Chapter 103 Absurd Belief, Bitten by Tinari...
A sharp headache struck, and Mainkun's consciousness returned to Mount Sumeru.
"Well……"
The young man lay exhausted on the throne; the corrupted World Tree was truly unsuitable for any living thing to come into contact with.
Seeing his distress, Nasita could only swallow the question she was about to ask and hurriedly picked up the golden jade pot:
"Everyone said you'd definitely feel unwell! Here, have some light tea."
"I don't drink tea."
"!"
The familiar phrase made Nasita instinctively protect the cup, lest Mainkuen suddenly snatch it away and smash someone's head in—wait, everyone had already been driven away beforehand, so this worry was unnecessary.
"snort."
The clear water, filled with resentment, slammed heavily into the half-demon's claw heart.
Why are you angry again?
Mainkuhn lifted his scarf slightly to conceal himself as he slowly drank the water.
Nasida disliked Mainkuen and found fault with everything he did, so she criticized him:
"You're already the king of Sumeru, why don't you show your face? Ordinary people hide their identities to avoid being harmed, but who would dare to hurt you? It's all for nothing..."
See you tomorrow.
Mainkun didn't listen to a word, casually tossed his cup aside, and got up.
"I'm leaving now."
"Wait!" Nasita exclaimed in surprise, "Where are you going with your face all blue?"
"Go to Fontainebleau to get the separation and precipitation machine."
Mainkun's steps were resolute, his oversized adult trench coat weighing heavily on his shoulders.
"We need to hurry."
“Hey, stop right there, you…”
Nasita tried to stop him, but was grabbed by the ribbon and thrown back. Unlike his usual cautiousness towards the gods, he felt nothing but calmness and an obsession with completing the plan.
"Wow!"
Nasita stumbled and fell onto the thick carpet, her anger rising even higher:
"You—"
But when he looked up, Mainkuhn was nowhere to be seen.
"..."
There's nowhere to vent my anger.
"Ugh, that Hilichurl who suddenly yelled, that wicked Spirit of the Town who plays with people's hearts, sand, winter, ocean..."
Even if she can't hear it, she'll still curse. Nasita started muttering to herself. She'd only been experiencing anger for a short time, and she'd already been disturbed so many times!
But it seems that anger wasn't the only thing that was unsettling her:
"...The waters of trauma, emotions, the ocean, energy, hope tainted by hatred... Could it be... no way, it can't be, this is simply impossible..."
The information is still too scarce. If only we could find his life story within the World Tree… However, without a replacement for the Great Tree King, I still cannot directly open the path to the World Tree…
"Naxi Da".
"!!"
Nasita immediately covered her mouth, pretending nothing was wrong as she looked at the person in front of her, Mainkuen, who had returned.
"Did you forget something? Wow, you're all wet!"
“No.” Mainkun said expressionlessly, wiping the water off the cat’s ears with his paw. “I just realized that after I shared my power with you…”
If you can't get rid of it, give up, just shake your head, and the gray and white fur will swirl together in the air:
"I don't have enough strength left to cross the sea and return to Fontainebleau."
Nasita, soaked to the bone: "..."
'He used the Hui language, is he a Fontainebleau person?'
She admired her own composure.
Maybe it's just a habit.
"What should we do? It will take at least seven days to recover enough to walk on the sea." Mainkun scratched his messy hair. "Where should I buy a boat ticket?"
"!"
Naxi Da, on a sudden impulse, blurted out a lie:
"It takes at least eight or nine days to travel by boat from Sumeru to Fontainebleau."
It doesn't actually need to take that long, but that's okay, Mainkuhn doesn't know.
"Yeah."
"right."
Naxi Da nodded naturally.
Are you sure you want to spend a week on the road?
"Tsk, troublesome."
Mainkuhn, of course, wouldn't; he was racing against time. Seeing that he had given up on his journey, Nasita smiled.
"Since you have nothing to do anyway, just take a nice, long shower and go to bed to rest like a seed... Wait, where are you rushing off to now?"
Mainkun turned and left, leaving a trail of water on the ground from the hem of his wet trench coat.
"In a hurry to frighten your people."
The cat is racing against time.
The medicine will lose its effectiveness in a while.
Nasita, upon hearing this answer: "..."
