Sully walked out of the hotel.
The well-groomed young man looked as refined as a noble young master walking in his own castle. Of course, the premise is that one needs to ignore the roof of the second floor of the hotel that has been blown off.
Sully even had the energy to estimate how much Egbert's strength had grown.
After not seeing him for a few days, the difference is really noticeable.
Or maybe it was the snowy owl inside that didn't make any attempt to resist?
Without thinking about this question for the moment, Sully looked at Addison standing next to him and asked without changing his expression: "What do you mean by that look?"
Addison tilted his head to look at him and said, "It's the kind of look that's like watching a miracle. It's no big deal."
"After all, I have never seen what a true pure-blooded human looks like, so it is impossible for me to know in advance that you do not have any elemental power."
Addison turned his palms toward himself, then decisively turned them over and focused his eyes on his knuckles.
Everything that happened today was so intense that we have never experienced anything like it in the past fifty years.
"I'm curious, why do you want to enter this world when you don't have any power?"
As if he felt that his tone was too arrogant, Addison explained, "Human life is short, especially for someone like you who has no special powers. You may die in an accident one day. In this case, isn't it the most important thing for you to live every day well?"
"You mean to say that I'm not living a decent life here?" Sully ignored the ping-pong sounds upstairs. He was slightly interested in this butterfly spirit.
It's still the same idea, like an observer observing the fish in a fish tank.
Addison couldn't detect the glass, nor did he realize that he and Sully were in two different worlds.
Addison waved his hand to explain, "I didn't say that."
"Just a joke." Sully looked away silently.
"Like you said, I can indeed live every day well before the unexpected happens, and even treat every day as the last carnival before the end of the world."
Of course people can live like this. Suli, who considers himself a mortal, thinks that as long as it does not violate morality and laws, one can live however he wants, and the way of life should not be boxed in or defined.
Of course, he didn't think he had that kind of unrestrainedness beyond certain limits.
"It's just that kind of life is not what I want." Su Li glanced at Addison who was staring at him seriously. "Compared to waiting for the unexpected to happen, passively accepting this kind of event that cannot be resisted seems a little unreasonable to me."
"I don't accept any unreasonable rules."
“I don’t think I need to abide by them.”
Suli raised his eyelids and looked up at the sky: "What I want is a clear and rational inner plan. Before the accident happens, I should nip all accidents in the cradle. This is what a human like me should do."
He turned his head to look at Addison: "Or do you think that compared to the powerful monsters, weak and incompetent humans are not even worthy of the word "arrogance"?"
Suli's tone did not sound sarcastic.
Addison was silent for a long time.
He had never seen anyone like him.
It wasn't to the point of being shocked, but he just felt an inexplicable conflict. A feeling of being out of tune with his own world surrounded him all the time, but he couldn't stop it...
A long time passed, yet it seemed like just a moment.
Sully looked at the roof of the hotel, which was completely blown off and would not be restored in a short time. He walked back to the first floor of the hotel and left a message to Addison: "Although it feels very rude to say this, since you are not human, I can still evaluate you with humanity that is not directed at humans."
"That is to say..." Suli walked towards the ruined hotel.
But he stood still in front of the door again. The boy's voice was as clean as the clear sky after rain, but the words he spoke were like a rainstorm on a sunny day: "I look forward to the day you commit suicide."
Addison froze in place.
I haven't done anything sensible for a long time.
He was thinking, whether the boy who was described as miraculous by Egbert really possessed all those qualities, and...
Have I really been seen through?
Unlike most people who would become defensive when they realize they have been seen through, Addison, who himself is not that normal, was filled with indescribable joy deep down when he realized this.
It turns out there really is such a person, whose upbringing experience is different from his own, and everything he has experienced is also different from his own, but it seems like there is a world between them, ordinary, and he sees through him...
Sully, who didn't know that butterfly fairies also had abnormal brain functions, greeted Egbert, who was sweating profusely and had a few gray and white crossed bird feathers on his hands.
"Egg."
The latter showed a smile without any deep meaning, or rather, when seeing Sully, Egbert felt that nothing was more suitable to face Sully than smiling.
