Chapter 104 Irresponsible Extra 4
Irresponsible Extra: If the Zenin family was the first to pick up the child (if online)
There is no doubt that this is a possibility of raising a child astray.
Even if I have imagined many times how positive and energetic I will become when I grow up, I cannot prevent the terrible influence of the environment.
At that time, Kanako was a child who had never experienced anything.
The younger the child, the more he or she is like a blank piece of paper, and experience is like paint, dyeing the blank paper with different colors.
Kanako blinked, and a square courtyard appeared before her.
A traditional building with a distinct neon style. Kanako had never seen such a standard courtyard before.
There was a sound of knocking and colliding between some objects nearby. Kanako took a few steps towards the source of the sound and was soon grabbed by the wrist.
Kanako frowned subconsciously, but soon relaxed.
Because the person holding her hand was an older middle-aged woman, Kanako knew that humans were fragile and didn't want to hurt her.
"Where are you from?...Which yard are you from? Why are you running here?" asked the middle-aged woman.
Kanako looked up at the sky, glanced at the rice cooker in her arms, and said, "I fell from the sky."
Middle-aged woman:?
"Let me ask you, which courtyard were you born in?"
"Born? Speaking of birth... I popped out of a stone." Kanako answered obediently and never lied.
“…” The middle-aged woman’s patience was exhausted. She felt that Kanako was either mentally retarded and didn’t understand anything, or she was deliberately provoking her.
After thinking about the two sentences she had just answered fluently, she was more inclined to the latter, so she labeled the girl in front of her as "disobedient and uneducated" and dragged Kanako to a correctional institution specializing in the training of girls.
Thirty minutes later, a startling cry erupted from the correctional facility.
"The kitchen was robbed!" A man in a kimono ran out, his face full of panic. "It's none of my business... I came back and saw that all the lunch and dinner we had prepared for today had been cleared out."
"Who would eat so much in one go? There must be a thief!"
For a moment, the children, whose average age was around seven or eight years old, looked at each other and started chattering during the chaotic lunch break.
Child A: "How terrifying! Someone actually stole things from Zenyuan's family..."
Child B: "Why steal food instead of treasure? I don't understand."
Child C: "A new person came this morning. Her hair is so white. I've never seen her before. Is she sick?"
At this time, Kanako was holding her rice cooker, chewing rice and walking slowly by: "?"
Child A: "My mom told me that someone crushed a bowl while washing dishes this morning and broke the chopsticks."
Child B: "I heard about that too. They say she threw the plate like it was a Frisbee and accidentally threw it into the hallway, hitting the young master of our family..."
Child C seemed to be reminded of something bad and held her head in her hands. "She's offended the young master of our family... I feel like the rest of her life is ruined."
"Yes, you are talking about me, what's wrong?" Kanako walked to the front and spoke loudly.
The noisy children suddenly fell silent, silently expressing their shock.
Kanako burped slowly, rubbed her stomach with satisfaction, and smiled contentedly: "The rice is really delicious, the moisture is just right, I'll go to the pot again tomorrow."
Kanako sighed: "Otherwise, one pot won't be enough to fill you up..."
Everyone present took a step back and gasped.
She really ate it all in one go!!!
*
Zenin Naoya has been sulking alone lately.
No matter how the servants tried to coax him, it was of no use. Zenin Naoya was still upset about the figure who threw the plate and hit him.
That day, Zenin Naoya excitedly ran to see his idol Zenin Jinji, whom he hadn't seen for a long time - but he learned that Jinji had left home.
Running away from home = not coming back = basically never seeing you again.
A bolt from the blue suddenly struck Zenin Naoya's fragile heart.
In a trance, he had begun to walk forward aimlessly along the corridor. At this moment, a crisp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and the next second it hit his head with incredible precision!
It seemed as if a big bump suddenly appeared on the top of his head. Zenin Naoya felt his eyes go dark and his body fell uncontrollably.
The last thing he could remember was the little guy who had attempted to "assassinate" him, and a blurry white figure...
The head of the family and biological father immediately sent people to conduct a secret investigation.
After ruling out a series of conspiracy theories related to family inheritance, Zenin Naohito learned the truth about the "assassination". He laughed so hard that he decided not to tell Zenin Naoya the answer.
"Why?!" Naoya made a sour face.
"All the training resources of our family are at your fingertips. You have awakened the technique and received special guidance, but you can't even escape a small dish... This is weakness." Zhibiren took a sip of wine mercilessly.
