Chapter 200 Looking back, there was a lack of gods…
Mora, the flesh and blood of the rock god, is a reward for the diligent in the world.
When Mainkuhn was fifteen, he finally touched that warm gold.
Although the gift was not given to him by his parents or his boss, but by a pair of homeless little brother and sister.
"Sir, this is your payment for performing magic for us. Please keep it safe!"
But Mainkuhn's joy was no less than that of the pampered child, the salaried employee.
"Snort, snore, snore—"
I like you all—
"Sir, if you keep rubbing against us, we're going to fall over, hahaha..."
"He didn't withhold his pay just because his assistant is a cat." Zhongli looked at the magician siblings in the fireplace house with admiration, and sighed inwardly, "Although he came a little late, he still got what he deserved in the end. That's really not easy."
"Hey!"
Wendy wrapped her arms around his neck, interrupting his rare moment of sentimentality. "I'm more curious about where he'll spend this first bit of Mora. He's going to enjoy it to the fullest, isn't he? Delicious food? Fun toys? Weapons? Hmm... surely the merchants in Fontainebleau wouldn't be so greedy as to try and steal a kitten's money?"
Zhongli briefly imagined the scene of a cat carrying a pet toy to the counter to pay, and couldn't help but chuckle, "If he can really enjoy it so easily, then we will all feel much more relaxed."
Sure enough, the big cat dodged the two children, celebrated by jumping and hopping around Mora in a secluded spot, then carefully hung the money bag back around its neck, ran away from the densely packed streets, and darted to the Mo Mang Palace.
"Could it be that he wanted to share his joy with Navelette? Haha! Looks like he's been caught in the crossfire..."
Wendy watched with a smile as Villette distracted Maine with cat food and then pinned him to her lap to lecture him. Her earnest expression was incredibly cute, both of them.
"But speaking of which, Mr. Villette should be the first adult Mainkuen trusted in his life. The previous adults... well, let's not talk about them. I really hope it was this upright gentleman who raised Mainkuen..."
The bard's reverie was abruptly interrupted. The image of the ley lines flickered and paused abruptly, as if an invisible hand had cut off a piece of time. When it became clear again, the sun had already sunk more than halfway down. The big cat was gently pushing the bag of Mora toward Vilet.
"Is this... repayment for previous medical expenses?" The judge paused slightly, his stern expression softening. "You are truly a gentleman of high moral character."
"He didn't leave a single penny? That's so typical of him... Wait a minute!" Wendy turned to Narcida in confusion, "This transition was so abrupt! How did it get dark so suddenly?"
"Um... well..." The little grass god clasped his hands awkwardly, "Please understand, this is necessary editing."
“Because the next part,” a clear and proud female voice rang out from above the opera house, “involves a private memory of the gods, my first encounter with Mainkuhn.”
Furnessa crossed her arms, slightly raised her chin, and glanced at everyone present before finally settling on Wendy.
"I have no intention of sharing this memory with you all, do you understand, sir Mondstadt?"
…
"Isn't this a bit too possessive? Oh well, what's wrong with letting us see the cat?"
Wendy's feigned protest immediately elicited a reactive response.
"Who are you? How dare you defy the will of the gods? Shut up! Otherwise, Barbatos will have to come and apologize to you in person!"
"Huh? Me?" Wendy pointed to herself in disbelief.
"It sounds like a reenactment of a corner of the war between demons."
King Ratna gave Barbatos a mischievous look.
"Don't talk about such terrible things! Peace, we need peace!"
The Mondstadt bards seemed finally frightened into sitting down, and Frynn breathed a sigh of relief before glaring back at the stares from all directions. "What? Objections? Then bear with it! Curiosity isn't enough to make you look directly into the wrath of the gods, is it?"
"Funinna..."
The more intense her reaction, the more certain Violet became that something was amiss.
"Why are you unwilling to reveal your identity? Is concealing it more important than a fair and transparent trial?"
He looked down in dejection, and Leosley comforted him.
"Perhaps there really is some reason behind it. You know how worried Fryna is about Mainkun."
"It is precisely because I know that I do not understand."
Navelette looked at Mainkuhn in reality; he was serene, but his breathing was weak, his appearance was beautiful, but his limbs were missing.
"...What kind of hardship could make her willingly hurt herself and her friends?"
No one could understand it; all they noticed was that more and more memories were being skipped.
A great murder, in which a mother named Amélie plants the seeds of rules in the hearts of teenagers.
Although the boy was confused, he suppressed his fear and rescued his only son from the den of demons, lest he suffer the same fate as himself.
"ah…"
Fimini opened his mouth in shock, looking at his younger self and Mainkuen staring at each other in horror.
