Dragon Raja: I started out as Erii's older brother

"The Power of Words: 108 Grilling Techniques of Flame?! What is this? Is it some kind of New Oriental cooking textbook?"

"How the Dragon King Performs Postpartum Care? I'm speechless. This can actually be published as a book?"

Su Mo searched for a long time, but all she found were recipes and parenting guides. There wasn't even a decent martial arts novel, let alone any secret martial arts manuals.

Just as he was about to give up, his foot kicked something hard.

Su Mo rummaged through a pile of waste paper and found a wooden box covered in dust.

He blew away the dust, and his eyes lit up.

This box is made of sandalwood and is carved with dragon patterns, so it looks very high-end.

He opened the box, and inside lay a scroll made of some kind of animal skin.

"Here it comes! The protagonist's extraordinary adventure is here!"

Su Mo rubbed his hands excitedly and carefully unrolled the ancient scroll.

The next second, he was stunned.

The ancient scrolls are not filled with dense text, but rather with pictures.

The painting depicts two naked little figures striking various strange and superhuman poses.

"Holy crap..."

Su Mo's face flushed red instantly.

"This...this is the legendary...Dragon Clan Royal Version of 'Jin Ping Mei'?"

As a law-abiding young man, he began to study it carefully with a spirit of criticism and learning.

He discovered that next to each of the "couple yoga" pictures, there were annotations written in dragon script.

He guessed and identified a few keywords.

"Bloodline...fusion?"

"Spirit and flesh...exchanged?"

"Royal power...unified?"

Su Mo's brain's CPU went completely overheated, and a bold and outrageous idea took shape in his mind.

He looked at the pose of the man and woman in the picture, and then at the sophisticated annotations, and suddenly understood!

This isn't some kind of pornographic book! This is clearly a peerless martial arts manual for "two-player co-op mode"!!!

"Bloodline Fusion" is just like the "team buff" in games, sharing attributes, right?

"The exchange of spirit and flesh"—isn't that just a "trading system" that allows people to exchange equipment and items?

"Reunification of Royal Power"—this must be the name of the final fusion skill. Once activated, it will transform into light and become the only myth!

"My god! This cheat is amazing!"

He got more and more excited as he thought about it, feeling like he had found the VIP passage to the pinnacle of life.

He turned to the last page and saw a skull drawn on it, with a line of small print next to it.

He squinted, barely recognizing the words "loser," "soul," and "annihilation."

"Oh, a risk warning."

He skipped that page immediately.

"Who plays games without reading the user agreement? It's definitely full of disclaimers, like 'we are not responsible for failure in training' or something like that. It's nothing, nothing."

He looked at one of the paintings, in which the male figures were tall and slender, while the female figures were petite and delicate, a perfect match for his and Erii's physiques.

An incredibly audacious idea began to grow wildly in his mind.

"Hehe...hehehe..."

Su Mo let out a typical villainous, lewd laugh.

"Get stronger and have in-depth 'academic exchanges' with a cute little sister... Is this for real?!?!"

Su Mo felt that he wasn't fighting for a down payment on a house anymore; he was fighting for humanity's noblest ideal of color!

He decisively stuffed the "divine skill manual" into his pocket, feeling that it was exuding the fragrance of knowledge and hormones.

He tiptoed out of the basement and restored everything to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

Back in his room, he looked at Erii, who was already asleep, and a "sacrificing for ideals" expression appeared on his face.

"Eri, don't worry."

"I'll definitely take you flying high, and we'll successfully complete this ultimate 'two-person trip' challenge!"

"For our shared... future!"

Su Mo sneaked back to her room like a thief, her heart still pounding wildly.

The warm animal skin roll in his arms felt like a hand warmer, making his face turn red.

Erii was fast asleep, her little face flushed, and she was talking softly in her sleep.

"No, you can't watch it here."

Su Mo's gaze swept around the room, finally landing on the bathroom.

That is a sacred place.

It's suitable for quiet contemplation of life, and also for... conducting top-level academic research.

He tiptoed into the bathroom, locked the door, and felt like he was involved in some kind of underground deal.

"I'm devastated, why do I feel like a thief?"

He took a deep breath and carefully spread the scroll of martial arts manual on the toilet seat.

A rustic yet slightly pungent aroma wafted over.

The two naked little figures in the painting, with their delicate features under the lamplight, had a rather peculiar pose.

"Tsk tsk, the ancients had such rich imaginations."

While he was criticizing, he pulled out another loot he had casually stolen.

A copy of "Dragon's Brush - 300 Japanese Phrases" that I stole from the children's section of the library.

The cover features a pink cartoon dragon, with the words "Baby's First Foreign Language Learning Book" written next to it.

"Poor students have lots of stationery, top students have unconventional methods, no problem."

He began what he called rigorous translation work.

He looked at the first keyword on the manual, "bloodline fusion," and opened the comic book.

"Blood, blood, blood (ち)."

"Main, vein, pulse (みゃく)."

"Melt, melt, melt ける（とける）"

"Join, join, 合わせる（あわせる）"

Su Mo strung these words together, his brows furrowed, lost in deep thought like a top student.

"Bloodlines...melting...merging together?"

A picture instantly flashed into his mind.

He and Erii were soaking in a giant hot pot, bubbling and steaming, when they slowly melted together, eventually turning into a pot of bone broth.

"Holy crap, this is way too extreme!"

He quickly shook his head, banishing the absurd conjecture from his mind.

Something must be wrong.

He then studied the next term, "the exchange of spirit and flesh".

"Spirit...flesh..."

"Exchange..."

"Oh! I get it!" Su Mo slapped his thigh.

"Soul swapping! They've shown it to death in movies!"

His eyes lit up instantly, filled with a thirst for science!

"Does that mean I can become Erii?"

"Then I can... use her identity to buy her favorite limited-edition figurines, hide them, and sell them when their value increases!"

"Help, I'm a business genius! YYDS!"

He became more and more excited as he thought about it, feeling as if he had opened the door to a new world, no, the door to the secrets of wealth!

He saw the last keyword: "unification of royal power".

This is a good translation.

"King."

"Power."

"Return to One, become one."

"After cultivation, one of us will become king!"