Chapter 199: Professionalism When One of Them Is Tsundere...

Of course Chaomu couldn't just leave.

Alas, Aqiang is a good person in every way, except that he is a bit stubborn... If she really leaves, he will probably be unhappy.

I guess I can't count on him for help with the maid outfit. She sat on the edge of the sofa with a bit of regret and poked Shier's pale cheek: "It seems that it's not easy to buy a maid outfit that he can wear... I was thinking that if you have worn one before, Jotaro, the size is probably about the same..."

"...That's enough...Who would go through something like that?" A vein popped on Jotaro's forehead. "You..."

He looked like he wanted to complain, but his years of coolness kept him from complaining. He just asked her, "So you're just going to let him stay on the couch like this? How long is he going to stay here?"

This question stumped Chaomu.

"Theoretically, he should be leaving once he recovers from his injuries. He still has kids to raise... He shouldn't have moved in next door yet? This lousy system hasn't even given me any quest notifications..." She muttered as she flipped through the event details. "I don't even know when I'm leaving! Let me see..."

When she clicked on it, she found that she seemed to have wronged the system. The icon that was originally a black silhouette on the activity page now showed "unlockable". After clicking it, the page changed, and there was finally new guidance in the task guidance column of the previous copy.

Congratulations to the player for obtaining the important bond with Zenyuan Shener, completing the basic objectives of the dungeon, and unlocking the advanced objectives.

After achieving two specific goals in the event, players can exit the Dust of the Past dungeon.

[Swearing Allegiance to Heaven and the Tyrant (0/1)]

[Not Completely Corrupted Curse Spirit Operator (0/1)]

After reading it, Chaomu felt that he had not wronged the system - apart from these two vague goals of the riddle man, the system did not provide any guidance at all.

Chaomu: “…………”

The first one is easy to understand, meaning you just need to improve Shen'er's favorability. This is simple. Shen'er is already her pet anyway, so just interacting with him more often and feeding him more should be enough to increase his favorability.

But who was that Curse Spirit Operator behind her? Did she know him?

Although I don’t seem to have heard of this name, but if I match it to the person...is he the second ex-husband, Geto Suguru?

She started to poke the customer service again, trying to ask for more task instructions, complaining that the task instructions were not detailed enough.

But when it comes to tasks, the customer service staff are always very tight-lipped, and each reply is more confusing than the last.

Dear Fate-Defying Agent, exploration itself is one of the greatest joys of the game. In dungeons, every decision you make and every day exploration you undertake has the potential to impact the predetermined future and a perfect ending.

During the event, complete pet interactions, free exploration, and daily faction missions to earn faction points and destiny points, and receive a massive Raccoon Coin reward!

"It seems like this means I don't have to worry about it specifically... just do my daily routine?" Chaomu looked left and right, up and down, and probably figured it out. "It's this type of limited-time event..."

It feels a bit like one of those strategy-building games where you can move around freely, just wandering around and seeing if you can trigger an encounter with someone or some affection event... The part about Shen'er that she triggered is a guarantee, and the curse spirit operator is obtained randomly.

The dungeon couldn't be saved or loaded, and it would end immediately when the timer expired. However, considering she had already obtained the "Shen Er" and had no free pet slots, it didn't seem to matter whether she obtained the "Cursed Spirit Operator" or not...

She was talking to herself in the air, and Jotaro was already used to it - her Stand ability was different from others, it seemed like some kind of game system, requiring her to complete certain tasks in exchange for resources or some kind of... chance to start over.

Those so-called "missions" were often bizarre, so he wasn't too surprised by anything she did. He simply frowned slightly and asked, "Is this 'pet' also related to your mission?"

"I guess so, part of it." Chaomu rummaged through her backpack, intending to find something to replenish Shen'er's body and heal his injuries before he woke up, and to cook a meal to increase his favorability. She had sent food to Hagiwara before, and Hagiwara's favorability increased rapidly. Now she even gave him all the SSR skills, which showed that sending food was right. "I have to research if there is a formula that can make people blush, their heartbeats beat faster, and then increase their favorability. Let me see..."

Jotaro Kujo: “…………”

This recipe doesn't sound very serious at all.

The corners of his lips twitched slightly. "...Are you going to use the same tactics you used against me and Kakyoin against him?"

This guy was like this before... He kept saying nonsense about friendship, bonds, and increasing favorability, and stuffed a bunch of items or food that he had taken from nowhere into their hands, saying that they were all proof of friendship.

...God knows how she got fresh cherries in the desert. Kakyoin was so happy with her that she became more and more convinced that this trick was effective. She tried to bribe him with the same method - and now she planned to do the same thing and use this strange trick on this man who came from nowhere.

"Not quite. My skills now are vastly different from what they were back then!" Chaomu corrected him loudly. "I'm a culinary god now! And I have an abundance of supplies! I can easily conquer Shen'er's stomach with my cooking!"

