Sweeping both worlds: Starting from idealistic martial arts

Chapter 418 The Dragon King of the Toyokawa Family Returns to His Position!
On the dilapidated, cold sofa in the basement, Toyokawa Shoko drifted into a rare, peaceful sleep, something she hadn't experienced in months.

My consciousness gradually blurred and sank, as if I were passing through a layer of murky water.

The suffocating musty smell, the metallic scent of rain, the icy touch of scattered wine bottles... all these exhausting realities were gradually fading away.

Immediately afterwards, a strange yet familiar aura enveloped her.

It's the faint, delicate fragrance of expensive sandalwood furniture, mixed with the scent of carefully maintained silk fabrics and the essential oils of some precious flowers.

'It felt as peaceful as coming home.'

Shoko Toyokawa was peacefully thinking in her dream, and even somewhat unwilling to wake up.

Because after waking up from this beautiful dream, she would have to face the tangled mess of reality.

She had to move around in the cramped rented room, clean up the mess her father made after his drunken escapade, and then head to school, maintaining a cool and aloof demeanor and refusing any social interaction. After school, she would continue to wander the streets and alleys, desperately searching for part-time jobs that could barely make ends meet...

Reality is heavier than the gravity of a black hole, tearing all ideals, dreams, wishes, and expectations into rags.

Life confines everyone within rules and regulations, forcing them to live each day at a fixed rhythm. Once you realize the horror within, you become completely unable to escape.

'I should wake up... or I'll be late...'

A thought whispered in her subconscious. She tried to open her eyes, and the darkness before her was slowly drawn back like a curtain.

What comes into view is a ceiling adorned with star-shaped decorations.

'The ceiling is so familiar!' she thought to herself, then her eyes widened!
'—Huh?!'

Shoko Toyokawa woke up instantly, sat up abruptly in bed, and looked around in astonishment.

She was actually lying on that familiar big bed in the Toyokawa family home.
Yes, it's that large, artfully crafted soft bed in the boudoir of the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family.

The feel is reminiscent of an extremely expensive velvet mattress that almost completely envelops the body and provides just the right amount of support.

The blanket covering her was made of top-quality silk, as smooth as flowing spring water and cool to the touch.

'This...is a dream? It must be a lucid dream...' she tried to convince herself almost instinctively.

How could that be reality? Even if I could teleport back here, it's impossible for my pajamas to change instantly, right?

"woke up?"

A clear, familiar voice came from beside the bed.

She turned her head and saw the white-haired, red-eyed, dazzlingly handsome summon beast—Fang Can.

He had changed into casual clothes and was sitting lazily on the edge of the bed.

'Even Fang Can appeared in this lucid dream?'

While the illusion of the "dream" was still lingering, Xiangzi's long-suppressed curiosity finally took over.

She reached out and, to Fang Can's slightly surprised gaze, pinched his cool, jade-like left cheek. With a gentle tug, an unusually wonderful sensation came from her fingertips, making her momentarily forget to let go.

She envied the boy's good skin and had long wanted to try it out.

Now that she's having a lucid dream, she should naturally be bolder and take advantage of it, even using both hands to indulge in her love for it.

But the next second, her cheeks were pulled apart even more dramatically, and the pain brought tears to her eyes instantly.

"Hajixiang, you've got some nerve! You just moved back into this big house and you're already acting all high and mighty towards me?" Fang Can released his grip, his tone laced with unfriendly mockery: "Are you going to start riding on my head and bullying me from now on?"

He dares to take action now; he doesn't even dare to think about what he might do in the future.

The stinging pain on my face instantly shattered all my self-deception.

Shoko Toyokawa stared wide-eyed in shock: "This isn't a dream?!"

"Of course not."

"But I remember being in a basement apartment, right? How long did I sleep?"

"Oh, it's not that long. If I calculate the time, it's probably around eight hours," Fang Can estimated.

"But... I was clearly in a basement rental room! How did I end up here?" Xiangzi was still incredulous, looking around at the luxurious yet familiar surroundings.

"Oh, well, it's simple..." Fang Can began to recall what happened after she fell asleep last night.

……

[Rewind to after Fang Can left the rented apartment]

"Reporting to Elder Qingqiu, after close surveillance, we discovered a white-haired man emerging from the rented house of the Toyokawa family's bastard!" The subordinate urgently reported to an elder within the Toyokawa family.

