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"Are you really sure you weren't a transmigrated Creator back then?"
Although tinged with teasing, Klein's attitude was very serious when he asked this question.
After all, Lin Ruo's situation was just too astonishing, even 'hang-b' (cheater) wasn't enough to describe him. Both being transmigrators, if his and Roselle's cheat could only be considered Level 1, then Lin Ruo's cheat level was probably maxed out.
Klein could even completely believe what it felt like for people of Lin Ruo's era to face Lin Ruo's bug-like abilities. No wonder there were rumors like "a small account of the Creator".
Ah, this…
If it were before, Lin Ruo would definitely deny it three times in a row, "It wasn't me, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense", but now he… wasn't so sure anymore.
After all, although his special abilities were abilities he had in the Bungo Stray Dogs world, the "fallacy" back then wasn't so awesome. All the changes occurred after entering this world.
And what exactly his main body was, was indeed… hard to say.
But the possibility wasn't great. After all, the real Creator, what that original thing was, others might not know, but how could Lin Ruo not know?
Rather than transmigrating into the Creator, Lin Ruo felt that the possibility of him transmigrating into an Outer God was even greater.
But naturally, this was not something to be shared with outsiders.
"Not sure, after all, I have amnesia. I don't know the specific situation, but that's just how my ability is, just treat it as my cheat," Lin Ruo shook his head and patched up his previous lies:
"The reason I chose to deceive you before was because this matter was really my biggest secret. Although I trusted you a lot back then, I didn't trust you that much after all, and I didn't remember many things myself at that time, including some things related to my abilities, so it was even more impossible to tell you these things…"
"Okay, I'm done talking. Accept the friendship-breaking punch, but don't hit my face, thank you." Lin Ruo finished speaking with a serious face and closed his eyes, really looking like he was waiting to be punished.
"…" Hearing this, Klein didn't know what to say for a moment.
Angry? Actually, after calming down, he was a little angry, but he really wasn't that angry. After all, Klein wasn't the kind of person who would demand that his friends be completely open with him. And as Lin Ruo said, this was obviously one of his biggest secrets. For this kind of thing, Klein could completely understand Lin Ruo's choice to hide it.
But looking at Lin Ruo's appearance of "You can kill me or cut me as you please, just don't hit my face", Klein really wanted to hit him.
"Dong—"
A light punch finally landed in front of Lin Ruo's shoulder. Klein retracted his hand and said unhappily, "Alright, stop acting, your expression is too exaggerated."
"You don't understand, under my exaggerated expression, lies a heart that earnestly admits its mistakes," Lin Ruo opened his eyes and said with a serious face.
"Earnestly admit your mistakes, and dare to do it again next time?" Klein said unhappily, suddenly gnashing his teeth a little, "How many times have you fooled me? Do you really think I don't know?"
Lin Ruo immediately showed a guilty expression and lowered his head to look at the patterns on the bronze long table, as if there was some hidden truth contained in them.
Seeing this, Klein sighed slightly.
He wasn't unaware of Lin Ruo's concealment and deception. Rather, Lin Ruo himself had a lot of concealment on the surface, and he had exposed a pile of deception.
Klein was very clear that Lin Ruo definitely knew a lot of things, and these things were probably related to him.
For example, the Evernight Goddess's plan, such as this gray fog, such as the key to the end of the world, and such as the binding between them… So many things, Klein wasn't unaware, wasn't without his own thinking.
It's just that he chose to trust Lin Ruo, so he didn't speculate because of these secrets.
"If you were that kind of suspicious person, believe me, you wouldn't even notice my deception and concealment from you,"
As if knowing what Klein was thinking, Lin Ruo suddenly looked up and said.
But what he said was actually the truth. If Klein was really that kind of suspicious person, Lin Ruo really wouldn't let him notice these things.
To put it bluntly, with Lin Ruo's abilities, it wasn't that he couldn't clean up his own mess. It could even be said that arranging a conspiracy, playing others around in circles, and finally not even showing his face, was Lin Ruo's forte.
If Klein was really that kind of suspicious person, he wouldn't gain Lin Ruo's trust, and naturally he wouldn't get all kinds of information that he shouldn't get at this stage under Lin Ruo's indulgence.
With the difference between Lin Ruo and Klein, in strength and information, he could really do this. This had nothing to do with IQ, it was purely that the gap between the two sides at the starting point was too great.
Klein tolerated Lin Ruo's concealment and deception because of trust, but wasn't Lin Ruo revealing those information to him bit by bit without any scruples because of trust?
"If you were really that kind of suspicious person, not believing me, I wouldn't treat you like my kid. I don't lack sons, why would I raise a troublesome kid who will laugh at my funeral in the future," Lin Ruo said, and casually ruffled Klein's head a few times, contentedly saying:
"Good thing you're still my good kid, come, call me daddy."
"Get lost!" Klein slapped away Lin Ruo's paw unhappily, almost rolling his eyes.
"Alas, my rebellious son hurts my heart!" Lin Ruo pretended to show a sad expression, and after pretending for a few seconds, he yawned and returned to normal.
He remembered something and seriously looked at this mysterious space above the gray fog for the first time, his eyes falling in the direction of the depths of the gray fog.
Although he couldn't see it, Lin Ruo knew that behind the dense gray fog, in the depths of the stairs condensed by light, above the light gate, countless "cocoons" were hanging, and one human soul after another from the First Epoch was wrapped in them.
Was I once one of them?
Lin Ruo thought, the only thing he could be sure of was that even if he had been related to the Sefirah Castle before, now this relationship seemed to have been cut off to a certain extent.
Just like he had initially instinctively tried to establish a connection with the Sefirah Castle but was rejected.
As expected, I can only rely on Klein!
Thinking like this, Lin Ruo looked at Klein and said seriously, "Klein, work hard to advance!"
"Ah?" Klein was slightly stunned, not quite understanding why the topic suddenly turned to this.
"When you advance to demigod, whether it's your doubts or my doubts, they can probably be solved in part. At that time, I can also tell you some things that you can know,"
Lin Ruo said so.
...
At the same time, a certain bookstore—
"You already know about me…"
The bookstore owner, wearing a monocle and holding a cigarette in his hand, spat out a circle of white smoke. His appearance was as Romier Abraham described, and faintly visible on the hair under the hood, there seemed to be a mask like an ornament.
His gaze seemed to be looking at the crowds coming and going on the street outside, and seemed not to have any living beings in his eyes.
"I've had enough of this cage."
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