LWDC Chapter 114

Chapter 114 – The Boy

Chapter 114 – The Boy

Chapter 114 – The Boy

Perhaps because of the day’s conversation, Ning Fei had a long-awaited dream of the past that night.

He still had a youthful face, being led by Yu Zhou, when they jointly carried out debt collection tasks.

“Let me out!!!”

The transmigrated girl roared at Yu Zhou, “Luther and his mother will be captured by the villagers tomorrow and subjected to mob justice! Luther’s mother will be beaten to death by the villagers, and he will have one of his eyes gouged out. If it weren’t for this, his hatred for humanity wouldn’t be so great, and his demon eye wouldn’t awaken! As long as I take them away beforehand and send them to a safe place, this can be solved from the source!”

“Have you been reading too many of those tear-jerking romance novels, thinking you can save the male lead and save the world?” Yu Zhou leaned against the door, arms crossed over his chest, and sneered, “Let alone whether you can save them or not, what does this have to do with you? The original owner of your identity wants ‘to stay away from Luther’, do you understand what ‘stay away’ means?”

“But if we leave him alone, his demon bloodline will awaken, and he will definitely come back to attack us!” The girl believed that her idea was the perfect solution and didn’t want to back down at all. “We’ll rescue them and settle them far away, never to see each other again, isn’t that also ‘staying away’?”

“No, ‘staying away’ means never seeing him, not even once. Even if he attacks in the future, you will no longer be a ‘saintess’, but a history researcher living deep in a library of ancient books. This has nothing to do with you.” Yu Zhou replied coldly, “And who said ‘we’? Ning Fei and I won’t help you, and your family won’t care about this trivial matter that has nothing to do with them. You’re just a ten-year-old girl, how are you going to save them? Do you think they’ll be rescued just by you flapping your lips?”

“The whole country will be in turmoil, how can I peacefully study that damn history?!” The girl retorted righteously, “You guys are so capable, it should be easy to save two people, right? I don’t understand what’s so difficult about this for you. Going today doesn’t even require confronting the villagers, just taking them away. Such a profitable thing, instead of debating with me about what will happen in the future, isn’t it easier to just send them away now? Or are you just all talk and no action, unable to handle even this small matter?”

“No need for such clumsy provocation. We don’t need to handle things that aren’t within our scope of duty,” Yu Zhou sneered. “And you’re too naive. Do you think sending them away this time will be ‘profitable’? In a new place, once they come into contact with people, Luther will easily be exposed. The ordinary people of this country, of this world, hate demons deeply. As a mixed-blood child, Luther will be shouted at and killed wherever he goes. If you find out again, what do you plan to do? Save him again? Or will you hide him and secretly raise him?”

“…Don’t scare me, it’s not that easy to be exposed!” The girl couldn’t directly answer the question, so she could only retort, “They’ve suffered once, they’ll definitely be more careful. And if they live in the mountains, living in seclusion, it won’t be easy for others to discover them…”

“Humans are social animals.”

A faint, youthful voice sounded from behind the girl. She turned around and saw the boy in a white, gold-trimmed robe looking over, his tone cold and clear: “Luther is only seven years old now. If you throw him and his mother into the mountains and forbid them from coming out, he will hate you even more. Your self-righteous decision will lead you further and further down the wrong path. When he takes revenge on humanity in the future, the first person he’ll torture to death is you.”

His expression didn’t change when he said the word “torture to death”, but it made the girl’s back hairs stand on end: “Y-you’re talking nonsense…”

“Ning Fei is right.” Yu Zhou interjected, “You think that knowing everything that happened to the original owner of this body, Ladeer, will allow you to prevent disasters from happening, but that’s the most foolish idea. Everything that happens in the world cannot be explained simply by ’cause and effect’. So don’t think that as long as you save Luther now, everything will be fine in the future. This is just wishful thinking, little girl. Don’t spread your ignorant kindness so easily, no one will help you, and you’re just talking.”

“I think you’re scolding me because you can’t do it. Besides staring at my studies and my friends, what else can you do? What family teacher, what Saint Son, don’t you have any real power? Useless!” After being called “foolish” and “ignorant” repeatedly, the current Ladeer finally couldn’t hold back and broke down, “Forget it, if you don’t help, I’ll find a guard to help me. It’s just saving a poor mother and child, they’ll listen to my orders. Even if my parents ask about it later, they’ll just think I’m kind and did a good deed, they won’t blame me!”

She hysterically shouted at Yu Zhou, “Get out of the way, or I’ll shout ‘rape’!”

Yu Zhou’s eyes narrowed slightly. Just as he was about to say something, Ning Fei suddenly said, “If you do that, then I’ll go and kill Luther.”

“!!!” The girl turned back in shock, her eyes wide. “What did you say?!”

“I said, kill Luther, and be done with it.” Ning Fei looked at her and replied calmly, “That way, you don’t have to worry about whether he’ll come back for revenge in the future. Isn’t that your goal?”

