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Chapter 81 - No Other Choice
In the neighbor friend's eyes, Ma En saw the resolution of someone burning all their bridges. Only now, in this moment, did he finally know with certainty: the neighbor friend had said "kill Matsuzaemon" with a genuine readiness to die. He
Chapter 86 - Won't Get Married
After returning to the Su residence that evening, Ning Yi took out paper and brush and began writing down some guidelines and regulations for disaster relief and epidemic prevention. He'd been thinking about these issues for many days now,
Chapter 80 - The Owner of Room 4
*We're doing strange things* — the neighbor's observation struck Ma En as completely accurate. People who'd never been exposed to this kind of bizarreness, who couldn't share the experience, who had no access to the information hidden insid
Chapter 85 - Disaster Approaches
As if channeling something, Squad Leader Chen took an uncomfortable deep breath. He squatted down and picked up a tree branch from nearby. This small area was basically all bamboo—this branch had obviously been broken from elsewhere, its le
Chapter 84 - Waiting
Gloomy night shrouded the distant city walls and mountains, making it impossible to see what lay in those far places. She sat on the steps before the building thinking—actually these days she thought mostly of one thing: those once-familiar
Chapter 79 - The Long, Long Night
Ma En pressed one hand to his forehead. Blood ran down the line of his nose, across the corner of his mouth, dripped from his chin — with no sign of stopping. His knuckles had torn open against the ground's rough soil. The little finger hun
Chapter 78 - Summer Solstice Not Yet Here
The night wind moved across Ma En's body, carrying an unseasonable chill for June. What the neighbor was doing, he had no power to stop. It was hard to imagine what would come next. His head was stuffed with something dim and just out of re
Chapter 83 - Stones from Other Mountains (Part Two)
Crystalline, clear night—a moon missing a piece hung leisurely in the sky. The Milky Way stretched like a ribbon, and looking up through gaps in the forest, the night sky resembled a blue sea. "...And so, the story of Demi-Gods and Semi-De
Chapter 77 - The God's Hidden Realm
The neighbor ran with Ma En and the body. The dense grass, the shrubs, the thick tangled root systems and spreading branches, the vines hanging in mid-air — everything seemed to clear a path for him. He moved through forest that grew denser
Chapter 82 - Stones from Other Mountains (Part One)
Over the next few days, one could occasionally see Lu Hongti sitting on the steps in deep thought. "...Joint manipulation techniques mainly aim to attack people's joints in certain situations, dislocating them and making them lose combat a
Chapter 76 - A Sudden Sharp Turn
The neighbor had once described Matsuzaemon's power like this: drop ten thousand nuclear bombs on his head and it still wouldn't kill him. Ma En understood what a nuclear bomb could do. Which was precisely why he found the claim so hard to
Chapter 81 - Mountain Dwelling
His consciousness flickered between clarity and confusion in the darkness. Vaguely, it seemed Lu Hongti had carried him on her back, whooshing through the mountain forest—that soft sensation. "How did you find me..." "How do you think I
Chapter 80 - Heart Like a Fierce Tiger (Part Four)
In the dark, still-collapsing houseboat room, the faint smell of wine, burnt flesh, and blood lingered as river water gurgled softly below, blood dissolving at the figure's feet into spreading dark red symbols. Gu Yanzhen stood there alone
Chapter 75 - Growth Rings
Ma En stood to one side, turning over what the neighbor had said, while sinking into the man's grief. The emotion that had broken through was something he couldn't claim to share — but it was exactly these feelings, accumulated and compress
Chapter 74 - Hidden in the Years
The vines drew back into the neighbor's body, pulling tight, seeming to drill into every pore of him. He made a low, strangled sound, and the air around him seemed to lose its moisture in the same instant — becoming suddenly dry. Ma En felt
Chapter 79 - Heart Like a Fierce Tiger (Part Three)
Night wind moaned as Yang Heng's corpse burned on the floor, casting dancing shadows through the room. Wine still seeped slowly from the broken jar. The hand that had just been extinguished trembled slowly in the darkness. Their eyes met in
Chapter 77 - Heart Like a Fierce Tiger (Part Two)
