My two-dimensional resident

Kikyo knew that the "someone" Lenalee was referring to was Lin Tian. Her beautiful face flushed slightly, and she gave a soft hum as she helped Lenalee tidy up her messy hair on her shoulders.

Then she took a Flame-Flame Fruit from her backpack and placed it in Lenalee's hand.

"You're about ten times stronger now than when you first came to the island, but I'm still a little worried. Eat this Flame-Flame Fruit. It might not boost your strength in the short term, but it'll give you another way to save your life."

Kikyo asked Lin Tian for the Flame-Flame Fruit. At the time, Lin Tian even asked her, "Didn't you say you didn't eat this? Why have you changed your mind now?" Upon hearing Lin Tian's question, Kikyo simply gave a mysterious smile and didn't offer any further explanation.

"This... this miser wouldn't be so kind, Kikyo-neechan, you must have paid a huge price. No, sister. I can't take this!"

Upon seeing the Flame-Flame Fruit in her hand, Lenalee looked surprised and suspiciously at Lin Tian. Then, she looked at Kikyo with a pained and touched expression.

In just a few seconds, she seemed to imagine the enormous price Kikyo had paid for the Flame-Flame Fruit.

"How can a minor have such filthy thoughts?! Hurry up and eat this Flame-Flame Fruit. Bring me three tons of gold next time you come back." Lin Tian rolled his eyes and said with dissatisfaction.

He didn't need to guess from Lenalee's expression. He could already tell what she was imagining.

"Sister, he's extorting me! My monthly salary isn't even enough to buy a gold necklace, where am I going to get so much gold for him?"

When Lin Tian scolded her, Lin Nali immediately put on a pitiful expression and complained to Kikyo in front of Lin Tian.

"Alright, eat it now. As for the gold, do what you can afford."

Kikyo chuckled softly. She felt that being a bystander, a mere spectator, was the wisest choice in dealing with their bickering.

"Hmm... Thank you, sister. You must be more reserved and not let him have his way. We're not married yet, it's not good to let him take advantage of us all the time."

Lenalee whispered in Kikyo's ear, giving Lin Tian a defiant look. Because of the distance, Lin Tian couldn't hear what she said, but his intuition told him that Lenalee definitely wasn't saying anything nice.

"Don't tease your sister anymore, or I'll get angry."

Hearing the whispers in her ear, Kikyo blushed and pretended to be annoyed, saying with dissatisfaction.

"Hee hee~"

Seeing Lin Tian's displeased expression, Lin Nali immediately cheered up. She picked up the Flaming Fruit and took a bite.

"Sister Lenalee! No..."

Erza, who was helping Binchotan straighten his crooked bow, caught a glimpse of Lenalee taking a big bite of the Flame-Flame Fruit. A sense of foreboding washed over her, and she tried to warn him, but it was too late. Lenalee swallowed the entire mouthful of the Flame-Flame Fruit.

"Ugh~"

"Haha! Serves you right!"

Seeing Lenalee crouching on the ground, tears streaming down her face, disgusted by the Flame-Flame Fruit, Lin Tian felt an unprecedented sense of refreshment.

Hearing Lin Tian's laughter, Li Nali tried hard to hold back her tears.

Since Lin Tian hadn't told them that the Flame-Flame Fruit would grant them power with just one bite, Lenalee instinctively believed that only eating the entire fruit would have any effect.

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Lin Tian's smile grew even wider, while her face, though contorted with bitterness, revealed her indignation. She decided to suppress her nausea and finish the entire Flaming Fruit.

'I'm going all in! I can't let Lin Tian see me make a fool of myself!'

Lenalee gritted her teeth, steeled her resolve, and took another bite of the Flaming Fruit.

"Sister Lenalee, you don't need to eat anymore. Just one bite is enough!"

Not wanting her sister Lenalee to suffer from the disgusting taste of the Flame-Flame Fruit again, the kind-hearted Erza quickly ran to Lenalee's side, grabbed her arm, and stopped her from "self-harming."

"what?"

Hearing the notification sound from her phone announcing the removal of the demonic curse, Lenalee's face darkened.

"Sigh, who told someone to be so petty and hold a grudge? They didn't even ask me about the precautions for eating shintai no Mi (Flame Flavor Fruit)."

Seeing Li Nali's aggrieved look, Lin Tian shrugged and pretended to be very innocent.

"Oh dear, thank goodness I didn't eat it, otherwise I would have gotten infected like my sister Lina Li. Sister Yin Liya was right, someone is really petty."

If someone has high emotional intelligence, she'll definitely be liked by many people. But if she has a scheming or manipulative side, that's another story.

Lin Tian rolled his eyes at Shinobu Kocho, then took out a C-rank Noble Phantasm from his spatial backpack and walked up to Lenalee.

"This doesn't require three tons of gold; just give me 100 kilograms of gold next time you come back."

"I do not want!"

Although Lenalee said no, her body language betrayed her as she accepted the Noble Phantasm from Lin Tian. It was a rapier, perfectly suited for Lenalee to use the sword techniques she had learned from Shinobu Kocho.

Lin Tian frowned at her honesty, but quickly realized that when she said no, she meant she didn't want to give him 100 kilograms of gold.

"Thank you, I will come back alive."

Just as Lin Tian was about to lift 100 kilograms to one ton, Li Nali suddenly became serious and bowed to Lin Tian to express her gratitude.

Although she had been bickering with Lin Tian a lot these past two days, she knew that Lin Tian was genuinely trying to help her. Although she had just said that she would be back soon, she wasn't really sure.

