When I got back to my apartment, I took a shower before cashing in all the Gachas I had gotten from the Terrorist Takeover Scenario. It was a paltry amount in comparison to what I got from the Zombie Store Invasion, but the quality more than made up for the lacking quantity.

[Results: Rarity — Rare 900 (Locked) | Terrorist Funds: Lien x4 (Item)]

[Results: Rarity — Unique 8,869 (Locked) | Demolitionist (Perk)]

[Results: Rarity — Epic 27,850 (Locked) | Ghost of Zhongtian (Perk)]

The Rare cash rewards came from killing off four of the most influential members of the terrorist group that had been present for the siege. Altogether, the amount of Lien they gave me was enough to live over a hundred lifetimes in extravagant luxury. I got a couple hundred "Terrorist Cash" rewards from killing the grunt members, but even after adding all of that up, it didn't even make up a tenth of a single Terrorist Fund.

Demolitionist would be great for either countering another situation involving bombs. It gave me a comprehensive understanding of how any kind of bomb worked as well as how best to cause either controlled demolitions or to cause as much chaos as humanly possible with explosions. The later part of the Perk would pair nicely with my Ki Blasts as well as any alchemical bomb I may or may not make.

Ghost of Zhongtian, however, had no constructive purpose. It was a purely destructive Perk which would make mass scale assassinations easier the more people I killed. It was another one of the game-like rewards the Gacha Gods had blessed me with, so there was no logic behind the mechanism. It simply improved my speed and stealth by 0.1% for every kill I made while undetected and the boost would end after ten minutes passed without another kill or if I got caught by my enemies.

Content with the rewards, I went to sleep and spent the next nine hours fighting Katayoki. Dealing with him and getting through the next morning's workout were the only things left on my plate before I was set to relax on my rest day.

That lasted all of three hours before I started feeling bored by the lack of action. I never would have guessed it'd turn out like this considering how passive I was before realizing I had Gacha powers, but I'd bet many people would change if they were in my situation. When you had a small pond of Ki to keep you physically charged for days without rest, Aura to soothe your soul and the Spiritual Power to ignore common mental fatigue, it felt like a waste to sit around.

Of course, just because I was a bit bored sitting around didn't mean I was going to start up another round of training. There were still plenty of places in and around Vale I could still roam about to pass the time enjoyably.

Moreover, now that I was a multi-billionaire — I had the equivalent of a few hundreds of millions in USD — I could splurge without feeling anything. Even when I only had my family's inheritance and knew I'd probably recoup any extravagant purchases with a few rolls of Gacha, it still felt bad to waste money.

Now the impact was so muted it might as well have been nonexistent. That meant 100,000 Lien lunches and dinners would be the standard from now on and only at the nicest spots. With my Cooking Skill, it was the peak of shamelessness when I could probably whip up something better and faster for a fraction of the cost, but that was pretty much the story of my life at this point.

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you inside the restaurant," the hostess at the front of the place I picked said with a clearly fake apologetic smile.

"Why would that be?" I asked.

On Remnant you weren't considered an adult until you turned 20, unless you were enrolled into one of the four Huntsmen Academies that licensed all professional Huntsmen. At worst, it could just be bad luck that I'd picked some sort of adult-only restaurant, but even then one would think they would at least ask if I was a Hunstman in training before rejecting me.

"Sir… This is Restaurant Des' Moines Ia Patel. You need to be invited by one of our existing patrons to enter the list of approved guests."

Ah, right. I forgot that sometimes being rich isn't enough. Even the stuck-up wealthy elites need further bars of entry to establish their own hierarchies. I could probably pull out a million Lien card right now and the hostess would just shake her head.

Oh well, on to the next one I guess. I didn't need to eat here after all. There were tons of nice-looking places that would be happy to take my money. A few good prospects were just a short walk away on this side of Vale.

I walked across the street and asked for a table outside, just to be as petty as possible.

"Can you even afford to eat here?" The host directly asked as he sized me up.

"Yeah," I said as I summoned and brandished one of my thousands of stockpiled 100,000 Lien cards.

"Right this way," he didn't miss a beat as he led me outside and let me pick wherever I wanted to sit. Because it was a Tuesday evening, there were tons of open tables both inside and out of the restaurant. I sat myself as close to the street as possible, which was enough to flash a shit-eating grin at the hostess that turned me away.

Then just to be an asshole about it, I ordered enough food for a family of ten. I didn't need to eat so much to sustain myself, but I could get away with eating much, much more thanks to my Ki. Goku liked to abuse this during every single meal for our shared training under Master Roshi, and I learned that I could do the same after my Ki was unlocked.

