Chapter 27: The Mysterious Cave, Everything Erina Carried
"Hahaha..."
Panting rapidly, the girl pursed her slightly swollen lips and glared at Lin Yu with her gem-like eyes.
There seemed to be a burning flame in those embarrassed and angry eyes.
"That's too much. How can you do such an outrageous thing when you first meet someone?"
The little leather shoes were raised high, aimed at Lin Yu's toes, and stomped hard.
Well, I didn't use any mental energy, I just relied on my physical fitness to stomp hard.
Lin Yu did not dodge, but accepted the girl's "punishment" with a smirk.
After all, I was the one who went too far first.
"What's going on? Why are you suddenly so impulsive?"
Being stared at angrily by the girl, Lin Yu began to reflect on his abnormal behavior.
"I shouldn't have done that. I wasn't like that before."
"Could it be that I became arrogant because of the arrival of the golden finger?"
After some thought, Lin Yu did not rule out this possibility.
After all, as a young man with such a big cheat, if he doesn't get cocky, then there must be something wrong with him mentally.
Someone once asked a question online:
What would you do if you had superhuman powers?
The answer with the most likes is:
On the first day, I will protect the earth;
The next day, I will protect my earth;
On the third day, I didn't eat beef.
Lin Yu asked himself that he was not too arrogant, so he could be considered to have a good self-attitude.
"But that shouldn't be the case. I feel like it wasn't a mental explosion just now, but more like a hot-headedness. Hmm, or to be more precise, maybe the small head is controlling the big head?"
Thinking about it this way, Lin Yu felt it made more sense.
In the past, my physical fitness was not so abnormal, and I needed to find Sonoko and Xiaolan to play the chicken game every few days.
As a result, after his body was strengthened a hundred times, he had been conserving his energy for so many days, and the ammunition was probably so abundant that it had overflowed from the warehouse long ago.
"No, we need to find someone to sign the contract as soon as possible."
After some thought, Lin Yu's gaze finally fell on Erina.
Among all the girls, only Erina activated her Nen ability, which greatly increased her defense and allowed her to barely push away the rebar with her bare hands.
With a gleam in his eyes, Lin Yu made a fiery decision.
"I'm sorry, Sonoko and the others, but it's you, Erina."
For some reason, she suddenly felt a chill all over her body, and Erina Nakiri couldn't help but glare at Lin Yu fiercely.
If I don't know the reason, then the culprit can only be the guy in front of me.
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After a long time, both of them's breathing and emotions had almost calmed down.
Lin Yu started to talk about business.
"Erina, Commander Nakiri asked me to accompany you to a place. Where is that?"
While chatting, Nakiri Senzaemon said that there was a place that he would be interested in and he would like to have his granddaughter accompany him there later.
So, Lin Yu was a little curious about the place that Nakiri Senzaemon mentioned.
Hearing Lin Yu calling her name directly, Erina Nakiri was slightly stunned. She didn't really object to it, and she had done even more excessive things before, so she just acquiesced and allowed it.
When she heard Lin Yu mention that place, Erina Nakiri couldn't help but reveal a trace of longing on her rosy face. She clasped her hands in front of her chest, looking extremely longing, and spoke of it like a pilgrim.
"What Grandpa was talking about is actually a mysterious cave within the territory of the Nakiri family."
"That is a forbidden area of our Nakiri family."
"According to my grandfather and that person, this cave contains countless special creatures and ingredients that do not exist in this world."
A trace of pain appeared in his eyes, but it disappeared in a flash. If Lin Yu had not kept his gaze on the girl's face, he would probably have ignored this scene.
A person emerged in my mind, a man as sinister as a poisonous snake.
"The person Erina was talking about should be Nakiri Tsuchiya, but I don't know what he did in this world to make Erina look so painful."
Instead of exposing the scars in Erina's heart, Lin Yu chose to silently listen.
Anyway, all the thorns will be cleared away by myself in the future, so there is no need to recall the past. With such a plug-in, my woman only needs to stand behind me and accompany me to the top of the world.
Not knowing that her fate will change because of Lin Yu, Erina is telling her about the forbidden area.
"But it's extremely dangerous in there."
"Once upon a time, our Nakiri family hired a team of 100 people, carrying a large number of thermal weapons, to find out the truth about that cave."
