The Vibe of This Chat Group Is a Little Different Chapter 20

Steel Prison Big: Wrong. I'm not keeping this reward for myself alone.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Huh? What are you saying?

Steel Prison Big: If not everyone can be Heracles, then what's the point of me becoming Heracles alone? So I've decided! I'm splitting Heracles into six parts!!

Qianyi takes out the full Heracles set he drew, stuffs it into a red envelope, and sends it to the group members.

Steel Prison Big: Artoria, you performed well in this battle. Heracles' weapon, the Sword of Heracles, is yours.

Child of Prophecy: Huh? For me?

Steel Prison Big: Talulah, you've given a lot. Heracles' armor, 'Divine Beast Fur' and 'War God Belt,' are yours.

Talulah: No, no, no. You've already helped me so much. Giving me this too would make me feel terrible.

Steel Prison Big: Seele, you're skilled in speed. The ultimate poison that killed Heracles, Hydra's Poison, is yours.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: How come even I get something?

Steel Prison Big: Hiiragi Tina, you're good at turning things into monsters that obey your commands. Heracles' summon beasts—'Diomedes' Man-Eating Horses,' 'Stymphalian Birds Arrow,' and 'Hound of Hades'—are yours.

Steel Prison Big: Kiana, Heracles' Body is yours.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Yay! Qianyi, you're the best!

Steel Prison Big: Toyokawa Shoko, you've had it the hardest. Heracles' Twelve Trials are yours.

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: Huh? You really don't need to give me anything. By the way, Qianyi, you're not going to give everything away again and leave nothing for yourself, are you? I remember you should be the one who needs to strengthen your body and survival skills the most. Heracles' Twelve Trials, with its twelve lives, would be most useful for you.

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service sends a red envelope to Steel Prison Big.

She stuffs most of what Qianyi gave her back in, keeping only one gold bar for herself. That's enough to cover her costs and then some.

Steel Prison Big: No need. I kept the better stuff for myself—Heracles' Divinity and the Noble Phantasm 'Heavenly Wind Usurper (Reincarnation Pandora).' These two are the best. And I said from the start, we're a community of fate. I won't keep all the glory for myself.

He explains this, finally convincing everyone to accept the items.

In one go, the whole group gets a boost and walks away loaded.

Next up, maybe find Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals—no, we don't even need them. Just keep milking the Dimensional Chat Group every day, then pressure those companies that can only make Originium Inhibitors into ramping up production. I believe that before they starve or pivot their industries, they'll eventually create something that can cure Originium Infection.

Our future is bright.

But then, a pop-up suddenly appears in the Dimensional Chat Group—a glaring red one.

Ding, abnormal points data detected. Too many parameters in the gacha pool system. Someone is using illegal bugs and exploits to farm points.

Initiating automatic recovery and penalty functions...

Chapter 40: Become a Magical Girl!

The involved funds will be temporarily frozen and confiscated, returned within thirty working days after verification.

Personal items and abilities cannot be verified for recovery. Skipping this process.

Children, I've crashed!

Like a helicopter's rotors suddenly stopping, a brilliant blaze flares up, driving away the darkness. But this light brings no warmth—instead, it chills everyone to the bone.

The group, who had just been sleeping on warm, soft mattresses, now find themselves in pajamas or underwear, exposed to the cold night wind, staring at each other in bewilderment.

"What happened?" Toyokawa Shoko, who had just undressed to sleep, is completely baffled.

Where's the huge castle?!

"I don't know!" Kiana looks around, clueless about what's going on.

"So cold. Why did this happen?" Artoria can't understand. They were just happily celebrating, enjoying a bright future, and now they're freezing?

"Calm down." Qianyi soothes everyone while analyzing the situation: "I remember the chat group suddenly popped up with an automatic recovery penalty function. Could it be that our scheme was exposed, and the group forcibly confiscated our assets?"

"Very likely." Shoko wraps her arms around herself, shivering.

"More importantly, shouldn't we put some clothes on first?" Talulah looks at Kiana, Shoko, and Artoria, who are only in their underwear, shivering in the cold night wind. In contrast, Qianyi, in his warm pajamas, looks much more relaxed.

"Right! Where are our clothes?! Why are they gone too!" Kiana shakes like a sieve, rubbing her hands over her body for warmth. She had just taken off her clothes to sleep, and now she's thrown outside to freeze? The nighttime temperature in Ursus is a full minus thirty degrees! She'll die of cold.