She held back for a moment, but couldn't hold back any longer and started cursing:
"Octopus, oysters, even the most hated seafood isn't as bad as you! Wait for me, don't run away! At least dry yourself off first..."
*
There was no need for him to do anything special; as soon as Maine stepped down from the elevator to the Palace of Wisdom, countless emotions surged towards him.
"Ah! Who is that boy who's dripping wet and as pale as a ghost?"
"Shut up! This is the one who killed Hazard..."
"What should we do? Should we say hello? Or run away?"
"It's all your fault for insisting on coming to the Wisdom Palace to check information. I've already said that the situation is unclear lately..."
Mainkuhn activated the virtual terminal in his ear, found it was just a few ordinary scholars, and left, bored.
"That is, the Wise Prince."
There were those who feared Mainkun, and naturally, there were those who fawned over him. People who were good at judging the situation could be found everywhere. A man named Apd, wearing a robe, rubbed his hands together and smiled ingratiatingly.
"What brings you to the Palace of Wisdom?"
Mainkun ignored him, simply twitching his cat ears and listening to the faint hissing from inside the wall.
"That was the experiment I did, I did it!"
"You have no right to take it away; that's the culmination of two years of my hard work!"
"Hey, how can you be so ungrateful? I've worked so hard to teach you, why don't you give the first assignment to my daughter?"
"But teacher, how can I graduate without this paper? Something happened at home, my mother is sick, and she really needs me to work..."
"You're unlucky. Honestly, what's wrong with a young person taking a few more years to graduate? But your mother is old, and she'll die sooner or later..."
"Bang!"
The argument was abruptly interrupted by a deafening bang!
"Who is it? Have you no manners?"
The middle-aged man in his elegant scholar's robe wore a condescending smile, while the young student's face was streaked with tears of humiliation.
"You are—the king?"
Regardless of their expression, the moment they see Mainkun, they all turn to uniform terror.
"You, you have graced us with your presence..."
"good."
"Aaaaaah!"
Amid Apd's screams and the students' pale faces, Mainkun gave a praise, then used his sharp claws to grab the back of the tutor's head and drag him to the center of the Wisdom Palace, right under the gaze of all the scholars.
"What...what are you doing, Your Majesty?!"
"Wait, isn't that one of the seven great pramanas of the Epistemological School? What an extraordinary sage..."
"Wait, you can't treat a wise man like that. Haven't you heard the saying 'the law does not apply to high-ranking officials'?"
Hahahaha…
Scholars tried to persuade him, but what good were even the most respected teachers or the most illustrious academic names to Mainkuhn? Mainkuhn was only overjoyed that his brother had survived. He smiled and looked down at his mentor's tearful, limp eyes.
"You're having a bad day."
"I just happen to want to hit you."
"Smack!" "Smack!" "Smack!" "Aaaaaah—"
Nasita, with her short legs, arrived at the scene to find everything already in ruins. She clutched her forehead, watching in agony as Mainkuhn slapped people repeatedly until their faces were swollen like pigs' heads. Meanwhile, the scholars, whether they were preparing, reviewing, studying, or examining materials, were groaning and sobbing, trembling under the tables, too frightened to even look up, and discussing amongst themselves timidly.
"Why is the group of thirty people just standing there and not coming over...?"
"Want to get beaten up together?"
"...Oh, how could this be?"
Naxi Da sighed deeply.
"Lord Little Lucky Grass King".
Someone shifted their body, trembling, to make room for her under the table:
"That's terrifying! Why don't you come in and hide for a bit?"
"No need, he... he wouldn't hit people randomly... Never mind, just pretend I didn't say anything."
She strode forward, hands on her hips, glaring at Mainkuen's vertical pupils, which were brimming with pleasure.
Are you satisfied now?
"certainly."
"Did you enjoy it?"
"It couldn't be more awesome."
"Then shut up! You're asking for it!"
The goddess stomped her feet angrily. Mainkuen didn't know what she was angry about, but he obeyed peacefully. After all, scholars generally had low defense, and if he hit his mentor a couple more times, he might die. If he could, Mainkuen didn't want to kill anyone.
"Alright, alright," Nasita said, pulling the student who was kneeling on the ground to his feet. "You're a good kid, he won't hit you."
"My thesis..."
"Your thesis?"
