"I'm back."
At the end of another day, Misaka Mikoto dragged her exhausted body back home.
Of course, it was not her body that was tired. After all, she was a superpower user. Back when she was in Campus City, she would fight from Southern Heavenly Gate to Penglai East Road from time to time. In the end, she was still full of energy. After all, at her age, she had endless energy. Singing a few songs and dancing a few times was nothing to her.
She was mainly mentally tired, especially when she was lip-syncing. Her conscience was constantly blaming her.
"Little sister, welcome back." As soon as she entered the house, Mikoto heard a familiar voice coming from the house. "Idol, you must be busy with work. Big sister is preparing dinner. Take a seat in the living room."
Little sister? Big sister?
Mikoto could tell that it was their cheap sister-in-law's voice. However, the way she addressed her was a little strange. She remembered that she did not call her that in the past, but she did not pay much attention to it. When she arrived at the living room, she saw Tang Hao and Youzhu sitting on the sofa. There was also a little girl of four or five years old. Tang Hao was holding her in his hand. He raised and lowered her from time to time, making her giggle.
"Sure."
Mikoto casually greeted them and sat down next to Youzhu. After resting for a while, she heard the sound of cooking in the kitchen. She turned her head and asked softly, "Oh right, when did you change the setting?"
"What setting?" Youzhu flipped through the book without looking up.
"It's how sister-in-law addresses us. Why did she suddenly call herself big sister?"
"I didn't change it."
"You didn't change it? Then how …"
"Didn't you notice that there's something wrong?"
The person who asked the question was Tang Hao. Meiqin was slightly stunned and subconsciously observed the situation in the living room. At first, she did not find anything, but soon, she noticed a photo frame placed on the shelf next to her. In the photo frame was a family photo. It happened to be a family of three, a husband, a wife, and a one-year-old daughter. But now, only the wife and daughter were left in this photo.
"This is …?!" Mikoto stood up abruptly.
"The existence has been fixed." Youzhu closed the book and said softly.
"The existence you're talking about, could it be?"
"Humans who are eaten by the Red World Apostles will disappear, and all information related to them will be forcefully erased, including photos and words. You know that."
"In other words …"
"Correct, unbeknownst to us, her husband who was out on a business trip was eaten by the apostle, and as such, it became like her husband never existed to begin with. However, the cognitive magic I used did exist, but without a husband, where would her husband's younger brothers and sisters come from? As such, the world carried out self-correction, and our relationship with our identities also changed."
"This …" Youzhu's explanation was reasonable and also in line with the setting of this world, but after listening to it, Meiqin was stunned. Gradually, her gaze moved to the kitchen. The woman in the kitchen was cooking while humming a tune. Occasionally, when the little girl laughed, the woman did not forget to turn around and say a few words with a smile. She looked very happy.
However, Meiqin could not laugh no matter how hard she tried.
On the second day after coming to this world, Tang Hao went to school. Youzhu slept for a long time due to exhaustion, and after waking up early, she spent most of her time with the mother and daughter. Through their conversations, she gradually understood some things about this family.
She knew that it was not easy for this family to exist. Although it seemed like the family was doing well now, they were in a state of near poverty at the beginning, especially since the woman suffered from a congenital disease that caused her body to be weak and almost unable to go out to work. Therefore, the man in the family often went out on business trips to earn money to support the family, but this time, he did not return.
Not only did he not return, there was no proof of his existence.
If it was an accidental death, at least she could still remember it, at least she could cherish it, but now …
"I can't accept this!" Meiqin clenched her fists tightly and said in a low voice.
Although in Youzhu's setting, Tang Hao's presence in this family was the highest, because he always went out, in reality, the person closest to the mother and daughter was Meiqin.
"But this is reality," Tang Hao said.
Meiqin was stunned for a moment, then sat back on the sofa weakly.
It was not until half a minute later that she murmured, "The man in this family disappeared, sister-in-law … What will Sister Meixiang do in the future? Her body is too weak, and she can only do housework. There is no way she can raise a child by herself, right? "
Tang Hao teased the little girl beside him and said, "We can do something about financial problems before we leave. In terms of interpersonal relationships, if we have time, we can bring her to visit the Sakai family. Sakai Yuji's mother is quite kind, and they live close to each other. In the future, we can take care of each other. As for the rest …"
"Yeah, there is nothing we can do."
Mikoto sighed and sat quietly.
