Is My Cousin Seriously This Awesome?

The air fell silent.

In the utterly oppressive darkness, a blazing streak of lightning suddenly appeared, coming from outside and piercing through the barrier of darkness.

It was a hand covered in lightning!

Riiip!

The hand exerted force, its lightning-wreathed fingers clawing outward as it forcibly tore the darkness apart.

Sunlight streamed in.

A backlit figure stood there, dressed in ordinary casual clothes.

The black mist that had trapped, corroded, and consumed them now seemed like fragile infants before that lightning, shattering at the slightest touch.

Lin Yiyi stood frozen in place. The black mist had corroded her mental power, and for a moment, she could not tell whether this was reality or one of her fantasies.

When she was younger, Lin Yiyi had actually imagined countless times that someone would descend from the sky at a moment of crisis like this.

But she had never imagined that one day, her dream would come true.

When she had just experienced despair, she had also fantasized countless times about someone coming to save her.

But she had never expected the person who saved her to be her cousin.

The cousin she had considered mediocre.

Yet now, Fang Yi had torn open the black mist with his bare hands. The terrifying lightning made all the darkness here retreat as though it had encountered its natural nemesis.

Whoosh!

At that moment, the image of her cousin reflected in Lin Yiyi's eyes had long since shed the word "mediocre."

Fang Yi extended a hand.

In an instant, lightning gathered in his palm, and a brilliant flash of thunder violently tore through the terrifying black mist!

Incomparably fast, utterly brutal!

The black mist exploded, shattering into countless fragments.

The surrounding black mist shrank back as though it were deeply afraid of him, then rapidly withdrew on its own.

The black mist had retreated!

Joy flashed across Lin Yiyi's face, but in the next instant, her pupils abruptly contracted.

Roar—

A cold, miserable howl erupted.

A ghostly white Ghost Shadow came roaring out.

An Anomaly!

It was a strange-looking Anomaly, resembling a ghost. Its body was small and floated within the black mist, with only its horrifyingly pale face exposed.

"Watch out, Cousin!" Lin Yiyi cried anxiously.

Fang Yi's expression did not change.

With one hand, he drew the Tang Saber at his waist. The blade left its sheath with a sharp, piercing screech.

Then Fang Yi swung his saber in a fierce slash.

The blade cut through the air, pulling out a towering fire dragon.

Blazing, dazzling firelight illuminated the Anomaly's vision. It was an incomparably brilliant slash, flames trailing into a long dragon as it shot straight toward the Anomaly's brow.

The flame patterns on the blade opened and closed like dragon scales, spewing fierce flames. The fire broke through the black mist with crackling bursts.

Roar—

The fire dragon smashed through the black mist's defenses like bamboo splitting before the strongest flames. The black mist exploded like fragile cicada wings.

The black mist burst into blazing flames, releasing ghostlike screams, shrill and hoarse.

The sensation was especially terrifying.

That horrifying cry filled their ears, making them feel as though they were in hell itself, witnessing Hellfire scorch vicious ghosts as those ghosts let out terrifying wails!

The flames did not merely burn away the black mist.

The Ghost Shadow behind it was also scattered by that blazing, vicious slash. The grim specter let out a shriek before perishing amid the endless sea of fire, its miserable cries fading away.

As the black mist burned, the surroundings gradually shattered, revealing patches of the street outside.

Under the blazing sun.

The world returned to how it had been before they entered the black mist. Beside the quiet street, only one or two stray dogs were rummaging through trash cans.

There was no black mist, no walking corpses. Everything seemed like a dream, yet the two people who had just emerged from that illusion were still shaken, gasping for breath.

"Why were you messing around so early in the morning?"

In the end, Fang Yi broke the silence.

It was nearing lunchtime, and his stomach had already begun to growl.

As though she had only just come back to her senses, Lin Yiyi stared blankly at her cousin with her beautiful eyes.

Confusion churned in her gaze. She bit her lip lightly, but in the end, she said nothing.

"It's you? The person near Vine that day—you saved us again!"

Zhao Meng's delighted shriek rang out.

Memories churned in her mind. That day, when they had been at their most desperate, an invincible and domineering figure had descended like a divine weapon, just as he had now.

"You saved us again!"

She was almost crying with joy. The feeling of surviving a disaster was fucking amazing.

Lin Yiyi was stunned when she heard that.

It was him?

So the powerful Fire Attribute Pioneer who had cut apart Vine with a single slash and saved their entire squad that day had actually been her supposedly mediocre cousin, the one who had gotten into a junior college and spent all day at home scrolling on his tablet?

"Oh, right, Yiyi, what did you call him earlier? Cousin? He's your cousin?"

Zhao Meng grabbed Lin Yiyi's sleeve, her eyes full of demands for an explanation.

Oh my god!

Didn't you say your cousin was mediocre?

That terrifying lightning, that sea of fire that killed an Anomaly in one slash—the super boss who had shattered Wenzhu's Dao heart with a single move and drawn Jialan's special attention?

You called that mediocre?

Zhao Meng roared inwardly.

Lin Yiyi was equally bewildered.

She clearly remembered...

The slash that had severed Vine had been powerful, blazing, and radiant. That person had been a powerful high-level Fire Attribute user!

But the lightning my cousin used to tear open the black mist just now... wasn't that a Thunder Attribute?

No, that slash which killed the Anomaly seemed to have been Fire Attribute again.

Lightning and fire...

And that powerful aura far surpassing her own...

Lin Yiyi's gaze gradually froze.

So, my cousin isn't just a Pioneer—he's also a Dual High-Level Attribute Super Genius?

Zhao Meng still gripped Lin Yiyi's hand and shook her fiercely, her eyes gradually filling with accusation, as though she were saying, Are you even human if you have a brother this amazing and don't introduce him to me?

Seeing Lin Yiyi was about to be shaken into a spinning top.

Sensing that things were going wrong, Fang Yi, as her older cousin, immediately used going home for lunch as an excuse and dragged Lin Yiyi away.

After returning home.

In the living room.

Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi entered together and changed their shoes together, but instead of returning to their rooms as usual, they stood in the living room staring at each other.

"Y-you... why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Lin Yiyi held it in for a long time until her face turned red before finally managing to ask that one question.

Having lived under the same roof with her for so long, Fang Yi understood Lin Yiyi's personality well. The girl was not good with words.

This time, after being saved by her cousin who had descended from the sky, she surely had a lot she wanted to say, but this was all that came out.

"You never asked." Fang Yi looked completely at ease.

Lin Yiyi had no response. She truly had never asked. On the very first day she arrived, she had simply assumed that her cousin was an ordinary person.

Thinking of this, warmth welled up in Lin Yiyi's heart.

Her cousin must have always known she was a Pioneer and had been protecting her in secret. Otherwise, during the Vine incident last time, their entire squad would have been wiped out.

A feeling of having someone to rely on suddenly arose within her.

On the path of evolution, she had always been alone.

Although she had always appeared strong, fear and uncertainty were ultimately unavoidable in her heart. After all, for Pioneers like them, the future was full of countless changes. No one knew where they might fall, which was why they kept searching for companions, gathering companions, and walking this lonely road together.

After understanding all this, Lin Yiyi suddenly turned around.

"Where are you going?"

"To cook."

Fang Yi smiled. "I saved you. Aren't you going to thank me?"

Lin Yiyi paused. "I'll fry you two extra eggs for lunch."

"..."

Well damn, she was the action-oriented type.