Chapter 121 Chapter 121

Ming Chong picked up the auspicious leaf with a stem and veins that faintly flashed with light, and appeared behind the curious man and patted him on the shoulder.

"A Chong?" The curious man turned around as if awakened from a dream, and a potted plant was immediately stuffed into his arms. He quickly took it with his empty hand.

The incident of the phantom elder, companion, and stage-by-stage growth mission target had left the curious person feeling lost.

——What else do you want to do next?

——If Orobasi and A Chong leave one after another, what should I do, or what other goal should I choose?

However, when Ming Chong suddenly appeared before him, he quickly put aside his chaotic thoughts, a gentle and bright smile immediately appeared on his face, and he asked softly, "Why are you here?"

With a loud "bang!!!", Ming Chong's fist landed on his head. The curious man's face was screwed up with grievance, and he had no idea what was going on.

"You're asking me?" Ming Chong, seeing that he had no guilt at all, pretended to act and accused him with a plausible argument, "Why don't you just say that you abandoned me and ran away?"

As he spoke, he fiercely crushed the curious person's head, "You really are my good boy!"

The poor curious person held the light cone of "Bedtime Story" in one hand to block his aching head, and held Gilly with the other hand, shrinking his round head and unable to fight back.

Taking advantage of the fact that he was left at Niwa's doorstep, Ming Chong severely criticized the curious person for his running away behavior.

Awang behind him quickly noticed a gaze that made his skin feel like needles pricking. As Yae Shenzi approached, a person jumped out from behind her in small steps.

The craftsman who was unfortunately blocked in the workshop by Yae Shenzi took a deep breath, put his face close to Awang, and looked at him with a sharp gaze, "Awang, why are you here?!"

Recalling the scene he had just witnessed, and considering his experience with the miko, Kinjiro wished he could blind himself and pretend he hadn't seen anything. He felt his vision darken, unable to see the way forward. "Do you have to rush to the front and paint a picture in such a complicated situation?"

Not to mention A Chong and the strange person who are well known for their extraordinary background in Tadashi Sand, just the black smoke coming out of the Myokage furnace core made Kinjiro feel that there was something weird about the whole thing afterwards.

Not to mention that Kinjiro also ran into that fox miko...

"Uh... Jin, Jinjiro, listen to me..." Awang's forehead was covered with cold sweat, "Things are not what you think..."

"It's not what I thought?!" Kinjiro got angry when he mentioned this. "Yes, how could a normal person like me come up with those methods like yours?"

Even if the events of A Chong and the strange man's trip had not developed, the series of consequences caused by the Tadashi sand furnace core incident - [Da Tadashi Changzheng] was used as a weapon to kill Gui Mu, and then thrown into the Tadashi furnace to melt. A Wang, concerned about its former beauty, could not bear it, so he took out the completely melted knife, suffered severe burns, and died that night.

From what Kinjiro knew about Awang's past (such as observing slimes and floating spirits closely in both static and attacking postures in order to draw the creatures), this kid definitely wouldn't do anything rational!

Ming Chong raised his head high and pointed at the curious person, trying to make a point of the situation. The curious person looked helpless.

On the other side, Kinjiro pulled Awang to review the situation with a look of disappointment, but Awang's eyes were wandering and he didn't dare to look at him.

“…”

Yae Shinko stood alone not far away, quietly watching the two scenes that were extremely similar yet clearly different.

The Eightfold Son of God, who had been very interested in this [A Chong] just now, suddenly felt bored.

Zhen is gone, Kitsusaigumi is gone, Torachiyo is dead, Urakusai, Gohyaku... many big monsters are also missing after the [Black Disaster], and those humans who were bustling in the [Garden of Borrowing Scenery] are also gone.

Not long ago, Lian Ying also locked himself in the "Pure Land of One Mind". Originally, Inazuma was no different from a tangled ball of wool.

As the chief priest of Narujin Taisha Shrine, after the [Black Disaster], Yaegamiko had only managed to find some time off in the past few days due to her eldest nephew's affairs, and came to Tamashii Sand to watch the fireworks, visit the festival, and get some peace and quiet.

——Kusai Palace, you lied to me. Being a palace chief is not fun at all.

Sparks were dancing in the furnace core and the sound of preaching was endless.

Yaejinko slowly closed her eyes, thinking back to a few years ago when she had to divert a little of her attention to persuade Ying to destroy the doll. When she opened her eyes again, she had already thought of an interesting argument...

"Eh? Ouzai, look over there!" Ming Chong certainly noticed the miko who came with Kinjiro. "Wow—those are fox ears!... But why is there no tail?"

But thinking about Leosli's wolf-ear hairstyle, Ming Chong felt that it was understandable.

What's more, wolves are canines, and foxes are also canines.

In this way, the value of Tinari is still rising.

Hehehehehe!

Ming Chong was quite emotional. If the witch was younger, he would have wanted to have another child. Then he would have a son and a daughter, both with animal ears and hairstyles. It would be simply amazing!

"...She is--" The curious person followed Ming Chong's gaze, his eyes flashed slightly, and he couldn't help but hug the potted plant in his arms tightly.

