[Ghost Lamp] The dark humor of hell

All misfortunes are built on the opposite side of luck.If people all over the world encountered the same things as the dark knight who was thrown into the carriage by the brave to hang up on the journey to defeat the dragon, then there would be no such thing as luck or misfortune in the world.

Are luck and happiness the same concept?

Shi Lantern looked at the recently fattened belly of his younger brother who was sent to the world to bring misfortune to people, and he could say with certainty that the gap between luck and happiness is like the gap between an ordinary manga artist and Mr. Fujin. Arriving on time without knowing it, the latter is willing to bring happiness to his believers only after he loses badly in mahjong.

Stone Lantern stood in the bookstore holding the manga in his hand, comparing the manga in his hand with the drafts made many years ago.

A certain year later, in this world——

"Speaking of which, Lord Ghost Lantern, you will never grow old."

The former land god is now doing the work of the little sleeve master. Shi Denglong didn't complain about the change of job content. On the contrary, after going to heaven for a while, he was very worried about the future of his younger brother who became a human.

The ghost lamp visits the present world almost once a month. This seems to be a tradition that started when Hell was built. Today, it is very rare to come to the area where the stone lantern brothers are in charge. He couldn't help sighing when he saw the ghost lamp that had been there for ten years.

"Because all the daily comics follow the model of Ms. Conch, people will not grow old, and I am no exception. Daily comics that do not follow the model of Ms. Conch will end up performing lastdance like sketd○nce."

The area in charge of the stone lantern has been blocked for a long time due to the otaku murder that happened some time ago, but it still cannot weaken its sacred influence on outsiders. At the request of Ms. Lilith from Hell, I brought the latter to a certain light novel signing event.

"Ah, the ticket signing was delayed. It seems that Mr. Tanigawa won a lot of money playing mahjong with some manga artist, so he doesn't want to go back to work for the time being."

Stone Lantern heard their intentions, glanced at the blonde beauty wearing a small dress not far behind Ghost Lantern, and expressed his helplessness for the mahjong quartet: "However, the 70-page short story that Mr. Enomiya recently drew is on sale. Because of space issues, it is divided into upper, middle and lower, do you want to go and have a look?"

"Ms. Enomiya is still hardworking as always. Is he healthy? Hell needs an employee like him very much."

"I don't think it's a problem. He was posting his wife and then his sister on Twitter before."

The stone lantern instantly broke the ghost lamp's idea of ​​trying to drag him to hell, which is already a rare conscience in this world.I turned my head to change the subject and change the other person's attention, but saw Lilith walking back.

"Huh? Lord Ghost Lantern, who is this little brother?"

She was full of curiosity about the blocked pedestrian street. After looking around for a long time and knowing the general process, she lost interest in science. Lilith, who walked towards the ghost lamp, held a small umbrella in her hand and stood in front of the slightly taller stone lantern. He lowered his waist and looked at the other party with big pomegranate eyes.

"The main job of hell's practitioners in this world is to bring misfortune to those who are destined to be unlucky." Ghost Lantern briefly introduced.

"Unlucky?"

"The book of life and death of King Yan Mo records everyone's luck value. According to these values, practitioners in hell will do things around people that are in line with each other's luck value. Generally speaking, it is like the luck value in ordinary RPG games. Work behind the scenes, but you don’t need to be paid in RPG.”

After listening to the introduction of the ghost lamp, Lilith seemed to still be a little puzzled, so she reached out and poked the expressionless stone lantern on the head.

"It turns out that there are specialized practitioners doing this kind of thing on your side. It's great. God's bad old man on our side doesn't want to hand over any work to hell. Lord Satan has been so free recently that he likes to dress up as a nurse—"

She didn't like the arrogant old man in her own mythology, Lilith casually exposed Satan's recent interest, stood up and continued to ask: "How should luck be affected?"

"When punishing in hell, the penalty amount will be reduced by a corresponding proportion as appropriate, and the reduced part will affect the luck value in the next life. Then give the practitioners in hell a lucky value table and let them follow the workflow."

Ghost Lantern looked around, and only in this kind of place would he not be watched without putting his horns away or changing into a suit.After confirming that he would not be suspected of walking on the street as a prototype, he looked at the stone lantern, which answered knowingly.

"Actually, it depends on the situation. For people with super lucky values, when they buy snacks, the quality will always be higher than the standard quality."

"Well—is there a division of degrees of misfortune?"

"..." Stone Lantern was silent for a while, "From 'when buying snacks, always exceed the standard quality' to 'when buying snacks, there are only packaging bags'."

"This is completely made up just now." The smile on her mouth turned into a wry smile, and Lilith looked at the ghost lamp on the other side, hoping that the latter would give a correct answer to satisfy her curiosity.

