Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 99 Glutinous rice crackers are going to school

Chen Yan told Ogami something he knew.

[Third Asian Uncle with Two Kong Yagang], [Sublimation Ceremony], [Undead Man], and [Corner Girl with Abnormal Blood].

After talking for more than an hour, Ogami was in a state of brain short circuit after listening.

After calming down for ten minutes, Ogami slapped his thigh.

"なるほど!" (I see!)
Ohgami's eyes became more and more determined, he stood still, and bowed.

"Master Landlord, thank you very much!"

Chen Yan thought about Ogami's feat yesterday afternoon, and said after deliberation:

"In any case, we must be more careful...the general election will be held soon, and the management of Yanan City may be stricter than before."

Ohgami smiled: "I am not what the landlord imagined."

what……

Ohgami knows what I think?

Chen Yan opened his mouth, but no words came out.

He can't just say, 'Ogami, don't go out and kill people. Although extraordinary people are not good people, they are not heinous bastards. Weird people like Claude Moon also have to go to work to earn money to support their families. Hard to beat workers ah. '

Ogami blinked his eyes, seemed to understand Chen Yan's thoughts, and said to him:

"Using force has always been just a means, my lord, although I was born to kill, I don't like killing people with immortal beheading."

Chen Yan didn't quite understand this sentence, and could only hear from it that Ogami's samurai sword was called [Immortal Slash].

"I just want to [cut off immortality], not to kill people."

Ohgami said seriously:
"[Immortal] is wrong, Mr. Landlord, any form of [Immortal] is the ultimate curse on human beings."

He looked at the confusion on Chen Yan's face, and said more seriously:
"One day, you'll understand what I've done."

Chen Yan was silent.

Many years later, facing the undead at the end of carbon-based life evolution, Chen Yan, the second-generation [original sin scholar], will recall the distant afternoon when Ogami told him the meaning of "cutting immortality":

As dusk fell, the whimpering of the steam bus came into the room through the glass, and the heating rising from the floor warmed his limbs. Ogami took off his khaki cotton jacket, with an unprecedented tranquility on his face , half of his face was illuminated by the setting sun.

Chen Yan listened to his words, looked at his bony prosthetic hand, and for a moment, felt that he smelled the smell of blood inexplicably.

Some imaginary pictures emerged in his head:

A tattered ninja, relying on the claws fired by the bone prosthetic hand, walked and shuttled among the cliffs, amidst the wind and snow.

Not far away are the burning cherry tree, the glutinous rice fruit imprisoned in the solitary building, and the undead enemies all over the land.

……

Ogami regards [Severing Immortality] as his mission, so he must have come to the Empire for [Severing Immortality].

What has he been through?So that there is such a great hostility towards the existence of [Immortal].

Or maybe, what Ohgami said about "immortality" is not simply "won't die".

Chen Yan had a strong intuition that what Ogami said about "immortality" must have a deeper meaning.

"Master Landlord, Ogami, it's time for dinner!" Nuomi Guo's cry interrupted Chen Yan's contemplation.

When he came to the dining room connected to the kitchen, there were already plated dinners on the table—mint soup, baked potatoes, bacon with cheese sauce sandwiched in toasted golden bread, which looked very appetizing.

The heat and portion of each food was just right, and the glutinous rice fruit obviously adapted quickly to making empire-style meals.

The three of them sat around the dining table and prepared to eat dinner, but the glutinous rice fruit didn't move the fork immediately.

"I decided to go to school."

Nuomi Guo broke the news and successfully surprised Chen Yan and Ougami.

"School? Where do you go?"

Going to school is fine in itself.

Chen Yan held back and didn't speak out what was in his heart.

But you don't have Empire status and can't go to public schools.

If you go to a private school, you have to bear the high cost of education.

Where did you get the money from?
It can't be the money that Ogami robbed!
If you have money, do you want to pay the rent first? Hey!

Chen Yan subconsciously looked at Ogami.

Ogami raised his face from the dish of baked potatoes, and responded to Chen Yan with innocent eyes.

Chen Yan looked at the glutinous rice fruit.

"It's a free school!"

As soon as she said these words, Chen Yan's face became hot.

The eyes of the glutinous rice fruit are shining, as if they have a different desire to go to school.

"It is a church school of the choral group. It is free for any child under the age of 15. It provides two meals a day, but it requires a work-study program."

"There is no specific school system. As long as you complete the credits, you can directly study in the public high schools in the empire with your diploma after graduation."

Chen Yan and Ogami looked at each other.

A bad premonition rose in Chen Yan's heart: "You...how did you know about the church school?"

Nuomi Guo replied in a very calm tone: "This morning, after I patrolled the street police station, I went out for a while."

That's why... Chen Yan felt relieved.

Nuo Miguo looked back and forth between Chen Yan and Ogami with expectant eyes—it was not a look for “approval”, but for their approval—the approval of her going to school.

That seems like a big deal for sticky rice crackers.

Chen Yan took a bite of the baked potato, swallowed it hard, and then calmed down, saying:

"It's good to go to school... But I heard that the church school of the choral group has some compulsory courses, which are courses for learning how to be loyal to the gods. The brainwashing is very powerful, and even some fanatics can be cultivated."

Nuomi Guo obviously understood the meaning of "brainwashing", and said seriously: "For me, that's not a problem, I just need a diploma from a church school."

Chen Yan nodded: "What is a work-study program like? You must know that the empire has not prohibited underage child labor from participating in high-intensity labor."

Glutinous rice fruit replied: "The specific division of labor is different. Cleaning, making sacraments, supporting relief stations and porridge sheds... There are many other types of work, depending on the arrangement of the month."

Chen Yan warned: "Is there no limit to working hours? The empire has never had a tradition of treating workers as human beings, so most jobs have particularly strict requirements on working hours."

This really caught the glutinous rice fruit.

"This... I really haven't understood it in detail."

Chen Yan counted with his fingers:

"For example, the work of the relief station. The main job of the relief station is to distribute food to the poor. Generally, they have to work all day in the downtown area. The people in the relief station can go back to sleep until the workers on the night shift complete their shifts——

After all the factory shift workers go to work, that is about 9 o'clock in the evening.

At 9 o'clock in the evening in the empire, you have also experienced how cold it is outside.

That was tiring and physically damaging. "

Chen Yan looked at the thin body of the glutinous rice fruit covered by the robe, and held back the second half of the sentence - you are still young, and your development is not fully developed, in case you suffer from any root cause of illness due to work...

(End of this chapter)