I'm in the Dragon Clan, bound to the Naruto Counterattack System

Chapter 113 Horror Movies and White Dragon Scales

A moment later, Erii dried her hair and climbed back onto the huge round bed, the soft mattress sinking gently with her movement.

It was already very late, and the rain was pattering outside the window, but Erii was wide awake.

The girl picked up the TV remote from the bedside table and skillfully pressed the red power button.

The old television screen flickered a few times, emitted a slight electrical hum, and then slowly lit up.

As Cheng Sui watched the gradually clearing image, he silently prayed that the sensible landlady hadn't pre-installed any strange paid movies on the TV system.

Fortunately, the television was just a regular satellite channel.

Cheng Sui quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Erii held the remote control, switching channels one by one. News, variety shows, anime—the colorful images flashed by in her eyes.

Ultimately, the screen freezes on a channel with a gloomy tone, clearly not suitable for children.

Cheng Sui glanced at the screen and saw that a horror movie was playing on the TV, the famous "The Haunted House".

The Ring (also known as "Midnight Bell").

A gloomy ancient well, an eerie videotape, and oppressive background music.

Erii blinked excitedly.

She had always wanted to watch horror movies.

She had secretly watched some clips while working at Genji Heavy Industries, but she was still afraid to watch horror movies alone.

But she is no longer alone.

The girl turned her head and handed the small notebook in her hand to Cheng Sui.

"Eri wants to watch a horror movie, Naruto, let's go together."

Looking at the neat handwriting on the notebook, and then at the girl's bright eyes, Cheng Sui couldn't bring himself to say no.

He nodded, remaining seated in the chair in the corner of the room, showing no intention of moving.

Erii looked at him, a hint of confusion in her crimson eyes.

She stretched out her delicate white hand and patted the empty half of the bed beside her, silently gesturing for Cheng Sui to come up.

The movements were so natural, as if the two had been living together for a long time.

Cheng Sui sighed helplessly. It seemed he had no choice but to go to bed today; he had originally planned to spend the night in the bathtub.

Cheng Sui got up and walked to the bedside, sat down against the mattress, keeping a safe distance from the girl.

Erii nodded in satisfaction, a faint smile appearing on her face.

She remembered something else and pressed the light switch by the bed.

"Clatter".

The only light source in the room disappeared, plunging the room into darkness. Only the television screen emitted a faint, cold light, casting flickering shadows on the two people's faces.

Erii didn't know why she did this, but she had read in anime that horror movies had to be watched with the lights off to feel real.

The movie slowly begins.

Erii's attention was quickly drawn to the plot on the screen.

She stared intently at the screen, her small hands gripping the blanket tightly with nervousness, her chin buried in it.

Her fair, delicate toes curled up unconsciously, and her body moved little by little toward Cheng Sui beside her without her realizing it.

When the plot reached its climax, and the female ghost Sadako, dressed in white with black hair covering her face, slowly crawled out of the television screen, the sense of terror that transcended dimensions reached its peak.

Erii let out a soft cry, and like a frightened little animal, she buried her head in Cheng Sui's arms, her little hands tightly gripping his clothes.

Moments later, the expected screams and chase did not occur in the movie.

The surroundings were so quiet that only the sound of rain outside the window and the eerie background music from the television could be heard.

Erii nestled in Cheng Sui's arms and waited for a while before cautiously raising her head to see how the person beside her would react.

She noticed that the boy had closed his eyes at some point, and his breathing was steady and long.

He fell asleep.

From parting ways with Fingel at the internet cafe, to being surrounded by the Ghost Clan, to breaking into Genji Heavy Industries, to jumping off the top of Tokyo's tallest building, followed by a breakout from the parking lot and a high-speed chase—Cheng Sui's tense nerves never got a moment's rest.

The series of fierce battles and high vigilance had already exhausted a great deal of his energy and physical strength.

He had been on edge the whole time, but he didn't feel tired.

But after taking a hot shower and completely relaxing his body, the overwhelming feeling of fatigue could no longer be suppressed and gradually overwhelmed his consciousness.

Looking at Cheng Sui's peaceful sleeping face, all of Erii's fear vanished in that moment.

Her movements unconsciously became gentler.

She carefully moved away from Cheng Sui's embrace, picked up the remote control, and turned off the TV, which was still playing terrifying images.

The room was completely plunged into darkness and silence, with only the sound of the two people breathing.

Erii fumbled for the blanket she was wearing and gently covered Cheng Sui with it, tucking his shoulders and arms completely over.

After doing all this, she laid Cheng Sui flat so that he could lie on the bed in a more comfortable position.

The bright moonlight had somehow pierced through the clouds, casting a cool beam of light through the gap in the curtains, which landed squarely on the boy's profile.

The girl knelt by the bed, quietly watching Cheng Sui's sleeping face in the dim moonlight.

His features appeared exceptionally soft when he was asleep, lacking the calmness and sharpness he possessed when awake.

Erii slowly smiled.

But as he laughed, the smile gradually faded, replaced by an indescribable sense of dejection.

Her eyes lowered, her long eyelashes casting a dim shadow beneath her eyelids.

Every moment she spent with Cheng Sui was filled with happiness, a happiness she had never experienced in the past ten years of her life.

But she also knew that such wonderful days might not last long.

Although in her mind Naruto was very powerful, like a hero in anime, capable of defeating all villains.

Erii knew that monstrous dragon blood flowed through her body.

The girl slowly pulled open the collar of her yukata.

Under the moonlight, several very faint, spiderweb-like, dark vein patterns had emerged on the snow-white skin below her collarbone.

At the center of those patterns, a white scale the size of a fingernail was quietly growing.

