---o---
"Boss, just tell me who we're cutting down today!"
Fu Zhu rested the Yamato on his shoulder with one hand. Although he currently wore Sunday's refined and scholarly face, he gave off the impression of a complete thug.
Seeing his demeanor, the Clockwork Boy immediately began waving its hands. "Tick-tock! We are not bad guys! We are the partners of justice in the dream town, how can we just randomly cut people down!"
"Justice, you say?"
Fu Zhu stroked his chin for a moment and immediately had an idea. He pulled an Anvil from his inventory and placed it in front of the Clockwork Boy.
"Hold on a second."
Fu Zhu then took out a diamond sword, placed it on the Anvil, and directly renamed it "Justice." He then tossed the newly named diamond sword to the Clockwork Boy.
"Look, what's the name of this sword?"
The Clockwork Boy looked puzzled. It glanced at the blade of the diamond sword; there were no characters engraved on it. But when it held the sword, for some unknown reason, it just felt that the diamond sword in its hand was called [Justice].
"Justice?"
"That's right!"
Fu Zhu crossed his arms and nodded with an appreciative look. "Since we're partners in justice, then naturally, we must use Justice to pass judgment on those evildoers! Let's go!"
Fu Zhu took the lead, striding forward with the Yamato in hand. The Clockwork Boy paused for a moment behind him, and seeing Fu Zhu getting further away, it frantically snapped out of its daze and shouted after him, "Hey, hey, hey! It's this way!"
The person in front silently turned around and followed the Clockwork Boy in the opposite direction.
The place the Clockwork Boy was taking Fu Zhu wasn't far. After a few turns, he could see a group of men in black suits cornering two people in an alley from a distance.
"Tick-tock! Misha is right there!"
The Clockwork Boy shouted and took off running toward them. Fu Zhu also quickened his pace, and it was only when he got closer that he saw a familiar face among the two people cornered by the men in black.
"Black Swan?"
Black Swan, who was surrounded by the men in black, heard someone suddenly say her name. She looked over in confusion, and upon seeing that it was "Sunday," a puzzled expression appeared on her face. She lowered the hand she had quietly raised. She had been about to deal with these nuisances herself, but now the situation seemed a little different.
"Head of Family Sunday."
Even though she was currently surrounded by a group of menacing men in black, Black Swan remained perfectly elegant as she gave Fu Zhu a curtsy through the crowd.
Fu Zhu walked over, also confused. He forcefully pushed aside the men in black blocking his path. With a casual shove, two of the men were sent tumbling to the ground, completely unable to resist. The remaining men immediately glared at him, but after seeing his expression, all their anger instantly dissipated.
"Head of Family Sunday?!"
Fu Zhu shot a cold glance at the group of men. Just as he was about to tell them to scram, he remembered the new skill he had just acquired, the Clockwork Trick. He lowered his head and asked the Clockwork Boy at his feet, "What does the Clockwork Trick do?"
The Clockwork Boy answered very seriously, "It's the power to change people's moods! It can help everyone become happy again!"
While Fu Zhu was getting an explanation from the Clockwork Boy, the men in black looked at each other in confusion. They had heard earlier that today's Head of Family Sunday was acting a bit strange, but they hadn't expected that after just a short while, the already strange Head of Family would suddenly develop delusions.
There was clearly nothing next to him, yet he was talking to thin air.
Meanwhile, Black Swan rested her cheek on her hand, her willow-leaf eyebrows slightly furrowed as she stared at the spot beside Fu Zhu's feet. She could sense a strange existence there, but she couldn't see it.
After understanding the capabilities of the Clockwork Trick, Fu Zhu now knew what to do. He turned his head to look at the group of men in black, and with just a thought, a cartoon-style clock face appeared in his vision, displaying the current emotion of the selected target.
[Surprised]
As he tried to change the current emotion, a long list of options popped up.
From happy, excited, and proud at the top.
To angry, depressed, and despondent at the bottom.
There were even bizarre ones like "giving up," "in heat," and "dazed." There were dozens of emotions for him to choose from.
Curious, Fu Zhu randomly selected "happy." The man in black in front of him suddenly erupted into laughter. Then he selected "sad," and the man's expression instantly changed as he covered his face and began to sob. It was as if his face was a faucet that couldn't be turned off.
"This is kind of interesting."
---o---
A playful urge arose in Fu Zhu, and he went through every single emotion on the list. The result was the man in black in front of him laughing one moment, then clutching his crotch with a flushed face the next, then becoming miserable, and finally, gazing into the distance with a look of someone who had seen through the vanity of the mortal world.
After playing around for a bit, Fu Zhu looked at the man's expression, couldn't help but lean down, and asked the Clockwork Boy, "Is this Clockwork Trick really a proper ability?"
"Tick-tock!" The Clockwork Boy crossed its arms and nodded very seriously. "Of course, it's a proper ability!"
Fu Zhu glanced again at the man in black, who looked like he had entered a post-nut clarity sage mode, and decided to trust his senior on the Path of Trailblaze.
Still, he felt that this ability was a bit improper in his hands. He now had both time-stop and emotion-manipulation abilities. No matter how he looked at it, he felt like he was becoming the blond protagonist from one of those other series.
Fu Zhu shook his head, casting aside these strange thoughts. He casually told the men in black to scram, and they quickly dragged their emotionally unstable companion away as they fled the scene.
After the nuisances were gone, Fu Zhu deactivated his transformation in front of Black Swan, returning to his original appearance.
Seeing the "Sunday" before her suddenly change into Fu Zhu, Black Swan couldn't help but show a look of surprise.
"Mr. Fu Zhu?"
Fu Zhu nodded, acknowledging his identity, but didn't explain how he could transform. Instead, he asked why Black Swan was here.
"Black Swan, how did you two get tangled up with that group of ordinary people?"
"Two?"
Black Swan looked at Fu Zhu with a strange expression, then glanced at Misha's position. Her eyes narrowed into a thoughtful squint before she turned back and explained with a graceful smile.
"It seems, Mr. Fu Zhu, that you can see this existence by my side that I cannot?"
"Hmm?"
Fu Zhu instantly realized the problem. He immediately pointed to the Clockwork Boy following beside him. "Can you see this one next to me?"
Black Swan shook her head honestly. "I cannot. The reason I am here is because I unexpectedly sensed this existence by my side that ordinary people cannot perceive. I was in the middle of studying it when those men in black got in my way."
Fu Zhu immediately understood. Just like Misha and the Clockwork Boy, it seemed only he could see them. Was it because he was a Nameless, or was it because of the MC System?
Fu Zhu suddenly became suspicious of Misha's identity. If the Clockwork Boy was related to Trailblaze, then he...
He opened his minimap, and when he saw the name displayed on Misha's marker, he was stunned.
[Misha (Mikhail)]