The beautiful night sky is frozen in time, giving the impression that the night sky is covered by a canvas. If a chain were to hang from the night sky, Matsubara Rikuto would have no doubt that upon reaching the top, he would be confronting a false image of the starry sky.
Like Yin Zhu, he was at home staring blankly at one spot, pondering his future.
Matsubara Rikuto is a cautious person and doesn't act rashly. After entering the instance, unlike the previous three chosen ones who took advantage of their home field and made reckless moves, he didn't easily get eliminated.
On the contrary, Matsubara Rikuto kept thinking about why the Sakura Party was not going well, and began to review the situation in his mind.
After the "Hyakki Yagyō" instance was launched, Matsubara Rikuto watched the live stream almost every spare moment. Initially, he wanted to see the glory of the Sakura Kingdom, but soon he realized something was wrong.
The first chosen one of the Cherry Blossom Kingdom was clearly in a state of ecstasy, and after discovering the rules one after another, he became so complacent that he violated the rules of the toilet—incidentally, the chosen one of the Bear Kingdom later discovered the rules about the toilet god in the flowerpot placed at the toilet entrance.
In other words, the original rules of this demon realm instance could be obtained through two means: notes and native inhabitants. Enoshima Kazuo, however, was too confident in his cultural literacy and thus overlooked both hints.
The second chosen one's talent is unknown—he didn't tell the viewers in the live stream, but just went about his business as if he were playing a game and doing a quest.
Ultimately, he violated the rules of the open-air bath because he spent too much time playing mahjong with the indigenous people and was then led by two female ghosts to an open-air hot spring with even more complicated rules. He also ignored the details of the rules in the hot spring town.
Perhaps this mistake is related to Mitarai Ichiro's gender, since his name clearly indicates that he is a male chosen one.
But Matsubara Rikuto always felt that it wasn't that simple.
This time, it was unspeakable that the rules were being set for Japan. Without any speculation, Matsubara Rikuto was very certain that the person behind it was very familiar with the process of bathing in hot springs in Japan, and had given the Chosen One a headband beforehand.
The rules of the large public bath did not mention that staff members needed to verify their identity through headbands. The other rules were almost identical to those for hot springs in Japan. Therefore, only the chosen ones from Japan would be careless here, focusing on the smokescreen rule of "the number of people in the bath is incorrect" and ignoring the real fatal contradiction.
After all, if a rule describes your daily routine in detail, you'll be so familiar with it that you'll feel comfortable just following your usual practices.
Little did they know, this familiarity concealed a true trap.
The third chosen one was a woman. Logically, she should have been much calmer and free from gender identity issues that would have interfered with her mood, given her high compatibility with her physical gender. However, there is always a "but".
Suzuka Kijima has acquired a powerful talent, equivalent to putting a remote-controlled bomb into a child's hand, and coupled with this upperclassman's rather controlling personality...
Yes, senior.
Suzuka Kijima was Rikuto Matsubara's senior in high school; they attended the same junior high school. Even when Rikuto was just a freshman in junior high, he had already heard so much about this outstanding senior.
Although he knew that the Sakura University Affiliated Junior High School he attended was outstanding in the area, Matsubara Rikuto never expected that two chosen ones would emerge from there.
The school's publicity department could consider using this as a selling point.
After all, those chosen by the unspeakable selection are all highly intelligent students recognized by the supernatural.
Matsubara Rikuto thought to himself, trying to find some humor in his predicament.
Not only does she come from a wealthy family, but she is also exceptionally talented: she was admitted to a prestigious university and won numerous awards in many competitions. If there is any flaw... it might be the rumor among her classmates that "Senior Kijima is quite controlling."
Now, she too has died because of her own controlling nature.
Even if Matsubara Rikuto were an idiot, he could tell that there was definitely something wrong with this dungeon, let alone the fact that he wasn't an idiot.
Based on his previous experience observing Chosen Ones from other countries, he knew that home was the safest place. The Chosen Ones from the neighboring Dragon Kingdom spent almost every day eating, drinking, and having fun at home without any problems; in contrast, the Chosen Ones from his own country were dying one after another.
Matsubara Rikuto really liked a Chinese proverb: "Things shouldn't happen more than three times."
Although the talents of chosen ones from different countries are different, the ability to stay at home and do nothing requires absolutely no talent; you could do it too.
Therefore, Matsubara Rikuto decided that he would rather die than leave the dungeon, and would simply endure the bizarre dungeon. He firmly believed that as long as he could stall until the chosen ones from other countries cleared the dungeon, and the Sakura Kingdom's think tank calculated the safest and most suitable strategy for him, he could launch a counterattack, and the Sakura Kingdom would not perish.
Although previous dungeons had a "countdown" and the longer it dragged on, the worse the environment would become, but... dragging it out is better than suddenly breaking the rules and dying, right?
Therefore, despite possessing the silver talent to discern rules, Matsubara Rikuto's final conclusion was still—
I'm just sitting at home doing nothing.
...
At first, the audience in Japan was very excited after learning about the talent and information from Matsubara Rikuto:
"Great! I knew Japan wouldn't perish!"
Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!
"As expected, the almighty Amaterasu is watching over us! Long live the Sakura Empire! We will not let that idiot prime minister become the chosen one!"
"Shut up, do you want to be silenced too?"
"Matsuhara-kun will definitely be able to turn the tide and save the land of cherry blossoms!"
However, Matsubara Rikuto, who was highly anticipated, did not perform any amazing feats. Instead, he started making rice cakes and chatting with the indigenous cat Nekomata, just like Yoon-tsu from the Dragon Kingdom. He also drank tea and learned to cook with the kappa. He was simply replicating Yoon-tsu's actions.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
