A Landslide Joined the Chat Group

Sobu High School, [All-Heavens Rescue Club] activity room.

Lin Xiao sat down on his "club president's exclusive sofa" with immense satisfaction.

At the long table nearby, Yukino was elegantly brewing tea, Eriri was drawing with a pen between her teeth, while Miko obediently swept the room with a broom.

[Ding! New fate-node fluctuations detected!]

["The Shut-In Princess of Eientei" has joined the group chat!] ["Magical Girl of Infinite Reincarnation" has joined the group chat!]

The people who had been chatting immediately had their attention drawn by the two notifications.

[The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "Wow! More newcomers! Welcome, welcome! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the man who will become Hokage!"

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "Magical girl? Infinite reincarnation? Newcomer, explain the timeline laws of your universe. Have you mastered some technology capable of time travel, or are you trapped in a time loop?"

Before the magical girl trapped in the cycle could reply, however, the other newcomer bearing the title "Shut-In Princess" made an utterly outrageous remark.

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Oh? Is this some new local network Eirin developed? No, that can't be right... Dark Knight of Gotham? The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage? Is this some kind of anime roleplaying group?"

Gensokyo, Eientei.

Wrapped in a kotatsu blanket and holding a handheld console, Kaguya Houraisan stared at the screen in her mind, her beautiful eyes glinting with gossip and confusion.

As a veteran internet-addicted girl of Gensokyo, Kaguya was practically obsessed with these names!

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Wait... Group owner, your avatar is a red-and-silver giant... Ultraman Gaia?"

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "That's not right. If you're Ultraman Gaia, shouldn't your human host be Gamu Takayama? Your chat history doesn't look like his at all. Since when did the Light of Earth get someone else to play for him?"

The moment she said that, the Batcave in Gotham City, a ramen shop in Konoha Village, and the Emiya Residence in Fuyuki City all fell into an extraordinarily bizarre silence.

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "???" [The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "Who is Gamu Takayama? Mr. Lin Xiao, what does this new member mean?"

Faced with Kaguya's hardcore dimensional-wall-breaking doxxing, Lin Xiao's mouth twitched. Without trying to hide anything, he typed three words into the chat.

[He Is Simply God]: "I transmigrated here."

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Oh, I get it."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "???" [The Underdog Who Wants to Be Hokage]: "???"

[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "???"

Staring at the screen full of question marks, Batman's world-class tactical brain experienced the agony of "CPU overload" for the first time in his life.

What did he mean, he transmigrated here?! What did she mean, "Oh, I get it"?! What kind of absurd riddle were those two playing at?! Why did that princess sound like she was saying, "Oh, so that's just the standard setting. Then it's fine"?!

Yet just as the chat filled with cheerful nonsense, the other newcomer, who had remained silent until now, finally sent a message that reeked of endless despair and deathly stillness.

[Magical Girl of Infinite Reincarnation]: "A roleplaying group? Or another illusion Kyubey created to harvest my despair?"

[Magical Girl of Infinite Reincarnation]: "It doesn't matter... No matter how many times I loop... Madoka's fate can't be saved... Is this the curse that condemns magical girls to become Witches...?"

The world of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Homura Akemi, her black hair tied into two braids, sat collapsed on the floor of her room in despair.

She could no longer remember how many times she had repeated the cycle, but no matter how hard she tried, the girl she wanted to protect with her life would always walk toward destruction in the end.

Seeing those words steeped in suffocating misery, the atmosphere in the chat group instantly grew heavy.

Batman and Emiya Shirou both keenly sensed the despairing feeling of inescapable fate behind the words "infinite reincarnation" and "destined destruction."

Lin Xiao read Homura Akemi's messages and put away his joking attitude. As the heroine of one of the greatest tragedies ever, Homura Akemi's experiences made her one of the most miserable people across all worlds.

[He Is Simply God]: "This isn't an illusion created by Kyubey, Homura Akemi."

[He Is Simply God]: "As long as you've joined this group, I can smash any so-called tragedy to pieces."

[Ding! Group owner "He Is Simply God" has uploaded the large memory instance Puella Magi Madoka Magica!]

[He Is Simply God]: "@Magical Girl of Infinite Reincarnation, that supermonster called Witch's Night really isn't something you can deal with using modern firearms."

[He Is Simply God]: "But when you need help, just summon me."

[He Is Simply God]: "Whatever despair the Witches bring, whatever Kyubey is, before forty thousand tons of absolute mass and a pure Photon Ice Blade, all despair can be crushed underfoot."

Meanwhile, Batman in Gotham City silently added the alien incubator species known as "Kyubey" to his highest-level <Extremely Dangerous and Must Be Completely Destroyed File>.

After soothing the newcomers' emotions, Lin Xiao happily closed the chat interface. He rose from the sofa and looked at the three beautiful girls in the activity room, each busy with her own work.

"Members of the [All-Heavens Rescue Club]! To celebrate the official founding of our club, and the fact that your president just made a fortune." Lin Xiao grandly waved a hand, patted the black card in his pocket containing over two hundred million yen, and announced:

"Let's go! Today's club activity is a trip to Akihabara or Ginza! Pick whatever you want. Your club president is covering every expense!"

The moment he said that—

Eriri, who had been drawing, suspiciously clutched her skirt. "You... suddenly being this generous, don't tell me you're planning to trick us into working at some weird maid café in Akihabara? You grew up in an orphanage. Where did you get that much money?"

Miko gazed at Lin Xiao with utter admiration. "As expected of Lord Lin Xiao! Do you even know spells that can turn stone into gold?!"

"Ahem, it's called legal income," Lin Xiao corrected her solemnly.

However, just as Lin Xiao was preparing to continue playing the role of an incredibly stylish rich young master, Yukino Yukinoshita, who had been quietly drinking tea, elegantly set down her cup.

"So-called legal income..." Yukino's devastatingly sharp tongue echoed through the activity room, her pace utterly composed. "Lin Xiao, surely you don't mean..."

"The gold bars you quite righteously demanded from that Dark Knight in Gotham City while you were in another world?"

Yukino tilted her head slightly, looked at the Lin Xiao who had instantly frozen in place, and delivered the fatal final blow.

"As a god, your speed at laundering stolen goods into cash is truly even more astonishing than your flying speed."

"Pfft—!!!" Lin Xiao nearly choked on his own saliva.

He'd been careless! He had completely forgotten that Yukino Yukinoshita, that black-hearted Ice Queen, was in the chat group herself!!!

"Gold?! Gotham City? Dark Knight?!" Hearing those absurd words, Eriri was completely dumbfounded. She looked at Yukino, then at the sweating Lin Xiao. "Yukinoshita, what nonsense are you talking about? Did this guy rob someone?!"

"No, it wasn't robbery." Yukino stood up elegantly, picked up her bag, and smiled faintly with a trace of mischief.

"Lin Xiao merely acquired an extremely large sum of club funds through a very 'sincere' cross-dimensional exchange."

"Since our club president is being so generous, Sawamura, Yotsuya, I see no reason for us to refuse this... gift from 'Batman.'"

Yukino walked to the door and naturally glanced at Lin Xiao. "Come on, Lin Xiao. You'll be paying for those top-grade tea sets I was looking at earlier."