Lu Mingfei, become the king of gambling in dungeons!

"Brother, it's almost my birthday!"

Seeing that Lu Mingfei looked surprised but didn't react positively, he repeated it again.

"I want a gift."

"What does your birthday have to do with me..." Lu Mingfei wanted to say this, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. What if, he meant what if, they really did have some kind of relationship?

If this possibility exists, it's hard to say anything too heartless.

"My birthday is only seven days after yours, don't you remember?" The devil suddenly revealed a pitiful and heart-melting expression.

"Then you're talking nonsense." Lu Mingfei suddenly became alert. "My birthday is still more than a month and a half away! How could your birthday be coming up anytime soon?"

Something's fishy. I have a feeling something's fishy.

These days, even devils can deceive people's feelings.

Lu Mingze lowered his head slightly, his thumb resting on the pad of his index finger, and swung his leg: "The birthday I mentioned is calculated based on the time of that previous instance. I've had too little time to enjoy myself over the past few thousand years. People who are hungry become petty and calculating. I don't want to miss any opportunity."

"Brother, you have to be careful. Love is such a rare thing. Sometimes I'll try to trick you out of a little more."

"You sound like a greedy devil. Let me find you a cake." Lu Mingfei thought to himself, since that's the case, he might as well just give him a perfunctory treat. If he's lacking affection, a little sweets will satisfy him. He remembered that he had a mille-feuille cake in his backpack, with many layers of thin crepes inside, which he hadn't been able to bear eating.

"Huh?"

Lu Mingfei searched twice but found nothing, looking as bewildered as a squirrel whose winter food had been stolen.

Where is such a big crepe cake?

Damn it, he didn't forget! He was saving it for his 19th birthday.

Lu Mingze watched him leisurely from the side: "Brother, your expression right now looks like Shinji Ikari from 'EVA'."

"Don't make me laugh, okay? Shinji Ikari has Asuka, Rei Ayanami, and Kaworu Nagisa... What about me? Do I even have a nutritional drink? Who the hell stole my mille-feuille cake?" Lu Mingfei rummaged through his backpack again, still without finding the item.

Lu Mingze said, "You have Chu Zihang, Yuan Zhisheng, and Caesar, and most importantly, you have me."

"Can you stop just citing big men as examples...?" Lu Mingfei sighed heavily, giving up on finding the cake that might have grown legs and run away.

Lu Mingze seemed completely oblivious to Lu Mingfei's dejection, and continued, "The person who loves you most in the world is sitting on the throne, embracing you for warmth, brother. Otherwise, what's the point of possessing the world? You'll still be alone, wearing a crown, waiting to decay while waiting for a new king to challenge you. Whoever has power and influence, the world will love them... The world is like a bitch."

"Children shouldn't swear."

"Oh."

"You...really want a gift?"

"Okay, make it special, create a nice atmosphere, and I'll give you a big gift package for your birthday."

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Why is he so hard to coax?" He stood up and walked to the bluestone slab behind the curb. After scratching his head and thinking hard, he covered Lu Mingze's eyes from behind, leaving a gap of less than 0.2 centimeters between his index and middle fingers.

"Hey devil, please close your eyes and look up at the southeast starry sky. Then, stretch a little bit, and the atmospheric service will be right there."

Lu Mingze obediently sat up straight and closed his eyes.

Lu Mingfei took out a bottle of light blue drinking water that had been dropped by employees of Genji Heavy Industries from his backpack and twisted the cap open with his teeth.

"Hiss... Ugh, now it's time to use your imagination. The next show is called 'A Low-budget Version of the Leonid Meteor Shower.' I don't have the ability to convince Comet Tempel to come early, so the key is in your imagination while your eyes are blurry."

Comet Tempel-Tuttle is the parent comet of the Leonid meteor shower, with a period of approximately 33.3 years.

Privately, he's a rather imaginative guy. Imaginative people have their own way of living, and they can imagine many versions of things they haven't experienced, such as the Leo rain that Genji once mentioned to him.

Genji Heavy Industries is not a good place for chatting and heart-to-heart talks; it is fraught with danger, and monsters that can interrupt and tear them apart can appear at any time.

