I just hope to live a leisurely life in the world of anime.

"Xia Shi—are you alright?" Upon seeing this, Yi Xiongjiangjian also sheathed his greatsword and slowly retreated, standing shoulder to shoulder with An Shu in front of the emotionless loli, not daring to relax for a moment.

"It's alright, Brother Jiang."

As the dust settled, Hiruko Kagetane stepped down from the human-shaped hole in the wall, adjusted his nearly loosened mask, and straightened his slightly crooked collar. "Anshu-kun, you've made me feel that long-lost pain—"

He straightened up, his tone still exaggerated.

An Shu felt a chill run down her spine. Could this guy be a gay man with a masochistic streak?

Seeing the increasingly disgusted look in the other person's eyes, Hiruko Kagetane asked curiously, "What's wrong, Anshu-kun? Is there something wrong with me?"

"No problem, but are you prepared to get beaten up?"

"Get beaten up? An Shujun wants to attack me? Are you confident you can beat me?" He put his hands behind his back, the moonlight shining on his smiling mask, giving him a special kind of dashing and elegant air, like a nobleman.

An Shu smiled and said, "Inner Room asked me to beat you up, to get back at you for the beating you gave him."

With a wave of his hand, he successfully shifted the blame.

Bang—a dull thud.

Before Hiruko Kagehira could react, he was knocked away by something and slid more than twenty meters on the ground, making him look extremely disheveled.

What is that?! An invisible attack?! Is it also a force field?

Hiruko Kagetane knelt on one knee, one hand pressing down on his tall hat, his eyes behind the mask growing even colder.

"Don't you dare bully my dad!" The yandere loli gritted her teeth and swung her twin swords at An Shu.

An Shu didn't care at all. He reached out and pressed down on her head. The blue-haired loli maintained her charging stance but couldn't move forward an inch! She couldn't even lift the knife in her hand.

"Yingyin, you have a good daughter!" An Shu took out a lollipop with her other hand and put it in her mouth. Sure enough, it would be more stylish to smoke a cigarette, right?

No, I'm just a lolicon, not a delinquent!

Pshaw, no, I'm not a lolicon!

"Hina, come back!" Hiruko Kagetane called out, watching his daughter leap backward, and snapped his fingers. "Proverbs of Pain!"

"Shinra Tensei!" An Shu snapped his fingers as well, his smile unchanged.

Empty, empty, empty—

The roar of intense air friction resounded throughout the entire venue.

Hiruko Kagetane was taken aback. His repulsive force field was encountering resistance?! He can do this too?

It was in that moment of distraction that, with a slight relaxation, the force field was overwhelmed by the opponent, and he was instantly pressed against the wall, his bones cracking and popping.

"Let go of my dad—" Hiruko Kohina screamed and charged forward again.

An Shu snapped her fingers again, altering the force field and trapping the yandere loli inside.

Ding ding ding ding—

A series of crisp sounds were the katana striking the invisible wall. After finding it fruitless, Hiruko Kohina, as if resigned to her fate, dropped the katana, pounded the wall, and looked at her suffering father with teary eyes.

An Shu sighed, walked up to her, and threatened her with a stern face, "If you cry again, I'll kill Hiruko Kagetane!"

"Waaah..." She whimpered and quickly stopped, looking up at the handsome young man in front of her.

"Eat this and I'll let your father go!" An Shu said with a straight face, tossing over a candy made by Sima Heavy Industry.

No! Why do I feel like a weirdo bullying a little girl?

Hiruko Kohina took the candy, didn't think much of it, threw it into her mouth, and looked at Anshu with hopeful eyes.

"Tell me how it tastes first?"

She was taken aback. "It's so sweet!"

The erosion rate should have decreased quite a bit, right? Back then, we made a lot of similar candies for the children in the outer areas, An Shu pondered, stroking his chin.

He snapped his fingers, calming the surrounding force field, and ignored Hiruko Kagetane, who had fallen to the ground. He said to the yandere loli, "Go and take your father away quickly, the other police officers may be coming soon."

Hiruko Kohina was surprised by the other party's decisiveness and, fearing that the other party might change his mind, she didn't even pick up the knife on the ground and quickly ran over to help Hiruko Kagetane up.

“Mr. Anshu…” the emotionless loli spoke up from the side, reminding them that doing this would be difficult to explain to the government later.

"It's alright!" An Shu waved her hand, interrupting her, and turned to look at Hiruko Kagetane, who was being helped up. "Aren't you going to leave and stay here to die?"

“An Shujun…you really are one of the new humans!” His tone was no longer exaggerated, but unusually solemn.

If he wasn't one of the New Humans, how could this force field be explained? Hiruko Kageyu was absolutely certain.

Unfortunately, An Shu is not a new human, nor does he know Shinra Tensei; he just calls it "for fun."

After all, they don't have the Rinnegan chakra or anything like that, and even if they did, the rules of this world wouldn't allow them to be used.

This effect is merely a temporary "flicker" to the rules of this place, making the "forces" here obey its commands. The principle of taming that Stage IV beast is similar, and it's not too difficult for An Shu in his current state.

He shrugged, offering no reply. "Not leaving? I've changed my mind!"

Hiruko Kagetane didn't need his answer either; he already had his guess. He stared intently at the other man, his tone somewhat excited, "Anshu-kun, we will meet again."

After saying that, he let his daughter carry him away.

An Shu watched the two figures disappear, then shivered again, silently thinking to herself, "Just call your daughter, forget about you."

"And you two? What are your plans?" An Shu turned around and looked at the two people standing behind her.