"Brother, older brother QAQ"
Humans, human beings QAQ
The two, who were afraid of each other, arrived together in front of the opera house, where they became new sworn brothers under the tender gaze of their mother.
"Hmph." The cat's sworn brother smiled, his eyes narrowed, and Leosley was very proud. "Isn't this also a kind of inheritance?"
"Was I really that scared back then? Huh? I can't remember..." The cat's adopted brother was very shy, trying to sever ties with his childhood self.
"Fimini, you coward."
"No, don't talk nonsense, that wasn't me... Sigh, I really hope Mom didn't see this outside the opera house."
But the boy, who had regained his footing, looked at his sworn brother beside him in fear, seemingly unprepared to be reborn.
"I can't just throw it away, but I... I can't just throw it away..."
"That's really interesting."
The skirmisher leaned back, speaking with a playful tone, but his body remained relaxed.
"He became a cat because he couldn't bear the pain in his heart, and now he's become a human again because he can't bear the pain in his heart."
“How can this be considered pain?” an audience member next to him disagreed. “That’s clearly love.”
Kavi chuckled beside him, "Friend, sometimes love is the root of suffering."
"May Mainkun also enjoy it."
Love—his own love, and the love of others—forced Mainkun to lose his zombie-like demeanor, yet left him unsure of how to conduct himself.
The Dragon King stretched out his hand at just the right moment, his figure seemingly enveloped in holy light.
"Would you be willing to let me be your guide in this world, Lord Cat God?"
"You are a good man, and I hope you will be happy."
“I think the chances of us bringing back the Wise King are already very low.” Upon seeing this, Seno suddenly turned to look at Elhesen.
“That Vilette went berserk,” Tinari said bluntly.
Elhesen frowned, a rare look of trouble on his face.
"...The wise king is the wise king of Mount Sumeru, there is no reason for him to leave out other countries."
"ah…"
Faced with the outstretched hand, the big cat in my memory retreated and ran away.
"But I'm not good at all, I'm a lynx..."
Upon seeing this, Al-Hysen immediately asked, "So, have they successfully built a teacher-student relationship? That's very important."
The World Tree responded to him with shimmering images.
"Skipped?"
He paused for a moment, then looked up at Funina, whose face showed nostalgia.
"You were involved in this as well."
"What are you doing? They're both so timid, what's wrong with me giving them a push?"
That means you've succeeded.
"Tsk."
Al-Hysen continued watching the video with some displeasure. After a short segment of memories of being with the twins in human form, he reunited with Leosley.
"...A little embarrassing, friend."
Leosley covered his face as he watched Mainkun kiss him wildly with his hairy mouth, biting and licking him, and then violently spreading his abdomen for him to masturbate.
"Why is this being shown? Is it considered evidence? This shouldn't constitute indecent assault... I probably shouldn't either, right?"
"I... will soon be more ashamed than you."
Vilette froze completely. "Is that Inazuma Nekomata lady still there? It's good that she hasn't returned."
"What's wrong?"
Just as Leosley was about to ask a question, there was an abrupt skip.
"Oh right, Ms. Furina also made an appearance. She was upset because Maine wouldn't let her touch her belly. Ha, lucky lady...!"
The Dragon King of the past, with an upright expression, grabbed the overly excited cat and pinned it in front of the veterinarian, asking, "What's the probability that he'll go into heat with an adult male?!"
……puff!
"I just can't understand why he's acting so strangely... Oh well, I'll just laugh if I want to. I did something stupid."
Long, his ears turning red, gave up struggling.
"How could that be? Thank you for protecting the citizens of Fontainebleau! In any way... Pfft, hahaha!"
He laughed for a while, then suddenly stopped laughing, because he saw Mainkuhn standing in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, the boy holding little Lynette who had been drugged and unconscious, his pupils unfocused and dazed.
"How could this be!"
The audience became restless.
"He's clearly getting better and better, and he's already moving towards becoming a normal person..."
"He found a teacher, a sworn brother, and long-lost family members. He was also trying hard to learn how to be an ordinary person, but—"
The bodies lay scattered on the ground, each with a unique manner of death: some had their heads strangled by dog collars, others had been stabbed to death by adult toys they had brought with them, and still others had holes pierced through their nipples and right breasts... The unique nature of Mainkun was fully revealed by the manner of each person's death.
Those foreigners are right; it really is related to wishes.
...
"Perhaps Mainkuhn was born unable to be a normal person."
They sadly came to their conclusion.
"Ah... Ahhhhhh!!"
Mainkuhn began to cry, his tears mingling with blood.
No matter how I disguise myself, I'm still a monster!
He also came to a conclusion about himself.
"I should be executed, waaaaaaah!"
