Chapter 182 Braving the Demon's Lair, A Single Thought of Redemption...
“Mainkuhn must have been extremely sad at that time,” Sora said softly, looking at the sleeping Mainkuhn.
Pai Meng continued sadly, "He tried so hard, tried so hard to endure the pain, tried so hard to reassure his friends, but... but... the ending he didn't want to see still came, sob..."
Helpless children, guilty children, suffering children, recorded by the earth's veins, their tears fall before the adults.
But when the adults reached out to comfort them, they couldn't hug any of them.
No children have survived to this day.
"Mainkuhn, are you still sad?"
The cat with the missing hand leaned against its brother's chest, its ears drooping, its face pale and devoid of any smile.
"Looks like it's still there."
"Jiro! Ugh! Why did you do that?!"
In the past, when children cried incessantly, Mainkuhn would pull his hand away, sobbing, and wouldn't let his friends apply medicine to him.
"Didn't I tell you that the loser disappears!?"
“Then let Buck disappear.” Inazuma’s child tried to keep a straight face, pressing down on Buck’s kicking legs. “It is his honor to give his life for his monarch!”
"This child must have grown up in a samurai family, how did he end up here?"
Yae no Miko immediately asked Lei Dianying, "Do you remember? Oh, never mind, I definitely don't."
The resentment was obvious. Lei Movie was silent for a few seconds, then could only promise guiltily, "I will investigate personally when I get back, and I will never use the general to replace him again..."
“Exactly! It was his honor!” Rongnuo agreed with Jiro. “If he hadn’t hurt someone, Mother wouldn’t have killed that sister!”
“But if it weren’t for Mother, Buck wouldn’t have hurt anyone!” Mainkuhn couldn’t accept this outcome. He struggled on the bed, trying to get up, blood seeping from his scalded skin and soaking the sheets.
"I have to go, I have to go stop Kugavina and get Buck back... Waaah..."
It hurt a lot, but he tried his best to endure it.
You are not allowed to go anywhere.
But countless small hands reached out to him and pressed him down into the soft bed.
"But if we don't stop the first one, you'll be the next one!"
"It's alright, Mainkuhn. You're not allowed to go anywhere. We just want you to be alright!"
"I don't want to! Ahhhhhh!"
Pain is born of love, and it can break one's heart.
"...Elheisen, you are the smartest among us. Suppose you were the one locked in the Hearth House, how would you save everyone?" Tinari felt uncomfortable watching this and tried to change the subject.
"Wasn't I a child when I was six?"
...Okay, that means it's impossible.
“Even Elhesen couldn’t do it… Wise King…” Kavi looked dejectedly at the crying child in the video, “When will you realize that this is impossible?”
"No, even if he realizes it, he won't give up."
Al-Hysen recalled Maine's terrifying stubbornness: "He always had to smash one of his ideals or himself."
How could someone remain the same from childhood to adulthood, without evolving at all? Elhesen truly couldn't understand, but as he pondered this, he suddenly saw Kavi's astonished expression.
"Ai, Elheisen, look! The little wise king's injury..."
"It seems much better??"
"!"
As expected, Xiao Mei, who had been crying violently under the children's pressure and was not cooperating at all with the medicine, gradually stopped crying.
"It doesn't hurt? It's so itchy?"
He curiously reached out his little paw to scratch the wound on his leg.
"Don't move! Boss, your wound—"
The voices of children and audience members rose in shock.
"It's scabbed over??"
"Wait! What kind of recovery speed is this?! I don't think a lynx is a Water Hilichurl Shaman, is it?"
"That's strange! He's almost recovered even before the medicine has been applied?"
Higewen immediately leaned over and re-examined Mainkuen's severed limb. "There's no sign of healing. It's completely different from how it is now."
"Wait, something's not right. His recovery speed was normal the first two times he was injured..."
“His recovery speed was normal when he was a child.” Leosley followed the examination with a puzzled look.