Halfway into my fifth entree, I started understanding why Goku liked to do this. No matter how much food I shoved down my throat, my palette never changed and body didn't give any signals to stop the process. I got to try out a ton of different flavours and sustained the pleasure of eating something good for much longer than I had any right to.

"Must you be so uncouth?" A feminine voice chastised me from the side. "If you're going to pig out like that, at least do so from the most remote corner inside the restaurant. At this rate you're going to single-handedly destroy the reputation of my favorite restaurant in Vale by doing that where everyone can see you."

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"Don't care," I said to the white-haired woman I saw once I turned to face her. "Only snobby socialites like you care about that. Everyone else will judge the restaurant by the quality of their service and food. I mean, are you going to stop eating here just because I'm here? If you did, I'd question how serious you are about this being your favorite restaurant."

"I am not snobby!" She glared at me. "Don't confuse that for me being considerate and well informed. In this side of Vale, status and reputation are the lifeblood of all the businesses. Don't you feel any shame for coming here dressed like you're at a fast food drive-thru, not a five-star steakhouse, and eating without any regard for table etiquette or simple manners?"

"Not particularly," I felt the corners of my mouth turn up at the look of indignation on her face. "Look, lady, I'm sure the restaurant did the calculation before they allowed me to eat here. Clearly, they appreciate my money more than whatever hit they'll take for letting me eat so terribly."

I waved her away and she begrudgingly stormed off. The nerve of her to come give me her unwanted and self-centered opinion. I don't know who she thought she was, but I was someone who made Ozpin, the Headmaster of Beacon, work with me on my terms. She could have been the queen of Vale and I still would have told her to "eat sand."

I continued to eat a few more main dishes followed by a platter of all the desserts the restaurant offered before finally asking for the bill. When it was delivered to me, the final price came to 146,520 Lien. I gave the poor waitress who I'd run ragged with all the dishes I'd ordered two 100,000 Lien cards and told her she could keep the remainder as a tip. I wasn't hurting for money and she neither made a mistake nor gotten uppity with me the entire time; she totally deserved it.

Coincidentally, I had been eating for so long that the white-haired woman who had confronted me earlier was leaving at the same time. I waved at her cheerfully and she turned her nose up and stomped off. It was a better reaction than I'd been expecting. Truly a sight to behold from a Karen who'd been refused out in the wild.

After that big lunch, I was somehow feeling even more energetic than usual. Simply walking around Vale wouldn't be enough, of that was I was sure. So, I decided to leave the safety of the Kingdoms and exhaust the extra energy while flying around.

I was fast enough to reach Beacon in around half an hour if I restricted myself to traveling by foot. When I flew, however, that dropped down to only ten minutes. That wasn't enough to satisfy me, so I continued flying around Beacon and off deeper into the mountain range that cut between the city and the academy.

I kept my flight over gravel roads to not stray too far away from civilization and charted a path that took me from the east side of the continent containing Vale, Sanus, to the western-most part. It took a few hours to make the round trip but it was a relaxing way for me to pass the time. I never got bored of the feeling of several-hundred mile-per-hour winds hitting me in the face.

On the return journey back home, I dropped by one of the settlements nearly a hundred miles away from Vale to eat dinner as the flight took more out of me than I expected. I could have made it back to Vale and ate there if I really wanted to, but it was getting kind of late with the sun setting and I didn't feel like waiting.

As I was eating at the settlement — this time deciding to eat only enough for three people — I nearly dropped my fried chicken sandwich when the largest Ki source I'd ever detected entered my sensing range. Alarmed, but not overly worried as the massive Ki Signature moved at a steady pace across from me instead of directly towards me, I watched as a hooded figure on a horse passed by without so much as turning to look at me.

By their figure, I assumed it was a woman but if it weren't for my Ki Sense I never would have guessed someone like her held so much power. Usually, excessive amounts of Ki resulted in their wielders possessing extremely well-built bodies. It didn't automatically make one a grotesque mass monster, the likes of which usually only showed up for bodybuilding competitions. But, it did usually result in finely defined and noticeably compact muscles like mine.

The woman who passed by didn't have nearly as great of muscle definition as she should have by the feel of her Ki. She wasn't unfit by any stretch of the definition, just not what I expected. I guessed it must have had something to do with her Semblance and returned to my meal. Since those things could manifest all kinds of powers, I wouldn't think twice about certain people gaining excessive vitality or physical strength as their Semblance.

