The cries still echoed, but Shion didn't approach; she simply stood by and watched.
The Little Black Dragon's phantom hovered anxiously beside Lu Ya, rubbing its claws like a fly. Soon it too burst into tears, wiping the girl's tears with its tiny paws, and sobbed as it said:
"Mom, don't cry, if you cry, I'll cry too."
As she cried, she looked up at Shion, "Father, say something!"
Looking coldly at the Joker, Shion checked her magical armor and internal condition again.
The problem isn't too big. Apart from a significant reduction in magical power and restrictions on magic, it doesn't have a major impact on me.
It's possible that the suppression of the Black Dragon was disrupted when it separated from the Golden Calamity Dragon King, allowing it to move freely. The Black Dragon's ability to materialize is very likely a function of this World Bubble.
If that's the case, the World Bubble might be far more useful than you imagine...
The problem now is that we don't know if this World Bubble alone possesses an ability similar to the manifestation of Mental Image.
Originally intending to destroy the World Bubble, Shion planned to further investigate whether the World Bubble could truly make her own magical source independent. If so, the World Bubble would be of great use to her now.
"Mom, don't cry. Who bullied you? Tell Little Black, and Little Black fight back for you!"
The Little Black Dragon was calmly comforting Lu Ya Lu Ya, now prostrating itself in front of her.
In a short while, it transformed into the appearance of a little girl, no longer a phantom.
Her nose and mouth bear some resemblance to the Emperor's, but her eyes and other features bear some resemblance to Shion.
It's like trying to find a good person by piecing together the appearances of two people.
Because both girls are quite good-looking, even if you just randomly put them together, they would still be top-notch.
That's all I can say about how the numbers are filled in; there's nothing I can do about it.
Since she is not much shorter than Shion, they don't actually look like father Shion daughter if they stand together.
More like sisters.
The Little Black Dragon was now lying in front of Lu Ya, looking pitiful, even more heartbroken than Lu Ya. "Mommy, what happened? What's wrong? Why are you crying so sadly..."
As she spoke, she started crying again.
Shion grew impatient and prepared to grab the Black Dragon and throw it away.
However, after wiping away her tears, Lu Ya finally spoke:
"I am not your mother."
The little girl nodded repeatedly, mimicking Lu Ya as she wiped away her tears. "No, it's okay. I'll call you Mom, and you can call me Sister. We can call each other whatever we want. I don't mind. Mom, don't cry. Sister will fight back for you!"
Lu Ya, who was still crying, finally burst out laughing when she heard this.
The smile that followed the weeping rain and sorrowful clouds was as dazzling as the rising sun.
In an instant, it seemed as if all the bad mood had vanished.
So the Little Black Dragon started laughing too.
Lu Ya took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the Little Black Dragon's face. The Little Black Dragon also carefully and earnestly wiped away her tears. It was a harmonious scene of mother and daughter.
After a long while, when the two had calmed down a bit, the Little Black Dragon continued to ask in a low voice, "So what exactly happened, Mom...?"
Lu Ya then sobbed, "My... treasure is gone."
"What treasure is it?"
"Jars, so many jars..." Lu Ya choked up, "They were all my most precious treasures, and I lost them all..."
"We'll help you find it!"
After saying that, the Little Black Dragon ran to Shion's side, grabbed her hand, and cried, "Daddy, help!"
"Roll."
With a slap, the demon orb flew into the air.
The little black dragon landed and rolled right next to Lu Ya, startling her. Before she could react, the Little Black Dragon used all four limbs to crawl back to Shion's side.
He knelt down and grabbed Shion's hand again!
"I'm not leaving! You have to help me today!"
Her tone even carried a hint of viciousness, and Shion gave a cold laugh, "What if I don't?"
The Little Black Dragon knelt down with a "thud," and said, "Then I'll kneel down and beg you! You must help me, or I'll kowtow until you die!" With that, he slammed his forehead against the ground with considerable force, drawing blood on the first blow.
"I'll bang my head against the wall until I die, I'll bang my head against the wall! Help me!"
