Chapter 239: The Dice Monster Appears, Promises on the Aisle
At night, at the Bo Ke family residence.

In August and September, the temperature around Beijing fluctuates, with a huge difference between the peak and the bottom: it is extremely hot during the day, but cool at dusk.

The noisy sound of the TV rang out in the warm little house, occasionally accompanied by the fussing of a girl.

The evening breeze poured into the house, blowing the hair on the ears of several people. Except for the mother who was lying on the second floor, and Ke Mingye who was scheming with the octopus man on TV, the rest of the brothers and sisters of the Bo Ke family and their father were all in front of the TV. The people were so neat that it looked like a military training morning roll call. It was rare to see so many people gathered together.

Most of them remained silent while watching TV. Several of them knew Ke Mingye's identity, but they had already reached a tacit consensus to keep it secret from their father and mother.

So try your best to make your reactions not seem so strange: at most your facial expression will change occasionally, or your eyes may reveal a hint of worry.

But compared to the reserve of the others, the girl with a high ponytail sitting in the middle of the sofa seemed a little out of place.

In the quiet living room, she was the only one who kept chattering from beginning to end, without stopping for even a second, fussing and mumbling the entire time.

It looks like he's going to start stamping his feet in anxiety in the next second.

Bai Zini was staring at the TV screen with a slightly raised brow. Her beautiful pupils reflected the silhouette of the blue owl running on the wall, with the octopus man chasing closely behind it.

“Ah…Ah? Ah!”

"No, no, the owl has been caught."

“It’s over, it’s over, it’s really over now—!”

Seeing the blue owl's body lose its support and be pulled from mid-air towards the octopus man by the suction of the suction cup, Bai Zini covered her mouth with her hands, widened her eyes, and spoke in a rhythmic tone, even more feminine than the female commentator.

Until the next moment, when she saw the blue owl cut off two tentacles of the octopus man, she was slightly stunned.

Everyone in front of the sofa stared at the red and blue figure falling to the ground on the screen in silence, as if they had not expected him to fight back.

Bai Zini breathed a sigh of relief, then murmured, "Is this true? He actually killed me. How come I didn't know that this Blue Owl has a scissor hand move?"

She turned her head and glanced at the other people on the sofa, it seemed that they didn't know that Ke Mingye had this trick.

Bai Zini narrowed her eyes and thought: He is really good at hiding. It turns out that brother has this ability. After all, whose superhero’s superpower is “rock-paper-scissors”? Isn’t this a bit too childish?

It must be mentioned that a few days ago, she saw someone open a special post on the Internet to analyze the blue owl's supernatural powers and its connection with "rock-paper-scissors".

The author of this post also deliberately mentioned one point: in the process of developing superpowers, people with superpowers will be influenced by their own personality and growth experience - this argument was put forward by an American superpower scientist and has been verified by many authoritative figures and has a certain credibility.

Then, the poster used the point of view put forward by this scientist to analyze the character of the blue owl in a long article, saying that he is a person who lacks love in reality and hopes to make others notice him. He is a person who is childish and naive in his heart and has a histrionic personality. That is why he is so talkative after putting on the mask, and his supernatural powers are presented in the form of "rock-paper-scissors".

When she saw this post, especially the words "childish" and "childish", Bai Zini couldn't help laughing in her bedroom in the middle of the night.

If Bai Ziling had not been sleeping with her at the time and covered her mouth in time, they would both have been yelled at by their mother.

I have to say, you know, Bai Zini doesn't usually visit forums - this can be ranked in the top five of her daily rules for being a magical girl.

Because the forums on the Internet that discuss superheroes and magical girls can be described as "full of smoke and mud". If you open any forum, you will see either sarcastic posts or some brainless and horny people making indescribable remarks.

Originally, she was quite keen on searching for information about herself on the Internet when she first started.

But influenced by the overall environment, she successfully quit the bad habit of visiting forums just in the second month after her appearance as Magical Girl Ashes.

However, after learning that Ke Mingye was the Blue Owl not long ago, Comrade Bai Zini picked up this habit again after many years.

It is summer vacation now. After meetings and games every day, my greatest pleasure when I have nothing to do is to open the Beijing Forum and see how others complain about the Blue Owl.

It was a really great pleasure after a month.

Browsing the forum, so cool!
Now, she finally understood the pleasure of Little Red Riding Hood checking the forum regularly every day and complaining to her about all kinds of Ashes fans' posts. This was the pleasure of watching others discuss gossip about the people around them...

If Little Red Riding Hood becomes famous one day after this, she will definitely retaliate and use the same tricks on Little Red Riding Hood that she used on her.