The student's legs were too weak to stand up, so Nasita simply looked around and pulled a thick stack of papers from the arms of her mentor, who had fainted on the ground and lost all dignity.
"It doesn't look like your name is written here."
"My teacher altered it. Oh, thank goodness, this is a blessing in disguise. I'll change the name back right away!"
Seeing his surprise turn to joy, Nasita was happy for him, but she also made an effort to clarify:
"Actually, Vana Smarana Sapna hit your mentor because of this incident, so at least please don't be afraid of him."
"Who? A king? What a long name!"
The student wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and gently grasped Nasita's hands.
"God, thank you!"
"You're welcome. I was just saying what I knew."
"You actually went to such lengths to tell me such a lame lie just to comfort me! Ugh—it's awful, I never want to experience something like that again!"
"..."
Nasita remained silent for a moment, then absurdly sensed a trace of faith power emerging from the young student's heart and entering her divine body.
She became a little bit stronger.
Power stems from false intimidation and unwarranted fear.
"That's really not wise."
Nasita sighed, but before she could sigh too many times, she felt the scattered points of faith gather into mist and shroud the young bud.
"?"
"As expected of a deity!"
As she was wondering, she saw the scholars vying to squeeze out from under the table, casting burning gazes at the deity.
"He only glared at the king, and the king—no, that tyrant—immediately stopped and turned to run away in fright!"
"The Grass God has protected us! We'll be alright!"
"Wait a minute, you've misunderstood..."
No one listened to Nasita's explanations; the people's expressions grew increasingly fanatical, as if they had finally found a leader.
"Wisdom!" "Protection!" "Mercy!"
They cheered, jumped for joy, and rejoiced like wild savages, surrounding the tiny deity at the center.
"Praise be to the great God!"
"this……"
Absurdity choked Nasita, rendering her speechless.
Wait, I do want the faith of my people! And I do want to prove that I also have value—
But I don't want to do it this way! It's just...
"...No, this will definitely cause problems. Mount Sumeru will be filled with ignorance!"
I need to become stronger quickly, open the World Tree, and find a solution to everything from its past!
"Lord God!"
Just as she was making up her mind to try to digest the power of faith within her body, she saw someone tumbling and crawling over, frantically asking for help.
"Wang snatched a child!!"
Naxi Da: "???"
*
Mainkuen held the struggling child firmly with his arm.
"Come on, tell me, ah—"
"..."
Tina pursed her lips and glared at him, determined to refuse.
"The king told you to speak, so just speak! You brat!"
The obsequious Apted hadn't given up on flattery; though quite frightened, he still followed Mainkuhn.
"Your Majesty, let me slap him and he'll behave!"
"Don't do this!"
Tinari's father was so terrified that he spoke recklessly:
"He... he was born as stupid as a wild fox, and he can't speak!"
"Um?"
Mainkuhn frowned.
"Bashuna! Don't lie to me, everyone knows your child can write at three years old, he's a prodigy!"
"oh."
Mainkuhn's brow relaxed.
"So you were just lying to me. Come on, child, open your mouth and speak."
"..."
The large, dark green tail lashed futilely through the air a few times. Little Tinari realized he couldn't escape the clutches of the killer and finally opened his mouth in anger, not to say anything stupid, but to bite Mainkuen's hand hard!
"Your Majesty! Are you alright?!"
"Oh dear."
Mainkuhn carefully examined the teeth marks on his palm.
It is blunt and harmless, with only four canine teeth, typical of human teeth, so small that it cannot even draw blood.
They're definitely not the same kind.
Well, that's fine, at least I can live more freely.
Mainkun returned Tinari to his terrified father, while also offering a sincere compliment:
"Your son is good."
"Okay, okay..."
Bashu hugged the bewildered child tightly, tucked his tail between his legs, and tried to run away. He probably wouldn't be coming back to the terrifying Order Institute anytime soon.
"etc."
Suddenly, Mainkuhn had an idea and called out to the gentle, fox-eared scholar.
"Open your mouth too, let me see."
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Author's Note: This is what Kavi's mother, Farana, said:
"My husband seems to be friends with that long-eared man. I can't join their conversation, so I can only draw on the side."
Combining this statement with the drawings she left behind, we know that Tinari's father was a long-haired, green-furred man with fox ears.
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