Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

In the gloomy corridor outside the classroom, the chandelier above swayed, seeming to flicker constantly due to a bad connection. During class time, few people walked around in the corridor. The hallway was empty.

The alternating dim and bright yellow light cast a thin human shadow, leaning against the wall outside Seele's classroom, his pupils unfocused, his skin pale. His dark eyes had no focus at all, making one doubt if such strange eyes could see the surrounding scenery.

"Tomorrow, the next scene."

Li Mo murmured softly.

"Usurp."

As his voice fell, a wad of Japanese currency appeared in his palm.

After listening to the commotion in the classroom, Li Mo left quietly. He didn't take the stairs or the elevator, but directly modified his coordinates. Using Bizarre abilities without any side effects made many things that were very troublesome for a living person incredibly simple.

Li Mo walked silently to a snack shop near the school, his eyes cold, his murky eyeballs rolling, the decadent music in his mind constantly replaying, hinting at the outcome of different choices.

He wasn't here to buy snacks. A sign was placed outside the snack shop with a recruitment notice.

Seeing a customer, the owner quickly stood up and greeted him.

"I need you to do something for me..."

At noon, it was time for lunch again. As before, Seele hugged herself and quickly walked into the cafeteria.

Her thin clothes could not withstand the rustling cold wind outside. Every gust felt like a boning knife scraping against her bones. The classroom and cafeteria were rare warm places.

"I need to find a way to earn some money... The brother in this world won't help me. I can only rely on myself," Seele said with determined eyes, clenching her small, purple hands from the cold, silently making up her mind.

Buying clothes for winter required money, and buying food in the cafeteria also required money. There were many places where money was needed. But the top priority was to fill her stomach first. There wasn't much money on her meal card. Brother had only said to give them a taste of their own medicine, not to bully others for no reason.

Seele sighed, clutching her stomach. Fortunately, she had eaten a full breakfast. Although there were many children in the orphanage, Brother had never mistreated anyone in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, but he himself...

Seele had never seen Li Mo buy anything for himself.

Arriving at the cafeteria, Seele still got a bowl of rice and walked to the place where she could get miso soup. Compared to her previous timidity, Seele felt much more relaxed this time. She used to care a lot about what others thought of her, but now that the news of her hitting a classmate had spread and her reputation was already bad, she didn't care if it got a little worse.

Thinking of this, Seele couldn't help but smile. Even she was surprised by the sudden smile, and then she fell silent.

She chose a place where there were not many people and quickly finished her food.

On her way back, two teachers walked towards her, staring at Seele with serious expressions.

"You're Seele Vollerei, right? Come with us. The school is preparing to give you a demerit for your behavior of bullying a classmate this morning."

"You'd better behave yourself. If your attitude is good and you take the initiative to admit your mistake, you might be able to get this demerit removed. But no matter what, you have to come with us now."

The two unfamiliar teachers said earnestly.

Seele looked at them carefully. She had some impression of them. They seemed to be teachers from the class next door. Since they had already come to her, she couldn't escape. Seele followed the two teachers to the dean's office.

There were only three people inside: the two teachers who had brought her here, and the vice-principal.

The vice-principal handed over a piece of paper filled with dense content.

"During the morning exercises tomorrow, you will read the content on this paper in front of the whole school, and the demerit will be canceled."

The vice-principal had a square face, and his words and actions were very solemn, like the kind of elder who would not show any mercy.

Seele took the paper and looked at it. It was full of words of apology.

Something like "I, Seele Vollerei, apologize to so-and-so classmate. It was my fault, I shouldn't have..."

It was all very standard apology rhetoric, but the further she read, the more Seele found that something was wrong. The wording of the apology became more and more humble, and even had the meaning of atonement in it, completely deviating from the original situation.

If she really did as it said, then she would take all the responsibility, as if it were really her fault.

"What if I don't do it?" Seele raised her head stubbornly, staring straight at the vice-principal.

The vice-principal snorted coldly, "I heard you and your brother depend on each other. Do you want him to know about this?"

Hearing this, Seele's expression suddenly froze, and she fell into boundless hesitation and contemplation.

The vice-principal was triumphant, thinking he had hit Seele's weak spot. In his eyes, a delinquent girl must be hiding her arrogance from her family and definitely didn't want her family to know, especially her brother with whom she depended on.

The vice-principal had checked the records. Seele Vollerei lived with her brother. There were only two of them in the family, with no parents. Her brother was only seventeen. What did this mean?

No power, no influence, no support or backing. How could such a child dare to defy his decision? He could deprive her of the right to education with just one sentence.

Of course, the mistake Seele had made was not serious enough to be expelled. After all, expulsion had to be decided by the principal himself. The principal was merciful and had never expelled any student, no matter how naughty, for decades. So the vice-principal just thought about it. Even if Seele caused a big scene, she probably wouldn't be expelled. Unless she really killed someone.

"I understand."

