When Takumi and Bronya saw this message, they burst out laughing.
"Yep, it's her."
No doubt about it.
The others were also surprised.
Takumi: [Selling Wang Xiaoming's transformation belt.] [Takumi has listed a tech product: Kamen Rider Henshin Belt.]
Nyarlathotep: [!!!!] [How much does it cost?] [Is it an official product?] [Can girls use it?]
Fujiwara Chika: [Is it Nyaruko?]
Akeno: [Be bold. Drop the 'is it'.]
Sagiri: [It's Nyaruko!]
That confirms it.
Who else could it be?
Nyarlathotep: [That's right, I'm Nyaruko!] ['Nyarlathotep' has renamed themselves to 'Nyaruko.']
Nyaruko: [That looks much better.] [Hello, everyone!]
Nyaruko had already read through the situation.
And cheerfully greeted everyone.
She also started looking through the names in the group.
Upon seeing some familiar ones, her eyes sparkled.
Anime characters!
Chapter 345: Girl, Do You Want to Live in Another World?
Takumi: [Quick, go take down that ultra-cute loli!!]
Fujiwara Chika: [Is there Wi-Fi or not?!]
Sagiri: [That's a huge fishtiger-toothed shark!]
Takumi: [Welcome the indescribable Nyaruko!] [Applause~~!!]
Fujiwara Chika: [Yay!!]
...
With Nyaruko's arrival, the group chat turned into complete chaos.
Even though her world looked normal on the surface, Nyaruko was a legitimate eldritch god.
NyarukoNyarlathotep.
KutkoCthugha.
Lian TianHastur.
These were all names tied to actual eldritch deities.
Takumi would never believe there wasn't some connection.
Maybe they were just alternate accounts for those beings.
Nyaruko: [2D waifus!!!]
Nyaruko had finished reading all the chat logs.
She was instantly fired up.
So many 2D waifus!
Takumi: [Get lost, they're all mine.]
Fujiwara Chika: [Oh my goose liver!!]
Sagiri: [There it ispure 2D!!]
Nyaruko: [Hehehe!!] [This chat is so much fun.] [Everyone's using their real names, so it must be real, right?] [How do I go to another world?]
Nyaruko was excited.
She desperately wanted to meet her waifus.
Takumi: [Do check-ins, complete tasks.] [Check-ins are daily, tasks are random.] [Alright, I'll let the others explain the rest.] [I'm going to explore this world.]
Takumi gave a quick orientation in the chat.
Then left the rest to the others to explain.
He was done participating.
"Eldritch god, huh." "Now we've got this kind of being in the group too."
Bronya knew about Cthulhu mythos as well.
Nyaruko's origin was one of the Three Great Pillars:
The Crawling Chaos, the Thousand-Faced God, the Messenger of the Outer Gods, Father of a Million Favored Ones.
"Still, she's just a cute girl."
Takumi shrugged.
Though terrifying, she was a moe girl now.
Not exactly unnameable.
"Aren't some moe girls on the internet just as unspeakable?"
Bronya glanced at Takumi.
He made it sound like being cute excluded horror.
These days, unseeable, unspeakable, unthinkable beings were all over the net.
Some even were cute girls.
Or maybe it was because they were cute girls that they were unnameable?
Takumi burst into laughter.
He knew exactly what Bronya meant and nodded in full agreement.
Exactly!
Way too many of them.
"Where are we going next?"
Jibril didn't quite follow their conversation.
Now that Takumi and Bronya were done talking, she asked where they were headed.
"Obviously to find Tabane Shinonono." "She's the most valuable person in this world." "Let's see if I can bring her to our world."
When Takumi thought of IS, it wasn't the characters that came to mind.
He wasn't a fan of this world's cast.
Since he was here, his interest focused on the creator of IS: Tabane Shinonono.
This world's genius scientist.
The only person who could create an IS core.
And she was currently being hunted globally.
Everyone wanted to capture her and obtain IS core tech.
So she was constantly in hiding.
But it was simple for Takumi to find her.
He hacked the network as usual.
Then searched for Tabane's location.
Finding her sister might be hard, but locating her would be easy.
She was a diehard sisconshe probably planted backdoors in her sister's devices.
It didn't take long before Takumi locked onto her location.
She was in an underground lab on an island.
Well-hidden, admittedly.
Takumi smiled.
