I was raised in the simulator, and I’m really not a bad woman in Ark!

Chapter 45 Tao: I am here to be your mother Xi: ???

[Although 'Xi' has a lot of resentment towards you, I think of the misunderstandings I had with you and see the broken horns under your sun hat.]

[The resentment in my heart caused by waiting for you disappeared. 】

[Instead, she takes you on a journey through the world of paintings that she has specially drawn for you, with endless delicacies and the beautiful mountains and rivers of Dayan. ]

[Although you can see that the 'Xi' in front of you is a fake, you can still think of 'Xi's' timid nature. ]

[You should follow Xi's wishes and let Xi take you to see what she wants you to see.]

[The 'Xi' who greeted you and introduced this painting to you was very enthusiastic and approachable to you, as if he had completely overcome his fear of you.]

[You recalled that when Xi was leaning on you for a nap, you said that you hoped Xi would be more enthusiastic towards you in the future.]

[Seeing 'Xi' who is completely in your ideal state at this moment, you can't help but laugh. ]

[Obviously, Xi didn't fall asleep that day, but took your words to heart.]

[You are naturally very happy, after all, Xi has prepared so much for you. ]

[But the longer you spend with this fake "Xi", the more you feel a deep sense of irritation.]

[How much you love your brothers and sisters and how much you want to protect them. Then how much you reject and hate the fake "Xi" at this moment. 】

[This is true even though I know this is a part of Xi. ]

[But you don’t want to let Xi down for her kindness to you and the painting she prepared, so after thinking about it, you decided...]

……

[Disagreement 1: The year gave you a firecracker, maybe we can do this, this, this, this…]

[Disagreement 2: Just start eating, I'm eating! A glutton is just for eating! Give Xiaoxi a little bit of the shock of being the big sister! ]

[Disagreement 3: What the hell, this little girl didn’t stop when she beat me up. She threatened Xi that if he didn’t come out to see her, she would leave and I would not serve him! ╭(╯^╰)╮]

【please choose. 】

……

Hard to choose.

This was Ikaros' first thought after seeing this divergent choice.

After all, none of the three disagreements are normal. Although it feels that the three choices are almost the same, Xi will come out to see me in the end.

But... after thinking about it carefully.

Ekaros recalled all the anecdotes of Zixi's failures in his previous life, such as using a painting to entertain his elder brother Chongyue, but the painting was finally shattered by a punch, the painting was torn by the palm thunder of the heavenly master, it was discovered by Saga, and it was seen through by the old monk, etc...

The silver-haired girl thought that divergence 2 would be a better choice.

Although the second divergence may seem a bit unserious, don't forget that this scroll was originally prepared for gluttons.

Then if Tao were to eat to his heart's content and finally devour the entire scroll, Xi probably wouldn't be able to say anything, right?

On the contrary, it can add another piece of black history to the lovely sister Xigua.

Isn't it beautiful?

So I chose the second difference directly.

……

[You start eating a lot in the restaurant that Xi introduced to you. ]

[Endless hunger and powerful digestive ability make you consume the "food" produced by the scroll at a terrifying speed. ]

[Even though you can see its essence, you know that what you are eating is actually ink. 】

[But you don't care, you just want to see the real Xi. ]

[Besides, compared to eating your own body, eating ink is really nothing to you. ]

[However, your operation obviously stunned 'Xi', and the real Xi was at a loss as he watched the ink disappearing from the scroll.]

[Although Xi also wants to see you, the psychological shadow she has from you is too great. ]

[As a result, she now only dares to look at you from afar through the painting and her false self, and dares not really come into contact with you. ]

[What's more, Xi feels that this place full of paintings piled up randomly is really not suitable to see you! ]

[So when Xi saw the ink disappearing rapidly and knew that the ink was completely eaten up by you, Xi took out his own 'pen' without saying a word and stained it with ink, and began to continuously paint on the blank scroll that was 'eaten' by you.]