Unfortunately, Little Red Riding Hood is still an unknown new magical girl, with very little discussion on the Internet, not even as much as a hair of Blue Owl.

In short, not posting forum posts is only the fifth most important rule among the magical girl rules. The first rule has remained popular since its appearance and has become the bible for the magical girl Ashes.

The rule is: when you see a weird thing, never try to reason with it. No matter what it says, just go up and beat it up and it will behave.

"I thought my brother was already a wimp, but I didn't expect this octopus man to be even more of a wimp. He was pretending all the time, but in actual combat, he got beaten by my brother."

Bai Zini thought to herself.

She looked at the solemn-looking octopus man in the picture and hummed happily twice, but at the same time she was worried that Blue Owl would lose strength and be defeated by the octopus man.

"That's amazing." said Bai Ziling.

"Yes, he is worthy of being the idol of elementary school students." Bai Qiuwu said casually.

"If it were me, I would have killed this octopus with one slap." Ke Yongzhu said in his heart, "Unfortunately, I am a dragon and I won't bother with an octopus."

Bai Zini clapped softly and said, "Oh——" "That's quite powerful."

Although she said this, in fact, she was so anxious that her eyes were about to pop out: She wished she could go up and fight for him, just shoot the octopus man's tentacles clean with two shots, was it really necessary to go through so much trouble?

"Humor, who is the fan of Blue Owl?"

Ke Yongzhu said this unhappily, turned his head away and glanced at Bai Zini with contempt.

"This is called immersive viewing. What do elementary school students know?"

Bai Zini retorted without even turning her head.

"You can take a look, but don't learn...it's too dangerous."

Ke Youqing spoke calmly, a cigarette between his lips.

"Of course I know, Daddy."

"I'm glad to know." Ke Youqing raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, and rubbed Bai Zini's head.

Bai Qiuwu raised her eyebrows slightly, leaned her back against the sofa, and watched the two octopus tentacles falling to the ground on TV. She couldn't help but hug her shoulders.

Although the official commentator stated that the octopus man's tentacles would regenerate, and kept patching up this scene, saying that "strictly speaking, it is not a part of the body's organs", and finally added a mosaic to the picture in time, as if trying to tell everyone that this is really not bloody, but just a common occurrence.

However, Bai Qiuwu still raised one hand and covered Ke Yongzhu's eyes.

"No, what are you doing?"

Ke Yongzhu asked with a frown.

Bai Qiuwu said seriously while watching TV: "It's too bloody. Children are not allowed to watch it."

The corner of the elementary school student's eye twitched slightly, and he thought to himself, this is called bloody, I've seen scenes that are a hundred times bloodier, right?

But his father was still behind him. He thought about it and compromised. He symbolically played along with Bai Qiuwu, pretending that he couldn't pry her hands apart, and said impatiently:

"Don't block my eyes, I can't see!"

"Don't look."

While saying this, Bai Qiuwu was actually watching the show with great interest, thinking that Mingye was quite capable.

Seeing how heated the online opinions were before the match, I thought Akeno was going to suffer a big loss this time. But now, even if he still lost in the end, at least he wouldn't be criticized too badly: at least he fought back and forth with the Octopus Man during the match, and didn't lose to him in a crushing victory.

For those Internet viewers, a good fight is enough to impress them, and it is not necessary to defeat the opponent.

Of course, she will be scolded if she deserves to be scolded. After all, in today's Internet environment, no one can escape. Even someone like her who works silently will be scolded.

The next moment, when the elementary school student pretended to break free from Bai Qiuwu's hand, an amazing scene came into view.

On TV, the blue owl switched places with the blood-red tentacle lying on the ground and came to the side of the octopus man.

Then he raised his right hand and gave the octopus man another flaming punch.

The whole audience sighed amid the flames that poured down like a fountain. Mikaxi, who was serving as the commentator, was beaming with joy, doing his best to create an atmosphere on the scene.

Bai Qiuwu was slightly surprised when she saw this scene. Even she couldn't help but sigh: "This Blue Owl has made great progress. I remember that he wasn't so strong a month ago?"

Ke Yongzhu shrugged: "Just good luck."

"Well...what's next for this kid? He's used up all his cards."

Ke Yinzhi looked up from the book and spoke casually.

Hearing this, Bai Qiuwu turned his head and glanced at Ke Yinzhi, teasing, "Speaking of which, brother, how dare you assume his age? Maybe he looks like an uncle behind the mask, and he is actually much older than you."

"Oh, that's true." Ke Yinzhi shrugged and smiled, thinking that his sister was just acting like a show. She should know that Ming Ye is Blue Owl. "But the way he talks makes it hard for me not to feel like a 'little brat', so I can't help but call him 'this brat', is that not okay?"

