Chapter 193 Entering Fengdan for the First Time, Guiding the Way...
The mother's limbs were scattered all over the ground. Mainkun was stronger than ever before. The four seats of the Fools were torn to shreds like pieces of paper. The life-or-death crisis that was just imminent was instantly resolved.
Peruvée watched his blood-soaked back, feeling that everything was about to end.
Not only did she feel like it was all over, but all the audience members in the opera house felt a chill run down their spines.
"To kill someone instantly while enduring the discomfort of an electric shock—just how intense must that hatred be..."
"Tears, all stained black by emotions."
Navelette's face was calm, but her eyes were filled with melancholy as she looked at the ink stain among the blood.
"Mainkuhn..."
"Mainkuhn? We're free?!"
The dragon's sigh briefly mingled with the joyful cries of the boys and girls from years ago, before gradually subsiding before Jack's corpse.
"The power of monsters... is still indispensable after all."
Mainkuhn's back trembled slightly.
“Shut up! Mainkuhn, cheer up! You’re free!” Oriz yelled at him.
“Mainkuhn, I won’t hurt you, and you won’t hurt me, so let me see how you are.” Peruvieri moved closer to him.
"Don't come any closer!!"
But no matter which one of them was, all they received was trembling resistance.
"Wise King!" Kavi groaned as he looked at him. "You must be feeling very guilty and in pain, but..."
“But he has already done everything in his power.” Seno closed his eyes slightly. “Even if I were in the same position, I couldn’t guarantee that more people would survive.”
“But the wise king wouldn’t think that way; he would only blame himself.” Tinari lowered his ears, unable to suppress his sorrow.
"Perhaps deep down, he had already quietly accepted all of Jack's 'accusations'."
...
The air grew increasingly heavy, and after a long silence, Al-Hysen finally broke it.
"The torment from the fireplace house is over."
This is both a statement of fact and a gentle consolation.
Kavi heard it and listlessly looked up:
"Are you saying his future will only get better and better...? Heh heh, I really can't imagine anywhere more hellish than this place."
"His days as a wanted criminal in Fontaine are probably numbered now, Lynx, right...? It doesn't seem like it'll be a pleasant experience. When will he get to our Sumeru..."
As he was speaking, he saw the scarred boy from his memory with his back to his companions, his voice fading in the wind.
"Being human is just too painful... I..."
"I give up."
He bent over, his hands hitting the ground as if crushed, and the person's clothes slipped off his shoulders.
The boy with gray and white tiger-striped hair disappeared.
Standing on the blood-soaked ground was a large cat with a severed tail.
"Meow".
...
! ! ? ? ?
With a sudden jerk, Elheisen sent the book flying straight at Kavi's face, who immediately screamed, "Cat!!!"
"Cat!!" Tinari screamed in response.
"A cat!" Seno jumped up. "A cat that looks...somewhat familiar...no—"
Although I often said behind his back that the wise prince was like a shy cat, how come he really has become a cat now?!
"Tinari, can you turn into a fox too?!"
"How is this possible! What's going on... Could it be because of the bloodline of a demon??"
"Why did the lynx turn into a cat?! It's a huge Maine coon!" Screams erupted from the audience, slightly diffusing the previously somber atmosphere.
"...His wish to no longer be human was fulfilled."
Al-Hysen bent down slowly, groped for the books on the ground, and then immediately stood up to look around.
"It's so big!" Mondstadt exclaimed in astonishment. "No wonder my allergy symptoms were so severe!"
"Strange!" The immortal of Liyue frowned deeply, while Liuyun Jiefeng Zhenjun was puzzled. "His condition is so bad, and he is so young. I thought his true form would be smaller... Wait, is this his true form?"
The two countries behaved normally, and Inazuma skipped over it entirely, indicating that they had almost no contact with Mainkun's cat form. The only unusual thing was...
“I really miss it.” Violet’s eyes softened instantly.
Leosley unconsciously reached out and rubbed Mainkuen's ear next to him, as if recalling some touch. "It's been a long time."
"Cat, Cat God! Waaah..." Funina bit her lower lip, her eyes moist.
In the defendant's dock, which was the home ground of the Fontaines, apart from the dumbfounded Traveler and Paimon, only Clarinde showed a blank expression... Melsin's expression didn't even change.
“They’re all equally adorable,” Siegwen said with a smile.
"..."
They must have known about this for a long time.
"Maybe he's even masturbated to it," Seno said casually.
...
After a moment of silence, Kavi suddenly clicked his tongue softly, "I feel inexplicably annoyed."
"Huh??"
Not everyone in Fontaine knew everything. Navia jumped up in surprise, "The Great Gentleman?? The lynx is the Great Gentleman? Mainkuhn is the Great Gentleman? Does this make sense?...Wait, there are indeed many suspicious points..."
"M-Mr.??"
"Xiao En??"
Fimini and Linni exchanged a glance, their shock mixed with a hint of delight. "Our cat really is the same one! ...Wait! Why is it Mr. En/Brother En???"
The good cat from his childhood memories and the silent guardian were forcibly equated, and Sanzi's eyes gradually became unfocused.
"We haven't done anything offensive, have we..."
...
“Linnie, you seem to recall that one time you lifted the hair on his butt to try and determine if he was male or female…”
"Ahhh! It's a hallucination! It's all a hallucination, forget about it!"
"Ho ho..."
Arecino looked at their panicked expressions and a sinister, pleased smile appeared on her face.
What an interesting reaction! It was worth keeping it from them for so long.