Ghost Lantern rubbed his chin: "This kind of thing will be slightly different according to the personality of each practitioner. I have a colleague who has been working in this world for two years. His standard is from 'even if the class time is up, don't wake up and oversleep. The student 'to' insisted on not letting him sleep even though he was not in class'."

"Rather than saying it's slightly different, it's fundamentally different. Besides, the former is not considered lucky at all. Oversleeping is the beginning of a tragic day for students."

Unexpectedly, the one who complained turned out to be the stone lantern that was the point of trouble. He looked around for a while, and finally covered his mouth with one hand mysteriously, looking at the ghost lantern: "Actually, Mr. Ghost Lantern, recently my younger brother is in the supermarket every day in the name of work." Stealing food has made him unable to walk. For his health's sake, I think it would be better for you to set a standard."

"I have also considered this aspect, but because everyone's personality is different, so everyone's experience is not the same. If you want to set a standard of misfortune that suits everyone in this case, the data may be too huge. Your Majesty I was worried about the acceptance of practitioners, so it was denied the moment it was released."

After pondering for a while, Ghost Lantern looked around. The people on the street were carrying various colorful paper bags. It was obvious what was in the paper bags because of the particularity of this area: Regarding the issue of Shi Lantern’s younger brother, I think you can correct his three views. I think the two standards of “you always get something as a gift when you buy goods” and “the goods you buy are always broken by brats” are good. "

"No, Lord Ghost Lantern, please think about what will happen to him if your collection is damaged by a brat?"

"..." Ghost Lantern imagined for a while, and his face gradually became gloomy, "Send it to Yan Podu in Abi Hell, and be tied to a stick by Shan Lao every day to parade around the streets of Hell."

This person is not a ghost, but a devil.The stone lantern took a step back expressionlessly, brother, you must never sneak into the house of the dead house in the future, the dead house is a kind of creature that can go all out for the figure of a beautiful girl, for the sake of God's fate, stay away from them.

"So I didn't see Brother Shi Lantern, what happened?" Ghost Lantern lowered his head, but what he asked shocked Shi Lantern. Thinking about it carefully, his brother probably didn't sneak into Ghost Lantern's collection warehouse before. What will happen to my brother?

"Hmm, do you have a younger brother?"

After learning about the policies of the Eight Great Hells, she lost interest. Lilith focused her attention on the younger brother of the stone lantern who was an elementary school student, and looked around with a small umbrella in her hand.Shi Lantern's body is not big, and his younger brother should not exceed the age of elementary school, his height is easily covered by the flow of people.

"Yes, there is a younger brother who is stupid and nervous and causes trouble everywhere. I have notified him to gather here today, and I don't know where he has gone." Shi Lantern smacked his lips, showing his love for his younger brother. Still disgusted.

"Too much interference in my brother's private life will be annoying, Stone Lantern."

Lilith stroked his disheveled hair with emotion, Stone Lantern frowned, and instead of letting the opponent's hand wreak havoc on his head, he complained seriously.

"Elementary school students don't even have a private life to speak of."

"No, no, the diary I wrote when I was in elementary school is even more unsightly than the one written in the second grade of junior high school, especially the observation diary arranged by the teacher during the summer vacation. Think about how I once recited the contents in front of the whole class. Showing this history to the dead can cause a lot of damage to their spirits." The ghost lamp denied it based on the current situation in hell.

"No matter when the diary is read to others, it's a kind of extreme shame PLAY, Mr. Ghost Lantern is really a bad taste."

Feeling that Lilith took her hand back, Stone Lantern smoothed some messy curly hair, muttered something in a low voice, looked up and saw Ghost Lantern's intriguing eyes, felt bad, hurriedly wanted to change the topic, and took them to Enki by the way Go to the place where Mr. Gong's short stories are released.

"Ah, brother."

After walking a few steps, when he passed a small alley, the very familiar voice of the stone lantern came from the alley. He turned his head slightly to look over, and found a younger brother who was dangling around in the hand of a maid.

Looking at the signboard next to it, there are a few big words "Maid Cafe" on it, the stone lantern instantly understood, turned his head and continued to move forward.

"Brother, brother, don't be so heartless, help me—"

"...Well, Brother Stone Lantern?" Lilith stopped and looked back and forth between the two, and tentatively asked the stone lantern in front of her.

"This is the latest 'big brother scam', in addition to 'mother scam' or 'grandpa scam' and a series of scams pretending to be relatives and friends to get money, please be careful if you encounter Miss Lilith."

Ruthlessly classifying the person who asked for help as a "fraudster", Shi Denglong explained without turning his head, until a shadow shrouded in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw the maid who was a little taller than him looking seriously at him with her arms folded. with him.

Then he pointed at the stone lantern brother who was swinging on a swing in the alley: "He broke the Shimatsu doll in the store, are you his relative?"

"……no."

"It doesn't matter how you look at it, whether it's from the voice or the appearance."