I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Jingyang laughed, "Look, we're about the same height now."

He gestured to the top of his head, then made a horizontal cut that landed precisely on Xiao Di's rosy lips.

Xiao Di didn't dodge, but asked curiously, "Is this one of your abilities?"

Jingyang was even more curious than her, "Can't you be a little shocked? How did such a little kid grow up so fast!"

“Because you already looked more like an adult before…” Xiao Di’s glasses slipped down a bit, and she said in a silly and cute way, “So it feels like only your appearance has changed.”

"You have a point." Jingyang pushed her glasses up, and it was then that he noticed she seemed to have some injuries.

In response, Xiaodi said, "Because I can't use 'Absolute,' the recovery is a bit slow..."

Jingyang understood what she meant. Xiaodi was a Nen user, and while her self-healing ability was stronger than that of ordinary people, she was not an Enhancement type. Moreover, in order to protect her unconscious self, she could not enter the "Zetsu" which offered no self-defense capabilities to accelerate her recovery. As a result, her injuries had not been completely healed until now.

He sensed something, then looked out the half-open window. The three bird stars were located just outside the house, guarded by surveillance cameras arranged in a triangle.

"What happened after I passed out?" Jing Yang sat at the table. It was good that he was tall; otherwise, he would have had to jump to sit on the table. "Just tell me briefly."

“Okay,” Xiao Di said. “After I ran away with you, I noticed that your body was changing. I had no choice but to find a shopping mall nearby, rush into the underground parking garage, and hide in an empty stairwell. Within an hour, your body rapidly grew larger and seemed to emanate some kind of energy. I also had some minor injuries from the shock, but they healed quickly. And my hair also grew a little longer.”

She touched the end of her hair and continued, "You grew from 1.1 meters tall to over 1.5 meters before stopping. Once you stabilized, I took you out of the underground parking garage, carried you on my back like a sleeping younger brother, and booked a room at this hotel. Because you hadn't woken up, I've been reading here, and also put your three birds outside to keep watch... Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You remember it so clearly?" Jingyang laughed. "You didn't make it up, did you?"

Xiao Di said, "No, I just remember."

Jingyang reached out and ruffled her hair. "I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I'm never tall enough, haha."

Xiao Di touched her tangled hair and tried her best to straighten it.

"Anyway, thank you," Jingyang said. "Without you, I'm afraid we would have been exposed."

"Exposed?" Little Drop asked curiously.

"With such an amazing ability, what would happen if people found out?" Jing Yang thought for a moment and said, "If any creature dies near me, something will fly into my body. If it accumulates to a certain level, something like what happened before will happen."

"Oh..." Little Drops nodded, seemingly lost in her own thoughts, before finally asking, "Shouldn't we go to the hospital to get it checked out?"

Jingyang remained silent, lost in thought.

"Because you don't seem to be sure about your own body age every time you wake up. It proves that you can't control these bodily changes." Little Drop still had that adorable blank expression. "If this continues, you'll definitely have a short lifespan."

"...Little Di, has anyone ever told you that you speak very harshly?"

"No." After saying that, Xiao Di looked at Jing Yang curiously, "Or, when your body reaches the end of its aging process, will it revert to the appearance of a child?"

"What kind of assumptions have you made about me...?"

Jing Yang sat back down on the edge of the bed, looking out the window. He could vaguely hear one or two police sirens speeding by in the distance. He suddenly asked, "Xiao Di, do you know about international servers?"

"Mmm." Little Drop nodded.

Jingyang patted the seat next to him, and Xiaodi sat down next to him. She said, "People in Meteor Street should all know this. The international server stores the identity information of everyone in the world, except us."

“Except for you,” Jingyang said.

After a while, he slowly said, "The problem is this: I don't know if my identity information is on the international server. If it is, going to the hospital for treatment could very well be tantamount to exposing myself. And I can't expose myself yet, at least not until I have a certain ability to protect myself, or at least until I leave this continent."

Little Drop thought for a moment, then turned to look at him and said, "So you really will have a short life."

Jingyang reached out and pinched her cheek, then sighed and fell backward.

