The Kuril Port is the largest and busiest port at the mouth of the Great River, but in fact, the scope of the Kuril Port only includes a small part of the southeast coast and the surrounding part of the small part, after all, the country of the Thousand Islands, as its name suggests, is generally a maritime country composed of countless islands. On the other side of the Kuril harbor and a large area of water, which can barely be regarded as a large river basin, it is completely a subordination of the Cornell region, which has a long-standing low sense of presence in the Federation. Most people of insight believe that the Cornell area, as a port of outward being blessed with favorable conditions, is an area that has been wrongly abandoned and idle by the Federation as a bargain and a threat to the Kuril Islands.

And now, on the river, on the border between the Union and the Kuril Islands, which is not very clear, a small boat is floating in the middle. There were three people in the cramped boat. At the very front of the ship, in the largest piece of space, a young girl in a light blue dress lay peacefully with her hands folded in front of her chest, as if she were asleep, and the noise of the water and the sounds of other ships around her could not wake her at all.

The shirtless man in the middle of the boat, with unkempt blonde hair, was as careless as his face, but his muscles were strong and strong, and he clearly didn't stop exercising for a day. At this moment, sweat and the river water, wet his hair, soaked from his forehead all the way to his body, and his eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed that it was not easy to maintain his position in the turbulent river with a pair of oars. However, the man did not seem to feel tired at all, and continued to shake the oars with an uncanny speed with a blank face.

"Thank you, Rezel. The man who sat in the stern of the boat, casually holding on to the rudder, so idle that he was humming a song, let out a strange laugh, whether it was because the sun was obscured by the clouds, his laughter and the sound of his speech sent chills to the back, as if it were mixed with some cold, shrill howl, like a tiny blade mixed in icy water.

"It's my pleasure to serve you. Raizel, who was still desperately shaking the oars, spoke calmly, if it was someone who knew him, he would be surprised, his words were not at all like the usual rude, uneducated, unlucky boy Raizer who lost his father at a young age, but like those old men with surnames who have been educated by high pressure somewhere, his demeanor and tone are perfect, if there is a slight flaw in whiteness, it is probably because of overwork, the red blood that flowed from his mouth when he said this.

The man sitting behind him couldn't have seen this, but even if he did see or learn about Rezel's blood spitting out of his mouth at the moment, and the rest of his face could be bleeding at any moment, he wouldn't care.

The hyena burst out into a maniacal laugh again, leaning forward and backwards, until a large ship sailed in the distance, and a wave hit, and his laughter stopped abruptly, turning into a wrenched cough, and it took a long time to catch his breath again: "It hurts!"

"The water here has begun to become bitter and salty, and even the flow of it through the throat causes a dry and uncomfortable feeling. The hyena covered his face, his eyes were red, and tears flowed uncontrollably, and in that strange voice, he howled rapidly, and the tone of his voice was not so much self-talk as a wail, "Not to mention that it is not only the throat, but the nasal cavity, and the trachea, just choking on water will hurt like being burned by fire." The same is true for the eyes, which can feel uncomfortable when they get wet. And now these fragile places are all soaked in seawater! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"

The hyena suddenly took his hand off his face, because he had scratched it so hard that it left several red marks on his face, but as if he didn't care, he grabbed Raizel's shoulder in front of him, and whispered in a low and gentle voice, which was completely unimaginable that it was from the same person as the sharp voice just now, "Rezel, do you feel pain?"

"Nope. As Reezel spoke, blood began to flow from his nose. Obviously, his expression was not very hideous, but the blood vessels all over his head had burst out, and they were violently agitated one after another, making his image look very strange at the moment.

