Chapter 24: Just Call Her Old Aunt
“Li Wei, open the door!!”
The knocking sound from outside was very loud, and the shouting voice could even be described as ‘thunderous’.
But······ contrary to Li Wei’s expectations, this voice was actually a girl’s voice?!
Something’s up.
Could it be that Li Wei in this world has gotten up?
Got a girlfriend???
At this moment, he couldn’t help but feel a little excited and a little thrilled, rubbing his hands excitedly, gulping down some saliva, and standing up.
At this moment! His body was very honestly telling him that he was very familiar with the owner of this voice.
Full of expectation, Li Wei beat Mime Jr. to it and ran to the door.
Without hurrying to open the door, he first pretentiously tidied up his hairstyle, smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes, cleared his throat, and then opened the door with a smile on his face······ only to revert back to a blank expression.
The girl standing at the door was very familiar to him, even without accessing the memories of this body, he would recognize her.
No, even if she got fat like a pig, Li Wei could still recognize her.
His mother’s great-grandpa’s brother’s······ daughter’s.
They grew up together since childhood, and the two could be considered childhood sweethearts, but because their interests and hobbies were extremely similar, they gradually developed into good brothers. And this good brother suffered some setback during evolution and accidentally turned into a tigress.
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Strictly speaking, they are relatives, just the kind from three generations removed.
Unless there’s some major event requiring implicating the nine clans, they’re relatives so distant they’re basically untraceable, and they only see each other at clan gatherings.
The reason they hang out together is because they live on the upper and lower floors of the same building, and the two families can be considered ‘relatives’, so they’ve had interactions since they were little.
Of course, the ‘living close’ in Li Wei’s impression refers to before he came to this magical Pokémon World, and as for after transmigration······
Li Wei figured that his mother’s great-grandpa’s brother’s······· daughter should still be a neighbor, no mistake, but no longer in the simple upper and lower floor small building from before, but the kind living in a mansion, a rich dog household.
The girl’s name is Tian Bai, and her style here is fairly consistent with his impression.
Standard ponytail, women’s sportswear, looking full of energy and vitality.
The first thing she did upon seeing Li Wei was to swing a punch at him.
Bang!
Hmm, good thing it doesn’t hurt at all.
Having expected to meet a girlfriend but running into Tian Bai instead, Li Wei was very disappointed, so he didn’t even bother to keep up the act, directly sighing.
“Hey! Are you addicted to flaking out?!”
Li Wei had no intention of listening to her, twitching the corner of his mouth, closing the door after she walked into the entryway, ignoring Tian Bai and heading straight back to the dining room to continue eating.
No problem, they’re on great terms, so her words can be completely ignored.
Moreover······ this is routine, it’s just that when gaming, he’ll face long-accumulated revenge.
As former buddies who could seamlessly play League of Legends and grind Butter together, Li Wei really never treated Tian Bai as the opposite sex, or rather, he only ever saw her as an alien.
“Hey!! Why are you ignoring me!!”
(#`O′)
Tian Bai followed behind, continuing to yell.
“Because I’m hungry.”
Really unable to find any reason, Li Wei could only give such a feeble brush-off.
“Hmm? It’s almost eight o’clock and you haven’t had breakfast yet?”
Sure enough, Tian Bai’s attention was diverted.
“Mm.”
“Alright then, eat first, I’ll talk later.”
Unbelievably, even Li Wei himself hadn’t expected that Tian Bai here would be so easy to deal with.
Tian Bai followed behind Li Wei to the kitchen, where Mime Jr. gestured a big heart to Tian Bai, and Dragonair, who was scooping cereal with a spoon nearby, also wagged its tail at Tian Bai in greeting. It seemed like in this home, the only one who ‘doesn’t know’ Tian Bai is himself·······
“Bu Yi?”
【Who is she···?】
Eevee’s sudden appearance made Li Wei instantly feel like he’d found his group.
His two Pokémon don’t know her either!
Nice!
I’m not alone!
“Her name is Tian Bai, neighbor, mother’s great-grandpa’s brother’s……daughter. Mm····· by age, she’s about a month older than me, so just call her old auntie.”