"Maybe our clothes were confiscated as stolen goods too." Artoria says.

"This chat group even strips people?" Kiana looks around and suddenly notices Qianyi is the only one wearing clothes: "Wait, why are you the only one dressed?"

"Calm down." Since he's dressed and relatively warm, Qianyi is much more composed: "I don't think the chat group would discriminate. I've been in my pajamas since dinner and a shower. What state were your clothes in before the castle disappeared?"

"I had just undressed to sleep." Talulah says.

"Me too." Kiana chimes in.

"Same." Toyokawa Shoko follows.

"Same here." Artoria says.

Case closed.

Since they took their clothes off and weren't wearing them, the chat group deemed them as external items and reclaimed them as debt.

Qianyi shrugs: "Children, this is what happens when you like sleeping naked."

"Not undressing to sleep is the weird one, and that bed was way better than my clothes anyway." Kiana complains, then a gust of cold wind hits her, making her shiver and curl up. Thinking about how her life just got better, she got a big red envelope, and now this cold splash of reality, she can't help but curse: "Aaaah! Dimensional Chat Group, I'm not done with you!! Just you wait!! Aaaah!!!"

"What do we do now? We can't just freeze out here." Toyokawa Shoko felt like she was about to freeze to death. "Isn't there some farmhouse or something nearby where we could stay the night?"

The cold wind blew silently, stirring up fine snow dust. In the distance, faint lights flickered in and out of view through the darkness, their outlines hazy. Above, sparse stars occasionally glimmered, feeling especially distant and indifferent beneath the heavy night sky.

Clearly, there wasn't a trace of human habitation around. Staying at a farmhouse was out of the question.

"This is the Duke's territory. Why would an Ursus duke live among commoners?" Talulah explained. Though infected weren't considered human in Ursus, in the nobles' eyes, commoners weren't really people either.

The nearest residences to the Duke's Mansion belonged to nobles, but as soon as they heard the infected were attacking, they'd fled in terror. Their remaining property had been confiscated by Talulah, Qianyi, and the others, then given to Reunion members to live in.

They were probably freezing too by now.

"Should we head back to the group and borrow some clothes?" Talulah asked.

"Do you think that's appropriate?" Toyokawa Shoko had no desire to show up looking like this.

She'd rather freeze than appear before others in just her pajamas.

Her pride wouldn't allow it!

Clearly, everyone else felt the same.

But spending the whole night freezing here was pushing everyone's limits.

"If only we had something to wear." The thought popped into everyone's minds at once.

Then Kiana suddenly remembered something. "Oh right, don't we have the Magical Girl Henshin Devices Wutina gave us? With those, we'd have clothes!"

"That's the angle! Way to go, Kiana." Qianyi gave Kiana a thumbs-up for her brilliant insight.

"But I recall there are only two devices." Shoko said.

"No problem. We can ask Miss Wutina for three more." Artoria said with a smile.

The next moment, through the Dimensional Chat Group, five brand-new Magical Girl Henshin Devices appeared in the Boar Princess's hands. Unlike the previous fan merchandise sold by the heroic magical girl Theresmagia—which only changed clothes for cosplay—these were the real deal: transformation devices for a villain organization's female executives!

"Why five? I already have clothes." Qianyi asked the crucial question.

The next moment, he froze, then bolted.

"Hmph! Trying to run?" Kiana and Talulah snorted and gave chase.

The human body had its limits. Against a Herrscher who could manipulate space and a half-breed of the Terran superhuman Drac Red Dragon, human legs were just decorative accessories.

In an instant, they caught him and pinned him to the ground. One stripped off his jacket, the other yanked at his pants.

"WTF! Are you two perverts?! Stop stripping me!" Qianyi screamed. "Talulah, get off me! Don't pull my pants down!!"

"Oh? You're blushing. Does that mean I'm really feminine?" Talulah said in surprise.

Qianyi was stunned, unable to believe Talulah would say something so stupid. "If it were Shoko or Artoria doing this, I'd be thrilled. But with you, it feels like being targeted in Chengdu. You know what's worse than a moron stripping me? A guy pulling my pants off."

"Damn!" Talulah was so angry she nearly breathed fire.

