It was not the same time, but it was the same restroom.
In front of Yue, the air that had originally been transparent now slowly revealed a red figure.
They were only an inch apart. She could even feel the other party’s body heat.
“You’re Little Yueyue’s little sister, huh? (≧▽≦)/ Hurry up and let Big Sister hug you~”
Yue hastily took a step back and dodged the other party’s enthusiastic embrace.
Liuli’s hands froze in midair. The big watery eyes blinked, the purple pupils full of innocence. Then the hands were drawn back and placed behind, a tongue stuck out playfully, and Liuli stood obediently in place without pouncing again.
Looking over this pretty little person in front of her, Yue’s mood was extremely complicated.
Dressed in a red kimono, a light-green silk sash wrapped the slender waist and was tied into a big bow at the back. Silver hair fell over it like a waterfall.
As for the looks, they could only be described as stunning. Natural beauty, a face that could topple cities even without a scrap of powder. Every gesture carried a little-woman’s charm, plus an unspeakable sense of liveliness. It was simply impossible to look away.
This was Yue’s old partner from the assassin organization, the one who had gone in and out of death with her, and also the most beautiful… intersex… half-beastkin Yue currently knew of—[Hua Jun]—Liuli.
That was right. This was the so-called “twisted” thing.
And this “twisted” was not ordinary “twisted.”
It was “twisted” even more “twisted” than Yue’s “twisted.”
Yue only changed gender. This fellow could even change species, and when changing, changed gender along with it.
It could be called a “transformation” in the truest sense.
Yue looked at the pair of standing, fluffy fox ears on Liuli’s head, then at the big silver tail behind that was only a little smaller than Yue herself, and clicked her tongue.
An incomparably cute half-beastkin.
Come to think of it, more than half the organization was non-human like us, or ability users with non-human forms.
The organization’s boss was even more direct, a majestic Lord Black Cat, dual-system abilities of mystery and space, extremely powerful.
The organization took in many children who had been rejected by human society or did not want to live in human society, including Liuli, and including me.
A child could choose not to work, but every expense would be recorded, and after coming of age they had to do missions for the organization to repay the debt.
Of course, entering the organization required training and assessment.
So the inside of the organization was fairly harmonious. Even if there was conflict, it would not blow up. Otherwise you would be slapped flying by one of the boss’s paws. You would not necessarily be driven out of the organization, but at the very least you could forget about getting out of bed for a month.
Right, almost forgot…
Yue locked onto Liuli’s pretty purple pupils and asked quietly:
“Did you already find out… about me looking like this?”
Liuli tilted their head to one side, blinked over, and put on an innocent expression of “it wasn’t me, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense, I don’t know anything.”
Ai, this fellow…
Yue sighed.
Forget it. In fact she should have thought of it long ago.
A soul-type Heaven-Chosen Skill was more than enough for Liuli to discover many things.
In reality, because of the mind-reading ability, this child knew everything, including the dark side of human nature. It could even be said he was among the batch of people who understood it most clearly.
He only happened to be rather good at disguising himself, pretending to be a naive thing that knew nothing. That really could avoid a great, great deal of harm.
It had been the same when Yue first came into contact with Liuli.
This child was like having a shell. When you reached in deep to touch, he shrank back again and wrapped himself into the shell…
Yue had only ever seen him show his most real face in front of two kinds of people—those about to die, or simple children.
As old partners who had carried out missions together for many years, they had a tacit understanding in this regard.
So neither of them had gone to dig deep into the other’s secrets.
“Liuli…”
Yue called softly. The little person in front immediately tucked both hands before the chest and put on a well-behaved look of “I’ll listen properly to whatever you say.”
Calling them a little person, yet if you counted the height of the fox ears, Liuli was nearly two heads taller than Yue. Without the fox ears, still nearly one head taller.
With a fair amount of resentment, Yue stared at that pretty pair of silver fox ears on Liuli’s head, tossed the phone over, and continued.
“Those two fellows outside are handed to you to deal with. There’s a recording on the phone. Cut the grass and pull the roots. You understand.”
Noticing Yue’s gaze, Liuli even proudly swayed that little head. The soft fox ears twitched and twitched, and the tail behind was about to lift to the sky.
Tsk. Yue believed it now. The matter of a tail expressing a half-beastkin’s mood was real.
Suddenly, as if realizing something, Liuli’s tail swept in a large arc, seeming angry. Then a small finger pointed at Yue and very earnestly corrected:
“You can’t call me Liuli. You have to call me Big Sister Liuli!”
Yue’s eyebrow lifted.
Heh, this fellow was getting into it, was that it?
If you tell me to call you that and I just call you that, wouldn’t I lose a lot of face?
“Ahem. Big Sister Liuli…”
Leaving that sentence behind, Yue very naturally opened the stall door first and walked out.
Getting someone to do a job, what was wrong with calling them Big Sister once.
Was there a problem?
Yue felt this was perfectly reasonable.
On the contrary, Liuli looked at Yue with some surprise. Probably it had been a joke at first, and he had not believed the other party would actually call him Big Sister.
Yue put her attention on the outside.
The sinister man had fallen to the ground from acute iron poisoning, a manjusaka inserted at his heart.
Manjusaka was the red other-shore flower. Legend said it was the guiding flower that grew by the Sanzu River.
The flowers were cultivated by Liuli. Originally they had all been white, and only after drinking blood did they turn red.
Every time he finished assassinating a target, he would leave a flower like this at the target’s heart.
That was how the code name [Hua Jun] had come about.
Yue stepped closer and examined the blade wound under the manjusaka.
The weapon was some kind of dagger. The blade bevel was at thirty degrees, the body narrow and long, about two centimeters, double-edged on both sides.
Suited for piercing. Not particularly suited for cutting as a daily-use tool. Anyone who could use this kind of knife skillfully had some foundation. Either a repeat offender or a professional.
In memory, although Liuli was proficient with this kind of dagger, he still preferred weapons that opened and closed in big motions.
Yue turned her gaze to Liuli behind her. This fellow was watching the video she had recorded. A military dagger was gripped in those small, exquisite hands. Noticing her gaze from the corner of the eye, he immediately looked over this way.
“This knife was given to me by the fellow at the door.”
While explaining, the hands still flourished a few pretty knife flowers.
“I punched him. Although he was a bit unhappy, he still gave me a knife. I saw he was quite polite, so I didn’t kill him. I only knocked him out.”
Gave…
Yue was somewhat speechless. Liuli was like this sometimes, like a child.
The moment Yue returned to Liuli’s side, he hid the knife away at once, then looked over while smiling.
Yue looked at that “kind” smile and knew perfectly well what those words just now had really meant.
What that sentence had meant was—
“That dead fatty at the door was really durable. I casually threw a punch and actually didn’t beat him to death, and this fellow even still had the strength to fight back and was getting ready to use a knife. In the end the draw was so slow it was the same as handing it over. I snatched it in one grab and knocked him out with a backhand slap. Hmph. If not for leaving a live mouth to squeeze for clues, I would have sent him up with one knife to reunite with his dear mother.”