“Bu Yi??”
【Really??】
“Mm.”
“Bu Yi!!”
After getting Li Wei’s explanation and understanding the ‘true situation’, Eevee gave Tian Bai a very saccharine smile, wagging its tail wildly to show friendliness.
Of course, what Eevee’s ‘Bu Yi’ really meant, Li Wei thought it best if Tian Bai never knew in her lifetime.
Cute Pokémon have one advantage: wherever they go, they’ll be hugged left and right by girls.
In that instant, Li Wei was filled with hatred!
He felt that transmigrating to a parallel world and being reborn into his own body was a total loss!
If he had been reborn as an Eevee, or a Pikachu, or even a Spritzee, wouldn’t his days be as cushy as could be?
Of course, he wasn’t envying the Eevee currently held in Tian Bai’s arms—flat front and back, nothing to envy. He was just putting himself in its place, thinking if he became a cute Eevee, walking down the street to flirt with pretty girls.
This······ how much headpat aura could he enjoy!!
What a huge loss.
Thinking of his sixteen single years····· about to be seventeen!!! Li Wei was seething.
Of course, he quickly let it go.
Things are different now; he’s a standard rich second generation.
Magic City young tycoon.
Diamond bachelor reserve.
With just these titles, going to school to find a pretty girl shouldn’t be hard, right?
Pretty girl, date me, I’m super sweet, for real~
“Riolu!”
While Li Wei was deeply immersed in his fantasies, Riolu was running down from upstairs.
Having just showered and blow-dried, Riolu still had a small towel draped over it. Upon reaching the dining room and seeing the ‘stranger’, it politely bowed in greeting.
Look at that, that’s manners, that’s family tradition.
He’s raised it well!
“Riolu!!!”
When she saw this Pokémon come out, Tian Bai was stunned.
“Wow! Li Wei, are you this hardcore? Aura? Aura???”
Tian Bai stopped petting Eevee and stared at Riolu with shining eyes.
After all, while this Eevee is cute, how could it compare to this Riolu!!
“Mm? Basic operation, don’t get too excited.”
Li Wei waved his hand, saying it nonchalantly.
Calm as an old dog on the surface, happy as a silly dog inside.
No matter how thrilled he felt, he had to desperately put on an air of indifference, like ‘this is totally ordinary’.
Li Wei’s punchable expression didn’t draw a retort from Tian Bai; her focus was completely elsewhere.
“Damn, you awakened Aura and didn’t even tell me?”
“We agreed that after the physical examination, once you bought a Pokémon, you’d contact me!! But you!! Said nothing, making me think you didn’t inherit Psychic Power. I didn’t dare ask because I was afraid you’d be upset, you you······”
Seeing Li Wei still looking ‘indifferent’, Tian Bai got mad.
“Hey! Don’t you think you’re going too far?! Not mentioning such a big thing in the group is one thing! Not even telling me! We agreed to meet yesterday to buy training stuff together and you didn’t show! Not answering calls or texts!!! What the hell do you mean by that!!”
Tian Bai pounded the table to express her dissatisfaction.
Her current look was just like those readers who, back when he delayed updates and didn’t draw books, sent videos saying they were dying.
“Hmm?? You called me?”
But on the point of ‘not answering calls’, Li Wei was a bit confused.
How could he not answer calls??
Yesterday he even harassed Doctor Liu several times; as a modern youth who carries his mobile phone 24/7, how could he have missed calls?
“Yeah!! I called you over twenty times yesterday!!”
“Impossible! Look, I don’t have a single missed call notification.” Li Wei flatly denied it.
Then, to prove his ‘integrity’, he pulled out his mobile phone, opened the call log, and put it in front of Tian Bai.
“See, there aren’t any.”
“Eh eh eh??”
“Impossible! I called you!!”
Now Tian Bai was the confused one.
She also took out her mobile phone, slid to the call log, and showed her records.
【Stupid Wei（27）】
The ID was eye-catching, but obviously not the time to comment on it.
