Chapter 113: Never, ever give up

Never, ever give up...

Erii stared blankly at the young man before her. In that moment, her scarlet eyes were no longer hollow; it was as if something was bubbling up from within, filling in the voids left behind over the past twenty years, bit by bit.

Hope? Love? Warmth?

Or perhaps some other, even more important emotion.

Erii didn't understand. She only knew that from this day forward, no matter what happened, she would likely never be able to forget the young man before her.

Tilting her head, she greedily nuzzled against the palm resting on her cheek. Then, as if remembering something, she snatched the notepad away. After scribbling furiously, she puffed out her cheeks in a pout and looked at Wu Xian.

【I don't want to be Sasuke. I want to be the heroine, Sakura!】

Wu Xian chuckled, then naturally took the notepad back and continued writing.

【Forget it. Sakura-ge is flat-chested. With a figure like yours, it's more appropriate to be Hinata.】

【But Sakura is the heroine!】

【Ha! Let me tell you a secret: Hinata is actually the real heroine. She marries Naruto in the end and has two kids in three years. You can't imagine how happy they are!】

【Eh! Is that true?!】

【Of course. You might not believe it, but I'm actually very close with Mr. Kishimoto. He's the one who told me the ending.】

【I don't believe you!】

【Alright, fine. Actually, I traveled here from the year 2025, that's how I know the ending.】

【I see... Then I'll be Hinata.】

【Eh! Why did you believe it this time?!】

【Because of my intuition!】

【Fine, you've got the assets, you make the rules.】

【Godzilla is so H!】

【Godzilla? That's the English name for Godzilla, right? Why call me that?】

【Because Godzilla is the King of the Monsters, and he can protect the little monster!】

【Then you might as well call yourself Mothra. When the time comes, we'll combine for a Burning Red combo move. I guarantee any Ultraman who shows up will have to kneel and call us Daddy.】

Very quickly, the thick stack of notepads thinned at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But in contrast, the surrounding air was filled with a sense of joy and warmth, as well as that sour, pungent scent that strikes fear into the hearts of single people.

Meanwhile, at Tokyo Disneyland.

Gen Shizheng, who had changed into a black trench coat, was sitting on a wooden bench, smoking with a look of utter exhaustion. There were seven or eight cigarette butts at his feet; clearly, he had been there for quite some time.

In fact, Gen Shizheng rarely smoked.

It wasn't that he disliked the smell of smoke, but as a super-hybrid, ordinary cigarettes could hardly provide him with any refreshing effect. He only smoked a stick or two when he was feeling depressed.

Like right now.

Counting the time, fourteen hours had passed since Erii ran away from home. Even subtracting the three-plus hours it took to get to Akihabara, that was still a full ten hours.

In other words, his younger sister, the head of the Uesugi family—one of the Snake Eight Families—had been alone with a strange man for at least ten hours!

What was worse, according to the data currently retrieved by Kaguya, that guy named Wu Xian was definitely not a good person.

Leaving aside his resume of being a model student for the first eighteen years of his life, just looking at the absurd things he did while getting drunk at a nightclub two months ago made Gen Shizheng want to stuff him into a cement barrel and sink him into Tokyo Bay immediately!

Besides that, he was also panicking inside, terrified that when he found Erii, he would see something unbearable, and then this time next year, he would be promoted to an uncle.

"Young Master!"

Just as Gen Shizheng was lost in his wild thoughts, Crow ran over in a hurry, clutching a laptop. He stuttered as he said to him, "Kaguya just bypassed the other party's defenses and has found the current location of the Uesugi family head, but..."

"Speak."

Gen Shizheng said in a deep voice, having already prepared for the worst.

"They checked into a love hotel, and looking at the surveillance footage, it seems like the Uesugi family head requested it... Young Master, what do you think?"

Crow looked at Gen Shizheng cautiously, pity hidden in his eyes.

"Clang!!"

A flash of a blade swept before his eyes, and Crow felt a chill in his chest.

Immediately after, he discovered that the laptop in his hand had been split into two, the cut perfectly smooth, with only a few sparks flickering.

