Chapter 196
Translator: Pluto Editor: WMX
"I thought duoluozhongs that had turned into spirits only knew how to deceive and kill people . . . " the girl commented sweetly while she smoothed out her gloves . She was standing on one of the train seats and was stepping on the neck of a man with a gray face . Her Mary Jane seemed to be some sort of special item so the man was unable to move . He struggled on the same spot while the girl ignored him . The girl stretched out her arms and encircled the brain . Lin Sanjiu didn't even have any time to escape .
"You're must be a pretty smart duoluozhong," the girl chuckled . She looked a little gleeful and a little absent-minded . Her gloves glowed as she placed them on Lin Sanjiu . Mrs . Manas, who had spotted the girl seconds ago, was mad with worry . "What should we do?" she said repetitively, giving Lin Sanjiu a headache . As the gloves were about to reach her, Lin Sanjiu hollered, "Shut up!" Following which, Lin Sanjiu immobilized all her higher consciousness and created a flow aiming forward .
A second before the gloves could touch the surface of the brain, the girl let out a gasp, "Huh?" She quickly stopped and withdrew her attack . The grayish-white brain in front of her had changed its shape and now looked like a dagger . It hung in front of her, preparing to attack . Even though it didn't look that sharp, the girl couldn't help hesitating as this was the first time encountering such a situation .
After thinking for a second, the girl turned and shouted, "Bro, I found the brain . It can even morph . . . Huh? Ahhh!"
The teenage boy heard a loud thud and quickly leaped up . His sister's voice seemed a little off, so he quickly hurried to the carriage she was in and asked, "What happened?"
The moment he stepped into the carriage, he paused . Then, he covered his mouth and his shoulders started trembling . He did not move from the carriage door and started bending over .
"What are you laughing at!"
The girl who had fallen on the ground in a mess was furious when she saw her brother laughing at her . However, her voice was a little wobbly after being punched right in the middle of her face . She even had a nosebleed . "Quick, look for that brain! That shitty thing punched me and ran away!"
The teenage boy seemed to enjoy the sight of his sister in a rather sorry state . After some time, he slowly agreed . He headed to the back of the carriage and looked around . . . with a rather casual attitude .
"Where are you looking? Could it be outside the window? Go to the fourth carriage, go there!" the girl shouted unhappily .
Lin Sanjiu held her dagger form for a while just as a distraction, whereas, she used all her 'lifeforce'—though she did not have her body, she managed to condense her entire form to create a significant amount of force—to knock that girl off balance . The girl's eyes filled with tears while she continued feeling dizzy . Some time had passed, but her nose was still bleeding like a dripping faucet .
Her brother had disappeared from her view for quite some time and had not returned . A weird dough-like being, appearing almost as if someone stretched a human body, slowly crept towards her . Once it exhaled a breath of cold air, directing it at the girl's neck, she reacted with a punch without even looking . The creature was immediately punched far away from her, while she held her nose with another hand .
"Bastard! How dare you hit me! I must destroy you! Just a duoluozhong . . . " the girl wiped the tears from her face . Her face felt scathing hot . "Brother, where the hell did you go anyway? Why aren't you back?" She had barely spouted those words when she heard her brother's voice coming from a few carriages away . As the noise from the traveling train was too loud, the girl almost didn't hear what he said: "Rena, let me ask you something!"
"What?" the girl named Rena snapped, there were less tears clouding her eyes . "If you are not looking for that brain, what do you have to say to me?"
"Do you think . . . the brain is a spirit duoluozhong?" Her brother sounded unruffled—anyway, he wasn't the one who was hurt . "But it is weird . . . We're wearing anti-corrosion outfits which work perfectly against black matter . We haven't been assimilated at all, so how can it touch you?"
"Oh?" The girl froze for a second .
In Kisaragi Station World, everything was being corroded by black matter at different speeds . Humans and things related to humans had the fastest corrosion rates . Other than a handful of people, most of the original human population in this world had died as a result of this . When they died, a large number of them turned into duoluozhongs—taking the form of supernatural spirits .
When a person from a foreign world first arrived at Kisaragi Station, the person's body had not been assimilated by black matter . Thus, they would be unable to touch or see any of the spirits . Although the spirits could see that person, they couldn't touch the person until that person had been corroded by black matter to a certain extent .
That is to say, if the brain could touch her . . .
While the girl sat on the floor in a daze, her brother's footsteps quickly approached her . There was a gray brain floating rather sluggishly above him . When Lin Sanjiu relaxed, without controlling her form, she naturally transformed back to the shape of a brain .
"Ah! That's the one!" the girl jumped up and the multiple accessories all over her body jangled along . Before she could pounce on it, her brother immediately turned sideways and defended the brain, "Just wait! She is not a duoluozhong!"
The girl stared at her brother with her half-opened mouth, displaying an expression that showed that she knew what he said was possible but was reluctant to accept it .
"It's pretty much your fault for demanding that you wanted to kill stuff on the train . " Her brother grinned as he planted his hands into his pockets as if he didn't participate in massacring the other spirit duoluozhongs just moments before . "She attacked you out of self-defense . It was unavoidable, I guess . But, I had a good chat with her . "
"Chat?" the girl frowned, "It's just a brain . How do you talk to it?"
Lin Sanjiu immediately demonstrated how they communicated .
Even though she had only used her higher consciousness in this manner for a few times, her control had improved significantly . The brain slowly became longer and thinner . Then, it was partitioned into a few small subsections . Each subsection slowly transformed into alphabets which spelled: Are you stupid?
There was even a question mark .
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