"Screw you! Are you calling me a moron?!" Kiana's eyes looked like a lion was about to leap out.

Working together, they stripped Qianyi like a helpless little rabbit, leaving him in only his shorts.

Kiana and Talulah flashed victorious smiles as they claimed their prizes. One held the jacket and Ksitigarbha above her head, letting out an incomprehensible war cry. The other clutched the pants and Persona Summoner, spitting fire to celebrate. Then they both squatted, stood up, and squatted again in front of Qianyi.

"Have they lost their minds?" Artoria asked. She'd never seen such an absurd sight.

These were girls—no, they weren't girls. At least, they weren't the same gender as her.

These were humans—no, they didn't seem human either. Humans didn't act like this. The answer was obvious.

They were probably aliens invading Earth, bent on destroying humanity.

"They probably went crazy a long time ago." Shoko kept a smile on her face, but inside, ten thousand alpacas were stampeding.

One hundred thirty million! My one hundred thirty million!!!

If not for the shred of pride holding her together, she'd have completely lost it by now.

"Shoko, catch!"

Just as despair was about to consume her, someone called out. She instinctively reached out, and a silver pistol and a red-black tachi landed in her hands.

The Persona Summoner and Ksitigarbha.

After tossing the items to Shoko, Kiana and Talulah put on the jacket and pants they'd stolen, preventing Qianyi from taking them back.

Looking at Qianyi standing there alone in nothing but shorts, Kiana burst out laughing and declared victory. "Well, Qianyi, choose! Either become a magical girl like us, or get beaten down right here!"

"If you admit I'm more feminine than Koschei, I'll give your pants back." Talulah even threw out an unreasonable demand on the spot.

An ordinary person might have surrendered in such a hopeless situation, but Qianyi had the courage of a Lionheart! There was no way he'd give in!

Besides, he still had his ultimate trump card!

He smirked coldly, aimed at Talulah, and prepared to reclaim his pants.

"Naive! Did you think that would leave me helpless?! Let me show you my ultimate Noble Phantasm!"

"Heavenly Wind Usurper (Reincarnation Pandora)!"

In an instant, Talulah felt a chill down below.

Chapter 41: Phantom Thief of Hearts (not), Fifth Update

Heavenly Wind Usurper EX: Possesses the ability to seize an opponent's Noble Phantasm (including those sublimated from stories).

Just now, Qianyi discovered that one of Heracles' strongest Noble Phantasms was still retained, so he didn't hesitate to choose to fuse this skill.

Though he didn't know if he could seize anything besides Noble Phantasms, using it when the time came was pointless if he didn't act!

Should he use it? Now! This moment! Right here!

YES! YES! YES!

The Noble Phantasm activated, and Qianyi felt a sudden wave of exhaustion wash over his body, but then a sensation of theft surged into his heart, and he was no longer tired.

Come back! My! Clothes!

He used Heavenly Wind Usurper on both Talulah and Kiana at the same time, and two items appeared in his hand—but they weren't the pajamas he wanted. Instead, it was a bra and a pair of green boxers.

"Why..." Talulah, suddenly feeling a chill down below, stared at the clothes Qianyi had stolen, her face flushing with anger and shame. "Why did you steal that! Give it back!"

Unexpected, completely unexpected—she really hadn't thought Qianyi could snatch things from a distance, stealing her panties.

Damn it! So this was his plan—swap my panties for your clothes? I have to admit, your strategy is indeed quite...

"What the hell is this green army-jacket-looking shorts?" Qianyi stared at the ugly green boxers, glanced around, and wondered, "Is there some Reunion member nearby or something?"

He suspected the Heavenly Wind Usurper's targeting was like Miyazaki's personal experience—when he was a kid, he tried to kiss his girlfriend, but the camera locked onto a dog, so he ended up kissing the dog.

Qianyi casually tossed them away, and Talulah's expression froze.

Noticing the change in Talulah's face, Qianyi froze, a bad feeling creeping into his mind. He quickly picked up the shorts—which had less taste than his own grandfather—and tried to comfort Talulah. "Uh... so they're yours, sorry. Well, how should I put it? They're, uh, very feminine. Yeah, that's right, I think your underwear is very feminine."

Talulah: "..."

Can you not say that with a face that looks like this thing is nothing but wet trash from a garbage bin, like you don't even want to look at it?

Pfft--!