"Lord Suli, the Snowy Owl will not be able to enter that room anytime soon. No, to be precise, I built a bird's nest on the mulberry tree in the inn's yard. If Asgari doesn't leave, he will live there."
Sully laughed.
"I thought you wanted to say something like welcome back."
Egbert seemed to be deeply touched and remained silent for a long time.
Finally, Roy, who was also a member of the house-demolition trio, grabbed his shoulders from behind. He finally came to his senses and said to him with disdain, "Stay away from me."
"Are you so ruthless? When I was targeting Asgari just now, I used the ice element to perform excellent control skills more than once, so that you could really hit him with your targeted attack."
Egbert said nothing.
Roy didn't need him to give any high praise for this tacit cooperation. He just said to Suli with great joy, "Welcome back, young master."
"Also, I regret to inform you that Egbert does not have any glasses made by Custer in stock."
Egbert has an egg alchemy item in reserve.
He still cannot accept that the clothes Sully wears were made by Custer.
Although the shape of the clothes is indeed very beautiful, and it makes the boy look like a god walking on earth...
But does this prevent him from becoming jealous?
Egbert didn't think it was a problem.
And he took this mentality for granted.
By the way, the clothes that Sully thought he had taken off and would be washed eventually became precious collections that Egbert respectfully placed in the space-type alchemy tool.
"But Lan Zhe has it!" Roy's deliberate way of speaking made the veins on Egbert's forehead jump.
His first reaction was to let Lord Suli see his useless side again...
but.
Those things are not important at all. Every day from now on, he will make sure that any monster that dares to appear before Sully will understand what it means - the premise of civilization is to wear proper clothes.
Addison exclaimed.
"Because you can't see the elements, you can't see the clothes made of them either." Addison sighed, "People like you are more suitable to live in the human world. In the monster world, you are suffering from visual violence all the time."
"I'm glad that I prefer to put solid fabrics next to my body rather than use the elements to create virtual clothing with so-called defensive effects."
"Have you ever thought that maybe this is why you look out of place among other humanoid monsters?" Egbert retorted.
In the eyes of (what they think are) Suli's right and left hands, no one can occupy the spiritual high ground that Suli-sama is born with.
After asking this rhetorical question, Egbert completely ignored the butterfly fairy's doubts about life.
He began to talk in front of Suli: "Lord Suli must have had a very hard time these days."
"Lan Zhe has also prepared the corresponding food."
"Also, although Rota County is not completely under our control, because of Asgari and the intelligence he brought, we can be sure that this city will not become a battlefield for at least three days. You can choose to relax in this environment."
Suli was puzzled: "I'm not nervous, so there's no such thing as relaxation?"
This light-hearted rhetorical question seemed to have become a real problem to Egbert.
He had an expression that said, "I don't care what you think, I care what I think," and then he said, "Sir Suli is a very sensitive person."
"Otherwise, how could you choose to help me when you first saw me?" Egbert deliberately said something that Addison was destined not to understand.
"Highly sensitive people do see things that the average person doesn't, but they also often notice details that the average person wouldn't notice."
"Can you please stop talking as if I'm no longer a human being?" Sully's mouth twitched.
"Also, I don't think I'm a highly sensitive person."
"You don't need to deny yourself." Egbert said disapprovingly, "The meaning of my existence is to allow you to let go of yourself at any time."
As he spoke, Egbert couldn't help but sigh: "How long has it been since you last had a peaceful sleep?"
"There are crises everywhere, and you've already been deeply trapped. No matter what I give up, I can't erase this vortex..." Egbert grabbed the fabric on his chest and squeezed it tightly.
"Life in the dragon territory must be very difficult. They can't even get enough food... For those monsters, they don't even have the concept of basic human needs in their minds."
"Those monsters are completely foreign." Egbert gritted his teeth. "When I think about you staying in such an environment for so long, I feel so heartbroken that I can't help myself."
Suli felt the familiar feeling of suffocation.
"Not as much as you think, and not as weird as that."
