Chapter 44: Entanglement and the Approaching Calamity (1)
“Although I’m happy that you’re willing to do so much for me, …well, never mind. You won’t listen to me anyway.”
“Hoo hoo hoo~ That’s how it is. No matter what Juncheng says, I won’t change my mind.”
I didn’t expect Juncheng to be so much calmer than I imagined. It seemed like Zi Hua’s reaction was well within her predictions.
Juncheng helplessly spread his hands, speaking as if he couldn’t do anything about his willful girlfriend.
“I’ve known your tenacity for a long time. From a good perspective, this persistence is quite touching, but from another angle, it’s also quite clingy.”
“Aren’t you the same, Juncheng?”
Juncheng admitted calmly.
“Yes, I am. That’s why when I see you, I clearly understand how troublesome my own personality is.”
Zi Hua smiled happily.
“Being able to share something in common with Juncheng makes me happy enough to go to the grave~ Hoo hoo hoo~”
“That’s not something that makes one happy at all…”
Juncheng stood up and patted my shoulder, saying.
“Let’s stop here for today. It’s getting late, and it’s almost time to sleep. You two, hurry back to your rooms.”
I unceremoniously tossed Zi Hua, who was in my arms, away. Zi Hua, who should have fallen to the floor, instead arched her back and stood up with a flip. Her thin purple nightgown spread out and closed like wings, giving her a seductive beauty.
Her body must be made of water, she’s so soft.
“Really, Juncheng~ I’ve already changed into my pajamas, and you’re still chasing me out? Can’t I just sleep with you?”
“So that’s what you’ve been planning since earlier, that’s why you changed into your pajamas… I told you, no.”
No, Zi Hua actually showed an unprecedented moment of wavering just now. She temporarily found an excuse of feeling cold to change her clothes.
Juncheng didn’t notice, but I didn’t miss it.
She deliberately changed into this revealing nightgown entirely to distract us.
“Not even to warm your bed?”
“No, not even to warm my bed… I’m afraid you’ll overheat and kick off the covers.”
“How lewd~”
“Or, you can sleep here by yourself, and I’ll share a room with Zi’ai.” Light Novel
What?
I was a little startled, and my heart began to beat uncontrollably faster. –. Cough, cough, don’t overthink it. Juncheng doesn’t mean it that way. He’s just saying that because he can’t do anything about Zi Hua. There’s no other meaning. Even if we were to share a room, we wouldn’t share a bed. There’s no possibility of resting my head on his arm and sleeping entwined with him, so don’t delude yourself, Anzi’ai!
“Hmph! Biased! Fine, if you don’t want me to sleep, then don’t. Juncheng, you can just masturbate alone in your room. Zi’ai belongs to me!”
“You, are you a child… Lan Hua is more mature than you… As your physical age increases, is your mental age decreasing?”
“Hmph hmph, I’m just getting younger with age~”
“Yes, yes, yes. Then I’m going to sleep too… Right, no sneaking into my room in the middle of the night, no installing cameras in my room, and no taking my used toothbrush or towel, understood?”
When told this, Zi Hua turned her eyes away, clearly her plans had all been seen through by Juncheng.
“How lewd~ I have no idea what you’re talking about~”
“I’m talking about you! You have a history, you stalker!”
“I’m a lady now, I won’t engage in that kind of perverted fetishes and fantasies anymore.”
“Ghost Scholar believes you.”
Lan Hua’s words might actually lead her to do these things, but I always considered Zi Hua to be different from Lan Hua.
When she trapped me in the infinite loop of Wednesday before, I initially forgot she was a stalker. Has this trait become less obvious?
But Juncheng still kept it in mind… Perhaps it’s because only he is Zi Hua’s true target.
“Speaking of which, with you, Juncheng, here, why would I go through all the trouble? I should just attack you directly~”
“…If you really were to attack me, then, hehe.”
Juncheng narrowed his eyes and stared at Zi Hua for a moment, his smile truly resembled that of the Young Miss. What should have been an intimate atmosphere suddenly turned tense, like a confrontation between Ji Lianbing and Lan Hua.
At some point, Juncheng actually learned to wear such a meaningful smile, and he learned it rather well.
“Alright, stop fooling around and go to sleep.”
Juncheng pushed our shoulders, escorted us to the double room, bid us goodnight at the door, and closed it.
oF. Mu Xiao Wan
Alright, I’ll wash up and sleep too. Ensuring sufficient sleep and sugar intake allows the brain to operate efficiently.
I turned to leave but found Zi Hua still standing at the door, frozen.
“Zi Hua?”
Was she shocked?
Her beloved Juncheng actually showed a smile similar to her love rival’s. Perhaps she was currently experiencing an emotional shock from this stark contrast.
This is impossible. Because a few seconds later, Zi Hua pounced onto the bed, rolled around with the quilt, and started acting crazy.
