Chapter 122: Chapter 122
The curious one was stunned and was in a dilemma for a moment. He wanted to know where A Chong wanted to take him, but he also wanted to share his feelings with A Chong in detail.
Being friends with someone as open-minded as A Chong, he would often have such thoughts in his mind.
One of them is extremely insensitive, while the other is extremely sensitive. The only thing that can serve as a buffer is probably his curiosity about the areas of his own ignorance.
In short, in front of A Chong, curious people are always good at restraining their intense emotional fluctuations and instead start asking "what" and "why".
So, the curious person moved his mouth, and after a while he finally managed to speak, "What is it——"
"Ah, there's no rush. Ouzai, you just said that you had something to say to me?" Ming Chong waved his hand casually, without any extra expression on his face.
Although normally he would probably immediately rush and pull Ouzi through the space triple jump to the place he wanted to show Ouzi...but thinking that he was about to leave, and Ouzi was the one who grew up to be what he is now under his care, what's wrong with giving way to him!
Sometimes special things have to be done specially.
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The curious person, who was stared at directly by Ming Chong, was now at a loss as to what to do. "I...that..."
Hesitantly, his emotions fluctuated, but the curious person no longer felt the dam breaking in his heart.
After a quick pause to organize his words, he calmed down and looked seriously into A Chong's eyes, "A Chong, I seemed a little jealous just now."
"...Uh." Ming Chong's eyebrows jumped and he retreated tactically. "What to eat?"
——God damn it, who taught him this word?
——Is that how it’s used? I told him.
I wonder what Niwa thinks about this...
The curious person spoke his mind honestly and calmly, "Jealous. Niwa told me it's like the atmosphere between Chong and Escher, which I can't understand and can't get involved in. You and Miss Fox just now made me feel the same way."
"I just said one word to her."
What the hell are you talking about.
At this moment, Ming Chong's face was full of "fuck".
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The puppet nodded. "But, Chong, I didn't feel your care just now. You weren't thinking about me in your heart... So, that's why I feel abandoned."
"I know. Chong showed up very early in the furnace core. At that time, I was the only one who looked like the protagonist of a story, but Chong didn't pay much attention to me."
When the appearance of the person you care about appears in your mind, it is called "thinking".
What was he thinking at that time? Was it the doll that A Chong had raised before?
"I feel abandoned by A Chong." He repeated it softly, and this was his story again.
But when he finally left the stage, even Yae Shenzi seemed to be closer to Ming Chong.
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The curious one was waiting for him to speak, but in fact, there was still a sentence stuck in his throat: "I know A Chong can't support me anymore, but I don't want to be abandoned."
"...Ahem, oh, you mean this." Ming Chong spoke slowly. I thought it was some big deal!
——It scared me.
Although Ouzai said that the situation was similar to when Dotore appeared, how could Mingchong really handle it the same way as he did then?
Before, it was the case that Ouzai suddenly awakened, but now it is different. Now it is the upgraded version of Ouzai Plus, and it can no longer be treated coldly.
If I really use the same rhetoric as before to advise Ouzai not to take others too seriously and to focus on himself, that would be off topic.
Different times, different circumstances.
...It's just that Ming Chong is not very good at giving people talk therapy.
What's more, from a practical point of view, Ouzai was telling the truth!
He really wasn't thinking about Ouzai at that time!
I did exchange glances with that fox witch and reached a consensus!
He is indeed leaving soon!
So, A Chong really had to abandon Ouzai.
So, Ming Chong nodded, as honest and calm as a curious person, "You are right."
The expression of the curious person looked like he was about to cry. His mouth opened and closed, and he wanted to say "Don't leave me" and "Look at me", but in the end, he looked at Ah Chong with a watery gaze, pursed his lips tightly, and said no more.
For example, now, he often couldn't understand A Chong's behavior. The curious person hoped that the other party would coax him, even if it was just a few words, but he also understood deeply that it was always the role of others to coax the other party.
——This is also what A Chong taught him first, that not everything will develop as one expects.
"That guy Niwa raised you well, Ouzai. It's a good thing to have some emotions." Ming Chong, who couldn't read the atmosphere, felt inexplicably relieved.
Why?
Because even though the strange man refused to speak, he still held Ming Chong's hand tightly and refused to let go.
Ming Chong had no sense of crisis about this. After all, what good friends would walk hand in hand during a cold war? And they held on tightly...
The curious person always tries to find room for willfulness in Ming Chong, but unfortunately Ming Chong's willfulness never leaves room for others. However, the curious person also vaguely understands that the right of Ming Chong to reject his willfulness is entirely given by himself.
"But after hearing what you said just now, I feel like we should go to the place I want to take you next." Seeing Ouzai with awkwardness written all over his body, Ming Chong chuckled twice.
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All good things must come to an end.
This sentence is especially applicable to Ming Chong. Every day he is either at a banquet or on his way to a banquet. He has no idea whether the banquet is over or not.
