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"...Cousin, don't stare at me like that."

"Mhm~" Suisui withdrew her gaze with a smile. "I was just wondering which lucky girl would end up with such a handsome cousin of mine~"

"The same goes for you, cousin," Lu Guan said earnestly. "They say a girl changes a great deal as she grows up. It's only been a few years since we last met, and you've already become a peerless beauty. You've also built a successful career and become president of the Zhaoming Chamber of Commerce."

"I wonder what kind of person could ever be worthy of you."

"...You really know how to make your big sister happy~" Suisui wasn't embarrassed by Lu Guan's words. Her expression didn't even change as she graciously accepted the lavish praise.

"It's been a long time since we last met, and you're not like you used to be."

The messages from the system inside Lu Guan, however, showed that she was extremely pleased by what he had said.

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"Sigh... That was because of my resonance ability." Lu Guan looked embarrassed and spoke apologetically. "My resonance ability has developed recently, so I should be able to control it a little now."

"Oh?" Suisui gave him a mysterious smile. "Was it also because of your resonance ability that you plucked my sister's feathers back then?"

"Uh..." Cold sweat poured down Lu Guan's back. If he remembered correctly... wasn't Suisui an ultimate siscon?

He had actually wanted to make a feather fan just like Marquis Wu's to try developing his resonance ability, but he couldn't find one like it in any nearby shop, so he had to DIY one.

As for Yangyang, he had simply thought a feather fan made from a Resonator's materials might have some special function, so he had plucked a few feathers while she was washing her hair...

Although an angry Yangyang had chased Lu Guan around the house with a sword in the end, he had at least gotten his wish and made a feather fan that gave off the aura of flowing wind.

"Mhm~ Do you remember what Yangyang said back then?" Suisui put on an expression as though she were waiting for a show and imitated her sister's tone. "If I ever see you again..."

Lu Guan forced a smile. "She'd pull out all my hair, chop it to pieces, and then blow it away on the wind like dandelion fluff..."

"It looks like you still remember..." Suisui took a sip of tea to moisten her throat. "If you don't want her to shave your head for you... you'd better be careful and stay out of her way~"

"Ahem... I think cousin Yangyang said that in anger. Maybe after all these years, she's already forgotten about it..."

"Hard to say~" Suisui took out a letter with a smile. "Yangyang recently became a Pioneer of the Midnight Rangers in Jinzhou. She mentioned that fan you made from her feathers in her letter..."

"She's hung it up at home and is keeping it as a treasured memento."

What is this, sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall? Pah! It's the grudge of the three arrows. No, that's not right either... Anyway, why does this woman hold such a grudge?!

"Ahaha... Is that so?"

Seeing Lu Guan's miserable expression, Suisui chuckled and let the subject drop.

"Let's talk about what happened earlier..."

"You said you'd developed your resonance ability?"

"Thanks to you, cousin, I should be able to control the conditions for activating it a little now," Lu Guan said, somewhat embarrassed. "In other words... the atmosphere doesn't need to be quite as strong."

Previously, Lu Guan's ability had required a powerful atmosphere to activate.

For example, when he felt pressured, he could refuse to take the pressure, strike a pose, and shout, "Furube, yurayura, eight-handled sword, divergent sila divine general, Mahoraga!" to summon Mahoraga, the strongest shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique in Jujutsu Kaisen.

He couldn't create that kind of external environment himself; someone else had to apply the pressure.

But ever since his development progress reached 10%, he could create some simple atmospheres himself.

However, that Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavenly Finger should only be usable when his power surged, making it a limited skill that was hard to replicate. For the moment, Lu Guan didn't know how to trigger it again.

As for why Lu Guan knew he could summon Mahoraga, and what consequences the first summoning had brought...

His father, who had been demoted as one of the culprits, and the Jue, Sentinel of the Ages, who had nearly crashed and was still recovering from her injuries, could explain everything.

