Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

So I'm back in reality... I just feel like that dream was a bit too real.

"It really was a dream. Good thing it was a dream..." Li Mo said with relief. Fortunately, he had the choice to wake up on his own. Otherwise... the consequences would be very wonderful.

"I can't imagine how Rin would ridicule me if she knew what happened in the dream."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp female voice sounded at the door, "Ridicule what?"

The corner of Li Mo's mouth twitched. He stiffly turned his head. The lights in the corridor were on. Rin, wearing only a white nightgown, was leaning against the door, staring at Li Mo with an unkind look.

"Rin, why are you standing at my door so late at night instead of sleeping?" Li Mo tried to change the subject.

Rin replied casually, "I'm hungry, so I got up for a midnight snack. Also, don't try to change the subject. What did you dream about?"

"Tsk, tsk, brother, you didn't happen to dream of some forbidden, unspeakable, beautiful fantasy, did you~ I can understand, after all, you've reached that age... I can pretend I didn't hear your promise. I don't demand that you don't get a girlfriend for the rest of your life before you find my sister. It's your freedom whether you get one or not."

"I just hope you don't forget my sister."

Rin's expression was a little lonely. Her gaze moved from Li Mo's flustered expression to her feet.

Li Mo didn't know the truth, but Rin knew everything.

That day, her sister was eaten by the cursed blade... and there has been no news since.

Sister Beichen said that she would be tempered in the blade and would come back sooner or later.

Regarding Sakura, the two of them tacitly told Li Mo that she was missing.

What surprised Rin was that Li Mo actually swore that he would definitely help her find her sister, otherwise he would never get a girlfriend and fall in love.

How pure...

Currently, the three of them were living in peace. The only special thing was that Beichen's health was not good, and she hardly ever left the house.

The one who had been sacrificed seemed to be only her sister Sakura.

Rin knew that this was the only way.

If she hadn't picked up that blade at that time, her sister would have died, been replaced by an Impostor, and become a fierce ghost with only Sakura's skin and memory.

No matter what, at least she knew her sister was still alive...

Looking at Rin's dim eyes and silence, Li Mo was stunned for a moment. He stretched out his hand and then withdrew it.

After a brief struggle, Li Mo said to Rin, "I saw Sakura in my dream."

His voice came to an abrupt end. Rin immediately turned around and walked to Li Mo's bed, "Brother, are you kidding me? No... it's normal to see her. After all, it's just a dream..."

Li Mo hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice, "I did see Sakura in my dream, and it gave me a very strange feeling. It didn't seem to be a dream. Uh... I don't know how to describe it."

To this, Rin was indifferent and walked to the door again to leave.

She guessed that Li Mo had just dreamt of some unsightly scene, and the object was her own sister. Forget it, there was no need to go into it...

As she left, Rin reminded Li Mo again, "I have also dreamt of my sister many times. In the dream, we went to school together, ate together, slept together, and lived an ordinary life... but a dream is just a dream. I just want to see my sister in reality."

Bang. The door was closed, and the room was plunged into darkness.

Li Mo was at a loss. He turned on the bedroom light and looked at his hands in a daze.

Sakura's appearance suddenly appeared in his mind.

Her expression was quiet, but the smile on her face always carried a faint sadness...

Her behavior and habits were completely different from the naive and dull Sakura in his memory...

He glanced at the time. It was already six in the morning. There was still more than an hour before school. He was still a little sleepy, but Li Mo no longer wanted to sleep.

Before he could figure out that dream that he could freely enter and exit, Li Mo decided not to sleep for the time being.

He was afraid that the him in the dream would be defeated by desire and do some "bad" things to Sakura.

"Ugh..." Li Mo pondered.

The Sakura in the dream was too docile and too proactive. She knelt on the ground, like a servant, bowing her head and lowering her eyebrows, surrendering in front of him.

As long as he was willing, he could do whatever he wanted to her, but reason and morality told Li Mo that he could not do that.

"I might as well change my name to Liu Xia Hui·Mo. Really, Rin is right. It was probably just a dream. I probably won't see her tonight. What a pity, what a pity..." Li Mo let out a long sigh. He couldn't tell whether it was regret or relief.

Perhaps he should have been bolder in the dream. Anyway, it was just a dream. As long as he didn't say it, no one would know.

If he missed this time, there might not be a next time.

