A Promise Debt Must Be Repaid

When I said that, the few people standing beside me were all stunned.

Master probably didn't know this internet meme and looked at me in confusion.

Mao Jing and Pan Ling exchanged a glance, then stared at me in astonishment.

Zhang Yuchen could no longer stand still. With a look of shock, he said:

"Brother Jiang, y-you didn't promise that Substitute Chicken you'd give it a basketball, did you?"

I nodded slightly in confirmation.

"Ah! Rooster Bro really knows how to play basketball?"

Zhang Yuchen stared in amazement at the phantom chicken silhouette by the lake.

It had been a popular internet meme. I'd blurted it out at the time, using it as a casual expression.

It hadn't been like when I had seriously promised the delivery guy and Substitute Rabbit, with a solemn and earnest attitude.

But after returning to school, I had secretly burned incense and scattered rice into the lake.

As for the basketball, though, I really hadn't burned one!

Yet I never expected Rooster Bro's obsession to run so deep. He insisted that I fulfill my promise.

Now that it had encountered its own kind, it had actually made this rooster bring me here to demand a basketball from me in person.

Though this karma was minor, merely a promise of "a basketball."

If I didn't settle this consequence, then once Big Yellow Rooster reincarnated as a human, that animal debt would become a debt owed to a living person.

And when we spoke of repaying debts...

It often wasn't limited to debts of life and death. There were also debts of love, debts of promises, and so on...

There was even "interest" involved.

The longer the debt went unpaid, the more debt had to be repaid.

And if it couldn't be repaid, then luck, lifespan,