Lin Tian tried several times to tell her the outcome of the exorcists' siege of the Millennium Duke in Edo. However, Lin Nari was terrified of hearing words like "failure" and "death," so she always refused Lin Tian's spoilers.

The detailed ending wasn't heard, but Lenalee already sensed that the Battle of Edo hadn't gone so smoothly for the Black Order...

"Thank you, thank you everyone. I will carry your blessings with me to find my companions and together we will annihilate the Thousand-Year-Old King!"

......

---Aside---

This week has been too busy. I'll be updating 2000 words less today and tomorrow. I'll make up for it with extra updates over the weekend...

I need to take a break. The update scheduled for midnight will be postponed to 11 PM tomorrow.

The work project finished at noon today, and you all know what happens next... lunch and drinks...

Five people, six bottles—not much. After successfully taking them all out, I went home at 4 PM and lay down until 7 PM.

I woke up and found I was hungry, so I ordered some barbecue and ended up killing myself.

I've been in the toilet for an hour already...

(。o?o).゜

Chapter 155 Reigen Arataka and Shinji Ikari

I am Reigen Arataka. I was already dead. I thought someone like me should go to hell, but I never expected to end up in heaven.

Yes! Heaven, such a beautiful place must be heaven!

With so many apple trees, this must be the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve once lived.

The fact that I am here must be because the good deeds I did in my life moved Heaven.

What? You don't know who I am?

Let me reintroduce myself. I am Ling Huanxinlong, an outstanding and advanced young person, and a role model for entrepreneurs.

When I first graduated, I had no intention of starting my own business. Like other classmates, I joined a company. But after working there for a while, I discovered that my boss was not only incompetent but also jealous of my outstanding talent.

He always assigns me impossible tasks at work, and he scolds me whenever he has a spare moment. I can tell that this is workplace PUA.

As a righteous young man, to prevent my abilities from being wasted, I fired his squid. With all the money I had, I opened my own exorcism studio.

Exorcism? How laughable. There are no evil spirits in this world. They are merely delusions born from the guilt of those who have done wrong.

In order to make clients feel at ease paying their fees, I became their listener, using my persuasive skills to calm their emotions and reason with them.

After that, I used some exorcism methods I learned online, including salt, to drive away the evil spirits my clients encountered. With the positive feedback from my first client, my reputation spread throughout the industry.

Then came the second, the third... more and more clients came to me. After my professional exorcism, they all went home satisfied, and also gave me a considerable sum of money.

What an easy job! You don't have to be a wage earner running around doing sales; you can easily count money until your hands are sore.

I truly admire my own talent.

I really am a genius. In just six months, I will reach the pinnacle of life and marry a beautiful, rich, and successful woman.

But my good fortune didn't last long; I became a target of other competitors. Business has been dwindling lately, but I believe that sooner or later I'll crush those competitors and make my exorcism company the industry leader.

One day, after I finished an exorcism, a middle school student approached me and said a lot of things I couldn't understand. I had a feeling that this boy had some kind of mental problem.

I initially wanted to fire him, but then I remembered that I was the boss now and didn't have a single employee. Looking at this honest and naive middle school student, I came up with an evil plan.

I made this junior high school student my first employee and had him do odd jobs for me.

But it was precisely because of this decision that I, an ordinary but outstanding young man, stepped into hell.

So evil spirits really do exist in this world...

Seeing the eyelids of the high school student beside him gradually twitch, Reigen Arataka ended his own recollection. He patted the somewhat bewildered boy on the shoulder and said with an air of maturity.

"Don't be sad. Death is not the end, but a beautiful beginning. Look at these apple trees. This is the Garden of Eden in heaven, and we will live here from now on. I will protect you."

Although Reigen Arataka appeared confident and had a smile on his face, he was actually very apprehensive about being in an unfamiliar place.

They kept saying that this was God's place, the Garden of Eden.

However, because his fear of the evil spirit that killed him had not yet subsided, he did not explore other areas after waking up, but instead waited for the middle school student next to him to wake up from his coma.

His disciple, Shigeo Kageyama, was unremarkable in appearance and would have been an unnoticed passerby in the school, yet he could instantly kill all kinds of evil spirits.

The unremarkable middle school student in front of him, who looked just like his disciple, might also be a power user, even though he didn't resemble his disciple.

Based on his limited and "extensive" knowledge, Reigen Arataka instinctively assumed that all espers were the same as his disciples...

'First, I need to build a good relationship with him... In case this seemingly paradise-like place also harbors dangers, I can only rely on this young man. After all, I'm just an ordinary person!'

"Yin Dian Yuan? Why not hell! Someone like me should go to hell..."

With his mind still a bit hazy, Shinji Ikari looked dejected after hearing the words of the kind older brother in front of him. His eyes, devoid of luster, stared at the apple tree in front of him, and he murmured without any emotion.

He was filled with remorse, wondering how someone as useless as himself could have ended up in heaven. He was a good-for-nothing who couldn't even get his father's approval, so why was he in heaven?

'Rei Ayanami...'

Looking at the azure sky, Shinji Ikari thought of the girl who had been hospitalized because of his cowardly actions...

"No, no, no, your thinking is dangerous. You're just a middle school student who's not even an adult. There aren't that many sins that lead to hell. Look, here are beautiful apple trees. And look at those tempting red apples on them. Would there be apple trees in hell? This is Eden, paradise!"

If Shinji Ikari's face weren't smaller than Shigeo Kageyama's, Reigen Arataka might have mistaken the middle school student in front of him for his disciple after hearing his discouraging words.

He was unremarkable in appearance, just an ordinary passerby, and exuded an aura that made him easy to overlook.