3:00 PM.
A few of the Blocks on Rita’s body suddenly turned white—converted into snow-like Blocks by the Divine Ga to cover her amusent park access fee.
But the next mont, she felt her cheeks bulge. Her mouth started spewing out capsule eggs uncontrollably.
Rita: ?!
Did the magician’s wisdom tooth get confiscated?!
One duck egg after another shot out of her mouth like a Peashooter. Rita scrambled to catch each one, stuffing them back into the capsule machine as quickly as she could.
Nearby players who hadn’t left yet: ...
Well, this capsule machine sure has a lot of use cases...
But rembering how expensive it was, their excitent fizzled instantly.
Not worth buying. This whole capsule chanic only works here because of the ga’s special setup—turning bodies and items into Blocks isn’t standard.
Now that she’d cleaned up all the capsules, Rita stood up with the machine in her arms. "Only $100 per pull! Divine Tokens included..."
Before she could even finish, the crowd that had been surrounding her monts ago dispersed instantly.
"Eighty dollars per pull!!"
No one looked back.
Rita clicked her tongue, turned to face the corner wall, and pulled out Dull Ga.
Seven fragnts now.
Dull Ga – Incomplete (7/9): "Stupidity is not a sin." Six bullet chambers, each representing a different round. Spin the cylinder freely and pull the trigger against your own head. The bullet nad "Stupidity" erases a single mistaken thought. A blank resets the target’s state to what it was 120 seconds ago. Each ti the wielder fires at another target, the next shot must be fired at themselves...
A blank could rewind soone’s state by two minutes. Could this an that during Mysterious Power, she could heal herself using that reset chanic?
But what happens after all the bullets are fired? How does she reload?
Even with more info, Rita wanted Dull Ga more than ever.
Unfortunately, only one fragnt remained unaccounted for—the other was still listed on the market for a sky-high price.
The floating red text over Dull Ga had shifted again:
October, Sakura · Orange White ↑
She summoned her airship and followed the arrow, scouring the October Month The Park for Sakura · Orange White.
Nothing to hide anymore. With all the ga items she’d collected, trying to complete the last pieces wasn’t suspicious.
The trail led her to the ferris wheel.
Rita deflated.
Even if she had the guts to rush in, she didn’t have ga access permission.
But just waiting around felt like a waste of ti.
She flew off again, stopping in front of one of the park’s least populated attractions.
Almost no players queued here. It was dead quiet.
Rita packed up the ship, waited less than two minutes, and found herself in front of a small Gingerbread Man.
She hadn’t even pulled out any Blocks when she noticed him glaring at her with pure rage, chest heaving like a furnace.
Who made the kid this mad?
Rita blinked, confused—then rembered.
Oh. Right. It was her.
Her first visit to the October park, she’d canceled her ticket at this very ga.
She fished out so Blocks for the ticket but, as she handed them over, she also pulled a capsule from the machine and gave it to the Gingerbread Man.
With a gentle smile, she said, "Sorry for the trouble. Here, take this and play. Can you forgive ?"
Ah~~ was this one of those duck eggs that Overlords were fighting over?
The Gingerbread Man’s fury vanished. He even looked embarrassed, clutching the capsule like a treasure.
"It’s okay~" he mumbled.
Rita grinned and shook her head. "Nah, I didn’t do anything wrong!" Then she completed the refund, activated Silent Hill, summoned Deep Blue Helm in the thick fog, and returned to the March 1st The Park.
The Gingerbread Man kept a tight grip on the capsule, eyes darting between it and BS-Rita, terrified she might snatch it back mid-refund.
When he saw her vanish and the capsule still in his hands, he finally exhaled in relief.
After a beat, he couldn’t resist and typed into the ch faction chat group:
[L175246]: Actually, BS-Rita’s not so bad. She refunded her ticket just now, but gave a capsule and even apologized.
[B8017913]: Did you open it?
[L175246]: Not yet.
[B8017913]: Waiting for the backstab.
[L175246]: ??
With no players in line, L175246 eagerly opened the capsule—then froze.
His face twisted in disbelief.
He turned the capsule upside down, shaking it.
Empty?!
He hurled the shell to the ground, jumped on it, stomped until it shattered into glittering bits, and then scread, "AAAHHHHH!"
Not far off, Deceitful Bloom and Stupidity watched.
Stupidity: "You really are starving."
Deceitful Bloom: "No, you’re the one starving. You handcrafted Dull Ga, and now it’s in BS-Rita’s hands."
Stupidity: "..."
...
Rita found B8017913 at a vending machine in March 1st The Park. The little robot was staring into the air, unmoving.
She hopped off the ship and strolled over to the machine, pulling up Dull Ga on the terminal.
"Chatting?" she asked casually.
B8017913: "Yeah. Watching the backlash."
Rita: ??
She couldn’t keep up with this little guy’s cryptic jargon. But she didn’t care.
All that mattered was getting her hands on the market fragnt of Dull Ga.
If she couldn’t get the last one before the end of the ga, she’d just combine all eight and list them for sale:
$100,000, coupons allowed.
The odds of getting stuck with it were low.
After selecting the listing, she began pulling capsule after capsule from her machine, pouring their Blocks into the transaction.
B8017913 helped too, dumping the profits from earlier item sales into the terminal.
They avoided using Blocks from July and October parks at first, saving them for last.
Even after that, they were $5,000 short—Rita finally dipped into her July earnings.
When the screen showed "Purchase Complete," she finally relaxed.
Eight fragnts now.
B8017913: "That all of them?"
Rita: "One more to go. But no rush."
Not that rushing would help.
She repurchased the confiscated Magician’s Wisdom Tooth piece and reassembled it. Then she listed five nine-piece ga item fragnts she’d obtained in the October park.
All were bundled as incomplete item sets—more expensive than selling each piece individually, by about 30%, but coupon use wasn’t blocked.
Players who really wanted them could afford it.
In fact, only the Divine Ga system could prevent coupon use. Players had no such power.
She tagged two of the incomplete sets with a special purchase condition: only accepted paynts of small Blocks under $2.
This was in preparation for It’s Not the Craft That Sucks, where those tiny Blocks were needed to buy extra dice rolls.
Most of these items were equipnt-type—useless to her. Best to turn them into attribute Blocks while she still could.
She even borrowed B8017913’s listing quota to put up five more.
B8017913: "So, where to next?"
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