Lu Ya rushed over and hugged the little girl who was still frantically kowtowing. "What are you doing!"
Then, holding the Little Black Dragon, he glanced at Shion again.
What a pretty little girl...
I was momentarily lost in thought.
She had originally intended to reprimand the other person, but looking into those eyes that were a head shorter than hers, she hesitated for a moment.
Then she whispered, "You and my lover look alike, like a married couple?"
Then he quickly shook his head, "No, no."
It's still as nonsensical as I remember.
After glancing at her former friend, Shion simply grabbed the Little Black Dragon with one hand.
I plan to leave.
"Excuse me, do you know Jiang Si?"
Unexpectedly, the other party actually followed us.
Lu Ya jogged alongside her, glancing again at the White Fox lying on the ground in the distance. Her eyes flickered slightly, but she said nothing, only continuing to whisper to Shion, "You and he look a bit alike."
"I don't know him."
Although the Little Black Dragon looked indignant, it didn't dare to expose its leader's identity after hearing what the leader said.
He could only lower his head in frustration.
I silently prayed that my mom would immediately expose my dad's true colors.
Unfortunately, Lu Ya just smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, maybe I just miss him too much..."
Shion didn't say much, but surprisingly asked, "What are you looking for?"
The Little Black Dragon was still pondering whether or not to risk his life to let Lu Ya's mother know that the girl in front of him was actually Jiang Si.
When the boss asked the question himself, he was stunned.
Looking up at his boss in surprise, he couldn't help but pinch her wrist.
This feels real...
Then, Shion slapped him so hard he almost passed out.
"These are some treasures related to my loved one."
As Lu Ya Yi spoke, her eyes reddened again. "After arriving here, I couldn't find it. It was the last thing my lover left me. I couldn't find it anywhere, and there's no one else here."
She choked up again as she spoke, "He will definitely hate me, even though I'm the most important thing to him..."
The Little Black Dragon was heartbroken to see this, and then looked at Shion with teary eyes, "Dad, you really have to help, right?"
Shion paused for a moment, then looked at her familiar friend and asked, "Do you have a photo?"
Upon hearing that Jiang Si was willing to help, Lu Ya sniffed and asked somewhat cautiously, "Are you really willing to help me?"
"I don't want to," the purple-clad girl said calmly. "Just take a look at something; if you don't see it, get lost."
But Lu Ya, despite being scolded like that, wasn't angry at all. Instead, she smiled as if she were reminiscing.
"Ah, he's just like me! My partner also likes to talk like that..."
Are you looking for trouble?
"No." Lu Ya didn't say much, but simply took out a small jar from her bosom.
The jar wasn't big; it looked like a glass cup filled with a clear liquid.
It's not described as water because the liquid inside doesn't flow like water; it's more like some slightly viscous medicine.
Of course, that's not important; what's important are the objects floating inside.
That was an eyeball.
Lu Ya stroked the glass with adoration, as if it were her lover, and gently rubbed it against her cheek.
"I can't find my lover's body. Could you please help me?"
The Little Black Dragon, who was initially feeling sorry for Lu Ya and was about to say "Okay, okay," suddenly felt a pang of suffocation.
Then he stared dumbfounded at the eyeball, and then looked at Lu Ya.
My mom has become a pervert who collects human organs...
"This belongs to Jiang Si, right?"
What shocked her even more was what Shion, the leader, said casually.
The little girl immediately became angry, "Mom didn't do that..."
"Yes."
Before the pervert could finish speaking, Lu Ya on the other end had already admitted it, albeit embarrassed.
They silenced the Little Black Dragon instantly.
A moment of trust and cheerfulness can lead to a lifetime of introversion and social withdrawal...
Mom, how could you dismember Dad?
"But how did you recognize me?"
Sensing the problem, Lu Ya's gaze immediately became somewhat subtle. "Do you know Jiang Si?"
"Not familiar with him."
Shion maintained her previous stance, stating, "It's just speculation."
After saying that, Lu Ya breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest. "You scared me to death! I thought you knew him."