Li Mo got dressed and got out of bed. When he passed by Beichen's closed room in the corridor, he couldn't help but stop.

Creak—

Li Mo gently opened the door, leaving a small crack, without making too much noise.

In the room, Beichen was sleeping peacefully on the bed, a pure white sheet covering her graceful body.

Beichen's face was pale, even paler than the bedsheet. The golden light from outside the window shone on her flawless skin. That was the only sign of life that could be seen.

Li Mo silently closed the door and walked towards the kitchen.

"There's plenty of time. I won't buy breakfast outside today. I'll make something nutritious. Sister Beichen needs to eat something good."

Li Mo skillfully carried out a series of cooking tasks.

Since Beichen had brought Rin home, the housework was done by Rin, and the cooking was still entirely left to him. Rin would occasionally help.

Life was very plain, like an ordinary child growing up.

In these three years, Beichen had told Li Mo about the Fire Moth and the Honkai, as well as... ghosts.

But those were too far away from him as an ordinary person. He couldn't reach a lofty organization like the Fire Moth.

He had often seen natural disasters like the Honkai on TV, but the frequency was not high, and there was a dedicated Fire Moth to deal with it, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

As for the last mention of ghosts...

To be honest, if Beichen hadn't repeatedly emphasized that she wasn't kidding, Li Mo would have definitely advised her to go to a mental hospital for a check-up to see if she had paranoia.

Who cares what ghosts or not? If he couldn't afford to provoke them, couldn't he hide from them? Just run away when he saw an abnormal person or animal.

He didn't want to get involved in such a thrilling life.

The only thing that worried Li Mo was Beichen's health. The hospital examination was normal, at least that's what the doctor said.

After cooking, Li Mo came to Beichen's door and knocked gently, then pushed open the door and walked in, placing the food on the bedside table.

At this time, Beichen had woken up. She sat on the bed and calmly stared at Li Mo. Her pale face had no trace of blood, and her whole person was as gaunt as a dead tree.

"Sister Beichen, this is today's breakfast. I'll put it here and go to school first."

"Mmm, have a safe trip."

Leaving Beichen's bedroom, Li Mo saw Rin already sitting at the dining table enjoying her breakfast.

"Brother, did you think I ate a midnight snack last night and couldn't eat breakfast, so you made so much delicious food?" Rin puffed up her cheeks and ate while talking.

Li Mo was a little innocent, "How can that be? I just saw that there was plenty of time, so I made it a little better. Eat quickly. We'll go to school together after we finish eating."

"Oh."

Rin turned her attention back to eating. She stared at the food in her bowl, her eyes never blinking.

Li Mo was the same. He couldn't forget the foxy and proactive appearance of Sakura last night.

Suddenly, Rin spoke, "Brother, you should be more restrained. If you really can't, I'll buy you a cup."

Li Mo's face darkened, "I'll cut off your internet for three days. You're on your own."

"Huh? Don't! I was just kidding," hearing that Li Mo was going to cut off her internet, Rin quickly admitted her mistake.

How could she live without the internet!

"I don't even know what you've been learning on the internet all day. Your teacher told me that you spend at least half of your class time playing on your phone. If it weren't for your good grades, she would definitely not turn a blind eye," Li Mo lectured righteously, although he also played and his grades were not as good as Rin's.

But so what? He just had to be openly biased!

To this, Rin turned her head to the side and said with a disdainful tone, "I've already learned all the middle school knowledge. Class is just a waste of time. I might as well do something I like."

"Alright, alright. I'm not blaming you. I mean... be more discreet, you know."

"So, brother won't cut off my internet?"

"Of course, I have to play games myself."

"...give me back my touching, you bastard Li Mo!"

Along the way, the two of them quarreled and went forward.

Feeling that it wasn't enough, Rin jumped onto Li Mo's back and asked him to carry her to school.

Although the two were the same age, Rin's development had all gone to her brain, which made her figure appear younger than her peers. She couldn't compare to Sakura in elementary school, let alone in junior high.

The corner of Li Mo's mouth twitched. The Sakura in his dream had a mature figure like Beichen's, not comparable to this little pipsqueak Rin.

"Ouch! Why did you bite me?"

"I don't know. I just feel like you're thinking about something bad."

"How do you know? No, I'm not!"

"Brother, you are too slow. Don't underestimate a woman's intuition."

"Are you a woman? Little Rin."

"...Maybe. Not like someone who's always fantasizing in their head."

