Esper X Family – Chapter 260 – Stress-Induced Darkening is Perfectly Reasonable

“Hmph, the ‘Two Supremes in One House ¹ Apparently the source is from Dungeon Fighter Online (an MMO known as DNF in CN), where having both the Supreme Title and Supreme Pet (pay to win stuff) is a symbol of strength and status. The term later spread and the meaning changed to having two geniuses in one sect/clan/family. ‘ achievement is halfway done, just waiting for our dear Old Mu.”

Ye Yao was in a very good mood.

The diligent and hardworking Gu Wenxin had finally reached S-rank.

A genuine five thousand mental power.

Truly the number one in Sequence Zero.

Ye Yao had thought that Mu Luo would be the first to achieve S-rank.

Unexpectedly, Gu Wenxin had surpassed him with ease.

Upon reflection, it didn’t seem all that strange.

Old Gu had a unique leveling mechanism.

The more evil people he killed, the faster his own improvement would be.

Compared to Mu Luo, after licking so many experience packs…

Overtaking him halfway was perfectly reasonable.

Still, Ye Yao was a bit surprised by Gu Wenxin’s speed of advancement.

Logically, the S-rank bottleneck should’ve been extremely difficult to break through.

The leap from 4,999 to 5,000 was said to be as difficult as scaling the heavens.

Otherwise, the Countermeasures Bureau wouldn’t have fewer than ten S-rank Espers.

Many were stuck at the 4,999 mark.

Breaking through truly required the perfect alignment of timing, location, and human effort, and not a single one could be missing.

Ye Yao had thought that Gu Wenxin would be stuck for ten or fifteen days.

She hadn’t expected him to be so competitive.

He broke through as smoothly as water flowing into a canal.

“Hmm, surely I had a part in this. The system said everyone shares in this honor.

If I hadn’t contributed, how could the stingy system give me attribute points?”

Ye Yao shamelessly claimed her credit.

She had no shame left.

The current unallocated attribute points were 40.

A huge fortune!

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If Mu Luo also successfully advanced to S-rank, another 10 points would make it 50.

Ye Yao needed to find an opportunity to allocate them all.

Such a “huge” improvement naturally required the perfect timing.

Otherwise, Lou Wei and the others might grow suspicious.

Until she could reliably defeat the Celestial Form Dayun Truck alone.

Ye Yao had to continue her act.

“Things are looking up~”

Then, Ye Yao replied to Gu Wenxin, telling him to wait for Mu Luo so that they could come to the Yunited States together.

There were still many evil people in the Yunited States.

They were practically everywhere.

Even if killing just one only gave 1 mental power, there were still plenty.

Winning by quantity was feasible.

Of course, Gu Wenxin probably didn’t care about that.

Even if killing evil people didn’t grant mental power, he would likely do it without hesitation.

Fission body Ye Yao put down her phone and glanced at the purple-haired girl who was still unconscious on the bed.

“She’s been asleep for a while.”

Ye Yao couldn’t help but poke An Qi’s soft cheek.

Her initially pale face had regained its rosy hue.

But there was still no sign of her waking up.

If it weren’t for the fact that the unstable factors within her had been confirmed to be removed.

Ye Yao might have thought that she was still suffering.

Xia Lian’s voice sounded beside her.

“White Catty, is this little one really okay? It’s so strange she hasn’t woken up yet.”

She was full of “love” for every “cat”.

It’s just that she allocated more “love” to Ye Yao.

Even though An Qi hadn’t initially warmed up to Xia Lian, it didn’t affect Xia Lian’s affection for her.

After all, she excelled at forcing her affection.

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Ye Yao wasn’t entirely sure either.

“Hmm, she should be fine, right?”

An Qi had already been added to the family section by the system.

If she were in any life-threatening danger, the system would surely give some indication.

The system’s current silence proved that An Qi was fine.

“I guess the massive surge in mental power must’ve given her a huge shock.