Although they entered this family with a purpose in the beginning, and their relationship was also set by Youzhu. As long as Youzhu removed the cognitive magic, they would become strangers. But, humans were creatures with feelings, after all. Even if the relationship was fake, their life in this family was not fake.
It was almost impossible to be indifferent to it.
Before this, Meiqin had heard about Hirai-san's story, but she did not know Hirai-san personally, so the story she heard was not as realistic as it was in the anime. But anime was anime, after all. Until now, when the reality was right in front of her eyes, she finally realized how cruel this world was to ordinary people.
She could not help but raise her head and look at the little girl playing on Tang Hao's lap. "From now on, Satoshi will be a child without a father … No, she will never have one."
"What are you guys talking about?" As they spoke, the woman walked out of the kitchen with a tray of food.
Her face was full of smiles, without a trace of sadness or pain. After all, to the current her, the word "husband" had never existed, so naturally, she did not feel any pain.
However, the more she looked at this scene, the heavier Meiqin's heart became.
"Little sister, why aren't you eating? I heard that idols work very hard. Not only do they have to sing and dance, but they also have to maintain good relationships with people. You have such a straightforward personality, so it must be very hard. You should eat more, "the woman said as she kept putting food into Meiqin's bowl.
"Thank you …" Meiqin forced a smile, "Right, Sister Meixiang, I've always wanted to ask, who is Satoshi's father?"
"Satoshi's father, why would you suddenly ask such a question?" The woman was stunned for a moment. She propped her chin with her hand and thought about it, "That's right, I've never thought about this question, mmm … Aiya, what era is this? Isn't it normal to get pregnant before marriage? Really, little sister."
The woman covered her face with one hand and said nonchalantly.
"Heh heh, that's true." Meiqin smiled insincerely.
…
"I still can't accept it!"
After dinner, the three of them went to Tang Hao's room, and Meiqin said this again.
"What can you do if you don't accept it?" Tang Hao glanced at her and sighed, "In this situation, there's nothing we can do."
"I don't know …" Meiqin shook her head in confusion, "I can't help Sister Meixiang find her husband. Even if Youzhu added this memory to her, it might be better for her to remember someone who doesn't exist. Even if it's to avenge her … I don't even know who the enemy is … Why did it become like this? Everything was fine yesterday … "
"You're too kind." Youzhu said, "I'm not saying it's bad to be kind, but you'll only make yourself more unhappy."
"Is that so …" Meiqin didn't deny it. She smiled bitterly and sat down quietly. No one knew what she was thinking about.
The atmosphere in the room was somewhat depressing.
After who knew how much time had passed …
Coo coo coo!
Suddenly, there was a pigeon's cry.
Youzhu's eyes lit up, "There's news."
"Oh, where is it?" Tang Hao asked quickly.
"Here." You Zhu took out a map of Misaki City and pointed at a certain place. "That's where the hunter's lair is. However, after Birdie sent me a message, he might expose himself. We must act as soon as possible. Otherwise, it'll be very difficult to find him again if he moves elsewhere."
"Well, then let's go immediately and contact Shana on the way."
As Tang Hao got up, Meiqin raised her head subconsciously and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Hunter Faliagni, he attacked the school in the evening, and Youzhu's familiar followed him. Now we're going to join forces with Shana and get rid of him before he launches his plan to devour the city. You … Do you want to go?"
"Hunter … Disciple of the Red World …"
Mikoto murmured softly, and her dim eyes gradually brightened.
"Go!"
"I want to go!"
"I must go!"
Meiqin nodded firmly. Indeed, with her ability, she could not help Sister Meixiang, nor could she do more for this family, but at least she had the power to deal with the Disciple of the Red World.
Sister Meixiang was only one example in this world. In a place that she did not know, there might be more people like Sister Meixiang who were persecuted by the Disciple of the Red World.
Although she could not help everyone, as long as she killed those greedy Disciples of the Red World, there would be fewer victims like Sister Meixiang.
Kill?
When this word came out from the bottom of her heart, even Meiqin was shocked. Because even the matter with the Misaka sisters did not make her think of killing Fang Tong or a certain researcher.
She always thought that killing people was a sin. Perhaps it was easy for some people, as they only needed to move their hands, but she could not do it because she could not bear the sin of killing.
But now …
Were the Disciples of the Red World human?
No.
Could she bear the sin of killing them?
She did not know.
But, she had to go no matter what!
Beep beep!
Dazzling lightning jumped on Meiqin's hair, as determined as her eyes.
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