After Transmigrating to Become Lady Skylark - Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Why are you not afraid to die?

Perhaps the criminals had never seen anyone as calm as Jin Chaoyan after being told about a kidnapping. The man’s face, who was holding up his phone to her, looked incredibly sullen.

“I want to live.” Jin Chaoyan thought of the few supplies she had purchased from the store and had no intention of using those life-saving abilities in a place like this. Besides, skills like Reversal Cursed Technique and Tricolor Six Flowers were meant for recovery after being injured.

She didn’t want to get hurt.

So Jin Chaoyan racked her brain and finally came up with a way to contact Hibari Kyoya. “How about this, you can search for the Disciplinary Foundation online. I remember there’s a front desk contact number at the very bottom of the page. You can ask their front desk to notify him, okay?”

“…”

Beside her, Jin Hemeizi, who had also been kidnapped and had black tape over her mouth, widened her eyes in terror, tears welling up as if she was afraid of seeing Chaoyan’s body the next second.

The man who was questioning her sneered and swung his fist toward her face. “You asked for it, you little bitch!”

Tricolor Six Flowers (Normal Version) · Three-Day Barrier has been used——

Following the store’s voice broadcast, Jin Chaoyan’s pupils reflected the shadow of the man’s fist hurtling toward her. Just as the fist was about to touch her cheek, a warm orange light lit up.

“Crack.”

The triangular shield that formed in front of her cheek was easily shattered by the man, making a sound like breaking glass. She closed her eyes in shock and turned her head.

Seeing the woman turn her head away from the punch, the man who had pulled back his fist frowned and shook his hand, wondering, “Why is this woman’s cheekbone so hard?”

“Brother! Go easy on her. The Jin family has already transferred the first payment. What if they change their minds, and you hurt her? If you push them too far, they’ll call the police, and we’ll be screwed!”

The person who was shaking his hand turned his head and said viciously, “Shut up!”

“The place I chose is useless even if they call the police. The mist set up by Third Brother has already covered this area. Besides… this is a geomantically perfect place that I carefully selected. No one will be able to find this place.”

At the same time.

Jin Chaoyan, who had her head turned away, reopened her eyes and saw the holographic screen projected in mid-air, which only she could see. Her luck was terrible today. There were only two simple items on it:

Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu.

The price was a single line.

Special offer: 10,000,000 yen/second.

Jin Chaoyan: “…”

Thank you, you dog store. You could’ve just robbed me directly, but you also gave me an otherworldly ability trial card. Thank you so much.

At the same time, in Namimori Town.

In a vast Japanese-style courtyard, in an extremely minimalist meeting room.

A curtain-like projection fell from the wooden ceiling. A man in a suit sat facing the screen. He had a strong posture, and a Bluetooth headset glowed with a communication connection under the slightly long strands of hair on the side of his ear.

On the projection screen, there were six figures also in suits in different backgrounds. The one in the center of the screen was gently trying to mediate the argument between the Guardian Meeting, which had inexplicably become noisy. The headset was filled with the sounds of their quarreling.

“Buzz.”

The phone next to him suddenly vibrated, and a text message popped up.

Hibari Kyoya glanced at it and quickly looked away, feeling the decibels of the noisy static from the headset increase. He raised his hand to turn off the headset, seeking a moment of peace. His gaze fell on the unfinished documents from before, when his phone suddenly started vibrating one after another.

“Buzz buzz buzz buzz—”

It was as if it had been infected with a virus, causing him to pause his hand motion.

“Sub-card transaction amount: 10,000,000 yen. Consumption time: 12:58. Location: Unknown.American Express Bank”

Similar messages appeared on the screen like a flood, lasting for ten full seconds. He held his phone and looked at it for a while, then suddenly turned his head. “Tetsuya.”

His right-hand man, who was standing outside the door, pushed open the wooden door and nodded politely. “Sir Kyoya.”

“Check Jin Chaoyan’s location.”

Kusakabe Tetsuya was surprised by this sudden command in the middle of a meeting, but it was only for a moment. He quickly reacted. “Yes.”

Before he closed the door, Hibari Kyoya looked at his phone, which had started to show consumption messages by the second again. He paused and, uncharacteristically, added, “Transfer another two billion to my sub-card.”

The headset became quiet at some point.

When Hibari Kyoya looked back at the video projection screen, he found that the group of people who had been arguing about everything from the Milfiore operation to the construction of the Vongola secret base and even who’s room should be next to the boss’s room, were now all looking at the camera, their eyes filled with intense curiosity.

The person with a silver-gray center-parted hairstyle twirled a complicated ring on his finger, adjusted the collar of his dark red shirt, cleared his throat, and was the first to speak. “Hey, Hibari, if you’ve been scammed, just blink.”

“Pfft,” the young man in the cow-print shirt put down the finger he had been using to curl his hair. “You think everyone’s as stupid as you, you idiot Gokudera. Last month, you were tricked into buying a book of ‘World Mystical Spells’ and tried to summon a ghost…”

Gokudera Hayato expressionlessly took out three sticks of dynamite and pointed them at the camera. “Stupid cow, come here and die.”

“Hahaha, alright, alright, Gokudera. Don’t get so worked up. Tsuna just reimbursed you for the damage to your office equipment last week—”

A steady and gentle voice intervened.

Just as the Guardian Meeting was about to break out into a new round of arguments, the wooden door was opened again. Kusakabe Tetsuya said with a hint of urgency:

“Sir Kyoya, the Madam’s phone signal disappeared thirty kilometers outside of Tokyo half an hour ago, and we haven’t been able to contact her since.”

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Hibari Kyoya’s phone once again received a series of consumption alerts.

