Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 37 - Profound Annoyance

‘Long Di! You must become stronger!’

‘What the…’

Long Di in a somewhat ethereal form looked around in confusion as he appeared to be in his mind sea, the place where his spiritual force originated.

The clouds above in his mind sea twisted and contorted as if compelled by some terrifying will.

‘Become stronger!’

A booming voice resounded once again, sending tumultuous waves rising and crashing within the sea.

The pressure it exuded was suffocating. Though this was his mind sea, Long Di was like a leaf flittering about in a hurricane, unable to stop it.

‘Okay, so if you could stop talking so loudly and causing tsunamis to keep rising in my mind sea, that would be grreeaaaat…’

‘Become stro-’

‘Is this the Destiny Scale talking?’

‘.................. Nooooo…’

‘Though I may or may not have heard voices in my head in the past to cope with… issues, it does get kind of obvious when the only thing in my mind sea at the moment is a self-proclaimed mysterious steel stele.’

‘I never proclaimed to be mysterious!’

‘And the idiot says…’

‘Darn it! Your intelligence is truly daunting, Keyholder.’

‘Not really. Bugs used the same thing on Daffy plenty of times, gotta appreciate the classics.’

As this was said, Long Di looked above to see the clouds above parting to reveal the Destiny Scale floating down like the banished relic of some recondite immortal.

It eventually floated before Long Di. It was still as imposing as ever, and the air it exuded was one of royal prestige.

The text that Long Di saw before was gone, replaced with the mottled and faded characters from when it was in the Thunder Cloud City.

Long Di’s expression remained the same as ever as he stared at the Destiny Scale, ‘Soooo… why am I here, and what is the Keyholder?’

‘You are not yet strong enough to know.’

The august voice of the Destiny Scale resounded once more as it hovered before Long Di’s small figure.

‘Not strong enough to know why am I here, or not strong enough to know what is the Keyholder?’

‘Not strong enough to know what is the keyholder.’

‘Then may I know

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