“To hurt a little loli like this... who the hell could be so heartless?” Feng Ye, a little pitying, picked up the silver-haired loli. He slid her skirt down, then awkwardly realized the girl wore no underwear—just panties.
His own little sister often ran out of the bath stark naked without a care. Feng Ye had built some resistance to flat, childlike figures. He only averted his gaze a little. Then he drew a high-grade healing potion from his dimensional storage and poured it over the girl’s flat abdomen. The through-and-through wound had already stopped bleeding thanks to the ice. With the potion splashed on, her injuries began to knit at a speed visible to the naked eye.
That potion cost 1,500 exchange points plus 100 merit points in the Overdeity Space. Its potent healing could even let a high-level Awakened snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Of course there was a catch. One person could only use one vial within twenty-four hours. More than that, and it lost effect.
Feng Ye only had a few bottles of it in his private storage. Not because he lacked points, but after stepping into the Divine Realm, potions like this barely worked on him, so he never restocked. Besides, after entering the Divine Realm, he rarely ran into fights that could hurt him.
After his War Spirit ascended to that realm back then, it underwent a qualitative metamorphosis, pushing his strength to a terrifying level normal people could hardly imagine.
The girl’s wound healed quickly. In the end it revealed smooth, fair skin, no trace of injury at all. Blood still stained her body, though, and the white ceramic bathroom floor was smeared with glaring red. Seeing the girl still asleep, Feng Ye held her, filled the tub with hot water, set the temperature, and when it felt about right, lowered her in. He tossed her clothes into the washer, then got ready to rinse the bathroom floor with the handheld shower.
But when Feng Ye picked up the girl’s hat, he unexpectedly found a frog passed out underneath it. Its bulging eyes spun with dizzy spirals. That surprised him again.
“Isn’t this the same frog the little loli froze onto the table yesterday?” Feng Ye thought, face a bit odd. He took the frog and hat out of the bathroom, then went back in alone and rinsed the bloodstains off the bathroom floor.
After tidying up, he didn’t hang around in the bathroom. No need to trigger some needless misunderstanding when the girl woke... Not every loli these days is as pure as they used to be.
...
Meanwhile, as Feng Ye found the little loli, somewhere else—in an abandoned factory—someone was coming unhinged.
Falos slammed a heavy fist into a massive steel rebar beside him. Shadow energy surged through his punch, carving a crisp fist print into the metal. His eyes were bloodshot. “Damn it! Damn it! That frog again! I already used a time vortex once. How can it use another so soon...”
“My... Elphis was already mine! If not for that damned frog’s meddling!”
Suddenly, shadow particles leaked off Falos and built into blurry humanoid shapes. Wraith-like, they writhed behind him, stretching hands out as if trying to claw free of his body.
Soon even his mouth, his nostrils, his ears were seeping shadow energy.
Falos’s body trembled as the shadows bled out. He clutched his mouth in pain and bent over. He stayed like that for a long moment before it ebbed. In the end, after he forced the shadow particles back inside, he still dry-heaved. Only after spitting out a few mouthfuls of sour bile did he straighten, gulping air. His already pale face looked even whiter.
“Damn... it had to flare up now? Without the Holy Land’s suppression... the backlash is getting stronger.” Savage light flickered in Falos’s eyes. Dense white motes surfaced in his pupils, and in each mote a silhouette seemed to struggle... all the people he had devoured.
“I have to devour fresh lives to push it down...” he muttered, disgust thick in his voice.
“Elphis...”
But the moment he thought of that girl, pure as a crystal lake, a bit of comfort returned to his heart. The first time he saw Elphis, his whole soul was drawn to her beauty and purity.
“Don’t worry. I’ll take you with me. We’ll find salvation.”
...
“Urgent, online: found a passed-out loli in my bathroom at home, what do I do?” Feng Ye sat on the couch with his phone, his eyes flicking, now and then, to the bathroom’s glass sliding door. Steam billowed inside. His mood, like the fog, was anything but calm.
He’d been calm while treating her. That didn’t mean he could accept all this like it was normal. Honestly, he was a bit at a loss... Especially if the loli woke up. Then he’d have even less idea what to do...
So Feng Ye turned to the almighty netizens for help.
He didn’t have to wait long. The question got its first reply.
“Found a passed-out loli? What’s there to think about? Strike while the iron’s hot.”
“We&Chat... watch￥vids a54654”
“Bro, stop dreaming. Lolis don’t just drop into your lap. You’d have better luck buying a lottery ticket.”
“OP’s definitely read 103,000 smutty books.”
“I say call the cops and get floor one arrested. Also, OP, ask yourself why the porn peddlers target you.”
Replies piled up fast. Feng Ye’s face went dark as he read. Seriously... Maybe he did need to reflect on why the sellers kept zeroing in on him.
Most of the rest was nonsense. No normal answers. His question was weird to begin with... Later, someone even DM’d asking if the loli was for sale. Feng Ye blocked that creep on the spot.
“This society is really not friendly to lolis...” In the end, Feng Ye closed the thread and raked his hair, head aching. He still didn’t know what to do when the girl woke. Hand her over to the Association?
If she were an ordinary person, he’d ask the Awakened Association to find her parents. But from the way she appeared and that through-and-through wound, she was clearly no normal kid.
At first, Feng Ye even thought she was from another world, because her power wasn’t like an Awakened’s. It was mana from the Radiant Land.
But after he probed her, he found no trace of time-space travel on her. That ruled out an otherworlder. After that, the judgment got easier. In this world, only people from the Holy Land use power of the same source as the Radiant Land.
The Holy Land and the Awakened Association aren’t exactly on good terms.
Handing this unknown girl to the Association might not help her—it might hurt her. With that in mind, Feng Ye chose to handle it himself.
“Why would someone from the Holy Land come into a human city...” Feng Ye scrolled his phone, thinking in silence.
Her injuries were odd, too. The force that hurt her felt a bit like mana, but also like an Awakened’s Spirit Energy.
Whoever hurt her didn’t seem intent on killing her. There wasn’t much residual energy in the wound. If it were a life-and-death enemy, that strike would’ve forced energy in, making recovery much harder.
Put together, it left Feng Ye puzzled. He wasn’t the scheming type, either. After thinking for a bit, he gave up...
“Sigh.”
This loli was a headache to handle, especially with his little sister at home. He didn’t know how she’d take it.
Right then—
Splash.
A clear slosh came from the bathroom.
The sound made Feng Ye jolt. His eyes locked on the glass door. Inside was a hazy blur. He couldn’t see anything.
He knew the loli in the tub had probably woken up.
“Uh...”
“What now... A passed-out loli wakes up in my home, and finds herself naked in my tub... How am I supposed to explain that...” Feng Ye was vexed. He felt more pressure now than when he faced the Dark Lord’s hundred-thousand-strong army alone back then.
If it were his sister, she wouldn’t mind him tossing her in the bath stripped. But this was a stranger. Even if they’d met yesterday, who knew if she remembered him. If she did, it might be worse... Next thing you know, it’s a stalk-and-kidnap plotline.
“No, wait. She passed out in my home. Why the hell am I nervous?” He realized he was overthinking. Before she blacked out, she should’ve known where she was...
While he fretted, Feng Ye felt her presence draw closer to the glass door.
Finally, with a soft click... A small hand wrapped the handle and pulled. The glass door slid open, inch by inch.
...