[But Xi's painting speed is obviously not as fast as your speed of consuming ink. ]

[And even if Xi's painting speed can barely keep up with the speed at which you consume ink, the ink is still limited after all.]

[But your hunger as the dark side of the year will never go away. ]

[Therefore, as the figure of "Xi" in the painting gradually blurred and faded, the food on the table and the surrounding mountains and rivers disappeared. ]

[The picture that Xi prepared for you was ultimately broken apart from the very foundation.]

[Only a blank space remained, without even a trace of ink left behind...]

……

In a house filled with randomly stacked scrolls, Xi, a girl with long black hair and turquoise dragon horns, sat on the ground, staring in disbelief at Tao who had escaped from the painting.

The hand holding the mysterious orange-red pattern was trembling slightly, and it was unclear whether it was due to fatigue or because of the deep fear of Tao.

Her ink had run out, and her strength had almost been exhausted from maintaining the scroll. The confusion in Xi's orange-red eyes undoubtedly showed that she was somewhat unable to understand everything in front of her.

This was the third time her scroll had been torn open.

"Good morning, Xi."

"Ah...well, good morning, Tao..."

After Tao came out of the scroll, she saw Xi staring at her blankly. She guessed what her youngest sister was thinking, so she took the initiative to greet Xi to avoid Xi asking her how she could see through her scroll.

Tao didn't dare to tell Xi that he had identified Xi's fakeness by the "taste".

Otherwise, according to Xi's personality, I'm afraid she won't dare to contact me for a long time?

Slowly standing up from his duck-like sitting position on the blank scroll, Tao glanced at the messy houses around him and the door handle that was covered with a thick layer of dust, and couldn't help but frown.

Xi, who already had some psychological trauma towards Tao, suddenly became alert and shrank his body.

Like a little rabbit worried about being eaten by a tiger, Xi, who originally looked cool and otherworldly, now looked pitiful and cute.

However, Tao just felt that Xi now looked annoying in this shabby environment.

She thought that Nian was the limit among the fragments, but she didn't expect that Xi, who used to be very clean, was the real best.

Now, Tao and Shu's habit of not being able to tolerate dirt and mess, which they had developed over the years, was directly exposed.

But when I think of Xi's personality, I feel relieved.

"It's such a mess, how long have you not been out, Sister Xi?" Picking up a few scrolls on the ground and opening them to take a look, Tao spoke softly as he began to classify the scrolls he had picked up and then put them into the wooden cabinet where Xi usually kept her paintings.

"About... about 40 years." Xi, who was originally afraid of the faint aura emanating from Tao, was stunned for a moment, then halved the uncertain years and said it carefully, then looked at the young figure who helped him clean the room, his face slightly red, and he stood up and muttered unconsciously,

"Besides...what's so messy? I just don't want to clean it up. Can a painter's affairs be called messy? That's called..."

"That's called controlling the form of things, being aloof and unique, and having a fragrant virtue, right?"

Tao packed up the scroll and continued Xi's words without turning his head.

"Uh...ah, um." Xi didn't expect that Tao would remember everything she had said casually. Didn't she remember that Tao had a very bad memory?

I took Tao's favorite meat pie but it wasn't discovered...

"Hmm, come and help me. Although I really want to help you take care of everything, it's better for you to put your own things in a place, right?"

"Oh, okay, here I come."

Without waiting for Xi to think, Tao turned his head and chuckled, forcing Xi to give up deep thought. At the same time, Xi barely overcame the shadow that Tao had once brought to him and began to carefully summarize his own painting a few meters away from Tao.

Tao saw Xi coming to help, although he still avoided him a little.

But she still smiled with satisfaction and continued to tidy up Xi's messy painting.

Xi also began to tidy up her messy house under Tao's command in a daze. People thought she was a visitor and Tao was the real owner of the house.

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Chapter 46 Tao: I declare Xi to be the cutest, who agrees and who disagrees?

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong. Something is 100% or even 90% wrong...

