The shrill air-raid siren tore through the rainy night.
The glass facade cracked with a sharp snap.
Fine cracks crawled from the edges of the reinforced glass across more than half the wall.
Su Bai tightened his grip on Su Xiaoxiao's wrist.
A vein throbbed at his temple, his furious expression that of an ordinary guardian pushed to his limit.
"Su Xiaoxiao, have you lost your mind?"
Su Bai roared.
"Those are man-eating monsters, not the over-the-top anime stuff you draw in your notebook!"
"Get up and run for your life!"
He yanked hard, trying to haul the two idiots off their round plastic stools.
Su Xiaoxiao sat on her stool without budging.
A faint white glow rose along the edges of the cotton slippers on her feet.
That magic power gripped the gaps between the tiles.
No matter how hard Su Bai pulled, her body remained firmly anchored to the floor.
"Bro, you can't pull me away. Just go."
Su Xiaoxiao tipped her head back to look at him.
"Then I'll keep trying!"
Sweat rolled down Su Bai's forehead.
"I may just be an ordinary working stiff, but I'm your brother! There's no way I'm leaving you here to die!"
His roar drowned out the blaring alarm inside the store.
The clerk had long since fled through the back door, stumbling and scrambling in terror.
Cans rolled all over the floor, their juices spilling around their feet.
As Su Xiaoxiao looked at Su Bai's frantic face, her eyes began to sting.
She had been causing trouble ever since she was little.
Whenever something happened, her stingy brother always stepped in front of her.
Even though he had no extraordinary powers at all and could only scrape by doing deliveries to pay off his debts.
But things were different now.