In Meteor City, where garbage piled up like mountains and the stench filled the air, Luo Ye held a wooden sword and gazed mournfully at the sky.
"Come on, God. All I did was complain a little about the odds you gave me of winning the lottery. Did you really have to send me to another world?" The odds of that were even lower than winning the lottery! If you could pull this off, why not let me win five million instead? Getting rich overnight would've been great, but no, you had to dump me in this godforsaken shithole.
That would have been bad enough, but if he was right, this was the legendary Meteor City-the birthplace of the Phantom Troupe, the cradle of Mafia assassins, a gathering place for outlaws. Dumping him in a hellhole like Meteor City was practically feeding a lamb to the wolves, wasn't it?
And then there was his cheat: Soul Reaper training. Why did he have to wear women's clothes to speed up his training? Meteor City was far too dangerous for him to dare give up that training bonus, so he could only quietly put on women's clothes and pass himself off as a girl.
Luckily, he was fairly good-looking. Otherwise, looking like a man in drag when he put on a dress would have been mortifying. But living as a girl in Meteor City was no easy task either!
"Heaven knows I'm a law-abiding citizen! I wouldn't even dare kill a bird!" Luo Ye, who had now become a child, cried out indignantly. Then he knocked a grown man unconscious with a blow from his sword. After kicking him a few times to make sure he really was out cold, he finally felt safe enough to search him for food.
"That's all?" Luo Ye hefted the lightweight piece of moldy bread in his hand, looking thoroughly dissatisfied. "Broke bastard. What a waste of my time!" Still, food was scarce in this hellhole, so finding anything at all was something.
Luo Ye scurried back to the shipping container with the little piece of bread, tore off more than half, and fed it to the black-haired child living inside. As he fed him, he grumbled, "Agreeing to team up with you was the worst decision I ever made. I haven't seen any returns yet, and I'm already sinking food into you."
"Cough, cough... You could just leave me alone." Even with his face flushed from illness, the little boy's eyes remained cold. Luo Ye pursed his lips at that. "Not happening. I said we're allies, so we're allies. I'm not going to abandon you." That's what you get for being named Feitan.
Feitan of the Phantom Troupe had extraordinary strength. With such a rare chance to meet him, Luo Ye couldn't let this powerful future backer slip away!
If he didn't latch onto him while he was young, was he supposed to wait until Feitan grew up before approaching him? That would be a surefire way to get himself killed. He had to build their bond from childhood.
"Why save me?" Something flickered in Feitan's narrow golden eyes. "Without me holding you back, you'd do just fine." Luo Ye rolled his eyes. "That only worked because I caught him off guard. My sneak attacks might not work next time." Take the adult he had attacked today-if the man hadn't underestimated him for being a child, there was no telling how things would have turned out.
Besides, this world had something as absurd as Nen Abilities. He definitely needed a powerful backer to cling to!
"So I'm counting on you! Hurry up and get better so you can be my backer!" Luo Ye patted his face, trying to wake him up a little. He wasn't asking for much. He just hoped Feitan could get him out of Meteor City. Life here was simply unfit for human beings. He would never complain again about the days when he had eaten instant noodles every day. Even expired instant noodles were better than eating dust here!
Feitan said nothing. He had fallen asleep again. Luo Ye scratched his hair irritably. "Asleep again. Looks like his fever's pretty bad. He needs medicine, but there's none here to give him!" Forget medicine-even finding water would have been a stroke of luck.
Luo Ye furrowed his brows, looking conflicted. "Do I really have to steal that batch of medicine for him?"
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