"!!!"
The people of Fontainebleau were puzzled, but those in the group had more or less some guesses.
"It's a wish! The children's wishes were so strong that they triggered a physical response!"
Kavi exclaimed with delight, "My God, they grant all requests! It's like a fairy tale!"
Young Mayin Kuhn clearly didn't understand what was going on; he scratched the hard shell on his leg in a daze.
"It really doesn't hurt anymore?"
"Well done! Only now do I realize this defect has some advantages!" Seno excitedly pumped his fist. "Although the desire doesn't seem strong enough to fully cure the disease, it's already quite good!"
The children were all confused. Clementine touched the hard shell on the cat's leg herself and exclaimed, "Wow... it looks like it will fall off in a couple of days."
"So, what happened? Mainkuhn, are you actually a monster?"
"I'm a human being now!"
"Whatever happened, it's best to wrap the bandage first." Peruvier was vigilant and didn't stop bandaging. "I feel it wouldn't be good if Mother found out... and you're not allowed to tell anyone!"
"I really can't say."
Although confused, Vilette rationally analyzed, "Kujavina has been ruthless lately, showing no regard for children's innocence. If she finds out, Maine's recovery might sometimes be accelerated..."
"No, stop talking!" Funina was terrified just thinking about it. She clenched her fists and anxiously reminded the little Maine in the video, "You'd better be smart! Stay away from that executive officer until you're healed! Don't let her find out your secret..."
The kitten touched the bandages on its arms and legs, and then seriously considered for two seconds with a serious expression.
"I'm all better now, I don't feel any pain anymore."
"Really, boss? That's great!"
"Then I'll go find Buck. Goodbye everyone."
"...Huh—??"
Little May waved to Kuhn without saying another word, then quickly pricked up her ears and ran away.
He seemed to have completely forgotten his pain, focusing intently on his target and refusing to let go.
"Wait! What happened to the lynx when it was a kitten?!" the audience shouted. "Has it forgotten that it was just burned at the stake? Is it an idiot?"
“What’s the difference between looking for Little Buck and looking for Kujavina! Even a fool who gets beaten knows to run away, how could he, how could he go closer…”
"You never learn your lesson..."
The child, barely a meter tall, dragged his big tail and nimbly jumped back to the grass where the competition was taking place to sniff.
This was the lightest he had been in three weeks. Mainkun could feel that the wound on his back, which had been half-healed, no longer caused him any pain.
Raising his hand, twisting his waist, whipping his tail, and leaping in place, Mainkun grabbed a tree branch more than four meters off the ground with one hand, pushed off with his leg, and darted up like a squirrel, dodging the nearby patrolling Fools soldiers.
"Wow, he's so agile. He's been injured every day for the past few weeks, I almost forgot he had such great skills," Paimon exclaimed.
"Even with the best skills, can't you defeat four seats of the Fatui?!" Furina was furious and worried to the point of tears. "What are you thinking about saving people with such a small thing? Go back now!"
"But if we could go back, it wouldn't be Mainkun."
Stubborn, tenacious, and with a touch of unyielding defiance, this is the cat, the indomitable Mainkuhn.
Leosley watched as Little Mayne sharpened her claws on the bark, her eyes as sharp as knives, and couldn't help but sigh.
"This kind of personality really needs guidance and protection from elders."
But there wasn't a single one.
Mei quickly made her way through the grass, following Buck's scent closely, and gradually reached the outskirts of the fireplace house.
As the number of massive Fool soldiers increased, it became increasingly difficult for Mainkun to hide.
"I really don't know why there are so many fat people in the Fools. Are they afraid it will be inconvenient for me to sharpen my claws?... Ah, Kujavina came out of the house, alone, without Buck."
"Great, Little May didn't attack directly." Funina breathed a sigh of relief, watching the cat patiently wait in the tree for the executor to leave, then sneak up and knock out the two guards before quickly darting into the house.
