Older Brother is Just Older Brother - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Early autumn, at a crossroad near a certain University Town.

A light rain had just passed. The sky was as blue as if it had been washed, and an occasional breeze brushed by, bringing moist air and.

The sound of “Ah… ha… ah!”

Wait, no.

What was that sound???

A red-haired delivery guy had originally just stopped his motorcycle briefly to take off his helmet and adjust the shattered hair on his forehead.

Hearing this, he couldn’t resist stealing several glances toward the source of the sound.

The sound was coming from the mobile phone of a black-haired youth whose looks were so outstanding that he wouldn’t look out of place as an idol.

The youth’s outfit looked like he had just finished some kind of cosplay photoshoot; the accessories all over his body were gaudy and complicated, but his long black hair, tied into a high ponytail, neutralized the complexity well, making him look relatively sharp.

Right now, while waiting for the red light, he was looking down and seriously watching that kind of thing on his phone.

Yes, really.

Because in just the short moment the red-haired delivery guy was observing, the person in the phone started “Mmm-ing and ah-ing” again.

Red-haired delivery guy: …

Are university students under that much pressure these days?

But even if the pressure is high, you can’t do this kind of thing!

Stop it, stop it! He said stop it!

Unfortunately, the black-haired youth couldn’t hear his inner monologue.

Red-hair could only watch helplessly as the other party started swiping the phone screen.

He didn’t know exactly what the youth did, but in short, the sound became louder and more obvious.

Red-hair: …………

Red-hair couldn’t take it anymore!

He shoved his helmet back on, twisted the motorcycle throttle, and glided right up to the black-haired youth’s side. Coldly but articulately, he dropped a line:

“Watching porn on the roadside, your whole family will have no assholes.”

The black-haired youth looked up slowly and replied, “This isn’t porn.”

Red-hair sucked in a breath of cold air.

Huo! Still being stubborn?

If it’s not porn, then it could be…

The black-haired youth continued slowly: “…It’s the surveillance camera at my front door.”

Red-hair: ??!!

Red-hair was simply greatly shocked, but he subconsciously asked, “Then you’re just watching like this? Call your family out and drive them away!”

Black-haired youth: “…My family are all dead.”

“All dead, I’m the only one left.”

Red-hair: .

In that instant, Red-hair felt that the black-haired youth before his eyes had become entirely powerless. Standing on the roadside playing this kind of thing on speaker went from being immoral to having no other choice. Red-hair himself also transformed from a righteous guy shouting at injustice to a “dead red-hair” who kicked someone while they were down.

Red-hair struggled for a long time before squeezing out a sentence: “Ah… so it’s like that… at least it’s at the doorstep and they didn’t break into your house.”

The black-haired youth’s eyes were vacant: “But they are on my door.”

Just as the black-haired youth was speaking, that strange sound came from his phone again, only this time it was joined by the dialogue of a man and a woman.

“Baby, there’s a camera here, don’t you think it’s exciting?”

“People will really see”

“Haha, just kidding, look, this camera light isn’t even on, it must be a fake.”

“You’re too much! Wait, what if it gets on the door?”

“There’s no one now, it won’t be visible in a while.”

“What if it is visible?”

“So what… don’t stop me! Forgot what your Tiger Brother used to do? If any idiot dares to chirp, I’ll make it so he can’t speak for the rest of his life!”

…

Black-haired youth: “It’s a real camera, it’s just that the light was broken when it was delivered. If I had known someone would show off their repression like this, I definitely would have made the shop exchange it for me, I wouldn’t have been greedy for the 10-yuan red envelope.”

“But, haha, it’s also my fault. I should have known long ago that my luck is terrible. There’s no such thing as a windfall from heaven. I shouldn’t have held onto illusions just for 10 yuan that could only buy two ‘Group-Buy Meals’…”

The black-haired youth muttered to himself like this, his “sense of death” becoming even stronger.

Red-hair also felt more and more uncomfortable all over.

Fortunately, Red-hair suddenly noticed a detail and used it to successfully change the subject: “Are you going to cross the street? The green light is on!”

The black-haired youth turned his head in a daze and glanced: “Ah, yes. Thank you, I’ll be going first.”

“No problem, no problem. You’d better call the police about your house matter and let them handle it. After all, you’re alone and there are two of them, and that guy looks like he has a criminal record… I still have orders, I’m leaving too.”

Red-hair breathed a great sigh of relief, but just as he turned to continue delivering food, he heard a violent sound of impact from behind—

“BANG!!!”

Red-hair instinctively stopped and looked back.

Then, he saw—

An enthusiastic middle-aged lady across the street was pointing at a black car and cursing loudly:

“Can’t you see such a big red light?! Even if you have a matter as big as the heavens today, you aren’t allowed to leave! Wait for the police to come! I’m going to testify that you’re the one who caused the accident and hit someone!”

“Such a good kid! You people really have no conscience…”

Red-hair, seeing the black-haired youth in a pool of blood: !!!

Red-hair stopped delivering food. He rushed back at his fastest speed and even, quite illegally, dialed 120 (emergency services) with one hand.

