(a)

"Ding!"

This is the chime of the kitchen timer to the point.

Yakumo Zi closed the book in his hand with a "snap", raised his head, and at the same time pulled down the leg of Erlang, who had been upturned.

"The soup is ready," she said, gently poking her elbow against Rinnosuke's waist, who was sitting on the same sofa as her, holding the next volume of the same novel in her hand.

"You go and take a look. ”

"Wait a little longer......"

Rinnosuke replied casually, and then turned another page, reading the book and looking at it intently.

He was already in the Yakumo family's study...... He himself didn't know how many hours he had, and after swimming in the sea of books for a long time, the concept of time became blurred.

He only remembered that Yakumo Zi had come back a few times and left a few times, during which he seemed to have chatted with him a few times, and he had no impression of what he had said. Speaking of which, when did she start sitting next to him?

"Hmmm......"

Rinnosuke raised his head, thought for a moment, and came to the conclusion:

"I don't know. ”

It seemed that by the time he noticed her presence, she was already there...... Then again, hasn't Yakumo always been like this?

"Then forget it, it's important to read. ”

Thinking so, he lowered his head again and returned to the world of imagination.

"You......"

Purple was beside him watching his every move, smiling helplessly.

Anyway, it's not the first day she has known him, she should have known that ten stubborn donkeys can't pull back Rinnosuke, who is obsessed with books. Of course, it is impossible for ten stubborn donkeys to exert force in the same direction.

So she sighed lightly, stood up, and placed the book in her hand on the couch cushion behind her. Then, she made a small crack the thickness of her arm, and a hand reached into it.

"I'll turn off the fire," she said two seconds later, pulling her arm out of the gap and turning to Rinnosuke on the couch, "You can drink it now, or wait for it to simmer for a while." ”

Or, don't drink it......

Looking at Rinnosuke's extremely focused appearance, Purple couldn't help but feel that this was the most likely thing to happen. After all, she was not naïve enough to think that men were creatures who would treat themselves well.

"Anyway, I'll go out for a while, and then I'll ......"

As she spoke, one foot already stepped into the crack in front of her.

"Try to come back before the soup cools. ”

(b)

"Bang!"

The moment he came out of the gap in the space, Yakumo Zi only heard this loud noise.

Another terrible collision, and the Ibaraki fan was flipped to the ground by the violent impact, and this time, she couldn't get back up.

"Ahem...... Ha ......"

She was lying flat on the ground, badly injured, exhausted, purple and bruised, her face covered in blood, even wheezing, even coughing up the blood stuck in her trachea, there was not much left, let alone struggling to turn over.

"Hey...... Hey hey ......"

Ibuki Senka stood a few meters away, her skin shiny with sweat and her nostrils spewing white air, looking like a tired pit bull. She laughed intermittently, and from time to time she had a few bloody coughs, and a generation of ghost kings was embarrassed so far, and the internal injuries must be not light. Judging from her appearance alone, she is not much better than Hua Fan, she is all covered with sores, blue nose and swollen face. The only difference between the two is that she is standing, while Hua Fan is lying.

So she won, and Hua Fan lost.

"You...... You beat me?"

Cuixiang staggered, walked to Hua Fan's side, knelt down on one knee, and said while panting:

"Like...... We've known each other for thousands of years, and we haven't seen each other once, right?"

Hua Fan didn't say a word, didn't refute, didn't even frown, just lay flat on the ground, spread his arms, and breathed heavily.

Cuixiang is right, after so many years and so many games, let alone any "more losses and fewer wins", she really hasn't won Cuixiang, not once. But then again, who has really defeated Ibuki Sanka?

Racking her brains, Hua Fan couldn't imagine the picture of Cuixiang falling to the ground and eating dust, because she had never seen it at all. No, don't talk about eating dust, counting back three thousand years, Hua Fan has never even seen Cuixiang suffer in battle for the entire three thousand years. This monster, if you don't make a move, it's just a one-sided beating, crushing, and there is no suspense.

It is even said that the only thing that can force Cuixiang to this point today is Hua Fan and the other two good players. Outsiders who don't know anything collectively call these four "Four Heavenly Kings of the Ghost Clan", and the Ghost Clan himself laughs when he talks about it. Because everyone knows that there is no such thing as the Four Heavenly Kings at all, only the Wine Swallowing Boy and her happy friends. For the weak, the strong are almost the same, they are all unattainable peaks, but the real strong can distinguish each other's heights at a glance, which is indeed true.

"But......" Cuika stood up and changed her words, "Even I have to admit that you ...... today Hit a little hard. ”

As she spoke, she wiped the blood from under her nose with her thumb, put it in her mouth and smacked it, and then licked her upper lip, which had cracked a small gap.

"It's really ......ruthless," said Cuika, "for a moment, I even had the feeling that I couldn't hold it anymore. But fortunately, you are the one who fell first, otherwise our undefeated golden body will be ancient, haha!"

She smiled very boldly, but except for that laugh, her tone sounded like she hadn't eaten a mouthful of food, looking at the pot with a bowl - some regrets, some unfinished. On the surface of all kinds of signs, she hasn't played enough.

This is a matter of course, Ibuki Azuka has never been able to fight enough, every time she hasn't contributed yet, her opponent falls, and then she can only return with regrets. If one day, Cui Xiang said that she had met an opponent who could "fight enough", Hua Fan thought to herself, what a terrifying thing it would be. That means that there is still one in this world for a monster as strong as Cuixiang!

If there really is such a day, this world will probably be no different from hell!

"After so many years, what do you say about your fist......" Cuixiang licked her lips, and her expression was like a gourmet, "a little less impulsive, a little more calm." A little less aura, a little more decisiveness. ”

"You've grown up too......"

At this, a smile appeared on Suika's face.

"Indeed, I can't call it a 'boy' anymore. ”

"It's as if you're still a 'boy'. Hua Fan replied like this, and then laughed too.

"Haha!"

Cui Xiang crossed her waist, looked up to the sky and laughed, and said:

"Don't talk about it, the word 'mature', even in another thousand years, don't want to have a relationship with me, no way! We have to be a fart for the rest of our lives, drink the strongest wine, kick the fuck, the most mellow ass!"

"Can this be counted, a declaration by the old lady with a childish face?"

"Beat you!"

The reunion of old friends, fists, tears, laughter, and a duet of joy and sorrow, it is really warm to watch. Yakumo Murasaki, who was standing by the sidelines, felt a lot of emotions in her heart for a while, and almost forgot what she was here for.

However, she still did not forget after all, so at this most heartwarming moment, she took a step forward, stepped into it, and interrupted the laughter of the two.

"Excuse me. ”

She said with a smile, and Suika turned her head, put away all her smiles, glared at her fiercely, and said:

"What?"

"I wonder if you're done talking about the old days. ”

Yakumo Zi still looks calm, but that smile, the more you look at it, the more chills it makes people's hearts chill.

"If it's all over, then ......"

Before she could finish speaking, she stopped, raised her right hand, and snapped her fingers clearly.

Immediately after, a huge spatial crack opened in front of her, and two dazzling lights and a deafening whistle burst out of the crack and slapped on Cuixiang's face.

"It's time to clear the field. ”

Suika didn't hear Yakumo's words, as an entire train sped out of the crack and crushed towards her and Hua Fan's brains. All she could hear was the wheels.