Humans are actually a forgetful species.
Even if Suli knew, no matter what I said, it would be useless...
He would always try to save himself before everything really left him speechless.
The young man analyzed his own mentality and sighed: "Perhaps the purpose of life is to save yourself again and again, and again and again."
Egbert still did not follow this analytical mentality and confess his inner habits.
His emphasis has been on the suffering that Sully had endured.
“You didn’t have to go through this.”
"You've said this countless times. Don't keep repeating it." Sully gave up trying to defeat Egbert, who was trapped in the abyss of logic, with logic. "Besides, in Elvy's eyes, as long as I still have value, she will never choose to attack me."
"Besides, compared to before, I should be better off after this." Suli sat on a chair in the lobby on the first floor.
The natural sunlight shone directly over the roof that had long been blown off and shone on his face.
Suli said calmly, "As long as Elvi wants to restore the dragon clan's power to its previous state, no matter what kind of monster it is, no matter how much they want to kill me, they must first pass Elvi, who has already made a desperate bet because he has no way out."
"You have to think positively."
"But those thoughts are irrelevant!" Egbert said anxiously, "Of course I know those changes in reality, but based on reality, what is more important is not the change in your future environment, but..."
"How you feel."
"What I care about most, or rather, what I care about all the time, is your mood."
Lan Zhe interrupted and said, "Sometimes you shouldn't care about what Egbert says about Sully."
Lan Zhe turned his head and looked at Su Li: "You just need to treat his various comments as his comments on himself. To be honest, the setting of mental sensitivity is clearly tied to Egbert."
"No normal person would think so much. Just like what I thought, you haven't had a good time recently. Then, as a companion, I need to make up for you as much as possible, whether it's giving you the best clothes to wear or food and shelter."
Suli originally thought he could hear something serious from Lan Zhe, but in the end he found out...
Isn't this nonsense?
"After all, aren't you and Egbert both firmly convinced that I have been treated unfairly and unfriendly during this period of time?" Su Li held his forehead with his hand.
I didn’t feel any headache when I was being chased by a black dragon, and I didn’t worry about accidentally falling off the back of a crow when I was sleeping in the sky…
Only now, Suli truly felt the unspeakable pain.
Shut up, stop thinking!
"This is not what we think, and it cannot become a fact just because we think. Instead, we know it because it is a fact." Roy casually pinched out a ramie made of ice, a flower that symbolizes health.
Suli's eyes were dead, "What kind of tongue twister are you talking about?"
Roy said seriously: "This is a fact."
It is definitely not knowledge that comes out of nothing.
Their view has always been that just because Sully took all the misfortunes that happened to him lightly, we cannot assume that those misfortunes were meant to happen.
This is an anomaly and an irrefutable error.
Sully refused to continue the topic: "Okay, OK, I get it, I know what you are thinking, so let's drop this topic for now."
Before anyone else could interrupt, Sully continued speaking with determination.
"Since Asgari wants the entire demon beast society to be destroyed, I think the Snow Owl must have organized an intelligence network that knows the movements of all major forces. Our existing speculations, whether it is that Elvi will target me in the future or that the beasts may provide support to Elvi, all need to be confirmed before we can truly rely on these superficial speculations to decide on the next course of action."
Egbert was led into the ditch in a daze, or rather, he finally walked onto the normal path.
He then said, "But in fact, the only thing Asgari did was that the queen did not send him, but sent Addison to fight the dragons."
As the butterfly fairy turned her sight towards Asgari, which was becoming more and more dangerous, Egbert continued, "I don't think that monsters become smarter the longer they live. On the contrary, the huge inertial thinking ability has long made the immortals living in this world ignore the derivative meaning brought by their lifespan."
"The only thing Asgari did was to remove himself from the Water Tribe and unite with the Feather Tribe to suppress the unrest within the Feather Tribe."
"Instead of considering whether Snow Owl really has the power to instigate a war among the three tribes, my suggestion is to use him as a troublemaker in the war. That would be more appropriate."
Addison stopped Asgari's foot as he tried to kick Egbert away.
