"Start the lottery."
[Wheel activated. The seventh draw has begun!]
The wheel spun with a roar, gradually slowing down. Perhaps his prayers had worked, or perhaps the gods back home had answered him.
The pointer avoided every white and black slot, gliding slowly past them before finally settling squarely in a purple slot.
"What?! Purple rarity?" Tetsuhiro jolted, his heart suddenly racing!
[Congratulations! Host has obtained: Portable Storage Device ×1]
Seeing that it was neither an empty prize nor trash, Tetsuhiro froze, then abruptly raised his head. A faint light suddenly kindled in his dull eyes.
His taut face relaxed slightly, the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, and his tense shoulders slowly dropped.
Even the most ordinary reward would have brought a little relief after he had felt so down for so long.
[Ding!!!] [A device compatible with the system has been detected. Would you like to install and bind it?]
"It can be bound, too? Why?" Tetsuhiro asked, puzzled.
[Would you like to install and bind it?]
Instead of answering, the system repeated its prompt.
"That's weird. Why should something I drew have to be bound to you? No way."
[System notice: Installing the Upgrade Kit will grant the host an additional unknown reward.]
"Huh?" Rather than being pleased by the extra reward, Tetsuhiro grew even more wary.
"System, tell me why I have to install this Upgrade Kit thing. What do you get out of it? What risks does it pose to me?"
[System self-optimization in progress. Please wait...]
"???" Doubts swarmed through his mind. Faced with this behavior, Tetsuhiro began to distrust the system for the first time.
"Come to think of it, why did the system choose me to transmigrate? Who created this