It’s said that An Qi initially had only a few hundred mental power, not even B-rank.

After being injected with ‘Holy Blood’, she directly jumped to over four thousand.

Her ability might’ve gone through unexpected strengthening from such an intense mental power baptism.

Maybe her current coma is due to her ability?”

Ye Yao began to speculate using her little brain.

But even if her speculation was correct, it didn’t matter.

Ye Yao couldn’t interfere.

She couldn’t exactly reenact the Sleeping Beauty scenario to wake An Qi up, right?

She could only wait for the little one to wake up on her own.

It shouldn’t take too long.

Time passed slowly.

Ye Yao had already toured the place where she would acquire knowledge in the future.

The Countermeasures Bureau headquarters was enormous.

Naturally, there was an area akin to an educational zone.

Ye Yao and the others had visited the theoretical learning area today.

There was a large space resembling a lecture hall.

It was said that before any practical training, one had to learn various knowledge about Espers.

Ye Yao estimated that the Countermeasures Bureau would try to drag out the theoretical classes for as long as possible.

Even if there were rare practical classes, they would likely be heavily watered down.

Like having self-study sessions during class.

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Or free activities during physical education.

But Ye Yao didn’t mind.

She was only pretending to put in some effort.

She would find an opportunity to reveal some of her abilities.

To make the old-timers at the Countermeasures Bureau nervous.

And prompt them to increase the benefits.

Then, she would just enjoy herself.

On the way back to the dorm.

Ye Yao’s phone chimed with a notification.

Picking it up, she saw it was a message from someone labeled “Unc”, sent via a social app by a certain strongest in history.

Not as the Countermeasures Bureau Director, but as a relative.

He even sent a voice message!

Typical of elders.

“Niece, I heard you’re in the capital. Come visit if you have time. I’ll prepare whatever you’d like to eat.”

Ye Yao thought for a moment, not replying immediately, as if organizing her words.

Fu Qi seemed to be chatting with her on the app, but he could be with Lou Wei, watching from above.

How shady!

“Uncle, just call me Little Yao. Calling me ‘niece’ feels weird.”

“Hmm, I have to stay on campus for school, but I’ll visit on weekends if I have time.”

“Oh, and can I bring friends along?”

Up in the sky, Fu Qi couldn’t help but sigh upon hearing the soft, obedient voice from the phone.

Compared to his first meeting with Ye Tong,

it was like the difference between an angel and a devil!

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If Ye Tong’s initial mentality had come from Ye Yao, how had she turned into such a troublesome personality?

Fu Qi couldn’t help but glance at the silent Lou Wei beside him.

“Why are you looking at me?”

“I suspect Ye Tong turned out this way because you were too harsh back then.”

Killing a newborn child several times…

Ye Tong’s stress-induced darkening was perfectly reasonable.

In fact, it could be said that given her circumstances, it was already a testament to Ye Yao’s good qualities.

Such a good personality, that even after Lou Wei had killed her several times, she had only hissed.

Just this alone showed how likable Ye Yao’s original personality was.

Lou Wei: “…”

He had indeed considered this variable.

But he really didn’t want to recall it.

“In that information-deficient situation, my judgment was reasonable.”

“Reasonable indeed. But children don’t care about what’s correct or not.”

The implied meaning was: If Ye Tong hisses at you, you’ll have to take it.

Fu Qi shook his head and replied to Ye Yao, his tone much gentler.

“No problem, bring as many friends as you like. I’ll have your aunt prepare something delicious.”

“Thank you, Uncle.”

Ye Yao replied and put away her phone.

Fu Qi’s invitation suited her perfectly.

Without a fixed spawn point, it was hard to gather important intel from the mysterious newspaper-reading man.

Fu Qi was a system-certified family member.

Perfect for a good plucking!

Author Note

There’s still quite a bit of orenji left, so I definitely won’t get a fever. Sigh, I’ll try to test a few more before I buy next time.

Text: You can’t do that anymore