My Sister Is Bronya

This is what you call staying true to your original intentions!

Brothers, spam "tears" in the public chat. (Laughs)

"You..." Raiden Mei clearly hadn't met anyone so shameless. She stared blankly at Ishiu, unable to find words to respond for a moment.

Finally, with her face flushed red, she managed to force out a question, "I-Ishiu-kun, may I ask how old you are this year?"

"Eighteen," Ishiu lied with a straight face.

Raiden Mei silently took out her phone and dialed 110. "Hello? Police station? I encountered a minor on the road pretending to be an adult..."

"Alright, fourteen," Ishiu immediately backed down.

This woman actually called the police. As expected, the more beautiful a woman is, the harder she is to deal with.

"Hmph, that's more like it." Raiden Mei hung up with a bit of smugness, then looked Ishiu up and down, saying with some surprise, "I didn't expect you to be only fourteen, two years younger than me, little Ishiu~"

"...Damn it!"

(PS: Damn it all! The crystals I saved for pulling Herrscher of Thunder were stolen by that little imp, Dwarf Wangtian, and I didn't even get her weapon or Stigmata. I'm so pissed at Da Wei Ge!)

Chapter 39: Checking In

After learning Ishiu's true age, for some reason, Ishiu felt that Raiden Mei seemed to relax more around him and became more affectionate.

Perhaps this was also due to her inherent personality of liking to take care of others.

They sat on the same bench, eating bread and chatting. Mostly, Raiden Mei asked Ishiu questions, like why he was working at such a young age, and which school he attended.

Ishiu answered what he could and tried to gloss over what he couldn't.

Raiden Mei seemed to have not talked to someone like this in a long time. She talked a lot and was a bit long-winded, but she didn't realize it and seemed to be enjoying herself. Ishiu was happy with this too, as it made it much easier for him to gather information.

Unfortunately, Raiden Mei didn't seem to know the name Cocolia. Even when Ishiu casually mentioned Anti-Entropy, Raiden Mei showed no reaction, as if she knew nothing about it.

This was both unexpected and within reason.

After all, even though Raiden Ryoma was the president of Anti-Entropy's external organization, it didn't mean he would let his daughter know about such things. The Honkai, for instance, had not been revealed to the public yet. Both Anti-Entropy, Schicksal, and other organizations fighting the Honkai were deliberately acting in secret from ordinary people.

Ishiu was somewhat disappointed. It seemed his plan to use Raiden Mei as a backdoor had failed.

He'd have to save money first, then get a fake identity, and fly back.

This was currently the most reliable and legal method.

Although getting a fake identity wasn't exactly legal itself.

They chatted for nearly an hour until the sky had completely darkened and the streetlights flickered on. Raiden Mei finally realized it was time for her to go home.

"Ishiu, I need to go home now. Thank you so much for today, for talking with me for so long." Raiden Mei said sincerely. After talking with Ishiu, she felt that the oppressive feeling that had been weighing on her heart had lessened.

"You don't need to thank me. I didn't have anything else to do anyway. Besides, chatting with a beautiful girl like you, I believe no man would find it annoying?" Ishiu chuckled and winked at Raiden Mei.

"Don't get cheeky." Raiden Mei's face turned slightly red, then she put on a senior's demeanor, extended a finger, and gently poked Ishiu's forehead. In a gentle tone, she chided, "Don't forget, I'm older than you. You should call me Mei-sister."

Ishiu's mouth twitched. Why did all these women want him to call them 'sister'? Did he really look that young?

"Alright, I'll be going now." Raiden Mei adjusted her clothes and stood up, but didn't leave immediately. She hesitated, as if making a decision.

"Um..." After a while, she quietly asked, "Can I... see you again tomorrow?"

Ishiu thought for a moment and replied, "Probably. I'll be working at that convenience store tomorrow, so it won't be hard for you to find me."

"That's wonderful! Then, can we exchange contact information?" Raiden Mei's eyes lit up with joy.

"I'm afraid I can't do that. I don't have a phone." Ishiu simply spread his hands. He was penniless right now, with only a few thousand yen from his day's wages. How could he afford a phone?

Even if he bought a phone, he'd need identification to get a SIM card.

So, while modern society had its advantages, it also had its disadvantages. Requiring identification for everything was just too troublesome.

"You don't have a phone?" Raiden Mei blinked. Thinking of something, her gaze towards Ishiu was filled with pity.

In her eyes, a child working at this age must come from a poor family. When she asked questions earlier, he had been vague, clearly because of his difficult family circumstances that made it hard to speak about.

