What do you mean you also want to return to the world?

Chapter 44 Chastity Pants

Two women, one outside and one inside... oh no, to be precise, it should be one woman and one female bird simultaneously erupting, leaving Shi Yan somewhat bewildered.

So he comforted Lin Xiaoyue and told her to speak slowly, while pressing down his erection to prevent Lin Xiaoyue from finding out and questioning him about why he was mocking her.

"Don't rush, tell me slowly." Shi Yan pressed on the crimson button for a long time without success, so he simply sat down with his entire left hand under his buttocks. "We have plenty of time."

Upon hearing Shi Yan's words, Lin Xiaoyue immediately became wary: "What do you mean 'we still have plenty of time'? How long are you planning to stay here? Overnight?"

Shi Yan was somewhat speechless: "No, you said you encountered demons and monsters, and you weren't afraid of those things, but now you're afraid of me?"

"That thing won't kill me for now," Lin Xiaoyue said. "But you're different. I'm just a helpless girl. If you really wanted to do something to me..."

"So what do you want?" Shi Yan asked helplessly. "Should I leave?"

"No need for that." Lin Xiaoyue glanced at the sky outside the window. "You just need to leave before dark... Never mind."

"Why did you give up again?"

"Anyway, I'm the only one left in this house," Lin Xiaoyue said in a low voice. "If you don't want to leave, there's nothing I can do about it. Didn't you come in without my permission before?"

"Okay, I apologize again for breaking into your house." Shi Yan could understand Lin Xiaoyue's feelings. After all, she was the only one left in the house and had encountered a monster. It was already quite remarkable that she hadn't broken down in this situation. So he patiently explained again, "But I really came to help you."

"If you really want to help me, buy that mirror later."

"No problem." Shi Yan readily agreed, since it wasn't his money anyway. He then used the mirror as a springboard to bring up the topic of monsters again, "However, it seems that the other 'you' doesn't want to sell that mirror."

"Don't call it another 'me'." Hearing Shi Yan's address, Lin Xiaoyue's face darkened again. "I already said, it's just a disgusting thing residing in my body."

"...You...said...who...is...disgusting......"

Shi Yan's buttocks twitched, so he had no choice but to silently increase his strength and press the crimson down even more firmly.

"Tell me more about it," Shi Yan said. "Did you have any further contact with her afterward?"

"Of course," Lin Xiaoyue said softly, "after all, we've been working together for a while."

Shi Yan was somewhat surprised: "Cooperation?"

"Yes." Lin Xiaoyue nodded slightly. "Because we don't want others to discover that we're not normal. You probably know why, but we can't afford to be right now."

Shi Yan understood that this was still due to the broken family. Lin Xiaoyue, whose guardian had disappeared, naturally did not want to cause more trouble at this time.

"So that's why you cooperated to keep Lin Xiaoyue acting normally?" Shi Yan asked. "In other words, you shared what you were doing to avoid revealing your secrets to others?"

"Yes," Lin Xiaoyue said, "It was like this from the beginning. We couldn't solve this problem for the time being, so we could only drag it out. But slowly we started to feel that something was wrong."

"Something's not right?"

"To give you a simple example, you should have already noticed that our personalities are completely different," Lin Xiaoyue said. "For instance, I'm quite casual when it comes to interacting with guys—of course, I'm not a slut. I think chatting and joking around with guys is perfectly normal—of course, I'm not a slut. Of course, I haven't dated anyone; all my relationships have remained at the friend level. Even if someone confesses to me, I reject them outright and never hesitate, because I'm not a slut."

"Uh, why do you keep emphasizing that you're not...?"

"Because that's what she said about me!" Lin Xiaoyue said bitterly. "Our cooperation was going well, but suddenly one day she started accusing me, calling me a shameless slut who used her body to seduce men—it's clearly my body! She stole it and used it, and now she won't let me use it!"

"Uh..." Shi Yan hadn't expected it to be like this. "So you did it because she made unfounded accusations against you..."

"Unfounded accusations? If she really was making baseless accusations, I wouldn't bother with her at all. Look what she did to me!" Lin Xiaoyue suddenly stood up and, with lightning speed, lifted her bathrobe. "Look at this!"

Lin Xiaoyue's movements were so fast that Shi Yan didn't even have time to react before she stood openly in front of him, just like Asuka from EVA, which shocked him so much that he almost bit his tongue.

"Lin Xiaoyue, I'm really not that kind of person... huh?" Shi Yan, who was about to close her eyes, glanced at her again and then suddenly widened her eyes. "What the hell is this?!"

"Never seen one before?" Lin Xiaoyue pursed her lips. "Chastity belts, huh?"

"……ha?!!"

Wait, where did this come from?! Am I still exorcising demons?!

Shi Yan was completely bewildered.

"So, now you know she's not normal, right?" Lin Xiaoyue put down her bathrobe.

"……knew."

"Now you understand why I'm so angry with her, right?"

"……Understood."

Shi Yan put himself in Fei Hong's shoes and imagined what would happen if Fei Hong, while taking over his body, inexplicably put a chastity belt on him...

No, it's hard, my fist is hard.

Damn monsters, they'll all be expelled from my body sooner or later.

Inside her body, Scarlet, who could only receive sporadic external signals due to the presence of the limiter, suddenly sensed Shi Yan's hostility towards her, leaving her completely bewildered.

What did I do this time?

And what exactly are chastity belts?

Damn it, take this damn protective case off! I can't feel anything with it on!

After slightly calming down his anger towards Scarlet, Shi Yan turned his attention back to Lin Xiaoyue: "So she put this thing on you to stop you from doing that..."

"Debauched." Lin Xiaoyue said the word for Shi Yan. "Now you understand why I felt she wasn't human, right? At first, I thought she was me, and that I just had some kind of illness and temporary amnesia. But her series of extreme behaviors made me realize that it could never be me."

"She's a monster, a monster that lives in the mirror!"