Looking up, he saw that Gen Shizheng had already sheathed his Spider-Cutter, his already gloomy face now completely black as a pot bottom.

"Call all the hybrids outside and come with me to that hotel... Also, have Yasha prepare a cement barrel. I might have a use for it later."

"Swish—"

Wu Xian sat cross-legged on the carpet with a large tea table in front of him. He leisurely brewed himself a cup of tea, the sound of the water mixing with the sound of water from the bathroom nearby.

Without a doubt, the person taking a shower in the bathroom right now was Erii.

Ever since entering this room, she had held up her notebook and said, "I want to take a shower"—

The next second, she had quite naturally taken off that red-and-white shrine maiden outfit in front of Wu Xian, then, clutching a yellow rubber duck she had pulled out from who knows where, she ran into the bathroom.

Leaving behind only a pile of clothes on the floor and a completely bewildered Wu Xian.

Looking at the shrine maiden outfit and pink underwear he had already tidied up, Wu Xian was silent for a moment, then turned his head to glance in the direction of the bathroom.

He saw that on the translucent glass, a beautiful figure was faintly reflected.

His eyes were a bit dazed; the fleeting glimpse from earlier surfaced in his mind again, and due to his high Intelligence attribute, many of the details became clear.

A swan-like neck, clear butterfly bones, delicate and warm skin, exquisitely shaped calves, slender and fair ankles, a curvaceous figure...

These words, which usually only appeared in novels, had all just presented themselves before his eyes in a real scene.

Even with Wu Xian's current self-control, he felt his blood surging, with an urge to walk straight into the bathroom.

A wonderful thought, and given Erii's personality, as well as her current trust and affection for him, it was possible that by tonight, he could max out the progress bar.

And this time next year, Erii might be able to celebrate Mother's Day...

Slap!

A slap to his own forehead interrupted his wild thoughts. At the same time, his gaze swept over the red gauze curtains and red wall lamps surrounding him—these decorations full of romantic atmosphere—and he whispered, "It's all the promotional flyer's fault."

In fact, after leaving the Skytree, Wu Xian had intended to take Erii back to the Peninsula Hotel to rest.

But thinking that there were two gossiping women monitoring him at any time, he changed his mind on the spot and decided to find a nearby hotel to make do.

As it turned out, Erii indicated that she knew of a place that was quite nice, and so she dragged Wu Xian to this love hotel.

And that was when Wu Xian realized that Erii had remembered the content of that Kabukicho promotional flyer from earlier, so the love hotel she brought him to was near Tokyo's red-light district.

Wu Xian had wanted to take Erii elsewhere, but seeing the girl's pitiful, disappointed expression, he gritted his teeth and agreed to stay.

As for why the two of them were staying in the same room, that was because the landlady said there was only one room left—it was a force majeure, and he was quite helpless about it.

Thump!!

Just then, a dull thud suddenly came to his ears, and the direction was the bathroom.

Wu Xian was stunned at first, but as more subtle sounds entered his ears, his expression immediately sank.

The next second, Wu Xian's figure flashed rapidly, as if he had never left, but in his arms, there was now an extra, stark-naked body—it was Erii, who should have been taking a shower in the bathroom.

However, at this very moment, her condition was terrible.

Not only was her whole body emitting high heat and a blood-red color, but she was also curled up in Wu Xian's arms like a boiled shrimp, appearing to be in great pain.

Not long after, iron-gray scales and keratin began to appear on the surface of her previously delicate skin.

At a glance, she looked just like a lizardman about to reveal its true form, appearing exceptionally eerie.

"Has the bloodline gone berserk?"

Wu Xian frowned as he watched this scene, knowing this was a manifestation of Erii's unstable bloodline.

Usually at times like this, the Snake Eight Families' medical team would inject her with a special serum and then use hemodialysis to temporarily suppress her berserk bloodline, extending her lifespan as a human.

But now...

"I haven't used this move in this world yet, but there's no time to find a lab rat now. I hope it's useful for you."

Wu Xian said this, then raised his right hand and touched the area over Erii's chest.

Immediately after, a red palm that seemed to be composed of energy slowly emerged from his palm...

(End of chapter)