QT: Against My Will

Ziek watched in surprise as she jumped into his arms and gave him a hug, holding her back, he responded to her kiss while asking with his eyes, ‘What happened?’

“I finished a side quest,” getting a congratulatory embrace from Ru Quan; she then hugged Kuro for a few seconds before she was separated.

Ziek placed her in between his legs, and put Kuro into her arms, hugging both, he continued to watch the movie, his heart warmed up, it was like acquiring a big family.

Kuro suddenly grew in size and wrapped itself around Ziek and Bing Shi, to keep them safe.

“It’s alright, just shrink back,” Bing Shi tapped at its warm skin, “We’ll protect you.”

Kuro tilted its head at Xuan Mu, seeing him winking at it with a smile, it returned into Bing Shi’s embrace. To be hugged by two pairs of arms, it felt safe like never before.

There could be a chance that Kuro was being monitored by an outsider, even more of a reason for them not to mistreat it. Who cared if Kuro belonged to HQ? Betrayal was always expected. Just like Sharkie, it became a part of their lives; they wanted Kuro to understand that they didn’t see it as an outsider. It once implied to Bing Shi how it was annihilated more than once due to gaining consciousness, thanks to which it could suffer and feel a range of emotions. To protect its existence, it could always hide inside baby Shiro, thus the reason why Kuro became so attached to it.

?Are you alright??

.....

Bing Shi leaned her back against his chest, stroking the large hands around Kuro’s body.

“I’m fine, don’t worry,” Ru Quan pecked her head. He had a more pressing matter at hand; there was no time to feel jealous of Kuro. Having sex with Bing Shi was the dumbest thing he could do. Now, it was even harder to differentiate himself from the others.

· · — · ???· — · ·

A few days ago...

Fei Lan killed a person whose job was to look over the boy with a pendant. Some of Hasan’s people quickly sent a homing pigeon (1), to alert their Boss. So when Zhao Rong was kidnapped, Bing Shi sent Kuro to exchange the message, delaying the time to match his disappearance, adding another question mark to Hasan’s deep web of connections.

“His... His highness won’t forgive you...”

Were the guard’s last words before he dropped dead on the cold ground.

Inside an underground dungeon, there was a massacre going on. Holding acupuncture needles in between her fingers, Fei Lan killed whoever stood in her way. She couldn’t teleport with more than one person and didn’t want to reveal her ability to anyone, so she ordered the doctor to hide, but he was stubborn, refusing to abandon the clinic. Leaving him behind, she expected they’d hold the innocent doctor hostage at most, to lure her out. She knew it would be a trap, but she was no coward. When she finally found the doctor, he was already dead.

‘He would rather commit suicide than be interrogated?’ she read the message that was pinned into the corpse and threw a few needles into the empty air with murderous intent.

Kuro jumped out of a hiding place, striking at Fei Lan with its sharp teeth, it simultaneously wrapped its coil around her body and squeezed, immobilizing Fei Lan on the spot.

[Host, she’s inhumanly fast.]

[“Oh, she sure is. We need to find out what other tricks she has up her sleeves. She is a hacker, so be careful. Can she injure you in any other way? Are you sure she can’t kidnap you into her space?”]

[Host, you don’t need to repeat yourself. Systems are a threat to such dimension spaces. We can pinpoint its location from the inside.]

Hearing many footsteps in the distance, Kuro continued to squeeze Fei Lan, who showed a calm and indifferent expression despite the pain. What she didn’t expect was the disparity in strength between the two systems. ‘Aren’t you supposed to be a top system?’

{Wuwu. Every system is top of its department.}

{“Useless. Make a connection with it. I’m going to hack into it.”}

{No! It’s too risky! There could be a backlash!}

{“Stop being so annoying. I have my ways, stale for time, and watch the upcoming grand show.”}

Though his Host frequently scolded the boy, he didn’t mind – he took it as his Host showing affection to her family. His host was never wrong; he had full confidence in Fei Lan. Appearing before Kuro, he called out.

??XiaoPu?? “Call out your Host to come and fight fair and square! Tell her to stop hiding behind a system like a coward!”

Fei Lan showed a dark smile that could be missed easily; a small chip appeared in her palm. In her past lives, she was known as the most wanted genius hacker, with a bounty over one billion. With her skills of many years, combined with the teaching from the training system, she was never caught. She was a predator, not a prey. “Never mess with me, Bing Shi, ever,” she said while emitting a dangerous and pressuring aura that could send others trembling from the sheer fear.

‘Sure, of course, that’s why I’m not confronting you face to face. Don’t worry. I’m expecting the worst from you.’

Bing Shi went through so many death threats from Yi Zen and Fu Lian that she put a blind ear to this one. Especially Yi Zen and Ziek, fearing for her safety in different ways, they would occasionally attempt some sneak attacks on her as training against ‘assassins’. Trowing ice dagger, swords, and bullets at her, emitting their murderous auras, holding back only enough not to fatally injure her. She complied at first as it would help her in the next worlds. Coordinating with Kuro, she avoided most attempts. But having enough, she threw Yi Zen and Ziek against each other.

[“Aw, her system is so cute! If you feel any danger, immediately run away. We gained enough information from this meeting. We’ll wait until our enemy makes another mistake.”]

[Yes.]