bullyxtreme Chapter 89. Borest continues to feign death.
Chapter 89. Borest continues to feign death.
Borest continued to play dead.
"..." System WQBYRZM is almost driven to despair by Borist. Is this little brat going through a rebellious phase?
The system WQBYRZM gave up talking to Boruist and chose to hand it over to Lu Renkui—after all, Lu Renkui has a younger brother and a younger sister, so she should be the best at talking to teenagers.
Upon hearing the system's progress report on capturing Borist, Lu Renkui mentally replied "Understood," and then began to refine medicine according to the steps in the book.
"Green Grass, Berry Mark Grass... I don't think I've found any of these herbs. Let me see if there are any other potions that contain these herbs." Lu Renkui flipped through the thick potion book, feeling that even if he worked all day, he would probably only be able to make one failed potion.
As Lu Renkui flipped through the pages, she felt her patience was about to run out.
Lu Renkui spread the medicine book on the table, then sat down in front of the crucible, staring blankly at the few floating herbs.
"Are you alright now?" The voice of the system WQBYRZM echoed in my mind.
Lu Renkui felt that the system WQBYRZM must have something to ask her, so she lay down on the recliner, closed her eyes, and entered the consciousness space.
As soon as she entered the consciousness space, Lu Renkui was startled by a head that suddenly appeared. Upon closer inspection, she saw that the system WQBYRZM was holding up a bound person and walking in front of her.
Lu Renkui looked more closely and realized that the person who was tied up was Borist.
"What's wrong with him?" Lu Renkui asked.
System WQBYRZM glanced at Boruist, then said angrily, "Come and see for yourself!"
Lu Renkui was completely baffled, but she still squatted down to make eye contact with Borist, who was bound and forcibly pressed to the ground by the system WQBYRZM: "When did you wake up?"
"..." Borist remained silent.
"Look! Just like that! He's always like that! He won't say a word no matter what I ask him!" System WQBYRZM was so angry that his beret almost flew off his head.
Is this a sign of rebellion? Lu Renkui smiled slightly and said, "Once we're done, we'll leave directly. Even if you don't want to face this world, you'll have to."
“It’s no use wanting to die,” Lu Renkui added. “If you think it’s okay to leave your two young sisters behind and face a family of wolves and tigers to die, then you can do as you please.”
Boris's expression finally shifted.
Seeing that the method was effective, Lu Renkui continued, "We have to leave once we finish our mission. Now that you're awake, why don't you try to change your personality of never telling anyone anything? You don't want to grow up and have your best friend pin you to the ground and stick a tree branch up your ass, do you?"
Borest closed his eyes again and buried his face in his knees.
"Still not saying anything, this kid is really good at holding back." System WQBYRZM was so angry that he looked like a pufferfish.
"I have some things to attend to right now, so I have to leave. Think about it some more, and let me know when you've made up your mind," Lu Renkui said, before leaving the consciousness space.
As soon as Lu Renkui opened her eyes, she saw Olivia and Carola clinging to the recliners, staring at the body of Borist where she was now.
"What's wrong?" Lu Renkui asked with a smile. "Are you hungry? Wait a minute, your brother will go downstairs to get some food."
“We’re not hungry yet,” Olivia said, climbing up first and hugging “Borist.”
"Mmm, I want to lie down for a while." Carola climbed up and squeezed next to "Borist".
The two younger sisters simply wanted to sleep for a while, so Lu Renkui didn't say anything and let them lie down next to him.
Olivia fell asleep quickly while holding "Borist", but Carola was still in a semi-conscious state.
Lu Renkui gently patted Carola's back, and then Carola said, "Brother seems different from before."
"Oh, is that so? Why do I have this feeling?" Lu Renkui asked softly, without changing his expression or skipping a beat.
“My brother used to be very nice to us, but he always had a stern face no matter what he did, which looked a bit scary.” Carola’s words were slurred as she said this. “But these past few days, he has been smiling much more often.”
"is it?"
"Yes, but no matter what, Carola still loves her brother very much." After saying this, Carola seemed to remember something and quickly added, "Whether it was before or now."
Then, Carola fell asleep too.
Within the consciousness space, System WQBYRZM watched as Borist buried his head deeper and deeper, and couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you being a little too strange? Your sister is about to be kidnapped by us!"
"..." Borist lowered his head a little further.
System WQBYRZM got angry when it saw Borest's dead state: "Fine, I'm not going to worry about you anymore! I'm going to check the mission progress!"
After his two younger sisters fell asleep, Lu Renkui entered the consciousness space again. As soon as he entered, he saw the sullen System WQBYRZM and Borist, who was about to turn into an ostrich.
Lu Renkui walked over and poked Boruist's head, saying, "Look, your sister still loves you very much, so why don't you want this body anymore? Tell me. I'll help you sort out any problems."
"..." Borist remained silent.
