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"If I make a mistake, let the law punish me, instead of making me recite my own embarrassing history."
— Klein.
Okay, Klein didn't actually say those words, but Lin Ruo felt that's what he was definitely thinking at this moment, and he desperately wanted to slap the notebook in his hand onto Lin Ruo's face.
As for Klein, who was opposite him, he almost gnashed his teeth as he finished reading the last word in the notebook, his face already flushed red with shame. He took a slight breath, seemingly trying to calm his excited and burdened mood.
Afterward, he seemed to force a sentence out of his throat: "Are you done?"
"Yes, I feel much better now." Lin Ruo nodded, not hiding his attitude at all: "As expected, persecuting you helps me stabilize my humanity…"
This wasn't entirely false. After witnessing Klein recite his own embarrassing history, Lin Ruo, whose mischievous desires were greatly satisfied, indeed felt that the traces of his previous terrible state had faded a lot.
As for the principle behind it, Lin Ruo thought about it and felt that it might be because such behavior greatly stirred up his emotions.
Klein: …
Damn it! I really want to hit someone!
Why do you have to persecute me to stabilize your humanity?
You really don't do anything that has anything to do with being human!
Lin Ruo looked at Klein, who was so angry that he seemed to be on the verge of exploding, and smiled, his smile gentle and with a hint of rejoicing, saying: "Don't be angry, I didn't do this to persecute you this time. I almost crashed… Otherwise, why would I take out this book now? I originally planned to wait until you became an Angel at least before taking it out."
Klein: …
Klein was so angry that he didn't know what to say. He tightly grasped the book in his hand and said: "If you write anything else in this book… we're breaking up!"
Ah, this!
Although he had guessed this result, Lin Ruo couldn't help but reveal an extremely disappointed expression, but then he figured it out—if he couldn't write in this book, he could just change to another one. If that didn't work, he could simply write an autobiographical novel based on Klein as the prototype. Anyway, he was a professional in this area.
So Lin Ruo then readily nodded and said: "Okay!"
Having received the guarantee, Klein examined Lin Ruo again before forcibly removing the new embarrassing history from his mind and asking: "What exactly happened to you just now?"
Although he had initially suppressed the indifferent emotions caused by the memories when he was in Tingen, if this kind of infection could really be suppressed so easily, Lin Ruo wouldn't have rushed to find Klein.
In fact, when he had just arrived here, he was still deeply affected by that indifference, but his own emotions were constantly suppressing it.
Klein, who was extremely familiar with Lin Ruo, naturally noticed something was wrong, otherwise, he wouldn't have listened to Lin Ruo's words so easily and recited his own embarrassing history.
"Well… it can indeed be considered my own fault! You also know that I've forgotten many, many things from the past. Just now, I went to find Pallez Zoroast and asked some key questions, which led to some of my memories resurfacing… resulting in the situation you just saw."
Lin Ruo was actually a little guilty and fearful when he said this. After all, although he had guessed that it might cause some negative effects before asking about the honorific name, he really didn't expect it to be so serious, almost crashing.
However, although he almost crashed, it must be said that this adventure still brought Lin Ruo many gains.
First of all, there was his honorific name: "Monarch of War and Judgment, Master of Distorted Rules, Arbiter of Fate." This honorific name was obviously at the level of a deity. Of course, this was not surprising. What Lin Ruo cared about was the information revealed in this honorific name.
If analyzed solely from the perspective of the 'Lord of the Mysteries' worldview, his honorific name was actually quite strange, as it contained the three domains of "War," "Rules," and "Fate," making it unclear which pathway a person would take to use such an honorific name.
But if viewed from Lin Ruo's own perspective, apart from the first phrase, "Monarch of War and Judgment," being somewhat vague, the second phrase, "Master of Distorted Rules," and "Arbiter of Fate" could actually correspond to the two parts of his ability, meaning that "Rules" corresponded to "Fallacy" and "Destiny" corresponded to "Truth."
Although Truth and Fallacy didn't strictly seem to belong to the abilities of the 'Lord of the Mysteries' world, considering the changes that his ability had undergone since arriving in this world, if his previous ability level was very high, it would be hard to say that it wouldn't take effect as part of the honorific name!
— After all, Lin Ruo's Truth could also guide the people of the 'Lord of the Mysteries' world to… nothing, while Fallacy could directly simulate the abilities of the 22 Beyonder Pathways. Given this premise, there was no reason why they couldn't take effect as part of the honorific name!
Speaking of which, wouldn't my ability have been subjected to strange modifications by some world rules when entering this world… Thinking of his increasingly awesome ability, Lin Ruo couldn't help but think of the situation when he was in the Bungo Stray Dogs world, where his ability was also powerful, but completely incomparable to what it was now, and he immediately felt like complaining.
Speaking of which, I never thought when I first awakened my ability that [Truth and Fallacy] could grow to this point… Lin Ruo couldn't help but feel emotional, and in addition to his emotions, he also subconsciously began to recall.
That was eight years ago. Eight years ago, he opened and closed his eyes and found himself transmigrated into the Bungo Stray Dogs world, and also transmigrated to the dangerous Yokohama, transmigrating into an ordinary person forced to work for the mafia, and just as he felt like he was done for, he found that he had awakened the ability [Truth and Fallacy].
But at that time, [Truth and Fallacy] was much weaker than it is now…
Lin Ruo exhaled and stopped thinking too much, and began to continue analyzing his honorific name.
If the last two phrases of the honorific name could correspond to his ability [Truth and Fallacy], then Lin Ruo wasn't completely without speculation about the first phrase.
After all, Lin Ruo still clearly remembered the newly recovered segment of memory.
In that memory, he was clearly in a state where divinity overwhelmed humanity, and according to Medici, he seemed to have been a partner with Medici during that period, but it was clear that he and Medici hadn't known each other for too long at that time, otherwise Medici wouldn't have asked him for his real name.
Combining this with the situation he learned from Pallez Zoroast, Lin Ruo guessed that the memory he had recovered this time was probably from the Second Epoch, that is, the time when the Creator of the City of Silver led the Eight Kings of Angels to fight the world, fight the Ancient Gods, and lead the rise of humanity.
Starting from this point, combined with Medici's genuine claim of being an Angel of War, and the fact that he was Medici's partner at the time, it was very likely that he was also active on the battlefield at that time… Could "Monarch of War and Judgment" refer to this aspect?
Lin Ruo felt that this was very possible.
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