Unlike back in the days of "Egypt Tour Group" when she could only touch things here and there and occasionally open boxes to collect some props, her backpack is now filled with all kinds of fruits and vegetables produced in the family garden, including everything from cilantro to scallions, and a few fish she caught...

...When she turned over a few of the ornamental fish, she secretly glanced at the black-haired man opposite her who was unaware and looking back at her with a frown, and then she withdrew her gaze as if nothing had happened: It's not a big deal, she caught the fish of Jotaro in a few years' time, what does it have to do with the current Jotaro?

She concealed it very well, so Jotaro naturally had no idea that it was his future self who suffered the disaster at her hands.

He saw that Chaomu seemed to have some bad intentions, but he just thought she was targeting Shen'er and didn't think about himself. He snorted and laughed: "Your food... I hope your pet doesn't die from feeding it."

"How is that possible! Am I that kind of person? My cooking skills are praised by everyone who eats them."

"...It's up to you. But don't kill someone with the medicine and have me pay to send him to the hospital."

"No, I'm serious about raising a pet. I will definitely take good care of him..."

The quarrel between the young man and woman was faintly heard in my ears, and I even felt like I was being pulled back to the world from some silent deep ocean, floating empty on a piece of driftwood on the sea.

...What a quarrel! What are these two talking about... Getting a pet? My child wants to get a hamster, but his family won't let him?

His brain, paralyzed by near-death experiences, reluctantly began to move, gathering fragments of information, attempting to provide new energy and intelligence for the body's reactivation. He listened dazedly for a few more sentences, only vaguely hearing fragments of words like "pet," "care," "like," and "different treatment."

He didn't have much of an impression of the man's voice; he just instinctively disliked it. But the girl's voice sounded... somewhat familiar; he seemed to have heard it somewhere before... Was it her... who saved him?

Being rescued was a rather novel experience for Shen'er, so much so that it took him a long time to react to his current situation - it seemed that he really didn't have to die anymore. His originally tattered body was gradually being repaired by magical power, and his soul, which was about to drift away, was tied to someone's thread and remained in the body...stayed by her side.

It feels like a restraint, but also like some kind of... something.

There is no way to get an answer to this question.

He seldom paid attention to such issues related to the "heart". Most of the time in the past, he always relied on his own desires and intuition to cut off everything and get everything. Emotions, such an intangible thing, were far less real than power and money.

But at this moment, when the silk thread tightened slightly and pulled him back from the cold edge of death, he felt a long-lost sense of...stability.

The chaotic consciousness continued to rise, and the sounds from the outside world gradually became distinguishable from vague buzzing.

"He is very important to me. If I lose him, my coming to this world will be in vain!"

That familiar voice said this with absolute certainty and without hesitation.

What the... what does this mean? Came to the host club just to order him?

Shen Er thought inexplicably as his heartbeat became a little noisy after regaining its vitality.

Who was the girl who saved him... He wanted to see her, so he opened his eyes with all his strength.

Blurry light and shadows swayed before my eyes, eventually focusing on the face of a young girl.

It was a face he had never seen before, yet it strangely made him feel familiar... and trustworthy. It was as if he was born to trust her, obey her, and be her... no, why should he be her dog... had she given him a lot of money before?

"You finally woke up. It's almost night time."

The girl with the impressive golden eyes held her chin and looked at him, her eyes flashing with obvious surprise. "Finally, I don't have to keep giving you healing potions. You almost drained all the red potions I had stored... Eh? Jotaro, are you leaving?"

"Yeah." Another somewhat annoying male voice replied from a distance, with a hint of impatience in its tone, "Don't expect me to help you with this... Unless it's absolutely necessary, don't come to find me next door."

The conversation was clearly quite familiar. Shen Er lay back on the sofa, staring at the unfamiliar ceiling. Before he even stood up, his battle-hardened brain had already quickly analyzed the situation: his savior was the girl before him, who had spent a considerable amount of... expensive-sounding potion to save him. She must now be a major financial backer, someone he needed to win over.

The other man, sounding like a rival, said, "Don't expect me to help," but he quickly added, "Only if absolutely necessary," a subtle tsundere playful maneuver. So, while the two sound familiar, they're probably still in the tug-of-war phase. With one of them being the tsundere, it shouldn't be difficult for him to intervene.

As a top gigolo, these thoughts came easily to him. He watched the girl say goodbye to another man with her eyes bent, her golden gaze fixed on his face. She was holding a bowl of soup, and inside it seemed to be something... something floating around. He couldn't see clearly, but it must be medicine.

"Now that you're awake, it's time for you to drink your medicine." Chaomu's face was full of kindness as he extended a spoon towards him. "This is what I carefully brewed for you... Come on, open your mouth, ah——"

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The author has something to say: Shen Er: Excellent professionalism, ready to start competing for favor

Little Raccoon: Talking nonsense to increase favorability

I'll post one chapter first, and there should be another one in the evening.