"As long as we don't clash with the executive officer, there shouldn't be too much of a problem..."
"His strength seems to have increased again."
Xiao Mei jumped into the room but didn't find anything special, except for a secret passage leading directly underground.
“Going to the doctor was definitely a lie,” Navelette reluctantly admitted.
“No hospital room needs to be guarded so closely.”
The audience watched with bated breath as the children slipped into the secret passage, and the secrets of the fireplace house slowly unfolded before them.
"Oh."
In the brightly lit underground, there was a boy with blue hair and red eyes.
"There are two main reasons for the development of canines: one is severe malnutrition starting in early childhood, and the other is syphilis infection inherited from the mother in the womb. Which one are you?"
"This person looks vaguely familiar," Fu Ningna said, looking at the sharp teeth in the boy's mouth.
"Holy crap!!" Kavi jumped to his feet, startled. "It's a slice of the Doctor's tissue!"
“Ridiculous…it really is him…” Sino couldn’t laugh. “When they said they were going to see a doctor, it really meant exactly what they said…”
"And who are you?"
Mainkun breathed on him, "Get out of my way!"
"Judging by your age... heh, a candidate for the King, huh? Here to see number forty-four?"
Mainkuhn didn't know what he was talking about; Mainkuhn only knew one thing.
"I'm not a candidate, I'm already the king!!"
"Already a king? It seems you're more suited for brain development experiments. Someone, come here." The young Dotore casually summoned two subordinates, then turned to leave. "Take number forty-five to be disinfected. My laboratory cannot tolerate any contamination."
Thud! Thud!
Just as he was about to leave, two muffled thuds came from behind him. The little child, his eyes filled with anger and murderous intent, stood atop the bodies of the fools and roared at him, "Where are my companions! The leader of the underworld!?"
……oh.
Raising his eyebrows slightly, the young Dotore summoned several more thunder hammers. "Give it your all, don't hold back...!"
"Lord Totore, it's a monster! Aaaaaah!"
Moments later, Little Mayin Kuhn sat atop a mountain of foolish soldiers and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"A bunch of cowards, all that size for nothing..."
Wow.
Dotole was amazed. He took a few steps forward with delight and reached out to the wary beast.
"I take back what I said before, number forty-five."
“You are indeed a king, wherever you are.”
"Come on, follow me. You want to see number forty-four, right..."
"Lord Dottore!" he was saying when another member of the Fools interrupted him, "Lady Kujavina requests to enter the laboratory..."
"Reject it outright."
Unable to wait any longer, Dotole personally took matters into his own hands and arrested the people.
"Who told her to keep such a good item to herself!"
"I,"
Tinari stared, his face ashen, as the doctor gripped the back of Mayinkun's neck.
"All I can say is, thank goodness I didn't bring Cole along."
"Hopefully she didn't see this scene in Sumeru..."
Seno gritted his teeth as he watched the doctor throw the struggling little Mayne into the sterilization room.
"Her parents will comfort her."
Elhesen watched expressionlessly as the doctor hurriedly measured the child's various data points, then ordered his assistant to bring over an injection that carried an ominous aura... an injection that Cole was very familiar with.
"Then who will appease our wise king...?"
As the injection was administered, Kavi saw the young child begin to scream, roar, and lose consciousness. He opened his mouth, bit his assistant's forearm, and kicked and tore at it.
*Pfft*, the image was completely covered in blood.
"My lab!!" a teenager roared in the background. "It's completely contaminated! Do you know how dirty human blood is?!"
"alright."
Nasita paused the playback and skillfully blurred the blood.
"Let's try together Mr. Mainkuhn's second bloody crime."
"Under the influence of the injected demonic remnants, he lost his mind and shattered the chief assistant of the Fatui Doctors. May I ask..."
"Innocent! Innocent!"
Before she could finish speaking, the entire audience couldn't take it anymore and interrupted her.
"Anyone would acquit him! Speed things up, let's get this over with!"
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