I really can't control myself.

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"This stuff isn't as delicious as I imagined," Linton remarked as he ate crab at a hot spring inn in Sapporo. Fubuki had recommended the place, saying the king crab there was exceptionally good; after all, she and her sister had been traveling extensively.

After all, half of this world is a food-themed anime world, so Linton naturally pays more attention to food when he comes to such a world. You might not be able to eat this level of cuisine in other worlds.

Since he happened to have some free time, Linton came to Hokkaido to eat crabs.

He originally wanted to try the famous snow crab, since he had eaten king crab before. But the problem was that it wasn't snow crab season at all, so he had no choice but to try the king crab in this gourmet world to see how it differed from what he had eaten before.

However, perhaps due to high expectations, Linton didn't find the king crab particularly delicious. It wasn't that it was bad, but rather... rather ordinary.

This is nowhere near as good as the fried crab shell that Rennes made before, okay? Maybe it's because that left such a deep impression on Linton.

"Or maybe it's because the chef isn't good enough. How about we grab Tsukasa Eishi or Saiba Asahi and have them cook for us?" So far, Linton felt that these two were the best cooks in this world, and the others were still a step behind them.

Of course, in terms of pure culinary skill, it has to be Fubuki from our own team. But Fubuki is a team member after all, so she'll have plenty to eat in the future, while the cuisine of this world will probably be hard to come by. I wonder how well Fubuki is doing in her studies.

Just as I was thinking about who to capture, an orange light flashed behind me, and a portal appeared.

Linton knew who it was, of course, since only Aizen, besides him, knew how to use the teleportation technique from the Marvel universe.

As expected, Aizen emerged from the portal.

Seeing Linton looking like he'd just finished soaking in a hot spring and was now enjoying a delicious meal, Aizen was clearly taken aback. He was busy with something he couldn't possibly be doing, while Linton was simply slacking off. Of course, Aizen wouldn't say anything.

"Why are you here?" Linton, clearly unaware that I was slacking off, casually tossed aside the crab he was holding and asked Aizen, "Is the matter over there resolved? Did you catch that system, Kuro?"

"We haven't caught him yet... but... some interesting developments have occurred that I didn't expect," Aizen said with a smile.

"An interesting development?" Linton became somewhat interested. After all, even Aizen found it interesting, so it must be something quite interesting. "What is it?"

Aizen took a tablet out of his sleeve and handed it to Linton, indicating that Linton should take a look at the situation.

Seeing this action, Linton felt somewhat uncomfortable. After all, it was usually Asuna who would casually pull out a tablet and give Linton a report, right? Aizen rarely did this.

However, Linton still took a look and found that the tablet was displaying a live broadcast room, which looked quite familiar. The layout of this live broadcast room was obviously the same platform as the live broadcast of Ms. Aihara that they had set up. However, what was being broadcast live at the moment was obviously not Ms. Aihara's program.

At a glance, Linton recognized one of the people in the live stream—or rather, a demon. That's right, Linton recognized Zong Yang; he did have some recollection of this dog, Linton.

“Good heavens, even monsters are doing live streams now,” Linton said with a laugh. “This guy’s come to the human world?” “That’s not the point,” Aizen said, pointing to the helmeted Takaoka Yūnen on the screen. “This guy, Takaoka Yūnen, the system holder you let go before…”

"Who?" Linton clearly didn't remember the person at all.

“It’s that guy with the prophecy system,” Aizen said. “You said it was interesting, and then you stayed.”

"Uh... Damn, who would remember a name that's so hard to remember?" Linton had completely forgotten about it. But when it came to prophetic abilities, he did recall some details. It has to be said, this guy was incredibly low-key. Linton did remember Eizan Etsuya, having some recollection of him since he was quite useful. As for Takaoka Yūnori, Linton only remembered that he often acted alongside Eizan Etsuya; he only remembered his name after Aizen's prompting.

"He is working with the young master of the Inugami family to develop a new cultivation technique," Aizen reported, having grown accustomed to Linton's situation.

"A cultivation technique? Hmm, and then what?" Linton clearly hadn't found anything interesting about it yet, and didn't know what Aizen meant by "interesting."

“It’s a cultivation method that allows one to cultivate directly using emotional energy,” Aizen said.

“Cultivating with emotional energy?” Linton clearly missed the point. “Like what Orochi developed, right? Is there anything strange about that? Is what they developed even more effective than Orochi’s?”

That's right. In fact, the cultivation method of using emotional energy has existed for a long time. As mentioned before, Linton made Orochi play the role of a magical girl, which was just to trick the other party into using the power of faith.

Linton just said it casually, and then he didn't expect that Orochi would actually develop it himself.

In reality, Takaoka Yūnori's goal was the same as Orochi's, except that Orochi only knew about the training method it developed, and even Linton didn't know the details because he didn't think much of it.

Aizen did ask Orochi for the technique, but then he just used it for experiments.

"I can only say that they unintentionally did me a great favor," Aizen said with a smile.

"A big favor?" Linton asked, not understanding what was going on.

"Their real purpose is not to become stronger by using emotional energy for training. Their real purpose is to consume the emotional energy they have accumulated through training, so that our detection devices will be unable to detect these system holders." Aizen directly exposed the purpose of Takaoka Yūnori and the others.

"Oh? You can do that?" This surprised Linton, since he had been slacking off and still had a bunch of system holders' problems to solve.

He wasn't in a hurry at all; after all, he didn't think it was a big deal, something he could easily handle. Then suddenly Aizen told him that they wouldn't be able to track these people anymore. Was he going to inexplicably do something bad again?
"So we need to get rid of these guys as soon as possible?" Linton asked.

"No, what I mean is... in this situation, some people are much more anxious than we are," Aizen said with a smile.