It gleamed with a metallic sheen under the cool moonlight.

She found it while taking a shower.

Erii understood that this was a sign that her bloodline was beginning to deteriorate.

Erii hated these things, hated the ugly dragon scales, hated the dark blood vessels.

She didn't want Cheng Sui to see these things.

She didn't want him to see her in this unattractive, even monstrous, way.

Erii turned her head and looked again at Cheng Sui's peaceful sleeping face.

If she could, she would wish she were just an ordinary girl.

If only life could have five lives.

That way, I could be born in five different cities, eat five different kinds of food until I'm stuffed, and do five completely different jobs.

The girl's gaze lingered on his eyebrows and eyes.

Then, in five different lives, they all encounter the same Naruto.

She picked up her notebook and pen from the bedside table and wrote two words on a brand new page by the moonlight.

good night.

She tore off the small note and gently placed it beside Cheng Sui's pillow.

After doing all this, the girl lay back down on the bed, turning to her side and quietly watching him.

In this unfamiliar yet incredibly reassuring darkness, she slowly drifted off to sleep, filled with anticipation.

As dawn broke and the first rays of sunlight pierced the clear air after the rain, illuminating the city.

Cheng Sui slowly woke up.

He glanced at the bright sunlight outside the window and realized that he had unconsciously fallen asleep last night.

He was about to sit up when he felt something warm and soft in his arms.

Cheng lowered his head.

Erii had somehow snuggled into his arms, her well-developed body curled up, fast asleep.

Erii was still wearing his black trench coat, the large garment completely covering her, leaving only her head exposed.

Cheng Sui then noticed the small note beside her pillow, with the girl's delicate handwriting on it—Goodnight.

She realized that after she fell asleep last night, Erii gave him the only blanket, and since she felt cold, she put on his trench coat and then unknowingly snuggled into his arms.

Cheng Sui's movements became exceptionally gentle. He carefully moved the girl's body away, preparing to let her lie flat.

However, just as he moved the girl's shoulder, something extremely incongruous came into his view.

At the end of the girl's long, fair neck, near her collarbone, several very fine black veins were clearly visible.

Cheng Sui's gaze continued downwards along that pattern.

He saw a small patch of white scales with a cold, hard luster in the collarbone that was half-hidden by the trench coat collar.

No wonder this girl was imprisoned by her family in a secluded room.

It turns out that her bloodline had become so unstable.

This was under the condition that she hadn't done anything and was in a stable emotional state.

If Erii were to use the power of words, Cheng Sui couldn't even imagine how her raging dragon blood would boil.

Based on what he learned in his courses at Kassel College, the erosion of hybrids by dragon blood is never a linear process, but a terrifying exponential one.

Once the phenomenon of dragonification begins, it's like a roller coaster going downhill, only going down faster and faster until it completely gets out of control, turning the host into a mindless Deadpool.

The system's task for him was to protect Erii for seven days.

Given Erii's current rate of dragon blood erosion, let alone seven days, she would probably be completely transformed into a dragon in just four or five days.

Seven days would definitely kill this girl.

Cheng Sui was instantly caught in a dilemma.

On one side is the reward for the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The power of space-time ninjutsu is self-evident. This single technique alone is enough to elevate his strength to the level of a Kage-level ninja. Whether in combat, surprise attacks, or escape, it is a top-tier divine skill.

Suddenly, Cheng Sui recalled Erii's eyes filled with longing and joy as she stood on the edge of the skyscraper last night, looking down at the dazzling Tokyo night view.

She said she wanted to see Tokyo Tower.

Cheng Sui reached out and pulled the blanket up, covering the girl's shoulders and concealing the glaring white scales.

He currently has no way to suppress the erosion of dragon blood.

Sealing techniques from the Naruto world might be effective, but he hasn't even mastered the most basic sealing techniques yet.

Aside from sealing techniques, the only options Cheng Sui could think of were the academy's Nibelungen Project or using the blood of a dragon king to baptize her.

However, both of these methods require a Dragon King to sacrifice his life.

These plans are all too far-fetched and cannot solve the immediate crisis.

A warm and soft green chakra light emanated from Cheng Sui's palm.

He gently hovered his palm above the girl's collarbone, and the power of the Palm Immortal Technique slowly seeped in, attempting to alleviate the erosion of the dragon blood within her body.

Perhaps it was the chakra from the Palm Healing Technique that brought about this strange feeling, for the girl let out a soft, nasal murmur in her sleep.

Erii slowly opened her sleepy eyes.

The first thing she saw was Cheng Sui's hand covering her chest.

The girl's body froze instantly. The next moment, as if she had been burned, she shrank back abruptly, pulled her trench coat collar, and tightly covered her collarbone.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to—"

Cheng Sui thought she had misunderstood and was about to explain.

A small notebook was handed to him.

"Don't look, it's not good."

Cheng Sui looked at the words and realized that Erii wasn't shy, but afraid.

She was afraid he would see the dragon-like marks on her body.

He reached out and patted the girl's head reassuringly.

"No, Erii is a very pretty girl."

Erii didn't move her hand covering her collar, but instead raised her crimson eyes and looked at him cautiously, as if to confirm the truth of his words.

Cheng Sui's expression remained unchanged, his eyes clear and sincere.

Finally, the girl's tense body slowly relaxed.

She slowly loosened her grip on her collar.

Cheng Sui looked at her, at the cautious probing and trust in her eyes.

At that moment, Cheng Sui made his decision.

He will take her to see Tokyo Tower and fulfill her wish.

Then he abandoned the Flying Thunder God Technique and sent Erii back to the Snake-Headed Eight Family for treatment.

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