The Daily Life of Saiki Kusuo in Zoldyck

Chapter 192 So sleepy, so sleepy, so sleepy, so sleepy! Who isn't sleepy on Monday?

"No, I didn't lie. In Meteor City, everyone's age increases by one year after the New Year. If we're being strict, we're currently at the end of August, and I'll be 28 in just a few months."

"What about a more precise time? If the commander's birthday is at the end of the year..."

"That slight time difference is irrelevant. The leather used in the coat was also cut long before it was finished. The conclusion is that the coat is at least 7.5 years old now, and restoration is useless!"

What does "7.5 years old for a coat" mean?

During the standoff, Kusuo Saiki reached out his hand:

Kuroro: ?!

The pause lasted only 0.5 seconds.

Illumi suddenly reached out to Kuroro, but Kuroro had already flipped himself up using the back of the sofa! While suspended in mid-air, he activated Thief's Ultimate with one hand and teleported!

To teleport, one needs to swap places with someone. In this small house, Kuroro suddenly found himself in the kitchen, and standing before Illumi and Saiki Kusuo was...

An uncle picking his nose, the father of Saiki Kusuo, a great ordinary adult man in society who sells his dignity and freedom to lick his boss's shoes to support his family.

He works as an editor at a publishing house, and during work hours he bosses around all sorts of cartoonists... Of course, no matter what kind of person Dad is at work, he becomes Mom's biggest fan as soon as he gets home.

"Hey hey!! Kusuo, you're back?! Huh?! What's this stone?!"

What dad walks into the house and sees no one else in the room, then heads straight to the kitchen and stares at his mom?

In the kitchen, Mom was washing vegetables: "Is the meat chopped? Or should I chop it..."

When Mom looked up, she suddenly saw Xilu holding a small knife and showing off his exquisite knife skills, instantly slicing the meat on the cutting board into evenly thick slices!

"Hey?! Sir! What are you doing in the kitchen all of a sudden? I thought it was Dad who just came in!"

"Haha, I'm sorry to be causing trouble by staying at Nanxiong's house. Let me help out in the kitchen! I use knives a lot."

"Does Xilu like to cook? Oh, what a good boy..."

"I'm quite capable of taking care of myself. Let me handle that fish too; I'm very good at it."

"Okay, would you like to take off your coat first? Fish will..."

"It's okay, you really don't need to take off your coat."

"But the sleeves of the coat will definitely get wet..."

"It's okay, I'll be very careful."

“Sirlu really likes this coat.”

"Well, by the way, Madam, Kusuo has actually caused me a bit of trouble. Has he always been like this? Saying he wants to try out some kind of superpower, and wants to..."

Kusuo Saiki appeared at the kitchen doorway, his face dark.

I'm late. This person only stepped into the house a short while ago and already knows who the strongest creature in the world is.

"Xiao Nan, come here and listen to what your mother has to say."

What could I do but take the scolding?

After dinner, Kusuo Saiki went downstairs alone to do research in the basement.

It doesn't matter if Option Two is rejected. That freak Chrollo has already brought the entire Phantom Troupe on board for a coat, so let's not hurt the coat.

Disasters caused by superpowered individuals are resolved by superpowered individuals themselves.

That's true, but it's incredibly difficult. And you can't use the restoration ability to restore the machine. It was even less functional seven years ago than it is now.

Kusuo Saiki sat in his chair and sighed. He had been looking at the information for a long time. Although he had participated in the research before, it would take at least two or three days to fix the thing.

"May I come in?" Kuroro had already entered and closed the door.

Now that you're inside, there's no need to act all polite.

"I already thought about it in my mind at the door, but you didn't seem to hear me," Kuroro explained.

I can hear so many voices around me, especially when they're thinking.

"Are you really unable to take us back right away?"

Of course, do you think I'm lying to you?

"If there really is no other solution, I can restore my coat."

Oh. Hmm? Wait, he actually agreed.

“But the coat is also very important to me, and I don’t want it to be an easy solution to settle on.”

"What is it?" Kuroro approached and placed his hand on the back of Saiki Kusuo's chair.

A time-traveling machine to another world… I can’t tell him that answer, or he’ll have to make it up again… Well…

"Another world, a time machine?"

Did I just say that? No, I don't think so!

"No, it's just that I feel you're hiding something from us, so listen to what I have to say."

It was only then that Kusuo Saiki noticed the brooch pinned to the collar of his shirt. Oh dear, he hadn't noticed it for a moment.

What's with this mutual joy and spiritual connection? Humans have completely lost their ability to communicate, so do we have to think without any concealment like the Trisolarans?

