Chapter 54: I Still Couldn’t Escape That One Thing
“Hahahahahaha! To think it would turn out like this, Puhahahaha! Does this guy have a brain? I really want to pry her head open and see what kind of structure is inside.”
Yama King burst into laughter, and Miss Soul Messenger also looked like she wanted to laugh, but seeing my darkening expression, she forcibly covered her mouth with her hand and held it back. I rolled my eyes and gloomily floated back to the ship, silently observing the situation below.
Although I had somewhat expected this guy might mess things up, I never anticipated she would drop such a massive bomb right from the start.
Should I say, as expected of the ultimate atmosphere destroyer… I was speechless.
Lian Bing, who was just as speechless as I was, said with a blank expression.
“..Are you here to stop me?”
Huh? Strange, this reaction is a bit off.
I thought if it were Lian Bing, she would definitely cover her mouth with the back of her hand and say something like, ‘Hehehe, Class Monitor, you’re truly….’ and casually deflect Li Nai’s verbal bomb.
Fortunately, Li Nai wasn’t so foolish as to not distinguish between occasions. She knew that the most urgent task now was to stop Lian Bing, so she didn’t continue to clown around. Instead, she raised her hand imposingly, looked directly into Lian Bing’s eyes, and said righteously.
“That’s right! You’ve gone too far! Lian Bing! What you are doing now is wrong!”
“…It is not up to you to decide… I don’t need others to think if it’s right or wrong, I just need to do what I think I should. And right now, I just want Jun Cheng to live again.”
Lian Bing responded without wavering, her actions in hand not stopping; the ghosts were still queuing up to die.
She’s not the type to listen to advice…
“Is there no room for negotiation…?”
“Heh, that is the composure of one born superior to others.”
Hearing this evaluation, I couldn’t help but look back. Yama King had already leaned over and wrapped her arms around my neck from behind, her chin resting on top of my head.
“You don’t need to consider others’ feelings when acting, just do what you want. It sounds capricious, but those in power almost….”
“That’s right, just like me. Speaking of which, she is indeed very similar to me.”
“Eh? That girl’s chest is much larger than yours, Lord Yama King.”
“…You won’t get your salary next year either.”
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“Crunch!”
“It’s already a miracle you haven’t been fired.”
“I mean our values are very similar, as is her ability as a ‘Calamity’. She has the potential to become a ‘King’ and maybe even rise higher to become a ‘Ghost Emperor’ in her own right.”
“You think highly of her, Lord Yama King.”
“Bo, just call me by my name.”
As she spoke, she made me extend my hand and wrote the character ‘Bo’ in my palm.
“Bo…”
It feels like I’ve seen this name before…
“Although you forget every time you reincarnate, I still want to tell you my name, as very few people call me by my name directly.”
“Is that so? Then I will respectfully accept your offer.”
“Heh, let’s continue watching. Although she’s a self-willed person like me, it’s not like people like us can’t be persuaded. It just depends on whether we can find the key point that shakes her.”
The key point?
It means first finding a ‘flaw’ similar to the one in Reverse, and then firing that ‘verbal bomb’ in Rondo, right?
Can she truly see through Lian Bing and find a way to persuade her?
Li Nai didn’t spend much time with Lian Bing, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say they just met. Can she truly see through Lian Bing?
The key point?
“If Jun Cheng knew that you had involved so many undead to resurrect him, he wouldn’t accept it!”
“…To….”
“His feelings? Do you not care about his feelings?”
“What!? The person you want to resurrect is him, yet you don’t care about his feelings?”
“Since I have already decided to resurrect him, even if he wanted to die, I wouldn’t let him die so easily.”
This is truly domineering, like a rich young miss falling in love with me?
“Whew~ Did you hear that? Someone declared they’ll be taking care of you!”
“That’s not what ‘taking care of’ means…”
“Not even giving you the right to die, doesn’t that mean you’re going to ‘take care of his life’ instead?”
“Bo, you’re quite eloquent.”
“Oh well, I have to negotiate with sinners often. People these days are getting smarter and smarter, unlike people in the past who were so foolish. I could scare them and they’d confess everything, but now I have to produce conclusive evidence for them to admit guilt. Ah, it’s so troublesome! The more I talk, the more tired I get, I can’t do it anymore, I quit!”
“No! Lord Yama King! If you go on strike, our Underworld will completely collapse!”
“Tch…”
“No! Lian Bing! If you continue like this, all these gluttonous ghosts will be wiped out!”
They both said similar lines in perfect unison.
“Oh, are you perhaps pleading for them? Class Monitor Li Nai, these guys are the culprits responsible for slaughtering and consuming your kin everywhere!”
“Ugh! Although that’s true… is it really okay to decide to let them die so easily?”
