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At the Academy of Sciences, so many worlds had been fused together that Takumi's place now housed an uncountable number of top-tier researchers.

Aside from the current headquarters, massive research facilities had been built in various other locations. Even Mars had developed its own institutes. Takumi simply didn't bother to keep track of all of them.

Research at Takumi's end had never ceased. Because of this, countless researchers arrived for training. The suitable ones were then dispatched to other labs—or even directly into space.

Any usable technological outcomes were released for civilian use immediately. Those unsuitable were kept in reserve. Some researchers even pioneered entirely new scientific fields.

Thanks to absorbing countless worlds, Takumi's place had acquired a vast array of technologies. As a result, every kind of tech tree existed.

However, Mobius and the others believed this still wasn't enough. They needed to consider whether changes in physical laws would affect existing technologies. Thus, many academies were working on pioneering new technological trees.

After all, Takumi's original world had been ruined because of a change in physics.

Mobius brought Takumi back to her home, where he spent the night. However, by the next day, Mobius ignored him completely and kicked him out.

"You should go home. I'm busy."

After breakfast with Takumi, she vanished, not intending to spend any more time with him.

Watching Mobius leave, Takumi's mouth twitched. This felt like being dumped by a player.

Shaking his head, Takumi said nothing and returned home.

Bronya was at home reading a novel.

"Eaten yet?"

Sensing Takumi's presence, she asked without turning around. She already knew where Takumi had spent the night, so she didn't bother asking.

"Yeah. Where's Hatsune? She went back?"

Seeing no one else around, Takumi was puzzled.

"Someone else is with her now. No need for me."

Bronya glanced at him with a smile. Hatsune was really popular. Who needed her around now?

Hearing that, Takumi raised an eyebrow.

"So Chika and the others are with her?"

He immediately understood. The girls who had rushed to see Chika yesterday were probably still there.

"Yup. They gave Hatsune some songs to record and plan to have her release them."

Bronya couldn't help but complain. Everyone was turning into literary plagiarists. A little from this one, a little from that one—an entire album was born.

The songs were carefully selected and refined by Prometheus.

Takumi clicked his tongue.

"They really know how to play! Impressive!"

He had nothing else to say. If they wanted to have fun, let them. With Hatsune's looks, just going live would attract countless fans.

He wondered whether Lumine would target Hatsune... or maybe Hatsune was already live-streaming?

If she had gone to Eden, then there was a chance she'd run into Elysia.

And if Elysia got involved, she'd definitely drag Hatsune into live-streaming. That didn't even need thinking.

"So your stuff back home is all handled? You were only gone a day."

Takumi was surprised. Had Bronya settled everything already?

"All done. I even bought back my original company—with money from this world, no less. So technically, I made a profit. Give me a building. I'm moving the company over to develop more games."

Closing her novel, Bronya turned serious.

Takumi laughed.

"You're still planning on making games? You even bought the company back? You really know how to play."

"Yeah! I plan to develop a fully immersive game. Even though the current market is rich, my dream hasn't come true yet. Now that I've got the chance, I'm going to make it real. There's nothing else for me to do anyway."

"I don't need to train superpowers anymore. You made me skip all the hard work."

She glanced at Takumi.

In the past, she had to do her own research. Now? Not anymore.

She had become a Herrscher—specifically, the Herrscher of Corruption.

She could connect to the network for any knowledge she wanted and even use Prometheus's computation to fulfill her needs.

No more need to strive.

So, why not chase her dreams? With no kids in her future, she had to pick up old goals.

Otherwise, she'd die of boredom.

Hearing that, Takumi nodded.

"Alright. Just have Prometheus handle it. A building's nothing—just say the word."

If Bronya wanted to play, he'd let her. He didn't mind.

"Great! I'll have the team move over."

Grinning, Bronya messaged her people.

No need to bring anything—just the people. She'd handle all the documents and even bring over their families.

Bronya would take care of everything here.

Once done with the arrangements, Bronya headed out, leaving Takumi home alone.

Bored, Takumi also went out.

Thinking about Hu Tao and the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, he grew curious.

How was the emergency corpse transport going?

Did she have business? Were the ninjas adapting?

He wanted to see Madara and Hashirama carrying a coffin.

With that idea, he headed to the funeral parlor.

It was bustling.

Seemed like a big job had come in.

Hu Tao was busily giving orders. Coffins were being rolled out one after another.

Seeing this, Takumi was full of question marks.

So many coffins?

He couldn't help his curiosity and stepped forward to ask:

"Hu Tao, what kind of massive job did you take?"

Hu Tao turned to him, her face brimming with excitement.