Goto Ichiri looked at Hoshino Ai and said, "Ms. Hoshino looks small now... and she seems very cute."

Perhaps it was because of this novelty and the fact that mini Hoshino Ai was so cute that she even overcame Goto Ichiri's social phobia for a short period of time, so that now she doesn't sound as timid when speaking as before.

"Does Ichiri like hamsters?"

Li Mo handed the ring to Goto Ichiri and asked her to hold it, freeing his hands to check on Tendoji Sarina's physical condition so that he could use the [Candle] to set the fire later.

Goto Ichiri showed a cute, slimy, and silly smile: "Hehe, because I always feel that hamsters like to hide in dark and narrow places, they feel a bit like me..."

So is this empathy with the hamster? Li Mo subconsciously complained.

"But mice also like to hide in dark and small places, right?"

Hoshino Ai spoke more bluntly.

"...So...I don't really hate rats."

Goto Ichiri said in a low voice, and while taking the ring, he subconsciously wanted to put it back on his finger.

"The ring is for you to hold on to, not wear."

Li Mo said angrily: "Otherwise, Lao Ai will return to your body."

"Oh, yes..."

Goto Ichiri immediately came to his senses and held the ring carefully.

"What a weird name, Lao Ai! Can't you just call me Ai-chan like my fans?"

Hoshino Ai said with a dissatisfied pout.

"You're not swaying, what kind of Ai-chan is that?"

Li Mo refused without hesitation: "Besides, it was quite cute when you used Yili's body to make this expression before, but you are already so old and you are still acting cute like this, don't you feel ashamed?"

"What's that?... Even if you don't call me Ai-chan, you can just call me Hoshino."

Hoshino Ai continued: "And I'm also a tender fifteen-year-old! Why does Asakura-san dote on Pochi-chan so much?"

"Hey, Miss Hoshino is also fifteen years old?!"

Goto Ichiri, also fifteen years old, was shocked: "Ming, Mingming looks so mature... I thought you must be almost twenty years old..."

"Do I look that old..."

Hoshino Ai was also greatly shocked, and she looked even more transparent.

"Yili, be careful with your words. She doesn't have a proper possession right now. She exists almost as a spirit, and is very fragile. If you continue to stimulate her, she might be reduced to ashes before she can even fulfill her obsession."

Li Mo said from the side.

"Yes, sorry!"

Upon hearing this, Goto Ichiri immediately bowed and apologized towards the ring on his hand.

"It's okay. If you think about it, I'm wearing my stage costume right now, and I'm definitely wearing makeup. To make my debut smoother, I tried to look more mature with my makeup. It's only natural that Pochi-chan would misunderstand me..."

Hoshino Ai was quite open-minded and quickly resolved her little emotion: "But Asakura-san over there, have you had enough of touching that little girl?"

"almost."

Li Mo withdrew his hand.

It wasn't as if he had any bad thoughts towards Tendoji Sarina who was still lying unconscious on the hospital bed.

Although the girl looked pretty with delicate features and was a pretty beauty, the sickly look caused by her frail body and illness did not affect her appearance too much, but instead made her look more pitiful.

It's just that I guess the girl hasn't eaten normally for a long time. She is very skinny and bony. It feels uncomfortable to touch, even smaller than normal. She doesn't have the plumpness that girls should have, as their body fat percentage is about 20% higher than boys.

It was naturally impossible for Li Mo to have any evil desires towards such a little girl.

It has been said before that the essence of [Candle] is not flame, but rather a certain designated existence turned into candle-like fuel, and the strange flame that burns it is just a by-product of the spell.

Li Mo's palpation was just a critical state when he was touching the girl's skin, and he relied on his feeling to infer the efficiency of the spell at this part.

After a rough palpation, he was almost certain that the spells near the heart were most efficient and could achieve the highest effect with the lowest magic power consumption.

"ring."

Li Mo waved to Goto Ichiri, who immediately handed over the ring like a lackey - at first she misunderstood and wanted to put the ring on Li Mo's finger, but the latter dodged and tapped her on the forehead. Goto Ichiri then understood and stuffed the ring into Li Mo's hand with a pale face.

"After I place the ring on this child, I will eliminate the illness in her body. However, the accumulated ills and weakness in her frail body could erupt at any time. You must awaken this child's consciousness before that."

Before the final shot, Li Mo warned Hoshino Ai again.

"Hurry up and do it,"

Hoshino Ai didn't hesitate at all: "I've already realized it."

