Arknights, but Terra Is Kept in Captivity

"You..." Skadi was somewhat puzzled. "Is this kind of feeding, like being kept in captivity, really good for you?"

Sea Creature 1: "Kept in captivity?"

Sea Creature 2: "What does that mean?"

Sea Creature 3: "It means you reach out for clothes and open your mouth for food—getting food without working for it."

Sea Creature 4: "Food you get without working for it?"

Sea Creature 5: "Tasty! Food you get without working for it is tasty!"

Skadi: "?"

... ... ...

... ...

"Your Sea Creatures are fighting"

"Congratulations, you have obtained a new ability: Golf Techniques"

"Your Sea Creatures are barbecuing"

"Congratulations, you have obtained a new ability: It Caught Fire"

"Your Sea Creatures are getting food without working for it"

"Congratulations, you have obtained a new ability: Live lazily"

Chen Ran: "?"

What the hell was this?

Chen Ran had just casually grabbed a handful of snacks from the fruit platter and tossed them into that food planet.

Then, watching the Sea Creatures fool around, he could not help but remark, "Look, look. These Sea Creatures really are easy to raise."

Yet the very next second, the translucent pop-up window shot three new skills at him in a row.

New skills were a good thing, of course...

"But golf? I already know that myself."

"Live lazily? Let's see the skill description... Oh, when you're lying down, as long as you get hungry, someone will bring you food... What is this? A must-have skill for being stranded on a deserted island?"

"And what's this It Caught Fire thing? As long as you stare at raw food and keep chanting in your heart, 'Cook, cook,' the raw food will catch fire on its own—"

"...What the hell?"

After reading the descriptions of those three skills, Chen Ran could not help but laugh.

Other than golf, the remaining two skills could still be quite useful if developed properly.

But was it not possible that a few more faith points would have been better?

Chen Ran therefore looked toward that food planet. Watching the Sea Creatures stuffing themselves, he could not help but sigh. "All you know how to do is drive up the price of rice."

Come to think of it, since he had once managed to bring a lump of clay to life just by playing with it,

would a few figurines come alive if he bought them and tossed them in there?

If they could, then he could buy a Gundam, Godzilla, a Taimanin...

Maybe he really could forcibly raise the Sea Creatures' combat power.

But would that not be a little cruel to those Sea Creatures, who only wanted to live lazily?

As Chen Ran was thinking that, he suddenly heard someone call from behind him.

"Lord God!"

"What is it?"

Chen Ran turned around and saw Demon King Rabbit flying over.

The little rabbit cried, "Miss Yelagund... I think she's awake!"

Release Note

It was now 00:10:26 on March 21, 2025. This was Sakura Cat.

The author was lazy and had no release note.

How should I put this? You've probably noticed that there were many times in this book when I wanted to write something lewd, but the next chapter always went back to the main plot. The reason was that it got reviewed—I was basically being hunted down.

So the pacing got a lot weirder. For example, according to my calculations, the chapter before the paid release should have stopped right after the normal Worldline opened, when Demon King Rabbit began her judgment.

But because my attempt at writing something lewd failed, there were things I could not write and things I failed to write. In short, all sorts of circumstances left it stuck in this strange place.

And speaking of which, the idea for this book was originally meant for Honkai: Star Rail, because a setting like planet models had much more room to play around with there.

But when I started outlining it, I found that some of the original settings conflicted. In the end, I simply could not make it work—or rather, the setting would probably collapse if I handled it badly—so I returned to what I knew best and wrote Arknights instead.

So from the very beginning, I had already prepared myself for this book to flop badly.

Forget it. Anyway, see you tomorrow.

Because tomorrow... or rather, 10 a.m. today? That was when it officially went paid. And since I had no stockpiled chapters, the update would probably not come until tonight again. shrugs