Dragon Raja: Reboot

"Okay...okay...thank you so much...okay...I'll definitely...go back..."

Chu Zihang watched his junior brother walk out of the restroom while answering a phone call, and a thought struck him.

Who is my junior brother talking to on the phone? Why is he laughing so happily?

"Okay, I'll hang up now. I won't bother you anymore. Goodnight!" Lu Mingfei hung up the phone, glanced at Xia Mi who was still pretending to be asleep, and gently pulled her backpack over.

Seeing his junior brother, who had sat down again and was secretly rummaging through Xia Mi's backpack, Chu Zihang didn't know whether to expose him or go along with him.

"Senior brother, here you go. I remember you really like osmanthus candy, right? Osmanthus cake too!" Lu Mingfei, with a long-nosed skewer in his mouth, handed over a piece of osmanthus cake without turning his head.

While Chu Zihang was hesitating about whether to expose her, he had already turned Xia Mi's backpack, which was full of snacks, upside down.

When Chu Zihang subconsciously took the osmanthus cake, he realized that the moment he accepted it, they had become accomplices!

The act of denouncing someone is tantamount to surrendering oneself.

But how did my junior brother know that I like osmanthus candy?

He didn't particularly like osmanthus candy, but it was one of the few remaining "cooking skills" his mother had inherited from his maternal grandmother, if it could even be called cooking skills.

When the three of them were still living in that cramped little house, his favorite thing to do was to add his mother's homemade osmanthus sugar to his white porridge.

After he and his mother moved into that big villa, his mother rarely cooked herself anymore. Even when she did cook, it was always some kind of nonsensical French cuisine, like "coconut protein king crab with Trimbach family Alsace..."

Cheap osmanthus candy can't compare to king crab, and my mom's osmanthus candy is sometimes even sickeningly sweet.

But if he had to choose between the two, Chu Zihang would only choose the former, without even hesitation.

In a sense, this is a symbol of his childhood, his most precious memory. He doesn't have much left after losing that man.

Chu Zihang looked down, unwrapped the packaging, and took a bite of the osmanthus cake, the brand of which he didn't recognize.

The osmanthus fragrance was very strong, but it was also cloyingly sweet, which was somewhat similar to what my mother made.

Lu Mingfei quickly emptied the bag of Long-Nosed King, then contentedly wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

"Senior brother, did you have a nightmare just now?" the junior brother asked mysteriously as he approached.

Chu Zihang's heart stirred. He was just looking for an excuse to have a good talk with his junior brother about what happened that night, but he didn't expect his junior brother to bring up this topic on his own initiative.

"How did you know?" he asked casually.

The junior apprentice raised his right hand, rubbed a few fingers together, cleared his throat, and whispered, "It's all about calculations! Calculating everything from heaven and earth to love!"

Chu Zihang looked at this guy speechlessly.

You're not even trying to pretend anymore? You can even come up with this excuse? And you're going to use this joke for a year, huh?

He didn't say anything, just watched his junior perform quietly.

At the same time, a chill ran through him.

The fact that his junior brother brought this up on purpose meant that what had just happened was not a coincidence, and the groaning that woke him from his nightmare was not his junior brother's unintentional snoring, but a deliberate act!

Odin really entered his dream!

With a jumble of thoughts rising and falling, Chu Zihang immediately realized that this ability to invade dreams was definitely not Odin's normal ability, otherwise He would have come knocking on his door long ago within the past six years.

The reason he has been out of contact for six years is either that Odin doesn't think much of him, or that his ability to interfere with reality requires time to accumulate and is not without cost...

In an instant, Chu Zihang thought of many possibilities.

He had an urge to take out his tablet and write down all these conjectures.

But considering that his junior brother was still nearby, he had to temporarily abandon the idea.

"...Senior brother, guess who I just talked to on the phone?"

Chu Zihang shook his head.

"Qilan, it's Qilan from the social club. You should have heard of him, right?"

Chu Zihang nodded slightly. Qi Lan from the Freshman Association was one of only two A-level students among the previous freshmen. It was said that his Word of Power was that of a prophet.

The Lionheart Society even tried to recruit him, but he refused.