"Knowing each other isn't a big deal, is it?" the Little Black Dragon muttered from the side. "Why are you scared?"
"Because my partner doesn't actually have many female friends. Of course, he didn't have much contact with female classmates at school either. Generally speaking, other female classmates wouldn't dare to approach him."
Holding the eyeball container, Lu Ya suddenly started gesturing wildly as she spoke, "After all, he had a weird personality, wasn't a particularly good student, was the same height as me, and was always getting into fights. Of course, there were also some delinquent girls who wanted to get close to my lover, but they just wanted him to fight for them, so I secretly chased them all away..."
He immediately started talking non-stop.
Of course, Shion was already used to it. That's just how this guy is. When it comes to a certain topic, he suddenly starts talking non-stop, like he's opened a floodgate, and then he'll throw in a lame joke that no one can understand.
Fortunately, this time she didn't make any lame jokes. She just scratched her head shyly afterward, "Sorry for saying so much. Basically, it's because my partner hasn't had much experience with girls, so I was a little nervous. This young lady is so pretty, I was afraid he might be impolite or something;..."
Little Black Dragon couldn't hold back any longer. He glanced at Lu Ya's mother, who was still scrutinizing Shion, her gaze somewhat embarrassed. "Sorry, maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I don't actually want to control him. I'm just afraid he won't get along with other girls..." "Actually, you're afraid someone will steal your lover, aren't you?"
Upon hearing the Little Black Dragon's words, Lu Ya blushed and immediately waved her hands repeatedly.
"No, no, no..."
As he spoke, the eyeballs in the jar in his hand shook so much they almost flew off.
Under the watchful eyes of Shion and the Little Black Dragon, it took her a long time before she lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly and said, "Yes, a little bit."
While the Little Black Dragon tried hard to keep a straight face, Shion looked at the eyeball and said, "Don't worry, there's nothing between him and me."
"That's good."
Then Shion pointed to the jar in her hand, "Why did you dismember him?"
Little Black Dragon: "I know that. A yandere is like that. Because they want to possess their lover so much, they completely dismember them and then morbidly collect and admire them. That's definitely it..."
"No, no, that's not true!"
Lu Ya immediately denied this, then whispered, "It was my lover. Later, his health deteriorated, and he eventually passed away. Then everyone said they wanted to cremate him."
Shion was stunned for a moment after hearing this.
So, in that other world, my final fate was still death?
That's not surprising.
"But I don't want him to leave."
Clutching the glass tube containing only one eyeball, Lu Ya murmured, "If I'm cremated, I'll never see him again. I don't want that, so I secretly took my lover and left the hospital, going to a place very, very far away."
Now I know why I didn't see Lu Ya during the Mental Landscape Trial.
"But, as you all know, a corpse is actually very difficult to transport. So I tried to find a way to separate my lover's body and preserve it intact. I plan to put it back together once it reaches its destination, so that I can be with him forever..."
Her tone was gentle, even carrying a sense of anticipation and happiness for the future.
However, the Little Black Dragon was terrified upon hearing this.
"It's already dead. That's just a corpse."
"It doesn't matter, as long as it's him, that's enough." Lu Ya smiled sweetly, as if she hadn't yet woken from a beautiful dream. "I will take good care of him, whether he's a corpse or a severed limb, I will take the best care of him, because, because I am his wife..."
As she spoke, she blushed and couldn't continue.
The tips of her ears were so red they looked like they were about to smoke.
The Little Black Dragon kept headbutting its boss like a cat.
Don't let my mom down!
"So why are the other organs lost?"
Seeing that Shion was completely unresponsive, the Little Black Dragon was so angry he wanted to bite her. What was wrong? Why were you being so fierce!
Lu Ya simply lowered her head, looking guilty. "It's my fault. I thought it would be safer to have someone deliver it, even though I asked someone I knew. But some people opened my package on the way and got so scared they threw it away and even called the police. So I just kept searching and searching, and I came all the way here, but I couldn't find it anywhere..."
Shion looked around again.
The environment is still very different; it's probably not the original world.
