The Little Assassin Looks for Mom

In the cyberpunk era, I'm a gaming shut-in living in a tiny apartment in the lower city.

Luckily, my mom's an assassin, so she has no trouble earning enough to support me.

Though she never stays home, runs all over the world, leaves me to be raised by robots, loves playing pranks, and sends me photos of the scenes where she's dealt with, uh, business while I'm eating.

But she's my mom, so I put up with it.

...Not because I plan to use her bounty money to buy the latest game console.

Then one day, she disappeared.

You can't live without your mom... or without money for food.

So I set out to find her.

And, following in her footsteps, I got hired by her employer and did a little trash cleanup along the way.

As you can see, I'm a gaming shut-in who can't do a thing. I can't hold a knife in close combat or keep a gun steady at range, and I've got two deadweight teammates with me, one disabled and one an idiot.

But strangely, every mission gets completed in an unexpected way.

Teammate A is an old colleague of my mom's. She says my mom's spirit is watching over me.

Teammate B is a fan of my mom's. After hearing that, she gets hopping mad and says, "What a jinx! Your mom's keeping an eye on you from the shadows and swooping in to help at the critical moment."

After they've finished arguing, they both yell at me: "Watch the road! Don't drive into the ditch!"

Having an assassin for a mom is great. I even inherited her connections, so I've got company when I run for my life.

As for why I'm running, of course it's because I inherited my mom's enemies too.

Haha, you never know until you leave home. The world outside sure is exciting.

*Superpower progression + cyberpunk road trip story. Written in third person.

*Please read the author's note after Chapter 1 before starting.

Next story I want to write: That Bastard Got Beaten Up by His Senior Sister Again

Cen Jiarong is a medicine cultivator.

To be precise, she's the kind everyone hates and wants to beat up in a branch of medicine cultivation: a poison cultivator.

She dated three men. She poisoned two to death, and the third is lying in a hospital bed, still unconscious.

Everyone around her keeps their distance. Now that nobody will help her test her medicine, Cen Jiarong's already bad temper has gotten even worse.

Until she picks up a dog... No, a young man whose mind regressed to a dog's after he was poisoned.

He survived a potent poison, making him an excellent test subject, so Cen Jiarong kept him.

While working on an antidote, she makes all kinds of failed experimental medicines, poisons with bizarre effects... and terrible food.

The young man eats all of it.

But after eating it, he doesn't react at all. He even complains that it isn't enough and sneaks into her room in the middle of the night to steal more.

Before long, he ends up in her bed.

After that, word often spreads through the sect: That bastard got beaten up by his senior sister again.

Otherwise, how do you explain the handprint on his face, his split lip, and the marks around his neck?

The rumors spread so far that Cen Jiarong starts reflecting on what she's done to him, day and night.

If she treats him this cruelly, won't he hunt her to the ends of the earth once his mind returns?

No, she has to find a way to poison him to death.

Before she can increase the dosage, the young man's family comes looking for him.

The richest sect in the cultivation world, and its sect leader is his mother.

The world's greatest physician is also in the sect, and he's his father.

They'll treat the poison she couldn't cure themselves.

Cen Jiarong nervously wipes away her cold sweat.

Heh. Guess why I didn't cure him.

She moves away overnight, planning to lie low for a few decades.

On her first night in the new house, a figure appears inside.

Cen Jiarong thinks it's a ghost. She lights a lamp and sees something even worse.

The young man stands before her, leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed. His voice is cool, his words laced with murderous intent.

"I hear you picked up a good dog, one who let you hit and scold him and did everything you asked... Why aren't you keeping him anymore?"

*Female lead is not a virgin, male lead is. The female lead is three years older than the male lead.

Theme: The world outside is full of wonders