Chapter 167: Teacher La’s After-school Lesson
Aoxi is an honest and introverted girl.
Her personality is shy and introverted, not good with words, often lowering her head in shyness after just a few sentences, not daring to make eye contact with others.
Just like now, even facing her own sister, she doesn’t dare to look directly at her, just lowering her head in silence.
“Looks like you’ve already figured out the most suitable method for yourself.”
Sister La straightens the last seedling, then stands up and looks at Aoxi still hanging in mid-air.
Anyway, she’s idle, so let’s hit the child a bit.
“Sister La, Sister La.”
“Let me down, I want to go to the toilet~”
Ding~
The activation sound of the Millennium Puzzle rings out, golden light flashes, shining on Aoxi’s face.
“Gua!!! No, I don’t want to learn anymore!”
“Sister La, let me go!”
“Help! Murder!”
“Murdering your own little sister!”
“Don’t—”
The howling voice abruptly stops, and Aoxi is directly pulled into the mind room inside the puzzle.
Slowly catching Aoxi’s body left outside, Sister La places it on the wicker chair nearby, then enters the inside of the Millennium Puzzle herself.
In the pure white mind room, Aoxi is still closing her eyes and flailing her limbs instinctively, seemingly not yet reacting from the pendant mode.
“Aoxi.”
“Gah?”
Sister La’s call makes Aoxi open her eyes, then she looks around and finds herself in the pure white room she visited once before, with piles of gold visible in the distance forming several small mountains.
“Sister La, let me out.”
“I won’t learn, it’s fine like this.”
Seeing Sister La, Aoxi immediately crawls over and hugs her leg.
“Just treat me like a fart and let me go~”
Looking at her little sister with a face full of pleading, Sister La comforts her:
“Don’t worry, Aoxi.”
“With your talent, you should master it quickly.”
Pa~
Sister La snaps her fingers, and countless golden light particles gather around, followed by four hundred-meter-tall golden obelisks rising from the ground.
These four obelisks emanating a sacred aura stand at the four corners forming a perfect square, their surfaces engraved with ancient hieroglyphs, like four giants guarding a god enclosing Aoxi within.
“Eh?”
“This, what is this?”
Looking at these massive stone tablets, Aoxi has a very bad premonition.
“Aoxi, do you remember that game we played before?”
“Game? Which one?”
Aoxi is momentarily confused, after all, there are too many games they’ve played from childhood to now, too many to count.
“《Touhou Eternal Night Copy》”
“Touhou…”
Sister La’s figure gradually turns into photons and leaves the mind room, leaving behind Aoxi with a dazed expression.
“Sister La! Don’t—”
Whoosh—!
Before she finishes speaking, the hieroglyphs on the obelisk flash with light, and a golden impact shoots toward Aoxi’s position.
This attack is extremely fast and at a tricky angle, even with Aoxi’s astonishing reaction speed, she barely dodges it.
Looking at the few strands of severed hair cut off, Aoxi immediately focuses all her mental power, bracing herself.
But before she can catch her breath, the second, third, and fourth attacks come one after another.
Whoosh—!
Whoosh whoosh—!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!
Bia~
“Gua ah!”
Aoxi dodges left and right, lunges forward and back, spreading her Observation Haki to the limit, but still carelessly gets hit on the cheek by an impact.
Since she’s in soul state, the pain feedback is exceptionally clear, making her grit her teeth on the spot.
“Hiss~”
But the obelisk gives her no time to recover, dozens more golden lights flash, and even the other three obelisks light up at this moment.
“Hey, hey! No way?!”
“At least give me some time to adapt!”
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Countless hieroglyphs on the four obelisks scatter golden light, attacks connecting heaven and earth instantly filling the entire space, leaving almost no gaps.
Seeing this, Aoxi goes all out, directly spreading her wings and bursting out with unprecedented speed to rush into the sky.
That’s the only place the bullet hell doesn’t cover.
“That place! If I can just get there…”
“Watch me, one soar—”
Splatting!
Aoxi’s line isn’t finished when she crashes headfirst into an invisible wall.
Sister La had anticipated she would try to escape the attack range directly, so these four obelisks are not only bullet hell launchers but also anchor points for a closed barrier.
After all, bullet hell games can’t let you run off-screen…
“Damn it, how is there an air wall!”
“Is this also part of your plan, Sister La?”
Aoxi rubs her head, about to complain more, but hundreds of bullet hell lights have already lit up behind her.
“Aaaaaaah!”
In this space where no instruments can detect anything, Aoxi’s horrific screams echo endlessly…
……
“Remember you said home is the only castle, continue running along the river of rice fragrance”
In the real world, Sister La hums a song from her hometown while hanging the Millennium Puzzle on Aoxi, letting her stay in the mind room.
Then she continues barefoot, bending down to tend to those seedlings.
“Countryside ballads, eternal reliance, go home, back to the original beauty”
……
Somewhere in the New World, an elegantly shaped pirate ship is sailing on the sea surface.
No, rather than a pirate ship, it’s more fitting to call it a work of art.
The rare wine-red paint combined with golden accents makes the ship understated yet noble.
A pair of exquisite mermaid statues below the prow mast add considerable artistic flair.
Oro Jackson… or rather, the Golden Jackson.
This pirate ship, built by hand from raw materials of Adam Treasure Tree by the famous shipwright Fish-Man Tom of the Seven Water Capital, is top-notch in every aspect, and it seems to have just gone through a battle.
The smell of gunpowder on the ship hasn’t dissipated, but the hull shows no obvious damage, so the opponent probably wasn’t a strong enemy.
“Captain Roger, look, what’s this?”
A blue-haired little boy wobbles over from a pile of treasure, holding up an exquisite box like a treasure offering.
This is one of their spoils of war this time.
The boy looks about five or six years old, but has a very prominent red nose, round and very cute.
“Hey, Buggy, I clearly saw it first.”
Another red-haired boy about the same age shouts in dissatisfaction.
“Shut up, Shanks.”
“I grabbed it first, so it’s mine.”
The red-nosed little boy pouts in rebuttal.
“But this was clearly robbed by Captain Roger and the others.”
“That’s why I’m showing it to Captain Roger now~”
“Hahaha! Alright, Buggy, Shanks, you two stop arguing.”
“Let me see.”
A man wearing a captain’s coat, with a mustache of nose hair, looking quite sharp, laughs and takes the box.
Seeing their captain open the box directly, the red-nosed and red-haired little ones put aside their dispute and curiously gather around.
The others on the ship also crane their necks, wanting to see what’s inside the box.
After all, someone said that ninety percent of a treasure chest’s value is in the moment it’s opened.
“Oh~ oh~ oh!”
“Dig cool dig cool~”
The moment the box opens, a pink light flashes, and everyone holds their breath.
“This is…”
“Hm… hm?”
PS: Speaking of which, Roger’s is probably genuine nose hair, right.