Zhibi people: "It is also a lesson."
"...If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. I'm going to find that bastard myself." Zenin Naoya gritted his teeth, "When the time comes, I'll make him suffer a fate worse than death!"
After that, he would run to other courtyards whenever he had free time.
At first, he mistook the vague white shadow for an ornament or a style of clothing. Zenin Naoya wandered around the servants' training ground for three days but found nothing.
Wherever he went, there was an endless stream of people flattering him, from children to the elderly, praising him to the skies. Zenin Naoya gradually grew annoyed and casually asked, "Is there anyone else here who is white?"
"white…?"
Naoya threw his hands impatiently. "White is a color. Do you understand colors? Anyone with this trait...anyone will do. Find them all!"
At this command, people dispersed.
The surroundings returned to peace and quiet, and Zenin Naoya felt much better. Just as he was about to turn around, a green fruit was thrown in front of him at a rapid speed. He raised his hand to stop it and caught it in his palm.
He was just a hair's breadth away from being hit again.
Zenin Naoya's eyes trembled slightly, and then he saw the ball of short white hair.
"Who are you looking for? Are you looking for me?" Kanako was halfway through eating the fruit when she suddenly remembered something. "It was my mistake to accidentally hit you before. I'm giving this to you as an apology."
Kanako jumped over holding the green fruit and gently placed it in Naoya's hand.
With a "pa" sound, Zenin Naoya threw Qingguo aside without hesitation, crossed his arms and glared at her coldly.
The fruit rolled along the floor and into the gap on the side of the road. Kanako watched it fall and then stop with an expressionless face, her eyes always fixed on the plump flesh.
Kanako was silent for a few seconds, and then she said after a while: "You don't like eating this kind of fruit?"
Zenin Naoya shrugged: "Not bad, go pick it up for me."
"No." Kanako said immediately, "I'm not your dear father or mother. I won't help you with work for no reason."
Zenin Naoya was furious when he heard this: "Huh? You're a servant, a servant should do servant's work!"
"I order you to pick it up for me!!"
Kanako looked him up and down unmoved: "Are you ten years old this year? You look so young, you're not younger than me, little brat."
Naoya: "Who are you calling a brat!?"
"Alright, alright, every kid goes through a period where they think they're an adult." Kanako coaxed him perfunctorily, took a few steps and picked up the fruit. "Here, this is one of the best ones I got from the kitchen. It's sure to be delicious."
Pop.
Zenin Naoya slapped it away again.
This time the fruit was not so lucky. Nearly half of the flesh was dented after hitting the wall and turned into a soft puddle of mud.
He spoke again, his grin revealing a few sharp baby teeth: "Pick it up."
"Be patient." Kanako recited her favorite Rambo classic lines, "I can't bear it anymore! I've already forgiven you twice!"
She pulled Naoya up with one hand, adjusted his position, and slapped him hard on the butt with the other hand.
"You're not allowed to waste food! You're not allowed to waste good fruit!"
The yard was filled with crisp and loud "pop" and "pa" sounds.
The servants who returned happened to see this scene and were terrified. They ran away as soon as they could. No one wanted to be involved in the subsequent accountability.
It was not until the "Bing" troops returned from a mission and noticed the persistent noise next door that they stepped in to stop the situation from developing.
He also ordered Naoya to be rescued from Kanako.
Zenin Naoya had no idea what was wrong with him. His strength seemed to be non-existent in front of Kanako.
Fortunately, several important figures in "Bing" were his blood relatives. Under the protection of that group of adults, he hid at the back, trying hard not to cover his red and hot buttocks.
"How can a servant behave like this! Is she planning to rebel?... Naoya, you decide how to punish her."
Zenin Naoya cursed a few times in a bully-like manner, then suddenly an idea struck him and he laughed maliciously.
"I want her to be my personal attendant." He pointed directly at Kanako.
"From now on, I will take good care of her."
Let him torture her.
*
Kanako: "I'm not from your family. I just happened to be here. You see, there are no white-haired people in your family. I'll leave after I've had my meal."
Zenin Naoya simply wouldn't listen to any explanation. His mind was filled with the thrill of victory—even though this victory was only visible to him and depended on others. He said, "It's too late to try to quibble now."
Kanako sighed: "I'm talking to you nicely, why don't you understand..."
"No matter where you come from, once you enter the Zenin family, you will be a Zenin family member even after you die." Naoya said viciously, "If I say you are a servant of the Zenin family, you will be my servant for the rest of your life!"
