Crossover Anime: How a Shameless Person Lives

The first rays of morning light streamed into the orphanage.

The old dean stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, looking at Sugar's room, and sighed softly.

"What a wonderful child..."

"But ironically, she's the one I worry about the most."

In the distance, Mercury leaned against the wall, gazing at the clouds gradually brightening in the sky, and said resentfully, "So this is why you dragged me here to stand all night?"

He stared at the old dean with those resentful eyes.

There are only two people in the yard now.

Hachiman Hikigaya left when Sugar came back to life.

They said it was something like their younger sister was worried about them.

Now that he's the protagonist of a shonen anime, there's a good chance his sister might end up as a sacrifice.

Tomie, on the other hand, had already returned to her room and was fast asleep.

That's true, she wouldn't care whether Matsuzaka Satou died again or not.

Beauty and skincare are the most important things to her.

"Come on, let's go prepare some breakfast for the children."

"I?"

……

The old dean turned and walked steadily toward the kitchen.

Mercury followed reluctantly, muttering to himself, "I'm the king who can control salt, not a demon-slaying chef..."

A faint aroma of wheat wafted from the kitchen, and the porridge in the pot was bubbling away. The old director skillfully picked up a wooden spoon and stirred it, his movements as natural as if he had been doing it for decades.

In fact, the old dean did serve for a very long time; whether it was decades, Mercury didn't know.

"By the way, I have something to tell you." Mercury picked up the yellow wine next to him, took a sip, and said casually, "The King of Salt seems to have evolved."

"As expected." The old dean didn't even look up. "After all, your past performance had absolutely nothing to do with Wang."

"That's a very insightful assessment," Mercury scoffed.

The Salt King's abilities, aside from preventing him from becoming elemental, are increasingly resembling those of a Logia-type being.

No, no, it's more like the Salt King from "The End of the Angels".

It's just a resemblance.

He didn't grow any strange black wings on his back.

"Don't interrupt, tell me, did your abilities increase, or did you harm the demons?"

"My abilities have indeed improved a bit, but as for ghosts, do ghosts really exist in this world? I have seen monsters, though."

"You've seen a monster?" A hint of surprise flashed in the old dean's eyes.

It seems that Mercury was more surprised to encounter a monster than a ghost.

"Yes, a youkai called Yuki-onna Fuyuki. Her race seems to be Yuki-onna. Although I can hurt her, there is no relationship of mutual restraint."

"Snow Woman in Deep Winter, that name sounds familiar..."

The old dean stroked his chin, lost in thought.

He always felt that the name was familiar.

"Wait a minute." Mercury took out his phone, opened LINE, and started using it.

A moment later, he handed the phone to the old dean.

The image above is a selfie sent by Yuki-onna in the depths of winter.

"Oh! It's her!"

Upon seeing the figure in the photo, the old dean remembered where he had seen him before, and a look of nostalgia appeared in his eyes.

I'm getting old. If it were before, I would have realized it long ago.

Why do I need to see a photo to remember?

"Do you know him?"

"It's been a long time since I've seen Natsume Reiko's little follower."

"what?"

Mercury was taken aback when he heard the old dean's sigh.

"You also know Natsume Reiko?"

When the old dean saw Mercury looking at him with a puzzled expression, he thought Mercury had met someone with the same name but a different person.

They launched into a tirade about the lifespan of monsters and so on.

Anyway, now that this brat has powerful abilities, he should know some things by now.

Little did Mercury know that what surprised him most was the old dean's colorful life.

He even recognizes a memory ceiling that only exists in one anime.

In addition, there were the people in the orphanage and the stories the old director often told.

I can't imagine how...troublesome the old dean's life must have been when he was young!

"Speaking of which, Takashi Natsume lived in an orphanage for a while. Oh, right, he's Reiko's grandson, and he's the same age as you."

"How come I didn't know?" Mercury frowned.

"It's normal that you don't know." The old director stirred the porridge, the rice grains churning in the boiling water, creating dense white bubbles. "By then, you had already left the orphanage, and Sugar and the others all knew you."

Mercury raised an eyebrow, his hand still moving as he drank.

After all, rice wine is still a type of wine.

"So you're the one who's in charge here."

"Ahem." The old dean glanced at him. "Let's talk about your Salt King ability first."

"...Alright then." Mercury paused, not dwelling on the matter any further.

He recounted some of the changes that had occurred in the salt kingdom.

Upon hearing this, the old dean fell into deep thought.

"It can manipulate salt remotely, and turn things into fine salt without touching them..."

After thinking for a while, the old dean asked again, "What is the furthest distance you can manipulate it? How far away can you turn something into salt without physically touching it?"

"I haven't tried it... but I feel it's about a kilometer." Mercury sensed it and his tone was a little uncertain.

"However, it depends on the amount of salt. If it's just a tiny amount of sodium ions in the air, I feel like it could be triggered from ten kilometers away. But if it's to condense into an attack form, it would be difficult to do so beyond one kilometer."

Of course, I'm referring to the salt I produce through corrosion; I can't control the other types of salt.

This refers to the salt in the yard that was blown away by the wind.

"And without touching the object, it takes about 10 centimeters to turn them into fine salt, which is better than nothing," Mercury said.

In his opinion, this thing that could dissolve salt in the air was indeed useless.

It's fine if the distance is a bit far, but what can you do with 10 centimeters?

He stepped barefoot onto the ground, and in an instant, the erosion spread several meters.

We can only wait and see if it can be improved in the future.

The old dean nodded, and gently tapped the wooden spoon in the porridge pot, producing a crisp sound.

"One kilometer... that's already beyond the range of human perception. Your current 'domain' can be considered to be in its initial stages of formation."

"Domain?" Mercury raised an eyebrow. "You make it sound like some kind of ultimate skill from a shonen manga."

"Pretty much, but that's just my guess." The old dean said as he ladled out the porridge, "Maybe if you keep eroding things, the whole world will eventually be covered in your salt, and your limit will be far more than 1 kilometer. In the future..."

Before the old dean could finish speaking, Mercury already understood.

This is indeed a development direction, and it is very suitable for players with poor hand-eye coordination.

Take the route of accumulating quantity.

"Or think about it, under what circumstances did you allow the Salt King to evolve?" the old dean added.

This time he offered a different route.