Soul Trigger

Chapter 619 Sisters
Upon reaching the stairs leading upstairs, Anya quickly and quietly said:
"How to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"Jensen! Should I tell him I dumped Jensen?"

"Were you and Jason a couple before?"

"Well... not really, right? We just grew up together, and after we got to high school, I just thought he was the coolest at soccer..."

Instead of worrying about these things, why don't you try to get some information from old Green?

Anya slapped her forehead:
"Feel sorry……"

The high school girl's mind clearly hadn't adjusted.

Anya panicked a little when she learned that old Green was coming.

Now that Ji Li has pointed it out, she has finally realized that she has already come into contact with the world of awakened beings and decided to help Ji Li uncover the town's mysterious secrets. Why is she still being held back by these trivial matters?
"The main issue is that Mr. Green is my father's financial backer and one of the school board members... So how should I ask him?"

"Talk to him about Jensen first, but don't make any definitive statements to avoid cutting off any follow-up."

Then, from Jason's perspective, the discussion shifted to Odin's faith: "Were you a follower of Odin before?"

"No... none of my family are religious."

"Then you can appropriately express your interest in Odin, and then use that as a starting point to delve into the history of the Grimm family, and even your pendant."

This way, I can naturally ask about the tree root pendant, and also about your pendant.

Anya's pendant is a sustenance object. Ji Li had already touched it after the underground castle incident, but the Ascension Agreement did not provide any information about it.

He initially thought that the Ascension Protocol was unable to detect information about the burial objects.

However, the case of the Clementine inverted cross refutes this hypothesis.

In other words, Anya's cat's eye pendant should be a rather special piece of sedation.

So far, all the anomalies in Red Maple Town have been related to the spiritual land of the pioneers, so Anya's pendant is very likely to be connected to this as well.

Since we're already here, we should ask him whether he knows or not.

"What about you? Go to your room and wait for me?"

Anya blinked, and Ji Li chuckled, leaning closer:

"What are you thinking?"

Anya hooked both arms around Ji Li's neck:
"I want to have coffee with you in the room."

"What a coincidence, I was thinking the same thing, but I need to go to your family's archives now."

The girl pouted: "Are you planning to keep me hanging like this?"

Are you going to class this afternoon?

"Don't go."

"Then what are you in such a hurry for?"

Anya immediately smiled and happily kissed Ji Li's cheek.

"But what's the situation with your sister?"

Anya immediately rolled her eyes in a European style:
"What a stinky bitch."

"Then I'm even more interested."

"No! I hate her!"

Anya immediately hugged Ji Li, a hint of danger appearing in her eyes:
"She's a little bitch who imitates me every day. She wants to copy my cars, my makeup, and even my modeling. Before, she was always causing trouble between me and Jason, and she even stole my cheerleading captaincy!"

So, that's why you're the vice-captain...

Ji Li's lips twitched; he had absolutely no interest in these gossips.

For some reason, the school campus here doesn't have the same art style as Shiroshima Shuryu.

The love-hate entanglements and youthful dramas of the men and women seem to be unfolding into a large-scale, melodramatic campus romance.

However, he suddenly remembered that when Jason left that morning, a blonde girl tried to help him up, but Jason pushed her away; it seemed to be Sally.

"I was just asking casually."

After the two left, a golden head cautiously popped out, its face full of confusion:
"She's really not interested in Jason anymore?!"

It was Sally.

……

The two returned to the restaurant, where Sally had already left, leaving only old Green sitting there with a frown, clearly very unhappy that Ji Li and Anya had gone to the side to whisper to each other.

He also completely ignored Ji Li's attitude and urged Anya to go to the living room on the first floor.

Anya secretly gave him an "OK" sign from behind, while Ji Li watched the two disappear at the end of the corridor before turning and heading to the basement.

The basement is the mayor's archives, and deeper inside are Anya's family genealogy and other family history-related items.

Ji Li figured he could probably find some clues there.

Using the key to open the basement, and navigating through layers of documents, Ji Li searched for the location of the family genealogy that Anya had mentioned.

