"You felt you couldn't just sit around and wait. You told the police you needed to use the bathroom, then found a chance to slip away from the restroom."
"You had just run out of the hospital when you ran into the bespectacled elementary school student from the day before."
"He saw you and, without a word, kicked another soccer ball at you. It hit you square in the face, and you passed out again."
"When you opened your eyes once more, you found yourself back in the hospital. This time, though, you weren't wearing handcuffs."
"The elementary school student who'd kicked the ball at you and the girl with horns on her head apologized."
"Only then did you learn that the case had been solved. The police had caught the culprit with help from the famous detective Mori Kogoro, and you were free."
"Two days later, you were discharged from the hospital."
"You wandered aimlessly down the road. Just then, an old Porsche pulled up in front of you."
Inside were a big, simple-looking man and a sinister-faced man with silver hair.
"Where did you put the stuff?" the silver-haired man asked.
You stared at him, completely baffled. The silver-haired man frowned, clearly not expecting that reaction from you.
The silver-haired man was about to ask something else when a motorcycle suddenly came straight toward you. You dodged instinctively, and the person riding on the back tossed you a package.
The silver-haired man saw the package and immediately ordered the big man to drive.
Before you could react, the two men were already far away. Then the police surrounded you.
This time, they took you to the police station and questioned you at length. You knew nothing.
You really didn't know anything, but the police didn't believe you.
You'd been made to take the fall for someone else again.
Two months later, you were handed over to the Tribunal and sentenced to twenty years in prison.
In prison, you were beaten every day and lived in constant misery.
At last, you couldn't take it anymore and fought back.
Your resistance enraged the boss. A group of inmates swarmed you, and you managed to kill two of them, but in the end, they overwhelmed you and beat you to death.
You died.
Game over.
While taking the fall, you'd taken two direct shots from the Shinigami Elementary School Student—shots powerful enough to knock down satellites—and endured a punch from the horned girl, Mori Ran, along with months of beatings from the inmates. Your Physique improved, and you gained 25 Physique.
"Holy crap!" Uchiha Yuan sat up in bed that afternoon as he looked at the reward.
Twenty-five Physique was way too much! His Physique was only 36 right now, and it took five days of exercise to raise it by one point. Twenty-five Physique was the equivalent of 125 days of training!
Uchiha Yuan hurriedly opened his status panel, but the next moment, he looked astonished. Along with the 25-point increase in Physique, both his Vitality and Chakra had increased by 5 points.
Uchiha Yuan frowned. If he remembered correctly, his Sharingan's earlier evolution hadn't increased his Chakra. This time, improving his Physique had increased both his Chakra and Vitality.
Actually, Uchiha Yuan had noticed this before. His right eye's evolution into the Double Tomoe hadn't increased his Chakra, which he could understand since that evolution had come from spending Stat Points. But why had his left eye's evolution into the Double Tomoe only increased his ocular power and not his Chakra?
By all logic, the Sharingan's evolution should have increased his Chakra.
After all, Chakra came from physical energy plus spiritual energy. Ocular power was spiritual energy, and Physique was physical energy. If those two stats increased, his Chakra should have gone up too!
So why did spending Stat Points only increase one stat each time, with no change to the others?
Had the Roulette separated all his stats and made them independent? Or was there some other reason?
This time, the Text Game had rewarded him with 25 Physique, causing it to surge all at once. Somehow, that had also increased his Vitality and Chakra, leaving Uchiha Yuan puzzled.
After hesitating for a moment, he took out the Magic Conch.
Uchiha Yuan planned to ask the Magic Conch about the connections between his stats.
Actually, Uchiha Yuan had previously wondered whether he should ask the Magic Conch how to undo the Caged Bird.
But he was afraid the Magic Conch might simply tell him that awakening the Tenseigan would undo the Caged Bird. Wouldn't that be a waste of the opportunity?
With that in mind, Uchiha Yuan asked the Magic Conch, "What connections are there between the different stats on my panel? Long live the Magic Conch!"
A moment later, a mechanical female voice came from the Magic Conch: "Your ocular power and Nature Affinity are independent of each other. The remaining three stats are related. For every 5 points your Physique increases through natural training, your Chakra and Vitality each increase by 1 point.
"When your Vitality increases, your Physique improves faster, and the amount of Chakra you gain naturally also increases (ps: this means natural increases, not increases from spending Stat Points).
"You couldn't see any increase on your panel before because it takes five days of training to raise your Physique by one point. That gain was too small to register as an increase in Chakra.
"The same is true of Vitality. Besides, your starting Vitality was already 7 points. Your Physique had to reach a level corresponding to your Vitality before any increase would show up."
After hearing the Magic Conch's explanation, Uchiha Yuan understood. It wasn't that his stats were independent of each other; the feedback from natural increases in Physique was simply too small, so his Vitality and Chakra hadn't appeared to change.
This time, his Physique had shot up by 25 points all at once, bringing his Vitality up by 5 points and his Chakra up by another 5. That made it clear that increasing his Physique also increased his Chakra and Vitality.
As for why his Vitality hadn't changed before, it was because his starting Vitality had been 7. His Physique had needed to reach 35 to match it. Any further increase in Physique should also increase his Vitality.
To verify the Magic Conch's answer, Uchiha Yuan tried spending another five Stat Points on Physique.
As expected, his Vitality and Chakra each increased by 1 point too.
Now Uchiha Yuan had completely figured out the Roulette's rules for spending Stat Points. Physique, Vitality, and Chakra were related to each other, while ocular power and Nature Affinity were entirely independent.
That also explained why his Sharingan's evolution hadn't increased his Chakra before.
Before graduation, Uchiha Yuan had tried spending Stat Points on Nature Affinity too, but nothing else had changed. That was probably for the same reason.
After figuring all this out, Uchiha Yuan looked at his panel.
After this big haul, Uchiha Yuan's panel now looked like this:
Chakra: 90 Physique: 66 Ocular Power: 100 Vitality: 12 Nature Affinity: 4 Level: lv18 (1/20) Stat Points: 9
Before he knew it, he was already lv18. Reaching lv20 should earn him another big reward.
He was currently 30 points short. Uchiha Yuan thought about it and decided not to spend the 9 Stat Points he had. He planned to wait until he had 39, then spend them all at once to reach level 20 and get the Golden Box.
As for the two white boxes he'd received for going from level 16 to 18, Uchiha Yuan tapped to claim them and opened them without much thought.
Both white boxes contained Explosive Tags this time. Uchiha Yuan casually put them away. He had way too many of those already.
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