"As a result, no one returned."
"From that day on, Grandpa temporarily closed the cave and bluntly said that without a top Nen user leading the team, going there would only lead to death since everyone was Nen-capable."
As she said this, complex expressions of regret, unwillingness, yearning, fear, etc. kept struggling and flashing on Erina's fair little face.
In the end, it all turned into reluctance.
For the first time, Erina Nakiri opened her mind and expressed the emotions that had been suppressed in her heart.
"But, that is a treasure that has never been touched by humans. Whether it's Grandpa or them, it is the lifelong dream of every member of the Nakiri family.
"It is my responsibility to solve the mystery there."
Perhaps while prying open the girl's teeth, he also opened her closed heart.
Erina turned around and hugged Lin Yu, pressing her little head against Lin Yu's chest. Her body trembled slightly, and her voice was a little hoarse as she shouted at the top of her lungs.
"From childhood to adulthood, it has always been my grandfather who has cared for me and accompanied me all the time."
"No matter how willful I was, no matter how unreasonable I was, he never blamed me. He always held out his arms to me with care and love, shielding me from all the storms."
"I know that Grandpa sees me as the future of the Nakiri family, but he doesn't want me to bear this burden so early."
"I also know that Grandpa often travels outside to remove the curse of the 'God's Tongue' from me."
"More than once, I saw my grandfather coming back from outside injured."
"I know that those are the dangers he encountered when he entered those dangerous places."
"Several times, he almost didn't come back, but as soon as his injuries healed, he went out again."
"I know that my grandfather has always felt guilty, thinking that it was his negligence that caused me to suffer all those grievances and pains because he did not take good care of me when I was a child."
"But grandpa has done so much for me, yet he still runs around for me every day for more than ten years."
"You are already old enough to enjoy your retirement, but you are still worrying about my affairs."
It was because she felt her grandfather's deep love for her that Erina Nakiri easily accepted the fact that her grandfather found a fiancé for her.
In this world, everyone could hurt her except grandpa.
"I don't want to disappoint Grandpa, I don't want him to have any regrets, and I don't want his life's work to go to waste."
Neon is also a country that favors boys over girls, even more so than Dragon Country.
The practice of changing one's s*x after getting married has been eradicated there, but it is still going on in Japan.
As the third generation of the Nakiri family, there are only two heirs: Erina Nakiri and Alice Nakiri.
One can imagine how many jackals are out there eyeing this piece of fat meat.
She has been aware of this since she was a child, so Erina Nakiri cannot live as capriciously and freely as her cousin.
She was carrying a burden and responsibility that her cousin could not understand at all.
"So, I worked hard to train myself since I was young, to train my cooking skills and my Nen ability, all for the sake of letting Grandpa taste the delicious food in that cave in person one day."
"I want my grandfather to be proud of me. I want the names of the Nakiri family and Totsuki Academy to be known throughout the world."
As she spoke, the girl's voice became increasingly passionate, full of vigor and yearning.
But dreams are just dreams after all, and the enthusiasm began to fade, and finally turned into discouragement and compromise.
The eyes that were as bright as stars gradually dimmed.
"But I'm not strong enough."
"I can't let outsiders in there either."
This world has never been a peaceful and beautiful fairy tale world.
The law of the jungle and survival of the fittest is the essence of this world.
If a strong person were to be attracted, the Nakiri family would definitely not be able to keep this wealth, and only disaster would be brought upon them.
"I know that grandpa has always disagreed with me entering that horrible underground cave because he is worried about my safety."
"But I just can't accept that all my grandfather's years of expectations and a lifetime of waiting will turn into nothing in the end."
The collar of Lin Yu's clothes was wet without him noticing.
"Why!"
He raised his hand and gently rubbed the girl's smooth long hair.
Looking down at the sobbing girl in his arms, Lin Yu looked solemn and promised very seriously:
"Erina, your dream will come true. Your grandfather will be proud of you. Under your leadership, the fame of the Nakiri family and Totsuki will spread throughout the heavens and the world."
"Um!"
There was no rebuttal, even if it sounded unreliable.
But the girl who has been suppressing these things in her heart is fragile and needs support, even if it is just a straw. She is willing to believe and desperately try to grasp this slim chance.
Even if there is a cliff ahead, she is willing to fight for it even if it means her death.
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