Chapter 204 Elheisen, a complete liar...
"Mainkuhn, why again..."
The audience watched in disbelief as the boy scratched his hands until they bled.
"Hasn't this happened a long time ago?...Wait a minute."
They briefly recalled Mainkuhn's current situation and suddenly understood.
"Maine..."
"You're feeling really upset again, aren't you?"
...
The people of Sumeru were clearly less frustrated than those of other countries, but they were also extremely astonished.
"This actually happened?! I've never seen this in Vizier's diary!"
"Do I need to remind you? The Vizier's Diary was once an open book that students could freely read." Although it was quickly banned.
“Ah…” Kavi understood what Elhesen meant. “So, you deliberately hid a lot of things from your records? No wonder some details don’t match up… But your agreeing to write the history book was unusual enough…”
"snort."
Al-Hysen naturally expressed his approval, but just as he was about to turn his attention back to the images, he suddenly felt an intense gaze that he could not ignore.
"..."
How to describe that gaze? It was almost scrutinizing, with a hint of helplessness and deep distrust.
"That duke is staring at you, and he looks really fierce."
Tina twitched her ears and lowered her voice to mimic the tone of an adult male.
"Kid, are you sure you can handle this? Can I entrust Mainkun to you? I'll be watching you..."
"casual."
Elhesen nodded indifferently, not really caring.
"I'm doing well enough that I'm not afraid of scrutiny."
...
Terrified and uneasy, he refused to show himself regardless of whether anyone was in the room. Elhesen had no idea what had happened to the King of Fontaine after his hunger strike.
In short, I was terrified. It was as if some kind of protective shell had been shattered—cute, fluffy, harmless… I couldn’t accept its appearance, blackened by the filth inside.
"What should I do? I finally managed to coax him into a good mood."
Little Lucky Grass King was somewhat at a loss. "Should we call Dixia's father here to grant her another pardon? But I have a feeling that this isn't the cause of her illness."
"Um."
Al-Hysen glanced at the cat, which then shrank back under the bed.
"He is still conscious, so he is expected to return to 'normal' in five to eight hours."
“Is that really normal?” Nasita still remembered the medicine the King of Wrath had given her. “Delaying and hiding will only make the gangrene worse… Elhesen, where are you going?”
Elhesen didn't answer, but calmly instructed the god, "Watch over him."
The attitude was almost like an order.
Then he turned around and left, locking the bewildered little girl and the mentally unstable teenager in a room.
Click, and they even locked the door.
...
"Cold-blooded and ruthless, Sumeru!!"
A chorus of disbelief immediately rose from the audience. The Fontaineian looked at Elhesen in disbelief, "You're just leaving like that? At least offer some words of comfort?!"
“.
Al-Hysen ignored them completely, not even turning his head slightly towards them.
He was too lazy to defend himself, but that didn't mean his friends would stand idly by. Kavi, enraged, rose up:
"Huh? What's he doing there? Trying to put more psychological pressure on Mainkuen? Elheisen is a person! A person!"
"Ah, right." The audience exclaimed in realization, "Alhesen is a person, and Mainkuhn is a scary person..."
Immediately, sighs of "Erhesen is a human being" rose and fell, and the opera house was filled with regret. No one dared to criticize anymore.
"As expected of me!" Kavi patted his teammate on the shoulder happily. "I stunned everyone with just a casual move! In this situation, you really have to rely on me, junior!"
"..."
As Al-Hysen listened to everyone's regrets about their species, he felt a slight urge to speak up for himself next time.
"But... but you can't just leave like this, can you? You're really heartless..."
Al-Hysen immediately put it into practice: "Cruel, meaningless showmanship heals you, not the patient. No, your eagerness to express your opinions is also a kind of patient, a patient of truth."
"Huh? Are you calling me crazy?" The audience was confused and annoyed.
"..."
Some people are thinking of going back to the Order of the Church.
Amid the audience's eagerness and confusion, Mainkuhn trembled alone under the bed.
The little grass god seemed to say something gentle, but Mainkun didn't hear a word; his mind was completely filled with fear.
"They've discovered...the whole thing..."
They didn't even leave behind a decent disguise...
"Waaaaah—!"
"I'm bad, stupid, and a liar! I'm destined to be hated!"
"Ah, it's okay. I was born to be hated. Only by being hated can I save people, so it's okay, it's okay..."
He tried to convince himself, but large drops of salty tears kept welling up from his tear ducts, soaking his mask and making it wet, which he couldn't stop even with his eyes closed.
"Ugh..."
Perhaps knowing it was futile, Nasita's soothing words stopped at some point, giving Mainkuhn a strange feeling that he had been forgotten by the world.
That illusion was wonderful; Mainkuhn would love to keep it going forever.
But it seems some people disagree.
He was crying under the bed when he suddenly heard a rustling sound getting closer and closer. He instinctively reached out to block it, but the other person was so short that they managed to squeeze through the gap and eagerly extended a damp, soft thing, accompanied by heavy breathing that swept away the tears under his eyelids.
……What…?
It was a dog, a brown dog with droopy ears and a lolling tongue. Seeing Mainkuhn stop crying and look at it, it excitedly crouched under the bed and barked loudly.
"wer!"
...
"Meow!!!"
Mainkun instantly gripped the ground with both claws, arched his back, bristled, and hissed fiercely! The bed covering him was instantly shattered!
“wer…”
"Hiss!!"
The dog hid behind, the cat chased after them, and Al-Hysen, carrying the cage, and Narcida calmly watched the chaotic scene of the cat and dog confronting each other.
