Poppy: Let me confirm first. Does the world you came from have a Wish God and Wish Points?

Seventh Ju: ...No. There are plenty of fictional gods, but I’ve never heard of anything like "Wish Points."

Poppy: So Xiv only blesses our world, it seems.

Seventh Ju: If it’s convenient, explain from the start?

Poppy: Xiv is this world’s name—and its god’s name too.

Poppy: When any sapient being is born, Divine Sivi grants them Wish Points. He takes them back at death.

Poppy: Wish Points fulfill wishes, letting sapient beings develop and change as they will.

Poppy: With enough Wish Points, any wish can come true.

Seventh Ju: Any wish?

Poppy: Yes. Even destroying the world.

Poppy: Though who knows how many points that’d take.

Poppy: A being chooses how many Wish Points to invest in a wish. Too few, and it fails or stays incomplete.

Poppy: Today’s wishing rules were learned through predecessors’ sacrifices of their own Wish Points.

Poppy: Wishes are real—that’s why Xiv, the Wish God, is the sole deity most sapient beings worship.

Seventh Ju: What if two people or factions have clashing wishes?

Poppy: Xiv favors whoever invests more Wish Points.

Seventh Ju: I see. Truly divine.

Poppy: Nowadays, people don’t just wish for events. They wish for abilities instead.

Poppy: Wish Points are precious. Relying on your own skills is more reliable.

Poppy: With Wish Power, you can keep investing in one ability for lifelong gains.

Poppy: Wish Points aren’t inherited, but abilities gained from them can be passed down.

Poppy: Modern education focuses on unlocking innate talents, then using Wish Points to break growth bottlenecks.

Poppy: For those born with high Wish Points, it’s about developing abilities biology can’t provide.

Seventh Ju: Abilities are more reliable than wishing for specific outcomes.

So "Wish Points" are basically "talent points," huh?

Poppy: Take me—I understand your language through a god-granted ability.

Hearing this, my last doubt finally cleared.

Other-worlders speaking Chinese instantly had to be wrong... no, there must be an ability behind it.

Seventh Ju: Let me think... Did you wish for "language comprehension"?

Poppy: Not that broad. Vague wishes rarely work.

Poppy: Precise abilities give better returns for fewer Wish Points.

Poppy: I wished Divine Sivi for "the ability to communicate with sapient beings through language."

Poppy: I don’t actually know your language—you just hear it as what you understand.

Makes sense. If a wish god grants anything, this ability is simpler than mastering languages.

Seventh Ju: How many Wish Points do average people have? How many did you put into communication?

Poppy: Humans usually have 60 to 100. Other sapient beings vary above or below that.

Poppy: I invested exactly 100 Wish Points in communication.

Seventh Ju: ............

So you were born with above-average points?

Poppy: Hehe~☆!

...That overly serene face of yours doesn’t suit acting cute, Big Sister Poppy.

Poppy: 100 points is a bottleneck for Wish Power. 100 versus 99 makes a huge difference.

Seventh Ju: Breaking the limit, huh?

Poppy: It’s called the "First Limit." Higher limits exist, but most can’t imagine them.

Seventh Ju: Mm. Innate limits are real.

Poppy: Those born with over 100 Wish Points are national treasures.

Poppy: At 200 points, you can break limits in two abilities—true "dragons among men."

Poppy: Historical heroes had near-1000-point abilities.

Poppy: Legends say the founder of human society had over ten thousand points—the "human closest to a god."

Seventh Ju: Sounds impressive.

But it’s legend. Common sense says it’s exaggerated.

Poppy: Still, compared to sapient species with the highest known Wish Points, it’s nothing.

Poppy: Rumor says a mysterious species had a "god-closest hero" with a hundred thousand points.

Seventh Ju: A hundred thousand...

Poppy: With that, you’d break the "Second Limit," even the "Third Limit."

Seventh Ju: Your 100-point ability is impressive too.

Poppy: But it was just for work—not what I wanted. Language skills aren’t that great. And I quit anyway...

Poppy: I spent Wish Points on work. Stayed single for work. Lost my job because of work. Heh...

Poppy: With Wish Points, you can wish for endless abilities. Guess I’ll use my leftovers to "destroy the world."

Seventh Ju: You still have leftovers... Drop that dark attitude for now, okay?

Poppy: Anyway, let’s test your Wish Points, Little Ju.

Seventh Ju: I don’t have any... Why "Little Ju" all of a sudden??

Poppy: Even other-world visitors born here get Wish Points from Divine Sivi.

I’ll teach you how to check yours. And you can call me "Little Su" if you like.

Seventh Ju: Fine... Hey, stop adding weird nicknames mid-conversation!

And before that—give me the underwear you promised last chapter but never handed over.

Poppy: ............

Seventh Ju: Also, that’s a chair right there. Stop straddling me! Just sit and talk.

Poppy: ............

...Fine.