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Chapter 25 - Chapter 25: Big Brother

Han stepped through the heavy doors into the Mental Health & Emotional Restoration Wing, and the air changed instantly. The bright hospital lights dimmed to a soft, calming blue. The usual chatter and beeping monitors faded into a heavy silence. The walls were padded in pale colors, and the nurses here wore slightly longer skirts and higher collars, but even that couldn't hide how beautiful they all were.

Every woman in the corridor stopped what she was doing the second she saw him. Clipboards dropped. Eyes widened. A few of them actually whispered quiet prayers under their breath. Han felt the familiar rush of attention, but this wing felt different. The stares here were hungrier, more desperate.

'This place is full of women who already worship men like crazy,' he thought as he walked. 'If I want to fuck Tsunade anytime soon, I'm gonna need my soul stronger. The God Subsystem said worship makes me grow faster. Should I start collecting worshippers right now? Right here?'

Just as the thought finished, a bright golden window popped up right in front of his face.

[Congratulations, User! Your soul has grown a little stronger.]

Han blinked hard. "What the—?"

He stopped walking. Ino and Sakura almost bumped into his back. The window stayed there, glowing proudly.

'First worshiper? Already? Who the hell—'

Before he could finish the thought, a loud crash echoed from the common room ahead. A bed rattled. Chains jingled. Then a wild, excited voice screamed down the hallway.

"BIG BROTHER!!!!"

A girl with bright blue hair streaked with pink came flying around the corner like a missile. Her hair was worn long and straight, with blunt bangs framing her face. Her eyes were huge and sparkling with pure obsession. Heavy decorative restraints dangled from her wrists, but she didn't seem to care. She ran straight at Han with her arms wide open, drool already slipping from the corner of her mouth.

"Big Brother came to visit me! Big Brother is finally here! I've been such a good girl waiting for you! I didn't touch myself once today just like you would want! Big Brother! Big Brother! Big Brother!!!"

Ulti.

Han recognized her instantly. Same crazy energy, same wild personality from One Piece, only now she had locked onto him like he was her one and only big brother.

Ino and Sakura moved at the same time. Ino grabbed Ulti's left arm in a perfect lock while Sakura caught her right. They stopped her just inches away from crashing into Han's chest. Ulti kept struggling happily, kicking her legs in the air.

"Let me go! Let me hug Big Brother! I've been waiting so long! Big Brother smells so nice! I want to worship him right now!"

Sakura's eyes widened in shock. "Master, who is this girl?"

Ino kept her grip firm, voice tight. "She's fast. And… really obsessed."

Han stared at the wild blue-and-pink-haired girl still trying to climb over his bodyguards to reach him. A slow grin started spreading across his face.

Before he could say anything, another woman hurried out from the same room. She had black hair cut short in a blunt bob that framed her jawline perfectly. Her calm violet eyes were sharp behind thin glasses. She wore a doctor's coat over a sleek black dress that hugged her elegant figure. The name tag on her coat read "Dr. Doll – Head of Mental Restoration."

She bowed quickly, looking genuinely embarrassed.

"Master Mayor, I am so sorry! Patient 047—Ulti—has been in one of her episodes since this morning. I tried to keep her in the common room, but the moment she sensed a strong male presence she… well, you saw."

Dr. Doll straightened up, adjusting her glasses with a calm but apologetic smile.

"She has developed a very intense brother-complex fixation. We have been treating it with mana therapy, but nothing has worked yet. Please forgive the disturbance."

Ulti was still squirming happily in Ino and Sakura's grip, eyes locked on Han like he was the sun. Then, in the blink of an eye, her expression flipped completely.

Her cute, adoring smile twisted into pure rage. Her eyes narrowed, teeth bared like an animal.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TWO BITCHES TOUCHING MY BIG BROTHER?!" she screamed, voice suddenly loud and violent. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL RIP YOUR ARMS OFF AND FEED THEM TO THE FISH! BIG BROTHER IS MINE! MINE ALONE!"

She thrashed wildly, trying to headbutt Ino while still calling Han "Big Brother" in the same breath. The switch from adorable little-sister mode to murderous aggression happened so fast it left everyone stunned.

Ino and Sakura tightened their holds, clearly surprised by how strong the small girl actually was.

Dr. Doll sighed softly. "As you can see… she flips between extreme adoration and extreme aggression without warning. It's part of her condition."

Ulti's face instantly switched back to pure sweetness the moment she looked at Han again.

"Big Brother… don't let them touch you… only I can touch Big Brother… I'll be your best little sister forever… I'll kill anyone who tries to take you away…"

Han looked at the two doctors—Tsunade standing quietly beside him and Dr. Doll looking professional but worried—then back at the wild blue-and-pink-haired girl who was now smiling at him with hearts in her eyes while still threatening to murder his bodyguards.

A perfect idea clicked into place.

He turned to Tsunade and Dr. Doll with a calm, confident smile.

"I have a solution. I'll take her home with me."

Both women blinked at the same time.

Tsunade spoke first, voice careful. "Master Mayor… Ulti is one of our most unstable patients. Taking her outside the hospital could be dangerous for her and—"

Dr. Doll finished the sentence smoothly. "—and for the city. Her episodes can become quite… intense."

Han didn't budge. "I understand the risks. But I have my own ways of handling her. She'll be safer with me than locked up here. Consider it part of my official inspection. I'm taking her."

The two doctors exchanged a quick look. Tsunade opened her mouth to argue again, but something in Han's calm, unshakeable gaze made her pause. Dr. Doll lowered her eyes respectfully.

"If… if that is your wish, Master Mayor, we will prepare the transfer papers immediately."

Ino and Sakura stared at their master in open surprise. Ino whispered under her breath, "Master… you really want to bring her home?"

Sakura's eyes were wide. "She's… a lot."

Han just smiled and looked at Ulti, who had stopped struggling and was now staring at him with pure, unfiltered adoration again.

"Yeah," he said quietly, already imagining the day his soul would be strong enough to bind her properly. "She's perfect."

Ulti's face lit up like the sun.

"Big Brother wants me… Big Brother is taking me home… I'll be the best little sister in the whole world! And if anyone tries to stop us I'll smash their heads into the ground!"

Han turned back toward the exit, his two bodyguards still holding the excited blue-and-pink-haired girl between them.

The tour was over.

But his collection had just gained its wildest new member.

(To be continued…)

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