Anime Crossover Livestream: The Second Dimension

Maybe I'm overthinking it!

In fact, Yue Zhengling was not wrong.

Having already entertained the shop owner, Aragaki Manami thought to himself, "It seems I don't need the second 50 yen side income."

He had calculated that after paying the rent and utilities for his apartment in the suburbs of Tokyo, there wouldn't be much money left.

Fortunately, the shop owner deeply resented the brothels located near his shop, and was even willing to suffer losses to satisfy his own inner desires.

Next, I just need to earn a decent amount of money whenever I have free time.

If all else fails, we should ask Hatsune Miku to solve the problem.

He actually didn't want too much trouble.

Suddenly I feel a little nostalgic for someone who always treated me like royalty. Back then, I seemed to be no different from an ordinary person.

Of course, one cannot dwell on feelings for too long.

Manami Aragaki closed her eyes and focused on sensing the state of the "Oni," and was relieved to find that it was still like a parasite devouring Kayako's "concept."

He hadn't expected that a group of reckless people would make things easier for him.

Anyway, he should be able to reap a good harvest in a few days.

"Let's take advantage of this relatively free time to refine some pills. I wonder what the success rate will be?"

Manami Aragaki pondered, unable to help but envy the talents of those male protagonists in novels, who possessed at least an 85% success rate, whether it was alchemy, weapon crafting, or talisman drawing...

Afterwards, I used the money I had left to buy some medicinal herbs that were neither too bad nor too expensive.

In the end, quite a bit was still left—thanks to that 50 yen!

With a sigh, Manami Aragaki once again felt a deep sense of gratitude towards Hatsune Miku, and then she thought of another woman who resembled Hatsune Miku.

"I really am a scumbag."

Manami Aragaki gave himself a brief critique and headed home. Before leaving, he bumped into the girl next door, nodding to each other to indicate that nothing had happened, but he felt a little more surprised than before.

It looks like this girl is about to fall seriously ill.

After all, it's not easy for a girl with such an ordinary fate to perceive her aura, especially when that aura is gradually weakening to a weak level.

"It seems like she's had her period too. It's really one misfortune after another. Hang in there, everyone's having a tough time," Aragaki Manami thought to herself.

Click.

The door opened, and he walked straight in, not taking the matter to heart.

As the saying goes in Tokyo Story: Life must go on.

Aragaki Manami added: Who can control whom?

That's just how big cities are.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Chapter 51 The Minor Heaven-Mending Pill and Poverty! The Neighbor Girl and Chicken Soup

Back to the residence.

Aragaki Manami's actions were swift and decisive.

He did not disappoint the expectations of the other viewers who were excited and screaming when they saw him buying medicinal herbs.

After arranging the herbs neatly, he used his alchemy, which he didn't actually have much skill in, to perform a simple treatment.

Then he began to activate the "sun" of the [Phoenix] on his body.

Golden flames appeared out of thin air, burning the medicinal herbs in the magic circle and turning them into a liquid that emitted a rich and fragrant aroma.

"...Then came the Vermilion Fruit Flower after fifty years." A hint of something unreadable flickered in Aragaki Manami's eyes.

That was actually heartache.

It's roughly equivalent to the pain of spending all the money you've saved for decades at once.

I feel a little uncomfortable.

Although the Vermilion Fruit he bought in the [Mall] had consumed less than one-fifth of his "savings," he was still upset.

Speaking of which, the Vermilion Fruit Flower is the flower that has not yet formed the spiritual medicine "Vermilion Fruit".

Generally, before a "Vermilion Fruit" can be formed, it needs to absorb a massive amount of the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

As for the recipe for the Vermilion Fruit Flower, which is the same recipe for the "Minor Heaven-Mending Pill," Aragaki Manami believes that it was due to poverty.

If I'm not mistaken, the Vermilion Fruit cannot be produced in the Dharma-ending Age, which is why the medicinal materials required for the elixir formula have been reduced again and again.

