[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-98":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457718,1905,"Chapter 98: The North Road","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-98",98,"\u003Cp>Aldric was at the guild door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, on the threshold, with his coffee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three arrived with the gear they had learned to carry after Grimvast — enough, no more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aldric looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I hope you come back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ll come back,\" Kai said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We came back from the A_D_M labyrinth,\" Lira said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\" Aldric looked at her. \"That’s why I still haven’t commissioned the statue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll keep coming back just so you won’t put it up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aldric looked at her and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was exactly the plan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him a moment longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She kept walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: \"that was exactly the plan\" — ALDRIC IS A GENIUS]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Chris_Murray: Aldric manipulated Lira into promising to come back with the threat of a statue. respect.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warwolf: Aldric has been building toward this for Chapters. the statue was always the plan.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Per_Sundin: Lira is going to come back. she promised without promising. Aldric knows it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kalgarth: the Valdris guild is going to miss them. Aldric won’t say it like that. but the statue says it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Drakeking: \"I hope you come back\" from Aldric carries more weight than any dramatic farewell.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[TheDeadDragón: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ toward Mount Heiguers ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The north road was different from the west.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The west had the kind of terrain that opened up — fields, the mountain pass of Grimvast visible from afar, space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The north climbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly at first, then more consistently, the dirt road turning to stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira pulled up the collar of her leather jacket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai noticed Lira pulling up her collar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the next narrow stretch where the road allowed it, he walked beside her instead of leaving her three steps behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira noticed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t say anything either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: Kai moved beside Lira when she pulled up her collar from the cold]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Chris_Murray: without saying anything. without pointing it out. just moved there.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warwolf: Serah saw it. her markings didn’t rise. Serah let it pass.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Per_Sundin: Serah letting it pass is more significant than if she had reacted.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kalgarth: Lira noticed Kai moved beside her. didn’t say it. kept walking.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Drakeking: the north road being the north road. no drama. just the three of them and the cold.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[TheDeadDragón: these little things are Lira’s whole arc in summary.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qi,\" Lira said, when the road opened into a flat section.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Walking is the best time,\" Lira said. \"The body in motion facilitates the flow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does some text say that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I say it. Eight hundred years count as text.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai considered this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He closed his eyes — not fully, just enough to search for the origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira walked on his right and read the resonance Qi from his wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seventy-one,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yesterday it was seventy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Movement raises it slightly.\" Lira released his wrist. \"Work from the origin while we walk. By the time we reach the mount it should be at sixty-eight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai worked the resonance Qi from the origin as he walked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah, ahead, listened without turning around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They walked like that for hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira correcting the Qi on the flat stretches. Serah reading the terrain ahead. Kai in the middle processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Different from the road to Grimvast — there the tensions had had edges. Here the edges had worn down or found their place or simply learned to coexist with everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you see the mount?\" Serah said, at some point in the afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai lifted his eyes from the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the northern horizon, above the line of the tall northern sector trees, the shape of Mount Heiguers was visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see it,\" Kai said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resonance Qi rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because Kai activated it — on the contrary, Kai was actively working to keep it at sixty-eight from the origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It rose on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From sixty-eight to seventy-two in ten seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To seventy-five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To eighty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt it from the origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something on Mount Heiguers was responding to Kai’s resonance Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It detected us,\" Serah said. Without urgency — like someone stating a fact they already expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When?\" Kai said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A while ago.\" Serah looked at the mount on the horizon. \"It’s waiting for us to arrive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mount Heiguers kilometers away, the resonance Qi responding to something that was there, the energy signature from the report — the ground that shakes before it arrives, the combat aura that A-rank hunters described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lasted two seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silence afterward had the specific weight of what’s coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DraconicLegacy: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ THE GROUND SHOOK ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Chris_Murray: Kai’s resonance Qi rose on its own because something on the mount RESPONDED to it. that’s reciprocal. the entity feels him too.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warwolf: \"it’s waiting for us to arrive\" — the entity knows they’re coming. it’s been waiting.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Per_Sundin: one step. kilometers away. and the ground felt it here. that’s the weight of something that makes A-rank hunters unable to classify it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Kalgarth: Kai smiled. the same smile as yesterday. the ring one. he knows exactly what’s coming and wants it.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Drakeking: Lira read the resonance Qi responding to the mount. she knows what it means. didn’t say anything.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[TheDeadDragón: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ Warlord ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at the mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked at Kai smiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked at the terrain between them and the mount — the northern sector trees, the rocks, the kind of distance that on foot would take until tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The resonance Qi rose to eighty,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you lower it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m trying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did it work?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at the mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at her own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The entity up there is actively responding to your signal.\" She looked at him. \"That’s never happened before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at the horizon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And tomorrow we arrive and see what happens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah followed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira stayed a second looking at the mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground didn’t shake again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Kai’s resonance Qi stayed at eighty as he moved away down the north road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira followed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System — notification]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current viewers: 4,700,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that an entity on Mount Heiguers responded to Kai’s resonance Qi]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that the ground shook once]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that Kai smiled]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system notes that the resonance Qi stabilized at 80% — controlled by the external entity, not by Kai]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system considers that new]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The system also considers that tomorrow is going to be an interesting day]\u003C\u002Fp>",1109,"2026-06-06T02:17:07.051Z",1,"novelbin.me","3185a15a708941b312d88700eddac456902bba3b06d3346e0097c53e48523a4b","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-99","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-97",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]