He rejected invitations from both the Lionheart Society and the Student Union, and instead founded the Freshman Societies, which recruited most of the previous year's freshmen and was regarded as a rising star in Kassel.

"Qilan and I met a few days ago..."

Chu Zihang frowned.

The topic suddenly changed, and his junior brother began to recount how he met Qi Lan, which made him inexplicably irritated.

He didn't want to hear any of that; he wanted more information about Odin!

But the junior brother got more and more excited as he talked, as if he had suddenly opened a floodgate and couldn't stop.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Zihang suddenly interrupted him, saying in a low voice, "Lu Mingfei, what did you think of the night we returned to school?"

He didn't want to listen anymore; he couldn't wait to get an answer from his junior brother!

Odin's appearance tonight disrupted his mind, making him restless and unable to think calmly.

His gaze was fixed on his junior brother's eyes, not wanting to miss any change.

Lu Mingfei paused, then asked in shock, "Senior brother, what did you just call me?"

Chu Zihang was bewildered.

Why is it that after I went straight to the point and took the initiative to break through the veil, my junior brother was only concerned about how I addressed him?

Does he really not care at all about his identity being exposed?

"...Junior Brother."

Faced with Lu Mingfei's horrified expression that seemed to say, "You actually called me by my full name so casually," Chu Zihang had no choice but to compromise.

"That settles it then, we're fellow disciples!" Lu Mingfei said earnestly. "Brothers united, their strength can break metal! Why would you ask me such a question?"

"What I think isn't important, what matters is what you think, senior brother!"

"If you want to smash that guy's head in, I'll break his horse's legs first, and he'll break his legs too, so you can chop him up more easily. If you think killing him isn't enough, I'll hand you the tools—hammer, pliers, gas torch, you name it. While you're swinging the hammer, I'll hold him down; while you're using the gas torch, I'll prepare the liquid nitrogen torch. The alternating high and low temperatures will give him the thrill of both ice and fire! Our perfect teamwork will definitely kill him!"

"Are you satisfied with this answer, senior?"

Lu Mingfei looked directly at Chu Zihang.

Chu Zihang slightly averted his gaze, but his heart was completely touched by these words.

Like the wind blowing through the bushes, revealing the abundant flowers hidden beneath the leaves.

He had long been used to being alone, and had completely closed himself off six years ago, preparing to die at any moment.

But on the night he returned to Chicago, his barrier was forcibly pried open by his junior brother's words, "I've come to take you back."

His junior brother did what he had always dreamed of, and for this he did not hesitate to betray the school and did not report his junior brother's situation, concealing what happened that night.

At the time, he believed that his junior brother was on his side, and his junior brother did just that. But Odin's appearance tonight made him panic and suspicious of his junior brother.

"Feel sorry……"

After a long while, Chu Zihang lowered his head and said wearily.

"I shouldn't have doubted you. But I still want to ask... Junior brother, why are you helping me like this?"

Chu Zihang looked up blankly, his eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.

He suddenly remembered the praise he had heard in the pizzeria.

……

"Chu Zihang is truly my senior brother. He has always taken good care of me, speaks kindly, and is very loyal. He's fantastic, and we all like him..."

……

But in fact...

Chu Zihang didn't take good care of Lu Mingfei, and his words were unpleasant. Su Xi said that his language style was always straightforward and sharp, and not many people liked him. His classmates felt more distant respect than affection for him.

But when Lu Mingfei said those words, Chu Zihang, who was standing outside the door, could hear the earnestness and pride in them.

It seems he really has a righteous senior brother who takes such good care of him!

He was proud to have such a senior brother!

The more this was the case, the more puzzled and even saddened Chu Zihang became.

His junior brother seemed to have known him for a very long time; their bond was as strong as steel, and they would die for each other at any moment...

But she had no recollection of having such a deep bond with her junior brother!

A soft laugh rang in his ears.

His junior brother whispered something incomprehensible in his ear.

"You once said you'd help me destroy the axles of my wedding car, now it's my turn to help you destroy Odin's chariot."

"Don't doubt me, I'll always stand by your side. A man's friendship is as strong as steel!"