Chapter 563

Isayama Huangquan was somewhat puzzled; usually she was very self-disciplined and would get up on time.

"How come I overslept today?"

Hmm, her body felt a bit heavy.

Lowering her head, the girl saw a boy lying on top of her, asleep.

Her chest, which served as a pillow for his head, gave a sense of comfort that felt like an illusion.

"Was it because holding this child while sleeping made me feel too comfortable that I overslept?"

Thinking this, Isayama Huangquan didn't disturb the boy's sleep; she carefully placed the boy on the bed, then got up and changed clothes in the room.

Broly, meanwhile, woke up when she did because of the subtle change in her aura, but the girl undressed so fast that he had to wait until she finished putting on her school uniform before pretending to just wake up and asking, "Sister Huangquan, what are you doing?"

"Sorry, did I wake you up? Sister overslept a bit, so now I have to hurry to school."

Isayama Huangquan explained as she took out her wallet and pulled out a few thousand-yen bills to hand over.

"Here, this is your pocket money. Sister didn't have time to cook this morning, so I'll have to trouble you to go to the convenience store and buy bread for breakfast."

She said with a slight apology; Broly originally wanted to refuse and take out food from the Crystal Palace, but immediately remembered the matter of acting like an ordinary child.

"Thank you, Sister Huangquan, I'll take good care of myself." Broly thanked her first, then asked, "But what about you? Aren't you going to eat breakfast?"

【So this is what it feels like to have a younger brother care for you?】

"It's fine, the school cafeteria has a shop; I'll just buy something there. Well then, I'm off~"

Putting white socks on her feet, Isayama Huangquan left the room and went outside, where under the adoptive father Isayama Naraku's surprised gaze, she apologized, then ran to the entrance, put on her shoes, and rushed out the door.

"I thought she hadn't made my breakfast; didn't expect it was because that girl Huangquan overslept. That's rare."

His disciplined daughter showing undisciplined behavior today surprised Isayama Naraku a bit; he thought for a moment, then got up and went upstairs.

He came to his daughter's bedroom door and, looking at the boy inside tidying the bedding, asked, "Did you two chat a lot last night?"

"Mm."

Broly wasn't startled by the sudden voice; he answered Isayama Naraku, and without stopping his motions, he folded the blanket neatly, then picked up the girl's discarded clothes from the floor, folded them too, and placed them on the tidied bed.

"That girl Huangquan seems quite fond of you. Before, I only cared about her cultivation, neglecting that she's also a child—just a more sensible one.

Hmm, perhaps I should have found her a playmate long ago, so she wouldn't feel too lonely alone in this house."

Isayama Naraku thought his daughter had stayed up too late chatting with the boy in the room last night, which caused her inability to get up this morning.

"Sister Huangquan won't feel lonely anymore."

To this, Broly replied seriously; the Crystal Palace group chat is lively every day.

"This little guy sure knows how to talk. I can make you whatever you want for breakfast; also, after eating, I'll give you a spiritual power test to see if you have the talent to become an Exorcist."

Regarding Isayama Naraku wanting to make him breakfast, Broly did not refuse.

Getting along with the capture target's family is also something that should be done.

"Is one sandwich enough for you?"

"Enough, thank you for your treat."

"No need to be so polite; just call me Mr. Isayama."

After the boy finished eating, Isayama Naraku took Broly to the study.

He took a blank talisman paper, placed it on the table, and said to Broly who followed into the study: "Spiritual power is the power of the spirit. In a moment I'll teach you a simple spell to release spiritual power; as long as you can make the talisman paper undergo some slight change, it counts as having Exorcist talent."

Broly stood in place, watching Isayama Naraku chant; the extremely faint aura on his body showed some changes, with a portion surging onto his joined hands.

Then, with a loud shout, he pressed his index and middle fingers together and suddenly pointed at the talisman paper on the table; a cluster of invisible energy similar to Qi was fired out.

Upon contacting that faint power, the blank talisman paper on the table was immediately crumpled into a paper ball by an invisible hand.

"Alright, you try too."

After finishing the demonstration, Isayama Naraku took another blank talisman paper, placed it on the table, and told Broly.

【An ordinary child shouldn't be able to do this; I should pretend to try but do nothing.】

As Broly thought this, he heard Isayama Naraku beside him speak.

"If your spiritual power talent isn't bad, perhaps you can be like that girl Huangquan and call me Father."

