead, she used magic to imitate a similar property throughout the process. The final result was indistinguishable from a Blessing inscribed by Hestia herself.

'Siri O'Flaherty'

lv.1

Strength:[I]0

Endurance:[I]0

Dexterity:[I]0

Agility:[I]0

Magic:[I]0

"Magic"

[Creation/Decay]

o Life Magic/Death Magic

o Stimulates and transforms to grant life to all things

o Decomposes and annihilates to grant death to all things

o Magic Enhancement

[Quantization]

o Unknown Magic

Entering a state of quantum entanglement enables instant teleportation, ignoring attacks, ignoring defenses, and other effects.

"Skill"

[One Body, Two Souls]

o Second Personality

o Independent Combat

o All Attribute Growth Doubled

Thus, the Hestia Familia, bearing no essential connection to Hestia herself, was established.

To celebrate, Hestia waved her small hand and declared she would use all her savings to treat Sakura and Seele—her nominal children—and An Xiu to a big meal... of fried potato balls.

After all, she had only been scraping by on part-time work herself, and treating three people to a meal at once naturally meant she couldn't afford anything decent. It wasn't that she was stingy; she genuinely lacked the financial means.

In the end, Seele used the Valis from pawning the gold earlier to treat Hestia to a proper meal at the Rich Hostess restaurant, and she and Sakura discussed their plans and arrangements for entering the Dungeon.

PS: These two chapters cover a lot of exposition, so they might feel a bit padded. Mainly, compared to Arknights, DanMachi's popularity among cat-eared folks is a notch lower, so I need to accommodate readers who aren't too familiar with DanMachi. I can't just jump into the story without explaining anything like I do with Arknights, assuming everyone already knows everything.

Chapter 105: Registering as Adventurers, Entering the Dungeon

The next day, Orario, inside the Guild.

Per Guild regulations, all Familias within Orario must register new members at the Guild after bestowing the Grace upon them. Thus, Seele and Sakura arrived here in the morning.

At this moment, at the service counter in the first-floor lobby.

"Excuse me, could you help Seele and little Sakura register as Adventurers?" Seele asked softly, addressing the Guild staff member at the window.

"Huh? Just the two of you little girls coming to register?" The female half-Elf at work looked somewhat surprised at Seele and Sakura before her.

To be honest, Eina had seen young Adventurers before. Occasionally, some larger Familias would discover children who showed talent from a young age, deemed promising by their patron deity, and brought back to nurture and bestow the Grace upon them.

The most typical example was the famous Miss Ais from the Loki Familia, one of the two most powerful Familias in Orario. Miss Ais had registered as an Adventurer at just over six years old. While Seele and Sakura looked young, the act of registering itself wasn't all that shocking.

What truly struck Eina as odd was why the two girls had no older Familia seniors accompanying them.

"Because it's just a simple registration. Seele can handle bringing little Sakura here without troubling anyone else to come along," Seele said, seemingly reading Eina's puzzlement as the staff member.

Eina nodded at that.

"While that's true, newcomers your age really should stick with adult Familia seniors when acting. Even if you don't plan to go into the Dungeon, running into ill-intentioned Adventurers could be dangerous."

Many rookie Adventurers would recklessly enter the Dungeon right after registering at the Guild, but Eina didn't suspect Seele of lying here.

After all, even the greenest Adventurer should know that going into the Dungeon requires at least a weapon. Neither Seele nor Sakura carried anything, so they likely just came to register, not to head straight into the Dungeon afterward.

"Seele... fifteen years old, Sakura... ten years old. Familia: Hestia Familia..." After a moment spent completing the registration, Eina looked up at the two girls.

"Everything's registered. If you plan to enter the Dungeon later, make sure to team up with a reliable party. Otherwise, going in alone at your age is too dangerous."

Thanking Eina for her kind reminder, Seele and Sakura left the Guild.

But what Eina didn't know was that after leaving the Guild, Seele and Sakura slipped into a secluded corner. Seele then reached out a hand and touched Sakura's body, and in an instant, both vanished from the spot, reappearing inside the Dungeon.