"What!" Toyokawa Kiyoaki's expression changed drastically upon hearing his subordinate's report.

"According to the surveillance video from our subordinates, the man was wearing an ancient dragon robe with the Chinese characters 'Fang Can' embroidered on the back, but no matter how we searched, we couldn't find any trace of him."

"Could it be that the bastard Toyokawa actually summoned something with the arm he bought for 168 billion?" Toyokawa Kiyoaki frowned, filled with doubt and surprise.

"Toyokawa Sadaharu went into seclusion three years ago, and his fate remains unknown. Now is the perfect opportunity to eliminate him completely and prevent future troubles, thus giving me the chance to ascend to the position of head of the family! This woman must not be allowed to live!"

He snorted coldly, a glint of cold light flashing in his eyes:

"I originally set up a scheme to have my strange underlings lurk near her street and deliberately cause a murder at the shop where she works, so that she can't find an easy job and can only do the most tiring manual labor."

"And they made her rent a basement with seriously excessive formaldehyde levels, and bribed her teachers to assign the heaviest amount of homework to her class."

“They also gave her coupons for meals from unhygienic shops every day and deliberately added emetics to Toyokawa Tang Hao’s wine, all to work her to death little by little so that no one else in the family would gossip.”

"I never expected that she would turn her fortunes around and actually summon an apostle. The current situation can no longer tolerate my slow action. I must let her witness the most terrifying darkness of the Toyokawa family!"

As Toyokawa Kiyoaki spoke, his killing intent grew stronger, but he was mindful of his opponent's strength. Instead, he coldly ordered his subordinates:

"Go! Contact the Mainland Hotel immediately! Hire the ultimate killer, Tao Pai Pai, with a hefty sum! Kill Toyokawa Shoko and his summoned creatures!"

"I will ensure that the entire Toyokawa Sadaharu lineage, including that bastard's alcoholic father, is wiped out completely!!!"

Toyokawa Kiyoaki snorted coldly, and then the order to kill Toyokawa Shoko's entire family, with a hefty reward offered, quickly reached Tao Pai Pai's ears from the Mainland Hotel.

That night, a tall, thin man with a small braid down his back, wearing a pink Chinese-style robe and shiny leather shoes, landed precisely in the night of Mika City on a flying stone pillar.

In the darkness, he walked expressionlessly along the predetermined route toward Toyokawa Shoko's cramped apartment.

However, at the fork in the road he was bound to take, his target appeared ahead of time.

A white-haired young man, surrounded by a group of radiant, elegantly dressed women, blocked his way. "You must be Tao Pai Pai, the number one underground assassin in the mainland hotels," Fang Can said with a smile, his hands in his pockets as he looked at the man in front of him.

"You know me?" Tao Pai Pai looked at the young man surrounded by many beauties with some surprise.

What surprised him was not that the other person knew him, but that after knowing him, they didn't run away? Instead, they boldly took the initiative to meet him.

"Of course, I've long admired your name," Fang Can said with a smile.

From the moment the Toyokawa family read out the name specially embroidered on the back of his clothes, his real name radar went off with a "ding".

After carefully listening to Toyokawa Kiyoaki's plan, he was ready to see just how good this top assassin in the underworld really was.

Or rather, look at how much this guy in front of you resembles the original character.

"Alright, spread out and don't interfere with my actions."

Fang Can spoke casually to the many beautiful and wealthy women surrounding him.

"What an arrogant brat!"

Tao Pai Pai was annoyed by the man's actions, and he was so annoyed he felt like he was going to die.

next moment!
He died in less than a second!
The head detached from the neck, rolled to the ground with a thud, and bounced twice with a springy bounce.

The headless corpse froze for a moment, then collapsed to its knees with a thud.

Looking at the headless corpse in front of him, Fang Can nodded to himself after completing the test: "Although the world view has changed, the corresponding characters are indeed the same as in the original work."

"In the end, the characters in Dragon Ball are all melee mages. Apart from ki, they are just strong mortals. It seems that the reference value of the original work can be appropriately increased."

After dealing with these minor enemies, Fang Can thought that since he was out here, he shouldn't just sit idle.

He headed straight for the Toyokawa family's ancestral lands.

He wanted to see just how dark this "family darkness" that intended to make Xiangzi "fall naturally" could be.
……

"Later, while you were asleep, I went up to the Toyokawa family and gave them a 'friendly' tour from top to bottom. I beat up all the people who had mocked you before."