"That's right. The hyena nodded slightly, although it still maintained a low and gentle voice, and there was a certain dangerous chill contained in it, but it could no longer be hidden, "Yes, that's right, that's it." No matter how painful I am, you won't feel the pain, just like your body is supposed to be in great pain because it has been overused and close to death, but I don't feel it at all. ”

"People don't even know what they feel, let alone their feelings. The hyena pinched Razel's shoulder hard, but it didn't leave any marks on it, he grinned, took his hand back, looked to the southeast, took out a cylinder with a unique shape, and put the thin one on his eyes, "I don't know how the little rabbit is playing with Brunei." What would the little rabbit think of Mr. Brunei, a good man, a selfish cold-blooded animal, a self-righteous megalomaniac, or a madman? ”

"Hmph-" The hyena made a long nasal voice, and swept the telescope up and down, left and right several times, "Strange, people? I just saw Brunei fall to the ground, which means that the illusion has taken effect, and now that the rabbit is still alive and has not woken up, it means that the illusion is not over yet." Including the woman next to him who came out of nowhere, should have been included in the scope of illusion. That's right, Brunei and that woman seem to be good-looking, maybe there will be that kind of guy who is not picky......"

The hyena laughed twice: "Forget it, as long as this illusion is activated, there will no longer be a distance limit, but it's a pity that you can't see the situation over there." Well, in that case, there's no point in staying here any longer, Rezel, let's go back. ”

Raizel opened his mouth and spat out another cloud of blood, bleeding from his eyes and ears at some point, and then, his movements stopped for a moment. No more talking, no more rocking, no more reacting to anything—as he should have been.

"......" The hyena did not speak again, but frowned, as if pondering something. The result of this effort was to a certain extent - Reezel suddenly struggled, stretched his body, and almost pushed the hyena down on his own, but that was all. After a while, the hyena finally gave up and sighed: "I'm sorry, Rezel, I was supposed to let your body live for a while longer, but I accidentally killed you, I'm really sorry." ”

"Well, what's next. With my own body, I'm afraid I won't be able to row back to shore before floating out of the sea. The hyena looked around with a bitter face, and then he found a more crucial question, "Speaking of which, what about the oars?"

Razel's body was lying on his own knees, his hands dipped in water, fluttering with the river. "Hmph-" The hyena made a long nasal sound, thought for a while, took Raizel's arms, tried to paddle twice in the water, and then slapped himself on the head, "Ha, it's really impossible." What was I thinking? ”

The hyena pouted and pushed Razel's body aside. It was half-hung on the boat, its whole face immersed in the river, and in an instant a light red veil spread out, gradually faded, and finally completely dissipated. However, the hyena was clearly not interested in observing the subtle changes in the river, but instead straddled Reezel and leaned over to stare at the sleeping rabbit.

The face of the spirit rabbit is very immature, it is clear that she is actually in her twenties, but she looks like she is only in her early tens, and when she sees her face, the hyena can't help but think of the long past. At that time, they were still living together in the cramped room of the family, and a lot of time was spent reading books and meditation that seemed to be sleeping but far from being comfortable.

At that time, how did the hyena know any ghost stories, and the things in the books were limited, so in the end, they had to completely believe in the horses and make up nonsense according to their own temperament. What did they say? The hyena recalled carefully, but could only think of a few absurd images, and he even suspected that he had confused his memories with the most bizarre dreams, leaving only warm and moist feelings. However, it was a memory that barely brought back to him, but it made him smile with a warm smile that didn't fit on his face.

"Ahh We're going to drift out to sea together. The hyena smiled and stretched out his hand, gently ruffled the hair on the rabbit's forehead, and whispered in a voice that barely contained an incredible chill, "But maybe you'll be happy?"

"Happy big man, you disgusting narcissist!" A pair of white arms suddenly stretched out, and the tender hand firmly grabbed the hyena's throat, but the seemingly weak hand burst out with incredible strength, and the hyena opened its mouth wide, but it couldn't even scream - not only screaming, but even the faint vibration of the throat caused by inhaling and exhaling, it seemed that it was completely impossible.

Then, the corners of the "Spirit Rabbit" mouth rose and slowly opened his eyes. It was a pair of scarlet eyes, flashing with an incredible red light, and the moment they saw it, all one could think of was blood, just gushing out of the veins, exuding a fishy smell, blood.