That’s right, death should be something much, much heavier, it shouldn’t be decided so easily by others…
“Do you think a guilty person desires an uninteresting and painful life, or a sweet and easy death?”
“For any ‘world’, to enter from there… the only way is through ‘death’. I am just giving them a chance.”
But it’s impossible to make Lian Bing feel pity and give up on resurrecting me.
You need to understand this, … Criticizing her with ordinary values is useless. Lian Bing’s values are approved by Yama King, which are quite twisted.
“I feel like you’re thinking something rude.”
Yama King pinched my cheek and said unhappily.
“N-no…”
Her intuition is as sharp as Lian Bing’s…
“Are you going to involve Jun Cheng’s mother too?!”
Hearing this, my heart skipped a beat. I didn’t expect Li Nai to know already? It was because she knew this that she dragged me here…
Whatever, it doesn’t matter. This is indeed a good starting point.
“Jun Cheng’s birth mother is my Mom. She is the lord of this place and is responsible for the seven spirits here. If you involve these undead, things will get out of hand!”
She hesitated.
This move was very effective, after all, it was about ‘Mom’.
I turned my head to glance at Miss Akiko’s corpse lying not far away. As a result, Lian Bing still couldn’t harm her, only knock her out.
Thinking of my similar situation, she might feel a sense of shared misery.
Then, it’s fine to just exclude her and the undead under her jurisdiction. She only manages the undead in the inner city, right?
“Then, exclude her and her….”
“If this is the case, then I have the right to control them.”
The undead in the outer areas haven’t awakened yet. The original manager gave me the crown,
I was bitten back.
As expected, things are not that simple.
Now, I probably can’t… However, if these undead can’t revive me, then what will happen?
This is truly a headache…
“Wait! Wait! If you do that, Jun Cheng will turn into a skeleton!”
Will I turn into a skeleton?!
“Most of the undead here are skeletons without flesh and blood. If you use them as materials for resurrection, Jun Cheng will naturally be affected!”
That sounds plausible.
“Bo, is that true or false?”
“It’s half true, half false. If the soul-reviving technique is successful, you will be resurrected as a human, with no side effects.”
“Then….”
“But there’s also a possibility of failure. In fact, using only the souls and bodies of these low-level undead to perform the soul-reviving technique, the success rate is not high. If it fails completely, you naturally won’t be resurrected. And if it is successfully performed but there aren’t enough bodies and souls, you might indeed turn into a skeleton?”
“Bad news.”
I guess I’ll have to find a way to transmigrate to another world and become a second-generation bone.
But for Lian Bing, becoming a skeleton is even better, right? It feels more like death.
“That would be even better, then I can…”
As I expected, Lian Bing said she was happy to see me turn into a skeleton.
But I can’t play music, do the forty-five-degree pose, or tell corny jokes.
Compared to becoming a skeleton, becoming a zombie is better.
“If Jun Cheng becomes a… then he won’t be able to do any ooxx!”
“do ooxx!”
“ooxx!”
“!”
Her scream, which she put all her effort into, echoed throughout the space. Everyone else, including us who were watching the show, was petrified.
What in the… what on earth is she talking about?!
I thought Lian Bing wouldn’t even pay attention to such crazy nonsense.
But I never expected that this would be the key point that would shake her the most!
Lian Bing waved her hand, stopping the Soul-Reviving technique that was in progress, and after a moment of hesitation, she asked back.
“…Then what do you suggest we do?”
She was actually persuaded!
Hey, hey, hey!
Are you kidding me!
Did you lose your integrity, my dear girlfriend?
You’re not really going to give up for such a reason, are you?
“Girl, this is about your future happiness. Love without desire is hard to last long.”
“…Can you stop giving life advice with that loli appearance, Lord Bo?”
“Tch, stop pretending to be a gentleman~ Can’t you sense the true meaning behind this?”
“…”
“Since she’s wavering because of this, it proves she wants to do ‘that’ with you. Hehe~ Ah, I’m so envious. To have such a beautiful girlfriend who is willing to offer herself to you, aren’t you overjoyed deep down?”
“Your face in this life is terrible at hiding your thoughts.”
“…Stop talking.”
Don’t turn red, my face.
Stop smiling! You’re so pathetic!
In any case, let’s assume it’s like that for now!
So, Li Nai, who has persuaded Lian Bing, is preparing to find a way for me to avoid becoming… Well, I’ve already thought of it.
Li Nai patted her chest confidently and said.
Ha, I knew it… In the end, I still couldn’t escape Li Nai’s ‘that thing’.
My dear sisters, your brother might be turning into a zombie!
You can’t casually kiss anymore, or you’ll catch zombie virus from your brother (shrugs)●