However, after wandering around for a while, it seems that this place is full of government-related documents.

For example, some original manuscripts of town chronicles and land contracts.

As Ji Li ventured deeper, he suddenly slowed his pace and stood behind a shelf, completely concealing himself in the darkness.

Soon, another set of footsteps approached—

Sally tiptoed among the filing shelves, glancing left and right, searching for Ji Li's figure.

Just as she crossed a gap, she suddenly turned her head and met a pair of pale blue eyes, which startled her so much that she screamed and crashed into the shelf behind her with a thud.
Pulitzer!?

Ji Li crossed his arms and stared at her calmly:
"How much did you hear?"

"You guys were thinking of skipping class this afternoon... wait, did you know I was eavesdropping?"

"The sound of your heels is like thunder; it's hard not to hear it."

Sally paused, looked down at her heels, and her expression turned slightly displeased.

Are you mocking me for not being as good as Anya?

"No, I'm just telling the truth. By the way, it looks like your bra pad fell off."

Sally grabbed it and, sure enough, found that the feel was off and that the two sides were slightly different sizes.

Only then did he realize the problem, and he quickly turned his back and tidied himself up under his school uniform:
"No peeking!"

That bump really knocked off the bra pads in her clothes!
Ji Li looked at her shortened school uniform skirt:

"Okay. But why are you wearing breast pads inside your school uniform?"

"It's none of your business, you damn nerd!"

Sally, finally finished tidying up, turned around, her face flushed, and crossed her arms, saying:

"What's going on between you and Anya? Is she really no longer interested in Jason?"

"Maybe so. I'm not interested in these things. You're sisters, you should ask her..."

"Humph……"

Sally smiled confidently:
"You're here to ask Anya for help, hoping to sneak a peek at the files, right? No problem, my father often helps people look up files, and even makes some minor modifications, but it costs money..."

"What, you're an accountant?"

“I won’t charge you any money, and I can even help you find the files, but in exchange, you have to tell me what exactly happened at the jungle party that day, and why she suddenly lost interest in Jason?”

Is it really true, as they say, that Jason abandoned her in the bear's den and ran away?

Damn it, it's always about youth and school life. Ji Li rolled her eyes like Anya, too lazy to care, and turned to leave.

Sally immediately grabbed Ji Li: "Hey, where are you going?"

"I don't have time to play house with you, I have important things to do."

Sally immediately took out her phone:

“Then I’ll call the security guard right away and tell him you’ve trespassed into the archives…”

Then, in a flash, the phone in her hand appeared in Ji Li's hand:

Do you want me to call it for you?

"Hey, give it back to me!"

"Get out of the way, little girl..."

Sally snorted and opened her mouth to shout.
"Help me—"

Bang!
Sally felt a sharp pain all over her body. Before she could react, Ji Li had already pinched her mouth and pressed her against the wall, his azure eyes seeming to flash with murderous intent.
"I didn't realize you had so many fancy tricks up your sleeve..."

Sally's eyes widened in panic. She hadn't expected this usually inconspicuous person at school to attack without warning. Ignoring the pain in her back, she angrily shouted:

"Let me go! Are you crazy?!"

Ji Li was too lazy to pay her any more attention, so he simply cast a fear curse on her and turned to leave.

Then she realized that her ankle had been grabbed, and when she turned her head, she saw Sally lying on the ground, her face contorted with rage.

"...Don't...go!"

Ji Li's eyes showed surprise—

No, my curse ability failed?
Soul Trigger Sweep:
It's not invalid.

Although it was just a random throw, completely different from the one thrown to Aquile, an ordinary human spirit should have been terrified to the point of wetting itself or turning around and running away by now.

What kind of Well of Souls are you? You can't even move after I cast a curse on you?
Or is it another chain reaction left by the pioneers a hundred years ago, like the pendants around the necks of the Green family and Anya?

Ji Li's surprise turned into interest, and he lifted Sally off the ground and slammed her against the wall:

Why are you so fixated on the matter between Jason and Anya?

The curse of fear wasn't entirely ineffective; Sally's wrists trembled uncontrollably, and she became much more direct in her speech:

"I'm better than Anya! Everyone in town knows that!"