After a busy morning, Xi looked at the neat and tidy house in front of him, and saw Tao who had found a stove from somewhere and was frying rice.

She felt as if something was wrong, but looking at the girl in front of her and everything harmonious around her, she couldn't tell what was wrong.

It's just very strange...

But this question is actually not difficult to answer. If other fragments that often interact with Xi were to see what happened this morning, they would definitely find that Xi was too obedient and well-behaved in front of Tao.

He doesn't look like the nerd who doesn't want to interact with other brothers and sisters and stays in his own little room painting every day.

Instead, he looked a bit like a little kid who was a little afraid of his mother's lecture.

Although it sounds a bit strange to say this because of the height difference between Tao and Xi, it is the truth.

It was strange, but it also brought a touch of the atmosphere of "home" to this small house where Xi had lived alone for a long time.

"But it's not bad..."

Although Xi, as an insider, couldn't tell what was wrong, he looked at the silver-haired girl busy in front of him.

Although there are still many shadows about Tao in his heart, he can see the neatly arranged scrolls, the made bed, the brand new floor, the prepared ink and the arranged four treasures of the study beside him.

While Xi was thinking this in her heart, she did not notice that a faint smile appeared on her long cold face.

After all, even if he confined himself to a small world in a painting, Xi was still afraid of loneliness.

Otherwise, why would we paint so many paintings? Why would we occasionally include passers-by in the paintings?

It was just Xi's little pride and fear of losing herself that restrained her.

At least, that's what Tao, who inadvertently saw the curve of Xi's mouth out of the corner of her eye, believed.

"Okay~, the meal is ready, come and eat, Sister Xi."

"According to your taste, there is nothing that Nian likes, nothing that Nian loves to eat, and everything related to Nian has been eliminated. I really don't know when you two will stop being so awkward..."

After the meal was ready, Tao called Xi to help serve the food. At the same time, he thought of the awkward relationship between Xi and Nian, and couldn't help but sigh.

Tao's words made Xi stunned for a moment, and then he thought of a figure who often used strange things to blow up his own Xingyi, which made people feel uneasy. His already cold face was immediately stained with undisguised dissatisfaction, and he muttered in a complaining manner,

"I'm not having a quarrel with her. That girl has a certain personality, and so do I. We don't get along, so why force it?"

"And Tao, you don't know that in order to amuse me, that girl Nian even made some firecrackers to blow up my house. How big of a deal is that? I'm lucky I didn't fall out with her..."

Taking the bowl and chopsticks from the stove made by Tao, Xi complained to Tao who was walking in front of him carrying the dishes about Nian's "evil deeds", and her tone gradually became more and more angry.

It can be heard that the firecrackers of Nian must have brought endless "surprises" to Xi.

In fact, Tao himself had heard a little about this. After all, when he and Nian were hanging out on the streets of Dayan and acting as each other's babysitter and cook, Tao would occasionally hear Nian say something like "taking her to 'New Year's Eve'" and "lighting firecrackers as a surprise for Xi" while they were having dinner.

Combined with her understanding of Nian's overall ability and ability to act, Tao inexplicably felt sorry for Xi.

You know, Xi is a timid kid to begin with, and if Nian does that to her a few more times...

Hmm... As expected, next time I see Nian, I'll cut off half of her favorite secret chili pepper. This sister is really a worry.

"Oh, forget it, let's eat first. Nian is indeed a bit too much, but after all, it's for your own good, Sister Xi, don't be angry with her."

Sighing for the relationship between Xi and Nian, Tao put down his food at the table and tried to smooth things over for Nian, so that Xi wouldn't keep complaining to him once she started talking.

This elder sister always likes to keep things in her heart, but once she wants to speak, it's like a dam releasing floodwaters and letting it all out all at once.

Although Nian was not nearby, Tao thought it would be better to give some face to his somewhat eccentric sister...

"Hmph, anyway, don't mention the New Year in front of me from now on, and the rest doesn't matter."