[The System has no idea what you're talking about! ^_^]
[So, what is your decision? Option 1 or Option 2?]
Cassius felt like he was being toyed with here, as the answer was obvious.
He glanced between the cheeky system interface and the naked woman bawling her eyes out. With a heavy sigh, he walked over to her, also making sure to click Option 2. What would come from this decision was yet to be seen; however, for now...
"Yimin," said Cassius, his voice immediately attracting her attention. "You can come with me, but you must not eat any humans unless I say it's okay. Do you understand?"
Yimin's blue expression brightened up more than the raging sun above. She bobbed her head before jumping into his arms like a loving golden retriever. "Yimin understands! Yimin really, really understands…! Master loves Yimin, so Yimin won't eat any humans…!!"
Cassius wanted to refute her words, but seeing as she was being obedient, he shook his head before taking a spare cloak out of his Inventory. He wrapped it around the giddy beauty before speeding up the restoration of his C+ 'Shadow Monarch's Hoodie,' which had leveled up quite a bit from all the monster materials he used as disposable upgrade material.
After finishing the cleanup and scavenging of the Sand Devourers that he hadn't been able to loot until now, it might even reach the B or B+ Rank, which should certainly increase its effectiveness by leaps and bounds.
There was also his Lilith, who was currently very silent right now.
Ever since Yimin entered the picture, Lilith had been abnormally quiet. Cassius had not an inkling what was going on with her, but it almost seemed like she was annoyed by something based on his connection with her. Nonetheless, she was sitting at the peak of the B Rank. And once she finished absorbing the monster blood scattered throughout the desert, she should reach a rank even higher than the Shadow Monarch's Hoodie was going to reach.
After a brief moment of pause to consider a few different matters, Cassius said to Yimin, "We will be in this Gate for a while longer, as I need to collect some things. But once we get to the outside world, you must behave yourself. If you act up, I will have to put you up for adoption."
Yimin's face lost a lot of its color. With a victimized expression, she murmured, "Y-You would get rid of Yimin…? To adoption… Yimin won't survive in adoption…! Please don't send Yimin to adoption!" She pleaded with large puppy dog eyes, nearly on the verge of tears again.
'She definitely has no idea what that word even means...' Cassius sighed.
Patting Yimin's soft bed of gray hair, he said seriously, "I won't put you up for adoption, but you must behave."
Yimin furiously nodded. "Yimin will behave! No eating the humans! And no being bad! Mhmm, mhmm…!" She rubbed her alluring figure all over the helpless man who was now stuck with her. "Don't worry, Master! Yimin will be on her best behavior, so no adoption! And Yimin will also satisfy Master's urges!"
"...Not the last part," Cassius rejected. "Just forget all about the last part."
Yimin vehemently shook her head. "No can do, Master!" She denied. "Yimin is weaker than the master, so the master must breed Yimin! Yep, yep, fuck, fuck, fuck…! Yimin wants master's babies!"
Cassius felt like violently coughing up blood, yet held back at the last moment. His eyes seemed to listlessly wander into the distance, with him completely unresponsive to the casual urging of the lascivious dragon girl to essentially kill himself.
'Is it too late to change my mind on the Options…?' lamented Cassius. 'I'm suddenly no longer opposed to being more hated by my shitty system...'
As if predicting his thoughts, the Idle Evolution System flashed a blue smug face in front of him.
[No takesies backsies! ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧]
Cassius was truly exasperated. Everything in life seemed to be against him. Was it illegal for him to live peacefully or something...?
While zooming out of his general position in the endless deserts of the Gate, various system notifications rang out inside his head.
[You have successfully cleared the B-/Low Red-rank Special Upgraded Gate 'Tyrant's Obsession']
[Rewards increased appropriately!]
{[Reward 1: '400 AP' - [Y/N]]}
{[Reward 2: '2 Equipment Rank-up Shards' - [Y/N]]}
{[Reward 3: 'Beast Companion 'Yimin'' - [Yes!]]}
{[Reward 4: 'A- Rank Hermes Boots' - [Y/N]]}
[Warning!] [Warning!]
{[Main Quest #3]} - [Activated!]
—[The Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiends have set up base in the center point of Japan, Tokyo. Although the brunt of their forces are still in Tokyo, with their strongest soldiers also in Tokyo, the Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiends have sent out thousands of their kind all over Japan.]
—[One of the places the Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiends are set to quietly and inconspicuously erase the presence of humans in will be Hoshito. They can disguise themselves as regular humans and even mimic their mannerisms and personalities. (Any one single person could be a Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiend in disguise, so beware...)]
{[Task: Discover and kill [0/20 Gremlin Extraterrestrial Fiends]]}
{[Task Time limit: 2 Months, 29 Days, 23 Hours, 59 Minutes, 57 Seconds]}
{[Reward 1 - [1000 AP]]}
{[Reward 2 - [S-Rank 'Extraterrestrial Sight']]}
{[Reward 3 - [200 Uncommon Evoballs]]}
{[Reward 4 - [S-Rank 'Stellar Flight']]}
'A Flight Skill...? And Extraterrestrials...?' Cassius couldn't believe what he was seeing. 'Are Extraterrestrials actually real?? And the System wants me to kill them???'
'Set up base in Tokyo... Does that mean the Japanese Government is already compromised...?'
He had read and watched enough Sci-fi to know exactly what it meant when aliens arrived on a planet they didn't immediately plan to blow up.
But why the hell were Aliens on Earth!?
First Hunters, Gates, and Monsters, and now fucking Aliens!? Did they have large gray heads as well!? Did they fly inside circular saucer disks and get handsy with their laser beam guns!?? Was pegging with metal poles their hobby???
"Seriously… What the hell is going on as of late…?"