And tonight, the mood of the curious person is particularly low. Even the messy haiku [wish poem] written by the two of them, when thinking about it now, only adds to the loneliness.
The nights on Haejima Island are blue, and the dreamy feeling added by the bubbles floating in the air cannot weaken this cool feeling.
But it inexplicably calmed the hearts of those who were curious.
It was Katsuragi who taught him about the geography and local products of Inazuma.
Viola cannot be eaten raw, but its rind can be used to make fuel;
The stems and leaves of the ming grass are thorny, and its seeds have a paralyzing effect;
Sea Ganoderma...
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Coral pearls grow alongside sea corals and are used as medicine to calm the mind and spirit.
The curious person's eyes unconsciously fell on the coral pearls, but these were not the key points.
According to Katsuragi, Umijima is an island that appeared out of thin air in the sea under the power of Oropus.
Oropus...
Thinking of this name, the curious person lowered his eyes unconsciously.
——So, you’re not completely unaware of this, right...A Chong?
"Hmm... I think there's still some distance, so let's not get too close. Ouzai, let's talk quietly from now on." Ming Chong looked around near the Mengyun Shrine and turned to say to the curious one.
Looking at Ouzai, who had a complicated mood and perhaps a hint of curiosity in his eyes, Ming Chong pondered for a moment:
"Ouzai, you may have heard that on Mingshen Island, people call that giant sea beast 'Umibozu'.
...You should understand what I'm saying. Originally, I came to Inazuma to find a certain Umibozu."
Thinking of Mienshao, Ming Chong was no longer as anxious as he was at the beginning.
The story is somewhat convoluted, and the emotions along the way are somewhat turbulent. After visiting the time before the Demon War and Fontaineland over 400 years later, combined with the events in the simulator, Ming Chong's various perspectives on the people and lives in the past have strangely converged.
"[Umibozu] don't have a unified race, but on Kaijima, some people give each sea beast a name."
Upon hearing this, the curious person poked his head out from behind the stone wall that served as an obstacle. On the distant beach, a sea beast that was probably slightly larger than a relic mecha was roaring at the people on the shore.
The long humming sound seemed to be conveying some kind of message, and soon the woman on the shore responded loudly.
"Sagana - did you find the companions you missed during this long journey?"
Sagana...?
After a little thought, the curious person figured out the meaning of this simple word. In Inazuma, "Sagana" is the ancient pronunciation of "fish", just like Liyue's classical Chinese to vernacular Chinese.
When he turned around, he saw Ming Chong with an unusually calm expression. Hesitant, the curious guy didn't have time to ask his doubts.
Then Ming Chong spoke in a relaxed tone, "How is it? Ouzai, I didn't lie to you, did I?"
...Indeed, it seems that this is indeed the case.
The curious person's eyelashes trembled slightly, but what surprised him was that A Chong's erudition was so rare that it made him a little uneasy.
Ming Chong had no intention of explaining further. During his travels, A Chong ran into the Three Gods of Xumi head-on. After realizing something, he began to think while looking for his Milotic in a hurry.
Just as the three gods of Xumi had regrouped and waited for him countless times in countless reincarnations, Ming Chong put aside his initial idea of taking it slow.
——The reason behind slowly searching is simply that you don’t care much about it. You keep putting it off because you think it’s not important.
But once he thought about the possibility that the fish he raised, which had no intelligence, might awaken its memory countless times and then die on the long and hopeless journey to find him, Ming Chong felt like a huge stone was pressing on his heart.
The focus here is not on "searching" but on "ignorance".
——It doesn’t understand anything, it only knows that it can’t find its humans.
"...When it wasn't Umibozu yet, I called it Mienshao." Ming Chong proudly raised his chin towards the curious one.
In fact, this is not what he wanted to say. After he said this, he even sounded a bit lonely like his ex.
What Ming Chong originally wanted to say was that his fish was really amazing. It could grow so well even without his rescue.
But it’s a good thing that it’s not called “Mienshao”. Ming Chong felt that the name he picked up casually might not be as good as Inazuma’s classical Chinese name.
If you think about it carefully, the Liyue vernacular “woodcutter” is much better than the classical Chinese “woodcutter”, right?
The curious person looked at Ming Chong's face silently, then turned his head slowly and stared at Umibozu Sagana over there in a trance.
When he looked at Sagana now, he always felt like he was looking at another version of himself.
"Anyway, you don't want it anymore?"
"Hmm...it seems so."
Ming Chong was sure that the bonded Milotic, or Sagana, had neither fully remembered the memories in the simulation nor grown into a true troublemaker, Umibozu, in reality, so he had no intention of intervening.
"...Don't you want to meet him either?" asked the curious one softly. He was stunned when he said it.
The interesting thing is that he said something similar to Oropas not long ago.
"We have met many times before." Ming Chong gave the answer quickly without much hesitation.
There is a saying that goes, it’s enough to see the flowers bloom, why bother about where they fall?
"Even if the stars aren't picked, they still shine brightly, don't they?"
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