His cold, gray-blue phoenix eyes stared at the phone for a moment. The man suddenly stood up, and his slightly cold voice, transmitted through the current in the headset, fell into the ears of the others on the video call. “Next time, if it’s another one of these boring group meetings, you don’t need to notify me again.”

He finished speaking and took off his headset, ignoring the chaotic and shocked questions like “The Madam? What Madam?”, “The Cloud Guardian is actually married?”, and “What’s with your attitude?” that he was too lazy to respond to.

Until a warm voice stopped him:

“Wait, Hibari-senpai.”

He turned his head to look at the center of the screen and met a pair of amber, gentle eyes that seemed to be able to contain everything. He heard the other person speak seriously.

“If you need it, I will have the members of the Vongola Japan branch assist you with all their might. Please be sure to be careful.”

Seventy kilometers outside of Tokyo.

A small cluster of black flames burned.

It wasn’t until the ropes on her wrists disappeared along with the flames that Jin Chaoyan took a breath, calmed her overly frantic heartbeat, and leaned on the wall to stand up. After a moment, she ignored the few figures who seemed to have been petrified on the spot and walked toward Jin Hemeizi.

The little girl, who had been extraordinarily proud when they met yesterday, was now unresponsive. Her pupils were dilated, and she stared blankly at the kidnappers. It wasn’t until the rope on her wrists was untied that she let out a reactive cry: “Mmm, mmm, mmm!”

Jin Chaoyan looked at the black tape on her mouth with a headache. After a moment, she reached out her hand to her. “Can you get up? For the tape on your mouth, why don’t you try to take it off yourself? I’m afraid I’ll hurt you.”

Large tears rolled down Hemeizi’s eyes. She was still immersed in the trauma of the kidnappers wanting to tear up her ticket even after they had received the money. After she got up with the help of Jin Chaoyan, she clung to her tightly, like a survivor hugging a piece of driftwood.

As she walked, she kept looking back at the figures, afraid that they would threaten her with violence again the next second.

“Don’t be afraid. They won’t wake up—”

Jin Chaoyan held her with one hand and rubbed her own eyes with the other. The two sisters looked for an exit in the empty warehouse. After finally pushing open the grated iron door, they found that the outside was still covered in mist, making it impossible to see the road or distinguish the direction.

She remembered the mist in the shopping mall when she was kidnapped and somewhat understood why the kidnappers were so confident that no one would find them.

Jin Chaoyan decisively turned back, searched the kidnappers for their phones, and called the police for help without a second thought.

But just as the call to the police station was connected, she suddenly felt a chill down her back, as if something was watching her from the mist.

“Beep, a life form has been detected. Adjusting attack parameters…”

Jin Chaoyan instinctively turned her head. Her right eye instantly changed. In the thick mist, she saw a colossal, mountain-like figure standing. Its outer shell was thick mechanical steel. Its eyes were emitting a scanning red light and were slowly raising its five fingers to fire a bullet—

‘Hiss’

A cluster of black flames instantly engulfed its entire body. Before the light from its five-fingered barrel could ignite, the more powerful flames of Amaterasu silently enveloped and melted the target. It only had time to let out a small sound:

“…Under attack from an unknown target. Requesting…”

“Sturao Mosca 011 starting… 012 starting… 013 starting…”

From the depths of the mist, the sounds that had seemed like illusions just a moment ago now sounded one after another, densely packed. At first, it sounded as if they were surrounded by mechanical sounds from all directions inside the warehouse.

What on earth are these things?

She saw countless black figures through the mist. She immediately handed over the use of Amaterasu to 001, asking the customer service to assist with the ability. After 001 took over, the powerful substitute immediately set all the black figures she could see on fire!

She didn’t know how long it had been, but the person who was trying to stare into the mist felt liquid flowing from her right eye, down to her jaw.

Jin Chaoyan instinctively reached up to touch it and was shocked to see blood on her palm. “001! Didn’t you say this ability had no side effects?!”

Please rest assured, esteemed guest. This is just the effect of using the Mangekyou Sharingan and does not cause any actual damage to your eyes.

I don’t believe you one bit!

Jin Chaoyan didn’t know what kind of hornet’s nest she had stirred up today. She had wanted to count how much money she had just burned, but then she decided to pretend she didn’t know for the sake of her heart.

Jin Hemeizi, who had been tugging at the black tape on her mouth, had stopped for a while after hearing the sounds of mechanical explosions and terrifying collisions outside. She then quietly stuck the tape back on her mouth.

Now, hearing Jin Chaoyan talking to herself, she just looked at her blankly and then quietly closed her eyes, her expression very peaceful.

“Whirr whirr whirr—”

The sound of a helicopter’s propeller approached from a distance. The mist that had been blocking their sight and was stagnant seemed to be disturbed by something and began to float restlessly.

Seeing this, Jin Chaoyan’s expression, which had been subjected to one calamity after another, gradually became similar to Hemeizi’s. She began to wonder whether her life or the money in her card would run out first.

It wasn’t until the misty illusion was broken by a force that a cluster of light purple light flew into the mist from above with the force of a thunderbolt. After driving the mist away, it stopped in front of Jin Chaoyan.

“Aww~”

The purple light cluster revealed its true form, a small hedgehog with long white spines.

It greeted Jin Chaoyan in a friendly manner.

The woman, as if sensing something, suddenly looked up into the air. The mist that had been covering the sky scattered, revealing a blue sky and floating clouds. A helicopter conveniently blocked the sunlight, casting a shadow—

In the scattered sunlight, a figure jumped out of the helicopter door. The moment he landed, the mist and dust scattered in a panic, and he was bathed in the sunlight.

Jin Chaoyan squinted in the sudden light. She vaguely saw the figure walking toward her one step at a time.

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