Starting with the Herrschers, I Cut Down All

"Then~" An Yu chuckled. "Good Elysia's brain is really getting worse and worse."

"Then we need to get ready for tomorrow's performance."

Oh, right. She still had to perform in the city center tomorrow.

"My, my phone."

She tugged at An Yu's clothes. Without her phone, she couldn't find her way around. The roads in a big city were too complicated.

An Yu had no intention of confiscating it. Elysia took the phone, still looking a little dazed. The messaging app that was always full of 99+ notifications didn't have a single message.

Only An Yu remained on her friends list. Elysia instinctively wanted to question him, but the moment she raised her head in dissatisfaction, their foreheads pressed together again.

"What is it, good Elysia?"

"N-Nothing."

An Yu wasn't surprised. Although some people always said humans could be tamed, that statement was actually quite unreasonable. If that logic worked, then one could also say that people would always resist.

The phone screen was empty. Elysia used to be able to spend an entire day playing with her phone, but now that she held it, she didn't know what to do.

She looked at Xiao Yu again.

"Is there... a reward?"

"What?"

An Yu froze internally. Was Sister Elysia adapting to her new identity this quickly?

He'd even planned to let her complain after some time, so she would understand that being overly controlling wasn't a good thing.

"After I get the instruments, is there... a reward?"

Her voice was barely audible. She was expectant, yet sensitive and afraid of being rejected.

"Of course. Good children definitely get rewards."

He muttered to himself, wondering what yanderes liked. And was his sister really a yandere? Why was she different from what novels described?

"Can I... get it in advance?"

She pushed her luck, her little face flushed red.

An Yu: ...

Give her a little sunshine and she bloomed, huh?

"Woof~"

She raised her snow-white face, her clear eyes full of tension.

An Yu: ...

He had never imagined that someone as lazy as Elysia would enjoy being controlled by someone else.

He did his best to keep a faint smile on his face.

Elysia's slender fingertips trembled as she pointed at her delicate collarbone.

"We still have to go out and get the instruments. Is here okay? Xiao..."

Her voice abruptly stopped. Should she keep calling him Xiao Yu? It somehow felt a little inappropriate to address him like that in their current relationship.

"Keep calling me Xiao Yu. I like being the little brother."

Not only did it give him the thrill of overturning the hierarchy, it also meant people wouldn't notice him immediately.

Graceful and demure with deep affection... of course, that couldn't be used to describe Elysia.

She raised her smooth neck and carefully wrapped her arms around Xiao Yu. Her fair collarbone hurt a little, but the sensation of it filling with blood from the sucking was unexpectedly nice.

It still felt strange. Calling herself "woof woof" was way too strange, but... it didn't seem quite so bad.

An Yu raised his head and looked at his sister's dazed, almost infatuated eyes. It was hard to describe what he was thinking at that moment.

Before Kiana, the person who had truly given him fantasies of first love was his sister. Yet one was a yuri-colored puppy, and the other...

"I didn't delete your other apps."

While Elysia clearly hadn't recovered yet, An Yu gently explained the surprise she should have received under normal circumstances...

But now, that surprise seemed to have lost a little of its impact.

He wiped the droplets of saliva from his sister's collarbone. There wasn't much.

"I'm going to work first. I'm sure Elysia won't let the mission fail, right?"

Elysia gave a soft woof and casually pulled her clothes up to cover the hickey.

It had better be that way. After all, today's little game had been far too... shattering for An Yu's fantasies. Though his fantasies had already been shattered for some time before this.

Sigh, living was hard.

Elysia didn't like speeding. She had her own little electric scooter.

She considered adding everyone back, but then remembered what had happened that morning. The cold morning wind only cleared her head for two seconds. Pressing her lips together, she still didn't add them back.

Following the navigation app and taking turn after turn, she arrived at her destination more than ten minutes later.

After she knocked, someone quickly opened the door.

"It's you again! You old witch!!!"

Sirin jumped right out, and she was in an absolutely terrible mood.

The dream had finally gotten back on track, yet this time she had died even faster. It was all because of this pink-haired old witch!

Her second sister had been busy comforting their parents recently and couldn't come help her vent her anger.

"What old witch?"

Kiana rubbed her eyes. Forced awake, she pushed the door open and looked at the living room's... uh, unfamiliar but incredibly beautiful woman.

"Hello, I'm Kiana. Today..."

Her words abruptly stopped. She suddenly remembered the task Bronya had assigned her today, something related to the band.