"This is the fifth floor of the Dungeon. Let's explore deeper and find some monsters to take down," Seele said to Sakura beside her.

"Mm, let's head deeper then." Sakura nodded, then pulled out a simple wooden wand from her person.

Since Sakura had only been manifested not long ago, even with active talent development, barely a day had passed. The magic she'd developed in that time wasn't enough to condense the Star Wand like in the original story. As for the Bird Wand Sakura used early on, An Xiu's tight finances meant it hadn't been manifested either. So for now, Sakura had to make do with this small wand bought from some weapon shop.

Fortunately, Sakura wasn't as reliant on a staff as her original counterpart. By actively developing her talent, whether creating Magic Cards, using them, or channeling magic for other purposes, the wand was more a tool to use magic efficiently than an indispensable key.

If she wanted, Sakura could still use her power without a wand. The reason she bothered with a small wand that didn't help much was mainly to keep up appearances and seem more normal.

Seeing Sakura take out her wand, Seele waved her hand and summoned her scythe. Together, they headed deeper into the Dungeon.

The Dungeon was a vast, unique labyrinth divided into floors. The deeper the floor, the larger its area, and the more dangerous the monsters.

That's why Seele had skipped the first five floors with Sakura—those smallest floors held over eighty percent of Orario's Adventurers.

On those early floors, Adventurers practically fought over monsters. The moment one spawned, nearby Adventurers would hunt it down instantly.

So, to avoid the scramble, they had to start exploring at a lower floor.

Sure enough, after leaving the fifth floor and reaching the sixth, no other Adventurers were in sight, and they soon encountered monsters.

"Roar!" From the Dungeon walls, areas that looked like ordinary rock suddenly writhed and split open into several gaps.

From these gaps emerged several creatures resembling wolf-men.

As soon as these monsters landed, their crimson-glowing eyes locked fiercely onto Seele and Sakura.

Golems—common monsters found in the Dungeon's first nine floors—had wolf-like, dog-like heads and sturdy bodies, adept at using sharp fangs and claws to attack Adventurers.

Faced with an encirclement of about six or seven Golems, Seele showed no intention of acting. Sakura, however, wore a serious expression as she extended her hand, a pink card appearing within her grasp.

"Wind, please blow away the filth and sweep away the foes before me!"

Hum...

Under Sakura's magic, the once-dormant card lit up, and a raging gale instantly cleared the surrounding Golems.

The [Wind] Card was one Sakura had condensed from her own magic before entering the Dungeon. Besides it, she also had [Jump] and [Fly]—cards that, like [Wind], boasted high appearance rates in the original work and could be called workhorses.

As one of the four elemental cards—Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind—the [Wind] Card's strength was undoubtedly high. All the Golems perished and dispersed under the gale's sweep, even the Magic Stones they produced reduced to powder.

After dealing with these Golems, Seele and Sakura continued deeper into the Dungeon. Since their primary goal was to let Sakura train her magic, she handled most of the battles herself, with Seele only occasionally swinging her scythe to casually eliminate a few monsters.

PS: I was too tired after getting home tonight, lying in bed in a daze, feeling like I could fall asleep at any moment. I'll update one chapter first, then code the second after I wake up.

Chapter 106: Sakura Barely Lifts a Finger, and It's Already the Limit of the Blessing Panel

A cyan gale howled. Under the [Wind] Card's power, even at just Lv.1, no monster on the Dungeon's first nine floors could withstand Sakura for even a moment.

Goblins, Golems, Battle Shadows, Hedgehog Rabbits, Tongue-Spiked Lizards, Killer Ants...

Sakura and Seele swept from the sixth floor all the way to the ninth, even descending to the tenth to eliminate some Orcs and Imps.

After several hours passed, once Seele sensed that Sakura's magic was nearly depleted, she used Quantization again, directly bringing Sakura back to the Hestia Familia's base—that abandoned church.

By now, it was dusk. Seeing Sakura and Seele return, Hestia, who had just finished her own part-time job and come back, immediately waved happily.

"You're back! You must have worked hard exploring the Dungeon all day. I specially brought you some fried potato balls—eat them while they're hot!"