Dragon Raja: I started out as Erii's older brother

Su Mo was awakened by a sharp pain that felt like it could split her brain open.

He felt like his head was being used as a drum, and that a heavy metal rock band was relentlessly pounding on it all night with double bass drumming.

"hiss..."

He gasped and tried to sit up in bed, but as soon as he moved, his whole body felt like it was falling apart, and he couldn't muster any strength at all.

What's going on?!

Where am I?

He struggled to open his eyes, and the sight before him left him completely dumbfounded!

The ceiling is made of wood, with a clear grain.

Looking down, there's a Japanese paper door, the kind you only see in old movies, with delicate landscape paintings on it.

The mattress beneath her wasn't the familiar Simmons mattress, but rather a tatami mat spread out on the floor.

The air was filled with a faint, indescribable fragrance, somewhat like sandalwood, and also somewhat like the fresh scent of some kind of plant.

"I'm cracked..."

The thought popped into Su Mo's head unconsciously, but he was stunned.

Why did I say I was cracked?

【who I am?】

My name is... Su Mo? Yes, I think it's Su Mo.

【Then what?】

Then my memories became fragmented, like they'd been chewed up by a dog; I couldn't remember anything.

Did I drink myself into oblivion and get dragged to some Japanese-themed agritourism resort?

[But this decoration is so realistic, I can't even find a QR code!]

Just as Su Mo was lost in thought, a very soft, almost inaudible key press drew his attention.

He turned his neck with difficulty and looked toward the bedside.

There, sitting, was a girl.

The girl looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, with long, fiery red hair and snow-white skin that seemed to glow even in the dim light.

She was wearing a simple white dress, her small feet bare, and she sat there curled up, holding a game console that looked a bit old in her arms, her two fair thumbs rapidly pressing buttons on the screen.

She was so engrossed in playing that she didn't even notice Su Mo had woken up.

Su Mo's first reaction was: Good heavens, has a fairy descended to earth?!

My second thought was: Wait, could this be some new kind of kidney scam? Then, while I wasn't looking...

Thinking of this, he subconsciously wanted to touch his lower back.

Just then, the girl seemed to have finished a game. She let out a long sigh of relief and put down the game console.

Turning his head, he met Su Mo's eyes, which seemed to say: "Who are you? What do you want? I'm warning you not to mess around."

Their eyes met, and the air was silent for three seconds.

The girl had large eyes with pure dark red pupils, like rubies, clean and without any impurities.

When she saw Su Mo wake up, a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes, and then, like ice melting, a pure, undisguised joy and dependence welled up within them.

She didn't speak, but just silently looked at Su Mo, then picked up the small drawing board and pen beside her.

Su Mo was taken aback, wondering what was going on? Was she playing a riddle? Did she mean he owed her money from before he lost his memory, and now he needed to write an IOU?

On the drawing board, the girl wrote two characters stroke by stroke in a very cute handwriting.

After she finished writing, she held up the drawing board and showed it to Su Mo.

"elder brother."

When Su Mo saw those two words, she felt a buzzing in her brain, as if a faint electric current had surged through it.

The excruciating headache subsided considerably in that instant.

"elder brother?"

He tried to make a sound, but his throat was as dry as the Sahara Desert, and the syllables he produced were hoarse and unfamiliar.

When the girl heard his voice, her eyes crinkled into crescent moons as she nodded vigorously.

Su Mo was completely bewildered!

【elder brother??】

【I...?】

【No, girl, are you sure you've got the right person? I've never even had a girlfriend in my life, how could I have a little sister as big as you?】

[I can't even remember who my parents are, and you've skipped all the prerequisites and jumped straight into the family route?]

He was full of complaints but didn't know where to begin, and his body was too weak to move, so he could only express his extreme confusion with his eyes.

The girl seemed to understand his gaze. She tilted her head, as if she was puzzled as to why her brother had this expression after waking up.

She thought for a moment, then wrote another line on the drawing board.

"Brother, welcome home."

【go home...】

Su Mo's mind went completely blank when he saw those four words.

Is this my home?!

What a joke! If my family looked like this, would I still be single?!

The line of girls waiting outside could stretch all the way to France!

What exactly happened?

【who I am?】

Where am I?

Why does this unbelievably beautiful girl call me "brother"?

A series of questions suddenly popped into his mind, exploding like bombs in turn, causing his headache, which had just started to subside, to flare up again.

He struggled to get a clear answer, but could only make strange "hoarse" sounds in his throat.

This scene was incredibly awkward.

Just then.

"Swish-"

The tightly closed Japanese-style paper door of the room was silently pulled open from the outside by a hand.

As soon as the door opened, the scene outside was revealed to Su Mo.

In the corridor, several burly men in black suits and sunglasses stood in a row, each one like a T-800 from Terminator, exuding a cold aura that kept strangers at bay.

A middle-aged man who seemed to be the leader slowly walked in.

He was also dressed in a well-tailored black suit, his hair was slicked back and shiny, and his face was expressionless, but the eyes that looked through his gold-rimmed glasses made Su Mo feel a strange flutter in her heart.

That wasn't the way you were looking at someone.

That gaze was cold, sharp, and full of scrutiny and assessment.

It's like a butcher examining the meat on the chopping board, pondering where to cut for the highest value.

Su Mo felt the hairs on her entire body stand on end.

It wasn't the cold, but the oppressive feeling emanating from the middle-aged man as he walked in was like a bucket of ice water poured over you from head to toe, chilling you to the bone.

The red-haired girl, Erii, who had been quietly curled up to the side, instinctively shrank back the moment she saw the man enter.

Silently putting down the game console, she moved closer to Su Mo's bedside like a frightened little rabbit.

This small gesture made Su Mo's heart skip a beat.

If this seemingly fearless "fairy" can be so intimidated, then this bespectacled guy must be incredibly skilled.

The man stopped three steps away from the bed, his cold gaze lingering on Su Mo for a full ten seconds, as if trying to see right through him.

Su Mo felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze, as if she were a fish on a chopping board waiting to be slaughtered, with even her scales almost scraped clean by his eyes.

"It seems you're awake."