And calling so many times without him hearing a single one or getting any alerts was indeed a bit off.
Putting away his mobile phone, Li Wei opened the texts, scrolling even back to March, but still found no messages tagged with ‘Tian Bai’.
Li Wei was even more puzzled.
Opening his contacts, after scrolling through, he got it.
He hadn’t saved Tian Bai’s phone number with her name.
“What’s your phone number?”, Li Wei asked.
“Hmm??”
Tian Bai was stunned.
They’d grown up together since childhood, over a decade of friendship, and this childhood friend suddenly asks ‘What’s your phone number?’.
Mentality collapsed.
What’s wrong with this guy!! Is this how you treat people!!! Waaah!!!
She’d even set Li Wei as a special contact, and this is it??
For a moment, she even felt an urge to bang her head against the wall.
Mm····· by banging Li Wei against the wall.
Tian Bai took a deep breath, declaring her broad-mindedness, holding back the urge to stomp her feet, and reported her phone number to Li Wei.
And not saying it was fine, but once she did, it immediately awakened Li Wei’s long-sealed memory.
That was a few days after he first transmigrated.
That day he received a barrage of texts from an unknown number.
‘Where are you?’
‘Call me?’
‘There? Why aren’t you replying to my messages?’
First came these inexplicable and unsettling things.
Soon after, it quickly turned into ‘Where are you?’
‘I’m coming to find you now, you free?’
‘There?’
Until yesterday, the messages got even more unhinged.
‘Where are you?’
‘Why can’t I find you?’
So while grilling skewers, Li Wei decisively blocked the number and added it to the blacklist.
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“Ah haha, I thought you were spam texts, so I blocked you.”
After a brief silence, Li Wei chose to cruelly tell the truth.
??????
“Spam texts???”
“Those count as spam texts???”
Tian Bai felt her mentality cracking a bit, even suspecting Li Wei was deliberately messing with her!!
This guy has always been so mean!!
But······ still so infuriating!!!
(“)=3
And unaware of Tian Bai’s rich inner world, Li Wei continued to ruthlessly twist the knife from all angles.
“Yeah, if it were you, seeing an unknown number keep texting ‘Where are you?’ ‘I’m coming to find you right now’, wouldn’t you panic!”
“Damn! After all these years, you don’t even recognize my phone number??”
“Nope.”
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Such a cheeky Li Wei completely ‘hurt’ Tian Bai’s fragile heart.
After two seconds of silence, the previously well-behaved Tian Bai sitting across from him suddenly grabbed the Eevee in her arms and hurled it at his face.
Eevee was dumbfounded, Li Wei was dumbfounded.
And before the person and Eevee could react, Tian Bai lunged forward, grabbed Li Wei’s arm, and without hesitation threw him over her shoulder!
“Li Wei you heartless bastard!!!!”
Of course, Li Wei didn’t hit the ground but was held afloat three centimeters above it by the Aura controlled by the stunned Riolu nearby.
And Tian Bai didn’t look back at Li Wei, not noticing Riolu’s action. At this moment, she was ‘waaah’ing while grabbing Dragonair’s tail—who hadn’t finished its cereal—and dashing up to the second floor.
At this time, Li Wei floating above the ground wasn’t focused on the considerate Riolu or the heartbroken Tian Bai.
His focus was entirely on Dragonair’s despondent head bobbing up and down the stairs; he felt a bit sorry for it.
Especially seeing the ‘just as I thought’ look in Dragonair’s eyes, Li Wei felt even more sympathy.
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Today’s py: 《I Have a Detective Agency》
Su Ke, a murder mystery （Script Killing） enthusiast, after graduating university, in a moment of impulse, used the 200,000 yuan inheritance and storefront left by his parents to open a Detective Agency specializing in offline Script Killing.
Business barely covers living expenses, but one day, he finds an extra APP on his mobile phone.
If you like it, Author’s Notes has the link.
Timo’s Flop Diary
June 30th, overcast/heavy rain
Heavy rain pouring down
Mm······
Rainy days really make you want to sleep.
Rainy days really aren’t suitable for work.
Slumped…
