Ch.208Nice Boat. (3)

Regardless of my mistakes, the collection of information for karma cleansing and probability increase(?) continued steadily.

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<This is a public anonymous chat room.>

<Let’s all use polite and proper language to maintain etiquette.>

-[Ancestral rites aren’t anything special]

-[It’s not like you’re actually honoring your real ancestors anyway, just put out some water and say a prayer]

-[It’s just superstition, no need to be so detailed about it]

-[If you want to be a bit more formal, just grab some food they give you at the base and arrange it nicely]

-[But honestly, it’s all meaningless anyway]

-[I did a super formal bow hoping for a good pull but only got a B-rank ship]

-[If you hadn’t done that, you would’ve gotten a D-rank, so be grateful]

-[Oh, is that how it works]

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I was gathering information from public chat rooms like this, of course.

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Title: Failed gacha rewards are all because of your karma

Author: SecondComingKamisama

Content: [Unidentified cult promotional text], [Screenshot of C-rank pull from Superhuman gacha.jpg]

You all have terrible karma built up

Join our religion now to cleanse your karma and find enlightenment

Comments:

-[Now we even have cults being active here?]

-[If I believe this, will I get the hot babes I want?]

-˪[I told you to cleanse karma but you’re doubling it from the start](Author)

-˪[LOLOLOLOL]

-[What the heck lol]

-[This makes no sense]

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Title: Just pray if you want gacha success

Author: Anonymous

Content: No need for useless rituals

I even held a ceremony with a pig’s head that the base chef got for me and still pulled a CC

Fuuuuuuuuck

Comments:

-[Remember, Co-d…]

-˪[-ode-]

-[It’s just luck anyway]

-[Even if it’s guaranteed, they’re giving out free pulls, so just use whatever you get, right?]

-˪[Agreed]

-˪[Of course, I pulled an SSS-rank^^]

-˪[Reported, you bastard]

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Amid all the desperation and complaints, there were even suspicious cults(?) quietly emerging.

After collecting information while dancing on knife’s edge with all sorts of people, I was finally able to prepare an ancestral rite for my ship gacha.

“Gweeeeeek!!!”

“They said we need a pig’s head, can’t we substitute that?”

“If you do that, you’ll get double the bad karma instead of cleansing it.”

In the midst of all this, Jessica warned me not to lose my mind when I tried to use Kanpf as the pig’s head for the ritual table(?).

Anyway, since karma cleansing was a serious matter, I went beyond simply offering water and prayers and prepared a full-scale ritual with all sorts of nonsense.

“What exactly is the Commander doing, Jessica?”

“Hmm… extreme nonsense to restore his luck to normal… I suppose?”

“It seems the Commander has accumulated quite a bit of stress without realizing it♡”

My loyal Superhumans were of course concerned.

“I heard from Oxianor, but what exactly are you doing?”

“Oh, Princess Luca?”

“Icarus, if your work fatigue has accumulated too much, perhaps taking a rest would be a good option!”

Even Princess Luca, who usually just floated around in the nutrient solution of the ‘Nest of Life’ or wandered aimlessly around the base, came to express her confusion.

Nevertheless, I stubbornly continued with my makeshift ritual based on what I’d seen and heard from galleries and chat rooms, and after completing even the purification ritual(?), I instinctively knew it was finally time to use my guaranteed ship pull.

“Is this… the sensation of being reborn?”

“Isn’t that just because you just took a bath?”

“Hey, watch your mouth.”

After silencing Jessica who was making comments that could jinx my luck, I straightened my uniform once more.

This time, with a more reverent attitude, I decided to go straight to our <Multi-Dimensional Fixed Causality Generation Device> to do the gacha pull.

Perhaps because my attitude had become more cautious due to previous bad luck, I engaged in all sorts of inefficient behaviors like bowing once before inserting the token, then drawing water and praying after inserting it.

“Commander, you’re showing particularly bizarre superstitious behaviors today.”

“It can’t be helped. Sometimes people need something to lean on in unexpected situations.”

Behind me, the two women with animal ears were muttering like ordinary people watching Mars fanatics from 40,000 years in the future, but regardless, I completed all the necessary(?) rituals.

As always, I began to stare at the sparkling gacha machine with anticipation about what might come out. And then, the usual sparkle began to emit a much more brilliant light than when the feminist Kanpf had appeared.

Jessica and Sumeragi, who had been dragged along as an escort, also showed curious gazes. But when the dazzling light show ended and the entrance to our gacha machine… no, the <Multi-Dimensional Fixed Causality Generation Device> opened…

“Huh? Commander, there’s nothing inside.”

“Why is there nothing? It was a guaranteed pull, so no matter how bad, at least one ship should have appeared…”

Both showed confusion at seeing nothing come out of the device. Of course, it made sense for Jessica not to know since she had ‘never once’ seen me pull a ship from the gacha machine since I arrived here.

But Sumeragi had served under another commander before me, so she should have seen this plenty of times, which made me wonder why she was acting this way…

But that thought was brief.

-Beep!

-“Commander, unauthorized warp reactions have been detected near the base.”

“Oh really? Got it, I’ll head to the command center right away.”

After receiving the communication from the command center NPC at the perfect timing, I nodded to the two confused women and said:

“Let’s go see what’s arrived. Whatever it is, at least it should be a decent ship.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Understood.”

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Of course, after saying such cool words, if the ship that arrived at the base turned out to be a ‘D-rank ordinary patrol ship’ or something like that…?

‘Ugh, such terrible thoughts aren’t good.’

Since all the nonsense I had been doing until just now… or more precisely, all day long, would have been completely useless.

The entire way to the command center, despite my confident stride, I was inwardly so anxious I could have bitten my nails off.

‘Please, at least be S-rank, or at the very minimum A-rank or above, please.’

Naturally, as these feelings continued, my confidence proportionally plummeted.

And these feelings reached both their peak and their lowest point simultaneously just as I approached the command center door…

‘Ah, what am I even doing?’

Suddenly thinking I was being too neurotic about unnecessary things, I shook my head.

After taking a deep breath, I confidently opened the door and entered the command center.

And the moment I entered:

“Oh Jesus fucking crisis fuck yeaaaaaaah!!!!”

“Commander?!”

“Has the Commander gone mad?!”

As I saw the form of an ‘extremely massive’ ship appearing in front of our base, casting a shadow over the command center—so large that even the giant observation window couldn’t fully contain it—along with:

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<Dimensional Causality Fixation Token (Ship) 1 Use Result>

-<SSS-rank Strategic Missile Platform Battleship ‘Hresvelgr’>

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Seeing the awesome name of the ship before my eyes,

I fell to my knees, collapsed on the spot, and let out victorious screams in all directions.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!”