So Li Mo put the ring on the unconscious girl's hand.

The next moment, a strange green flame rose out of thin air and swept towards Tendoji Sarina, engulfing the girl's body in an instant.

Chapter 198 Another story.

Tendoji Sarina felt as if she had had a very long dream.

In the dream, I, who was terminally ill, fell in love with an underground idol named Hoshino Ai.

She first accidentally saw a live video of another fan in a livehouse on YouTube. Later, as she consciously searched, she learned a lot about the underground idol named Hoshino Ai.

Gradually, Tendoji Sarina fell in love with Hoshino Ai, who looked full of energy, always shining on the stage, and had a unique charm that could attract other people's attention, and became her sole supporter.

Being able to grow from nothing to something, from low to high, and gradually watching Hoshino Ai's growth as an underground idol, Tendoji Sarina also has a sense of honor.

The other party's unremitting efforts also gave the girl the motivation to continue with the treatment actively.

In order to make others like the idol she promoted, Tendoji Sarina actively recommended it to others, but others had no interest in her recommendation. They just thought she was just a child showing off her favorite toy, and laughed off her sincere and passionate words.

The only one who had helped her was Dr. Amemiya, who was not her attending physician (Goro Amemiya was an obstetrician and gynecologist and met Sarina during his internship), but was able to calm down and listen to what she said carefully and express his opinions sincerely.

The final result was that Dr. Amemiya, like himself, became the sole supporter of Hoshino Ai.

The two often watch Hoshino Ai's videos and news together, discuss each other's affairs and write letters to each other, and occasionally receive postcards from each other's agencies. The two also agreed that after Tendoji Sarina's condition improves, they will go to the Livehouse where Hoshino Ai often hangs out to watch each other's live performances.

Everything seems to be moving in a good direction.

Hoshino Ai's popularity gradually increased, and she even appeared on TV occasionally. Even though she was not the protagonist, but just the green leaves to support other flowers, it still indicated that she had broken the barriers of underground idols and would soon become a real active idol - in fact, during this period, Hoshino Ai's popularity was already higher than some active idols.

However, not long after that, someone suddenly pulled out a kitchen knife and killed Hoshino Ai in full view of everyone at the handshake meeting after the live.

It is said that the criminal was an extreme fan of another idol, who had important performance resources snatched away by Hoshino Ai, so she cried in the fan group. It was originally just a means to gain sympathy and consolidate fans, but it was taken by extreme fans as evidence that Hoshino Ai suppressed her, which eventually led to the tragedy.

Although the gangster was quickly subdued by security guards and Hoshino Ai was immediately sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, it was too late.

Finally, this rising star, like a meteor, left a brilliant trail in the night sky and then disappeared completely.

After Hoshino Ai's death, Tendoji Sarana felt that a corner of her world seemed to have collapsed.

The condition began to worsen without any warning, and the girl's body was tortured by pain all the time. It was not just the pain on the surface, but a stabbing pain that seemed to be carving into every inch of her bone marrow.

Dr. Amemiya's departure from the hospital after completing his internship was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Although he later returned here on his own application, Tendoji Sarina's health had deteriorated to the point where she could die at any time.

Later on, the girl was in a coma all day and all night, and she was always in a trance and half asleep and half awake.

Not long ago, when the pain that was about to swallow everything came over her, Tendoji Sarina had a premonition or understanding:

I was probably dying.

The story should have ended here.

But it's not over yet.

When Tendoji Sarina came to her senses, she found herself floating in darkness.

Loneliness, fear, despair...all the negative emotions made the girl curl up into a small ball. Her consciousness was not particularly clear, and she was still in a daze. She hoped that everything would pass quickly. Even if she really had to face death, it would be better than this endless torture.

But at this moment, a pearly light appeared in the dark space.

Hoshino Ai emerged from the light.

Was this a hallucination before her death? Tendoji Sarina thought so.

The other party was like an older sister, and she kept talking to the girl. After Sarina sobered up a little, she sang her best songs with her. Then she also listened quietly to Sarina talking about her sadness and sorrow.

They are like a pair of close friends who have never met each other but are extremely familiar with each other and depend on each other.

I don’t know how long it took before Hoshino Ai talked to her seriously.

But all of this disappeared along with the chaotic dream-like memory, leaving only one thing that Tendoji Sarina remembered extremely clearly.

"My life ends here, but you are different, Sarina. Don't worry, everything will be fine."

