"I'm in the Dragon Clan, what the heck is the Naruto Counterattack System?"

The wind blew open the window, revealing a dark sky, beyond which lay a dark lake. Streetlights, one after another, shone brightly on the sleeping courtyard.

The large house was empty, the wind blowing in and out, the curtains whistling and dispersing the last trace of bloody stench in the living room.

In a bedroom with the lights on, the girl lay sprawled on the bed, fast asleep, occasionally muttering incomprehensible words, seemingly enjoying a very peaceful sleep.

But at that moment, the blanket she was holding tightly with her hands and feet was suddenly pulled away.

Bang!

Xia Mi rolled onto the floor with a thud, groggily opening her sleepy eyes to see a figure rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

"What's going on? Has a thief broken in?"

Xia Mi instantly snapped awake, her eyes widening, but after recognizing the figure, her shouting stopped. She wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth and said, "Slurp! Little Qiang, what are you doing so early in the morning?"

"Qi Xiuyuan is in trouble, I need to go find him."

Su Xiaoqiang's tone was somewhat hurried; she simply rummaged through drawers and quickly changed into a new set of clothes.

"Huh? Senior Brother Qi?" Xia Mi sat up straight immediately. "What happened?"

"I don't know, it's hard to explain in a short time." Su Xiaoqiang spoke quickly. "Xia Mi, wait for me at home. If my parents ask, just say I went to see a friend."

"No, no, I want to go too." Xia Mi shook her head like a rattle drum, quickly picked up her clothes that had fallen to the ground, and said while putting them on, "Since it can't be explained in a short time, we'll explain on the way."

"However, if we go like this, we should be able to help without causing any trouble, right?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang, who had already changed her clothes and was about to leave, stopped in her tracks. She thought of the woman who had inexplicably and strangely committed suicide, and the uncle who had suddenly appeared to clean up the scene. A look of confusion flashed across her still somewhat pale face.

But soon, she calmed down and picked up the black card next to her.

"If there's any danger there," Su Xiaoqiang said with a sigh of relief, "it's always easier to walk in openly than to force our way in."

After saying that, she stepped out of the bedroom. Xia Mi, who was behind her, watched her back and her expression gradually became blank.

"Does this mean that you can't sleep in the same bed with two different types of people?"

After changing her clothes, Xia Mi muttered to herself, recalling the brief conversation she had with Qi Xiuyuan before they parted ways at the station.

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Chu Zihang, who lived in the east of the city, left first. Su Xiaoqiang went to her father's company office to steal a membership card, leaving only Xia Mi and Qi Xiuyuan. They went to the rooftop of Su's Mining Company to wait for her to come out.

The boy stood quietly in front of the rooftop railing, his back to the bored Xia Mi, gazing at the setting sun in the distance.

The sounds of people, hidden in the distance by the red lights and green wine shops, are like bubbles rising and bursting, carried to the ears by the noisy wind.

Watching Qi Xiuyuan's back, Xia Mi's eyes darted around. She tiptoed to her feet and, as silently as a cat, reached out to touch Qi Xiuyuan in front of her.

The two were about five meters apart, and Xia Mi gradually shortened that distance with each step.

She walked up behind him, about three meters away, and suddenly stopped. Her fingers, which had been tucked into her sleeves, turned into sharp claws, reflecting in her eyes and the boy in front of her, but she hesitated to make a move.

"Aren't you going to make a move?" the boy with his back to her asked calmly. "Isn't this a great opportunity?"

call!

A chilling wind howled past my ears, like the rustling of leaves in the wind, or the mocking whispers of a demon.

You can probably only hear such a piercing wind from the eye of the storm.

It was as if an eye of the storm had appeared between the two of them, swallowing up all the air. The surrounding air pressure was dropping rapidly, and swirling smoke and clouds were making a howling sound.

In the surging storm, the hems of their clothes and the ends of their hair were blown about, as light as floating leaves.

The girl was no longer her usual lively self; her long bohemian dress billowed like clouds, her long hair also billowed like smoke, and her golden eyes were filled with majesty as she sang a hymn like an angel.

At this moment, Qi Xiuyuan was like a stalk of straw in the field, about to fall over with a gust of wind, or even without wind, he was still teetering on the brink of collapse.

But the next moment, his hand gripped the knife sheathed at his waist, and his left hand pushed the tiger's mouth flat at a right angle.

Xia Mi's golden pupils narrowed slightly as she could sense that at least four or five tenths of the wind element, which had been under her control, had lost control and was rapidly gathering in the sheath at Qi Xiuyuan's waist.

It's almost like a whale sucking in water while simultaneously drawing in wind elements that are invisible to humans.

Buzz! Buzz!

The next moment, Xia Mi narrowed her eyes and stretched out her palm.

The invisible, chilling wind surging towards the rooftop seemed to come alive, gaining a tangible form under the influence of dust and fog, and swept towards Qi Xiuyuan, who was standing at the edge of the rooftop.

Clang.

Just as the whirlwind was about to arrive, Qi Xiuyuan gripped the scabbard at his waist with one hand and drew the hilt of his horizontal sword with the other.

The blade was drawn and slid across the scabbard with a ringing sound. The iron-gray blade was covered with wind elements, which seemed to transform into white blade patterns. The blade itself was as clear and bright as a crescent moon.

So fast that the blade was invisible, so fast that only the arc of light could be seen, followed by a sharp whistling sound that ripped through eardrums.

呲! !

He swung the sword from left to right, the horizontal blade in his hand less than twenty-five inches long, yet this single strike drew a blade of light several meters in front of Xia Mi's eyes, like a white crescent moon, as if it would cut her vision.

The wind blades and whirlwinds collided and clashed, creating a whistling wind like a meat grinder, as if a ferocious beast was tearing and biting each other, but the tearing and biting ended quickly.

The sweeping tide was torn apart by the crescent moon, and the whistling airflow was split in two, flowing to the left and right, surging past Qi Xiuyuan on both sides, creating ripples like water behind him.

Finally, only the howling wind and the two people, one tall and one short, staring at each other, remained on the rooftop.

"you……"

Looking into those dark eyes, Xia Mi's expression turned puzzled.

The supreme Black King created four monarchs: Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water, which represent the four basic elements for establishing the world. Each monarch sits on a throne with a pair of twins.

Just as Constantine, the younger brother in Lords of Bronze and Fire, possessed greater strength but lost his enormous body, Norton, the older brother, was born with the strongest alchemical talent and will but also lost even greater power as a result.

She and Fenrir, as the kings of the earth and mountains, jointly wield complementary powers of "authority" and "strength," and she is the one who holds the "authority," possessing immense power despite not having a dragon's body.

Although she is not one of the twins of the "King of Sky and Wind", given her lineage and power, she should be able to use the incantations of the King of Sky and Wind as if the king himself were present.

Now, however, she has encountered a "human" who can forcibly seize the wind element from her, and who has not even chanted any dragon incantations to resonate with it. This means that the other party's control over the wind element is definitely stronger than hers, the Dragon King.

S grade?

No, far more than that, but it can't possibly be the twin of the "King of the Sky and the Wind".

"You are not human." Xia Mi, though in a lower position and being looked down upon, raised her full chin and said in a cold, hard tone, "So, who are you?"

"Or rather, what are you?"

Click.

Qi Xiuyuan sheathed his sword, the blade striking the scabbard with a crisp sound.

"Who I am is not important. What's important is that I know what you are." He simply smiled. "I want to make a deal with you, Xia Mi."

"Or do you prefer me to call you Jormungandr?"

The moment he uttered that name, Xia Mican's golden vertical pupils contracted into slits.