Is It Too Late to Leave the Chat Group?

Book 1: Chapter 12: One-Thousand-Year-Old Women’s Mutual Hate

“Take your time to eat. There’s no rush. Have some water.”

“Nom! Nom!” Sirin clearly liked these two food items. She started eating the moment she got off the taxi. By the time they reached the house, she had already finished half of them. How can Sirin eat so much? Chen Heng glanced at her belly and found it flat.

“What’s wrong, Elder Brother?” Sirin noticed Chen Heng’s gaze. “Do you want some?” Sirin proffered the squid balls to him.

“There’s no need. You can eat it. Elder Brother is not hungry.”

After entering the house, Chen Heng took out a cell phone from his necklace and handed it to Sirin. This was his previous cell phone, but it was not old, just used for about half a year.

“Sirin, use this cell phone first. I’ll bring you to buy a new one tomorrow. It is already connected to the WiFi. Here is the charger. Do you know how to use these?”

“I do. I’m not some caveman that appeared out of nowhere. Elder Brother, are you looking down on my ability to look after myself? I lost my memories, not my common sense.”

During the trip to the amusement park, Chen Heng had read some of the information that Umaru-chan sent. Most of it was comics and some official profiles. He discovered that Sirin died when she was 14 years old in 2000. Sirin shows no confusion or curiosity over modern electronics. She can even use a smartphone with familiarity. This must be the effect of the temporary legal identity. The 100 points were worth it.

“Alright. Sirin, go back to your room first. Don’t play with the phone until too late at night.”

“Got it!”

After Sirin went upstairs, Chen Heng walked to the basement. I finally can initiate the ability second awakening.

The basement had come with the house. Later on, his parents renovated it. Its toughness could handle most emergencies. Right now, there was nothing in the basement but a cushion.

Skadi mentioned that if the potential of one’s ability is high, it will cause a large commotion. My room wouldn’t be suitable for this. After thinking about it, Chen Heng decided to initiate the ability second awakening here. This seemed more reliable. At the very least, no one would notice any commotion he caused.

As Chen Heng sat on the cushion, he entered the association’s store and purchased the Ability Second Awakening.

Confirm purchase?

“Confirm.” This item is different from others. It even asked for confirmation.

Chen Heng felt a sharp shock throughout his entire body, like he got zapped after touching a faulty electrical socket. His body went limp and numb, and this feeling only increased as time passed. He could not move at all, an extremely unbearable feeling.

Perhaps it was an illusion, or perhaps because Chen Heng’s original ability was attraction, his surroundings seemed to dim. It felt like a fake, second-hand, low-end version of a miniature black hole had formed with Chen Heng as the center, sucking in the surrounding light.

Half an hour passed before the commotion calmed.

Ding! Ability second awakening succeeded. Ability’s upper limit unlocked and gained an attraction category secondary ability: gravity.

Excellent. My ability’s upper limits have finally been raised. With the effects of this awakening and Chen Heng’s previous accumulations, his ability had become stronger.

As for that gravity ability…how do I put it? Better than nothing, I suppose. Chen Heng’s ability was to control attraction forces, which could replicate the effects of gravity. Of course, attraction was not equal to gravity. Using attraction to create a gravity field and directly utilizing the gravity ability had different power levels. I can use gravity as my primary and keep attraction as a trump card when I enter the hidden world in the future.

After purchasing the Ability Second Awakening item from the store, Chen Heng had discovered a new item in the store, Ability Third Awakening, priced at 10,000 points.

Why do I feel déjà vu? It feels like one of those mobile game cash shop traps. Am I just imagining things?

As Chen Heng looked at the Ability Third Awakening, he wondered if there would be an Ability Fourth Awakening or Ability Fifth Awakening. The Ability Second Awakening costs 100 points. The Ability Third Awakening costs 10,000 points. Then, wouldn’t the Ability Fourth Awakening cost 1,000,000?

Chen Heng looked at his 11,200 points and entered deep thought.

He Who Knows Fate: Has anyone undergone the ability third awakening?

If there was anything one did not know, why not ask one’s cyber friends? After all, there was no saying who sat behind the screen and what they did. There might be a mad scientist who conducted cruel and evil experiments. The Dimension Administrators Association was even stranger. There was a 1,000-year-old youkai, a 14-year-old love consultant, and all sorts of strange people.

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: I tried it. I did some world missions and faction missions. Since I do not have much use for points, I tried it. How do I put it… The ability second awakening did not have much effect on me. The ability third awakening’s results were more obvious.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Thousand-year-old old woman, why are you posing like that? You even changed your display name to 17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady.

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: I’m not. Skadi, do we have a dispute with each other?

Queen of Ice and Snow: Nope. Your display name just annoys me.

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: You don’t have to look if it annoys you.

Queen of Ice and Snow: The eyes are mine. Why shouldn’t I look? 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝘰𝓋𝘦𝘭.𝑐𝘰𝓂

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: Let’s have a solo battle in real life. This great me will beat the *** out of you and beat the *** back into you!

Ding! The association’s system muted 17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady for 10 minutes and issued a warning.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Hahaha! Are you stunned? You fool!

He Who Knows Fate: I’m not done with my question. Is there an Ability Fourth Awakening?

Magus of Flowers: This is called same-type repulsion. They are both old women pretending to be young, so they hate each other. They argue for a long time whenever they see each other in the chat group. However, this is the first time I have seen someone get muted.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Merlin, are you tired of living?

[TL Note: Since Magus of Flowers previously mentioned in Book 1 Chapter 6 that he was in Fate/Grand Order, here is Merlin’s profile: /wiki/Merlin.]

Magus of Flowers: If you don’t accept that, come to Avalon and beat me up if you can.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Just you wait. You peeping Tom, you are dead for sure. You’d better not run into me.

Magus of Flowers: Old granny, you might be disappointed. I—Merlin—will never leave Avalon unless I’m going to earn points. However, world missions would transport me. You won’t be able to find me. Just give up.

Magus of Flowers: Let me tell you this, points are great. Unfortunately, the association’s store does not sell physical goods.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Merlin! It’s over for you now! I don’t believe that you will never join group missions.

Magus of Flowers: Hah… The incapable can only get enraged.

Queen of Ice and Snow: …

He Who Knows Fate: You guys, calm down.

Efreet: They can’t calm down. Merlin’s mouth is the root of all evil. It can easily provoke anger in others.

Magus of Flowers: I am a yes man in reality, so I become a heavy hitter online. freewebnove(l)

Efreet: …