"Hehe, interesting. The "Spirit Rabbit", which became as red as its name, showed a hideous smile, she, no, it showed its inhuman nature at this moment, even if the hyena itself was already very abnormal, the moment she saw this smile, she had to use "monster" to describe it. The hyena didn't understand what it was talking about, but it didn't mean that it was talking to the hyena, and it didn't care what the hyena thought.

"Spirit Rabbit" sat up, wrenched his neck with his other hand, and after making a crunch sound, he laughed twice: "Hehe, I didn't expect it to be so simple - it's really interesting." ”

Then the monster raised its head and met the hyena's eyes, as if it had just realized that it was holding a man's neck in his hand, and let out an inhuman sneer: "Hehe, sorry, sorry, didn't notice." As soon as it let go, the hyena collapsed on the boat, stacked on top of Reezel's corpse, gasping for air, unable to get up even if it struggled to get up.

"Huh. However, the hyena laughed like a fish that could only flutter twice, "Hehe, hehe, hahaha!" His laughter was like something leaking, no longer cold, but still crazy.

The scarlet-eyed monster looked at the hyena lying on the boat, squinted his eyes, the red light in his eyes became more and more dazzling, and then, grinning, he kicked hard: "Hey, from the first time you appeared, I thought, is your miscellaneous miscellaneous attribute too much duplication of my attributes?"

As he spoke, it kicked again, and the red blood dripped from the hyena's face, mixed with the undried blood stains that Reezel had shed before: "It seems that the eyes are red, the mind is abnormal, and it is good to suddenly let out this kind of very villainous laughter - it's obviously a miscellaneous piece, what are you arrogant about!"

"Haha, haha, I knew it, I knew it was so. The hyena's eyes turned downwards to meet the scarlet eyes, "Y-you! you're the 'spirit emblem', aren't you? haha, that's unexpected—"

"'Emblem'...... Why the hell do you think that this master is the same thing as that kind of low-level thing?" the red-eyed monster sneered, grabbed the hyena by the collar, and picked him up again, "But, what do you mean by that—oh, so you're in the same league as that little brother." No wonder, I felt that there were subtle similarities in technology......"

"Technology ......" The hyena looked a little distracted, and that self-caring attitude didn't look like it was being hung in the air by the collar at all, "You don't know that we are in the same group as 'Black', but you can recognize that we are from the same origin as the 'technology' used by Black." I see, a sound and independent personality is embodied, and the ability to think and reason rationally is ...... You are indeed very different from the spirit emblem in the ordinary sense. ”

"Chop and go. The monster that looked like a baby-faced beauty spat on the hyena's face, "The difference between you and my so-called 'spirit emblem' is greater than the difference between you and the monkey. Although you have come up with some interesting techniques, you hairless monkeys are just hairless monkeys after all, and you really lack vision. ”

If it is Brunei, at this time it will probably say, "It turns out that you are just a hairy difference with the 'Spirit Emblem'." But the hyena is not Brunei after all, and he has no experience in talking nonsense with the system for a whole year, and he is also distracted at this time, just talking to himself, without the intention of talking at all: "It's incredible, there is such an existence in this world, it's incredible...... But, the most incredible thing is why you were able to occupy the body of the Spirit Rabbit like this—has the illusion in Brunei been lifted? Since when—"

A lot of the time the system is a self-talking, but sometimes it's unusually cranky, like now.

"Hey, I'm talking to you, is your dog-hyena a canine?Forget it, do you hear me? Didn't your mother teach you not to get distracted when you talk to people!" "Did you hear that?"

“...... Technology ......" The hyena's facial expression was distorted by pain, but it still seemed to be in deep thought, but it only raised its eyes, and the black pupils were opposite the system's all-red eyes, probably indicating that he was having a conversation, "Why did you mention technology? Are you interested in this technology? If you were born with the spirit emblem that can easily occupy other people's bodies, this technology is just a poor imitation to you-"

The hyena's eyes widened and he laughed, it was like the smile of some kind of beast, the long and narrow snout could not be closed because the corners of the mouth were hooked back, and in a trance, there seemed to be a crystal saliva dripping: "I see, then you are indeed not a spirit emblem." So you used the technology you got from 'Black' to occupy the body of the spirit rabbit......?

