Siren Naga × Kobold Old Kohler
On the eastern shore of the Dark Continent, beside the endless Eastern Sea...
In a Land of Hot Springs comprised of tens of thousands of pools of varying sizes, this "purified city" welcomes and bids farewell to countless customers, many of whom have been tainted by "filth."
Located at 54-09, 7th Street, Shuilan District, on the western outskirts of Valentia, a city known as the "City of Cleanliness".
Vanessa Siren Clan, dragging her weary tail, forced a smile as she saw off the last group of guests... [Toad Man], instructed her sister Lola to close the door and refuse further visitors, and went straight upstairs without even eating.
The snake's tail, covered in silvery-white scales, rustled against the wooden steps... With a creak, the door closed. Lola, a size smaller than Vanessa, hung up the "Closed" sign and followed her sister upstairs. Seeing her sister sprawled on the bed, tail curled up in a ball, she said with concern, "Sister, you didn't need to work so hard. If you really get demoted, I'll just find a man to marry and ask for a dowry of 100,000 or 200,000 ' Qin Pill '!"
Lola pinched her waist, her ample bosom almost bursting out, and spoke smugly. Suddenly Vanessa threw a pillow at her, feigning anger, and said, "I don't need to sell you my breeding pond. Go back to sleep and don't bother me."
Hehe, no... I want to sleep with my sister...
Lola's emerald green snake tail slithered across the bed, and like a giant monkey, she clung to Vanessa, using both her hands and tail.
The two snake tails, one white and one green, were intertwined. Vanessa playfully turned her head and said disdainfully:
Stay away from me, or you'll drool on me!
Lola then stuck out her long tongue and licked Vanessa's palm, grinning mischievously, "I won't!"
After her playful banter, the sisters joked and teased each other for a while... A moment later, Vanessa held Lola in her arms, watching her fall asleep and let out soft snores. She reached out and gently brushed the hair that fell beside Laura's ear. A deep weariness and sorrow crept back onto that bright, gentle, and smooth little face...
Valentia, known as the "City of Purification," owes its fame to the Siren Clan, who possess the Nen Ability "Tears of the Siren," inherited from their surname. These tears are used to cleanse customers of the impurities hidden within their bodies caused by the Siren Clan backlash from nature due to their Faith.
in other words--
The Siren Clan are a well-known clan of Nen Exorcist in a corner of the Dark Continent!
Legend has it that when the "Great Siren" awaken, even god-like figures can be exorcised or healed from their ailments... This demonstrates just how important the Siren Clan are to Magic Beast and humans of the [Faith] faction!
They are undoubtedly the "doctors" of this world, able to save people from dire straits and prevent them from becoming mindless beasts or "Calamity"!
However, "a doctor cannot heal himself," and "eliminating thoughts" does not mean that thoughts can be truly eliminated!
The Siren Clan use "Tears of the Siren" to wash away the "pollution" from their customers' bodies, temporarily storing this "pollution" within them. Then, through the "Great Siren," they instruct their Believer to regularly distribute "Qin Pill" to absorb this "pollution." Otherwise, if the pollution accumulates in the body for too long, it will eventually erupt, forcing people to lose their minds and become "monsters" or "Calamity," before being eliminated by the "Cleanup Squad" from Valentia and left to fend for themselves.
What Vanessa didn't tell her sister Lola was that their parents, because they hadn't met their "performance targets" and hadn't received the full amount of "Qin Pill," were forced to leave Valentia while they still had a sliver of consciousness before the Cleanup Squad could act, and went to the depths of the East Sea to seek another way to survive...
Now—it's her turn to face this problem!
Because of concerns about excessive pollution buildup, she dared not accept too many customers. With few customers, her performance targets were not met, her bathhouse rating was downgraded, and she received fewer and fewer Qin Pill a type of medicinal ingredient), causing the pollution to accumulate even more... It seemed like a vicious cycle was about to continue... Vanessa stroked her younger sister Lola's face, thinking of her parents, and even had the thought of "following in their footsteps." But Lola was still young. Should she be left alone, following in her and her parents' footsteps?
Vanessa, unwilling and sleepy, drifted off to sleep nestled against her sister.
A wisp of mist drifted in, silently seeping into the depths of her subconscious, carrying a sliver of her consciousness towards Roy's Dream Domain.
Northern Frontier of the Dark Continent.
Kobold settlement.
In the territory of the Howling Moon Wolf King, in the River Valley Town Bone-Crusher City, near a small river, there are dozens of scattered households, forming a remote little village called Yellow Village.
It was late at night. At the western end of Yellow Village, Old Kohler, taking advantage of his wife and children's deep sleep, quietly got out of bed, lit a dim oil lamp, went to the woodshed, lifted a floorboard, revealing a dark and cramped basement beneath. He stood silently to one side, watched for a while, then his wrinkled dog head ducked down and burrowed inside...
"Tap... tap..."
Footsteps echoed in the pitch-black night.
The basement, having been sealed off for years, was damp and stuffy... Old Kohler, holding an oil lamp, coughed a few times and slowly walked in until he reached the end... In a corner against the wall, he saw a dilapidated wooden box that had been covered in dust for a long time.
The box was locked. Old Kohler carefully hung the oil lamp on an iron hook protruding from the left side, fumbled around for a while, pulled a key from his pocket, squatted down, and inserted it into the keyhole. With a click, the box opened, revealing a layer of yellowish-brown "Nen Qi" glow...
The aura was faint, seemingly due to being sealed away for too long; the "Nen Qi" was gradually thinning and on the verge of dissipating...
Old Kohler stared intently, then reached into the box and felt around. Inside were a tattered suit of plate armor and a rusty mace, a testament to a bygone era...
"You want to go on another adventure?"
Just then, a hoarse voice sounded from behind Old Kohler... He couldn't help but shudder. Before turning around, he quickly put on a smiling face—a dog's head, all wrinkled and with no eyes visible—and swiftly closed the suitcase. With a fawning grin, he moved closer to his wife, holding her waist, and said, "The last time... I promise, it really is the last time..."
"The harvest was bad this year. A few days ago, Mark's son suffered another misfortune; he was dragged away and eaten by some green-skinned beasts."
Old Kohler stroked his wife's increasingly large belly, "Who knows how many babies you'll have this time? That's why I was thinking of doing some odd jobs to earn some money for baby formula before the babies are born..."
"You're always right,"
"Kohler," Jenny stroked Old Kohler's head, the deep wrinkles a testament to his weathered age...
She asked, "Do you think you can still lift a hammer and put on armor?"
"Just in case...
Jenny said with concern, "You said it yourself, something happened to the Mark family."
Jenny leaned against Old Kohler, nuzzled him affectionately with her nose, and murmured, "I can't lose you."
"Yes... yes... I'm not going to say anything more, I'm going to sleep..."
That night, Old Kohler coaxed his pregnant wife back to bed. As she drifted off to sleep, he felt himself floating, carried by a faint, hazy dreamscape, swimming in the vast ocean of the "collective" subconscious...
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a vast expanse of land, completely disoriented. I looked up...
They saw a Sun-Earring Boy with an indistinct face and a humanoid monster with a human body and a snake tail...
A pair of dog eyes suddenly shrank!