Chapter 1130: NO. 35: Aomo: I Haven't Even Shouted Yet!

NO. 35: Aomo: I haven't even shouted yet!

Although there are still two months and a few days left this year, Xi has already determined that the worst day of the year was yesterday.

Just yesterday, she underwent a 'triple hearing' that she hadn't experienced in years.

Older brother, older sister, Shu sister.

Besides, there was a grinning Year serving as juror, which is simply hard to believe no matter how you look at it.

It's just a hobby of a doujin artist—do we really have to make such a fuss!?

No matter what I'm looking at, I obviously draw perfectly normal stuff!!

Xi felt she needed to bring up the worldly philosophy of 'a gentleman judges by deeds, not heart; judging by heart, no one in the world is perfect,' but after being 'enlightened' by a second‑creation mercenary, she also knew.

Reason is useless.

Older sister and Shu sister were clearly taking the chance to gang up on her, while Year only twists her words into opposites; the only one she could possibly convince was older brother—but it was older brother who first opened her desktop computer!

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Although he didn't turn the screen toward her, older brother wouldn't do such a flustered thing; Xi knew he was a perfect martial artist.

He can move mountains and rivers with a single breath, and also gently brush the finest hairs with his qi.

Older brother, whose cultivation of self‑nourishment has long reached perfection, hardly ever suffers from angry qi harming the heart or a broken defense collapsing; naturally he never shows such extreme behavior.

But even so!

When he finished looking at the screen and then at her, he showed a look of wanting to speak but stopping, stopping then wanting to speak again, his eyes mixed with feelings, and he raised his hand to cover his forehead!

——The harm to Xi is just that huge!

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Xi defined her current state using the internet culture she had learned.

The moment one suffers social death is also the moment of self‑death; thereafter, one's family standing gains nothing, and the siblings who have long been at odds become even more loathsome!

At that moment she desperately wanted to drag the informer Year into a mutual destruction, but she also knew there was still room for reconciliation; if she really fell out with Year, then it would truly become known to all.

She usually draws in obscurity, but once socially dead everyone knows—too bad to meet you like this. jpg

Just thinking of that possibility, she couldn't help but hate herself for being so worldly‑wise,

yet even in this torment she showed great resolve to endure!

This feeling of sitting on pins and needles, days like years, hadn't ended either; even after older brother was 'shot down' by his own collection, the next to arrive on the battlefield was older sister!

Perhaps this is a good thing, she had to think.

Leaving aside whether Ling sister's matter counts as a leverage she holds, she has always been more protective of her younger siblings.

Even if she now appears to have defected and stands with Shu sister and Year, nobody will go too far.

The facts afterward were exactly so.

Ling sister continued older brother's unfinished business, kept rummaging through her collection, and her expression was quite vivid.

At least her eyes held no pity, she didn't suddenly grin wickedly, and she didn't report any findings to Shu sister and older brother.

One could say she was quite one of us, and she finished the inspection smoothly.

She didn't forget to turn off the computer.

Although what she said was a bit extreme, it wasn't a huge problem; just the fact that older brother had less contact moved Xi deeply in that moment, thinking it wasn't in vain that she had covered for him—but then, in that instant, Xi suddenly remembered something.

That video…… she had also treated as an important document and stuffed it together with those collections into a folder.

Um……

Looking again at the way she whispered with Shu, her smile toward Xi still as friendly and reliable as before, older sister made Xi feel uneasy again.

Recalling the several times older sister had looked shocked while browsing the computer, Xi couldn't tell whether it was because of the Uma Musume doujin or something else.

Looking again at the occasional glances Ling sister cast her way, Xi could discern no deep meaning—only reassurance, only concern.

It seemed as if everything was just her being paranoid.

But she could hardly stop herself from thinking about it.

Just as the saying goes, a loss may be a gain; this paranoia instead gave her an outlet for her attention, so that when she came to her senses, the matter had already been deemed settled by the two sisters and older brother, while Year looked especially regretful.

