Chapter 115 You said: "Then I'll be a dog..."
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The school sent Naoya-chan, who everyone said was bullied by you, home for vacation to recuperate.
However, because of an injury - a psychological injury is also an injury - Naoya-chan, who returned home to recuperate, not only did he not receive the care of his relatives, he did not even receive the care of his own father.
The main reason is that your whole family thinks this is not a big deal. After all, a great genius like you is still interested in Naoya-chan after such a long time. It is also an honor for Naoya-chan!
And it is well known that Naoya's biological father has always adopted a laissez-faire strategy towards Naoya.
Zenin Naohito was not a parenting master, nor did he have any successful experience in educating children. Otherwise, how did Naoya-chan manage to do whatever he wanted in the Zenin family for more than ten years?
This is closely related to the Zen temple family's hypocritical "educational philosophy" of stepping down and praising the weak.
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So after the seemingly high-energy but actually low-energy Zenin Naohito leaves the stage, the next person to come on stage to play games with you is his son - the high-energy Zenin Naoya!
Zenin Naobi doesn't care about that and just treats Naoya-chan as a high-energy person!
After pushing Naoya-chan, who still hadn't figured out his current situation, into the game room, Zenin Naohito patted Naoya-chan's shoulder, who had become as stiff as a wooden man, and said very cheerfully that he had found a rival of equal strength for him: "Or you can have him as a teammate in two-player mode!"
Immediately afterwards, Zenin Naobi left the room without saying anything and closed the door, leaving you and Naoya-chan in the room, you looking at me and me looking at you.
Naoya-chan is so sad.
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Naoya-chan's memories, his recent dreams, began to violently attack his brain.
Although Naoya has dreamed of playing games with you more than once, and those scenes are often accompanied by some very bloody, violent, or pornographic plots, Naoya has never played games with you in real life!
The fact that you won’t play games with him in real life is a kind of salvation for Naoya, a basis for him to distinguish between reality and dreams!
The dream in the past about being your concubine and being very unpopular was enough to make Naoya unable to distinguish between reality and dreams. He had finally gotten rid of that dream that overlapped too much with reality and replaced it with a new version of the dream that was far different from reality. How come it suddenly overlapped with reality again?
Looking at you holding the game controller in your hand, in the game room where only the two of you are, all kinds of thoughts directly occupied Naoya's mind.
Naoya-chan felt his eyes go dark, and he was almost knocked unconscious by you from a distance again.
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Naoya-chan hated himself for not being able to quickly move on and act recklessly.
So he could only stand at the door like a piece of wood, not daring to approach you, but unable to go out.
Naoya-chan, who stood at the door for a long time without saying a word, formed a sharp contrast with the very expressive and imposing Zenin Naobi.
Your wimpy parents gave birth to a very opinionated you, and the imposing Zenin Naobi gave birth to a wimpy Naoya-chan. How can this not be considered a kind of wonderful conservation, just like how a sorcerer and a curse affect each other's strength?
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Fortunately, as a friendly cousin, you didn't care about Naoya's timid and shy behavior. Instead, you patted the floor beside you very cheerfully and asked Naoya to come and sit here.
But what Naoya saw was your smiling face in his dream a few days ago.
At that time, you also held a game controller like this in your hand——
And showed him your face that calls itself "God".
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The word for God is dog.
God have mercy on him, Naoya-chan doesn’t want to be a dog!!
Although he often did not regard other people as human beings in the past, he never wanted others to not regard him as a human being!
Naoya-chan has always hoped that others can respect his personality instead of treating him as another creature without human rights.
Zenin Naoya will never be a dog!
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Having made up his mind, Zenin Naoya mustered up his courage, took a deep breath, and decided to solemnly declare his bottom line to you: "I don't want to be a dog!"
This shout contains all of Naoya-chan's courage!
but--
"oh."
You nodded and said to him, "Then I'll be a dog."
Naoya-chan: “……?”
Naoya's pupils trembled! He suspected that he was also in a dream.
But this is a beautiful dream! It must be!
Otherwise, how could he possibly hear you telling him you're willing to be a dog? You're willing to be a dog... You're willing to be a dog?!
With just one sentence, Naoya-chan had eight hundred thoughts about you.
This is the influence you have on Naoya-chan as his dear cousin and as a role model of the new era of the Zenin family!
And not only him, but other people in the Zenin family have also been deeply influenced by you.
So the Zenin family has changed from a very intolerant family that would question your behavior and logic to a very tolerant family that will easily accept whatever you say or do.
It is also your credit that you have helped all the relatives in the family adapt to the new era.
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Naoya-chan brainstormed a few ideas, then tentatively raised his large, upturned eyes with eyeliner: "But...but being a dog...means you have to crawl on the ground..."