So Lu Mingfei could only piece together the fragmented information by passing through level after level, to create a complete story. That was one of the few things he had ever done seriously in high school... Caesar's best piece always liked to talk about family and the way of men. Piecing together Genji's story was actually not difficult. After all, this guy was an emperor. He lived the longest and could say the most frankly when he was on the verge of death. If he missed something, he could make up for it from other places next time.

Pin Chu Zihang's story was ridiculously difficult, so difficult that he made almost no progress. His senior brother was a guy who remained steadfast throughout, and a more appropriate description would be a steadfast person who "cannot be moved by a stone."

Even if the manner of death is different, Chu Zihang's last words are basically the same. The amount of information is so small that it is almost non-existent. The last words are short but full of encouragement. Many times, it seems like he is having a hard time with the axle. They are often related to someone else, Lu, rather than Chu Zihang himself.

There are probably only a handful of people in this world who can make Chu Zihang leave behind a few more words in his last words, and Lu Mingfei is one of them who happens to be frequently present.

He felt a certain admiration for Genjiro when piecing together the middle part of the story of Genjiro and his brother.

Listening to the past, I learned that Yuan Zhisheng was not a very law-abiding person. In order to take his younger brother to see the Leonid meteor shower, he would steal a blanket from the middle school gym and a telescope from the astronomy classroom. He would use the money he saved to buy a compass and hiking boots from a small shop, and pack the leftover plum rice for lunch into a small bag.

Then, after climbing for three hours to the highest mountain peak near Shikatori Town, he set up his binoculars and waited for the sun to set. It rained heavily that day, but Genjiro had a good way of comforting his younger brother.

You can't actually see the meteor shower if it rains, but having the most important person by your side makes for a wonderful memory.

In this world, older brothers can be divided into capable older brothers and those who don't want to be capable. Genjiro, the action-oriented one, belongs to the former, while Lu Mingfei... if he had a younger brother, he would probably just make empty promises to him. They couldn't save up any equipment, so they just stared at the night sky on empty stomachs in the rain.

Unfortunately, the ending was a heartbreaking tragedy.

"I am a demon slayer, but the first demon I ever killed was my own brother. We grew up in the mountains, and in our loneliest times, we were each other's only support. From then on, I never felt guilty about slaying demons, because I had paid the highest price for justice."

Having heard Genjiro's account intermittently, he roughly knew what a ghost was. It was truly a tragic past. Of course, those who did wrong should be punished.

Even so, Genjiro still loves his younger brother who has become a demon, right? You can feel love and hate when you're on the verge of death. You can't deceive yourself at that time. If I could do it all over again, I would definitely choose justice. But I'm already a stray dog ​​who has abandoned you.

There is no younger brother who is willing to do foolish things with me anymore.

Does being a ghost mean you can stop loving him? So what if he's a devil?

Overwhelmed by a flood of thoughts and immense sorrow, Lu Mingfei's hand covering Lu Mingze's eyes became unsteady, and he shook his other hand, trying to drip a few drops of drinking water into Lu Mingze's eyes.

When your vision is blurry, you can see the illusion of stars falling by looking at the night sky through the gaps between your fingers.

"Give me some face. The method may be a bit corny, but just think of it as me bringing you a meteor shower. It's still a little romantic, right? I've been thinking of some dating tricks, and I'm just being generous to you."

Lu Mingfei was a little uneasy. To be honest, this method seemed a bit too stupid. Others wanted diamonds, and you gave them glass, and then you shamelessly claimed that it contained carbon.

I want to do this for you… Lu Mingze suddenly remembered hearing something similar before.

"I will build an immortal kingdom for you."

After that, we no longer need to wander in this world.

That happened tens of millions of years ago, a very, very long time ago.

"I haven't even given you a drop of drinking water yet... Don't cry, you're making my hands all wet. If you're so sentimental, you must be having a terrible time in hell."

Confused, Lu Mingfei became flustered.

Lu Mingze was momentarily dazed, then raised his finger and pointed towards the "sickle" constellation, which is the symbol of Leo.

"Brother, look, it's raining from Leo!"

What a devil who knows how to play along with empty promises!

"That sounds like a real surprise..." Lu Mingfei looked up, gazing absently at the deep, still night sky.