He recognized the appearance of Yae Shinko. This person had appeared beside his mother when he was just born and before he was thrown into the Borrowed Scenery House.

"You seem to know her?" Ming Chong blinked and immediately confirmed a fact through the subtle atmosphere.

The curious person lowered his head slightly and pursed his lips, not knowing where to start facing his friend who was eager to make a move and could not read the atmosphere at all, or was too lazy to understand.

——Whenever he thought he knew A Chong well enough, the other party would always make unexpected moves.

Therefore, even a novice puppet quickly realizes that placing hope on the inherently fickle humans is often a foolish thing to do.

For example, right now——

"Oh, isn't this my eldest nephew? He has become so sensible and knows how to help his elders solve problems~" Yae Shinto walked over with a smile.

Just from the man's obscure temperament, one could tell that there was some kind of dangerous signal, which was why Kinjiro immediately pulled Awang back to a distance where they could no longer hear the conversation.

Because of being abandoned, the curious ones would not want to see the old people from Mingshen's lineage again unless something unexpected happened.

Accepting one's past calmly is what the curious person learned in the last class.

The class he studied just ended not long ago was "How to Face Farewell".

And now, Yae Shenzi immediately used reality to tell the curious person that he still had a lot to learn, such as how to face the past...

However, the fact is that the learning progress of the curious has not reached that level yet.

It's hard to describe how I felt. After all, the attitude shown by the shrine maiden in front of me at that time was even more indifferent than that of Ming Shen.

For today's curious people, when it comes to the person they least want to see, Yae Shinko ranks even higher than Ming Shen.

"That's great!" Ming Chong almost blurted out, breaking the awkward atmosphere.

"Since you are here, everything from now on will be left to you!"

The curious person was not surprised at all. Thinking back to when they first met, Chong also interrupted the polite conversations of Katsuragi and Niwa Hisahide in the same impatient manner.

But the next second, the potted plant that he was holding tightly in his arms, which seemed to have relieved his tension, suddenly disappeared and was stuffed into the hands of Yae Shinko, who was confused.

Still confused and unable to recover from the feeling of "neither mother loves him nor aunt cares for him", the curious person watched as Ming Chong seemed to really regard this man as an elder who was there to clean up the mess, and pulled him out to play.

By the way, I also ask the adults at home to take home any burdens that I don’t want to carry with me.

[Burden] Gillie: ...

Of course, the matter is not just that. The curious person who was supposed to introduce the friends he met outside to the elders did not seem to get along as well as these two people after just a few words.

The Eightfold Son of God, whose temperament showed that he was not so easy to deal with, actually quickly let A Chong take the curious person away, just like the kind elder he described.

Unfortunately, none of the three people present were really fools. The one with obvious shortcomings vaguely sensed that Ming Chong and Yae Shen Zi had reached some consensus.

——But is there anything you can’t tell me?

Those who are curious about the unknown can hardly suppress the feeling of grievance. In this world, change is a reality as common as breathing.

The departure of Orobasi, the appearance of Yae Shenzi, the actions of his friend A Chong, a series of [changes] pulled at the thread in the mind of the curious person.

Generally speaking, when a person encounters an unfamiliar event and has accumulated a lot of emotions, how will he react when he runs into someone familiar and close to him?

Yes, if Ming Chong had not taken the initiative, it is conceivable that the curious person would have said in a soft voice, "A Chong, why are you here?" and then followed by an emotional confession.

——That is to say, Ming Chong has always been out of tune. If it were Niwa Hisahide, the curious person might have tears flowing from his round eyes while he was talking.

It was after a series of changes that the person standing in front of him was Ah Chong. At this time, after a burst of pain, the curious person tightly grasped Ah Chong's hand, but what he was thinking was -

A Chong, I know you will soon start a new journey, so I have taken advantage of the time to learn so much and do so much so that you will have fewer worries. But why did you tell the whole story to that witch you only met once?

...It's a pity that Ming Chong didn't take the curious person's feelings into consideration, or rather, he did, but not much. At the same time, the other party didn't know it yet. For a slow-witted person like him, it was already a big deal.

What's more, Ming Chong's spirit was now in a strange state of excitement. Not only were there thoughts like "My little Ouzi has made a friend", "The familiar dead snake has appeared", "It's great that someone is cleaning up the mess, hehehe";

There are also "Dotorei, it doesn't matter if you can't find me in the future, because even if you know that I come from the future, you won't be able to find my young self", "I'm so excited that I can leave soon", etc.

In short, the curious ones didn't know that Ming Chong even outsourced the farewell gifts for export - he simply didn't like saying goodbye to anyone.

"A Chong...A Chong!" The curious person tried hard to suppress the intense emotions in his tone.

However, thinking that this [prayer ceremony] would continue for many days, he felt that he couldn't spoil the fun too much. He rehearsed the question in his mouth for a while, and finally it became:

"Listen to me, okay?"

Ming Chong began to slow down his pace and looked at him thoughtfully, "Hmm... Oh, really? Well, tell me, I was thinking of taking you to a place after what happened just now."