“I’m at the intersection between Xihu Street and Renmin Road. Someone was hit by a car running a red light, probably drunk driving… I’ll wait right here! Hurry up!”

Damn, although legally it had nothing to do with him, if the guy died just like that, he would have a psychological shadow for the rest of his life!!!

When Jiu Li was hit by the car, what he thought was—

It finally happened.

His luck had been bad since he was a child, always encountering strange things.

But when he and his grandmother lived together, his grandmother would tell him:

“Little Chestnut (Jiu Li) can’t always be so pessimistic! Even though in just half a year you met with 3 car accidents, 1 explosion, 5 missing manhole covers, 2 kidnapping attempts, and 10 falling objects from heights… none of them actually turned into an accident, which proves our Little Chestnut is very lucky!”

Jiu Li always said he didn’t understand, and Grandma would say: “Put your heart in your belly (relax), Little Chestnut! You don’t have a rotten life, you are the Legendary Hard-to-Kill King! Your life is as tough as high-carbon high-chromium mold steel!”

Grandma’s words were too crude, resulting in Jiu Li frantically searching “What exactly has the Internet brought to China’s elderly” after every conversation.

But undeniably, Jiu Li used to rely on Grandma’s words to endure.

But later, the always-smiling Grandma died. Now, Jiu Li was going to die too.

Death is death, fine. Moreover, maybe because the hit was too hard, he didn’t feel any pain at all.

Just, this delivery guy shouldn’t be so nervous. Didn’t he say he was going to deliver food? Won’t he get fined for being late? And a lady in purple… they don’t know him, there’s no need to be so emotional. If they get sick from anger, that… evil driver might not… care.

“Wait, the ambulance is coming soon, hold on, hold on!”

“Student? Don’t scare Auntie!”

“Student!!!”

So noisy, really so noisy.

But… maybe he should hold on and see if he can live, just for the sake of—

“SCREECH!” “BANG!” The drunk driver who ran the red light didn’t know what he was thinking and returned to the car. He turned the steering wheel and stepped on the gas toward the roadside. Because he was drunk, he hit the traffic light pole.

“DONG!” The traffic light above fell down and smashed onto Jiu Li’s chest.

“BANG!” The drunk driver reversed and hit a passing small car.

“Puchi.” A part from the small car flew off and stabbed Jiu Li once more.

Jiu Li, who felt like he had entered a battlefield after being hit by two more projectiles: .

Damn, God is reaching out to slap the smiling man.

Jiu Li finally understood; he shouldn’t have gone out today.

Because today, the whole world wanted to kill him.

Thinking that if he didn’t die now, there was a possibility the arriving ambulance might skid and crush him to death, Jiu Li quickly closed his eyes.

…

He opened them again.

Jiu Li’s vision was blocked by something; he couldn’t see any picture at all.

However, he could feel that he seemed to be soaked in water, and a bunch of information appeared in his brain.

The information was obtained directly when he accidentally touched the “World Laws” at the brink of death. Jiu Li felt the accuracy should be no problem.

So now, there was some good news and some bad news.

Good news: Jiu Li had inexplicably traveled to another world. This body wasn’t crushed, nor was it shot twice.

Bad news: Jiu Li had no system, no original memories, and didn’t know where he had traveled to.

He only knew that this world had been waiting for him for a long time. In order to make him die and come over quickly, it had crazily interfered with his original fate line, making him unlucky and playing with him like a stray dog.

Now, Jiu Li had finally arrived.

So logically, there should be another piece of good news at this time: “Jiu Li’s bad luck buff is gone,” and Jiu Li could try to find joy in sorrow.

But in reality, at this moment, Jiu Li was just—

Ughhhhhhh it would have been better to just die earlier!

He did often read time-travel (isekai) novels, but he didn’t want this kind of thing to happen to him at all! The difference between this kind of forced travel without even a greeting and a kidnapping case is that there is no difference!

God! He’ll never call him “Grandpa” again! Because the other party didn’t care about him at all, letting other worlds treat him like a grandson!

How many bad things did he do in his past life to meet such retribution in this life—!!!

Thinking about it, Jiu Li really wanted to cry, but he held it back.

Because he realized that in this state, if he kept crying, he would be soaked in eye-water and snot-water.

Jiu Li wasn’t very good at biology or chemistry; he didn’t know if this was healthy, but he felt it would definitely be very messy.

Decided—let’s first see if the thing blocking his vision can be taken off.

Having made up his mind, Jiu Li slightly raised his hand.

Just as he was feeling lucky that his arm movement wasn’t restricted, in the next second, a voice that sounded like it had phlegm stuck in its throat suddenly exploded in his ear—

“Chotto mate, Satō-kun, kare no te, chotto ugoita?” (Wait a moment, Sato-kun, did his hand move a bit?)

Jiu Li: …

Jiu Li, who had a bit of linguistic talent and had self-taught Japanese because he liked reading manga: …………

He didn’t dare to move anymore, but his heart started screaming.

Ahhhhhhh! He knew it! He knew this world wouldn’t let him go easily!

Every time he thought his life had reached rock bottom, reality would tell him, “Fooled you, there’s actually a basement underneath”!

The proof was—it was fine to travel to another world, but why are there Japanese people here?!