Chapter 35: Qin Tian began to suspect that he had something akin to the protagonist's halo
Chapter 35: Qin Tian began to suspect that he had something akin to the protagonist's halo
Evening.
Qin Tian was lying on the bed, thinking silently in his heart.
Ever since he lived in Japan, he felt that the world he lived in wasn't the same as in the previous round.
Although he wanted to be indifferent to the plot, but in the end he got involved with the plot and even made some plots collapse.
He couldn't just ignore the heroine and protagonist of this world. The human heart is complicated, initially saying "No", but not long after that saying "Yes", making humans sometimes annoying creatures.
By the way, he now doesn't know how many protagonists there are in this the world, there is even Issei Hyoudou in Japan, and there is Ye Fan in China.
Qin Tian wouldn't be surprised that in Japan, China or other countries there were more than one protagonist from various works of fiction.
He wondered who made the world into this kind of crossover?
That person was very troublesome.
There was also the matter of sister Yan suddenly coming to Japan to see him. Sister Yan's attitude towards him is also different from the previous round, she now talks to him more often and pays attention to him, making him numb.
He didn't hate sister Yan, even though in the previous round she destroyed her own family and sided with the protagonist, after all it was setting of the original plot.
In the previous round he even acted as a villain and his goal was to complete the plot so that he could return to his original world.
So when he met sister Yan again in this round 10, he didn't have much hatred for her, well maybe a little annoyed because of the effect of the memories in the previous round.
But after interacting with her frequently in this round, he began to like her like his own older sister from the bottom of his heart.
In the original novel, although Qin Tian and Li Yan's relationship was not quite good. In a sequel to the original novel, it was revealed that sister Yan actually really loved Qin Tian, not the feeling for a younger brother, but something more, she was even willing to become protagonist's woman and betray her own family so that the protagonist would not kill Qin Tian.
At that time the plot was about to reach the climax, and the villain Qin Tian had really lost all his value, he just needs to be executed to complete the plot. but Li Yan apparently made a deal with the protagonist to save Qin Tian's life which the protagonist agreed to.
The content of the deal is as described above, but did the protagonist keep his promise? No, he didn't keep his promise at all. The protagonist secretly without Li Yan's knowledge made a scheme for Qin Tian to make trouble at a banquet as if he had taken the wrong medicine that made him crazy so the protagonist had to kill him on the spot, so that he could save the people at the banquet.
The protagonist of course becomes the hero, and the villain Qin Tian died. Everyone thanked the protagonist and gave him a lot of praise. But unbeknownst to the protagonist, Li Yan was actually present at the banquet and saw Qin Tian being killed before her eyes.
Li Yan was devastated after seeing the person she loved the most die in front of her eyes, but instead of taking revenge on the protagonist, she committed suicide using a knife to stab her own heart at the banquet.
In the end, the sequel to the original novel tells the tragic love story of one of the heroines named Li Yan.
Qin Tian sighed remembering the story from the sequel, he honestly felt Li Yan was very pitiful.
In the previous round he had of course pretended to be crazy and threatened to kill everyone at the banquet. That scene was just like the sequel of the original novel where the protagonist gave him the medicine that made him crazy and killed him in order for the protagonist to become the hero at the banquet.
Qin Tian of course realized at that moment, he was just pretending to be crazy, the medicine the protagonist gave him had no effect at all, but he deliberately pretended for the sake of completing the plot and returning to his original world, although in the end he never managed to return to his original world, and was instead sent back to the beginning of the plot.
At that time every time he repeated the plot and died at the banquet, wouldn't Li Yan also always die with him, since she killed herself every time she saw him die before her eyes?
"That plot is too damn..."
Qin Tian smiled bitterly, he felt guilty every time he recalled Li Yan killing herself because of him.
Well, in this round he hadn't planned on following the plot, so Li Yan shouldn't have killed herself.
Okay, enough with the pathetic monologue.
