Esper X Family – Chapter 530 – Charm Successful

Considering that the parallel Xia Lian had transformed from a weakling into a dragon on her own, Ye Yao could certainly separate her from the original timeline’s Xia Lian.

Her tolerance was genuine, her admiration was real, and her appreciation was utterly undisguised.

Without her, Ye Yao wouldn’t know how shattered the little group formed by that certain mysterious wriggly man would have become.

Seeing how desperately she had taken care of those few kids, Ye Yao could forgive her earlier insults.

But why wouldn’t parallel Xia Lian look her in the eye?

Why was she turning her head away?

Since Ye Yao hadn’t recognized parallel Xia Lian as family yet, she couldn’t use the system’s information sorting either.

Seeing parallel Xia Lian’s seemingly evasive behavior, a speechless suspicion surfaced in Ye Yao’s mind.

Could she have been charmed by this white-haired loli form?

That couldn’t be, right?

Parallel Xia Lian had successfully transformed into a dragon in this parallel world. There was no way she would be charmed by a girl she had just met.

Thinking carefully.

Parallel Xia Lian had gone silent after she shed Ye Ge’s outer appearance.

Had she still not recovered?

“From what Old Jiang told me, I already know how hard you’ve tried. I’m truly happy for your successful transformation. Calling you a weakling was indeed my fault.”

“…Thanks for the compliment.”

Parallel Xia Lian’s mind was in chaos. Faced with Ye Yao’s compliment, she could only respond reflexively.

If anyone else spoke to her in that same ‘leader-like’ tone, she probably wouldn’t have given them a pleasant look.

But when Ye Yao praised her, parallel Xia Lian couldn’t suppress the feelings inside her.

She’s different!

Parallel Xia Lian was rather sensitive to emotions, or rather, any expert was sensitive to emotions.

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Ye Yao didn’t care about her earlier insults.

After shedding that cold exterior, her true charm finally emerged.

An astonishing approachability, an inexplicable tolerance, and a kind of care that seemed to come from nowhere.

This is clearly a good cat!

Not the kind of bad woman who would hurt what she wanted to protect.

Parallel Xia Lian really wanted to complain, just a little.

Why didn’t she invade in this form earlier?

If only you’d said your earlier form was a disguise.

If she had descended as a mysterious White Catty, she wouldn’t have reacted so harshly!

Ye Yao nodded.

“Looks like you’ve calmed down. You probably won’t suddenly ambush me now. I can put you down.”

“Just keep me up here for a while. Let me gather my thoughts…”

Parallel Xia Lian said quietly.

Truth be told, An Qi, Yin Yi, and Wu Mi were a little afraid of her.

After all, her aura wasn’t exactly approachable, and her mental state worsened as time passed.

Her eyes grew fiercer by the day.

So, in the past three years, parallel Xia Lian hadn’t really been able to ‘pet the cat’, nor had her heart received any so-called healing.

She wouldn’t force her affection on those kids who were a bit scared of her. She only kept her distance silently.

And now, a brand new White Catty had appeared.

Smaller, cuter, and far more attractive.

She hadn’t come to destroy this family; she seemed like she was here to join it.

Facing this little one who wasn’t afraid of her at all, parallel Xia Lian might not be able to suppress the feelings she had held back for so long.

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Most importantly, she wasn’t afraid of her!

If this isn’t seduction, what else could it be?

So, the only way to resist that urge was to keep herself restrained.

“?”

Ye Yao looked baffled.

How come parallel Xia Lian looks like she’s been possessed by ‘weakling’?

Where’s that fierce edge of yours?

Don’t scare me like that!

“I still prefer you in that defiant, untamed state.”

Muttering to herself, Ye Yao decided to go along with parallel Xia Lian’s request, then stepped into the painted residence.

Entering the hall.

Ye Yao soon saw the familiar yet unfamiliar figures.

Three figures sat on chairs in the hall, waiting for news.

An Qi and Wu Mi, known in Sequence Zero as the ‘Explosive Fuse ¹ It’s not very obvious in English. The ‘fuse’ here uses the word 线xian (line), as in ‘fate line’. ’ and ‘Gold Medal Support’.

To some extent, when cooperating with Ye Yao, they could achieve an effect where one plus one equaled more than a hundred.

And now, in this parallel world, the two had grown up after three years, from budding beauties into young maidens, their adolescent charm greatly amplified.

Their appearances hadn’t changed much from three years ago. They were just a bit taller, their once-cute faces slightly more defined.

Nothing as dramatic as the saying, ‘a girl changes eighteen times as she grows up’.

“Their mental states don’t look too bad.”

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Naturally, this mainly referred to the older Wu Mi.

She wasn’t acting like a puppet on strings as she had in the original timeline. It seemed like parallel Xia Lian had figured out the nature of her vicious cycle.

As long as you slightly broke that cycle, you could ease the situation to some extent.

As for the young An Qi, she wore a confused expression, almost mumbling to herself.

“Strange… the fate space isn’t giving any hints. Back when adults from the Countermeasures Bureau flew overhead, fate kept sending warnings…”

Using her super hearing, Ye Yao caught this remark and suddenly understood.

“So that’s it.”

The reason this little group had lived in this residence for so long was surely thanks to the young An Qi.

Her ability had some function of intuition or precognition, letting her know when danger was coming in advance.

In her words, it was “fate’s instructions”.

Parallel Lou Wei must have flown over this area. With his mental power, he must have scanned it, too.

But parallel Mu Luo and the others had followed the young An Qi’s instructions and made the necessary preparations.

That was how they evaded his perception time and again.

It had to be said that An Qi truly deserved her rank as an innate Sequence Esper, even ahead of Xia Lian.

Still, there were occasional mistakes, like the time she got abducted in the original timeline, which was a huge stroke of bad luck.

In this timeline, she was saved because a certain companion named Yin Yi warned her in time.

Ye Yao looked at the one completely unfamiliar figure, and the heavy stone in her heart finally fell.

It’s truly been a… long, winding detour.

I finally found you.

Just then, the three young girls noticed Ye Yao and the others approaching.

Naturally, the most eye-catching one was the unfamiliar face.

Who’s this adorable little sister?

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The young An Qi tilted her head, then closed her eyes and let her consciousness enter the fate space.

At that moment, she realized that her normally orderly fate line had suddenly become tightly entangled with a particular, special fate line!

Not only hers, but the other two beside her as well!

The fate lines of the other older brothers and sisters were also drawing closer!

But normally, wasn’t the intersection supposed to happen slowly?

What was this rapid convergence and entanglement about?

“Did Brother Mu Luo bring back a new companion?”

“I don’t know.”

Faced with An Qi’s puzzled voice, the blonde girl beside her shook her head.

She, Yin Yi, was an unlucky one who had accidentally ended up in a parallel world and knew basically nothing.

None of the three felt wary of Ye Yao.

After all, this white-haired loli was even smaller than they were, so harmless and innocent, with not a trace of the pressure a stranger might bring.

Ye Yao stepped up and greeted them.

“Hi~ Hello, my name is Ye Yao. Would you be interested in forming a family called ‘Sequence Zero’ with me?”

The white-haired girl’s smile was like a warm sun, leaving an excellent first impression on the three young girls.

If this were a game, a prompt would definitely pop up:

Charm Successful!

Author Note

Judging from the current pace of the plot, it seems like it won’t be over anytime soon. How could this be?

Text: Oyo~