When the Snow Owl stared at Egbert expressionlessly, the Butterfly Fairy sneered, "Isn't what he said true?"
"Everyone knows that the Snowy Owl has always been a loyal subject of the Queen. It has no power of its own, and unlike Adonis, it does not have an entire tribe of Gray Cranes behind it." Addison gritted his teeth when he thought of the tragic situation of having half of his body missing.
He could still feel the phantom pain from the previous injury.
"Even I didn't expect that you, who claimed to want to investigate the situation in Rota County, actually tried to avoid war."
Addison glanced at Egbert again. "I don't quite agree with what he said about there being no intelligence network, but in Asgard..."
"Many years have passed since you had the idea to destroy the transformed monsters. During these years, the only thing you have accomplished is to build a so-called intelligence network that has little effect and can be directly replaced by the wisdom of a group of smart humans."
Addison minded being unlucky, but what he minded the most was that it was Asgari who should have been unlucky, but in the end the blame was put on him.
Is fighting dragons a good thing?
Don't be kidding. Forget about uniting with the water tribe, even if you unite with the beast tribe, and the three tribes go specifically to fight the dragon tribe, as long as Elvi doesn't die on the spot, the dragon's revenge afterwards will become a disaster that everyone wants to avoid.
Addison didn't feel he needed credit for suppressing the rebellion.
All he gained was the dragon's hatred.
Asgari really didn't consider any monster other than himself as a monster.
He is ruthless in cheating people and pretends that he is doing it for a good cause.
Damn it, if he wanted all the transformed monsters to die, wouldn't the best thing for Asgard to do be to commit suicide himself?
Although he thought so, Addison still didn't say it out loud.
Even the butterfly fairy knew that these words were not meant to provoke, but to create enmity.
By then, I'm afraid it will give Asgari a reason to cheat him naturally.
Addison sneered and said, "Don't you think that everything you have done is as insignificant as the roof of the hotel that just got blown off?"
"After it was opened, it was completely empty. There was nothing inside."
Sully, who simply wanted to reject the brain supplement, ended up causing the two monsters to fight: "..."
"I suggest that if you really want to fight, you can consider going to the territory of the Feather Queen's Palace. At least this way, Addison's contribution in this battle can be shown."
Asgari looked away: "In fact, the Queen will not consider Addison's efforts as efforts at all. After all, he looks intact now."
Addison laughed sarcastically. "So you're saying I can't be cured?"
"You can only carry a bloody body and walk to the Queen to ask for the so-called credit?"
"I didn't say that." Asgari looked at the ground in silence.
Sully pressed his temples with a headache. Faced with outcomes that could all be defined as terrible, he couldn't even tell the "lesser of two evils".
"Lord Suli means that instead of exposing your inner thoughts of wanting to divide the waters and the other wanting to stir up trouble, it is better to keep things as they are. With the Queen's trust in you, make the most of this mentality and inform the beast tribe of the Queen's surrounding intelligence when appropriate, or just tell the dragon directly."
Egbert deeply understood the speechless feelings that Lord Sully experienced during the first days he spent with him.
At that time, he was an adult and a fool in the eyes of the underage Suli.
In his eyes, these monsters are just idiots who have long lives but no brains.
The importance of the intelligence network is irrelevant.
When everything has been anticipated, shouldn’t we think about how to achieve the goals that are completely different from each other but have something in common to the greatest extent possible?
What kind of fool must be this person to look like they are ready to fight each other to the death.
Lan Zhe and Roy never thought in their lives that Egbert would actually question the IQ of others, although the so-called "others" were monsters that were completely different from humans.
but!
That's Egbert!
Roy tried to communicate with Lan Zhe through eye contact: "Since coming to the monster society, this guy's growth has been revealed in every aspect."
“Unbelievable.”
Lan Zhe also gave a meaningful look in return: "Instead of thinking it's unbelievable, think about it. If Egbert, who works hard every day to become stronger, happens to have this level of intelligence, how much help he will bring to Sully, and how much attention he will take away from Sully..."
Roy's eyes were instantly filled with a sense of crisis.
