Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

The basement of the Kujo family home in Tokyo.

It was cold, damp, and cramped, with the smell of rust and old grime.

The only light source came from a few dim, flickering oil lamps on the wall, which made the water stains on the mottled stone wall look like distorted tear stains.

In the center of the secret room, a thick iron chain extends upwards, with the end attached to a gaunt, middle-aged man wearing a tattered purple striped mask—Kujou Ryoumi.

His collarbone was pierced by a huge, menacing iron hook. Dark red blood scabs mixed with fresh pus dripped down his tattered clothes, leaving a small dark stain on the ground.

During the day—Kujou Ryoumi, controlled by Miu, manipulates her micro-expressions and movements, dressed in glamorous clothes, and issues orders as usual, except that the content is mostly about cutting down laboratories and white houses around the world and severing various inhuman biological projects.

But then night fell.

This battered body will be dragged into this dark and sunless dungeon, where it will endure inhuman torture, including having its ten fingers pierced and its butterfly bones shattered.

This is Li Meiyu's punishment for him, to settle the blood debt he incurred by personally causing the deaths of countless of his own children.

At that moment, the heavy iron door of the dungeon was silently pushed open.

Li Meiyu walked in with her head down.

She was wearing a dark dress, but her small face, which always tried to maintain a cold demeanor, was shrouded in an unprecedented gloom.

Her delicate white hands gripped a paper document with wrinkled edges tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

She walked up to her "father" who was hanging by chains and stopped.

Without looking up, he simply raised his arm and slammed the document hard onto Kujo Ryou.

The paper scattered and fell into the dark red liquid, where it was quickly soaked through.

An eerie crimson tinge appeared at the edges.

"Kujou Dawn..."

Li Meiyu finally raised her head, her eyes slightly red, her suppressed anger almost bursting out.

Her voice was soft, each word cutting through the stagnant air of the dungeon: "What is the meaning of this document?"

—Feasibility Report and Initial Results of the Pilot Project for Specialized Cloning Prototypes

She took a step forward, stepping onto the blood-stained document, her gaze fixed on the murky eyes beneath the mask, eyes that still held a repulsive smile:

"You not only killed my brothers and sisters... now you want to clone them? Use this filthy technology to continue filling the pit for your dirty and shameless desires!"

"Hehehe..."

A hoarse laugh escaped from Kujo Ryou's throat.

He tried clearing his throat and found that the "mute" seemed to have been lifted for the night.

So he moved his ankle, which was pierced by the iron hook, and shifted to a slightly more comfortable position before slowly speaking:

"Miyu, you're so silly."

"From the first moment I saw you as a child, I knew that among all your brothers and sisters, you were weak, insecure, timid, and foolish... cough cough cough!"

Before he could finish speaking, an invisible force suddenly tightened around his throat!

His eyeballs bulged out suddenly due to lack of oxygen and pressure, and veins bulged on his forehead.

However, instead of pain and contortion, the corners of his mouth beneath the tattered mask twisted into an even more manic and bizarre smile.

"Heh...that's how it is...you know what? You're like a hedgehog. No matter how sharp your shell becomes, your inner weakness and fear can't change."

Li Meiyu reduced her strength slightly and said coldly, "It's none of your business to judge what I am."

"I am your father," Kujou Rei said calmly, "While I can still speak, I'll speak to you from a father's perspective."

"We have nothing to talk about," Li Meiyu said coldly.

"You... I mean, you and your boyfriend, you possess something that allows you to see into the future, right?"

Kujo Ryo drew closer, his purple stripes emitting a faint purple light that reflected on Miu's gritted teeth face.

He continued, "The fact that you 'don't kill' me means you already know the deepest secret that the Kujo family has hidden for generations."

"So what if it is?" Li Meiyu sneered.

"What right do you have to resist now? Once Indra is killed, you'll be next. The revenge for Mother and Sister Jiuyu... must be taken!"

"I'll answer that question for you later," Kujou Rei said calmly.

"Now that you've come to me, the question you most want to ask... is about her, right?"

Li Meiyu's body stiffened almost imperceptibly.

She whirled around, her fierce gaze like a tangible sword, piercing deep into Kujo Ryou's heart.

"Your...clone."

Kujo Ryou's mouth stretched even wider, his smile filled with a morbid twist and a chillingly amused expression:

"You want to know whether I cloned you or not, right?"

"You harbored a sliver of hope—that I was the least gifted student back then, and maybe my gene sequence wasn't even sent to Wakkanai's lab?"

"But, unfortunately, the answer is no—from the moment you awakened, your clone was already produced in Wakkanai, and now it's probably grown to be eighteen years old... Heh... After all, it's a product of technology..."

"Kujou Ryou, I'll kill you!"

Li Meiyu's eyes were red-rimmed, and she gritted her teeth as the iron hook pierced his abdomen, drawing out a large pool of blood.

"Look... you're not afraid of anyone... maybe even if your boyfriend has other women around him, you're confident you can trample them all underfoot and secure your position as the 'official wife'..."

Kujou Rei seemed oblivious to the pain, laughing as she said:

"But when a girl exactly like you appeared next to him, you were scared, so you got angry."

