My two-dimensional resident

Upon hearing that Lin Tian wanted to buy him Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), Ace immediately chickened out and hurriedly shook his head to refuse Lin Tian's kindness.

He's already developed a phobia of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) and doesn't want to drink that kind of strong liquor again anytime soon.

"Here'll have a beer. And while you're at it, let me show you how to use this vending machine."

Did they really give Ace Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor)?

No, no!

Lin Tian didn't want to see Ace pass out after drinking Erguotou. Although the Nook Miles were easier to collect than expected, completing other missions would require a lot of Bells, and it was impossible for Lin Tian and Kikyo alone to collect enough Bells to build bridges and other houses within a week.

Therefore, Lin Tian would never let Ace slack off by drinking. He had already thought it through. Didn't Ace say that he was particularly good at fishing?

After helping him explain the basic milestones, he made Ace fish all day long to earn a lot of Bells.

"Hmm, it's already grown into a sapling. Looks like my gamble paid off!"

After teaching Ace how to use the vending machine, Lin Tian bought himself a bottle of cola and went to the spot where he had planted the Flame-Flame Fruit the night before. He found that the Flame-Flame Fruit had successfully sprouted and grown into a small tree more than a meter tall. Lin Tian was overjoyed.

According to Animal Crossing's rules, planting a fruit in the ground will grow it into a tree in two days, and you can harvest the fruit in three days. So, seeing the small Flaming Fruit tree, Lin Tian was really looking forward to the fruit it would bear in two days.

"Lin Tian, ​​this island is indeed as magical as you said. I saw you plant that Devil Fruit in the soil with my own eyes, and saplings have sprouted today."

Kikyo brought the milk tea to Lin Tian's side and exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the sapling that had sprouted overnight.

"This is the first time I've ever heard of Devil Fruits being able to grow, sprout, and become saplings! Lin Tian, ​​will it produce a lot of Devil Fruits?"

Lin Tian and Kikyo's conversation attracted Ace and Erza's attention. Ace looked at the sapling and clicked his tongue in amazement, then turned to Lin Tian and asked him his question.

Faced with Ace's question, Lin Tian smiled mysteriously and continued, "Guess?"

"Um, forget it! I won't guess! Didn't you say the apple trees on the island bear fruit in three days? So I'll wait three days, and I'll have an answer then! Haha~"

Lin Tian's mysterious, wicked smile made Ace feel like he was digging a hole for him, but the shrewd Ace decided not to guess.

"Brother Lin Tian, ​​what's so special about this tree? Why are you all gathered around it?"

The sweetness of the milk cream cheered Erza up a little. Seeing everyone chatting and laughing around a small sapling, she looked at Lin Tian curiously.

"Little Erza, this is a tree with a very high chance of growing a magical fruit. We'll have our answer in three days. This tree is... um, little Erza, your clothes..."

Just as Lin Tian was about to explain to Erza what a Devil Fruit was, he suddenly noticed that Erza was still wearing a thin, tattered shirt with two holes in the knees.

Standing there barefoot, one couldn't help but feel a deep sense of pity.

"I..."

Erza lowered her head in embarrassment after Lin Tian said that. This dress was made for her by an old lady in the village before she was captured and taken to the Tower of Paradise.

"Lin Tian, ​​I was about to tell you about this. Could you see if you could get Erza some clothes and a pair of shoes? She must be very uncomfortable going barefoot all the time."

After hearing Lin Tian's words, Kikyo took Erza's hand and looked at Lin Tian with a pained expression.

The adorable Rabbit Island still has unpaved roads. Apart from the beach surrounding the island, the woods and open spaces are covered with lush green grass.

Although the leaves of these green grasses won't cut the skin of the island's residents thanks to the island's will, walking barefoot on this lush grass must still be uncomfortable.

Kikyo is a spirit, and her movements are always floating above the ground, so she can't feel anything. But Erza is different; she has a physical body.

"Clothes are easy to solve, but shoes are a bit more troublesome. But it's not a problem either, watch me!"

Seeing Erza's small, scarred feet fidgeting nervously, Lin Tian felt a pang of sympathy and immediately took out his phone. Under the curious gazes of the three, he tapped the "My Designs" app with his finger.

She directly selected a blue wavy dress and then confirmed, "Decorate here." To the astonishment of Kikyo and the others, the blue wavy dress appeared out of thin air among them.

"Kikyo, take Erza to change your clothes, and then I'll take you to buy a pair of shoes. Hopefully, shoes are available for purchase on the Nocturne device right now."

