It was a while later before Li Chi picked up his phone to check the message from Li Guang.
[Xiao Xiao Guang: Bro, where’d you go? Didn’t Mom and Dad say they were coming back today?]
[10 minutes ago]
[Bug: Forgot to tell you, Dad called me at noon. They’re delayed by some things—probably won’t be home until next week.]
[Just now]
Li Guang, who received the message, replied almost instantly.
[Xiao Xiao Guang: Then what are we eating tonight? By the way, where are you now?]
Seeing the message from Li Guang, Li Chi smiled warmly.
[Bug: I found a job, and I’m getting familiar with the environment now. For today, let’s eat out.]
[Xiao Xiao Guang: Yay yay yay ≧∇≦!]
On the other side, Li Guang, who was fantasizing about where to go play after eating out tonight, suddenly reacted.
[Xiao Xiao Guang: Wait, Brother, when did you find a job?]
[Bug: A few days ago—it’s like summer work.]
[Xiao Guang: Oh oh, got it _(•̀ω•́ 」∠)_.]
[Bug: I’m almost done here—you go wait for me at the park.]
[Xiao Xiao Guang: Okay ❛‿˂̵✧.]
After ending the chat, Li Chi didn’t put the phone back in its original place, holding it in his hand instead. After all, he’d just gotten a scolding earlier—of course he had to tone it down a bit.
My little sis is so cute…
Li Chi couldn’t help but sigh at his sister’s habit of often including emoticons in her messages.
“Sister Lina, I’m heading out first.”
Li Chi said to Lina, who was organizing things at the front desk.
“Eh? Leaving so early?”
Lina was currently flipping through the list of the latest monsters to join the Dark Organization. Although this wasn’t necessary at all, she just couldn’t stay idle.
“Yeah, my sister’s waiting for me to eat.”
“You actually have a sister?”
Lina looked at those blood-red compound eyes in some surprise, but then thought about it—of course, he was human, so she accepted the setting.
No helping it—who made Dark Fang’s appearance look more like a monster than actual monsters? It always made people subconsciously classify him as a monster.
Plus, they hadn’t interacted for long, so Lina sometimes subconsciously treated Dark Fang as a real monster.
“That’s great. I want a cute little sister too, but unfortunately, I’m an only child…”
Hearing Lina say this, Li Chi couldn’t help but show off.
“Right? Right? Let me tell you, my sister is the cutest creature in the world!”
Lina’s face suddenly darkened.
Then, she furrowed her willow brows, the corners of her mouth twitching slightly, looking at this new executive with an expression hard to describe in words.
Seeing Lina’s expression like she’d taken the wrong medicine, Li Chi didn’t dare to ask for a moment.
After a moment, Lina asked in a very small voice, seriously.
“Are you a sis-con?”
“…”
Li Chi was speechless.
He hadn’t expected her to hold back for so long only to ask something like this.
So, he chose to answer like this.
“Yeah, what’s wrong?”
Lina’s face immediately became even uglier. She looked at Dark Fang in disbelief and asked again.
“For real!?”
“Why would I lie to you?” Li Chi put his hands on his hips, not thinking there was anything wrong with his words.
“My sister’s so cute—being a sis-con, what’s the big deal?”
For some reason, Lina felt like she saw an inexplicable sense of pride in Dark Fang’s unwavering red compound eyes, as well as the purest cherishing of familial love.
“But, but…”
Seeing Lina like this, Li Chi suspected for a moment that she’d taken the wrong medicine.
Lina seemed a bit incoherent now.
She waved both hands back and forth in the air, but stopped halfway and then started waving again, repeating this action several times.
Like a possessed Lina accidentally knocked over a nearby folder, along with a book that fell with it. When that crisp plop sound rang out, she finally returned to normal.
“Really careless.”
Li Chi kindly picked up the things for her.
Taking advantage of the time while Li Chi was picking things up, Lina drank some water to calm her nerves.
While picking up, Dark Fang inadvertently saw that book—or rather, it was a manga.
“…”
He finally understood why mentioning he was a sis-con had elicited that reaction from Lina.
O no Sora
Li Chi sucked in a breath of cold air.
She’s actually reading bone-relationship stuff! No wonder she looked at me like that earlier!
“Sister Lina…” Li Chi handed the manga to Lina, who was drinking water, and reminded her along the way. “Comics are comics, reality is reality—please don’t connect the two—”
Puff—!!!
Lina seemed to realize her secret had been discovered, panicking so much that she spat out all the water in her mouth, landing it all perfectly on Li Chi’s face.
Li Chi got his face washed with Lina’s saliva. Although he wanted to close his eyes, after transforming, those red compound eyes couldn’t be closed.
“Cough cough cough cough—wuu! Give it back!”
Lina coughed violently a few times, her face flushed red from holding it in. Then she tiptoed and hurriedly reached out to snatch the manga from Li Chi’s hand.
Although this girl was definitely thinking something bad earlier, it was her stuff after all—not giving it back wouldn’t do.
After snatching back the manga, Lina hurriedly stuffed it into an empty compartment at the front desk.
What was Li Chi’s reaction? Actually, he didn’t care much.
Although he knew he’d been offended, Lina was really a good person, and he had no intention of getting angry at her.
After hiding the manga, Lina saw Dark Fang looking like a drowned rat and quickly pulled out a towel from the side, personally wiping the water off his face for him.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
Lina’s expression at this moment was like this.
Lina: QAQ
Not long after, it turned into @A@.
You could tell just how complicated her feelings were right now.
Feeling the towel wiping his face, Li Chi had an indescribable weird sensation.
Especially when the towel touched his red compound eyes—although there wasn’t much discomfort, it still felt itchy, like sand in his eyes.
Didn’t expect washing my face after transforming to feel like this.
“Ah, my adventure manga accidentally fell earlier, and… you… didn’t, didn’t see that book, right?”
Lina seemed to have forgotten what Li Chi had said earlier.
She stared fixedly at those red compound eyes she’d just wiped with her purple pupils.
As a fine young man in his adolescence, Li Chi had read countless light novels and manga in that area—of course he’d seen similar manga and light novels, and quite a few.
Just from the book that fell, you could tell from the cover that the content was definitely explosive, and Li Chi had indeed read it.
Even though he knew the truth, he was quite understanding and covered for his senior.
“Yeah, so that was an adventure manga. I thought it was another magical girl one.”
Seeing her junior so understanding, Lina finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Right, right! Reading adventure manga when idle is such a reasonable thing—right? Just like how 42 concrete should be mixed with spaghetti—totally reasonable! Hahahaha!”
Accompanied by a few awkward laughs, Li Chi clearly felt Lina’s face growing even stiffer.
Perhaps from being too nervous earlier, this woman was now starting to babble nonsense, but her face was still very red.
Maybe even she felt her excuse was too fake—Lina suddenly covered her face and ran out from the front desk in collapse.
“Wuaaaaaah! I’m going out to die for a bit! Don’t stop me!”
At this moment, the image of that knowledgeable, gentle-tempered beautiful senior in Li Chi’s heart had shattered to pieces.
Yeah, looks like Lina had died—and died miserably.
Li Chi, who had just wanted to reach out to stop her, saw her looking like she wanted to live or die.
He opened his mouth but stopped, ultimately sighing helplessly.
“…Fine, don’t actually die.”