Chapter 128 Drug Exposure, Elhesen Slips...
Kavi was at the window when he saw his intellectual friend running home with something in his arms, followed by a small white figure.
He immediately went downstairs, cheerfully opened the door for Elhesen, and took the things from his hands. "Elhesen? It's rare to see you come to my house to play. Oh, you're here, why did you bring a gift, a doll?"
…
This gift feels like a living person when you hold it; if you squeeze it, the exposed ears will twitch, and upon closer inspection, the hair color is also familiar.
...
Kavi loosened his grip and screamed in terror, "Aaaaaah! What is this! What is this?!"
"Don't fall!"
Nasita quickly reached out to catch it, but was instead hit on the floor with a thud by the falling Mainkun.
"...I'm still too weak..."
"Wait! You're Lady Nasita!? I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry—no! Elheisen! Who are you bringing into my house?!!"
"It is obvious that the gods and the current Lord of Sumeru are the same."
That's not what I wanted to ask!
With trembling hands, he pulled the god up from the floor. Kavi was at a loss as he looked at the king, who was bound in the quilt.
"This is the Wrathful King! I haven't offended you in any way lately! Why are you sending this nemesis to my house... sigh?"
wrong.
Why isn't this tyrannical king reacting?
Swallowing nervously, Kavi cautiously reached out and lifted the cloth covering Mainkuen's face.
"This is--"
"You've come to your senses? Congratulations, your overwhelming emotions haven't clouded your judgment."
His hawk-like gaze swept over the boy's blank, lifeless eyes. Afraid he might die, Al-Hysen quickened his pace:
"Listen to me, Kavi, I need you to make the following preparations..."
"You did this?!"
The brilliant second half of the argument interrupted his plan to speak.
Elhesen: ...
"No, that's way too ruthless!"
Elhesen watched speechlessly as Kavi hurriedly pulled the boy out of the blanket and covered his cold skin with his hands.
"Oh my god, oh my god... how long has he been starved? Did you drug him and imprison him?"
Kavi clenched the tyrant's withered hand tightly twice, and to his horror, he found that although the other man's eyes were open, he was completely unresponsive. Without hesitation, he went to the kitchen and fetched some hot soup.
"Elheisen! I already said I didn't care about him changing my thesis. Even if it was to vent my anger, you didn't have to be so ruthless! You can kill, but you can't torture! Tyrant, tyrant!"
After calling him several times without getting a response, Kavi gritted his teeth and reached out to pull off his mask.
"Never mind, just feed him...!"
"careful!"
Just as he was about to touch the mask, the hot soup instantly turned into black water and attacked Kavi. Elhesen timely threw out a prism to shatter the water ball!
*Snap*
The broken bowl still held some steam, but the food was no longer visible.
"What...what's going on...is he even conscious?"
Kavi couldn't understand what was happening before him. He touched the black soup on the ground in a daze.
"If he was unconscious, why was he able to resist my help? If he was conscious, why did he allow himself to fall into death?"
"Unconscious? No, I prefer to call this behavior a defense mechanism."
Reaching out to stop Kavi, who was about to try again, Elhesen spoke calmly.
"Now, go pack some necessary items."
"Then you took him to the hospital for emergency treatment, right?"
Kavi hurriedly picked up Maine, whose faint breathing terrified him.
"He definitely needs professional care... Wait, is he really not going to be assassinated in his hospital bed?"
"No, I won't go to the hospital."
Under the pensive gaze of the gods and the astonished stares of his friends, he calmly raised the water pouch.
“You know the desert well, you can give us directions, let’s go to the desert, right now.”
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"You're insane! You're insane! Elhesen, tell me the truth, do you not want him to live?"
If it weren't for Elhesen speaking, Kave would have personally beaten him so badly he was hospitalized.
Although the pack animals were stable, they were not as fast as horses. The two men and one god quickly got the patient into the carriage and headed towards the desert.
"If that's really the case."
Nasita looked sadly at the desolate yellow sand.
"Then he doesn't need to go to such great lengths."
Because tyrants will bring about their own demise.
Kavi understood what she hadn't said aloud.
"But in my opinion, dragging such a weak body into the desert is no different from suicide."
Kavi placed Mainkun's head on his lap, trying to make him feel a little more comfortable on the bumpy journey.
The usurper of Mount Sumeru, the tyrannical king.
