Volume 2 Rashomon of Yomi Hirasaka Chapter 5 Sisters
From the looks of it, they were like two sides of a mirror. Apart from a few changes in their expressions, the elder sister and the younger sister were almost cast from the same mold. One stood upstairs, the other stood downstairs. In a trance, there was even a sense of hallucination as if time and space were dislocated.
If we have to say the difference, it can only be the momentum created by the two people in different positions and angles . The younger sister stood on the attic, looking down, with her eyes raised. She did not have the quiet and elegant aura of her elder sister at all, but was full of an inexplicable aggression. And it was not the aggression against a certain person, but it was the kind of aggression that seemed to dislike everyone, and even Li Lin, who was holding Sally's hand, was wrapped in a bit of hatred. But because the degree was too low, it did not even reach the cordon.
So Li Lin and Sally looked at each other and felt that this was not a big deal. And the girl did not feel that she had brushed past death at all, but turned her gaze back to her sister. Her pupils were full of hatred and impulse.
"My sister is about to die, but I am still working hard to attract customers. It's such a touching scene. I am almost moved to tears by your dedication to your work."
"He! What are you talking about in front of the guests!"
Sha looked at the sneering girl upstairs and yelled angrily, then quickly turned around and bowed to apologize.
"I'm really sorry to trouble you two guests. I'm really sorry that you two guests have witnessed such a family scandal. Please don't take her words to heart. It's just that she was chosen as Huang Quan's bride, and she is a little mentally unstable-"
"Of course I'm mentally unstable since I'm almost dead? Do you really think I don't know what Huang Quan's bride is? Don't I know what you looked like a year ago, sister? That was a living sacrifice!"
"Nonsense! I also participated, so how come nothing happened now?"
"fine?"
The girl named He glanced at her sister standing outside the house, and a cold and indifferent smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"Are you really my sister? Those who participated in ghost marriages were all in a state of confusion after they came out, and it took more than half a month for them to wake up. Who knows whether it was the real soul that came back or a substitute. Sister, you are trying so hard to pull your sister into the fire pit, you don’t have any other ideas, right? I know it, right? Every night, the water surface and the mirror-"
"and!"
"Don't call me so intimately!"
"Don't talk nonsense in front of guests!"
“…Tsk.”
Before the younger sister could say anything with a sneer on her face, the older sister suddenly raised her voice and disrupted her younger sister's description.
Looking at the sister who closed her mouth because of a scream and had a regretful look on her face, the proprietress Sha took a breath, then turned around and looked at Li Lin and Sally who had been watching the fun for a long time, and a forced smile appeared on her face.
"Um, the two guests..."
"It's okay, we'll just walk around outside."
"Thank you for your understanding. I'm sorry to have troubled you. I will waive the fees for both of you. Please don't spread the news. Please take a stroll in the yard."
Completely ignoring the sister who was still angry, the proprietress first bowed to Li Lin and the others to express her gratitude, then opened the door and walked into the yard. Not long after, she walked to the second floor and dragged the sister into the house. The faint sound of quarreling gradually came out.
It was clear how intense the disagreement between the two people was, because the quarrel became louder and louder after a while. There were also faint sounds of sobbing and objects breaking. It seemed that the two sisters were completely immersed in the script of a family ethics drama, and Li Lin and Sally were happy to be idle. They found two bamboo stools and sat down, and from time to time picked a few flowers from the bamboo forest to dress up Sally.
"My Lord, do you want to get involved?"
She skillfully wove a wreath out of the small flowers in the bamboo forest and put it on her head. Sally stood in front of Li Lin and said with a smile:
"My lord, you also need the historical records of ghost marriages and the underworld, right? Then why not just have a close contact? I think that although the restraints here are heavy, they are not particularly heavy. If you can fight, Sally will also help."
"That's not necessary. And there's no mission. Just look for some records in the library."
"Eh? But wouldn't that be too formulaic..."
"You little girl, what do you know about formality? Anyway, no one is giving out quests, so no matter how big a thing happens here, it has nothing to do with me. The most important quality for a player is focus. I did something last time purely because of the quest requirements, and I can do it without restrictions. But if there is no requirement and no legitimate reason, why would I go through so much trouble? I, your lord, will not do thankless things."
He adjusted Sally's wreath to a more perfect angle, then picked up the little girl and moved her to the stone table. He used the player camera to adjust the angle and took ten consecutive photos, and then took a few more photos in other places. Li Lin then said slowly:
"There's no need to do things that don't benefit you. Don't do things that may cause consequences. We come here simply to see the scenery, not to cause trouble. Even if there is a huge secret in Huangquan, so what? When I was in the Fog City, I knew there was a problem in the middle level, but I didn't dig deeper. If there is no mission, there's no need to move. Play games for physical and mental pleasure. If you feel frustrated, take a big mission to kill people. If you want to relax, just look around. This is the mentality of players."
"oh……"
Although I don’t quite understand it, it feels very powerful.
Seeing Li Lin's words which seemed neither serious nor insincere, Sally nodded half-understandingly.
But he soon gave up thinking, jumped off the table with a laugh, and threw himself into Li Lin's arms, drilling his head into his arms like a drill.
"Save me..."
"……Um?"
Patting Sally's little head, Li Lin was slightly stunned.
Like an auditory hallucination, a subtle and delicate voice, as if coming from another world, sounded in Li Lin's mind.
But it was just like an illusion, disappearing into a bubble of consciousness in the blink of an eye. The distant and hazy texture even made Li Lin feel like he had just left this world and vaguely touched another layer of space.
"Hmm? What's wrong, my Lord?"
"No, did you just hear a voice? Like it came from another world?"
"Let me check the fluctuations in the subspace... Hmm~~~~"
Listening to Li Lin's question, Sally frowned, thought for a while, and finally sighed.
"No, there are too many barriers and suppression objects here. I can't find anything even if I want to investigate... Sorry, sir, Sally is a useless little girl..."
"If we can't find anything, forget it."
After touching the little girl's soft and fluffy hair, Li Lin quickly put it out of his mind.
Although it felt like an illusion, the keen sense of a former world-class professional player told Li Lin that the muffled cry for help was definitely not an illusion.
It would be better to say that the voice sounded like an acquaintance. But Li Lin racked his brains and couldn't think of any female NPCs or acquaintances of the players in this game besides Sally. But the voice was too unique, which made Li Lin fall into thinking.
"I'm sorry to have kept you two guests waiting..."
"Ah, it's you."
"…Hmm? What's wrong?"
The proprietress who walked out of the courtyard subconsciously smoothed her hair at the temples, and looked at Li Lin in a daze as if he had suddenly realized something, completely unaware of what he was talking about.
