Chapter 88 - The Other Side
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Underworld Player Chapter 88 - The Other Side

"...Do you always talk like this?"

Temperance Gentleheart looked concernedly at a certain Player who had just pocketed his walkie-talkie and was presently enjoying an apple.

Since Traveler had called for help on the global channel earlier, she had heard the whole conversation clearly, but it had been so abstruse that she zoned out completely.

While Viridescent had Traveler to patiently explain things to her, Temperance was left floundering in a sea of confusion... It felt like being in math class again, getting distracted for some time, only to look back at the blackboard and find it suddenly full of incomprehensible symbols.

"They were asking for your help, after all. Is it really okay for you to be that snide? Even scoffing at their 'mediocre mentalities'..."

"Oh, you see, Chu Xuan*—Senior Colonel Chu—is my role model. I'm working hard to emulate his mannerisms and approach to everything."

As he chewed on a mouthful of apple, Bai Zhi turned his attention away from the room behind the door he had just kicked open and turned to Temperance Gentleheart. Having put a pair of thick, black-framed glasses at some point, he now looked her seriously in the eye.

"Check out my impression, huh? If you think it's a good resemblance, please leave a like."

The corner of Temperance's mouth twitched in exasperation as she stared at him. "...I'm willing to bet anything that you don't have any friends in real life."

"You're imagining things. How could I, a paragon of virtue, lack for companions?"

Bai Zhi smirked, then strode toward the next room.

"As they say, 'he who fosters learning for a day shall be foster-parent for life'**. It's a maxim near and dear to my heart."

"So?"

Temperance Gentleheart caught up to Bai Zhi, and as she looked through the door at the empty room, she felt a sudden shiver, though nothing had prompted it.

"Do we really have to search them one by—"

Bai Zhi suddenly turned to Temperance. "So, when the time comes for my teacher to shuffle off this mortal coil, I shall be there by their deathbed to claim my shar

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Translator Notes

*Main character in Terror Infinity. Characterized as a perfect logical genius.
**A Chinese saying, normally alluding to the debt of gratitude one (should) feel for those who have shared their knowledge with us, as we can, in a sense, trace the parentage of 'the person we become' back to them.

Novel Notes

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