I suddenly became a yakuza boss.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Apricot's bones were being compressed repeatedly, and she screamed in excruciating pain.

Li Xuan watched as Chu forcefully crushed the other person, a scene that made him realize that the girl was really going to kill him.

Lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky!

Almost at the very moment the lightning flashed, Li Xuan roared a shout as loud as a thunderclap: "Little brat, let go!!"

"!"

Nitta Hina was stunned by his shout.

She instinctively let go of his hand.

This sense of being controlled seemed to instantly awaken the fledgling from its out-of-control state.

As soon as she was released, Xingzi felt completely exhausted and fell from the air, landing on a pile of wooden crates.

The earthquake has stopped.

The light disappeared.

Li Xuan, covered in ashes from the flames, stood there, nervously watching the chick.

"Come back, little chick."

Li Xuan was panting as he reached out to take her back.

The little chick floated in the air, watching him quietly.

Raindrops, one by one, fell into this scorching warehouse.

A torrential downpour always follows after a superpower outburst.

The fire was quickly extinguished by the rain, and the alleyway became pitch black.

The little chick landed in front of Li Xuan, her wet hair sticking to her face. She lowered her head and remained silent.

"......"

Li Xuan stood in the dirty corridor, looking down at her, wanting to say something, but at this moment, he had no other thoughts in his mind.

He just wanted Chu to calm down.

He felt that scolding was ineffective, and his attempts to comfort him became too frequent and ultimately pointless.

He wanted to find out everything about superpowers, clones, and things that were deliberately withheld from him.

Finally, Li Xuan placed his hand on Xiao Chu's head, looking at her with tenderness and sorrow.

"As family, you have to... tell me why you're here in front of me."

※※※※

"I come from the future."

"I know."

"I came here only to find someone."

"Find someone?"

In the alleyway, under a makeshift shed that barely provided shelter from the rain, Li Xuan and Xiao Chu stood. Xiao Chu finally revealed the reason for her search for Li Xuan.

The little chick stood quietly in front of the rain curtain, its head bowed.

When Li Xuan learned for the first time the time-traveling girl's purpose, he remained silent for a moment before asking, "Who are you looking for?"

"...I don't know. I don't know him, and I don't even know if he really has a name. I only know some things about him."

Xiaochu said, "I was born sometime fifty years later. I never knew who my parents were or my real name, so I was sent to an orphanage to be raised. It was a very large orphanage, supposedly established by an adult with many stories who donated all his wealth. It seemed to raise orphans for free until they reached adulthood, including education and living expenses... So, I didn't know anything about money before."

When Li Xuan heard about Xiao Chu's background, he had sensed her situation before, but when he actually heard that she had no father or mother, he still felt down.

Little Chu leaned against the wall, talking about the unimaginable future "past," saying, "I was born with this ability, and because of this ability, my classmates and teachers are all afraid of me. Because I always unintentionally hurt them. So whether it's adults or children, they all see me as a monster."

“The teachers were afraid of me, but not all of them were. They told me that the chairman of the welfare home still loved me and cared about me, and always asked about my affairs. I realized that there were still adults who cared about me. So, I always wanted to see the chairman, but no matter how long I waited in his office or how many times I knocked on the door, he would never open the door to see me.”

"But one day, I don't know when, my abilities seemed to become quite famous outside. As a result, a group of adults found me at the orphanage and asked to study my abilities. They promised me that if I cooperated with the research, they would let me find the chairman. I thought about it for a long time and finally agreed. Those adults studied my abilities and extracted my genes to cultivate batches of clones, which are called the 'children.' However, I also heard that they used my clones to do many bad things, even causing a large-scale war... After I found out they had lied to me, one day I finally felt that I had waited too long, so even if the chairman disliked me, I had to sneak in and see that adult."

Finally, one day, without the orphanage's permission and in accordance with school regulations, she opened the chairman's door on her own.

Li Xuan asked, "Have you seen him?"

Xiao Chu remained silent for a long time before shaking her head.

The old office, empty and dusty, seemed to have been deserted for a very long time.

"I later found out that he and I were from different eras," Xiaochu said.

"The orphanage lied to me, but I also stole the time egg they developed. It took me a lot of effort to come to this world, and now I'm standing in front of you, Ah Xuan."

Xiao Chu calmly recounted the general events to Li Xuan.

"So, have you found him this past year?"

"Found it."

"Then why..." Li Xuan wanted to ask Xiao Chu why she was still living with him, but saying that would hurt feelings. Besides, he didn't want Xiao Chu to live with that person.