"Lin Tian, ​​how did you do that?"

Ace was closest to Lin Tian. He saw Lin Tian casually manipulate his phone a few times and conjure up a set of clothes. His mind was filled with questions.

Not only Ace, but Kikyo and Erza also cast curious glances at Lin Tian.

"Hehe, then I'll explain it to you. Come closer, so I can teach you how to use this 'My Design' app."

Seeing the curious looks on everyone's faces, Lin Tian chuckled and called them over to demonstrate how to use the 'My Design' app.

"First of all, I want to say that this is an incredibly versatile app. It can not only create clothes, but also patterns. We can use these patterns to decorate walls or floors." As he spoke, Lin Tian clicked on an island painting that came with the My Design app and chose to lay it on the floor.

Then something magical happened: a small patch of green space, about one square meter in size, in front of the three of them instantly transformed into the painting that Lin Tian had chosen.

"Based on this principle, we can use it to create road surfaces. For example, I can draw a red brick road. Then I can select 'Decorate Ground,' and the red brick road will appear. Ace, touch it, doesn't it look just like a real red brick road?"

While explaining the most basic applications of my design app, Lin Tian casually drew a picture of a red brick floor. Under the watchful eyes of the three, he laid the red brick floor on the open ground. One wasn't enough, so he placed two more along the first red brick floor, forming a path three meters long and one meter wide. Then he asked Ace to check the texture of the red brick floor.

"Wow, it really is! If I hadn't seen you doing it with my own eyes, I would have thought that this was a road that someone else had worked so hard to build."

Ace walked forward, bent down and touched the red brick ground, then stood on it and stomped on it a few times. After feeling that the road surface was exactly the same as the red brick roads he had seen before, he sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Financially strapped, she said three sentences that made me spend all my money.

"Haha, that's nothing. Come on, let me show you how I make clothes for little Erza. You see, there are two brush options at the top of the app interface."

The first option is to design a pattern, which is what I just used. The second option is to create clothing. As you can see, there are eight built-in clothing designs in the app. Just click on one, and three options will appear.

First, there's the "wearing" feature, which is self-explanatory. Clicking on this will directly put the pre-designed outfit on your body.

After saying that, in order to make Kikyo and Ace understand his meaning more deeply, Lin Tian directly clicked on a gradient tank vest and then selected to wear it. Instantly, the white hoodie he was wearing turned into this vest.

"Wow!"

Ace noticed that Lin Tian's vest looked really cool, so he quickly took out his phone and copied Lin Tian's actions to change into the same vest.

"This is so convenient! No need to try it on, no need to worry about whether the clothes fit your body type. Just put it on and it automatically matches the size. It's truly amazing!"

He touched the silky texture of the vest and swayed his body, savoring its comfort. Ace swore it was the best outfit he had ever worn.

"Haha, there's more. See, if I click on the blank canvas below, I can enter the design editing section, and then you can design your own clothes based on your preferred style..."

Sensing that Erza was only wearing a dress and something was missing, Lin Tian, ​​while explaining how to design clothes to Kikyo and Ace, also made a white lace sun hat for Erza.

"It's a pity that the app hasn't been updated yet, otherwise I could make a pair of shoes for little Erza right now. But it's okay, the Nok's Beg app can be used to buy some daily necessities. Let's go see if they have any shoes, and I'll teach you how to use the Nok's Beg app while we're at it."

Lin Tian personally put the white lace sun hat he had made on Erza's head, and then spoke to Kikyo and Ace.

Seeing the two nod, looking impatient, Lin Tian stopped talking and turned to lead the three into the peacock green tent with the Knox company's leaf logo.

When Lin Tian entered the tent, he found that Xiao Ke and the others were not in the front hall. He thought that it was past 12 o'clock and they must have gone to cook, so he did not go to the inner room to look for them.

He led everyone to a light blue machine that looked like an ATM, pointed at it, and turned to Kikyo and the others.

"This is the Nook Miles Machine. We can collect some Nook Miles here every day, and we can also deposit our Bells into it. Most importantly, we can use it to spend Bells or Nook Miles to buy some decorations or daily necessities."

Oh, right! We also need to use it to buy miles when we leave the island. Let me show you how!

After saying that, Lin Tian received 50 Nook Miles from the Tanuki Terminal and deposited 10,000 Bells from his backpack into it. Then he clicked on the Bells Shopping section, and instantly a dazzling array of goods appeared before everyone.