"You wouldn't happen to be Elysia, would you?"

Only then did Elysia shift her gaze away from the stupid Herrscher of the Void beside her and look at the white-haired girl on the second floor.

"And you are?"

"My name is Kiana! I'm the band's rhythm guitarist, though I'm actually better at piano!"

Kiana vaulted down from the second floor, slid rapidly down the stairs, and hurried over to Elysia.

Kiana?

Elysia remembered her. Her eyes darkened slightly, and she subconsciously stepped back, tugging her collar down with her fingertips.

Kiana, who had been chattering excitedly, froze when a dark purple mark entered her field of vision.

"My name is Elysia. I'm the band's lead guitarist... and I know a little conducting too."

Kiana didn't hear the rest of Elysia's words. She could only stare blankly at that hickey.

"What's that?"

"A good child's reward."

"A reward?!!!"

Huh? Kiana's mind buzzed.

Your little brother behaved at home, and he could even kiss his older sister?

Was your sibling relationship actually proper?

Wait, if I perform well too, can I get your reward?

A Gentleman Is Good at Borrowing External Things

"You came a little late today."

Bronya stood with her arms folded, quietly teasing him.

Her gaze swept over An Yu. His complexion seemed much better than yesterday.

"The situation's a little complicated. To avoid affecting the revolutionary friendship between us, I won't say it."

It really was a little outrageous. An Yu was quite worried some foolish kid might call the police, and then he'd be utterly humiliated.

Even if they weren't blood-related, if this got back to Anti-Entropy, he'd gain a new nickname.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen you on Void Mountain at all this past week. What, have you started cherishing your life?"

The elevator came quite quickly today. Looking at the empty elevator, Bronya sometimes truly felt that starting a business was difficult.

When had the elevators at Anti-Entropy headquarters ever been empty?

An Yu: ...

"My family situation has become a little complicated lately. I probably won't be speeding for a while."

Besides, An Yu had to consider something. Given how he and his sister were getting along now, if he got thrown from his bike and somehow didn't die...

Could he really trust her, given her mental state?

"That really is a shame. After all, there aren't many people who can keep up with me."

Bronya suddenly sighed. Starting a business really was one setback after another.

Their work progress had suddenly slowed, and recruitment was also troublesome. Most experienced workers knew how to slack off, while most inexperienced ones were fresh graduates.

When she thought it through carefully, Ling was actually among the best of the employees they had recruited recently.

And just like when she had sped around delivering food before, not only had her driver's license been revoked, but the deliveries had gotten complaints too.

Now that work still hadn't gotten on track, even her rare moments of fun were gone. Sigh, life was hard. Duckie sighed.

An Yu fell silent for a moment, looking at his boss with a complicated expression.

"You look like you're not convinced?"

Bronya keenly caught the change in his expression and immediately became interested.

"A gentleman is good at borrowing external things. I'm convinced."

An Yu answered calmly without arguing.

Being able to modify cars was a skill in its own right, and An Yu had always been pressed for time growing up. Everyone needed a hobby, but because of life, he had never been able to invest points into that particular skill.

Bronya narrowed her eyes. She hadn't learned that saying, but that didn't stop her from understanding it.

"Once you settle your family situation, how about we swap cars and race again?"

She truly didn't believe that An Yu's modified car, which looked so cool, could be that bad.

An Yu lowered his head, the corners of his lips lifting slightly. "Then you can't go tattling afterward, Senior Bronya."

No exaggeration—An Yu believed that if they swapped vehicles, he could beat Bronya by nearly a second.

Bronya sneered. "Since childhood, Bronya's greatest skill has been defeating people in the fields they're best at."

"What a coincidence, Junior. Since childhood, it seems we've clashed in quite a few fields."

The biggest difference between Bronya and An Yu right now was that Bronya was the older sister, while An Yu was the younger brother.

"Senior, there's still one way we're different."

An Yu suddenly spoke.

Bronya didn't care. "What is it? Don't tell me it's our gender."

The elevator doors opened with a ding.

"You're luckier than me. You were born two years earlier, and that gave you one extra trait: confidence."

An Yu strode out of the elevator. Bronya froze for a moment. This guy! His mouth was pretty stubborn.

But she hadn't retorted. How irritating!

Before returning to his workstation, An Yu looked with slight confusion at the colleague beside him, who loved drama far too much.

"Huh? Why aren't you watching the livestream?"