And Egbert is still showing off his brain that is growing across classes.
"Since you want all the transformed monsters to die, and you can't poison them on a large scale without harming others, you can only choose to provoke a war and let everyone consume each other's numbers. Then you must act firmly towards this goal."
"A true martyr, when faced with the path he has chosen, will remain steadfast and unwavering no matter how others question, oppose, or misunderstanding him."
Egbert fixed his eyes on Sully.
He said more than once that he could understand Sully and adults.
But in reality, Egbert sometimes feels that Lord Sully could have enough honor and glory in human society, and then crown everything on himself and live in the world with dignity and elegance.
There is no need for him to blend in with the current status quo of monster society.
Whenever he thought of this, Egbert would see a cage covering Sully.
Understanding and misunderstanding seem to have become blurred.
What he needs to do is not to try to understand the God he serves or analyze the meaning of every instruction from Lord Suli, but to keep moving forward on the path he points out.
That is enough.
Similarly, when Asgari has such an absolute goal, his feeling of guilt towards Addison seems particularly funny.
"Have you really determined your own path?" Egbert questioned, "You give me the feeling that you are completing a life goal that does not belong to you at all."
"Can I guess that Morton, Joel's great-great-grandfather's brother, is the one who actually has this martyrdom-like goal?"
"If that's the case, I sincerely hope that you give up this goal that doesn't belong to you at all."
Egbert's eyes were cold. "How can someone who can't even stick to his own goals achieve them? I don't know if God exists, but Lord Sully will never favor a weak person who prays for good luck but remains unmoved."
Egbert launched an all-out attack on Asgari.
It was hard to say whether this was revenge for his honesty with Sully, but Addison knew very well that Egbert was openly targeting Asgari.
In addition, Addison suddenly felt Sully's strength that came from being a powerless weak person.
At least, he had one, no, several other martyrs who firmly believed in his path, and Egbert also kept moving towards Sully's goal, taking Sully's goal as his goal.
Addison suddenly became curious about what kind of person Sully was to gain such incredible trust among people who could never understand each other.
But what was weighing on his mind right now was still Asgari's pensive look.
Snowy Owl took a long time to say, "It's my problem."
There was finally a will to move forward in his eyes.
Whatever crazy qualities he had previously displayed, whether deliberate or inherent, have now been restrained.
Asgari said, "I understand what you mean."
"I will do as you say."
"But maybe it's not just what you said." Asgari remembered clearly what Egbert said, "Lord Sully meant to say..."
"I sincerely look forward to the death of the Feather Queen, Elvi's madness, and the scene where I, who was hiding behind the scenes, will eventually be exposed to the sun and killed without a complete body."
"From now on, I will not have the slightest self-doubt because of external things."
Addison's mouth twitched.
"So, I should be cheated as a matter of course?"
"No one said that." Roy patted the unlucky butterfly fairy on the shoulder.
"Egbert expressed the young master's thoughts. I don't mind expressing Egbert's thoughts."
"That guy hopes that Asgari will be firm in his goal, and through his actions to achieve his goal, the crisis of Suli in the monster society will be reduced...
But Egbert's alternative cryptic words refer to:
Since Asgari has done what he thinks is wrong and intends to continue doing so, what he needs to do is not to feel guilty after doing something wrong, but to try to make up for it as much as possible and balance the torment of this mistake on his heart, so as to strengthen his determination to achieve his goal.
"But whether it's the young master or Egbert, they don't expect you, the victim, to forgive everything like a saint." Roy put his arm around Addison's shoulders in a familiar manner.
The butterfly spirit’s mind was filled with the question: Can humans be such complex creatures?
Gives butterflies a headache.
However, Addison also wanted to know how Asgari could make up for himself.
But what he never expected was that Asgari's actions were exactly what Egbert said, and that day, he took him back to the Queen's Palace.
They actually had a fight in the Queen's Palace!
Who would believe that efficiency can be maximized in a place like this?
The most outrageous thing is that the Queen did not question their actions.