Did they get lost and end up in another world? Or did their original world simply change?
"Let me help you find it."
After Shion made that promise, the Little Black Dragon jumped off her hand and smiled for the first time. Holding Shion's hand in one hand and Lu Ya's hand in the other, he jumped up happily.
"Yay!"
Shion didn't bother to shake her off, but Lu Ya hesitated for a moment, "Are you really okay?"
The name sounds somewhat familiar.
Oh, I remember now.
Shion turned her head to look at her friend, recalling the time when she had fought with some thugs and incidentally saved Lu Ya.
That was the first thing she said.
"Um."
However, the response was different.
"But I won't help you piece together the body parts; I'm not interested."
Lu Ya smiled gently and said, "Thank you, I'll do it myself."
For Shion, finding her own body wouldn't be a problem, even though this World Bubble somewhat strange, and her Magic Sense would be devoured once it expanded.
But finding one's own body parts is not difficult.
She led the way, Little Black Dragon, realizing he couldn't hold her hand, instead tugged at her clothes and grabbed Lu Ya with the other, hopping and skipping as he asked, "Mommy Lu Ya, how did you and your lover meet?"
"Willing..."
Lu Ya, her right hand being shaken by the Little Black Dragon, thought with some difficulty, "Could it be considered love at first sight? My lover has a super fighting personality and a terrible temper, but sometimes it's good in a way. For example, the first time we met, he stood up for me and fought three thugs, and ended up getting beaten up all over because of me..."
The Little Black Dragon listened intently, its eyes sparkling, and let out a slightly irritating "Oh."
Shion frowned. "You just wanted to fight, you didn't intend to save you, did you?"
"That's not quite how it works," Lu Ya immediately retorted. "Regardless of what he was thinking, he did save me and was beaten black and blue, so it must be related to me."
The Little Black Dragon nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."
"Although we didn't win, we still chased those three guys away." The girl spoke of the past with an expression of admiration, "So cool!"
"Yeah, yeah..." The Little Black Dragon paused for a moment, "Didn't win?"
"Yeah, those three thugs were really tough back then. Although my wife is also very strong, it's no wonder she lost when she was fighting three against one. Two fists can't beat six hands, right?"
"Hahaha, yes, hahaha, that's normal, hahahaha..."
The thought that their once arrogant boss had been beaten down by three thugs is unbearable.
The Three Absolute Wonders of Vast Chaos!
The Little Black Dragon couldn't help but laugh rather unrestrainedly.
As a result, his joy turned to sorrow; he got punched on the head and could no longer laugh.
But just thinking about it makes me happy.
Heh heh, I wish I could go back in time and give my dad a good beating back when he couldn't even beat three thugs...
Hey, do those three thugs even know who they beat?
If in the future the eldest brother becomes the sole ruler of all time, and his proof is eternal, then these three are the extraordinary people who defeated the current Great Emperor with the Hunyuan Three Absolutes Naihe Formation... No matter where they go in the future, they can shout, "Shion was defeated by three thugs."
Thinking he had caught her red-handed, Little Black Dragon was overjoyed. "What else? What else, Mom? What other stupid things has your husband done?" "Stupid things? He's done quite a few, but the biggest one was... for me, he forced a truck..."
Ignoring the two fools who had already reached a consensus, the three of them walked forward to the vicinity of the station.
Not far north of the school is the bus station. In the left corner of the station, there's a trash can. Shion casually rummaged through the trash can and pulled out a bag. Pulling open the bag, she found a huge can inside containing a hand.
Without a doubt, it was my own hands; they looked somewhat withered, but were still healthy.
She was also wearing a ring on her hand.
I glanced at Lu Ya; she was also wearing a ring.
"These are wedding rings." Lu Ya immediately snatched the hand. "I asked my mom to pick them out. Although she rarely visited him in the hospital afterward, she often asked how he was doing. Later, she took some time to take me to pick out these rings and we had a simple wedding..."
It seems to be his mother.
Shion could tell that her mother was capable of doing something like this.
The Little Black Dragon beside him blinked, "Really married?"
