Disobedient Children Don't Get Candy

"I want you... to play with me!"

A shriek tore through the deathly silence within the castle. Orphan Girl in Red Annie's resentment, like a breached dam, instantly ignited the entire space.

"Snap... snap..."

On the ground, the broken toys began to make sounds, like bones dislocating, in rapid succession.

They stiffly stood up, their hollow eye sockets turning in unison towards Qin Feng.

A mental pressure, a mixture of decay and malice, swept over him like a tide.

On his left wrist, the ancient dial telephone tattoo, [Death Notice], quietly appeared. Wisps of chilling black energy emanated from it, causing the surrounding resentment to instinctively shrink back in fear.

In his right palm, a silver light flashed, and the D-Class Legendary Armament [Scissors of Truth] materialized. On its dull blades, a wisp of silver light seemed capable of tearing retinas, so sharp it made the space itself subtly distort.

"Roar!"

Countless broken toys roared, dragging their stiff limbs as they madly lunged forward.

Qin Feng's gaze, as sharp as a falcon's, cut through the dense phantoms, finally locking onto Annie at the turn of the second-floor staircase.

He shifted the lollipop in his mouth to the other side and called out indistinctly, "Hey, little sister, this group summon of yours doesn't even cost mana, so you shouldn't waste it like this!

The quality is so poor, more numbers won't help!

Look at this teddy bear, its stuffing is all exposed; it'll fall apart after a couple of steps.

And that Barbie, her face is cracked; she'll scare your own side at night, won't she?

I suggest you learn from the necromancer next door and go for a high-quality route. Do you even understand what differentiated competition is?"

"You... want to die!" Annie's voice distorted with rage. More toys poured out from the shadows, fearlessly charging at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng clicked his tongue and shook his head slightly.

These toys were merely extensions of Annie's resentment. Harming them was equivalent to consuming Annie's strength.

And her power core, as the system analyzed, was "loneliness" and "anger."

She transformed all her victims into "toys" as a way to combat the fear of abandonment.

Therefore, what she feared most was not physical damage, but... being abandoned again, having the "game" that defined her existence stripped away.

But how could he precisely attack that point?

Just then, Qin Feng's gaze fixed on the rocking horse in the center of the hall, still swaying alone.

In his Spiritual Sense vision, he saw countless threads of resentment extending from the toys, all converging on Annie.

But the origin of all these threads seemed inextricably linked to this rocking horse.

And on the mottled base of the rocking horse, he keenly caught sight of a line of small characters, almost worn away by resentment, etched in a childish hand:

"To my little Annie, Mom loves you forever."

Annie... was that her real name?

So that's how it is.

A cruel smile touched Qin Feng's lips.

He ignored the teddy bear, its claws already inches away, and instead pointed his left hand, emanating chilling black energy, towards Annie on the second floor.

He didn't use [Death Notice] to declare death; that was too crude and too unstable.

Qin Feng activated his ability, his voice cold and mocking, like a demon's whisper, clearly declaring:

"I predict: in ten seconds, you will remember your name is Annie."

"And you won't be able to stop yourself from... missing Mom."

The moment his words fell, it wasn't the rule of death that descended, but a more bizarre, deeper "conceptual pollution"!

This command, like the most precise virus, followed the invisible threads of resentment, bypassed all defenses, and brazenly invaded Annie's logical core!

"Boom!"

Annie's eyes, black as an abyss, trembled violently!

On that small face, distorted by rage, for the first time, bewilderment, pain, and struggle appeared.

Countless fragments of human memory, sealed away by resentment, exploded in her mind like shattered mirrors.

The swing under the sun, her mother's warm embrace, the lullaby hummed countless times...

[Mom...]

An Anomalous Event could understand death, could understand fear, but it could not understand "Mom."

This obsession, originating from the deepest, warmest part of life, clashed violently with her current cold, resentful nature.

Her entire body of resentment fell into unprecedented chaos in an instant!

"Roar...?" The army of toys charging at Qin Feng, like robots losing their signal, simultaneously froze, their movements becoming slow and bewildered.

Now!

The moment Annie's identity recognition became confused and her power went out of control, Qin Feng moved!

He stomped his foot down, his entire body launching forward like an arrow loosed from a bowstring. His target was clear—not Annie on the second floor, but the rocking horse in the center of the castle's main hall!

There, it was the initial object of Annie's obsession, her soul's first "home," and the very core of the entire "Doll Island" domain!

"Stop him!" Annie's shriek carried a hint of panic and pain.

The largest teddy bear among them let out a roar, its body instantly covered by a thick shield of resentment bolstered by the domain. It charged forward like a black wall hurtling at high speed, blocking Qin Feng's path.

Qin Feng didn't even look. He charged headfirst, casually swinging the [Scissors of Truth] in his hand forward.

"Snap!"

A silver glint flashed across the blades. The D-Class armament's new trait, [Law-Breaking], was triggered!

The seemingly indestructible resentment shield was as fragile as glass before the edge that could sever rules.

There was no violent explosion, just a crisp shattering sound. The shield disintegrated on the spot. The giant teddy bear didn't even have time to react before it was split in two from the middle, silently dissolving into two wisps of black smoke.

Like a hot knife through butter!

Qin Feng's figure instantly appeared before the solitary rocking horse.

He raised the Scissors of Truth high. Within his Spiritual Sense, the thickest, most central thread of resentment rule extended from the rocking horse, connecting to the entire castle, clearly visible.

"Your game," Qin Feng's voice boomed like thunder through the trembling castle, "ends here!"

The silver scissors, imbued with the resolve to sever all falsehoods, descended ferociously!

They didn't strike the rocking horse's physical form. Instead, they precisely, and without deviation, severed the core rule thread that sustained the entire domain!

"No--!"

As the rule was severed, a shriek filled with extreme anger, unwillingness, and sorrow echoed from the second floor.

The entire Gothic castle began to shake violently.

On the walls, the cute cartoon wallpaper cracked inch by inch. Beneath the peeling plaster, rotten, damp bricks were revealed.

The crystal chandelier on the ceiling crashed down, shattering into pieces.

The toys that had looked ferocious just a second ago froze in place like puppets whose strings had been cut. Then, countless cracks appeared on their bodies, and finally, with a "bang," they turned into black smoke filling the air, vanishing completely.

Annie's connection to the "Doll Island" domain had been forcefully severed by Qin Feng in the most violent, unreasonable way possible!

The resentment within her rapidly receded, like air escaping a punctured balloon.

In just a few seconds, the earth-shattering tremors subsided into calm.

The castle was still the castle, but it was now dilapidated, revealing its true, desolate appearance.

Qin Feng stood in the center of the messy hall, flicking nonexistent dust from his scissors. The Scissors of Truth transformed into a silver light and disappeared into his palm.

He slowly raised his head, meeting Annie's vacant eyes on the second floor.

He nudged the lollipop in his mouth, which now only had a plastic stick left, with his tongue, adjusting it to a comfortable angle. A brilliantly sunny smile spread across his face.

"See? Disobedient children don't just get no candy."

"They even have their homes torn down."