Third Dad
So in the end, the child got to eat it. Oda Sakunosuke looked at the satisfied little girl and sighed helplessly.
"What does Xiao Luo want to do next?"
Little Luo took a crisp bite of the jam sprinkled on the ice cream. It wasn't as good as the one she ate in the Mafia, but it was fine. The little girl liked the cool and refreshing feeling.
She thought for a moment but couldn't figure out which ride to play. The child said disappointedly, "I should have asked that uncle. The auntie was the one who set up the stall before, so he must have played all the rides."
Oda Sakunosuke's helpless smile froze instantly upon hearing the second half of the little girl's sentence. Realizing something, he abruptly turned his head to look towards the stall. At that moment, his supernatural ability, "Seamless," was suddenly activated.
He saw Xiao Luo, who had been happily eating ice cream and was lively and cheerful, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and the little girl looked at him with a confused expression.
"Little Luo!"
Oda Sakunosuke's special ability, "Perfect Clothes," allows him to project the future, which is more than 5 seconds but less than 6 seconds into his mind.
However, there is a fatal flaw: the time for prediction is very short. If one is already in a trap when one senses danger, even if one can foresee the future, there is nothing one can do to reverse the situation.
"Wow!" The little girl, who was eating ice cream, coughed up blood with a bewildered expression. She looked at Oda Sakunosuke in shock.
She has...food poisoning?! How could she have food poisoning again?!
The child broke through the defenses.
The ice cream fell to the ground with a thud. The little girl clutched her neck in pain, her body collapsing limply to the ground as she vomited mouthfuls of blood.
I can't breathe, I can't breathe.
Xiao Luo vaguely recalled her own death. She was poisoned when she drank soup that someone had given to her brother.
【Little Luo!!】Zero Zero didn't expect this kind of accident to happen. Why wasn't the protection program working? It hurriedly prepared to open the Law on the Protection of Minors.
It turned out that the protection law had already been activated.
"Damn it!" System Zero Zero roared in fury, frantically submitting an application while simultaneously reassuring the little girl, "Little Luo, it's alright. We'll be back soon."
"Cough cough cough, Uncle Oda Sakunosuke..." Xiao Luo opened her mouth wide as she choked, coughing incessantly.
The child was nearly driven mad with anger. She knew today was going to be a bad day; she was so close to getting her brother to call her "Dad." Who was it?! Which scoundrel ruined her life?!
Oda Sakunosuke, his face pale, silently picked up the little girl and ran quickly toward the nearest medical clinic.
Hearing the little girl's weak voice, he hugged her even tighter, "It's alright, Xiao Luo, it's alright!"
Cold sweat beaded on Xiao Luo's forehead, and her face gradually turned bluish-purple due to the suffocation caused by difficulty breathing. She had originally wanted Oda Sakunosuke to call Dazai Osamu so that she could hear her father's voice before she died.
But Oda Sakunosuke's pale face made her hesitate. For a moment, she felt that he was sad. She had felt the same way a long, long time ago, in her brother's arms.
What is sadness?
Xiao Luo instinctively grabbed Oda Sakunosuke's arm, her small hands digging her nails into his flesh from the pain.
"It's okay, Uncle, don't cry."
In her final moments, as Xiao Luo's consciousness waned, she earnestly comforted Oda Sakunosuke before closing her eyes. She felt that she would not live to hear Dazai Osamu call her "Dad," so she decided to comfort her terrified Uncle Oda Sakunosuke before she died.
The child was bounced back into the system space, leaving that body. The little girl floating in mid-air immediately perked up, and the little girl who wasn't in any pain was extremely angry.
She felt like she was about to explode with anger.
"System Uncle, I want to go back! Xiao Luo wants to kill that bad guy who poisoned her!!"
Twice! Xiao Luo died twice in total, and both times it was from food poisoning! She felt like she was about to explode with anger.
The system did not expect such an unexpected event to occur.
He immediately reported the bug, expressing his concern: "Xiao Luo, are you alright? Are you still in pain? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Xiao Luo doesn't feel any pain anymore," the child answered obediently. Because there was no fear, death did not bring her any apprehension; it only made her extremely angry.
[Impossible, impossible! I clearly compiled pain immunity, why is she still in pain?]
The designers of the Law on the Protection of Minors, a new-era high-tech product, SmartMachine09, couldn't believe that it could have a bug.
The Law on the Protection of Minors protects young girls from mental and physical harm. For example, Xiao Luo is completely immune to attacks from Yumeno Kyusaku.
However, if Xiao Luo is injured, such as falling off a cliff, the protective magic will shield her from anything that could harm her mentally, such as pain or blood.
You will still die, but you won't feel the pain.
【Useless.】The screeching sound of walls rubbing together came from the void behind him, and a faint voice echoed, carrying an uncertain emptiness.
A ghostly blue light flickered behind, causing a distorted shadow to pass through the wall and reach 09.
The sound of fingernails scratching the wall startled 09, who was engrossed in his research. He breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the sound; thankfully, it wasn't a rat, but his beloved host, who was so depressed and gloomy that she was practically moldy.
Unlike 09, who, as an AI, could distribute tens of thousands of consciousnesses to handle work, Kolo was merely a ghost. Not only was he overwhelmed by work to the point of wanting to die, but the company was also completely shut down due to the CEO's death, preventing him from ever seeing his sister again.
The young man became even more depressed. He turned off his personal terminal, moved silently and stealthily, and flashed to 09's side.
After seeing Xiao Luo's symptoms, they quickly made a judgment.
"It's suffocation..."
Xiao Luo's discomfort wasn't due to pain, but rather because she couldn't breathe. The illusion of pain caused by not being able to breathe couldn't be masked by the protective magic.
“Xiao Luo must really need my comfort right now,” the young man said confidently.
He's done for; he doesn't want to work anymore. As a doting brother, he'd die if he didn't have his soft, sweet little sister to hug.
09's eyes lit up, and she said enthusiastically, "I can hug you, for free."
Kolo: "...Don't make me hit you."
The protection program was checked and found to be working properly; 09 granted 00 the ability to quickly extract souls.
At this moment, Xiao Luo was already itching to go back and beat someone up.
"No, Little Luo," the system pleaded earnestly, "your body is already dead. You cannot enter the world with your soul; you will be injured."
The little girl was unwilling to give up: "Then how can Xiao Luo go back and fight the bad guys?"
The system could only appease them, saying, "We can wait until tomorrow; maybe it will be randomly selected tomorrow."
Impossible. Given the child's current condition, he wouldn't let the child continue to go to that timeline to die.
But Xiao Luo believed it, and she even made a wish on the mini-program for drawing dads, hoping to get her former dad back.
With eyes closed, the child anticipates tomorrow.
[Host Koro, failed to establish a causal relationship with world line ■■■■ Dazai Osamu.]
The connection was interrupted.
Opening the next pseudonym—
[Host: Koro]
Age: Eight years old.
Current identity: Detective Xiao Luo.
Task completion rate: 2/7
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