Seele hesitantly took the paper from the vice-principal, put it in her pocket, and lowered her head, seeming to tacitly agree with the vice-principal's words.

The vice-principal nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough, with his methods, it was easy to deal with a naive little girl.

Seeing Seele's sincere attitude, the vice-principal did not pursue the matter further and said to Seele faintly, "Go back. Remember to come to the flag-raising platform tomorrow morning to apologize in public, and this matter will be over."

"Okay." Seele turned to leave, and just as she was about to leave the room, a sly smile appeared on her face.

Apologize?

What a joke. Since you want to make me look bad, then let's all have a bad time.

Seele remembered Li Mo's teachings. If all the grievances were borne by one person, then just make the matter bigger. Although it would make the gazes of the people around her sharper, the person involved would feel much more comfortable. Commonly known as: self-destruction, flipping the table.

If I can't play, then no one can!

The afternoon classes were short. Seele did not change her usual habits and still listened attentively in class. Although the teacher on the stage would occasionally look back at her, seeming to be worried that she would get sick again and be wary of her suddenly becoming violent.

It didn't matter. A misunderstanding was a misunderstanding. Seele simply didn't take notes and rested her head on the table to sleep, so as to deepen everyone's impression of her as a delinquent girl.

There was also a special reason—if she slept during the day, she could spend a little more time with her gentle brother at night.

What would Brother teach me tonight? Seele was already impatient to go home from school and see her brother from another world. Then she would tell him about the vice-principal coercing her. Seele really wanted to know if Brother would have a better way.

"My God, Seele dares to sleep in this class. This is the homeroom teacher's class..."

"Mr. Ryuzaki is the strictest. If you sleep in his class, he'll pull you by the ear and make you stand outside the classroom. Seele is done for this time."

The students below were chattering. Mr. Ryuzaki's mouth twitched a few times. He looked at Seele, who was ignoring him and sleeping on her own, not giving him any face at all.

But... Ryuzaki remembered his colleagues in the office mentioning that Seele had always been bullied. Now her personality had suddenly changed, and she even threatened to throw a classmate from the fourth floor and was ready to smash his head with a stool.

The teachers in the office discussed it no less than the students in the classroom, and finally came to a conclusion—mental illness. In the laws of Japan, a mentally ill person who kills does not commit a crime.

Moreover, Seele showed a vengeful look. What if he angered her, and Seele took a knife and attacked him or his family when he wasn't paying attention... Forget it, forget it.

The horizontal are afraid of the stunned, and the stunned are afraid of the desperate.

He would turn a blind eye and pretend that nothing had happened. Mr. Ryuzaki tacitly allowed Seele to sleep in class and no longer meddled. Although he was strict, his mind was not stupid. He knew very well who he could provoke and who he was better off leaving alone. Weighing the pros and cons was something adults were very skilled at.

Ryuzaki continued to write on the blackboard, with no intention of stopping to deal with the dozing Seele.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves. This behavior was seen by the students in the class, and they were even more in awe of Seele. Mr. Ryuzaki, who was known for his strictness, actually didn't dare to wake Seele up? Did Seele have some special background?

Did she find her family yesterday? And found out she was a billionaire, or a powerful official? Various strange thoughts flooded their minds. The sudden confidence made people inevitably think about the person behind Seele.

Just like that, no one in the class dared to get close to Seele. Even Seele's deskmate quietly moved his stool, trying to get as far away from Seele as possible.

Soon.

The school bell rang. The first person to rush out of the classroom was Seele's front deskmate, and the second was her deskmate. The others glanced at Seele, and couldn't help but quickly pack up their textbooks and hurry out of the classroom.

The classroom, which used to have its lights turned off half an hour after school, was now empty except for Seele sitting alone in the classroom within ten minutes.

"Am I that scary?" Seele muttered to herself. "Damn it! Who turned off the air conditioner when they left!"

Seele shivered and cursed.

After packing her schoolbag, Seele ran towards the school gate. She paused just as she was about to leave the campus. As expected, there were two adult men staring at her with malicious intent at the school gate. One hand was holding an orange drink, and the other hand was on the bottle cap, slowly twisting it. The other person was holding a bottle of mineral water, unopened, seemingly for himself to drink.

This scene made Seele involuntarily take two steps back.

"Phew..."

Seele took a deep breath. She now had two choices, both taught by Li Mo. One was to actively go crazy, and the other was to resist.

"What's there to be afraid of? Anyway, Brother isn't here. When I get home, Seele will still be the good Seele. Brother won't know what happened in this world."

"In that case..."

A slight smile appeared on Seele's lips. She touched the handgun in her clothes. The gun was there. A bold idea came to her mind.

At this moment, school was just over. Many students who were going home after school gathered at the school gate. Many people stayed at the school gate for one thing—to watch the show. This was an unspoken thing.

Everyone knew that there were two hooligans waiting for Seele to leave school every day, and then in full view of everyone, they would pour a sticky, hard-to-clean drink on her head. In such a cold winter, plus Seele was already thinly dressed. The shivering look was very funny.