He opened his imaginary number space and stepped out.
Bronya and Jibril followed close behind.
The three of them landed on the island.
Tabane noticed immediately.
In her pitch-black lab, several monitors were tracking every landing event on the island.
No blind spots whatsoever.
Any humanoid lifeform would trigger alerts.
So when Takumi's group appeared, she instantly knew.
Tabane let go of her keyboard.
Her gaze swept across the screens.
When she saw the trio emerge from a spatial rift, her eyes widened.
"Hello~!"
Suddenly, all her monitors were hijacked.
Then, Takumi, Bronya, and Jibril appeared behind her.
She was so startled she fell off her chair.
Then she quickly turned around to look at them.
"Who are you???" "Aliens??"
Tabane stared at them in shock.
"Nope!" "We're from another world."
Takumi lit up the lab with a flick.
Then conjured a sofa and sat down.
Bronya and Jibril rolled their eyes but sat down too.
They quietly stared at Tabane.
When Takumi mentioned another world, her brain short-circuited.
Another world?
Was this a joke?
Tabane was dumbfounded.
"I'm not joking." "Sit." "We don't mean harm." "Besides, there's nothing in your world worth spying on." "It's a bit outdated."
Tabane twitched slightly at that.
Country bumpkin tech, sorry.
Still, since Takumi said that, she didn't press further.
She climbed into her seat and faced the trio.
"So why are you here, exactly?"
She knew everything in her lab had been taken over.
She glanced at her monitors.
Completely useless now.
The whole environment seemed frozen in time.
Even the world outside.
"Just wanted to meet you." "And maybe... offer an invitation." "Want to immigrate?" "Move to another worldyour talent will shine there." "This world holds you back." "If you accept, you can bring your parents, friendseveryone." "Let's start a new life elsewhere."
Takumi smiled warmly as he invited her.
Girl, wouldn't you like to live in another world?
There's nothing left here worth clinging to.
You're already hiding and running from place to place.
Why not just move on to a whole new world?
Chapter 346: Did You Just Drag Out Her Entire Extended Family?
Shinonono Tabane froze when she heard what Takumi just said.
Emigrate? To another world?
Good grief!
"Sure! Bring my parents and my little sister along. Then I've got no problem with it."
If that was really possible, she'd honestly agree. Though, this guy in front of her had to be joking, right? Could you really bring people across worlds?
Well, she didn't quite believe it.
"OK! Then it's settled. I'll take you out of this world."
With a snap of his fingers, Takumi sealed the deal.
This world didn't really have anything Takumi cared to bring back. IS technology? Not worth his time.
So why not just bring the creator of IS instead?
Tabane blinked at his words.
"You're serious?"
Wasn't he just joking?
"Of course I'm serious. You agreed, so let's go."
With that, Takumi opened a spatial gate and directly pulled her through.
Even though Tabane tried to resist, her body wouldn't respond.
"Wait!! I-I was kidding!!"
Hey, hey, I was just joking!
"But I took it seriously. Don't worry, your whole family will be coming along, together and safe. So just stay in there for now."
With that, Takumi shut the spatial gate.
"Did you just kidnap her?!"
Bronya was dumbfounded at Takumi's move.
Was it really okay to just abduct her like that?
"Of course! Next, we're off to find Shinonono Houki. And maybe stroll around this world a bit."
Tabane: acquired.
Now he just had to collect her little sister and parents.
"Shouldn't we bring more people back? Like, say, other characters from anime?"
Bronya tilted her head at Takumi.
Since we're already here, shouldn't we recruit more people?
This world's scientists weren't half-bad.
Hearing that, Takumi thought for a moment and didn't object.
"Yeah! Let's bring more back. Our side welcomes scientists with open arms."
He agreed, and then took Bronya and Jibril to roam around.
They first picked up Tabane's parents and younger sister and threw them into the same space.
When the family reunited, they were thoroughly confused.
"Sis? Tabane??"
Seeing her here shocked and delighted her family.
But also left them utterly baffled.
What in the world was going on?
Tabane explained everything she knew.
When they found out they'd been kidnappedinto another world, no lessthey were speechless.
But thinking carefully, maybe it wasn't that bad?
Over time, Takumi kept tossing more people into the space.
Many of them were fellow scientists Tabane knew.
Seeing these familiar faces, Tabane couldn't help but mutter:
Was he planning to bring every scientist in this world back?
