Beneath Rōran City, within the Ryūmyaku, Minato and Hikari studied the nature of its power. Through their discussions, they had already uncovered a great deal.
Watching them, Akaseki felt he should not be as idle as Ranwu, simply waiting for results, so he offered plenty of workable suggestions.
Unfortunately...
Hikari kicked him out!
"Why don't you go train a little? You seem so much weaker than your future self from twenty years later..." Ranwu said matter-of-factly.
"I told you, that wasn't me!" Akaseki snapped.
But speaking of training...
"Maybe I really should go look for some inspiration!" Akaseki suddenly said thoughtfully.
Ranwu: ???
How did you make that connection?
You don't have any talent for space-time techniques. What inspiration related to space-time could you possibly get from training?
Akaseki paid that no mind and went straight back to his tent...
How would he find inspiration?
Immersion Platform, activate!
Akaseki really had little talent for space-time techniques, and the "Immersion Platform" could not directly teach him anything-even the cooking methods in it did not actually produce food that tasted that good, let alone those outlandish powers...
During immersion, some worlds did have fantastical settings, but those powers were fictional too. Akaseki could not obtain any genuinely useful training methods from them. At most... he could get a little more inspiration.
After Ranwu reminded him to "train," Akaseki remembered that he had previously come across a similar show on his training-immersion-platform...
Found it... Akaseki muttered inwardly-My Supermarket Connects to Ancient Times!
Isn't this straight-up time travel?
"This one, then... immerse! Hippocampus access, granted!"
There was no danger at the moment, so Akaseki enabled both "hypothalamus" and "hippocampus" access again.
Hong Yan had always looked after the "Hong Family Supermarket"-an inheritance his parents had left him, a shabby little supermarket that had