“Yaaaaah~ The black-bellied Juncheng is so handsome~ It’s amazing~ Hoo hoo hoo… Juncheng, Juncheng….”
Even if Juncheng were to stab her to death, she would accept it with a smile. Perhaps she would happily think it was a blessing to die by Juncheng’s hand.
…Tsk, completely dependent on the person most important to her heart to live. It’s so annoying.
Her thoughts and her very existence are all dependent on that… a parasitic way of life.
But upon reflection, everyone around Juncheng is pretty much the same…
They all depend on Juncheng and can’t live without him.
In the end, everyone is weak.
The next morning, after waking up and washing up, I was about to leave the room to eat breakfast when I opened the door to see Juncheng leaning against the door, arms crossed.
Upon noticing me, Juncheng greeted me first.
“Yo, good morning, Zi’ai.”
“Mhm, An. You’re here so early.”
It’s only 6 AM. He’s waiting at the door… Is he deliberately waiting for me?
“Let’s go eat breakfast together?”
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If he was waiting for me at the door this early, it must be more than just for breakfast. It must be to discuss something with me.
In that case, there’s no need to wait until breakfast to talk. I caught up to Juncheng’s pace, walked alongside him, and asked.
“Juncheng, are you really going to do as Zi Hua says?”
“There’s no other way. We’ve already boarded Zi Hua’s ship, and the ship has set sail and cannot turn back. We’re like grasshoppers tied to the same rope now. Infighting will be completely unproductive, won’t it? Besides, Zi Hua doesn’t have any malicious intentions, does she? The worst outcome is just the end of the world… Hmm, we must prevent that from happening.”
“Yes, Zi Hua makes sense. It’s too late to investigate the cause of the incident now, and it’s an event that hasn’t happened yet. It’s impossible to find the mastermind and the cause in a city as big as Song.”
“But we can’t just wait until the zombie crisis arrives as Zi Hua suggested. We can’t waste this time.”
“I agree.”
It’s so comfortable talking to Juncheng. Our thoughts are so aligned, and our opinions are almost identical. This is what they call a soulmate.
This feeling is truly wonderful…
“By the way, Juncheng, what did you mean by what you said yesterday?”
“Hmm? Which sentence?” It’s like I’m going to attack you.”
“That’s right. She won’t really sleep with me. Even if I agreed, she wouldn’t go all the way. She knows that ‘I would refuse’, that’s why she said that.”
“Eh? Why? She’s clearly hugging and kissing you…”
Looking at Zi Hua, she’s obviously like a mating sow, her mind only focused on mating.
“Well, it seems affectionate, but it’s just that. It won’t go any further. Because I am An Juncheng, but I am also not An Juncheng.”
“Is it… is she just looking for the future version of you in you?”
“Oh, impressive. You can understand my contradictory words without me explaining?”
“You can figure it out if you think about it.”
“However, what you said is not entirely correct. She isn’t looking for the shadow of my future self. On the contrary, it’s precisely because she can see the shadow of my future self in me that she feels a rift in her heart.”
“Eh? How do you say that? Juncheng, how did you discover it?”
“This… hmm, I have to start with myself. Zi’ai, do you know? Actually, there is still a residual fear of Lianbing in my heart. That originated from the spiral nightmare. Lianbing killed everyone, and that became my greatest fear, the source of my fear.”
“The spiral nightmare created by Principal Nana…”
“I saw that too that time. But I was just a weak soul back then, only able to stay in the depths of Juncheng’s mind. I could see those nightmares but couldn’t help.”
Then, because of that incident, Juncheng’s mental space did indeed develop a crack, that is ‘psychological trauma’.
However, Juncheng later faced this source of fear head-on, sacrificing himself to Ruansui, which allowed him to leave the embrace of comfort.
“Yes, and then, Zi Hua is the same.”
“Zi Hua is also the same?”
“Zi’ai, you must have seen it more clearly. The expression Zi Hua had when she borrowed [text missing] to change into her pajamas last night.”
That expression!
So Juncheng saw it too!
“Juncheng, you noticed!”
“Yes, of course. Whether it’s Lan or Zi, I’m super sensitive to her gaze. How could I not notice her looking at me like that… It’s the first time she’s looked at me with such despair, as if she’s looking at a monster…”
Juncheng tilted his head slightly toward the ceiling, his expression somewhat melancholic.
“In the future, something must have happened that would make even Lan despair immensely…”
…I asked Zi Hua, but she told me, ‘I can’t say it.’
“If she could say it, she would have already. So since she can’t say it, we can only figure it out ourselves.”
“That’s true.”
“In any case, let’s start by collecting information… No, let’s go eat breakfast first?”
Seeing Juncheng’s smile, I also relaxed.
That’s right. If we don’t eat breakfast properly, we’ll be listless all day.
Only a few days are left until the disaster strikes, and the final deadline…
The countdown to deceiving the world – remaining 24 days.
