Doomsday Wonderland

Other than the big items, the remaining minor requirements were easy to fulfill.

‘Is there any non-humanoid Special Item that can provide the same result? How about an illusion? I can create an illusion to make people believe that I’m there… No, the target cannot be more than 1 person. This won’t cut it.’

Lin Sanjiu let out a deep sigh and the tea shop owner walked towards her. Lin Sanjiu raised her head and she had no idea why, but she felt that the girl’s face had gotten even redder. Holding a pot, she asked, “Would you like to order something else? If not, there’s another customer waiting for the table.”

“Ah, I’m sorry,” Lin Sanjiu said as she stood up. She had been so engrossed in customizing her Special Item using the [Party B’s Designer] that she had forgotten about the tea. “I’m leaving now.”

Since she needed to wait for two days before she could get her hand on the Special Item, she found a hotel and decided to stay in Black’s Market. Her brows were still tightly creased in the center of her forehead when she threw herself on the bed. She stared at the form for a long while, but she still could not make up her mind.

“Oh my, you can’t force yourself like that. Relax.”

A crisp and sweet voice shattered the silence in the room. Startled, Lin Sanjiu jumped up from the bed and went into her hypersensory state. “Who is that?” she shouted menacingly, glancing around the room.

Soon enough, she felt something small hop onto her bed behind and rustle the sheets.

She spun around, and then, she froze.

A chubby, fingernail-sized, green tea leaf appeared in Lin Sanjiu’s vision. She shouted in disbelief, “A-are you the tea leaf I consumed just now?”

The tea leaf nodded with some difficulty. Like a Japanese Daifuku, it sat obediently on the bed.

“Don’t you know?” It spoke in a low and careful voice as if it was afraid of scaring her again. “I’m the big brother.”

“Hold on. Big brother? That means—”

Lin Sanjiu suddenly realized something before she could finish her sentence. She seemed to have consumed four leaves just now.

“Aren’t you a tea leaf? How can you speak and how did you get out of my stomach?” Lin Sanjiu fired several questions at the tea leaf in front of her.

‘Is it too late for me to spit them out now?’

“Well, we died in your stomach, so we are now what you humans call…a ghost,” another similar voice rang out from the corner of the bed. Lin Sanjiu turned her head to see that another leaf had appeared. Including the two “brothers” behind the second leaf, all four of them looked like mirror images of each other. “But don’t be startled. We are here to accompany you. We are the companion tea leaves, so relieving your loneliness is our mission.”

‘Mission? Companion tea leaves? Am I dreaming?’ Lin Sanjiu began to question her sanity.

“Anyway, we are the smartest amongst the companion tea leaves,” one of the tea leaves said, “If you have something troubling you, you can tell us and we can discuss it together! You know, three…three…What was that phrase already? Ahh, forget about it. You can talk about any of your concerns to us and we will help you out!”

‘Well…that wasn’t helpful at all. Besides, they are called Faint Lights of Wisdom, right?’

Lin Sanjiu let out a sigh and threw the stack of forms on the table. The tea leaf brothers all scattered. They only climbed up the forms and began examining them after the forms had stopped fluttering.

“All right, let’s pool our thoughts together,” Lin Sanjiu said although she did not have much hope of them. “I need a non-humanoid Special Item that can create another version of me. A friendly reminder: no illusions or replicas.”