"Are you slandering me? I'm angry, the kind that can't be coaxed."

"Isn't this my line..."

The two of them bickered daily. When he couldn't win, Li Mo would pinch Rin's face to let her know who was the boss in the family.

While chatting, Li Mo put Rin down, and the two of them walked into the school side by side.

The learning tasks were not heavy, the pressure was not great, and school was dismissed in the afternoon.

It was not like the senior year of high school in Shenzhou, waking up at 5:30, doing homework until midnight, having a half-hour lunch break, not being allowed to go to the toilet or sleep on the desk during class breaks, not being allowed to drink water or bring snacks into the school, with points deducted and fines, a small test every week, and a big test every month...

Li Mo had seen posts from netizens online. Senior year in some parts of Shenzhou was more terrifying than encountering a ghost...

In class, Li Mo lay on the table feeling very bored. He couldn't listen to the boring content. He would play on his phone for a while.

Li Mo skillfully took out his phone from the drawer and placed it at the bottom of the corner between the stacks of books on the table.

This had an advantage. If the teacher came down, he could immediately push the phone in.

Of course, he had not encountered this situation yet. The teacher didn't seem to care what he was doing.

It was probably because Beichen had greeted the school or something, but Beichen didn't seem to be the type to greet people. But the teacher's attitude made Li Mo feel too easygoing.

Who cares.

Li Mo shouldered his schoolbag and walked in the school corridor.

He was going to pick up Rin and go home.

At dusk, the afterglow of the setting sun stretched Li Mo's shadow very long, so long that... he could see the figures of different periods in the shadow.

The slender shadow gradually changed, began to shrink, and finally became a narrow black line.

The next second, the black line suddenly disappeared, and Li Mo lost his shadow.

Then the shadow returned, but it was different from the previous figure, more like the shadow of an adult.

Li Mo's head felt dizzy, and he vaguely saw some bloody scenes.

It was a peach orchard. The peach trees were particularly lush, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

His perspective was very low, as if he were prostrating on the ground.

Suddenly, Li Mo turned his head. There were people coming and going around him, and all around were students leaving school.

"Is it an illusion..." Li Mo whispered softly, not taking this matter to heart.

For him, from childhood to adulthood, strange feelings had happened more than once. He had also asked the surrounding students when he was young, and everyone seemed to have this feeling, so Li Mo did not take these things seriously.

Mistaking the floor when going upstairs, feeling that the mirror image in the mirror had come to life, or taking the elevator to a non-existent floor for no reason.

Fortunately, Sister Beichen was always with him. An illusion was just an illusion after all.

And last night, he even had a strange dream that he could freely enter and exit. But it was probably just a coincidence. He probably wouldn't have it when he slept tonight.

Li Mo took Rin home. Before going home, he prepared to go to the supermarket to buy some ingredients first.

As evening approached, the supermarket was very crowded. Li Mo held Rin's hand and shuttled through the crowd. He hadn't been able to buy meat for a long time.

Because of the Honkai, many ingredients were sometimes in short supply. Some practical foods had to be bought during the day on specific days. If you came at night, they would have been bought by others long ago.

Plus the bustling noise of the crowd, Li Mo was a little impatient. Now that Beichen needed to supplement her nutrition, a balanced diet of meat and vegetables was best. The remaining meat had already been used in the morning. If he couldn't buy meat at the supermarket, then tonight's dinner might be a bit meager.

Thump! Thump!

The sound of a cleaver hitting a chopping board was particularly noticeable. Li Mo was a little puzzled. He looked around, and everyone seemed to be used to it, not casting a single glance.

Would the supermarket manager allow a stall in the supermarket to cut meat so barbarically? It wasn't a wet market...

"Do you want some pork?" the butcher asked.

"How do you buy it?" Li Mo replied.

Just as he was about to go forward to talk, his waist was hit hard by an elbow.

"Brother, what are you standing there for! If we don't hurry, all the vegetables will be bought by others!" Rin said angrily.

"Huh? Isn't there still..." Li Mo turned around and looked back at the place where the butcher had been, only to find that there was nothing there, only a bare floor. "This..."

"Don't stand there in a daze. Let's go, let's go. There's what we need over there!" Rin pulled Li Mo towards the southeast of the supermarket.

After shopping in the supermarket and buying the ingredients, when they were about to leave, Li Mo couldn't help but look back. That place was still empty.