Hats, clothes, umbrellas, fountain decorations, and many other items—the variety left Kikyo and the others speechless. Living in ancient times, this was the first time they had ever seen such a wondrous machine; only one word could describe their feelings: utterly awestruck!

"Hmm... there are no shoes. Let me check if they're in the Miles Shopping section."

Lin Tian muttered something under his breath. He had wanted to use Bells to buy Erza a pair of shoes, but he was disappointed to find that there were no shoes available.

After all, in the early stages, before the first batch of loans was paid off, there were no projects that consumed a large amount of Bells. Therefore, he preferred to buy Erza shoes with Bells rather than using Nook Miles.

Unfortunately, Lin Tian's plan failed.

"I have a pair of black leather shoes, not too expensive at 400 miles. These are the ones!"

Although the shoes require 400 miles, they are already very cheap compared to other items in the miles shopping cart.

Lin Tian watched as 400 miles disappeared, but he wasn't bothered at all. After all, compared to Erza suffering barefoot, miles were nothing.

Just as Lin Tian was about to hand the shoes to Erza, he suddenly realized that since he had already bought the shoes, why not buy a pair of socks? That would make the shoes more comfortable. So he spent 400 miles to buy a pair of white stockings.

"Little Erza, quickly put on your socks and shoes!"

Looking at the new shoes and socks she had never owned before, Erza instinctively wanted to take them, but suddenly she stopped, her hands hovering in the air. Her slender, white arms began to tremble.

The clear, large eye that wasn't covered by the blindfold began to moisten, and tears welled up, trickling down the baby-like skin to the ground.

She didn't understand, she really didn't understand, why the older brother in front of her was so kind to her. He gave her apples to eat, new clothes to wear, and now he was spending a lot of miles to buy her socks and shoes.

She had already learned about nook miles from Kikyo; they were even more precious than bells. And this older brother, whom she had only met less than a day ago, had actually spent 800 nook miles just to make it easier for her to travel.

The previous tragedy had turned Erza's world into a dark place, but the older brother in front of her brought color back to her world.

"Little Elsa, take this. This is Lin Tian's gift, and also a token of our goodwill. Don't refuse it. Forget the bad things of the past; a bright future awaits you."

Your arrival here and meeting us is an arrangement of fate!

Although you're not a formal resident, Lin Tian and I already consider you our little sister. Take your shoes and socks, and go to the inner room to change your clothes too.

Seeing Erza cry, Kikyo felt a pang of unease, thinking of her own younger sister. Remembering Erza's tragic past, she bent down, looked into Erza's eyes, gently stroked her crimson hair, and softly comforted her little sister whom she had only known for less than a day.

"Don't cry, Erza. Your presence here means you're becoming part of our family. It's only natural for a brother to give his sister a new outfit. Listen to your sister Kikyo, go inside and change into your new clothes."

Erza suddenly started crying, which initially caught Lin Tian off guard. But when he saw Kikyo starting to comfort her, Lin Tian followed Kikyo's example, squatting down and saying with a loving expression.

"Little sister, from now on, I, Portgas D. Ace, will be your older brother. If anyone bullies you, just tell me, and I'll beat them up for you! Here, I don't have anything special, but this is a bracelet I stole... I'll give it to you!"

Although Ace didn't know Erza's background, seeing Erza crying uncontrollably and then looking at Kikyo and Lin Tian's reactions, he understood some of the reasons.

Chapter Forty: The story of the White Album is impossible unless it's by some twist of fate.

Since Lin Tian and Kikyo were both so kind to Erza, he couldn't be left behind. He rummaged in his pocket for a while and found a jade bracelet. He took it out and handed it to Erza.

"You guys... 5555~"

Erza, who had just been betrayed by her best friend Jellal, looked at the three older brothers and sisters who were so kind to her.

The sudden warmth shattered her heart, causing her to lose control of her emotions and burst into tears.

"Erza..."

"Let her cry for a while, let her release some of her pent-up emotions. She'll feel better after she's cried..."

Seeing Erza cry her heart out, Kikyo felt even more sorry for her and wanted to comfort her again, but Lin Tian stopped her.

And so, Lin Tian, ​​Kikyo, and Ace silently watched Erza cry alone there.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes... Five minutes later, Erza finally released all the negative emotions that had been building up inside her. Her crying gradually subsided and turned into soft sobs.

Seeing this, Lin Tian knew that Erza had released all her grievances and resentment. He found a pack of tissues in the house, took out two tissues, and went to Erza's side to wipe away her tears.