Hoshino Ai's pearly body gradually crumbled, dissipating into countless glittering stardust-like powders. "Your life has just begun. I remember you once said in a letter that you wanted to be an idol like me, right? If that's the case... then you must become the best idol possible. Stand on top of the Budokan and Tokyo Dome for me and help me see the scenery from the highest point. Isn't it as beautiful and magnificent as what we wrote in the letter?"

When Tendoji Sarana woke up from her deep sleep, she found Dr. Amemiya lying beside her bed, talking in her sleep about "frog..." and so on.

After waking up Dr. Amemiya, he said excitedly that she had been in a coma for several days and took the girl for a physical examination.

The result was surprising. The girl's terminal illness was inexplicably cured during her coma during these few days.

This discovery shocked the medical community on the island. Many people studied her for a long time but could not find the reason for her recovery. In the end, they could only attribute it to special cases such as her special physical constitution.

Of course, the girl was far from healthy—her body was extremely weak, and her muscles had atrophied from prolonged inactivity, requiring lengthy rehabilitation—but just as the idol she had pushed in her dream had said, everything would be fine.

There was also a small episode. When packing up one day, Sarina discovered that several of her treasured posters and photos of Hoshino Ai were missing. After searching everywhere without success, she could only give up in confusion.

As for the girl, after she recovered, she changed her name to Ruby Hoshino, became an idol with the full support of doctor Goro Amemiya, and relied on her own efforts and a little bit of luck to step into the martial arts hall and become a true super idol. That is another story.

Chapter 199: Lao Ai is probably really dead.

On the way back to Chiba, Goto Ichiri sat in the back seat of the flying car. He raised his head several times, looking at Li Mo through his cherry-colored bangs, wanting to say something, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

Li Mo also saw the girl's hesitant look through the rearview mirror, so he simply asked: "Yili, do you have anything to say?"

"That, that..."

Goto Ichiri was startled at first, then hesitated for a moment before asking hesitantly, "Xing, Miss Hoshino... has she really become a Buddha?"

"How is that possible? I've already said it before. If 'meeting Tendouji Sarina' isn't her true obsession, then if she doesn't get rid of it the moment she wakes up, she's pretty much doomed."

Li Mo spoke in a relaxed tone, as if discussing something as insignificant as going out for barbecue tonight. "Unfortunately, judging by the final result, Hoshino Ai's obsession wasn't what she thought it was. Now, her ghostly form of thoughts has likely been devoured and assimilated by Tendouji Sarina's soul. That child might be able to acquire some of Hoshino Ai's talents in the future."

"how so……"

Goto Ichiri sat in his seat blankly, looking a little sad.

Seeing that Goto Ichiri seemed genuinely sad, Li Mo stopped teasing her and instead comforted her, "Actually, Hoshino Ai must have anticipated this outcome. I guess her obsessions were more abstract, like 'wanting to become human,' 'exploding everything in her current form,' or 'wanting to know what love is,' rather than specific things. After realizing how difficult it was to achieve, she chose this relatively easy-to-accept ending."

Then Goto Ichiri's expression became even more uncomfortable.

"Ms. Hoshino... she really disappeared..."

"That's not entirely true."

Li Mo suddenly said.

"what?"

The girl raised her little face and looked at the smirk on Li Mo's face in the rearview mirror.

He held the steering wheel with one hand, and took out something like a postcard from his pocket with the other hand, and handed it to Goto Ichiri without looking back.

Goto Ichiri was caught off guard and was hit on the forehead by the postcard. He let out a small cry of pain, but he quickly took it.

When he took a look at it, Goto Ichiri realized that it was a peripheral product from Hoshino Ai's idol period. It looked like a postcard, but it was actually a signed photo of a special size.

"This, this is..."

She had some impression of this photo. She remembered that Li Mo took it from the pile of Hoshino Ai peripherals of Tendoji Sarana after healed her. In addition to this photo, he seemed to have also taken a poster, which was now rolled into a stick shape and placed on the passenger seat.

But this was not what surprised the girl.

What really shocked Goto Ichiri was that when she took the photo and looked at it carefully, Hoshino Ai in the photo suddenly blinked at her.

"It's haunted! It's a paranormal phenomenon!"

She said this in shock, and was almost scared to throw the photo out of the car window.

"What are you talking about, a guy who has been possessed by a ghost for so long..."

Li Mo was amused by her reaction.

"But, but this photo..."

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