"Wow, are you a rabbit? Why are you making no sound?" Lu Renkui continued poking Boruist's head, and with a particularly rhythmic touch.
After poking for a long time, Borui still didn't react, so Lu Renkui persisted in poking Borui.
Then, most likely Borest got annoyed by being poked, and turned his head to the side.
"Oh, you're reacting now. Say something, will you?" Lu Renkui said with a grin. "Even if you don't want control of your body during this time, you still have to give me a reason."
"..." Borist remained silent.
“If you won’t tell me, then I’ll guess.” Lu Renkui began to speculate based on the little bit of description of Borist in the original text.
"The early death of your parents must have been a big blow to you, which is probably why you are so quiet and reserved."
"You've also learned how to hide your emotions, but you've hidden them too much, which has led to you always having a cold expression no matter what you do."
“You probably feel that you shouldn’t be alive, but your two younger sisters had just been weaned the year your parents passed away, and you lived on out of a sense of responsibility to them.”
"Because the two younger sisters are too young, they are very obedient, but they are malnourished because their relatives skimp on food, and Carola is even sick."
“You feel you are incapable of keeping the people you want to keep, as are your parents and your sister—if I don’t come, her condition will only worsen and she will die in front of you.”
"So when you saw that I had a way to cure your sister and that I had the courage to stand up against your uncle's family, you thought I was a bit better than you, so you voluntarily gave me your body."
"Stop talking." Sixteen-year-old Borest finally spoke.
"Am I right?" Lu Renkui asked.
“Yes, you’re right.” Although the girl in front of him looked only a few years older than him, her speculation was almost identical to reality. Borist felt that if he let her continue speculating, he might as well tell her the whole story himself.
"So, now you're willing to talk about why you had this idea? Why you voluntarily gave me control of your body?" Lu Renkui asked, then added, "And why you suddenly regained control of your body in the ring match, and then gave it back to me after defeating your opponent."
"..." Borist's mouth closed again, as if he was having some kind of internal struggle.
Lu Renkui wasn't in a hurry. Her two younger sisters were still sleeping anyway, so she wasn't in a rush to get that pitiful, unpalatable porridge. Besides, she had already bought the vegetables, and she could just scoop out the herbs from the crucible and start cooking again.
After a long wait, Borest finally spoke. "Because I believe this is God's will."
"God's will?" Lu Renkui recalled the enormous statue of God that had been displayed in the church.
“Yes, it is God’s will,” Borest said. “How much do you know about my parents’ background?”
"Hmm, I'm not too sure about that." Lu Renkui scratched his head—it wasn't mentioned in the original text.
“My father was my grandfather’s youngest, most beloved, and most talented son.” Borist finally stopped playing the ostrich. He straightened up, intending to rub his hands in front of him, but then he remembered that he was still tied up.
So Borist abandoned his habitual actions and continued, "So Grandpa always wanted to groom Father to be the family heir, but Father didn't want to. He hated everything Grandpa planned for him. He said he didn't want to recite prayers to the gods with more than 10 pages and 91 lines on each page before meals, he didn't want to look at ancient and rigid pictures and idols, and he didn't want to marry the same woman just to continue the family line. He wanted to seek the miracles of nature and find his true love."
“Grandpa was very angry. He said that my father was defying his will and was disrespectful to the gods. So he kicked my father out of the house and cut off his source of income, hoping to make my father submit.”
“My father was very happy. He went to be a bard and met my mother on the way.”
"And so, two years after my father and mother got married, I was born, and that's when my grandfather came to visit."
"He forcibly took my father back, but when he was being forcibly taken back, he used magic to take my mother and me back with him, and told my grandfather that the two of them were already married."
"Grandpa was very angry because Father was already engaged; it was a marriage arranged by the gods at his birth."
"Grandpa said that if my father didn't divorce my mother, the gods would be angry and both my father and mother would die."
“My father never believed in God, and neither did my mother. So they didn’t take it seriously, took me away from my grandfather’s house, and had my sister when I was twelve.”
"But three months after my sister was born, an accident happened."
"On our way to go sightseeing that day, my father was driving the carriage in front. My mother was sitting inside the carriage, chatting and laughing with my father, while holding my two younger sisters in her arms. I was making my sisters happy."
"Then the vehicle suddenly caught fire, and the fire was huge."
At this point, Boruist fell silent for a moment. Lu Renkui also fell silent, and she patted Boruist's head reassuringly.
"My mother quickly shoved my two younger sisters into my arms, while my father cast a spell on me, throwing my sisters and me off the carriage and into a safe area."
"My grandfather and the others rushed over as soon as they heard the news. When they saw my father and mother's bodies, everyone in the family showed disdain, indifference and mockery."
"They say this is retribution for my parents' disbelief in God."
"They also said that the punishment for not believing in God should be to die three times in excruciating pain, but a person can only die once, so this punishment should fall on our heads."