Yukari Yakumo: After I Die, Chen Li, You... Remember to Take Me While I'm Still Warm (10K)

Moreover, the key issue is that there's no more profit to be made from Kyubey. Now, capturing Kyubey only yields 100 Starstones, which is barely the same as the reward paid to Homura Akemi.

If it weren't for the fact that Kyubey could be used as a fusion material, it would have been a loss-making venture.

It has been 100 years since the Starstones tax was collected in Kyubey!

"According to the Minor Protection Law, you have played Kyubey for two hours, and it is time to enter the anti-addiction period."

"...Okay." Homura Akemi didn't expect that what stopped her from defeating Kyubey wasn't Walpurgisnacht, but the game's anti-addiction system.

"Let's talk about compensation then," Chen Li, getting straight to the point.

"It really is time to talk. Tell me, how much money do you need from me?" Homura Akemi after calming down.

"???"

"I mean, the reward for helping me capture Kyubey and extract a large fortune from it, not the reward for forging the Miraculous Item," Chen Li said.

"Yes, I was also talking about how you lent me your identity as an agent so that I could manipulate the payment that Kyubey should make."

Chen Li understood.

One person felt that they should pay the other party to help exploit Kyubey.

One person felt that the other person allowed them to exploit Kyubey and therefore should pay them.

The 100 Starstones that Chen Li gives each time he reincarnates are not for Homura Akemi to help exploit Kyubey, but only for Homura Akemi to pay for going back in time.

Chen Li didn't care how much it would cost Homura Akemi to go through one cycle of reincarnation.

"... Let's talk about something else. What kind of Miraculous Item do you want?" Chen Li decisively changed the subject and asked.

Since Homura Akemi didn't want to accept the money, Chen Li wouldn't give it to her either.

"I just want a Miraculous Item that can help me defeat Walpurgisnacht," Homura Akemi said.

"I think you might as well be a little bolder..." Chen Li suggested.

Defeating Walpurgisnacht... that's too easy. Just give Homura Akemi a Poké Ball and Homura Akemi could easily capture Walpurgisnacht.

Problems that can be solved by increasing the success rate over time are not problems for Homura Akemi.

Therefore, Chen Li will not be able to obtain much of the Miracle Power.

"Be bolder? For example?" Homura Akemi, puzzled.

"For example... Miraculous Item that can bring happiness to all Magical Girls."

"You mean Miraculous Item like the Law of Cycles?" Homura Akemi frowned.

After obtaining the Friends Circle Terminal, Homura Akemi also took the time to watch all the episodes of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" in the time-stop mode.

"More or less." Chen Li nodded.

Such a Miraculous Item must surely create great Miracles!

"I'm not interested. I just hope Madoka can find happiness." Homura Akemi shook her head.

"Alright, I guess I still have to try to sell it to Madoka... Don't look at me like that, I really crave Miracle." Chen Li said, noticing Homura Akemi's strange look.

The relationship between Miraculous Forgers and Artifact Wielder is mutually beneficial. Miraculous Forgers create Miraculous Item, and Artifact Wielder use Miraculous Item to create Miracles, providing Miraculous Forgers with the Miracle Power.

If the Artifact Wielder doesn't want to create Miracles but instead just loafs around waiting to die, then Chen Li's gains will be minimal.

Homura Akemi has been battered and bruised by reality, so her thoughts are very realistic.

This is only natural.

So, for the whole big event, we should definitely focus on Madoka.

Madoka is practically born with a knack for creating absurd things; she managed to come up with something as outrageous the Law of Cycles without any instruction...

I'm sorry, Homura Akemi, I'm going to do something greedy.

"If that's your wish, then no problem. But I hope Madoka can be happy." Homura Akemi reiterated her request.

Homura Akemi is very realistic and doesn't want Madoka to be unhappy.

But the truth is that having Miraculous Item doesn't make Madoka unhappy.

Only Kyubey would do that.

Because she's very realistic, Homura Akemi knows that no one would complain about having too much "money".