By this time everyone in the villa was already sleeping in their respective rooms, including Kuroka of course since she was already a maid in this house.
With sister Yan's guidance, Kuroka also had to be trained first in order to become a professional maid, but she seemed to learn faster than Asia, perhaps Kuroka only needed a few days to become a professional maid under sister Yan's guidance.
Qin Tian remembered something and said. "Koko, there's something I want to ask you."
Next, a silver light suddenly appeared in the room and turned into a silver-haired loli.
Of course it was Koko who teleported from her room.
"What's the need to call Koko, Host?"
Koko asked while wearing her cute shark pajamas.
Qin Tian's lips twitched.
He admitted in his heart that Koko looked really cute right now, making him want to hug her, but he was in the mood to ask something serious right now.
"Does the host want to open the reward?"
Koko asked her host again.
Qin Tian shook his head and said. "Postpone the reward for later, I want to ask you something."
He then lifted Koko onto his lap.
Koko didn't mind sitting on her host's lap, after all this wasn't the first time.
"Koko are you hiding something from me?"
"No." Koko shook her head.
"Then why don't you tell me why it seems like the characters in Dxd don't know the whereabouts of the cultivator from my original novel who is in China?"
"With their long ages as supernatural beings, they should have realized each other's existence long ago, right?"
After Qin Tian said his question, he waited for Koko to answer.
"It should be so, but there is some kind of mysterious power that makes all the characters from various fictional works in this world will not clash and realize each other's existence."
"Unless there's an anomaly like a host that doesn't go according to the plot and affects the other characters."
Hearing this, Qin Tian frowned. "Why didn't you tell me this before?"
Koko innocently said. "The host didn't ask."
"You!"
Qin Tian pinched Koko's cheek, he was a bit annoyed with this loli for not telling him an important thing from the start.
"Auuu... Host, stop pinching Koko. Do you like loli now?"
"I don't!"
After arguing for a while and Qin Tian stopped pinching Koko.
Koko pouted, her cheeks red from being pinched by her host.
The host was cruel, how could he be so rude to a cute loli like herself?
Can you be more gentle on loli?
Qin Tian would roll his eyes if he knew what Koko was thinking.
Being a loli, wouldn't always get you treated gently by everyone, especially in front of an ultimate villain like him.
Dishonest loli must be punished.
"Then what about sister Yan? She came from my original novel in China and was obviously affected by anomalies like me so it didn't go according to the plot."
"Will she be okay if she continues to associate with characters from other works of fiction?"
Qin Tian was worried that there was some sort of side effect to characters not going according to the plot. His own character didn't go according to plot, but he had a system protecting him, so there was no problem, but what about the other characters who had relationships with him and didn't go according to plot?
Will they experience something bad?
"The host doesn't need to worry, other characters who have a relationship with the host will not receive any side effects due to interacting with characters from different works of fiction. At least the will of the world will not do anything like killing, or harming the characters directly." Koko said.
"What kind of relationship do you mean? Do acquaintances count?" Qin Tian asked.
Koko shook her head. "Acquaintances are not included, at least only characters who have a close relationship with the host."
Qin Tian understood what Koko had said so far. Basically as long as the characters that he didn't have a close relationship with, they wouldn't be able to meet characters from different works of fiction.
For example Azazel, although Qin Tian had chatted with him once, the two of them didn't have a close relationship. So even if Azazel now went to China to find the cultivators from Qin Tian's original novel, he would never find them.
Unless Qin Tian himself brought characters from different works of fiction in front of Azazel. Azazel would of course be able to see and interact with the characters from the different works of fiction that he brought.
There seemed to be some sort of halo around Qin Tian that could affect the blindness factor of each other's existence experienced by characters from different works of fiction.
Qin Tian wondered, was it something similar to the protagonist's halo?
But he was a villain, was there a villain halo above his head that couldn't be seen?
Qin Tian was confused.