Although during the fight, Addison verbally attacked Asgari more than once because of his "leave" behavior.
But the snowy owl is also bizarre.
Asgari made it clear that it was his own fault and that he could have postponed his exploration of the internal situation of Rota County.
This action caused the Feather Queen to interrupt their ensuing fight.
The woman sitting on the throne did not prevent the birth of this war.
But the Queen did not, as Addison thought, make any expression regarding his being intact.
The new color of the wound and the original body have a difference that may be difficult for the human eye to distinguish, but the monster can actually see it at a glance.
The Queen did not think there was anything to question about Addison, who had such a life-saving trump card.
After all, the butterfly fairy has been following her for who knows how many years.
After all these years, he didn't even have any trump cards to pull himself back from the brink of death, so how could he have the courage to accept this declaration of war against the dragon?
As for the battle with Asgari...
It's easier to understand from the Queen's perspective.
This is clearly a child who is suffering outside and is complaining to his elders and servants in his family, hoping to get some compensation and rewards.
In the Queen's eyes, the reason for the fight with Asgari was that Addison was unwilling to blame her, so she could only vent her anger on Asgari as a colleague.
And the snowy owl is indeed innocent.
Who could have imagined that just as Asgari applied to investigate Rota County, Adonis reported that the dragon wanted to rebel.
With no choice, the Queen had no choice but to choose Addison.
Addison could never have imagined that they, who should have been punished for fighting in front of the queen, would end up receiving rewards from the queen.
Afterwards, the Butterfly Fairy and the Snow Owl reviewed everything together and examined the Queen's mentality. They unexpectedly discovered that "the child named Suli must have guessed everything that happened."
Addison felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
"Is there something in his brain that allows him to predict the other person's behavior based on his temperament, thinking patterns or behaviors even if he is thousands of miles away?"
A bit scary...
But what made Addison feel relaxed uncontrollably was that this kind of person understood him and did not show any hostility towards him.
Asgari took it for granted.
He was the one who truly faced the situation where he felt like he had been stripped clean.
Egbert had already achieved this level. It no longer seemed incredible that the boy, whom he addressed as "Sir" and respected infinitely, and who was even defined as mentally sensitive, could predict all of the Queen's actions from a distance.
Asgari was also glad that he had no intention of becoming an enemy of Suli.
Moreover, the road he was heading towards partially overlapped with the direction Suli was heading towards...
"What do you think?" Asgari asked Addison.
The butterfly fairy was stunned for a moment: "What are you thinking?"
"I mean, will you still be loyal to the Queen, or will you secretly lean towards humans?"
"I hope all the transformed monsters die, but if it's you, it doesn't matter if you're the last one to die."
Addison's eyes twitched and he rolled his eyes at him: "So should I thank you?"
"That's not necessary." Asgari said calmly.
Addison took a deep breath and continued, "If you don't mind me knowing your act of making the world your enemy, then I don't mind telling you that I don't really care about the changes in the three tribes of monsters."
"Like that kid said, I've always had thoughts of committing suicide." Addison admitted this. There are countless monsters who have fallen into madness, and he is no exception.
"I don't even care about my own death, so I'm even less likely to care about those so-called external things. But rather than saying that I prefer humans, I prefer you to use a life that can understand my soul..."
"That statement sounds very butterfly-like." A pure white butterfly appeared at Addison's fingertips.
Asgari made a joke that was not a joke: "Ever chasing flowers?"
Addison nodded, his eyes firm: "Forever."
Suli didn't care what happened in the Queen's palace.
The focus of his attention was that after the two humanoid monsters left, Egbert fell into mental hell again.
Even when Suli finally enjoyed the white rice cooked by Lan Zhe, the guy did not miss the opportunity.
"Sir Suli has not eaten well these days."
"Even after encountering such a thing, they still only report the good news and not the bad news." Egbert was so worried that he could hardly eat. "The danger level of the monster society is far greater than that of the human society... What should I do to prevent Lord Sully from having to encounter this..."
"My suggestion is to eat less brain supplements and more rice." Suli immediately swallowed a mouthful of rice.
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