The system curled the corners of its mouth and nodded in approval in an almost gentle tone: "Even if it is a monkey, one or two guys with a little thinking ability will occasionally appear-" Then, its face suddenly changed, and it raised its leg and kicked the hyena in the abdomen, and scolded: "You are special! Didn't I say at the beginning, don't learn from the villain laughter of Uncle Ben's logo!"

"This - Mr. System. I don't know if the physical fitness of the spirit rabbit controlled by the system has grown tremendously, or because the hyena's own body is too weak, this kick made him vomit a mouthful of blood, even if it seems to have eased up, the corners of his mouth still can't stop bleeding, but he is holding on to his weak body, looking directly into the eyes of the system in the real sense for the first time, and said calmly, "Hehe, I don't mean to learn from you." It's just, hehe, at this time, hehe, everyone will laugh. ”

The system smiled interestingly, put down the hyena, and even helped him straighten his collar: "Tell me, what kind of time does this mean? My cute puppy?"

The hyena also gladly accepted the preferential treatment of the system's anomaly, as if the two had a good relationship: "Look, that's it. Your thinking logic and reasoning ability are far beyond my imagination, not only are you far above the spirit emblem, ordinary humans cannot reach your height, 'Black' specializes in the limited distance of the spirit invasion technology, and the other two techniques are not very proficient in the use of the other two. And you can deduce the technique of invading or counter-invading someone's spirit through the spiritual link established by 'illusion' that our family has not been able to achieve so far. This kind of ability, I'm afraid that only the legendary genius Vaal Master is enough to compare with you. ”

"Val - haha. The system sneered, "Go ahead, I guess you're going to say but." ”

"But. The hyena paused cooperatively, and even nodded to the system, "However, after all, this is a technique based on our family's technology, and this way of forcibly occupying other people's bodies is probably also deduced from the superficial skills in the 'black' brain." No matter how talented you are, you've only been exposed to this technology for a month or two, and our family, research into this technology has been going on since the establishment of the Federation. ”

"That is to say," the hyena pushed away the system's hand and took a step forward, smiling as dangerous and greedy as a beast, "even if you have easily completed a technique that our family has never completed, in many places that are fundamental to us, your technique is not mature enough to be called perfect. Imperfection, in other words, flaws!"

The baby-faced girl's left eye suddenly changed back to the light blue pupil that belonged to the spirit rabbit, and at the same time, half of her face also showed a painful expression: "Ahh

"Don't be afraid, little rabbit, this kind of pain is a natural feeling when the illusion is suddenly interrupted and the spiritual link is broken, isn't it common when I used to train?" The hyena comforted the girl who was trembling with pain with that unusually gentle tone, and took a step forward, leaned closer, and raised his hand to stroke the girl's head, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, it's okay." ”

The girl's trembling stopped the moment the hyena's hand touched the top of her head: "Hyena brother ......"

"That's a disgusting name!" the girl jerked her head, her eyes glowing as scarlet as blood, and she raised her left hand and stabbed it at the hyena's throat, which was easily pierced through - but not a drop of blood came out. It would be more accurate to say that the girl's left hand passed through where the hyena was supposed to be, but did not touch anything.

The "......" girl's movements stopped.

"Another illusion technique that is different from the one used by the Spirit Rabbit on Brunei, which directly affects the perception of the human body, is also a cult technique that few people care about in the family, because most of them think that this technique is too low-level, and it is not the main research direction of the family at all, and it is very crude in many places. The hyena's voice was remembered a little farther away, and the image in front of him dissipated, and the hyena was sitting in the stern of the boat, holding his chest, and vomiting blood, but he smiled, "But what do you think, Mr. System? It's still interesting, isn't it?"

