Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 222 - Untethered Monk

What the heck happened while he was under!?

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The roasted Monarch Gale Crow was a masterpiece at the moment. Its golden colour highlighted the crispiness of its skin whilst it also glistened with the natural oils that were still on its body.

Some of the oil even dripped from it, and every drop caused a collective gulp to sound out.

In addition, the aroma it gave off was intoxicating. It could drive any glutton mad with desire.

Long Di planned to have a humble dinner with his friend, but there was… an issue.

The issue here was the dinner guests. There was Yaomu Shou, Mina, Long Di, a suspicious monk and a rabbit.

I don’t think it needs to be said, but two of these things are not like the others, and one of them definitely doesn’t belong.

Long Di looked to Yaomu Shou expecting answers, but she only gave him an ‘I dunno’ shoulder shrug in return.

He then turned to Mina who responded in kind by saying. “Don’t look at me. I didn’t even know you could cook this whole time. You’ve been holding out on me.”

“Four and a half out of ten,” he responded.

Mina’s expression darkened. “Your face is a four and a half out of ten!”

“Dear benefactor, allow me to introduce myself. My dharma name is Shi Jiaohua,” the monk said politely with the Anjali mudra making him appear like a wizened monk.

Long Di thought it would look better if there wasn’t a dinner plate in between the monk’s hands, but who was he to judge?

“I am hoping that dear benefactor can have mercy on a starving monk?” he asked with that same warm, inviting smile.

However, when Yaomu Shou heard the name of the monk, it was like lightning struck her!

“Y-You’re Untethered Monk Shi Jiaohua of Golden Buddhist Ground! One of the Five Nobles!” she pointed at him in shock.

The monk kept his smile even though his title was known by Yaomu Shou.

“I’m confused, are w—” Long Di started, but was cut off by Yaomu Shou, who proceeded to explain.

“His title is Untethered Monk. He is part of a group known as the Five Nobles, which are the greatest geniuses the human race has to offer among even the Ten Great Sects. He is also the successor of Golden Buddhist Ground. He’s a super genius that’s received focused nurturing from his sect and is not to be underestimated!” Yaomu Shou stated with a wary expression, her sword firmly in hand.

Untethered Monk was unperturbed by the introduction and stated, with his hands still together. “Amitabha dear benefactors, this insignificant monk is only here for a meal.”

One couldn’t see the air of an expert from this monk who was touted as the successor of one of the Ten Great Sects.

“Yeah, okay, thank you for the introduction. Not the focus of my confusion. With that being said, are we not going to talk about that?” Long Di pointed at the Overly Bombastic Brawler Rabbit waiting patiently to the side with a plate in hand.

“Right, dear benefactor,” Untethered Monk chose to answer. “I gave it the plate.”

“Noted, but not what I’m asking.” Long Di was wondering if he was the only one who saw the weirdness of the situation.

“Oh!” Yaomu Shou chose to answer him this time around. “It suddenly got up and was ready to charge after us, but when it smelled the Monarch Gale Crow, it immediately calmed down and came to sit down beside us.”

Long Di looked at her for a while before asking. “That doesn’t strike you as odd?”

“Long Di, I’ve seen some of the weirdest shit with you at the centre. I honestly stopped questioning everything that happened around you and just accepted it as is.” Yaomu Shou admitted.

Long Di had effectively broken Yaomu Shou because since she had been with him, things that shouldn’t have been possible became possible.

She had been shocked so many times that she used up all the shocks for the rest of her life with him alone.

So what if an unintelligent magical beast came here to have dinner with them after being given a plate by the successor of one of the Ten Great Sects?

Long Di befriended a Shidashi Mao and could speak its language for no discernible reason. He cultivated divine tribulation lightning, could mend and create cultivation techniques and pooped out martial techniques on the daily, that’s the type of colon one could only hope for.

As far as she was concerned, this was a Monday for Long Di.

On the other hand, Long Di stared at the Overly Bombastic Brawler Rabbit and it stared back with zero killing or murderous intent.

‘These things aren’t supposed to be intelligent… meh,’ and just like that, Long Di accepted the overly bombastic brawler rabbit’s presence.

Sure, if it were another person, they would harp on the issue, calling for some kind of explanation. However, one must realise that Long Di wasn’t necessarily sane.

The boy’s thought process was a flaming 16-wheeler speed-running Mario World. Did that analogy make sense? No? That was the point.

Long Di just realised that he had no knife on hand to slice the meat for his dinner guests.

Untethered Monk saw this and quickly summoned a knife and offered it to Long Di with both hands.

As soon as he saw it, he knew this thing wasn’t simple.

The blade was as thin as a cicada wing and crystalline in appearance, practically see-through. The handle was silver, with intricate patterns running the length of it.

The whole thing was around 13 inches long, and it flashed with a spiritual light. Anyone with half a brain could tell that this knife was a treasure.

“A spiritual artefact,” Yaomu Shou was able to see the clues that placed this knife in the spiritual artefact category.

“Good eyes.” Untethered Monk smiled.

“I found this within the realm.” He didn’t expound on this particular point and instead looked to Long Di.

“Dear benefactor, for the request and favour of feeding a starving monk, I offer you this knife.”