Jiangning outskirts, river bend, houseboat. "Shoot." "Let him go!" "Shoot!" "You'll die horribly!" "Who are you? Why did you kidnap me?" "Erlang! Mother—" "..." "What have you done!" "Back off." In the dim houseboat corridor, no l
Chapter 73 - A Slim Chance
Ma En was carried through the sky without any say in the matter. Each of the neighbor's leaps spanned multiple buildings — the shorter ones covered dozens of meters, the longer ones well over a hundred — and during the seconds of airborne s
Chapter 72 - Toward the Moon, a Leap
The Room 3 neighbor was emotionally volatile, inwardly sensitive and easily provoked, and his commitment to secrecy bordered on pathological. Ma En saw many qualities in him that made him a difficult candidate for collaboration — but. In m
Chapter 76 - Heart Like a Fierce Tiger (Part One)
Two quarters past eight¹, morning stars twinkled above. On a desolate riverbank outside Jiangning, night wind moaned across the water past a houseboat with lit windows. He woke groggily, not fully conscious yet. No light. Outside sounds fa
Chapter 71 - The Keeper of Secrets
Ma En sat down on the sofa in the neighbor's apartment — a sofa that had clearly not been selected to fit its owner's frame — while the neighbor remained standing to one side, his head tilted slightly as if studying the body on the coffee t
Chapter 75 - Gentle Scholar
As May ended, the weather got even hotter, pushing the city steadily toward the dog days of summer¹. In past years, Su Tan'er would've moved upstairs a month earlier—the days were hot, but opening the windows at night made the second floor
Chapter 70 - Continuing from the Nightmare
The nameless thing he'd seen in the nightmare was called the Matchmaking God? For a moment, Ma En couldn't connect the word "god" to anything that resembled that. Whether in his homeland or in Japan, every depiction of a deity he'd ever enc
Chapter 74 - Rain Curtain
Summer rain poured down in sheets. Carriages rushed past splashing water everywhere while pedestrians hurried along. From a distance, the corner shop glowed with several oil lamps—the light wasn't particularly bright, but the careful arrang
Chapter 73 - Lüliang Mountains
"By the way, I've been meaning to ask—why did you want to kill Song Xian?" Ning Yi hadn't brought this matter up before, only asking now that they were somewhat more familiar. Lu Hongti's eyes narrowed slightly. Outside the window the sky
Chapter 69 - Leading and Deflecting
Ma En had heard that the Room 3 neighbor was fat, but he'd never seen the man — every exchange between them had been through a door. Now the door was open, yet a curtain of darkness still hung between them. His first impression: enormous.
Chapter 72 - Ferocious Ning Liheng
The sky hung heavy and dark as if about to rain again. Near Jiangning's city gates, soldiers strictly inspected travelers entering and leaving. Vegetable sellers coming into the city faced exceptionally rigorous checks, while those wanting
Chapter 68 - Room 3's Friend
Ma En felt his heart seize, then abruptly lurch into high speed — as though the only sound left in the room was his own heartbeat. *Ba-dump. Ba-dump—* For a second, maybe two, Ma En stared at those dead eyes under the bed, and every thoug
Chapter 71 - Bell, See You Tomorrow
May's weather brought waves of heat to Jiangning city. When the wind chime sounds drifted lazily over, the somewhat desolate courtyard was covered with green ivy climbing up the earthen walls. Wild flowers and grass grew densely in the yard
Chapter 67 - Under the Bed
Ma En kept returning to one thought: the specifics of how the train had been rerouted didn't matter. What mattered was that the enemy had responded to his "departure for Kanagawa" probe with an emphatically forceful countermeasure. He'd ne
Chapter 70 - Advertisement and Layout
On Dragon Boat Festival night, lanterns and fragrance drifted along the Qinhuai River. Near the parade ground where the courtesan competition had just been held, the grand hall for the courtesan banquet was brightly lit and packed to capaci
Chapter 66 - Contracting Defense
Ma En didn't get the answer he'd hoped for. All three said Tokyo. Their stated purposes had shifted from what they'd declared on the outbound journey: the solidly built man and the young woman, who'd both spoken of traveling to Kamakura for
Chapter 69 - Expectation and Wager
Some things, if not noticed, would be fine. But the more one paid attention, the more thoughts arose, and certain impressions became increasingly profound. She was a formidable woman. Lights flickered and swayed as music flowed across the
