I love time travel the most!

Xiaolin could sense that its vitality was almost exhausted, like an old man with a candle flickering in the wind.

It is also a forbidden doll.

Kobayashi bowed slightly and said politely, "I am Kobayashi, an incompetent puppeteer. And next to me is my automaton, Ryuu."

Liu Zi also gracefully bowed.

Akabane Raishin and Komurasaki both gave their names.

"You actually dared to give your own name. Should I call you bold or just incredibly daring?"

"Of course it's the former. But I believe you didn't mean to harm us, did you?"

This is the dog kennel.

Even if they are far away, as long as it howls, the kennel will become chaotic, and Kobayashi and the others will be exposed, leading to endless trouble.

And the reason it doesn't do that...

“It’s revenge.” It said with a bitter smile, “I was already destined to be abandoned, though I don’t know if that’s a blessing or a curse, and I’m imprisoned in a place like this. So there’s no need for me to be loyal to those guys anymore.”

"why?"

"What a boring question. Isn't it simple? There's no need to keep me around anymore. After all, maintaining my survival requires a considerable amount of money..."

"Do not make jokes!"

Akabane Raishin suddenly shouted excitedly, and when everyone's eyes turned to him, he realized he had lost his composure and apologized in a low voice.

Kobayashi also said, "You know what? Frey keeps trying to assassinate me because you're being used against her."

His tone was soft, but Akabane Raishin knew that Kobayashi was already angry.

"Frei? Assassination? What do you mean by that? What happened between you and that girl? No, why did that girl have to do that? What did you do to her?!"

Upon hearing the familiar name, it immediately became alert, its expression suddenly changing to reveal its sharp teeth, as if it were about to pounce.

"Hey, hey, listen to me carefully." Kobayashi sighed and said, "It's you, it's you who was used as leverage, so Frey came to assassinate me, okay?"

"…It's me?"

The old dog swayed, seemingly surprised to hear this explanation.

Seeing this, Xiaolin invited, "How about it, do you want to come out with me? You might say that you don't need to go out and that it's fine to just stay here and wait to die, but there's a kind girl outside who's worried that you'll have to resort to assassination to kill others and is waiting for you."

It hesitated for a moment.

Finally, he jumped down the steps, sat down in front of Kobayashi, and stretched out his neck.

There was a sturdy-looking collar reinforced with metal, from which a line emitting a bluish-white light extended and reached a pillar to the side.

Those must be the iron chains formed after the magic power was forcibly absorbed, probably used to restrain it.

Can you untie the collar?

it asked.

Kobayashi did not answer, but he extended two fingers, and a light blue magic power condensed at the fingertips.

Swah——

In an instant, the collar was cut off.

Akabane Raishin raised an eyebrow upon seeing this. He could also remove the collar and chains if he were in the same situation, but the tools he used were too primitive, and it would probably take a long time to break the chain.

"your name?"

"Yomi."

Are you Frey's family?

"...So be it."

"Okay, I understand. Since we're family, I'll do everything I can to protect you."

Kobayashi nodded.

When Yomi heard this, it grinned... if opening its mouth and showing its teeth counts as a smile.

"Come with me, I'll show you inside the orphanage."

"Thank u."

"But what you will see here is the hell of this world."

It casts a gaze that seems to be testing people, with astonishing power, making one think of hellhounds.

Xiao Zi couldn't help but fall down on her bottom.

But Kobayashi laughed and said, "Hell? I've seen it many times before."

But this time, something is a little different.

It's a bit detailed, but since he's a prospective member of the Axis Order, more detail is better, don't you think? (evil grin)

Chapter 149 The Saved Lives

Follow its footsteps to the second floor.

The corridor on the second floor is lined with many small rooms, which look like student dormitories. The room in the southeast corner is Frey's bedroom.

open the door.

The walls and floors were cracked, and the room contained no furniture other than a bed and a dilapidated table.

It was simple, but very cozy. One wall next to the bed was covered with photos.

The photo shows a lively boy, a smiling girl, and a young couple with gentle smiles.

The smiling girl was Frey.

But now, her face no longer shows a smile; instead, it is filled with timidity and fear, making her look completely different from the person in the photo.

The siblings in the photo are very young; this must be a scene from before they came to this orphanage.

“Frei’s parents used to be an excellent pair of puppeteers… that’s what I heard. Apparently, they were performing a puppet show in a theater troupe, but during the performance, the puppets they were manipulating suddenly went out of control, and I heard that blood splattered on the surrounding audience.” Yomi’s voice was tinged with sadness.

"Did you hear it from Frey?" Kobayashi asked in a low voice.

"Yes."

Jomi nodded in agreement.

Akabane Raishin clenched his fists, while Komurasaki covered her mouth with tears welling in her eyes.

Yomi continued, "I didn't know Frey would assassinate you for my sake, but please believe me, she is a kind girl."

"I know."

"I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but she is very gentle with us. Every day she spends her precious rest time brushing our fur, and she even makes sure that we, who can only eat solid food every day, can eat meat."

"I know."

"Everyone likes her and is close to her."

“I know. That’s why I’m here.”

Kobayashi bent down and stroked Yomi's fluffy, dull fur. Frey was gone, and it had been imprisoned, which was why it looked like this.

Yomi did not resist being touched, and sighed, "But that's precisely why she was chosen."

"...Become the master of a rabbi?"

"Yes."

Yomi nodded and said, "After spending nearly five thousand hours studying and training over the course of a year, she was sent to the academy."

"Five thousand a year..."

That's an astonishing number.

"I don't know if it's fortunate or unfortunate." Kobayashi imprinted the smiling little girl in the photo in his mind and said, "But I don't think it's bad, after all, she has family like you who care about her."

"..."

Yomi opened his eyes wide, then chuckled softly.

The group of people walked cautiously down the corridor where men dressed in white were moving around.

"...Even so, how come Kobayashi was able to hide her figure? And even I couldn't detect her."

"Don't worry about it, it's just a simple little magic trick (stealth)."

"No, no, no, how could I not care?"

If the occasion weren't so inappropriate, he really would have liked to ask why.

As expected, Kobayashi is still very mysterious.

Then, led by Yomi, they arrived at the ground floor of another building, near the area with the same iron-framed windows.

The room layout is very similar to that of a college.

Some of the rooms have blackboards on the walls and desks underneath, while others resemble sports fields.

When they entered a room that looked like a restaurant, they witnessed an unbelievable scene.

Akabane Raishin stammered softly, "They say this is an orphanage... and it doesn't seem like a lie, but... what... is going on here?!"

Xiao Zi couldn't help but cover her mouth after seeing it.

The scene in the room was so eerie that it made him break out in a cold sweat.

It wasn't a bloody scene, but rather a group of children sitting neatly around a table, eating their lunch in an orderly fashion.

Bread, soup, salad, and a slice of meat. All the children had the same lunch, and their eating habits were surprisingly uniform, from the number of chews to the frequency of lifting their spoons. They didn't talk to each other; they ate silently, like machines.

Moreover, they all share the same characteristics: pearly hair and red eyes, just like Frey and Loki!

"Brother?...No, not."

In fact, the only thing that they all have in common is the color of their hair and eyes; their facial features and body shapes are quite different.

He doesn't look much like the siblings.

Since they're not siblings, they can't be relatives either, yet they have the same hair color and eyes...