Chapter 14 Starfall and Sunfire "Why don't you talk about yourself..."
Why don't you talk about your guardian?
Upon hearing this, all the city's will turned to look at Xingyun. Xingyun simply met Yangyan's gaze coldly, while Yangyan returned an even brighter smile.
In fact, the wills of other cities are also very curious about the current guardian of the meteorite.
In the past, Starfall City would randomly select outsiders with good character rather than residents of Starfall City. However, Starfall City did not look for a new guardian for a long time after the death of its previous guardian.
Everyone else has been searching for them for years, except for Xingyun. However, everyone knows that Xingyun doesn't like the Guardians like they do. They treat the Guardians like children, but Xingyun treats them like air and rarely shows up.
As everyone knows, Xingyun's personality is such that he never intended to find a guardian in the first place. It was thought that he had completely given up on the job and that he would even appear on his own to solve problems, so it seemed that he didn't need a guardian.
However, this is a strict requirement. After a guardian dies, the city only has two years to find a successor. Once more than two years have passed, the city's will will feel constant pain, which will remind them to search for a new guardian.
However, Starfall City could endure it to the point of death. Other cities had experienced that kind of pain to varying degrees. Even they, as the city's will, were afraid and could not bear it at all.
So they were very curious about what kind of person Xingyun could accept and choose as her guardian.
They didn't think it was Xingyun who couldn't endure that kind of pain, and even Yangyan didn't think so. Even if they didn't get along, he wouldn't deny Xingyun's ability to endure... So you're the real warrior, aren't you? Damn it, why are you playing with magic?
Indeed, just as the other cities suspected, Starfall didn't seek out the Guardian because he couldn't bear it anymore; he simply discovered Ethan one day while idly observing the newly added dead bodies in his city.
Upon reviewing his biography, something seemed off about him. However, a test revealed him to be a virtuous and capable candidate for the Guardian. The odd thing was that he had seen so many dead people, all of whom were notorious villains, while Ethan appeared strangely normal.
Starfall found it interesting, so he resurrected Ethan and tricked him into believing that he had become a guardian. In reality, he only truly chose Ethan to be a guardian after Ethan completed his university courses, and they got along quite well.
"It's only been twenty years, how come I didn't know you guys had so much free time?" Starfall didn't intend to tell them about Ethan; he didn't like long-winded speeches, especially from the City Wills.
Oh wait, Selene, besides, Starfall was asking for parenting experience. What could be more useful than asking Selene, who raised Ethan to this age, for experience?
"It's okay~" Yang Yan got up from her seat, put her hand on Xingyun's shoulder, and whispered affectionately in his ear, "Even if your guardian is a monster, you can still share with us, you know, we won't laugh at you~"
Though it was a whisper, the City Wills were not truly human; their senses were acute, and the sound was very loud to them.
Xingyun glanced at the hand on his shoulder and then turned to look at Yangyan.
Kagerou responded with an overly bright smile.
The next second, Yang Yan's head flew off.
The other city wills almost instantly left their seats and stood in the corner, sweating profusely as they watched Xingyun, who was expressionless but everyone knew he was furious, swing a round table at Yangyan.
“I’ve always felt that Starfall should be a warrior, not a mage…” Victoria slowly broke the tense atmosphere that made the city uneasy.
The other city leaders nodded frantically, clearly agreeing with this viewpoint. The twenty years of lucidity didn't seem to pass in the blink of an eye like when they were asleep; they had almost forgotten that Xingyun's personality wasn't good.
Not only is Xingyun's personality bad, but he also treats everyone except himself, including the city's will, as idiots and disdains maintaining friendly relations between cities. As a powerful man, he certainly has the right to do so.
Xingyun also hates it when people pretend to be familiar with him, hates it when living things have physical contact with him, and hates Yangyan. All of these things combined will make him angry.
The anger of a meteorite is terrifying. The city's will knows this.
Before the meteorite arrived, they had actually discussed the guardian of the meteorite, but according to their conversations with their own guardians about the guardian, the comments they received were nothing more than:
"Eccentric, arrogant, haughty, daydreaming in meetings, and ignoring people when they try to strike up a conversation."
Aside from that, there were no positive comments. He was wearing a cloak that covered him completely, so no one could tell if he was male or female. His voice was also hoarse, and there was no useful information about him.
None of them dared to discuss the guardians of the Starfall, except for the belligerent Yang Yan, who brought it up herself and even used the word "weirdo".
Judging from this reaction, Starfall must care a lot about his guardian. This further arouses the curiosity of the city's will, who all want to meet this guardian and see what makes Starfall like him/her so much.
"Let's go check it out after it's over." The city's will was united again, even though they hadn't discussed it with their friends, their thoughts were surprisingly consistent.