When I finished my meal, I took off to continue my flight back to Vale. I was enjoying the view of the sun setting over the horizon from thousands of feet in the air, when a commotion a couple miles away from the settlement I left drew my attention.

As I got closer, I recognized the woman from before, the one with great reserves of Ki, was locked in a fight against three people. She was every bit as strong as I appraised as she trounced her three enemies with overwhelming amounts of elemental attacks.

It didn't matter that the three people fighting her were impressive in their own right. Before I gained access to Katayoki, they would have easily beaten me. They managed to exhaust and wound the woman a fair bit, but in the end, two of them were lying unmoving on the ground and the last was about to get smacked to death by the woman's staff.

Naturally, I wasn't about to let that happen. I didn't know who was in the right or wrong, but that didn't matter. I'm sure that in the process of being a snooping bastard, I'd find out. This was a great opportunity to get some Rare or Unique Gacha.

Crash landing on the triumphant woman's staff as she raised it above her head to land a killing blow, I kicked off of it and pushed her back while landing in defense of the green-haired woman who I'd saved.

"Just what I needed," the woman I'd attacked glared at me, "more enemies to deal with."

"Hey, I'm just here to make sure no one dies needlessly. Why are you guys fighting in the first place?"

"They—"

An arrow struck the woman while another one curved around her and burried itself in my chest. I'd made the mistake of not keeping a close eye on the two people who had been downed and one of them managed to sneak attack me with specialized arrowheads that were good enough to dig deep into my gut.

If I'd done the smart thing and kept my Aura active from the moment I decided to barge into this fight, this wouldn't have happened. Alas, only with more experience would I grow wise enough to avoid such issues in the future. It was just so easy to grow complacent. To be the most safe one needed to keep a paranoid outlook about the worst case scenario, to constantly be on guard and ready for anything and everything.

"Congratulations," I said to the woman who'd been shot as well. After I grabbed at the exposed end of the arrow lodged in my torso and pulled it out, I summoned a Health Potion and splashed its contents on my wound. "We're now allies."

I was still bleeding as only the worse of the damage done to my internal organs healed, but that was enough to fight as well as I could. I materialized Katayoki's knife and threw it at supersonic speeds at the woman who'd attacked me with the arrow.

She managed to dodge it, but that didn't save her when I teleported over to the knife, grabbed it out of thin air and slashed at her. She was competent enough to react in time and parry the blow. Moreover, she either had impecable Aura control or a sizable pool of her own to keep her footing and disperse the worst of the force behind my attack.

Whatever the case, she wasn't a match for me now that I was several orders of magnitudes stronger than I was when I fought Yatsuhashi. I didn't even need to use my full strength to outpace her. With just my Sprinting and Melee Skills, I could land glancing blows, but I was quickly reminded that this was not a one-on-one encounter.

I was paying close attention to everyone during the exchange, so when the grey-haired man who had been lying on the floor when I arrived on the scene launched his own surprise attack at me, I dodged it without looking at him directly. When I looked in the direction of his Ki signature, I only saw open air.

Invisibility?

I turned back to the woman with the bow and was met with nothing again as she and the man both struck me while I couldn't see from where they were going to land their attacks. As my black Aura reacted, I unleashed a Kiai with my Ki to make some space in between us and hopped a good fifty feet back.

I had a Ki Blast charged in my hands that I would have thrown at the two, when a new person arrived. This time it was an ally to the woman who'd been hit with an arrow.

"Emerald, make cover for us to fall back. Things are no longer favorable for us to continue." I guessed that was the woman who had shot me since it was coming from the area her Ki Signature suggested she should have been.

As the three left, I had half a mind to chase after them and make them pay for sneak attacking me when I'd arrived in their defense. They were lucky my moral compass dictated I should help the woman I'd unintentionally given them the chance to hit with an arrow. She had been doing fine on her own until I decided to play hero, so I should own up to my mistakes and help her before she bleeds out or gets an infection.

If I wasn't around, the nearest clinic would be from that settlement I'd stopped to eat lunch at. I doubted they had any high-end medical equipment and with a wound as severe as hers, she was probably going to need surgery that only the hospitals in Vale could safely perform. It was either that or I use up a Health Potion like I did for myself and finished healing the both of us with my Healing Spell.

That would be the responsible and appropriate thing to do. Those assholes who had left would get their dues eventually. It was only a matter of my Ki increasing my sensing range or them foolishly seeking me out in the future since I'd already memorized their Ki Signatures.

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