Esper X Family – Chapter 298 – Taking the Blame

In consideration of An Qi’s health, Ye Yao could only leave the Fate Space with her.

The consciousness of both returned to reality.

An Qi’s expression was somewhat dejected.

“I’m really sorry… I didn’t help much.”

“No, you’ve already helped a lot. If it weren’t for you, I might still be unaware of those sinister rats sneaking around doing bad things.”

Ye Yao patted An Qi’s little head to comfort her.

This little one was truly amazing.

She was practically an external cheat.

With the Spiritual Synchronization skill, her ability could be activated in two-player mode.

It’s just a pity that it seemed like Spiritual Synchronization could only occur when An Qi was using her ability.

At other times, she couldn’t skip An Qi to use【Weaving Fate】.

But this was still pretty good.

It qualified as a thrilling combo move!

An Qi was responsible for offering the mechanism, while Ye Yao was responsible for supplying the numbers.

There was no need for the “Encouragement” skill.

Upon entering the Fate Space, they could unleash devastating strikes on the enemy’s fate line.

Regardless of whether the opponent had a resurrection skill, they would nail down the coffin lid.

It was just a shame that the Fate Space An Qi provided was too complicated.

All observable fate lines were jumbled together.

It was uncertain whether they could accurately locate the enemies’ fate lines.

The scene was too chaotic.

Ye Yao had to float around carefully to avoid touching the fate lines of unrelated people.

Lest she accidentally blow up someone else’s fate line.

After wandering for several hours without finding other fate lines belonging to suspected Sanctuary members, An Qi was exhausted.

Ye Yao guessed that the collapse of the fate line quickly feedbacked to the individual.

It might have alerted them.

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Those Sanctuary rats probably sensed that something was wrong and hid.

After they started to conceal themselves, the fate lines seemed much harder to find.

“Hmph, I’ll find you all sooner or later and smite you.”

Ye Yao turned to look at An Qi.

“An Qi, you should keep resting. You’ve only just started to recover, don’t overexert yourself.”

“Mm.”

An Qi obediently nodded while lying in bed, acting like a little bird relying on others.

She slightly pulled up the blanket to cover her chin.

Her little hand beneath the blanket unconsciously clutched Ye Yao’s clothing.

She used to behave this way to get her grandmother to stay by her bedside.

It made her feel more at ease.

However, the feeling Ye Yao gave her was different from her grandmother’s.

An Qi had a feeling that she would leave her grandmother one day.

But she believed that she could be with Ye Yao for a very, very long time.

Perhaps that was the difference between dependence and attachment.

As An Qi thought, she stared at Ye Yao’s back, feeling assured as she closed her eyes.

In just a short while, she fell asleep.

It seemed that observing fate lines in the Fate Space for so long was indeed very tiring.

Ye Yao glanced at An Qi’s small hand.

She was gripping tightly.

She was probably the kind of person who usually lacked companionship.

“Isn’t it just companionship? I’ll keep you company. At least you don’t see me as your grandmother.”

Otherwise, she didn’t know how depressed she would be.

In short, she had carved out a new place in An Qi’s heart.

A feeling that was a mix of family and companionship.

Ye Yao muttered as she lazily flopped down beside An Qi.

Xia Lian stared enviously at this scene.

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“White Catty, can I join?”

“Vertically.”

“Wahh~”

Xia Lian let out a small cry of sadness.

“Lying by the bed is also fine.”

Since she couldn’t dive into the blankets, she could only settle for second best.

All the humility before White Catty was worth it!

After all, being humble would lead to rewards.

Regarding this, Ye Yao indeed had no objections.

Seeing her not opposing, Xia Lian cheerfully sat down and lay by the bed.

It’s okay to do some little actions while staring at that adorable profile, right?

Right now, Ye Yao truly had no time to care about Xia Lian.

She was studying the Familial Love Value function.

Since An Qi had a special interaction of【Spiritual Synchronization】when her Family Love Value maxed out.

Then did that mean maxing out the others’ Familial Love Values would also lead to special interactions?