“But, Luther is just a child now, he hasn’t done anything! His mother is even more innocent! What’s the difference between you and those crazy villagers if you do this?!” Ladeer was very surprised, and then thought of something, “I don’t believe you can do such a thing. You’re already a Saint Son, praying for children every day, I haven’t even heard you say a harsh word. And you’re so young, you must be trying to scare me with these words, right?”

“Being a Saint Son is just to squeeze you out of your position and cut off your path to entering the church.” As Ning Fei spoke, he walked to a birdcage next to him and opened it. “Do you think I’m just verbally threatening you?”

Ladeer frowned as she watched him take out the canary from the birdcage, “What do you want to do? That’s a gift from the duke’s second son… Ah!”

She covered her mouth in shock.

Because she watched with her own eyes as Ning Fei’s hand grabbed the canary’s head, neatly snapped it with force, and the canary, which had been flapping its wings and struggling, immediately stopped moving.

Ning Fei threw the canary’s corpse at Ladeer’s feet: “Am I still just verbally threatening you?”

“You’re crazy!” Ladeer took a step back involuntarily as she looked at the canary she had touched so many times. “If people find out you killed it, you’re done for!”

“Who will know?” Ning Fei asked, “Who will believe it?”

“Canaries are inherently fragile creatures, so it’s normal for them to die. Who would investigate the death of a canary?” Yu Zhou chuckled behind him, “Now, Luther’s life is not even as good as a canary. He’s just a wild bird, a sparrow on the side of the road. A sparrow is caught, bitten to death, and eaten by a wild cat. How would passing humans care?”

“Speaking of cats… Miss Ladeer also has a long-haired white cat, right?” Ning Fei also smiled, “If you think the lesson from a canary isn’t enough…”

“N-no! Stay away from my Coco!!!” Ladeer screamed, “I believe you, I really believe you! I won’t go, don’t touch Coco!”

Ning Fei and Yu Zhou exchanged glances.

Yu Zhou joked, “Look, Ladeer, you don’t dare to take the risk. Luther’s life is not as important as a pet cat in your eyes.”

*

Afterwards, Yu Zhou reminded Ning Fei that things like killing important figures in the original owner’s life trajectory can be used for threats, but it’s best not to do it unless necessary.

It’s not because of any moral standards or legal regulations, purely because doing so may affect the assessment of the debt collection task. In case the operation is fierce like a tiger, but the KPI turns out to be 2.5, then the loss outweighs the gain.

Ning Fei said that even if he could kill, he wouldn’t bother to waste the effort. He was too lazy to even kill a cat. Killing the canary was a casual thing, enough to scare a little girl. If he judged that this was not enough to suppress Ladeer, he wouldn’t have touched the canary at all.

“Good judgment,” Yu Zhou said. “If she still doesn’t listen, she’ll have to suffer even more.”

And the opportunity to show this “suffering even more” came quickly.

After Yu Zhou repeatedly denied her plans, Ladeer, although forced to stay at home, also began to slack off. She needed good grades to become a history researcher, especially in an era where women generally didn’t study much. However, she suddenly felt that it was meaningless to work so hard. Anyway, she was already a noble lady, and regardless of whether she studied or not, she could live a wealthy life until Luther attacked, and it would be difficult to resist after he attacked. And in such an era, being a history researcher sounded meaningless, and she had no motivation at all.

Yu Zhou warned her that no matter whether she thought this dream had meaning or not, she had already promised the original owner to achieve it, and this was the condition for her to obtain the original owner’s life. If she continued to be so lazy, the debt collector would let her understand a little that all of this was not something she could easily get for free.

Ladeer didn’t take these words to heart, and then she really tasted the bitterness of life.

Her luck suddenly started to turn bad, very bad. She was dragged into gambling games, scammed, and when she finally went out of the city for fun, she encountered a rainstorm. She kindly let some refugees onto her carriage, but she didn’t expect these people to deceive her by saying they only had a minor cold, but in reality, they had a serious infectious disease. This short journey caused Ladeer to be infected, to fall ill, and then one infected two, and two infected three, and the people around her were collectively infected. After the doctors and the Holy See came to see, the king directly ordered the entire mansion to be sealed off.

Sealing off in this era is not like in the technologically advanced world, where there are staff inside to help treat and take care of life. The servants in the mansion, if they can still move, can barely do some work, but if they also fall ill, then even the nobles can’t move people.

For example, Ladeer, she fell ill the earliest, and the most people happened to fall down when she was the sickest. It was truly that she couldn’t get a response no matter how much she called.

At the worst of times, she shouted for a long time and no one fed her water. She could only climb up tremblingly, reach for the cup at the head of the bed, and see if there was any water left inside. However, when she picked up the cup and saw only a cockroach corpse that had died inside at some point, she was so scared that she let go, and the cup shattered directly on the ground.

Finally, when the doctors and the cart drivers who delivered supplies became increasingly unwilling to approach this land of disease, Ladeer received a letter.

No signature, no greetings, just a question.

–Have you learned to listen?