He had already asked Koko about this, but she didn't seem to know.
Koko only said that all the weirdness that had happened so far was because he was an anomaly in this world.
...
The next day.
After Qin Tian finished breakfast with Li Yan and the others in the morning.
At school, he attended school lessons as usual and he was currently gathering with all the ORC members in the club room.
There he saw Rias, Akeno, Koneko and Yuuto who were busy with their respective work.
Rias was checking the report of the supernatural activities that happened in Kuoh city.
Koneko was doing her schoolwork, but sometimes her eyes looked at Qin Tian as if she wanted to ask something, but until now she didn't ask.
Yuuto was cleaning the sword he often used for his training with a gentle smile.
Can you stop smiling softly while staring at the sword?
Qin Tian looks at Yuuto strangely.
Akeno is currently busy, she is busy chatting and teasing him.
"Tian-kun, what do you often do after school?"
"I usually relax and play games with Koko."
"Hee~ Really? I want to try playing games at your house too..."
Akeno said that softly near his ear.
Qin Tian sighed.
[Akeno, don't you ever get tired of teasing me?]
[Want to play at my house? No way! I'm afraid you want to do something unbearable there. Besides, you seem to be very greedy for this young master's body.]
"If you are, you can come to my house to play after school."
Qin Tian said casually while drinking the cola he bought from the cafeteria.
Akeno rolled her eyes.
Your words are in stark contrast to your inner voice!
Also who's greedy about your body? You're so narcissistic.
Aren't you the one greedy for my body? You let me play at your house...
Could it be that you expect something to happen there?
Hehe straight man, you hypocrite!
"Oh, that's great! Is it just you and Koko in your house?"
Akeno asked curiously because after hearing Qin Tian's inner voice yesterday, she knew that Qin Tian's house was now quite crowded.
There were people like Asia Argento, the heroine who was deliberately picked up on the street by Qin Tian.
There was Qin Tian's older sister Li Yan, she was also a heroine, and Akeno was actually very interested in seeing what kind of woman this Li Yan was.
And finally there was Kuroka whose identity was Koneko's older sister who was supposed to be an S-class supernatural fugitive, but it seemed that she was now living in Qin Tian's house.
Aren't there quite a few heroines living in Qin Tian's house?
She wondered if it was alright for Rias to know this? After all, Rias could also hear Qin Tian's inner voice.
Qin Tian wondered if Akeno knew that there were new people living in his house?
He wasn't trying to hide it of course.
"Yes, there are also other people living in my house right now. So it's quite crowded now, do you still want to come Akeno?"
"I will!"
Akeno replied without hesitation, after all she was interested in meeting the heroines living in Qin Tian's house.
Rias, who had been sitting on the club president's chair while examining documents, naturally heard the conversation between Qin Tian and Akeno.
She was a bit jealous seeing Akeno and Qin Tian chatting so closely, but she could restrain herself after all she knew Akeno was just happy to tease Qin Tian.
But she was a bit annoyed to see that Qin Tian seemed to enjoy being teased by Akeno!
Also what's with the promise to play together after school between you two?
Are you two not going to invite me?
Rias felt abandoned, she pouted and deliberately coughed quite loudly.
"Ahem, ahem!"
"...."
Hearing this coughing sound, Qin Tian turned his gaze towards Rias.
What's wrong with this girl?
"Ahem, ahem!"
Rias deliberately coughed again.
[It looks like Rias's throat is in trouble, should I buy her some medicine?]
[Is human medicine effective for devils?]
Qin Tian!
Can you be sensitive?
I obviously coughed on purpose!
I want you to take the initiative to invite me...
Can you understand?
Rias's heart is full of grievances!
Akeno laughed at this.
Akeno laughed at this.
"Rias, do you also want to come play at Tian-kun's house?"
"Yes!"
Rias agreed without hesitation and glared angrily at Qin Tian.
"Tian, I can come too, right?"
"Yes... Of course you can."