Experience the absurdity of having your family members turn into cats, just like me, hehehehe...
“What a deep resentment, Pepe.” Clementine looked indulgently at her sisters, then cast her gaze toward the images in her memory.
A large, silver-gray cat walked alone on the grass, his steps unsteady and aimless.
"That place called Fireplace House is way too remote! It's all trees and hills, you can't even find your way around the city!"
After recovering from the initial shock of the cat transformation, the audience's attention was unconsciously drawn back to the video.
But the cat didn't seem to be in a hurry to find his way. On the day he left the fireplace house, he climbed directly onto a tree branch and did nothing but lie there with his eyes half open.
"He probably wants to rest; he's too tired."
The audience guessed.
"Logically speaking, he should become a lynx next, and first he should be a chivalrous knight for several months..."
The next day, the cat lay in bed all day, its eyes opening and closing intermittently; it was unclear whether it had fallen asleep or not.
"Looking at him, he's practically half-dead. How could he possibly have the strength to punish evil and promote good?"
On the third day, the cat lay there all day without eating or drinking, just lying there while birds flew by and pecked at the scabs on his neck fur.
"Forget about punishing evil and promoting good, I feel like he could starve himself to death at any moment!"
Perhaps Mainkun truly harbored a desire to die at that time, but for some reason, he eventually climbed down the tree on the fourth day and staggered to the seaside.
The sea in Fontainebleau, though called a sea, is actually all freshwater, so much so that Mainkuhn lowered his furry head and awkwardly stuck out his thin tongue to lick the surface of the water.
...like a cat.
A tremendous sense of absurdity suddenly struck the audience.
They felt sad, but couldn't pinpoint the specific reason.
“He’s a person…he should be a person…”
"It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be like this..."
The large cat with the broken tail was licking water, but as it licked, it suddenly lowered its ears, raised its head, and showed a clear look of alertness.
"Warning? What else can threaten him? Even the four seats of the Fools are dead."
"wrong!"
Navia looked at the terrain around the cat, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck her.
"Grass God! Please zoom out in the direction he's looking, please!"
Nasita had intended to do the same. In the rapidly magnified distant view, they saw a silver dragon fixed in the sky, carrying a floating boat on its back. On the boat, humans were laughing and chatting, heading towards Fontaine with the gentle navigator's voice from Melousin.
That is...
"It's the Carles route! Daddy!"
Built by the Rose of Thorns Society, with Fontaine as its core, and covering one of the three major air routes throughout the country, Kares!
Of course, there's nowhere to buy a cruise ship ticket in the wilds of Mainkun, but the uses of a route are never limited to just transportation.
"OMG……"
Amid Carles' incredulous murmurs, he saw the big cat raise its front paws in confusion and stand there gazing at the flight path for a moment.
He had never seen this thing before, and didn't know if it was a weapon or a means of transportation, or if it was dangerous or harmless.
After remaining on guard for a while, the cat lowered its front paws.
"Let's go, let's go..."
Urged on by voices from the future, the cat hesitated for a long time before finally taking its first step toward the unfamiliar silver dragon.
Everyone in Fontainebleau knows that the final stop on the shipping route is the dock on the Carles Line—
It's the back gate of Mo Mang Palace.
"Great! Great!!"
Cheers and applause erupted instantly, thundering from the first step taken.
"Come back!"
They called out to the child who had run away from home.
"Come back!"
They called out to the child who had suffered so much.
The cat darted up the high dock in a few steps, looking bewildered at the flocks of purple-gold gulls soaring about.
"Meow".
"Wow, what a big cat."
The small figure in blue and white stripes heard the voice, jumped over, and turned to him. "Are you here to see the sea from up here too? The view is beautiful!"
Navraett recognized her as Munney from Melousin, who was always thinking by the dock.
The cat didn't answer, but tilted its head and looked her over very carefully.
"What, you haven't seen Melusin before?"
She crouched down and held out her fingerless hand to the big cat. "Could it have been lost by a foreign tourist? Come here, let me see if you have a tag around your neck."
The cat slowly approached and gently sniffed the hand that was touching her.
"So soft and cute, I'd love to keep it if it didn't have an owner."
Melrose, so this is what it tastes like.
The image paused in the big cat's unfocused pupils.
A gentle breeze blew through the opera house.
"This is so much better than the fireplace house, boohoo..."
"You must get better, Lynx..."
"Friend... could you please stop using that code name? It makes me uncomfortable..."
"call."
For the first time in the past few days, Fu Ningna felt a little better.
"Keep playing, my dear colleague."
She even had the energy to continue putting on her divine airs: "The lynx is the most famous chivalrous hero in the modern history of Fontainebleau. My people all want to experience his charm."
"Don't rush, Goddess of Justice, pausing is a necessary procedure."
Nasita shook her head, waved her small hand, and smiled as she summoned many devices resembling earphones—cause-finding display machines.
"Don't forget that the recurrence of the past will inevitably involve long-standing privacy. Without a stable medium, the World Tree will find it difficult to capture specific memories."
One by one, the devices scattered like stars, falling into the hands of various people: Linnie, Linette, Fimini, Navia, Clorind… many people, and finally, the last one fell into the hands of Frynn.
"Come, make a promise to the World Tree."
"You voluntarily dedicate yourself to justice and voluntarily show the public your past appearance."
"In that sacrifice, we will surely receive a judgment of absolute justice..."
Snap!
Before she could finish speaking, a sharp sound rang out as Funina slammed the device roughly onto the armrest.
"I don't."
The gods refused.
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