The girl's body froze at the moment when her left hand stabbed out, her face was full of painful struggle, her sideburns were soaked with sweat, and at some point, both sides of her crimson eyes turned into clear light blue: "...... Hyena brother, I, I, I seem, there is no way to defeat it......"

"You can. The hyena's calm and gentle tone, as if stating some kind of fact, "Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to occupy someone's body without permission." Even if it learns the family's technique, at least for now, it's not complete and mature, and in any case, it's still your body. Don't be fooled by its apparent strength and reject it from the heart, you can do it, little bunny, I know you can do it. ”

"I-I-" The girl's whole body was trembling, crying bitterly, but the corners of her mouth were hooked, and her eyes turned blood-red again, "Hehe, do you have any more mature technology that can bypass the license?

"Brother hyena, I, I, I can't do it!" The girl knelt on the board of the boat as if she had collapsed, clutching her face hard, fine beads of blood oozing from where her fingers passed, but the blood was not as bloody as the red light that flashed in her eyes from time to time, "I can't do it, I can't do it, I ...... If I'm alone, I can't do it, brother hyena, brother hyena!"

"......" The hyena suddenly fell silent. The girl's unintentional words seemed to have become her life-saving straw, she looked at the hyena with hopeful eyes, scratched her neck repeatedly with her green fingers, and cried in the most painful, deepest, and most trusting voice imaginable by man, "Brother Hyena! Help me, if I have Brother Hyena with me! I will definitely be able to do it! With Brother Hyena, I can do anything! Help me, help me! Brother Hyena!"

The hyena sat silently in the stern of the boat, what was he thinking? Maybe it was the red light that flashed in the girl's eyes from time to time, the sinister smile that the girl occasionally shown, and he was afraid and hesitated? Or maybe what was he still thinking?

Before the girl completely scratched her throat, she finally saw the hyena stand up, under the gloomy sky, against the thin skylight, staggered to her, opened her arms, and gently hugged her into her arms, the embrace was not warm, and it was slightly cold, but it reminded the girl of the long past, when she was lonely, when she was sad, when she was happy, there would always be such a thin chest for her to rely on, and her sternum would hurt a little, but it could make her heart full of strength......

"Brother Hyena. The girl was quiet again, her light blue eyes seemed to be the only clear sky in the overcast sky, "Thank you." ”

"You empowered me. The girl smiled like a flower, her right hand slowly raised, and the cold glow of a knife flashed on it, "You're right, that technique is not complete, if I try my best to refuse, and try my best to fight, then I can finally take back control completely." But, brother hyena, until then, I'm afraid—"

The cold flashed, and the girl's hand fell with a knife, slitting her own throat. She didn't finish her words, but she could only make a "hehe" sound, she leaned on the chest of the man in front of her, tilted her head, even if it was backlit, in her eyes, the man's face was just a black shadow, and his gaze was still extremely gentle. She let go of the knife in her hand and raised her hand to caress the man's face—but before she could touch it, she was exhausted, and her whole body went limp, and finally, her hand, which was hanging in mid-air, also hung limply.

"......" The man in front of her remained motionless, and his expression did not change in the slightest.

And of course, of course.

Because Rezel is long dead.

The hyena pushed Razel's body away, and the corpse, which had lost its support, collapsed weakly and plunged headlong into the river. There was finally no more shelter between the hyena and the rabbit, and he finally saw the baby-faced girl again, but the girl no longer could breathe, no longer speak, and would never ask him to call her "little rabbit" again, and would never call him "brother hyena" again.

The hyena sat still for a long time, until the boat carrying them both drifted down the river and could no longer see the shore, when he suddenly burst into laughter, mixed with some kind of cold, shrill howl, which sent chills down the backs of those who heard it.

"Hahahahaha

"Why, why, even so, I still don't feel pain!"

"Hahahahahahaha

A wave came and completely soaked the hyena's body, interrupting his wild laughter, leaving only strings of water dripping from his head.

“...... Why, I don't feel pain......"