Not long after, Xiao Di heard him lying in bed saying, "I won't die young. Let's make a deal: at most, when my body reaches 28 years old, I will definitely find a way to solve this problem."

"The dog sister of the Twelve Zodiacs seems to be a hunter of rare diseases... By the time I'm '28,' I should be old enough to speak up, right?" Jing Yang muttered to himself, looking at the ceiling. "If my body doesn't suddenly age to 28 again from absorbing too much death energy..."

Xiao Di asked in confusion, "Why 28 years old?"

Jingyang said, "Because only after you turn 28 do you feel like you're losing out even if you force yourself to mature for just one day..."

Xiao Di still didn't quite understand what he meant.

Jing Yang smiled, sat up straight, looked at his palm, and said to Xiao Di, "A target carrying a star mark will not be completely cut off from life even if its head is cut off, as long as the star mark itself is not destroyed. Although this level of injury will take a long time to heal, at least it will not die immediately."

"That's amazing..." Little Drop said, then suddenly realized, "Are you going to put stars on me to speed up my healing?"

"Do you mind?" Jingyang asked.

Xiao Di shook her head, looked down at herself, and suddenly lifted the hem of her black sweater to reveal her fair and flat stomach. She pointed to the clearly defined abs on one side and said, "Draw it here."

Chapter 51 Marked Location

A small section of the lip balm was pushed out and pressed against the smooth, white side of the skin, leaving a mark that was not too obvious but enough to be seen with the naked eye as it moved.

Xiao Di stood in front of Jing Yang by the bed, biting the hem of her sweater, waiting for him to finish drawing on her waist and abdomen.

It was almost noon, and the noise of traffic outside the hotel window filled the air, along with the oppressive heat.

After Jingyang finished drawing, he reached out and condensed a ball of energy, pressing it onto the blurry pentagram pattern on Xiaodi's abdomen. The complete pattern was covered by Jingyang's energy, immediately triggering Jingyang's manipulation ability "Song of the Earth," instantly leaving a rose-gold pentagram mark on Xiaodi's skin.

Xiao Di quickly sensed a slight change in the energy within her.

The mark Jingyang made on his waist and abdomen was like a core hub, completely integrating the little bit of Qi belonging to Jingyang into his own Qi, and the energy in his body began to move uncontrollably as a result... He could clearly feel that some of the remaining wounds on his body were healing faster, and even the recovery speed of his Qi itself seemed to be faster than usual.

“But why did you say you wanted to draw it here?” Jingyang suddenly asked.

"What?" Xiao Di snapped out of her daze, looked down and touched the rose-gold star imprinted on her waist and abdomen. "Isn't it better to draw it here?"

“I told you, didn’t I? If the star is damaged, it will disappear immediately.” Jing Yang held up a finger. “Even a minor scratch or a small mark left by a sharp object will remove it as long as it damages the integrity of the star itself.”

He pointed to Xiao Di's fair and supple waist and abdomen, "Placing the mark on such a prominent position, in a location that is not easy to defend against in battle, seems to be quite risky."

Xiao Di paused for a moment, then said, "Because your star mark looks a bit like a tattoo, and if I were to get a tattoo, this is the first place I would think of..."

"Shall we go somewhere else?"

Her blank expression didn't change much. She seemed to think for a moment, then suddenly went to unbutton her jeans.

"Hey, hey, no, no, no!" Jingyang quickly grabbed her wandering hand. "Let's talk this out. What are you trying to do?"

Xiao Shi said, "Because if it's a private area that the body would instinctively protect, then even in battle, the star mark wouldn't be easily affected, right?"

"You have some good ideas, don't you?"

Jing Yang flicked Xiao Di's belly with his finger, wiping away the star mark that already appeared on her waist and abdomen, then placed the lip balm in her palm and closed her five fingers, "But you can do it yourself."

Xiao Di held the lip balm in her hand and looked at him for a while. "Oh, okay." Then she turned around, her back to Jing Yang, and started biting the hem of her sweater again, unbuttoning her jeans and busying herself with her work.

A few seconds later, she heard Jingyang remind her from behind: "Don't smudge the pattern when you put it on."