Madoka with a Miraculous Item will definitely live a better life.

"Alright, you've taken on two jobs! If you want to continue toying with Kyubey, I won't provide you with Starstones anymore, but all the profits will become my payment for crafting the Miraculous Item for you and Madoka. How about it? Of course, don't feel guilty, just play around as you like," Chen Li asked.

"No problem. So I can continue toying with Kyubey today?" Homura Akemi's eyes lit up.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow. I have other things to do and can't stay here forever." Chen Li shook his head.

"All right."

The Miraculous Forging Guide cannot be lent out, and Chen Li cannot be kept here by Homura Akemi indefinitely.

Sitting on this throne without being able to leave (because there was only one seat in the entire hall), Chen Li almost thought he had become some kind of weasel, with a subspace entrance or something beneath him instead of an archbishop's seat.

Moreover, Chen Li has a request from another world to resolve.

"Yakumo Yukari!" Chen Li shouted in the group chat.

"Here I am. Yakumo Yukari's Yorozuya, mission accomplished! Did you call me for something?" A spatial passage opened beside Chen Li, and Yakumo Yukari arrived swiftly.

"Interested in doing something big?" Chen Li urged.

"Uh..." Yakumo Yukari was a little scared.

Houraisan Kaguya once said that Yakumo Yukari was the craziest person in Gensokyo, but Yakumo Yukari thought that Chen Li was the craziest person in the Miraculous Item group.

Please stop messing around.

"Hey, why are you so scared? Do you think I would harm you?"

"This..."

"1000 Starstones".

"Speak, what do you want to do! Kill the Aeon or the Emanator?" Yakumo Yukari shrugged.

As long as the Starstones are in place, even the Aeon can... well, we really can't beat that.

"I have a world coordinate here. In that world, there is a virtual reality game, a virtual reality game that is almost identical to reality. I want you to do me a favor."

"What kind of help?" Yakumo Yukari asked curiously.

Games? Shouldn't you be asking Houraisan Kaguya about that?

"Nearly 10,000 people are trapped in that virtual reality game. Dying in the game means real death, so I'm asking you to help rescue the trapped players..."

"Does that world have Aeon- level combat power?" Yakumo Yukari suddenly became wary.

"No."

"What about the Emanator level?"

No, not at all.

"Could it be that they possess combat power surpassing even Aeon?!"

"Don't overthink it, it's just a world for ordinary people."

"Then you'll spend a thousand Starstones to hire me to solve this problem... You're holding a girl in your arms, you wouldn't be thinking of hitting on me, would you?" Yakumo Yukari glanced at the Spring Spirit curled up in Chen Li's arms.

"Ouch, that hurts... Of course not. Besides the above requests, I'd also like to ask you for a favor." Chen Li rubbed his waist, which had been pinched by the Spring Spirit with its eyes closed.

"Okay, here comes the important part, let's continue."

"I'd like you to also transform that 100-layer Virtual Game into a real alternate world using the boundary between 'illusion and reality'! Create a huge monster spawner for the group members! What do you think?"

"You want me to create the world? Really?"

"I think you're not buying my strength with those 1000 Starstones, you're buying my life!"

"Gulp! Kill me! Give me a quick death!"

"Hey, don't give up so quickly! I happen to have a Miraculous Item here that can revive you by watching 30 seconds of ads. Isn't that a coincidence?!" Chen Li pulled out the Revival Match item.

"Were you prepared for this all along?"

So, what do you think?

"... Okay! Add money!" After a long silence, Yakumo Yukari finally uttered three words.

Chapter 265 Yakumo Yukari: After I die, Chen Li, you... remember to do it while it's hot (10k

"Is this the area where the player's mental state is extremely abnormal, as mentioned in that [Mental State Management Support Program, Prototype 1]?" Yakumo Yukari tore open a gap with her hands and peeked out from the gap to look at the bustling crowd below.

Yakumo Yukari could only hear the players below confronting each other, shouting things like "Christmas" and "resurrection."

