Is It Too Late to Leave the Chat Group?

Book 1: Chapter 21: Merlin’s Class Begins

Iron Fist Teacher: +1

Efreet: +1

Umaru-chan: +1

Blank Never Loses: +1

Queen of Rhodes Island: +10086

[TL Note: +1 in chat means agreed, +10086 means greatly agreed for the Chinese community. It’s typically used in a more comical setting.]

Magus of Flowers: The newcomer finally shows up.

Efreet: The newcomer is probably someone with her own faction. It’s obvious from the display name.

Ding! Queen of Rhodes Island is renamed Kal’tsit.

[TL Note: Kal’tsit is from Arknights. Here is her profile: /wiki/Kal%27tsit.]

Kal’tsit: I’ve been busy lately. Rhodes Island’s Doctor is missing, and we are currently searching for the Doctor.

He Who Knows Fate: Do you need help?

Kal’tsit: Not for now.

He Who Knows Fate: I feel that I should complete some missions. I have too few points.

Efreet: The person who gained 12,000 by doing nothing is not qualified to say this.

He Who Knows Fate: Does the Ability Third Awakening not require points? I now have 11,200 points. After deducting 10,000 points for that, I only have 1,200 points left. Furthermore, I have an ability that requires fixing. It costs 100,000 points. My goodness!

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: What kind of divine ability is it to need 100,000 points?

He Who Knows Fate: Absolute Precognition.

Magus of Flowers: …

Queen of Ice and Snow: …

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: What’s wrong?

Magus of Flowers: Where did you get this ability from? It’s truly a divine ability. Furthermore, looking at the name Absolute Precognition, isn’t that in the style of our Type-Moon games?

[TL Note: Type-Moon is the Japanese game company that produced the Fate series and others like The Garden of Sinners. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-Moon.]

He Who Knows Fate: Yeah, no kidding! It really is from Type-Moon. Have you seen The Garden of Sinners? That world crumbled, and I gained a gift from it.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Truth be told, I suspect that you are the world’s son, given your luck. freewebnov(e)l

He Who Knows Fate: You can dismiss that theory. When I obtained the Absolute Precognition, it activated once. My original future was utterly miserable. Fortunately, I joined the Dimension Administrators Association.

Queen of Ice and Snow: You are just downplaying it. I’m sure you are secretly happy. If the ability were undamaged, you could only buy the first level of that skill with 100,000 points.

He Who Knows Fate: Oh, right. You are also from a Type-Moon game, right?

Queen of Ice and Snow: Indeed. That’s why I know how precious your Absolute Precognition is. If it were Prediction-type Precognition or Calculation-type Precognition, I wouldn’t want it even if you gave it to me for free.

Efreet: So, what is the Absolute Precognition?

Magus of Flowers: Ahem! Ahem! Merlin’s class shall begin. To start off, there are three types of Precognition. First, Prediction-type Precognition: the ability to predict future events and people. It is a high-level analysis of vast amounts of information that one subconsciously observes. As a result, the future that one “predicts” is merely an analysis of data, a humanly viable effect. This kind of Precognition is just equal to a powerful analytical ability—nothing incredible. I can do something similar.

Queen of Ice and Snow: Indeed. You use your trashy high-rank Clairvoyance to observe everything that happens in the present. Then, you use the collected information to predict the future, right? Among all substitutions, your Clairvoyance is the trashiest.

[TL Note: Clairvoyance is not a Precognition ability. Instead, it is just the ability to perceive the surrounding world flawlessly. Merlin’s Clairvoyance is at EX rank (the highest). He runs the information he receives and analyzes it on a conscious level to achieve the same effect as Prediction-type Precognition, which takes place unconsciously rather than consciously.]

Magus of Flowers: Ahem! Ahem! Just ignore her. Next is the second type, Calculation-type Precognition: the analysis of all required conditions to attain a certain future. This ability helps the user get to their desired future. If the user is directly involved in the calculation, a calculated future is perfectly accurate, unlike a predicted future.