In the past, a mere touch of his fingertips could send shivers down the spines of countless scholars, and a sweep of his vertical pupils could slice through a palace like a cold blade.
Today, he lay curled up on the lap of the disobedient, the hot wind blowing through the carriage curtains, revealing the deep dark circles under his eyes.
Those once arrogant vertical pupils, which once looked down upon Mount Sumeru, have now dissipated into extinguished embers.
Kavi, the son of art, loves all beautiful things and naturally cherishes those eyes as well.
Please…
Mainkuhn vaguely heard someone praying in his ear, accompanied by a gentle wiping of his forehead.
"Don't die in my arms."
[...]
[So gentle... I don't want to get up anymore.]
“Kavi, stop sending him goodwill.”
Another voice appeared at an inopportune moment, interrupting this pure and virtuous scene.
“Hey, I just think talking to him more might help alleviate these…dissociation?somatization? symptoms.”
"Yes, but you can't say that. You have to say..."
The voice suddenly turned cold, clear and stern, like that of a judge.
"King of Wrath, thanks to your new policies, Dishia's father, the newly appointed religious leader Kusera, has disappeared and his fate is unknown."
"So, sit up and take responsibility!"
[...]
[...]?
"Elheisen! What are you saying?!"
Kavi screamed in disbelief and tried to cover his mouth:
"He's already suffering enough, and you're going to stab him in the heart with needles!"
How do you know he doesn't want to be hurt right now?
Ignoring him, El-Hysen loosened the reins, jumped back into the carriage, grabbed the weakened King, and spoke slowly and deliberately into his unfocused eyes.
"Kusera is missing, her fate unknown, and it's all because of you."
"Elheisen, you bastard!"
Kavi, lacking divine insight, couldn't stop the attack despite his best efforts, and angrily glared at Nasita, who was watching from the sidelines:
"Lord Grass God! Are you just going to let him harm the seriously ill?!"
Nasida gripped the handrail tightly, pursed her lips, and turned her head away.
"If only there were a bowl of sweet medicine..."
"Rise, King of Tyranny."
His cat ears twitched, and Mainkun felt a demon whisper in his ear, repeating cruelly in a lower, deeper, yet hammer-like voice:
"The world has been turned upside down because of your appearance. The fates of countless people have been rewritten because of you. Those who have been punished by you, those who have benefited from your policies, those who hate you to the bone, and those who have expectations of you—their lives and deaths are still hanging on your shoulders, you 'King'! Get up! You have no right to sleep!"
"Elhesen!"
Stuffing salt into the mouths of thirsty sheep and piling stones on the backs of exhausted oxen—Kavi couldn't understand this cruelty. He tried desperately to stop it, but then he heard a low, whimpering gasp.
"Heh..."
"!!!"
It was Mainkuhn! Amidst the relentless questioning and oppression, he painfully struggled to regain his senses, his pupils contracting and focusing with difficulty on the man and god before him.
"This...this is impossible..."
Kavi couldn't help but reach out and gently pat his trembling back, looking at him as if he were a baby struggling to emerge from a swamp:
"Why are you getting better instead?"
When Elhesen saw that he was awake, his tone immediately returned to calm, without any more urging.
“That’s strange, Kavi. I thought people like you would have some self-awareness.”
"What?"
"That is pain and responsibility, which can make your lives... blossom more than love."
After saying that, he immediately looked down to check on Mainkuhn's condition.
If nothing unexpected happens, there shouldn't be any problems.
Although it's hard to tell, the King of Wrath is indeed more responsible than his arrogant outward appearance suggests. Once he realizes his own weight... then his promise to the gods and his peaceful life, well, that's all settled. Presumably, he can now collect his vizier's salary and do whatever he wants.
He nodded in satisfaction and asked, "How are you feeling? What would you like to eat?"
"Hah...hah...cough!"
The tyrant breathed heavily, his beastly eyes burning with a fierce intensity, regaining their power...
No, it hasn't restored its authority.
"What's wrong? Is there anything else that's bothering you?"
Looking at the human Kavi patting its back and patiently taking care of it, and then at the human Elhesen whose expression had suddenly become serious, the cat slowly lowered its ears.
"Waaah—"
"!?"
Faced with Elhesen's face going completely blank, he suddenly burst into tears.
"Huh? Huh? Are you about to cry? It's okay, it's okay, let me hug you~"
"Waaah!"