He said, his voice trailing off as he observed your expression.
Whether in dreams or in reality, Naoya never forgets to use his advanced skills of observing people's words and expressions.
But your expression remained normal the entire time, and there was no change even when you heard him say "crawl on the ground."
You nodded very confidently, even feeling that his question was unnecessary. After all—
"Don't I always crawl on the ground?" you asked back.
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Yes, Naoya-chan, he still doesn’t know you well enough.
He thinks he knows everything about you, but he doesn't.
All Naoya sees is the present you, which is less than one-tenth of your life in the past ten years.
He neither understands you, the rat-like person who crawled around in the Zen temple when you were a child, nor does he understand you, who was diligent and studious during the nine years of compulsory education.
So Naoya, who only saw some fragments of you, thought he already knew all about you. He thought he knew what kind of person you were better than anyone else.
But Naoya-chan doesn't know what an easygoing, gentle, and kind-hearted minor you actually are.
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"But, it's crawling on the ground..."
Naoya-chan was in a trance.
Why can you accept crawling on the ground so easily and suddenly tell him that you actually crawl like this often.
He remembered himself crawling on the ground in his dream.
Even in the dream, Naoya-chan still felt terrified and he still felt very resistant.
Because! People can’t be dogs! We must respect the personality of others!
Even Zenin Naoya is a person with personality! Not a dog without dignity!
Naoya's sense of independent personality and human rights and dignity reached its peak at that moment!
But as a big devil who tortures others and deprives them of their personality and dignity, do you actually not care about your own personality and dignity?
At this moment, Naoya-chan suddenly began to waver.
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As we all know, Zenin Naoya is a very hypocritical minor.
But this has to start with the family motto of the Chanyuan family. From the family motto of the Chanyuan family, we can see how hypocritical this family is.
There are two sets of standards for "magicians" and "non-magicians", and two sets of standards for "Zen monks" and "non-Zen monks".
It would be shocking if Zenin Naoya, who grew up with such family values, became a person without double standards.
Therefore, the existence of the hypocritical Naoya-chan in the hypocritical Zenin family is essentially very reasonable.
until--
You showed up.
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Zen temple Arisa.
Your name was given by your parents, who were not valued by the Zen family. Because they were not valued, you were not valued by anyone while you were still in your mother's womb.
None of the respected elders in the family took the initiative to suggest, "Let me name this child."
Therefore, your parents referred to the naming method of the Gojo family -
Gojou Satoru...Satisfaction.
Wu, the child who represents "transparency" and "enlightenment", just like his name, opened his eyes that extended from the sky.
Your parents thought about it and they thought that if you want to be an extraordinary person, you must have a name that sounds very extraordinary!
So your parents, who have never attended a day of school or received a day of compulsory education, used all their cultural knowledge to choose a name for you that (they thought) was very unconventional -
Arisa!
But does this name have anything to do with “悟” (enlightenment)?
Actually, no, because "悟" has connotation, and "亞里沙" is a foreign word, a foreign name.
So your parents think this is very rare in a conservative and old-fashioned Zen family!
Very fashionable!
This is the basis for their name.
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As expected, you, who have a very fashionable name, have brought a very shocking impact to the Zenyuan family.
Not only physically, but also psychologically.
Although you often make your cousin feel pain and fear, this is the first time that he has truly changed his mind about you.
Naoya-chan, who was used to being tortured by you, used to being oppressed by you, suddenly discovered that you were actually a truly "equal" minor who not only made others crawl on the ground, but was even willing to crawl on the ground yourself...
Arisa, you make Naoya-chan feel so strange!
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The degree of shock Naoya-chan felt at this moment was no less than if he suddenly heard you tell him that you were willing to be his wife instead of his concubine.
But it is obvious that Naoya is still too imaginative.
So after Naoya-chan sat next to you in a daze, you happily handed him the other controller and opened the game——
It turned out to be a two-player level-breaking game.
There are two characters controlled in it, one is a human and the other is a dog.
"This time you'll be a human, but if you don't do well, next time you'll be a dog!"
You said so.
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Author's Note: I actually chose the name Arisa after a long period of careful consideration, as it happens to overlap with "Yari," which is actually a nod to Xie Yali from "Double Vision." I believe she's become an immortal! There's also a line in "Double Vision" that goes, "Do you believe in aliens, or do you believe humans can become immortals?" I also used this question earlier, and I really like that sense of mystery.
Then "Sand" is used in names. The first time I saw it was in the heroine Sha Yu of "Kite". I really liked a clip in it. Sand originally means sand, so it can be used to refer to Ari. Sand may seem ordinary like sand, but "ordinary" can also have unique and eye-catching features.
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