"Get away! Get away! This is my territory!"
"Is this part of your scheme?"
Nasita stared at the ruins in silence for a while.
"...A plan to drive away dogs and cats?"
"...No, this was unexpected."
! !
Mainkun caught a glimpse of Al-Hysen out of the corner of his eye, and immediately sprinted into a wardrobe, locking himself completely inside.
"Woof?"
The dog barked in confusion, its drooping tail wagging as it scratched at the wardrobe door, unable to contain its curiosity.
"An overly lively first encounter."
Nasita commented, then looked gently at Elhesen. "I think I understand what you're going to do. You're not as cold-hearted as you seem."
"I'd rather you never change your opinion of me."
El-Hysen stepped forward, knocked on the wardrobe door, and asked the new king inside, who had consumed so much of his attention.
"I apologize, Your Majesty. The rescued illegal experimental dog has escaped. Please don't take offense at its offense, after all, it won't live much longer."
He said that to Mainkuhn, and then immediately reached out and grabbed the dog by the scruff of its neck without hesitation, pulling it into the cage.
"Dog, number forty-four, go into the cage and spend the rest of your life here for the next six months."
The movements were fluid and seamless, leaving Mainkuhn no time to think or react.
"Eek..."
The loud bark instantly turned into a whimper. The dog was unwilling, but it obediently followed the leash out of habit.
"Huh?"
Nasita deliberately raised her voice, "Are they going to be locked up in a cage until they die? How pitiful."
"This dog is not socialized and doesn't obey commands. It just runs around and barks wildly when let out. It's troublesome and tiring. Forget it. The staff don't have the energy to take care of it."
"It's only been six months. He's probably gotten used to being locked up for the first half of his life. Lord Grass God, don't overthink it."
"Heartless! Heartless!!"
The audience in Sumeru watched in shock as young Al Heissen slowly dragged the dog cage out.
"To kill someone, you must first destroy their spirit! ...Oh right, you probably didn't know back then about his experiments and such..."
"snort."
A slight smile played on Al-Hysen's lips, the curve mirroring that of his younger self.
Even someone as rational as him couldn't help but show a smug smile when he successfully manipulated the world to function as he had envisioned.
Especially the one who was designed, who at this time also bore the fate of Mount Sumeru, and was considered the supreme ruler of a country.
"Click".
Young Al-Hysen paused, unsurprisingly finding that he couldn't move the dog cage.
"Woof!"
"..."
Mainkuhn crouched on the ground with his head down, his fingernails hooking into the corner of the cage, and blood seeping from the bandage on his forearm. The dog stretched out its tongue to lick it.
"What, Your Majesty, do you want to keep it?"
Al-Hysen's voice was cold and indifferent.
“I don’t recommend it. As you can see, whether it’s congenital or acquired, it’s neurotic, restless, anxious, inseparable from people, afraid of the outside world yet eager to try, afraid of being hurt by humans yet unable to resist getting close. It’s a troublesome thing to take care of the King of Fiends. Perhaps a dose of medicine would be a better end for it.”
"..."
He made it very clear, every word of which was meant to dissuade him from leaving, but it was no surprise to see Mainkuen slowly raise his claws, all ten fingers gripping the edge of the cage.
"……mine."
Concise and to the point.
Hehehe...
"As you wish."
Al-Hysen opened the cage door himself, letting the dog jump out joyfully and sniff the young king.
"May you bring it the happiest six months of your life."
"If I'm not happy myself, how can I bring happiness to it?"
"Ridiculous."
"It's just that dying is easier now."
But Mainkuhn, why did you stand up again, so unwillingly between heaven and earth?
Words of comfort cannot put your mind at ease, a compassionate embrace cannot calm you down, and gold, silver, wealth, power, and status cannot bring you even a moment of joy.
So what exactly is it that keeps getting you through these challenges?
"King Li, let's go."
Seeing Mainkun awkwardly place his paw on the dog's head to stroke it, Elhesen didn't hesitate to throw Mainkun a leash.
"!!!?"
Mainkuhn instinctively dodged, but stopped after realizing it was just a rope.
"What...what are you doing?"
"The Wrathful King."
Elhesen finally couldn't hold back and slowly, slowly, a sinister smile crept across his face at Mainkun.
"Have you forgotten that dogs are different from cats? They need to be taken out for walks. By the way, they don't like places where there are no people."
Al-Hysen was clueless about dogs and had no idea whether they liked deserted places, but that didn't stop him from talking nonsense.
...
Mainkuhn looked helpless.
"This isn't my dog, don't give me the leash."
"I still have work to do with the gods, goodbye~"
"No! No! You're not allowed to leave!! Stay with me, waaaaaah!"
"Woof!"
A horrifying scene unfolded on the streets of Sumeru. Leading the way was a lop-eared dog with a loud voice. It kicked forward, and the leash pulled straight down, tightening around Narcida's fur-streaked Mainkun. Narcida, small as she was, couldn't bear the weight at all and desperately clung to Elhesen, trying not to be crushed.
"Let go, I need to go home."
Elhesen was determined to run away.
"This is the plan you came up with! You have to take full responsibility for it!"
Naxi Da refused to let go, even in the face of death.
"Meow!! Waaaaah—"
The cat is even worse off.
"Holy crap! I've finally learned to hallucinate!"
The students passing by covered their faces and walked away.
Aside from dogs, no one can leave the Church House with a smile...
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Author's Note: In this chapter, Elhesen told a lot of lies...
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