Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 194 - Would You Like To Ask Me?

Ti ta, ti ta, ti ta…

The pitter-patter of several footsteps could be heard coming down the tunnel Long Di was in.

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However, Long Di didn’t appear surprised. He kept his back to the rune-covered shield to face whoever it was.

It wasn’t long before a small group emerged before him. It was a group consisting of two middle-aged demons, a man and a woman, along with four disciples. Three female demons and one male demon comprised the disciple’s group.

One female, in particular, walked ahead of the group of disciples. In fact, she walked ahead of the middle-aged demons that accompanied them.

Long Di didn’t know what demons they were, but he could smell the arrogance they were giving off and it bored him.

The female in the lead looked at the space behind him and saw the soft glow while feeling the flame fluctuations in the air.

“An Earth Flame,” her voice shuddered a bit when she realised what this was. Not just the disciples behind her, but even the middle-aged demons were moved by this and immediately grew restless.

“You’ve been following me.” This was no question. This was an observation that Long Di had made and had been aware of for quite some time.

“Cavern Flame Mountain’s flame energy had been shrouded in mystery. It seems the Caverns were being powered by an Earth flame,” the male middle-aged demon pointed out.

The female middle-aged demon followed up by saying. “Dark Flame Tian was even able to bend an Earth Flame to his will.”

The new arrivals weren’t paying attention to Long Di. They were conversing among themselves regarding ‘their’ discovery of the Earth Flame.

“It is only right we bring it to the sect. There is no need for this to remain out here where any and everyone can take advantage of it,” the young female disciple advised.

The other disciples behind her nodded in agreement.

Long Di said and did nothing. He simply listened to their conversation while wondering what he wanted for dinner. They haven’t had a decent meal since leaving Blackstone City and eating rations wasn’t necessarily fulfilling.

Sure, he was a Martial Master and could survive for months without food, but eating was one of the few enjoyable practices he could employ and he wasn’t about to give it up.

“I should really cook something when we get out of here,” Long Di said to himself.

Though this was said to himself, it was successful in drawing the attention of the new arrivals.

Their only action, though, was a collective narrowing of their eyes.

Seeing this, Long Di nodded and spoke with a finger to his chest. “Hello, due to matters beyond my control, I cannot disclose my name. How are you all doing today?”

Silence pervaded the area, not long enough for the tumbleweed to make its legendary reappearance, but enough to make it awkward.

The female at the front disdained to speak with a human, much less a child who appeared to be no more than eleven. Seeing this, a disciple from the back chose to do so.

“A silver body disciple and a few o—”

Long Di raised a hand and immediately admitted. “I killed them.”

They were all caught off guard by the sudden admission and didn’t know how to continue for a while until another disciple chose to speak.

“I-If you think telling the truth is gonna save you, then you’ve got ano—”

Long Di raised another hand and said. “Never thought that. Killed em in cold blood.”

Their eyes widened in shock at Long Di’s brazenness.

Another disciple took up the chance to speak. “You dared to offe—”

“So I’m gonna stop you right there.”

‘Damn you!’

Long Di’s interjection was infuriating! They would say something and he would respond in a way that made it seem like it was the most tiresome thing to do!

Were they boring people? Why was he acting like he saw this scenario countless times!?

He then went on. “Let’s be honest, you were never gonna let me go. One,” he put up a finger.

“I’m a human and your racist and/or specist tendencies want me dead. Second, I discovered the Earth Flame, and you want no one else to know. Third, I could smell the haughty coming from you all a mile away. A new perfume is recommended. At this stage, whether I killed the people above, yes or no wouldn’t have mattered. You would have wanted to kill me. Now that we got that out of the way…”

Long Di did a couple of stretches and declared. “I need to move fast, so let’s get this over with. You’re gonna say that I’m offending you, and then I’m supposed to say something witty in return. You’ll get angry and send out side-character number three behind you to fight me because the two middle-aged demons will deem it below them to fight me because of my apparent age and race.”

They looked at him in complete dumbfoundedness as he continued, “I will kill side-character number three and you will all gasp in surprise because I killed one of you and you’ll all ask me if I know what I’ve done like I don’t know what murder is. You’ll either send out side-characters four through six to come at me all once, or one of your middle-aged nannies will do so. I kill some but not all, because of plot, and I then subdue the Earth flame. We all clear on our roles here…? I’ll take your silence as consent… aaand ACTION.”

The minute he said this, no one made a move. It wasn’t that they couldn’t; it was because what they wanted to say and do lined up perfectly with what Long Di said they would!

It was as if they were dancing in the palm of his hands, and it was uncomfortable. They were the Iron Body Forge Sect. How could they act according to the whims of a child?

But then… what were they to do? Just stand there ominously? They didn’t know how to break this deadlock. Were they that lacking in originality that they didn’t know how to act otherwise!?

Long Di waited, and it wasn’t long before one of the female disciples from the back couldn’t bear it stepped forward and drew out a club.

It was a jarring juxtaposition to see the petite-looking girl with such a massive club, but Long Di was pretty progressive and encouraged free choice.

D-D-D-Dum!

Nine cauldrons burst into existence and a formless pressure surged forward, bearing down on Long Di.

She said nothing and charged toward Long Di with the club before leaping high with the club overhead.

Long Di raised his hand with his palm outstretched. The lightning spear in his hand shuddered and shone. Without warning, a lightning spear quickly took form and fired off in her direction!

“Junior apprentice-si—”

Before one of her colleagues could finish his sentence, the spear pierced her head before coming out the other end and, without losing power, continued towards the group behind her.

One of the middle-aged demons felt the power of the spear and made a move to parry it!

Clang!

Bam!

The spear was deflected and flew into the wall to the side before disappearing from sight!

The demon that made a move to deflect the spear could feel his hands trembling from the force and the strange energy within.

He stared at Long Di in shock and horror. ‘T-That energy have been!? N-No… it couldn’t be!’

Thud!

The body only now dropped to the ground with a thump, and Long Di impassively stared at them as if he did nothing wrong.

They stared at him in shock and wanted very much to ask a question, but they didn’t dare to because it meant that Long Di would have been right AGAIN!

“Would you like to ask me if I know what I’ve done?” Long Di asked them.

Their expressions darkened, and the female in front was particularly enraged.

“Screw you! Auntie Metal, Uncle Metal kill him!”