"They really got married." Lu Ya hugged the glass jar, somewhat proudly. "They're legally married, they've got their marriage certificate!"
The Little Black Dragon then tugged hard at the boss's clothes.
Shion ignored her and simply flew the two of them to a remote wilderness area once again.
This time it's one leg.
Next is a sewer, the second leg.
Finally, there was a riverbank, the third one...
When Shion looked at the third leg that had sunk into the river, even she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
The Black Dragon girl next to her screamed "Ah!" and covered her eyes, but then peeked through her fingers again.
He then whispered, "Isn't this organ a little inappropriate...?"
"What's wrong with it being part of your lover's body?"
The Little Black Dragon was a bit confused. "You, don't you find it strange?"
Lu Ya hugged it tightly without any hesitation. "I was a little shy at first, but I got used to it over time. You often see it when you're washing it, it's nothing."
"Throw it away."
Shion said expressionlessly.
Lu Ya hugged the three legs tightly. "I can't throw them away!"
"Throw it away."
"I won't throw it away."
"Throw."
"No."
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing, Little Black Dragon immediately grabbed their hands and said loudly, "Don't argue, Boss! Mom, you can give this to me to keep safe..."
"No way!"
"Roll."
Very well, all the firepower is coming at them.
The Little Black Dragon smiled with relief; as long as the eldest son and his mother weren't arguing, that was good...
They walked and chatted happily along the way. Lu Ya's mother was quite talkative. As for the Little Black Dragon, when he saw Lu Ya taking care of the eldest brother inside the eldest brother's body—which was actually from the eldest brother's perspective at the time—he was deeply moved.
That's when she made up her mind. She was determined to be Lu Ya's mother! Even the arrival of her eldest son couldn't change that!
Now that I finally have the chance to talk to her properly and be able to stay by her side with my boss, I'm incredibly happy.
The resentment that had been suppressed by the boss had vanished without a trace.
It seems our leader does have a gentle side. Who wouldn't fall for a girl like Lu Ya?
They successfully collected almost all the remaining limbs.
The group of people stood in front of a deep pit.
"The last head is right here."
Both Shion and the Little Black Dragon were standing at the edge, looking into the deep pit.
Suddenly, Lu Ya behind him asked, "You all know Jiang Si, right?"
The Little Black Dragon immediately glanced at its leader, while Shion just squatted by the pit, occasionally fiddling with the soil.
Like a little kid playing in the mud...
"I've only met him."
"You've seen him more than once, haven't you, Miss Shion? When you looked at my lover's body, it seemed so familiar. You and my lover have actually had quite intimate contact, haven't you?"
The Little Black Dragon also lowered its head and began to play wildly in the mud.
That must be intimate...
Shion didn't pay attention to what Lu Ya said; she just frowned and looked at the large pit.
It's as if they've discovered something.
"How annoying."
Lu Ya's tone behind him gradually turned cold.
The Little Black Dragon was taken aback for a moment.
The voice was so unfamiliar that she didn't recognize it; it was Lu Ya's mother's voice.
When I tried to stand up and turn my head, it was as if something was holding me down, and I could barely move.
"How annoying! He's seeing other girls behind my back, making faces I don't even know about, and saying things I've probably never heard before."
"Just thinking about it..."
Something pierced through both Shion and the Little Black Dragon simultaneously, blood spurting and splashing into the large pit.
The girl with jet-black pupils drew her knife, muttering to herself:
"My heart is breaking."
The Little Black Dragon clutched its chest, calling out in bewilderment and helplessness, "Mommy Lu Ya..."
Why?
He looked helplessly at his boss beside him, hoping to get an answer.
However, Shion remained motionless, simply gazing silently at the bottom of the pit. Even with her body pierced, she showed no surprise, remaining cold and composed. Lu Ya, after her sneak attack, slowly retreated, saying, "Sorry, Little Black Dragon."
"Although I don't dislike you, it's for the sake of my lover."
"You should all just die."
The pit trembled, and a gigantic maw with tentacles burst forth, swallowing Shion and the Little Black Dragon whole!