How Did Your Brain Circuit Grow (Seeking Collection and Recommendation)

After leaving the underground training ground, Kanzaki Rin took Fang Cheng to a barbecue restaurant, keeping her word to let him eat his fill.

Fang Cheng ordered a table full of food without hesitation, then noticed Kanzaki Rin secretly clutching her wallet, looking pained.

After a moment of thought, Fang Cheng silently canceled an order of sweet and sour cucumber.

Then he ordered three more large platters of meat.

Her heartache was none of his business.

Once he was full, Kanzaki Rin drove Fang Cheng home.

Halfway there, Kanzaki Rin suddenly said, "Takeda Masumi is actually a very good person. I hope you two won't have any conflicts."

Fang Cheng rested his chin on one hand, his gaze fixed outside the car window.

Hearing Kanzaki Rin's words, he suddenly recalled the scene after his shower at the training ground, where Takeda Masumi had come over to "sexually harass" him.

Fang Cheng chuckled. "She might be a good person to you, but that's not necessarily the case for me."

Takeda Masumi certainly hadn't suddenly become infatuated and decided to "sexually harass" Fang Cheng.

If Fang Cheng guessed correctly, Takeda Masumi was likely using seduction to test his character and vet him for Kanzaki Rin.

Furthermore, Takeda Masumi had misjudged the relationship between Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin; the two were purely in a marriage of convenience, and beyond that, they couldn't stand each other.

Kanzaki Rin didn't refute Fang Cheng's words. She paused for a moment before continuing, "Starting tomorrow, you will come with me to track down other vampires."

Fang Cheng turned his head to look at her. "So soon?"

"Yes. I had planned to procure more equipment, but your training has been very effective, so there's no need to delay any further."

"What about school? I've already taken three days off."

"You're a vampire, why are you so obsessed with going to school?"

Kanzaki Rin couldn't help but turn to look at Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng was so startled he nearly jumped out of the passenger seat. "Watch the road! Watch the road! Why the hell are you looking at me? Look at the road!!"

Kanzaki Rin turned back to the front, flicked the steering wheel to dodge an oncoming semi-truck, and wove through the dense traffic.

She remained calm throughout, a stark contrast to the tense Fang Cheng.

"You still haven't answered my question. Why are you so obsessed with school?"

Fang Cheng let out a long breath, his tensed limbs slowly relaxing.

"In case I lose my abilities one day, I'll still need a degree to find a job. You rich people wouldn't understand that kind of anxiety."

Kanzaki Rin didn't say anything, only speaking after a long while.

"In this life, who doesn't have their own worries?"

Her voice was extremely low; had it not been for Fang Cheng's exceptional hearing, he wouldn't have caught it at all.

It was less of an answer and more of a heartfelt reflection.

After dropping Fang Cheng off at home, Kanzaki Rin drove away.

Before leaving, she told him, "Leave the school matter to me. I guarantee you'll get your diploma. Don't get distracted during this time."

"Considering you're helping me out, I won't report you for abuse of power."

"Hmph~"

Watching the disappearing taillights, Fang Cheng suddenly realized that this girl, Kanzaki Rin, had quite a story behind her.

She wasn't even an adult yet, but she seemed to have already experienced the cold and warmth of the world. Her thinking was mature and her conduct seasoned; there was no generation gap when interacting with an old fox like him.

Yet, at the same time, she lacked the vitality that a girl her age should have.

Sigh, girls are still cuter when they're lively.

Fang Cheng returned home, started with his three-hour daily workout to secure his 1 point of physical fitness, then opened his computer to continue browsing information on vampires.

Over the past three days, he had reread the vampire files every time he got home, firmly committing them to memory.

These things would be his mortal enemies; one could never be too careful.

Halfway through, Asaka Akie sent him a large batch of class notes via LINE.

Knowing that Fang Cheng couldn't attend school in the short term, Asaka Akie had taken the initiative to send him notes every night—the key points she had meticulously recorded in class, which she would re-enter into her computer every evening.

If Asaka Akie hadn't explicitly rejected him before, even an old fox like Fang Cheng would have mistaken her for having a crush on him; otherwise, where would such enthusiasm and dedication come from?