Zenin Naoya: "Don't even think about escaping!"
"You said it." Kanako licked her lips calmly, "Then I'll stay here. Don't regret it."
On the first day Kanako was called to be Zenin Naoya's personal attendant, the family's best kitchen announced that its food supply was running low.
She slowly wrote in the record file: [I am Kanako in Master Naoya's yard, so everything is what Master Naoya wants.]
By the way, after learning to recognize characters, I used Naoya's textbooks in a legitimate way.
Zenin Naoya retorted loudly, "I didn't!"
He even went to explain to the adults for a long time that he was not being petty, but people were skeptical about him because he was so spoiled and had a history of throwing tantrums.
On the second day of Kanako's service as a personal attendant, Zenin Naoya punished her by putting her in solitary confinement.
She had been locked up for several days without putting any food in the room. When Zenin Naoya thought she must be extremely weak and ran to check the results happily, he saw Kanako had brought in a TV and a rice cooker from somewhere.
Several holes were dug in the corners of the wall to house the electrical wires.
Kanako learned how to cook oden in a rice cooker. Watching the 8 o'clock show, she would turn around and greet him while chewing something in her kotatsu: "Hey, isn't this Naoya?"
Zenin Naoya: "..."
She could have easily knocked the wall down, but she still chose to stay here and play for several days. Isn't this a way of giving Naoya some face?
She really... Everyone who saw it couldn't help but shed tears.
No, you can't have such disgusting thoughts.
Zenin Naoya stopped thinking in time, and his back teeth were almost broken by biting.
On the seventeenth day of Kanako's service as a personal attendant, Zenin Naoya finally accumulated enough anger and excuses, called "Bing" to help, and threw her into the training ground where the cursed spirits were imprisoned when she was not prepared.
The specially made cage is filled with high-level cursed spirits, and Kanako, who has no cursed power, will never be able to escape on her own.
People were sent to patrol the perimeter of the building every day to make sure Kanako had not dug a hole to escape, and even the underground was checked.
Every day, his servants would report to him about Kanako's situation in the cage, vividly describing how she challenged the cunning curse spirit with her "broken body" without any curse power...
In a flattering manner, she emphasized how she had been beaten to a bloody pulp when she first encountered the domain because she didn't understand the rules of the domain...
Zenin Naoya heard all of this and treated it as a joke after dinner, and continued to live his comfortable life as the eldest son of the legitimate family and the most likely heir to the future head of the family.
Another week passed.
The head of the family suddenly summoned the leader and several main members of the "Bing" team and secretly rushed to the advanced curse training center No. 01.
And that place happened to be the training ground where Kanako was imprisoned.
So, after finishing a day of training, Zenin Naoya heard the news and rushed there. Under the slightly solemn expressions of the head of the family and a group of close relatives, he asked, "Father, what happened?"
"It was killed." Zen temple Zhibi said.
"It?" Zenin Naoya was bewildered. Putting aside the occasional sorcerer who came in for actual combat, this training ground was filled with curses. Which one was he talking about?
And wouldn't it be more appropriate to use "exorcism" to describe the cursed spirit?
Confused, Zenin Naoya chose to keep quiet for the moment. He stuck his head inside, trying to stretch his neck amid the adults' conversation, and saw—
Specially made cages, chains and other props for binding cursed spirits were scattered all over the ground, and the floor was filled with dried-up liquid that had turned into deep red or brownish-red, some of which had even solidified into hard lumps due to accumulation and cooling.
Dozens of torn sealing papers were scattered all over the room, and not a single one was intact.
And in the deepest part of the room, a lifeless body lay quietly.
Almost at the moment he noticed it, Zenin Naoya already had the answer in his heart: it was Kanako.
Kanako...is she dead?
My head started to feel dizzy and I became unable to think. The pleasure and joy of revenge that I imagined did not come.
He heard his father, the head of the family, say, "The Zenin family has a special first-level cursed spirit that has been imprisoned for hundreds of years. I mentioned it to you once before, Naoya."
"Its techniques and fields are all of the highest caliber. The reason it wasn't listed as such in the past was because it didn't want to be included in the Special Grade list held jointly by the three major families. Today's reason is..."
Zenin Naobi: "At this stage, the Zenin family is not 100% sure... that they can release and control it without any damage."
"But she did it on her own, even if it cost her life."
