"Nii-san! Nii-san! I'm finally not alone anymore."
"Nanika is so happy. So happy."
Nanika wrapped its arms around Sean's neck, jumping and hopping with joy. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought it was a lively and cute child.
The heart that had been in Sean's throat slowly settled back down. He rubbed Nanika's little head and smiled, "Of course. You have Nii-san. You will never be alone again."
The fierce wind howled. Zigg turned his head, silently watching Sean hugging, embracing, talking, and laughing with the empty air. His heart sank to the bottom, and his hair stood on end for no reason.
'What Nanika? What Nii-san? Has this kid Sean seen something unclean?'
Experience counts. It wasn't just Zigg; Maha, who had been observing Sean with his hands behind his back, frowned. He left Zeno behind and appeared on the back mountain ahead of schedule.
"Roar!" The giant dragon lowered its wings and prostrated on the ground. The few of them jumped down from its back. Sean spared a trace of his attention to observe this forbidden land. It could only be described with one phrase: sealed by a toxic miasma, with not a blade of grass growing.
"Let's go, Sean. Your great-grandfather is also waiting in the house."
"I believe you have something to say."
The wooden door opened, revealing a rocking chair moving inside. Zigg gave Sean a meaningful look.
Before Sean could speak, his right hand was shaken violently. Sean looked down. In Nanika's dark, deep eyes, tears were glistening. It pleaded pitifully, "Nii-san! I don't want to go back to this damned place."
"Please, take me away, okay?"
Another [Request]! 'Can I fucking say no?'
Sean's expression was dark and uncertain. He vaguely felt like he had been plotted against!
As a transmigrator, he should have been outside the chessboard, looking down on this world from a god's perspective.
But ever since his enlightenment last time, when he decided to build his own Nen ability characteristics based on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements and walk a path of carefree detachment, everything seemed to have gone wrong.
First, the human traffickers he had cleared out of Meteor City made a comeback, taking Sarasa's place, killing Kaixi—the child in the Troupe who voiced Jiraiya—and once again forcing the young Spiders onto the blackened path of their original, destined fate.
Then today, his [Wind] characteristic had been mastered, and his Nen ability had advanced. Nanika, who should have been born along with Alluka, appeared early and latched onto him, as if it just couldn't let him have his way, forcibly twisting or changing his influence on this world... or rather, its trajectory.
In short, it seemed that behind this world, some kind of will existed. It had noticed him, this anomaly, and wanted to conquer him, to make him bow his head. If he didn't, it would use Nanika's four consecutive [Requests] to take his life!
But... whoever it was, they seemed to have overlooked one problem—
'I'm a fucking transmigrator. You want to use Nanika to force me to bow? Can't I just use Nanika to screw you over in return?'
'Or do you think I don't know Nanika's mechanism at all?'
Sean smiled. 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. When it comes to being crazy, I'm someone who's already died once. Would I be afraid of you?'
Sean sneered coldly. He crouched down directly and gently gathered Nanika into his arms. "Nanika, do you want to live inside Nii-san's body?"
"With Nii-san accompanying you, you'll never have to be afraid of being lonely again."
'Since you've come early, then don't leave!' [Request], is it? As long as he, Sean, became Nanika's host, then from now on, only he would be [Requesting] things from others; no one would be requesting things from him!
"Really?"
"That's great, Nii-san! I want... I want to live in your body right now!"
Nanika gave Sean a hard kiss, plunged its head into his chest, and instantly appeared on his heart's lake.
Two years had passed, and Sean's heart lake had long since expanded from a spring's eye into a large lake. On the shore, there was fragrant green grass and a small stool.
As soon as Nanika entered, it jumped into the lake and began to swim around happily. Sean immersed his consciousness, watching it from the lakeside. When the child got tired of swimming, it actively climbed ashore, lay down on the green grass at Sean's feet, and looked at Sean with satisfaction. "Nii-san! I've decided. This will be my home from now on."
Home?
"That's right. This is your home from now on." Sean materialized a towel and lovingly helped Nanika dry the water from its body. "From now on, whatever you want, just think it, and tell me, your big brother, directly. You don't need to read anyone's expression or beg anyone ever again."
"Wuwu... Nii-san, thank you. Nanika is so moved, really so moved..." Its mouth puckered, and Nanika turned over to hug Sean's calf, whimpering and crying.
Sean rubbed its little head, comforted it for a while, and instructed it to remember to call him immediately if anything came up. His consciousness returned... and he quietly let out a breath.
"Om~"
The [En · Gyo] state was deactivated.
A familiar voice timely entered Sean's ears. Maha was rocking his chair, holding an H-manga in his hand. Hearing the movement, he poked his head out from behind the manga and glanced at him. "You're back?"
Sean nodded. Without saying a word, he took the tea Zigg had steeped, and gulp~ gulp~ downed a large mouthful. Only then did he let out a satisfied breath.
"Talk. What on earth happened?"
"Muttering to yourself and laughing like a fool for no reason. I thought you'd been kicked in the head by Xiao Y."
"Who is Xiao Y?" Sean glanced at Zigg. Zigg pointed to the giant dragon outside the window. The giant dragon shook its head and snorted two streams of air from its nostrils.
"Oh, it's him." Sean pursed his lips. "He looks pretty majestic, but compared to my harvest today, he's nothing but bullshit!"
'A wish-granting machine... that's not something any random cat or dog can compare to. Not to mention, this dragon isn't even a real dragon. At best, it's a giant fluttering moth that grew three pairs of wings.'
"Roar!" 'Who are you calling a fluttering moth?'
The dragon was unconvinced. It angrily opened its mouth, baring its sharp teeth at Sean. However, the little thing didn't even bother to find out who the "King of the Mountain" was here.
Sean gave it a dismissive sidelong glance. "Shut up."
With a raise of his hand, a "Wind Rope" whoosh! shot out, circled the giant dragon, and in a few moves, tied it up like a rice dumpling!
"Wind Style: Wind Binding Rope!" 'It's the understanding of wind from that old scoundrel. It can weave wind into any weapon. In "Naruto", Danzō blowing wind into a sword is this principle.'
"Tsk... Zigg, see that? This is incredible." The H-manga in his hand snapped shut. The old man gave Sean a snarky, sidelong glance. "He's just broken his Nen limit, and he's already getting this cocky. Give him another two years..."
"He'll probably be shitting on our heads."
"It won't get to that." Sean winked at Maha. "You have to take turns shitting, too. Don't worry, Grandpa. After I deal with Dad first, then it'll be your turn."