"……Then what?"

"What she wants, I want to have too!"

"It's that simple?"

"It's...it's that simple!"

Ji Li: "...You had an unhappy childhood?"

Sally shook her head violently:

"In any case, she was clearly so interested in Jason before, there's no reason for her to suddenly fall for someone else. I need to make sure she's not just playing hard to get with Jason!"

Ji Li was puzzled:
What does "playing hard to get" mean?

As the effects of the curse gradually wore off under Ji Li's influence, Sally managed a weak smile:
"Hmph... The best way to make your boyfriend angry and regret it is to find some loser and flirt with him to make him jealous. I need to confirm Anya's strategy!"

Ji Li remained silent for a long time, veins bulging on his forehead:
“…Just for this?”

"Why not?"

Ji Li casually released the other person:

"If you waste any more of my time, I'll kill you."

"So Anya really dumped Jason and got together with you?"

"So that's what you think, so you can leave now?"

Ji Li was considering whether to change the curse to make this woman get lost, but after a moment of surprise, Sally suddenly changed her expression.

She took a graceful step forward, deliberately getting close to him, just like Anya had done to Ji Li at the bottom of the stairs:

"Where are you going? What file are you looking for? I can help you!"

Ji Li laughed in exasperation.

He roughly understood the little girl's logic:
Anya had previously been interested in Jason, whom she grew up with, so she decided to steal Jason away.

Anya drives a red sports car, and she drives the same model in pink.

Anya joined the cheerleading team, and she joined the cheerleading team too, and even became the captain.

This guy seems to have a morbid competitive and predatory mentality towards her sister:
What Anya has, she wants to have too.

If there's only one of those things, she'll snatch it to prove she's stronger than Anya.

It used to be Jensen, now it's Ji Li.

What, have I, Lord Odin, become part of your two sisters' play?

Ji Li rubbed his face, and with a soft gasp from Sally, pressed her back down onto the file shelf:

"I'm looking for your family's genealogy book. Do you know where it is?"

Sally blinked, looking at Ji Li's face so close to hers, and subconsciously swallowed:

"...in the innermost little room."

Ji Li didn't reply, but Sally felt his arm around her waist, and her whole body tensed up instantly.

"What...what are you going to do?"

"Didn't you want to be better than Anya? We haven't done it yet. If you do it with me first, wouldn't that mean you're one step ahead of her and win at the starting line?"

"No... wait a minute!"

Sally immediately raised her hand to push Ji Li away, but he grabbed her wrist and pressed it against the shelf.

At the same time, another hand had already slipped inside her school uniform, squeezing out the breast pads and skillfully moving towards her lower body.

Sally panicked completely:

"That's not what I meant! Wait a minute!"

Damn it, what's with this Pulitzer?! Isn't he just some clueless, math-obsessed nerd? Why isn't he playing by the rules?!
And...it seems like he's serious?!
The moment Sally felt the elastic band of her bra being ripped off, her mind went blank.

She let out a scream and rushed out of the archives, her face flushed.

According to the normal procedure, shouldn't they be gradually lured to my side?

Every boy in school was completely under her spell with just a glance.

Who knew this bastard would completely deviate from the expected pattern and go straight for the kill? Doesn't he fear I'll call the police and have him arrested?
Watching Sally stumble and dart out of the narrow file shelves like a three-dimensional pinball, Ji Li rubbed the breast pad in his hand:
Ah, little girl.

But you're not bad-sized, why are you wearing this thing?
Because you think it's smaller than Anya's, right?

Ji Li rubbed his temples, feeling rather speechless about these things between young men and women.

Ji Li walked into the deepest archive room, picked up a folder and flipped through a few pages when the sound of heavy footsteps came from behind.

He turned his head and saw that it was Anya:

"What's going on? I heard someone screaming?"

"Nothing. Is your conversation over?"

Anya quickly stepped forward and grabbed the pendant from her chest:

"I know where the pendant came from!"

"It was a gift from the Green family!"

(End of this chapter)