After that incident, Lu Yi developed the divine skill of covering Lu Guan's mouth with a zero-frame startup. His speed had left even Liang Dongyuan, then the commander of the Pacification Bureau, amazed, and he had declared Lord Lu the fastest in all Huanglong.

Lu Guan had plucked Yangyang's feathers because he wanted to see whether a feather fan like Marquis Wu's could create the right atmosphere, and use it to try borrowing the east wind.

As it turned out, he did borrow the east wind, but it happened to collide with a typhoon coming from the southwest, gathering into a colossal air vortex in the outskirts ten li from the Ming Court.

From then on, the Ming Court's upper ranks went from regarding Lu Guan as a mischievous little demon to a strategic nuclear weapon.

But Lu Guan had not been subjected to any restrictions. On the contrary, Huanglong's upper ranks rather hoped he could successfully master this resonance ability, which was comparable to the authority of a god.

Unfortunately, the consequences of letting a certain someone develop his ability as he pleased were rather terrifying, so Huanglong's upper ranks had strictly forbidden him from acting on impulse and secretly pulling off another earth-shattering stunt.

Considering Mahoraga's existence, they didn't dare put pressure on Lu Guan directly, so all the pressure ended up on Lu Yi.

With the thought that it was better for a fellow Daoist to die than themselves, Lu Yi made a proposal, the Ming Court's upper ranks unanimously agreed, and the Dragon Lord herself made the final decision. They sent Lu Guan to Solaris's current highest institution of learning, Stardust Academy, to see if they could find a way to help him develop his ability.

They had even worried that Lu Guan wouldn't want to leave, so they made several contingency plans and invited several teachers from the academy over to persuade him, but none of it proved necessary.

But now it seemed the proposal had worked a little too well. In fact, before he even reached the academy, having left Huanglong's mainland by less than a nautical mile, Lu Guan had pulled off another earth-shattering stunt.

Fortunately, this time was extremely mild compared with Mahoraga and the giant vortex. As a result, Huanglong's upper ranks, who both loved and hated Lu Guan, now only wanted to send this little ancestor away as soon as possible and keep him from causing any more trouble for the Ming Court.

That was also why Suisui only needed to pay a negligible amount of bail to get Lu Guan out of the Pacification Bureau.

"Thanks to me?" Suisui tilted her head. "What does that have to do with me? Don't tell me you want to pluck my feathers too?"

"Uh...?" Lu Guan didn't know how to explain. He had only intended to say something modest, but his cousin Suisui's peculiar train of thought had left him somewhat speechless.

"Let me make this clear first! Absolutely not!" Suisui looked resistant and held her water fan in front of her chest. "If you dare pluck the feathers at the ends of my hair, I'll hit you hard on the head with my fan!"

As it turned out, little demons didn't think alike.

No matter how hard he tried, Lu Guan couldn't connect thanking her with plucking her feathers... Wasn't that a completely random association?

Wait a minute, m-masaka!

Could it be that Suisui's "blessing" is actually a down jacket?

So there was a reason Suisui thought that!

After his lewd brain kicked into gear, Lu Guan gradually understood the truth...

Then everything makes sense... like hell it does!

Although everything produced by a lewd brain was a necessary means of production for helping humans engage in certain deep-seated activities of mental self-gratification, Lu Guan's Supreme Bone had made no response to his lewd brain kicking into gear this time.

She was his cousin. It would have been strange if it had responded!

"Argh, damn it, damn it! Begone, evil spirits! Begone, evil spirits!" Lu Guan slapped his forehead. Ever since he thought of the phrase "down jacket," he couldn't quite look at Suisui the same way anymore...

Lu Guan's sudden fit gave Suisui a fright. Only when his movements slowed a little did she dare lean closer and ask cautiously.

"What's wrong? Did what I just said hurt you?"

"I'm fine..." Lu Guan's face returned to normal. "I just had a fierce battle with the evil spirit in my heart."

"Then... did you win?"

Lu Guan was a shrewd one. When someone asked him whether he had won or lost, he answered-

"It ended."