—"Aren't you going to see our First Mate?"
Yu Xunge, whose schedule was already packed to the brim, said, "Next time for sure. I'll go see her when I'm back."
Furious Moon at her side began flashing cheerfully.
This blatant mockery enraged the ship's helm. It spun as it flew toward the lantern, but the lantern was not afraid of it. They were both SS-rank now—could it really one-shot it?
The ship's helm and lantern chased and fought each other around Yu Xunge, the helm's handle and the lantern's ring occasionally striking Yu Xunge.
Yu Xunge asked with a dark expression, "Are you two doing this on purpose, or by accident?"
Tulan sneered. "This is what happens when you keep bringing things home! We agreed from the start that I didn't care what you did outside, as long as you didn't make a mess in front of me. And now? Look at this home. What a disaster it's become!"
Yu Xunge said, "...Have you recently switched from the entertainment section to the marriage section?"
Tulan whistled and avoided Yu Xunge's gaze.
When they ate dinner together that evening, Tulan asked, "Are you really not going to rest for a while?"
They had gone through two consecutive Godly Games of extreme difficulty. One misstep could wipe out all their accumulated progress. Games such as Little Painter and KartRider now seemed like minigames compared to the Nonsense Restaurant and Building Blocks and Me. They were simply incomparable.
The top five thousand of the Ladder Ranking had been completely reshuffled.
No, rather than a reshuffle, it was more accurate to say that everyone had collectively fallen back.
The clearest sign was that only seventeen 19th Tier Overlords remained.
The rankings of "acquaintances" like Mistblade, Maple Sugar, and Pine Rose had also changed considerably.