Even her best friend got dragged in later.
Those who were brought in looked around, bewildered.
But after chatting, they all figured it out.
They'd been abducted by people from another world.
And their families were taken along too.
Was this what they called wiping out entire clans?
Wait, not quite that extreme.
Still, pretty close.
Aside from a few friends, most of their known relatives and acquaintances had been scooped up by Takumi.
The vast space was soon filled with people.
After who-knows-how-many hours, the space reopened.
Bronya and Jibril stepped in.
Seeing them, Tabane rushed forward.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
She sounded quite agitated.
Good griefthey just dumped people into this black box with zero explanation!
What exactly were they trying to do?
"Calm down. We'll be out soon."
Bronya glanced at her and spoke calmly.
Right then, the imaginary space opened again.
Seeing this, Bronya immediately said:
"Let's go. We've arrived at our destination."
With that, she and Jibril walked out first.
The others hurried to follow.
When the crowd stepped out, they found themselves standing in a vast plaza.
Robots flew overhead.
Even spacecraft could be seen sailing through the skies.
And there, standing openly in the distancewas the man they'd all briefly met before.
"Greetings, everyone! Welcome to my world!"
Takumi smiled as he addressed them.
He then directly transmitted basic knowledge about his world into their minds.
"Take a look at what's now in your head. That's your intro to this world."
"You won't be returning. So live well here."
"Whatever you lost by being brought here, I'll make it up to you."
"Next, please receive your terminals."
"Any questions? Just ask the AI. She'll be your life assistant from now on."
"Money, housing, suppliesshe'll take care of everything."
Soon after he finished, mechanical beings appeared out of thin air.
They began distributing terminals to the crowd.
Takumi didn't wait for their reactions.
He simply turned and left with Bronya and Jibril.
Back home, Bronya couldn't help but complain.
"That random world teleportation token was so disappointing!!"
"We were just brushed off like that."
She was annoyed.
They had only visited two worlds.
Sure, piloting Gundams was fun.
But the fun ended way too soon.
Even Jibril couldn't help but complain:
"Yeah! That wasn't fun at all!"
"I'd rather stay home and read."
This time, she didn't enjoy herself either.
Wasting an entire day she could've spent reading.
Staying home was better.
Hearing the two grumble, Takumi rolled his eyes.
"There are tons of other worlds out there. You can't control where the random token sends you."
"Just be glad you could even go."
"Otherwise, you'd be drifting in the void, with no idea when you'd find a world."
That thing was both good and bad.
Everyone knew how unreliable random systems were.
So what's there to say?
Being able to travel to another world at all was already amazing.
At the very least, Takumi thought so.
He could collect itemsand even peoplefrom everywhere.
Chapter 347: Go Be an Assistant, Young Lady!
The interdimensional trafficker of humanity, Takumi, was back online.
So Takumi felt it wasn't too bad after all. Sure, maybe he suffered a minor loss, but being able to bring back some people and technology made it more than worth it. After all, it was the foundation of an entire world. What real losses could there be?
The three of them returned home, while Shinonono Tabane and the others began to familiarize themselves with this world through the terminals they received. Listening to the AI's introduction, everyone was instantly dumbfounded.
Meanwhile, some researchers Takumi had brought back earlier noticed the newcomers. After inquiring about the situation, they warmly introduced the world to the new arrivals.
Prometheus then turned to Shinonono Tabane.
"Miss Shinonono Tabane, your job assignment has already been arranged based on big data filtering. Your superior will be Miss Velvie, one of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, inscribed as the Spiral."
"She is also the creator of the Divine Keys and a mechanical engineering genius, renowned for her authority in mechanical power systems and energy. You will study under her and master various advanced technologies of this world."
"Additionally, some permissions to the knowledge database will be opened to you. For more access, you will need Miss Velvie's or Dr. Mei's authorization."
Prometheus patiently explained all of this to Tabane. To avoid any resistance, she even emphasized Velvie's credentials and accomplishmentslike their ongoing exploration of the universe and what the Divine Keys actually were.
After reading through the information, Tabane was completely stunned.
This incredible individual was to be her new boss? She was truly shocked.
"Where is she now? Can I go report to her?" Tabane asked eagerly. She couldn't wait to meet her.
"If you're not occupied with family arrangements, you can visit Miss Velvie at any time," Prometheus responded calmly.