Queen of Ice and Snow: This thing is fairly functional. Unfortunately, it is not very useful for me. I still prefer the Divination-type Precognition.

Magus of Flowers: Finally, here is the important one. Remember, this is important; you will be tested on this. Third, the Divination-type Precognition: a supernatural ability that surpasses mortals. This ability can truly see the future. If one does not take the ability user’s advice, that future would be unavoidable. Your Absolute Precognition is this type.

Efreet: In other words, after all that crap, you might as well have directly said, “You can truly see the future.”

Magus of Flowers: In theory, that is not wrong. But…

Efreet: Shut up. No buts. We just needed to know what Absolute Precognition is.

Magus of Flowers: You are too hot-tempered.

Efreet: So what? Don’t you see my display name? A spirit of fire. So what if my temper is hot?

Magus of Flowers: …

He Who Knows Fate: It seems like Efreet is not in a good mood today.

17-Year-Old Beautiful Young Lady: Be more confident. Just drop the “seems.” Females, you know. There are always those couple of days.

He Who Knows Fate: Does a 14 year old have them?

Iron Fist Teacher: What do you think?

He Who Knows Fate: Then, Sirin…

He Who Knows Fate: Are there any sanitary pads in the suitcases you sent over? @Efreet

Efreet: Don’t worry. I am thorough in my work. Also, I only just ran into something frustrating; it is not…that. You all…never mind. Calm down. Calm down.

He Who Knows Fate: That’s good, then. I’ve started to feel like a father since Sirin arrived. Is that my misperception?

Efreet: A 14 year old is already very mature, alright? Your Sirin can already take revenge on the world at the age of 14.

He Who Knows Fate: Huh? Take revenge on the world?

Efreet: I say! Haven’t you read the comics?

He Who Knows Fate: Erm…no.

Efreet: I don’t want to say anything more. Quickly read it. Then, determine how you want to educate Sirin.

He Who Knows Fate: Got it. Has anyone read it before? Can you give me a summary?

Umaru-chan: To use an animal as an example, a pufferfish.

He Who Knows Fate: Pufferfish?

Umaru-chan: That’s right. Repeatedly inflating. Every time she gets a new power, her ego inflates. Then, she gets beaten up. After that, she gets another new power, so her ego inflates again. Then, she gets beaten up. Lather, rinse, and repeat.

He Who Knows Fate: That’s enough. I’ll go and read now.

This child, Sirin, definitely has some problems. No. I have to read the comics.

Hence, Chen Heng opened the information pack that Umaru-chan sent him and started reading the comics.

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After reading the comics, Chen Heng closed the chat interface to digest the information he had just read. Sirin lived a miserable life. However, as he read, he felt like laughing a little for some reason. Her situation is clearly sad. Why?

However, calling Sirin a pufferfish makes sense. No, I have to guide her properly. She cannot go on like that. The most important thing in life is to be cautious. It is rare to see someone like Sirin, whose ego keeps inflating after she gets down so many times.

Chen Heng checked the time through the chat group. It was already nine o’clock. After reading the Honkai Impact 2nd comic, he felt interested in the Honkai Impact 3rd game.

Hence, he got the game.

He went to the association’s store and bought the game, spending one point. (Normally, he would not even need a point, but this version came with a gift pack.) He set his cellphone as the receiving end and downloaded the game. The download was completed in three seconds.

“Fight for all that is beautiful in the world!”

[TL Note: “Fight for all that is beautiful in the world!” is the slogan of Honkai Impact 3rd, and it appears on the game’s startup.]

“This is quite interesting. Let me try playing it for a while.”

After opening the game, Chen Heng did not bother changing his display name, leaving it the default string of random numbers assigned by the system.

“Is this a 3D hack-and-slash game? The mechanism is quite interesting. Dodge? Quick time event? The story is pretty good too. The models are very pleasing to the eyes. However, Kiana’s braids feel a little unnatural. This game can never have PvP, as the player who moves first would lose, right?”

[TL Note: Kiana is the main character of Honkai Impact 3rd. Here is her profile: /wiki/Kiana_Kaslana_(K-423).]

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