Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

Chapter 205 Reconciliation?

Wakkanai Hotel.

Time passed slowly amidst waiting and anxiety.

Lan Xinlan and Song Ruyu squeezed into the only single room.

The initial tension and awkwardness were gradually replaced by a subtle and growing sense of familiarity during the long, uneventful period.

The two chatted casually, talking about everything under the sun, from the snow in Hokkaido to childhood anecdotes.

When sleepiness comes, I fall asleep, and when I wake up, I naturally continue the conversation.

The more Alan talked, the more familiar he felt with the other person.

"Haha, really? You used to study in Shanghai too? You must have heard of the 'Blue, White, and Gold' sisters, right?"

Lan Xinlan lay in bed, recounting her past glories incessantly—

Following the fearless Alina, we would sneak out of school in the evening, riding her cool modified motorcycle at breakneck speed along the deserted coastal road; following the frighteningly self-disciplined Song Ruyu, we would go to the small lake behind the school before dawn to practice, watching her perform a set of flowing Tai Chi, and occasionally being dragged by her to kick some fake martial arts gyms; during the midterm exams, the three of us would tacitly hand in blank papers, and then go all out in the final exams, dominating the top three in the grade with near-perfect scores, pretending to be weak while actually being strong.

Unfortunately, those wonderful days are gone forever.

Song Ruyu felt increasingly bitter as she listened. What was her mindset when she cruelly abandoned them?

"Ayu...they really are very good friends," Lan Xinlan said sincerely.

"If..." Song Ruyu lowered her head, "If...the Song Ruyu you mentioned...wants to...want to come back to you...would you refuse her?"

"this……"

Lan Xinlan's eyes instantly dimmed, and she forced a smile:

"She's always on the path of becoming stronger, while I'm still that weak little girl... She's probably even less likely to turn back to me than I am."

Song Ruyu's heart clenched painfully. She wanted to say, "That's not how it is," and "I've always missed you," but she swallowed the words back down her throat.

No, we can't reveal our identities yet.

Since Jiang Ling said she would arrange more "best friend saves the beauty" scenarios, she would wait and see.

At least for now, his method has been effective and has quietly brought her and Alan closer together.

suddenly.

Song Ruyu suddenly felt a coolness on her face, as if something had disappeared.

She instinctively touched her face, only to find smooth skin. Startled, she abruptly turned to look at her blurry reflection in the windowpane—

The "headgear" that Jiang Ling had given her to cover her face had disappeared.

Lan Xinlan's voice suddenly stopped, and the atmosphere in the room instantly fell silent.

Time seemed to stand still.

"Like...jade?"

"You...you are...Song Ruyu?!"

……

Please select the upgrade item.

Jiang Ling: "Cardboard Knight Headgear, Upgrade!"

[Upgrading... 1%... 2%...]

"There's even a progress bar?" Jiang Ling was taken aback, thinking to himself, "It seems this ultimate upgrade is indeed not simple."

In the laboratory, heart-wrenching cries mingled with furious roars.

Completely devastated, Kuroba transformed all his grief, anger, hatred, and self-loathing into the most primal and violent desire to kill!

She was like a vengeful goddess returning from hell; her petite figure became a blurry afterimage in the spacious laboratory, and wherever she passed, blood mist exploded!

Jiang Ling found a chair and sat down, quietly watching the belated revenge massacre unfold before her.

Kuroba cried as he went on a killing spree—kill, kill, kill, kill!

These beasts in human skin all deserve to die!

The walls, instruments, and operating table were quickly splattered with thick, warm blood and bits of flesh.

Those lab coats used for human experiments scattered and fled, but they couldn't escape the speed of a genetically modified superhuman.

A fat, big-eared doctor, quick-witted as ever, stumbled up behind Jiang Ling and clung tightly to his leg.

"Brother... Brother! You're from the church's guard, right? Protect me! That crazy woman is terrifying!" The fat man trembled as he looked at Black Feather, who was rampaging through the area not far away, his voice shaking.

"Oh?"

Jiang Ling spoke softly, which sent a chill down the fat man's spine.

What makes you think... I'll protect you?

"M-M... big?"

Before the fat man could finish speaking, he looked down in astonishment and found a thick arm piercing through his chest.

If it weren't for completing the system task, he would have already taken action the moment his Observation Haki swept over the horrific scene.

None of the people here will survive, so it's not Black Feather's turn to make a move!

"Children are meant to be taught how to conduct themselves in society, to develop sound values, and to be encouraged to become people who contribute to themselves, their country, and society!"

