Chapter 46: The Embarrassing Slip-Up

  Don't blame me, it seems like there's some kind of magical power stopping me from updating lately. Every time I open the TXT document to start writing, a client will immediately come knocking on my door with troubles~~ After finally resolving the client's issues, I find that my inspiration has almost disappeared. Just as I was typing this short paragraph, several more clients appeared...

  As for why I don't update during rest time... How can I not watch anime or play games during my precious rest time? This is too hard for me!

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  Finally, Jiaolong reluctantly took the IOU with their magical names from Still's even more reluctant-looking hand, as if he had received something valuable and precious. He looked at it with a mixture of disgust and regret, thinking that it was tasteless to eat and a pity to discard. This made Still immediately want to rush over, snatch back the IOU, tear it up, and burn it into ashes with magic.

  However, the dull pain coming from his nose ultimately prevented him from turning his thoughts into action. This outwardly useless deadbeat actually didn't have as low combat strength as imagined. After muttering a few resentful phrases to slightly vent out his inner dissatisfaction, he pulled along the still red-faced and embarrassed Kusuo Saiki to leave this place.

  After the two people who had equated trouble with him left his ward, Kai Ryūshō finally recovered like he was at home, like a boneless soft-bodied animal, and collapsed onto the bed; His lifeless dead fish eyes stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling that was slightly radiant, and his brain began to spin rapidly, thinking about what kind of attention this series of events would attract from Tōyama, and whether this series of events was even a setup by Tōyama.

  After all, the most important piece next to a chess player suddenly appears with an unclear and powerful piece. Even if there is only a slight deviation, it will have a profound impact on the layout of the "board".

  But no matter how many times he tossed and turned, he couldn't find a clear train of thought on this rather mind-boggling problem. His brain was as tangled as a ball of yarn that had been played with by a mischievous cat. The events that had occurred recently seemed like coincidences when considered separately, but they were densely packed together, forming a contradictory whole that left Intervale feeling ambiguous and unable to discern what was real and what wasn't.

  If this is indeed the manipulation of Daoyou Nan, then his (her?) level of intelligence is undoubtedly far beyond that of Jie Lü Chu Yi, and it can be said that the two are not even in the same weight class. It would be better for Jie Lü Chu Yi to surrender and admit defeat early on. However, at this point, Jie Lü Chu Yi still cannot confirm whether he was previously involved in an event related to Daoyou Nan or not.

  *sigh*...

  His eyes felt the light in the hospital room gradually dimming with time, and he let out a long sigh, coming to the conclusion that "no matter what, his future self would definitely enter the field of vision of the inverted man". He finally gave up thinking and started calculating whether to sneak away from the hospital tonight and shirk responsibility, while also pushing the blame onto the Magic Duo, because these two guys were the main reason he was being targeted! How could a single IOU note wipe out the hatred in his heart?

  But if I were to run back now, wouldn't I coincidentally bump into the Dragon King's Sigh Satellite explosion event? Guess it's better to continue staying in the hospital after all. As for the medical expenses, if things really don't work out, I can always sneak out and find a black market kidney seller to buy one from and pretend it's my own to sell back to the hospital to pay off the debt.

  "Not good!" Ji Lu had just lain down and was about to fall asleep again, but his heart kept feeling that there was still something wrong that hadn't been made up for. After thinking carefully for a moment, he suddenly discovered that the huge flaw he had planned had actually gone unnoticed! What a blunder!

  He jumped up from the bed, got dressed in such a hurry that he didn't even change out of his hospital clothes, and ran out of the room with a "bang bang bang" sound; who knows which room Updike would be doing this kind of dangerous thing in! If it were at Little Meng's house, it would be okay, anyway, it's almost like a garbage dump already. If something happened there, at most the roof would have a few more holes and the furniture would be smashed up, no big deal.

  But what if this thing happened in Kaito Minami's treasure trove, filled with limited edition figurines, limited edition games, and a computer storing a vast amount of precious data? The consequences would be so terrifying that just thinking about the beginning made him not want to think about the end. How could such a thing be allowed to happen! Even if it cost me my life, I will protect my "treasures"!

  "Just you wait and see, you bunch of bastards!"

  Jie Lü was furious, shouting angrily in the hospital corridor, stirring up a trail of dust and curses from doctors and nurses, speeding away from the hospital towards his own little nest!

  If it goes according to the hot-blooded manga setting, the next plot is undoubtedly the protagonist arriving at the scene in a flash, shouting slogans of love and justice with explosive SEED, driving out Uematsu and others who are shamelessly clinging to their own home, closing the door, and from then on living a happy life without shame or embarrassment with the 2D beautiful girls, truly worthy of celebration.

  Unfortunately, if reality were as ideal and dramatic, those vagrants sleeping under the bridge would have vanished without a trace. Instead, they lie lazily under the bridge, basking in the fading sunlight, scratching lice, and even having the mood to mock the pedestrians on the bridge who pant like dogs after running just a few steps.

  "Ugh... ugh... my body can't take this kind of abuse... why can't I be one of those people with regenerative abilities? If I were, when I'm broke, I'd just sell a kidney at the hospital and it would grow back in no time... ugh...". Jie Lu Chui flipped off the homeless guy under the bridge who was pointing and gesturing at him, "I've got more important things to do than save the world, you bunch of losers can only show your teeth now, humph!"

  Bid farewell to the curses and jeers of the vagrants, Ji Lu continued to stick out his tongue and move his feet towards his own little nest at a speed that could hardly be called running.

  He continued to run for over 20 minutes, feeling like his lungs were being pressed down by a heavy stone, and no matter how hard he breathed, it wasn't enough to satisfy his body's need for oxygen. It was then that his slightly calmer brain remembered the time in his past life when he had been deceived into running a 10,000-meter race at the school sports meet, which wasn't much different from his current situation... What was even more tragic was that from the hospital to his home seemed to be more than 10,000 meters away. Could his current body, which was even more useless than in his past life, hold out until then?