"Support." said Bai Zini.

"Little brat Blue Owl." said Bai Ziling.

"Elementary school student blue owl." said Ke Yongzhu.

After the words fell, except for Ke Youqing who was behind the sofa, everyone else turned their eyes to Ke Yongzhu. Their eyes seemed to say: How dare you say that?

Ke Yongzhu said disdainfully: "Why are you looking at me? I won't be a primary school student in September."

Bai Qiuwu smiled and changed the subject: "But I'm really curious about how he will fight next. He seems to be poisoned." "That octopus man is almost dead. Look, he can hardly get up." Bai Zini said with a frown.

"Uh-huh."

Bai Ziling hugged the pillow and nodded seriously.

"I bet fifty cents that the octopus wins."

As Ke Yongzhu spoke, he unscrewed the cap of the Wanglaoji bottle.

"Inner ghost."

Bai Zini glanced at him angrily.

"What's the inside story?"

Ke Youqing asked, hugging his shoulders.

Bai Zini was stunned for a moment, pointed her index fingers with both hands, and quickly made up for it: "Xiao Ling is a fan of Blue Owl, and I am half a fan, so I said that the elementary school student is the traitor."

"Get lost, you are not allowed to speak freely these days."

When a few people were talking excitedly, a crow suddenly flew into the camera.

Then, it passed through the audience seats without any resistance, entered the arena, and finally stopped in a position that everyone was paying attention to: right between the Blue Owl and the Octopus Man.

While the audience was still confused, Ke Youqing's face behind the sofa slowly darkened.

Because only he knew that he had not left any crows at the Superhero Association - the controllable range of his crows was not that far, otherwise why would he need to take the elevator to leave the apartment building before taking action? He could just leave a crow in various places in the city in advance, and then use his supernatural power to switch with that crow, so that he could arrive at the scene of the incident as soon as possible.

What's going on? He thought to himself, his hands already pressing hard on the back of the sofa.

The next moment, with the sound of bones rubbing against each other, the crow slowly transformed into a bat.

Then, the bat's body was shrouded in a gray halo, slowly expanding and turning into a gray human figure.

This strange-looking gray figure appeared in front of the global audience with a lens that was magnified countless times. Those viewers who usually didn't care about the Beijing area also saw the existence of such a person. The comments on major forums were directly detonated, and even the official website of the Super Hero Association was directly destroyed.

As the Dice Monster made his debut, the people in front of the TV showed varying degrees of surprise.

In front of the TV, the one who reacted the most was naturally Bai Zini, who stood up directly from the sofa;

Next was Bai Qiuwu. She was slightly stunned, then slowly let go of the shoulder she was hugging, tilting her head slightly with a confused look on her face.
Then it was Ke Yongzhu's turn. The corners of his eyes twitched and he thought to himself, how can you, a small fry, be so arrogant? Is there some hidden task of "explode once a day" that you haven't completed yet?
Ke Yinzhi rested his elbow on the armrest of the sofa, raised his hand to support his chin, yawned, and said lazily: "It's this guy again... I almost forgot about him if he didn't come out to show his presence on days like this. I'm afraid he's worried that we've forgotten him."

The one with the biggest expression was Ke Youqing. He frowned and stared at the dice monster on TV without moving.

It was like looking into its empty eyes from thousands of miles away through the screen.

Then the live broadcast on TV was cut off. After a few seconds, when the live broadcast came back, the Dice Monster had fallen to the ground in the arena, and his body seemed to have turned into a ball of ice that had been in the Arctic for thousands of years.

Then, its body sealed in the ice began to heat up rapidly and crack, followed by a burst of eerie laughter and a violent flame rising.

Everything falls silent.

The TV camera turned to Blue Owl's face. He stood there in a daze, swallowed a mouthful of water, and seemed not to have come back to his senses yet.

Half an hour later, we arrived at the old Jingmai Railway Station.

Ke Mingye took off his mask on the empty platform, lowered his head, breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his hand and stuffed the helmet into the cabinet.

With a bang, he closed the cabinet door.

In the quiet night, he walked out of the train station while thinking about what had just happened: with the appearance of the Dice Monster, the game was forced to end, and then he was injected with an antidote in the medical department of the Super Hero Association. When the antidote took effect, the effect of the Octopus Man's neurotoxin completely disappeared.

Then he rushed home without looking back.

After Ke Mingye walked out of the platform, he glanced at his cell phone in the moonlight. It was still early, only seven o'clock in the evening.

