Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

By integrating various virtual works and incorporating countless worldviews, a unified universe that summarizes all these worldviews will be created!

This is called the metaverse. He will definitely rename his game 'Oasis' someday!

Kayaba Akihiko, who went from being an original author to a fan fiction writer, has let himself go, not only changing the map and monsters, but also the game system!

He abandoned his once-proud but actually terrible sword skill system, replacing it with a modified version of skill settings from other game worlds.

So these bewildered players discovered that starting from the third floor, they could actually change their class to mage or warlock and start casting spells!

The unlocked classes were incredibly diverse, and Kayaba Akihiko even borrowed from the advanced experience of online game novels from the neighboring Xida University, and started to implement a system of hidden classes.

It's that kind of hidden class that, once unlocked, can take on at least twenty ordinary players.

Kirito was the first to unlock the hidden job. Kayaba Akihiko created a special questline for him, who had the only item: the Spiral Sword. Completing the questline would unlock the hidden job: Ash Fader!

Wow, with so many settings incorporated, this game is sure to be a lot of fun!

—Bullshit!

If this were a regular game, people could play it with a lighthearted attitude, but since it involves personal safety and even displayed benefits, players are naturally full of complaints about this design that seriously increases their learning curve.

Kayaba Akihiko's reputation was already notorious, and now he's been given the additional title of "trash game producer".

There are even rumors that he has already been pre-selected as the worst game of the year.

Strangely, despite the criticism from both gamers and the public, the live stream's performance improved day by day.

While people verbally condemn developers who make players suffer, they secretly find pleasure in watching players suffer.

Therefore, thanks to this, Dongjiang had already received the equivalent of eight hundred soul fragments by the fifth level.

Of course, that's not important. Tsurugi already has no shortage of souls; this place is purely for him to use as a cyber prison.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​making a Valkyrie the boss guarding the fifth floor?"

Tsugumi looked at the Valkyrie Malenia standing in the central room of the labyrinth, and then glanced speechlessly at Kayaba Akihiko beside her, whose expression remained indifferent.

"You're even more ruthless than Hidetaka Miyazaki!"

"Don't worry, they've done precise calculations; they'll be able to get through," Kayaba Akihiko said calmly.

"However, the error cannot exceed one-tenth, and the DPS detection also requires that it not be lower than the optimal output value for fifteen seconds. In short, it is still acceptable."

"As for the difficulty of operation, after I incorporated the combo scoring system from Devil May Cry, I believe they will definitely find a way to crack it!"

Tsuruga opened her mouth, raised her hand, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Fine, whatever makes you happy..."

"And I even went undercover under a false name," Kayaba Akihiko said, tapping his shield.

"I'll lend them a hand if they can't clear the level, and also—that Kirito you've been keeping an eye on, boss..."

"Just let him be," Tsugumi waved her hand dismissively.

"Report on his affairs when he becomes effeminate."

Kayaba Akihiko remained silent, feeling that his boss had acted impulsively and given a man a cheat code, only to feel it was a waste of money afterward and simply stopped mentioning him.

However, Kirito is doing really well now—he's the number one player in the game and a well-known hero outside of it. He's getting so many live streaming contracts that he's already become a very wealthy man.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you. This is Asmodeus, you know, the infamous Demon King—"

Just as Tsugumi was about to introduce Asmodeus next to her, she turned her head and saw that her own Ring Master had already run away.

He instantly teleported to Asmodeus's side and found her in a tavern on the third floor.

Hey, what are you doing here?

Tsurugi curiously went over and found Asmodeus staring intently at a scene outside the tavern.

A beautiful young female priest with long brown hair was kneeling on the ground, her hands desperately trying to grasp the hand of a cold and aloof young female mage with blue hair.

Nearby, there was a pink-haired paladin and a green cucumber ninja eating melon seeds and doing OMO (online slang for sexual activity), a short-haired shaman girl, a long-haired black dragon knight wielding a gun, and another group of people further away.

"Oh my god, Xiangzi-chan, don't leave me!"

The beautiful, brown-haired, married young priestess gripped the hand of the aloof, blue-haired young mage tightly, pleading in a tearful voice.

"If you leave, our team won't be able to get into the dungeon!"

"Let me go!" the blue-haired, aloof young lady mage said impatiently.

"I'm willing to do anything I can!"

"What kind of resolve led you to say such a thing?" the blue-haired, aloof young lady mage said coldly.

"You're just a priest whose healing output isn't even as high as the tank's. Can you handle the healing load for this team?"

The pink-haired paladin who was pointed at stared blankly at himself, letting out a Tang-style "hehehehehe" laugh.

"If you can't do it, you can't do it. Don't force it!"

"I will work hard to learn the techniques, and I will overcome my fear, I—"

"You're all you think about, aren't you?" The blue-haired, aloof young lady mage finished him off with a single sentence, then strode away, heading towards another group.

That team consisted of a blond druid, a purple-haired beastmaster hunter, a green cucumber ninja, and a long black shaman.

