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Fear is like a poisonous insect gnawing at the brain.
It was as if he was the only person left in the whole world.
"...System Bro?" A voice, barely audible in the absolute silence, trembled uncontrollably. "Are you... there?"
No one answered.
The silence, like icy seawater, pressed in from all directions.
"Ha...this time...it's really over..." A huge wave of sadness and grievance surged into his heart, instantly shattering Lu Mingfei's forced composure.
To combat the madness brought on by the deathly silence and darkness, Lu Mingfei began to ramble incoherently into the void, uttering various meaningless syllables and strange cries... but soon, these sounds turned into suppressed sobs.
Hot liquid welled up in my eyes without warning and streamed down my cold cheeks.
"I'm sorry... Dad... Mom..." He curled up on the cold stone bed, burying his face in his knees, his shoulders trembling uncontrollably, his voice broken like glass shattering on the floor, "I... I think... I can't hold on anymore..."
"ね?だれかいませんか?"
(Hello? Is anyone there?)
Just as things were on the verge of collapse, a sweet young female voice, with a kind of innate purity, suddenly drifted in from the distant high window above.
She was speaking Japanese.
Surprisingly, Lu Mingfei understood the meaning behind it with absolute clarity!
That sound was like the first ray of light appearing in eternal darkness!
"Someone's there! Someone's there—!" Lu Mingfei sprang up from the stone bed as if electrocuted, his cold blood seemingly boiling instantly. He screamed with all his might toward the direction of the sound, his voice hoarse but filled with ecstatic joy, "I'm inside! Here I am—!"
"who are you?"
The sweet female voice asked again, tinged with a hint of curious confusion.
"My name is Lu Mingfei! What's yours?" He lunged at the cold stone wall, tilting his head back as if trying to penetrate the thick stone so that the people outside could hear him more clearly.
There was silence outside the window for a few seconds, then the voice softly announced its name.
"My name is Erii."
Chapter 15 Are You My Knight? Lu Jun
Erii...
A typical Japanese girl's name.
Lu Mingfei was instantly filled with heavy doubts and resentment towards the system:
This system guy is really inhumane! Punishing him is one thing, but he even dragged an innocent girl into this mess and locked her up in this godforsaken place?
"Hello, Erii!" He pounded on the cold stone wall, trying to make his voice clear so that the girl outside could hear him.
"Hello, Mr. Lu."
"Eri...why...why are you locked up in a place like this?" Lu Mingfei's voice was full of confusion and worry.
There was a brief silence outside the window.
That clear, spring-like sound flowed in again, carrying a naive yet distant sense of bewilderment:
"When I woke up in my room today, I met a very, very beautiful woman."
"That older sister told me, 'Your knight is waiting for you to go find him.'"
"Then... when I woke up again, I was here."
"I walked along a starlit path for a very, very long time..."
"Just when I was so tired and wanted to stop, I heard Lu Jun's voice."
Erii's voice came from outside the high window, carrying a hint of cautious anticipation, as she softly asked.
"Are you my knight, Lord Lu?"
knight……
Lu Mingfei's last glimmer of hope was completely extinguished.
He leaned against the cold wall, a bitter and self-deprecating smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
It wasn't him after all!
How could it be him?
How can someone like him, who can't even protect himself and cowers in the face of trouble, be someone else's knight?
Knights in fairy tales, at the very least... must be radiant and ride tall horses, right?
He opened his mouth, his dry, purplish lips parting slightly.
"I don't think so! Someone like me is no match for a knight!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and his body slid down the cold wall.
He began to curl up, pulling his arms tighter around himself and burying his head in his knees, trying to keep himself warmer.
He knew perfectly well that the knight others were looking for was not him.
If he really had that kind of ability, he wouldn't have been thrown into this place by the system.
"Well then, goodbye, Lu-kun!" she whispered. "I'm going to find my knight!"
The fear of being alone instantly overwhelmed Lu Mingfei, and he raised his head and shouted.
"Are you leaving so soon?"
“Hmm! That pretty lady told me I only have seven days to find my knight,” she said expectantly. “I really want to know what my knight will be like.”
Indeed, Erii was going to find her knight, while Lu Mingfei was just a passerby.
It's right not to linger around him, but...
He didn't want Erii to leave; he wanted someone to stay by his side and talk to him.
"Um..." he probed cautiously, "What kind of knight is Erii looking for?"
“I don’t know!” Erii replied immediately.
"what?"
Lu Mingfei was a little confused. Just how naive was this girl?
How can you find someone if you don't even know what kind of person they are?
And that pretty older sister she mentioned, could she be the system brother? Should I call her the system sister from now on?
Thinking of this, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel sad.
I don't know if I'll ever see System Bro again.
[I'm truly impressed by you, Lu Mingfei! You're a real genius, still thinking about me at a time like this!]
The familiar voice suddenly echoed in Lu Mingfei's mind, tinged with a hint of helplessness.
He was like a prisoner who had been held in an underground cell for two and a half years, his whole body reeking of mold. After being released, he was bathed in the bright sunlight, and all the mold ran away, leaving only the warm light.
"System Bro... no, System Sister! You really didn't abandon me!" Lu Mingfei cried like a child who had finally found his mother.
"Are you alright, Mr. Lu?" Erii asked with some concern.
"I'm fine, I just suddenly remembered something happy!" Lu Mingfei stood up and said while crying.
"Great!"
[Find a way to become Erii's knight, or you'll be locked up for 100 days.]
“But…” Lu Mingfei wanted to argue something.
Don't give me that nonsense. What you do is your own business! What? You want me to help you pursue girls?
The system's impatient voice exploded in his mind. Lu Mingfei had no doubt that if he continued to talk nonsense, he would really be locked up for a hundred days.
"Don't dare! Don't dare!"
He pressed himself back against the wall, trying to reach for the steps of the high window in the dark.
Unlike before, the once unreachable high windows and steps were now within reach.
He pressed his entire face against the high window and said, "Eri, if your knight is a loser, a cowardly and cheap person who's prone to giving up, then..."
Even so, will you still make him your knight?
Erii thought for a moment, "Yes!"
In fact, Erii had no idea whether the words Lu Mingfei used were good or bad.
As a child who had never been exposed to the outside world, the outside world was a blank to her.
“Um…” Lu Mingfei mustered his courage, “Do you think I can do it? Be your knight!”
"Okay!" came the voice from outside the window without hesitation.
"Eh!" Lu Mingfei was a little surprised. He never expected Erii to agree so readily.
He pressed further, "Even if I'm a loser, a coward, a jerk, someone who's prone to giving up, can someone like me still be your knight?"
"No problem!" she said without hesitation, her voice innocent.
Lu Mingfei suddenly hesitated again. Did this girl really have no sense of caution at all?
They actually said yes so readily.
Although the system has spoken.
But he always felt guilty for deceiving little girls, just like a scumbag, which was really bad!
"Okay, fine!" Lu Mingfei's voice was barely audible as he rubbed his cheek against the cold stone, as if trying to disappear into the ground. "Um... Erii... I... I need to make this clear... I'm the kind of loser, coward, and easily given up person I was talking about... I probably couldn't even beat the dog in the neighborhood..."
He took a deep breath of the cold air, as if to encourage himself, or perhaps to repent:
"But, however, if you really think... you don't mind... then I, Lu Mingfei, will shamelessly be your knight for the time being!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, he felt his face burning. He muttered to himself, "I'm such a scumbag... System, you've really done me a disservice..."
"Please take care of me from now on, my knight, Riku-kun!" Erii's voice was somewhat excited.