"You're worried about losing him, worried about being replaced by 'yourself,' and you can't stand a woman who looks exactly like you standing next to him..."

"So, what should we do with Miyu? Kill her, or let her fend for herself? You're exactly the same as her inside and out. Guess what your boyfriend will choose... From his perspective, keeping Miyu alive is the only logical choice..."

"Actually, I noticed it too," Kujou Rei smiled calmly.

"Your ability to predict the future, perhaps, can only be used once?"

"What a pity..."

"Kujou Dawn!"

Li Meiyu forced herself to regain her composure from her rage, using all her strength to maintain a cold tone as she issued the order:

"I order you to immediately contact Wakkanai Laboratory, activate highest-level privileges, and destroy all cloning-related facilities! As for the researchers inside... take them all into custody and bring them back to Tokyo for further processing!"

"It's no use," Kujou Rei continued.

"I just said I had a question I'd answer later... Perfect timing, I can answer it now."

"The true power holder of the Kujo family is not me."

"Above me is your grandmother, Kujo Maki, who is currently in Wakkanai as the high priestess who can communicate with Lord Indra and guide his spirit to descend to earth."

"At that time, she will be able to enter your clone and, using your identical genes, pull you into the 'Path' space. When you emerge, you will have completed your mission as a 'vessel.'"

"Now, you only have three paths in front of you."

The voice of the Nine Dawns was like the whisper of a demon:

"First, before the ritual on the night of the full moon, end your own life, taking the child in your womb with you... In this way, at least your soul can be preserved intact and not defiled."

"Second, accept your fate and fulfill the mission of the 'container'. The ending... is the same as above."

"Thirdly..."

He paused deliberately, observing the faint glimmer that suddenly appeared in Li Meiyu's eyes:

"Get to Hokkaido before the full moon, find that clone... and then kill her... before your little boyfriend develops any inappropriate feelings for her."

At that moment, Li Meiyu felt as if in the boundless darkness, there was a pair of huge, scarlet, indifferent, malicious, and smiling eyes looking down at her from a great height, taking in all her struggles, fears, and anger.

What should I do?!

With trembling hands, she pulled her phone from her pocket and immediately dialed the number she knew by heart.

however…

"The user you dialed is not in service area..."

A cold, mechanical voice came through the receiver.

"How could this be... I was fine before..."

"It seems he has already entered the territory of Wakkanai Island."

Kujo Ryou kindly explained, her tone casually indifferent:

"The electrical signals of the entire Wakkanai Island and its surrounding waters are all under the shielding field of Grandma Maki."

You can't contact him anymore.

"The show is about to begin, hehehe."

Li Meiyu staggered back two steps and crashed into the cold stone wall. Her phone slipped from her limp hand, and the screen shattered.

Overwhelmed by immense panic and helplessness, she was instantly engulfed like ice water.

"No...no! How could this happen...why did this happen..."

"Hahahahaha!"

"No, I have to get there. I can't let this happen... Absolutely not! Even if... even if..."

She immediately set off, boarding a private plane bound for Sapporo.

……

Meanwhile, in Hokkaido, near Wakkanai Island.

The summit of a snow-covered mountain shrouded in a blizzard.

A crimson streak of light ripped through the leaden-gray sky, plunging down like a shooting star.

Finally, it was accompanied by the screeching of the engine and the sound of metal screeching against the ice and snow.

It crashed hard into the thick snow.

This triggered a small-scale landslide.

The snow collapsed with a roar, burying part of the shimmering light.

"Aaaaaah—it's so cold! So cold!!"

Lan Xinlan was the first to tumble out of the front seat of the deformed flying motorcycle, burrowing into Jiang Ling's arms, trembling.

Song Ruyu, sitting in the back row, also turned pale. She instinctively pressed herself against Jiang Ling, who was sitting in front of her, and stammered, "Where...where did you land? This...why does it look like a snow-capped mountain?"

Jiang Ling put his arm around Lan Xinlan, who was shivering from the cold, and looked around.

As far as the eye could see, everything was a vast expanse of white. The fierce wind whipped snowflakes against my face, stinging me. The Demonic Soul had circled around once more.

He sighed helplessly:

"How would I know that the communication infrastructure here is still so poor in 2031?"

"We lost GPS as soon as we flew near Wakkanai Island and ran out of fuel, so we had to make an emergency landing here and wait for the fuel tank to refuel slowly before making any further plans."

"So what do we do now?" Song Ruyu asked.

Jiang Ling gazed at the dark mountains and forests in the distance and released his Observation Haki.

A wisp of smoke could be faintly seen rising from the chimney.

"Let's go check over there first. You and Alan can put on my coat and lie on top of the fuel tank to keep warm."

He poured some gasoline on himself and set it on fire. The raging flames burned his body, but the Demonic Soul was constantly adapting and repairing his flesh. In this way, for a short time, he was equivalent to Agni in the Flame Fist, continuously radiating heat to dispel the chill around him.

Lan Xinlan: ?

Song Ruyu: ?

"Why are you looking at me? Get down and push the cart." Jiang Ling was speechless.

"I can only burn it for a maximum of one hour. After an hour, the temperature of the gasoline flame is no longer enough for me to ignite it."