She thought for a moment, then took out a pink phone from her bag and handed it to Ishiu. "Um... if you don't mind, you can use my old phone. It's a bit outdated, but at least it can make calls and send texts. I've put an unused SIM card in it."

"This... isn't that okay?" Ishiu hesitated. After thinking, he took out the money from his pocket, which was his earnings from work today. "How about this? I'll buy the phone from you. I don't like taking advantage of others."

Seeing this, Raiden Mei's pity for Ishiu deepened.

This child must have had a hard life, but he was also strong. What a good child!

Raiden Mei was quite emotionally intelligent. She didn't refuse Ishiu's money, even though she didn't lack it. Accepting a small amount was a way to save his face.

So, she symbolically accepted a few hundred yen from Ishiu, then saved her own number in the SIM card. After bidding farewell to Ishiu, she turned and left.

Ishiu had no intention of seeing her off. It was a joke; with her combat power, three to five strong men probably couldn't handle her. What need did he have to play the role of a protector?

After that, Ishiu didn't linger in the park. He found a dingy motel nearby that didn't require an ID to check in. Although the environment was terrible, it was at least livable.

However, what annoyed him was that the middle-aged woman at the front desk kept hinting at him about services they offered.

To be honest, Ishiu was a bit of a germaphobe and had no interest in that kind of woman. After decisively rejecting the landlady's hints, he went up to his room.

There wasn't much to do in the evening, so Ishiu used disposable toiletries to quickly clean himself up before taking a shower.

Of course, it was a cold shower. You couldn't expect hot water from a fleabag motel like this, but a cold shower was fine for Ishiu. While his current physical condition wasn't exactly impervious to the elements, he at least had some resistance.

After his shower, Ishiu sat on the bed and began to study the Reinforcement Magic and Mana Cultivation Method.

Reinforcement Magic was easy to understand. It was a very useful and powerful skill. Its reinforcement wasn't limited to the body; it could also affect internal organs, weapons held in hand, and armor worn on the body. As long as you had enough mana, and the degree of reinforcement had no upper limit, theoretically, you could keep reinforcing indefinitely as long as your body and mana could keep up!

Chapter 40: A Strange Girl

After thoroughly understanding the Reinforcement Magic and Mana Cultivation Method, Ishiu began to attempt cultivating mana.

Mana cultivation was simple. With the system's assistance, he didn't need to meditate for hours, feeling for spiritual energy, like in cultivation novels.

The system had directly carved out a mana circulation pathway and route within his body and provided him with a small mana source.

As the saying goes, the beginning is the hardest part. Since the beginning had been made, the rest was much simpler.

Ishiu just needed to calm his mind, mobilize the meager mana within his body, absorb external energy, and circulate it through the designated pathways.

With each repetition, external energy would be drawn into his body and converted into a usable mana source.

This energy came from light, heat, electricity, and so on. As long as it was energy, he could absorb and convert it.

It had to be said, the mana cultivation method provided by the system was quite potent. Ishiu had only cultivated for a short while, but he already felt his internal mana had increased by twenty percent. Furthermore, as the mana circulated through his meridians, it subtly strengthened his body. Although the effect was small, with constant repetition, Ishiu estimated it would be more effective than his own physical training.

More importantly, mana could strengthen his internal organs and nerves, making him stronger all-around. Muscle training only made his body stronger, but it couldn't strengthen his internal organs or his brain and nerves.

Having tasted the benefits, Ishiu naturally continued to cultivate relentlessly. However, his cultivation was soon interrupted.

Because strange noises started coming from the next room.

The walls of a fleabag motel like this were very thin, and there was no soundproofing to speak of. So, once night fell, all sorts of peculiar sounds would echo throughout the building. As for what those sounds were... those who know, know.

"Damn it!" Ishiu gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath, knocking twice on the wall with his fist to signal the neighbors to keep it down.

To his surprise, instead of quieting down, his knocking seemed to embolden them, and the noise grew even louder.

The seductive moans echoed in Ishiu's ears, making him feel a surge of blood essence.

It was unavoidable; any normal man would react to this.

"What the hell..."

Ishiu got out of his room, intending to go to the next door and tell the two lovebirds to keep it down. However, just as he reached their door, a woman in her forties rushed over from the other end of the hallway in a hurry.

The auntie looked quite ordinary. Although she wore thick makeup, it couldn't hide the ravages of time on her face.

Ishiu watched as she stormed up to the door he was about to knock on, and without a word, kicked it open.