"understood……"

Little Di responded somewhat vaguely, biting the hem of her sweater.

After finishing the drawing, she carefully pulled up her underwear, buttoned it up, put down her sweater, and turned around.

Jing Yang raised his hand and conjured a ball of energy. Looking at Xiao Di's jeans, he asked with a serious expression, "Where did you draw?"

Xiao Di pointed to the inside of her jeans at the base of her left thigh, her movements a little stiff because she couldn't smudge the lipstick pattern she had just drawn on her skin.

Jingyang reached out and gently pressed the ball of energy towards the spot where Xiaodi's fingers were.

Even though the star couldn't be seen through the clothing, Jingyang didn't need his eyes to detect the star's position. Soon, he sensed a new star forming under his finger through the denim fabric.

"It's done."

Jingyang nodded with satisfaction.

Xiao Di thought for a moment, then sat down next to Jing Yang and turned her head to ask curiously, "Did you make me draw it myself just now because you were shy?"

"Heh! I just didn't want to bully you." Jing Yang chuckled. "Otherwise, you'd already been marked by me, wouldn't you be completely at my mercy? I'd just take off your clothes if I told you to... Stop!"

"The clothes are a bit wrinkled." Xiao Di smoothed out the hem of the sweater, then suddenly realized and asked curiously, "Can Jing Yang's star mark also be used to give verbal orders?"

“Yes,” Jingyang said, “but even a verbal command is a clear use of Nen ability, so it feels different from normal conversation. As a star bearer, if you are forced to act after I give you a verbal command, you will definitely be able to feel that sense of helplessness.”

“Oh…” Little Drop nodded in realization and calmly commented, “Although Jingyang is a Manipulation type, he doesn’t manipulate other people’s will. Your Nen ability shows that you are essentially a good person.”

"Little Di, stand up and dance a bit to 'Love You'..."

In an instant, Xiao Di understood what Jing Yang meant by "being unable to control one's own body." After Jing Yang gave the order, her body immediately stood up.

"Am I still a good person now?" Jing Yang sneered repeatedly.

Xiao Di let her body move to youthful and playful dance steps on its own, while asking curiously, "I've never seen this kind of dance before. Since Jing Yang said you can't control your own will, is Jing Yang actually giving orders and then actively controlling me to dance this dance?"

"Hmm..." Jing Yang only remembered a few signature moves, and quickly deactivated the second operation mode, casually asking, "Little Di, how old are you?"

Xiao Di regained her freedom of movement, stuck out her tongue, and sat back down next to Jing Yang. "14..." she thought for a moment, "No, it's already 15."

“Look,” Jingyang said earnestly, “that’s why I almost committed a crime, you know?”

Little Drop stared intently at him.

“I’m half a head shorter than you now…” Jing Yang pondered, “It seems like I’ve fast-forwarded straight to puberty. How old is someone who’s 1.5 meters tall?”

He looked at Xiaodi, and Xiaodi continued to look at him.

He decided, "Then I'll be 12 years old."

"Aren't you 20 years old?" Xiao Di asked doubtfully.

Jingyang said, "Twenty is the age of the mind, twelve is the age of the body..."

"Oh……"

"After talking for so long, I'm starving. Let's go out and get something to eat."

Jingyang stood up and then suddenly realized that his clothes were a bit tight—after all, his body had grown from 1.1 meters to 1.5 meters.

Fortunately, I had considered the possibility of this happening beforehand, so the clothes I wore were relatively loose. Although they didn't fit perfectly, at most my long pants became shorts, and my short-sleeved shirt almost became a skin-hugging tank top...

Xiao Di said, "I have other sweatpants, which are unisex."

"Come here!"

……

At a small roadside restaurant, Jingyang and Xiaodi ordered their food and sat together watching the news program on the television. It was reporting on the terrorist attack that had occurred that morning on Weston Street in front of Cosmo Station. Reporters were broadcasting live from the scene, with many stretchers and paramedics moving back and forth in the background…

"Let's postpone the plan to buy spaceship tickets and leave a little longer," Jing Yang said while eating.

Xiao Di was a little confused.