From the effects of the special interaction.

It seemed like unlocking two-player mode in a game.

Initially, the abilities only had a single-player mode effect.

Once Spiritual Synchronization was activated, Ye Yao could forcefully take over.

This was how she could gain partial usage authority when the original owner was using their ability.

She just wondered if she could transfer her own numbers over.

An Qi’s ability was quite special.

Once her consciousness entered the Fate Space, Ye Yao was equivalent to the embodiment of her fate line.

According to the future Great Emperor’s theory of once proven, forever proven ¹ A high level Xianxia concept that basically means jumping out of the sea of time and causality. For example, as long as you can reach a certain level in the future, your past and present selves are guaranteed to reach it… at least that’s what I gathered. Different novels have different interpretations. As for the emperor part, it might be from Shrouding the Heavens/Perfect World universe, where ‘Great Emperor’ is one of the highest realms there. I don’t read them so I don’t know much. .

She didn’t need numbers to act as she wished in the Fate Space.

Holding the fate of the future strongest, she could blow up anyone she wanted.

Who dared to compare the weight of their fate with hers?

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It was just that there were too many fate lines of unrelated individuals.

If An Qi hadn’t learned to filter and classify the fate lines, they wouldn’t be able to proceed at all.

She could only wait for her to figure it out over time.

Having just gained such vast mental power, she would require some time to learn and adapt.

Of course, the effects of Spiritual Synchronization on other companions might differ.

At present, Wu Mi and the others were still a bit short of one hundred on their Familial Love Values.

It seemed that it wouldn’t be so easy to max out.

Right now, Ye Yao had an idea.

Perhaps she could use this ability to help Fang Tang master her uncontrollable ability.

So that she wouldn’t perpetually remain in a sealed state.

Ye Yao glanced at Fang Tang’s current Familial Love Value.

【Familial Love Value: 99/100】

【Evaluation: The “Human” who loves “Cat” the most.】

Truly just one step away.

As for this evaluation…

Ye Yao couldn’t help but glance sideways at the “cat lover” who was playing with the ends of her hair.

To think her love for cats actually lost to a little sugary girl.

What a disappointment, Xia Lian!

All that love for you was wasted!

Ye Yao silently shook her head, prepared to ponder about how to raise the Family Love Value.

Of course, it wasn’t too urgent.

She had plenty of time.

She should first check how the brothers were doing.

Ye Yao picked up her phone to take a look.

According to the information relayed by Mu Luo,

They had killed quite a few people last night.

They first selected those who had retreated from the main base to kill, then eliminated their accomplices along the way.

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It was a real family massacre.

One could only say there were rarely any innocent people in those “families”.

One look from Old Gu, and he found them sickening.

Some wealthy families even harbored unspeakable secrets.

The visuals were simply too mind-blowing.

Mu Luo didn’t explain it to Ye Yao in detail.

To prevent such filthy matters from tainting her mind.

Thus, Mu Luo and the others had repeated one act last night.

That was, to keep killing.

However, Old Gu’s efficiency was quite high, and it didn’t make the visuals too bloody.

Many high-ranking individuals speculated that this might be the aftermath of the mysterious Dragon Country Esper.

After all, most of the dead were survivors from that divine miracle.

Thus, Ye Yao had taken quite a bit of the blame.

Of course, it wasn’t exactly taking the blame.

After all, it was done under all her orders.

Old Mu and the others were the blades in her hands.

And bearing infamy seemed to have its perks as well.

Her intimidation factor had increased by another notch!

Let’s see what the brothers’ next plans are.

It seemed that they were preparing to take action against the Sentinel sub-bases.

Looks like there’ll be a good show to watch tonight.

Ye Yao decided to go out and find a good spot to observe!

After all, she was slacking off.

How could she miss out on such fun?

Author Note

The original resident, named Bobo, is all black. My cousin ² The word used here is 堂妹, which is specifically used for a younger female cousin on the male side of the family (basically, daughter of father’s brother). even dressed it up. Speechless.