After all, he still possessed the recipe for the Heaven-Mending Pill, and he needed more than just the rare Vermilion Fruit.

Without thinking too much, Aragaki Manami casually made a gesture, and the three-legged round cauldron hidden in his residence floated in mid-air.

He began to practice the alchemy incantation seriously!

The golden flames suddenly changed, and ripples like water waves adhered to the cauldron!

The number of comments in the live stream began to decrease, because everyone was diligently taking notes.

Unfortunately, Aragaki Manami had several hidden agents among them. If he had been able to successfully spy on them and discover anything else, then all he could do was admire them, and that would have been the end of it.

For him, there was no loss.

He didn't take the opportunity to do too many dirty tricks during the live stream; after all, he couldn't treat other people like idiots.

The best way to cover things up is to do things the way they should.

Even if many people believe he can hear the speeches, so what? If he doesn't admit it and pretends not to know, his life will just pass by like that.

I don't know how much time passed...

A misty white fog rose up, followed by a surge of intense heat! A jade bottle appeared in Aragaki Manami's hand, and she raised her hand to summon it!

A pure white pill, as white as snow, fell into the jade bottle.

“…Just one.” Aragaki Manami stared at it calmly for a long time.

Then, he casually placed the jade bottle in his private space, a cubic space that combined Western magic with Eastern magic.

The four grains that were originally full of confidence, or even the eight grains that were extremely arrogant... all became one grain.

He was definitely not the main character.

So, you should be more mature in the future and never try to be a clown.

The success rate of the talismans I refined before was about 20%, but this one is 12.5%. I don't know if it can be approximated as 20%.

With this thought in mind, Aragaki Manami raised his hand and pressed down. The three-legged cauldron seemed to merge into the air, but it did not cause the slightest ripple and quickly disappeared.

Aragaki Manami yawned slightly, then went straight to bed, took out three pills from her personal storage space to replenish her energy, covered herself with the blanket, and went to sleep.

【Mana, sleep well and take good care of yourself.】

[Aragaki-kun, snore snore snore~]

[Aragaki, get some more sleep!]

【Aragaki...】

Hearing several familiar voices, he slept even more comfortably.

Anyway.

Having someone who cares about you is indeed a kind of happiness.

……

When I woke up again, it was a little after 8 p.m.

Aragaki Manami, who had intended to sleep until dawn, woke up.

He slowly sat up, calmly staring at the wall beside him for a long while, his arms crossed as if he were thinking.

A minute passed.

He lifted the blanket, and in a moment of shock, a faint mist of blood appeared on his right hand.

Several odds and ends, which looked rather small, appeared on the bed!

"Let's take out some small items that might be useful from the engraving, to avoid wasting our life essence again... I should have just done it that time, but life doesn't offer so many 'if onlys.'"

"It is indeed very unlucky to have someone die next to you."

"That girl could be considered cute, albeit barely."

Manami Aragaki was thinking about all sorts of random things.

He finished organizing everything in less than a minute and moved the items he had taken from the engraving to his private space.

To be honest, one cubic meter is simply not enough.

Therefore, we have to be very careful with our spending.

After putting the small, cigarette-box-like metal box in front of him into his pocket, Manami Aragaki went to the kitchen and quickly washed all the cooking utensils.

Immediately after filling a pressure cooker with water, he opened a small iron box, took out a small piece of pure, jade-like ice crystal, and put it into the water.

"zazasu nasudanata..."

Mysterious and obscure incantations emerged.

A magic circle, shimmering with countless runes, floated in the water.

Aragaki Manami's eyes remained calm as she watched the pure water slowly become rich and fragrant.

White steam billowed out, filling the small kitchen with the delicate aroma of chicken soup.

Five minutes later.

A pot of milky white chicken soup is ready.

The chicken soup cube originated from the second world that Aragaki Manami traveled through. When he went to the Lingnan region, he caught a very high-quality pheasant in a deep mountain forest.

It's at least at the green quality level, and might even be blue quality.

After all, he used those brightly colored chicken feathers to make some nice little gadgets.