Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

”Gifts, I’ll prepare them with care.”

Lin Yu looked at Sleepless Sky Huoxing, then spoke again, ”But... what kind of gift would be considered qualified for you?”

”One hundred million in cash.”

Sleepless Sky Huoxing answered immediately.

Hearing this answer, Lin Yu was briefly taken aback, ”Respected Sleepless Sky Huoxing, Your Excellency, sorry, I’m broke.”

”You, a Peerage Noble, asking for money from someone like me who doesn’t even have a title, and a hundred million at that, is that appropriate?”

Lin Yu asked, and Sleepless Sky Huoxing showed a regretful expression.

”Ah, so that’s not possible?”

”Of course not, I’m just a ’Detective’, not a wishing machine!”

Lin Yu said helplessly.

Sleepless Sky Huoxing thought for a moment, ”Then how about giving me something this world doesn’t have?”

”Fairness and justice?”

Lin Yu asked.

”Are you mocking Sleepless City... admittedly this city is terrible, but in that regard, I am a Peerage Noble who benefits the most among the vested interests, why on earth would I want that kind of thing,” Sleepless Sky Huoxing made a peace sign, ”What I actually meant was to get me... bring me some ’marine life’.”

”That’s possible, but it won’t make it in time for your birthday, I can bring you a couple of fish next time... do you want them raw or cooked?”

Lin Yu asked.

”Alive, I’ve read books from your side... I really like orcas, get me a pair.”

Sleepless Sky Huoxing said seriously.

Lin Yu was greatly shocked, ”I thought you were a smart person, but it turns out you’ve also retained the part where Peerage Nobles aren’t quite right in the head?”

”Do you know how big orcas are? To get them alive, where are you going to keep them?”

After meeting Sleepless Sky Huoxing, directly sensing her intelligence and witnessing her control over Gray Three Streets, he had once thought that the evaluations of Sleepless Sky Huole and the Sleepless Night Family Head regarding Sleepless Sky Huoxing’s ”eccentricity” and ”naivety” were not accurate...

Now it seems, they weren’t completely inaccurate either.

”You seem to be thinking something very rude.”

Sleepless Sky Huoxing pouted.

Lin Yu nodded, ”I was thinking that the rumors I heard about you before don’t seem to be completely untrue.”

”Which part? The ones that say I look like a lunatic or an idiot, like this?”

As Sleepless Sky Huoxing spoke, she stuck out her tongue, tilted her head, spread her hands by her face, and made her eyes look in different directions, ”Wah! I’m Sleepless Sky Huoxing!”

Lin Yu didn’t deny it, ”But overall, you’re still pretending, right?”

”Are you testing me for my dear sister Huole,” Sleepless Sky Huoxing leaned on the table, slurping her tongue back into her mouth, ”To be honest, those rumors aren’t completely untrue either... compared to normal people, normal nobles, I probably should indeed be considered someone with a few screws loose.”

Sleepless Sky Huoxing said nonchalantly, ”I do want them to think I’m ’abnormal’, but I haven’t deliberately pretended to be crazy or foolish for that purpose—it’s just that in front of family and other nobles, I act on instinct, do whatever comes to mind, follow my whims a bit, and in their eyes, that’s being crazy.”

”For example, eating only what I like at banquets without saying a word, not wearing formal gowns but wearing work clothes popular in the Outer City to family meetings, kicking some Duke’s annoying son into a pond, going wherever I want when traveling and walking on the street instead of taking a carriage...”

Hearing this, Lin Yu gave a slight nod.

It sounded like the things Sleepless Sky Huoxing did were just her disliking the red tape of the nobility.

He felt a bit of sympathy for Sleepless Sky Huoxing—simply because she didn’t act according to the ”noble” standards and rules, everyone thought she was weird, abnormal, and even the wise Sleepless Night Family Head disliked her for it.

”...putting laxatives in the Sorenson Family’s kitchen, releasing their modified biological weapons after infiltrating the Divine Power Group, electrifying Sleepless City’s public swimming pools, randomly knocking out nobles and stuffing them into cars to be dumped in the Great Wasteland.”

”Wait, the things at the beginning and the end are not on the same level at all,” Lin Yu reacted, ”Those things you did are indeed very abnormal!”

He had almost forgotten that the girl before him wasn’t meeting him through normal channels, but was seeing him in the Sleepless City underground, as the ”Fairy Queen” of Gray Three Streets—with piles and piles of corpses even placed around them.

Just from this point alone... Sleepless Sky Huoxing absolutely could not be called harmless.

Hearing Lin Yu’s words, Sleepless Sky Huoxing laughed heartily.

”Yahaha, alright, I admit I am indeed abnormal,” she made peace signs with both hands again, her smile brilliant, ”But there’s no helping it, it’s my nature—just like birds must fly, fish must swim, raccoons must eat trash! Yay!”

”Sleepless Sky Huoxing is born to chase chaos, the unknown, things lacking certainty, and feels genuine joy for it.”

Listening to Sleepless Sky Huoxing’s lighthearted words, Lin Yu let out another sigh.

”Alright, but why are you still being this ’Fairy Queen’ in Gray Three Streets, is it just for fun?”

”It’s not just for fun, really,” Sleepless Sky Huoxing said, ”I never hide my true nature at home, mainly to make Mother not consider me as an heir—to be honest, among the siblings, only I completely inherited Mother’s terrifying alchemy talent.”

She said softly, then raised a finger, plucking twice in the air as if strumming invisible strings.

Immediately, those neatly arranged corpses collectively turned their heads and spoke in unison.

”Just like this, by the time I was eleven, I had already mastered four Superior-level Alchemy techniques, one Supreme Alchemy technique, and developed my own alchemical system.”

The corpses spoke for Sleepless Sky Huoxing.

”Manipulating corpses?”

Lin Yu looked at Old Zheng on his lap and voiced his question.

Old Zheng also responded in a low voice, ”It’s different from my principle. I do it by ’manipulating the residual soul’s’ consciousness left in the body, it’s essentially Hypnosis—Mind control, you know?”

”But this girl, if I’m not mistaken... she probably uses alchemy to refine dead people’s bodies into some kind of alchemical item,” at this point, Old Zheng paused, then seemed to sense something, ”Oh, wait... no, no no!”

”She hasn’t refined these dead people into alchemical items, but has refined them into ’parts’ of her own body—in other words, these corpses are her external organs, just like arms and legs!”

”Sleepless Sky Huoxing... truly a stunning genius!”