See if the (metaphorical) metric ton of merch he’d gotten was eligible for his Point Transfer.

The pile of DGP merch clothing items was now a mound of cloth roughly 1.5 times as tall as Lenny himself, with Lenny somehow managing to wear two or three different shirts at the same time by way of the futuristic tablet’s clothing-equipping abilities. He poked the pile of clothes, then put his hand upon them before groaning “Okay, now I can’t Point Transfer any of these. Which I guess is cause we’re not technically in a computer anymore, somehow…?” as he started to get a headache.

“That tablet put those souvenir clothes on you, can it store them in some kind of inventory? Maybe they’d be usable then?” Erica suggested, which made him raise an eyebrow before he realized that it could work.

At least before he realized he didn’t know how to store any of the things he’d selected for himself with the tablet. “… I think we’re gonna have to wait for Girori-san to come back.” Leonard eventually sighed in resignation.

Angie nodded, then replied “Sounds alright. I’m going to sift through these monitors, see if I can glean anything about the block thing we’re looking for.” as she stepped toward the myriad floating screens. After a short period of tentative experimentation, she seemed able to control the interface well enough using Minority Report-style hand gestures, and began to scrub through the footage for useful insights.

“That’s a Digimon for you. Even if it’s a crazy hologram computer, she figures it out in like five minutes. Wait a sec…” Lenny thought, squinting towards the end of said thought before he asked Rena “Can you show me how to use this? Like, find which buttons do what I want but let me push them myself when I know?” as he held out the tablet Girori gave him.

Rena was in the middle of practicing some kind of martial arts kata as she parsed Lenny’s request, raising an eyebrow as she replied “Why? It’s not that hard. Just try tapping things.” while giving the screen a once-over.

Lenny pouted “I had enough of that with my Digivice earlier. And considering what happened then when I did stuff randomly, I’d like to avoid messing up something I don’t know I can fix.”

“That Girori guy who seemed like he was in charge of everything handed it directly to you, you think he’d do that if something catastrophic could happen?” Rena pointed out, before going back to her katas.

As Leonard stared at the tablet screen with the squinted eyes of someone hesitant to take direct action, Mara went beside him and made the choice for him. She started tapping things and swiping through screens as she explained “I kinda remember this from the show, hold on…” while her enthusiasm was thoroughly dissipated.

After some tappings, the tablet screen now showed some kind of player status app for Leonard, and it recognized everything currently in his inventory including the oodles of complementary clothing he’d gotten for himself on behalf of Girori’s generosity. It didn’t port everything away into some sort of subspace storage, but nonetheless it was now tallied in a list such that there was a series of numbers corresponding to items he had.

Granted, it was only the things related to the Desire Grand Prix that he found in said inventory. His belt (which Mara said was called a “Desire Driver”) and the hammer buckle were included in the list, and his even his given Kamen Rider title was put next to his name. Said title was “Kline” for reasons he couldn’t figure out.

“Based on the number of merch pages I searched through, there’s 250 distinct items on offer. I got five of everything, so I should have 1250 things to trade in.” Lenny summed up, lying in the big bunch of merch clothes since there weren’t really any chairs in the void-space they were in. Rolling on his side, he asked “Mara-san, is there some kind of currency used in this Grand Prix thing to buy more of those buckle things, like a loot box or a Gacha?”

“Not in the least. Doing well in the games gets you Desire Money, but that’s largely just cosmetics. You can get food and stuff too, but nothing that’d get you game items.” Mara replied, waving her limbs as if making a snow angel while she lied in the merch pile next to him, to his left.

A look through the tablet’s apps confirmed as much, but nonetheless Lenny replied “That should be fine. Any kind of digitally managed currency works, as long as I have enough of it. Something in the same domain as what I’m asking for would be ideal, since it’s a lot easier to use then.” without much worry. Without hesitation, he pressed something that had all of the DGP Merch fading away as a number on the screen went up.

“How much did you get?” Erica asked, lying on the ground by Lenny’s right side, opposite Mara.