"Because Ah Xuan has recognized me as his younger sister."

In the dim light, the unfortunate little girl revealed a faint but happy smile as she looked at Li Xuan and said...

For Li Xuan, these words meant that all his efforts had been rewarded.

In the misty, rain-soaked passageway, the brother and sister must have been living together, relying on each other for survival.

“I’m not going anywhere. Even if they try to take me back, I won’t go back. I want to stay by your side, Ah Xuan.”

Xiao Chu quickly searched her pockets and showed Li Xuan the thick, transparent wallet she had accumulated.

“I’ve saved a lot of money, so Ah Xuan doesn’t have to work so hard anymore. I understand the meaning of money, I understand how hard it is to earn money, and I understand... everything Ah Xuan has done for me. That’s why I want to save money and keep it.”

All along, the meaning behind her saving money came from love and from pain.

Rain dripped down, and Li Xuan looked at the chicks amidst the ruins.

Saving money is a hobby, and perhaps that's not a bad thing.

Li Xuan bent down and used a tissue from his pocket to wipe Chu's face quite forcefully.

"There's no need to be so strict about saving. If you save it but don't use it, it loses its fundamental value, doesn't it?"

"No one will kick you out, and you don't need to be afraid anymore. You can stay with me as long as you want..."

Before meeting Hina, aside from aimlessly wandering the dark streets, the place was empty and he had no desire to go back.

"On the contrary, I won't give you up to anyone, not that chairman, not that organization that wants to take you back. If they try to take you away, I will fight them to the death..."

Li Xuan wiped Chu's face clean, gazed at her quietly, and finally, pulled her into a tight embrace.

"I hope you can live a normal life, you need to live a normal life more than I do."

.......

In the rain, the defeated apricot struggled to crawl out of the wooden box.

However, in the heavy rain, someone stood in front of her.

Xingzi looked up and saw the young man silently watching her.

He was a taciturn young man with an imposing presence that seemed unassailable.

Amidst the lightning and thunder, a hand swept towards her face like a tidal wave!

"Ahhh!!" Kyoko was severely injured and completely unable to exert any strength. Now she was just like an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl, powerless to even kill a chicken. She closed her eyes and waited for her death.

As a result, her hand was grabbed and pulled up.

"Don't come looking for us again. Go back and tell the person who gave you instructions that if he causes us any more trouble..."

Li Xuan released his grip, and the black mist gradually obscured his straight and powerful figure. He turned and left, disappearing into the rain and mist.

"I will definitely kill him."

A dilapidated warehouse district.

A curly-haired man watched the whole thing.

"It seems that Zero's abilities have improved again. That's incredible. As expected, a clone can't compare to the original."

He said with a smile.

A servant asked, "What should we do with the apricots? Should we dispose of them or recycle them?"

"Dispose of them, but they're just defective products anyway. I originally thought that after [Zero] accidentally killed her sisters, she would lose her feelings, but it seems that someone has successfully interfered."

A handsome, curly-haired man in his twenties watched Li Xuan's departing figure with a smile.

"I've heard of the War Demon of Ashikawa before, but I never expected to see him here."

"However, a gang cannot go against the government."

The man, dressed in a suit and tie, said something quite cryptic.

※※※※

Apricot, battered and bruised, walked through the devastated streets after the explosion.

"Who wants to go back to those adults? They're clearly trying to kill me..."

Xingzi wiped her face and complained.

However, when she looked around, all she could see were adults fleeing for their lives. In this unfamiliar world, with its indifferent adults, where would she go if she were to escape from Xiaochu and the organization?

Xingzi lay sprawled in an alley, looking disheveled, her golden hair covered in mud.

The sky was dark and gloomy, and after the natural disaster, Xingzi felt increasingly cold.

However, a figure noticed Kyoko as they passed by and stopped in their tracks.

Kyoko also noticed the oversized shoes. She looked up and saw a burly man wearing a shirt with the word "takoyaki" printed on it...

PS: In the setting of *Hinamatsuri*, Hina Nitta's character has a time paradox, meaning she has no origin. Therefore, the Hina in this book is the original cellular entity, a composite of the lazy and gluttonous Hina, the diligent and thrifty Kyoko, and the expressive and emotional Mao. The manga's civil war and the creation of Hina all begin with these cells, and the reason given is supposedly a concert… This is highly illogical, so the original Hina is a fan-made addition. Hina Nitta is the initial composite of the three daughters, and later, subsequent characters were born from this composite.