One could only say that being a "central air conditioner" was annoying, but Asaka Akie was truly a genuinely kind girl.

Fang Cheng didn't say anything flirtatious; he simply accepted the notes she sent. Over the three days, they already totaled tens of thousands of words.

The next morning, Kanzaki Rin was already at the door ringing the bell, carrying pig blood.

Oh, and vermicelli.

It seemed that compared to the poorly cleaned pig intestine from yesterday, she clearly preferred pig blood stewed with vermicelli.

After breakfast, their first vampire hunting operation finally began.

Fang Cheng sat in the passenger seat, pulling his seatbelt across as he asked, "It's so hot in Tokyo, where are you planning to look?"

"How is it hot?"

"Burning with passion."

Kanzaki Rin ignored his nonsense, tossed him a map of the Tokyo metropolitan area, and then expertly started the car, shooting forward.

Enduring the sudden G-force, Fang Cheng opened the map to see a route marked out, starting from Edogawa Ward and circling nearly the entire city of Tokyo.

Kanzaki Rin explained while driving, "I've selected these locations because they are areas where missing persons cases have been frequent and mummified corpses have been discovered recently. There must be vampires active in the vicinity."

Fang Cheng put down the map. "The area is so huge, how are we going to find them once we get there?"

Kanzaki Rin smiled slightly. "Naturally, by relying on your nose. I hope your sense of smell is better than a dog's."

Fang Cheng didn't get angry; instead, he sniffed the air. "Did you let one rip in the car before I got in?"

Seeing Kanzaki Rin's face darken, Fang Cheng knew that the Advanced Olfaction skill he'd obtained from looting the corpse was quite effective.

"Judging by the composition of that fart, you must have eaten..."

"Enough!"

Kanzaki Rin had no desire to discuss the composition of her flatulence with him.

They drove all the way to Edogawa Ward, and thanks to Kanzaki Rin's speeding, they finally arrived at noon after departing in the morning.

The two didn't rest, instead heading straight into a cluster of low-rent housing complexes where a mummified corpse had once been found.

Kanzaki Rin slowed the car down, and Fang Cheng stopped his slacker act, opening the window to begin searching for a needle in a haystack using his sense of smell.

According to records, the higher the level of a vampire, the keener their sense of smell.

A vampire that hasn't consumed its own kind has a scent range within five hundred meters.

Fang Cheng had obtained Advanced Olfaction by looting a corpse, which in a sense counted as consuming a vampire's power, giving him a range of one thousand meters.

Vampires detest the daytime, but that doesn't mean they can't come out; with proper sun protection, it's manageable.

Moreover, a one-thousand-meter range was already enough to cover many of the low-rent buildings.

The car wove through the narrow alleys, and Fang Cheng used his sense of smell to filter through the countless scents assaulting his nose.

Perfume, gasoline, sweat, garbage, and also... hmm?

Fang Cheng suddenly opened his eyes. "Stop the car!"

Kanzaki Rin slammed on the brakes and turned to look at Fang Cheng. "Did you find it?"

Her voice was laced with tension; she hadn't expected to find the target so quickly.

Fang Cheng didn't answer, instead silently getting out of the car.

Kanzaki Rin hurriedly grabbed her gear, stepped out to follow him closely, and scanned her surroundings with extreme vigilance.

Cutting through the crowd, the two arrived at a 'yatai,' a roadside food stall.

Fang Cheng sat down at the stall and said to the owner, "Five skewers of grilled squid, one order of takoyaki, and a bowl of udon noodles, please."

Kanzaki Rin stared at Fang Cheng, her eyes glazing over slightly and her mouth hanging open.

At this very moment, she really, really wanted to pull out her stun gun and give him a good jolt to the head.

She wanted to see exactly how his brain was wired to be in the mood for food at a time like this.

The owner's gaze also drifted toward the incredibly beautiful young woman.

Kanzaki Rin had a belly full of rage with nowhere to vent, and noticing the owner's gaze, she immediately glared back.

"What are you looking at?"

"Give me an order too."