"Hehe, you're much earlier than usual today. That saves us a lot of time."

A wretched's voice came. The two hooligans surrounded Seele. Immediately after, five more hooligans came out from the stinking alley next to them, surrounding Seele so tightly that she couldn't get through.

Just when everyone thought Seele would be humiliated again, an accident happened. The leading adult man opened the bottle cap and poured the orange, sticky liquid on his own head. The cold water and the bone-chilling cold superimposed, instantly made his whole body tremble.

Not just one person, the others all followed suit at the leader's shout.

"Don't leave. Now, surround me and leave this place."

Seele pressed the muzzle of the gun against the other party's waist and said in a low voice.

"Okay, okay... Miss... the thing in your hand is fake, right?"

"Oh?" Seele smiled with interest, released the safety of the handgun, and then said playfully, "You guess?"

The crisp sound of the safety being released fell into the ears of the few people.

It's real?! How could she have a real gun in her hand!?

The leading man was on the verge of tears and looked back at Seele. Seele smiled, but her smile was particularly creepy, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.

"Damn, what happened today?"

"First, Seele uncharacteristically beat someone up, making a boy so scared he didn't dare to say a word."

"Then the strict Mr. Ryuzaki allowed Seele to sleep in class and didn't dare to meddle."

"Finally, even the hooligans outside the school..."

"Could it be that Seele's family is a high-ranking official?"

After the hooligans had sent Seele away from the crowd, Seele took the muzzle of the gun away from the other party's waist.

"Miss... can we go now?"

The hooligans were terrified. In a law-abiding society like Japan, a little girl was holding a gun to his waist and smiling!

"You stand there, put the bottle cap on your head, and don't move," Seele ordered.

The leading man did as he was told. Although he didn't understand why Seele wanted him to do this, he had a bad premonition. He saw Seele raise her hand and point the muzzle of the gun at the bottle cap on his head, or rather... at his head.

"Weren't you curious if this is a real gun?"

"Don't move. It won't be fun if I accidentally kill you... you all have the same thought, right? Waiting for me on my way to and from school every day, pouring water on my head in front of everyone. Isn't it fun?"

Seele shook the heavy handgun in her hand. Even if an adult held a gun, it wouldn't be this scary. What was scary was a seemingly innocent twelve-year-old girl holding a gun and saying strange things nonchalantly.

"We..."

"Boss!"

The leading man was about to say something but was interrupted by his underlings.

"If you have something to say, just say it. You're dawdling like a woman." Seele felt impatient and stabilized the muzzle.

The man bit his lip and leaned against the wall without moving. Finally, he mustered up his courage and asked, "Does your brother know you're doing this? Would he want to see you like this!?"

There was no doubt that the man had the same feelings and speculations as the vice-principal. He thought that Seele would definitely care about her brother, even if... he knew that her brother was not good to her, and even very extreme.

After hearing the man's words, Seele really froze on the spot, looking at the ground in a daze. That's right... the brother in that world would definitely be disgusted when he saw her like this. Although Brother said those bizarre things, if Seele really showed this side of herself in front of him... would Brother kick Seele out of the orphanage?

Seele hesitated, her wanton smile restrained. There was no doubt that the children in the orphanage Li Mo took care of were all very simple and kind. Li Mo had always worked hard to cultivate them into people with correct thinking and full of optimism and hope for life. For this, he did not hesitate to abuse his already poor body, working overtime late at night, being frugal... was she betraying Brother's expectations by doing this?

Seeing Seele beginning to doubt herself, the man pressed on, enticing her, "Right? Your brother definitely doesn't want to see you like this. Be good, put down the gun. We'll leave each other alone in the future, okay?"

"...Ha, hahaha..."

"Big brother, what are you talking about? Seele doesn't understand... as long as Seele doesn't say anything about this, Brother won't know, right?"

"Seele is very good. She's a good girl who is understanding. How could she have a hobby of playing with others?"

Huh? Can it be like this?

The man broke down, wanting to escape, but was afraid of the real gun in Seele's hand.

"Don't move. Seele's marksmanship is very accurate. She won't miss." Seele was serious. She narrowed her eyes and aimed the muzzle at the two-centimeter-high bottle cap on his head.

"What if you accidentally blow my head off?" the man was very flustered, the back of his shirt already soaked in sweat.

Seele smiled and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Gray smoke came out of the muzzle. The bottle cap on his head was shot through. This time, everyone's doubts were completely dispelled. The gun in Seele's hand was a real gun.

"If your head is blown off, then it was intentional, hee hee~"

"Seele is going home now. I'm so happy to be Brother's little ray of sunshine again~ Big brother, be careful on your way back. Don't... be alone."

At this moment, Li Mo, who was at home writing, suddenly coughed heavily, sniffled, and said thoughtfully, "I have a bad feeling. Could it be that Kira came back early and wants it again? Hiss... no, no..."