Capítulo 1319: Chapter 159: Role Reversal
“What’s going on.”
Lu Li maintained a weak posture, with his tail protecting the soft part of his abdon, as he was lifted up.
Chris brushed back her hood, her dark golden eyes dimd by her beautiful visage, yet not prompting any disrespect—she stood like a colossal humanoid statue at the center of the plaza fountain.
“I thought you would understand.” The being with Chris’s appearance replied.
“Understand what.”
“Asamonsi’s pollution.”
Lu Li thought of Claire and the others’ unexpected betrayal: “You an to say he’s deceiving us?”
“It’s quite apparent.” “Chris” held Lu Li, while her other hand crushed the food on the plate and scattered it into the shaft: “You couldn’t possibly think the headmaster of Giant Tree Academy is lower in status than the deputy headmaster.”
Chris is a Viscount, whereas Asamonsi is rely a lord under the Viscount.
Lu Li indeed had doubts about this, and Asamonsi had explained it by saying Chris had betrayed him…
Watching the stone slab being moved aside and the rat n gathering and feasting beneath the throne, Lu Li remained silent.
“I call it the Throne of the Toilet.” The fed “Chris” covered the slab, the hole slightly thicker than a finger indeed resembling a lavatory setup. Her hands, sared with bread crumbs and minced at, reached for Lu Li: “I discovered these souls and brought them back stuffed into dolls. They are pitiful beings, without the strength to be reborn, but not fading imdiately; they wander aimlessly on.”
“Do you have mory?”
“Chris’s” hand stopped as it was about to touch the fur: “Initially no, but thanks to ‘Land of Obsession,’ I rembered who I was.”
She indeed had reasons to be Chris, but there were more reasons she wasn’t, like summoning the lord to the castle and having the Bat Guards search the land, unless…
“As you guessed, it’s for detecting the Earth Dwellers’ surveillance.”
“I didn’t know you had mind-reading skills.” Lu Li said.
“It’s not mind-reading, just wisdom. I believe those bizarre ones claiming to be an intelligent race must’ve told you the sa.”
This sentence revealed more: “‘Book of the Dead’ was placed there by you?”
“Just coincidence, by the ti I realized the book was gone you had already helped Wenger recover his mory, Holy Light Squad gets 100 points.”
Ignoring the Giant Tree Academy style joke from “Chris,” Lu Li continued questioning: “Since you recovered your mory, why not reach out to and Claire.”
“Because just as you don’t trust now, I didn’t trust you.” “Chris” continued to reveal truths only she knew, unverifiable: “You think you were the first ‘Little Remi’ to arrive? No, you were the fourth.”
From the ‘Land of Obsession’ being written to Lu Li’s return to Midnight City spanned about three months.
Entities coveting territory, wealth, or with deeper conspiracies acted during this ti, the first one disguising as Little Remi to deceive Claire. That was also the closest fake Little Remi ever ca to success. Claire trusted it completely, and if it wished, it could even leave with Claire.
But with true treasures almost within reach, there was no reason for the bizarre ones to give up.
Chris also chanced upon ‘Land of Obsession’ then, recovering her mory and self.
Subsequent Little Remis could no longer successfully disguise themselves.
Among them, one “Little Remi” involved the Earth Dwellers’ Trading Company. Chris kept it company until she felt bored, then exposed and killed it.
“So you knew from the start that I ca?”
“Don’t underestimate a Grand Lord. I observed all you did, including bringing back Margaret. Well done, but rescuing a teammate doesn’t earn extra points.”
“Why doesn’t Claire rember the previous Little Remis.”
“A simple forgetting spell, she didn’t have too many real mories anyway.”
Chris’s answers beca concise as Lu Li hadn’t finished questioning: “Asamonsi said you coveted the Keeper of the Realm, causing Midnight City’s destruction.”
“Correct your wording error, it’s not coveting, it’s hostility.” Chris shook Lu Li.
“Are you saying the Keeper of the Realm is the antagonist?”
“No, the antagonist is still Asamonsi, the Keeper of the Realm is our and the Swamp’s common enemy.”
“I don’t understand.”
“You’ve encountered two Ancients, right?” Chris identified them: “Prada and the God of the Deep Sea. What’s your impression of them?”
“The God of the Deep Sea went from ignorant to indifferent to sincere, I haven’t interacted with Prada.”
“The Ancients are the native deities of our world, humans naturally assu the Ancients are on our side, which is both correct and incorrect. The correct part is they, like us, oppose outsiders, the incorrect part is they don’t stand with us.”
Chris’s words rendered Lu Li silent: “You see a disgusting centipede biting a fly, would you save the fly or crush them both?”
Perhaps humans weren’t so repulsive to the Ancients as flies, but they weren’t accorded special treatnt either.
They don’t target humans, but neither do they deliberately protect humans.
Perhaps personal life-affinity Ancients do exist, but selfishness remains their eternal truth.
Capable of suppressing the Swamp which could easily engulf Midnight City, the Keeper of the Realm is indeed a powerful Ancient.
Unfortunately, it’s not fond of humans.
“You still didn’t answer how you caused Midnight City’s destruction.”
“That story is lengthy.” Chris’s tone softened.
This was Lu Li’s last question: “Tell what happened, put down first.”
“There’s no ‘put down first,’ where do you want to start?”
“Start from your betrayal of Asamonsi.”
So Chris, without putting Lu Li down, recounted a story entirely different from the one Asamonsi told.
In this story, it was Asamonsi trying to deal with the Keeper of the Realm instead of Chris, and indeed he acted thus. However, he failed, which explained his absence from the March Tournant, and it made the March Tournant humanity’s last reminiscence.
“I thought he perished, not expecting him to be the Gardener… Now, any doubts left?”
Lu Li shook his head.
“Then it’s my turn.” Chris lifted Lu Li in front of her: “What were you wearing the first ti you ca to the Alchemy Office?”
“…Nothing.”
No clothing in cat form.
“Passed. Glad to see you again, Mr. Luli.” Chris embraced Lu Li.
Lu Li tried to struggle, but Chris sobbed sadly: “You sleep with my daughter all day, yet I can’t just hug you a bit?”
“Think of it as comforting an elder.” Lu Li ceased his struggle.
“Have you considered, this could also be a lie?”
Close to Chris’s shoulder, Lu Li suddenly heard Chris’s whispered conspiracy: “Asamonsi’s under my control, following my plans, feigning assistance only to betray you, controlling true allies who aid you, while you find yourself isolated, I appear again just to make this legendary Exorcist trust, obey …”
The chilling truth spoken in a cold whisper, then instantly lted by laughter.
“Fooled you.”
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