Novigrad used a transparent barrier to block the blood splattering in front of her, and incidentally helped the City Will, which had nothing to block the blood, by saying: "I think Yangyan just hasn't fought Xingyun in too long, he deserves a beating."
"Novigrad—" came Yang Yan's drawn-out, dissatisfied voice from the commotion: "I can hear you—ugh! Damn it, Starfall, don't shove my severed hand into my mouth, can't you just throw it away?"
A cold sneer came from Xingyun, Yangyan's voice paused for a moment, followed by a retching sound.
"Can you stop stuffing whatever you cut off my body into my mouth?!" Yang Yan's voice sounded angry as the dull thuds from the physical fight grew louder, and he retaliated: "Don't gouge out other people's eyes and stuff them in their mouths, or they'll burst out of their sockets."
"It's owed." Novigrad nodded, confirming what he had just said. The others nodded in agreement, looking somewhat speechless.
Kagerou's behavior is practically provocative.
Didn't he realize he was getting too close? Of course he did. Everyone knew he was doing it to annoy Xingyun, who disliked contact with people or the city's will.
But do you feel like you've really crossed the safe distance?
“If Starfall or Sunfire were human,” Arcadia couldn’t help but complain, “I even think Sunfire has feelings for Starfall. Wait, that would be considered sexual harassment, wouldn’t it?”
She turned to seek the approval of the other cities' will, only to find them all staring at her with horrified eyes. Startled, Arcadia instinctively looked back at Starfall and Sunfire, relieved to find them not behind her.
When the other city leaders saw that she had no idea how shocking her words were, they also fell silent for a moment.
“Um… Arcadia,” Victoria whispered to her, “Don’t you think it’s a bit inappropriate to use the words ‘interesting’ and ‘sexual harassment’ to describe them? Besides, they heard everything.”
Victoria swore she had just spotted Xingyun and Yangyan, who were fighting, pause for a moment, and Yangyan was still smiling at Xingyun.
She couldn't tell if the smile was provocative or something else; all she noticed was Xingyun's terrifying expression, which looked like he wanted to kill all the incarnations of will present.
That smile would definitely not be pleasing to Xingyun, otherwise Xingyun wouldn't have smashed his face to pieces immediately.
Arcadia forgot about that, and the seeds of tension took root and sprouted, gradually growing. She was now a little afraid that Starfall would kill Yangyan and then kill her.
She was afraid of pain, and she was also afraid that Xingyun would not only vent his anger on the spot, but that he would remember these things in the future and occasionally cause her some trouble.
Arcadia felt a cold sweat breaking out, but she still felt that Starfall was being disturbed by the Sunfire.
"Haha, it seems my guardian needs to speak with me." Arcadia made up an excuse and vanished from the room in an instant.
Seeing this, the other wills were also afraid of being implicated and suffering the wrath of the falling star, so they made up some perfunctory excuse and ran away.
Novigrad didn't run away; after listening to Arcadia's words, she fell into a reverie.
Many years ago, several years after they were able to form human bodies, Yang Yan, who was still naive to the point of being frightening, suddenly told her one day that he had discovered a very beautiful collectible.
The two had already become friends by then, so after congratulating him, Novigrad was curious about what the collectible was.
Young Yang Yan told him to wait, and then brought back the bloodied head of the newly born Starfall Will avatar.
Novigrad: "..."
Novigrad: "...She? Uh, he seems to be the city's will."
Yang Yan showed it to her: "He's handsome, a collector's item."
Confused but realizing what the collectibles were: "Fuck, did you hear that? Fuck you!"
Then Novigrad watched helplessly as her friend, whose "face-value" tendencies had somehow been activated, started fighting with Starfall, who had condensed enough power to reshape her body.
Novigrad originally wanted to break up the fight, but looking at the little star meteor whose will had condensed later than theirs, and then at his friend who was unaware of the bizarre things he had said, he chose to use morality to correct his friend.
Unfortunately, Novigrad did not succeed over the long years.
As they live longer in this world, their personalities gradually change from what they were at the beginning, but Kagerou's obsession with good looks remains unchanged. She not only likes to collect beautiful things, but also beautiful people.
For example, Novigrad knew that there was a collection room in the Yangyan alternate dimension where he collected different figurines he had created. He had made all the forms of the city's will, and only she knew this.
Regardless of whether there is only one form, he will still create the corresponding form. Novigrad has seen the Starfall female incarnation figure.
Not long ago, Novigrad had heard Yang Yan lament that Xingyun was also the will of the city, and that he couldn't pick up Xingyun's head after his death and preserve it in a special way.
Novigrad snapped out of his daze and found that the city was deserted.
All she wanted to say was that it wasn't sexual harassment, but it was definitely harassment.
A note from the author:
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Kagerou knew he would be ganged up on if the other city wills found out about the figure, so he only showed it to Novigrad.
Kagerou Jun wants to collect
Huh, what am I writing?
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