"Her name Yui," Chen Li reminded her.

Chen Li thought the name was very concise, so she decided to use it to address the other person from the beginning.

It's Yakumo Yukari you can remember such a complicated title, but not this name.

"It doesn't matter anyway, it's just an Artificial Intelligence, and it doesn't seem very smart... Could it be an AI with intellectual disabilities?" Yakumo Yukari waved her hand.

Yakumo Yukari has no interest in Artificial Intelligence; she is more interested in her current state.

Chen Li was able to enter Kiana's consciousness space in physical form through the Spring Spirit. At this time, Chen Li and Yakumo Yukari came to this Game World through Yui, also entering in their true forms.

Yakumo Yukari seemed quite interested in her current state, which was both illusory and real.

"It's not artificial stupidity. Yui's Artificial Intelligence is actually quite excellent; it can simulate human emotions. The reason it seems a bit unintelligent is probably because the players in this death game are in extremely poor mental states, causing their mental systems to malfunction," Chen Li explained.

Yui was originally Artificial Intelligence responsible for managing and caring for the mental state of SAO players, but she was forcibly blocked by the system for no reason on the day the game started. Therefore, she could only continue to monitor the players' emotions and health values, but could not interfere. It is normal for her mental system to go mad.

It's like someone with OCD and mysophobia, looking at the irregularly distributed dust outside the cage that confines them, wanting to clean it but unable to, and their mental state after being put to play for more than half a year.

Going crazy is also a common occurrence for Artificial Intelligence.

"To be able to create such excellent Artificial Intelligence, and even to create this hundred-layer Game World with such complete logic... that Kayaba Akihiko is truly a talent," Yakumo Yukari commented.

Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of the death game SAO, kidnapped all the players after the first batch of 10,000 players entered this groundbreaking Virtual Game on the first day of its open beta, claiming that if they lost the game, their brains would be burned out by the game helmet.

Even a gamer's relative removing their gaming helmet outside of the game can cause brain damage.

A true genius.

But they also share the common flaw of geniuses: their disregard for life.

In the original storyline, his actions led to the deaths of 4,000 gamers, making him a heinous criminal.

"Kayaba Akihiko is indeed a talent, so I've decided that he will be the first one to fuse with Kyubey!" Chen Li nodded.

"Hmm? Why? The other person is just an ordinary person, isn't it a waste to use Kyubey on them?"

"Of course, we should let the culprit who killed thousands of people resurrect those game players."

Good news: Chen Li easily persuaded Yui, who is Artificial Intelligence, to come to this world.

It was so easy, so easy that when Chen Li said he wanted to come, the other party let Chen Li come.

For the Artificial Intelligence responsible for managing and caring for the mental state of SAO players, nothing is more important than improving the players' mood.

This is Yui's program, the setting, the underlying logic; Kayaba Akihiko can't change it, and he's too lazy to change it.

Upon hearing that Chen Li could solve the problem, Chen Li let this despicable outsider in Yui a word.

It's just like the human immune system... especially white blood cells: I admit I'm gambling, but either you or the virus has to die!

Yui only wanted to restore the players' mental state to normal; as for whether the game would be ruined because of this, Yui didn't care.

Yui: I admit there was an element of gambling involved, but today the players' mental state must return to normal!

The bad news is that this death game has been running for more than six months, and the death toll has reached over a thousand.

Chen Li and his team didn't even get a chance to rescue the people before the rescue was even underway.

"Although I created the Revival Match, I also know the chaos that distributing Resurrection Card links to ordinary people might cause. So it's better to have Kayaba Akihiko Kyubey with Kayaba Akihiko to create tens of thousands of clones, lock them up, and have them watch ads every day to revive the people he killed. It just so happens that there's a relationship between them—killer and victim." Chen Li explained.

Chen Li wasn't just a pushover; he did it so that he could also obtain Starstones.

It's just that Kayaba Akihiko will have to suffer a bit, but who cares about his feelings?