After all, today is the birthday of his two younger sisters. He dared not be late, nor did he want to be late. So he smoothed his messy hair, put his hands in his pockets, and walked towards home.

In fact, he let the dice man mess around at the game for two reasons:
First, he didn't really want to get injured in this game. He had to attend his sisters' birthday party when he got home. If he fought the octopus man to the death, he would probably lie on the bed in the lounge of the association building and couldn't get up before he even got home...

To be more exaggerated, one may not even be able to return home and be forced to stay in the association's medical department for a night;
Second, he didn't want to humiliate the Octopus Man. After all, he knew in his heart that the Octopus Man was a good man. He was just stimulated by his brother and his father who died while saving people, so he was so dissatisfied with those superheroes who just held on to their positions but did nothing.

Since the Octopus Man wanted the attention, Ke Mingye gave it to him, giving him what he wanted in this weird way. In a sense, it was a win-win situation for both of them - it had to be said that with the appearance of the Dice Monster, the video of this friendly match tonight would be all over the Internet, and then not only he and the Octopus Man, but also the reputation of the two teams would rise a lot.

Moreover, doing so could also prevent the two from completely falling out, so that Blue Owl wouldn't have another enemy in the Super Hero Association in the future.

It is not difficult to guard against external enemies, but it is not so easy to guard against internal enemies.

Who knows, one day the Octopus Man might suddenly turn evil and become a super villain like his brother, lurking inside the Super Hero Association and stabbing him in the back. Ke Mingye would not be able to bear this.

After all, he usually uses his original body to play the Blue Owl, and if anything unexpected happens, he will have to take out the second heart and the second brother's amulet necklace - but these things are surprises for the watchmaker, and it would be a waste to use them on other people.

While thinking about this, Ke Mingye got on the elevator car and went up amid the buzzing sound.

Soon, the doors of the elevator opened to both sides, and a girl wearing a light grey linen suit, a high ponytail and a face as pretty as a doll came into view.

"came back?"

She asked quietly, her voice slightly muffled.

"I came back early. Didn't you watch TV? That weird thing..."

Before Ke Mingye could finish his words, Bai Zini had already pulled him out of the elevator.

Her eyes were slightly red, and she lowered her eyes to check his whole body. After confirming that there were no injuries, she slowly let him go. Then she retreated to the door alone, leaning her back against the door frame, without saying a word, as if she was sulking.

Seeing her look, Ke Mingye sighed helplessly, "What are you doing, crybaby... You just don't trust Comrade Blue Owl's ability to protect himself?"

Bai Zini was silent for a moment: "Today is my birthday." She paused, "And Xiaoling's too."

"I know, so I came back unscathed, didn't I?"

Ke Mingye said, took two steps forward, raised his hand gently, hesitated for a moment, and put his palm on her head, "Happy birthday, sister."

He paused, lowered his head slightly and said, "Come to think of it, by next year... you won't be a magical girl anymore."

"so what?"

The girl standing at the door asked softly without even raising her head.

Hearing this, Ke Mingye put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, lowered his head, and remained silent. The light from the corridor made his cheeks pale, and his expression was different from before.

After a while, he opened his mouth and said:

"So, just like you don't want to see me get hurt, I don't want to see you get hurt either. When I think about how my sister endured so much alone for several years without anyone knowing, I start to wonder... should I work harder and be a better superhero?"

Baizini was stunned for a while, then slowly raised her head and stared into his eyes.

Ke Mingye stretched out a hand from the pocket of his windbreaker, hesitated for a moment, then gently placed it on her head and ruffled her soft hair.

He raised the corners of his mouth and continued, "What I mean is... by that time, you will no longer be a magical girl, so you can do all the dangerous things for me."

At this point, he paused for a moment, tilted his face awkwardly, and added: "Well... after all, I am your brother."

As the words fell, the entire corridor slowly fell into silence.

Bai Zini stared at his face. In her impression, the always laughing and nonchalant Ke Mingye seemed to have never spoken to him so seriously... never.

She was silent for a long time, leaning her head forward, not hugging him, but resting her chin on his shoulder.

"I get it... Stupid brother," she said.

Ke Mingye felt the warmth on his shoulder, raised his head, stared at the ceiling, hesitated for a while, and didn't know whether to speak: "Uh... Come to think of it, my shoulder was just ravaged by the octopus man's tentacles. Are you sure you can't smell the rotten smell of marine life?"

"Ah, is it true?"

"fake."

"you……"

"It's just a joke, don't be angry, this is a gift for you."

"Did you bring a gift?"

"Yes, I bought it on the way home. Are you touched?"

"I am touched... a little."

"Let's go, the others are waiting for us."

"Ah."

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(End of this chapter)