Qin Tian wanted to hit his own head, why didn't he realize that Rias was pretending to cough? Wasn't it obvious that Rias wanted him to take the initiative?
He felt somewhat guilty for being less responsive, especially when he knew Rias liked him.
He had deliberately dangled her all this time because he was still hesitant before, but after hearing what Koko said last night, he felt it would be fine if he accepted Rias to be his woman.
And it seems that the possibility of Issei influencing Rias with his protagonist halo is also very small.
Qin Tian now felt more confident because he seemed to have a similar aura as the protagonist's halo.
Although it was definitely not the protagonist's halo since he was a villain character, but there must be a certain kind of aura that could ignore the effect of the protagonist's halo.
That aura must also be able to protect the people around him from the protagonist's halo. Hence he decided to talk privately with Rias later.
Rias nodded in satisfaction hearing Qin Tian agree, but she felt that the way Qin Tian was looking at her now was a bit different from usual.
Qin Tian's gaze now became very gentle as he looked at her, making her little heart beat so fast, and she felt her face become hot.
Wh-What's going on?
Why is he looking at me like that?
Could it be that he really likes me now?
Rias felt very happy now, her face flushed and she looked at Qin Tian with a gentle smile.
"...." Akeno.
What's with this sudden change in atmosphere?
Akeno felt a sour feeling surge in her heart.
"Ahem!" Akeno deliberately coughed, but the two love birds did not budge at all.
Only Koneko and Yuuto looked at her and asked. "What's wrong Akeno-senpai/Akeno-san?"
See, those two juniors are so nice...
This is how good people should respond, unlike those two love birds...
"Do you two want to come to Tian-kun house after school?"
Akeno asked with her soft and kind Onee-san smile.
Yuuto scratched his cheek and said. "Sorry, I can't. I have important things to do after school, maybe next time."
Akeno nodded, she would not force Yuuto who could not come.
She looked at Koneko who seemed to be hesitating.
Ah, that's right. Koneko can also hear inner voices, so she must know that her older sister, Kuroka is now living in Qin Tian's house.
Koneko must be anxious and confused whether she should go see her older sister or not.
"Se-senpai, sorry it looks like I can't make it today either."
She's not ready, Akeno thought.
Akeno certainly wouldn't force her junior to make up with her older sister.
And it was better for her to first see what kind of person Koneko's older sister was.
"Well it's fine if you two can't come."
[It's a pity that Koneko isn't coming, even though I have her older sister at home.]
[If the two of them met, wouldn't it be a reunion? But the relationship between the two of them still seems to be bad because of the misunderstanding. Well, it looks like at home I should try to persuade Kuroka to talk to her younger sister.]
Qin Tian stopped staring at Rias and glanced at Koneko who looked anxious.
Rias also looked at Koneko, she seemed to have to try to explain Koneko's misunderstanding of her elder sister later.
With Qin Tian persuading Kuroka, and she persuading Koneko, wouldn't it be easy to get the two sisters to make up?
But before that, she had to meet with Kuroka first, she wanted to confirm if it was okay to let Koneko meet with Kuroka? It depends on what kind of person Kuroka is.
And actually she was also curious to meet the heroine named Asia Argento and Li Yan who seemed to staying with Qin Tian.
Especially Li Yan or the person Qin Tian often called sister Yan, she really wanted to meet her!
At this moment a teleportation circle suddenly appeared in the room and a silver-haired figure appeared.
"Grayfia! Why are you why are you here?"
Rias asked in confusion to Grayfia who had just appeared.
Grayfia bowed slightly to greet everyone and said. "I'm here on Sirzechs-sama's orders to inform Rias and her peerage that Riser Phoenix will be coming here soon."
Qin Tian's lips twitched.
[Is it time for the Arc Riser Phoenix to begin? It's coming too soon, but I guess that's normal due to the collapse of the previous plot.]
[So it's about time I beat someone up again...]