Chapter 65 - Finding the Way Back
Ma En locked himself in the restroom. The narrow space, with only himself inside it, finally let him exhale. The moment he did, the vomiting came — violent, convulsive, as though he were trying to turn his lungs inside out. At first he did
Chapter 68 - Taboo
A small commotion broke out in the painted boat room. Before long, two heads pressed together again, looking out through the window. As the sunset spread across, there was indeed Ning Yi's figure among the crowd over there, vague and indist
Chapter 64 - The Struggle
A dread that exceeded every fear he had ever felt — combined, totaled, multiplied — struck him like a hurricane descending from a mountaintop, like a tidal wave crashing over a beach. Ma En kept his head down, face hidden in the shadow of t
Chapter 67 - Game Scene
"...It's said that in February of that year, during the Liao Kingdom's 'Spring Nabo'¹ festival, all the tribal chiefs participated in the 'Head Fish Banquet' hosted by Yelu Yanxi. At that time, Wanyan Aguda stood up and demanded that Yelu Y
Chapter 63 - The Paper Ball
Ma En hid inside the filthy robe, and the grey fabric had become more than a disguise — it was a cellar, a crawlspace, the only thing between himself and exposure. Imagining what it would feel like to take it off was like imagining standing
Chapter 62 - Nature Worship
These strange, human-like creatures moved through the forest without the vegetation slowing them in the least. Beneath the shuffling, dragging rhythm of their feet, changes in terrain seemed equally meaningless. They simply walked forward.
Chapter 66 - See You Tomorrow, Bell
Ding-dong, ding-dong—the sound rang out in the early morning as Chan'er and Juan'er set out bowls and chopsticks on the table, served porridge and rice, then sat down beside them at Tan'er's instruction. In the morning light, a scene of a f
Chapter 61 - Tailing
This many... people? Perhaps not people. Whatever they were, the sheer volume of them appearing inside a dream left Ma En incredulous. He'd read extensively on psychology and dreaming, but dreams, as commonly understood, were fragile and na
Chapter 65 - Intent
"The water's ready..." In the night, lights flickered throughout various parts of the city. In the quiet and somewhat desolate small courtyard, Ning Yi set the water basin on the table in the inner room. The black-clothed woman held a sma
Chapter 60 - Marching in Formation
A burning tree that had become something alive — in the real world it would have been genuinely unthinkable, but inside a dream, any manner of strangeness was possible. Ma En wasn't surprised by the creature itself. What he couldn't ignore
Chapter 64 - Bait and Line
By the dark lakeshore, a solitary lantern dimly illuminated the nearby flowers and trees. The woman hid in that darkness, watching the scholar hum a tune while searching through the grass. He then picked up a large stone, tossed it lightly
Chapter 59 - Relics
It was a mechanism. A mechanism capable of ensnaring a person without their knowledge. Ma En understood at last: eyes had been watching him — many eyes — but the eyes themselves were not the culprits. Watching for individual watchers was u
Chapter 63 - Game and Momentum
Horses neighed mournfully as the night wind blew desolately across the long street in a nightmare of battle. Sword wind cut through the chaos as a galloping warhorse had its front legs severed at high speed. Blood sprayed through the air a
Chapter 62 - Wind and Thunder Dancing Swiftly
It was as if darkness came rushing at them head-on. "Who goes there!" In the instant of shouting, sword light had already flashed out in the darkness along with the charging figure. Yet it was only a glimmer of light—he couldn't see clearl
Chapter 58 - Downpour
Half an hour ago the sun had heated the seats warm enough to feel through fabric, and the whole car had been bright enough to demand the curtains be drawn. Now the view through the window was a wall of leaden cloud, so heavy it looked like
Chapter 57 - No Definitive Conclusion
The enemy's attack had been fast and covert. Ma En had to concede that at least some of what the Room 3 neighbor had raved about made sense. Only by hiding within an ordinary social circle — using daily contact as the vector — could someone
Chapter 61 - Kill!
After the performances were mostly over, Kang Xian finally came down from the main pleasure boat and made his way back to his own vessel. He greeted some people on the first floor, then went upstairs to exchange pleasantries with the youngs