The lynx admitted that it had been sentenced to the most severe punishment.
"No, don't say that!"
Those who came to judge him vied to exonerate him.
“You just need a little control, a little isolation, and probably a lot of psychologists, right, Mr. Villette?”
The teacher did not answer them. Navelette stood up and looked anxiously at the boy who was on the verge of collapse.
“The damage to one’s spirit is difficult to repair.”
What happened next? What was Mainkun's state at that time? Did the desire for death resurface in his mind? Damn it, I didn't even notice!
"Waaah..."
It was a devastating blow that nearly destroyed his mind and body. In a daze, Mainkuhn grabbed the gun in Linni's hand and made the terrified child press the muzzle against his forehead.
Hurt me.
"Then, hold my remains and rest in peace."
"Madman! Fool! Idiot! Moron!"
Lynette, still shaken, watched as her former brother threw away the pistol.
"Thank goodness it didn't go off accidentally, that was terrifying."
"You should have pulled the trigger."
Arecino smiled with her strange eyes, and it was impossible to tell whether she was sincere, feigning anger, or simply genuinely upset.
"A murderer with a clearly abnormal mental state, and an invincible strongman at that. Heh, whether he helped you or not, you should kill him before he goes crazy a second time, otherwise you might be the next one to die."
"That makes sense, but please..."
Linni wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
“I would feel guilty if I continued living like this.”
"And then, Ms. Nasita, I must ascertain Mainkuhn's mental state as soon as possible after this incident!"
"this……"
Nasita glanced at Navelette hesitantly, "I'm sorry."
"Why apologize?" Navelette was taken aback. Before she could react, she saw the image distort rapidly.
jump over.
jump over.
Skip, skip.
"???"
...It's Funina.
Aside from the comfort of the fireplace, Mainkuen shared the most painful period of his life with the water god.
When the image became clear again, it was the past Leosley tentatively uttering two words to the cat that was excitedly climbing on him.
"Mainkuhn?"
!
The cat fell straight to the ground, looking terrified. Leosley quickly tried to salvage the situation, "Maine Coon, Maine Coon, a stable and friendly breed..."
How did it jump to the point of discovering their identities so suddenly?!
Was Furina really that close to us and Mainkuhn? They're practically inseparable!
“Furina, could you give a brief overview…”
Funina turned her face away, her tone stiff, "It's all just ordinary daily life, I didn't notice anything unusual about Cat God."
"Yeah."
Navigette forced himself to believe that he had watched Mainkuhn sneak into the opera house one night and then jump over it countless times.
"Why is that?!" Even ordinary people were annoyed. "There can't be a Frynn in the opera house so late at night!"
Nasita waved her hands repeatedly, helpless. "That's how the World Tree responded. I was just showing it the truth."
"Is this still a just trial? It seems to lack too many important details," Diluc questioned.
"Isn't this just?" The divine child raised an eyebrow. "How could Inazuma give you such a long trial period? The general chopped down all the troublemakers in no time, returned to eternity, and that's it!"
"..." Lei Movie didn't dare to say a word.
He jumped too much and sure enough, something went wrong. The audience watched in bewilderment as Mainkuhn left the opera house as if he had suffered a great blow, and went home and started crying to his three children.
She turned into a cat, snuggled into the teacher's arms, and cried.
A flash of light, I don't know what it skipped.
She bewitched her brother, jumped out of the window, and went into his room to cry.
"Wait! Skip the whole next part! Ms. Nasita, aren't you embarrassed??"
"What adorable scenes of them getting along..."
Nasita muttered that it was as the Duke wished.
The cat's fur was falling out in a rustling sound, and it was crying loudly and pitifully, so loudly that the audience felt their hearts clench, yet they had no idea why it was crying.
"Did he ask Pepe about the Fontaines or something like dissolution before?"
"Is it because they're afraid of that ancient prophecy? No, that's ridiculous. Kids don't believe in that stuff anymore."
"And there's no connection at all. I've lived in the opera house since I was a child, and I've never seen anything written here that says 'the prophecy is true'."
What exactly happened...?
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Author's Note: Two hundred chapters in, and my feelings are really complicated. When I was around chapter forty, I was thinking of stopping updating because of the poor data, and I struggled to ask for leave intermittently. In the end, I ended up writing until now because of some inexplicable obsession.
Is this out of the author's sense of responsibility or the desire to finish the story? I can't tell, but I've gotten used to having Mainkun and you guys around, and things are going pretty well, so there's nothing to complain about.
Goodnight, everyone. May our long efforts come to a successful conclusion.
Well, this doesn't mean the book is almost finished. There are still some things that haven't been explained clearly. Sigh, I can't give up halfway.
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