Chapter 64 Do you like it?
"What's wrong?" Zhou Tianqi turned his head and looked at me. Now we were only one step away from the pink hair salon.
"Are you scared?" He reached out to me and held my hand, "So I asked you to stay in the car..."
He tapped the door of the hair salon in front of him with his peach wood sword, and an invisible Qi swept out. The entire door of the hair salon shattered along with the glass of the display window next to it. I seemed to hear screams from inside.
Simple and crude.
Bro, is this the fighting power a ten-year-old should have?
"No, I'm not scared." I denied it in a cryptic way. "Is the death all over?"
"No." Zhou Tianqi touched my hair. Ever since I knew that this was the second round and that my brother was a pervert, I feel weird looking at him now.
After all, we grew up together, and I really didn't see any abnormal potential in him. It would be better to say that he was a genius since he was young, and not as lively as other children.
Besides being a sister-con.
——And I am that "sister" myself, and he is a little too possessive of me.
But the fact that he has a sister complex doesn’t mean he should be called a pervert!
"Aying, do you want to try it?" He pointed inside.
I looked at him, took out three pieces of yellow paper, took a deep breath and walked into the hair salon in front of me. He followed me.
When you first walk in, it feels like you've walked into another space, a normal hair salon with chairs, mirrors, and hairdressing tools, but no lights, and you can hear some burning sounds.
"Welcome~" a voice sounded beside us.
I turned around and saw nothing.
"Welcome." The hoarse voice sounded again, like a leaky ventilation duct.
I raised my head and stretched out my right hand. The red rope on my right wrist lit up. A piece of yellow paper in my hand floated in the air, and the light from the red rope extended to my fingers.
"Its form is existence, its form is non-existence." A red rune appeared on the yellow paper.
I looked up at the thing hanging above me.
The charred skeleton was clinging to burnt flesh, and no human form could be seen. It held a pair of scissors in its hand, and the exposed black skull was styled with sparse hair, a hairstyle that was popular more than a decade ago and would be a bit non-mainstream nowadays.
...That's a bit funny, bro.
His skeleton had probably become exceptionally sharp after being mutated, and every bone glowed with a metallic sheen.
The talisman in my hand ignited in an instant and was thrown over.
It was faster than I expected and dodged the spell, but the fire from the spell still touched his inflated head.
In an instant, the middle part of the hairstyle disappeared, revealing the middle of the skull.
Bald... bald.
Then it froze for a moment and went berserk.
[Okay, okay, you're worthy of being the one who helps the bald ghost.]
No, no, no, stop making sarcastic remarks at a time like this! I didn't mean it at all!
It rushed towards me, and the scissors were almost as tall as me.
Then a sword plunged straight into his skull from behind.
"You don't think my spell is meant to hit you, do you—" I looked at the skeleton nailed to the floor, with the red flaming sword stuck right at the bald spot.
...I said I didn't mean it, did it believe it?
Unlike my brother who likes to carry a peach wood sword on his back, I don’t like carrying heavy things, so the elders in my family prepared a magic tool for me that is summoned by talismans, which is the red rope on my wrist.
As long as I write the corresponding talisman, the red rope in my hand can be transformed into a weapon.
Fantasy, but useful.
The skeleton was struggling on the ground, knocking on the floor. Only then did I notice that my brother had disappeared at some point.
The surrounding space is also obviously larger than when I first came in.
The skeleton in front of him struggled, "Huan..."
Under my control, the sword stuck in his skull turned again and was driven a few inches down.
It stopped moving.
My "fire" almost burned out its core.
This kind of ghost formed by resentment is not very strong, and it seems not even strong enough to be used as a training ground.
[No... I think your current stats are a bit too strong... I need to check...]
Um?
I went up and pulled out the sword that was still burning, and in an instant the skeleton underneath turned to dust.
[Ding Ding Ding - Stage 1: Pink Hair Salon (Completed)
Mission Reward: "Bluetooth Headset"
Eh?
How did it get completed?
Aren’t there two more?
"Aying." My brother's voice came from behind me, and he still had a serious expression on his face.
But I saw his back.
——As everyone knows, this kind of resentful ghost will disappear immediately if its core is attacked.
But behind Zhou Tianqi, the bodies of the other two ghosts were smashed into pieces and neatly put into a shape that looked a little familiar. Their cores were violently embedded together and placed in front of pieces of broken bones. The ghost energy inside was dissipating bit by bit, but it would not flow out immediately. I saw Zhou Tianqi's spiritual power on it.
He is maintaining the operation of these two cores.
These two ghost statues form an installation, and the whole arrangement has a sense of art.
"Brother...what are you doing?" I asked him.
He turned his head to look at it, then touched my head. "Isn't this beautiful? It's all garbage anyway."
[…Host—I discovered something very terrifying.]
……ah?
"Aying, don't you like this one that your brother made just for you? It doesn't matter, you'll be able to tell right away."
I looked at the two skeleton ghosts again.
The spiritual power in the core was exhausted and the ghost energy was lost.
At the moment the core went dark, the blue flame belonging to Zhou Tianqi ignited along the core, and then burned the skeleton to form the word "Ying".
Oh my god.
[Host... This protagonist seems to have some memories from the first round, so when his body is copied to you, it's closest to his peak. He's called a pervert because he enjoyed killing people in the first round...]
"Do you like it?"
I listened to the system and looked at Zhou Tianqi next to me.
Everything went dark.