【Father, Father-in-law, Father-in-law's test?!】

People are always good at association, and Broly is no exception.

Isayama Naraku's words reminded Broly of when in the Six-Faced World, in some loops he would face Roxy's father, the father-in-law's test before entrusting his daughter Roxy, and he instantly perked up.

【However, Sister Huangquan hopes I live an ordinary child's life... hmm, as Xiao Yu said, ordinary depends on the standard; perhaps in this world, being able to crumple paper into a ball using spiritual power is a very ordinary thing!】

Broly nodded secretly, deciding to take this matter seriously.

And to avoid exerting too much force, he carefully imitated Isayama Naraku's actions just now, chanting the incantation to condense the nearly identical faint Qi onto his fingertips.

Then, with movements of nearly identical force and speed, he suddenly pointed at the blank talisman paper on the table and let out a shout of roughly the same volume at the talisman paper.

Under controlled variables, however Isayama Naraku crumpled the paper into a ball, Broly crumpled it into a ball exactly the same way.

"Hah..."

After doing this, Broly let out a long breath; imitating a weak move wasn't an easy task either—it was like making a muscular strongman practice embroidery.

"How was it, Mr. Isayama? Do I have talent?"

Turning his head, Broly asked Isayama Naraku.

As for Isayama Naraku, upon seeing Broly do exactly the same thing as him, his eyes widened like copper bells, and his mouth gaped open wide enough to nearly fit a golf ball.

Although crumpling talisman paper into a ball with spiritual power is nothing much, that's for him, a veteran Exorcist who has cultivated for over fifty years.

But on a little boy who, in his eyes, had never touched spiritual power cultivation before, being able to do exactly the same thing as himself was extremely shocking.

You must know, when his adopted daughter first contacted spiritual power cultivation, she only managed to make the talisman paper wrinkle slightly, yet that was already a level that could be called a genius by the outside world.

【Huangquan, my daughter, just where did you bring back such a boy with extraordinarily strong spiritual power talent from?】

"Talent? You don't just have talent—you're simply a super genius!"

He thought so in his heart, but Isayama Naraku did not say it directly.

Because excessive praise would cause a child with an immature mind to develop unnecessary arrogance.

Huangquan's mindset was already recognized by her, so praising her was no problem, but this boy before him had not yet been tested on his mindset.

"Cough, cough, your spiritual power talent is passable, though still not as good as that child Huangquan, but calling me Father is also no problem."

【Cannot laugh, must control expression, hahaha, my Isayama family will rise greatly, sooner or later becoming the leading family of the Demon Hunter Alliance~】

Isayama Naraku's mouth corner twitched; he endured with great difficulty before suppressing the joy and delight of having found a great treasure in his heart.

【Perfect, just a somewhat ordinary child with passable spiritual power talent, both meeting Sister Huangquan's requirements and letting Sister Huangquan's father in this world recognize me!】

Broly raised his head and puffed his chest, feeling somewhat proud of his exquisite acting, able to portray the image of an ordinary child so vividly.

"Eh, Mr. Isayama, why is your mouth corner twitching?"

"Uh, this is because I am exercising my facial muscles."

Having been seen through by the boy regarding the abnormality of his expression, Isayama Naraku felt somewhat embarrassed and hurriedly made an awkward explanation.

"I see."

Broly nodded, his mouth corner twitching; indeed it could count as exercising facial muscles.

He took a deep breath and adjusted his mindset.

"Broly, next, I will test your talent for learning spells!"

Isayama Naraku strove to suppress the excitement in his heart and spoke it out in a calm tone.

"Good."

Broly did not refuse and continued to accept the trial of acting as an ordinary child.

"Ding-dong ding-dang, ding-dang ding-dong~"

The bell for the end of school rang.

"Huangquan, do you want to go together later to……"

The girl who wanted to invite the girl to go sing K had not finished speaking when she saw her classmate, the girl, run out like the wind.

"Sorry, I have something at home, I must hurry back home~"

Isayama Huangquan apologized to her classmates behind her, then shouldered her bag and drew her sword, striding quickly down the school corridor, her long legs moving as fast as flying, just like her heart that was eager to return home like an arrow.

【Broly is at his own home, can he take care of himself well?

Father is a serious person; since he said he would take care of Broly well, he should not interfere.

I hope Broly ate well today, and also, that he remembers where home is, and doesn't get lost after going out~】

Isayama Huangquan marched in place before the red-light intersection; although she knew the boy should be able to take care of himself well, she just couldn't help but feel some concern and worry for the boy, somewhat like a child raising a pet for the first time, and also somewhat like a mother having a child for the first time.