"Huh? What does that mean?" Tsurugi was completely bewildered, having no idea who these people were.

"I smell a complex scent of desire." Asmodeus stared intently at the aloof, blue-haired young lady mage, a look of amusement on his face reminiscent of someone with a sweet tooth seeing a small cake.

"What the heck? What is this writing?!"

"Ha, can't you smell it? This intense...lust."

A delightful glint shone in Asmodeus's dark golden eyes.

"Although it's not uncommon, this complex and entangled desire between people of the same sex is a topic I've always loved. Ah, I'll be playing around here for the next while!"

She was clearly attracted to these girls, but what she was interested in was the complex and intertwined desires between them.

Whether in or out of the game, whether in reality or fantasy, complex and tangled emotional problems are like a spider web that gives people a headache just by looking at it.

But when it comes to killing time, nothing is more tempting than this kind of devilish desire.

"Whatever makes you happy."

Tsurugi glanced pityingly at the departing humans. Whatever their relationship was, it would surely become very complicated after Asmodeus intervened.

But whatever, as long as Asmodeus keeps quiet, Tsurugi doesn't care about anything else.

After inspecting the area again, Tsurugi got bored and left his soul pasture.

Back in reality, Yotsuya Miko was awake, but she woke up on the bed behind Tsugumi's office.

She seemed to have misunderstood something, fidgeting and looking incredibly shy, yet also somewhat lost in thought.

But Tsurugi was too lazy to explain anything further, and simply tossed her coat to her, telling her to go back and wait for the company's arrangements.

It's the complete ruthless behavior of a conglomerate.

But just then, his office door was suddenly pushed open with a bang. Tsurugi turned around and saw Shinomiya Un'ei storming in aggressively.

"Why didn't you tell me you were back!" He slammed his hand on the table and shouted at Dongjiang.

"Do you know what happened while you were gone?! If this isn't handled properly, VOX Technology could go out of business at any time!"

—That's why I'm really fed up with dealing with these capitalist problems.

Tsugumi rubbed her aching head, while in the background came the incessant chatter of Shinomiya Un'taka, expressing his worries about what was happening.

What's there to worry about?

If anyone messes with me, I'll just kill their whole family, won't that solve the problem?

"Just a week ago, VOX Technologies was added to the list of targets for a new round of sanctions by the US government, and the White House president declared that there would be no further exports of related products to Japan..."

bala bala bala bala bala bala bala bala bala bala bala bala

In fact, Tsugumi could understand everything Shinomiya Un'taka said, whether it was broken down or put together.

In short, it can all be summed up in one sentence.

Someone is causing him trouble.

Isn't this only natural? A company this big, and a rising AI unicorn, isn't it normal to be envied and attacked?

"So just say what your opinion is."

Tsugumi interrupted Shinomiya Un'taka's incessant chatter, rubbing her temples and sighing.

"In fact, the companies that lobbied the White House to impose sanctions on us were mostly from the pharmaceutical industry and the IRS."

Shinomiya Un'taka glanced at Yotsuya Miko, who looked completely bewildered, and frowned.

"Actually, it was your open AI that made it possible for people there to clarify tax bills and medical reimbursements without relying on professional tax advisors and lawyers, which is a big deal for them."

"So my advice is to avoid it for now and turn off your AI's functions in this area!"

Having transmigrated, my only purpose is to kill, kill, kill! : 100. The Capitalist Punisher (Eighth Update)

In America, there are three things in life you can't escape.

Insulting the University of Tokyo, exorbitant medical costs, and tax bills.

The last one is particularly fatal and complex, since although America was founded on the basis of tax resistance, it has long since become one of the most ruthless tax manipulators in the world.

Therefore, under the guise of democracy, the government will not directly conduct a tax audit on you. Instead, you will be required to declare all the taxes you are required to pay. If it is found that you have failed to pay any taxes, you will likely face a huge fine!

Ordinary people have always dared to pay more taxes; I've never heard of anyone daring to pay less!

The complex tax calculations in America can be daunting for most ordinary people who may not even be proficient in basic arithmetic. So they either hire professional tax accountants at high prices or simply have to pay more taxes.

And clearly, both of these options are the same thing – do you want to guess who issued the professional tax accountant's certificate?

Medical bills are obviously a problem. Putting aside the exorbitant medical costs, for the generally intellectually disabled and illiterate American people, hospital bills are basically designed to bankrupt them.

The same test is repeated seven or eight times, and the drugs prescribed are all of the same price range but have little effect. Or they can clearly prescribe antibiotics but won't, and will only give you strong drugs to get through it.

So, the Night City made by CD Projekt Red is too conservative. When it comes to cyberpunk, you have to look to America!

The AI ​​provided by Tsurugi perfectly solved this problem.

For tax declaration issues that are too complex for humans to understand, AI can calculate them clearly in less than ten seconds, and can even list more than a dozen legal ways to evade taxes.