Looking back on the past ten years, I have strangely figured out a lot of things.
So he's not a sister complex, he just simply sees me as a gift from the world to him - after all, he's a pervert with abnormal brain circuits who likes to kill ghosts and monsters and then commit suicide.
I even understood why he committed suicide in the first week.
He is too strong and his hobbies are too perverted. His colleagues think he is cruel, so he has no friends.
To put it bluntly, he was just too lonely and felt bored, so he committed suicide.
Then "bang——" he was reborn and found that he had a younger sister, and his interest suddenly piqued.
And I can even remember when he regained his memory, probably around the age of five.
Because one day that year, his personality towards me suddenly changed. We went from being normal siblings to being cold and distant, and then to being clingy. In just one month, I almost thought he was possessed.
I actually went to my elders and asked them to take him for a check-up, but in the end it was left unresolved.
I don't even want to delve into what kind of mental storm he went through that month.
"Aying?" He waved his hand in front of me.
I looked at him and said, "Brother, although it's pretty, we should have normal hobbies."
"You won't be able to make friends." I said this earnestly.
So I say that children should go to regular schools. Fighting monsters at home every day is a sign of mental abnormality.
Then he naturally ignored the following words.
"As long as you like it."
Me: ...How did I say I liked it?
Forget it, he's already in the second round, why should I change him?
Anyway, my mission in this life is to survive. If Zhou Tianqi doesn't kill me, I can basically walk around the world freely.
Think about it this way, he doesn't kill anyone, and ghosts don't have ghost rights, so it's okay to respect his little hobby.
[…Host, sometimes I really admire you.]
How could they just accept it so easily?! Doesn't this make all the "Host Psychological Care" I've read in vain?
What is "Host Psychological Care"?!
Is our company equipped with such a complete set of things?
At this time, as the blue flame burned out, the surrounding scene turned back into the highway, and Zhou Tianqi and I stood on the side of the road holding hands.
There weren't many people here, but we could still see people passing by. The car that picked us up was parked in the middle of the road.
it's over.
"How does it feel?" he asked me. The sword in my hand had disappeared and turned back into the red rope on my wrist.
"So weak." I thought about it.
After listening to me, he rubbed my head and said, "After all, we are the strongest. And with the Fallen Angel here, Aying should be stronger than me."
Said it with certainty.
I finally know where this self-confidence that I have had since childhood came from. This is the calmness that comes from having lived once.
He must think that he and I are the same person. Although I don’t know what the main system is, it is definitely on the same level as the world consciousness or even higher. So with the system there, he definitely won’t be able to see anything.
Moreover, this body is a one-to-one copy of his. Our two destinies combined are even the same as his destinies for the first week.
[After all, I didn’t know Xiaoyu’s origins before…]
Right, Villar is still at the level of God.
[But I still find him a bit unpleasant—a bit like a sociopath. I handled similar cases in my previous life, and they were usually discovered during adolescence.]
[Xiaoyu, if there's a pervert, you must call the police!]
I was just a ten-year-old kid and decided not to think about such a complicated issue.
We got back in the car and looked at the time. It was already quite late for us to arrive at the administration office as scheduled.
When we got off the bus, several people were already waiting at the door.
It’s our uncle, Zhou Chengyu.
There are two other people.
"Did something happen on the road?" He watched us get off the car and looked at Zhou Tianqi.
Zhou Tianqi took me out of the car and said, "Aying practiced."
"Yingying is so powerful?" Zhou Chengyu saw me getting out of the car and picked me up.
"That ghost is too weak!" I said.
To be honest, because these uncles and aunts like me very much, I am now used to them holding me from time to time.
"Uncle, what skirt is Aying wearing today?" Zhou Tianqi took a look from the side. "My sister is a girl, so please be careful."
Zhou Chengyu: "...I haven't seen Yingying for half a month. What's wrong with you hugging me?"
Zhou Tianqi didn't say anything, just watched. Finally, Zhou Chengyu couldn't stand his gaze anymore and put me down.
"I've heard for a long time that the Zhou family twins have a good relationship. Today I see for the first time that it's true." A burst of laughter came from the side. It was a woman with a single ponytail and wearing a training suit standing next to Zhou Chengyu.
"Tianqi, can I hug your sister?" she asked.
Zhou Tianqi still had that serious look on his face, but I subtly sensed that he was a little unhappy.
"Sister, I'm a grown-up now. I can't be carried around like I was when I was a child." I held Zhou Tianqi's hand and refused righteously.
Then my brother's mood improved visibly.
It’s so easy to coax.
"Let's go in first. Tianqi and Yingying have just eliminated the anomaly on the way. Let's talk inside." Zhou Chengyu tried to smooth things over. Everyone in the family knew exactly what kind of person Zhou Tianqi was.
As we walked in, Zhou Tianqi held my hand as if he was afraid that I would get lost.
The administration is not big, it is a four-story building with a parking lot. There are not many people there, but basically everyone who passes by us avoids us.
Especially avoid Zhou Tianqi.
Zhou Tianqi started taking on tasks at the Administration two years ago, and in just two years he became hated by everyone.
It’s worthy of him.
"Jiang Wan, Yi Yun, take Yingying to register," Zhou Chengyu said to the two people next to him when they arrived at the office. "Tianqi, you stay and tell me about the anomaly you encountered on the way."
"...Your sister can't be lost. Don't look at me like that. I am your uncle and your master!"
When I was being led out by two people, I heard Zhou Chengyu's angry voice.
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