I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1090 - 1005: Reincarnation and the Marsh of Regret

Chapter 1090: Chapter 1005: Reincarnation and the Marsh of Regret

Tutoring homework... Oh right, before I came in, I promised Anna that I’d watch them do their homework. I was so focused on checking on William and Melanie that I almost forgot about it...

"It’s okay...right?"

Facing his sister’s puzzled look, Leon blinked and somewhat evasively said:

"But compared to the knowledge education from school, I think it’s more important to educate children on character. After all, while knowledge can arm their minds, only a positive and healthy personality can ensure that their life’s ship doesn’t stray off course..."

"..."

After staring at her brother, who was once again delving into educational philosophy, Anna asked quietly:

"So, how’s the homework? How’s the tutoring going?"

"Uh..."

Feeling the sudden pressure emanating from Anna, Leon, who could remain unfazed even under the siege of hundreds of True Gods, couldn’t help but avert his gaze and said hesitantly:

"I can only say that compared to the previous progress, there’s been a groundbreaking change."

"Meaning...you hadn’t started at all before, but now you’ve finally begun writing?"

"Uh..."

"..."

It seems that sending you to tutor homework instead of helping in the kitchen was the right choice... because a room can’t have two boiling pots!

Faced with her brother’s supreme-level educational capabilities, the slender girl pursed her lips repeatedly and finally couldn’t bear to say anything harsh. She just gave him an annoyed look before pushing open the door to the inner room with an expression full of fury.

Melanie: Σ（ﾟдﾟlll）

William: (ーー゛)

The true apex of the Ryan Family’s food chain had arrived. Pushing aside the brand-new workbooks, the brawling William and the Great Demon God Melanie suddenly froze.

Then, under Leon’s difficult-to-maintain gaze, the two future big shots with incredibly deep backgrounds sighed softly, then swiftly turned their heads, pulled down their pants, and assumed a perfectly executed defensive posture.

The other one, however, shot forward from their position with a look of desperate determination, as if seeking life amidst death, and attempted to slide tackle towards the door... only to be grabbed by the collar, flipped over onto a knee, and spanked hard on the butt!

"Ow! Big brother, save me!"

"He can’t save you!"

Yes, your big brother can’t save you, because your big brother did it on purpose.

With master-level acting skills, Leon perfectly portrayed a brother lacking educational ability, successfully inciting Anna’s divine fury. With an apologetic expression, he closed the inner room door.

Big brother is too soft-hearted to bear watching you two get spanked... so big brother won’t look.

After providing Anna with ample educational space, Soft-hearted Leon donned an apron and walked into the kitchen, taking over Anna’s work while humming a tune from a certain blue planet and preparing the ingredients yet to be cooked.

Although Leon’s cooking skills were at least a hundred Veronicas below Anna’s, as someone with a Contamination Value over sixty, wielding a small kitchen knife was not a problem.

In no time at all, he skillfully chopped the fish and vegetables, tossed them into the pot, and covered it. Watching the flames dance on the stove and smelling the aroma wafting through the pot’s vents, Leon couldn’t help but squint contentedly.

Home is still the best.

Even though the younger siblings are not worry-free, with chaos reigning daily, there’s hardly a quiet moment, it’s still far more comfortable than places like the Twelve Kingdoms, the Realm of the Dead, the Dream Realm, the Clearing Bureau, or the Source God Platform.

Especially as his strength grew stronger, the things he encountered became increasingly abstract. He might go on a business trip for over two months and not even see a normal human, making his actions even more abstract. Only these few days at home allowed him to feel like a normal person again.

Although it was already impossible for him to live like a normal person, the warm and lively atmosphere at home still grounded him in a "human" mindset, preventing him from becoming a detached and ruthless higher being who sees people merely as cold numbers.

This modest-sized apartment was his strongest mental anchor and an irreplaceable safe haven.

Warming his hands by the toasty stove, with the sound of Melanie getting spanked echoing in his ears, along with her whimpering cries for mercy, Leon, who had been maintaining a tense state recently, slowly relaxed, and then...

...

"No, something’s still not right!"

As a black mountain goat peeked its head out from Leon’s cufflinks, it solemnly looked towards the inner room where cries were coming from and spoke:

"Your sister is way too strange, you know... that little whippersnapper... isn’t just an ordinary human child, and it’s hard to say if she’s even human. We think she might be... What are you doing?"

"Nothing."

With a bit of a twist of his right hand covered in Origin Color, Leon plucked off the goat head that was disturbing the peaceful atmosphere and tossed it into an empty steaming pot nearby. With deft hands, he began adding water to the pot, saying expressionlessly:

"Go ahead, depending on what you say, I’ll decide whether to add another dish tonight."

"?!!!"

Feeling the annoyance rising in Leon’s heart and realizing he was serious, the black mountain goat’s head shivered and quickly squealed:

"You can’t avoid reality! Your sister isn’t... she definitely is human! Absolutely human!"

Seeing the knife in Leon’s hand retract slightly, the black mountain goat exhaled in relief, then cautiously said:

"But we think, while she’s human in this life, it might not be the same for her past life."

"Past life?"

Leon was a bit stunned by these words, then placed the knife back on the rack and asked with a furrowed brow:

"Isn’t there no reincarnation in the Realm of the Dead? Why would there be a past life?"

"Reincarnation? What’s that?"

"Reincarnation is... um... you could think of it as a conjecture where someone dies and instead of completely returning to the world’s essence, they erase all their previous life memories and are reborn into the world as a human again."

"Oh, oh..." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Nodding with partial understanding, the black mountain goat tried to comprehend:

"Sounds like something akin to the Angels’ Pool of Resurrection or the Demons’ Regret Beach... Oh, by the way, the Regret Beach is the demon version of the Pool of Resurrection at the top of the Heavenly Mountain."

Noticing Leon’s confusion, the black mountain goat explained:

"But the effect of Regret Beach is quite different from the Angels’ Pool of Resurrection. The Pool of Resurrection uses the original consciousness and power to form a new body, whereas Regret Beach absorbs the scattered desires and hatreds of a slain demon to create a new one.

Simply put, the Angels’ pool helps souls, who’ve lost their bodies, regain a physical form, while the demons’ process is the opposite—keeping the body and power, but giving it a new soul."