Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 139 - I’ll Drive

When he saw the number, he nearly choked on his own shock.

“Ninety-Nine Tempers? Really?”

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“I’ll continue this later.”

Yeah, Long Di wasn’t going to tackle that one right now. He was all for effort and everything, but he could only begin to imagine the difficulty that lay in trying to get to the first of those ninety-nine tempers.

Plus, he had been gone for two weeks now.

“Alright, time to get back. I hope that everyone doesn’t get too mad at having to wait for so long.”

He collected his storage rings, put on his clothes, collected the forge and turned around to set off when a thought-provoking scene revealed itself to him.

He then commented. “I should be happy that eco-terrorists aren’t a thing here. They’d probably bludgeon to death me with a block of tofu if they saw this.”

All around Long Di for miles in either direction, steam could be seen rising from the ground in plumes, whilst the earth itself released a dim red glow.

The ground directly under the forge itself was even more so releasing this light. The faint glow of the lava was a testament to the heat the forge generated.

Long Di looked to the left, then to the side, and whilst failing to whistle nonchalantly began walking off like this had nothing to do with him. As far as he was concerned, this was the forge’s fault.

An argument could be made for who was the forge’s fault, but that didn’t have to be thought about… right?

Well, he might very well entertain the conversation. It just might not go the way that any would-be eco-terrorist would want. After all, Long Di was well known to invoke madness… then again for eco-terrorists… that would be redundant.

It wasn’t too long before he arrived where he left Shen Ling and the others. Upon looking inside, however, he could only spot Shen Ling and Xiannu Liang there.

However, seeing was relative here as he couldn’t really see Shen Ling. Instead, the only thing he could see was a mist or cloud of darkness in the carriage's corner. But past events led him to know that this was Shen Ling, no doubt cultivating the Abyss Scripture.

However, there was no one else around, it seemed. This puzzled him a bit, but before he could ask anything, Xiannu Liang explained.

“The others got bored waiting for you and took off ahead of us to hunt some magical beasts. I didn’t want to leave and senior sister Shen Ling wanted to cultivate while waiting on you, so here we are,” Xiannu Liang explained.

“Senior sister?” Long Di’s brow rose.

“What?” Xiannu Liang got defensive almost immediately.

“Nothing, it seems that you two got really close,” he pointed out.

Xiannu Liang snorted at his comment. “Well, she’s not like some insufferable person!”

“Why are you talking in the third person?” Long Di asked.

Puzzled, Xiannu Liang said, “I’m not talking in the third per—”

“Give it a minute,” interrupted Long Di.

After a minute or so of silence, Xiannu Liang’s snow-white cheeks reddened with humiliation. This little ogre embarrassed her again!

Then, to add insult to injury, it took her a healthy minute to figure out the insult!

“You’re stupid!” She shot back.

“Ooh, scathing. Would you like more time to say something clever?” he asked.

“You’re… a… big… stupid head!” she finally said after nothing else came to mind.

“Basic words for a basic person. You’re just breaking new ground here, aren’t you?” Long Di countered.

“Gah!”

Having no retort, she pounced on Long Di and started raining down punches on him. If she didn’t vent her fury, she felt like she might explode!

The punches weren’t too serious and were solely for her venting.

Previously, she wouldn’t dare do something like this to Long Di. After all, he was the one who was to bring her back home, and she was fearful that he would go back on his promise to help her if she annoyed him.

However, she found out that despite his… quirky tendencies; he was a good-ish person and didn’t seem like he was the type to abandon any of his friends or break a promise.

“Senior brother Long Di, stop bullying junior sister Xiannu Liang,” Shen Ling’s melodic voice rang out as the darkness that enveloped her dispelled.

“Shen Ling, which part of this looks like I’m bullying her?” Long Di asked as another punch landed in his eye.

“Senior sister Shen Ling, Long Di’s bullying me!” Xiannu Liang cried out as she draped the collar of Long Di’s robe and fed his face as many punches as her little fist could manage.

“I know that junior sister Xiannu Liang is only like this because she lost against you in a verbal bout,” she said with a smile.

“Senior sister Shen Ling truly understands me!” After giving Long Di another punch in the face, she jumped to Shen Ling’s side and gave her a hug.

She didn’t seem to mind the earlier accusation of Shen Ling being an Abyss Ghost. Either that, or she didn’t share the universal hatred that such a revelation normally brings.

“Well, since you’re finished with your cultivation, let’s go look for the others,” Long Di advised.

“En!” Shen Ling agreed.

“Okay, so am I going to drive the carriage?” he asked as he headed to the front of the carriage.

Both Shen Ling’s and Xiannu Liang’s eyes widened in fear as they both shouted. “No!”