“Like Toyokawa Kiyoaki, who tried to harm you before, I broke their legs and threw them outside.”

"When I came back, I found you were already asleep. Seeing how bad the basement was, I took it upon myself to quietly move you back to the Toyokawa family home and cast a sleeping spell on you to make sure you wouldn't be woken up."

Fang Can briefly recounted what had happened last night, leaving Toyokawa Shoko speechless with astonishment.

"So, in other words, all the bad luck I've had—being fired from my job multiple times, eating cheap meals, and living in a basement—was orchestrated by the Toyokawa family's capital?"

“Yes, that’s one way to understand it.” Fang Can nodded gently.

“Then…my pajamas are yours too…” Xiangzi subconsciously gripped the corner of the blanket, looking at Fang Can with a complicated expression.

"Don't misunderstand," Fang Can interrupted her thoughts, "I instructed your maid to change it."

"So... in just one night... I'm back at the Toyokawa family?"

Shoko Toyokawa stroked the smooth, satin-like velvet blanket beneath her, feeling that this was even more bizarre than a fantastical dream. The shock of this sudden turn of events far exceeded her expectations.

"Otherwise, if you're willing to endure hardship, I can have the Fengchuan family send you back to your rented apartment overnight so you can experience the life of customer service Xiao Xiang again," Fang Can joked.

Fang Can had some ideas about self-improvement, feeling that as the male protagonist in an erotic novel, experiencing some hardship was a good way to add some flavor to his otherwise sultry life.

But he has little patience for "playing along" with his friends or those who suffer injustice and hardship due to malicious manipulation.

After all, he cultivated so diligently precisely to prevent those idiotic authors from creating those unsatisfying plot points out of their pretentious literary sensibilities from recurring around him.

Fang Can was too lazy to play along with the others' act about the Toyokawa family's darkness and setbacks. He just wanted to smash them all to pieces!

"Next, you should go back to being a student and focus on your studies."

Fang Can stood by the bed, his tone calm yet carrying an undeniable force: "Find time to go find those friends you've hurt and sincerely apologize. Then, rebuild your band and sing the songs you want to sing."

"As for the trivial matters of the Toyokawa family... that's not something you should be worrying about right now."

Fang Can stood beside Toyokawa Shoko, effectively deciding the rest of her life.

With his current strength, he could at least protect a few girls and help them form a band to sing, if not save them from all the crises on this super planet.

At this moment, Toyokawa Shoko felt a sense of peace she had never felt before!
Everything she had hoped for after losing it before had returned to her like a dream. Toyokawa Shoko stared blankly at the man in front of her; only a day had passed.

Suddenly, her tear ducts became uncontrollable, her eyes misted over, and tears began to well up in her eyes. She then threw herself into Fang Can's arms and burst into tears.

"Hey, why are you crying?"

Fang Can looked somewhat uncomfortable. No woman had ever cried in front of him before, and he was momentarily at a loss for what to do.

After considering a strategy in his mind, the straight man suppressed the urge to slap the girl in front of him to wake her up.

Fang Can finally said helplessly, "After you're done crying, remember to get up and wash up. There are still many members of the Fengchuan family waiting for you outside. They've been kneeling outside all night."

"Kneeling all night?" Toyokawa Shoko asked, looking up as she sobbed.

"You'll see when you go outside."

Ten minutes later, the maids who had been dressed and helped open the door were met with a crowd of clansmen kneeling before them.

As the gate opened, it was as if a switch had been flipped, and everyone, including the uncles and aunts, bowed in unison:
"The entire clan respectfully welcomes Miss Xiangzi back to the family!"

"Don't just stand there, Toyokawa Ryujin. You still have to go to school. Do you want the driver to take you to Haneoka in a Maybach?" Fang Can said leisurely from the side.

……

Meanwhile, in the underground world of Super Japan.

In the foundation's underground meeting, a man crossed his arms and said solemnly:
"How is the selection process for the Holy Grail War personnel going?"

“They have been selected according to the selection criteria recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

"Very good. Remember to follow the ritual step by step and make the corresponding wish at the end, otherwise the ancient god will destroy the entire world."

"Don't worry too much. Besides us, the four branches in Stockholm, Argentina, Spain, and North America are also conducting sacrificial ceremonies at the same time."

An old man chuckled and said, "Even if we Japanese fail, as long as one of the other four branches succeeds, we can prevent the destruction of the world."

(End of this chapter)