"Why... are you crying?"
Scholars of the epistemological school cannot comprehend everything that is completely out of character (OOC) in front of them.
The king who ruled over the country, supporting his weakened body, desperately shuffled backward. The closer Kavi got, the harder he cried, tears falling to the ground.
Who is this?
Could it be that... Bashuna's story about scaring the king away wasn't exaggerated or fabricated...?
Oh no, how could I have overlooked this...
"Elhesen, Elhesen".
Elhesen fell into a rare daze, and the gods didn't let him off the hook either. Narcida tugged at his sleeve to remind him:
"Don't forget your promise: you have to give me a 'normal' king within seven days."
normal.
Al-Hysen stared at the cat, who was crying its eyes out.
Perhaps it would be faster to directly modify the definition of "normal".
"Waaah..."
The goddess didn't care what he was thinking. She nimbly skipped over the bewildered Kavi and pounced on him, tightly hugging Mainkuen's neck.
"Welcome back to this world, Vana Smarana Sapna."
Although you don't particularly like this name, I wish you eternal love.
"Waaah..."
[Nasita, I'm so sad... I can't stop crying...]
Nasida wiped away his tears, "Do you want to eat something? You haven't eaten or drunk anything for almost a month."
Mainkuhn shook his head. "Ah, I've been away from Fontainebleau for a month already, ugh."
"If you don't want to eat, what do you want to do now?"
The gray-haired human was terrifying, relentlessly closing in.
"I think you should understand your own weight and no longer have the desire to die."
"Ugh..."
The carriage was cramped, and Mainkuen was weak; soon there was nowhere to hide, and he trembled in his shadow.
"Ku..."
He managed to squeeze out a single word.
"Kusela? Him..."
Al-Hysen stepped back, giving him some space.
“His situation is a little different from what you imagine, and it would be troublesome to explain in detail. I suggest you eat something first.”
No, no, Mainkun couldn't sit still at the thought of someone possibly getting hurt because of him.
“We’re on our way to the last place he went missing, and we expect to arrive in six days. Are you really going to wait another six days?”
Elhesen's worst-case scenario was to show the King of Wrath the old mercenary's corpse to provoke him into a daze, but fortunately it didn't come to that.
Although Mainkuhn was relatively normal, Kousela's chances of survival were still slim. To prevent the stimulation from worsening his condition, he changed his plan and instead tried to appease the King.
"To be honest, with the legacy of the God-King lore looming over him, Kusela's death was inevitable. Your new policies only accelerated this process; it's just that no one expected it..."
Mainkuhn didn't understand.
He barely understood 'six days' and 'death'.
[Is it because of me again?]
[...was it because those scholars couldn't kill me, so they killed the people I selected to vent their anger?]
The mad assassination attempt is still fresh in everyone's mind, and if it is true, then Maine believes he should bear full responsibility for Quesera's death.
[No, six days is too long! I'm so sorry, sob sob—]
Sizzle—
"Wait? Why are you tearing your pants while crying? Your thighs are showing!"
Amid Kavi's screams, Mainkuhn, burdened by immense pressure, could no longer hold on and, with trembling hands, pulled a vial of medicine from the bandage on the inside of his thigh.
tie.
His droopy ears instantly perked up, his expression strangely alert. Mainkun immediately asked:
"Nobody expected anything?"
He secretly planned to cripple several scholars to establish his authority.
Al-Hysen silently looked at him and the syringe on the ground: "...No one expected that he would run away crying as soon as he heard that there would be a political review before he was hired, and he didn't even dare to cooperate with the investigation."
"...It has nothing to do with scholars."
"It has nothing to do with him, he ran away on his own."
"Looks like he has a criminal record."
Unaware of the full picture, Mainkun suddenly felt sorry for his pants and lamented that he had exposed the existence of the potion because of the impure water.
"This is different from what I expected, like a little white sheep suddenly turning into a big bad wolf."
Al-Hysen glanced at the undried tear stains on his face and his wide-legged sitting posture: "You and I think very differently."
Kavi was much more direct; he leaped onto Elheisenberg's back and demanded, "Who are you?!"
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Author's note: You might have forgotten, but Dixia's father did break the law, and it might have been quite serious, because the Legacy of the God King forces its members to obey based on their criminal records.
...
But honestly, how many people in the Sumeru Desert haven't broken the law? The traveler even slaughtered an entire camp.
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