"Instead of being dismantled like commodities and supplied to those old geezers who control international capital, to extend their lives and become their organ replacement parts!"

"You bunch of scum, you wouldn't be enough even if you were killed a million times!"

There were just too many people.

The Kujo Foundation has invested an enormous amount of money to support such a massive biological research team.

Jiang Ling stopped watching and, in a flash, joined the bloody massacre.

Men and women working together makes the work less tiring.

In just over ten minutes, hundreds of heads were forcibly torn off and piled up in a corner, forming a silent mound of heads.

thump--

The director of the medical experimental zone knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly until his forehead bled profusely.

"Please... let me go!"

"All of this was ordered by the patriarch; I was forced into it!"

Kuroba raised her small, blood-stained fist, her eyes filled with boundless hatred, and slammed it down towards his ugly face.

Sudden.

Jiang Ling reached out and pulled Hei Yu back into her arms.

The punch missed, but it startled the director so much that yellow liquid seeped out of his pants.

whoosh-

A large-caliber rifle bullet hit the ceiling.

Kuroba was startled and abruptly turned his head towards the laboratory entrance, following the direction from which the bullets had come.

Before anyone knew it, a fully armed group dressed in black uniforms with nine family crests embroidered on their chests had completely blocked the entrance.

The leader was a man wearing a silver mask, with a cold demeanor.

The director, who had been slumped on the ground, immediately sprang to his feet upon seeing the newcomers. He scrambled to the masked man's feet, grabbed his leg, and wailed, "Captain! Kill them! Kill them quickly! My students, my assistants, they've all been killed!"

Heng Yu's eyes turned cold. He raised his hand, took out his pistol, and shot him in the head without hesitation.

"Long time no see, Bishop Black Feather." Heng Yu curled his lips into a smile, blew away the smoke from the muzzle of his gun, and spoke with a tone full of sarcasm.

"Hengyu..." Hei Yu gritted his teeth, burning with rage, "You knew all along, didn't you? Why... why didn't you tell me?!"

"hehe"

Hengyu chuckled softly, the sound echoing in the empty, blood-soaked laboratory. "Some truths, like rotting roots underground, can never be exposed to the sunlight. Knowing them won't do you any good, won't do me any good, and won't do 'everyone' any good."

He coldly crushed a ball of pink powder, leisurely found a chair and sat down, not even glancing at Jiang Ling once throughout the entire ordeal.

In his eyes, this blond-haired man was nothing more than an insignificant dead man.

"Bishop Blackfeather, you were originally 'Plan B'. Now that 'Plan A' has been executed successfully, you're useless."

"Ugh—!" Kuroba clutched his stomach, feeling a burning pain, and exclaimed in surprise, "What happened...?"

"Now, I will reclaim the 'White Serpent's' power..."

Heng Yu said slowly and deliberately, "Before you completely belong to me, let me make you a conscious star slave. All the 'Nine Rules' who enter the core of the church will be secretly given 'Heavenly Fiend Insect Eggs.' What I just crushed was the pheromone that activated the hatching of the insect eggs."

"In just a few minutes, the Heavenly Fiend Worm will hatch and control your every move, forcing you to use the 'White Snake' to peel away the 'White Snake' yourself."

He paused, his tone brimming with smugness, "And I, Hengyu, will become the new bishop in charge of the 'White Serpent'!"

Kuroba wanted to rush up and hit him, but her legs were as weak as noodles, and she could only grit her teeth and clutch her stomach tightly.

An indescribable sense of despair crept into my heart.

She never imagined that the church's methods would be so ruthless, even allowing her, the bishop, to be implanted with insect eggs.

Once the eggs of the Heavenly Fiend Insect are implanted, there is theoretically no antidote!

She could only watch helplessly as the worm eggs near her stomach hatched.

Physical and mental.

She will eventually be completely enslaved by Kujo Maki, who has been planted with insect eggs!

As Hengyu watched her struggle in pain, a barely perceptible pang of heartache flashed in his smug eyes.

"Waaaaah..."

Kuroba could no longer hold back, and tears streamed down her face.

Jiang Ling smirked, her tone flat: "You're even more arrogant than me, your posture is quite haughty, isn't it?"

Hengyu slowly turned his head, glanced at him, and laughed disdainfully: "And who are you, you little bug, to dare talk to me?"

Suddenly, he leaned forward, a smug smile on his face reminiscent of Zenji Naoya, and beckoned with his index finger:

"Hey kid, I've noticed you look a lot like my golden retriever!"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak~ Why aren't you making any noises?"

Jiang Ling: ……