Let her regret be her regret.

Xi currently had no mood to settle scores with Year; instead she wanted to settle accounts with Ling sister.

But when she thought that, the other party couldn't be found.

Even searching the family group yielded no response.

To be frank, this isn't abnormal; it's actually too ordinary.

Usually Ling sister often disappears from the group, tags go unanswered; whenever this happens, the years' pieces only say they don't know where she went drinking, or whether she went wandering in dreams.

Xi also wanted to say she was just testing, but this disappearance, which should have been routine as usual, instead made her suspicious.

Indeed, Xi the great artist is not someone driven by curiosity; on the contrary, she has always been good at reading the situation, so she can readily suppress her curiosity.

This ability had once let her avoid many of Year's troublemaking traps, and this time she could likewise persist.

Only, her past suppression of curiosity was to protect an unchanging daily life.

But now she has obviously lost that everyday life.

Even if the two sisters seem no longer to pursue it, older brother's gaze, apologetic without blame, remains piercing.

Year, moreover, came over within just two hours to find fault four times, annoying her to no end, while also prompting Shu sister to come over repeatedly—called mediation, in practice a family education where both sides nag.

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People still have to work!!

This is the hobby she finally found, and it makes her urgently need a quiet, undisturbed workspace.

She actually had the idea of using her ability to flee directly.

But unfortunately, Shu sister always finds where she is, and to directly persuade Shu sister to ignore her……

That is usually impossible, but Xi still has a hidden plan.

This is the news Aomo received yesterday at noon.

After enduring a whole day, Xi had long since run out the door.

But she actually hadn't made any play plans, after all her original purpose wasn't to play.

First, find a quiet, undisturbed place to work; second, if there's an opportunity to satisfy curiosity, then there's no reason to hold back.

These two points can actually be satisfied at the same time; this is also the choice she had locked onto from the start.

Having confirmed this, she simply found a secluded corner of a park, holding the bag that still contained a drawing tablet and a small computer, and sat there from morning until afternoon.

Even when hungry, she didn't go buy food, but instead casually drew a few strokes that were pleasing to the eye, simply solving it.

Just like that, after finally waiting for the agreed meeting time, it quickly ended in their extremely efficient work talk.

The other party was even more in a hurry to leave, leaving Xi, who had thought they could walk together and naturally suggest it, suddenly at a loss.

Especially, the other party didn't even consider sitting in a vehicle, but wanted to directly teleport!

You...

Are you in such a hurry because you're rushing to put out a fire?!

Even the unemployed layabout who doesn't understand the classic urgency of office workers for getting off work doesn't know that Aomo is in a hurry to go back to see the kitchen's needs, let alone that Aomo had told family he'd come back early—this, to a demon, is completely equivalent to a promise that must be fulfilled, even exceeded.

But fortunately, even if she doesn't understand all of this, it doesn't prevent her from, in a crisis, letting go of the frame that was already broken yesterday.

Thus, as she followed Aomo into that office, under Aomo's brief introduction, she saw the girl Xin Tiao Xi, whose eyes were extremely wary, as if she were an intruder, and another who was quite welcoming of herself, but in every sense a very burly woman beast queen.

She also saw at the kitchen doorway Deksasi in home attire.

She, feeling that the rumor was actually somewhat true, saw that the other party obviously had a cooking appearance, and was about to chat about dinner topics when she heard a sound that completely shouldn't be here.

"Aomo, are you back? Perfect, come lend a hand, these few yellow eels need to be handled first!"

"……Ah? Oh! Okay! Wait a moment!"

Aomo's response, first somewhat surprised, then immediately accepting reality, came from far to near, while Xi herself immediately rushed to the kitchen doorway, looking at that small, slender figure carrying big and small bags, which was quite impactful with its colored hair.

"... Shu sister?"

"Oh, Xi, come help sister divide the bags."

That small girl who revealed a kind smile and naturally waved at her was exactly Shu, whom she had thought would be the safest to handle, without even needing to think.