With a loud "CRASH!", the flimsy wooden door, already of poor quality, was kicked open. Immediately after, the woman charged in, and then a scene common in television dramas unfolded.

Catching the mistress.

The commotion quickly attracted all the guests in the motel, who came out to watch the spectacle.

Ishiu rarely saw such scenes in real life, so he treated it as a show.

He thought they would leave after the commotion died down, but to his surprise, the auntie made a phone call, and then another group of people arrived, seemingly her relatives.

The situation escalated, and eventually, someone called the police. The sound of police sirens filled the air, and a group of officers came in and dispersed the crowd.

The matter should have ended there, with everyone returning to their rooms. But unexpectedly, one of the guests turned out to be a fugitive robber, recognized by a police officer.

The robber was apprehended, and since the fleabag motel had no record of the guests' identities, the police detained everyone to take simple statements and collect contact information.

This was a normal procedure, but the problem was that Ishiu was an undocumented person!

At this moment, Ishiu truly wished he could kill the horses of those two cheating scoundrels. Damn it, coming to a fleabag motel for an affair? How pathetic can you get? Would it kill you to book a hotel room?

There was no other choice; Ishiu couldn't be caught by the police. He could only pretend to go to the restroom and then jump out the window.

Coincidentally, Raiden Mei sent him a goodnight text message at this very moment, complete with an emoticon.

So, Ishiu could only reply with a tearful goodnight as he walked down the bitterly cold night road.

It was December, the coldest time of the year. Even though Ishiu wasn't afraid of the cold, no one enjoyed being buffeted by the wind.

With no other options, Ishiu found a park nearby, planning to make do and spend the night there.

It was completely dark now, and he was in an unfamiliar place. Instead of wasting more time looking for a fleabag motel, he decided it was better to spend the night in the park. After all, he had at least managed to shower.

As he entered the park, he unexpectedly found that someone was already on one of the park benches.

He initially thought it was a homeless person, but as he got closer, using the moonlight and the single lamppost in the park, he could vaguely discern from the figure that it seemed to be a girl.

When he reached the bench, Ishiu confirmed that the person lying on the bench was indeed a girl, and a rather attractive one at that, with a good figure.

But before he could get a good look, the girl, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly opened her eyes and immediately threw a whip kick at him.

With Ishiu's current strength, there was no way she could hit him. He easily sidestepped, effortlessly dodging the kick.

"Huh? You dodged it?" The girl seemed surprised that her kick missed, but she quickly launched another attack on Ishiu. "You pervert, trying to sneak attack me while I'm sleeping! I'll kick your balls off today!"

With that, she jumped off the chair and threw a straightforward punch with no fancy moves.

Ishiu raised an eyebrow. From this punch, he could already tell that this girl was extraordinary. The power and speed of the punch were perfect. If it were an ordinary adult man, he would likely be knocked out by such a blow.

But unfortunately for her, the person standing opposite her now was Ishiu.

Ishiu's hands clasped behind his back, his feet moving in a light, shuffling step. With a blur of motion, he dodged the girl's repeated attacks.

As they fought, the girl seemed to notice something was wrong. After a missed kick, she immediately retreated, looking at Ishiu with a wary expression. Her voice was clear and loud, "Hey! Who exactly are you? Why are you trying to sneak attack me? Is it because I'm as beautiful as a flower that you want to do that sort of thing to me? Let me tell you, don't even dream about it! This young lady doesn't like men!"

(PS: I'm really going to lose my mind over Dawei-ge's mom, I spent ten monthly cards and did a ten-pull, still no Mirror, damn it!)

Chapter 41 Kiana Kaslana

Ishiu's forehead instantly broke out in a sweat. You've got to be kidding me, who would want to do that sort of thing to you! I, the great Ishiu, would be such a scummy person?

"You're overthinking it. I was just passing through this park, looking for a place to sleep, and I happened to find you," Ishiu explained helplessly. He didn't want to be mistaken for a pervert.

"Are you telling the truth?" The girl raised an eyebrow, hands on her hips. Her attractive figure was fully revealed under the moonlight.

It was then that Ishiu got a clear look at her face.

She was a very beautiful girl. Her hair was white, and her long locks were tied into two braids, resting neatly behind her head.

Her eyes were large and full of spirit. People say you can tell if someone is good or bad just by looking into their eyes. Ishiu hadn't really believed it before, but now, seeing those vibrant, sky-blue eyes, he couldn't help but be a little convinced.

"Of course, it's the truth. Do I look like a bad person?" Ishiu pointed to his face, looking innocent.