The green light allowed passage, and the girl ran across the intersection; her slender shadow swiftly skimmed across the street surface.

"I'm back~"

She soon ran back home and stood before the front door; after catching her breath, she pulled open the door and shouted into the house with great vigor.

However, no one responded to her; the duplex villa house was quiet and still, as if no one was home.

"Strange, where did Father and Broly go?"

Isayama Huangquan walked into the house and looked around, discovering that there truly was not a single person at home.

"Father should have nothing to do, but Broly wouldn't have left, would he?"

Seeing the folded blanket, sleepwear, and the clothes from her childhood that she had given Broly to wear in the room, Isayama Huangquan couldn't help but form this guess.

She hurried to the courtyard, and indeed, on the clothesline outside, the boy's set of hemp clothes could no longer be seen.

"Why, we clearly agreed that he would be my little brother~"

Isayama Huangquan sat on the chair, feeling somewhat disappointed.

"Eh, Huangquan, why did you come home from school so early?"

Just then, Isayama Naraku came back from outside, and upon seeing his daughter, he couldn't help but ask.

"Eh, Father, and Broly, where are you going?"

Isayama Huangquan turned back and saw her father and the boy; she subconsciously asked out loud.

"I took Broly to the department store to buy clothes and daily necessities."

Isayama Naraku answered, and suddenly saw the floor-to-ceiling window leading to the courtyard was open, and a space on the clothesline was empty; recalling the disappointed expression on his adopted daughter's face when he saw his daughter just now, he immediately understood what was going on, and so began to explain.

"Taking him out to buy clothes, I certainly couldn't let him wear your girls' clothes from when you were little, so I took down that set of hemp clothes from the clothesline for him to change into.

And after buying new clothes, that set of hemp clothes was no longer needed, but was instead handed over to the shop assistant at the clothing store to be dealt with."

"Oh, so that's how it is."

Isayama Huangquan's spirit state instantly turned from cloudy to sunny, but she was also somewhat curious about her adoptive father's behavior.

"But Father, wasn't it agreed that I would take care of Broly?"

The girl asked directly.

"Doesn't it come to the same thing whoever takes care? We are all one family."

Isayama Naraku answered, while Isayama Huangquan looked at her adoptive father with an examining gaze.

"What's wrong, Huangquan?"

Isayama Naraku asked, and just then saw his daughter suddenly make a move, raising her hand to use spiritual power, her palm booming out, but stopping before him.

"Eh, it's actually not an evil spirit in disguise?!"

Isayama Naraku: "……"

This was treating him as an impostor?!

"Broly, you take the things bought back to your own room first; Huangquan, you come into the study, I have something to say to you."

Broly obediently carried the big bags and small bags of items back to the single room Jianshan Naraku had arranged for him, and Jianshan Huangquan, after confirming her father's identity was not a problem, obediently followed Jianshan Naraku into the study.

"Father, what exactly is going on? Why has your attitude changed so much?"

In the study with only the father and daughter, Jianshan Huangquan asked directly without beating around the bush; the girl very much wanted to know what had happened at home — or precisely, between her father and Broly — during the time she went to school.

"That's because of the Broly you brought back; that child is a true exorcism genius!"

Jianshan Naraku also didn't beat around the bush, directly answering the reason for his adopted daughter.

"Eh, Father, did you give him a spiritual power talent test?"

"Not only that, I also gave a talent test for learning jutsu."

"Then how were the results? Being called a genius by Father should be extremely amazing, right?!"

Jianshan Huangquan asked with some expectation.

Broly is an exorcism genius, which means she will have an exorcism genius adopted younger brother.

"Spiritual power test: he directly rubbed the testing talisman paper into a ball!"

"Eh, isn't that even more powerful than when I took the test?"

"Jutsu learning test: the most basic Soul-Settling Jutsu, he only practiced four or five times and directly learned how to use it."

"Hiss—"

Jianshan Huangquan sucked in a mouthful of cold air; modern exorcists don't really learn the ancient exorcists' methods for dealing with evil spirits, but the boy being able to learn the Soul-Settling Jutsu after only practicing four or five times proves his powerful talent on the path of exorcism.

Back then, when she practiced the Soul-Settling Jutsu, she also spent a whole day, practicing thirty or forty times before barely learning it.

(Chapter End)