Naoya murmured, "Liar..."
Zhibiren seemed lost in memory. "The powerless flesh, body, and cursed binding... Since Shier left, this is the first time I've witnessed its potential with my own eyes."
Upon hearing the key words, Zenin Naoya immediately jumped out and shouted reflexively: "Don't compare this fake with Shi'er! Whether it's beauty or talent, how can she compare to Shi'er!?"
"Stop joking!"
After saying this in one breath, Zenin Naoya took a deep breath to cushion his emotions. Suddenly, he felt his feet slip. He was slightly stunned, then slowly lowered his head...
He saw a mass of flesh that was still churning and rolling.
Zenin Zhibiren clenched his fist, concentrated a large amount of mantra power into the center of his fist, and then smashed it into a puddle of mud.
The mud stopped moving.
"It's just the decomposed remains of the cursed spirit." Zenin Zhibiren turned around and ordered, "Only a curse can exorcise the curse and cleanse the remaining limbs."
"yes."
The servants came with a stretcher to carry away the body. Before leaving, an inexplicable impulse prompted Zenin Naoya to take a last look at that place.
Kanako died with her eyes open.
Her short hair, originally as pale as winter snow, was now as red as her eyes.
Even though he enjoyed bullying, even though he hated women, at this moment, Zenin Naoya would not question her perseverance in fighting to the last moment.
Other than that, he had no idea.
Did he have to admit that it was his own imprisonment that led to Kanako's death, and feel guilty about it?
How is this possible!?
A mere servant had died, a useless woman with no magical powers. The offspring she'd given birth to would likely be incompetent and inferior... an imposter who had the audacity to repeatedly anger him...
——It would be a blessing for her if she died, but she would be useless if she lived. No, she would be somewhat useful, if she were alive, I could bully her for the rest of her life.
Zenin Naoya convinced himself in this way.
Until one day in the middle of the night, Zenin Naoya woke up from a nightmare.
In his hazy sleep, he seemed to hear the lines in his dream.
"These are all Master Naoya's orders... Kanako clearly has the talent to fight against special-grade cursed spirits, and the head of the family seems to secretly admire her..."
"The branch family gave birth to a boy who has awakened the magic. Although he is not the legendary family heirloom, the young master of the main family is just... maybe..."
So in his dream, he ordered the execution of his talkative servants.
"Kanako is dead now. Who dares to rebel against their superiors in the future?"
But it was too late.
Countless gossips forced open his ears and knocked into his ear canals. Zenin Naoya seemed to see the pair of red eyes that were not closed again.
Oh, yes, he remembered.
He had seen that look before, in a passing encounter that was enough to change his life.
That was a look of contempt for everything in the world from the Zen temple.
…Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!
"Impossible what?"
The air was almost suffocating, and the unarmed Zenin Naoya raised his head from the bed in the bedroom.
"That's right, this is the angle where you look up at me."
Pulling aside the barrier, the bright moonlight illuminated her hair, making it even more translucent. Behind her were a group of fallen guards, with no traces of blood, completely clean.
"Because I remembered what you said - I will be a member of the Zenin family until I die, so I came back from the gates of hell, Master Naoya." Kanako said.
"And I don't plan to leave in the future." Kanako squatted down, grabbed Zenin Naoya's hair, and asked with a smile, "Did you miss me?"
It's not a curse... There's no trace of magical power... Is this a dream? Or some other trick?
…Why did she come back? Why would she come back?
As if she knew what was coming, Kanako said calmly, "I really like the food here, and I also like the people who cook it. There's no need to spend extra money, and there's no need to worry about making money."
"The only thing I have to think about is how to reach the highest position in this family that won't let me be the master."
"It's too late to regret now, Zenin Naoya." Kanako imitated his tone and spoke in a bad tone.
"I want to turn the Zenyuan home into my back garden."
【Author’s words】
*Kanako was just having a blast killing people in the training ground, immersed in the battle and only thinking about winning, and accidentally achieved a one-for-one exchange.
*Later, because her original body came from the dragon vein of the earth, she was resurrected in the blink of an eye () After her resurrection, she became more and more unhappy and rushed back overnight
* In the original novel, Zenin Naohito let Maki join the Kūkūru (a team that theoretically can only be joined by males without any skills), and also said that he was waiting for her to accept the challenge of becoming the head of the family, so he is not a typical rotten orange. In this regard, he is more open-minded.
*Yes, this is a real tyrant line (buhi)
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