“I plan to go back and open a shop, and quit being a police officer. The wealth I accumulated before is enough for Xia Shi and me to live on,” Yi Xiong said, glancing at Qian Shou Xia Shi before answering first.

"Brother Jiang Jian..." the emotionless loli said in surprise, "Why..."

“Being a police officer is too dangerous…” As he spoke, Yi Xiong took off the black mask he had been wearing on his face and threw it away, as if he wanted to say goodbye to the past.

Qian Shouxia naturally didn't believe it. His own elder brother, the General Supervisor, was fearless and would not back down in the face of danger.

However, she didn't say anything more. If that were really the case, then there would be no more fighting, which would be quite nice...

Ikuma Shōken's usually serious face twitched. It seemed he hadn't smiled in so long that he couldn't smile anymore, and instead revealed an expression that was even uglier than crying.

If An Shu hadn't arrived today, Xia Shi would probably already be...

I'm an orphan with no family. If something were to happen to Xia Shi, the only one I have, I'd probably go crazy.

Just like Natsume Senju, who claimed to be weak in individual combat but could hold off hundreds of Gastrea with a single gun in the original work, Ikuma Shokane, who stood out from 700,000 people, was never a fool; perhaps he just didn't want to think.

Yi Xiongjian extended his hand: "We may have had some misunderstandings before, but thank you again this time, An Shujun!"

This expression of gratitude came from the bottom of his heart.

An Shu was taken aback, then grasped it as well, "That's nothing, but if you, Jiang Jianjun, were to open a shop looking like this, you'd probably go bankrupt!"

He joked, handing over a business card. "Well, feel free to contact me if you need anything. This is my address. I'm off now, my daughter's waiting for me to come home. See you all in Tokyo!"

Nodding to the two, An Shu vanished from the spot in a flash.

"Brother Anshu is a good person..." the emotionless loli sighed inexplicably, subtly changing her form of address.

He patted his pocket, trying to find the candy the other person had given him. He took it out and opened the packaging, only to find that it was evenly crushed into a pile of sugar granules. He didn't pay any attention to it and put it in his mouth. It was surprisingly sweet.

“Yes…” Ikuma Shogan sighed as well, exhaled a breath of stale air, relaxed his body, and led her toward the designated meeting point.

Before long, the first rays of morning sunlight finally arrived, shining on the spot and illuminating the discarded face towel. Beside the face towel, a patch of emerald green quietly grew, still covered with freshly condensed dewdrops. A gentle breeze passed by, stirring the grass and wetting the face towel as well.

Chapter Twenty-Four: The Holy Emperor's Visit

(Sima Residence)

"Mmm—" On the large bed, Sima Weizhi frowned and covered her closed eyes with her hand, as if trying to block out the sunlight.

Instinctively, I turned around, put my hand down, and reached out to grab it, only to find that I had missed.

Then she came to her senses and muttered to herself, "They're not back yet?" She picked up her phone and glanced at the time.

"Hitomi-chan—" she called out, "Are you hungry? Let's go out to eat!"

Not hearing a reply, she felt a little strange, so she simply got up and walked outside, still a bit groggy.

"Ok?"

Fluttering her long eyelashes, she gradually adjusted to the light and saw a person lying across the sofa in the living room, with a sleeping little girl nestled on her stomach.

"Huh?" The little girl was a bit confused. When did they get back?

However, she didn't care. She rolled her big eyes, smiled, and walked over to kneel down in front of him.

The little girl holds a grudge, and this time she got the chance.

She leaned closer, looked at An Shu who was breathing evenly, pinched his nose, and kissed him on the lips.

An Shu gradually frowned due to lack of oxygen, shook her head symbolically a couple of times, and gradually regained consciousness.

Noticing the little girl with a mischievous grin on her face, he gave her a couple of light taps on the head, then hugged the still-sleepy little girl tightly and went back to sleep.

"Get up, Brother Anshu—"

He felt someone sucking on his ear again, whispering soft words into his head, the voice as melodious as a secluded orchid in a valley.

The little girl woke up because of their movements, sat up on An Shu's stomach, and greeted her sweetly, "Good morning, Sister Wei Zhi~"

Good morning, Hitomi-chan.

"Ugh, I'm so tired, I'm going to sleep a little longer. You take Tongjiang to eat first." An Shu forced himself to stay awake, squinted his eyes a crack, and patted the little girl's head as he spoke.

"Why is Brother Anshu sleeping outside? And Tongjiang was clearly sleeping with me, so why is she sleeping outside?" Sima Weizhi was a little confused. Weren't we always sleeping together?

"It's all your fault!" An Shu tapped her head again and pointed to the oversized white shirt she was wearing, which only had one button fastened at the chest.

Don't you have any self-awareness about how you sleep? You don't even wear pajama bottoms! If I hadn't had strong willpower, I would have slept with you right then and there this morning! As a result, when I opened the door to go out to sleep, I disturbed the little girl, and she followed me out.

"What... Even if it's you, Brother Anshu... I won't mind!" The little girl pouted and turned her head away, trying to make her tone sound more natural, but unfortunately, the blush on her cheeks couldn't be wiped away.

"This girl!" An Shu chuckled, then leaned in and kissed her. "Be good! Take Tong-chan out to change clothes and get some food, remember to bring me some too. And, buy a ring on the way."

This tactic of coaxing a child only made the little girl blush even more. She said shyly, "A ring... isn't that a bad idea, Brother Anshu? I think it's better if you buy the ring yourself..."

"It's okay, it's all the same." An Shu said with a smile, nuzzling her face.

Anyway, it's a gift to someone else, so there's no need to worry about it.

"Onii-chan—" the little girl spoke up at this moment, sticking her head out and pointing to her face.

Smack—