Chapter 36: No Loopholes to Exploit

After seeing off his guests, Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka, Ren Amamiya began his daily diary entry.

[Today I was very surprised; the diary holder I had been testing all along really appeared.]

[Originally, I thought they would be different from my foolish self and not use such a direct, self-exposing way to test, but they used the most direct, self-exposing method.]

[Kaguya Shinomiya, Ai Hayasaka.]

[VIP students at Shuchiin Academy, and also the youngest young lady of the Shinomiya family.]

[I didn't expect them to expose themselves so quickly.]

[However, because they exposed themselves too early, I didn't take the initiative to contact them at school.]

[It was only downstairs when I returned home that they came looking for me.]

[Just as I guessed, it was a test.]

[It was a test for me, and also a test for the diary.]

[However, I don't think there's anything bad about it; testing the rules of the diary early is actually beneficial for me.]

[Of course, what I care more about is the fact that Shinomiya jumped out of the shackles of the Shinomiya family.]

[In our chat, I judged that Shinomiya did not control the Shinomiya family using her own violence.]

[Then I got a shocking answer.]

[Sanzenin!]

[Sure enough, it's not just three stories mixed together here, but many stories fused together.]

[Nagi Sanzenin... this name reminds me of the "Four Moe" of the past.]

[Shana, Nagi Sanzenin, Louise, and Taiga Aisaka.]

[All four have completely similar points: short stature, strong personality, and a rather flat figure.]

[Rie Kugimiya-type characters; I didn't expect to know one so easily.]

[So, Nagi Sanzenin, you are reading the diary now, right?] ===== CHAPTER 71 =====

Having written this, Ren Amamiya stopped his pen.

There is no word limit for the daily diary; as long as one records it properly every day, it's fine.

But today's completed diary entry was slightly different.

Some black text appeared below the diary entry.

[Achievement Unlocked: Found the Diary]

[Congratulations on obtaining the special reward "Accumulation".]

[Accumulation: You can accumulate lottery chances; the more chances accumulated, the easier it is to get higher-quality rewards.]

"That's a pretty good feature."

"If you want better rewards, you can accumulate more; it's similar to combining treasure chests into higher-level ones."

Ren Amamiya doesn't dislike this feature.

However, it's clear that it's not needed during the testing phase.

Just draw directly.

The summoned large roulette wheel began to spin, and the indicator started pointing to a spot.

[Lord of the Mysteries]

[Obtained Sequence 9 Potion: "Apprentice"]

A bottle containing a special pink solution.

"Another potion reward."

He reached out and picked up the potion bottle on the table.

After looking at it, he took out the 500-yen coin from his pocket.

"Drinking the Apprentice potion now won't be a problem for me."

The flipped coin landed in his palm; it was tails.

"Looks like it's fine."

"It should also be because the 'Unfettered' trait is too powerful."

Confirming this, Ren Amamiya pulled out the cork and drank it down.

The potion had a sticky, gooey texture; this time it was even worse than the "Seer" potion from before.

Yeah, it's getting more and more like snot.

"Drinking a potion already carries such a huge risk; can't the taste of the potion be made better?"

After drinking the potion, Ren Amamiya still complained a little about the taste.

Of course, this is a very surplus complaint.

Beyonders who do not possess the "Unfettered" trait face much greater risks than imagined when consuming potions.

Especially when Mr. Door is contaminated, hearing Mr. Door's whispers when consuming the "Apprentice" potion is fatal to a Beyonder who is already in an unstable state from consuming the potion.

Therefore, the path of the Door pathway is also a very dangerous one among the three pathways of the Lord of the Mysteries.

However, for Ren Amamiya, who possesses the "Unfettered" trait, walking an extra potion pathway has absolutely no impact.

Especially on the Sequence path, the Door pathway, the Fool pathway, and the Error pathway are adjacent pathways.

To achieve the "Lord of the Mysteries," the final step is to master the powers of the adjacent pathways.

Originally, choosing one path and walking to the end, then accommodating the uniqueness and one Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic of the adjacent pathways, would be enough.

Of course, choosing to walk the three pathways of the Lord of the Mysteries from the beginning is also possible.

It's just that this approach is no different from seeking death.

At the very least, for ordinary Beyonders, touching the potions of other sequences at low sequences inevitably leads to the loss of control of their own power.

It is only Ren Amamiya, who possesses the "Unfettered" trait, who can ignore the basic rules of the Sequence path and walk the multi-pathway road.

Ren Amamiya looked at the bottle in his hand and smiled.

"Sure enough, there aren't that many loopholes to exploit."

"Because of my meeting with Kaguya Shinomiya and our agreement of mutual benefit, was it just a general reward?"

Today's lottery reward explains everything.

Today's reward is almost at the same level as yesterday's, which means the diary also has certain restrictions on this.

"Mutually beneficial actions aren't that easy either."

"It seems the diary needs to see the impact I have on the diary holder for it to easily affect the quality of the things obtained in the lottery."

"The diary's loopholes are not easy to exploit."

"I just don't know if Shinomiya also tried the lottery."

Ren Amamiya thought for a moment and took out his phone.

[Ren Amamiya: How was it?]

[Kaguya Shinomiya: ...A bottle of hard liquor.]

[Ren Amamiya: Loopholes are hard to exploit.]

[Ren Amamiya: Don't try to exploit loopholes next time; the methods we can think of might already have protections in the diary's rules.]

[Kaguya Shinomiya: A pity.]

Kaguya Shinomiya put down her phone and looked at the bottle of hard liquor on the table, feeling only pity.

"It seems the diary is hard to exploit."

"It's like this on my end, and it should be the same for Amamiya."

"A wasted lottery chance."

However, Kaguya Shinomiya didn't feel sorry about it.

This answer is actually very critical, proving that there might be no loopholes in the diary's rules.

Knowing this, she can save up more lottery chances in the future.

By accumulating more, she can see what kind of high-level rewards she can get with a certain number of lottery chances.

The Chilly-Chilly Fruit was a very good initial reward.

Kaguya Shinomiya is not a greedy person; she knows that sometimes not being greedy is the best.

Otherwise, she might lose even more.

PS: New book, seeking data. ===== CHAPTER 72 =====