Half an hour later.
After wolfing down dinner, Lin Dong took his freshly updated Falna and entered the Misty Plaza.
The plaza was empty. Neither Demon Slayer Lin Dong nor Cooking Master Lin Dong was present.
DanMachi Lin Dong didn't mind. He shaped a chair out of fog, sat down, and waited patiently.
Besides sharing power and memories, the Misty Plaza had a few hidden utilities.
Fog-conjuration was one of them.
Another was a notification function: once he entered the plaza, the Lin Dongs in other worlds would receive a prompt.
After waiting a bit, Cooking Master Lin Dong appeared.
"Yo—long time no see."
"For you, maybe," DanMachi Lin Dong said, standing up and patting him on the shoulder. "For me, it's only been a day."
Compared with the other two, DanMachi Lin Dong—blessed with Falna—grew faster. Because of that, he came to the Misty Plaza almost every day to help the others sync updates.
"Man, your guts are insane," Cooking Master Lin Dong said, having just received the shared memories. "If it were me, I'd never poke Ryuu with the Jura info."
Even though they were all Lin Dong, their experiences diverged after transmigration, and their personalities drifted with them. Cooking Master Lin Dong simply wouldn't have done something that sharp.
"It wasn't as risky as it looks," DanMachi Lin Dong replied. "I had contingencies."
"If Ryuu snapped and grabbed me to interrogate me about Jura, I'd leak just enough about Daedalus's Labyrinth to pin her down."
"And I left backups with Hestia and the Takemikazuchi Familia. If I 'disappeared' for more than a day, they'd come dig me out."
"Ah," Cooking Master Lin Dong said, enlightened.
To preserve each world's "individuality," the Lin Dongs screened out mundane daily memories during sharing and only transmitted key fragments. Without DanMachi Lin Dong explaining, it wasn't obvious how many safety nets he'd laid.
BZZZ—! BZZZ—! BZZZ—!
The fog at the plaza's edge suddenly churned violently, pushing outward.
A few seconds later, a new Lin Dong stepped through—a mountain of muscle, wearing a green, skin-tight outfit.
"Oho," Cooking Master Lin Dong grinned. "Newbie."
"Which one of us goes?" he asked.
"You," DanMachi Lin Dong said.
"OK."
DanMachi Lin Dong walked up.
"Who are you? What do you want?" the newcomer snapped, muscles tensing as he entered a fighting stance.
"I'm you. You're me." DanMachi Lin Dong extended a hand. "If you want the truth—touch."
"Touch? That's—holy sh—"
Their hands met, and memories flooded in like a tidal wave. With the plaza's help, the newcomer digested everything instantly.
"Damn it! My cheat arrives this late?!"
"Yeah," DanMachi Lin Dong said thoughtfully. "Your luck is… something."
On first contact, the plaza automatically filtered out daily trivia—so DanMachi Lin Dong saw the newcomer's life clearly.
Compared to the others, JOJO Lin Dong had an unusually strange trajectory.
He'd transmigrated into a child's body and became the son of a wealthy magnate. The magnate was obsessed with longevity and spent money chasing any method of extending life.
By chance, the magnate met a Ripple (Hamon) practitioner and learned a little.
Hearing about it, JOJO Lin Dong asked for an introduction—then traveled all the way to Tibet to become the practitioner's disciple.
And today… was the day he graduated.
Cooking Master Lin Dong, now synced, laughed without mercy. "That timing is criminal. If you'd gotten into the plaza earlier, your life would've been way easier."
Ripple training, after all, was fundamentally a breath-based discipline—much like the Breathing Styles. If JOJO Lin Dong had synced sooner and gained better physical specs and Thunder Breathing as a base, his Ripple training difficulty would've dropped off a cliff instead of being "hard labor until you die."
"That's exactly why I'm mad," JOJO Lin Dong sighed. "Why does my cheat arrive after the exam ends?"
It was like finishing the test and then your roommate strolling in to say, 'You know you could've just searched the answers, right?'
He'd already walked the longest road—only to learn there was a shortcut.
"Coming late isn't necessarily bad," DanMachi Lin Dong said.
"When a new Lin Dong syncs, physical ability spikes massively. And you know the curve—raising your body from 1 to 10 is easier than from 10 to 20."
"You pushed your body to the extreme before unlocking the plaza. That helps you—and helps us."
"The stronger we get, the more resources and advantages we pull in across worlds, which we can feed back into you."
Cooking Master Lin Dong nodded. "Also, if I get stronger I can sleep less and spend more time researching recipes. Look forward to my next sync."
"…Fine," JOJO Lin Dong said, feeling better. He waved. "I just graduated today, I've got things to do. We'll talk tomorrow."
"I'm heading out too," Cooking Master Lin Dong said. "I've got a contest later."
"Alright," DanMachi Lin Dong said. "We'll call it. Demon Slayer me is probably busy. We'll sync next time."
With a casual sweep of his hand, he ended the session.
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