In the following week, Hattori visited the super-ancient civilization ruins mentioned in the intel and obtained several decent items.
First, the Clock Family's space jump device.
The mass-produced devices by the Clock Family were essentially crude, defective products.
Hattori used the 'Restoration Lamp' to restore it to its original form.
True space jumping, with no activation time, could jump to any marked location within 0.1 seconds.
Hattori conducted a simple test.
Even beyond the planet, on the Moon, space jumping was possible.
As for distances beyond the Moon, that wasn't a consideration for now, as that level was still out of reach.
Hattori instructed Moyan and Nightmare to secretly recruit a batch of production workers and scientific research talent.
They were to find a hidden location, build a factory, and mass-produce space jump devices.
The Anywhere TV could help mask coordinates. The future technology from the Doraemon Dimension possessed techniques even the Hexagram Organization couldn't match.
Additionally, he obtained three other treasures.
In the Henghe River Basin, following the Burning Heaven heir's guidance, he acquired an ancient Zen meditation technique from the ruins.
After entering deep meditation, one's spirit could leave the body, tempering the will and increasing soul longevity.
After obtaining the silicon-based life form body, Hattori's few weaknesses included his soul.
The Zen meditation technique just so happened to fill this gap.
In Siberia, he subdued a remnant spirit of an ancient Bear Spirit.
According to the Bear Spirit itself, at its peak, it could lift the Eurasian Continent with one finger and pierce the planet's core. It was an ancient life form existing since the world's beginning.
Unfortunately, having lost too much of its spirit, it had lost almost all memories and needed time and treasures to slowly recover.
Hattori used dozens of sealing techniques like the Four Symbols Seal, Adamantine Sealing Chains, and Five Elements Seal before finally subduing this Bear Spirit and making a hundred-year pact with it.
For a hundred years, it would serve Hattori. After a hundred years, Hattori would grant it freedom.
Finally, in the ancestral tomb mentioned by the Carlos Vampire Duke, Hattori found a drop of 'Primordial Blood'.
According to the system description, the Primordial Blood could be diluted into trillions of portions.
Each portion could create an elementary vampire with strength comparable to a Three-Star King.
The Primordial Blood, combined with a Soul Summoning Guide, could create an endless vampire army, adding to Hattori's bargaining chips for world domination.
He also assigned this task to Moyan and Nightmare to handle.
With the intelligence of these two mental and mystical ability users, they should be able to handle it properly.
As for the other person, Dong Wanzhong, Hattori had the Bear Spirit guide his training, breaking his limits without restriction.
In just seven days, his strength had increased by more than a hundredfold.
In terms of pure physical strength alone, among the powerful in the current world, probably only Hattori was stronger than him now.
Then, having dealt with everything, Hattori's main body let out a long sigh and lay lazily on the sofa like a salted fish.
"So bored…"
Only a week had passed.
There were still over twenty days left until the promotion matches ended.
In the chat group, everyone was just chatting idly daily, nothing interesting happening.
Angewomon and Lilamon were holed up in their room playing games.
Ever since Hattori bought them the Steam mega bundle, they had been like this for three or four days.
Looking at the empty room, Hattori couldn't help but sigh to the heavens.
"I can't take it anymore. I'll pull a new group member in to liven things up."
'Thinking about it, it had been seven or eight days since Hongmao joined the group without any new members.'
'It was time to invite someone.'
Having made up his mind, Hattori started scrolling through the list, his gaze passing over characters with potential for darkening.
Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World: Subaru Natsuki.
Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei.
Overlord: Gazef Stronoff.
Hunter x Hunter: Meruem.
Future Diary: Amano Yukiteru.
"Wait, stop."
Hattori's brow furrowed slightly as he saw the fifth name on the list.
He asked, looking confused.
"I can understand the others, but Amano Yukiteru... System, are you sure he can turn dark too?"
Amano Yukiteru, the male protagonist of the anime 'Future Diary'.
A man whose presence was completely overshadowed by the yandere female lead, Gasai Yuno.
Indeed, in the early part of the anime, he was portrayed as very weak.
Weak-willed, lacking resolve, selfish, cowardly.
It wasn't until Yuno faced a major crisis that he finally awakened a bit, but his performance still wasn't as impressive as other supporting characters.
How could such a weak male protagonist have the potential for darkening?
[Ding! According to the system's assessment, Amano' Yukiteru's inherent personality is not weak. In the 'First World', he led Gasai Yuno to kill all the other diary holders and finally committed suicide by poison, allowing Yuno to become the deity. Whether in terms of methods, resolve, willpower, or his experience of betrayal, he possesses the potential for darkening."
"The system recommends to the Group Owner not the Amano Yukiteru from the 'Second World', whose personality became weak under Yuno's influence, but the Amano Yukiteru from the 'First World', the one who acted decisively, had a sense of responsibility and resolve, but was ultimately betrayed by Yuno and committed suicide alone."
'So that's how it is.'
After listening to the system's explanation, Hattori understood somewhat.
The worldview and setting of Future Diary are a bit complicated to explain.
Basically, a god organizes a battle royale game. Twelve participants, each with a 'Future Diary' with different characteristics.
They must kill all other diary holders to inherit the godhood and become a deity controlling causality.
In this game, Amano Yukiteru, holder of Diary #1, led Gasai Yuno, holder of Diary #2, to kill the other ten players.
Originally, they promised to commit double suicide together, so neither would become god.
…
But at the last moment, Yuno went back on her word.
She loved Yukiteru deeply. Even across timelines, across worlds, she would find him again and again, to be with him.
So, she didn't kill herself and became the god of the 'First World'.
After that, using causality, she returned to the timeline before the game started and participated in the 'Second World' game.
According to the rules, only one person could ultimately become 'God', and the 'God' cannot revive the dead.
That means, no matter how many times Yuno repeats, the outcome is the same.
She and Yukiteru cannot both face the future together.
So, she would rather repeat countless times, relive those days of the battle royale countless times, just to be with Yukiteru.
It sounds touching, right?
But put yourself in the shoes of the person involved, and it feels utterly horrifying.
A girl you don't even know, carrying a knife, appearing in your life like a demon for no reason.
Stalking you, peeping on you, touching you, with a dazed look in her eyes.
Under this yandere love, Amano Yukiteru turning dark might actually lead to a better outcome.
Only 'darkening' can counter darkening yandere.
"System, invite Amano Yukiteru to the group."
A smile appeared on Hattori's lips as he said softly.
[Ding! 'My Girlfriend Isn't a Yandere' has joined the group chat.]