"What are the Trisolarans? People from another world?"

I recommend you read some science fiction... no, we've gone off on a tangent.

"Getting back to the point, why is it a time-travel machine to another world?"

Because I'm going to travel to another world... tsk, I can't hide my true feelings at all.

Why did you hide it?

Wow, this guy is so good at reading minds.

Kusuo Saiki frowned. Thoughts are uncontrollable, and the things one most wants to hide are the things that come to mind. In just a few exchanges, he had already revealed too many things that he shouldn't have.

Can we only pray that Kuroro doesn't believe us? But hearing this heartfelt statement might actually make people believe it.

That's how the human mind works—it's incredibly complex, with both positive and negative aspects.

So in the end, which parts did Chrollo believe and which did he reject? Was it like last time, that he believed it was all a result of Nen abilities?

Kuroro lowered his head, his mind filled with thought.

"I did have my doubts before...."

"The fact that we couldn't steal it during the day is strong evidence of that, and the people we met today also have a strange level of understanding of us."

“Your parents truly treated you as the parents of a superpowered person, and they truly treated you as their child, but you should be Kusuo Saiki Zoldyck. This blood relationship could not possibly be faked.”

"In this world, the first two characters of a name are the surname, and the last two characters are the given name. Your house has the characters 'Qi Mu' on the door; this is the Qi Mu family home, combining the surnames of both parents..."

"And then there's that non-Nen user who suddenly appeared but has an unusually close relationship with you, and whom nobody recognizes, Kusuke Saiki."

Why are you calling out all my family members by name?

"If I were to make a bold guess based on your honest thoughts, you are a member of this family, but this is another world, so you have two identities."

The correct conclusion has been reached.

"Your abilities follow the power system of this world, a world where superpowered individuals are prevalent..."

No, that's not right. I'm the only one with superpowers... well, there are others, but they're very few.

"That makes perfect sense, isn't it just like Nen users?"

Reasonable size. The world I live in is very, very ordinary; I am an anomaly here, in a world where others see me as a superhuman!

Are you the only one with superpowers?

There are barely two left... let's say one. If we count intelligence, then Kusuke counts too, so there are two. Toritsuka can only see souls.

"...Three now, all in this country?"

Ah, yes, indeed, why are they all in Japan?

"There must be other superpowered people in that world, it's just that you don't..."

I'm really warning you to stop using superpowered individuals to smear this beautiful, ordinary world.

"Okay, this is the world of ordinary people."

In order to hear Kusuo Saiki's inner thoughts, his brain needed to be at the same level. Kusuo Saiki sat in a chair, while Kuroro bent his knees and supported himself with his hands on his knees. This was a position that was difficult to maintain for long, so they compromised for the time being.

"The most fundamental issue is that you have two families? That's a lot of information. Have you decided to tell Illumi yet? He probably doesn't know yet."

Why are you concerned about Illumi's—no, Zoldyck's—family affairs? Is it just because he's a member of your crew?

Kusuo Saiki's response was silence.

He had considered that these things would eventually be exposed to everyone.

Now that he has decided to accept that side of the family, he should no longer hide this matter.

However, the timing and the appropriateness of the timing are so important that there have always been reasons to delay.

Now is clearly not a good time for him either.

But what if opportunity comes knocking on your door... and this also coincides with the prophetic poem that Kousuke told him.

Kuroro, who was about to get up, was surprised.

"..." Kusuo Saiki turned to look at Kuroro and only then noticed his actions.

The contents of the prophetic poem appeared in Kusuo Saiki's mind, but the next moment, Kusuo Saiki crushed the brooch.

Kuroro only heard the first half of the prophetic poem that he had already experienced.

Saiki Kusuo said.

With the eavesdropping gone, Kusuo Saiki was finally able to recall the events properly.

When Kousuke told him about the prophetic poem...

"The fact that Neon's prophecy poems are 100% accurate is part of the ability's setting. The name left in the prophecy poem is Kusuo Saiki, but before that, the clone was identified as Kusuo Saiki, so this prophecy poem foretold the clone's situation."

"The fourth stanza of the prophetic poem begins with the mention of swinging on a swing with one's tail, which should refer to the doppelganger, right? You who distinguish yourselves by the difference between cats and humans should no longer switch identities. So this whole poem is about doppelgangers... That's what I thought before."

"I have 99% no action that has changed because of the prophecy. Before I told you, only my clone and your clone knew about the prophecy. That is to say, up to this point, everything should still be proceeding according to the trajectory of the prophecy."